Past Events
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Nov 14Anglo-Saxon Maternal Bodies
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Dana Oswald UW System Fellow (2016-2017) English, UW-Parkside What can we know about women’s bodies when the only people writing about them were men, and those men were generally monks? In a culture that is largely silent about the lives and bodies of women, how can we understand their embodied experiences of …
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Nov 7Risky Bodies: Quantification, Fungibility, and Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Pablo Gómez Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Department of Medical History and Bioethics; History of Science, UW–Madison How did early modern governments, and slave traders’ and their financiers’ quantify disease and risk? How did they develop tools that allowed them to trade and invest in human corporeality and its afflictions? In this presentation, coming …
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Oct 31Playing with Buttons: Liberal Subjects at the Binary Switch
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jason Puskar UW System Fellow (2016-2017) English, UW-Milwaukee The pushbutton is one of the simplest mechanical interfaces in the modern world, and one of the most prevalent. But what accounts for its enormous appeal, and what kinds of effects does it have on the people who use it? In this talk, Jason …
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Oct 24“Signing in the Seraglio”: Global Disability in European Spatial Representations of the Ottoman Court
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Elizabeth Bearden English, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2016-2017) Drawn from the fourth chapter of her current book project, Monstrous Kinds: Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability, this talk analyzes European representations of the dwarfs, mutes, and eunuchs who served the Ottoman sultans. Accounts of these boon companions emphasize their relative …
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Oct 19Fantasy as Microaggression?: Racial Caricature, Kawaii-style, and the Anthropomorphic Asian
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2016 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Leslie Bow Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Mark and Elisabeth Eccles Professor of English and Asian American Studies, UW–Madison How does the mundane object serve as a catalyst for exploring the relationship between aesthetics and political injury? Is race always bound to the circulation of negative …
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Oct 17How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: An Evening with Writer Charles Yu
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
2016 Burdick-Vary Event: Charles Yu Author and Screenwriter What do cowboy robots, hapless yeomen, time machine repairmen, and third class superheroes have in common? They all issue from the imagination of Charles Yu. Charles Yu is the author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was named one of the best books of …
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Oct 17Gendered Dynamics in Hmong American New Media Cultures
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lori Lopez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2016-2017) Communication Arts, UW–Madison For over 260,000 Hmong Americans living in the U.S., mobile media now play a key role in maintaining connections and identities. Yet what role are Hmong women playing in shaping the use of these digital media technologies? How are Hmong women …
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Oct 10Queer Velocities: Untimely Matter in Racine’s Andromaque
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Row Solmsen Fellow (2016-2017) Romance Studies, Boston University From “one’s ticking biological clock” to “grow up, be a man,” sex and gender norms are often seamlessly intertwined with temporality in our modern world. But did time always impact sexuality the same way? I examine a mid-seventeenth-century moment in France when …
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Oct 10Book Publishing in the Humanities of Today
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Publication Workshop Ken Wissoker Editorial Director, Duke University Press PLEASE NOTE: this workshop is open to graduate students, faculty, and academic staff. Registration is required: rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu. The reservation deadline is 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 5. Join us for a discussion of the state of academic publishing in the humanities and the process of working …
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Oct 7Madison’s Asian American Media Spotlight
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Burdick-Vary Events, Organized by Dr. Lori Kido Lopez: Join us for a weekend celebrating brand new Asian American documentaries and filmmakers, brought to you by the Asian American Studies Program at UW–Madison. All films are free, open to the public, and followed by Q&A. Organized by Q&A Leaders: Jaeki Cho; Pamela Tom; Tad Nakamura; …