October 2018

Amitav Ghosh Lecture

Thursday, November 1, 2018
Join us at 7pm for “Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change in the Indian Ocean,” a lecture by Amitav Ghosh. UWM Peck School of Arts Music Recital Hall. Reception starts at 6:00 pm. Vilas Distinguished Lecture/George F. Kennan Distinguished Lecture.

Professor Ryan Holifield presents the 49th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

We are excited to share that Professor Ryan Holifield will present the 49th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, October 4, 2018@4:00PM,
at 4th floor Conference Center in Golda Meir Library. The lecture is entitled “When Visions of Justice Collide: The Kinnickinnic River Box Tunnel Controvery, 1929-1932.”

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.