Trust and the Vote: Scaling Trust and the Emotions of Voting
2024-04-04 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Our second roundtable discussion in our Trust the Vote symposia. Co-sponsored by Milwaukee Turners, The Thompson Center, and UWM Political Science. Join us in-person at Curtin 175 or online.

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Trust and the Vote: The University and Its Role in Democracy
2024-03-28 13:30 - 15:00
The first roundtable in our Trust the Vote symposia. Co-sponsored by Milwaukee Turners. Join us online.
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A Conversation With... James Levy
2024-03-15 09:30 - 10:30
Virtual. Register Here.

Gorfinkel Lecture: Sleeping in the Movie Theater
2023-11-14 15:30 - 17:00 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Sleeping in the Movie Theater (After Wanda Goronski)
Navigating recent interest in nocturnal imaginaries and the valence of sleep for understanding cinematic spectatorship, this talk takes up the sleeping spectator as it figures in Barbara Loden’s landmark independent film Wanda (1970) to examine the function of night, weariness, precarity and itinerancy in the film, exploring some tensions that inhere in analyses of sleep as a domain of repose or abandon. Following an essayistic and meandering logic that mimes the perambulations of the titular Wanda Goronski herself, this talk enacts a series of experiments with forms of description, the unraveling of archival aporias drawn from the film’s shooting script and other historical anecdotes, and larger theorisations of cinema as medium of exhaustion. The talk emerges as one product of several years of archival research on Barbara Loden, sketching out a path from one research project (a monograph on Loden’s film Wanda) to another about Barbara Loden as a feminist film historical subject and site of thorny questions about authorship, biography, the unfinished, and feminist film writing.
Bio
Elena Gorfinkel is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London. Prior to King’s she was Associate Professor of Art History & Film Studies at UW-Milwaukee. Her research interests concern independent, adult, & experimental cinemas and women’s film practices. She is the author of Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s (Minnesota, 2017), and co-editor of Taking Place: Location & the Moving Image (Minnesota, 2011), and Global Cinema Networks (Rutgers, 2018). Forthcoming in 2024 are two books, Wanda (BFI Film Classics, Bloomsbury), and The Prop, with John David Rhodes (Fordham/ Cutaways series). She is at work on two projects, a book on “cinemas of exhaustion” which was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and a history of Barbara Loden’s creative life and feminist legacies. She is a member of the London Film Critics Circle and her criticism appears in Criterion, Sight & Sound, Artforum, among other venues. More info at: elenagorfinkel.com

Milwaukee Food Journeys Exhibit: Opening Celebration
2023-11-04 09:00 - 11:00 | The Table, 5305 W. Capitol Drive, Milwaukee, 53216, United States
Milwaukee Food Journeys: A Story Exhibition
Exhibition Opening: Saturday, November 4, 2023
When: 9AM-11AM
(with Fondy’s Milwaukee Winter Market, open until 2PM)
Location: The Table, 5305 W. Capitol Drive
A collaborative art exhibit inspired by the stories of hundreds of Milwaukeeans will hold its opening reception alongside the first day of Fondy’s Milwaukee Winter Market at The Table on Capitol Drive. Featuring artists’ works from LUNA and TRUE Skool, Milwaukee Food Journeys: A Story Exhibition is an interactive mixed media art installation that highlights issues of food access, food justice, and how Milwaukeeans think about nourishment and trust when engaging with Wisconsin’s larger food system. Storytellers and partners of the project have been invited to the opening on Saturday, November 4 from 9-11AM to celebrate the work.
The exhibit is the culmination of over a year’s work of hearing sessions, collaborations, and story gathering hosted in part by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s (UWM) Center for 21st Century Studies (C21). Over the summer and fall of 2023, UWM graduate students, researchers, and faculty traveled with a mobile Story Cart and asked strangers across 25 locations about where they most commonly gather their food, how they get to those places, and what meaningful, trusting, food connections look like to them. The resulting data – with over 10 hours of audio footage, hundreds of photographs, and dozens of drawings – were then interpreted creatively by artists affiliated with LUNA and TRUE Skool. The exhibition will be located in the gathering hall of The Table at 5305 W. Capitol Drive until the end of the winter market season.
Milwaukee Food Journeys was an effort that featured multiple collaborators and site partners, including the Milwaukee Food Council, Fondy Market, the Milwaukee Farmer’s Market Coalition, and the Milwaukee Public Libraries. Through the Milwaukee Food Council’s Food Justice Initiative, the project was funded in part by the USDA’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program – SNAP with additional support from UWM’s College of Letters & Sciences and Center for 21st Century Studies, The Table, and Alice’s Garden. Register here.

Humanities Publishing Roundtable
2023-11-03 09:00 - 12:30 | Golda Meir Library, 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
REGISTER HERE.
Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work.
How might we reimagine these roles in this space of change? How do we attend to the mission of the university for humanities research generation and sharing? Join us for a two-day conversation about publishing in the humanities as we map out current roles and imagine new processes at the center, library, university, press, and regional university system levels.
Includes conversation and guidance from:

Lauren Cooper

Digital Scholarship Librarian and Managing Director, Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk, Penn State University

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

Professor & Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development, University of Illinois

Jasmine Mulliken

Production and Preservation Manager, Digital Projects Stanford University Press
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 | 9AM CST
Former Digital Humanities Lab, E272
Lauren Cooper, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, and Jasmine Mulliken, “Mapping Current and Future Roles in Humanities Publishing Projects”
Followed by role identification, asset mapping, and creative reimagining exercises facilitated by the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies.
Workshop will aim to end at 12:30PM CST.

