Postcolonialism and the Chilean Frontier: The Ránquil Massacre Reconsidered, 1880-1934
September 13, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160
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In 1934, rumors of a major indigenous uprising, fuelled by Communist Party claims that the rebellion aimed to establish an independent Mapuche indigenous republic, prompted a major repressive campaign and massacre by the Chilean military police along the border with Argentina. Mallon will explore the claims made by the different actors involved, as well as subsequent historical interpretations of the event, which has long been considered a foundation for the Chilean left and the Chilean peasant movement.
Florencia E. Mallon is the author of Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche Indigenous Community of Nicolás Ailío and the Chilean State, 1906-2000 (2005); Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (1995); The Defense of Community in Peru's Central Highlands: Peasant Struggle and Capitalist Transition, 1860-1940 (1983); and is the editor and translator of Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef, When a Flower is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist (2002).
Heather Dubrow
Tighe-Evans & John Bascom Professor of English, UW-Madison
'Lend me your ears': The Audiences of Lyric Poetry
November 15, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160
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Who is addressed in a lyric poem? And how and why? Answers to those questions illuminate issues ranging from the power politics of our daily conversations to the distinctive characteristics and tensions of Shakespeare's era.
Heather Dubrow's recent publications include two chapbooks of poetry, and Shakespeare and Domestic Loss: Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation (1999); Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and its Counterdiscourses (1995); and Happier Eden: the Politics of Marriage in the Stuart Epithalamium (1990). She has also just finished a new book on lyric poetry.
Jost Hermand
William F. Vilas Research Professor Emeritus of German, UW-Madison
Was German Fascism a Utopia?
March 21, 2007 @ 5:00 pm
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160
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Jost Hermand earned his Ph.D. in 1955 from the University of Marburg, Germany. He has been teaching at the UW since 1955, has been a Vilas Research Professor since 1967, and retired in 2004. He is honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Relevant publications include: Deutsche Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (2006), A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazi Children's Evacuation Program in World War II (1997), Old Dreams of a New Reich: Volkish Utopias and National Socialism (1992).
