Vijay Prashad (International Studies, Trinity College)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIn the Ruins of the Present: Neoliberalism Has Failed, Cruel Populism Has Us by the Throat See Details Here Center for International Education, the Vilas Trust
Camille Robcis (History, Cornell)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Politics of the Psyche In this talk, Camille Robcis traces the history of institutional psychotherapy, a psychiatric reform movement born in France after World War II that had an important influence on many doctors and intellectuals, including Félix Guattari, …
The Visa Promise
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Visa Promise was a special EmergentC21 panel reacting to president Trump’s executive order on immigration that barred nationals of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States regardless of their visa status. Organized as a panel discussion, The Visa …
The Big No
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Center for 21st Century Studies Spring 2017 conference, The Big No, was held April 27-29, 2017. Plenary speakers included Joshua Clover, Katerina Kolozova, François Laruelle, Ariana Reines, and Frank B. Wilderson III. You can find more about the conference, including …
C21 Fellows’ Presentations and Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPresentations: 4:00 pm Curtin 118 Open House: 5:30 pm Curtin 939 Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in welcoming our new crew of fellows by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. Several of last year's fellows will …
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 …