Past Event Category: 2016-2017
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May 11Imprisonment, Encampment, Incarceration: Prison Studies in a Global Frame
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 sites — penitentiaries, prisons, interrogation centers, supermax facilities, military detention camps, labor camps, and more — as they are today. …
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May 8Research in the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 contribute to the future direction of the Humanities? How has your discipline’s relationship to the Humanities changed over the last …
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May 1Modernism, Theatre, and the Axis of Language in India
University Club, Room 212
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 theatre in the new time-space of modernism. However, the long premodern history of these cultural forms, and their embeddedness in …
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Apr 24Exploring the Real: New Modes of Documentary Theatre in Contemporary Mexico
University Club, Room 212
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 staged biography or the autobiographical enter the scene? And what is the place that this genre of documentary fictions take …
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Apr 17Calculating Conversion: The Role of Mathematical Deliberation in Arabic Language Schools of Iberia and North Africa, ca. 1240-1300
University Club, Room 212
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 of “oriental” languages in the Christian-occupied regions of Arabic Iberia and North Africa. At these sites friars studied Arabic and …
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Apr 10Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India
University Club, Room 212
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 western science and the rule of law. This talk examines two such cases circa 1900 that threatened credibility claims made …
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Apr 3Encounters in Qraiyeh: Imperial Ideology and French Industry in a Lebanese Village, 1900-1930
University Club, Room 212
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 Ottoman Empire, furthering economic interests and building on national traditions of religious alliance and cultural association, before establishing formal colonial …
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Mar 30Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Changed American IQ, and Why We Don’t Know It
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
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 trumpeted in 1939, describing an experiment led by psychologist Harold Skeels in which orphanage toddlers were transferred to the State …
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Mar 27Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Fatimid Architecture (909-1031)
University Club, Room 212
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, the Fatimid era witnessed an efflorescence of art and architecture and relatively peaceful coexistence between the religious communities in their …
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Mar 13A View from the Choir: Sharing Sacred Space in Pluriconfessional Convents in Early Modern Germany
University Club, Room 212
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 regions of the world. The vital role of women in creating means of transmitting religious identity and arbitrating differences has …