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 »
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 »
October 16, 2018, 5:00pm
Community Room, MLK Library
310 W Locust Street
Dr. Liston will lead a discussion of the work of Roxanne Gay, in preperation for Gay’s visit to Milwaukee on October 25… Continue Reading »
October 11, 2018, 6:00 pm
2701 S. Chase Street
Join us at UMOS for a conversation with Lilia Soto, Associate Professor in Latina/o Studies and American Studies at the University of Wyoming, who will discuss her recently published book, Girlhood in the Borderlands: Mexican Teens Caught in the Crossroads of Migration.… Continue Reading »
Join us in the UWM Union’s Alumni Fireside Lounge on September 11 at 5:00pm for a conversation with Dawson Barrett, Assistant Professor of History at Del Mar College, who will discuss his recently published book, The Defiant: Protest Movements in … Continue Reading »
Join us at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee on May 7 at 7:00pm for a conversation with Libby Garland, Associate Professor of History at Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York, who will discuss her recently published book, After … Continue Reading »
Join us on Tuesday, March 27, 4:00pm in Curtain Hall 175 for a special student forum exploring the immigration crisis as it has played out and been experienced on campus. We will consider how global/national issues of (im)migration have important … Continue Reading »
UWM Cultures & Communities Director Rachel Ida Buff will talk about her new book, Against the Deportation Terror, at Boswell Books on Downer Avenue, February 1, at 7:00pm. Copies will be available for purchase and signing. Special guest and Cultures … Continue Reading »
The recent documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, by Raul Peck has led to a surge of interest in James Baldwin’s life and legacy. Beyond the image presented in the film Baldwin’s writing voice was challenging as was his vision … Continue Reading »