• Nov 14
    2013 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities

    University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)

    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, and co-editor of the book series “Critical Human Rights” through the University of Wisconsin Press Preeti Chopra, Associate Professor, Art …

  • Sep 9
    What’s the Place of “Place” in the Humanities?

    University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)

    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 Louise Young, History, UW–Madison   Michel Foucault predicted in 1967 that the coming age would be “an epoch of space” …

  • Sep 10
    What’s Your “Archive”? Formation, Collection, and Evidence across the Humanities

    University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)

    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, UW–Madison   Historians often describe the evidentiary basis of their work as fundamentally archival, whether drawing on collections of documents …

  • May 7
    REPRISE: How? Research Methods in the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

    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 Lambert, History, UW–Madison Mary Louise Roberts, History, UW–Madison   The Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) will end its …

  • Sep 12
    How? Research Methods in the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

    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 a panel discussion on research methods in the humanities. The panel continues IRH’s broad discussions about the humanities in the …

  • Apr 1
    The 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 …

  • Feb 23
    2011 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

    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. Nancy Marshall, Associate Professor of Art History; author of Painting Victorian London: City of Gold and Mud, Yale University Press, …

  • Sep 13
    Language Matters: Multilingualism, Translation, and Disciplinary Discourses in the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

    Panel Discussion

  • Apr 21
    2010 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

      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 David Morgan, Senior Fellow, Professor of History, Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1987-1999; Series Editor, Cambridge …

  • Sep 14
    Globalization and the Humanities

    University Club, Room 212

    Panel Discussion