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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Mountain Dharma by David DiValerio
DESCRIPTION:C21’s Critical Asian Humanities Reading Group presents a book talk by UWM History professor David DiValerio about his newly published book Mountain Dharma. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 2\, 3:30 PM\n\n\n\n939 Curtin Hall\, 3243 N Downer Ave\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic Self\n\n\n\nA groundbreaking exploration of individual long-term meditative retreat in Tibetan Buddhism\, Mountain Dharma tracks developments in ascetic discourse and practice from the twelfth century to the twentieth. David M. DiValerio provides a comprehensive reading of texts that offer instruction on the eremitic endeavor\, comparing how dozens of authors have treated six key orienting concerns: place\, people\, food\, sources of danger\, the spiritual lineage\, and time. The book traces a genealogy of the Tibetan ascetic self\, demonstrating an increasing tendency to adopt practices that contrast the meditator with earlier generations of enlightened masters\, defining the latter-day retreatant as a being in time. By viewing instructions for how to live in retreat as technologies of self\, this book sheds new light on how the history of this tradition has been driven by evolving notions of personhood. \n\n\n\nMethodologically innovative and richly sourced\, Mountain Dharma sets a new standard for the historical study of asceticism. \n\n\n\nAbout the Author\n\n\n\nDavid M. DiValerio is associate professor of history and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is the author of The Holy Madmen of Tibet (2015) and translator of The Life of the Madman of Ü (2016).
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/book-talk-mountain-dharma-by-david-divalerio/
LOCATION:939 Curtin Hall\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story Cart: Attention with Madeleine Doelker Berlin – Open Attention Walk 
DESCRIPTION:In the middle of a neighborhood block party\, we’ll send people on undirected wanders. If they come back\, we’ll ask them how it went. \n\n\n\nMadeleine will be taking interviews from 2:00 – 5:00 PM. \n\n\n\nC21 will be present to vibe and distribute C21 info from 1:00 – 7:00 PM. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMadeleine Doelker Berlin (LPC-IT) is an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor\, Social Scientist\, and a few other things—like an immigrant\, a parent\, and someone who’s lived through big transitions. Born\, raised\, and partially professionally trained in Germany\, she has a background in social inequality research and a professional path that weaves through mental health\, public service\, and community advocacy. In both her life and work\, Madeleine brings an intersectional\, systems-aware lens to understanding how people move through the world. Her current work draws on liberation psychology\, existentialist psychology\, and feminist psychology to explore how personal healing is connected to social context\, meaning-making\, and resistance. She’s especially interested in the stories we carry\, the cultures that shape us\, and the quiet\, radical act of paying attention. Madeleine holds graduate degrees in Social Sciences and Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Her approach is grounded\, curious\, and deeply human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeet Street Fall Festival is the Cactus Club’s annual\, all-ages block party\, featuring bands on an open-air stage and community organizations and local vendors along the streets.   \n\n\n\nStory Cart is a mobile story collection program that travels to community spaces and engages Milwaukeeans in conversations about their lived experiences. Our Story Fellows craft questions related to the current C21 research theme\, record participant responses to those questions\, and add them to our Story Cart digital archive (forthcoming). Supported by the Wisconsin Institute for Citizenship and Civil Dialogue\, Story Cart’s current run introduces Milwaukeeans to practices of radical attention. From September 2025 through May 2026\, our community Story Fellows will lead workshop pop-ups throughout the city and will record discussions with participants about the experience of paying attention.
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/sc-mdb-attention-walk/
LOCATION:Cactus Club\, 2496 S Wentworth Ave\, Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, 53207\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Attention,Off-campus,Public,SLOW,Slow Care,Story Cart
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SUMMARY:Human Club: Disappearance Jail Wisconsin discussion and workshop
DESCRIPTION:Take a trip with Human Club to the Haggerty Museum of Art for a discussion and workshop about art and the impact of incarceration with artist Maria Gaspar along with Dr. Robert S. Smith\, Director of the Center for Urban Research Teaching & Outreach (CURTO)\, and members of the CURTO Education Preparedness Program staff.  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. Space is limited. Prior registration required (below). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Disappearance Jail Wisconsin” discussion and workshop is part of the Haggerty Museum of Art‘s No One Knows All It Takes\, an exhibition of work by four artists (Bryana Bibbs\, Raoul Deal\, Maria Gaspar\, and Swoon [Caledonia Curry]) who explore the effects of concealed trauma and the inextricable ties between personal health and collective wellness. By addressing issues like addiction\, incarceration\, immigration\, and a lack of systemic support for caregivers\, the artists emphasize the power of personal stories to illuminate problems that are often overlooked or purposefully hidden from view. Moving beyond self-care and individualized treatments\, the work directs us to some of the root causes of trauma and highlights systemic issues that undermine societal well-being. \n\n\n\nMaria Gaspar is a Chicago-born\, first-generation\, interdisciplinary artist negotiating the politics of location through installation\, sculpture\, sound\, and performance. Gaspar’s body of work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify\, mobilize\, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. For the past decade\, Gaspar has been recognized nationally for her multi-year projects that attempt to dismantle borders\, transcend penal matter\, and turn places of precarity into places of possibility. Formative works like “Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall” and the “96 Acres Project” include site interventions at the largest single-site jail in the country\, the Cook County Department of Corrections\, in her childhood neighborhood. \n\n\n\nDr. Robert S. Smith is the Director of the Center for Urban Research\, Teaching & Outreach (CURTO) and Harry G. John Professor of History at Marquette University. His research and teaching interests include African American history\, civil rights history\, and exploring the intersections of race and law. Rob is the author of Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter in the Debating American History Series\, and Race\, Labor & Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Rob also serves on the Board of Curators for the Wisconsin Historical Society\, is the Resident Historian for America’s Black Holocaust Museum\, and is Chair of the Milwaukee County Human Rights Commission. \n\n\n\nHuman Club\, C21’s newest initiative\, features free field trips around Milwaukee and humanities gatherings with your fellow humans. Comes with a membership punch-card! 
