Past Events

Saturday, April 15 2023 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m.

Special Lecture: “150 Years of the QWERTY Keyboard”

Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. in Milwaukee Public Museum, Ground Floor Garden Galleries
Arguably Milwaukee’s most famous export, the QWERTY keyboard is named after the arrangement of letters on the first commercially successful typewriter, which went into production in 1873. Typewriters are mostly obsolete today, but their keyboards are not. Billions of people still type using the same layout of keys, a quaint Victorian relic at the heart of even the most advanced computer. Why has QWERTY been so durable, and where did it come from?

Friday, April 7 2023 7:00 pm

United We Read: UWM Creative Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series

Friday, April 7, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. Sugar Maple, 441 E Lincoln Ave, Milwaukee, WI Please join us for the April event in our United We Read: Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series, hosted this month by Sugar Maple in Bay View! Our readers...

Thursday, April 6 2023 3:00 P.M. (Craft Talk) & 7:00 P.M. (Reading/Q&A)

Spring 2023 Visiting Writer-Boudreaux Poet Series with Dr. Craig Santos Perez

Thursday, April 6 2023, at 3:00pm & 7:00pm Curtin Hall, Room 175 and livestream Please join us on for the Spring 2023 Visiting Writer-Boudreaux Poet Series with Dr. Craig Santos Perez! Santos Perez will host a Craft Talk at 3pm...

Thursday, April 6 2023 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Advising Open House

Thursday, April 6, 2023,11:00am-1:00pm Curtin Hall 439 Please join us for the Spring English Department Advising Open House! Get answers to your questions about Fall 2023 course selection, major/minor declaration, requirements & for-credit internships, or just stop in to chat....

Sunday, March 19 2023 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Tabi Po! Poetry Series featuring Professor Brenda Cárdenas

Join us as Professor Brenda Cárdenas reads her work as part of the Tabi Po! Poetry Series, hosted by Tabi Po! Literary Magazine. Brenda Cárdenas is the author of Trace (Red Hen Press, forthcoming April 2023), Boomerang (Bilingual Press) and three chapbooks. She also co-edited Resist...

Tuesday, March 14 2023 6:30pm

Liam Callanan, author of When In Rome – An In-Person Event at Boswell Book Company

Boswell Book Company hosts an evening with Liam Callanan, author of When in Rome. Pre-registration for this free event required here.  Meet Claire: fifty-two, desperate to do something new and get a fresh start. Enter the chance to go to Rome: Home to...

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Friday, March 3 2023 10:30 - 11:30 AM (Panel) & 2:30 - 4:00 PM (Book Talk/Q&A)

Fandom, The Next Generation: A Two-Part Event with Dr. Bridget Kies & Dr. Megan Connor

Join us for a two-part event with visiting scholars & Panther alumni Dr. Bridget Kies (PhD 2018) & Dr. Megan Connor (MA 2015)! Both events will be held in Curtin Hall, Room 368. 10:30 - 11:30 AM: Career Panel (Curtin...

Friday, March 3 2023 7:00pm

United We Read: UWM Creative Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series

Please join us for the March event in our United We Read: Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series, hosted by Art Bar! This month’s readers are Rebecca Baumann, Daphne Daugherty, Danielle Harms, and Professor Valerie Laken.

Friday, February 24 2023 10:30am

Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Challenge Awards Ceremony

Please join us for the Gerald J. Alred Professional Writing Awards Challenge Ceremony to honor our Spring 2022 and Fall 2022 student winners! Honorees Spring 2022 First Place: Thunder Milroy, Second Place: Lauren Anding, Third Place: Chloe Uphoff, Honorable Mention: Zak Klug, Sebastian Laverde Fall 2022 First...

Friday, February 10 2023 - Friday, February 10 2023 7:00pm

United We Read: UWM Creative Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series

Please join us for the first event in our United We Read: Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series for Spring 2023, hosted by Sugar Maple! This month’s readers are Sean Enfield, Kathryne David Gargano, Brandon Henry, and Professor Brenda Cárdenas.