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 …
Gregory Jay: Developing, Completing, and Publishing a Book Project
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGregory Jay (English) will talk informally about his most recent book, White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett (Oxford University Press, 2017). Feel free to read the Introduction and Afterword before the talk.
Race and Free Speech on Campus–Then and Now
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesAngela Lang (ACLU), Carolyn Rouse (Anthropology, Princeton), Rob Smith (History, Marquette), and Johnny Eric Williams (African-American Studies, Trinity) Please note that there were some technical difficulties with the video: More than fifty years after the Free Speech Movement began at the University …
Bagels for Lunch, with Christopher Newfield
Curtin 939 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesOn Tuesday, February 13, we’ll have a special lunch edition of our Friday Bagel Hour with guest Christopher Newfield (UC-Santa Barbara) who is on campus to deliver the L&S Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Does the U.S. Need Public …
Our Heavenly Bodies (Wunder der Schöpfung)
UWM Union Cinema 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTHIS SCREENING IS FREE FOR EVERYONE! Live musical accompaniment by Coupler! In 1925, German director Hanns Walter Kornblum set out to create a film that would summarize all available astronomical knowledge and a dreamy investigation of what wonders might …
MIGC 2018: Asymmetry
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe theme of MIGC 2018 is Asymmetry, and features as keynote speaker Lisa Parks (MIT), a global media scholar whose research focuses on three areas: satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media, militarization and surveillance. She …
Lisa Parks: Asymmetries of the Vertical: Mediating the War on Terror from 9/11 to Trump
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesMIGC Keynote with Lisa Parks (MIT) Lisa Parks’ talk will feature material from her upcoming book, Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror, which addresses power issues in drone wars and vertical power relations in the Trump …
Is Campus Protest Protected Speech?
UWM Student Union Ballroom 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGeoffrey Stone (Law, University of Chicago) "Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge of Our Times” UWM Student Union Ballroom *View the full recorded video of Geoffrey Stone's talk here or in the video player below. In "Free Speech on Campus: A Challenge …