Q&A with Robert Glenn Howard, director of the Digital Studies Certificate Program and professor of communication arts and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and Folklore Studies.
Since the 19th century, one of the grandest of scholarly projects in the humanities has been the making of historical dictionaries. These are comprehensive multivolume dictionaries that aim to cover a language in all its historical depth and contemporary breadth. The best known of these is the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, published in installments from 1884 to 1933, and when completed amounting to 13 massive volumes.
The UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics announced in a news release that Tribune reporters David Jackson, Gary Marx and Duaa Eldeib, and photographer Anthony Souffle, are being honored for a five-part multimedia series that revealed hundreds of wards of the state were assaulted and raped by their peers every year.
Wisconsin has an exceptional system of technical schools that do just what he proposes. One of the advantages of an education provided by a university such as UW-Madison is the critical thinking skills students hopefully develop — skills that Johnson apparently lacks. If he had such skills, he’d easily recognize how UW is an economic boon to the state because of its work.
At the height of her career, just a few years after winning a Tony Award, Karen Olivo walked away from Broadway and headed west – not to Hollywood, but to Madison, Wis.
The Dictionary of American Regional English, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, may soon end its work documenting regional language differences due to a lack of funding.
The end may be near for one of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s most celebrated humanities projects, the half-century-old Dictionary of American Regional English. In a few months, the budget pool will drain to a puddle. Layoff notices have been sent, eulogies composed.
2015 Wisconsin Film Festival preview. Screenings will be held at various campus locations April 9-15.
A group of students from Necedah Area High School will test their scholarly mettle Wednesday when they venture to Madison to participate in the 10th annual Great World Texts in Wisconsin Program at the University of Wisconsin.
The approximately two dozen students will join 500 or so of their peers in discussing their recent intellectual grappling with the work of 18th-century political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau — known as the “father of democratic theory” — and specifically his autobiographical book “Confessions.”
The Necedah students will join in presenting a variety of written, spoken, visual and even culinary interpretations of what they have read — from a hand-carved book shelf to the actual foods the author describes in the book — during the day-long conference.
Great World Texts in Wisconsin, an initiative sponsored by the UW-Madison Center for Humanities, will host 500 high school students who have spent the year studying Rousseaus autobiography Confessions at its 10th annual conference. The students will have a chance to hear from political theorist and MacArthur Award-winner Danielle S. Allen, author of Our Declaration.
The 2015 UW-Madison Writers’ Institute intends to show aspiring writers that there are many more out there, all grappling with the same things.
Before UW-Madison’s percussion students head off en masse to China, they want to celebrate where they’ve come from.
I had an opportunity to chat with Liz Truong – Studio Manager and Creative Director at Change Boutique here in Madison about the Intern Program offered by the local fair trade shop. Currently there are 4 student interns with concentrations in Textile Design, Fashion Design and Retail/Merchandising, the internship lasts one semester with an option to extend to a second if needed. The dedicated interns log 12-15 hours per week in the studio on top of any course load and other jobs they may hold.
Search the word “humanities” online and up pops the phrase “humanities under attack.” The majority of undergraduates today are majoring in business, science and technology disciplines. Technology—and its promise of being able to fix all problems—is, it seems, king.What does all this mean for higher education? Why have the humanities undergone a crisis of legitimacy? And why does this matter?We asked four former university presidents—of Clemson University, University of Florida, University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech—to give us their perspectives on these questions.
One of the most prized books in the world — the very first collection of William Shakespeare’s plays — is coming to Wisconsin. UW–Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art has announced that First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition, will visit Madison in 2016.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
A survey conducted at University of Wisconsin shows while the number of diverse characters and stories in children’s books increased from 2013-2o14, the overall number of books with diverse content has fallen since 2001.
On Monday, Hetzler and his experimental band Sinister Resonance … will perform at High Noon Saloon. On Wednesday, Hetzler, an associate professor of trombone at UW-Madison, also will lead a benefit concert intended to raise morale and money for Brittany Sperberg, an outstanding university student whose music studies have been sidelined by a severe and yet-to-be diagnosed illness. On Friday and Saturday, Hetzler will be performing in more free concerts, this time with his fellow members of the UW Brass Quintet.
The question hung in the air Wednesday as lights dimmed in the Overture Center’s Promenade Hall on the first night of performances for the ninth annual Line Breaks Festival. The answer presented by performers – students in the UW-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community – evolved over the course of the evening.
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
As Madison reacts to the police-involved shooting of Willy Street resident Tony Robinson over the weekend, audiences will have an opportunity to attend a series of events that feature UW students of color.
There have been rallies, vigils and community meetings in the wake of last week’s shooting death of Tony Robinson in Madison. Now, there will be an organized space for response through song, dance and poetry.
Q&A promoting First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community
upcoming performance at the Line Breaks Festival.
Offering a frank assessment of American politics, editor-in-chief of Vox.com Ezra Klein said the entire game needs to be changed if any progress is to be made in a system mired in partisan gridlock.
A filled-to-the-brim Shannon Hall in Memorial Union bustled with UW-Madison students and community members waiting to see the blogger, columnist and accidental entrepreneur who journalism professor Michael Wagner described as “nerd-chic.”
Noted: Koepp, a Pewaukee native and UW-Madison graduate, has become the go-to writer for a series of wildly successful blockbusters, including “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Spider-Man” and the upcoming adaptation of Dan Brown’s “Inferno” starring Tom Hanks.
With his new project, a University of Wisconsin professor aims to capture the essence of the community through photographing the books it reads.
A first-of-its-kind UW-Madison study has dug deep into the lives of transgender high school students in Wisconsin, finding both hopeful signs and dire circumstances.
Just page through Moda magazine, a rapidly growing student publication that showcases fashion, trends and the arts. This week Moda is going beyond its print and online editions to host “UW Fashion Week” — a series of events meant to get Madison thinking about peeling off the parkas and looking good for spring.
Hundreds of Wausau Badger fans welcome the U-W Madison Varsity Band, as they put on a high-energy show Sunday in the Wausau East High School gym.
This regular guy plays a show tonight in Shannon Hall at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union with countryman Vusi Mahlasela. It’s part of a major U.S. tour called “20 Years of Freedom,” referring to the end of apartheid and the establishment of multi-racial democracy in South Africa in 1994.
An amber lager, created by a trio of UW-Madison students on a pilot brewing system in the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, was selected Thursday as the winning brew in a competition to have a beer from the university commercially produced and distributed statewide by Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona.
WAUSAU — The University of Wisconsin Varsity Band is bringing its rousing, high-energy show to central Wisconsin on Sunday, and 2014 Stevens Point Area Senior High graduate Caitlyn Emrick, a freshman tuba player with the band, is excited to perform near her hometown.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence will play war photographer and UW alum Lynsey Addario in a film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Addario’s memoir.
Madison has become a hub for creative entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons, such as a relatively low cost of living compared to big cities; the university, which attracts creative people; and resources for young families. “Artists have always been entrepreneurial in their nature,” agreed Sarah Marty, who teaches an arts entrepreneurship class, launched in 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s very rare that an artist has been able to just exist and someone else takes care of figuring out their audience … who’s going to buy what they’re doing.
Something happened on Friday night, and now everyone at school is talking about it. In the UW-Madison Theatre Department’s production of Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, it was not a schoolyard spat or youthful prank. It was rape.
In the words of King Lear, today we learn “who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out.”
Dennis Lloyd, deputy director of the University Press of Florida, has been named the new director of the University of Wisconsin Press, located in Madison.
Tejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com, the first continent-wide digital encyclopaedia of political cartoons by African artists. He talks to African Digital Art about the collection
“Manifestations,” a show featuring the work of 23 Bachelor of Fine Arts students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spans a variety of styles and subjects.
