Past Event Category: 2012-2013
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Apr 29Medieval Riverlogues: Crossing and Contestations along the Oxus Borderland
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Manu P. Sobti UW System Fellow (2012-2013) School of Architecture & Urban Planning, UW-Milwaukee Manu Sobti shall present an extract from his forthcoming book with Brill Press entitled The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians. Positioned within the context of the Arab invasions on Central …
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Apr 22Education, Entertainment, and Exploitation: Adventures in Attempting to Promote an Appreciation for the Humanities Among the General Public
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Gregory Aldrete Honorary Fellow (2012-2013) History and Humanistic Studies, UW-Green Bay In an era when a “business model” is dominant in higher education and there are increasing demands by the public and politicians to steer students towards majors that supposedly lead directly to jobs, it is vital for humanists to articulate to …
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Apr 15Practicing Theory: FauHaus and Sensiotics
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Monday Seminar: Henry Drewal Senior Fellow (2010-2014) Art History; Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison Faisal Abdu’Allah Artist The theory and method called sensiotics, coined in 2003 by Henry Drewal, explores how the senses are engaged in the creation and reception of the arts, and the making of culture. Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, and motion continually …
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Apr 10New Digital Humanities Approaches to Renaissance Studies: Manuscript Imaging and Research Outsourcing in the Florentine Archives using the Bía Platform
University Club, Room 212
Workshop: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University The Bía Platform of the Medici Archive Project offers Renaissance scholars new approaches to digital humanities research. This online platform presents high-resolution digitized manuscript documents and a searchable interface to the massive Mediceo del Principato collection at the Archivio di Stato di Firenze. The Bía platform functions …
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Apr 8Five Ways to Look at a Corpse: The Dead in Normandy, 1944
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mary Louise Roberts Senior Fellow (2010-2014) History, UW–Madison We prefer to think of war as producing heroes, not corpses. Perhaps for this reason, military historians have rarely focused on the dead. In the Normandy invasion of 1944, the bodies of American G.I.s were often not visible. This is because, in an effort …
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Apr 1Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Todd W. Reeser Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) French and Women’s Studies, University of Pittsburgh As fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Humanists read, digested, and translated Plato, they found themselves faced with a fundamental problem. On the one hand, the rebirth of the Ancients implied a “fidelity” to the words and the sense of Greek texts. …
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Mar 18Ideology, Counterpublicity, and the Gay Straight Alliance
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Robert Asen Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Communication Arts, UW–Madison This presentation examines a controversy that arose in West Bend, WI, over the local school board’s resistance to students’ efforts to gain official recognition for a local chapter of the Gay Straight Alliance, a national network of student groups dedicated to creating welcoming environments …
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Mar 11Barbarian Affectivities
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Mary Agnes Edsall Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) Independent Scholar Late medieval affective piety was a style of highly emotional devotion to the humanity of Jesus, particularly in his infancy and his death, and to the joys and sorrows of the Virgin Mary. Most accounts of affective piety have located its beginnings in the …
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Mar 7Democracy in Black: Identity Politics in a Post-Soul Era
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2013 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture: Eddie Glaude, Jr. William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Department of Religion, and Chair, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University In his lecture, Glaude explores how “whiteness” continues to distort American democracy, disfiguring our precious ideals into unsightly and dangerous justification for ugly practices …
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Mar 4What Not to Wear: Cultus and Elegy in Rome
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kerry Lefebvre Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) Classics, UW–Madison In the fourth book of Propertius’ poetry, we encounter a statue of Vertumnus, who explains to passersby that, given the right clothing and accessories, he can take on any number of identities and occupations, even changing from an elegiac puella (mistress or …