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  • Reproductive Writes

    Case Commons in the UWM Student Union 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join members of the C21 Reproductive Justice Collaboratory as we connect writing with reproductive freedoms. Learn more about the (1) history of reproductive justice; (2) how it impacts students today; and (3) explore how writing can be a tool to …

    Free
  • Amplifying the Work of Reproductive Justice in Milwaukee (Virtual Keynote)

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

    The C21 Reproductive Justice Collaboratory hosts this community event. We are an interdisciplinary UWM group who create space for conversations, resource sharing, and networking among local leaders engaged and interested in reproductive justice around Milwaukee. This event takes a deep dive …

    Free
  • French Language Table

    French Language Table
    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 766 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Practice language skills outside of the classroom with informal conversations. All levels welcome!

    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
  • German Language Table

    German Language Table
    UWM Language Oasis - Curtin 187 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Practice language skills outside of the classroom with informal conversations. All levels welcome!

    Free
  • Visiting Writer: Nicky Beer

    Visiting Writer: Nicky Beer
    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Nicky Beer visits UWM as part of the Creative Writing program's visiting writer series. Craft Talk @ 3 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/47xam2et Reading @ 7 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdhx7 Nicky is a bi/queer writer, and the author of …

    Free
  • Spatiotemporal analysis of lung cancer disparity in Wisconsin, USA

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

    Thesis presentation of Mathew Ugwuanyi: Studies over the United States has shown that disparity still exists in lung cancer mortality. Such disparity has been greatly attributed to several risk factors such as genetics, socio-economic status, comorbidities, amongst others. Primarily, this …

    Free
  • Celebrating 10 Years of Coffeeshop Astrophysics

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

    Coffeeshop Astrophysics is a science outreach group formed 10 years ago. Over the past decade, graduate students and other professionals from the UWM Department of Physics have given dozens of science talks at Anodyne Coffee in Walker's Point on wide-ranging …

    Free
  • The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest
    UWM Honors House, Room 196 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come see the UWM Honors College Drama Club's production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde! It will be held in Honors 196, and doors will open a half hour prior to the show. All performances are open …

    Free
  • Italian Film Festival

    Italian Film Festival
    UWM Union Cinema 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee is returning to in-person screenings presents 8 feature films -comedy, drama and documentary – over 3 days. For further information about each of the films, visit the link below. Cosponsored by the National …

    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
  • Japanese Language Table

    Japanese Language Table
    UWM Language Oasis - Curtin 187 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Practice language skills outside of the classroom with informal conversations. All levels welcome! Not held on March 21 during spring break.

    Free
  • The Urban Forum @ City Hall – Hearing Community Voices

    Milwaukee City Hall 200 E Wells St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The Urban Forum will bring together community, university, and city partners to explore topics that matter to Milwaukee. A pop-up exhibit and a panel discussion will gather community leaders, residents, university scholars, students, and city officials to explore why community …

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

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

    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)

    What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)
    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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
  • Nobunaga Concerto – screening with subtitles

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

    UWM students in Japan 361: Translating Japanese Media will showcase their subtitling skills through showings of episodes of Nobunaga Concerto. Nobunaga Concerto tells the story of a contemporary high school student who travels back in time and takes the place …

    Free
  • Coded Bias – a Science on Screen presentation as part of Milwaukee Film

    Oriental Theater 2230 N. Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. "Coded Bias" explores the fallout and Joy's journey to push for the …

    $13
  • Snaps & Snacks with the Psychology Department

    UWM Spaights Plaza 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Get PSYCHED for the year! Take a pic, grab a snack & swag, and learn about UWM’s Psychology program and ways to get involved. For more information, or to request accommodations, please email unertl@uwm.edu.

    Free
  • World Language Cafe

    UWM Spaights Plaza 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Visit the World Language Café to chat with students and professors from UWM´s language and culture programs-Arabic, Chinese, Classics, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Jewish Studies, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, American Sign Language, Comparative Literature, Global Studies, Translation & Interpreting Studies. …

    Free
  • Classics Program Open House

    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 839 3243 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Everyone is welcome to attend! Pizza and refreshments will be served! For more information, or to request accommodations, please email dewesolow@uwm.edu.

    Free
  • Searching for Raphael Lemkin: On the Study of Jewish Universalism

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

    How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, Dr. James Loeffler will discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkin’s creation of the legal concept of genocide in interwar Polish Jewish culture. …

    Free
  • The Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law

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

    The 2024 Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lecture by James Loeffler. This event is both in-person or via Zoom. To register for the Zoom link see https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8tdtZrqyTdecQvrjdfKEyg#/registration Can law limit hate speech without violating the First …

    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
  • Math Colloquium: Parabolic System of Aggregation Formation in Bacterial Colonies

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

    The goal of this talk is to study a fourth-order nonlinear parabolic system with dispersion for describing bacterial aggregation. Analytical solution of traveling wave is found by taking into account the dispersion coefficient. Numerically, we demonstrate that the initial concentration …

    Free
  • Math Colloquium: Baby Mandelbrot Sets for Maximally Generalized McMullen Maps

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

    Presented by Dr. Daniel Stoertz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College. In Complex Dynamics, we study the iteration of holomorphic or meromorphic functions on the complex plane or the Riemann sphere. Of particular interest is the behavior …

