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April 2019
GEMSS Graduate Research Symposium, “Early Modern Bodies”
The Graduate Early Modern Studies Society (GEMSS, UW-Madison) will have its third annual Graduate Research Symposium on "Early Modern Bodies" at UW-Madison on Friday, April 26th in the Lowell Center on campus. The keynote will be given…
Find out more »Dr. Carolyn Nadeau, “Attending to Bodily Sustenance and Concepts of Taste in Francisco Martinez Montino’s 1611 Royal Cookbook”
This is the keynote address for the 2019 GEMSS Symposium. Click here for more details and here for a schedule of events.
Find out more »Peter Filkins, “Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing the Life of H.G. Adler’s Many Worlds”
Poet, novelist, author of two seminal Holocaust studies, one of the earliest historians of Auschwitz, a last representative of Kafka’s Prague, and expert for the Eichmann trial, H.G. Adler (1910-1988) survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and two…
Find out more »Paul-Alexis Mellet, “Peace and Justice. Remonstrances as a Means of Negotiation and Resistance during the French Civil Wars (1550-1600)”
Remonstrances were texts printed in Europe during the civil wars (1550-1650). They are unique in that they served simultaneously as a means of governance, instruments of negotiation, and avenues of resistance. They enabled continuous dialog…
Find out more »May 2019
Subha Xavier, “Wretched of the Sea: African Migrant Boat Narratives in International Context”
Professor Subha Xavier is Associate Professor of French and core faculty at the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. She is author of the The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature (McGill-Queen’s UP,…
Find out more »Annual Meeting for The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies (SASS)
The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies will hold its annual academic conference in Madison from May 2nd through May 4th. Each year the conference draws hundreds of presenters from various parts of the…
Find out more »Giuliana Chamedes, “Catholic Internationalism: The Vatican’s Holy War against Liberals and Communists in Europe, 1915-1965”
Drawing on new archival research conducted in eight countries and in seven different languages, “Catholic Internationalism: The Vatican’s Holy War against Liberals and Communists in Europe, 1915-1965” uncovers how the Vatican shaped the European international…
Find out more »Florence Vatan, “Paris: The Pulse of the City”
A part of the French and Italian Cities Lectures; Public talks on the great cities of Italy, France, and the French speaking world. Co-sponsored by European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, the…
Find out more »Changing Landscapes of Indigeneity
Together with the Center for Culture, History and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Rachel Carson Center is organizing a Place-Based Workshop (PBW) on “Changing Landscapes of Indigeneity” from May 13-16, 2019. The…
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