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  • 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
  • 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 …

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  • 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 …

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  • 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
  • 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 …

  • Teaching English Abroad and Locally

    Learn how you can develop skills by working as an English teacher during or after completing your university studies! Featuring UWM alumni who have experience, and current opportunities for students to start the process now!

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  • Language Works

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

    9 out of 10 U.S. employers rely on employees with language skills other than English (Source: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2019) 56% of U.S. employers say their demand for employees with language skills other than English …

    Free
  • 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 …

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 …

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  • 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
  • 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

    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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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, …

  • 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 …

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