Past Event Category: Seminar
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Apr 3Encounters in Qraiyeh: Imperial Ideology and French Industry in a Lebanese Village, 1900-1930
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: John Boonstra Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) History, UW–Madison The history of European imperialism in the Middle East tends to follow a familiar script: competing powers developed “spheres of influence” within the late-stage Ottoman Empire, furthering economic interests and building on national traditions of religious alliance and cultural association, before establishing formal colonial …
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Mar 27Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Fatimid Architecture (909-1031)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Jennifer Pruitt Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Art History, UW–Madison The Ismaili Shi’i Fatimid dynasty is most famous for founding the city of Cairo in 969. Generally considered a golden age of multicultural tolerance, the Fatimid era witnessed an efflorescence of art and architecture and relatively peaceful coexistence between the religious communities in their …
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Mar 13A View from the Choir: Sharing Sacred Space in Pluriconfessional Convents in Early Modern Germany
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer History, Western Kentucky University Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Differences between religious groups coexisting in the same nation remain one of the thorniest sources of controversy and violence in many regions of the world. The vital role of women in creating means of transmitting religious identity and arbitrating differences has …
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Mar 6Weaponizing Identity: Doxing as Cultural Practice and Political Tool
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Andrew Zolides Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2016-2017) Communication Arts, UW–Madison Doxing – the publicizing of private, identifying information about an individual without consent – is a fascinating cultural practice that has emerged in our digital culture. Relating to issues of surveillance, whistle-blowing, and battles over political ideologies, this talk presents doxing as a …
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Feb 27Anishinaabewaki and the “mixed bloods, belonging to the Chippewas of Lake Superior”
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Larry Nesper Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2016-2017) Anthropology, UW–Madison This project began as an effort to problematize the legal permitting process by muddying up the chain of title to the Penokees of northern Wisconsin where Gogebic Taconite was proposing to build the largest open-pit iron mine in North America in 2014. …
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Feb 20Networks of Shared Imagination: Medieval Legends and the Construction of History
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Samantha Herrick Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) History, Syracuse University What can we learn about the past from sources long dismissed as worthless? Medieval legends recount a version of early Christian history starkly at odds with reality. They also repeat each other again and again. For these reasons, they have been branded as unreliable …
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Feb 13Machiavelli’s Tragic Geography
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kristin Phillips-Court Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Italian and Art History, UW–Madison Machiavelli’s writings substantiate more than their distillation into a political theory that stripped morality from politics. This seminar focuses on Machiavelli’s frequent recourse to images of the Italian terrain as a means of communicating knowledge in The Prince and his other literary …
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Feb 6Recovering the New Thought Novel
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Anne Stiles Kingdon Fellow (2016-2017) Department of English, Saint Louis University Did you know that many well-loved children’s classics contain hidden Christian Science and New Thought messages? My book shows how classic children’s fiction written around 1900 – works such as Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green …
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Jan 30Is Love All You Need? Household Labor and Marriage Vows (1870-1920)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kimberley Reilly UW System Fellow (2016-2017) Democracy and Justice Studies; History Department; Women’s and Gender Studies Department, UW-Green Bay How did a wife earn her keep? This was a question a wide range of American reformers and jurists asked in the late nineteenth century. As middle-class women agitated for a greater political voice …
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Jan 23The Altercatio Ganymedis et Helene – It All Comes Together in the End (?)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Tina Chronopoulos Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Classics and Medieval Studies, University of Binghamton, State University of New York Have you always wondered what a discussion about the pros and cons of same-sex versus opposite-sex sex might have looked like in 12th-century France? In today’s talk I focus on just such a discussion which …