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October 2012
The Birth of ‘Literati’ Painting in the Song and Yuan Dynasties: How to Think About What We Do and Do Not Know
2012 Burdick-Vary Event: Jerome Silbergeld P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University Every study of later Chinese painting history tends to establish two overarching categories into which all paintings…
Find out more »Restoring Memory: German Legacies and Polish Politics of Commemoration in Łódź after 1989
Monday Seminar: Winson W. Chu Honorary Fellow (2012-2013) Modern Central European History, UW-Milwaukee The search for German legacies in Poland today serves local, national, and international agendas. As a result, the German past is…
Find out more »Myth in the Landscape: Ancient Heroes and Hellenic Culture in Imperial Asia Minor
Monday Seminar: Janet Downie Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) Classics, Princeton University The purpose of my current book project is to understand the role of landscape in the articulation of Hellenism in Imperial Asia Minor. In…
Find out more »At the Threshold of New Political Communities: The Nollywood Epic
Monday Seminar Matthew Brown Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison Many of the most popular genres of Nigeria’s “Nollywood” video film industry have histories that predate the advent of video filmmaking.…
Find out more »November 2012
Martial Arts: Cultural Interactions between the Civil and Military in Ming China
2012 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Kathleen Ryor Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, Carleton College Scholarship on art collecting, art production and the broader world of elite cultural practices during the Ming dynasty…
Find out more »A Peculiar Custom: Euro-African Marriage in an Atlantic Slave Trading Town
Monday Seminar: Pernille Ipsen Gender & Women's Studies/History, UW-Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) My project is a history of marriages between African women and European men who participated in the slave…
Find out more »The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Authors and the Literary Construction of New York City
Monday Seminar: Jeffrey Steele Resident Fellow (2012-2013) English, UW-Madison My project explores the ways in which a generation of American writers conceptualized a new phenomenon, the emerging metropolis. While nature writing has been widely…
Find out more »Rethinking Early American Slavery from an International Perspective, 1450-1640
Monday Seminar: James H. Sweet Resident Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW-Madison Many are aware that the first “20. and odd” Africans arrived in British North America in 1619. Historians of early America often treat this…
Find out more »The Rise of the Legend of the City of Kitezh in Russian Literature
Monday Seminar: Lisa Woodson Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison Little known outside of Russia, the Legend of the City of Kitezh describes an ideal city hidden from the profane world…
Find out more »Créer dans les marges. Azouz Begag: du gone au ministre, en passant par l’écrivain
2012 Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems…
Find out more »Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) This talk will be followed by a screening of Le gone du Chaâba. Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer,…
Find out more »December 2012
Conflict in the Construction of Socialism: Public Health, Rapid Industrialization, and the Communist Modern in Czechoslovakia
Monday Seminar: Bradley Moore William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW-Madison This paper explores the development of public health services in communist Czechoslovakia, and in turn, the…
Find out more »Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians
Monday Seminar: John W. Hall Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW-Madison Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians will examine the American military’s role in the ethnic…
Find out more »January 2013
Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History
Spring 2013 Faculty Development Seminar: Ron Radano Music This faculty seminar proposes an alignment of music studies, global studies, and race studies as part of a new line of inquiry in the critical…
Find out more »Propaganda 1776
Monday Seminar: Russ Castronovo Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies, UW-Madison Long a pejorative word since its associations with the flag-waving and jingoism surrounding U.S. participation in World War…
Find out more »February 2013
“I are citizens of the Halles”: Forging Citizenship in the Marketplace during the French Revolution
Monday Seminar: Katie Jarvis European History, UW-Madison Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (2012-2013) Historians, political scientists, and philosophers rightly emphasize how the French Revolution created a foundation for democracy in Europe. However, some scholars…
Find out more »The Process of Conversion: A Biography of the Jesuit Relations
Monday Seminar: Meridith Beck Sayre Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) History of Science, UW-Madison In August of 1632 Father Paul Le Jeune penned the first installment of the Jesuit Relations “from the midst of a…
Find out more »Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Entanglements of Disease, Commerce, and Knowledge in a Global World
2013 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Gregg Mitman Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies, UW-Madison Forty years ago, in The Columbian Exchange, and…
Find out more »Double Meanings: Representing Conjoined Twins
Monday Seminar: Ellen Samuels Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Gender & Women's Studies and English, UW-Madison Double Meanings: Representing Conjoined Twins analyzes cultural representations of conjoined twins in literature, film, media, and popular culture. The guiding…
Find out more »An Invisible Class in a Silent Land. Aristocracy and Settlement Transformation in Atlantic Iberia during Late Antiquity (300-600)
Monday Seminar Damián Fernández Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) History, Northern Illinois University This project investigates the transformations of aristocracies during Late Antiquity in an obscure corner of the Roman…
Find out more »March 2013
What Not to Wear: Cultus and Elegy in Rome
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…
Find out more »Democracy in Black: Identity Politics in a Post-Soul Era
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…
Find out more »Barbarian Affectivities
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…
Find out more »Ideology, Counterpublicity, and the Gay Straight Alliance
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…
Find out more »April 2013
Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance
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…
Find out more »Five Ways to Look at a Corpse: The Dead in Normandy, 1944
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…
Find out more »New Digital Humanities Approaches to Renaissance Studies:Manuscript Imaging and Research Outsourcing in the Florentine Archives using the Bía Platform
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…
Find out more »Practicing Theory: FauHaus and Sensiotics
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…
Find out more »Education, Entertainment, and Exploitation: Adventures in Attempting to Promote an Appreciation for the Humanities Among the General Public
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…
Find out more »Medieval Riverlogues: Crossing and Contestations along the Oxus Borderland
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…
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