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Planetarium Show: Milwaukee Shapes the Universe

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join a virtual panel discussion focused on space research and technologies being innovated in Milwaukee, hosted by the UWM Planetarium and UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. UW-Milwaukee researchers will share their latest technologies and ideas around space tech and innovation. This …

Free

Marden Lecture: The Mathematics of Déjà Vu

UWM Lubar Hall, Room N140 3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Marden Lecture brings a distinguished guest to campus each year. The lecture is for a general audience and advanced math knowledge is not required - it is designed to explore a fascinating aspect of math. The lecture portion of …

Free

Planetarium Show: Secret Lives of Planets

UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium 1900 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Celebrate Earth Day with a journey to each planet in our Solar System to explore the mysteries that lie within and learn what it would be like to call another planet home. Behold the latest discoveries such as Jupiter’s ever-changing …

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Film Screening of Maksym Osa

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A Ukrainian film production that was interrupted by the Russian invasions in 2014 and again in 2022, Maksym Osa is a fantasy thriller set in the 1600s, yet deeply resonant with the present. Here, the contemporary tenacity of Ukrainians in …

Free

Planetarium Event: The Life of an Astronomer (Members Only)

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Dr. Jean Creighton has always been inspired by how the cosmos works. From growing up in Athens, Greece, to obtaining her PhD in Astrophysics and becoming director of the UWM Planetarium, to flying in the stratosphere as a NASA Airborne …

Free

Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story

American Geographical Society Library inside the Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor) 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

A conversation with Maryam Durani and Kathleen Dunn. Maryam Durani was born a refugee in Iran. She moved to her family’s native country, Afghanistan, when she was 18. She came to Milwaukee as a refugee in November of 2021. In …

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The Beastly Conference

UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A research conference hosted by and for undergraduates! The Beastly Conference is hosted by HARPY, the Honors Association for Research and Presentation, and will feature the research of 10 UWM undergrads on beastly topics ranging from the morality of eating …

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Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn with Sharity Bassett

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 181 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Sharity Bassett, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women's & Gender Studies, and Manager of the American Indian Student Center atUWM presents “’If you don’t want your stick touched, put it away’: Rematriation as Haudenosaunee Women's Reclamation of Space in Lacrosse” This event …

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Math Colloquium: Spectral Faux Trees and Coalescing Sets

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Steve Butler, Professor of Mathematics, Iowa State University. A classic problem in mathematics is "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" In graph theory, this is often phrased in terms of the eigenvalues of matrices associated …

Master of Legal Studies Info Session

UWM Lubar Hall, Room N120 3202 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Learn about an online Master of Legal Studies program offered through Seton Hall Law School. This graduate program provides students with a working knowledge of the law that can be applied in business or professional settings. It is intended for …

Math Colloquium: Ehrhart Theory and Partial Permutohedra

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Erik Insko, Professor of Mathematics, Iowa State University. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to Ehrhart polynomials, which count the number of lattice points in a convex lattice polytope and also describe the polytope's …

The Rise of Right-Wing Comedy

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 368 3243 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

That's Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work for Them argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Right-wing comedy has been hiding in plain sight, finding its …

Free

Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn with Margaret Noodin

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 181 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Margaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Humanities, UWM presents: “Ginagadawendamin Nooniyang miinwaa Jaagineyang Akiing: Breastfeeding and Exhaustion as Models for Chaos Theory on Earth.” This event will be held in-person in Curtin Hall room 181 or Virtually …

Free

Creative Writing Program – Visiting Writers Series – Phong Nguyen

UWM Lubar Hall, Room S231 3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Author Phong Nguyen will be giving a craft talk at 3 pm and a reading from his recent work, "Bronze Drum," followed by a talk at 7 pm. Both events are free and will be livestreamed. (See link below to …

Free

Dangerous Women, Effective Changemakers – Film and Panel Discussion

Mitchell Hall, Room 191 3203 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Women changemakers have been often labeled “dangerous,” but their voices and actions have been essential in creating positive change and remain so today. A public forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County and UWM Women’s & …

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The Post-Roe Research Landscape

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 939 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Thinking about university research after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Featuring: Donna McGee, Sam Westcott, Maria Novotny, and Rachel Bloom-Pojar.

Free

Transland Under Seige: A Brief History

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A virtual event with Helen Boyd Kramer from Lawrence University. A quick but thorough tour of how we came to be where we are now, starting with the first theories of trans identity, visibility movements, and trans activity in the …

WGS Vilas Trust Lecture: Indigenous Art as Revisioning and Unsettling Colonial Enclosure

UWM Greene Hall 3347 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Women's & Gender Studies Vilas Trust Lecture Series continues with Mishuana Goeman, Professor and Chair of Indigenous Studies at the University of Buffalo. The talk, titled "Indigenous Art as Revisioning and Unsettling Colonial Enclosure," will examine the ways in which …

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Anthropology Colloquium: Opacity, Rézonans, and the Politics of Bearing Witness in Anthropology

UWM Sabin Hall, Room G28 3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Presentation by Professor Jerome Camal, Department of Anthropology, UW-Madison. This talk explores the politics of bearing witness through ethnography - asking anthropologists to acknowledge and confront our discipline’s entanglements and complicity with structures of dispossessions inherited from the colonial plantation …

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Math Colloquium: Gelfand-Zeitlin Integrable Systems: Where linear algebra, geometry, and representation theory meet

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Mark Colarusso, Professor of Mathematics, University of South Alabama. In the 19th century, physicists were interested in determining the conditions under which the equations of motion for a classical mechanical system could be found by integrating a …

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Clube Lusófono: AQUARELA DO BRASIL with Brazilian singer and composer Octavio Arcanjo

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Brazilian singer and composer Octavio Arcanjo will present a retrospective about Brazilian music connecting with Portuguese 360 class "A Journey through the Music of the Lusofphone World". As a musicien Arcanjo will perform Brazilian musics connecting with the idea …

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Math Colloquium: An insertion algorithm on multiset partitions with applications to diagram algebras

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Dr. Laura Colmenarejo, Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University. In algebraic combinatorics, the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm is a fundamental correspondence between words and pairs of semistandard tableaux illustrating identities of dimensions of irreducible representations of several groups. In this talk, …

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Clube Lusófono: Macau – A Bridge Between East and West

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Portuguese writer Dora Gago will share her experiences living in Macau through her writing. This event connects with Portuguese 310 class "Advanced Composition and Conversation".

Free

Hidden Treasure: Finding Women Dealers and Collectors of Far Eastern Art in Paris, 1858-1914

Mitchell Hall, Room 191 3203 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University, is giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her …

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From an Inkwell around the World: Global Varieties of “The Little Prince”

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Translation and Interpreting Studies is hosting a virtual Zoom talk with Walter Sauer (Verlag Edition Tintenfaß). He will give an online presentation from Neckarsteinach near Heidelberg, Germany. Walter Sauer’s publishing house is devoted mainly to bi- and multilingual children’s books …

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Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn with Morgan Foster

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 181 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Morgan Foster, Undergraduate Advisor and Program Coordinator in Women's & Gender Studies, UWM, presents: “American Girls: Girlhood Fiction and Fandoms in America.” Attend in-person or via livestream at the link below. Contact wgs@uwm.edu for details.

