Enlightenment as a Challenge for the 21st Century: Johann Go
A roundtable discussion
September 20, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
Lee Lounge, Pyle Center
This event is one of the Special Events events.
This discussion is part of the international conference, "J.G. Herder as Challenge," September 21-23, 2006, organized by UW-Madison Professor of German Sabine Gross, President of the International J.G. Herder Society. This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
NEH Fellowshops Workshop
September 28, 2006 @ 9:00 pm
Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium
This event is one of the Special Events events.
All interested Faculty and Academic Staff are invited to attend a grant-writing workshop and information session to learn about NEH Fellowships and Summer Stipend applications . The workshop will be led by Jane Aikin, Acting Director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. The workshop will take place on Thursday, September 28, 2006, at the UW-Madison's Memorial Library, Room 126 from 9:00-12:00 pm. The first hour of the workshop will provide an overview of the process of grant submission and evaluation, as well as a discussion of the different divisions and categories within which faculty members may apply for research support. From 10 a.m. to 12 Noon, Jane Aikin will discuss 4-5 actual proposals and go over them in detail with workshops attendees. Jane Aikin will also be available in the afternoon for individual meetings by appointment. Please contact the Center for the Humanities (608-263-3412 or infohumanities.wisc.edu) to make an appointment to see Jane Aikin during her afternoon appointment times.
Empires in Transition
Presented with Josep Fradera, Professor of Imperial Transitions, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Reading Imperial Transitions: Spanish Contraction, British Expansion & American Irruption
November 9, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
Pyle Center
This event is one of the Special Events events.
The Center presents the keynote lecture for the international conference, "Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State," November 9-11 which is co-sponsored by the A.W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, and made possible by the Anonymous Fund.
Josep Maria Fradera Barcelo holds a national chaired professorship in History and is Spain's leading scholar of empire. An eminent researcher at one of the most dynamic historical research centers in Spain, he is author of five books including most recently Colonias para despue's de un imperio (2005).
David C. Lindberg
Hilldale Professor Emeritus, History of Science, UW-Madison
"Early Modern Eyes" Conference Keynote: The Eye and Visual Perception: From Plato to Kepler
March 15, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
Chazen Museum of Art, Room L160
This event is one of the Special Events events.
David Lindberg's lecture will begin with a discussion the optical legacy of Greek antiquity which included three incompatible theories of vision. He will continue by discussing the medieval contribution (created in Islam, disseminated in medieval Christendom) which was a synthesis of these Greek theories, sensitive to the principal criteria of each. Finally, Johannes Kepler's theory of the retinal image (1604) will be addressed which was not what you get when you repudiate the past and start over, but what emerges if you apply the medieval canons of the discipline with exceptional rigor.
Professor Lindberg has been a Member of School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1970-71); a Guggenheim Fellow 1977-78; President of History of Science Society (1994-95); and recipient of its Sarton Medal (1999). His major publications include Theories of Vision from al- Kindi to Kepler ( Chicago , 1976); The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. - A.D. 1450 ( Chicago 1992); and Roger Bacon and the Origins of ' Perspectiva ' in the Middle Ages ( Oxford , 1996).
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.
