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September 2010
Language Matters: Multilingualism, Translation, and Disciplinary Discourses in the Humanities
Panel Discussion
Find out more »Lunch and Workshop for Institute Dissertation Fellows
Panel Discussion and Workshop
Find out more »The Senses in Understandings of Art: A “Sensorium” of Yoruba Peoples
Monday Seminar: Henry Drewal Senior Fellow (2010-2014) Art History and Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison This paper will explore how artists and audiences use the senses to create and respond to the arts using an approach…
Find out more »Riots in Ancient Rome
Monday Seminar: Gregory Aldrete Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) Humanistic Studies (Classics), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The inhabitants of ancient Rome appear to have been a riotous lot with at least 154 known episodes of unruly…
Find out more »October 2010
Ideology and Its Ethics: Maria Dąbrowska’s Jewish (and Polish) Problem
Monday Seminar: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Senior Fellow (2008-2013) Hebrew Studies, UW-Madison The diaries of Maria Dąbrowska (1889-1965), a prominent Polish writer and socialist left a troubling testimony of her perception of the Polish Jews,…
Find out more »Toypurina and the Hidden Histories of California
Monday Seminar: Maria Lepowsky Resident Fellow (2010-2011) Anthropology, Gender and Women's Studies, UW-Madison In 1785 a young Tongva woman named Toypurina led a revolt against the Spanish mission at San Gabriel, near a newly…
Find out more »The Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the Postwar Revival of Organized Labor
Monday Seminar: William Jones Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2010-2011) History, UW-Madison The defeat of Operation Dixie, a million-dollar campaign to unionize southern manufacturing after the Second World War, has long been recognized as…
Find out more »The Invention of Monasticism
Monday Seminar: Albrecht Diem Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) History, Syracuse University Albrecht will present an outline of his research project, which focuses on the process of monastic institution forming in the late antique and early…
Find out more »November 2010
Medieval Superstition and European Modernity
Monday Seminar: Michael D. Bailey Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) History, Iowa State University Concern over and condemnation of superstition (always a negative category) surged in the late Middle Ages (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), embodied finally…
Find out more »The Farther Shores of Literacy: Amerindian Graphic invention and the World of Letters
2010 Burdick-Vary Symposium: New World peoples had already invented a huge range of graphic systems when Europeans brought the alphabet to America. Colonial letters interacted with Amerindian pictography, glyphs, cord-writing, and other graphic arts…
Find out more »Life-on-a-Human-Hyphen: Mapping Interpersonal Migrations in Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga
Monday Seminar: Olivia Donaldson Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2010-2011) French and Italian, UW-Madison How may the study of interpersonal encounters enhance existing theories of migration and diaspora? This presentation reinterprets the migratory notion of living…
Find out more »Literature as Historiography: W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Discourse
Monday Seminar: Lynn Wolff Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2010-2011) German, UW-Madison The discursive difference between literature and historiography as defined by Aristotle has remained an organizing principle for both discourses across the ages. In my…
Find out more »From Rags to Yichus: Scrap, Secondhand, and Surplus Dealers in American Jewish Communities
Monday Seminar: Jonathan Z. S. Pollack Madison Area Technical College Fellow (2010-2011) History, Madison Area Technical College The seminar will present an introductory proposal for a work on the history of Jewish entrepreneurs in…
Find out more »Photography in Sound: The Transatlantic Radio Feature 1939-1946
Monday Seminar: Michele Hilmes Resident Fellow (2010-2011) Communication Arts, UW-Madison Radio as a sound medium rose to a height of aesthetic accomplishment in the WWII era "feature" program, as it simultaneously became a powerful…
Find out more »Historical Linguists Take to the Field: scientific encounters with “living language” in Germany, 1915-1918
Monday Seminar: Judith Kaplan William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2010-2011) History of Science, UW-Madison This presentation begins with a sketch of Judith's dissertation research on the history of language sciences in Imperial Germany. It will…
Find out more »Cruising for Impermanence
