Latest Past Events

2024 Stahl Center Distinguished Lecture

Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

James Loeffler, “The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law” Register for Zoom meeting. Can law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois filed a class …

Afternoon Seminar with James Loeffler

Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, American Family Dream Studio

James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, I discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s …

The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians

Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center or via Zoom

Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture “The Many Mrs. Maisels: The History of Jewish Female Stand-Up Comedians” Lecture by Grace Kessler Overbeke Tuesday, March 5, 2024 7:00 p.m. CST Golda Meir Library 4th Floor Conference Center and via Zoom …

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.