Free and open to the public. Includes refreshments, coffee, and tea on each day. REGISTER HERE.

Traveling to Milwaukee?
We welcome visitors who can travel to Milwaukee for this special workshop event. All parts of the event are free and open to the public, with the last portion of the workshop dedicated to time mapping out current and dream publishing infrastructures for humanities-based research and learning. In-person attendance helps make that mapping and workshopping possible – especially in conversation with regional and national systems.
Recommended airport: Milwaukee International Airport. (O’Hare International has access to a train that can take visitors from Chicago to Milwaukee).
Recommended hotel: Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel

Workshop made possible by the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the UWM College of Letters & Sciences. Thursday lecture made possible by UWM Libraries.

The Privilege of Play
2023-10-20 14:00 - 17:00
The Digital Cultures Collaboratory (sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies), in cooperation with the Honors College and Student Involvement, is very excited to present a series of Fall Geek Weekend events on the afternoon of Friday, October 20th.
Southeast Wisconsin has a special status in the history of the globe-spanning phenomenon of tabletop roleplaying games, and Dungeons & Dragons (born in Lake Geneva) has never been more popular than it is now. At the same time, D&D has also been almost exclusively fueled by the fantasy imagination of Northern Europe, leading many to call for an expansion of the source material so as to reflect the global inclusivity of D&D players.
These events center around these reflections, kicked off by a talk at 2 pm in Curtin 386 by Dr. Aaron Trammell (UC Irvine), who will speak about his recent work related to inclusivity and game culture.
2:00-3:30 PM, Curtin Hall 368
The Privilege of Play: Connecting Games and Race in the 20th Century
The histories of race and games in the 20th century have long been siloed. Popular histories of games often render invisible the race of the white men that they celebrate, thus inviting readers to take for granted the somewhat homogenous demographics of the games industry. Far from being coincidental, Trammell argues that race has been central to the history of games. He will present historical research in this talk that shows how the early leaders of the game industry were able to thrive due to their community ties. He terms these white communities “networks of privilege” and offers evidence for how these networks developed of the course of the 20th century and used dog whistles to keep BIPoC people out. Thus, in this talk he will foreground how the invisible politics of whiteness have shaped the history of games itself.
Then, join us for associated Geek Weekend events beginning with a discussion on diversity and inclusion in gaming with Dr. Trammell in the Union Fireside Lounge at 4:30 PM.
Wizards of the Coast (the publisher of D&D) has also recognized these issues, and last year published Journeys through the Radiant Citadel, a series of small adventures for D&D groups, with each of the fourteen chapters written by a BIPoC contributor. We’ll follow the 4:30 discussion with Dr. Trammel with a playthrough of “The Salted Legacy,” the first in that series of Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Students are invited to join tables of 4-5 players, each led by a “Dungeon Master” who has prepped specifically for the event.
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Aaron Trammell is an Associate Professor of Informatics at UC Irvine. He is interested in how tabletop games further values of white privilege and hegemonic masculinity in geek culture. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and the co-editor for the Tabletop Gaming series at University of Michigan Press. He has two books Repairing Play (2023 MIT Press) is a theory of play that centers BIPOC people and The Privilege of Play (2023 NYU Press) is a history of games and race in the 20th Century.

Wisconsin Campus Voting Summit
2023-09-30 | UWM Lubar Entrepeneurship Center
Join us for the 2023 Wisconsin Campus Voting Summit. The summit focuses on voter registration skills and factors around voter registration on campuses. A state-wide program, this event is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee this year – in-person at the LEC.
Free and open to the public. Please register for the event here.

UWM Gallery Night
2023-09-21 16:00 - 19:00 | Golda Meir Library, 2311 E Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Atlas Novus Coelestis by J.B. Homann and J.G. Doppelmayr 1742 courtesy of the American Geographical Society Library UWM.

Explore the galleries across UWM’s campus after hours, with choice artwork, historical pieces, and performances that pay tribute to the relationships between terrestrial / celestial and art / science. Visit the campus galleries in the Golda Meir Library (Special Collections, AGSL, Grind), Architecture and Urban Planning (SARUP Gallery), Mitchell Hall (Mathis Gallery – *open at 4:30PM*), Union (Union Art Gallery), Kenilworth Square East, and Curtin Hall (9th floor, C21 and WGS spaces).
We recommend starting at either Kenilworth, Union’s gallery (with an opportunity to see the renovation-in-progress), or the SARUP gallery, then moving to Mitchell Hall (1st floor, open 4:30PM), taking the 2nd floor pedestrian bridge to Curtin Hall (9th floor) and then moving to the library spaces for the poetry slam and AGSL conversation.
Pop-up events will help guide your flow through the spaces and include:

4:30-6:00PM – Mathis Gallery – Art History Welcome Event
5:00-6:00PM – UWM Library Grind space / cases – Poetry Slam
5:30PM – Curtin Hall 9th Floor – WGS Quilt Rehanging
6:00-6:30PM – UWM American Geographical Society Library – Star Maps Discussion led by Marcy M Bidney

A Gallery Night Passport will be available at most locations. You can mark where you have visited for a chance to win an art-themed prize.

