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  • Careers & Internships with U.S. State Department

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

    Midwest diplomat-in-residence Susan Falatko will be at UWM to discuss career and internship opportunities with the US Department of State. There are a wide variety of career and internship paths with the Department of State so this is a great …

    Free
  • Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti: The Midwesterner who Adapted Italian Culinary Traditions for American Kitchens

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

    Join us during "Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World" (November 16-22) for a talk by Grazia Menechella (Italian, UW-Madison). Prof. Menechella will explore Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti’s Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens (1917), a pioneering cookbook that introduced …

    Free
  • Data you can use: Engaging Communities with Data and Mapping

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

    A Department of Geography colloquium with Amy Rohan and Amanda Beavin from the Milwaukee organization, Data You Can Use.

    Free
  • Puerto Rican bomba: free drum-and-dance workshop

    UWM Zelazo Center, Room 250 2419 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    De-stress with a drum-and-dance workshop as we wrap up the semester! Join renowned percussionist and Bembé Artist-in-Residence Beto Torrens for a hands-on workshop on Puerto Rican bomba, an Afro-Indigenous genre that is the island's oldest music and dance tradition. Try …

    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
  • 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
  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition Opening Reception

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

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free
  • Listening for ‘Undesirables’ and Other Archival Voices

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

    A workshop with Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Professor of Global History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jennifer Boittin is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History at UNC. She received her PhD in History from Yale University …

    Free
  • From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing

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

    A presentation by Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Professor of Global History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Teams option also available. Email wgs@uwm.edu for the link or for more information. Jennifer Boittin is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of …

    Free
  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition

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

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free
  • Studying Successful Doctoral Students from Underrepresented Groups

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

    In this talk, we will share early findings from an NSF study of 75 doctoral students and recent PhDs in mathematics from underrepresented groups. The project has conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with four cohorts: newly accepted students, early graduate students …

    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
  • Interrogating Historical Silences and Listening to the Voices of the Excluded 

    Holton Hall, G80

    Spring 2025 Symposium of the Center for Cultures and Communities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Co-Sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Topic: Interrogating Historical Silences and …

  • 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
  • Black History Month Alumni Social & Trivia Night

    UWM Gasthaus 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the UWM Alumni Association and the Black Student Cultural Center for the Black History Month Alumni Social & Trivia Night Event. An evening of connection, in honor of Victoria Pryor. Event Schedule: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Alumni Social 7 …

    Free
  • Alumni Panel Discussion: What Can You Do with a Geography Degree?

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

    Date: February 14, 2025 Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Location: American Geographic Society Library (AGSL), UWM Golda Meir Library, Third Floor East Wing Cost: FREE Join us for an engaging alumni panel discussion hosted by the Department of Geography. …

  • 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
  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition

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

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    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, …

  • LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Anjana Mudambi

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

    Critically Reflexive Racialization: Building Interracial Solidarity through Research Practices Monday, February 24, 2025 3:00-4:00 PM AGSL (UWM Libraries, third floor) UW-Milwaukee Dr. Anjana Mudambi Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this talk, I’ll share my framework of critically reflexive …

  • Demoted Exhibition Reception

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

    "Demoted" is an exhibition featuring research by UWM undergraduate Art History students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson. The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical …

  • LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Jessica Nelson

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

    “Remembered in Our Prayers”: Colonial Mexico, Philanthropy, and Public History Monday, March 31st, 2025 3:00-4:00 PM AGSL (UWM Libraries, 3rd floor) UW-Milwaukee Dr. Jessica Nelson Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In colonial Oaxaca, Mexico, the spiritual and material …

  • 46th Annual Latin American Film Series

    46th Annual Latin American Film Series
    UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with UWM Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema UWM’s Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and …

  • Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope

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

    Department of Geography's Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope Professor Sarah Elwood (Department of Geography, University of Washington) April 11, 2025 2:30-3:30pm AGSL Digital Geographies & The City: Methodologies of Hope In many …

  • 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
  • Creative Writing Workshop with Slow Growing in the Time of Trees

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

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and Slow Growing in the Time of Trees for a generative writing workshop about art and the most generative of living things: fungi. Come with a writing implement and paper, or birch bark, …

  • 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, …

  • Demoted Exhibition

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

    “Demoted” is an exhibition featuring research by UWM undergraduate Art History students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson. The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical …

  • Urban Studies 27th Annual Student Research Forum

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

    Join us for the 27th Annual Student Research Forum, a collaborative event bringing together community members, university scholars, students, and city officials to discuss community engagement, neighborhood collaboration, and urban development and policy change. As part of this year’s Student …

    Free
  • From a Whisper to a Symphony

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

    The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an evening with Dr. Patrick Brady and friends as they discuss what we have learned about black holes and neutron …

    Free
  • Global Works Career Fair

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

    Please stop by as your schedule allows and join us for this fall's Global Works Career Fair. It's a great opportunity to network, learn about global careers and internships, and hear from the experts!

  • Play Mental Health & Philosophy

    8th Note Cafe at the Student Union

    Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on mental health, games, and the therapeutic use of RPGs! Featuring Brian Thomas, Anthropology PhD candidate at UWM Everyone is welcome!

  • 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, …

  • The Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin

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

    The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey has recently published a new 1:500,000 scale map of the Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin. Dr. J. Elmo Rawling will discuss Wisconsin’s Quaternary geology with an emphasis on lithostratigraphy, cartography and geodatabase schema.

  • 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 …

  • 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 Opening Event

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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. Join Stern, Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a workshop, gallery …