Past Event Category: 2014-2015
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Dec 8Mountain, Water, Rock, God: Shiva’s Abode of Kedarnath in the Twenty-First Century
University Club, Room 212
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 away thousands of lives and decimated the economic landscape of the state. One public face of this disaster has been …
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Dec 3For What It’s Worth: Toward a New History of the Sixties
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 of the nineteen sixties, a mythologized decade that is too often reduced to a set of contradictory ideological tropes. This …
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Dec 1The Place With No Edge: Boundaries and Permeability in the Mississippi River Delta, 1845-2010
University Club, Room 212
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, national crisis. My research examines the history of both that crisis and its invisibility by focusing on the uncertain boundaries …
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Nov 20Fighting For Intimacy: Counterinsurgency, Gender Politics, and Colonial Utopianism in the Algerian War
University Club, Room 212
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. 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 …
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Nov 17Wakf and the Social Logics of Urban Development in Zanzibar
University Club, Room 212
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 to early colonial period (roughly late 1700s to early 1900s). Specifically following the development of wakf (Islamic endowments) in the …
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Nov 10Spiritism and Progress: A Study in Otherworldly Utopia
University Club, Room 212
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 in the utopian and progressive spirit of the nineteenth century. Relying on the revelations of “spirits” speaking through mediums to …
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Nov 3Style, Subjectivity, and Male Sexuality in Early Modern Drama
University Club, Room 212
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 other, to dominant ideologies of gender and sexuality, and to material culture. This book project zeroes in on the representation …
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Oct 30French Outside France
French House
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 and open to the public. Simon Gaunt has taught at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, where he has been …
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Oct 29French Literature Abroad: Towards an Alternative History of Literature in French
University Club, Room 212
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 suggests an alternative history of medieval literature in French, one that is centripetal rather than centrifugal. Focusing initially on three …
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Oct 27Conversion and Empire: Byzantine Narratives and Imperial Christianity across the Frontier, 300-900
University Club, Room 212
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 (modern Sudan), Himyar (modern Yemen), and the Balkans. According to modern tradition, these foreign conversions brought about Eastern Orthodoxy’s largest …