University Club, Room 212 @ 8:30 am - @ 5:00 pm
Religion is omnipresent in modernity, and in spite of twentieth-century theorists who saw secularization as intrinsic to the process of modernization, shows no signs of disappearing. After discarding secularization as a plausible historical model, how …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Annie McClanahan UW System Fellow (2015-2016) English, UW-Milwaukee What does microeconomics—the study of small-scale consumer decisions—have to do with the modern novel? Microeconomics seems to have more to do with mathematical formalism …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Andreas Schwab Solmsen Fellow (2015-2016) Classics, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg In his famous second book on Egypt, Herodotus (ca. 484-425 BCE), the so-called “father of history” and ethnographic writer from Halicarnassus (present-day Bodrum …
University Club, Room 212 @ 9:00 am - 5:30 pm
2016 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Participants: Daniel Garber, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University Tad Schmaltz, Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan Gideon Manning, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Devaleena Das Honorary Fellow (2016-2017) University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies As Margaret Atwood writes, the female body has always seen as a “hot topic” in cultures …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Henry Drewal Senior Fellow (2010-2014) Art History and Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison In this talk, Drewal explores the vital role of the senses with an approach he calls …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Christina Greene Resident Fellow (2015-2016) Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison In 1974, Joan Little, a young, impoverished, African American woman killed her white guard in a Southern jail after he sexually assaulted her. Indicted …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2016 Germaine Brée Lecture: Jean-Pierre Bekolo Filmmaker and Activist Jean-Pierre Bekolo (1966, Yaounde) is an avant-garde filmmaker and socio-cultural activist whose imaginative work overturns stereotypes of Africa and African cinema. His entertaining films operate …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar Caitlin Silberman Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2015-2016) Art History, UW-Madison Narratives in which leather-winged demons or dragons face off against bird-winged angels and heroes have millennia of history behind them. In the nineteenth …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar Sissel Schroeder Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2015-2016) Anthropology, UW-Madison How can we begin to understand multi-ethnic community formation in contexts where there are no written records and only the faintest material …
