Presented by Dr. Mark Colarusso, Professor of Mathematics, University of South Alabama. In the 19th century, physicists were interested in determining the conditions under which the equations of motion for a classical mechanical system could be found by integrating a …

Dr. Laura Colmenarejo, Professor of Mathematics, North Carolina State University. In algebraic combinatorics, the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth algorithm is a fundamental correspondence between words and pairs of semistandard tableaux illustrating identities of dimensions of irreducible representations of several groups. In this talk, …

Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University, is giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her …

Morgan Foster, Undergraduate Advisor and Program Coordinator in Women's & Gender Studies, UWM, presents: “American Girls: Girlhood Fiction and Fandoms in America.” Attend in-person or via livestream at the link below. Contact wgs@uwm.edu for details.

John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-two books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, industries, and places of worship. Gurda’s most ambitious efforts are The Making …

This lecture analyzes the history of legal abortion since 1973 and discusses the factors that led to the overturning of Roe earlier this year. Johanna Schoen is professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with an affiliation at the Institute …

Presented by Dr. Michael Young, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University. A set is considered rainbow if each element of the set is assigned a distinct color. In this talk, we will discuss problems and techniques about determining the …

Xin Yu, Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at UWM will be in conversation with Suyoung Son, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, and Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. The …

Professor Christy DeLair, Director of the Pick Museum of Anthropology (Northern Illinois University) will discuss material culture studies, performance, global indigenous studies, and artist-museum relations with an emphasis on Taiwan and Native North America.