Past Event Category: Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture
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Feb 13Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Entanglements of Disease, Commerce, and Knowledge in a Global World
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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 a few years later, in Plagues and Peoples, Alfred Crosby and William McNeill advanced grand historical narratives on a global …
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Oct 10The Holocaust and the Ethics of Witnessing: Polish Writers Look at the Ghetto
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Rachel Feldhay Brenner is Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies, and Max and …
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Feb 1Slow Violence and Environmental Story Telling
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
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 Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of London Calling. V. S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood. South African …
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Nov 9Venerating the Sage: The Rise and Fall of a Shrine to Confucius
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 civilization, Confucius (551-479 BCE) is venerated as ancient philosopher, statesman, and teacher. Less familiar is his role in a religious …
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Nov 5Catechisms and the Construction of the Reformation
Pyle Center
Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel Senior Fellow (2004-2009) History, UW–Madison In the sixteenth century, the world as Europeans knew it spun apart. Christian divided from Christian, sundering families, towns, and kingdoms. In the wake of that loss, individual pastors wrote catechisms, seeking to teach their readers through the new …