Past Event Category: 2014-2015
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Oct 23Burying the People of “the People’s War”: Death, the State, and Intimacy in Second World War Britain
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 Alice D. Mortenson / Petrovich Chair in Russian History. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the …
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Oct 20Song and Mediation in Early Modern England
University Club, Room 212
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 modern England, beginning with the renewed interest in musical humanism among Sidney and his peers, and continuing through Milton’s fascination …
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Oct 13Tricky Business: Divorce and Diaspora in Mao’s China
University Club, Room 212
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 of Asian Studies (February 2015), entitled “The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to the Chinese Experience,” to rethink “diaspora” …
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Oct 10Workshop with Saidiya Hartman
University Club, Room 212
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 available in Room 212 after 8:30 A.M.). Hartman will open the conversation with a few brief remarks. Susan Friedman will …
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Oct 9A Serial Biography of the Wayward
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 social upheaval and radical transformation of everyday life that took place in the American slums between 1890-1920. Saidiya Hartman …
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Oct 6Legalizing a Social Movement: The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the Evolution of an Ethnic Identity
University Club, Room 212
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 Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). Created in 1968, MALDEF has emerged as the legal voice of Latino rights, yet …
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Oct 3Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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, cognitive sciences, etc.). Throughout the day, these “bytes” will be interspersed with a variety of interactive sensory experiences for all. …
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Sep 29Reading African American Literature Now: History, Fiction, and the Problem of Desire
University Club, Room 212
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 the task of black literature is to memorialize the slave past, or to put it behind us. Levy-Hussen puts this …
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Sep 22Art and Life in Latin Literature: Emergences of a Dualistic Structure in an Ancient Archive
University Club, Room 212
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 literature presumes a dialectic of “Greek” idealism and “Roman” materialism; while neither tendency adequately describes or determines social practice, their …
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Sep 17War and Intimacy (Fall Schedule)
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. September 17, 4:00 pm Atin Grossmann, Cooper Union: “Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the …