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September 2008
Catered Lunch to Introduce Members of the Institute for Research in the Humanities
Welcome Lunch. RSVP required.
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The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Conference organized by Len Kaplan, Honorary Fellow (2008-2011).
Find out more »January 2010
In Love With Russia: U.S. Women, Sexual Revolution, and Revolutionary Tourism, 1921-1935
Jay C. and Ruth Hall Lecture: Julia Mickenberg Honorary Fellow (2009-2010) American Studies, Univ of Texas at Austin The lecture examines how the modern sexual revolutions in Russia and the U.S. inspired American women's…
Find out more »April 2010
Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowing: A Decolonial View on the Humanities
2010 Hilldale Lecture: Walter Mignolo Spanish, Duke University
Find out more »April 2011
The Global Renaissance: Some New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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…
Find out more »April 2015
Romanticism, Desire, or Fetish Fashion: ‘Sindoor Feminism’ As a Way to Emancipation
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…
Find out more »City Powdering: Materiality, Pedagogy, and Sexuality in Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term
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…
Find out more »October 2018
On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s “Mandrake” at 500
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…
Find out more »November 2018
Race, Memory, and Monuments after Charlottesville
Image credit: Henry Shrady and Leo Lentelli (sculptors), Robert E. Lee Monument, 1924, Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph by Bill Emory. Lecture: Louis P. Nelson Professor of Architectural History and Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, University of…
Find out more »December 2018
The Office of Islamic Law: Paperwork, Politics, and Possibilities in Modern South Asia
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…
Find out more »April 2019
Grace Among Gamblers: The Curious Case of a Rogue’s Conversion in Cervantes’ “El Rufián dichoso”
Image: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi). The Cardsharps. c. 1594. Oil on Canvas. Image courtesy of: Kimball Art Museum (AP 1987.06). Public Lecture: Sonia Velázquez Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) Religious Studies; Comparative Literature, Indiana University-Bloomington The early…
Find out more »October 2019
American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference
Full Program Available HERE.
Find out more »‘Now Avenge Us’: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade
2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan
Find out more »Workshop: Confrontation and Dialogue: Issues of Race and Racism in Medieval Studies
2019 Hilldale Workshop: William Chester Jordan
Find out more »February 2020
National Endowment for the Humanities Application-Writing Workshops
Workshops: NEH Application-Writing with Mary Macklem
Find out more »November 2020
IRH Screening of the Film “1745: An Untold Story of Slavery”
IRH Special Event: Simon P. Newman
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