In a just-released study, UW-Madison researchers found that kids who had participated in the curriculum were less selfish and exhibited better social skills and greater mental flexibility than children who did not do the exercises. And in an added bonus, the kids who did the kindness curriculum earned higher academic marks at the end of the school year.
Working with a former company member, UW dancers staged a section of “D-Man in the Waters” 1989 — the final work on Saturday’s program — in 2013.
Although men and women enter theater graduate programs in equal numbers, only 20% of professional productions nationwide have female writers or directors. In the 2013-14 season, not one new play by a woman was produced on Broadway, even though Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her off-Broadway play The Flick. Award-winning playwright Theresa Rebeck and others have noted this glass ceiling: In 1908, only 12.8% of the productions on Broadway were written by women. Some 100 years later, the needle has not budged.
Chad Gracia left the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s with a degree in Russian and a confidence that he’d be able to use it to get a job with the U.S. government. And then the Berlin Wall fell.
Archival images pair with contemporary photos from the December 2014 “die-in” in two galleries on campus.
To choreographer Bill T. Jones, dance programs like those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are “the lifeblood of modern dance.”
“Your university was one of the first that gave a degree in dance,” said Jones, who will give a lecture on Thursday in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. “Going to the university is a place where there are fresh ears, and they are open and porous.”
Report on panel discussion about the satirical French newspaper.
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is conducting research on foxes and coyotes in hopes of learning how the animals and humans can peacefully coexist.
It’s probably safe to assume, however, that Aldo Leopold would be proud to know he helped inspire a free University of Wisconsin online course about the role of hunting in conservation and wildlife management moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/landethic. The four-week class — “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation” — is part of UW-Madison’s “Massive Open Online Course” series MOOC.
“Dairy agriculture in Wisconsin is a big deal, and we have landscapes where we can maintain it. We just have to be wise in how we do it,” said Fred Madison, a UW-Madison soil science professor emeritus, who has been aware of groundwater problems in Kewaunee County for 40 years.
UW graduate Chad Gracia’s documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” won a big prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Bell hooks started making waves in scholarship long before “Saved by the Bell” became a television hit. She published Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women in Feminism, one of her best-known books, in 1981, and she’s still publishing today from a base at Berea College. The sitcom aired only from 1989 through 1993 though it also had some spin-offs.
Artists tend to be masters at multitasking and “can’t afford to be ivory tower,” according to flute professor Stephanie Jutt, the moderator of “Arts in Madison: An Economic Engine,” co-sponsored by the Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs and the Arts Institute. Also quoted: Ben Reiser, coordinator of the Wisconsin Film Festival; Paula Panczenko, director of Tandem Press; Kurt Squire, professor of education and vice president of research at the UW Learning Games Network; Christopher Taylor, professor of piano.
Pianists Martha Fischer (professor of collaborative piano) and Bill Lutes want to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere at Friday’s “Schubertiade,” a “house party” celebrating music by the 19th-century Austrian composer Franz Schubert.
UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall is home to the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, but a corner space in the building has been transformed into a brewery. The system is designed to teach basic food science principals, train and educate would-be brewers, allow professional brewers to experiment and for academics to conduct research.
In an effort to inspire further dialogue about injustice in America, the selection committee for UW-Madison’s common-reading program is seeking book suggestions that address the theme of inequality.
UW-Madison history professor William P. Jones, who wrote “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” said it is a challenge to try and encapsulate all the nuances of the civil rights movement in a movie that takes place over two weeks. But he was impressed by how accurate it was.
“Woven Gardens of Hope” will showcase the work of Afghan rug makers — and the nonprofit that has empowered them.
Barbata, the UW Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for Spring 2015, will stage a major parade in downtown Madison on May 2.
The free on-campus film series starts this weekend, including “Citizen Kane” on Saturday night.
