Past Event Category: 2011-2012
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Oct 24Temporal Subjectivities and “Locating Africa” in Postcolonial Cinema
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Amy Powell Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2011-2012) Art History, UW–Madison Engagement with Africa as a space or place is not the only way that contemporary artists and filmmakers critically interpret the condition of living in the wake of colonialism. Artworks employ time-based techniques (e.g. multiple-channel installation, simultaneity, duration, synchronization) to negotiate the temporalizing …
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Oct 17Saints of the Indus: Islam and Politics in South Asia’s Borderlands
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: André Wink Senior Fellow (2009-2013) History, UW–Madison Much has been written about the rise and function of the cult of the saints in Latin and Greek-Orthodox Christianity. By comparison the study of a comparable phenomenon in the Muslim world is still relatively underdeveloped. This seminar will present some preliminary conclusions of ongoing …
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Oct 10Africa and the Disciplines: Congolese Music, Francophone Literature, and the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: John Nimis French and Italian, UW–Madison A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2012) That music is central to African societies is something of a truism. But what does this really mean in terms of how we understand Africa? This project looks at the implications of this fact with respect to the way Africa …
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Oct 3Companionable Objects, Companionable Conscience: Episode 1, “Two Effigies”
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kenneth George Senior Fellow (2011-2015) Anthropology, UW–Madison My project explores crafted things and the ethical and affective ties we form with them in our everyday lifeworlds and contemporary public spheres. A simple idea leads to me write about “companionable objects” and “companionable conscience:” Things, too, are social beings—though not human beings—and as …
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Sep 30The “Arab Spring” and the Humanities
Pyle Center
2011 Germaine Brée Symposium: A long-awaited “Arab Spring” or “Arab Awakening” erupted with stunning swiftness in January of 2011. What are its roots? What are its futures? Pundits and politicians, political scientists and specialists of all kinds propose answers. What light do the humanities shed on these shattering events–so full of hope and …
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Sep 26The Future Eaters: Petro-despotism, Empire, and the Resource Curse
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Monday Seminar: Rob Nixon Senior Fellow (2009-2012) Rachel Carson Professor of English, UW–Madison Abdelrahman Munif, a Jordanian-born writer of Saudi-Iraqi parentage, gave imaginative definition to the resource wars—over oil, water, and time itself—that have afflicted the Persian Gulf. Against the backdrop of transnational hydrocarbon politics, the climate crisis, the resource curse, and the Arab …
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Sep 21Cultures and Histories of the Environment Colloquium
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 202
Part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: “International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences”: Cóilín Parsons English Literature, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cóilín Parsons is an assistant professor of English Literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa since 2009. He completed his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia …
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Sep 19Amerilots and Harlots: The Power of Commodities during the U.S. Military Presence in France, 1944-1946
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Mary Louise Roberts Senior Fellow (2010-2014) History, UW–Madison During the American campaign in Normandy, the Army distributed enormous quantities of cigarettes, chocolate and chewing gum, as well as soap and other toiletries to its soldiers. The French called the G.I.s “Amerilots” because they seemed to have alot of everything. As these commodities …
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Sep 12How? Research Methods in the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
Panel Discussion: Lee Palmer Wandel, History, UW–Madison Mara Loveman, Sociology, UW–Madison Jon McKenzie, English, UW–Madison Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics, UW–Madison The Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) will begin its year-long weekly seminars with a panel discussion on research methods in the humanities. The panel continues IRH’s broad discussions about the humanities in the …