Lecture
Maria Haigh (SOIS, UWM)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda School of Information Studies, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, Social Studies of Information Research Group See Details at the UWM SOIS Website
Catherine Lutz (Anthropology, Brown)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGetting to No in War Recorded video The United States has an all-volunteer military force, one that public opinion polls regularly show is the most respected institution in U.S. society. Nonetheless, numbers of those who enlist sooner or later say …
Vijay Prashad (International Studies, Trinity College)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIn the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism Has Failed, Cruel Populism Has Us by the Throat See Details Here Center for International Education, the Vilas Trust
Camille Robcis (History, Cornell)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Politics of the Psyche In this talk, Camille Robcis traces the history of institutional psychotherapy, a psychiatric reform movement born in France after World War II that had an important influence on many doctors and intellectuals, including Félix Guattari, …
C21 Fellows’ Presentations and Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPresentations: 4:00 pm Curtin 118 Open House: 5:30 pm Curtin 939 Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in welcoming our new crew of fellows by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. Several of last year's fellows will …
C21 Open Meeting
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesReevaluate C21 mission and plan for 50th anniversary Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in an open meeting where we can talk with one another about how C21 can reevaluate its mission in these challenging times. We …
When Words and Images Matter: Challenges to Our Time
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Conversation with Christiane Taubira and Raoul Peck Hosted by French, Italian, Comparative Literature (FICL); Alliance Française Christiane Taubira Christiane Taubira is former Minister of Justice, France, who was responsible for the Taubira Law (making slavery a crime against humanity) …
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.