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September 2018
Fellows Presentation + C21 Open House
Please join us in welcoming the new school year, and our new group of Fellows, by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. 2017-18 Fellows will be giving brief, informal talks about the work they did during their fellowship year: Xin…
Find out more »Graduate Student Bagel Hour with Sharon Marcus
This "special edition" bagel hour will feature a discussion with Sharon Marcus, the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. At the bagel hour, Marcus will talk to graduate students about professional issues, life in academia, the…
Find out more »October 2018
Archiving Moving Images: From 16mm to Vimeo
Celebrating 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…
Find out more »November 2018
All Derangements, Great and Small: A Roundtable Discussion with Amitav Ghosh
Join us for a roundtable with Amitav Ghosh featuring Richard Grusin (Center for 21st Century Studies), Arijit Sen (SARUP), Jasmine Alinder (History), Rina Ghose (Geography), and Anne Bonds (Geography). Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh’s most recent book frames our collective failure to…
Find out more »February 2019
Book Lecture: Jane Gallop
UWM'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…
Find out more »March 2019
Salam Yousry: Milwaukee Choir Project
The C21 Muslim Milwaukee Project Collaboratory is hosting a special performance by Salam Yousry, an Egyptian musician and theater director and creator of the international Choir Project. This will be the first time the Choir Project has been performed in Milwaukee. During the…
Find out more »Discussion in Mathis Gallery: Strategies for Colonial Art (Nicholas Mirzoeff, Samantha Maloney, and David Pacifico)
Please 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).…
Find out more »April 2019
Bending the Archive: Zines, Archiving, and the Digital Humanities
This special roundtable discussion was held in coordination with Milwaukee Zine Fest, featuring Jenna Freedman (Barnard Library, NYC), Milo Miller (UWM and the Queer Zine Archive Project), and Lane Hall (English, UWM). Zines are non-commercial publications made by ordinary people using…
Find out more »Women Film Pioneers Symposium
Join us for our Women Film Pioneers Symposium on April 19! This half-day event is scheduled in conjunction with three programs of films by early women directors at the Oriental Theatre on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night, organized by Milwaukee Film and presented by the UWM Moving Image Society and C21's Media Studies Research Collaboratory.