2010–2011
fall
2010
sep
24
Lecture: “The Future of 21st Century Studies”
oct
08
Conference: Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces I
with Arijit Sen, Lisa Silverman, Swati Chattopadhyay, Karen E. Till, Charlotte Fonrobert, Jennifer Cousineau, James Rojas, Joseph Sciorra
oct
21
Jussi Parikka
Lecture: “Media Archaeology as Zombie Media Research”
nov
05
Lecture: “A Tear in the Fabric of Time: the Immediate Impact of Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s Itinerario“
nov
11
Lecture: “Harlem and Visual Culture”
dec
10
Lecture: “Deep China: A Reprise”
feb
04
Symposium: Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century
with Laura DeNardis, Sandra Braman, Richard Grusin
feb
18
Conference: [Ø] [zerospace]
with Matthew Burtner, Interactive Media Research Group/IMRG (UVA), Chris Chafe, Scott Deal
feb
25
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Keynote: Heather Love, “Sticking Together”
Keynote: Catherine Malabou, “Plasticity in Between Paranoia and Schizophrenia”
mar
04
Jacalyn Harden
Lecture: “21st Century Wish Dreams: Seattle, Detroit, and the Recalcitrant Anthropologist”
apr
01
Lecture: “The Desire for the Political”
apr
12
Screening: IOCOSE: The Future is a Reconstruction
apr
22
Anna Vemer Andrzejewski
Lecture: “Midwestern Modernism: ‘Wrightification’ and Domestic Architecture in Madison, Wisconsin, 1930-1970”
apr
29
Conference: Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces II
with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Kate Kramer, Rachel Breunlin, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Emanuela Guano, Jennifer Geigel Mikulay, Carl Nightingale, Janet Zweig
2011–2012
sep
30
Jonathan Flatley
Lecture: “Black Leninism; Or, Newspapers and Revolutionary Attunement from Lenin to the League of Revolutionary Black Workers”
oct
04
Donald Pease
Lecture: “Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies”
oct
07
Ursula Heise
Lecture: “Terminal Species: Narrative, Database, and Biodiversity Loss”
oct
21
Jane Taylor
Lecture: “PERFORM/REFORM”
nov
02
Richard Rogers
Lecture: “The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods”
nov
18
Thomas Dale
Lecture: “Romanesque Sculpture, the Body, the Senses, and Religious Experience”
dec
02
Daniel Kleinman
Lecture: “Uneven Commercialization: Contradiction and Conflict in the Identity and Practices of American Universities”
WNTR
2011
feb
10
Frieda Knobloch
Lecture: “Remaking Environmental Studies: Excavating Bedrock and Creating Formations”
feb
24
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Keynote: Siobhan Somerville, “Unsettling Citizenship: Queer Indigenous Studies, U.S. Empire, and the Racial State”
Keynote: Kathryn Stockton, “Kid Orientalism: How a Global Future for Child Sexuality is Now Surfacing”
mar
01
Eric Hayot
Lecture: “Comparative Literature in the 21st Century: Literary History After European Time”
mar
30
Timothy Lenoir
Lecture: “Premediating Neurofutures: Brain-Machine Interfaces and the New New Media”
apr
13
Symposium: Pre-Occupy
with George Ciccariello-Maher, Joshua Clover, Dan S. Wang
may
03-05
with Jane Bennett, Ian Bogost, Wendy Chun, Mark Hansen, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Tim Morton, Steven Shaviro
2012–2013
sep
30
J. Hoberman
Lecture: “Film after Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?)”
oct
12
Lecture: “Rationality: An Overrated Part of Decision Making?”
oct
26
Jodi Dean
Lecture: “The Communist Horizon”
nov
09
Jim Brown
Lecture: “Narrative, Database, and Algorithm in the Hospitable Network”
feb
01
Anna Mansson McGinty, Caroline Seymour-Jorn, and Kristin Sziarto
Workshop: “Public Engagement, Community Collaboration, and Participatory Research”
feb
15
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Keynote: Jack Halberstam, “No Church in the Wild: Anarchy, Failure and Chaos”
mar
01
Donna Jones
Lecture: “The Speculative Turn: Science Fiction and the State of the Novel Form”
mar
12
What’s the Matter With MOOCs
Critical Conversation with Gerry Canavan, Richard Grusin, Greg Jay, Wilhelm Peekhaus, and Kristi Prins
mar
29
Nouri Gana
Lecture: “Specters of Arabness”
apr
03
Christine Evans, Caitjan Gainty, Shelleen Greene
Conversation: “What Does Television Do in the 21st Century?”
