University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Daniel Birkholz Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) English, University of Texas at Austin This interdisciplinary study brings together two major documents of a forgotten period and a backwater region—the Hereford Cathedral Mappamundi [“map of …
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Jay C. and Ruth Hall Lecture: Julia Mickenberg Honorary Fellow (2009-2010) American Studies, Univ of Texas at Austin The lecture examines how the modern sexual revolutions in Russia and the U.S. inspired American women’s …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Susan Stanford Friedman IRH Director English, UW-Madison This paper, written for a keynote address at the Modernist Studies Association (November, 2009), explores the “transnational turn” in modernist studies and the anxiety in …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Rob Harper ACLS Residency Fellow (2009-2010) History, UW-Stevens Point This paper reassesses the Anglo-American conquest of the trans-Appalachian west by examining the relationships between local politics, frontier violence, and state formation. It …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Leslie Midkiff DeBauche UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts, UW-Stevens Point In the United States in the 1910s the most popular movie stars, including Mary Pickford, Billie Burke, Irene Castle, and serial …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar David B. Goldstein Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) English, York University This paper explores the meanings and functions of food in early modern English culture, arguing that for the Renaissance writer, the rhetoric of …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Mara Loveman Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Sociology, UW-Madison Why do some states classify their populations by race in censuses while other states do not? What purpose have race queries on census forms served …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Richard Avramenko Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Political Science, UW-Madison This paper examines the concept of time in Tocqueville’s thought through the lens of the philosophy of internal time-consciousness. While Tocqueville himself offers no …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) This paper concerns the gendered nature of violence and political culture in early modern French history. Religious identities and animosities sharply divided …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Susan David Bernstein Resident Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Madison This talk examines a specific site — the Reading Room of the British Museum — as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential …
