Category: Arts & Humanities

Cole came from the west coast to the Midwest in pursuit of a degree and found activism as well as a life-changing reconnection to his passion: music.

Noted: Ithaca College, Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the other schools that have credit or noncredit courses or touch on the show in other music or history classes.

When does a picture from a pulp magazine deserve a spot in a museum alongside exquisite fine art? Maybe when it takes the viewer into another world with its rich composition, beautiful technique and evocative detail. Such are many works in “Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection,” an exhibition on view at the Chazen Museum of Art through Feb. 4.

Do you have a book you can’t put down and would be enjoyed by thousands of others? The UW-Madison Go Big Read program wants to hear from you.

David Bordwell effectively argues that the change in the era of bold, different, sometimes difficult films from the ’40s made a permanent mark of cinematic storytelling that resonates to this day.

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, associate professor of history, University of Wisconsin at Madison: The book I am most eagerly awaiting is Kieran Setiya’s Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press).

The Wisconsin Singers is celebrating 50 years with two special performances in Overture Hall.

Cherene Sherrard is a professor in the English department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her debut collection of poetry, “Vixen,” was published in September by Autumn House Press.

A short-lived set lacks focality and quickly runs through Top 40 hits with little to no effort.

“Every state in our union has a World War I centennial commission and this symposium is the Wisconsin World War I Centennial Commission’s primary event to commemorate our state’s contributions to World War I,” said Dr. John Hall, Ambrose-Hesseltine Professor of U.S. Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and symposium organizer.

Fifty years ago, everyday life on the UW-Madison campus came to an abrupt halt, as a sit-in against the Dow Chemical Company erupted into violence. On Oct. 18, 1967, Madison police officers in riot gear forcibly removed anti-war demonstrators from the Commerce Building, now known as Ingraham Hall.

Twelve students are part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new Center for Religion and Global Citizenry. This center comes after the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic Religions closed last year due to a lack of funding.

Enter Room 2401 of the UW’s Humanities Building these days, and you’ll likely find Daniel Grabois tinkering with keyboards, speakers, microphones, pedals and all kinds of high-tech gizmos that now litter the space.

Doug Bradley is a veteran of the Vietnam War. But his view of the United States’ most contentious military conflict is different than many of those who saw combat.

UW-Madison will host a panel of three experts to discuss its 2017-’18 Go Big Read book, J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy.”

Steve Miller, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a former UW-Madison student, is coming back to campus — for a good cause.

Danez Smith, St. Paul native and poet published by Minneapolis-based Graywolf Press, was announced Wednesday as one of five finalists for the National Book Award in poetry.

Proceeds from the ticket sales and additional donations will benefit the Chancellor’s Scholarship Program at UW-Madison.

During half a century of painstaking research that gradually brought the Dictionary of American Regional English into being, its staff, friends, and benefactors have found many occasions to celebrate its progress, volume by volume starting in 1985 and ending just a few years ago with the publication of the final Volume 6, accommodating some 60,000 words that are often missing from other dictionaries because they are used only in parts of our vast nation.

Americans tend to think that we’re a pretty homogeneous nation, in terms of our vocabulary. Yes, there are Southern drawls, and there’s Boston and Brooklyn and Appalachia and Minnesota, but the words themselves, we believe, are pretty much the same. But there are often significant regional differences, and these are beautifully explicated in the Dictionary of American Regional English, the six-volume study of America’s dialects, affectionately known as dare.

It’s a big year for Jane Austen, with books, festivals, statues and even currency commemorating the 200th anniversary of her death.

When Lawren Brianna Ware moved up from Alabama to Wisconsin she just wanted to explore the arts in a new place. Snowy Madison was a far cry from her warm, southern home. Being in a new place can be daunting and for any of us who have ever moved, one of the first questions we ask ourselves is, “what is there to do around here?”

Inside the confounding, windowless labyrinth of UW-Madison’s Mosse Humanities Building, horn professor Dan Grabois is busy setting up his classroom for the new school year. The walls are freshly painted, there’s new carpet on the floors and in a tangle of boxes surrounding him, there’s more than $160,000 in electronic music equipment waiting to be unpacked.

When Daniel Grabois opens EARS to the public Friday night, there could be a line out the door.

University of Wisconsin professor John Hall is going to witness and write the history of the military’s fight against violent extremism. It will undoubtedly be a fascinating inside look at life inside the Pentagon that his students would jump at the chance to read.

Taylor spends most of the year teaching right here at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Mead Witter School of Music.

UW-Madison’s First Wave program, the only full-tuition hip-hop scholarship at a Big Ten university, has confirmed it is not accepting any applications for the 2018-19 academic year. This comes amid other potential sweeping changes to the First Wave, which recruits spoken word artists, rapper and poets from around the country.

Laura Schwendinger, a professor of composition at the UW–Madison since 2005, has received a steady stream of commissions to compose music over the past decade. She released a CD of chamber music in 2013 titled “High Wire Acts” with grants from UW–Madison and the Columbia University Ditson Fund.

For the incoming director of the Chazen Museum of Art, art is an idea, just like the museums that contain it.

The exhibit, “Wisconsin Without Borders: A Global Initiative,” highlights the products that are made as part of the 4W Initiative — Women & Wellbeing in Wisconsin & the World.

Robert Enright was studying justice for 10 years when he hit a wall.

If you’ve been dying to see the musical Hamilton, or you’ve seen it and love it, this story is for you.

Sarah Marty, professor with the UW-Madison division of continuing studies, has been in “the room where it happens” to see “Hamilton” four times.Now she’s delving deeper into the “Hamilton” phenomenon in a six-week summer course dedicated to the award-winning musical that highlights a story that is so American.

Memorial Library, too, is going Spanish by hosting a special display titled “Don Quixote Through the Ages,” with books, musicals and other scores from the UW-Madison Libraries collection through Aug. 10.

With simple, natural prose, Heather Swan, writer, lecturer, beekeeper, examines the changing world of the honeybee, a creature that is far grander and more impactful than meets the eye.

After attending the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Ben McCready pursued other career options until he decided to take his own advice to “follow your bliss.”

It took a transatlantic ship, enormous crates, special gantries, and before all that a high-tech laser scan — but finally Jim Dine’s latest artwork is installed at the Chazen Museum of Art.

In their new graphic book “Heretics! The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy” by Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler, the father and son duo take readers on a historical journey starring a group of thinkers who used reason and evidence to triumph over the authority of religion, royalty and antiquity.

We asked publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders for their views on the state and future of academic publishing. Of the people we contacted, including the heads of nearly every one of the Association of American University Presses’ 143 members, 46 sent back responses to our questions. We got back a surprisingly wide range of views — and good ideas on how university presses are preparing for an uncertain future. Contributing: Dennis Lloyd, of UW Press.

A native of the Midwest, Liz Anna Kozik spent much of her childhood surrounded by prairies. Yet it wasn’t until Kozik left her home in Naperville, Illinois, for her undergrad studies in Rhode Island that she began to appreciate their beauty. She opted to go to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin – not just so she could be close to the prairie again, but also to study the grassy habitat’s history.

Cartoonist Lynda Barry became famous for depicting her troubled Seattle childhood in books like Down The Street, Come Over, Come Over, and The Good Times Are Killing Me, which she turned into a successful stage play.