All galleries and activities are free and open to the public.

C21 Open House
2023-09-14 16:00 - 18:00 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join us for the Center’s annual Open House event! This will include a sneak-peek of our in-house Mobile Story Cart exhibition and activities showcasing the work of fellows, collaboratories, and community partners.
All C21 events are free and open to the public. Register Here.

Annual Showcase of the Milwaukee Story Experience Project
2023-05-12 11:30 - 13:00 | Milwaukee Turner Hall, 1040 Vel R. Phillips Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53203, United States
Join us for the Annual Showcase of the Milwaukee Story Experience Project, Friday, May 12, 11:30AM – 1:00 PM, Milwaukee Turner Hall
For the past year, UWM and Marquette students collaborated with communities and organizations across the city to shape and share stories – of who we’ve been, who we are, and who we dream of being. Come learn about the projects and the techniques behind them, from oral histories to “beautiful questions;” from video to origami.
With support from the Milwaukee Turners, the Wisconsin Humanities Council, and the President’s and Chancellor’s Challenge Award.
Register here!

MIGC 2023: Nourish, Food & Trust
2023-04-28 11:00 - 2023-04-29 14:30
Nourish. Food & Trust.
18th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Held virtually on April 28-29, 2023 (Schedule below), this year’s MIGC conference centers on issues of food and land justice through an intersectional, interdisciplinary lens in alignment with the Center for 21st Century Studies 3-year programming arc of Nourishing Democracy and annual theme of Nourishing Trust. The conference features 4 panels of graduate students to exploring the theme of Nourish with the following guiding questions:

How do scholars across disciplines approach the connection between food and trust within the broad theme of nourish?

How do scholars approach human rights, such as access to food, in a way that fosters trust among non-academics?

How can scholars center queer and BIPOC cultural ways of knowing when approaching topics related to food and land justice?

We are also pleased to announce this year’s keynote as Suparna Kure Kudesia, PhD. She is the executive director of CoFED: Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive, a QTBIPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color to build food and land co-ops.
Register here!

MIGC 2023 Schedule – Nourish. Food & Trust (all times in Central Time)

Keynote Friday, April 28, 11a-12:30p (Virtual)
Presentation and Q&A Session
Suparna Kure Kudesia (she/they)
Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive

Intersections of Trust (Panel 1) – Friday, April 28, 1:00-2:15 (Virtual)
Trust After 9/11: Sikh Approaches to Postsecular Love
Gurkirat Singh Sekhon (He/Him)

English and Women’s and Gender Studies – University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

Justice Without Accessibility? Exploring a Food Justice / Disability Justice Way Forward
Emunah Woolf (They/Them)
Critical Disability Studies – York University

On Making Public Trust, A New Environmental Podcast

Richelle Wilson (She/Her)
German, Nordic, and Slavic+ – University of Wisconsin – Madison

Nourishing Culture (Panel 2) – Saturday 10:15-11:30 (Virtual)
Jewish Food as Resistance
Robbie Teel (He/Him)
Educational Policy & Community Studies – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (Alum)

A Qualitative Study of Community Nutritional Counseling

Amber Chavez (She/Her)
English – Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Food as a Global Soft Power Tool in the 21st Century with Special Reference to India’s Culinary Diplomacy
Aditi Basu (She/Her)
Political Science

Food: Desert, Oasis & Apartheid – Saturday 1:00 – 2:30 (Virtual)
Urban Agriculture Strategies, Organizations, and Outcomes: A Milwaukee Case Study (Lightning)
Nick DeMarsh (He/Him)
Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Planting the “Mother Tree”: Land and Arboreal Futures in Pumzi
Emma Knickebine (She/Her)
English – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

Raising the Chance of Successful Grocery Store Openings: Survey-based Application of Bayesian Trust Games
Jared Grant (He/Him) –
Agricultural and Applied Economics – University of Georgia

Free school meals for children are foundational but not all we need to consider
Jeydelyn Martinez (She/Her)
College of Nursing – Master of Sustainable Peacebuilding – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

The Power of Stories in Advancing Reproductive Justice
2023-04-24 17:00 - 19:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepeneurship Center
The Power of Stories in Advancing Reproductive Justice, Monday, April 24, 5-7 PM, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center
A community networking event featuring projects from the C21 Reproductive Justice Collaboratory and a panel of community experts. We will celebrate storytelling as a tool to advance community action in reproductive justice.
Featuring:

The ART of Infertility
Cuentos de Confianza
Mapping Reproductive (In)Justice
Other “in-progress” work related to obstetric violence & male infertility experiences

Remarks by:

Heddy Keith, President and CEO of the Center for Leadership of Afrikan Women’s Wellness (CLAWW)
Katinka Hooyer, Assistant Professor, Center for Healthy Communities and Research, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW)
Maria Barker, Interim Director of Community Education, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI)
Anne Basting, Professor, Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, UW-Milwaukee (UWM)

Register here!

