Past Event Category: Seminar
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Apr 6Plato’s Noble Lie
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: David Lay Williams Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Political Science and Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point The tradition of the political lie infamously commences with Plato’s Noble Lie in the Republic. The lie is woven with great care into his utopian state on the premise that Philosopher-Rulers are incorruptible wielders of political power. Most treatments of …
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Mar 30Clothing Saints in the Carolingian World
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Valerie Garver Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Northern Illinois University Both religious and laypeople wished to clothe saints appropriately in the Carolingian world. Whether describing the appropriate dress of saints in vitae, making and selecting textiles to support or wrap the relics of saints, or depicting saints’ clothing in pictorial form, conscious choices …
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Mar 23Catholic and Reformed: John Milton and Italian Religion
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Catherine Martin Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Memphis The paper asks a question that hasn’t been addressed for over 50 years: how and why did a young, virtually unknown, and staunchly Protestant poet manage to make so many friends among aristocratic and famous Italian Catholics, including several priests, during his year-long …
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Mar 9Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: School Foodservice and Public Health Nutrition in Early Twentieth-Century America
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Andrew Ruis William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2008-2009) History of Science, UW–Madison
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Mar 2The Myth of Religious Wars
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: David Chan Honorary Fellow (2008-2009) Philosophy, UW-Stevens Point Are religious wars more violent than imperialistic wars, civil wars and wars of liberation? Would the world be more peaceful if people did not fight for religious reasons? Is the conflict between Christianity and Islam unavoidable? The paper suggests that it is a misconception …
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Feb 23Conflations of Memory at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Michael Bernard-Donals Resident Fellow (2008-2009) English, UW–Madison The US Holocaust Memorial Council and the designers of the US Holocaust Museum attempted to ensure, through the museum’s design, that visitors would remember the Holocaust as a specific historical event. But what visitors learn, and see, and remember at the USHMM is often enough …
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Feb 9Bodily Desire – Desired Bodies: Gender and the Body in Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Christian Schad, and Egon Schiele
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar Esther K. Bauer UW System Fellow (2008-2009) Foreign Languages, German, UW-Stevens Point The seminar proposes that early-twentieth-century authors Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka and artists Christian Schad and Egon Schiele created characters intended to upset bourgeois notions of gender, desire, and sexuality. At a time of far-reaching changes in male and female …
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Feb 2Forgery, Faith, Fact, and Fiction
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Robert F. Berkhofer Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) History, Western Michigan University The seminar examines two types of sources, forgery and historical writings, and discusses the relationship between them in Europe circa 900-1200 and argues that both empirical and postmodern textualist approaches are necessary and important for understanding them. The paper also discusses the …
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Dec 8Babylon and Degeneracy: Traditions of Descent and Racial Difference in the Early Middle Ages and Beyond
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar Andrew Scheil Solmsen Fellow (2008-2009) English, University of Minnesota
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Nov 17Seminar with Ellen Amster
Bradley Memorial Building, Room 204
Monday Seminar: Ellen Amster Art History, UW-Milwaukee