A.W. Mellon and Helen C. White Workshops

The Center for the Humanities, with major support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the Helen C. White Fund, annually sponsors interdisciplinary workshops in the humanities. Many of the range of activities and programs presented by each workshop are open to UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students. Some events are open to the general public.

Now in their ninth year, the Center's A.W. Mellon Foundation/Helen C. White Workshops are study/discussion groups centered on a broadly conceived theme, and are designed and led by members of the UW-Madison faculty and/or academic staff. Workshops are provided with a great deal of freedom to define the nature of their activities.

Announcing the 2009-10 A.W. Mellon Foundation/Helen C. White Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities:

Science and Print Culture

African Diaspora, Genetics and Genealogy

Visualities beyond Ocularcentrism: Understanding Sense Perception and Experience Before and in the Wake of the Virtual and the Digital

Corpus: Premodern Books and Bodies

Athens and Jerusalem

Details on the 2009-10 workshops coming soon!

Below are links to a few of our recent workshops. More information about past projects is also available on the Past Projects page.

2008-2009 Workshops

Line Breaks in the Humanities
What is the Posthuman?
Science and Print Culture

2007-2008 Workshops

Audio Culture in the Visual Era
Bodies and the Production of Perversity
Freedom and Responsibility
Globalization and Human Security
On Lyric: Politics Theory & Practice
The Time, Poetics, and Ethics of Testimony
Trauma Tourism