Events

“Representing India’s Pasts: Time, culture and the Problems of Performance Historiography”

Aparna Dharwadker Professor
Dept. of Theatre and Drama & Dept. of English, UW-Madison
September 24 - Noon - 1:00PM
206 Ingraham Hall

Like other forms of modern history-writing in India, theatre historiography is an inherently embattled field because it seeks to reconstruct the past in a culture where "history," "historicity," "historical experience," "historical consciousness," and "the historical sense" have been, and continue to be, deeply contested concepts.

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ACLU Banned Book Week Panel at SLIS

Moderated by Jim Fleming, Wisconsin Public Radio host
Thursday, October 1, 6:00—7:30 p.m.
SLIS Commons, 4th floor Helen C. White Hall

Featuring special guests: Bob Bocher, Library Technology Consultant, WI Dept. of Public Instruction Two local librarians with experience working with public and youth library collections.

The panel will discuss current issues in censorship including book challenges, net neutrality and free access to the Internet, and youth free speech rights.

As part of the upcoming Cartonera Conference: Cartonera Making Workshop (Oct 9, 10 am -12 noon, SLIS Library)

October 1, 6:00 pm
SLIS Commons, 4th floor Helen C. White Hall

Aldo Medinaceli from Bolivian cartonera publishing house Yerba Mala Cartonera will talk with participants (translation provided). Copies of the manifesto from Yerba Mala Cartonera to be part of the conference book will be provided for the textual content—-as will cardboard, paint, etc. for the covers. Learn more about this kind of publishing industry and make a cartonera yourself!

What's Ethical about 'Cooking the Books'?: Food Writing, Adaptation, and Storytelling

Carol Blymire
October 1, 4:00 pm
6191 HC White Hall

Lecture by award-winning blogger and professional writer Carol Blymire will explore the ethics of haute cuisine, molecular gastronomy, and the phenomenon of "cooking the books"; that is, re-creating all the recipes in a single volume, and then blogging about the results.

Food Writing Practicum

Carol Blymire
October 2, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
The Writing Center Computer Lab, 6171 HC White Hall (6th floor)

Blogger and professional writer Carol Blymire will lead a practicum for UW undergraduate and graduate students on food writing. Space is limited; UW students only. RSVP to mmnakaue to sign up.

Sponsored by: Contemporary Literature Colloquium

Censorship and Self-censorship in John Clare's Poetry

Eric H. Robinson
October 8, 4:00 pm
7191 HCW

Eric H. Robinson is a prominent literary scholar, most recently the editor of the nine-volume edition of The Collected Poems of John Clare, 1793–1864 (Clarendon Press, Oxford). He is also a historian of science, technology, and economics. In 2006 he was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology.

He comes to Madison both to share his ideas about censorship in the poetry of John Clare and to do research in the archives of the Dictionary of American Regional English. Many of Clare’s dialect words, Robinson has discovered, still survive in regional use in the United States, while they have vanished from use in England.

Sponsored byThe Middle Modernity Study Group and the Dictionary of American Regional English

Contact: James Daniel or Rebecca Lorimer

Print Culture Annual Lecture: "Shattering the Silence: Jeannette Howard Foster and the Writing of Sex Variant Women in Literature"

Joanne Passet
October 12, 4:00 pm
SLIS LIbary, 4191 Helen C. White Hall

Jeannette Howard Foster (1895-1981) was raised in Illinois and gained a PhD at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. For four years in the 1950s she managed the collections of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, where she worked with Alfred Kinsey. Eventually she left to publish her own work. In 1956, she produced Sex Variant Women in Literature, a bibliographic essay that discusses literary accounts of lesbian love from the ancient Greeks though modern times. The book received a 1974 ALA Stonewall Book Award, and today is considered one of the most important works about lesbian literature.12

Sponsored by: University Lectures Committee, the School of Library and Information Science, the University Libraries, the LGBT Campus Center, and departments of History and Communication Arts.

Contact: Christine Pawley, Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (608) 263-2945

Phonolgy Panel with Faculty Book Series

Jan Edwards, Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy, Joe Salmons
October13, 4:00 pm
SLIS Commons, 4th floor Helen C.White

In October, the Applied Linguistics Student Association (ALSA) will host a phonology panel. The panel members will respond to the general questions: What is Phonology? What directions do you foresee phonological research breaching within the decade or beyond? How does your view of the field inform your research and interact with other disciplines of research? A period of questions and answers will follow. The second half of the event will include a talk by Eric Raimy on his recently published book: Contemporary Views on Architecture and Phonological Representations.

Light refreshments will be provided by ALSA.

Sponsored by ALSA [Applied Linguistics Student Association]

Composition and Rhetoric Colloquium

Debra Hawhee
Tuesday, October 20th, 7:00 pm
7191 HCW

Professor Hawhee will be speaking on animals in the history of rhetoric.

Sponsored by English and Communication Arts.

Contact: James Daniel or Rebecca Lorimer

(Some of) What a Writing Center Director Needs to Know

Madison Area Writing Center Colloquium
Monday, November 16, 5:30 - 7:00 pm,
6176 Helen C. White
UW-Madison
600 N. Park St.

Informal Presentations by and Discussion with
Melissa Tedrowe, UW-Madison
Nancy Linh Karls, UW-Madison
Angela Woodward, Edgewood College
Brad Hughes, UW-Madison

Open to anyone in Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois interested in writing center programming and leadership.

For more information, please contact:
Brad Hughes
Director, Writing Center
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Department of English
UW-Madison
bthughes@wisc.edu
608.263.3823

A Visit by Elaine Freedgood

Elaine Freedgood
Time and place for lecture and brownbag TBA
Helen C. White

Sponsored bythe Middle Modernity Group.

Contact: Gwendolyn Blume