Past Event Category: 2018-2019
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Mar 25Writing the Museum: Pictorial Imagination in Baroque Fiction of the Spanish Empire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mercedes Alcalá-Galán Resident Fellow (2018-2019) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison In 1660 David Teniers published the extraordinary Theatrum Pictorium, the first illustrated catalogue ever of a collection of paintings. It brings together text and image to represent 243 Italian paintings from the collection of Archduke Leopold-William, governor of the Low Countries under Spanish rule. …
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Mar 11Melanchthon and the “Corpus Reformatorum,” or Protestantism and Progress in Nineteenth-Century Germany
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Zachary Purvis Kingdon Fellow (2018-2019) School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh In shaping modern Protestantism and the study of the Reformation, few events have been as momentous, or neglected, as the appearance of the Corpus Reformatorum series, the nineteenth-century critical edition of texts drawn principally from Martin Luther’s Wittenberg colleague, Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560). …
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Mar 4Assemblage Writing: Posthuman Rhetoric and the Onto-Silencing of Class
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Rob Wilkie UW System Fellow (2018-2019) English, UW-La Crosse Confronting the humanities today is the question of how to talk about increasing precarity at a time of economic, environmental, and social crises. Traditionally, rhetoric has been understood as a method for articulating opposing viewpoints, enabling them to become part of public discourse …
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Feb 25Absolutist Absurdities
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Hall Bjørnstad Honorary Fellow (2018-2019) Associate Professor of French; Director of the Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Program, Indiana University-Bloomington The logic at work in texts written in praise of absolutist king Louis XIV may often seem so hyperbolic to a modern reader as to border on parody if not outright subversion. In this …
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Feb 18Late Antique Jews and Christians in the Balearic Islands (4th to 7th centuries CE): The Material World of Samuel Bar-Haggai
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Alexander Bar-Magen Numhauser Kingdon Fellow (2018-2019) Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Archaeological evidence of early Christianity in the wealthy Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain reveals a unique feature of its mosaic floors, placed in their small yet monumental churches. These floors were decorated with rich iconography rarely seen …
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Feb 11Feminized Convergence: Women’s Television in the Digital Age
Monday Seminar: Jacquelyn Arcy UW System Fellow (2018-2019) Communication, UW-Parkside Much of the research on media convergence considers new media as a democratizing force or an exploitative system. But how do gendered assumptions affect the ways digital media platforms are developed for and used by women? In this seminar, I will discuss how online …
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Feb 4Order and Miracles: Investigations into Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Giorgio Pini Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) Philosophy, Fordham University In the few years he taught at Oxford and Paris universities, the medieval philosopher and theologian, John Duns Scotus (d. 1308), managed to produce an extremely influential corpus of writings. Some of his views soon became famous (or infamous) for both their originality and …
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Jan 28Music from the Ruins: Berlin after World War II
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Pamela Potter Resident Fellow (2018-2019) German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW–Madison; Director, Center for German and European Studies At the end of World War II, musical activity in Berlin came back to life at an alarming rate. This presentation will explore the reasons for this rapid revitalization by looking at the competition for …
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Dec 10A Renaissance of Imagination: On Democratic Implications of Creativity in Early Modern Political Thought
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Katherine M. Robiadek Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow 2018-2019) Political Science, UW–Madison In arguing for renewed focus on imagination, the purpose of this project is to enrich thinking about traits needed for effective democratic citizenship today. Imagination is not often studied for its role in democracy. Usually, it is confined to serious study as …
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Dec 7
Center for Humanities Friday Lunch Series: Elizabeth Lhost A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities Legal Studies, History, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison As Anglo-Indian case law became more robust and the lines around Muslim personal law more tightly drawn in British India, new possibilities and alternative approaches to law also came into …