Past Event Category: 2017-2018
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Mar 2Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception
Wisconsin Institute for Discover, DeLuca Forum
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 matters in quite different registers, across the globe and across modernity. From the Early Modern era to the present, color …
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Feb 26Radical Dancers: The Rise of Pantomime and the End of Drama in Antiquity
University Club, Room 212
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, masked, mimetic dance. My project considers the cultural and intellectual impact of this controversial art form, from its origins in …
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Feb 21The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 the political revolutions of 1848-49 are best known, the life sciences were undergoing their own revolutions, marked by radical new …
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Feb 19Constructing Normativity
University Club, Room 212
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 of normativity inspired by Kant. On this approach, some norms are constitutive of the very nature of activities humans undertake. …
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Feb 16Roundtable Discussion: “Metic, Methods, and Modernism”
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
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, and Modernism.” Coffee and light snacks will be provided. All are welcome. Room is accessible. The article can be obtained …
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Feb 15Biopower in the Long 20th Century: A Crip/Queer Exegesis of the Persistence of Fascism
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
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 both Nazi Germany and Stalinist USSR. Perhaps because of her exhaustive critique of Nazi totalitarianism, fascism is often associated in …
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Feb 12American Blitzkrieg or Ecological Indian?: A Whodunit Mystery 12,000 Years in the Making
University Club, Room 212
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 giant beaver, mastodon, and mammoth to changes in the climate, claiming that these and other species had not been able …
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Feb 5Hell and Eden at World’s End: Early Twentieth Century Settler Life on the Galápagos Islands
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Hennessy Resident Fellow (2017-2018) History, UW–Madison; Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies The Galápagos Islands are best known today as a natural laboratory of evolution where biologists and tourists alike can venture to see nature as Charles Darwin himself did nearly two centuries ago. For much of the late nineteenth and early …
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Jan 29American Holidays, American Nature
University Club, Room 212
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 tree and Thanksgiving with a turkey, yet despite that depth of experience, an enduring ambivalence remains: Which type of tree and which type of turkey should enter the …
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Jan 22Following in the Footsteps of African Americans in 20th Century Denmark
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ethelene Whitmire Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2017-2018) School of Library & Information Studies, UW–Madison While walking through a cemetery in Copenhagen in 2013, I noticed a name that seemed out of place. Hear about my discovery and the basis for my new book project about the transnational experiences of African Americans …