C21 Conference, Landbody: Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments

Interdisciplinary scholars from UW-Milwaukee and across the globe came to campus for the Center for 21st Century Studies’ annual conference, Landbody: Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments, May 5-7 2016. Comparative Literature faculty members Caroline Seymour-Jorn and Kristin Pitt were  moderating panels.

The Third Annual International Dessert Competition

Thank you to all the participants in this year’s wonderful International Dessert Competition, and congratulations to all of the winners! Thanks also to all of the community businesses that donated an amazing array of prizes and also supported us by sending terrific volunteer …

Seymour-Jorn Presents at 4W Summit 2016

Come hear our own Caroline Seymour-Jorn present her paper at the 2016 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being, WELL-BEING & EMPOWERMENT:WISCONSIN & THE WORLD, at UW-Madison tomorrow, April 15. Her paper, co-written with Kristin Sziarto (Geography) and Anna Mansson McGinty …

Milwaukee Italian Film Festival!

Come join us for a series of movies about Italy and in Italian! Free admission at Union Cinema UW-Milwaukee. April 22nd – 24th Check out the films here!

Newest Publication from UWM’s Sarah Davies Cordova

Professor Davies-Cordova studies the often painful Haitian past with her newest publication: “Ending the Haunting, Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken: Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot” in Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : A …