Past Event Category: Faculty Development Seminar
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Jan 20Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery
University Club, Room 212
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 sciences has long focused primarily on European and North American medicine. Meanwhile, historical and anthropological studies from the postcolonial world—research …
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Sep 2Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film
University Club, Room 212
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 of representing animals have been troubled by the question of animal representativeness; that is, the rights of animals. Animal Studies, …
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Jan 21Machiavelli at 500
University Club, Room 212
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 – has been the subject of controversy ever since. The project of the seminar is a study of Machiavelli’s major writings, …
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Sep 9Environmental 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 reimaging the intellectual priorities of environmental studies. Compared to forty years ago, when scientists dominated America’s first environmental studies programs, …
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Jan 22Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History
University Club, Room 212
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 study of culture. It will place front and center this set of questions: Why did US black music become the …
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Sep 4Psychoanalysis and Culture
University Club, Room 212
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 with the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis regarding the unconscious, repression, trauma and sexuality, we will trace the development of these …