Past Event Category: Seminar
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Feb 4“I are citizens of the Halles”: Forging Citizenship in the Marketplace during the French Revolution
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Katie Jarvis European History, UW–Madison Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow (2012-2013) Historians, political scientists, and philosophers rightly emphasize how the French Revolution created a foundation for democracy in Europe. However, some scholars point to the Revolution’s potentially dark underbelly – the revolutionaries legally cast citizenship as male by denying women the right …
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Jan 28Propaganda 1776
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Russ Castronovo Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies, UW–Madison Long a pejorative word since its associations with the flag-waving and jingoism surrounding U.S. participation in World War I, “propaganda” would hardly seem a useful concept for understanding democracy. After all, spreading false information, manipulating facts, and other …
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Dec 10Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: John W. Hall Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW–Madison Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians will examine the American military’s role in the ethnic cleansing of the American Southeast in the 1830s and 1840s. By examining the host of Indian and white perceptions of …
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Dec 3Conflict in the Construction of Socialism: Public Health, Rapid Industrialization, and the Communist Modern in Czechoslovakia
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Bradley Moore William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW–Madison This paper explores the development of public health services in communist Czechoslovakia, and in turn, the early attempts of state hygienists to improve the living and working environment, enhance the biophysical condition of the proletariat, and …
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Nov 26The Rise of the Legend of the City of Kitezh in Russian Literature
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lisa Woodson Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) Slavic Languages and Literature, UW–Madison Little known outside of Russia, the Legend of the City of Kitezh describes an ideal city hidden from the profane world around it. In some versions of the legend, the city became invisible to protect it from invading infidel armies; in …
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Nov 19Rethinking Early American Slavery from an International Perspective, 1450-1640
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: James H. Sweet Resident Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW–Madison Many are aware that the first “20. and odd” Africans arrived in British North America in 1619. Historians of early America often treat this episode as an exceptional moment in which British colonists, unfamiliar with chattel slavery, integrated culturally pliable “Atlantic Creole” Africans into …
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Nov 12The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Authors and the Literary Construction of New York City
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jeffrey Steele Resident Fellow (2012-2013) English, UW–Madison My project explores the ways in which a generation of American writers conceptualized a new phenomenon, the emerging metropolis. While nature writing has been widely studied in recent years, we still lack a taxonomy of urban literary forms or a discussion of the most important …
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Nov 5A Peculiar Custom: Euro-African Marriage in an Atlantic Slave Trading Town
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Pernille Ipsen Gender & Women’s Studies/History, UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) My project is a history of marriages between African women and European men who participated in the slave trade on the Gold Coast in the eighteenth century. I argue that these interracial marriages took place in a field …
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Oct 29At the Threshold of New Political Communities: The Nollywood Epic
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Matthew Brown Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) African Languages and Literature, UW–Madison Many of the most popular genres of Nigeria’s “Nollywood” video film industry have histories that predate the advent of video filmmaking. The “epic” genre, in particular, draws on expectations generated by the Nigerian state television bureaucracy, which itself draws on expectations …
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Oct 22Myth in the Landscape: Ancient Heroes and Hellenic Culture in Imperial Asia Minor
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Janet Downie Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) Classics, Princeton University The purpose of my current book project is to understand the role of landscape in the articulation of Hellenism in Imperial Asia Minor. In this presentation I will focus on a particular feature of the mythic landscape of the region: large mounds that dotted …