Past Event Category: Seminar
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Sep 30The Ephrata Cloister and Rituals of Asceticism in Atlantic World Protestantism
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Timothy Wright
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Sep 23The Washington Consensus: Journalism and the Making of the Postwar World Order
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kathryn McGarr
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Sep 16Diversity in Imperial Rome: Contexts, Questions, Comparisons
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Nandini B. Pandey
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Sep 9A Ho-Chunk History of Citizenship
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Monday Seminar: Stephen Kantrowitz
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Apr 29Peace and Justice. Remonstrances as a Means of Negotiation and Resistance during the French Civil Wars (1550-1600)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Paul-Alexis Mellet Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) History, University of Geneva; Institute for the History of Reformation Remonstrances were texts printed in Europe during the civil wars (1550-1650). They are unique in that they served simultaneously as a means of governance, instruments of negotiation, and avenues of resistance. They enabled continuous dialog during the …
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Apr 22Transfers and Mutations: Gestalt in Interwar France
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Florence Vatan Resident Fellow (2018-2019) French and Italian, UW–Madison Which reconfigurations do concepts undergo when they cross national and disciplinary boundaries? How do they travel from one domain of investigation to another? I will address these questions by considering the early diffusion of Gestalt psychology in France in the 1920s and 1930s. …
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Apr 15Bacterial Imaginations: Regime of the Microscope in the 1950s People’s Republic of China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lu Liu Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2018-2019) Asian Languages and Cultures, UW–Madison Seeing the enemy was crucial in the early 1950s People’s Republic of China (PRC). Domestic consolidation by the new regime targeted spies, counterrevolutionaries, and bourgeois ideology, hidden yet harmful elements that threatened the health of the new body politic. Meanwhile, the allegation …
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Apr 8God and Taxes in the Medieval Roman Empire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Leonora Neville Resident Fellow (2018-2019) John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine History and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, History; Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison We don’t tend to think of taxes as having much of anything to do with religion. But in the medieval Roman Empire (sometimes known …
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Apr 1Writing Algiers
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Steven Hutchinson Senior Fellow (2016-2020) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison Until the early 16th century, Algiers was a modest port city, but from then on became one of the most important urban centers of the early modern Mediterranean. At least until the early 18th century, European writers obsessively focused on the city as …
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Mar 25Writing the Museum: Pictorial Imagination in Baroque Fiction of the Spanish Empire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mercedes Alcalá-Galán Resident Fellow (2018-2019) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison In 1660 David Teniers published the extraordinary Theatrum Pictorium, the first illustrated catalogue ever of a collection of paintings. It brings together text and image to represent 243 Italian paintings from the collection of Archduke Leopold-William, governor of the Low Countries under Spanish rule. …