University Club, Room 212 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion to replace final seminar of the year: The final seminar of the year provides time and space for self-reflection, collaborative and individual. It’s a fair guess to say that NO ONE did as …
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Catherine Bates Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick One of the foundational texts of early modern poetics, Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poetry (1595) makes the case that poetry …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Severino Albuquerque Resident Fellow (2014-2015) Spanish & Portuguese, UW-Madison This presentation focuses on the diary Argentine playwright and theater professor Tulio Carella (1912-1979) wrote during an 18-month stay in Recife, Brazil, in …
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Lecture: James Bromley Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English, Miami University In my talk, I will examine the representation of the epistemological and material construction of urban sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, what the play …
Ingraham Hall, Room 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Public Lecture: Devaleena Das Honorary Fellow (2014-2015) English and Gender Studies, University of Delhi In her paper, Das will first trace the cult of vermillion in Hinduism (its representation in festivals, cultural and religious …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Anju Reejhsinghani UW System Fellow (2014-2015) History, UW-Stevens Point As the first sustained examination of boxing’s rise and popularization within Cuba and its diaspora, Anju Reejhsinghani’s project should prove relevant not only …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Lucy Traverse Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2014-2015) Art History, UW-Madison This project explores the trans-Atlantic interest in psychical research at the fin-de-siècle, focusing on the textual and photographic archives of “ectoplasmic” materializations. Though …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Víctor Goldgel-Carballo Resident Fellow (2014-2015) Spanish & Portuguese, UW-Madison Passing is often understood as a divergence between the private and the public identities of a given subject — with the public identity …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Christelle Fischer-Bovet Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) Classics, University of Southern California Christelle Fischer-Bovet is working on a book that aims at developing a better understanding of state formation and imperialism in Egypt after …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar Eliza Zingesser Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) French and Romance Philology, Columbia University This project shows how pastoral literature—especially pastourelle poetry—became a privileged site for French explorations of cultural and linguistic difference in the …
