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September 2016
Agency: What Does It Mean Across the Humanities?
Panel Discussion: What are the meanings of “agency” in various disciplines and interdisciplines of the humanities? To what extent is it theorized or assumed? Does agency mean the freedom to act? To think? To…
Find out more »Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
2016 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Christine Yano Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii Pink globalization, the spread of cute goods from Japan to other parts of the world, has been a…
Find out more »The Trial Nobody Expected: A Tale of Torture, Music, and Human Rights in the Americas
Monday Seminar: Steve Stern Senior Fellow (2015-2017) History, UW-Madison This is an extraordinary true-life story. It's a tale of murder, human rights, and social justice in the Americas. It's about the power of music…
Find out more »History, Time, and Mass Atrocity in Cambodia
Monday Seminar: Anne Hansen Resident Fellow (2016-2017) History, UW-Madison Buddhist prophesies about the end of our time and the dawning of a new era tied to the enlightenment of the fifth buddha in our…
Find out more »October 2016
Plato’s Phaedo: The Initiation of a Philosopher
Monday Seminar: David Ebrey Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Philosophy, Northwestern University Plato’s Phaedo is one of his literary and philosophical masterpieces, set on the last day of Socrates’ life. How should we understand Socrates’ reference…
Find out more »Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Burdick-Vary Events, Organized by Dr. Lori Kido Lopez: Join us for a weekend celebrating brand new Asian American documentaries and filmmakers, brought to you by the Asian American Studies Program at UW-Madison. All films are…
Find out more »Book Publishing in the Humanities of Today
Publication Workshop Ken Wissoker Editorial Director, Duke University Press PLEASE NOTE: this workshop is open to graduate students, faculty, and academic staff. Registration is required: rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu. The reservation deadline is 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 5.…
Find out more »Queer Velocities: Untimely Matter in Racine’s Andromaque
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Row Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Romance Studies, Boston University From “one’s ticking biological clock” to “grow up, be a man,” sex and gender norms are often seamlessly intertwined with temporality in our…
Find out more »Gendered Dynamics in Hmong American New Media Cultures
Monday Seminar: Lori Lopez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2016-2017) Communication Arts, UW-Madison For over 260,000 Hmong Americans living in the U.S., mobile media now play a key role in maintaining connections and identities.…
Find out more »Fantasy as Microaggression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
2016 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Leslie Bow Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Mark and Elisabeth Eccles Professor of English and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison How does the mundane object serve as…
Find out more »“Signing in the Seraglio”: Global Disability in European Spatial Representations of the Ottoman Court
Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Bearden English, UW-Madison Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Drawn from the fourth chapter of her current book project, Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability, this talk analyzes European…
Find out more »How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
2016 Burdick-Vary Event: Charles Yu Author and Screenwriter What do cowboy robots, hapless yeomen, time machine repairmen, and third class superheroes have in common? They all issue from the imagination of Charles Yu. Charles Yu is…
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