Past Event Category: Other
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Nov 23IRH Screening of the Film “1745: An Untold Story of Slavery”
Online
IRH Special Event: Simon P. Newman
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Feb 20National Endowment for the Humanities Application-Writing Workshops
Pyle Center, Room 313
Workshops: NEH Application-Writing with Mary Macklem
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Oct 3American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference
Pyle Center
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 of Wisconsin–Maison Libraries, the Medieval Studies Program, the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science, and the Instituto …
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Apr 9Grace Among Gamblers: The Curious Case of a Rogue’s Conversion in Cervantes’ “El Rufián dichoso”
Bascom Hall, Room 260
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 to spiritual matters. This essay examines two important exceptions to this tradition: one, perhaps the most famous text bringing together …
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Dec 7
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 around Muslim personal law more tightly drawn in British India, new possibilities and alternative approaches to law also came into …
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Nov 15Race, Memory, and Monuments after Charlottesville
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
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 Office of the Provost. He is a specialist in the built environments of the early modern Atlantic world, with published …
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Oct 12On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s “Mandrake” at 500
Memorial Library, Room 126
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 – as well as by Shakespeare’s later elaboration of its themes – Machiavelli’s bawdy comedy, Mandragola (“Mandrake”, 1518) displays powerfully …
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Apr 16City Powdering: Materiality, Pedagogy, and Sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
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 refers to as the “city powdering.” In the play, cloth facilitates otherwise impossible relations between men, and the cloth trade …
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Apr 16Romanticism, Desire, or Fetish Fashion: ‘Sindoor Feminism’ As a Way to Emancipation
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
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 practice) and examine how this spiritual-passionate-emotional-sexual sign has been related to the paradigmatic Sati, the virtuous good wife of the …
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Apr 1The Global Renaissance: Some New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Memorial Union
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 with non-European cultures; and literary representations of non-European cultures. The conference will highlight the work of three keynote speakers who …