Past Event Category: Burdick-Vary Event
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Oct 12Crossroads of Ideas: What is Life?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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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Apr 4Europe in Translation: Multilingualism in Theory and Practice
Grainger Hall, Room 3070
2019 Burdick-Vary Symposium
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Mar 2Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception
Wisconsin Institute for Discover, DeLuca Forum
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 matters in quite different registers, across the globe and across modernity. From the Early Modern era to the present, color …
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Mar 10Histories of the Present: Postimperial Asia in the World
Pyle Center
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 history of the East Asian present within the larger context of the postimperial world. We plan morning and afternoon sessions …
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Mar 3New Illuminations: Art-NATURE-History
Pyle Center, Room 313
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 together contributors to a newly burgeoning mode of work that sits at—and defies—the boundaries between scholarly research and creative art …
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Dec 8Limits of Racebending in the Struggle for Asian American Representation
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 that race is represented in beloved texts, there are clearly political consequences to these emotional connections. But what about texts …
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Oct 19Fantasy as Microaggression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 a catalyst for exploring the relationship between aesthetics and political injury? Is race always bound to the circulation of negative …
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Oct 17How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was named one of the best books of …
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Oct 7Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 free, open to the public, and followed by Q&A. Organized by Q&A Leaders: Jaeki Cho; Pamela Tom; Tad Nakamura; …
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Sep 14Kawaii: Fraught Innocence in Asian (American) Commodity Culture
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 stronghold of consumption in various parts of the industrial world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, particularly with …