apr
04
Derek Mueller
Workshop: “Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-Rich Timelines with Timeline JS”
apr
05
Symposium: Contested Ecologies: The Promises and Perils of Transdisciplinarity
with Tim Ehlinger, Karen Grattan, Ryan Holifield, T. S. McMillin, Morgan Robertson, Manu P. Sobti
apr
15
Frances Ferguson
Lecture: “When We All Became Writers (Around 1800)”
apr
18-19
Matthew Jockers
Lecture: “Around the World in 3,500 Novels”
Workshop: “Text Analysis and Topic Modeling in the Humanities”
may
02-04
Conference: The Dark Side of the Digital
with Sandra Braman, Micha Cárdenas, Julie Cohen, Greg Elmer, Lisa Nakamura, Rita Raley, McKenzie Wark, Andrew Norman Wilson
2013–2014
sep
07
Artist Talk: Steve Rowell
sep
27
Cannon Schmitt
Lecture: “Technical Maturity in Robert Louis Stevenson”
oct
11
José van Dijck
Lecture: “Social Media and the Culture of Connectivity”
oct
18
Robert Markley
Lecture: “Mapping the Great Lakes: Computational Analysis and Climate History, 1680-1850”
nov
01
Irene Klaver
Lecture: “Meander Model Meme: River as Bridge”
nov
07
Lecture: “Code, Community, and Trust in Climate Science”
nov
18
Thomas Dale
Lecture: “Romanesque Sculpture, the Body, the Senses, and Religious Experience”
jan
24
Rob Nixon
Lecture: “This Brief Multitude: The Anthropocene Epoch in the Age of Disparity”
feb
07
Lecture: “Postcolonial Method and Anthropocene Time”
feb
21
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Theme: “Animacy”
Keynote: Mel Y. Chen, “Temporal Politics, Scholarship, and the Protean ‘Posthuman'”
mar
07
Lecture: “The Figural Jew and the Undecidability of Art: From Sartre to Proust to the Coen Brothers and Back Again”
apr
04
Stefan Helmreich
Lecture: “The Water Next Time: Changing Wavescapes in the Anthropocene”
apr
10-12
Conference: Anthropocene Feminism
with Stacy Alaimo, Claire Colebrook, Myra J. Hird, Natalie Jeremijenko, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Juliana Spahr
apr
24
Lecture: “The Humanities in the Post-Capitalist University”
2014–2015
sep
26
Lecture: “Critical Humanism and the Literary Futures Market”
oct
20
Counting DH Scholarship: A Symposium on the Digital Humanities
with John McKenzie, Cheryll Ball, and T. Mills Kelly
oct
24
Wendy Brown
Lecture: “Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism and Political Life”
nov
07
D. Fox Harrell
Lecture: “Phantasmal Media Poetics: Computing and Imagination for Expressing Humanistic Critical Inquiry”
nov
14
Lecture: “Militarized Flyways: Migratory Birds and Transnational Choreographies of Endangerment”
nov
21
Joe Austin, Elana Levine, Mark Vareschi
Discussion: “Doing Digital History”
nov
21
MLA Subconference Organizing Committee
Presentation: “Competing Utopias and Class Composition”
dec
05
Lecture: “Cinema of Digits: The Elusive Touch, the Evasive Grasp, the Open Gesture”
jan
30
EmergentC21 Discussion: #BlackLivesMatterUWMKE: What Should We Do?
