Name: Strange Intimacies: Changing perceptions of Afghanistan in the South Asian Imaginary, 1816-1930
Start: 2023-04-24T15:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-04-24T17:00:00-05:00
Location: University Club, Room 212

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 10

Seminars

Pan-African Lives, Racial Politics, and Belonging in Africa

Beyond Formal Institutions: Ethnic Politicization in sub-Saharan Africa — a Comparative Perspective

No Hands: An Archaeology of Emancipation

Imaging Auspiciousness in High Qing China

Building Paradise: The Creation of South Florida’s White, Middle-Class Retirement and Vacation Landscape

Left Behind: Veterans, Widows, and Orphans in the Era of the Crusades

Artistic Voices of the Columbian Exchange

Property and Power: Legal Performance and Legitimacy in the Reign of Edward III

Spinoza’s Moral Psychology: An Interpretation and Defense

The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil

Enemies, A Love Story: An Entangled History of Russia and America

‘One Whose Name was Writ in Wax:’ Reflections on the Medieval Reuse of Consular Diptychs

Jim Crow Flies

Literature of (With, By, For, and With Regard To) The Moriscos

Avatar: Disembodied Performance in Modern Japan

Orphan Lives, Tortured Cities, and Ecosocial Human Rights: Cultural Representations of Mining Terror in the Andes

New Model Politics: Armies, Regicide, and the English Revolution

Blood Relations: James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

The Temple of the Greedy Belly: Gluttony’s Tale

Strange Intimacies: Changing perceptions of Afghanistan in the South Asian Imaginary, 1816-1930