Co-Sponsored
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Ferguson Conjuncture: Why the Humanities Matter Now View Facebook Event Cosponsored with the Comparative Ethnic Studies Program, History Department, Africology Department, Cultures and Communities Program, Urban Studies Program, and College of Letters and Science.
A Town Called Brzostek
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesFilm and Talkback with Director Simon Target Talkback moderated by Neal Pease (UWM) Presented by The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM Documentary, 50 min. | Poland www.handheldfeatures.com Free and open to the public Director Simon …
The Return
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesFilm and talkback with director Adam Zucker Talkback moderated by Neal Pease (UWM) Presented by The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM Documentary, 83 min. | USA/Poland www.thereturndocumentary.com In the wake of the Holocaust and Soviet …
Beyond Crisis: The Humanities in Renewal
Zelazo Center, Blue Room 2419 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Symposium Dedicated to Ihab Hassan 3:30 pm Zelazo Center, Blue Room 5:00 pm Reception 2419 E Kenwood Blvd Presented by UWM's College of Letters and Science The Center for 21st Century Studies was greatly saddened to learn that UWM …
Patricia Richards (Sociology, Women’s Studies, Georgia)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesRecollections of Violence and Survival in the Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders Recorded Video (Mediasite) Recorded video (YouTube) -- no slides Cosponsored with UWM's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Professor Richards’ talk draws from the preliminary …
Joséphine Bacon (Innu poet)
Golda Meir Library, Special Collections, 4th Floor 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Conversation with Joséphine Bacon (in English, French, and Innu) See Details Here Presented by UWM's American Indian Studies program
Michael Twitty (Food Historian)
Milwaukee Public Library, Centennial Hall 733 N 8th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesKosher/Soul: Black & Jewish "Identity Cooking" See Details Here (PDF) "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty to speak on food as identity" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Presented by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM
Sianne Ngai (English, Stanford)
Curtin 368 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheory of the Gimmick 5th Annual Literature & Cultural Theory Lecture Presented by the UWM English Department's Graduate Program in Literature and Cultural Theory What are capitalist subjects saying when we call something a "gimmick," regardless of the varying objects …
Tim Raphael and Julie Winokur (NewestAmericans.com)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNewest Americans: Stories from the Global City See Details at UWM Libraries Website Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, the Chipstone Foundation, Digital Humanities Lab at the UWM Libraries