Past Events
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Oct 14The Troubled History of Family and Slavery in New England
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Gloria Whiting
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Oct 7Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’: Arabic/Islamic Philosophy’s Roles in the Development of the Philosophy and Theology of Thomas Aquinas
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Richard C. Taylor
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Oct 4Workshop: Confrontation and Dialogue: Issues of Race and Racism in Medieval Studies
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room 150 (Hagen Room-Department of Art History)
2019 Hilldale Workshop: William Chester Jordan
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Oct 3‘Now Avenge Us’: Jewish Martyrdom and the First Crusade
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2019 Hilldale Lecture: William Chester Jordan Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University The lecture sketches out the background to the call for the First Crusade, narrates a few of the major events as context for the main story of the lecture, and then concentrates on what has been and can be learned from the …
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Oct 3American Boccaccio Association 4th Triennial Conference
Pyle Center
Full Program Available HERE. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies Department, the Brittingham Foundation, Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Maison Libraries, the Medieval Studies Program, the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science, and the Instituto …
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Sep 30The Ephrata Cloister and Rituals of Asceticism in Atlantic World Protestantism
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Timothy Wright
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Sep 23The Washington Consensus: Journalism and the Making of the Postwar World Order
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kathryn McGarr
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Sep 16Diversity in Imperial Rome: Contexts, Questions, Comparisons
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Nandini B. Pandey
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Sep 9A Ho-Chunk History of Citizenship
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Monday Seminar: Stephen Kantrowitz
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Apr 29Peace and Justice. Remonstrances as a Means of Negotiation and Resistance during the French Civil Wars (1550-1600)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Paul-Alexis Mellet Solmsen Fellow (2018-2019) History, University of Geneva; Institute for the History of Reformation Remonstrances were texts printed in Europe during the civil wars (1550-1650). They are unique in that they served simultaneously as a means of governance, instruments of negotiation, and avenues of resistance. They enabled continuous dialog during the …