November

Daniel Selcer (Duquesne) and Theresa Smith (Harvard)

Robert Streiffer

Didier Fassin

A Celebration of The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin

December

Lea Jacobs

Anja Wanner

Heather Paxson

Walt Schalick

February

Humanities in the 21st Century

Jenny Saffran

Kelly Moore

March

Bill Cronon

Jean-Michel Ane

Catherine Malabou

3rd Annual Conference on Public Humanities

April

Frank Salomon

Things Fall Apart in Wisconsin Student Conference

Chris Abani

Laura Schwendinger

Elaine Pagels

Paola Antonelli

Calendar of Events

Our mission at the Center is to foster critical engagement with current and historical events and to debate the meaning, value, and function of our culture in all of its manifestations. This year we will hear from an outstanding roster of distinguished speakers and sponsor an array of exciting programs. We invite you to join us!

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    Nov
    13
  • Robert Streiffer
  • Human/Animal Chimeras: Being Human, Being Animal, and Everything in Between
  • November 13, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Nov
    16
  • Didier Fassin
  • Subjectivity without subject?: The Aporia of Bearing Witness to Violence in Palestine
  • November 16, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
  • December
    • Dec
    02
  • Lea Jacobs
  • Towards a History of Taste: American Film in the 1920s
  • December 2, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Dec
    04
  • Anja Wanner
  • The Rise and Fall of the Passive in Academic Writing
  • December 4, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Dec
    10
  • Heather Paxson
  • Reverse-Engineering Terroir: Locating the Value of American Artisan Cheese
  • December 10, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Dec
    10
  • Walt Schalick
  • The Three R's in Action: Textual Medicine and Market Control in the Middle Ages
  • December 10, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
  • March
    • Mar
    03
  • Bill Cronon
  • The Riddle of Sustainability: Pondering the Environmental Past to Imagine the Human Future
  • March 3, 2010 @ 5:30 pm
  • April
    • Apr
    07
  • Frank Salomon
  • The Farther Shores of Literacy: New World Ethnography and the Question of What Writing Is
  • April 7, 2010 @ 5:30 pm
    Apr
    22
  • Elaine Pagels
  • Year of Humanities Chancellor's Lecture
  • April 22, 2010 @ 7:00 pm
  • January
    • Jan
    30
  • Claire Wendland
  • Human Subjects: Bioethical Boundaries and Global Health
  • January 30, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Feb
    17
  • Bernard Lightman
  • Print Culture and the Popularization of Evolution
  • February 17, 2009 @ 12:30 pm
    Feb
    18
  • John D. Niles
  • War and the Containment of Violence in Anglo-Saxon England: A Problem in Mentalities
  • February 18, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
    Feb
    20
  • Lewis Leavitt
  • What is Human: Lessons from Childhood
  • February 20, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
  • March
    • Mar
    01
  • March 1, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Mar
    04
  • Ronald Radano
  • Who Owns Black Music? Reflections on Cultural Property, Ownership, and Value
  • March 4, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Mar
    26
  • Cary Wolfe
  • Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context
  • March 26, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Mar
    27
  • Beyond Human
  • What is Human? Symposium
  • March 27, 2009 @ 8:30 am
    Apr
    02
  • Christoph Menke
  • The Self-Reflection of Law and the Politics of Rights
  • April 2, 2009 @ 5:00 pm
    Apr
    03
  • Jean Lee
  • The Art and Science of Remembering the American Revolution
  • April 3, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Apr
    06
  • Neil Safier
  • The Material Map: A Journey through the Worlds of the Carta de la Provincia de Quito (1750)
  • April 6, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Apr
    06
  • K. Anthony Appiah
  • Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
  • April 6, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Apr
    10
  • Richard Goodkin
  • Inventing the Invention of Molière: The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart
  • April 10, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Apr
    16
  • Leo Bersani
  • Ardent Masturbation (Descartes, Freud, et al.)
  • April 16, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Apr
    30
  • Martín Espada
  • Poetry of the Political Imagination: A Reading by Martín Espada
  • April 30, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
  • May
    • May
    01
  • Michael Bernard-Donals
  • Deterritorialized Rhetoric, or, What Happens When We Forget We are Exiles
  • May 1, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Sep
    24
  • Tom Broman
  • Criticism and the Circulation of News: The Scholarly Press in the Late Seventeenth Century
  • September 24, 2009 @ 3:00 pm
    Sep
    24
  • Michael Pollan
  • In Defense of Food: The Omnivore’s Solution
  • September 24, 2009 @ 7:00 pm
    Oct
    02
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Human Nature, Human Nurture, and the Mirage of a Space between the Two
  • October 2, 2009 @ 7:30 pm
    Oct
    09
  • Christopher Baswell
  • Kings and Cripples: Royal and Eccentric Bodies in Medieval England
  • October 9, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
    Oct
    09
  • Jonah Lehrer
  • From Marshmallows to Metacognition: What Can Science Teach Us About Decision-Making?
  • October 9, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
    Oct
    23
  • Neil Kodesh
  • Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, East Africa
  • October 23, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
    Oct
    29
  • Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
  • Performative Properties: Wild Animals, Intellectual Property, and the Museum
  • October 29, 2009 @ 3:00 pm