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 …
First Bagel Hour of the Semester
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOur first bagel hour of the spring semester will be on Friday, February 2 from 10-11 a.m. Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to join us in Curtin 939 to enjoy fresh coffee, free bagels, and conversation! (Dates for …
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.
Race and Free Speech on Campus–Then and Now
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAngela Lang (ACLU), Carolyn Rouse (Anthropology, Princeton), Rob Smith (History, Marquette), and Johnny Eric Williams (African-American Studies, Trinity) Please note that there were some technical difficulties with the video: More than fifty years after the Free Speech Movement began at the University …
Bagels for Lunch, with Christopher Newfield
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOn Tuesday, February 13, we’ll have a special lunch edition of our Friday Bagel Hour with guest Christopher Newfield (UC-Santa Barbara) who is on campus to deliver the L&S Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Does the U.S. Need Public …
Our Heavenly Bodies (Wunder der Schöpfung)
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTHIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Live musical accompaniment by Coupler! In 1925, German director Hanns Walter Kornblum set out to create a film that would summarize all available astronomical knowledge and a dreamy investigation of what wonders might …
MIGC 2018: Asymmetry
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe theme of MIGC 2018 is Asymmetry, and features as keynote speaker Lisa Parks (MIT), a global media scholar whose research focuses on three areas: satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization and surveillance. She …