Students in Professor Pruitt’s Art Hist 210: A History of the World in 20 Buildings have been exploring Madison architecture through an Instagram scavenger hunt. Check us out at #buckysbuildings.
Year: 2018
Lecture: From Magdeburg to Charlottesville via Munich
The Borghesi-Mellon Workshop: “Thinking Race: Migration, Representation, Appropriation in the Middle Ages and Beyond” presents a public lecture by Professor Madeline H. Caviness (Emerita, Department of English, Tufts University) titled: “From Magdeburg to Charlottesville via …
Lecture and Workshop by Ellis Hanson
Hanson’s lecture will be part of a three-speaker, year-long, exploration of the minor that seeks to explore visual culture that may otherwise be considered incidental to study. Isabelle Loring Wallace and Sianne Ngai, the other …
Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion Realms through the Lens of the Peony Pavilion
“Winds, Dreams, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion Realms through the Lens of the Peony Pavilion,” a public lecture by Prof. Ling Hon Lam. The lecture will raise many issues of art historical interests by looking …
Brott publishes article in Cartographica
Ph.D. candidate LauraLee Brott’s essay “The Geography of Devotion in the British Library Map Psalter (BL Add. MS 28681)” was published in the fall 2018 issue of Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and …
Beautiful and Deadly: The Dangerous Plants of Edward Burne-Jones
October 4, 2018 at 12:00 PM Class of 1941 Lecture Room Between the 1850s and 1890s, Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones filles his paintings with plants that attack, adorn, and engulf human figures. This was also …
Lecture: Seeing Data: Information in Culture & Commerce
Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She’s also a digital humanist with interests in labor, race, feminism, and the history and philosophy of data. As a digital humanist, she …
American Profanations: A lecture by Professor Tavia Nyong’o
Tavia Nyong’o, Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Studies at Yale University, will present his research that takes the 1957 MGM film, “Something of Value,” a film that allegorically maps Native North …
Fieldschool in North Dakota
Prof. Anna Andrzejewski took 7 graduate students to southwestern North Dakota for 5 days to research the vanishing buildings of German-Russian immigrants. These early twentieth-century buildings built of fieldstone have not received any scholarly attention …
Symposium “On Human Nature: Machiavelli’s Mandrake at 500”
Niccolò Machiavelli’s political treatise The Prince (1513) casts its shadow far and wide across the humanities and social sciences. Often eclipsed by the scandalous, utilitarian ethics of the treatise – as well as by Shakespeare’s …