Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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, …
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 …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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 …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
2016 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Leslie Bow Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Mark and Elisabeth Eccles Professor of English and Asian American Studies, UW-Madison How does the mundane object serve as …
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
