Flattery is an often overlooked political phenomenon, even though it has interested thinkers from classical Athens to eighteenth-century America. Drawing a distinction between moralistic and strategic flattery, this book offers new interpretations of a range …
Month: April 2018
GEMSS Faculty Lecture: Lee Palmer Wandel: The Matter of Liturgy
Graduate Early Modern Student Society (GEMSS, UW-Madison) Faculty Lecture: Dr. Lee Palmer Wandel (UW-Madison; Department of History) “The Matter of the Liturgy” Friday, March 2nd from 2:30pm-4pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.
UW-Madison Political Theory Workshop: Erica Brenner: Realism and Human Nature: Classical and Modern Arguments
UW-Madison Political Theory Workshop (PTW) cordially invites you to a presentation on this Friday (4/6) from 12-1:15pm in the Ogg Room (4th floor) of North Hall. Professor Erica Benner (Yale) will present her chapter featuring analysis of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Thucydides for the …
IRH Closing Panel Discussion: IRRELEVANCE
IRRELEVANCE IRH Closing Panel Discussion Monday, May 7, 2018: 4:00 PM Banquet Room, University Club Building (lower level) Panelists: Steven Hutchinson, Senior Fellow (Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison) Kelsey Ihinger, Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow …
CEMS Faculty Lecture: James Coons: Rebellious Sentiments: Emotion, Masculinity, and Community in the Fronde
James Coons, Department of History – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Rebellious Sentiments: Emotion, Masculinity, and Community in the Fronde Friday, April 13, 4 p. m. – Van Hise 1312
IRH Lecture
Kelsey Ihinger, IRH Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellow Historiopoetics in Early Modern Spain: Representing the Prince of Wales’ Visit to Madrid (1623) March 12, 2018: 3:30 PM 212 University Club Building, 432 East Campus Mall
Lecture: Pablo Gomez “Thinking with Piezas: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic
Pablo Gomez: “Thinking with Piezas: Slave Trading and the Imagination of the Quantifiable Body in the Early Modern Atlantic” March 13 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Room 206 Ingraham Hall Pablo Gomez is an …
CANCELLED Public Lecture: Claudia Swann: “Art, Nature, Fabrication”
Borghesi Mellon Workshop on Science, Nature, and Wonder in the Middle Ages. “Art, Nature, Fabrication.” Public Lecture by Prof. Claudia Swan (Dept. of Art History, Northwestern University), Co-Sponsored by the Department of Art History, the Center …
IRH Lecture:
IRH Lecture: Andrey V. Ivanov (IRH UW System Fellow; History, UW-Platteville) A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of The Reformation and Enlightenment in Early Modern Orthodox Russia April 30, 2018 – 3:30 P.M. 212 University Club Building, …
Workshop Round Table: Digital Humanities: The Case of Emblem Books and Early Modern Images
Digital Humanities: The Case of Emblem Books and Early Modern Images Workshop Round Table with Peter M. Daly, Bernard Deschamps (McGill), Wim van Dongen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) May 10, 2018 – 10:30am-1pm – Memorial Library, …