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January 2021
IRH Lecture: Kennan Ferguson
Monday Seminar: "Beholden: Between Freedom and Debt" Kennan Ferguson UW System Fellow (2020–21) Political Science, UW-Milwaukee The attempt to escape debt underlies the most powerful formulations of politics, leading to freedom, liberty, and autonomy. It…
Find out more »Crossroads: Public Perception of Science in a Post-Pandemic World
The pandemic has revealed issues with how science is perceived and understood by the public. The rapid pace of science around SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has exposed issues in society around science communication and the impact…
Find out more »MLK Symposium: An Evening with Isabel Wilkerson
On Jan. 25, 2021, the University of Wisconsin–Madison will welcome Isabel Wilkerson as the keynote speaker for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture. The author of Caste and The Warmth of Other…
Find out more »Paul Mellon Centre: “Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815”
Accommodating the Picturesque: The Country Houses of James Wyatt, John Nash and Sir John Soane, 1793–1815 A Research Lunch event by Rebecca Tropp Whilst much has been written about the development of Picturesque theory at…
Find out more »February 2021
Lecture: Annabel Wharton “Contemporary Uses of the Reconstructed Past”
The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, "Contemporary Uses of the Reconstructed Past: The Model of Herodian Jerusalem in the Israel Museum," by Professor…
Find out more »March 2021
Medieval Studies Lecture: Cord Whitaker “‘The Shade of Trees Their Ancestors Left'”
Cord Whitaker, Associate Professor of English at Wellesley College, and currently member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, will present a public, keynote lecture on “’The shade…
Find out more »April 2021
Lecture: Paul Cobb “Saladin’s Jerusalem”
The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, "Saladin's Jerusalem," by Professor Paul Cobb, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern…
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