Monday Seminar: Bretton White Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2010-2011) Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison This talk will explore how the gay and transvestite characters in the play Chamaco (2006), by Abel González Melo, travel through and…
Find out more »December 2010
Women’s Anamnesia: Re-Membering the Forgotten Hi/story of Algerian Civil War
Monday Seminar: Névine El- Nossery Resident Fellow (2010-2011) French and Italian, UW-Madison Since the outbreak of violence that started in Algeria in the 90s with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Algerian women authors have…
Find out more »“No, you’re not to do that!”: Fractured Families, Faulty Misunderstandings in Nathalie Sarraute’s ‘Enfance’
Monday Seminar: E. Nicole Meyer French, UW-Green Bay UW System Fellow (2010-2011) As a privileged literary site for the depiction of identity and of awareness of self, the autobiographical novel has born witness,…
Find out more »January 2011
Enchantings: A Cultural Biography of the Postcolonial African State
Monday Seminar: Tejumola Olaniyan Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013) African Languages and Literature; English, UW-Madison The seminar is an inquiry into the relations between the postcolonial African state and selected cultural forms, practices, and institutions…
Find out more »Maimonides on Divine Providence and Moral Luck
Monday Seminar: Steven Nadler Resident Fellow (2010-2011) Philosophy, UW-Madison A look at the way in which the medieval Jewish philosopher Maimonides explains the workings of divine providence, and especially how the virtuous person might…
Find out more »February 2011
Demosthenes and Fourth-Century Athens: Biography, History, and Politics
Monday Seminar: Susan Lape Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) Classics, University of Southern California This paper is an overview of a larger biographical and historical study of the Athenian orator Demosthenes (384-322BCE). It discusses Demosthenes' inheritance…
Find out more »If We Must Die: African Americans’ Fight in the Race of War of 1919
Monday Seminar: David Krugler UW System Fellow (2010-2011) History, UW-Platteville If We Must Die is a book in progress about the widespread antiblack collective violence (race riots and lynchings) which engulfed the United States…
Find out more »Imagining Alaska: Translocal Processes and the Formation of Place
Monday Seminar: Sandhya Ganapathy UW System Fellow (2010-2011) Anthropology, UW-Stevens Point This presentation is drawn from a chapter in my book project, Partial Alliances: Environmentalism, Development, and Indigeneity in Alaska. The book presents an…
Find out more »2011 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
Workshop and Panel Discussion: Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor Emeritus of History, Editor, UW-Press Series, Studies in American Thought and Culture; Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History. Former director of the Institute, 1993-2001.…
Find out more »Composing Music for the Feast of Fools: The Case of the Kyrie Asini
Monday Seminar: Max Harris Independent Researcher Over the past thirty years, the Kyrie Asini (Kyrie of the Ass) has become an established part of the repertoire of medieval music supposedly having its origins in…
Find out more »March 2011
Beasts and Monsters
Monday Seminar Mario Ortiz-Robles Resident Fellow (2010-2011) English, UW-Madison This seminar will focus on the animality of the monsters that appear in late-Victorian gothic fiction. It will explore how evolutionary dynamics inform the narrative…
Find out more »Notes Toward a Theory of Resistance
Monday Seminar: Len Kaplan Honorary Fellow (2008-2011) Law, UW-Madison Weimar's weak liberal state folded into Fascism. In the US since the 1970's critics have warned about "fascism with a friendly face" and more recently…
Find out more »A Community-Wide Discussion of Ethics and Race
2011 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University Professor Gates' talk will deepen the community-wide discussion of ethics and race launched this fall…
Find out more »Proust’s Calculus of Personality
Monday Seminar: Richard Goodkin Senior Fellow (2009-2014) French and Italian, UW-Madison Calculus, invented in the seventeenth century by Leibniz and Newton and perfected over the next two hundred years, is not only the foundation…
Find out more »April 2011
The Global Renaissance: Some New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2011 Conference: This conference will explore the “Global Renaissance” from a variety of perspectives and will address the following topics: the exchange of commodities and goods; imperial encounters with distant cultures; European intellectual encounters…
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