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SUMMARY:UWM Biological Sciences Greenhouse Open House
DESCRIPTION: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 plants while they last!  \nFor questions\, email engevold@uwm.edu
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/uwm-biological-sciences-greenhouse-open-house/
LOCATION:UWM Greenhouse\, 3209 N Maryland Ave\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Natural Sciences,Prospective Students,Public,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Friends of Art History Guest Lecture - Kim Sajet: What is Art History for?
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we welcome the new Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum! \nSince the dawn of civilization\, people have turned to art to make sense of the world around them. From Pliny the Elder’s account of artistic progress to Xie He’s theory of “spirit resonance” and Giorgio Vasari’s biographical narratives of artistic genius\, writers have theorized and systematized how art develops and why it matters. In 1764\, Johann Joachim Winckelmann first coined the term “history of art\,” helping to formalize the discipline and secure its place within the academy. What began as an effort to elevate the study of art eventually became a marker of cultural refinement. \nYet today\, art history — along with many related humanities disciplines — finds itself increasingly marginalized on university campuses and in public life. Programs shrink\, departments merge\, and scholarship is asked to defend its relevance. If art history is fundamentally the study of visual communication\, why has it struggled to communicate its own purpose? What is art history for? \nIn this talk\, Kim Sajet\, the Donna and Donald Baumgartner Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum\, suggests that the answer lies not in defending old hierarchies or rehearsing inherited canons\, but in reimagining the purpose of studying art itself — less as a means of codifying culture or adjudicating status\, and more as a way of creating community and advancing a shared sense of global humanity. \nLecture is free and open to the public.
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/friends-of-art-history-guest-lecture-kim-sajet-what-is-art-history-for/
LOCATION:Curtin Hall 175
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SUMMARY:Little Free Library Walking Tour With C21
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for a walk with the Human Club to explore the Little Free Libraries in our campus community! \nWe will start our journey at the UWM Center for Student Experience and Talent in the Student Union. Then\, we will head north through the campus neighborhoods\, making stops at the Little Free Libraries we find along the way. We will hear from local Little Free Library volunteers about how they set up their libraries and what motivated them to start this project! \nThe Little Free Library motto is\, “Take a Book\, Leave a Book.” In the spirit of this motto\, we ask that you bring a book (or two!) to donate to a library. Your donation will help keep these neighborhood libraries stocked with stories. \nWe invite both pets and children to join us on this adventure. Please be prepared to walk at least a mile as we explore the neighborhood around UWM and share the joy of books! \nMeet outside the SET Offices\, Student Union E153\, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd. \n— \nWhat are Little Free Libraries? \nLittle Free Library is a nonprofit organization based in St. Paul\, Minnesota. Their mission is to be a catalyst for building community\, inspiring readers\, and expanding book access for all through a global network of volunteer-led Little Free Library book-exchange boxes. \nTheir vision is a Little Free Library in every community and a book for every reader. They believe all people are empowered when the opportunity to discover a personally relevant book to read is not limited by time\, space\, or privilege. Through Little Free Library book exchanges\, millions of books are exchanged each year\, profoundly increasing access to books for readers of all ages and backgrounds. \nAbout Human Club \nHuman Club is the Center for 21st Century Studies’ newest initiative\, which features free field trips around Milwaukee and humanities gatherings with your fellow humans. Comes with a membership punch-card!
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/little-free-library-walking-tour-with-c21/
LOCATION:UWM Union – E153\, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Humanities,Public,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Behind the Mic: Two Generations of Journalists in Conversation
DESCRIPTION: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\, responsibilities and human moments that define journalism today. \nRegister at https://uwmunion.vbotickets.com/event/A_Conversation_with_Tonya_Mosley/190303
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/behind-the-mic-two-generations-of-journalists-in-conversation/
LOCATION:UWM Union Wisconsin Room\, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Student Life,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Concurrent Exhibitions in the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery (3/14-5/17)
DESCRIPTION:The One-Off Print: Monotypes from the UWM Art Collection \nThe monotype is a hybrid printmaking process in which ink is transferred from a flat matrix or printing plate onto a sheet of paper. In other words\, the monotype is a print form without a permanent matrix: it can only be printed once. The One-Off Print\, curated by Art History MA student Emma Erickson\, features monotypes from the UWM Art Collection produced by postwar American artists\, a time when experimental printmaking was on the rise. The exhibition highlights the versatility of the monotype\, a medium that bridges the disciplines of painting\, drawing\, and printmaking. \nWhat Is A Print? \nPrints – images made through a process of transferring ink from one surface to another – have for two millennia been rich sources of expressive exploration and crucial to the global circulation of images. Until the late-twentieth century\, most people experienced visual art primarily through prints. What Is A Print? surveys some of the major print processes represented in the UWM Art Collection\, including seminal printmakers like Albrecht Dürer\, Rembrandt van Rijn\, Francisco Goya\, and Pablo Picasso. By illuminating some of the complex technical details of printmaking\, the exhibition will enable viewers to consider the creative\, technical\, financial\, and social contexts the have shaped its history. \nExhibition run March 16 through May 14\, 2026 \nEmile H. Mathis Art Gallery Location and Hours: \nMitchell Hall 170\n3203 N. Downer Ave.\nMilwaukee\, WI 53211 \nMuseum Hours: Mon – Thurs: 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM\nTo make an appointment to visit the gallery\, please contact the gallery at: mathisartgallery@uwm.edu.
