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October 2017
The Reproductive Politics of School Lunch
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Gaddis Resident Fellow (2017-2018) School of Human Ecology, UW-Madison Is caring for children a private or public responsibility? What (or whom) should be cared for collectively? Which activities count as care?…
Find out more »Workshop with Christina Sharpe and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Workshop: Christina Sharpe English, Tufts University 2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecturer In our changing climate, severe storms have become both aberrant and quotidian. Please join us for a conversation about “The Weather” and how…
Find out more »BLACK. STILL. LIFE.
2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities Christina Sharpe English, Tufts University In In the Wake, Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the…
Find out more »Building a Neutral Nation: America in the 18th Century Atlantic
Monday Seminar Sandra Moats UW System Fellow (2017-2018) History, UW-Parkside In 1793, the United States issued a Neutrality Proclamation to avoid involvement in a war between Britain and France, its principal allies. Neutrality confronted…
Find out more »How to Talk to Strangers: Interpreters in Early Modern Encounters
Image: Bantam (Banten)’s Bazaar, 1596. Monday Seminar: Su Fang Ng Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Clifford A. Cutchins III Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech Early modern European long-distance voyages had their impetus in the…
Find out more »November 2017
Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation: Printing, Orality, and Legal Knowledge in China, 1595-1949
Image credit: "Song to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation" accompanied by illustrations of court procedures. This image is a song from the late 1800s published in a collection, Popular Songs to Admonish Society （Quan shi…
Find out more »Listening to Contemporary Art: Vocality as a Technology of Relation
Monday Seminar: River Encalada Bullock Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2017-2018) Art History, UW-Madison Extending from my dissertation research this talk attends to works of art that ask us to listen just as much as they…
Find out more »Queer Love on Barbary Lane: The Sexual Politics of Serial Gay Fiction in Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City”
Monday Seminar: Ramzi Fawaz Resident Fellow (2017-2018) English, UW-Madison In this talk, I analyze the content and reading experience of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, the most popular serialized gay fiction of the…
Find out more »December 2017
Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes
Image: Silver cup from Casa del Menandro: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, inv. no. 145505. Photo by presenter (F. Mira Green). Monday Seminar: Mira Green Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) History; Classics, University of Washington …
Find out more »The Development Novel: World Literature and the Political Economy of Growth
Monday Seminar: Peter Ribic Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2017-2018) English, UW-Madison My dissertation research connects two genres of global writing that emerged in the immediate postwar period: development economics, which undertook to theorize and facilitate…
Find out more »January 2018
Following in the Footsteps of African Americans in 20th Century Denmark
Image: Jazz musician Dexter Gordon riding his bicycle in Copenhagen by photographer Jørgen Bu. Monday Seminar: Ethelene Whitmire Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2017-2018) School of Library & Information Studies, UW-Madison While walking through…
Find out more »American Holidays, American Nature
Photo credit: Courtesy of the Forest History Society Monday Seminar Neil Prendergast UW System Fellow (2017-2018) History; International Studies, UW-Stevens Point For nearly two centuries, millions of Americans have been celebrating Christmas with a…
Find out more »February 2018
Hell and Eden at World’s End: Early Twentieth Century Settler Life on the Galápagos Islands
Image Caption: The “Baronessa,” a Viennese colonist, poses for a film shot during the 1933 Hancock-Pacific expedition. She later disappeared, presumed murdered along with one of her lovers in what remains an island mystery. Image…
Find out more »American Blitzkrieg or Ecological Indian?: A Whodunit Mystery 12,000 Years in the Making
Monday Seminar Melissa Charenko William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2017-2018) History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW-Madison Approximately 12,000 years ago, North America’s megafauna went extinct. Scientists originally ascribed the extinction of species like the…
