Events for January 1, 2008 - March 24, 2022 › Co-Sponsored Event

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

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…

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…

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…

Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Co-sponsored Event Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day).

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…

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…

2014 Symposium: Join us for a discussion facilitated by Patricia Rosenmeyer (Classics, UW-Madison) of two newly discovered Sappho papyri.

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…

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…

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.…

  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…

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…

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…

2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan

Lecture: Tim Whitmarsh