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Hasia Diner (History, NYU)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJewish Women in America: A History of Their Own 2016 Faye Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Read about Hasia Diner at the Association for Jewish Studies
Christiane Taubira (former Minister of Justice of France)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJustice in Service of Equality Livestreamed from the University of Chicago French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; and Alliance Française de Milwaukee See Details Here (PDF)
Daniel T. Rodgers (Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton )
UWM Union, Fireside Lounge 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAge of Fracture: The Transformation of Ideas and Society in Modern America Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and UWM History Department “Fracture” now seems everywhere in our contemporary United States: in social relations, partisan politics, growing economic inequalities, and …
Nancy Fraser (Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCrisis of Care? Social Contradictions of Neoliberal Capitalism Hosted by UWM Women's and Gender Studies, with sponsorships by William F. Vilas Trust Fund; Office of the Provost & Vice Chancellor; Div. of Academic Affairs; College of Letters & Science; Departments …
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheme: MOSAIC See MIGC Website Keynote talk Jason W. Moore (Sociology, Binghamton University) “Expulsions, Inclusions, and the Double Valence of Violent Abstraction: How Modernity Works Through Nature to Accumulate Capital and Destroy Lives” Friday, February 17 3:30 pm Curtin 175 …
Maria Haigh (SOIS, UWM)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda School of Information Studies, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, Social Studies of Information Research Group See Details at the UWM SOIS Website
Vijay Prashad (International Studies, Trinity College)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIn the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism Has Failed, Cruel Populism Has Us by the Throat See Details Here Center for International Education, the Vilas Trust
When Words and Images Matter: Challenges to Our Time
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Conversation with Christiane Taubira and Raoul Peck Hosted by French, Italian, Comparative Literature (FICL); Alliance Française Christiane Taubira Christiane Taubira is former Minister of Justice, France, who was responsible for the Taubira Law (making slavery a crime against humanity) …
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 …