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September 2012
Psychoanalysis and Culture
Fall 2012 Faculty Development Seminar: Tomislav Longinović Slavic and Comparative Literature This faculty seminar is imagined as a survey of the engagement between psychoanalytic theory and the field of humanities broadly conceived. Starting…
Find out more »What’s Your “Archive”? Formation, Collection, and Evidence across the Humanities
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Linda Gordon, History, New York University Theresa M. Kelley, English, UW-Madison Vinay Dharwadker, Languages and Cultures of Asia/English, UW-Madison Michele Hilmes, Communication Arts, UW-Madison Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics and Center for Jewish Studies,…
Find out more »Enacting State Persecution: France, 1940-1944
Monday Seminar: Ivan Ermakoff Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Sociology, UW-Madison This talk will be centered on the factors that shape state agents' decision to collaborate in, or subvert, the implementation of inhumane policies. A modern…
Find out more »Repossessing the Past: Refurbishing the Cultural Patrimony at the Courts of Song-Dynasty China
2012 Burdick-Vary Event: Maggie Bickford Art History (Emerita), Brown University Chinese emperors of the 12th and 13th centuries created a new body of masterworks to stand in for lost famous paintings by the early…
Find out more »The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature, c.700-1100 AD
Monday Seminar: Stacy S. Klein Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) English; Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University It is a long-standing truism that Old English literature rarely addresses sexual difference or erotic life, and is instead…
Find out more »October 2012
Angels of the Underground: A World War II Story of Love, Resistance, and Survival
Monday Seminar Theresa Kaminski UW System Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW-Stevens Point This book project centers on the complex tale of two ordinary and flawed American women propelled by the extraordinary circumstances of World War…
Find out more »Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture
Monday Seminar Laurie Beth Clark Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Art, UW-Madison Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture is a transnational, comparative study of the discourses that surround the production and…
Find out more »The Holocaust and the Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers Look at the Ghetto
2012 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature; Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities (2009-2011), UW-Madison …
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