Stories indexed under: Humanities

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  • UW-Madison graduate programs ranked among best by U.S. News and World Report March 12, 2012 Several UW-Madison graduate programs are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2013 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
  • UW-Madison hosts 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Symposium Feb. 27, 2012 As part of the 2012 Lorraine Hansberry Project, honoring the life and pioneering work of a UW-Madison alumna who made lasting contributions to American arts and culture, a free symposium will take place on Saturday, March 3, in Vilas Hall’s Mitchell Theatre. The symposium, “Conversations on African-American Youth and August Wilson’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’” is presented in conjunction with the Hansberry Project’s production of Wilson’s play.
  • Photo: Detail of page from dictionary showing ntry for 'zydeco' From Adam’s housecat to zydeco: After five decades, Dictionary of American Regional English completed Feb. 23, 2012 What is a Maine-born doctor to do when a patient in Pennsylvania complains, “I’ve been riftin’ and I’ve got jags in my leaders?” Consult the Dictionary of American Regional English to learn that the patient has been belching and experiencing sharp pains in his neck. After nearly five decades of work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the fifth volume of the dictionary, covering Sl to Z, is now available from Harvard University Press.
  • Exploring interfaces between science, humanities Feb. 23, 2012 The semester-long, $2,500 Emerging Interfaces Awards were created as a way to explore the different ways thinkers in the humanities and sciences approach discovery.
  • 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?
  • Go Big Read accepting book nominations Jan. 9, 2012 Go Big Read is engaging students, faculty, staff and the community in a shared academic experience as they read and discuss "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario. Now planning is under way for next year's common-reading program, which will focus on a theme suggested by Interim Chancellor David Ward: innovation.
  • Public humanities project proves literacy isn’t limited to the page Dec. 12, 2011 The American teenager, once shy, bubbles over with questions for a young Senegalese classmate. Why did his mother leave him? Did he ever see her again? As the young man responds, the two begin using each other's first names.
  • UW humanities faculty, library share insights, ancient manuscripts with high school teachers Sept. 29, 2011 Rare 16th century editions of works by Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus will be on hand to show teachers participating in the first workshop of the Great World Texts Program on Monday, Oct. 3, in Room 126 of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Library.
  • Photo: Storytelling class Class continues Muir Knoll storytelling legacy July 21, 2011 Anne Lundin is carrying on a tradition at an idyllic campus spot steeped in storytelling history.
  • Harvard professor to give Nellie Y. McKay Lecture March 7, 2011 Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will give the annual Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 24
  • UW-Madison chancellor, alumnus and professor named to national commission Feb. 23, 2011 As the American Academy of Arts & Sciences introduces a national commission to encourage research in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Wisconsin-Madison boasts strong representation.
  • Illustration from classic mythology Eighty years and thousands of stories endure in Classical Myth course Feb. 22, 2011 Each spring, for 30 years, classics professor Barry Powell led nearly 500 UW-Madison students in Classical Myth, considered a backbone course for the humanities on campus. So his views on the topic might surprise some former students. “There’s no such thing as classical myth,” says Powell. “It really doesn’t exist.”
  • Panel explores WikiLeaks fallout Feb. 7, 2011 State secrets, information freedom, and technology's contentious role in democracy will be probed by three UW-Madison professors Thursday, Feb. 10 at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
  • UW-Madison receives grant to support humanities Dec. 20, 2010 An extraordinary public-private partnership will allow the University of Wisconsin-Madison to enhance education and research in the humanities. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the university a $10 million grant as part of an effort to preserve and enhance the humanities at public research universities that have records of scholarly and educational excellence.
  • World Languages Day inspires high school students to explore Nov. 11, 2010 Since World Languages Day began in 2002, renowned professor Harold Scheub has roused the crowd with his tales of crossing the African continent in search of stories and folk tales.
  • Go Big Read gets a fast start on campus; author to visit on Oct. 25 Oct. 19, 2010 Go Big Read, UW-Madison's common reading program, is off to a vigorous start. Some 5,000 copies of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," by Rebecca Skloot, were given away in September at the Chancellor's Convocation for New Students.
  • UW-Madison humanities scholars receive national fellowships June 11, 2010 Four scholars at UW-Madison working in the humanities have received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
  • Summer program offers intensive study of Baltic area languages June 10, 2010 UW-Madison is an international leader in foreign languages, offering instruction in more than 80 modern and ancient languages, from Akan-Twi to Zulu. The campus also houses 11 area-studies centers, the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages and the National African Language Resource Center.
  • Photo of Odyssey class Odyssey Project offers a promising journey of hope, transformation May 13, 2010 The walls of Emily Auerbach’s office are crowded with photos that show the outcomes of hard-fought success.
  • Year of Humanities finishes with events, performances April 22, 2010 The Year of the Humanities will come to a close during the remaining weeks of the semester and the concluding events are not to be missed. On the program are a lecture on the Book of Revelation, a panel discussion on the mind and performances of Daoist rituals.