December

Lea Jacobs

Visualities Beyond Ocularcentrism

In a Few Wor(l)ds: The World Literature/s Conference

Anja Wanner

Heather Paxson

Walt Schalick

February

Humanities in the 21st Century

Jenny Saffran

Kelly Moore

Natalie Zemon Davis

March

Bill Cronon

Jean-Michel Ane

Catherine Malabou

3rd Annual Conference on Public Humanities

April

Frank Salomon

Steven Epstein

Steven Epstein

Things Fall Apart in Wisconsin Student Conference

Chris Abani

Laura Schwendinger

Elaine Pagels

Paola Antonelli

Calendar of Events

Our mission at the Center is to foster critical engagement with current and historical events and to debate the meaning, value, and function of our culture in all of its manifestations. This year we will hear from an outstanding roster of distinguished speakers and sponsor an array of exciting programs. We invite you to join us!

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  • December
    • Dec
    02
  • Lea Jacobs
  • Towards a History of Taste: American Film in the 1920s
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • December 2, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Dec
    04
  • Anja Wanner
  • The Rise and Fall of the Passive in Academic Writing
  • What is Human? Friday Lunches
  • December 4, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Dec
    10
  • Heather Paxson
  • Reverse-Engineering Terroir: Locating the Value of American Artisan Cheese
  • WIH Biopolitics Symposia
  • December 10, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Dec
    10
  • Walt Schalick
  • The Three R's in Action: Textual Medicine and Market Control in the Middle Ages
  • Mellon - Print Culture
  • December 10, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
    Feb
    12
  • Jenny Saffran
  • What is Human? Friday Lunches
  • February 12, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
    Feb
    18
  • Kelly Moore
  • Making a National Body: Neoliberalism and U.S. Federal Nutrition Policy
  • WIH Biopolitics Symposia
  • February 18, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
  • March
    • Mar
    03
  • Bill Cronon
  • The Riddle of Sustainability: Pondering the Environmental Past to Imagine the Human Future
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • March 3, 2010 @ 5:30 pm
    Mar
    10
  • Catherine Malabou
  • Is Plasticity a New name for Freedom?
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • March 10, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
  • April
    • Apr
    07
  • Frank Salomon
  • The Farther Shores of Literacy: New World Ethnography and the Question of What Writing Is
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • April 7, 2010 @ 5:30 pm
    Apr
    22
  • Elaine Pagels
  • Year of Humanities Chancellor's Lecture
  • Special Events
  • April 22, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
  • January
    • Jan
    30
  • Claire Wendland
  • Human Subjects: Bioethical Boundaries and Global Health
  • What is Human? Friday Lunches
  • January 30, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Feb
    17
  • Bernard Lightman
  • Print Culture and the Popularization of Evolution
  • Mellon - Print Culture
  • February 17, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
    Feb
    18
  • John D. Niles
  • War and the Containment of Violence in Anglo-Saxon England: A Problem in Mentalities
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • February 18, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
    Feb
    20
  • Lewis Leavitt
  • What is Human: Lessons from Childhood
  • What is Human? Friday Lunches
  • February 20, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
  • March
    • Mar
    01
  • March 1, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Mar
    04
  • Ronald Radano
  • Who Owns Black Music? Reflections on Cultural Property, Ownership, and Value
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • March 4, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Mar
    26
  • Cary Wolfe
  • Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context
  • Mellon - Posthuman
  • March 26, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Mar
    27
  • Beyond Human
  • What is Human? Symposium
  • What is Human?
  • March 27, 2009 @ 8:30 am
    Apr
    01
  • Richard Pevear
  • A Translator's Surprises
  • Special Events
  • April 1, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Apr
    02
  • Christoph Menke
  • The Self-Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights
  • Special Events
  • April 2, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
    Apr
    03
  • Jean Lee
  • The Art and Science of Remembering the American Revolution
  • Humanities Friday Lunches
  • April 3, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Apr
    06
  • Neil Safier
  • The Material Map: A Journey through the Worlds of the Carta de la Provincia de Quito (1750)
  • Mellon - Print Culture
  • April 6, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Apr
    06
  • K. Anthony Appiah
  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • April 6, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Apr
    10
  • Richard Goodkin
  • Inventing the Invention of Molière: The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart
  • Humanities Friday Lunches
  • April 10, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Apr
    16
  • Leo Bersani
  • Ardent Masturbation (Descartes, Freud, et al.)
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • April 16, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Apr
    21
  • Posthuman Futures
  • Emerging Work across the Disciplines
  • Mellon - Posthuman
  • April 21, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
    Apr
    24
  • Lorraine Daston
  • The Passions of the Unnatural
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • April 24, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Apr
    30
  • Martín Espada
  • Poetry of the Political Imagination: A Reading by Martín Espada
  • Special Events
  • April 30, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
  • May
    • May
    01
  • Michael Bernard-Donals
  • Deterritorialized Rhetoric, or, What Happens When We Forget We are Exiles
  • Humanities Friday Lunches
  • May 1, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Sep
    24
  • Tom Broman
  • Criticism and the Circulation of News: The Scholarly Press in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • Mellon - Print Culture
  • September 24, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
    Sep
    24
  • Michael Pollan
  • In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • September 24, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
    Oct
    02
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Human Nature, Human Nurture, and the Mirage of a Space between the Two
  • Humanities Without Boundaries
  • October 2, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Oct
    06
  • Jennifer A. González
  • Race as Ocularcentrism
  • Visualities beyond Ocularcentrism
  • October 6, 2009 @ 10:30 am
    Oct
    09
  • Christopher Baswell
  • Kings and Cripples: Royal and Eccentric Bodies in Medieval England
  • Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies
  • October 9, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Oct
    09
  • Jonah Lehrer
  • From Marshmallows to Metacognition: What Can Science Teach Us About Decision-Making?
  • Special Events
  • October 9, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Oct
    23
  • Neil Kodesh
  • Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, East Africa
  • Humanities Friday Lunches
  • October 23, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Oct
    28
  • David O. Morgan
  • Iran's Mongol Experience
  • Focus on the Humanities
  • October 28, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Oct
    29
  • Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
  • Performative Properties: Wild Animals, Intellectual Property, and the Museum
  • Mellon - Print Culture
  • October 29, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
    Nov
    13
  • Robert Streiffer
  • Human/Animal Chimeras: Being Human, Being Animal, and Everything in Between
  • Humanities Friday Lunches
  • November 13, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Nov
    16
  • Didier Fassin
  • Subjectivity without subject?: The Aporia of Bearing Witness to Violence in Palestine
  • WIH Biopolitics Symposia
  • November 16, 2009 @ 4:00 pm