Quilting Bee
2023-04-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Women’s Resource Center, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Quilting Bee, Friday, April 21, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Learn about quilting by contributing a stitch to finish the backing of a quilt. Featuring artists Heidi Parkes and Molly Hassler. Visit and contribute a stitch, no experience is necessary, and supplies are provided.
From 10:00 AM until 12:30 PM, the Quilting Bee will be set up in the Golda Mier Library near the Circulation Desk
From 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM, the Quilting Bee will be set up in the Women’s Resource Center (Student Union EG37)
Sponsored by: UWM Student Union and Student Involvement, Women’s Resource Center, Women’s and Gender Studies, Art History, History, The Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Artists, and the Center for 21st Century Studies.

Nourishing Trust: Trust in Action Roundtable
2023-04-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual Session
Nourishing Trust: Trust in Action Roundtable. A conversation about how trust operates in current food and land justice efforts. Featuring Linda Black Elk (United Tribes Technical College) and Anton Seals, Jr. (Grow Greater Englewood), and Brittany Koteles (Nuns & Nones Land Justice Project).
Thursday, April 20, 2023, 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Central). Virtual Session.
Register here!

Folk-arts for Peace: A public talk on craft and globalism
2023-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Mitchell Hall 191, 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Folk Arts for Peace: A public talk on craft and globalism, Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein (Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas & Universidad Autónoma de México) will discuss HemisFair ’68 and the Cultural Olympics in Mexico’s 1968 Olympiad during the Cold War. April 18, 6PM, Mitchell hall 191.
Co-Sponsored by UWM Anthropology, Center for 21st Century Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Emile H. Mathis Gallery, History, and Spanish & Portuguese

Arboreal Humanities: A Roundtable Conversation
2023-04-14 15:30 - 19:00 | Curtin 175, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Arboreal Humanities: A Roundtable Conversation, April 14, 3:30 PM, Curtin Hall 175
Join us for a conversation about trees and their significance in art, philosophy, and community engagement. In-person presentations and roundtable discussion in Curtin Hall 175, followed by a reception and community art project at C21.
Featuring: Richard Grusin (UWM English Department), Meg Wilson (UW-Madison), Mishiikenh Vernon Altiman (UWM Electa Quinney Institute)
Register here for in-person attendance!
Register here to attend virtually!

Play to the Polls!
2023-04-03 18:00 - 20:00 | UWM Student Union, Wisconsin Room Lounge, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Play to the Polls! Monday, April 3, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Wisconsin Room Lounge in the UWM Student Union.
Join us for an evening of board games, card games, and snacks the night before Milwaukee’s April election polls open!
Hosted by: Panthers Vote, the Center for 21st Century Studies, and Serious Play.

Cuentos de Confianza: A Digital Storytelling Event
2023-04-03 12:30 - 15:30 | Digital Humanities Lab, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Cuentos de Confianza: A Digital Storytelling Event, April 3-6, Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library (2nd Floor)
A bilingual (Spanish/English) digital storytelling exhibit that hosts the stories of promotores de salud (health promoters) on the path toward reproductive justice. Experience the exhibit and contribute to a collaborative art project in response to the stories. The Cuentos team will be available to chat about the project.

Monday & Tuesday: 12:30 – 3:30 PM
Wednesday 9:30 – 11:30 AM
Thursday: 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

The exhibit was sponsored in part by a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship and the Center for 21st Century Studies

Nourishing Trust: Trust in Theory Roundtable
2023-03-30 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual Session
Nourishing Trust: Trust in Theory Roundtable. A conversation about the philosophies behind equitable food production systems built on trust. Featuring Elizabeth Gabriel (Soul Fire Farms Speakers Collective), Cherie Rivers (UNC Chapel Hill), and Martice Scales (Full Circle Healing Farms).
Thursday, March 30, 2023. 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Central). Virtual Session.
Register here!

On Public Health: Nourishing Trust
2023-03-16 17:00 - 19:30 | Zilber School Triplex, Room 119, 1240 N. 10th Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53205, United States
Established in 1968, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) has focused on the significance of interdisciplinary work in building a community of scholars to address the pressing issues of our time. Under new leadership, C21 has taken this longstanding mission in a new direction, attending to the role of the arts and humanities in creating stakeholder-informed and community-engaged public programming.
During this in-person panel discussion, C21 Director Anne Basting and Deputy Director Nicole Welk-Joerger will speak about the unique methodologies they used to develop C21’s current programming: Nourishing Trust. Nourishing Trust attends to the historical and philosophical dimensions of food and land justice while showcasing current initiatives toward improving food access and equity.

After Dobbs: A Roundtable Discussion
2023-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 | UWM Golda Mier Library, 4th Floor Conference Room, 2311 E. Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Friday, March 10, 2023, 12-1 PM, Library Conference Center (Golda Mier Library, 4th Floor)
After Dobbs: A Roundtable Discussion – With UWM and UW-System Experts and professionals discussing student resources in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Moderated by: Danielle Koepke (Rhetoric, Professional Writing, & Community Engagement)
Featuring:
Jamie Cimpl-Wiemer (Office of Equity/Diversity Services)
Ariana Myers (UWM LGBTQ+ Resource Center)
Kacie Otto (UWM Women’s Resource Center)
Stephanie Rytilahti (UW System WGS Consortium)
Karate Ashlee Zubek (UWM Student Health and Welness)
Register here!

