Women’s & Gender Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies are cosponsoring a screening of the classic 1985 queer film Desert Hearts at the Union Cinema today, Thursday, November 4th at 7 PM. The film screening is free to all attendees.… Continue Reading »
Cultures and Communities Mask Design Contest—Deadline October 31st 2020
Cultures and Communities is proud to announce a contest to create an original design for face masks, open to all UW-Milwaukee students! There will be prizes, and the top designs will be on a limited run of face masks produced … Continue Reading »
Ronak Kapadia: “Reimagine Everything: How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds”
Friday, October 2nd, 2020 3:30 – 4:30 Free C21 Event Page Event Online—Watch at C21’s YouTube page. Join us for a conversation with Ronak K. Kapadia (UIC) as he explores how the Black and brown Midwest has become the epicenter … Continue Reading »
First Annual Comparative Ethnic/Hmong Diaspora Studies Open House
The First Annual Comparative Ethnic /Hmong Diaspora Studies Open House brought students, faculty and alums together on Monday, October 17. We socialized, snacked, heard short presentations from current and past students, and discussed visions for the future of our program.… Continue Reading »
Lecture: The Milwaukee Moment: Oppression, Policing, and Resistance
September 28, 2016, 1:00pm
Sabin Hall, Room G90
Kat Matthews, Sociology, University of California–Santa Barbara
“The Milwaukee Moment: Oppression, Policing, and Resistance”… Continue Reading »
George Lipsitz: The Ferguson Conjuncture: Why the Humanities Matter Now
The Department of Africology is pleased to co-sponsor, “The Ferguson Conjuncture: Why the Humanities Matter Now” by Dr. George Lipsitz, American Studies scholar and professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.… Continue Reading »
Confronting the Carceral Crisis: Policing, Prisons and Permanent War
Thursday, April 23, 2015, 4:00 pm
Jordan Camp, Sociology, UMass-Lowell
Student Union, Room 191, UWM Campus… Continue Reading »
The #BlackLivesMatter Tipping Point
Thursday, February 12, 2015, 4:00-5:30pm
Opal Tometi, Executive Director, Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, UWM Campus… Continue Reading »
The Body in Peril: Historicizing Oak Creek, Minor Politics, and the U.S. Sikh Diaspora
Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 3:00-4:30pm
Balbir K. Singh, PhD candidate, English, University of Washington
Curtin Hall, Room 175, UWM Campus… Continue Reading »