Associate Professor, Department of History, UW-Madison
Violence over the Land: Lessons from the Early American West
February 8, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Banquet Room, University Club
This event is one of the Humanities Friday Lunches events.
In his award-winning study of the early American West, Ned Blackhawk charts the changing forms and relations of violence that accompanied the expansion of European settlements in first New Mexico and later the American territories of Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. Locating various Shoshone, Ute, and Paiute Indian communities at the center of his narrative, Blackhawk uncovers uncommon and previously under-recognized forms of indigenous adaptation and resistance to European colonization. His talk will examine aspects of this dramatic narrative, examining in particular the early territorial histories of New Mexico and Colorado as well as the impact of the Civil War in the American West.
Teju Olaniyan
Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and Department of African Language and Literature, UW-Madison
On Corpulence: Body Size, Power, and Prestige in African Political Cartoons
April 4, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Banquet Room, University Club
This event is one of the Humanities Friday Lunches events.
Political cartoonists portray figures who are bodily large nearly always as critical commentary on wealth and power relations. But in contexts where ampleness of body is commonly accepted as evidence of both health and social wellness, cartoonists face special problems of style, communication, and meaning-encoding. The line, for instance, between caricaturing normative ampleness and an abnormal one is often blurry and ambiguous. Plus, the conventional equation between corpulent men and power is far easier to make than a similar logic for women. No, there are no corpulent women, only fat and powerless ones...
Suzette Spencer
Assistant Professor, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison
Middlepassages/Maroonage/Monumentality/
April 25, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Banquet Room, University Club
This event is one of the Humanities Friday Lunches events.
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Sara Guyer
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, UW-Madison
Romanticism After Auschwitz
May 2, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Banquet Room, University Club
This event is one of the Humanities Friday Lunches events.