Trauma Informed Teaching Workshop
2023-03-07 11:30 - 13:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepeneurship Center
Trauma-Informed Teaching Workshop, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 11:30 – 1:00 PM, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center – Dream Studio.
Help students achieve essential learning outcomes through a balance of flexibility and accountability, high standards and care for students. This trauma-informed workshop aims to provide frameworks for practicing intentionality and care in the classroom. A coordinated effort between the Dean of Students, Campus Cares, and the Center for 21st Century Studies. In-person workshop to be head at the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center Dream Studio (1st floor, next to the atrium).
For in-person attendance, please register at this Eventbrite link.

Nourishing Trust: Trust in Context Roundtable
2023-02-23 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual Session
Nourishing Trust: Trust in Context Roundtable Conversation. A conversation about the histories that inform food and land justice efforts today. Featuring Laura Manthe (Oneida Nation), Adrienne Petty (William & Mary College), and Jayson Porter (Brown University).
Thursday, February 23, 2023, 1:00 – 2:30 PM (Central). Virtual Session.
Register here!

Cynthia Laborde: “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France”
2023-02-17 14:00 - 15:30 | UWM Lubar Entrepeneurship Center
Friday, February 17, 2023, 2:00-3:30pm, Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, Room 107
In her talk “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France,” Dr. Laborde will focus on the impact of women cartoonists/graphic novelists in France in the 21st century. She will trace how this new generation has been making their own rules and claiming their space in a traditionally male-dominated industry. Her analysis will focus on the socially and politically engaged aspects of their work, concentrating especially on how they approach issues related to women. She will demonstrate that comics as a medium are able to articulate and disseminate feminist perspectives in new ways, and that artists (such as Pénélope Bagieu and Emma, among others) are having a real-life impact, as the lines become more and more blurred between the individual and the artist via social media.
Hosted by the Department of Global Studies; co-sponsored by Digital Arts and Culture; the MA in Language, Literature, and Translation; the Center for 21st Century Studies; Women’s and Gender Studies; and the Women’s Resource Center. This event is partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC Grant.
This event will be followed later in the day by the opening film of the 26th annual UWM Festival of Films in French, February 17-26, 2023. Please join us there as well!
While at UWM, Dr. Laborde will also present a French immersion workshop, “Enseigner (avec) les bandes dessinées en français/Teaching (with) graphic novels and comic in French,” on Saturday, February 18, 1:00-4:00 pm. Free; registration is required. For more information, read about the event here.

Gerardo Licon: Zoot Suit Riots, Pachucas, and Pachucos
2023-02-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Session
GERARDO LICON: Zoot Suit Riots, Pachucas, and Pachucos: Mexican American Youth Culture in the U.S. Southwest
At this virtual Friday Lunch event, you will learn about the mid-twentieth century fashion style of zoot suits and the riots that were blamed on that attire during World War II. More broadly, you will learn about Mexican American youth culture during the first half of the twentieth century and the pachucas and pachucos who donned those suits. Dr. Licon will also introduce the audience to his research delving into the origins of pachuca/o culture.
This event is hosted by the Center for Humanities at UW Madison, and co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM.
This virtual event (Zoom) is open to all but registration is required. Please sign up here.
Gerardo Licon, PhD is an Assistant Professor for the Program of Latin American and Latinx Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. He is trained as a historian with a focus on Latino, 19th and 20th Century US, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, and Immigration History. In recent years he’s presented at the annual conferences of the Organization of American Historians, the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies, and the Latin American Studies Association.

Elizabeth Emery: Hidden Treasure
2022-11-16 16:30 - 18:00 | Mitchell Hall 195, 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Hidden Treasure: Finding Women Dealers and Collectors of Far Eastern Art in Paris, 1858-1914, Wednesday, November 16, Mitchell Hall, Room 195, 4:30-6:00pm
Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Montclair State University, will be giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her digital humanities project with the National Institute (INHA) in Paris, “Connoisseurs, Collectors and Dealers of Asian Art in France, 1700-1939.”
Breakfast Meet n’ Greet, CRT 939, 9:30-11am. Find out more here.
Sponsored by: C21, Friends of Art History, Honors College, Anthropology Department, History Department, French, Italian & Comparative Literature Program, Women’s & Gender Studies

Breakfast Meet 'n Greet with Elizabeth Emery
2022-11-16 09:30 - 11:00 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Breakfast Meet ‘n Greet with special guest Elizabeth Emery, Wednesday, november 16, 9:30 – 11:00 AM, Curtin Hall, Room 939
Join us for breakfast and an opportunity to meet and chat with Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Montclair State University.
Later on November 16, Emery will be giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her digital humanities project with the National Institute (INHA) in Paris. You can find the details for the talk here.
Sponsored by: C21, Friends of Art History, Honors College, Anthropology Department, History Department, French, Italian & Comparative Literature Program, Women’s & Gender Studies

