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September 2008
Warsaw Polish Writers-Diarists Witnessing the Holocaust: An Inquiry into the Capacity for Empathy – The Case of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Seminar: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Senior Fellow (2008-2013) Hebrew Studies, UW-Madison
Find out more »Who is the Superior God?: Contending Religious faiths in South India in the 13th and 16th centuries
Monday Seminar: V. Narayana Rao Senior Fellow (2005-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW-Madison
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Heaven is Round: Earth is Square. French Sinology and Chinese Travel Accounts Linking Mountain and Sea in Early China
Monday Seminar: Robert André LaFleur Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) History and Anthropology, Beloit College
Find out more »African Politics in African Literature: A Cultural History
Monday Seminar: Tejumola Olaniyan English; African Language and Literature, UW-Madison Senior Fellow (2007-2011; 2012-2013)
Find out more »Mimetic Failure and Moral Autonomy in a Schubert Song
Monday Seminar: Brian Hyer Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Music, UW-Madison
Find out more »November 2008
Jewish Networks at the University of Wisconsin, 1865-1924
Seminar: Jonathan Z. S. Pollack Madison Area Technical College Fellow (2008-2009) History, MATC
Find out more »Feminine Sanctity in Imperial Spain: Diego Velazquez’s Portrait of Mother Jeronima de la Fuente
Monday Seminar: Tanya Tiffany UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »Seminar with Ellen Amster
Monday Seminar: Ellen Amster Art History, UW-Milwaukee
Find out more »December 2008
“Like very honest and substantial citizens”: Performance and Identity in Early Modern Cony-Catching Pamphlets
Monday Seminar: Anupam Basu English, UW-Madison Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009)
Find out more »Babylon and Degeneracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond
Monday Seminar Andrew Scheil Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Minnesota
Find out more »February 2009
Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction
Monday Seminar: Robert F. Berkhofer Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Western Michigan University The seminar examines two types of sources, forgery and historical writings, and discusses the relationship between them in Europe circa 900-1200 and…
Find out more »Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele
Monday Seminar Esther K. Bauer UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point The seminar proposes that early-twentieth-century authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka and artists Christian Schad and Egon Schiele created characters…
Find out more »Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Monday Seminar: Michael Bernard-Donals Resident Fellow (2008-2009) English, UW-Madison The US Holocaust Memorial Council and the designers of the US Holocaust Museum attempted to ensure, through the museum's design, that visitors would remember the…
Find out more »March 2009
The Myth of Religious Wars
Monday Seminar: David Chan Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point Are religious wars more violent than imperialistic wars, civil wars and wars of liberation? Would the world be more peaceful if people did not…
Find out more »Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America
Monday Seminar: Andrew Ruis William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009) History of Science, UW-Madison
Find out more »Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Monday Seminar: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis The paper asks a question that hasn't been addressed for over 50 years: how and why did a young, virtually unknown, and staunchly…
Find out more »Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World
Monday Seminar: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University Both religious and laypeople wished to clothe saints appropriately in the Carolingian world. Whether describing the appropriate dress of saints in vitae, making…
Find out more »April 2009
Plato’s Noble Lie
Monday Seminar: David Lay Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point The tradition of the political lie infamously commences with Plato's Noble Lie in the Republic. The lie is woven with…
Find out more »An Introduction to Chester Himes’s Detective Fiction Series
Monday Seminar Norlisha F. Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh From 1957-1993 Chester Himes's ten-volume crime fiction series was published, set in a place he called Harlem. In nine…
Find out more »Getting What You Want
Monday Seminar: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Madison Many have thought that a person's quality of life is determined by the extent to which his or her desires are satisfied. The paper considers…
Find out more »Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian ‘Timespace’
Monday Seminar: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW-Madison The paper intervenes in recent scholarship on modernity, to diagnose a specific kind of insularity promoted in registers of "self-referentiality" (Luhmann: 1998) and "singularity"…
Find out more »May 2009
The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Monday Seminar: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW-Madison Focusing on one case study, a picture by British poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this talk explores the rapidly shifting understandings of the mind-body…
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Autonomy in Relation
Monday Seminar Andrea Westlund UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, UW-Milwaukee In recent years feminist philosophers have offered trenchant critiques of traditional, individualistic ideals of autonomy and have developed alternative relational conceptions that highlight social…
Find out more »The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
Monday Seminar: Mark Netzloff UW System Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Milwaukee Netzloff's paper examines the social and material life of the early modern embassy. In his discussion of the career and correspondence of Sir Henry…
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Post-Race Pop? Interrogating Strategies for Ethnic Diversity in Millennial Media Culture
Monday Seminar: Mary Beltrán Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts and Chicana/o & Latino/a Studies, UW-Madison This paper will focus on ethnic representation in U.S. television and media culture with respect to…
Find out more »Communist Baiting and the Politics of National Belonging
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) History; Asian American Studies, UW-Madison Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American…
Find out more »Roomscape: Reading Space in the British Museum
Monday Seminar: Susan David Bernstein Resident Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Madison This talk examines a specific site — the Reading Room of the British Museum — as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential…
Find out more »“Martial Acts Virtuously Enacted by Women”: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion
Monday Seminar: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) This paper concerns the gendered nature of violence and political culture in early modern French history. Religious identities and animosities sharply divided…
Find out more »November 2009
The Fullness of Time: Tocqueville and the Democratic Moment
Monday Seminar: Richard Avramenko Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Political Science, UW-Madison This paper examines the concept of time in Tocqueville’s thought through the lens of the philosophy of internal time-consciousness. While Tocqueville himself offers no…
Find out more »National Colors: Race, Nation, and the Census in Latin America
Monday Seminar: Mara Loveman Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Sociology, UW-Madison Why do some states classify their populations by race in censuses while other states do not? What purpose have race queries on census forms served…
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