Arts and Culture
Fellows Presentation + C21 Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease 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 …
Graduate Student Bagel Hour with Sharon Marcus
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis "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 …
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 …
All Derangements, Great and Small: A Roundtable Discussion with Amitav Ghosh
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin 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 …
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 …
Salam Yousry: Milwaukee Choir Project
Green Hall 3347 N. Downer, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe 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 …
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). …
Bending the Archive: Zines, Archiving, and the Digital Humanities
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis 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 …
Women Film Pioneers Symposium
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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.