Alonso Cueto: The Historical Novel's Uncertain Truth
2022-11-09 14:30 - 16:30 | UWM Golda Mier Library, 4th Floor Conference Room, 2311 E. Hartford Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The Historical Novel’s Uncertain Truth: On Writing about Francisca Pizarro, the First Mestiza in South America
November 9, 2022 at 2:30 p.m, 4th Floor Conference Center, UWM Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
A native of Lima, Peru, Alonso Cueto is a major figure in contemporary Latin American literature. He is the author of novels, short fiction, plays, and essays. His novels include The Blue Hour (2005 Herralde Prize for Novel), El Susurro de la Mujer Ballena (2007), and La Perricholi (2018). Cueto’s works have been translated into twenty languages and several have been made into films. He has received a Guggenheim Writer’s Grant, the Berlin Anna Seghers Prize, and the Medal for Service to Culture from the Government of Peru. Cueto holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Texas-Austin and he is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language.
Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Global Studies, Translation and Interpreting Studies, UWM Libraries, Sigma Delta Pi, Roberto Hernández Center, Department of Art History, Center for 21st Century Studies, Emile H. Mathis Gallery and UWM Art Collection.

Story Experience Guest Lecture Workshop: Liz Anna Kozik
2022-11-04 09:00 - 11:00 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
November 4th Cartooning and Visual Storytelling with Liz Anna Kozik, 9-11 AM (Curtin 939)
Liz Anna Kozik will offer a workshop on visual storytelling for “non-artists” or people who vehemently claim “but I can’t draw!” Liz is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of science communication, environmental humanities, and art. Her research focuses on the myriad culturo-scientific facets of ecological restoration in the American Midwest. Through comics and an active social media presence, she shares stories of the practices, people, and history of prairie restoration. Liz holds a PhD in Environment & Resource from UW Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Learn More https://liz.kozik.net
Register for virtual attendance here!

C21 Conversations: The Post-Roe Research Landscape
2022-10-19 12:00 - 13:30 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
An open conversation about university research in the context of the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Featuring representatives from across campus, including Donna McGee (Legal Affairs) and Sam Westcott (Office of Sponsored Programs) alongside Reproductive Justice Collaboratory Project members Maria Novotny and Rachel Bloom-Pojar.In person conversation will take place in Curtin 939. Online attendance via Zoom (registration required).

October 19, 2022
12:00 – 1:30 PM
Gallop Seminar Room (Curtin 939)

Story Experience Guest Lecture Workshop: Brad Lichtenstein
2022-10-14 09:00 - 10:30 | Curtin 939, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
October 14: Fostering Trust in Storytelling with Brad Lichtenstein, 9 – 10:30 AM (Curtin 939)
Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein will facilitate a discussion on large scale story projects, including processes he uses to build trust with interviewees; establishing consent; the “ground rules” he establishes during story project; and organizing/archiving story materials.
Brad is an award-winning filmmaker who has been making documentaries since 1998 and founded 371 Productions in 2003. His recent film, When Claude Got Shot (produced with Stick Figure) premiered at the 2021 SXSW film festival, was featured in May of 2022 on PBS’ series Independent Lens, and won the 2022 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He’s been nominated for two Emmys: one Sports Emmy for the VR film Ashe ’68, which premiered at Sundance in 2019, and a News and Documentary Emmy for the 2012 Independent Lens/PBS film As Goes Janesville. He’s won two Duponts: one for the 2016 Al Jazeera America series Hard Earned (produced with Kartemquin Films) and another for his 2001 film Ghosts of Attica (produced with Lumiere Productions). His latest work is American Reckoning (with producer/director Yoruba Richen) for Frontline, a film about a Black resistance movement in Natchez, MS, and the murder of civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson, Sr. With Emily Kuester, he directed Messwood for Participant, which premiered in 2021 at DocNYC. The film follows a high school football team made up of kids who come from two different communities; one suburban and white and the other urban and Black. Brad directed Metcalfe Park: Black Vote rising in 2020 with Miela Fetaw — a short for PBS/World Channel and The Intercept. His 2018 film There Are Jews Here won a Telly award and was broadcast on PBS/World. He was nominated for a Peabody for his radio series about gun violence, Precious Lives.
Learn More https://www.371productions.com
Zoom registration here.

Unstoppable Voters: Milwaukee
2022-09-30 13:00 - 17:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepeneurship Center
September 30th
1PM – 5PM
Learn more and apply for this dynamic day-long workshop about artistic activism here!

Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Steve Lambert
2022-09-28 19:30 - 21:00
Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Steve Lambert – Wednesday, September 28, 7:30 – 9:00 PM, Virtual.
Steve Lambert has worked alongside over 1400 artists and activists, in 16 countries, on 4 continents helping them use creative means to effect power. Trained in the arts, he is known for large scale, public projects that engage new audiences on difficult topics through the social science of comedy, games, theater, and democratic participation.
Lambert is the co-founder and co-director of the Center for Artistic Activism, a research and training institute helping activists be more creative and artists be more effective. As an artist, Lambert’s work has been shown both nationally and internationally, from art galleries to Times Square to protest marches, featured in four documentary films, and over two dozen books, and collected by museums and The Library of Congress. His research is included in a United Nations report on the impact of advertising on cultural rights, as well as the basis for a book on popular understandings of capitalism.
Series supported in part by the UWM Black and Gold Committee & Differential Tuition funds, Frederick R. Layton Fund, the John Colt Memorial Art Fund, The Queer Curatorial Fund, Center for 21st Century Studies, Print Club, Focus, and OBJECT.
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Lonely No More! Exhibition Opening
2022-09-22 16:30 - 19:00 | Curtin 929, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53212, United States
September 22nd
4:30-7PM
Location: Curtin 929

Part of UWM Gallery Night, so be sure to check out exhibits opening at UWM’s Emile H. Mathis Gallery, Special Collections, the American Geographic Society Library, and Union Art Gallery as well!

