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 …
Nancy Fraser (Political and Social Science, New School for Social Research)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesCrisis of Care? Social Contradictions of Neoliberal Capitalism Hosted by UWM Women's and Gender Studies, with sponsorships by William F. Vilas Trust Fund; Office of the Provost & Vice Chancellor; Div. of Academic Affairs; College of Letters & Science; Departments …
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesTheme: MOSAIC See MIGC Website Keynote talk Jason W. Moore (Sociology, Binghamton University) “Expulsions, Inclusions, and the Double Valence of Violent Abstraction: How Modernity Works Through Nature to Accumulate Capital and Destroy Lives” Friday, February 17 3:30 pm Curtin 175 …
Maria Haigh (SOIS, UWM)
Golda Meir Library, 2nd Floor, DH Lab 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesStopping Fake News: The Work Practices of Peer-to-Peer Counter Propaganda School of Information Studies, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, Social Studies of Information Research Group See Details at the UWM SOIS Website
Catherine Lutz (Anthropology, Brown)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGetting to No in War Recorded video The United States has an all-volunteer military force, one that public opinion polls regularly show is the most respected institution in U.S. society. Nonetheless, numbers of those who enlist sooner or later say …
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, …