Past Events
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Apr 23Divine Touch and Relicization within Narrative, Hagiographical, and Visual Representations from the Twelfth through the Fifteenth Centuries
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Stephanie Grace Petinos Kingdon Fellow (2017-2018) French, Hunter College Divine Touch and Relicization within Narrative, Hagiographical, and Visual Representations from the Twelfth through the Fifteenth Centuries is an interdisciplinary investigation of specific moments in various Old French, Middle English, hagiographical, and visual representations, in which individuals—humans, non-human animals, and objects—are divinely …
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Apr 16Mapping Mediterranean Geographies: Geographic and Cartographic Encounters between the Islamic World and Europe, c. 1150-1600
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jeremy Ledger Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) History, University of Michigan Mapping Mediterranean Geographies is a study of the cultural encounter between Muslim and Christian inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin between the twelfth and sixteenth century. It approaches this subject from the vantage point of the circulation, transmission, and reception of geographical knowledge between …
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Apr 9Hiroshima / Vietnam / Tule Lake: Asian American Poetry and Diaspora
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Timothy Yu Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2017-2018) English; Asian American Studies, UW–Madison The concept of diaspora has become increasingly prominent in scholarly discussions of race, ethnicity, and migration. Its impact has been especially pronounced in Asian American studies, in which diasporic frameworks have been used to reject older models of Asian …
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Apr 2The Sense of a Beginning: Starting a History of Biology
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lynn K. Nyhart Senior Fellow (2014-2018) Vilas-Bablitch-Kelch Distinguished Achievement Professor of History of Science; History, UW–Madison In 1802, the word “Biologie” appeared for the first time, in French and German, to characterize a general science of life. But what does its appearance signify? Michel Foucault’s claim that it signaled part of a …
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Mar 19The Unruly Tongue: Speech and Violence in Medieval Italy
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Melissa Vise Solmsen Fellow (2017-2018) Italian Studies, New York University What can words do? Or for the historian, what could words do in cultures past? This talk focuses on the northern cities of medieval Italy, the nascent self-governing republics that arose in the midst of encroaching monarchic and seigniorial rule. The …
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Mar 16The Future of the Open-Stack Standing Collections of the Memorial and Kohler Art Libraries
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Join representatives of the Faculty Libraries Working Group (FLWG) for a panel presentation and discussion regarding the planned destruction of a portion of the open-stack collections in the Memorial Library and the Kohler Art Library. Presentation: Ullrich Langer and Lea Jacobs Panelists: David Bordwell, Florence Hsia, Anne Vila, Thomas E. A. Dale, and …
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Mar 12Historiopoetics in Early Modern Spain: Representing the Prince of Wales’ Visit to Madrid (1623)
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kelsey Ihinger Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2017-2018) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison In 1623, Charles, Prince of Wales, made an unprecedented visit to Spain. He traveled there under a false name and in disguise with the company of only the Duke of Buckingham and two servants. His goal was to win the hand of …
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Mar 5Words that Hide: Rendering the Untranslatable Across the Globe
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Tomislav Longinović Senior Fellow (2013-2018) German, Nordic, and Slavic, UW–Madison As global subjectivity becomes increasingly dominated by communication across languages and cultures, as well as between geographical and virtual spaces, the universe emerging among the interacting economies is characterized by processes of translation that alter the simplified imaginary perceptions of “others” that …
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Mar 2Color: Pixels, Palettes, and Perception
Wisconsin Institute for Discover, DeLuca Forum
Burdick-Vary Symposium Theresa Kelley IRH Senior Fellow; English, UW–Madison (as well as members of the Symposium Organizing Committee) This symposium proposes to bring together artists, scientists and scholars across several disciplines for whom color matters in quite different registers, across the globe and across modernity. From the Early Modern era to the present, color …
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Feb 26Radical Dancers: The Rise of Pantomime and the End of Drama in Antiquity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mali Skotheim Solmen Fellow (2017-2018) Classics, Princeton University Pantomime, first attested under Augustus, transformed the traditionally staged and acted drama that audiences were familiar with into an exciting new form, a solo, masked, mimetic dance. My project considers the cultural and intellectual impact of this controversial art form, from its origins in …