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October 2021
Muzzled Memories: Saint Srivichai and the Formation of Modern Thailand
Monday Seminar: Katherine Bowie
Find out more »Jerusalem in the Time of David and Solomon
Monday Seminar: Jodi Magness
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: What is Life?
The first installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to tackle the biggest of them all: what is life and how did it originate?
Find out more »One Man’s History is Another Man’s Imagination: Reconstructing US Civil War-Stories in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Monday Seminar: Andrew Thomas
Find out more »The Very Edge of Fiction. Karl Ove Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel
Monday Seminar: Claus Elholm Andersen
Find out more »November 2021
Raging Women and Crying Men: Taboo Gendered Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Monday Seminar: Anne F. Widmayer
Find out more »The Ford Foundation, the Social Sciences, and Chilean Democracy
Monday Seminar: Patrick Iber
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: What is Consciousness?
The second installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to discuss one of the great mysteries in science and philosophy: What is consciousness?
Find out more »Haunted by Heresy: The Perlesvaus, Medieval Antisemitism, and the Trauma of the Albigensian Crusade
Monday Seminar: Adrian McClure
Find out more »Focus on the Humanities Lecture: Steven Hutchinson
Steven Hutchinson (Senior Fellow, 2016-2020) will be giving the Focus on the Humanities lecture titled "'Nothing human is alien to me': Leo Africanus’s Cosmopolitanism in his Portrayal of Early Modern Africa."
Find out more »The Role of Culture and Democracy in the Tibetan Freedom Struggle
Monday Seminar: Karma Palzom-Pasha
Find out more »Horace Kallen’s Expanding Vision of Cultural Pluralism: Nationality, Race, and Democracy on the World Stage, 1918–1939
Monday Seminar: Chad Goldberg
Find out more »December 2021
Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution: The Case of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Monday Seminar: Viren Murthy
Find out more »Early Christianity and the Problem of Jewish “Legalism”: Law, Flesh, and Spirit in the Letters of Paul
Monday Seminar: Emma Wasserman
Find out more »January 2022
England’s Weedy Renaissance
Monday Seminar: Katarzyna/Kat Lecky
Find out more »February 2022
Learning in the Age of Loneliness: Reimagining College for Equity, Ecology, and Health
Monday Seminar: Douglas Haynes
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: What is Happiness?
The third installment of the “Big Questions” series asks a philosopher and a scientist to discuss one of the great mysteries in science and philosophy: What is happiness?
Find out more »Put Up or Shut Up! Revisiting the Warner Brothers
Monday Seminar: Chris Yogerst
Find out more »The Arts of Mnemosyne: Expressions of Mnemonic Culture in the Renaissance
Monday Seminar: Julia Domínguez
Find out more »“That the Pilgrims May Be Spared Prison”: Extortionate Taxation and the Politics of Pilgrimage in Islamic Jerusalem (970-1071)
Medieval Studies Program has organized a lecture by Prof. Brendan Goldman (Univ. of Washington) on Thurs. 2/24/22 @ 5pm (CT) via Zoom.
Find out more »Histories Written in the Margins: Early Modern Scientific Print Cultures and Practices in the Work of Christopher Borri
Monday Seminar: James Barnes
Find out more »March 2022
Buying Homelands: American Indian Land, Consumption, and Identity
Monday Seminar: Kasey Keeler
Find out more »Crossroads of Ideas: What is Free Will?
The fifth installment of the Big Questions series continues as Duke University developmental psychologist Tamar Kushnir and UW-Madison philosopher Martha Gibson discuss one of the attributes that makes us human: free will.
Find out more »The Joy of the Yiddish Word
Monday Seminar: Sunny Yudkoff
Find out more »“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…
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