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Allison McCracken: America’s First Pop Idol: The Rise and Fall of Rudy Vallée
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe C21 Media Studies Research Collaboratory is excited to host a talk with Professor Allison McCracken from DePaul University based on her book, Real Mean Don’t Sing: Crooning in American Culture (Duke UP, 2015). American pop singing did not begin gently with …
Gabriel Menotti: 3D Replication Technologies – Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesGabriel Menotti, a Brazilian Fulbright scholar currently in residence at the Center for 21st Century Studies, will deliver a special lecture on "3D Replication Technologies: Digital Artifacts for the Radical Mediation of History." 3D replication technologies like highly detailed modeling or …
C21 Open Meeting
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesReevaluate C21 mission and plan for 50th anniversary Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in an open meeting where we can talk with one another about how C21 can reevaluate its mission in these challenging times. We …
C21 Fellows’ Presentations and Open House
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPresentations: 4:00 pm Curtin 118 Open House: 5:30 pm Curtin 939 Please join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) in welcoming our new crew of fellows by celebrating the accomplishments of the old. Several of last year's fellows will …
Hasia Diner (History, NYU)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJewish Women in America: A History of Their Own 2016 Faye Sigman "Woman of Valor" Lecture Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Read about Hasia Diner at the Association for Jewish Studies
Brian Price (Visual Studies, University of Toronto)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesRegret and Remake This talk is concerned with the productivity of regret, especially as the experience of regret can be understood as a particular way of saying yes. That is to say, if we feel regret about something that has …
Gloria Kim (C21 Provost Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThe Raw and the Pre-Cooked: Processing Raw Data in Preemptive Data Visualization From the deep futures of climate change, to newly surfacing microbial threats, to the systems of global security: how do we make visible, graspable, and thus governable such …
Siobhan Senier (English, University of New Hampshire)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIndigenizing Wikipedia: Expanding the Presence of Native Authors on the World's Largest Encyclopedia For better or worse, Wikipedia is now the first source to which most students, everyday citizens, and even scholars turn for basic information. What does it mean …
Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair (Native Studies, University of Manitoba)
Curtin 118 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesBagijiganan: Anishinaabe Ethics in Native Studies Recorded video (YouTube) Bagijiganan (offerings) are the foundations of Anishinaabe ethics. Found in practices from ceremonies to visiting, bagijiganan are embedded in early treaties made with Europeans and acted as both intention and recognition, …