Healing Spaces Roundtable (Lonely No More!)
2022-09-22 15:00 - 16:30 | Curtin 175, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
September 22nd
3-4:30PM
Curtin 175

Chancellor Presents: A Conversation with Anne Basting
2022-09-14 17:30 - 18:30
September 14, 2022
5:30 – 6:30 PM
Virtual Event

Register to attend here!

"Weaponizing Loneliness" Lonely No More! Roundtable
2022-05-06 14:00 - 15:30
Join us for a conversational roundtable that is part of C21’s Lonely No More! Symposia.
How is loneliness weaponized in practices of solitary confinement and infrastructures of incarceration? What do efforts toward its banning tell us about the rhetoric of loneliness as points of concern and control? How have individuals and communities resisted infrastructures of isolation linked to the carceral state? This conversation will include the following experts:
Stephanie Gibson (University of Pennsylvania)
Vijay Gupta (Street Symphony)
Keramet Reiter (University of California – Irvine)
Sarah Shourd (Pulitzer Center)
Register here!

Media And/As Infrastructure
2022-04-29
To register for this event, follow this link! Please note that you must register separately for each day.

"Dragons and Lice" Lecture with Łukasz Mieszkowski
2022-04-28 15:30 - 17:00 | Lubar Hall S185, 3202 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
An epidemic is an empirical phenomenon, confirmed from the medical point of view and subject to historical description and biopolitical interpretation. By contrast, plague, according to its anthropological definition, constitutes a part of a mythological landscape—a permanent element defining the crisis, the transitional moment, the end of the old world and the beginning of a new one. This talk covers the two biggest epidemics of infectious diseases, typhus and influenza, plaguing Poland’s population of that time and places them in a broader context of sanitary and social conditions in the early Second Polish Republic.
This event will be held in-person in Lubar Hall S185.

Remote Film Screening of "Maksym Osa"
2022-04-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Zoom
A Ukrainian film production that was interrupted by the Russian invasions in 2014 and again in 2022, Maksym Osa is a fantasy thriller set in the 1600s, yet deeply resonant with the present. Here, the contemporary tenacity of Ukrainians in defense of their independence, which has taken the world utterly by surprise, is placed in a larger historical context. In its focus on the Cossacks, a Ukrainian-created self-defense force, as multidimensional figures, Maksym Osa argues for the historical roots of Ukraine as a European and global nation.
In the misty sodden forests of late medieval Ukraine, a group of Cossacks has been murdered and the gold entrusted to them for safekeeping stolen. Maksym Osa (Vasil’ Kukharsky), a forelocked warrior both ferocious and conniving, as well as frequently drunk, searches for clues near the Polish border that connect local nobility, witchcraft, and lycanthropy. Based on Igor Baranko’s graphic novel, Makysm Osa (Myroslav Latyk, 2022) relies on and updates Ukrainian folk cinema, drawing inspiration from films such as The Eve of Ivan Kupalo (Yuri Ilyenko, 1968) and The Lost Letter (Borys Ivchenko, 1972). As in Ivchenko’s film, Maksym Osa begins and ends with the same folk song: “The fish danced with the crawfish/The carrot with the porridge/The seahorse with the pearl/And the Cossack with the girl.” With tonal shifts and a sense of the absurd, Osa showcases its take on Ukrainian lore alongside flashes of violence and dark humor. Like the many colorful and mysterious cinematic spectacles of Cossacks and magic that came before, Maksym Osa is, at heart, an adventure. But also like those films, salvation here doesn’t spring ex machina from deities, sorcery, or wealth. Instead, it’s found in the fierce spirit of everyday people who defend their right to tell their own stories in the face of oppression.
A Roundtable Introduction will feature a discussion with the Ukrainian filmmakers of the Maksym Osa project.
Register for the Thursday, April 14th screening here!
Register for the Monday, April 25th screening here!

Remote Viewing of "The Box"
2022-04-21 19:00 - 21:00
Join C21 with Historians at the Movies (#HATM) for this special remote screening event! We’ll have an in-real-time conversation and reactions on Twitter to The Box, a play by Sarah Shourd in collaboration with other survivors of solitary confinement.
Access the Zoom recording of the play here, press “play” at 7PM Central, and join the conversation on Twitter following the #HATM and #LNMC21 hashtags! This event is connected to the Lonely No More! Roundtable on May 6th, titled “Weaponizing Loneliness.”

