Arts & Humanities

Director Sean Hanish will participate in a Q&A led by communication arts faculty after a screening on Saturday, March 9.

Inviting the public to engage with hard questions is at the heart of the humanities at UW-Madison.

Kemal H. Karpat, the former chair of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History, passed away in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 20, 2019, at the age of 96. On February 25, 2019, there was a state funeral in Istanbul under the auspices and attendance of the Turkish President, and Karpat is laid to rest at the Fatih Mosque graveyard, the burial site of sultans and select Ottoman and Turkish dignitaries.

How everyday objects can teach us about the past — and ourselves.

UW-Madison's history department is where students encounter different perspectives on a past they may have taken for granted or thought they knew well. Three professors share the questions and insights that emerge when old narratives are challenged, and there's more diversity at the front of the room.

She joins the English Department as one of four new scholars of Global Black Studies.

A traditional Danish concept is giving Americans the warm fuzzies. But a Scandinavian Studies professor warns we might be missing the true essence of hygge.

First-generation college student Alexandra Pleasant is writing her own path forward.

He brings a focus on modern Chinese literature and history to the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.