Stories indexed under: Humanities

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  • French professor named Knight in Order of the Academic Palms April 16, 2009 A UW-Madison professor has been named Chavalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms) by the French Minister of National Education.
  • Poster for program ‘Great Texts’ exposes high-schoolers to literature March 30, 2009 High school students in Wisconsin are digging into great world literature that would bewilder older and more experienced readers: “Don Quixote,” by Miguel de Cervantes, “Dante’s Inferno,” by Dante Alighieri, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “The Brothers Karamazov,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. All the students need is a chance to try and the right guidance from their teachers. Both of these necessities are provided by the Center for the Humanities.
  • Common-book program receives hundreds of nominations March 25, 2009 Nearly 700 titles were submitted for the inaugural book in the university’s Go Big Read common-book program, which will begin in the fall. There were 387 unique titles among the 693 nominated.
  • Humanities exposed March 25, 2009 Now in its fifth year, the Humanities Exposed program provides graduate students with the opportunity to apply their research in the community.
  • DARE volumes Regional English dictionary closes in on ultimate milestone March 23, 2009 Meandering its merry way through new submissions such as “whiffle-minded,” “whirligust,” “whistle punk” and “williwags,” the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) project is now tantalizingly close to completing a mission more than four decades in the making.
  • Leading religious scholar to speak on campus March 18, 2009 Professor Alan Wolfe, founding director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, will deliver a plenary address, "Who's Afraid of American Religion," as part of the conference on "Religion and the State."
  • Chancellor invites campus to participate in reading project Feb. 26, 2009 Chancellor Carolyn "Biddy" Martin recently invited students, faculty, staff and the community to take part in a common book project.
  • La Tour Eiffel French master’s program opens doors to work opportunity Feb. 17, 2009 The Professional French Masters Program at UW-Madison is one of the only program in the country that offers a graduate degree that combines language skills with study in other academic areas.
  • Arts Enterprise Symposium begins this weekend Jan. 29, 2009 The first-ever University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Enterprise Symposium will help aspiring arts professionals find their place in a world of information about arts careers.
  • Chancellor Carolyn 'Biddy' Martin to speak on ‘Humanities in the Public’ Jan. 27, 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Carolyn 'Biddy' Martin will give the first Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture of the Spring 2009 semester on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. in the Pyle Center Alumni Lounge.
  • Chancellor to speak on ‘Humanities in the Public’ Jan. 14, 2009 Chancellor Carolyn “Biddy” Martin will give the spring’s first Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Pyle Center’s Alumni Lounge.
  • Certificate program to enhance engineers' liberal arts education Nov. 13, 2008 Next fall, a few UW-Madison professors hope to show engineering students that they have a bigger place in the non-engineering parts of campus.
  • Portion of album cover Study debunks myth that early immigrants quickly learned English Oct. 16, 2008 Joseph Salmons has always been struck by the pervasiveness of the argument. In his visits across Wisconsin, in many newspaper letters to the editor, and in the national debates raging over modern immigration, he encounters the same refrain:
  • Professor emeritus searches for ‘Human Goodness’ April 28, 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emeritus of Geography Yi-Fu Tuan will discuss his latest book, "Human Goodness" (University of Wisconsin Press), at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, at University Book Store-Hilldale, 702 N. Midvale Blvd.
  • Visual Culture Center reaches across academic fields April 16, 2008 Tucked away on the fifth floor of Memorial Library in a monastic faculty study room are the digs for the recently created Visual Culture Center. The limited square footage and unglamorous address, though, haven’t prevented center leadership, in just a few years, from developing and presenting a robust program of courses, research initiatives, presentations, lectures and conferences in a field of study that is the new kid on the academic block.
  • World Languages Day to draw 700-plus students from across Wisconsin April 7, 2008 It's a rite of passage each spring for thousands of state high school students - heading to Madison for basketball, hockey and wrestling tournaments and a taste of the city, the university and a day or two out of school. But the siren call is not just for sports enthusiasts. The campus beckons each spring to those interested in exploring world languages and cultures at World Languages Day.
  • Image of stamp UW-Madison alumna featured on 2008 U.S. postage stamp Feb. 13, 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a 1918 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be featured on a new stamp for the U.S. Postal Service's 2008 Commemorative Stamp Program.
  • Local competition exposes high schoolers to the study of linguistics Jan. 24, 2008 While the average U.S. high school may not offer classes in Turkish or Indonesian, an international competition will soon be bringing them to Madison's high school students.
  • Cinefest to showcase roots of hip hop through films, performances Nov. 6, 2007 The 8th Annual Cinefest Multicultural Film & Performance Festival, to be held Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 8-11, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, will showcase films and spoken-word performances that trace the roots of hip hop from the 1970s Bronx to its current global popularity, as well as presenting the passion and poetry of cutting-edge artists currently working in the genre.
  • Kirk Douglas Spartacus publicity photo A glimpse into Kirk Douglas: Film center shares online collection Oct. 30, 2007 Kirk Douglas was Spartacus. But that's not all. The iconic, dimple-chinned movie star was also a powerful producer who blazed a trail and took command of his own acting career in the new era of American filmmaking that followed the demise of the Hollywood studio system. Now, letters, photos and other documents Douglas donated to the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research are available through a new Web site that tells the story of his career both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.