Nicholas Mirzoeff: “Whiteness and the Crisis”

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

Jeannette Ehlers, The Gaze (2018) Nicholas Mirzoeff was joined at noon in UWM’s Mathis Gallery by David Pacifico (Director, Emile H. Mathis Gallery) and Samantha Maloney (Art History, UWM) for a discussion on “Strategies for Colonial Art” before giving a …

Bending the Archive: Zines, Archiving, and the Digital Humanities

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

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 …

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

Book Cover The Fall of Wisconsin Dan KaufmanJoin 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 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 …

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.

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 …

Youth for Nation: Culture and Protest in Cold War South Korea (Critical East Asian Humanities Collaboratory)

Garland 104 2441 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Student protesters at Susong primary schoolIn this talk, historian Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin - Madison) will explore the historical context of the April 19th Students’ Revolution in 1960, in which South Korean students overthrew the government. Kim advances a cultural explanation of that seminal event, including how post-Korean War media and statist texts helped establish youth protest as a cornerstone of national identity.

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.