Lecture
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 …
Book Lecture: Jane Gallop
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesUWM's own Jane Gallop gave a special lecture in conjunction with her recently published book Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus (Duke, 2019). The talk addressed issues of mid-to-late-life disability and the impacts of disability and aging on …
Discussion in Mathis Gallery: Strategies for Colonial Art (Nicholas Mirzoeff, Samantha Maloney, and David Pacifico)
Mathis Gallery 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join us for "Strategies for Colonial Art" with Nicholas Mirzoeff (Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University), Samantha Maloney (Art History, UWM), and David Pacifico (Director, Emile H. Mathis Gallery) in UWM's Mathis Gallery (Mitchell Hall 170). …
Dan Kaufman: The Fall of Wisconsin: The Legacy of Divide-and-Conquer Politics and the Aftermath of the 2018 Elections
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join us for this special talk on "The Fall of Wisconsin: The Legacy of Divide-and-Conquer Politics and the Aftermath of the 2018 Elections" with author Dan Kaufman. In his talk, Kaufman will examine recent attempts to transform Wisconsin’s political culture, culminating in Donald Trump’s Wisconsin victory in the 2016 election. Kaufman will focus special attention on the citizen activists who fought these efforts and the national Democratic Party leaders who largely ignored them, while also delving into the history of Wisconsin’s progressive tradition and that legacy’s profound influence on the nation.