Past Event Category: 2014-2015
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Sep 17Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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.) 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
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Sep 15White-Collar Discipline and the Theology of Work
University Club, Room 212
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 responses to the feminization of work; the commodification of reproductive labor; the restructuring of the household; and the growth of …
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Sep 8What’s the Value of Humanities Research?
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 Caroline Levine, English, UW–Madison David Loewenstein, English and the Humanities, Religious Studies, UW–Madison Daegan Miller, Institute for Research in the …
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Sep 2Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film
University Club, Room 212
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 of representing animals have been troubled by the question of animal representativeness; that is, the rights of animals. Animal Studies, …