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SUMMARY:Henry Lovejoy: Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Kingdom of Oyo and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade\, 1816-1836
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Henry Lovejoy’s lecture\, “Probabilities of African Origins: The Collapse of the Kingdom of Oyo and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade\, 1816-1836.” \nWhile 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? The answer is complex for two reasons: 1) many sub-Saharan peoples did not have written orthographies until the mid-to-late nineteenth century (suggesting their histories were largely undocumented); and 2) Africa lacks reliable historical maps compared to other heavily populated regions of the world (meaning internal geo-political transformations are frequently misunderstood\, especially before the colonization and decolonization of the continent). This digital mapping project seeks to visualize and calculate the probabilities of African origins of enslaved people in diaspora by using two open-source applications: Quantum Geographic Information System and R Project for Statistical Computing. By presenting geo-referenced data of intra-African conflict alongside slave ship departures\, it is possible to generate statistical models capable of predicting large-scale\, inland migrations on an annual basis. This interdisciplinary project appeals to scholars interested in exploring the relationship between conflict\, slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world.\n*** \nAbout the Speaker:\nHenry Lovejoy specializes in the history of Africa and the African Diaspora in the Atlantic World during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. He is the author of Prieto: Yorùbá Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press\, 2018). Through the website LiberatedAfricans.org\, he traces the lives of over 250\,000 enslaved Africans involved in international efforts to abolish the Atlantic and Indian Ocean slave trades after 1807. He is also the director of the popular education image repository SlaveryImages.org. His research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada\, Fulbright-Hays\, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University\, and the University of Colorado Boulder.
URL:https://uwm.edu/humanities/event/henry-lovejoy-probabilities-of-african-origins-the-collapse-of-the-kingdom-of-oyo-and-the-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-1816-1836/
LOCATION:Curtin 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211
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SUMMARY:Women Film Pioneers Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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 by Milwaukee Film. \n \nAbout the Symposium\nFilm and media scholars have long been interested in questions of gender equity and representation\, from theorizing gender to restoring the historical contributions of women as subjects\, producers\, and spectators. In recent years this work has been facilitated by a return to the archives and their material sources: from newspaper clippings and correspondence to production files and film prints. \nAs this research has revealed\, women’s participation in the first decades of cinema was much more extensive than previously thought. Not only as colorists\, camera operators\, and exhibitors\, but also as screenwriters\, directors\, and producers\, women played an integral role in the early artistic development of the medium\, bringing unique viewpoints and an imaginative exploration of crucial topics of the time\, many of which remain surprisingly relevant today. The Women Film Pioneers Symposium brings four leading early cinema scholars together to explore questions of historiography\, archival research\, and affect. \nOrganized by Hugo Ljungbäck and Tami Williams. Milwaukee Film screenings curated by Tami Williams\, with Haley Richards. \nPresentations\n\nJane Gaines\, “Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?”\nJennifer M. Bean\, “Feminist Curiosity\, Genre Films\, and the Poetics of Wonder”\nMaggie Hennefeld\, “Anything But a Dead Letter: Archives of Laughter\, Film\, and Feminism”\nShelley Stamp\, “Women and the Silent Screen: A Short History of the History”\n\nAbout the Speakers:\nJane Gaines is Professor of Film at Columbia University. She is author of Contested Culture: The Image\, the Voice\, and the Law (1991)\, Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era (2001)\, and Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries? (2018)\, and founder of the Women Film Pioneers Project. She won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Distinguished Career Award in 2018. \nJennifer M. Bean is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington. She is co-editor of Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (2014) and A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002)\, and an advisory board member for the National Film Preservation Foundation and the British Film Institute. She is currently an NEH Digital Humanities fellow for “Junking Modernity.” \nMaggie Hennefeld is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. She is author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018) and co-editor of Unwatchable (2019) and Abjection Incorporated (forthcoming). She is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow in residence at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study in the School of Historical Studies. \nShelley Stamp holds the Presidential Chair at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she is Professor of Film & Digital Media. She is author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon (2000) and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood (2015). She also curated the DVD box set “Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” and is co-writing a book on women and the silent screen in America. \n  \nHosted by the Moving Image Society and co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies Media Studies Research Collaboratory\, the Department of Journalism\, Advertising\, and Media Studies\, the Department of English\, the Film Studies Program\, the Department of History\, and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
