Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Skid Row as Refugee Camp Please note: We are currently at capacity for this event. To be added to the waitlist, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, or affiliation. During the 1980s, a …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy Please note: We are currently at capacity for this event. To be added to the waitlist, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Banished Women: A Hidden History of Mexican Repatriation NOTE: We are at capacity for this event. Please email rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu to be added to the waitlist. This Friday Lunch talk discusses the history of forced and …
Memorial Union, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method At this Friday Lunch event, Assistant Professor Darshana Mini locates the longer histories of migration of Indian indentured labor to Malaya and Strait settlements through …
Memorial Union, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Knives Out: Medieval Recipes, Culinary Violence, and Literary Character Please note: We are at capacity for this event, but please RSVP to be added to the waitlist. This Friday Lunch talk will explore how the …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Steering Large Language Models by Human Preferences Large language models (LLMs) trained on massive datasets exhibit remarkable abilities, but at the same time, these models can inadvertently generate misinformation and harmful outputs. This concern underscores …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Hollywood Pressbooks and the Vectors of Publicity From the 1910s through the 1980s, Hollywood studios promoted their productions through the creation and dissemination of pressbooks—bound pamphlets containing publicity materials, advertising layouts, accessories for sale, and …
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 …
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 …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Reading Centers and Margins in Narratives of Fugitivity How do we read representations of subaltern, enslaved, or minoritized lives that have been conscripted or distorted by those who do not live under the constant threat …
