Verified Reading Group with Milwaukee Public Library

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join Milwaukee Public Library librarians at the Center for 21st Century Studies for a small-group discussion of Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions About What to Believe Online by Mike Caulfield & Sam Wineburg. …

UWM Gallery Night 

Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Explore galleries across UWM’s campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukee’s Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out prints and Picassos with exhibitions honoring prolific collectors. More into artifacts than art? Head to the American Geographical Society Library to learn more about the history of American explorations of Antarctica.

Story Cart: Trust & the Vote Exhibition Opening

Center for 21st Century Studies 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

With an historic U.S. presidential election on the horizon, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies, in the summer of 2024, interviewed over 60 people in Milwaukee County about their relative trust or distrust in the U.S. voting system. Story facilitators …

UW System Faculty Lecture Series: Derek Handley 

This virtual event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Click here to register. The UW System Faculty Lecture Series and The Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM proudly present Derek Handley: Struggle for the City: …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.