Whether understood as great achievements or monumental disasters, wars produces suffering, grief, destruction, and trauma. How do we respond to the experience of war and its aftermath? Faculty members from the UW-Madison will explore these questions in the spring 2004 Humanities Forums on Contemporary Issues series, War, Liberation, Occupation.
The Humanities Forums on Contemporary Issues series was established in the wake of September 11, 2001, and has become one of the core programs of the Center for the Humanities. Using the humanities as a lens, the program explores new ways of looking at current political, social, and economic issues, and encourages a vigorous, two-way dialogue between speakers and audiences.
Michael Bernard-Donals
Professor of English and Jewish Studies, UW-Madison
The War Over Memory: Genocide and 9/11
February 17, 2004
Stoughton Public Library
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
The War Over Memory: Genocide and 9/11
Associate Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison
Confessing Evil
March 23, 2004
Stoughton Public Library
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Dick Ringler
Professor of Scandinavian Studies & English, UW-Madison
What Should an Artist Do When His Country Goes Mad? The Case of the German Painter Otto Dix
April 6, 2004
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Richard N. Ringler is professor emeritus of English and Scandinavian Studies at the UW-Madison. He is a specialist in Anglo-Saxon culture and history, and is one of the world's foremost authorities on Icelandic literature. After earning his MA at the UW-Madison, he earned his PhD at Harvard, and returned to Madison to teach in 1962
Timothy B. Tyson
Professor of Afro American Studies, UW-Madison
Miss Amy's Witness: Why the History of the Civil Rights Movement is (Mostly) All Wrong
April 20, 2004
Monona Public Library
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Author of Radio Free Dixie and Blood Done Sign My Name.
Laurie Beth Clark
Professor of Art, UW-Madison
Trauma Memorials
April 27, 2004
Monona Public Library
This event is one of the Forums on Contemporary Issues events.
Searching for Meaning in Memorials to the Holocaust, the Atomic Bomb, and 9-11.
