Past Events

Thursday, November 19 2015 3:30 pm

“Beyond Crisis: The Humanities in Renewal” A Symposium Dedicated to Ihab Hassan

A discussion of strategies of self-renewal in the humanities and a review of the early, innovative nature of the work of the late Professor Ihab Hassan. Featuring Ihab's final essay, read by Patrice Petro, and presentations by Charles Caramello (University...

Poetry and Creative Nonfiction Reading and Craft Talk: Michael Dowdy

Michael Dowdy will deliver a lecture and discussion entitled "Poets, Critics, and the Limits of Literary Citizenship” Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 2:00pm Curtin Hall 175 In addition, Dowdy will read from his award-winning poetry collection, Urbilly, and from his latest...

02/06/2020 – United We Read: Cho, Correale, Maddox, Callanan

Thursday, February 6 at 7:30 PM Boswell Books 2559 N Downer Ave United We Read is the Graduate Creative Writing Program’s student-faculty reading series that takes place in venues throughout the community. This edition takes place at Boswell Books and...

November 11, 2021 at 7PM: UNITED WE READ: A Creative Writing Event

UWM Creative Writing Graduate Program Student-Faculty Series Presents

Fellows on Flint: Water-Centric Cities

The ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan has prompted emergency response at city, state, and federal levels, as well as heated debate here in Wisconsin and nationally. Official inquiry is underway into the political, economic, and technological causes as well...

*Canceled* 03/26/2020 – Fiction Reading: Chris Fink

Fiction Reading and Author Q & A: Chris Fink Thursday, March 26 Reading 7:30 pm Hefter Center, 3271 N. Lake Dr. Author Q & A 5:00-6:30 Mitchel Hall 361 Chris Fink is a professor of English and environmental studies at Beloit...

February 10, 2022 at 7PM: UNITED WE READ: A Creative Writing Event

A UWM CREATIVE WRITING GRADUATE PROGRAM FACULTY-STUDENT READING SERIES Featuring Steven Flores, JT Lachausse, Angela Voras-Hills, and Liam Callanan. UWM Campus, Curtin Hall 175 Streaming Link

*Canceled* 03/27/2020 – Subject/Abject Relations by Celine Parreñas Shimizu

March 27th, 2020 at 3:30 PM - 5 PM UWM Campus, Curtin Hall 368 “The World in South Asia” lecture series welcomes Celine Parreñas Shimizu (School of Cinema, San Francisco State University). Different proximities to social life—viability (regard and recognition)...

February 25, 2022 – 2021 Business Writing Awards Ceremony

The 2021 Business Writing Award Ceremony will be on Friday, February 25th. Congratulations to all the winners! Live Stream Link: https://lubar.mediasite.com/.../54ff43e00ed2406eab7c692f6...

*Canceled* 04/23/2020 – Earth is Faster Now: Arctic Indigeneity

“The Earth is Faster Now” Arctic Indigeneity and the Timescales of Climate Change with Hester Blum (Penn State) This talk discusses the timescales of ice and of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic. Human time on Earth is often measured by...