Events for January 1, 2008 - April 12 › Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture

2011 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Julia Murray Professor of Art History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities (2009-2011), UW-Madison   Recognized throughout the world as a symbol of Chinese…

2012 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Rob Nixon Rachel Carson Professor of English, UW-Madison   Rob Nixon is the Rachel Carson Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his…

2012 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies; Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature; Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities (2009-2011), UW-Madison  …

2013 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Gregg Mitman Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History of Science, Medical History, and Environmental Studies, UW-Madison   Forty years ago, in The Columbian Exchange, and…

  2013 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Lecture: Mary Louise Roberts Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison   We prefer to think of war as producing heroes, not…

2014 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Lecture: André Wink Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison   Turkey, Iran, India, and China are historical superpowers. All four were dramatically…

2014 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Craig Werner Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison   A scholar of literature, music, and cultural history, Craig Werner lays out a set of guiding principles for a new history…

2015 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Tejumola Olaniyan English and African Languages & Literature, UW-Madison   Tejumola Olaniyan will look at literature, popular culture, and social and political practices to tell a cultural…

2016 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Richard Goodkin French, UW-Madison   The recent trend toward favoring the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines over the humanities is a manifestation of a centuries-long…

Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Henry Drewal Senior Fellow (2010-2014) Art History and Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison   In this talk, Drewal explores the vital role of the senses with an approach he calls…

2017 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW-Madison   Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created trading…

2018 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lynn K. Nyhart Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor History of Science, UW-Madison   In the German-speaking states of the 1840s and 50s, revolution was in the air. While…

2018 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Theresa M. Kelley Marjorie and Lorin Tiefenthaler Professor of English Emerita, UW-Madison   For many thinkers, including Romantics themselves, their era was an age of prophecy—of revolution,…

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…

Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Anna Andrzejewski

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