Past Event Category: 2014-2015
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May 4What’s the VALUE of Your Humanities Research?
University Club, Room 212
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 much work as they hoped to during their fellowship term. That’s par for the course. But it’s also a fair …
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Apr 27On Not Defending Poetry: The Economics of Sidney’s Golden World
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 profits both the individual and the state to which he or she belongs by promoting ethical ideals of heroic love …
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Apr 20Queering Pan-Americanism: Sexuality, Politics, and Performance in Tulio Carella’s Recife Diaries, 1960-1961
University Club, Room 212
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 the politically charged period leading up to the 1964 coup. The apprehension of the manuscript (published a few years later …
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Apr 16City Powdering: Materiality, Pedagogy, and Sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 refers to as the “city powdering.” In the play, cloth facilitates otherwise impossible relations between men, and the cloth trade …
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Apr 16Romanticism, Desire, or Fetish Fashion: ‘Sindoor Feminism’ As a Way to Emancipation
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
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 practice) and examine how this spiritual-passionate-emotional-sexual sign has been related to the paradigmatic Sati, the virtuous good wife of the …
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Apr 13For Blood or for Glory: A History of Cuban Boxing, 1898-1962
University Club, Room 212
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 to cultural historians, but also to scholars of diaspora, gender, race, and transnationalism. In the wake of the Spanish-Cuban-American War, …
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Apr 6Ectoplasmic Modernities: Materialization Photography at the Turn of the Century
University Club, Room 212
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 seemingly an eccentric and marginal practice, I argue that parapsychology research and imagery intervened in larger cultural debates concerning the …
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Mar 23Passing as Open Secret: Race and Fictions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
University Club, Room 212
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 perceived as fraudulent or as a simulacrum that aims at keeping the private one secret. The study of late-nineteenth-century Cuba, …
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Mar 16The Ptolemaic Empire (323-30 BCE)
University Club, Room 212
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 the conquest of Alexander down to the inclusion of Egypt into the Roman Empire (332-30 BCE). It provides a critical …
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Mar 9Borderlands: Intercultural Encounters in the Medieval French Pastourelle
University Club, Room 212
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 Middle Ages. The generic framework of the pastourelle poem—in which an errant knight encounters, and subsequently often rapes, a shepherdess—entangles …