Past Event Category: 2013-2014
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Dec 2Tragedy of Reason: Natural Law and Literature in Early Modernity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ben LaBreche Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014) English, University of Mary Washington The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries saw a renewed interest in natural law, which offered a means of rationalizing political relations and promoting justice. The potential violence and determinism of natural law, however, also threatened to undermine justice. The seminar will show …
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Nov 25Claiming Continuity: Family Planning, Political Dynasties and Narrative Form in the Indian Emergency
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ayelet Ben-Yishai Honorary Fellow (2013-2014) English Department, University of Haifa, Israel Imposed by India’s “Greatest Prime Minister,” from June 1975 to January 1977, the State of Emergency is usually presented as an anomaly in the annals of the world’s largest democracy. As anthropologist Emma Tarlo has noted (2010), while historians, political scientists …
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Nov 18Atreus and Thyestes in Greek and Roman Tragedy
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Anne Duncan Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014) Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln There was a saying in imperial Rome: “The worst actor plays the king.” Officially, this aphorism pointed out the tendency for stage tyrants to be played by the least prestigious actor in a troupe; unofficially, it was a subversive critique …
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Nov 142013 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion and Workshop: Helen Tartar, Editorial Director, Fordham University Press Gwen Walker, Editorial Director, University of Wisconsin Press Steve Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff, and co-editor of the book series “Critical Human Rights” through the University of Wisconsin Press Preeti Chopra, Associate Professor, Art …
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Nov 11The Worlding Work of the Cigarette: Tracking the Modern Girl Assemblage in the U.S. and China
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Monday Seminar: Nan Enstad Resident Fellow (2013-2014) History, UW–Madison In the early 20th century, consumers in China considered the cigarette a foreign import from the west, but consumers in the U.S. saw it as a foreign import from the east. Because of entrenched models of globalization that assume “modern” commodities followed a west-to-east trajectory, …
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Nov 4Sovereignty, History, and Papal Monarchy: Political Theory in the Age of Innocent IV
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Brett Whalen Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) History, UNC-Chapel Hill A former canon lawyer, Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) declared that all peoples—rulers and the ruled, believers and non-believers—came under the Roman Church’s spiritual and ultimately temporal jurisdiction due to the pope’s status as the successor to Saint Peter and, through that apostle, to Jesus …
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Oct 31Poetics of Resistance: Women Between Aesthetics and Politics
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The 2013 Germaine Brée International Symposium: Speakers: Sahar Elmougy, Cairo University Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University Souad Halila, University of Tunisia May Telmissany, University of Ottawa Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin–Madison Increasing confrontations with totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa have prompted women to find new ways to cope with political expression …
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Oct 28Aquilombando: Rebellious Landscapes and Colonial Visuality
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Matthew Francis Rarey Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Art History, UW–Madison Quilombos – communities of self-emancipated or fugitive slaves – were ubiquitous accompaniments to Brazil’s history of plantation slavery. Nearly every quilombo that existed in Brazil during the colonial period met its end through invasion and razing at the hands of the Portuguese. …
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Oct 21The Husband’s Message and Early English EpistolarityThe Husband’s Message and Early English Epistolarity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jordan Zweck Resident Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW–Madison What makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is that it is not merely about letters but about what I am calling epistolary acts, the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts, attempting to adapt a Latin epistolary tradition to Germanic or Anglo-Saxon …
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Oct 21A Conversation with G. Willow Wilson
University Club, Room 212
G. Willow Wilson Author and journalist G. Willow Wilson is the acclaimed author of graphic novels and comics published by Vertigo, Marvel, and D.C. Comics. She spent her early and mid-twenties living in Egypt and working as a journalist. Her articles about the Middle East and modern Islam have appeared in the New York …