Past Event Category: 2012-2013
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Oct 10The Holocaust and the Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers Look at the Ghetto
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Rachel Feldhay Brenner is Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, and Max and …
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Oct 8Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture
University Club, Room 212
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 consumption of memorials. It considers sites on five continents that have been established or are in the process of being …
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Oct 1Angels of the Underground: A World War II Story of Love, Resistance, and Survival
University Club, Room 212
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 II into acts of heroism. Margaret Utinsky, petite and redheaded, caustic and cautious; Claire Phillips, a willowy brunette, big-hearted, with …
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Sep 24The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature, c.700-1100 AD
University Club, Room 212
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 obsessed with chronicling blood feuds, heroic battle-quests, and inter-familial strife. Klein’s project examines the lexical and thematic intersections between warfare …
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Sep 20Repossessing the Past: Refurbishing the Cultural Patrimony at the Courts of Song-Dynasty China
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Great Painters of China. The measure of their success is that we still use these Song-Dynasty creations as touchstones in …
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Sep 17Enacting State Persecution: France, 1940-1944
University Club, Room 212
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 state cannot persecute vast groups of people without relying extensively on its civil servants. However, unless these civil servants have …
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Sep 10What’s Your “Archive”? Formation, Collection, and Evidence across the Humanities
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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, UW–Madison Historians often describe the evidentiary basis of their work as fundamentally archival, whether drawing on collections of documents …
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Sep 4Psychoanalysis and Culture
University Club, Room 212
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 with the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis regarding the unconscious, repression, trauma and sexuality, we will trace the development of these …