Past Event Category: 2017-2018
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Oct 9Seeing is Believing: The Rise of Holy Land Tourism and Evangelical Christian Zionism after 1967
University Club, Room 212
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 American evangelicals visited Israel. Holy Land tourism has become a vital industry for Israel’s economy, as well as an important …
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Oct 2U.S. Cold War Immigration and the Politics of Sanctuary
University Club, Room 212
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 did not flee communist countries but countries where the U.S. backed the ruling regimes. They were thus denied the legal …
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Sep 25Reproducing a Bodhisattva: Women’s Artistic Devotion in Late Imperial China
University Club, Room 212
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 a female deity during late imperial China? How did a shared gender identity between the worshipper and worshipped enable practitioners …
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Sep 18The Benefits of Failure: From the Gnostics to Cioran
University Club, Room 212
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 a deeper, more meaningful layer of our humanity. A sense of what we are in the grand scheme of things, …
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Sep 11Relevance
University Club, Room 212
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 if so, can it still be worth pursuing? Or, on the other hand, is all research in the humanities in …