Past Events
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Sep 17War and Intimacy (Fall Schedule)
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Events: The Institute for Research in the Humanities is proud to sponsor a year-long series of lectures exploring the intimate bonds fostered by the experience of war in the twentieth century. September 17, 4:00 pm Atin Grossmann, Cooper Union: “Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the …
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Sep 17Distance and Intimacy: Close Encounters between Jews and Germans in the Aftermath of Catastrophe
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
2014 Burdick-Vary Lecture: Atina Grossmann Humanities & Social Sciences, Cooper Union (Part of the War and Intimacy Series. Convened by Lou Roberts, History, UW–Madison.) This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the George L. Mosse Program in History, and Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Chair in Russian. History
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Sep 15White-Collar Discipline and the Theology of Work
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Bethany Moreton Kingdon Fellow (2014-2015) History and Women’s Studies, University of Georgia The “revenge of God”—the broad failure of the secularization thesis after World War II—is in part the story of religious responses to the feminization of work; the commodification of reproductive labor; the restructuring of the household; and the growth of …
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Sep 8What’s the Value of Humanities Research?
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Guillermina De Ferrari, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Center for Visual Cultures, UW–Madison Sara Guyer, English, Center for the Humanities, Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies, UW–Madison Caroline Levine, English, UW–Madison David Loewenstein, English and the Humanities, Religious Studies, UW–Madison Daegan Miller, Institute for Research in the …
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Sep 2Representing Animals: Philosophy, History, Film
University Club, Room 212
Fall 2014 Faculty Development Seminar: Mario Ortiz-Robles English, UW–Madison Scientific, artistic, political, and philosophical descriptions of animals have accompanied human history from its beginnings, but it is only relatively recently that these various ways of representing animals have been troubled by the question of animal representativeness; that is, the rights of animals. Animal Studies, …
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May 5Last Seminar
University Club, Room 212
Final Panel Discussion of 2013-2014 Year: Speakers: Valerie Barske, History, UW-Stevens Point Ayelet Ben-Yishai, English, University of Haifa Christy Clark-Pujara, Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison Anne Duncan, Classics and Religious Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Joseph Marchal, Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Matthew Rarey, Art History, UW–Madison Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, History, UW–Madison Mary Louise …
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Apr 28Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918: The Fantastic Imagery of Harry Clarke
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Marguerite Helmers UW System Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW-Oshkosh In 1919, Sir John French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, brought together representatives from throughout Ireland to establish a national war memorial that would commemorate the 50,000 Irish dead from the First World War. By 1923, despite two wars on Irish soil, an assassination attempt …
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Apr 24Sushi, Otters, and Mermaids: Race at the Intersection of Food and Animal Studies
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L160
2014 Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities: Anne Cheng English and the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University What do sushi, food, race, and anthropology have to do with each other? Taking a scene of sushi eating in David Wong Louie’s short story “Bottles of Beaujolais” as a springboard into a larger …
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Apr 21“What I write I do not see”: The Place of Invisible Ink in English Civil War Correspondence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Karen Britland English, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Abraham Cowley’s poem, “Written in juice of lemon,” draws attention to the dangers of writing’s reception, likening a love poem written in secret ink to a beast that’s “burnt in sacrifice.” Taking Cowley’s poem as its starting point, this paper will discuss the use of …
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Apr 14Enchanted Modernities: Akha Inventions of Religion in Upper Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest China
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Micah Morton Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Anthropology, UW–Madison Much is being made of a dramatic resurgence in the political influence of religion the world over. Contrary to claims that modernization would lead to the disenchantment of social life, religion is being recognized as a continuing and increasingly significant domain of …