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September 2013
Environmental Studies in the Time of the Anthropocene
Fall 2013 Faculty Development Seminar: Rob Nixon Senior Fellow (2009-2012) English; Center for Culture, History and Environment This seminar has two goals. First, it will explore the vital role of the environmental humanities in…
Find out more »What’s the Place of “Place” in the Humanities?
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Susan D. Bernstein, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, UW-Madison Thomas Dale, Art History, UW-Madison Tomislav Longinović, Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison Yi-Fu Tuan, Emeritus Professor of Geography, UW-Madison…
Find out more »Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?
Monday Seminar: Steve Nadler Senior Fellow (2013-2017) William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy, UW-Madison In July of 1656, the twenty-three year old Baruch de Spinoza received the harshest writ of herem (excommunication)…
Find out more »Standard Deviation: The Calculus of Normativity in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Le Voyeur
Monday Seminar: Richard Goodkin Senior Fellow (2009-2014) French and Italian, UW-Madison What sort of narrative might result from the implausible marriage of mathematics and literature? As an example of such an unlikely union, in…
Find out more »Five Ways to Look at a Corpse: The Dead in Normandy, 1944
2013 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Lecture: Mary Louise Roberts Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison We prefer to think of war as producing heroes, not…
Find out more »Zazous in Zoot Suits: Race, Jazz, and Resistance in Occupied France, 1940-1944
Monday Seminar: Kelly Jakes Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Communication Arts, UW-Madison Derived from my dissertation project on popular music and resistance in German-Occupied France, this presentation investigates how upper-middle class Parisian youth, known as…
Find out more »October 2013
Thinking about Early Jewish Rewriting of Scripture
Monday Seminar: Molly Zahn Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) Religious Studies, University of Kansas For most of Jewish and Christian history, "interpretation" has been regarded as secondary to "scripture," both chronologically and in terms of authority.…
Find out more »The Moth-Eaten Page: Animals and Language in Angela Rawlings’s Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
Monday Seminar: Sarah Groeneveld Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW-Madison Angela Rawlings’s experimental long-poem Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists evokes an insect collector’s dream in which the forms of moths and butterflies become confused with…
Find out more »Was There a Reformation in India?
2013 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Munis Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles Brendan LaRocque, Carleton College Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University Azfar Moin, Southern Methodist University…
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