Past Event Category: Panel Discussion
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Feb 27Faculty-Librarian Collaborations Panel
University Club, Room 212
Panel Discussion with Humanities Librarians
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May 7Irrelevance
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
2018 Closing Panel: What is irrelevance? What sort of research is irrelevant, in the humanities? Is all scholarship relevant in the humanities? Have you done research or teaching that you consider to be irrelevant? Have others? Panelists: Steven Hutchinson, Senior Fellow (Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison) Kelsey Ihinger, Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison) Su …
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Mar 16The Future of the Open-Stack Standing Collections of the Memorial and Kohler Art Libraries
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Join representatives of the Faculty Libraries Working Group (FLWG) for a panel presentation and discussion regarding the planned destruction of a portion of the open-stack collections in the Memorial Library and the Kohler Art Library. Presentation: Ullrich Langer and Lea Jacobs Panelists: David Bordwell, Florence Hsia, Anne Vila, Thomas E. A. Dale, and …
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Sep 11Relevance
University Club, Room 212
Opening Panel Discussion: Must the humanities be “relevant”? To what, or to whom? How have perspectives on these questions evolved since the heated debates of the 1960s and 1970s? Can research be “irrelevant,” and if so, can it still be worth pursuing? Or, on the other hand, is all research in the humanities in …
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May 8Research in the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion and Table Talks: Panelists are invited to reflect on the following questions; please come and share your ideas and memories on these as well: How might your discipline or interdisciplinary research area contribute to the future direction of the Humanities? How has your discipline’s relationship to the Humanities changed over the last …
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Sep 12Agency: What Does It Mean Across the Humanities?
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion: What are the meanings of “agency” in various disciplines and interdisciplines of the humanities? To what extent is it theorized or assumed? Does agency mean the freedom to act? To think? To feel? Is agency individual or collective? Does agency imply autonomy? How does agency relate to structure? Institutions? Oppression? Political Activism? …
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Feb 24Publishing in the Humanities: Projects, Proposals, Pragmatics
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Join us for a discussion of the state of academic publishing in the humanities and the process of working with a university press–from project to proposal to publication. The workshop will include brief presentations from Eric Zinner (NYU Press) and UW–Madison faculty members Ron Radano and Pernille Ipsen. Moderated by Susan Stanford Friedman. Refreshments available by 2:45 pm. Space is …
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May 4What’s the VALUE of Your Humanities Research?
University Club, Room 212
Panel Discussion to replace final seminar of the year: The final seminar of the year provides time and space for self-reflection, collaborative and individual. It’s a fair guess to say that NO ONE did as much work as they hoped to during their fellowship term. That’s par for the course. But it’s also a fair …
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Sep 8What’s the Value of Humanities Research?
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Guillermina De Ferrari, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Center for Visual Cultures, UW–Madison Sara Guyer, English, Center for the Humanities, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW–Madison Caroline Levine, English, UW–Madison David Loewenstein, English and the Humanities, Religious Studies, UW–Madison Daegan Miller, Institute for Research in the …
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May 5Last Seminar
University Club, Room 212
Final Panel Discussion of 2013-2014 Year: Speakers: Valerie Barske, History, UW-Stevens Point Ayelet Ben-Yishai, English, University of Haifa Christy Clark-Pujara, Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison Anne Duncan, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Joseph Marchal, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Matthew Rarey, Art History, UW–Madison Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, History, UW–Madison Mary Louise …