Valerie Traub: Special Breakfast Bagel Hour and Brown Bag Discussion
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for a special breakfast edition of our graduate student bagel hour with visiting speaker Valerie Traub! Graduate students from all departments are invited to stop by for coffee, bagels, and casual conversation from 9 - 11 am. Following …
Local-Digital-Public Community Roundtable
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesProject Local-Digital-Public is a C21 Collaboratory that examines how public discourse can remobilize civic action and rejuvenate academic thought. LDP is a social justice project that seeks to hear residents of Sherman Park and Washington Park speak back, speak out, and be …
Julia Adeney Thomas: The “Human” in History and Biology (C21 Collaboratory Lecture)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for a World History Association & UWM Asian Studies Distinguished Lecture organized by the Critical East Asian Humanities C21 Collaboratory, who will be welcoming Julia Adeney Thomas for her talk, "The 'Human' in History and Biology: Questions of Scale, Questions …
Social Media and Academic Freedom
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGeorge Ciccariello-Maher (NYU), Steve Salaita (Writer) The explosion of social media in the 21st century has posed a host of new problems for public and private employers, including small businesses, large corporations, and local, state, and federal institutions. Over the past …
Suzanne Leonard: Rethinking the 21st Century “Wife-Cycle”
Curtin 368 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Center for 21st Century Studies is proud to be co-sponsoring Suzanne Leonard's upcoming talk, "Rethinking the 21st Century 'Wife-Cycle': From Online Dating to the Campaign Trail." Suzanne Leonard (Associate Professor of English, Simmons College) will discuss her book, Wife Inc., as well as current issues surrounding gender …
Gabriel Menotti: 3D Replication Technologies – Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGabriel Menotti, a Brazilian Fulbright scholar currently in residence at the Center for 21st Century Studies, will deliver a special lecture on "3D Replication Technologies: Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History." 3D replication technologies like highly detailed modeling or …
Allison McCracken: America’s First Pop Idol: The Rise and Fall of Rudy Vallée
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Media Studies Research Collaboratory is excited to host a talk with Professor Allison McCracken from DePaul University based on her book, Real Mean Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture (Duke UP, 2015). American pop singing did not begin gently with …
Leon Neyfakh: Slow Burn: A Conversation About Impeachment, the Presidency, and Podcasting
Merrill 131 2512 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Sound Inquiry Collaboratory is excited to host Leon Neyfakh (writer for Slate magazine) for a discussion of his recent Watergate podcast, Slow Burn. Neyfakh's wildly popular podcast addressed questions about what it was like to live through the Watergate …
Arts and Belonging Among Muslims in Milwaukee: A Panel Discussion
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesHosted by C21's Muslim Milwaukee Collaboratory, this event is open to the public and aims to open up an important discussion about the diversity of Muslim experiences and voices in Milwaukee. A few main questions for the panelists are: How …
APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Curtin 175 Deadline for submissions: ASAP APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA is an exhibition project surveying the current state of 3D imaging by making it as tangible as possible. It …