Lecture
Vilém Flusser’s “Philosophical Fiction”: Science, Creativity and the Encounter with Radical Otherness
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA lecture by Erick Felinto (Media Theory, State University of Rio de Janeiro) Czech philosopher and media theorist Vilém Flusser is probably one of the most overlooked prophets of the “digital revolution,” having achieved only moderate international fame because of …
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 …
Gregory Jay: Developing, Completing, and Publishing a Book Project
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGregory Jay (English) will talk informally about his most recent book, White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett (Oxford University Press, 2017). Feel free to read the Introduction and Afterword before the talk.
MIGC 2018: Asymmetry
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe theme of MIGC 2018 is Asymmetry, and features as keynote speaker Lisa Parks (MIT), a global media scholar whose research focuses on three areas: satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization and surveillance. She …
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 …
Gabriel Menotti: 3D Replication Technologies – Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGabriel Menotti, a Brazilian Fulbright scholar currently in residence at the Center for 21st Century Studies, will deliver a special lecture on "3D Replication Technologies: Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History." 3D replication technologies like highly detailed modeling or …
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 …
Lecture: N. Katherine Hayles
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States*Join us before the talk for a special brown bag discussion with N. Katherine Hayles at noon in the Center for 21st Century Studies (Curtin 939). Please join us for a lecture by N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University) entitled "Computer …
Archiving Moving Images: From 16mm to Vimeo
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCelebrating the Patricia Mellencamp Founding Collection Patricia Mellencamp at Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge, 1999 Distinguished Professor Emerita Patricia Mellencamp was one of the first faculty members at UWM—and indeed in the country—to teach film studies, and was instrumental in establishing film …