Past Event Category: 2018-2019
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Apr 29Peace and Justice. Remonstrances as a Means of Negotiation and Resistance during the French Civil Wars (1550-1600)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Paul-Alexis Mellet Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) History, University of Geneva; Institute for the History of Reformation Remonstrances were texts printed in Europe during the civil wars (1550-1650). They are unique in that they served simultaneously as a means of governance, instruments of negotiation, and avenues of resistance. They enabled continuous dialog during the …
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Apr 22Transfers and Mutations: Gestalt in Interwar France
University Club, Room 212
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? I will address these questions by considering the early diffusion of Gestalt psychology in France in the 1920s and 1930s. …
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Apr 19(Re)Imagining Empire-Part III
Memorial Union
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 motivations and effects of imperialist states, from comparative diachronic studies of empire to analyses of empires’ continuing legacy through the …
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Apr 15Bacterial Imaginations: Regime of the Microscope in the 1950s People’s Republic of China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lu Liu Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2018-2019) Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison Seeing the enemy was crucial in the early 1950s People’s Republic of China (PRC). Domestic consolidation by the new regime targeted spies, counterrevolutionaries, and bourgeois ideology, hidden yet harmful elements that threatened the health of the new body politic. Meanwhile, the allegation …
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Apr 9Grace Among Gamblers: The Curious Case of a Rogue’s Conversion in Cervantes’ “El Rufián dichoso”
Bascom Hall, Room 260
Public Lecture: Sonia Velázquez Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) Religious Studies; Comparative Literature, Indiana University-Bloomington The early modern period inherited a tradition of Biblical commentary, legal documents, and artistic representations that imagined the gambler as blind to spiritual matters. This essay examines two important exceptions to this tradition: one, perhaps the most famous text bringing together …
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Apr 8God and Taxes in the Medieval Roman Empire
University Club, Room 212
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 think of taxes as having much of anything to do with religion. But in the medieval Roman Empire (sometimes known …
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Apr 4Europe in Translation: Multilingualism in Theory and Practice
Grainger Hall, Room 3070
2019 Burdick-Vary Symposium
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Apr 3The Migrant Crypt: Cultural Translation Across Europe
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 the existing notion of national boundaries and demonstrated an increased need for a public policy that would take into account …
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Apr 1Writing Algiers
University Club, Room 212
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 of the early modern Mediterranean. At least until the early 18th century, European writers obsessively focused on the city as …
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Mar 28Workshop with Professor Celia Applegate
University Club, Room 212
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 broadly conceived work-in-progress on the social and cultural history of music within the German-speaking world from the 17th century to …