University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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. …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
