The UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program’s Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read is holding an event at 7:00 pm on Friday, April 11 at Zocalo Food Truck Park (636 S. 6th Street) with Rebecca Baumann, Cass Bruner, Charli Spier, and Professor Rebecca Dunham.

2025 Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium
April 18–19, 2025 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University are excited to host the second annual Midwest Graduate Film and Media Studies Symposium, which brings together graduate scholars from across the region for lively discussion of film, media, and digital culture.

This year’s symposium—themed “Drawing (In)Attention”—explores media engagement, distraction, and the shifting dynamics of attention across historical and contemporary contexts. From the rapid pacing of social media to the immersive power of cinema, graduate student scholars will examine how media capture—and lose—our focus in an era where attention is increasingly fragmented and commodified.

The two-day symposium will feature a keynote address by Professor Neil Verma (Northwestern University), author of Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession (University of Michigan Press, 2024). His talk, “Obsession: From Map to Strategy,” will take place on Friday, April 18th, from 7:00-8:30 PM in Mitchell Hall 195.

This event is generously co-sponsored by:

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of English
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Film Studies Program
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for 21st Century Studies
• Marquette University J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication
• Marquette University Center for the Advancement of the Humanities