Past Event Category: Seminar
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Nov 12The Trump Show: Terrorism and Total Mediation
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Richard A. Grusin UW System Fellow (2018-2019) Distinguished Professor, English; Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee I want to think about how, mid-way through the Trump presidency, media and mediation function as everyday acts of terrorism. Put most polemically, I will argue that in the Trump era the greatest terrorist threat to …
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Nov 5Watermen, Petermen, and Mermaids: Creatures of Conversion on the Early Modern Thames
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Sarah Crover Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) English, University of British Columbia Thames’ “mermaids” (the prostitutes who inhabited its banks), “petermen” (the fishermen who clogged the river with illegal and dangerous nets), and watermen (the necessary but notoriously dishonest ferrymen of the river) were cast in early modern Londoners’ popular imagination as agents of …
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Oct 29Musical Exoticism and the Politics of Representation in the Tagalog Zarzuela
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Isidora Miranda Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2018-2019) Mead Witter School of Music, UW–Madison Studies on music-theatrical representation have often considered sites and examples found on the Western stage, and the different ways such works projected a musical imaginary of a colonial other for its European (and American) audience. But what if the stage …
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Oct 22The Phantom Stockpile and Other Pernicious American Myths About China in World War II
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Judd C. Kinzley Resident Fellow (2018-2019) History, UW–Madison The successful Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942 sealed off the easiest overland route for delivering desperately needed Allied wartime aid to China. With the roads closed, American goods piled up in wharves, godowns, and warehouses across Asia and North America even after the …
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Oct 15Biographing Social Change: Dick Gregory in Recent American History
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Edward Schmitt UW System Fellow (2018-2019) History, UW-Parkside Dick Gregory was a pivotal figure in modern American popular culture and a catalyst in the movements for social justice emerging out of the 1960s. This presentation will offer a brief overview of Gregory’s life and historical significance, along with a discussion of the …
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Oct 8The African HipHop Movement: Youth Culture and Democracy in Senegal
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Damon Chandru Sajnani Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2018-2019) African Cultural Studies, UW–Madison This seminar will introduce my book project demonstrating how Senegalese artist-activists are mobilizing HipHop to impact formal politics on an unprecedented scale. My core argument is that Senegalese rappers organically deploy an anticolonial notion of democracy that challenges orthodox …
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Oct 1A History of Black Women in Higher Education from 1954-2014
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2018-2019) Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, UW–Madison This seminar will preview a portion of my book manuscript which is a historiographical project about how Black women have survived and thrived in and beyond higher education amidst formidable challenges. In the book, entitled, The Chosen We: …
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Sep 24Getting by on Music: Re-scaling to New Circumstances in Recife’s Music Scene
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Falina Enriquez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity (REI) Fellow (2018-2019) Anthropology; Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS), UW–Madison In the 2000s and early 2010s, musicians in Recife, the capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, were benefiting from federal and state multicultural policies, which enabled many of them to envision and execute …
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Sep 17The Long, Glorious, and Unfortunate Life of Pompey the Great
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jeffrey Beneker Resident Fellow (2018-2019) Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, UW–Madison Young Pompey was “great” in the way that mattered most to the Romans: on the battlefield. He earned his title at a relatively young age and became greater as he grew older, achieving military victories against a variety of opponents …
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Sep 10Abusing Science: The Case of Free Will
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lawrence Shapiro Senior Fellow (2017-2021) Philosophy, UW–Madison The tension between science and religion has increased in recent years with the rise of the so-called “New Atheists” and, as well, with the enthusiasm some scientists have displayed for pronouncing on concerns that have long resided within the domain of religion, e.g. the origin …