Wisconsin Institute for Discover, DeLuca Forum @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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, …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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, …
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
University Club, Room 212 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
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 …
