Past Event Category: 2016-2017
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Oct 24“Signing in the Seraglio”: Global Disability in European Spatial Representations of the Ottoman Court
University Club, Room 212
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 representations of the dwarfs, mutes, and eunuchs who served the Ottoman sultans. Accounts of these boon companions emphasize their relative …
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Oct 19Fantasy as Microaggression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 a catalyst for exploring the relationship between aesthetics and political injury? Is race always bound to the circulation of negative …
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Oct 17How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was named one of the best books of …
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Oct 17Gendered Dynamics in Hmong American New Media Cultures
University Club, Room 212
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. Yet what role are Hmong women playing in shaping the use of these digital media technologies? How are Hmong women …
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Oct 10Queer Velocities: Untimely Matter in Racine’s Andromaque
University Club, Room 212
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 modern world. But did time always impact sexuality the same way? I examine a mid-seventeenth-century moment in France when …
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Oct 10Book Publishing in the Humanities of Today
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. Join us for a discussion of the state of academic publishing in the humanities and the process of working …
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Oct 7Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 free, open to the public, and followed by Q&A. Organized by Q&A Leaders: Jaeki Cho; Pamela Tom; Tad Nakamura; …
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Oct 4Plato’s Phaedo: The Initiation of a Philosopher
University Club, Room 212
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 to Pythagorean and Orphic religious views in the dialogue? Is this a separate feature of dialogue, independent of the detailed …
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Sep 26History, Time, and Mass Atrocity in Cambodia
University Club, Room 212
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 kalpa or “epoch” have circulated widely across the Buddhist world for nearly two millennia. In Cambodia, these millenarian prophesies have …
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Sep 19The Trial Nobody Expected: A Tale of Torture, Music, and Human Rights in the Americas
University Club, Room 212
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 in tumultuous times – and also, the power of historical knowledge and the humanities in the wake of atrocity. This …