URL:https://uwm.edu/humanities/event/women-film-pioneers-symposium/
LOCATION:Curtin 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211
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SUMMARY:Bending the Archive: Zines\, Archiving\, and the Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION: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). \nZines are non-commercial publications made by ordinary people using a variety of techniques including Xerography\, illustration\, silkscreen printing\, and collage. Often associated with the punk and riot grrrl movements of the 1980s and 90s\, zines are ephemeral and idiosyncratic\, personal and political\, circulated in independent book stores\, comic shops and through informal networks of exchange. Thirty years on\, zine culture is still vital\, and it has begun to reckon with its own history. \nAs universities\, libraries\, and other institutions begin to make space for zines in their collections\, there are ethical concerns to be negotiated in their preservation\, digitization\, and in access. This roundtable will discuss key issues in the digital humanities as they pertain to the archiving of zines in particular\, and archiving subcultures\, marginalized communities\, and ephemera in general. \nAbout the Speakers: \nJenna Freedman is a zine librarian and makes zines. She is the Associate Director of Communications at the Barnard Library in NYC. She has published articles on zine librarianship and presented on that topic as well as on other themes of library activism. \nMilo Miller is a Graphic Designer in the College of Letters & Science at UWM and co-founder of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP). \nLane Hall is a Professor of English at UWM\, as well as a multi-media artist and writer and co-founder of the Overpass Light Brigade (OLB).
URL:https://uwm.edu/humanities/event/bending-the-archive-zines-archiving-and-the-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Curtin 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Mirzoeff: The World of Statues: Mobility\, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race
DESCRIPTION:Jeannette Ehlers\, The Gaze (2018)\n \nPlease join us for a lecture by Nicholas Mirzoeff called “The World of Statues: Mobility\, Whiteness and the Infrastructures of Race.” \nIn this presentation\, Mirzoeff will consider what Frantz Fanon called the colonial “world of statues.” By this he meant both the widespread physical presence of colonial statues and museums\, and the colonial refusal to allow mobility. These statues and their preservation of immobility form the infrastructures of “race” in material form. The dispossessed claim mobility and deploy their capacity. To sustain these claims\, new infrastructures are required—first of services\, and then of what Mirzoeff calls “appearance\,” the right to appear and be seen as a fully human person. \nThere will be a light reception at the Center for 21st Century Studies (Curtin 939) following the event. \n  \n*Join us also in the C21 office (Curtin 939) at noon on Friday for a special brown bag discussion with Mirzoeff. \nAbout the Speaker: \nNicholas Mirzoeff is professor of media\, culture and communication at NYU. A writer and activist\, he has recently curated the exhibit “Decolonizing Appearance” at the Center for Art Migration Politics\, Copenhagen (Sep 2018 – Mar 2019). His The Appearance of Black Lives Matter is a free e-book from NAME Publications and was also published in limited edition hard-cover with a graphic essay by artist Carl Pope and a poem by Karen Pope.
URL:https://uwm.edu/humanities/event/nicholas-mirzoeff-the-world-of-statues-mobility-whiteness-and-the-infrastructures-of-race/
LOCATION:Curtin 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211
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SUMMARY:Power and Gendered Labor in the Academy: A Half-Day Symposium
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis afternoon event will feature a keynote by Carol Stabile (University of Oregon\, Director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society). Stabile’s interdisciplinary research focuses on gender\, race\, class\, and sexual orientation in media and popular culture. She is the author of The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist (2018)\, White Victims\, Black Villains: Gender\, Race\, and Crime News in US Culture (2006)\, and Feminism and the Technological Fix (1994). She is a founding member of Fembot\, an online collaboration of scholars conducting research on gender\, new media\, and technology. \nThis symposium is part of C21’s Insecurity series\, which focuses on insecurity and the ways in which various forms of insecurity are systematically produced.
URL:https://uwm.edu/humanities/event/power-and-gendered-labor-in-the-academy-a-half-day-symposium/
LOCATION:Curtin 175\, 3243 N Downer Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211
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