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September 2012
Psychoanalysis and Culture
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…
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Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History
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…
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Environmental Studies in the Time of the Anthropocene
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…
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Machiavelli at 500
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 –…
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Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film
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…
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Global Health? Rethinking Medical Humanities from the Periphery
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…
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