Past Events
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Sep 10What’s Your “Archive”? Formation, Collection, and Evidence across the Humanities
University Club, Banquet Hall (lower level)
Panel Discussion: Speakers: Linda Gordon, History, New York University Theresa M. Kelley, English, UW–Madison Vinay Dharwadker, Languages and Cultures of Asia/English, UW–Madison Michele Hilmes, Communication Arts, UW–Madison Patricia Rosenmeyer, Classics and Center for Jewish Studies, UW–Madison Historians often describe the evidentiary basis of their work as fundamentally archival, whether drawing on collections of documents …
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Sep 4Psychoanalysis and Culture
University Club, Room 212
Fall 2012 Faculty Development Seminar: Tomislav Longinović Slavic and Comparative Literature This faculty seminar is imagined as a survey of the engagement between psychoanalytic theory and the field of humanities broadly conceived. Starting with the basic assumptions of psychoanalysis regarding the unconscious, repression, trauma and sexuality, we will trace the development of these …
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May 7REPRISE: How? Research Methods in the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
Closing Panel Discussion: Chair: Craig Werner, Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison Panelists: Caroline Boswell, Humanistic Studies and European History, UW-Green Bay Esther Eidinow, Ancient Greek History, University of Nottingham Richard Goodkin, French and Italian, UW–Madison Erin Lambert, History, UW–Madison Mary Louise Roberts, History, UW–Madison The Institute for Research in the Humanities (IRH) will end its …
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Apr 30Of Lies and Bizarre Tales: Ctesias and the Persian Empire
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Matthew Waters UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Classics and Ancient History, UW-Eau Claire The Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550-330 BC) at its height stretched from the Danube to the Indus and from the Himalayas to the Sahara. The Greek Ctesias served as a doctor to the Persian king Artaxerxes II (reigned 404-358 BC) …
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Apr 26Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Room 1255
2012 Burdick-Vary Conference: The symposium aims to bring into close systematic interaction three composite entities that traditionally are the objects of different study areas and therefore are studied together most often casually or rarely: contemporary African cultural and social forms and practices, the postcolonial African political state, and the larger modern context that …
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Apr 23Racial Cannibalism: Carmen Miranda and the Performance of White ‘Negritude’ on the Brazilian Stage of the 1930s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kathryn Sanchez Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2011-2012) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison This project explores race and its representation in the performing arts as central to the modern concept of Brazilianness in the decades following the pivotal week of Modern Art held in São Paulo, Brazil in 1922. In this presentation I …
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Apr 16Gulf Coast Slave Smuggling: The Clandestine Slave Trade, circa 1830s-1850s
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Lee Willis UW System Fellow (2011-2012) History, UW-Stevens Point In 1808, Congress forbade the importation of foreign slaves into the United States and the interstate (or domestic) slave trade became the only legal method of buying and selling human chattel before the Civil War. Yet historians believe that traders continually violated the …
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Apr 9Locating Dissent: Power and Resistance in Interregnum England
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Caroline Boswell UW System Fellow (2011-2012) Humanistic Studies and European History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay This project investigates how English men and women negotiated the social, cultural, and political changes that accompanied devastating civil wars and the execution of their king. Moving away from the dichotomy that classifies people’s reactions as either …
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Mar 26Documenting the Anthropocene: Historical Reflections on Global Change
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: “International Perspectives on the Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences”: Libby Robin Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University The idea of the Anthropocene, the geological era where the actions of people have affected every biophysical system on earth, poses a particular challenge to the humanities. It is an idea coming …
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Mar 26Bulls, Apes, Genes and Clouds: New Ethics of Life in Contemporary Spain
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Katarzyna Olga Beilin Resident Fellow (2011-2012) Spanish and Portuguese, UW–Madison The debates on bullfighting, which culminated in the abolition of tauromaquia in Catalonia in 2011, have reopened reflections on Spanish national identity. Those who see bullfighting as a symbolic enactment of Spanish cultural essence, conceive of a Spaniard as violently opposed to …