University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Lawrence Shapiro Philosophy, UW-Madison Resident Fellow (2011-2012) Shapiro will use his time at the Institute to work on a book about the metaphysics and epistemology of miracles as well as the relationship …
Pyle Center, Room 106 (At&T Lounge) @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2012 Burdick-Vary Symposium (Part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences) Andrew Ross Professor Of Social And Cultural Analysis, Director of American Studies, New York University Thoughtful …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Jimmy Klausen Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2011-2012) Political Science, UW-Madison This project juxtaposes twentieth-century French critical philosophy and cases of self-isolating indigenous societies to two ends. First, reading the philosophical work …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Lynnette Regouby History of Science, UW-Madison William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2011-2012) Eighteenth-century materialism is often characterized by the analogy between man and machine, a productive image proposed by Julien Offray de La …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Colin Wilder Solmsen Fellow (2011-2012) Independent Researcher Using small case studies in Germany in the period under study, the project traces relationships between abstract theories of human freedom and specific conflicts over …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Shanny Luft UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Although Evangelicalism today is often identified with conservative politics and “culture war” issues, many conservative Protestants in the early-twentieth-century argued …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Anna Andrzejewski Resident Fellow (2011-2012) Art History, UW-Madison One Builder takes the career of Madison-based builder/developer Marshall Erdman as an instructive case study to tell the closely intertwined history of architecture, building …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Aliko Songolo French and Italian, African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2011-2012) Since its inception a half century ago, Francophone African cinema has been fraught with contradictions …
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
2012 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Rob Nixon Rachel Carson Professor of English, UW-Madison Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Esther Eidinow Ancient Greek History, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Solmsen Fellow (2011-2012) In Athens during the fourth century BCE a number of surprising trials took place that have received little scholarly …
