University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
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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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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, …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
