Past Event Category: Seminar
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Oct 15Restoring Memory: German Legacies and Polish Politics of Commemoration in Łódź after 1989
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Winson W. Chu Honorary Fellow (2012-2013) Modern Central European History, UW-Milwaukee The search for German legacies in Poland today serves local, national, and international agendas. As a result, the German past is often deployed in ways that seem contradictory. This development is apparent in the city of Łódź, which embodies many of …
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Oct 8Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Laurie Beth Clark Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Art, UW–Madison Always Already Again: Trauma Tourism and the Politics of Memory Culture is a transnational, comparative study of the discourses that surround the production and consumption of memorials. It considers sites on five continents that have been established or are in the process of being …
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Oct 1Angels of the Underground: A World War II Story of Love, Resistance, and Survival
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Theresa Kaminski UW System Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW-Stevens Point This book project centers on the complex tale of two ordinary and flawed American women propelled by the extraordinary circumstances of World War II into acts of heroism. Margaret Utinsky, petite and redheaded, caustic and cautious; Claire Phillips, a willowy brunette, big-hearted, with …
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Sep 24The Militancy of Gender and the Making of Sexual Difference in Anglo-Saxon Literature, c.700-1100 AD
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Stacy S. Klein Solmsen Fellow (2012-2013) English; Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University It is a long-standing truism that Old English literature rarely addresses sexual difference or erotic life, and is instead obsessed with chronicling blood feuds, heroic battle-quests, and inter-familial strife. Klein’s project examines the lexical and thematic intersections between warfare …
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Sep 17Enacting State Persecution: France, 1940-1944
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ivan Ermakoff Resident Fellow (2012-2013) Sociology, UW–Madison This talk will be centered on the factors that shape state agents’ decision to collaborate in, or subvert, the implementation of inhumane policies. A modern state cannot persecute vast groups of people without relying extensively on its civil servants. However, unless these civil servants have …
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Apr 30Of Lies and Bizarre Tales: Ctesias and the Persian Empire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Matthew Waters UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Classics and Ancient History, UW-Eau Claire The Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BC) at its height stretched from the Danube to the Indus and from the Himalayas to the Sahara. The Greek Ctesias served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II (reigned 404-358 BC) …
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Apr 23Racial Cannibalism: Carmen Miranda and the Performance of White ‘Negritude’ on the Brazilian Stage of the 1930s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kathryn Sanchez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2011-2012) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison This project explores race and its representation in the performing arts as central to the modern concept of Brazilianness in the decades following the pivotal week of Modern Art held in São Paulo, Brazil in 1922. In this presentation I …
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Apr 16Gulf Coast Slave Smuggling: The Clandestine Slave Trade, circa 1830s-1850s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lee Willis UW System Fellow (2011-2012) History, UW-Stevens Point In 1808, Congress forbade the importation of foreign slaves into the United States and the interstate (or domestic) slave trade became the only legal method of buying and selling human chattel before the Civil War. Yet historians believe that traders continually violated the …
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Apr 9Locating Dissent: Power and Resistance in Interregnum England
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Caroline Boswell UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Humanistic Studies and European History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay This project investigates how English men and women negotiated the social, cultural, and political changes that accompanied devastating civil wars and the execution of their king. Moving away from the dichotomy that classifies people’s reactions as either …
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Mar 26Bulls, Apes, Genes and Clouds: New Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Katarzyna Olga Beilin Resident Fellow (2011-2012) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison The debates on bullfighting, which culminated in the abolition of tauromaquia in Catalonia in 2011, have reopened reflections on Spanish national identity. Those who see bullfighting as a symbolic enactment of Spanish cultural essence, conceive of a Spaniard as violently opposed to …