Graduate Student Bagel Hour

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee

All graduate students are invited to join us in the C21 office (Curtin 939) for this biweekly celebration of carbs and camaraderie. Start your Friday with some free coffee and bagels (provided by Benny's Bagels), and meet and chat with …

Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea (Critical East Asian Humanities Collaboratory)

Garland 104 2441 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee

Student protesters at Susong primary schoolIn this talk, historian Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will explore the historical context of the April 19th Students’ Revolution in 1960, in which South Korean students overthrew the government. Kim advances a cultural explanation of that seminal event, including how post-Korean War media and statist texts helped establish youth protest as a cornerstone of national identity.

Bonnie ‘Bo’ Ruberg: Video Games Have Always Been Queer—CANCELED

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee

Book cover of Video Games Have Always Been Queer by Bonnie Bo RubergJoin us for a special lecture with Bonnie 'Bo' Ruberg hosted by our Serious Play Collaboratory! Ruberg will discuss their new book, Video Games Have Always Been Queer. Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to "pass" in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games—because video games have, in fact, always been queer.