Past Event Category: Seminar
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Sep 29Reading African American Literature Now: History, Fiction, and the Problem of Desire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Aida Levy-Hussen Resident Fellow (2014-2015) English, UW–Madison Since the late twentieth-century decline of the modern Civil Rights Movement, African American literary studies has been consumed with an increasingly contentious debate about whether the task of black literature is to memorialize the slave past, or to put it behind us. Levy-Hussen puts this …
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Sep 22Art and Life in Latin Literature: Emergences of a Dualistic Structure in an Ancient Archive
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Alexander Dressler Resident Fellow (2014-2015) Classics, UW–Madison Dressler’s current project argues that, from an early “pagan” comic playwright to a subsequently sainted Christian poet, through “classic” Classics of the early Empire, Latin literature presumes a dialectic of “Greek” idealism and “Roman” materialism; while neither tendency adequately describes or determines social practice, their …
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Sep 15White-Collar Discipline and the Theology of Work
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Bethany Moreton Kingdon Fellow (2014-2015) History and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia The “revenge of God”—the broad failure of the secularization thesis after World War II—is in part the story of religious responses to the feminization of work; the commodification of reproductive labor; the restructuring of the household; and the growth of …
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Apr 28Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918: The Fantastic Imagery of Harry Clarke
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Marguerite Helmers UW System Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW-Oshkosh In 1919, Sir John French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, brought together representatives from throughout Ireland to establish a national war memorial that would commemorate the 50,000 Irish dead from the First World War. By 1923, despite two wars on Irish soil, an assassination attempt …
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Apr 21“What I write I do not see”: The Place of Invisible Ink in English Civil War Correspondence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Karen Britland English, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Abraham Cowley’s poem, “Written in juice of lemon,” draws attention to the dangers of writing’s reception, likening a love poem written in secret ink to a beast that’s “burnt in sacrifice.” Taking Cowley’s poem as its starting point, this paper will discuss the use of …
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Apr 14Enchanted Modernities: Akha Inventions of Religion in Upper Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Micah Morton Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Anthropology, UW–Madison Much is being made of a dramatic resurgence in the political influence of religion the world over. Contrary to claims that modernization would lead to the disenchantment of social life, religion is being recognized as a continuing and increasingly significant domain of …
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Apr 7Signs of Disquiet — Portuguese Cultural Politics in the 1980s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ellen Sapega Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison This talk will discuss a series of political and cultural events celebrating the life and work of modernist poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, during the 1980s. During this decade, Portugal completed a transition from dictatorship to democracy that …
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Mar 31A Moral Economy of Curative Violence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Eunjung Kim Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Is cure the end of disability? This presentation examines the transactional aspect of cure, imagined in a way involving power, resources, and losses. In this transaction, violence plays an important role in reshaping disability. The political dynamics of cure are clearly …
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Mar 24Biblical Behind/Corinthian Citation: Queering Figures of Androgyny and Female Masculinity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Joseph Marchal Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Paul’s letters have often been cited as straightforwardly dictating both heteronormativity and gender conformity, yet the figures deployed within these texts indicate still other potential responses and uses. Thus, this project demonstrates how queer modes within biblical …
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Mar 10Piecemeal Emancipation and Black Freedom in Rhode Island, 1770-1842
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Christy Clark-Pujara Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2013-2014) Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison During the Revolutionary period, enslaved people throughout British North America used the rhetoric of freedom and the chaos of war to challenge their enslavement. In Rhode Island, the destruction of slavery spanned seven decades; it began with an increase in slave …