Past Event Category: 2019-2020

‘The Universe Belongs to Life’: Interplanetary Contamination, Astrobioethics, and the Universe of Moral Consideration

October 21, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Jennell Johnson

The Troubled History of Family and Slavery in New England

October 14, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Gloria Whiting

Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’: Arabic/Islamic Philosophy’s Roles in the Development of the Philosophy and Theology of Thomas Aquinas

October 7, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Richard C. Taylor

Workshop: Confrontation and Dialogue: Issues of Race and Racism in Medieval Studies

October 4, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room 150 (Hagen Room-Department of Art History)

2019 Hilldale Workshop: William Chester Jordan

‘Now Avenge Us’: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade

October 3, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University   The lecture sketches out the background to the call for the First Crusade, narrates a few of the major events as context for the main story of the lecture, and then concentrates on what has been and can be learned from the …

American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference

October 3, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - October 5, 2019 @ 6:00 pm Pyle Center

Full Program Available HERE. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies Department, the Brittingham Foundation, Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Maison Libraries, the Medieval Studies Program, the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science, and the Instituto …

The Ephrata Cloister and Rituals of Asceticism in Atlantic World Protestantism

September 30, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Timothy Wright

The Washington Consensus: Journalism and the Making of the Postwar World Order

September 23, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Kathryn McGarr

Diversity in Imperial Rome: Contexts, Questions, Comparisons

September 16, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Room 212

Monday Seminar: Nandini B. Pandey

A Ho-Chunk History of Citizenship

September 9, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)

Monday Seminar: Stephen Kantrowitz