Past Event Category: Burdick-Vary Event
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Apr 15The Book that Made Philosophy Modern: the World of Descartes’s Treatise on Man
University Club, Room 212
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, California Institute of Technology Harold Cook, Professor of History, Brown University Susanna Berger, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, …
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Jan 29War and Intimacy (Spring Schedule)
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. January 29, 4:00 pm John Hall, UW–Madison: “The Intimacies of Ethnocide: Preserving Male Honor in the ‘Unholy’ Wars of Indian …
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Dec 11Holding the Hands of Dying Men: Wehrmacht Chaplains on the Eastern Front, 1941-45
University Club, Room 212
2014 Burdick-Vary Event: David Harrisville History, UW–Madison Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW–Madison. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities , the George L. Mosse Program in History, and Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian History.
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Nov 20Fighting For Intimacy: Counterinsurgency, Gender Politics, and Colonial Utopianism in the Algerian War
University Club, Room 212
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. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities , the George L. Mosse Program in History, and Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian …
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Oct 23Burying the People of “the People’s War”: Death, the State, and Intimacy in Second World War Britain
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 Alice D. Mortenson / Petrovich Chair in Russian History. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the …
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Oct 3Embodied Knowledge: Sensory Studies in the 21st Century
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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, cognitive sciences, etc.). Throughout the day, these “bytes” will be interspersed with a variety of interactive sensory experiences for all. …
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Sep 17War and Intimacy (Fall Schedule)
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. September 17, 4:00 pm Atin Grossmann, Cooper Union: “Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the …
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Sep 17Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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.) This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the George L. Mosse Program in History, and Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian. History
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Apr 11Grieving Alone, Grieving Together: Psychological and Social Mourning in Film
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 link and separate these two very different forms of bereavement? The central goal of this conference will be to examine …
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Oct 17Was There a Reformation in India?
Concourse Hotel, Senate Room AB
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 Ramya Sreenivasan, University of Pennsylvania Scholars have begun to recognize that the early modern transformations of religion in India …