Curtin 118
(CANCELLED) Paul Booth: A Depressing Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: The Interactive Potentiality of Board Games
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States**Due to the campus-wide response to the COVID-19 outbreak this talk by Paul Booth is cancelled. Sorry, folks! Wash your hands, stay healthy!** Please join our Serious Play/Digital Culture Collaboratory in welcoming Paul Booth (DePaul University) to campus!... Read more
Scott Stark: “Seeing Sound: Process and Perception”
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join UWM's Moving Image Society for Scott Stark's artist talk, "Seeing Sound: Process and Perception!" San Francisco-based film, video, performance, and installation artist Scott Stark will discuss his process for creating image-generated sounds and other perceptual phenomena discovered in... Read more
Raine Koskimaa: “Introduction to eSport Culture”
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Serious Play Collaboratory is hosting a special lecture by Raine Koskimaa (University of Jyvaskyla) on Friday at 3:30 in Curtin Hall 118! In this talk, titled “Introduction to eSport Culture,” Koskimaa will survey the development of eSports and... Read more
Collaboratory Event: Eric Hoyt: From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join our Media Studies Collaboratory in welcoming Eric Hoyt (University of Wisconsin - Madison) for a special lecture, "From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media: Reflections on TV Guide, Podcasts, and Media History."
Brazilian Digital Media Studies: Two Talks
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21’s visiting media scholars from Brazil present their research on digital media technologies. This event consisted of two short talks and a Q&A. Watch below! Fatima Regis Oliveira New Media Literacies: Developing Participatory and Playful Learning Methodologies... Read more
Media Studies Symposium: Mucking Up the Archives: Orphans, Amateurs, and Film Preservation
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join our Media Studies Research Group for an afternoon symposium on the orphan film movement and amateur film preservation! Featuring two exciting talks by distinguished scholars and archivists Dan Streible and Kim Tomadjoglou.
Henry Lovejoy: Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Kingdom of Oyo and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1816-1836
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesBe sure to stop by C21 at noon on Friday for a special brown bag discussion with Henry before the talk. Join us for Henry Lovejoy's lecture, "Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Kingdom of Oyo and the... Read more
Fellows Presentations and Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for a fall open house featuring our 2018-19 Faculty Fellows, who will discuss their projects and present the research they completed during their residence at C21 last year. Presenters will include Joel Berkowitz (Foreign Languages and Literature), Rachel Buff (History), Elana... Read more
Teresa Mangum: Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree (Public Humanities PhD Collaboratory)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join our Public Humanities PhD Collaboratory in welcoming Teresa Mangum for her talk, "What Would a Humanities PhD Look Like for Students Who Do NOT Want to Be Professors? Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree." Mangum's talk will consider the relationship(s) between the humanities and public life, the role of a humanities PhD within and beyond the academy, and options for PhD students going into non-academic fields.
Fellows Presentation + C21 Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease join us in welcoming the new school year, and our new group of Fellows, by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. 2017-18 Fellows will be giving brief, informal talks about the work they did during their fellowship year: Xin... Read more