The Politics of News: Information and Communication in Reformation Diplomacy

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

Monday Seminar: Denice Fett Solmsen Fellow (2011-2012) History, University of North Florida   This paper explores the questions and complications of accessing and disseminating information in early modern international negotiations. All states engaged in diplomatic …

Shakespeare’s Second Future

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

Monday Seminar: J.K. Barret Solmsen Fellow (2011-2012) English, University of Texas at Austin   In William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, Jupiter himself hands down a prophetic text to quell concerns about the future. Though this cameo doesn’t …

Resurrection and Devotional Identities in Sixteenth-Century Europe

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

Monday Seminar: Erin Lambert A.W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellow (2011-2012) History, UW-Madison   The resurrection of the dead, wrote a sixteenth-century German preacher, was the most debated article of the Creed. While Lutherans, for example, described …

Hapsburg-Ottoman Diplomatic Machinery: Automata and the Türkenvererhrung

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

Monday Seminar: Jessica Keating Solmsen Fellow (2011-2012) Art History, UW-Madison   This paper concerns the history of the long-distance circulation of objects in the early modern world. When recounting the history of intercontinental movement of …

Venerating the Sage: The Rise and Fall of a Shrine to Confucius

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

2011 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Julia Murray Professor of Art History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities (2009-2011), UW-Madison   Recognized throughout the world as a symbol of Chinese …

How to do things with bits and bytes

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

Monday Seminar: Mathangi Krishnamurthy A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2012) Anthropology, UW-Madison   My project looks at the meaning of information in an age of Information Technology (IT), in order to understand and explore the kind …

Holocaust Testimony and Its Reception: Cultural Transformations and Pedagogical Issues

University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
@ 9:30 am - 5:00 pm

2011 Burdick-Vary Symposium:   Convener: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison   The Holocaust experience reaches us through testimony, and consciousness of the event has invaded the post-Holocaust cultural and educational Weltanschauung. This …