Monday, November 18 2019
3:00 pm
Monday, November 18th, 2019, 3:00 pm
Curtin Hall, Room 118
Please join us in welcoming Eric Hoyt from the University of Wisconsin – Madison for his lecture, “From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media: Reflections on TV Guide, Podcasts, and Media History.” In this talk, Eric Hoyt plans to use the lecture series theme, “Rethinking Media Archives,” as an opportunity to share work and reflect upon two digital projects that he helps lead at UW-Madison.
Friday, April 19 2019
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Friday, April 19 2019
Join us for the Moving Image Society’s Women Film Pioneers Symposium at 1 pm. The symposium is scheduled in conjunction with three programs of films by early women directors at the Oriental Theatre on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night, organized by Milwaukee Film.
Wednesday, September 12 2018
7:00 pm
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece will speak about the release of her new book “The Optical Vacuum: Spectatorship and Modernized American Theater Architecture.” 7pm at Boswell Books.
Thursday, February 15 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Thursday, February 15, 2018, 7 PM – 9 PM, UWM Union Cinema.
This special screening of Our Heavenly Bodies (Hanns Walter Kornblum, 1925) features a live accompaniment by Nashville and Chicago electronic group Coupler and is free for all attendees.
Thursday, December 14 2017
7:00 pm
Former UW-Milwaukee Film Studies Professor Elena Gorfinkel returns to Milwaukee for the release of her new book, “Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s,” on Tuesday, December 19, 7pm at Boswell.
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Join us for this 2016-2017 Stahl Center Distinguished Lecture entitled Living Room Witnesses: The Holocaust on American Television by Jeffrey Shandler.
Thursday, November 17 2016
11:00 am
Thursday, November 17, 2016
11:00 am in Garland Hall 102
Tasha Oren will be giving a talk as part of the Global Fellows Colloquia.
Global Fellows Colloquia flyer
Friday, November 11 2016
3:00 pm
Friday, November 11, 2016
3:00 pm in Bolton Hall room B60
Elena Gorfinkel is giving a talk entitled “Walkers, Sleepers and Others: Figures of Exhaustion” as a part of UWM’s Media Scholars Colloquium Series.
Event flyer
Friday, April 29 2016
2:00 pm
On April 29, 2015 at 2 PM in Curtin 368, Professor Miriam Petty (Northwestern University, Radio/Television/Film) will be coming to UWM for a public lecture. Professor Petty’s book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood, about to be released by the University of California Press in March 2016.
Elena Gorfinkel is giving a talk titled "Skin Flick Cinephilia: Sexploitation Cinema's Scenes of Looking" on March 12 at the Offscreen Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Elena's talk surveys the 1960s US sexploitation cinema, exploring its location between low budget filmmaking and art...