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 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.
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 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 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
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...
On March 10th, Elena Gorfinkel will deliver a keynote at a symposium, “Quality Trash”…
Elena Gorfinkel is the keynote speaker at the Film Studies Symposium at the University of Florida’s Harn Museum on January 29, 2015.