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September 2014
Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film
Fall 2014 Faculty Development Seminar: Mario Ortiz-Robles English, UW-Madison Scientific, artistic, political, and philosophical descriptions of animals have accompanied human history from its beginnings, but it is only relatively recently that these various ways…
Find out more »What’s the Value of Humanities Research?
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Guillermina De Ferrari, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Center for Visual Cultures, UW-Madison Sara Guyer, English, Center for the Humanities, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW-Madison…
Find out more »White-Collar Discipline and the Theology of Work
Monday Seminar: Bethany Moreton Kingdon Fellow (2014-2015) History and Women's Studies, University of Georgia The "revenge of God"—the broad failure of the secularization thesis after World War II—is in part the story of religious…
Find out more »Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture: Atina Grossmann Humanities & Social Sciences, Cooper Union (Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison.)
Find out more »War and Intimacy (Fall Schedule)
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Events: The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century.…
Find out more »Art and Life in Latin Literature: Emergences of a Dualistic Structure in an Ancient Archive
Monday Seminar Alexander Dressler Resident Fellow (2014-2015) Classics, UW-Madison Dressler's current project argues that, from an early "pagan" comic playwright to a subsequently sainted Christian poet, through "classic" Classics of the early Empire, Latin…
Find out more »Reading African American Literature Now: History, Fiction, and the Problem of Desire
Monday Seminar: Aida Levy-Hussen Resident Fellow (2014-2015) English, UW-Madison Since the late twentieth-century decline of the modern Civil Rights Movement, African American literary studies has been consumed with an increasingly contentious debate about whether…
Find out more »October 2014
Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Featuring a series of tasty “sound bytes”—short, pithy multi-media presentations by both UW-Madison and internationally-renowned scholars who are exploring the senses in trans-disciplinary research (anthropology, visual/material culture, art history, music, performance theory,…
Find out more »Legalizing a Social Movement: The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Evolution of an Ethnic Identity
Monday Seminar: Benjamin Marquez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2014-2015) Political Science, UW-Madison This project examines the role of cause lawyers in the history of Mexican American identity politics by analyzing the Mexican American…
Find out more »A Serial Biography of the Wayward
2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Saidiya Hartman Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Drawing from her new book project, the lecture examines the…
Find out more »Workshop with Saidiya Hartman
Workshop in conjunction with 2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Saidiya Hartman Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Informal conversation (9:00-10:30 A.M.) and breakfast (quiche, oatmeal, fruit, and beverages…
Find out more »Tricky Business: Divorce and Diaspora in Mao’s China
Monday Seminar: Shelly Chan Resident Fellow (2014-2015) History, UW-Madison This seminar draws on a larger book-in-progress, entitled "Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration," and a forthcoming article in The Journal…
Find out more »Song and Mediation in Early Modern England
Monday Seminar: Scott Trudell Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English, University of Maryland, College Park Trudell's current book project traces the development of verse with a musical dimension in the poetic and theatrical cultures of early…
Find out more »Burying the People of “the People’s War”: Death, the State, and Intimacy in Second World War Britain
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison Lucy Noakes Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton. Co-sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History and the…
Find out more »Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Narratives and Imperial Christianity across the Frontier, 300-900
Monday Seminar: Alexander Angelov Kingdon Fellow (2014-2015) Religious Studies, The College of William & Mary The work of Byzantine missionaries between 300 and 900 extended Christianity into such disparate regions as the Caucasus, Nubia…
Find out more »French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of Literature in French
2014 Germaine Brée Lecture: Simon Gaunt French, King's College London Traditional literary histories tend to be centrifugal, tracing trajectories that move outwards from a strong and identifiable center towards peripheral zones. This lecture…
Find out more »French Outside France
2014 Germaine Brée Event: Roundtable Simon Gaunt French, King's College London A roundtable discussion with UW-Madison faculty Vlad Dima, Névine El-Nossery, Jennifer Gipson, and Ullrich Langer. French and Italian Departmental Colloquium. Free…
Find out more »November 2014
Style, Subjectivity, and Male Sexuality in Early Modern Drama
Monday Seminar: James Bromley Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English, Miami University As the population and economic activity of early modern London rapidly increased, dramatists explored and shaped the way early modern Londoners related to each…
Find out more »Spiritism and Progress: A Study in Otherworldly Utopia
Monday Seminar: Louis Betty UW System Fellow (2014-2015) Languages and Literatures, UW-Whitewater The Spiritist movement that emerged from the work of Hippolyte Rivail in 1850's France is not the typical fodder of scholars interested…
Find out more »Wakf and the Social Logics of Urban Development in Zanzibar
Monday Seminar: Stephen Pierce Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2014-2015) History, UW-Madison This seminar is based on my dissertation, which examines the historical role played by Islamic charitable endowments in Swahili cities during the late precolonial…
Find out more »Fighting For Intimacy: Counterinsurgency, Gender Politics, and Colonial Utopianism in the Algerian War
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: Terry Peterson History, UW-Madison Part of the "War and Intimacy" Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison. Please note the updated lecture date.
Find out more »December 2014
The Place With No Edge: Boundaries and Permeability in the Mississippi River Delta, 1845-2010
Monday Seminar: Adam Mandelman Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2014-2015) Geography, UW-Madison Even after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana residents have struggled to make the problem of subsidence and land loss in the Mississippi River delta a visible,…
Find out more »For What It’s Worth: Toward a New History of the Sixties
2014 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Craig Werner Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison A scholar of literature, music, and cultural history, Craig Werner lays out a set of guiding principles for a new history…
Find out more »Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Shiva’s Abode of Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
Monday Seminar: Luke Whitmore UW System Fellow (2014-2015) Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point In June of 2013 early monsoon rains of unexpected intensity hit the Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Floods and landslides washed…
Find out more »Holding the Hands of Dying Men: Wehrmacht Chaplains on the Eastern Front, 1941-45
2014 Burdick-Vary Event: David Harrisville History, UW-Madison Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison.
Find out more »January 2015
Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery
Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar Claire Wendland Anthropology, UW-Madison Neil Kodesh History, UW-Madison What can studies of healing from the periphery offer the humanities more broadly today? Scholarship in the medical humanities and humanistic social…
Find out more »Hagakure and “The Way of the Samurai”
Monday Seminar: Sarah Thal Resident Fellow (2014-2015) History, UW-Madison "The Way of the Samurai is death." This iconic phrase, originally found in the 1716 Japanese work Hagakure, exhorted Japanese to die during World War…
Find out more »War and Intimacy (Spring Schedule)
2015 Burdick-Vary Schedule: The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century. …
Find out more »February 2015
Commentaries in Context: Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī and Post-Classical Islamic Science
Monday Seminar: Scott Trigg William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2014-2015) History of Science, UW-Madison Scott Trigg's dissertation evaluates the intellectual career of Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī, a 15th-century Islamic astronomer, theologian, and teacher whose writings are critical…
Find out more »Feudal Remnants and the Idea of Class in Modern Japan
Monday Seminar: Louise Young Senior Fellow (2013-2017) History, UW-Madison Class talk is a ubiquitous part of contemporary political debate in Japan, with harsh words for the pernicious impact of the "income gap society" and…
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