Past Event Category: Co-Sponsored Event
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Feb 24“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.
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Feb 8Crossroads of Ideas: What is Happiness?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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?
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Nov 15Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Adrian McClure
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Nov 9Crossroads of Ideas: What is Consciousness?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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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Oct 12Crossroads of Ideas: What is Life?
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
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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Mar 5The Wandering Text: Books and the Imperial Migration Machine in the Early Roman Empire
University Club, Room 212
Lecture: Tim Whitmarsh
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Feb 21(Re)Imagining Imperial Inequalities and Opportunities
Memorial Union
(Re)Imagining Empire Workshop: Part V
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Feb 20National Endowment for the Humanities Application-Writing Workshops
Pyle Center, Room 313
Workshops: NEH Application-Writing with Mary Macklem
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Oct 4Workshop: Confrontation and Dialogue: Issues of Race and Racism in Medieval Studies
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room 150 (Hagen Room-Department of Art History)
2019 Hilldale Workshop: William Chester Jordan
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Oct 3‘Now Avenge Us’: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University The lecture sketches out the background to the call for the First Crusade, narrates a few of the major events as context for the main story of the lecture, and then concentrates on what has been and can be learned from the …