Past Event Category: Burdick-Vary Event
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Sep 26Vcologies 2025: Victorian Futures
Pyle Center, Rm 225 (702 Langdon St.)
2025 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Mario Ortiz-Robles
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Feb 28The Work of the Literary Translator: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics
Memorial Library, Room 126 (728 State Street)
2025 Burdick-Vary symposium: Anne C. Vila
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May 9Head, Heart, History: On the Intersections between Intellectual History and the History of Emotions
Virtual Event on Zoom Registration Link
A Burdick-Vary event organized by former IRH Senior Fellow Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
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Apr 25Savage Pasts, Baroque Futures: Racial Hierarchy and the Political Theology of Spanish Empire
University Club, Room 212
Burdick-Vary Lecture with Speaker Mauro Caraccioli
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Apr 28
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Apr 5Crossroads of Ideas: What is Morality?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The final installment of the Big Questions series continues with the question: what is morality?
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Mar 8Crossroads of Ideas: What is Free Will?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The fifth installment of the Big Questions series continues as Duke University developmental psychologist Tamar Kushnir and UW-Madison philosopher Martha Gibson discuss one of the attributes that makes us human: free will.
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Feb 8Crossroads of Ideas: What is Happiness?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The third installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to discuss one of the great mysteries in science and philosophy: What is happiness?
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Nov 15Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Adrian McClure
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Nov 9Crossroads of Ideas: What is Consciousness?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The second installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to discuss one of the great mysteries in science and philosophy: What is consciousness?