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About Mellon Workshops

The Center, with major support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, annually sponsors interdisciplinary workshops in the humanities. Many of the range of activities and programs presented by each workshop are open to UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students. Some events are open to the general public.

2008-2009 Workshops

Line Breaks in the Humanities
African Diaspora, Genetics and Genealogy
What is the Posthuman?
Science and Print Culture


Past Mellon Workshops

2007-2008 Workshops

Audio Culture in the Visual Era
Bodies and the Production of Perversity
Freedom and Responsibility
Globalization and Human Security
On Lyric: Politics Theory & Practice
The Time, Poetics, and Ethics of Testimony
Trauma Tourism

2006-2007
Bodies and the Production of Perversity
Captives and Castaways
The Confucius Seminar
Globalization and Human Security Workshop
In the Name of Difficult Words: The Time, Poetics, and Ethics of Testimony
Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State
Cosmopolitan Cultures/Cosmopolitan Histories *
The Good Childhood *
Monstrosity and Alterity *
Powers and Machines in the Early Modern Period *

*continued from 2005-06

2005-2006
Chernobyl and its Consequences
Cosmopolitan Cultures, Cosmopolitan Histories
The Good Childhood
Monstrosity and Alterity
Powers and Machines in the Early Modern Period

2004-2005
Adorno and Late Philosophical Modernity
Africa in the African Diaspora
Chernobyl and its Consequences
Empire in Transition
Transnational Gender History

2003-2004
Africa in the African Diaspora
Byzantium and the West
Empire in Transition: A Cultural and Historical Case Study
The Subject of Electronica
Transnational Gender History

2002-2003
Holocaust and Humanity in the 21st Century
Language and the Mind
Material Culture: The Ritual(s) of Everyday Life
Conflicting Cultures: Invention of Modernity in Africa
Disability Studies in the Humanities

2001-2002
Holocaust and Humanities in the 21st Century
Language and the Mind
Museum Worlds
The Rituals of Everyday Life: A Material Culture Workshop
Early Modern Studies

2000-2001
Conflicting Cultures and the Invention of Modernity in Africa
Disability Studies in the Humanities
The Ritual(s) of Everyday Life: A Material Culture Workshop
Visual Culture Studies
The Early Modern Study Group