The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848

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

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 …

STEMming the Tide: Balzac and Statistical Humanity

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

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 …

Enchantings: On Modernity, Culture, and the State in Africa

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

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 …

For What It’s Worth: Toward a New History of the Sixties

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

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 …

Re-emerging Superpowers: Turkey, Iran, India, and China in the 21st Century

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

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 …

Five Ways to Look at a Corpse: The Dead in Normandy, 1944

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

  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 …