Collaboratory
Local-Digital-Public Community Roundtable
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesProject Local-Digital-Public is a C21 Collaboratory that examines how public discourse can remobilize civic action and rejuvenate academic thought. LDP is a social justice project that seeks to hear residents of Sherman Park and Washington Park speak back, speak out, and be …
Leon Neyfakh: Slow Burn: A Conversation About Impeachment, the Presidency, and Podcasting
Merrill 131 2512 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Sound Inquiry Collaboratory is excited to host Leon Neyfakh (writer for Slate magazine) for a discussion of his recent Watergate podcast, Slow Burn. Neyfakh's wildly popular podcast addressed questions about what it was like to live through the Watergate …
Arts and Belonging Among Muslims in Milwaukee: A Panel Discussion
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHosted by C21's Muslim Milwaukee Collaboratory, this event is open to the public and aims to open up an important discussion about the diversity of Muslim experiences and voices in Milwaukee. A few main questions for the panelists are: How …
Salam Yousry: Milwaukee Choir Project
Green Hall 3347 N. Downer, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Muslim Milwaukee Project Collaboratory is hosting a special performance by Salam Yousry, an Egyptian musician and theater director and creator of the international Choir Project. This will be the first time the Choir Project has been performed in Milwaukee. During the …
Women Film Pioneers Symposium
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join us for our Women Film Pioneers Symposium on April 19! This half-day event is scheduled in conjunction with three programs of films by early women directors at the Oriental Theatre on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night, organized by Milwaukee Film and presented by the UWM Moving Image Society and C21's Media Studies Research Collaboratory.
Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea (Critical East Asian Humanities Collaboratory)
Garland 104 2441 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States
In 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.