Past Events
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Nov 16At the Table of the Other: Eating and Ethics in Early Modern England
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar David B. Goldstein Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) English, York University This paper explores the meanings and functions of food in early modern English culture, arguing that for the Renaissance writer, the rhetoric of eating functions preeminently as a language of ethics that links or collapses the treatment of the food on one’s plate …
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Nov 9National Colors: Race, Nation, and the Census in Latin America
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mara Loveman Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Sociology, UW–Madison Why do some states classify their populations by race in censuses while other states do not? What purpose have race queries on census forms served historically, and what purposes do they serve today? In this talk, Professor Loveman will discuss her research on the practice …
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Nov 2The Fullness of Time: Tocqueville and the Democratic Moment
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Richard Avramenko Resident Fellow (2009-2010) Political Science, UW–Madison This paper examines the concept of time in Tocqueville’s thought through the lens of the philosophy of internal time-consciousness. While Tocqueville himself offers no systematic analysis of time consciousness, his descriptive observations present a rich, comparative account. Tocqueville’s way of thinking, it will be …
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Oct 26“Martial Acts Virtuously Enacted by Women”: Gender and Violence in the French Wars of Religion
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Brian Sandberg History, Northern Illinois University Solmsen Fellow (2009-2010) This paper concerns the gendered nature of violence and political culture in early modern French history. Religious identities and animosities sharply divided France along confessional (or sectarian) boundaries between a Catholic majority and Calvinist minority in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth …
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Oct 19Roomscape: Reading Space in the British Museum
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Susan David Bernstein Resident Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW–Madison This talk examines a specific site — the Reading Room of the British Museum — as a space of imaginative and historically generative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian and early twentieth-century London. Using archival documents, spatial theories, …
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Oct 12Communist Baiting and the Politics of National Belonging
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Cindy I-Fen Cheng Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) History; Asian American Studies, UW–Madison Cindy I-Fen Cheng is an assistant professor in the Department of History and the Program in Asian American Studies at UW–Madison. Her research and teaching interest include Asian American history and culture, cold war culture, and urban studies. …
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Oct 5Post-Race Pop? Interrogating Strategies for Ethnic Diversity in Millennial Media Culture
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mary Beltrán Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow (2009-2010) Communication Arts and Chicana/o & Latino/a Studies, UW–Madison This paper will focus on ethnic representation in U.S. television and media culture with respect to claims that we have entered an era of “color-blind” or “post-racial” representation, particularly as media producers aim to appeal to …
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Sep 28The Ambassador’s Household: Sir Henry Wotton, Domesticity, and Early Modern Diplomatic Writing
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar: Mark Netzloff UW System Fellow (2009-2010) English, UW-Milwaukee Netzloff’s paper examines the social and material life of the early modern embassy. In his discussion of the career and correspondence of Sir Henry Wotton, England’s resident ambassador in Venice from 1603-1621, he focuses not on the diplomatic content but, instead, on the embassy …
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Sep 21Autonomy in Relation
University Club, Room 212
Monday Seminar Andrea Westlund UW System Fellow (2009-2010) Philosophy, UW-Milwaukee In recent years feminist philosophers have offered trenchant critiques of traditional, individualistic ideals of autonomy and have developed alternative relational conceptions that highlight social dimensions of agency and the self. This work has deepened and enriched philosophical thought about the conditions of individual agency …
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