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/concurrent-exhibitions-in-the-emile-h-mathis-art-gallery/
LOCATION:Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery\, 3203 North Downer Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Public,Student Life,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Japanese Program Spring Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Japanese Program for our annual Spring Festival! \nEnjoy games\, activities\, entertaining performances by our wonderful students\, and showcases of work by students in the Japanese Program.
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/japanese-program-spring-festival/
LOCATION:Mitchell Hall\, Room 191\, 3203 N. Downer Avenue\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Humanities,Public,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:28th Annual Student Research Forum\, Spring 2026
DESCRIPTION: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). \n\nThey are a historian of racial capitalism\, the carceral state\, and twentieth-century U.S. cities. They hold a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple\, they were an ACLS and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dartmouth Society of Fellows and an American Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. \n\nThis year’s event also includes a juried senior capstone and graduate student poster session following a buffet lunch\, a USP alumni panel where students can hear from and connect with practitioners working in Milwaukee across a variety of fields in the public and private sector\, an awards ceremony\, and a reception following the keynote presentation. \nEvent Details:\nDate: Friday\, May 8\, 2026\nTime: 11:30 – 4:30 PM\nLocation: UWM Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211) \nAgenda: \n\n11:15–11:30 a.m.: Registration\n11:30–12:00 p.m.: Buffet Lunch\n12:00–1:30 p.m.: Juried Poster Session\n1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Alumni Panel\n2:30–2:45 p.m.: Coffee Break and Networking\n2:45– 3:00 p.m.: Awards Ceremony\n3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Keynote Speaker Presentation\n4:00–4:30 p.m.: Reception and Refreshments
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/28th-annual-student-research-forum-spring-2026/
LOCATION:UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge\, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
CATEGORIES:Humanities,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Students,UWM Campus Events
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SUMMARY:Book Talkback – Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking\, Belonging\, and Activism
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Muslim Milwaukee Project for the launch of a new book on the Muslim communities in Milwaukee by UWM professors Anna Mansson McGinty\, Caroline Seymour-Jorn\, and Kristin Sziarto. There will be a panel talkback featuring prominent members of Milwaukee’s Muslim community—Waheed Ahmed\, Othman Atta\, Amal Azzam\, Janan Najeeb\, and Brother Will Perry—moderated by Fahed Masalkhi\, PhD. \n— \nAbout Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking\, Belonging\, and Activism\nMuslims in Milwaukee explores the everyday lives\, identities\, and activism of Muslims in a midsized Midwestern city. Milwaukee is one of America’s most segregated cities\, yet within its boundaries\, a vibrant Muslim community is reshaping narratives and embodied practices of belonging\, civic engagement\, and urban placemaking. While considerable scholarship on Muslim Americans has concentrated on larger metropolitan centers like New York\, Los Angeles\, and Chicago\, or on Detroit’s historic Arab neighborhoods\, this book turns our attention to an understudied city where Muslim communities are small but rapidly growing\, and where their experiences unfold within distinct local landscapes of race\, segregation\, and opportunity. \nDrawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork\, surveys\, and extensive interviews with community members\, students\, artists\, activists\, and leaders\, the authors examine how local political\, economic\, and historical structures shape Muslim American experiences and civic participation\, situating their analysis within the dual dynamics of belonging on one hand and exclusion and discrimination on the other. \n— \nAbout the Islamic Resource Center & Muslim Women’s Coalition\nThe Islamic Resource Center\, a project of Muslim Women’s Coalition\, is Wisconsin’s only Islamic cultural center and lending library. \nThe Muslim Women’s Coalition (MWC) is dedicated to building an equitable and inclusive Wisconsin\, where diversity is celebrated and all individuals are valued. Their mission is to empower Muslim women and girls through education\, leadership\, outreach\, and wellness programs\, helping them reach their fullest potential while creating a positive impact on the broader community. \nFounded in 1994\, MWC began as a local resource organization with the goal of promoting a more accurate understanding of Islam and Muslim women. Over the years\, MWC has remained committed to leading positive community change through advocacy\, dialogue\, education\, and outreach\, using faith-based values to ensure dignity and equity for all.
URL:https://uwm.edu/letters-science/event/book-talkback-muslims-in-milwaukee-placemaking-belonging-and-activism/
LOCATION:Islamic Resource Center\, 5235 S 27th Street\, Greenfield\, WI\, 53221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Faculty and Staff,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,UWM Campus Events
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