Marc Tasman at TEDxUWMilwaukee

Union Wisconsin Room , United States

Marc Tasman will be one of the speakers at TEDxUWMilwaukee this Saturday. http://www.tedxuwmilwaukee.com/ More info on TEDxUW-Milwaukee: On October 3 from 1-7 p.m. in the Union Wisconsin Room TEDxUWMilwaukee 2015 presents React Differently, to remind us that the way we... Read More

Digital Humanities Lab: Gamergate: Rebuilding after a Culture War

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Serious Play will be hosting a talk and panel discussion on Gamergate by Alexis Dalbey, Steve Cuff, and Rachel Kinnard in the Digital Humanities Lab in the 2nd Floor East Wing of the Golda Meir Library. Gamergate was an online... Read More

Digital Humanities Lab: Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Natasha Schüll, M.I.T. Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Addiction by Design: From Slot Machines to Candy Crush. Slot machines, revamped by ever-more compelling technological innovations, have unseated traditional table games as the gambling industry’s revenue mainstay. Along the way, they... Read More

Miriam Petty Public Lecture on African American Actors

Curtin Hall 368 WI, United States

On April 29, Professor Miriam Petty (Northwestern University, Radio/Television/Film) will be coming to UWM for a public lecture. Professor Petty’s book, Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood, about to be released by the University of... Read More