Author Jessie Garcia and Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians
Pewaukee Public Library 210 Main St, Pewaukee, WI, United StatesJessie Garcia will discuss her new book Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians.
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Author Jessie Garcia and Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians
Shorewood Public Library 3920 N. Murray Ave, Shorewood, WI, United StatesJessie Garcia will discuss her new book Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians.
Jessie Garcia Marble at Edgerton Sterling North Book & Film Festival
Edgerton High School 200 Elm High Dr., Edgerton, WI, United StatesAuthor and sportscaster Jessie Garcia provides insights into lives of Wisconsinites who made an Olympic journey, sharing some of their most captivating tales, from legendary feats to unlikely brushes with glory. Featuring the athletes' personal stories and pictures from private collections, Going for […]
Media Scholars Colloquium Series
Bolton Hall B60 3210 N Maryland, Milwaukee, WI, United StatesThis presentation draws on research from Gorfinkel’s second book project, Decomposition, Enduration, which explores decelerated, slow temporalities, and the materialities of exhaustion, endurance and decay in contemporary film art practices - as it seeks to link three fields of film practice that are converging in the digital era: global art cinema, experimental film and moving image work for the gallery. For this talk, Gorfinkel specifically examines Tsai Ming Liang's "postretirement” Walker series, and Sergei Loznitsa’s sleep portraiture film, The Train Stop.
The Privacy of Others
Lubar S165The Media Scholars Colloquium Series proudly presents "The Privacy of Others," a lecture by Stacy Blasiola (Ph.D. Candidate, Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago; National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow - Electronic Security & Privacy; Lecturer, Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies, […]
Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities
Curtin Hall 939Sue Robinson is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In her work, she questions: How do our stories - in journalism, social media, etc. - flow through our society? Who gets heard and who […]
How Local Was the Local Paper? News Syndicates and Newspaper Chains, 1900-1940
Curtin Hall 939Looking backwards from our own era of struggling American newspapers, the first half of the twentieth century may appear to have been an era of thriving local journalism. But during those decades, much of the local papers’ content was actually […]
Journalism Club at UWM weekly meeting
UWM Union Rec CenterMeet other journalism students and discuss upcoming events and opportunities! We gather at the table to the right of the bowling alley in the Union Rec Center.
Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
MIlwaukee Public Library's Centennial Hall 733 N Eighth St., MilwaukeeNPR correspondent Shahani talks about her memoir, a heartfelt rendering of the immigrant experience, written as a love letter from an outspoken modern daughter to her soft-spoken Old World father. She’ll be in conversation with Joy Powers, Producer of WUWM’s Lake […]
Behind the Headlines: State of Professional Sports in Milwaukee
Italian Community Center 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesIt is a great time to be a Milwaukee-area sports fan, with the Milwaukee Bucks advancing to the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals this past season, the Milwaukee Brewers making another run towards the playoffs after last year’s thrilling National League […]