Stories indexed under: Center for the Humanities

Total: 8

  • Photo: Screen of code 'Hacking' to bridge a divide Aug. 23, 2012 On a wall in a darkened room, a single word flashed: divide.
  • Outstanding undergraduate writing rewarded by humanities alum July 3, 2012 Sidney Iwanter, an 1971 history alumnus of the College of Letters & Science, likes to say he was too busy dodging tear gas canisters to be much of a student during his tenure at UW-Madison.
  • Prison reading groups liberate minds, UW grad students find March 21, 2012 Jose Vergara, a graduate student in the UW-Madison Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, remembers how the Oakhill Correctional Institution inmates in his reading and writing group reacted to a short story called "Blue Notebook #10," by Daniil Kharms.
  • Communicating danger across 10,000 years March 1, 2012 Giant symbols carved into canyon walls might tell the story of a long-ago hunt, a creation myth, or a genocide - but because the cultures who created rock art have vanished, there is no way of discerning their exact meaning.
  • First Book Award lends crucial support to junior faculty Feb. 7, 2012 From the time they are hired, humanities faculty members begin working to turn the dissertation that earned them a Ph.D. into a book that will earn them tenure. But it’s not as easy as handing pages over to a publisher.
  • UW English professor urges environmental writers to “tell stories no one else can tell” Jan. 31, 2012 In his new book, "Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor," UW-Madison English professor Rob Nixon asks: how can environmental writers craft emotionally involving stories from disasters that are slow-moving and attritional, rather than explosive and spectacular?
  • Public panel explores why Occupy movement matters Dec. 13, 2011 Beyond a slogan - "We are the 99 percent!" - and a seemingly organic urge to come together, what's the Occupy Wall Street movement all about? Does it have goals? Leaders? A single, unifying demand for change? How has it spread, and how does it connect to events such as The Arab Spring and the Wisconsin protests?
  • Wisconsin Book Festival author is world traveler, UW–Madison dad Oct. 19, 2011 Acclaimed author André Aciman, who will present a Wisconsin Book Festival talk on Thursday, is eagerly awaiting his visit to UW–Madison, where he has strong family ties.