Past Events
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Jan 22Global Pop: Music, Race, Capital, History
University Club, Room 212
Spring 2013 Faculty Development Seminar: Ron Radano Music This faculty seminar proposes an alignment of music studies, global studies, and race studies as part of a new line of inquiry in the critical study of culture. It will place front and center this set of questions: Why did US black music become the …
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Dec 10Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: John W. Hall Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW–Madison Dishonorable Duty: The U.S. Army and the Removal of the Southeastern Indians will examine the American military’s role in the ethnic cleansing of the American Southeast in the 1830s and 1840s. By examining the host of Indian and white perceptions of …
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Dec 3Conflict in the Construction of Socialism: Public Health, Rapid Industrialization, and the Communist Modern in Czechoslovakia
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Bradley Moore William Coleman Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, UW–Madison This paper explores the development of public health services in communist Czechoslovakia, and in turn, the early attempts of state hygienists to improve the living and working environment, enhance the biophysical condition of the proletariat, and …
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Nov 30Education and Identity Among the Children of Minorities in the French Republic
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) This talk will be followed by a screening of Le gone du Chaâba. Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems faced by the youth of North African origin, …
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Nov 29Créer dans les marges. Azouz Begag: du gone au ministre, en passant par l’écrivain
French House
2012 Germaine Brée Lecture: Azouz Begag Writer, CNRS Researcher, Equal Opportunity Minister (2005-2007) Azouz Begag, an internationally acclaimed French writer, has published more than twenty books, most of which are subject to various problems faced by the youth of North African origin, caught between two cultures as well as between tradition and modernism: poverty, racism, …
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Nov 26The Rise of the Legend of the City of Kitezh in Russian Literature
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lisa Woodson Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2012-2013) Slavic Languages and Literature, UW–Madison Little known outside of Russia, the Legend of the City of Kitezh describes an ideal city hidden from the profane world around it. In some versions of the legend, the city became invisible to protect it from invading infidel armies; in …
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Nov 19Rethinking Early American Slavery from an International Perspective, 1450-1640
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: James H. Sweet Resident Fellow (2012-2013) History, UW–Madison Many are aware that the first “20. and odd” Africans arrived in British North America in 1619. Historians of early America often treat this episode as an exceptional moment in which British colonists, unfamiliar with chattel slavery, integrated culturally pliable “Atlantic Creole” Africans into …
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Nov 12The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Authors and the Literary Construction of New York City
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Jeffrey Steele Resident Fellow (2012-2013) English, UW–Madison My project explores the ways in which a generation of American writers conceptualized a new phenomenon, the emerging metropolis. While nature writing has been widely studied in recent years, we still lack a taxonomy of urban literary forms or a discussion of the most important …
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Nov 5A Peculiar Custom: Euro-African Marriage in an Atlantic Slave Trading Town
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Pernille Ipsen Gender & Women’s Studies/History, UW–Madison Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2012-2013) My project is a history of marriages between African women and European men who participated in the slave trade on the Gold Coast in the eighteenth century. I argue that these interracial marriages took place in a field …
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Nov 1Martial Arts: Cultural Interactions between the Civil and Military in Ming China
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140
2012 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Kathleen Ryor Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, Carleton College Scholarship on art collecting, art production and the broader world of elite cultural practices during the Ming dynasty has focused on the role that wealth and social status has played in the formation of taste and style, and …