University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level) @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Speakers: A. Naomi Paik (Keynote) J. Daniel Elam Toussaint Losier Michael Farquhar Golnar Nikpour A.J. Yumi Lee Anthony Fontes Never before in history have as many people around the world been confined in carceral …
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level) @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Panel Discussion and Table Talks: Panelists are invited to reflect on the following questions; please come and share your ideas and memories on these as well: How might your discipline or interdisciplinary research area …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Aparna Dharwadker Resident Fellow (2016-2017) English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, UW-Madison The global turn in modernist studies has offered scholars of India the first significant opportunity to position modern Indian literature and …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 am - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Paola Hernández Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Spanish & Portuguese, UW-Madison Why do we see a renaissance of documentary practices in contemporary theatre? Where and how does the idea of the affective of a …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:29 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar Nicholas Jacobson William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW-Madison In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, Dominican and Franciscan missionaries established schools devoted to the study …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Mitra Sharafi Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Law and Legal Studies, UW-Madison History Corrupt British forensic experts undermined race-based narratives about truth-telling and corruption in colonial India, as well as ideological claims made for …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: John Boonstra Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) History, UW-Madison The history of European imperialism in the Middle East tends to follow a familiar script: competing powers developed “spheres of influence” within the late-stage …
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
2017 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Susan Schweik UC Berkeley, English “Dull Babies Made Normal By Feeble-Minded Girls’ Care: Increase of as Much as 40 Points in IQ Reported,” a science magazine headline …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar Jennifer Pruitt Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Art History, UW-Madison The Ismaili Shi’i Fatimid dynasty is most famous for founding the city of Cairo in 969. Generally considered a golden age of multicultural tolerance, …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday Seminar: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer History, Western Kentucky University Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Differences between religious groups coexisting in the same nation remain one of the thorniest sources of controversy and violence in many …
