Past Event Category: 2014-2015
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Mar 2Oracular Romance: Heliodoran Fiction and Suspended Providence in Early Modern English Literature
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Brian Knight Madeleine Doran Dissertation Fellow (2014-2015) English, UW–Madison Classical oracles were denounced in the Renaissance as either shams staged by charlatans or as engines of deceit run by demons. In Renaissance literature, though, oracles escaped these official interpretations. Why did early modern writers include oracles in their fictions, and what work …
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Feb 23The Best Land
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Susan Brewer UW System Fellow (2014-2015) History, UW-Stevens Point Susan Brewer’s project investigates the controversy over Oneida Indian land claims in central New York by tracing the history of one piece of property and the people—the Oneida families and her own—who have lived on it over the past 250 years. This story …
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Feb 18Enchantings: On Modernity, Culture, and the State in Africa
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2015 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Tejumola Olaniyan English and African Languages & Literature, UW–Madison Tejumola Olaniyan will look at literature, popular culture, and social and political practices to tell a cultural history of African politics, and a political history of African culture that re-frames our understanding of the modern state, and …
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Feb 16The Complex Relationship between Indigeneity and Class in Southeast Asia
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ian Baird Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2014-2015) Geography, UW–Madison The relationship between ethnicity and class has been long, complex and at times contradictory. Between the 1940s and 1980s, various militant communist revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia and elsewhere in the world targeted upland ethnic minorities because of the racialized discrimination minorities …
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Feb 9Feudal Remnants and the Idea of Class in Modern Japan
University Club, Room 212
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 a sense of urgency to protect a vanishing “middle class.” The unraveling of the Japanese dream of middle class consumerism …
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Feb 2Commentaries in Context: Fatḥallāh al-Shirwānī and Post-Classical Islamic Science
University Club, Room 212
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 for understanding the transmission of science from Central Asia to Constantinople, and potentially to Europe. Shirwānī’s work addresses three key …
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Jan 29War and Intimacy (Spring Schedule)
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. January 29, 4:00 pm John Hall, UW–Madison: “The Intimacies of Ethnocide: Preserving Male Honor in the ‘Unholy’ Wars of Indian …
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Jan 26Hagakure and “The Way of the Samurai”
University Club, Room 212
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 II and has since flourished in popular media around the world. This project both situates this renowned formulation of Japanese …
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Jan 20Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery
University Club, Room 212
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 sciences has long focused primarily on European and North American medicine. Meanwhile, historical and anthropological studies from the postcolonial world—research …
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Dec 11Holding the Hands of Dying Men: Wehrmacht Chaplains on the Eastern Front, 1941-45
University Club, Room 212
2014 Burdick-Vary Event: David Harrisville History, UW–Madison Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW–Madison. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities , the George L. Mosse Program in History, and Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History.