Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception

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 …

Radical Dancers: The Rise of Pantomime and the End of Drama in Antiquity

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, …

The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848

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 …

Constructing Normativity

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 …

Roundtable Discussion: “Metic, Methods, and Modernism”

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, …

American Holidays, American Nature

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 …

Following in the Footsteps of African Americans in 20th Century Denmark

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 …