Lecture
Caroline Seymour-Jorn (C21 Fellow)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesSocial Justice Activism among Muslims in Milwaukee A C21 Fellow's Presentation The 2015 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture with former C21 Fellows Anna Mansson McGinty and Kristin M. Sziarto
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Native Studies, University of Manitoba)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesBagijiganan: Anishinaabe Ethics in Native Studies Recorded video (YouTube) Bagijiganan (offerings) are the foundations of Anishinaabe ethics. Found in practices from ceremonies to visiting, bagijiganan are embedded in early treaties made with Europeans and acted as both intention and recognition, …
Siobhan Senier (English, University of New Hampshire)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIndigenizing Wikipedia: Expanding the Presence of Native Authors on the World's Largest Encyclopedia For better or worse, Wikipedia is now the first source to which most students, everyday citizens, and even scholars turn for basic information. What does it mean …
Stephen Graham Jones (English, Colorado)
Reading and Discussion Recorded video (Mediasite) Recorded video (YouTube) Stephen Graham Jones will be reading some of his flash fiction, short stories, and perhaps pieces of his novels, as well as providing some anecdotes accompanied by discussion--all followed by a …
Levi Bryant (Philosophy, Collin College)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Interior of Things MIGC keynote speaker On the ontology of the fold . . . Text of The Interior of Things (PDF) Brown bag lunch seminar Friday, February 19 12 noon Curtin 368 Reading: Levi R. Bryant, "The Gravity …
Patricia Richards (Sociology, Women’s Studies, Georgia)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesRecollections of Violence and Survival in the Life Histories of Mapuche Women Elders Recorded Video (Mediasite) Recorded video (YouTube) -- no slides Cosponsored with UWM's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Professor Richards’ talk draws from the preliminary …
Joséphine Bacon (Innu poet)
Golda Meir Library, Special Collections, 4th Floor 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesA Conversation with Joséphine Bacon (in English, French, and Innu) See Details Here Presented by UWM's American Indian Studies program
Michael Twitty (Food Historian)
Milwaukee Public Library, Centennial Hall 733 N 8th St, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesKosher/Soul: Black & Jewish "Identity Cooking" See Details Here (PDF) "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty to speak on food as identity" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Presented by the Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at UWM
Gloria Kim (C21 Provost Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Raw and the Pre-Cooked: Processing Raw Data in Preemptive Data Visualization From the deep futures of climate change, to newly surfacing microbial threats, to the systems of global security: how do we make visible, graspable, and thus governable such …
Sianne Ngai (English, Stanford)
Curtin 368 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheory of the Gimmick 5th Annual Literature & Cultural Theory Lecture Presented by the UWM English Department's Graduate Program in Literature and Cultural Theory What are capitalist subjects saying when we call something a "gimmick," regardless of the varying objects …