Last Seminar

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

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, …

Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918: The Fantastic Imagery of Harry Clarke

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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 …

Grieving Alone, Grieving Together: Psychological and Social Mourning in Film

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 4:00 pm -

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 …

Signs of Disquiet — Portuguese Cultural Politics in the 1980s

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

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 …

A Moral Economy of Curative Violence

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

  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, …

The ‘New’ Sappho: A Symposium

University Club, Room 212
@ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

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 …