Institute fellows present their work in weekly seminars for IRH fellows and other interested faculty and students at UW-Madison during the academic year. Seminars take place every Monday from 3:30-5:00pm with a follow-up discussion on Tuesday from 12:00-1:15pm. Seminars are held in room 212 of the University Club Building unless stated otherwise.
Mon
25
Threatening Creativity
January 25 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
01
Qur’an and Canon: The Contours of Scripture at the End of Antiquity
February 1 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
08
Curating the Future in Seneca’s “Epistulae Morales”
February 8 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
15
We Stayed: Agriculture, Activism, and the Black Southern Rural Families Who Fought to Keep the Land
February 15 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
22
Plant-Based Art: Indoor Gardening and the British Aesthetic Movement
February 22 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
01
“Pas de Deux”: Cold War Ballet Exchanges and Franco-Soviet Cultural Interaction, 1953-1975
March 1 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
08
How Images Mean: an Introduction to Iconographic Theory
March 8 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
15
Trusting Journalists: How Identities and Structures Matter in the Newswork of a Polarized, Multicultural World
March 15 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
22
Mar
29
Remapping Lost Geographies: “Pearl Harbor”, Kahoʻolawe, and Spaces of Indigenous (Re)Emergence
March 29 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
05
Apr
12
The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship
April 12 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
19
The Politics of Ainu Cultural Production within the Japanese Empire, 1886-1937
April 19 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
26
Writing for Peace in Colombia: A Literacy Ethnography
April 26 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm