Bonnie ‘Bo’ Ruberg: Video Games Have Always Been Queer—CANCELED

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Book cover of Video Games Have Always Been Queer by Bonnie Bo RubergJoin 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.

Podcasting the Past: An Evening with Ben Franklin’s World (Presented by Liz Covart)

Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Poster for Liz Covart Podcasting the Past eventJoin WUWM, Wisconsin’s NPR, and C21's Sound Inquiry Collaboratory for an evening of audio history with Liz Covart, the host of the widely-popular podcast on the American Revolution, “Ben Franklin’s World.” In a conversation with WUWM "Lake Effect" host Mitch Teich, Covart will discuss how podcasting is helping a new generation of history buffs learn about the Founding Fathers.

Insecurity Conference

Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This conference proposes the concept of “insecurity” as one of the governing logics of economic, political, and social life in the West at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Insecurity picks up on, and challenges, several key concepts of 21st century studies, especially “precarity,” “securitization,” and “resilience.”

Teresa Mangum: Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree (Public Humanities PhD Collaboratory)

Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Teresa MangumJoin our Public Humanities PhD Collaboratory in welcoming Teresa Mangum for her talk, "What Would a Humanities PhD Look Like for Students Who Do NOT Want to Be Professors? Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree." Mangum's talk will consider the relationship(s) between the humanities and public life, the role of a humanities PhD within and beyond the academy, and options for PhD students going into non-academic fields.

Exploring Moving Image Archives: Practices, Theories, and Research

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A brown bag workshop with Grazia Ingravalle—bring your lunch! Sponsored by the Media Studies Research Group Collaboratory at C21 In the early 1930s, the transition to sound projected a new sense of historicity onto silent films—many of which were rapidly …

Fellows Presentations and Open House

Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join us for a fall open house featuring our 2018-19 Faculty Fellows, who will discuss their projects and present the research they completed during their residence at C21 last year. Presenters will include Joel Berkowitz (Foreign Languages and Literature), Rachel Buff (History), Elana …

Graduate Student Bagel Hour

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

All 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 …

Graduate Student Bagel Hour

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

All 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 …

Brown Bag Discussion w/Henry Lovejoy

Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Digital historian and Africa and African Diaspora scholar Henry Lovejoy will be hosting a special brown bag discussion at the Center for 21st Century Studies on Friday at noon. Lovejoy is an affiliate of CU Boulder’s Center for Research Data …