Free

Milwaukee: A City Built on Water with Milwaukee Historian John Gurda

UWM Lapham Hall, Room N103 3209 N. Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-two books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, industries, and places of worship. Gurda’s most ambitious efforts are The Making …

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From Roe to Dobbs: the End of Legal Abortion (Zoom)

This lecture analyzes the history of legal abortion since 1973 and discusses the factors that led to the overturning of Roe earlier this year. Johanna Schoen is professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with an affiliation at the Institute …

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Asia in Conversation: Media, Technology, and Society in Late Imperial China (Zoom)

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Xin Yu, Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at UWM will be in conversation with Suyoung Son, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, and Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. The …

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Math Colloquium: Rainbow Problems in Groups

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Michael Young, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University. A set is considered rainbow if each element of the set is assigned a distinct color. In this talk, we will discuss problems and techniques about determining the …

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Creative Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Reading Series: United We Read

Boswell Book Company 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Readings of creative work by three graduate students and one faculty member: Cassandra Bruner, Sass Denny, Camilla Lee, and Professor Rebecca Dunham. In person or live stream on YouTube at https://youtu.be/SnlrBMGcuzI

Free

Son-Mother: Screening and Discussion of Iranian director Mahnaz Mohamaddi’s 2019 film

UWM Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Iranian director and women's rights activist Mahnaz Mohammadi's 2019 film Son-Mother depicts Leila, a single working mom of two who loses her factory job. Kazem, the factory bus driver, proposes marriage to Leila, but she hesitates to accept his conditions …

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Anthropology Colloquium: Unruly Collections

UWM Sabin Hall, Room G28 3413 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Professor Christy DeLair, Director of the Pick Museum of Anthropology (Northern Illinois University) will discuss material culture studies, performance, global indigenous studies, and artist-museum relations with an emphasis on Taiwan and Native North America.

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Clube Lusófono: Words From SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE with Olinda Beja

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Olinda Beja, a writer from São Tomé & Príncipe will share her experience born on a small island through her writing. This event connects with Portuguese 310 class "Advanced Composition and Conversation".

Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn with Leah Wilson

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 181 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Leah Wilson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, UWM, presents: “Queer (Re)Orientations: Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Selves.” Attend in person or via livestream at the link below. Contact wgs@uwm.edu for details.

Free

Honors College Monster Conference

UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Monster Conference is an annual fall academic and creative conference sponsored by UWM Honors College and the UWM Office of Undergraduate Research. The Monster Conference showcases pieces that address monstrous topics, from ancient to modern conceptions of monsters from …

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Math Colloquium: Random nilpotent groups

UWM EMS Building, Room E495 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

In group theory, any group can be defined by specifying generators and relations. But for infinite groups, when trying to define a model for a generic/random group, there are many options for how to vary these generators and relations. We …

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Philosophy Dept. Event: Debating the Dobbs case with Anne M. Coughlin

UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Professor Anne M. Coughlin, University of Virginia Law School will be speaking on Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Professor Coughlin has taught at the University of Virginia School of Law since 1995. Her research interests include criminal law, criminal …

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Global Studies seminar: Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France

UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 107 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

In her talk “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France,” Dr. Cynthia Laborde will focus on the impact of women cartoonists/graphic novelists in France in the 21st century. She will trace how this new generation has been making their own …

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WI Supreme Court Primary Elections Results: What is Next? (Virtual)

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join a panel of experts as we discuss the results of what the New York Times is calling “the most important election in America in 2023”, the Wisconsin Supreme Court primary. In conversation, with: Sara Benesh – Associate Professor, Political …

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Nourishing Trust: Trust in Context

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

A conversation about the histories that inform food and land justice efforts today. Featuring Laura Manthe (Oneida Nation), Adrienne Petty (William & Mary College), and Jayson Porter (Brown University). Free and open to the public.

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Asia in Conversation: Making Objects Speak-Material Culture in Asian History and Art History

Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Hilary K. Snow, Teaching Faculty at Honors College at UWM will be in conversation with Morgan Pitelka, Distinguished Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Chicago. The event is open …

(Re)imagining Black Futures in the age of Wakanda

UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join Africology NOW in discussing the impact of Marvel's Black Panther franchise on representations of Black history, culture, and identity in the media. Our discussion will reflect on themes of Black transnationalism, migration, the effects of colonialism, Black and African …

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