Stories indexed under: Humanities

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  • Mellon Foundation awards grant to develop new careers for humanities Ph.D.s April 17, 2013 What do you do with a doctorate in medieval history if there are no teaching positions or you want to reach a wider audience? With a $1.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will develop career opportunities beyond academia for humanities doctoral students. The grant also will support faculty and students who reach out to the public with their work.
  • Wisconsin Science Festival 2013 announces dates, call for presenters March 19, 2013 After more than tripling attendance last year, the Wisconsin Science Festival is coming back for year three with plans for more activities at more sites that reach more people. The organizers announced today the 2013 festival will be held September 26-29 and issued an open call for presenters, communities, organizations and sponsors to get involved.
  • Indian author Arundhati Roy to visit March 5, 2013 Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy will visit the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus March 20-21, 2013 to speak to Wisconsin high school students. Roy will offer the keynote presentation for the Great World Texts Student Conference, sponsored by the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities, and will spend the day interacting with students who have read her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things."
  • UW faculty dissect growing relationship with China Feb. 1, 2013 In forging connections with China, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created an international model for the university. An upcoming panel of UW-Madison faculty will examine how this partnership with China is evolving and what it means for the future of the university and the student experience.
  • Award helps turn first manuscripts into first-rate books Nov. 30, 2012 A scholar of "medieval media studies" and a historian of modern Europe have each won a 2012-13 First Book Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Humanities.
  • Go Big Read marries art and science with “Radioactive” Sept. 11, 2012 Lauren Redniss was first drawn to Marie and Pierre Curie because of their beautiful love story. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator found much more as she researched, wrote and illustrated her book “Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout,” this year’s selection for Go Big Read, UW–Madison's common reading program.
  • Photo: Screen of code 'Hacking' to bridge a divide Aug. 23, 2012 On a wall in a darkened room, a single word flashed: divide.
  • New book by UW lecturer examines legacy of activist incident July 30, 2012 Growing up in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, UW-Madison lecturer Shawn Peters can't remember the first time he heard about the Catonsville Nine. He was 18 months old in May 1968, when nine people - including two brothers, both well-known activists and Catholic priests, and a former nun - removed hundreds of files from the local draft office and burned them with homemade napalm.
  • 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.”