Brown Bag Discussion w/Jairus Grove: “Bringing the World Back In”

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Jairus Grove (Director, University of Hawai’i Research Center for Futures Studies) will be hosting a special brown bag discussion at the Center for 21st Century Studies on Friday at noon. Grove will be discussing his work in progress, "Bringing the …

Jairus Grove: Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Jairus Grove (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) joined us on November 1, 2019 to discuss "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World." (Grove also hosted a brown bag discussion on Friday at noon in the Center for 21st …

Collaboratory Event: Coffee, Donuts, Postcolonial Play (w/Guest Melissa Kagen)

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Please join our Digital Cultures Collaboratory for a special talk with Melissa Kagen (Bangor University), world authority on walking simulators and games of wandering. In addition to a casual meet-and-greet with light refreshments, Kagen will be discussing "Traveling Through: (Post)colonial Play in 'Around …

Brian Jacobson: Pipeline Vision and the Essence of Power

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Don't miss the brown bag discussion with Brian Jacobson earlier on Friday at noon in the Center for 21st Century Studies. Join us for a lecture with Brian Jacobson (University of Toronto), who will be discussing "Pipeline Vision and the …

Raine Koskimaa: “Introduction to eSport Culture”

Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The 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 …

Maxwell Woods: On the Chilean Social Explosion of 2019: Urban Segregation, Public Transport as Public Space, and Neoliberal Modernity

American Geographical Society Library 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Please join us for a special lecture by Maxwell Woods (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Viña del Mar, Chile) on Friday at the American Geographical Society Library in UWM's Golda Meir Library (Third Floor East Wing)! On October 18, 2019, the …

MIGC: Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2020

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The theme for this year’s Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC) is Rendition. The conference will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on February 21-22, 2020 with keynote speaker Dr. Ingrid E. Castro (Massachusetts Liberal Arts College). Renditions have generated …

Karen Culcasi: Displacing Territory and Challenging the International Refugee Regime: Syrian & Palestinian Refugees in Jordan

American Geographical Society Library 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Please join our Muslim Milwaukee Project Collaboratory in welcoming Karen Culcasi (West Virginia University) to campus for a special talk on "Displacing Territory and Challenging the International Refugee Regime: Syrian & Palestinian Refugees in Jordan." The vastly different responses to …