October 2018
Lecture: N. Katherine Hayles
Please join us for a lecture by N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University) entitled "Computer Cognition: A Cyber/Bio/Semiotic Perspective." This talk will explore biosemiotics, a field that draws on C. S. Peirce’s semiotics to argue that all living organisms generate and…
Find out more »Remembering the Center for 20th Century Studies
In honor of the Center for 21st Century Studies marking 50 years of research and collaboration this coming academic year, we will be hosting a special 50th anniversary symposium on Friday, October 26, 2018.
Find out more »November 2018
All Derangements, Great and Small: A Roundtable Discussion with Amitav Ghosh
Join us for a roundtable with author Amitav Ghosh featuring UWM's own Richard Grusin (Center for 21st Century Studies), Arijit Sen (SARUP), Jasmine Alinder (History), Rina Ghose (Geography), and Anne Bonds (Geography). Acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh’s most recent book frames our…
Find out more »Roundtable Discussion: Popular Feminisms
Inspired by the Fall 2018 Distinguished Lecture Series event featuring feminist public intellectual Roxane Gay, this roundtable engages with public dialogues around feminism in the contemporary era and the circulation of debates, representations, and activism around gender, race, and other categories of social identity…
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