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March 2022
“How the Great Books Changed My Life and How They Can Change Yours” a talk with Dr. Roosevelt Montás
Dr. Roosevelt Montas will give a talk titled "How the Great Books Changed My Life and How They Can Change Yours." It will take place on March 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm (CT) in the Wisconsin Historical Society, main auditorium.
Find out more »A Queer Ecocritical Reading of the Dragons of the Tàipíng Guǎngjì OR Why Dragons are Cool
Monday Seminar: Josiah Stork
Find out more »April 2022
Treaty Rights and Land Fights: A History of Two Western Shoshone Sisters
Monday Seminar: Baligh Ben Taleb
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: What is Morality?
The final installment of the Big Questions series continues with the question: what is morality?
Find out more »Biological Imaginaries: Disability, Difference, and the New Genres of the Body
Monday Seminar: Iseult Gillespie
Find out more »The Significance of the Ho-Chunk in American History
Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Stephen Kantrowitz "The Significance of the Frontier Ho-Chunk in American History" Despite the invasion and seizure of their homeland by the United States during the early nineteenth century, the Ho-Chunk…
Find out more »Jacopo Bassano and the Flood of Feltre
Monday Seminar: James Pilgrim
Find out more »Fifth Annual Graduate Early Modern Student Society Symposium
"Re: Revive, Renew, Rebirth" This symposium event will take place on Friday, April 22nd, in Memorial Union.
Find out more »Significant Others: Mixed Marriage in Early Modern Spain
Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Neary
Find out more »The Body Is the Text: One Woman’s American Narrative
Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Caroline Randall Williams
Find out more »“Dante after Dante” International Symposium
“Dante after Dante” International Symposium, Department of French & Italian.
Find out more »May 2022
On the Nature of Architecture: An Ecocritical Approach to Vitruvius
Monday Seminar: Amie Goblirsch
Find out more »Humanities Grant Writing Camp for Graduate Students
This camp (May 23–26, 2022) provides participants with an introduction to writing funding proposals.
Find out more »September 2022
Future Anterior: How Nineteenth-Century Institutions Framed the Future of Animals
Monday Seminar: Mario Ortiz-Robles
Find out more »“One is not born, but becomes, a genius”: Another Simone de Beauvoir
2022 Germaine Brée Lecture: Kate Kirkpatrick
Find out more »October 2022
The Radicalization of Latin American Students during the Catholic Sixties
Monday Seminar: Jaime Pensado
Find out more »Research Presentations with Randall Todd Pippenger and Nicole Pulichene
Medieval Studies Program Welcomes Randall Todd Pippenger and Nicole Pulichene for a Research Presentation on Oct. 7, 2022 at 4pm in UClub 212.
Find out more »Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa
Monday Seminar: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Find out more »Solitudes/Multitudes: 18th – 21st Centuries
This international, interdisciplinary, bilingual symposium is designed to consider solitude(s) and multitude(s) in tandem, as both historical constructs and present-day issues.
Find out more »Unwritten Rules: Informal Institutions, Ethnic Politicization, and Democratic Breakdown in Sub-Saharan Africa
Monday Seminar: Shan J. Sappleton
Find out more »Emancipation (Settlers, Natives, Jews)
Monday Seminar: Adam Stern
Find out more »One, or Two? A Discursive Reading of the Qianlong Emperor’s Double Portrait
Monday Seminar: Young Kim
Find out more »November 2022
The Florida Retirement Village: Building for White, Middle-Class Older Adults in South Florida in the 1950s
Monday Seminar: Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Find out more »What’s Left Behind? Veterans, Widows, and Orphans in the Era of the Crusades
Monday Seminar: Randall Todd Pippenger
Find out more »Warfare and Lawfare. Borders, International Crimes, and the Polish Experience in the 20th Century
Professors Agata Fijalkowski and Jakub Szumski will present their work on postwar Polish war crimes trials.
Find out more »Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Laura McClure
Laura McClure (Senior Fellow, 2019-2023) will be giving the Focus on the Humanities lecture titled "Biography of a Greek Courtesan: Re-imagining Phryne."
Find out more »Artistic Visions of the Transatlantic Exchange
Monday Seminar: Carolyn Nadeau
Find out more »Fraud, Fictions, and Fixing the Law: Litigation and Legitimacy in the Late Medieval Common Law
Monday Seminar: Charlotte Whatley
Find out more »December 2022
Spinoza’s Dynamic Theory of Mind
Monday Seminar: Justin Steinberg
Find out more »The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil
Monday Seminar: Katherine Jensen
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