Past Event Category: Shared Events
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Oct 29“Wages for Housework: The History of a Movement”
Emily Callaci (UW-Madison)
Pyle Center, Room 226 (702 Langdon St.)
Presented by Madison History Club. This event will be recorded by PBS Wisconsin University Place In the 1970s, a network of feminists across the globe came together to make a deceptively simple demand: Wages for Housework! When invoked today, the phrase commonly refers to the cash payment that was its signature demand, yet for the …
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Oct 13“Fuji: the Making of a Global Mountain”
Andrew Bernstein (Lewis and Clark College)
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr)
Mount Fuji commands attention. Visible to millions in Tokyo, its iconic silhouette is recognizable around the world. At the same time, industries and military bases located on and around the mountain connect it to economic and political networks with global reach. By examining both the representation and material exploitation of Fuji over the past several …
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Oct 7“The Return of the Tupinambá Cloak: Indigenous Art, Memory, and Politics”
Elisa Frühauf Garcia (Fluminense Federal University – Brazil (UFF))
Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art
This talk will explore the recent return of the Tupinambá cloak to Brazil and the broader questions it raises around Indigenous identity, cultural repatriation, and historical memory. Prof. Frühauf Garcia is an expert on the Indigenous peoples of Brazil. Her current research focuses on the relationships between Native women and European men in the sixteenth …
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Nov 3Wheat as an Invasive Species? The Eucharist and Ecology in Early Medieval Europe
Conrad A. Elvehjem Building L150
Speaker: Professor Paolo Squatriti, University of Michigan Description: The “cerealization” of Europe was pretty much complete by the eleventh century. In the process, a vast reduction in the biodiversity of agrarian landscapes and ecosystems and a simplification of foodways took place, as Europeans came to rely on a handful of staple crops for most of …
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Sep 6