While scholars have amassed large amounts of data related to the transatlantic slave trade, a more pressing question lingers: Where did those 12.7 million people come from within pre-colonial West Africa before boarding slave ships destined for the Americas?
Join us for our Women Film Pioneers Symposium on April 19! This half-day event 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 …
Friday, April 5, 4:00pm-6:00pm
Please join us for a roundtable discussion featuring Jenna Freedman (Barnard Library, NYC), Milo Miller (UWM and the Queer Zine Archive Project), and Lane Hall (English, UWM) about key issues in the digital humanities as they pertain to the archiving of zines in particular.
Friday, March 29, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Please join us for a lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff called "The World of Statues: Mobility, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race."
Friday, March 8, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Please join us for a half-day symposium that will explore issues of labor, power, precarity, and academic stardom, particularly with regard to the uneven ways power and labor operate in universities.