Past Events
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Apr 11Grieving Alone, Grieving Together: Psychological and Social Mourning in Film
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2014 Burdick-Vary Symposium Event: The phenomena of individual mourning and collective mourning have both attracted a good deal of critical attention in literature and film studies, but what are the similarities and differences that link and separate these two very different forms of bereavement? The central goal of this conference will be to examine …
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Apr 7Signs of Disquiet — Portuguese Cultural Politics in the 1980s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Ellen Sapega Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison This talk will discuss a series of political and cultural events celebrating the life and work of modernist poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) that took place in Lisbon, Portugal, during the 1980s. During this decade, Portugal completed a transition from dictatorship to democracy that …
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Mar 31A Moral Economy of Curative Violence
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Eunjung Kim Gender and Women’s Studies, UW–Madison Resident Fellow (2013-2014) Is cure the end of disability? This presentation examines the transactional aspect of cure, imagined in a way involving power, resources, and losses. In this transaction, violence plays an important role in reshaping disability. The political dynamics of cure are clearly …
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Mar 24Biblical Behind/Corinthian Citation: Queering Figures of Androgyny and Female Masculinity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Joseph Marchal Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) Religious Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies, Ball State University Paul’s letters have often been cited as straightforwardly dictating both heteronormativity and gender conformity, yet the figures deployed within these texts indicate still other potential responses and uses. Thus, this project demonstrates how queer modes within biblical …
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Mar 13The ‘New’ Sappho: A Symposium
University Club, Room 212
2014 Symposium: Join us for a discussion facilitated by Patricia Rosenmeyer (Classics, UW–Madison) of two newly discovered Sappho papyri. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
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Mar 10Piecemeal Emancipation and Black Freedom in Rhode Island, 1770-1842
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Christy Clark-Pujara Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2013-2014) Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison During the Revolutionary period, enslaved people throughout British North America used the rhetoric of freedom and the chaos of war to challenge their enslavement. In Rhode Island, the destruction of slavery spanned seven decades; it began with an increase in slave …
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Mar 5Re-emerging Superpowers: Turkey, Iran, India, and China in the 21st Century
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2014 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Lecture: André Wink Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison Turkey, Iran, India, and China are historical superpowers. All four were dramatically eclipsed by European imperialism and industrial progress in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Today, in the early years of …
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Mar 3Patronage and Reception of Medieval Churches in 14th-Century Cyprus
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Justine Andrews Solmsen Fellow (2013-2014) Art and Art History, University of New Mexico The modern image of the country of Cyprus is one that is fraught with banking crises, communities divided, and war. While war was ever-present in medieval Cyprus, the image of that island kingdom was drastically different. The intervening centuries …
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Feb 24The American Ways of Wisdom and Wonder: Seeking the Good Life in the 20th-Century United States
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Resident Fellow (2013-2014) History, UW–Madison What would the writing of American intellectual history look like if it sought to capture the longing for wisdom and wonder shaping so much of its intellectual life? This is the question animating my book project on the history of “philosophy” (the love of wisdom) …
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Feb 17Half Century Miyamori: Performing Peace in Postwar Okinawa
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Valerie Barske UW System Fellow (2013-2014) History, UW-Stevens Point On June 30, 1959, a U.S. military jet crashed into Miyamori Elementary School killing 12 students, 6 citizens, and injuring 200 others in Okinawa, Japan. American sources including Time characterized the pilot’s actions as heroic, calling this event one of few “accidents” to …