Biological Sciences Colloquium: Regeneration of Sensory Neurons in Planarians
UWM Lapham Hall, Room N101 3209 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesPresented by Ricardo Zayas, San Diego State University.
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Presented by Ricardo Zayas, San Diego State University.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 & …
Thinking about university research after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Featuring: Donna McGee, Sam Westcott, Maria Novotny, and Rachel Bloom-Pojar.
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 …
If G is a Lie group, let Sub(G) be the set of all subgroups H of G that are topologically closed subsets of G. There is a natural topology on Sub(G), called the Chabauty topology. We’ll define the Chabauty topology, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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".
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Two and a half years since the onset of a global pandemic that radically transformed our lives and society in numerous ways, what has been the impact of Covid-19 on our neighborhoods and communities? How has Covid-19 further revealed and …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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".
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.
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 …
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 …
Presented by Professor Amanda L. Logan, Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University.
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 …
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 …
This interactive French Immersion workshop is for French teachers at all levels K through 16. It will be led by Dr. Cynthia Laborde (Modern Languages, University of Texas at Arlington and UWM alumna). Attend in-person (refreshments will be provided) or …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Join us for a live (and recorded) presentation by a panel of professionals in the field of eating disorders. Stacey Nye, PhD, Clinical Professor and Director of the UWM Psychology Clinic Kelly Wahlen, MD, Senior Psychiatrist, UWM Student Health & …
The 2023 Douglas Hyde Lecture is presented by the UWM Center for Celtic Studies. Join us for a talk about language revitalization and preservation through the persistence of An Dream Dearg and the Acht na Gaeilge movement as the struggle …
Panel Discussion 10:30 am to 11:30 am Book Talk 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Imagine a Millennial parent taking their child to see The Last Jedi after their Baby Boomer parents took them to see Return of the Jedi. Picture …
Presented by Federico Bugni, Northwestern University.
Presented by Dr. Michael Dairyko, Director of Ticketing Analytics, Milwaukee Bucks. Data science is a continuously evolving field that lives at the intersection of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Many industries have started to utilize data science to extract valuable …
An Anthropology Colloquium presented by Dr. Paula Tallman (Anthropology Dept, Loyola University Chicago). In this colloquium, we will discuss the links between access to affordable safe water and multiple forms of health, including depression and gender-based violence, based on field …
Panel Discussion 10:30 am to 11:30 am Book Talk 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Imagine a Millennial parent taking their child to see The Last Jedi after their Baby Boomer parents took them to see Return of the Jedi. Picture …
Boswell Books hosts an evening with UWM Professor of Italian Robin Pickering-Iazzi for a conversation about her latest work, the first English translation of Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s classic of Italian feminist mafia literature about a dangerous, enigmatic young gangster pushing …
DUE TO WINTER WEATHER THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO A VIRTUAL FORMAT. Register to join by Zoom at https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqc-uorT8qHN3e2Fo7Scd1RkRQDSjBn5np A Roundtable Discussion on the effects of the Dobbs Supreme Court Decision, with UWM and UW-System professionals and experts. Moderated …