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October 2008
Discussion of Franco Moretti, “The Novel: History and Theory” (New Left Review, July/August 2008)
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence
Find out more »Conversation with Franco Moretti
Literature/s Research Workshop with Humanities without Boundaries Lecturer: Franco Moretti Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Brittingham Scholar in Residence
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Virgil’s Aeneid from the Aztecs to the Dark Virgin: Latin Poetry and Ethnohistory in Colonial Mexico
Lecture: Andrew Laird Classical Literature, Warwick University Virgil's epic on the fall of Troy and foundation of Rome came to Mexico in the wake of the Spanish conquest. The poem had a role in…
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Conversation and Lunch with Herbert Kessler
Co-Sponsored Luncheon: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University Professor Kessler will speak for about 5 minutes about his current work to open up a discussion in which all are urged to participate. Sponsored…
Find out more »The Sanctifying Serpent: Christ’s Pictured Body as a Source of Healing
Lecture: Herbert Kessler Medieval Art, Johns Hopkins University The lecture will explore ways in which the Brazen Serpent trope gets mapped onto images of the Crucifixion, from the ninth-century through the twelfth, to trigger…
Find out more »Toleration and Persecution in the Early Modern Period
2009 Center for Early Modern Studies Conference: The conference aims to consider the definitions and limits of toleration in the early modern period, as well as the different kinds of religious persecution practiced…
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Early Modern Humanism and the Humanities
Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Co-sponsored Event Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day).
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Lunch Workshop/Seminar Niklaus Largier German, University of California-Berkeley Niklaus Largier will also give a lecture on “Bodies in Prayer: Sense, Sensation, and the Art of Desire” on Monday, March 22, 5:30pm, in 7191 Helen…
Find out more »October 2013
A Conversation with G. Willow Wilson
G. Willow Wilson Author and journalist G. Willow Wilson is the acclaimed author of graphic novels and comics published by Vertigo, Marvel, and D.C. Comics. She spent her early and mid-twenties living in Egypt…
Find out more »March 2014
The ‘New’ Sappho: A Symposium
2014 Symposium: Join us for a discussion facilitated by Patricia Rosenmeyer (Classics, UW-Madison) of two newly discovered Sappho papyri.
Find out more »March 2016
Race, Property, and Debt
Co-Sponsored Conference: In the six years since the nadir of the Great Recession, debt has attracted scholarly attention across the humanities. Debt names not only student loans, underwater mortgages, and consumer credit but also, more…
Find out more »May 2016
Global Reformations: Religion and the Making of the Modern World
Religion is omnipresent in modernity, and in spite of twentieth-century theorists who saw secularization as intrinsic to the process of modernization, shows no signs of disappearing. After discarding secularization as a plausible historical model, how…
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Book Publishing in the Humanities of Today
Publication Workshop Ken Wissoker Editorial Director, Duke University Press PLEASE NOTE: this workshop is open to graduate students, faculty, and academic staff. Registration is required: rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu. The reservation deadline is 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 5.…
Find out more »February 2017
Desiring History and Historicizing Desire
Graduate Seminar (Part of "Show and Tell: Evidence, Erotics, and Embodiment in the Premodern World" events): Ari Friedlander University of Mississippi, English Ari Friedlander, assistant professor of English (University of Mississippi) and editor…
Find out more »Show and Tell: Evidence, Erotics, and Embodiment in the Premodern World
Lunchtime Roundtable Discussion with: Tina Chronopoulos, SUNY-Binghamton, Classics/IRH Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi, English Dana Oswald, UW-Parkside, English/IRH Jennifer Row, Boston University, French/IRH When researching the history of sexuality, or thinking about past desires,…
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Mount Athos in Context
Symposium on the occasion of the Art History exhibition: “Holy Mountain: Icons from Mount Athos and Photographs by Frank Horlbeck”: Welcome and Introductory Remarks 9:00-9:15 Dean Karl Scholz Bp. Demetrios of Mokissos 9:15-9:45 Thomas Dale…
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Imprisonment, Encampment, Incarceration: Prison Studies in a Global Frame
Speakers: A. Naomi Paik (Keynote) J. Daniel Elam Toussaint Losier Michael Farquhar Golnar Nikpour A.J. Yumi Lee Anthony Fontes Never before in history have as many people around the world been confined in carceral…
Find out more »April 2019
(Re)Imagining Empire-Part III
Workshop: Multiple Speakers (see below).
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American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference
Full Program Available HERE.
Find out more »‘Now Avenge Us’: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade
2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan
Find out more »Workshop: Confrontation and Dialogue: Issues of Race and Racism in Medieval Studies
2019 Hilldale Workshop: William Chester Jordan
Find out more »February 2020
National Endowment for the Humanities Application-Writing Workshops
Workshops: NEH Application-Writing with Mary Macklem
Find out more »(Re)Imagining Imperial Inequalities and Opportunities
(Re)Imagining Empire Workshop: Part V
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The Wandering Text: Books and the Imperial Migration Machine in the Early Roman Empire
Lecture: Tim Whitmarsh
Find out more »October 2021
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?
Find out more »“That the Pilgrims May Be Spared Prison”: Extortionate Taxation and the Politics of Pilgrimage in Islamic Jerusalem (970-1071)
Medieval Studies Program has organized a lecture by Prof. Brendan Goldman (Univ. of Washington) on Thurs. 2/24/22 @ 5pm (CT) via Zoom.
Find out more »March 2022
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.
Find out more »“How the Great Books Changed My Life and How They Can Change Yours” a talk with Dr. Roosevelt Montás
Dr. Roosevelt Montas will give a talk titled "How the Great Books Changed My Life and How They Can Change Yours." It will take place on March 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm (CT) in the Wisconsin Historical Society, main auditorium.
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