January 2016

Honorary Degree for Christiane Taubira

The French program is proud to have organized this event, along with the dedicated and professional staff at the American Geographical Society Library. The ceremony featured welcoming comments by Chancellor Mark Mone (who also presented the diploma), an eloquent introduction by …

Hear the Author Speak!

Italian professor Robin Pickering-Iazzi will be presenting her newest book, The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and their Geographies, on Wednesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM at Boswell Book Company. Please join Robin Pickering-Iazzi for a lively talk and discussion …

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.