Event Category: Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Nov 12

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Russ Shafer-Landau

November 12, 2025 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave.

"The Source of Morality"

Dec 4

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Mario Ortiz-Robles

December 4, 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

Rewilding the Zoo: Animal Captivity and the Future of Extinction

Feb 27

Family Ties: An Entangled History of Russia, America, and Germany in the 20th Century

February 27, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Francine Hirsch

Oct 30

Webbed Attachments: Psychedelic Lessons from the Multiverse

October 30, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Ramzi Fawaz

Nov 16

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Laura McClure

November 16, 2022 @ 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Laura McClure

Apr 12

The Significance of the Ho-Chunk in American History

April 12, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Wisconsin Historical Society

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Stephen Kantrowitz

Nov 15

Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Steven Hutchinson

November 15, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160

Focus on the Humanities lecture: Steven Hutchinson

Mar 4

Ultimate Questions, Incomplete Answers: Or, the Hunger for the Unknowable in the 20th-Century

March 4, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Nov 6

Building Paradise in a Tropical Swamp: Retirement Housing and Communities in South Florida after World War II

November 6, 2019 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Anna Andrzejewski

Apr 3

The Migrant Crypt: Cultural Translation Across Europe

April 3, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140

2019 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Tomislav Z. Longinović Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW–Madison The influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East into Europe has challenged the existing notion of national boundaries and demonstrated an increased need for a public policy that would take into account …