Past Event Category: 2012-2013
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Feb 25An Invisible Class in a Silent Land. Aristocracy and Settlement Transformation in Atlantic Iberia during Late Antiquity (300-600)
University Club, Room 212
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 World: Atlantic Iberia. The project addresses the following question: a powerful and wealthy aristocracy dominated the Iberian Peninsula during the …
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Feb 18Double Meanings: Representing Conjoined Twins
University Club, Room 212
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 principle for this project is to reverse the sensationalism usually attached to public discussions of conjoinment by turning the lens …
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Feb 13Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Entanglements of Disease, Commerce, and Knowledge in a Global World
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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 a few years later, in Plagues and Peoples, Alfred Crosby and William McNeill advanced grand historical narratives on a global …
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Feb 11The Process of Conversion: A Biography of the Jesuit Relations
University Club, Room 212
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 forest more than 800 leagues in extent, at Kebec.” The Relations were yearly reports written by members of the Society …
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Feb 4“I are citizens of the Halles”: Forging Citizenship in the Marketplace during the French Revolution
University Club, Room 212
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 point to the Revolution’s potentially dark underbelly – the revolutionaries legally cast citizenship as male by denying women the right …
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Jan 28Propaganda 1776
University Club, Room 212
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 I, “propaganda” would hardly seem a useful concept for understanding democracy. After all, spreading false information, manipulating facts, and other …
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Jan 22Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History
University Club, Room 212
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 study of culture. It will place front and center this set of questions: Why did US black music become the …
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Dec 10Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians
University Club, Room 212
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 cleansing of the American Southeast in the 1830s and 1840s. By examining the host of Indian and white perceptions of …
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Dec 3Conflict in the Construction of Socialism: Public Health, Rapid Industrialization, and the Communist Modern in Czechoslovakia
University Club, Room 212
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 early attempts of state hygienists to improve the living and working environment, enhance the biophysical condition of the proletariat, and …
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Nov 30Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems faced by the youth of North African origin, …