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The End Is All Around Us
Marquette Haggerty Museum of Art 530 N 13th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 and Marquette’s Haggerty Museum of Art team up for an interdisciplinary conversation on the end times. The conversation will take up points of connection between C21’s 2017-18 research theme, In the Eschaton, and the Haggerty Museum’s exhibition, "The World …
Our Heavenly Bodies (Wunder der Schöpfung)
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTHIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Live musical accompaniment by Coupler! In 1925, German director Hanns Walter Kornblum set out to create a film that would summarize all available astronomical knowledge and a dreamy investigation of what wonders might …
Julia Adeney Thomas: The “Human” in History and Biology (C21 Collaboratory Lecture)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for a World History Association & UWM Asian Studies Distinguished Lecture organized by the Critical East Asian Humanities C21 Collaboratory, who will be welcoming Julia Adeney Thomas for her talk, "The 'Human' in History and Biology: Questions of Scale, Questions …
Suzanne Leonard: Rethinking the 21st Century “Wife-Cycle”
Curtin 368 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Center for 21st Century Studies is proud to be co-sponsoring Suzanne Leonard's upcoming talk, "Rethinking the 21st Century 'Wife-Cycle': From Online Dating to the Campaign Trail." Suzanne Leonard (Associate Professor of English, Simmons College) will discuss her book, Wife Inc., as well as current issues surrounding gender …
Allison McCracken: America’s First Pop Idol: The Rise and Fall of Rudy Vallée
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Media Studies Research Collaboratory is excited to host a talk with Professor Allison McCracken from DePaul University based on her book, Real Mean Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture (Duke UP, 2015). American pop singing did not begin gently with …
All Derangements, Great and Small: A Roundtable Discussion with Amitav Ghosh
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for a roundtable with Amitav Ghosh featuring Richard Grusin (Center for 21st Century Studies), Arijit Sen (SARUP), Jasmine Alinder (History), Rina Ghose (Geography), and Anne Bonds (Geography). Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh’s most recent book frames our collective failure to …
Roundtable Discussion: Popular Feminisms
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesInspired by the Fall 2018 Distinguished Lecture Series event featuring feminist public intellectual Roxane Gay, this roundtable engages with public dialogues around feminism in the contemporary era and the circulation of debates, representations, and activism around gender, race, and other categories of social identity …
Podcasting the Past: An Evening with Ben Franklin’s World (Presented by Liz Covart)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin WUWM, Wisconsin’s NPR, and C21's Sound Inquiry Collaboratory for an evening of audio history with Liz Covart, the host of the widely-popular podcast on the American Revolution, “Ben Franklin’s World.” In a conversation with WUWM "Lake Effect" host Mitch Teich, Covart will discuss how podcasting is helping a new generation of history buffs learn about the Founding Fathers.
Raine Koskimaa: “Introduction to eSport Culture”
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Serious Play Collaboratory is hosting a special lecture by Raine Koskimaa (University of Jyvaskyla) on Friday at 3:30 in Curtin Hall 118! In this talk, titled “Introduction to eSport Culture,” Koskimaa will survey the development of eSports and …
Brown Bag Discussion w/Edward Shanken
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join us for a special brown bag discussion with Edward Shanken (UC Santa Cruz) in the Digital Humanities Lab (Second Floor, East Wing of the Golda Meir Library) on Friday at noon. Shanken will lead an open discussion on …