Irrelevance

University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

2018 Closing Panel: What is irrelevance? What sort of research is irrelevant, in the humanities?  Is all scholarship relevant in the humanities?  Have you done research or teaching that you consider to be irrelevant? Have …

Hiroshima / Vietnam / Tule Lake: Asian American Poetry and Diaspora

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Timothy Yu Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2017-2018) English; Asian American Studies, UW-Madison   The concept of diaspora has become increasingly prominent in scholarly discussions of race, ethnicity, and migration. Its impact has …

The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Lynn K. Nyhart Senior Fellow (2014-2018) Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science; History, UW-Madison   In 1802, the word “Biologie” appeared for the first time, in French and German, to characterize …

The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

  Monday Seminar: Melissa Vise Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Italian Studies, New York University   What can words do? Or for the historian, what could words do in cultures past? This talk focuses on the northern …

Words that Hide: Rendering the Untranslatable Across the Globe

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Tomislav Longinović Senior Fellow (2013-2018) German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW-Madison   As global subjectivity becomes increasingly dominated by communication across languages and cultures, as well as between geographical and virtual spaces, the universe …