Find out more »Biopower in the Long 20th Century: A Crip/Queer Exegesis of the Persistence of Fascism
2018 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Madelyn Detloff English and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University In her study of the formation and spread of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt analyzed the political structures of…
Find out more »Roundtable Discussion: “Metic, Methods, and Modernism”
2018 Gender Studies and the Humanities Lecture Event: Madelyn Detloff English and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University Please join us for a roundtable discussion with Madelyn Detloff about her recently published article "Metic, Methods,…
Find out more »Constructing Normativity
Monday Seminar: Michael G. Titelbaum Resident Fellow (2017-2018) Philosophy, UW-Madison What gives norms—moral norms, political norms, norms of reasoning—their peculiar authority? After considering alternative answers to this question, I will focus on constructivist theories…
Find out more »The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848
2018 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor History of Science, UW-Madison In the German-speaking states of the 1840s and 50s, revolution was in the air. While…
Find out more »Radical Dancers: The Rise of Pantomime and the End of Drama in Antiquity
Monday Seminar: Mali Skotheim Solmen Fellow (2017-2018) Classics, Princeton University Pantomime, first attested under Augustus, transformed the traditionally staged and acted drama that audiences were familiar with into an exciting new form, a solo,…
Find out more »March 2018
Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception
Burdick-Vary Symposium Theresa Kelley IRH Senior Fellow; English, UW-Madison (as well as members of the Symposium Organizing Committee) This symposium proposes to bring together artists, scientists and scholars across several disciplines for whom color…
Find out more »Words that Hide: Rendering the Untranslatable Across the Globe
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…
Find out more »Historiopoetics in Early Modern Spain: Representing the Prince of Wales’ Visit to Madrid (1623)
Image: Print of engraving depicting the arrival of the Prince of Wales at the Palace of Madrid on 23 March 1623. (Vistas antiguas de Madrid, Museo Municipal.) Monday Seminar: Kelsey Ihinger Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2017-2018)…
Find out more »The Future of the Open-Stack Standing Collections of the Memorial and Kohler Art Libraries
Join representatives of the Faculty Libraries Working Group (FLWG) for a panel presentation and discussion regarding the planned destruction of a portion of the open-stack collections in the Memorial Library and the Kohler Art…
Find out more »The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy
Image Credit: Archivio di Stato di Bologna, Libri Inquisitionum et Testium, Busta 172, Reg. 9, Fol. 18R. Monday Seminar: Melissa Vise Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Italian Studies, New York University What can words do?…
Find out more »April 2018
The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology
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…
Find out more »Hiroshima / Vietnam / Tule Lake: Asian American Poetry and Diaspora
Image: Dust storm at Manzanar War Relocation Authority Center. Image Credit: Dorothea Lange/National Archives. Monday Seminar: Timothy Yu Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2017-2018) English; Asian American Studies, UW-Madison The concept of diaspora has…
Find out more »Mapping Mediterranean Geographies: Geographic and Cartographic Encounters between the Islamic World and Europe, c. 1150-1600
Monday Seminar: Jeremy Ledger Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) History, University of Michigan Mapping Mediterranean Geographies is a study of the cultural encounter between Muslim and Christian inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin between the twelfth and…
Find out more »Divine Touch and Relicization within Narrative, Hagiographical, and Visual Representations from the Twelfth through the Fifteenth Centuries
Image: Scene from “Miscellany on the life of St. Edmund.” England, Bury St Edmunds, ca. 1130. Image Credit: Pierpont Morgan Library; MS M.736 fol. 17r. Monday Seminar: Stephanie Grace Petinos Kingdon Fellow (2017-2018) French,…
Find out more »A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of the Reformation and Enlightenment in Early Modern Orthodox Russia
Title page of the Russian Slavonic Bible ("Elizabethan Bible"), printed in St. Petersburg, in 1751. Image Credit: Boston Public Library. Monday Seminar: Andrey V. Ivanov History, UW-Platteville UW System Fellow (2017-2018) This book…
Find out more »May 2018
Irrelevance
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…
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