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April 2021
IRH Lecture: “The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship”
Monday Seminar: The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship April 12th, 3:30–5:00pm CT Carolyn J. Eichner, UW System Fellow (2020–21) History; Women’s & Gender Studies, UW–Milwaukee Why do states care what people are named? Why…
Find out more »Newberry Library Virtual Tour: ¡Viva la Libertad!
Tune in for a live virtual tour of the Newberry’s latest exhibition, ¡Viva la Libertad! Latin America and the Age of Revolutions. About the Exhibition: As revolutions broke out in the United States, France, and…
Find out more »Inaugural Annual Gombar/Duychak Lecture on Early Modern Print Culture
Inaugural Annual Gombar/Duychak Lecture on Early Modern Print Culture Movable Mountains and Leveled Landscapes in 17th c. Flap Prints Dr. Suzanne Karr Schmidt, George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the…
Find out more »CANES Lecture: “Woman in Drag: Queer Approaches to the Book of Judith”
Zoom link Meeting ID: 984 2911 7796 Passcode: 250529 April 13: Caryn Tamber Rosenau (University of Houston) “Woman in Drag: Queer Approaches to the Book of Judith” Judith, in the apocryphal book that bears her name, seduces…
Find out more »AIC Artist Talk: Jeff Tweedy
Free, registration required Join Jeff Tweedy, songwriter and leader of the Chicago band Wilco, for a conversation about his new book, How to Write One Song, as well as his career as a writer and…
Find out more »Getty: A Shared Past in an Unfolding Present
The photographs of An-My Lê play with assumptions about photographic truth and narrative, questioning how we process mediated information. Whether by capturing confederate monuments removed from their pedestals, war re-enactments, or American soldiers training in…
Find out more »Visiting Artist Colloquium: Phoebe Kuo
Phoebe Kuo is a studio woodworker from San Francisco, currently based in Evanston, Illinois, who makes site-specific sculpture using traditional furniture-making techniques. Born in Lompoc, California, to Taiwanese-American mathematicians, she grew up navigating hybrid identities,…
Find out more »Our Kind of Happy Hour with Angela Johnson
Artist, educator, and creative coach Angela Johnson guides us through mindful meditations during this Facebook Live presentation. Johnson is inspired both by images of nature and trees she has created and from pieces within the…
Find out more »Medieval Studies Lecture: Avinoam Shalem “The Return of the Gaze”
The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, "The Return of the Gaze: On Modern Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Melancholies of a Blessed View,"…
Find out more »CANES Lecture: “Woman as a Natural Resource in Greek Literature and ‘The Handmaid’s Tale'”
Join us for this lecture by Dr. Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor at University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Zoom link Meeting ID: 965 1497 1959 Passcode: 886199 Women as a Natural Resource in Greek Literature and The Handmaid‘s Tale Ancient…
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