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September 2008
The Futures of Interdisciplinarity for the Humanities
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin, Chancellor, UW-Madison Susan Friedman, Director, IRH Ullrich Langer, English, UW-Madison Jon McKenzie, East Asian Languages and Culture, UW-Madison Nicole Huang, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison Suzette Spencer
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Globalization and the Humanities
Panel Discussion
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2010 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
Workshop and Panel Discussion: Susan Stanford Friedman, Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities and Co-Editor of Contemporary Women's Writing, Oxford University Press Journal, 2007 -Today. Gwen Walker, Acquisitions Editor, University of Wisconsin Press…
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Language Matters: Multilingualism, Translation, and Disciplinary Discourses in the Humanities
Panel Discussion
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2011 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
Workshop and Panel Discussion: Paul Boyer, Merle Curti Professor Emeritus of History, Editor, UW-Press Series, Studies in American Thought and Culture; Editor-in-Chief, The Oxford Companion to United States History. Former director of the Institute, 1993-2001.…
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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…
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How? Research Methods in the Humanities
Panel Discussion: Lee Palmer Wandel, History, UW-Madison Mara Loveman, Sociology, UW-Madison Jon McKenzie, English, UW-Madison Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics, UW-Madison The Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) will begin its year-long weekly seminars with…
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REPRISE: How? Research Methods in the Humanities
Closing Panel Discussion: Chair: Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison Panelists: Caroline Boswell, Humanistic Studies and European History, UW-Green Bay Esther Eidinow, Ancient Greek History, University of Nottingham Richard Goodkin, French and Italian, UW-Madison Erin…
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What’s Your “Archive”? Formation, Collection, and Evidence across the Humanities
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Linda Gordon, History, New York University Theresa M. Kelley, English, UW-Madison Vinay Dharwadker, Languages and Cultures of Asia/English, UW-Madison Michele Hilmes, Communication Arts, UW-Madison Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics and Center for Jewish Studies,…
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What’s the Place of “Place” in the Humanities?
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Susan D. Bernstein, English, Gender and Women's Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, UW-Madison Thomas Dale, Art History, UW-Madison Tomislav Longinović, Slavic Languages and Literature, UW-Madison Yi-Fu Tuan, Emeritus Professor of Geography, UW-Madison…
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2013 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
Panel Discussion and Workshop: Helen Tartar, Editorial Director, Fordham University Press Gwen Walker, Editorial Director, University of Wisconsin Press Steve Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History, Vice Provost for Faculty and Staff,…
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Last Seminar
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,…
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What’s the Value of Humanities Research?
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…
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What’s the VALUE of Your Humanities Research?
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…
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What Counts as “Evidence” in Humanities Research?
Panel Discussion: "Humanities by the Numbers" was the theme for the annual conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, hosted by the Center for the Humanities in Madison in June. The status of…
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Publishing in the Humanities: Projects, Proposals, Pragmatics
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…
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Agency: What Does It Mean Across the Humanities?
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…
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Research in the Humanities: Past, Present, and Future
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…
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Relevance
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…
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The Future of the Open-Stack Standing Collections of the Memorial and Kohler Art Libraries
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…
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Irrelevance
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…
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Faculty-Librarian Collaborations Panel
Panel Discussion with Humanities Librarians
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