A Philosopher’s Guide to Thinking about Miracles

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 …

Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City

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 …

The Devil’s Church: Or, How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Movies

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 …

“Calabash Cinema”: The Fall and Rise of Francophone African Film

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 …

Slow Violence and Environmental Story Telling

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 …

“As Rust Eats Iron”: Envy in Fourth-Century Athens

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 …