March 2019
Nicholas Mirzoeff: The World of Statues: Mobility, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race
Jeannette Ehlers, The Gaze (2018) Please join us for a lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff called "The World of Statues: Mobility, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race." In this presentation, Mirzoeff will consider what Frantz Fanon called the colonial "world of statues.”…
Find out more »April 2019
Bending the Archive: Zines, Archiving, and the Digital Humanities
Please join us for a roundtable discussion featuring Jenna Freedman (Barnard Library, NYC), Milo Miller (UWM and the Queer Zine Archive Project), and Lane Hall (English, UWM). Zines are non-commercial publications made by ordinary people using a variety of techniques including…
Find out more »Unblocking Attachment Sites for Living in the Plantationocene
Please join us on April 17 at 3:30pm for a conversation with Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing from UC - Santa Cruz about exploring the arts of living on a damaged planet.
Find out more »Women Film Pioneers Symposium
Join us for our Women Film Pioneers Symposium on April 19! This half-day event is scheduled in conjunction with three programs of films by early women directors at the Oriental Theatre on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night, organized…
Find out more »May 2019
Insecurity Conference
This conference proposes the concept of “insecurity” as one of the governing logics of economic, political, and social life in the West at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. Insecurity picks up on, and challenges, several key concepts of 21st century studies, especially “precarity,” “securitization,” and “resilience.”
Find out more »Teresa Mangum: Imagining an Alt-Alt-Ac Degree (Public Humanities PhD Collaboratory)
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.