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
JAMS professor Elana Levine is scheduled to present on her new, edited book, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn: Feminized Popular Culture in the Early 21st Century at the Women’s and Gender Studies Brown Bag, Thursday, March 3, 2016, Noon to 1PM, CRT 535B.
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
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
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
Jessie Garcia will discuss her new book Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians.
Jessie Garcia will discuss her new book Going for Wisconsin Gold: Stories of Our State Olympians.
Author 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... Read More
This 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.