University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level) @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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. …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 12:00 am - @ 12:00 am
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
