Past Events
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Nov 4Sovereignty, History, and Papal Monarchy: Political Theory in the Age of Innocent IV
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Brett Whalen Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) History, UNC-Chapel Hill A former canon lawyer, Pope Innocent IV (1243-1254) declared that all peoples—rulers and the ruled, believers and non-believers—came under the Roman Church’s spiritual and ultimately temporal jurisdiction due to the pope’s status as the successor to Saint Peter and, through that apostle, to Jesus …
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Oct 31Poetics of Resistance: Women Between Aesthetics and Politics
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
The 2013 Germaine Brée International Symposium: Speakers: Sahar Elmougy, Cairo University Shereen Abouelnaga, Cairo University Souad Halila, University of Tunisia May Telmissany, University of Ottawa Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin–Madison Increasing confrontations with totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa have prompted women to find new ways to cope with political expression …
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Oct 28Aquilombando: Rebellious Landscapes and Colonial Visuality
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Matthew Francis Rarey Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Art History, UW–Madison Quilombos – communities of self-emancipated or fugitive slaves – were ubiquitous accompaniments to Brazil’s history of plantation slavery. Nearly every quilombo that existed in Brazil during the colonial period met its end through invasion and razing at the hands of the Portuguese. …
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Oct 21The Husband’s Message and Early English EpistolarityThe Husband’s Message and Early English Epistolarity
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jordan Zweck Resident Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW–Madison What makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is that it is not merely about letters but about what I am calling epistolary acts, the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts, attempting to adapt a Latin epistolary tradition to Germanic or Anglo-Saxon …
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Oct 21A Conversation with G. Willow Wilson
University Club, Room 212
G. Willow Wilson Author and journalist G. Willow Wilson is the acclaimed author of graphic novels and comics published by Vertigo, Marvel, and D.C. Comics. She spent her early and mid-twenties living in Egypt and working as a journalist. Her articles about the Middle East and modern Islam have appeared in the New York …
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Oct 17Was There a Reformation in India?
Concourse Hotel, Senate Room AB
2013 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago Munis Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles Brendan LaRocque, Carleton College Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University Azfar Moin, Southern Methodist University Ramya Sreenivasan, University of Pennsylvania Scholars have begun to recognize that the early modern transformations of religion in India …
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Oct 14The Moth-Eaten Page: Animals and Language in Angela Rawlings’s Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Sarah Groeneveld Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) English, UW–Madison Angela Rawlings’s experimental long-poem Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists evokes an insect collector’s dream in which the forms of moths and butterflies become confused with the form of the text itself. While exploring this connection between bodily and literary form, Rawlings asks questions about the …
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Oct 7Thinking about Early Jewish Rewriting of Scripture
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Molly Zahn Kingdon Fellow (2013-2014) Religious Studies, University of Kansas For most of Jewish and Christian history, “interpretation” has been regarded as secondary to “scripture,” both chronologically and in terms of authority. In Judaism prior to approximately 100 CE, however, interpretation was not kept separate from scripture. Instead, interpretation largely took place …
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Sep 30Zazous in Zoot Suits: Race, Jazz, and Resistance in Occupied France, 1940-1944
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kelly Jakes Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Communication Arts, UW–Madison Derived from my dissertation project on popular music and resistance in German-Occupied France, this presentation investigates how upper-middle class Parisian youth, known as “zazous,” mobilized jazz music to fashion a subversive identity that expressed their refusal to serve as national scapegoats and their …
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Sep 25Five Ways to Look at a Corpse: The Dead in Normandy, 1944
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2013 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Lecture: Mary Louise Roberts Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison We prefer to think of war as producing heroes, not corpses. Perhaps for this reason, military historians have rarely focused on the dead. In the Normandy invasion of 1944, the …