REPRISE: How? Research Methods in the Humanities

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

Closing Panel Discussion: Chair: Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison   Panelists: Caroline Boswell, Humanistic Studies and European History, UW-Green Bay Esther Eidinow, Ancient Greek History, University of Nottingham Richard Goodkin, French and Italian, UW-Madison Erin …

Of Lies and Bizarre Tales: Ctesias and the Persian Empire

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

Monday Seminar: Matthew Waters UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Classics and Ancient History, UW-Eau Claire   The Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BC) at its height stretched from the Danube to the Indus and from the …

Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Room 1255
@ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

  2012 Burdick-Vary Conference:   The symposium aims to bring into close systematic interaction three composite entities that traditionally are the objects of different study areas and therefore are studied together most often casually or …

Gulf Coast Slave Smuggling: The Clandestine Slave Trade, circa 1830s-1850s

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Lee Willis UW System Fellow (2011-2012) History, UW-Stevens Point   In 1808, Congress forbade the importation of foreign slaves into the United States and the interstate (or domestic) slave trade became the only …

Locating Dissent: Power and Resistance in Interregnum England

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

Monday Seminar: Caroline Boswell UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Humanistic Studies and European History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay   This project investigates how English men and women negotiated the social, cultural, and political changes that accompanied …

Documenting the Anthropocene: Historical Reflections on Global Change

Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: “International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences”: Libby Robin Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University The idea of the Anthropocene, the geological era where the actions of …

Bulls, Apes, Genes and Clouds: New Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain

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

Monday Seminar Katarzyna Olga Beilin Resident Fellow (2011-2012) Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison   The debates on bullfighting, which culminated in the abolition of tauromaquia in Catalonia in 2011, have reopened reflections on Spanish national identity. …

Chaining: Theorizing African American Representations of Person and Past

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
@ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

2012 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities Thadious Davis Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania   In this talk, I am using a term, chaining, …

Tropical Medical Discourse and Victorian Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera

Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

2012 Burdick-Vary Event. Part of Lecture Series: “International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences” Pablo Mukherjee English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK   The Victorian period saw the growth and …