Curtin 175
TL Taylor: Play as Transformative Work
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIn this talk, Taylor explores the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment. Drawing on her research with live streamers, she offers a challenge to current models of IP and fandom, suggesting the work …
Insecurity Conference
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis 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.”
Bonnie ‘Bo’ Ruberg: Video Games Have Always Been Queer—CANCELED
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
Join us for a special lecture with Bonnie 'Bo' Ruberg hosted by our Serious Play Collaboratory! Ruberg will discuss their new book, Video Games Have Always Been Queer. Ruberg models the ways game worlds offer players the opportunity to explore queer experience, affect, and desire. As players attempt to "pass" in Octodad or explore the pleasure of failure in Burnout: Revenge, Ruberg asserts that, even within a dominant gaming culture that has proved to be openly hostile to those perceived as different, queer people have always belonged in video games—because video games have, in fact, always been queer.
Women Film Pioneers Symposium
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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 by Milwaukee Film and presented by the UWM Moving Image Society and C21's Media Studies Research Collaboratory.
Donna Haraway and Anna Tsing: Unblocking Attachment Sites for Living in the Plantationocene
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPlease 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.
Bending the Archive: Zines, Archiving, and the Digital Humanities
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis special roundtable discussion was held in coordination with Milwaukee Zine Fest, 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 …
Nicholas Mirzoeff: “Whiteness and the Crisis”
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJeannette Ehlers, The Gaze (2018) Nicholas Mirzoeff was joined at noon in UWM’s Mathis Gallery by David Pacifico (Director, Emile H. Mathis Gallery) and Samantha Maloney (Art History, UWM) for a discussion on “Strategies for Colonial Art” before giving a …
Power and Gendered Labor in the Academy: A Half-Day Symposium
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesC21 hosted a half-day symposium exploring issues of labor, power, precarity, and academic stardom. (Listen to Carol Stabile's keynote talk below.) The past two years have seen shockwaves of protest and activism in response to a growing awareness of sexual …
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis year's Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference will take place on February 15 and 16 in Curtin 175 (plus an offsite welcome event and creative showcase). MIGC is organized entirely by graduate students at UWM, who collectively decide on an annual …
Book Lecture: Jane Gallop
Curtin 175 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesUWM's own Jane Gallop gave a special lecture in conjunction with her recently published book Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus (Duke, 2019). The talk addressed issues of mid-to-late-life disability and the impacts of disability and aging on …