"Doin' Black Rhetorics of Health Communication: A Framework for More Racially Just, Community Engaged Care
2022-04-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
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The Ethos of Black Motherhood: Only White Women Get Pregnant
2022-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom

"Nonhuman Kinship" Lonely No More! Roundtable
2022-04-13 13:00 - 14:30
Join us for a conversational roundtable that is part of C21’s Lonely No More! Symposia.
In what ways does loneliness manifest for nonhuman animals and in the nonhuman world? How might we rethink loneliness and connection with nonhumans in mind? As we reimagine and reinvent kin, how do spaces for human-nonhuman connection grow and develop in the age of robots, machines, computers, and AI? This conversation will include the following experts:
Barbara J. King (William & Mary)
Kite aka Suzanne Kite (Concordia University)
Juno Salazar Parreñas (Cornell University)
Sonia Zhang (New School)
Register here!

Gallop: A Pedagogical Retrospective
2022-04-08 | Curtin 175, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join us for a celebration and academic analysis of the career of Jane Gallop. This one-day symposium will include two in-depth roundtables that feature Jane’s former graduate advisees.
This will be an in-person symposium with events on the 9th Floor at C21 and in Curtin Hall 175. Registration is required. We will be sure to stay in touch with all registrants about masking and vaccine parameters as they evolve.
Please visit this page for more information and to register for this event.

"Lonely Infrastructure" Lonely No More! Roundtable
2022-03-30 13:00 - 14:30
Join us for a conversational roundtable that is part of C21’s Lonely No More! Symposia.
How might we study, talk about, and address loneliness and the built environment? What kinds of social arrangements might we foster to reconsider loneliness and connection, especially between urban centers and rural villages? Are some populations more vulnerable to loneliness than others? This conversation will include the following experts:
Jason Danely (Oxford Brookes University)
Joan Johnson (Milwaukee Public Library)
Eric Klinenberg (New York University)
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (Emory University)
Register here!

Anthropology Student Union Colloquium, "A World Reconstructed"
2022-03-27 09:00 - 16:30
“A World Reconstructed: Anthropology and the Reconstruction of Experience” will feature Dr. Thomas Malaby as the Keynote Speaker. Conference presentations will take place in-person in Sabin Hall – G90. Dinner will be in the UWM Student Union Ballroom afterward.
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An Introduction to the Publishing Industry with the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop
2022-03-04 15:00 - 16:30
Join C21 in a conversation with the director and program manager of the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop. This session is geared toward graduate students aiming to transfer and translate their skills to the publishing industry.
Register for the event here!

WGS Feminist Lecture Speaker: Dean Spade
2022-02-25 15:00 - 17:00
The WGS Feminist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Vilas Trust.
Register here!

Nigel Rothfels Book Launch
2022-02-23 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom
From prehistoric cave drawings in Europe and ancient rock art in Africa and India to burning pyres of confiscated tusks, our thoughts about elephants tell a story of human history. In “Elephant Trails,” Nigel Rothfels argues that, over millennia, we have made elephants into both monsters and miracles as ways to understand them but also as ways to understand ourselves.
Join us for a celebration and discussion of Nigel’s latest book, “Elephant Trails”!
Register here!

Paul Booth: Board Games as Media
2022-02-23 12:30 - 14:00 | Zoom

Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. Lecture
2022-02-16 14:30 - 16:00 | Zoom
Abstract from above poster image: Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans—from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Demonstrating how “foodways”—food availability, choice, and consumption—vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, Ewoodzie offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.
Join us for a Zoom lecture session that promises to reveal the complexities of the phrase “you are what you eat.” Co-sponsored by AADS, Architecture, C21, Geography, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Register here for the Zoom session!

Asia in Conversation: Dialogues on Engaging Muslim Communities in Research
2022-02-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Zoom
We would like to invite you to the first conversation in the Spring 2022 Asia: In Conversation Series. This first conversation will take place on Friday, February 11, 2-3:30pm (CT).
Janan Najeeb, President of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, will be in conversation with UWM faculty Anna Mansson McGinty, Associate Professor of Geography and Women’s and Gender Studies, Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Kristin Sziarto, Associate Professor of Geography. The event features a C21 Collaboratory, the Muslim Milwaukee Project.
You may register for the event here.

Asylum: A Memoir and a Manifesto
2022-02-10 16:00 - 17:30 | Zoom
Asylum is Edafe’s new, eye-opening, thought-provoking memoir and manifesto, which documents his experiences growing up gay in Nigeria, fleeing to America, navigating the immigration system, and making a life for himself as a Black, gay immigrant. Alongside his personal story is a blaring call to action–not only for immigration reform but for a just immigration system for refugees everywhere. This book imagines a future where immigrants and asylees are treated with fairness, transparency, and compassion. It aims to help us understand that home is not just where you feel safe and welcome but also how you can make it feel safe and welcome for others.
Register here!

Talking Walls: A C21 Exhibit
2021-11-01 08:00 - 2021-11-30 17:00
UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies invites you to explore our space with us.
Help the walls do the talking by sharing your stories and responses to the space as well as your ideas for how to transform it to fit our mission – to build an inclusive, collaborative community of scholars to address the most challenging questions of our time.
Participate by Instagram at @c21cs; or live on the 9th floor of UWM’s Curtin Hall.
