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Local events play a powerful role in strengthening city economies, generating activity from day trips to overnight stays. This Innovative Cities Lecture highlights how two Wisconsin communities attract visitors, host more than 80 events annually, and measure both economic and community impact.

Maura Lucking is a historian of architectural modernism and the nineteenth century U.S. Her research studies design as the intersection of connected histories of race, craft, land, and labor. Jodi Melamed is professor of English and Race, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies at Marquette University. For spring semester 2024 she served as the Norman Freehling Professor at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan.