Past Event Category: Co-Sponsored Event
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Oct 3American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference
Pyle Center
Full Program Available HERE. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies Department, the Brittingham Foundation, Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Maison Libraries, the Medieval Studies Program, the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science, and the Instituto …
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Apr 19(Re)Imagining Empire-Part III
Memorial Union
Workshop: Multiple Speakers (see below for schedule and speakers) Few themes are subject to as much cross-disciplinary inquiry as empire. From critical international relations theory on empire’s ideological dimensions to historians’ examination of the motivations and effects of imperialist states, from comparative diachronic studies of empire to analyses of empires’ continuing legacy through the …
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May 11Imprisonment, Encampment, Incarceration: Prison Studies in a Global Frame
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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 sites — penitentiaries, prisons, interrogation centers, supermax facilities, military detention camps, labor camps, and more — as they are today. …
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Mar 10Mount Athos in Context
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Historical Perspectives on Mount Athos and Byzantine Monasticism 9:45-10:30 Leonora Neville 10:30-11:15 Alice-Mary Talbot 11:30-12:45 Lunch Break Stillness on the …
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Feb 3Show and Tell: Evidence, Erotics, and Embodiment in the Premodern World
University Club, Room 212
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, erotics, and intimacies, what counts as evidence? What methods are crucial for some fields, and forgotten by others? Four scholars …
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Feb 2Desiring History and Historicizing Desire
University Club, Room 212
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 of the Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies (JEMCS) special issue “Desiring History and Historicizing Desire” will lead a special …
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Oct 10Book Publishing in the Humanities of Today
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
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. Join us for a discussion of the state of academic publishing in the humanities and the process of working …
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May 6Global Reformations: Religion and the Making of the Modern World
University Club, Room 212
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 do we understand the changes in religion that made way for the experience of modernity around the globe? From India …
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Mar 11Race, Property, and Debt
Fluno Center for Executive Education
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 significantly, a form of life molded by debt: the everyday practices, desires, virtues, and vices of the indebted. In other …
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Mar 13The ‘New’ Sappho: A Symposium
University Club, Room 212
2014 Symposium: Join us for a discussion facilitated by Patricia Rosenmeyer (Classics, UW–Madison) of two newly discovered Sappho papyri. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.