Past Events
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Apr 12The Chinese Must Go: Immigration, Deportation, and Violence in the 19th-Century American West
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Beth Lew-Williams ACLS Fellow Resident (2009-2010) History, Stanford University This project examines the dramatic and formative moment in American history when the federal government made its first major effort to control the movement of people across its borders—and failed. The result was America’s first illegal immigrants and a grassroots uprising against them. …
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Apr 9The Mongol Empire and its World
Lowell Center
2010 Burdick-Vary Symposium: Speakers: David Morgan Peter Jackson Timothy May Uli Schamiloglu Anne Broadbridge Morris Rossabi Reuven Amitai Angus Stewart Andre Wink Schedule: FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 9:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin–Madison Welcome 9:15-10:00 a.m. David Morgan, University of Wisconsin–Madison “Persian and Non-Persian Historical Writing in the Mongol Empire” 10:00-11:00 a.m. Peter Jackson, …
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Apr 5Drinking Alfresco: The Erotics of the Pastoral Sympotic Mode
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kristen Ehrhardt Robert J. Reinhold Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) Classics, UW–Madison The institution of private drinking parties, symposia, played an important part in the cultural and political lives of Greek men in the archaic and classical periods, to the extent that the symposium itself became a common motif in literature and art. Later …
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Apr 5Sentimental Literature: Directing the Flows of Sympathy in Enlightenment and Francophone Texts
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Stephanie Spadaro Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) French and Italian, UW–Madison In this presentation, I will examine the ways that certain philosophical notions of sympathy and various literary portrayals of sympathy define the human in eighteenth-century French slave narratives and contemporary Caribbean novels. I will also discuss methodological questions raised in my comparison …
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Mar 22Making Sense of Bodies: Expert Imaginations and Unsafe Motherhood in Malawi
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Claire Wendland Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Departments of Anthropology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Medical History and Bioethics, UW–Madison In one of the poorest countries in a poor region of the world, Malawian women, their families, and those who are charged with their care in pregnancy and labor face an unexplained increase in maternal …
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Mar 22Array
Lunch Workshop/Seminar Niklaus Largier German, University of California-Berkeley Niklaus Largier will also give a lecture on “Bodies in Prayer: Sense, Sensation, and the Art of Desire” on Monday, March 22, 5:30pm, in 7191 Helen C. White Hall. Niklaus Largier is currently Chair of the German Department at the University of California-Berkeley. His recent …
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Mar 19Early Modern Humanism and the Humanities
Memorial Union
Center for Early Modern Studies Conference Friday, March 19, 2010 (All day) to Saturday, March 20, 2010 (All day). This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for Early Modern Studies.
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Mar 15The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination, 1905-1945
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Julia Mickenberg Honorary Fellow (2009-2010) American Studies, University of Texas at Austin This presentation will offer an overview of a book-in-progress that seeks to understand Russia’s place in the imagination and self-fashioning of financially independent, sexually liberated, and socially conscious American women, among them well-known suffragists, socialists, journalists, educators, authors, reformers, and …
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Mar 8Queer Writing Matters: Literary Performativity in Contemporary Queer Women’s Writing in French
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kristina Kosnick Germaine Brée Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) French and Italian, UW–Madison This presentation will examine recent trends in queer-centered (French) literary criticism. It will also break with these trends both by foregrounding the politico-literary contributions of contemporary women writers and by advocating a critical approach that values the performative force of literary …
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Mar 8Imperial India on Trial: Crime, Punishment, and Colonialism, 1880-1940
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Kate Merz Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW–Madison In the last decades of the British Raj, anti-colonial writers staged scenes of crime and punishment, trial and testimony, in order to interrogate the legitimacy of imperialism itself. This project examines questions of imperial justice in British and Indian writers of the early twentieth …