with Jeremy Triblett, Angela Walker, Khalil Coleman, Jayme Montgomery Baker, Anne Bonds, Rob Smith, and Monique I. Liston
feb
06
Jake Kosek
Lecture: “Homo-Apians: A Critical Natural History of the Modern Honeybee”
feb
21
Opal Tometi
Lecture: “The #BlackLivesMatter Tipping Point: The Praxis and Power of the Global Black Liberation Movement”
feb
13
Lecture: “Riot Grrrl History, Underground Itineraries and Girl Zine Networks: Unruly Subjects in the 1990s and Beyond”
feb
20
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Theme: “Unbearable”
Keynote: Lauren Berlant & Lee Edelman, “The Unbearable: A Postscript”
feb
26
Black Lives Matter Teach-In
with Robert Samuel Smith and Anne Bonds
mar
06
Lecture: “Pirate Copying, Jugaad Economics: Postcolonial Technologies and Developmental Leapfrogging”
mar
27
Etienne Benson
Lecture: “The Environment: Pasts and Futures of an All-Encompassing Idea”
apr
17
Lecture: “Sand Tables: A Granular History of a Speculative Form”
apr
30
with Daryl Baldwin, Claire Colebrook, William Connolly, Joseph Masco, Cary Wolfe, Joanna Zylinska
2015–2016
oct
17
Kimberly Blaeser
Reading & Lecture: “Gesture and Silence in Poetry of Place”
oct
29
Caroline Seymour-Jorn
Presentation: “Social Justice Activism Among Muslims in Milwaukee”
nov
20
Lecture: “Bagijiganan: Anishinaabe Ethics in Native Studies”
dec
11
Siobhan Senier
Lecture: “Indigenizing Wikipedia: Expanding the Presence of Native Authors on the World’s Largest Encyclopedia”
feb
12
Reading: Stephen Graham Jones
feb
19-20
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Theme: “In Progress”
Keynote: Levi Bryant, “The Interior of Things”
Exploratory Programming Workshop: Nick Montfort
mar
04
Lecture: “Recollections of Violence and Survival in the Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders”
apr
04
EmergentC21 Forum: Becoming and Being a Refugee
with Chia Vang, Omar Mohamed, Kalyani Rai, Mette Brogden, Anwar Sallumi, Barb Graham, Patrick Thein, Tammie Xion
apr
22
Gloria Kim
Lecture: “The Raw and the Pre-Cooked: Processing Raw Data in Preemptive Data Visualization”
apr
28
Sianne Ngai
Lecture: “Theory of the Gimmick”
may
05-07
Conference: Landbody: Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments
with Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Jolene Rickard, Audra Simpson, Kim TallBear, and Gerald Vizenor
may
08-09
IGHERT Workshop
with Cary Miller, Bernie Perley, Kim Blaeser, and Meg Noodin
2016–2017
sep
16
Brian Price
Lecture: “Regret and Remake”
oct
28
EmergentC21 Lecture: Saying NO to Military Power in a University
with Jacqueline Stevens
dec
02
Lecture: “‘I Would Prefer Not To’: Bartleby, Neo-liberalism, and the Great Refusal”
jan
27
Lecture: “Refusing Mastery: The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute as Minor Theory”
feb
13
Daniel T. Rodgers
Lecture: “Age of Fracture: The Transformation of Ideas and Society in Modern America”
feb
16-17
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Theme: “Mosaic”
Keynote: Jason W. Moore, “Expulsions, Inclusions, and the Double Valence of Violent Abstraction: How Modernity Works Through Nature to Accumulate Capital and Destroy Lives”
Workshop: Margaret Rhee, “Kaleidoscope Thinking: On Graduate Reflection, Body, and Writing”
feb
24
Lecture: “Getting to No in War”
mar
10
Lecture: “The Politics of the Psyche”
mar
30
Rebekah Sheldon
Lecture: “When Life Says No: Sterility Apocalypses and Queer Ecopessimism”
mar
31
EmergentC21 Forum: The Visa Promise
with Arijit Sen, Rachel Buff, Anna Mansson McGinty, Dav Odrcic, Kristin Sziarto
apr
27-29
with Joshua Clover, Katerina Kolozova, François Laruelle, Ariana Reines, and Frank B. Wilderson III
2017–2018
Theme: In the Eschaton
nov
10
Lecture: “Vilém Flusser’s ‘Philosophical Fiction’: Science, Creativity and the Encounter with Radical Otherness”
nov
30
Panel Discussion: The End is All Around Us
with Richard Leson, Gerry Canavan, Brittany Pladek
feb
09
Panel Discussion: Race and Free Speech on Campus: Then and Now
Angela Lang, Carolyn Rouse, Rob Smith, Johnny Eric Williams
feb
16-17
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Theme: “Asymmetry”
Keynote: Lisa Parks, “Asymmetries of the Vertical: Mediating the War on Terror from 9/11 to Trump”
mar
07
Lecture: “Is Campus Protest Protected Speech?”
