Transfers and Mutations: Gestalt in Interwar France

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Florence Vatan Resident Fellow (2018-2019) French and Italian, UW-Madison   Which reconfigurations do concepts undergo when they cross national and disciplinary boundaries? How do they travel from one domain of investigation to another? …

(Re)Imagining Empire-Part III

Memorial Union
@ 8:45 am - 5:30 pm

Workshop: Multiple Speakers (see below for schedule and speakers)   Few themes are subject to as much cross-disciplinary inquiry as empire. From critical international relations theory on empire’s ideological dimensions to historians’ examination of the …

God and Taxes in the Medieval Roman Empire

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Leonora Neville Resident Fellow (2018-2019) John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, History; Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW-Madison   We don’t tend to …

The Migrant Crypt: Cultural Translation Across Europe

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2019 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Tomislav Z. Longinović Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW-Madison   The influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East into Europe has challenged …

Writing Algiers

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Monday Seminar: Steven Hutchinson Senior Fellow (2016-2020) Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison   Until the early 16th century, Algiers was a modest port city, but from then on became one of the most important urban centers …

Workshop with Professor Celia Applegate

University Club, Room 212
@ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Workshop: Celia Applegate William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Vanderbilt University   Professor Applegate will be presenting a segment of a chapter that is part of a …