University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level) @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
