Past Event Category: Seminar
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Oct 26“Martial Acts Virtuously Enacted by Women”: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) This paper concerns the gendered nature of violence and political culture in early modern French history. Religious identities and animosities sharply divided France along confessional (or sectarian) boundaries between a Catholic majority and Calvinist minority in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth …
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Oct 19Roomscape: Reading Space in the British Museum
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Susan David Bernstein Resident Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW–Madison This talk examines a specific site — the Reading Room of the British Museum — as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century London. Using archival documents, spatial theories, …
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Oct 12Communist Baiting and the Politics of National Belonging
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) History; Asian American Studies, UW–Madison Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American Studies at UW–Madison. Her research and teaching interest include Asian American history and culture, cold war culture, and urban studies. …
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Oct 5Post-Race Pop? Interrogating Strategies for Ethnic Diversity in Millennial Media Culture
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mary Beltrán Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts and Chicana/o & Latino/a Studies, UW–Madison This paper will focus on ethnic representation in U.S. television and media culture with respect to claims that we have entered an era of “color-blind” or “post-racial” representation, particularly as media producers aim to appeal to …
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Sep 28The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mark Netzloff UW System Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Milwaukee Netzloff’s paper examines the social and material life of the early modern embassy. In his discussion of the career and correspondence of Sir Henry Wotton, England’s resident ambassador in Venice from 1603-1621, he focuses not on the diplomatic content but, instead, on the embassy …
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Sep 21Autonomy in Relation
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Andrea Westlund UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, UW-Milwaukee In recent years feminist philosophers have offered trenchant critiques of traditional, individualistic ideals of autonomy and have developed alternative relational conceptions that highlight social dimensions of agency and the self. This work has deepened and enriched philosophical thought about the conditions of individual agency …
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May 4The Fleshly School: Matter in Books and Bodies in the Work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Nancy Rose Marshall Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Art History, UW–Madison Focusing on one case study, a picture by British poet-painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this talk explores the rapidly shifting understandings of the mind-body relationship in the Victorian era. Working with certain new conceptions of matter, Rossetti’s painting constituted a particular type of embodied …
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Apr 27Transposed Signs of Modernity: German Orientalism and the Indian ‘Timespace’
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: B. Venkat Mani Resident Fellow (2008-2009) German, UW–Madison The paper intervenes in recent scholarship on modernity, to diagnose a specific kind of insularity promoted in registers of “self-referentiality” (Luhmann: 1998) and “singularity” (Jameson: 2002). The paper tries to argue that conjectures of modernity in the Western European geo-cultural space, especially in Germany, …
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Apr 20Getting What You Want
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Russ Shafer-Landau Resident Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW–Madison Many have thought that a person’s quality of life is determined by the extent to which his or her desires are satisfied. The paper considers the attractions of this view, and then subjects it to critical scrutiny. The tentative conclusion proposed is that this theory …
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Apr 13An Introduction to Chester Himes’s Detective Fiction Series
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar Norlisha F. Crawford UW System Fellow (2008-2009) English and African American Studies, UW-Oshkosh From 1957-1993 Chester Himes’s ten-volume crime fiction series was published, set in a place he called Harlem. In nine of the ten novels in the series Himes highlights characters who mirror the most egregiously racist stereotypes in play in …