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  • CANCELED – Saukville Field Station – Evening Hike in the Beechwoods

    UWM Field Station 3095 Blue Goose Road, Saukville, WI, United States

    DUE TO THE LACK OF SNOW COVER AND THE CONDITION OF THE TRAILS, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. UPDATED: 2/9/2024 Come enjoy the Saukville Field Station’s illuminated, self-guided trail on this early Valentine’s Day evening hike in the Cedarburg Beechwoods …

    Free
  • Darwin Day at the Greene Geological Museum

    Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168) 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Help us celebrate Charles Darwin's 215th birthday with a day of science fun. Fascinating fossils and glowing minerals Informative lectures from UWM scientists Touchable specimins Taxidermied critters from your own backyard Children's activities Real research from UWM scientists Planetarium show …

  • Women’s & Gender Studies Scholarship Award Ceremony

    UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Honoring the students selected in the MPS Student "Wisconsin Women Making History" essay contest along with the UWM students selected for scholarships and awards. A hybrid event also open to viewing through Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID: 288 469 789 711 …

    Free
  • Fourth Unhopped Iron Brewer Challenge: Unhopped and Unplugged Brews

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

    The Hortus Academicus/Brew Garden initiative at UWM will hold a tasting competition of six entries. These brews all have archaeological/historical pedigrees. The story of each brew will be available in a short power point. Three judges will choose the top …

    Free
  • UWM Greenhouse Open House

    UWM Greenhouse 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Celebrate Earth Week by exploring our plant collection featuring 600+ species from around the world! Enter NWQ and take “Red” elevators up to 4th floor.

    Free
  • This is WGS – Celebrate 50 years of Women’s & Gender Studies @ UWM

    UWM Union Ballroom 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us to hear from and network with an alumni panel of WGS alumni and celebrate contributions to UWM over the past 50 years. Refreshments provided and exhibitions will feature student work from our Queer Theory, Indigenous Feminisms, Research Methods, …

    Free
  • Chemistry Building Grand Opening and Dedication

    UWM Chemistry Building 2000 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us as we officially open UWM's newest building. Following remarks by the Chancellor and other special guests, enjoy tours of the spaces, refreshments, and demonstrations and displays of the research and teaching activities the building will house. More details …

    Free
  • Natural Treasures of Milwaukee: The Story of the Thomas A. Greene Geological Collection

    UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us to celebrate the Natural Treasures of Milwaukee and the Story of Thomas A. Greene, one of Wisconsin's most prolific naturalists. Hear UWM alumnus, Dr. Don Mikulic, discuss Thomas Greene, his amazing collection and its scientific and historical value …

    Free
  • Beyond Borders: Writing as Activism & Healing

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

    Hear from Reyna Grande, author of the bestselling memoirs The Distance Between Us (Atria, 2012) and A Dream Called Home (Atria, 2018), where she writes about her life before and after she arrived in the United States from Mexico as …

    Free
  • Welcoming Well-Being: A Chancellor Chat Event

    Student Health and Wellness Center 2025 E Newport Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The UWM Alumni Association invites you to join us as Chancellor Mark Mone sits down with Dr. Aamir Siddiqi, the director of UW-Milwaukee’s Student Health and Wellness Center (SHAW) and members of the SHAW clinical staff, to discuss how SHAW …

    Free
  • Darwin Day

    Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168) 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    When: Saturday, February 15th, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Where: 3209 N Maryland Ave, Lapham Hall, Milwaukee, WI, 53211 Darwin Day is a community science outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential …

    Free
  • Asia in Conversation, “Media Circulations and Risky Publics”

    Virtual Event

    Darshana Sreedhar, Mini Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Pallavi Rao, Assistant Professor in Department of Media Studies at University of Virginia; and Lia Wolock, Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Friday, …

  • Spring Asia in Conversation Series

    We would like to invite you to our Spring Asia in Conversation Series. The conversation is on Friday, April 25th, from 3:30-5:00 pm CST, on Zoom. Dr. Hamid Ouali, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Dr. Fahed Masalkhi, Arabic Program Coordinator, …

  • Searching for Life in the Universe

    UWM Chemistry Building - Room 108 2000 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, United States

    Speaker: Professor Dawn Erb of the UWM Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an evening with UWM Professor Dawn Erb …

  • State of the Humanities MKE

    Curtin Hall 175

    Overview Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and MKE organizations might sustain, expand, and care for the humanities across our city. In October 2024, the Consortium for Humanities …

  • Before the Brewers, there were Brachiopods!

    UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come explore urban geology and the Milwaukee localities where Thomas A. Greene collected fossils! This is the only time of the year that the public can tour Greene’s entire collection of 65,000 fossils & 15,000 minerals! Keynote Speakers: Rob Graziano, …

  • United We Read: Creative Writing Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series

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

    The UWM Creatuve Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Avenue) with Sam Wingfield-Karpowitz, Sophie Nunberg, Kurt Olsson, and Prof. Katharine Beutner. …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

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

    Prompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by – but are also prototypes for – contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

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

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • American Icons: Sacralizing A Nation

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

    This exhibition explores the ways that religion has been deeply interwoven into the iconography of the United States. Historically, the term ‘icon’ (Greek for ‘image’) is associated with Christian traditions, aligning most notably with venerated religious figures. Today, ‘icon’ is …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

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

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise …

  • 29th Festival of Films in French

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • 5th Annual Darwin Day

    Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168) 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Darwin Day is a public outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential Victorian naturalists, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural …

  • Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses

    UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing) 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Jorge Luis Borges famously claimed himself to be the first hispano to embark upon the odyssey of reading and reviewing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Along with his 1925 review, he also translated the last two pages of the novel, Molly …

  • 29th Festival of Films in French

    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • Cocina Libre: Building Community through Immigrant Stories & Food Cultures

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

    Join us on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening of food, film, and connection. Our guests are Professor and licensed therapist Julia Roncoroni (University of Denver; Cocina Libre founder) and James Beard finalist Chef Gregory León (Amilinda …

  • 13th Annual Japanese Speech & Recitation Contest

    Curtin Hall 175

    Participating institutions: UWM, Carthage College, and Milwaukee Doyokai Sponsors: Anime Milwaukee, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Milwaukee Japanese Association, Japan America Society of Wisconsin, and UWM Department of World Languages and Cultures

  • Aesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite), an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning-driven performance, …

  • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: It’s About (Space and) Time

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

    Learn how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its 3.2 Gpix camera will change our view of the Universe. The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an …

  • Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”

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

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in …

  • Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring

    Havenwoods State Forest 6141 N Hopkins St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flower’s unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmer’s interdisciplinary practice, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the …

  • En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop

    UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) co-founder Milo Miller, this workshop will blend mindfulness and creative writing to explore themes of slowing down, radical self-care, critical disability studies, and fostering networks of mutual support …

  • Marden Lecture Series Presents: Juggling Counts

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

    Presented by Prof. Steve Butler, Morrill, Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University Mathematics is a language which can help us describe and explore patterns. One source of patterns that mathematicians have been exploring comes from juggling (the tossing of …

  • Climate Change: Science and Faith Perspectives

    UWM EMS Building, Room 180 3200 N. Cramer Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Bart Adrian, Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science and Mathematics, will be speaking on the topic Climate Change: Science and Faith Perspectives. Bart will be presenting at the meeting of the Greater Milwaukee Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on Thursday, …

  • UWM Biological Sciences Greenhouse Open House

    UWM Greenhouse 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    In celebration of Earth Week, the NWQ Biological Sciences Greenhouse will hold its 8th annual Open House. Enjoy and explore our unique instructional collection, look at plants from a new perspective, and learn about the cutting-edge NSF and USDA funding taking place in the facility. Free …

  • Little Free Library Walking Tour With C21

    UWM Union - E153 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for a walk with the Human Club to explore the Little Free Libraries in our campus community! We will start our journey at the UWM Center for Student Experience and Talent in the Student Union. Then, …

  • Behind the Mic: Two Generations of Journalists in Conversation

    UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Fresh Air’s Tonya Mosley joins WUWM’s Eric Von Fellow and UWM alumna, Maria Peralta-Arellano for an insightful discussion on their journeys as journalists. From reporting in local communities to covering national conversations, through their experiences, they will explore the challenges, …

  • Japanese Program Spring Festival

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

    Join the Japanese Program for our annual Spring Festival! Enjoy games, activities, entertaining performances by our wonderful students, and showcases of work by students in the Japanese Program.

  • 28th Annual Student Research Forum, Spring 2026

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

    This year’s keynote speaker is Bench Ansfield (Assistant Professor of History, Temple University and an urban historian of racial capitalism), author of Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City(W. W. Norton, 2025). They are a historian …