Event Category: Burdick-Vary Event

Apr 9

The Mongol Empire and its World

April 9, 2010 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Lowell Center

2010 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: David Morgan Peter Jackson Timothy May Uli Schamiloglu Anne Broadbridge Morris Rossabi Reuven Amitai Angus Stewart Andre Wink Schedule: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 9:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin–Madison Welcome 9:15-10:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Persian and Non-Persian Historical Writing in the Mongol Empire” 10:00-11:00 a.m. Peter Jackson, …

Apr 17

Other People’s Thinking: Language and Mentality in England before the Conquest

April 17, 2009 @ 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Pyle Center

2009 Burdick-Vary Symposium The effort to understand the inherited ideas that are operative in a society other than one’s own can require a historian’s patience, a linguist’s precision, a philosopher’s finesse, and an anthropologist’s tact. How did the people of the earliest period of English history and culture (the Anglo-Saxon period, ca. 500-1100 …

Dec 5

Meanings of Modern: South Asia before and after Colonialism

December 5, 2008 @ 9:00 am - December 6, 2008 @ 5:00 pm Pyle Center, Room 226

2008 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: Susan Friedman Partha Chatterjee Sanjay Subrahmanyam Vinay Dharwadker Chris Chekuri V. Narayana Rao David Shulman Satya P. Mohanty Charles Hallisey Aparna Dharwadker Rama Sundari Mantena Schedule: Friday December 5. Morning 9:00 Keynote address: Susan Friedman, Director: The Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison: “Planetary Modernism and the Modernities of …