Past Event Category: 2016-2017
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Mar 10Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World
Pyle Center
2017 Burdick-Vary Symposium Organized by Louise Young How has the history of imperialism and colonialism brought us to the current conjuncture? This symposium brings together specialists from different fields to rethink possibilities for a critical history of the East Asian present within the larger context of the postimperial world. We plan morning and afternoon sessions …
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Mar 10Mount Athos in Context
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Symposium on the occasion of the Art History exhibition: “Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos and Photographs by Frank Horlbeck”: Welcome and Introductory Remarks 9:00-9:15 Dean Karl Scholz Bp. Demetrios of Mokissos 9:15-9:45 Thomas Dale Historical Perspectives on Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism 9:45-10:30 Leonora Neville 10:30-11:15 Alice-Mary Talbot 11:30-12:45 Lunch Break Stillness on the …
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Mar 6Weaponizing Identity: Doxing as Cultural Practice and Political Tool
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Andrew Zolides Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) Communication Arts, UW–Madison Doxing – the publicizing of private, identifying information about an individual without consent – is a fascinating cultural practice that has emerged in our digital culture. Relating to issues of surveillance, whistle-blowing, and battles over political ideologies, this talk presents doxing as a …
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Mar 3New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History
Pyle Center, Room 313
2017 Burdick-Vary Symposium In conjunction with: “Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections” (Chazen Museum of Art) “Natural History : Natural Philosophy: An Exhibit in Special Collections” (Memorial Library, Room 984) This symposium brings together contributors to a newly burgeoning mode of work that sits at—and defies—the boundaries between scholarly research and creative art …
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Feb 27Anishinaabewaki and the “mixed bloods, belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior”
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Larry Nesper Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2016-2017) Anthropology, UW–Madison This project began as an effort to problematize the legal permitting process by muddying up the chain of title to the Penokees of northern Wisconsin where Gogebic Taconite was proposing to build the largest open-pit iron mine in North America in 2014. …
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Feb 22Rethinking Empire in the Twentieth Century: Lessons from Imperial and Post-Imperial Japan
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2017 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW–Madison Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created trading imperium under the American cold war umbrella. What are the lessons that imperial Japan can teach us about the global …
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Feb 20Networks of Shared Imagination: Medieval Legends and the Construction of History
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Samantha Herrick Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) History, Syracuse University What can we learn about the past from sources long dismissed as worthless? Medieval legends recount a version of early Christian history starkly at odds with reality. They also repeat each other again and again. For these reasons, they have been branded as unreliable …
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Feb 13Machiavelli’s Tragic Geography
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kristin Phillips-Court Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Italian and Art History, UW–Madison Machiavelli’s writings substantiate more than their distillation into a political theory that stripped morality from politics. This seminar focuses on Machiavelli’s frequent recourse to images of the Italian terrain as a means of communicating knowledge in The Prince and his other literary …
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Feb 6Recovering the New Thought Novel
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Anne Stiles Kingdon Fellow (2016-2017) Department of English, Saint Louis University Did you know that many well-loved children’s classics contain hidden Christian Science and New Thought messages? My book shows how classic children’s fiction written around 1900 – works such as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green …
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Feb 3Show and Tell: Evidence, Erotics, and Embodiment in the Premodern World
University Club, Room 212
Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion with: Tina Chronopoulos, SUNY-Binghamton, Classics/IRH Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi, English Dana Oswald, UW-Parkside, English/IRH Jennifer Row, Boston University, French/IRH When researching the history of sexuality, or thinking about past desires, erotics, and intimacies, what counts as evidence? What methods are crucial for some fields, and forgotten by others? Four scholars …