Sianne Ngai (English, Stanford)
Curtin 368 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheory of the Gimmick 5th Annual Literature & Cultural Theory Lecture Presented by the UWM English Department's Graduate Program in Literature and Cultural Theory What are capitalist subjects saying when we call something a "gimmick," regardless of the varying objects …
Landbody: Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 conference landbody considers the implications of Native ontologies and epistemologies, emphasizing the animate, living nature of place and the conceptual primacy of connection and locale. Despite colonial incursions, Native communities continue tribal lifeways, constructing and reconstructing systems of …
Brian Price (Visual Studies, University of Toronto)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesRegret and Remake This talk is concerned with the productivity of regret, especially as the experience of regret can be understood as a particular way of saying yes. That is to say, if we feel regret about something that has …
Tim Raphael and Julie Winokur (NewestAmericans.com)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesNewest Americans: Stories from the Global City See Details at UWM Libraries Website Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures, the Chipstone Foundation, Digital Humanities Lab at the UWM Libraries
Hasia Diner (History, NYU)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJewish Women in America: A History of Their Own 2016 Faye Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Read about Hasia Diner at the Association for Jewish Studies
Christiane Taubira (former Minister of Justice of France)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJustice in Service of Equality Livestreamed from the University of Chicago French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; and Alliance Française de Milwaukee See Details Here (PDF)
Jacqueline Stevens (Political Science, Northwestern University)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesSaying NO to Military Power in a University Jacqueline Stevens hosted a special EmergentC21 lecture, drawing on information and experiences at Northwestern University and elsewhere to document how military corporations, finance firms, banks, and other corporations are shaping our universities, …
Thomas Dumm (Political Science, Amherst College)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States"I Would Prefer Not To": Bartleby, Neo-liberalism, and the Great Refusal Recorded video (YouTube) Thomas Dumm discusses the confrontation taking place between the forces of neoliberal capital and the refusals by those who are excluded from its benefits. He will …
Cindi Katz (Geography, CUNY Graduate Center)
Refusing Mastery: The Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute as Minor Theory
Friday, January 27
3:30 pm Curtin 175
Recorded Video
Daniel T. Rodgers (Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton )
UWM Union, Fireside Lounge 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAge of Fracture: The Transformation of Ideas and Society in Modern America Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and UWM History Department “Fracture” now seems everywhere in our contemporary United States: in social relations, partisan politics, growing economic inequalities, and …