Past Event Category: Burdick-Vary Event
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Nov 1Martial Arts: Cultural Interactions between the Civil and Military in Ming China
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 has focused on the role that wealth and social status has played in the formation of taste and style, and …
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Oct 10The Birth of ‘Literati’ Painting in the Song and Yuan Dynasties: How to Think About What We Do and Do Not Know
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 are expected to fit: literati and not literati, the latter including court, ecclesiastical, and popular works. All modern viewers are …
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Sep 20Repossessing the Past: Refurbishing the Cultural Patrimony at the Courts of Song-Dynasty China
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Great Painters of China. The measure of their success is that we still use these Song-Dynasty creations as touchstones in …
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Apr 26Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Room 1255
2012 Burdick-Vary Conference: The symposium aims to bring into close systematic interaction three composite entities that traditionally are the objects of different study areas and therefore are studied together most often casually or rarely: contemporary African cultural and social forms and practices, the postcolonial African political state, and the larger modern context that …
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Mar 26Documenting the Anthropocene: Historical Reflections on Global Change
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
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 of people have affected every biophysical system on earth, poses a particular challenge to the humanities. It is an idea coming …
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Mar 22Tropical Medical Discourse and Victorian Imperialism: Rudyard Kipling and Cholera
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 consolidation of the science of tropical medicine. Driven by the imperative of maintaining and restoring the health of European settlers, …
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Mar 15Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City
Pyle Center, Room 106 (At&T Lounge)
2012 Burdick-Vary Symposium (Part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences) Andrew Ross Professor Of Social And Cultural Analysis, Director of American Studies, New York University Thoughtful people look to cities for evidence that progress is being made in the fight to avert climate change. The “sustainable …
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Oct 28Holocaust Testimony and Its Reception: Cultural Transformations and Pedagogical Issues
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
2011 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Convener: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Hebrew Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison The Holocaust experience reaches us through testimony, and consciousness of the event has invaded the post-Holocaust cultural and educational Weltanschauung. This symposium explores the post-Holocaust reception of Holocaust testimony with special emphasis on the issue of empathy. Are responses to the …
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Sep 21Cultures and Histories of the Environment Colloquium
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 202
Part of the Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: “International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences”: Cóilín Parsons English Literature, University of Cape Town, South Africa Cóilín Parsons is an assistant professor of English Literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa since 2009. He completed his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia …
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Nov 4The Farther Shores of Literacy: Amerindian Graphic invention and the World of Letters
Grainger Hall, 4151
2010 Burdick-Vary Symposium: New World peoples had already invented a huge range of graphic systems when Europeans brought the alphabet to America. Colonial letters interacted with Amerindian pictography, glyphs, cord-writing, and other graphic arts for centuries. This symposium brings together foremost researchers familiar with deeper and more varied meanings of “writing” in the Americas. …