Past Event Category: 2017-2018
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Dec 11The Development Novel: World Literature and the Political Economy of Growth
University Club, Room 212
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 the transition from “traditional” to “modern” economies in the recently discovered “Third World”; and the postcolonial bildungsroman, which uses the …
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Dec 4Digesting Bodies: Status, Gender, and Mastery in Roman Society and Homes
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mira Green Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) History; Classics, University of Washington Providing a distinct window into the social and political developments of the early Roman Empire, my research focuses on Roman attitudes towards the digesting body and the domestic practices associated with its needs in order to probe Roman notions of embodiment. …
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Nov 27Queer Love on Barbary Lane: The Sexual Politics of Serial Gay Fiction in Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City”
University Club, Room 212
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 1970s, which appeared in daily installments in the San Francisco Chronicle between 1976-1983. I argue that the serialized rhythm of …
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Nov 13Listening to Contemporary Art: Vocality as a Technology of Relation
University Club, Room 212
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 ask us to look. This call to listen is crucial to the ethical and political aims of art of women …
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Nov 6Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation: Printing, Orality, and Legal Knowledge in China, 1595-1949
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Joseph Dennis Resident Fellow (2017-2018) History, UW–Madison How did people form their attitudes towards law in early modern and Republican period China? How did mass legal education affect the uses of law in daily life? This talk will examine the publication, circulation, and performance of “songs to encourage the cessation of …
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Oct 30How to Talk to Strangers: Interpreters in Early Modern Encounters
University Club, Room 212
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 search for the source of spices, the Spice Islands of the Moluccas, or Maluku. When Europeans sailed to the East Indies, how did they communicate …
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Oct 23Building a Neutral Nation: America in the 18th Century Atlantic
University Club, Room 212
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 numerous challenges, particularly from American citizens eager to profit from European warfare as privateers. To remain neutral, the U.S. government …
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Oct 19BLACK. STILL. LIFE.
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 “orthography of the wake.” Activating multiple registers of “wake”—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to …
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Oct 19Workshop with Christina Sharpe and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
University Club, Room 212
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 the afterlife of slavery suffuses our present-day environment with Christina Sharpe, the 2017 Nellie Y. McKay Lecturer, and Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, …
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Oct 16The Reproductive Politics of School Lunch
University Club, Room 212
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? How much is care worth and who decides? Why, in this political and environmental moment, is a new economy of …