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September 2017
Relevance
Opening Panel Discussion: Must the humanities be "relevant"? To what, or to whom? How have perspectives on these questions evolved since the heated debates of the 1960s and 1970s? Can research be "irrelevant," and…
Find out more »The Benefits of Failure: From the Gnostics to Cioran
Monday Seminar: Costica Bradatan Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Humanities, Texas Tech University Because of our culture’s obsession with success, we miss something important about what it means to be human and deny ourselves access to…
Find out more »Reproducing a Bodhisattva: Women’s Artistic Devotion in Late Imperial China
Monday Seminar: Yuhang Li Resident Fellow (2017-2018) Art History, UW-Madison What did lay Buddhist women actually do in order to forge a connection with the bodhisattva Guanyin after he underwent a sex-change and became…
Find out more »October 2017
U.S. Cold War Immigration and the Politics of Sanctuary
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Resident Fellow (2017-2018) History; Asian American Studies, UW-Madison This talk looks at how U.S. Cold War immigration policies structured the marginalization of Central Americans. Unlike Southeast Asians, Central Americans…
Find out more »Seeing is Believing: The Rise of Holy Land Tourism and Evangelical Christian Zionism after 1967
Monday Seminar: Daniel Hummel Kingdon Fellow (2017-2018) History, Harvard University Since the 1960s, American evangelical Christians have flocked to Holy Land sites in Israel and Palestine in ever-increasing numbers. In 2016, more than 380,000…
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