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 …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Defining Dispossession: Anticolonial Claims-making and the Transformation of Modern International Law This talk identifies a new origin story for key features of contemporary international law in early twentieth century attempts to shield the U.S. government …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
University Club Building, Room 313, 432 East Campus Mall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
@ 12:00 pm
Adam Stern: Assistant Professor, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ AND THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES, UW-MADISON Beginning with Hannah Arendt’s well-known distinction between medieval, religious Jew-hatred and modern, secular antisemitism, this talk reconsiders contemporary debates concerning the periodization of …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street @ 12:00 pm
Virtual (Zoom) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
At this virtual Friday Lunch event, you will learn about the mid-twentieth century fashion style of zoot suits and the riots that were blamed on that attire during World War II. More broadly, you will learn …
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Karl Ove Knausgård’s “My Struggle,” a monumental novel in six volumes and more than 3,600 pages, has become the preeminent example of a current autofictional trend. Widely hailed for its heroic exploration of selfhood, compulsive …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In summer of 1953, Richard Wright traveled to the Gold Coast for a couple of months to report on its bid for independence from Britain. Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos, …
