Past Event Category: Seminar
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Oct 23Building a Neutral Nation: America in the 18th Century Atlantic
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Sandra Moats UW System Fellow (2017-2018) History, UW-Parkside In 1793, the United States issued a Neutrality Proclamation to avoid involvement in a war between Britain and France, its principal allies. Neutrality confronted numerous challenges, particularly from American citizens eager to profit from European warfare as privateers. To remain neutral, the U.S. government …
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Oct 16The Reproductive Politics of School Lunch
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Gaddis Resident Fellow (2017-2018) School of Human Ecology, UW–Madison Is caring for children a private or public responsibility? What (or whom) should be cared for collectively? Which activities count as care? How much is care worth and who decides? Why, in this political and environmental moment, is a new economy of …
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Oct 9Seeing is Believing: The Rise of Holy Land Tourism and Evangelical Christian Zionism after 1967
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Daniel Hummel Kingdon Fellow (2017-2018) History, Harvard University Since the 1960s, American evangelical Christians have flocked to Holy Land sites in Israel and Palestine in ever-increasing numbers. In 2016, more than 380,000 American evangelicals visited Israel. Holy Land tourism has become a vital industry for Israel’s economy, as well as an important …
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Oct 2U.S. Cold War Immigration and the Politics of Sanctuary
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Resident Fellow (2017-2018) History; Asian American Studies, UW–Madison This talk looks at how U.S. Cold War immigration policies structured the marginalization of Central Americans. Unlike Southeast Asians, Central Americans did not flee communist countries but countries where the U.S. backed the ruling regimes. They were thus denied the legal …
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Sep 25Reproducing a Bodhisattva: Women’s Artistic Devotion in Late Imperial China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Yuhang Li Resident Fellow (2017-2018) Art History, UW–Madison What did lay Buddhist women actually do in order to forge a connection with the bodhisattva Guanyin after he underwent a sex-change and became a female deity during late imperial China? How did a shared gender identity between the worshipper and worshipped enable practitioners …
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Sep 18The Benefits of Failure: From the Gnostics to Cioran
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Costica Bradatan Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Humanities, Texas Tech University Because of our culture’s obsession with success, we miss something important about what it means to be human and deny ourselves access to a deeper, more meaningful layer of our humanity. A sense of what we are in the grand scheme of things, …
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May 1Modernism, Theatre, and the Axis of Language in India
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Aparna Dharwadker Resident Fellow (2016-2017) English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, UW–Madison The global turn in modernist studies has offered scholars of India the first significant opportunity to position modern Indian literature and theatre in the new time-space of modernism. However, the long premodern history of these cultural forms, and their embeddedness in …
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Apr 24Exploring the Real: New Modes of Documentary Theatre in Contemporary Mexico
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Paola Hernández Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Spanish & Portuguese, UW–Madison Why do we see a renaissance of documentary practices in contemporary theatre? Where and how does the idea of the affective of a staged biography or the autobiographical enter the scene? And what is the place that this genre of documentary fictions take …
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Apr 17Calculating Conversion: The Role of Mathematical Deliberation in Arabic Language Schools of Iberia and North Africa, ca. 1240-1300
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Nicholas Jacobson William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW–Madison In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, Dominican and Franciscan missionaries established schools devoted to the study of “oriental” languages in the Christian-occupied regions of Arabic Iberia and North Africa. At these sites friars studied Arabic and …
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Apr 10Corruption and Forensic Experts in British India
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mitra Sharafi Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Law and Legal Studies, UW–Madison History Corrupt British forensic experts undermined race-based narratives about truth-telling and corruption in colonial India, as well as ideological claims made for western science and the rule of law. This talk examines two such cases circa 1900 that threatened credibility claims made …