URL:https://uwm.edu/c21/event/hc-disappearance-jail-wisconsin/
LOCATION:Marquette Haggerty Museum of Art\, 530 N 13th St\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53233\, United States
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SUMMARY:State of the Humanities MKE
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 30\, 4:00 – 6:30 PM\n\n\n\n175 Curtin Hall\n\n\n\n3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and Milwaukee organizations might sustain\, expand\, and care for the humanities across our city. \n\n\n\nIn October 2024\, the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes’ World Humanities Report warned of extinction risk to human knowledge. In the year that’s passed since that report’s publication\, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lost its federal funding\, the National Endowment for the Humanities was radically restructured\, causing state humanities agencies to lose funding to the point of near closure\, and multiple U.S. universities have taken steps to shrink\, pause\, or shutter humanities degree-granting programs.  \n\n\n\nBut the resilience of humanities practices and institutions in the face of so much uncertainty evinces their value\, and merits further dialogue. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Humanities MKE panel\, moderated by C21 Director Jennifer Johung\, invites four Milwaukee-based humanities advocates—Michael Carriere (MSOE)\, Art Derse (MCW)\, Jodi Eastberg (MIAD)\, and Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann (Marquette)—to discuss: \n\n\n\n\nWhat’s important about the humanities in Milwaukee\, especially in our current moment? \n\n\n\nWhat are we fighting to sustain\, expand\, or ideate? \n\n\n\nHow can we care for the humanities in MKE? What does this look like? \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Prior registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the panel\, guests are invited to head upstairs to C21’s headquarters for a reception with light refreshments and breakout discussions about actionable steps everyone can take to make Milwaukee a haven for humanists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\nMichael H. Carriere is a professor of history at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)\, where he also serves as director of the MSOE Honors Program. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Urban History\, the Journal of Planning History\, Cultural History\, Reviews in American History\, Pitchfork.com\, and Salon.com. He is the co-author\, with David Schalliol\, of The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press\, 2021). He holds a Ph.D. in American history from The University of Chicago.  \n\n\n\nArthur R. Derse\, M.D.\, J.D. is Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities\, and is Julia and David Uihlein Chair in Medical Humanities\, and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He directs the MCW Medical Humanities Program and is co-director of the school’s Bioethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. He directs the Art of Medicine through the Humanities course. Dr. Derse is past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). He is a fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of the American Law Institute.  \n\n\n\nJodi Eastberg\, PhD\, serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Eastberg moved to Milwaukee in 1998 as a graduate student in the Marquette University history department where she received her PhD. She then served as a professor of history and in various leadership roles at Alverno College for 20 years. In her new role at MIAD\, Eastberg leads a dynamic and passionate faculty offering high quality art and design programs. As a world historian\, Eastberg specializes in sites of cultural and diplomatic interaction\, especially those between Great Britain and China. Eastberg serves as the Vice President of the Layton Art Collection\, Inc. an independent not-for-profit organization that acts as steward of the Layton Art Collection displayed at the Milwaukee Art Museum\, on the board of the Wisconsin Policy Forum\, and as a Trustee of the Higher Learning Commission.  \n\n\n\nMargaret (Maggie) Nettesheim Hoffmann is the Director of Graduate School Community Initiatives and Student Experience at Marquette University. She is also the PI for a $1.3M grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Humanities Without Walls consortium to Marquette. HWW is a consortium of 16 midwestern universities headquartered at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign and aims to create new avenues for collaborative and interdisciplinary research\, publicly engaged scholarship\, and professional opportunities for faculty and graduate students in the humanities. She has consulted on humanities doctoral education reform with the American Council of Learned Societies\, American Historical Association\, the University of Texas\, Washington University in St. Louis\, the University of Pittsburgh\, and more. An historian by training\, her research tracks the transformation of philanthropy in the Unites States during the Gilded Age and Progressive era with a special focus on political discourses critical of private giving to public institutions and has published her work with Bloomsbury\, Adam Matthew\, and Marquette University Press.  \n\n\n\nPanel moderator Jennifer Johung is the Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and Professor of Contemporary Art and Architectural History at UW-Milwaukee. Her book\, Vital Forms: Biological Art\, Architecture\, and the Dependencies of Life (University of Minnesota\, 2019)\, focuses on the ways in which contemporary biological art and architecture actively engage in formulations of life. She is also the author of Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota\, 2012) which considers modes of dwelling and belonging in an ever-changing world\, and the co-editor of Landscapes of Mobility: Culture\, Politics and Placemaking (Ashgate\, 2013). She has published widely on topics across performance\, visual\, and urban studies as well as bio-art and biotechnology. In addition to her research\, she has curated exhibitions in Milwaukee\, New York\, LA\, and Australia. With a background in performance studies\, she teaches courses in contemporary art\, new media\, performance\, and art museum studies. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGetting Here & FAQ\n\n\n\nWe recommend parking in the UWM Student Union parking garage or the Lubar Business parking garage\, which are $3 for the first hour\, then $1 for each additional hour. The Zelazo Surface Lot offers limited free parking after 3PM. Free\, time-limited street parking is available in the neighborhoods near Curtin Hall. \n\n\n\nCurtin Hall is the tall\, Brutalist building located just off Downer Ave. You can find us on this interactive campus map. \n\n\n\nThis event will not be livestreamed\, but it will be recorded and posted to C21’s YouTube channel at a later date.  \n\n\n\nQuestions? Email us at C21@uwm.edu. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Prior registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW
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LOCATION:Curtin 175\,  3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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