November 1- 4pm – 6191 Helen C. White4:00 PM-5:30 PM. 6191 HCWCo-sponsored by the Center for Early Modern Studies Ross Carroll: ‘Mere Laughter is no Argument:’ Ridicule in the Scottish Enlightenment Philosophers in eighteenth-century Scotland …
Year: 2018
The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome: Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography
Augustus’ success in implementing monarchical rule at Rome is often attributed to innovations in the symbolic language of power, from the star marking Julius Caesar’s deification to buildings like the Palatine complex and the Forum …
Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art
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 …
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 …