Date: Monday, November 6, 2017 Time: 3:30 PM Title: “Songs to Encourage the Cessation of Litigation: Printing, Orality, and Legal Knowledge in China, 1595-1949,” Dr. Joseph Dennis (UW-Madison) Location: 212 University Club Building Format: IRH …
Year: 2017
“Literary and Other Lives of Interpreters: Captives, Converts, and Scribes in the Early Modern East Indies”
Date: Monday, October 30, 2017 Time: 3:30 PM Title: “Literary and Other Lives of Interpreters: Captives, Converts, and Scribes in the Early Modern East Indies,” by Dr. Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech) Location: 212 University …
Philosophy Colloquium Presentation by Dr. Susan James
Date: Friday, October 27, 2017Time: 3:30-5:30 PMTitle: Philosophy Colloquium Presentation by Dr. Susan James Details here: http://philosophy.wisc.edu/events/
“Ut Pictura Poesis: Word and Image in Georg Striernhielm’s Hercules”
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 12-1 PM Title: “Ut Pictura Poesis: Word and Image in Georg Striernhielm’s Hercules,” by Dr. Susan Brantly (UW-Madison) Location: Van Hise 1312 (Madsen Room) Details here: https://uwmadison.box.com/s/5876a2zi3r567tclrzvkolg64s6dnrzy *CEMS faculty lecture
“Verso il moderno: il Seicento tra accademie e mercato librario”
Date: Friday, October 6, 2017 Time: 4 PM Title: “Verso il moderno: il Seicento tra accademie e mercato librario,” a presentation in Italian by Lucinda Spera (Director, Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Seicento /International Center …
The Benefits of Failure: From the Gnostics to Cioran
The Benefits of Failure: From the Gnostics to Cioran Costica Bradatan (Humanities, Texas Tech University) September 18, 2017 3:30 PM, 212 University Club Building https://irh.wisc.edu/events/2017-2018/benefits-failure-gnostics-cioran
CEMS Symposium: The Arctic Impossibility of Art
CEMS Symposium: The Arctic Impossibility of Art Thursday, September 21, 6 p.m., Elvehjem 140 In 1596 two Dutch ships laden with trade goods left Amsterdam for Siberia, intending to navigate a Northeast Passage to China. …
“The State of the Union: Descartes on the Human Being”
Department of Philosophy Public Lecture, “The State of the Union: Descartes on the Human Being,” by Dr. Deborah Brown (U. of Queensland), 3:30pm, Helen C. White Hall, Room 4207.
“‘Translated & Improved!’: Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage”
Title: “‘Translated & Improved!’: Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage” by Joel Berkowitz (UW-Milwaukee)Format: Part of the GNS Series: “Shakespeare Would Not Brexit”Location: Van Hise Hall, Room 1418Details here: https://gns.wisc.edu/event/shakespeare-would-not-brexit-shakespeare-in-yiddish-with-joel-berkowitz/?instance_id=58*Co-sponsored by the Center for Early …
“Defining Bosch Today”
Title: “Defining Bosch Today” by Dr. Larry Silver (U. Pennsylvania)Format: Public lectureLocation: Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L140*Co-sponsored by the Center for Early Modern Studies