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, …
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 …