Past Event Category: 2013-2014
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May 5Last Seminar
University Club, Room 212
Final Panel Discussion of 2013-2014 Year: Speakers: Valerie Barske, History, UW-Stevens Point Ayelet Ben-Yishai, English, University of Haifa Christy Clark-Pujara, Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison Anne Duncan, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Joseph Marchal, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Matthew Rarey, Art History, UW–Madison Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, History, UW–Madison Mary Louise …
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Apr 28Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918: The Fantastic Imagery of Harry Clarke
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Marguerite Helmers UW System Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW-Oshkosh In 1919, Sir John French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, brought together representatives from throughout Ireland to establish a national war memorial that would commemorate the 50,000 Irish dead from the First World War. By 1923, despite two wars on Irish soil, an assassination attempt …
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Apr 24Sushi, Otters, and Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal Studies
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Anne Cheng English and the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University What do sushi, food, race, and anthropology have to do with each other? Taking a scene of sushi eating in David Wong Louie’s short story “Bottles of Beaujolais” as a springboard into a larger …
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Apr 21“What I write I do not see”: The Place of Invisible Ink in English Civil War Correspondence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Karen Britland English, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Abraham Cowley’s poem, “Written in juice of lemon,” draws attention to the dangers of writing’s reception, likening a love poem written in secret ink to a beast that’s “burnt in sacrifice.” Taking Cowley’s poem as its starting point, this paper will discuss the use of …
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Apr 14Enchanted Modernities: Akha Inventions of Religion in Upper Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Micah Morton Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Anthropology, UW–Madison Much is being made of a dramatic resurgence in the political influence of religion the world over. Contrary to claims that modernization would lead to the disenchantment of social life, religion is being recognized as a continuing and increasingly significant domain of …
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Apr 11Grieving Alone, Grieving Together: Psychological and Social Mourning in Film
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Event: The phenomena of individual mourning and collective mourning have both attracted a good deal of critical attention in literature and film studies, but what are the similarities and differences that link and separate these two very different forms of bereavement? The central goal of this conference will be to examine …
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Apr 7Signs of Disquiet — Portuguese Cultural Politics in the 1980s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ellen Sapega Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison This talk will discuss a series of political and cultural events celebrating the life and work of modernist poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, during the 1980s. During this decade, Portugal completed a transition from dictatorship to democracy that …
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Mar 31A Moral Economy of Curative Violence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Eunjung Kim Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Is cure the end of disability? This presentation examines the transactional aspect of cure, imagined in a way involving power, resources, and losses. In this transaction, violence plays an important role in reshaping disability. The political dynamics of cure are clearly …
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Mar 24Biblical Behind/Corinthian Citation: Queering Figures of Androgyny and Female Masculinity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Joseph Marchal Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Paul’s letters have often been cited as straightforwardly dictating both heteronormativity and gender conformity, yet the figures deployed within these texts indicate still other potential responses and uses. Thus, this project demonstrates how queer modes within biblical …
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Mar 13The ‘New’ Sappho: A Symposium
University Club, Room 212
2014 Symposium: Join us for a discussion facilitated by Patricia Rosenmeyer (Classics, UW–Madison) of two newly discovered Sappho papyri. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.