apr
03
Local-Digital-Public Community Roundtable
with Camille Mays and Christie Melby-Gibbons
apr
05
Lecture: “The ‘Human’ in History and Biology”
apr
13
Panel Discussion: Social Media and Academic Freedom
George Ciccariello-Maher, Steve Salaita
apr
20
Lecture: “Rethinking the 21st Century ‘Wife-Cycle'”
apr
20
Lecture: “3D Replication Technologies: Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History”
apr
27
Slow Burn: A Conversation About Impeachment, the Presidency, and Podcasting
apr
27
Lecture: “America’s First Pop Idol: The Rise and Fall of Rudy Vallée”
may
02
Panel Discussion: Arts and Belonging Among Muslims in Milwaukee
with the Muslim Milwaukee Collaboratory
may
03-05
with Caetlin Benson-Allott, James Leo Cahill, Francesco Casetti, Mary Ann Doane, André Gaudreault, Michael Gillespie, Jean Ma, Amy Villarejo
2018–2019
sep
28
Discussion: “The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation”
oct
05
Lecture: “Computer Cognition: A Cyber/Bio/Semiotic Perspective”
oct
25
Celebrating the Patricia Mellencamp Founding Collection: “Archiving Moving Images: From 16mm to Vimeo”
oct
26
50th Anniversary Symposium: Remembering the Center for 20th Century Studies
with Amelie Hastie, Andreas Huyssen, Tara McPherson, Patricia Mellencamp, Gary Weissman, Kathleen Woodward, Dick Blau, Greg Jay, Robin Pickering-Iazzi
nov
02
Roundtable Discussion: All Derangements, Great and Small
with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Grusin, Arijit Sen, Jasmine Alinder, Rina Ghose, Anne Bonds
nov
07
Roundtable Discussion: Popular Feminisms
with Kristen Warner and Jessalynn Keller, Moderated by Elana Levine
feb
01
Book Lecture: Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus
feb
15-16
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Theme: “Artifice”
Keynote: Rachel E. Dubrofsky, “Monsters, Selfies, and Auschwitz: Gendering and Racializing Authenticity”
mar
08
Symposium: Power and Gendered Labor in the Academy
with Carol Stabile (Keynote), Rachel Buff, Renee Calkins, Cary Costello, Xin Huang, and Joyce Latham
mar
09
Salam Yousry: Milwaukee Choir Project
Muslim Milwaukee Project Collaboratory Special Performance
mar
29
Lecture: “The World of Statues: Mobility, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race”
apr
05
Bending the Archive: Zines, Preservation, and the Digital Humanities
with Jenna Freedman, Milo Miller, and Lane Hall
apr
10
Lecture: “The Fall of Wisconsin: The Legacy of Divide-and-Conquer Politics and the Aftermath of the 2018 Elections”
apr
17
Discussion: “Unblocking Attachment Sites for Living in the Plantationocene”
may
02-04
with Jennifer Doyle, Annie McClanahan, Mark Neocleous, Naomi Paik, and Saskia Sassen
may
10
Lecture: “What Would a Humanities PhD Look Like for Students Who Do NOT Want to Be Professors? Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree”
2019–2020
aug
16
Brown Bag Discussion: “Exploring Moving Image Archives: Practices, Theories, and Research”
oct
04
Lecture: “Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Kingdom of Oyo and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1816-1836”
oct
09
Lecture: “A Brighter Darkness”
oct
18
Lecture: “Play as Transformative Work”
oct
24
Symposium: Mucking Up the Archives: Orphans, Amateurs, and Film Preservation
with Dan Streible and Kim Tomadjoglou
oct
25
Lecture: “Divining the Past: Dream Encyclopedic Knowledge in China”
oct
25
Brazilian Digital Media Studies: Two Talks
with Fatima Regis Oliveira and Daniel Marques
nov
01
Lecture: “Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World”
nov
18
Lecture: “Traveling Through: (Post)colonial Play in ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Games”
nov
18
Lecture: “From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media”
dec
06
Lecture: “Pipeline Vision and the Essence of Power”
feb
07
Lecture: “Introduction to eSport Culture”
feb
14
Lecture: “Deus ex Poiesis: A Manifesto for the End of the World and the Future of Art and Technology”
feb
18
Artist Brown Bag Discussion
feb
20
Lecture: “On the Chilean Social Explosion of 2019: Urban Segregation, Public Transport as Public Space, and Neoliberal Modernity”
feb
21-22
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Theme: “Rendition”
Keynote: Ingrid E. Castro, “Renditions of Agency: Something to Say/Hear, Somewhere to Go/Stay, Someone to Be/Become”
feb
28
Lecture: “Displacing Territory and Challenging the International Refugee Regime: Syrian & Palestinian Refugees in Jordan”
feb
28
Lecture: “Framing Black Performance: Selma and the Poetics of Representation”
mar
06
Special Bagel Hour with the DH Lab
mar
06
Lecture: “Graphic Migrations: Hannah Arendt, Statelessness, and South Asia Across Media”
apr
02
(CANCELLED) Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Filmmaker Discussion and Meet-and-Greet
apr
17
Lecture: “Warring Visions: Photography and the Vietnam Conflict”
apr
17-18
(CANCELLED) #ArtInHigherEd Symposium
Keynote by Dr. Lauren Lessing
apr
24
Brown Bag Discussion
apr-
may
30-02
(CANCELLED) Spring Conference: #ALT_MKE
with Fatima El-Tayeb, Dasha Kelly Hamilton, L.A. Kauffman, Brian Larkin, Monique Liston, Rick Lowe, and AbdouMaliq Simone
1970s: Film, Performance, Language, and Technology
1980s: Feminism, Modernism, and Culture