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September 2015
What Counts as “Evidence” in Humanities Research?
Panel Discussion: "Humanities by the Numbers" was the theme for the annual conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, hosted by the Center for the Humanities in Madison in June. The status of…
Find out more »From the Roman Mediterranean to India: The Early Movement of Christianity through the Afro-Eurasian World System
Monday Seminar: Nathanael Andrade Solmsen Fellow (2015-2016) History, University of Oregon Can we trace the social pathways that ancient Christianity followed as it traveled from the Roman Mediterranean to India? Evidence of these pathways…
Find out more »Roads as Spaces of Consumption: The Making of Tibetan Highways
Monday Seminar: Yongming Zhou Senior Fellow (2014-2018) Anthropology, UW-Madison What are the functions of roads, both "materially" and "symbolically"? Since 1950, several highways have been built to connect Tibet with the rest of China.…
Find out more »October 2015
From Content to Context: Rethinking Relationships between Folklore and Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Gipson Resident Fellow (2015-2016) French and Italian, UW-Madison What does folklore have to do with literature? The usual answer would involve shared content: writers borrowing song, stories, or motifs from traditional…
Find out more »Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present
Monday Seminar: Theodore Martin UW System Fellow (2015-2016) English, UW-Milwaukee What do we mean when we call something—art, culture, history—"contemporary"? While scholars tend to refer to the contemporary as if it were the name…
Find out more »Incarcerated Writers and the Justice of Incarceration
Monday Seminar: Vincent Lloyd Kingdon Fellow (2015-2016) Religion, Syracuse University It is not only activists and public intellectuals who are concerned about the injustice of mass incarceration in the United States. Incarcerated men and…
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