Past Events
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Oct 4Ideology and Its Ethics: Maria Dąbrowska’s Jewish (and Polish) Problem
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Rachel Feldhay Brenner Senior Fellow (2008-2013) Hebrew Studies, UW–Madison The diaries of Maria Dąbrowska (1889-1965), a prominent Polish writer and socialist left a troubling testimony of her perception of the Polish Jews, especially in the time of the Holocaust. Her insensitivity to the Jewish extermination needs to be understood in the context …
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Sep 27Riots in Ancient Rome
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Gregory Aldrete Solmsen Fellow (2010-2011) Humanistic Studies (Classics), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay The inhabitants of ancient Rome appear to have been a riotous lot with at least 154 known episodes of unruly collective behavior between 200 BC and AD 375. As a result, Rome has often been characterized as a lawless, violent …
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Sep 20The Senses in Understandings of Art: A “Sensorium” of Yoruba Peoples
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Henry Drewal Senior Fellow (2010-2014) Art History and Afro-American Studies, UW–Madison This paper will explore how artists and audiences use the senses to create and respond to the arts using an approach that I call sensiotics. While the paper focuses on the arts of Yoruba peoples in West Africa and their cultural …
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Sep 16Lunch and Workshop for Institute Dissertation Fellows
University Club, Room 212
Panel Discussion and Workshop
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Sep 13Language Matters: Multilingualism, Translation, and Disciplinary Discourses in the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
Panel Discussion
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May 3The Making of a Philosopher-Martyr
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Costica Bradatan Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, Texas Tech University This paper explores the “conditions of possibility” of philosophical martyrdom. Becoming a martyr can be an extremely difficult process as dying is only half of the job. It is only through a complex social, political and cultural process that a dead body becomes …
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Apr 26The City and its Fragments: Colonial Bombay, 1854-1918
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Preeti Chopra Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Languages and Cultures of Asia, UW–Madison This paper is a study of the role of native communities in the physical transformation of colonial Bombay. Exploring the impact of encounters between different groups, the paper shows that colonial Bombay was not simply the result of ideas emanating from …
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Apr 23Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowing: A Decolonial View on the Humanities
Pyle Center
2010 Hilldale Lecture: Walter Mignolo Spanish, Duke University
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Apr 212010 Workshop on Publication Strategies in the Humanities
University Club, Room 212
Workshop and Panel Discussion: Susan Stanford Friedman, Director, Institute for Research in the Humanities and Co-Editor of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Oxford University Press Journal, 2007 -Today. Gwen Walker, Acquisitions Editor, University of Wisconsin Press David Morgan, Senior Fellow, Professor of History, Editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1987-1999; Series Editor, Cambridge …
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Apr 19Parallel and Interconnected Developments in the Early Modern World
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: André Wink Senior Fellow (2009-2013) History, UW–Madison By today’s standard, early modernization does not always look like sweeping change. Yet there is growing consensus among historians that sixteenth-century developments in Europe – demographic expansion, the growth of territorial states and bureaucracies, commercialization, and religious reformations – have had significant parallels in at …