Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 am - @ 12:00 am

Spring 2015 Faculty Development Seminar Claire Wendland Anthropology, UW-Madison Neil Kodesh History, UW-Madison What can studies of healing from the periphery offer the humanities more broadly today? Scholarship in the medical humanities and humanistic social …

Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 am - @ 12:00 am

Fall 2014 Faculty Development Seminar: Mario Ortiz-Robles English, UW-Madison   Scientific, artistic, political, and philosophical descriptions of animals have accompanied human history from its beginnings, but it is only relatively recently that these various ways …

Machiavelli at 500

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Spring 2014 Faculty Development Seminar:   Kristin Phillips-Court French and Italian   Daniel Kapust Political Science   Machiavelli’s Prince was completed 500 years ago, and it – along with its author and his works – …

Environmental Studies in the Time of the Anthropocene

University Club, Room 212

Fall 2013 Faculty Development Seminar: Rob Nixon Senior Fellow (2009-2012) English; Center for Culture, History and Environment   This seminar has two goals. First, it will explore the vital role of the environmental humanities in …

Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 am -

Spring 2013 Faculty Development Seminar:   Ron Radano Music   This faculty seminar proposes an alignment of music studies, global studies, and race studies as part of a new line of inquiry in the critical …

Psychoanalysis and Culture

University Club, Room 212
@ 12:00 am - @ 12:00 am

Fall 2012 Faculty Development Seminar:   Tomislav Longinović Slavic and Comparative Literature   This faculty seminar is imagined as a survey of the engagement between psychoanalytic theory and the field of humanities broadly conceived. Starting …