    Free
  • Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Open House

    UWM Northwest Quad B2479 2025 East Newport Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    CLACS welcomes all guests to catch up with colleagues and students and meet the new Associate Director, Monica VanBladel. Light refreshments will be provided. Dr. Monica VanBladel starts at UWM on September 25th. Monica comes to UWM with a rich …

    Free
  • From malaria to chatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk

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

    The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences for 2024 features Professor Jordan S. Ellenberg from UW-Madison. The “random walk” is a mathematical concept which underlies the way scientists now think about everything from stock markets to Wisconsin’s legislative districts …

    Free
  • Math Colloquium: Long-Time Behaviors of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems

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

    Presented by Prof. Qingshuo Song, associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In this talk, we will discuss the asymptotic behavior of the solution to a linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems. By establishing a connection between the ergodic cost problem and …

    Free
  • UWM Gallery Night

    Explore galleries across UWM’s campus with six exhibitions to peruse. Celebrate the work of Milwaukee’s Latine-identified artists at Union Art Gallery. Think politics with two shows that examine the ways we engage with modern political systems. Check out pins and …

    Free
  • How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them

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

    Join us for an engaging event hosted by the nonpartisan organization United to Preserve: Democracy and the Rule of Law and sponsored by UWM College of Letters & Science. The 2024 Dean's Social Impact Lecture will feature Barbara F. Walter, …

    Free
  • A conversation with translator Denise Kripper

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

    Denise Kripper is a translation studies scholar, author, literary translator, and associate professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College. In person or via Zoom: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/98120350254?pwd=9Qfz1huX6mP8emmO8bMQdjZMaEFpwD.1#success

    Free
  • Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

    TBD UWM Campus, Exact Room To Be Determined, WI, United States

    Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the visiting writing for Fall 2024. Mecca is an award-winning fiction writer and critic. The craft talk will be at 3 pm and a reading and Q&A will be at 7 pm. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan’s fiction …

    Free
  • Living on the Edge: Armenian art and the margins of art history

    UWM Mitchell Hall, Room 195 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 2024 Friends of Art History Lecture marks the 60th anniversary of the Department of Art History at UWM. Our speaker is Professor Christina Maranci of Harvard University (Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of History of Art …

    Free
  • Indigeneity and Writing: Rethinking Indigenismo in Early 20th Century Latin America

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

    Presented by Jorge Coronado, Professor of Latin American and Andean Literatures, Co-Director, Andean Cultures & Histories at Northwestern University. In this talk, Professor Coronado reconsiders the scholarly frameworks within which we locate indigenista literature, arguably the broadest literary movement in …

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  • 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
  • Happy Cows: Human-Environment Networks in Agriculture

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

    The 2024 Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Agriculture is considered multifunctional when it produces standard commodity goods alongside a broader range of human and ecological services. The degree to which agriculture is successfully multifunctional owes much to feedback among individual …

    Free
  • Literature in the Age of Automated Cognition

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

    The 2024 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, returning to Wisconsin after having grown up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over …

    Free
  • Lacrosse Book Talk: Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning Through Rematriation

    Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union 1442 West Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Since the 1970s, lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as …

    Free
  • Il Circolo Italiano

    Il Circolo Italiano
    UWM Curtin Hall, Room 766 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Learn more about the UWM's Italian program and Italian culture, and engage in Italian conversation. This is a great opportunity to practice your informal Italian language skills. All levels welcome! Five Wednesdays throughout the Fall 2024 semester: Sept. 25 Oct. …

    Free
  • Muslims in Milwaukee: Place, Relationality, Activism

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

    A panel presentation with UWM scholars, drawing upon a multi-year community collaboration and ethnographic work within the Muslim Milwaukee Project. The panelists will discuss highlights on demographics and community-building, reflections on positionality and relationality, and different expressions of activism. Panelists …

    Free
  • Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM

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

    Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM honors the fiftieth anniversary of the foundational bequest of the Blanche and Henry Rosenberg Art Collection to UWM. In 1974, the UWM Art Collection was much like the young …

    Free
  • Japanese Conversation Table

    Japanese Conversation Table
    UWM Language Oasis - Curtin 187 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Practice your Japanese language skills with other students. Informal conversation is great practice and an opportunity to meet fellow students. Open to majors, minors and any student interested in Japanese language. Every Thursday during the fall semester up until finals …

    Free
  • United We Read: Faculty/Student Readings from the Creative Writing program

    Woodland Pattern 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Oct. 11 - With English Professor Derrick Harriell and graduate students Jessica Drake-Thomas, LG Sebayan, and Katie Witt. Nov. 15 - With English Professor Kate Beutner and graduate students Timothy Knapp, Saundra Norton, and Kurt Olsson. Feb. 7 - With …

    Free
  • The Grenada frog: Long term monitoring, mapping, outreach and conservation

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

    Presented by Professor Emily Latch & Billie Harrison, Biological Sciences, UW-Milwaukee. The island of Grenada is home to only two endemic terrestrial vertebrates, the Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi) and the Grenada Frog (Pristimantis euphronides). Both are Critically Endangered (IUCN Red …