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Applications for the 2013-2014 Great World Texts program due June 1.
2013-2014 Mellon Workshops in the Humanities announced.
The Center and WID are teaming up again to Hack the Humanities.
Mellon Workshop Accessing the Intersections expands the conversation about disability rights & representations.

Humanities NOW

Freedom’s Dystopia

by Brian Hamilton • Abraham Lincoln is praised for nothing if not his pragmatism. It is, many claim, what helped him become the Great Emancipator.…

About the Director, Sara Guyer.

High-school students across Wisconsin will explore Orhan Pamuk’s Snow as part of the 2013-2014 Great World Texts program.

Great World Texts in Wisconsin connects UW faculty with high-school teachers across the state, through the shared goal of encouraging high school and university students to read the classic world texts, both ancient and modern.

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Engaging the Humanities

new Center initiative

Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present

May 3 & 4

AW Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows

2013-2015: Democracy

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Exhibit at MCM

Iwanter Prize

for undergraduate scholarship

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities is a hub of creative inquiry and intellectual life, with events, seminars, and workshops held across campus. Offices are in the University Club on Library Mall.

With a grant from the AW Mellon Foundation, the Center is shaping new career paths for PhDs and helping faculty reach wider publics. “Engaging the Humanities” bolsters the connections between humanities research and civic life.

The 2011-2013 AW Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Biopolitics explores the mutually productive spheres of politics and the life sciences. A capstone conference will be held May 3 & 4.

Introducing the new fellows, selected for cutting-edge work on democracy, from Ancient Greece to the contemporary Middle East; the emergence of print to the rise of digitization; social movements (new and old) to liberalism (new and old); from any region, period, language, medium, or form.

A collection of original artwork by Maira Kalman from her beloved children’s book, running through August 2013. Exhibit space FREE and open to all.

The Iwanter Prize provides an unrestricted $2,000 award to one graduating senior who demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature.

Resources from the 6th Annual Conference on the Public Humanities

The Emancipations Lab uses a particular moment in history to animate comparative conversations about slavery and freedom globally.

This year long, in-depth, public series of events marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, launching important conversations about how slavery, its destruction, and its aftermath have shaped the modern world.