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March 2012
Tropical Medical Discourse and Victorian Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera
2012 Burdick-Vary Event. Part of Lecture Series: "International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences" Pablo Mukherjee English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK The Victorian period saw the growth and…
Find out more »Documenting the Anthropocene: Historical Reflections on Global Change
Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: "International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences": Libby Robin Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University The idea of the Anthropocene, the geological era where the actions…
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Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa
Poster: "Africa, Governed: Over? Under?" Image: geopolitical map by http://www.flicker.com/photos/27204576@N07/4756143742/; composite of map, shadow, and background map by Scott Carter; concept by Tejumola Olaniyan 2012 Burdick-Vary Conference: The symposium aims to bring into…
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Repossessing the Past: Refurbishing the Cultural Patrimony at the Courts of Song-Dynasty China
2012 Burdick-Vary Event: Maggie Bickford Art History (Emerita), Brown University Chinese emperors of the 12th and 13th centuries created a new body of masterworks to stand in for lost famous paintings by the early…
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The Birth of ‘Literati’ Painting in the Song and Yuan Dynasties: How to Think About What We Do and Do Not Know
2012 Burdick-Vary Event: Jerome Silbergeld P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University Every study of later Chinese painting history tends to establish two overarching categories into which all paintings…
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Martial Arts: Cultural Interactions between the Civil and Military in Ming China
2012 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Kathleen Ryor Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, Carleton College Scholarship on art collecting, art production and the broader world of elite cultural practices during the Ming dynasty…
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Was There a Reformation in India?
2013 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Munis Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles Brendan LaRocque, Carleton College Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University Azfar Moin, Southern Methodist University…
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Grieving Alone, Grieving Together: Psychological and Social Mourning in Film
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Event: The phenomena of individual mourning and collective mourning have both attracted a good deal of critical attention in literature and film studies, but what are the similarities and differences that…
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War and Intimacy (Fall Schedule)
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Events: The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century.…
Find out more »Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture: Atina Grossmann Humanities & Social Sciences, Cooper Union (Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison.)
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Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Featuring a series of tasty “sound bytes”—short, pithy multi-media presentations by both UW-Madison and internationally-renowned scholars who are exploring the senses in trans-disciplinary research (anthropology, visual/material culture, art history, music, performance theory,…
Find out more »Burying the People of “the People’s War”: Death, the State, and Intimacy in Second World War Britain
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison Lucy Noakes Arts and Humanities, University of Brighton. Co-sponsored by the George L. Mosse Program in History and the…
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Fighting For Intimacy: Counterinsurgency, Gender Politics, and Colonial Utopianism in the Algerian War
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: Terry Peterson History, UW-Madison Part of the "War and Intimacy" Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison. Please note the updated lecture date.
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Holding the Hands of Dying Men: Wehrmacht Chaplains on the Eastern Front, 1941-45
2014 Burdick-Vary Event: David Harrisville History, UW-Madison Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW-Madison.
Find out more »January 2015
War and Intimacy (Spring Schedule)
2015 Burdick-Vary Schedule: The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century. …
Find out more »April 2016
The Book that Made Philosophy Modern: the World of Descartes’s Treatise on Man
2016 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Participants: Daniel Garber, Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Princeton University Tad Schmaltz, Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan Gideon Manning, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and History of Science,…
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Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
2016 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Christine Yano Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii Pink globalization, the spread of cute goods from Japan to other parts of the world, has been a…
Find out more »October 2016
Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Burdick-Vary Events, Organized by Dr. Lori Kido Lopez: Join us for a weekend celebrating brand new Asian American documentaries and filmmakers, brought to you by the Asian American Studies Program at UW-Madison. All films are…
Find out more »Fantasy as Microaggression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
2016 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Leslie Bow Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Mark and Elisabeth Eccles Professor of English and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison How does the mundane object serve as…
Find out more »How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
2016 Burdick-Vary Event: Charles Yu Author and Screenwriter What do cowboy robots, hapless yeomen, time machine repairmen, and third class superheroes have in common? They all issue from the imagination of Charles Yu. Charles Yu is…
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Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation
2016 Burdick-Vary Lecture: Lori Kido Lopez Communication Arts, UW-Madison Studies of fandom and fan culture have always centered on the complex feelings of fascination and frustration that motivate audiences. When we consider the way…
Find out more »March 2017
New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History
2017 Burdick-Vary Symposium In conjunction with: “Martha Glowacki’s Natural History, Observations and Reflections” (Chazen Museum of Art) “Natural History : Natural Philosophy: An Exhibit in Special Collections” (Memorial Library, Room 984) This symposium brings…
Find out more »Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World
2017 Burdick-Vary Symposium Organized by Louise Young How has the history of imperialism and colonialism brought us to the current conjuncture? This symposium brings together specialists from different fields to rethink possibilities for a critical…
Find out more »March 2018
Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception
Burdick-Vary Symposium Theresa Kelley IRH Senior Fellow; English, UW-Madison (as well as members of the Symposium Organizing Committee) This symposium proposes to bring together artists, scientists and scholars across several disciplines for whom color…
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Europe in Translation: Multilingualism in Theory and Practice
2019 Burdick-Vary Symposium
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Crossroads of Ideas: What is Life?
The first installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to tackle the biggest of them all: what is life and how did it originate?
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Crossroads of Ideas: What is Consciousness?
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?
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Crossroads of Ideas: What is Happiness?
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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Crossroads of Ideas: What is Free Will?
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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Crossroads of Ideas: What is Morality?
The final installment of the Big Questions series continues with the question: what is morality?
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