Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
This workshop, in partnership with the UW-Madison Writing Center, will focus on writing cover letters for job positions in the public humanities. Part 2 will be an opportunity for students to bring their own draft …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Disruptive Ecologies: African Literature and the Environmental Humanities This Friday Lunch talk will examine some of the ways in which African literatures have interacted with, and even prefigured, trends and turns in ecocriticism specifically and …
Elvehjem Building, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Available Soon) @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Family Ties: An Entangled History of Russia, America, and Germany in the 20th Century Francine Hirsch is the Alice D. Mortenson/Petrovich Distinguished Chair of Russian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she teaches courses …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
White Innocents: Racial Violence, Law Enforcement, and Culpability in U.S. History Racist violence by white Americans was central to the making of the modern United States. And yet, the institutions charged with protecting people from …
Elvehjem Building, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Available Soon) @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
“So Ruff, So Tuff”: Legacies of Black Midwestern Art and Struggle Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood emerges from her current book project, Between the River and the Railroad Tracks, part memoir and part cultural history of …
Madison Central Public Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Book Festival. In this engaging Humanities Without Boundaries conversation, Lost Children Archive author Valeria Luiselli will talk about her latest novel and her writing process for both fiction and nonfiction …
Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Greek Goddesses in the Black Fantastic: Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding’s Jazz Opera (Iphigenia) and the Art of Harmonia Rosales ’The Black Fantastic’, as writer and curator Ekow Eshun calls it, is a cultural movement …
