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Frontiers of Freedom: Negotiating the Nation in Multiethnic Ukraine 1648-1922

UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

The narrative of Ukraine’s 300-year struggle for freedom resounds with the stories and voices of its multiethnic population – such as Jews, Muslim Tatars, Roma, and Poles. This lecture highlights the coalescence of perspectives of Ukraine’s different ethnic, religious, and …

Free

Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe (Art Exhibition)

Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee

Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries. Curated by graduate student Nikki …

Free

What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)

Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee

Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the UWM Art History Department, What the Folk? explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and …

Free

The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law – EVENT CANCELED

UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois, filed a lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide—the psychological equivalent of genocide. In this lecture, historian James …

Free