Student Life
Power and Gendered Labor in the Academy: A Half-Day Symposium
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 hosted a half-day symposium exploring issues of labor, power, precarity, and academic stardom. (Listen to Carol Stabile's keynote talk below.) The past two years have seen shockwaves of protest and activism in response to a growing awareness of sexual …
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 …
Graduate Student Bagel Hour
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAll graduate students are invited to join us in the C21 office (Curtin 939) for this biweekly celebration of carbs and camaraderie. Start your Friday with some free coffee and bagels (provided by Benny's Bagels), and meet and chat …
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 …
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.
Graduate Student Bagel Hour
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAll graduate students are invited to join us in the C21 office (Curtin 939) for this biweekly celebration of carbs and camaraderie. Start your Friday with some free coffee and bagels (provided by Benny's Bagels), and meet and chat with …
Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing: Unblocking Attachment Sites for Living in the Plantationocene
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join us on April 17 at 3:30pm for a conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing from UC - Santa Cruz about exploring the arts of living on a damaged planet.
Graduate Student Bagel Hour
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAll graduate students are invited to join us in the C21 office (Curtin 939) for this biweekly celebration of carbs and camaraderie. Start your Friday with some free coffee and bagels (provided by Benny's Bagels), and meet and chat with …
Bonnie ‘Bo’ Ruberg: Video Games Have Always Been Queer—CANCELED
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join us for a special lecture with Bonnie 'Bo' Ruberg hosted by our Serious Play Collaboratory! Ruberg will discuss their new book, Video Games Have Always Been Queer. Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to "pass" in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games—because video games have, in fact, always been queer.
Graduate Student Bagel Hour
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAll graduate students are invited to join us in the C21 office (Curtin 939) for this biweekly celebration of carbs and camaraderie. Start your Friday with some free coffee and bagels, and meet and chat with other grad students from …