
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
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”
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
oct
12
Lecture: “Rationality: An Overrated Part of Decision Making?”
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
12
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
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
mar
07
Lecture: “The Figural Jew and the Undecidability of Art: From Sartre to Proust to the Coen Brothers and Back Again”
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
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
21
feb
13
Lecture: “Riot Grrrl History, Underground Itineraries and Girl Zine Networks: Unruly Subjects in the 1990s and Beyond”
feb
20
mar
06
Lecture: “Pirate Copying, Jugaad Economics: Postcolonial Technologies and Developmental Leapfrogging”
apr
17
Lecture: “Sand Tables: A Granular History of a Speculative Form”
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
feb
12
Reading: Stephen Graham Jones
feb
19-20
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”
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
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
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
2017–2018
Theme: In the Eschaton
nov
10
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
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
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
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
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
oct
09
Lecture: “A Brighter Darkness”
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”
feb
14
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”
mar
06
Special Bagel Hour with the DH Lab
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