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
19
“Slayn in childhood”: Robert of Bury St Edmunds and the Cult of the Holy Family
October 19 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mon
26
Japanese Kitsch: A Cultural Study in Three Towers
October 26 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Nov
02
Poetic Injustice: The Fight of Baroque Verse in 20th-Century Spain
November 2 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Nov
09
Baroque Genres: Theorizing the Early Modern Spanish Picaresque through Miguel de Cervantes
November 9 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Nov
16
Images for the King: Art, Science, and Power in Louis XIV’s France
November 16 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Nov
30
Consular Powers: Citizenship and Polishness on the World Stage, 1900-1950
November 30 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Dec
07
Luminescence: Insect Knowledges, Power, and the Literary: 1705-1814
December 7 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Dec
14
A Feminist Economic History of the Ancient Greek World
December 14 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Jan
25
The Tragedy of the Imperial Republic: Narrative, Exceptionalism, and the Fate of Republican Self-Rule
January 25, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
01
Qur’an and Canon: The Contours of Scripture at the End of Antiquity
February 1, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
08
Curating the Future in Seneca’s “Epistulae Morales”
February 8, 2021 @ 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, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Feb
22
Plant-Based Art: Indoor Gardening and the British Aesthetic Movement
February 22, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
01
“Pas de Deux”: Cold War Ballet Exchanges and Franco-Soviet Cultural Interaction, 1953-1975
March 1, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
08
How Images Mean: an Introduction to Iconographic Theory
March 8, 2021 @ 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, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Mar
22
A Transgender Turn in Victorian Studies: Reconceptualizing Gender Identities in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
March 22, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
05
Failed Globalists: Economic Development, Decolonization, and the Demise of European Political Hegemony, 1973–2008
April 5, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
12
The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship
April 12, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
19
The Politics of Ainu Cultural Production within the Japanese Empire, 1886-1937
April 19, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Apr
26
Writing for Peace in Colombia: A Literacy Ethnography
April 26, 2021 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm