Past Events Category: Other

Online
November 23, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

IRH Special Event: Simon P. Newman

Pyle Center, Room 313
February 20, 2020 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Workshops: NEH Application-Writing with Mary Macklem

Pyle Center
October 3, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - October 5, 2019 @ 6:00 pm

Full Program Available HERE. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies Department, the Brittingham Foundation, Friends of the University …

Bascom Hall, Room 260
April 9, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Public Lecture: Sonia Velázquez Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) Religious Studies; Comparative Literature, Indiana University-Bloomington   The early modern period inherited a tradition of Biblical commentary, legal documents, and artistic representations that imagined the gambler as blind …

December 7, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Center for Humanities Friday Lunch Series: Elizabeth Lhost A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities Legal Studies, History, Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison   As Anglo-Indian case law became more robust and the lines …

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
November 15, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Lecture: Louis P. Nelson Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, University of Virginia   Louis P. Nelson is Professor of Architectural History and the Vice Provost for Academic Outreach in the …

Memorial Library, Room 126
October 12, 2018 @ 3:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Symposium: Multiple Speakers (see below)   Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise The Prince (1513) casts its shadow far and wide across the humanities and social sciences. Often eclipsed by the scandalous, utilitarian ethics of the treatise …

Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
April 16, 2015 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Lecture: James Bromley Solmsen Fellow (2014-2015) English, Miami University   In my talk, I will examine the representation of the epistemological and material construction of urban sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, what the play …

Ingraham Hall, Room 206
April 16, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Public Lecture: Devaleena Das Honorary Fellow (2014-2015) English and Gender Studies, University of Delhi   In her paper, Das will first trace the cult of vermillion in Hinduism (its representation in festivals, cultural and religious …

Memorial Union
April 1, 2011 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

2011 Conference:   This conference will explore the “Global Renaissance” from a variety of perspectives and will address the following topics: the exchange of commodities and goods; imperial encounters with distant cultures; European intellectual encounters …