Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM
2024-10-01 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 university itself: small, impressive, and growing. With this significant gift, the artwork on campus more than doubled in number and was codified into one collection that highlighted modern art of the twentieth century.
This exhibition presents the personal aesthetic interests of the Rosenbergs while also considering collecting trends of the mid-twentieth century. The breadth and depth of the collection is especially significant when evaluating their decision to bequeath their collection to UWM to support teaching and learning. Major modern artists featured include Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Joan Miró, Ernst Kirchner, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Alexei Jawlensky, and more. Also presented are works by the donor, Blanche Rosenberg, who studied in the fine arts department here at UWM. Organized to showcase major art historical movements represented in the collection, this show underscores the ways this donation established a strong teaching collection here at UWM and honors the legacy of these impactful donors.
Curated by academic curator Leigh Mahlik, exhibition runs through November 14, 2024. The Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery in Mitchell Hall Rm 170 is open 10-4 Monday-Thursday and is free to the public.

Japanese Conversation Table
2024-10-03 12:30 - 13:30 | UWM Language Oasis – Curtin 187, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 week (closed on Thanksgiving).

Math Colloquium: Parabolic System of Aggregation Formation in Bacterial Colonies
2024-10-04 14:00 - 15:00 | UWM EMS Building, Room E495, 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 of bacteria in the form of a random distribution over time transforms into a periodic wave, followed by a transition to a stationary solitary wave without dispersion.
Presented by Dr. Zhaosheng Feng, Endowed Chair Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Il Circolo Italiano
2024-10-09 16:30 - 17:30 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 766, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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. 9
Oct. 23
Nov. 13
Dec. 4

Math Colloquium: Baby Mandelbrot Sets for Maximally Generalized McMullen Maps
2024-10-11 14:00 - 15:30 | UWM EMS Building, Room E495, 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 of the critical orbits of function families with one or more parameters. The simplest of such families, z^2 +c, is well-known to define the famous Mandelbrot set fractal as the set of c-values for which the unique critical orbit is bounded. In this talk we will examine the function family R(z) = z^n +b +a/(z^d), and we will explore old and new results establishing the location of baby Mandelbrot sets in parameter space for increasingly general versions of this family. In the most general case, which we call maximally generalized McMullen maps, this family has multiple independent critical orbits, and the dynamics in this case are not yet well understood.

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) Open House
2024-10-11 15:00 - 16:30 | UWM Northwest Quad B2479, 2025 East Newport Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 professional background in Latin American literature and culture. While a doctoral student at Stanford University, she co-coordinated programming with the Center for Latin American Studies for several years. Monica has experience with teacher training, curricular reforms in Spanish language pedagogy and first-year curricula. While at Reed College, she served as a co-PI on a multi-year community engaged learning grant (Mellon Foundation), which brought new resources and partnerships to the college. As part of the grant experience, Monica developed new community partnerships with diverse stakeholders to further shared goals in the Portland community. She is fluent in Spanish and an advanced speaker of Portuguese, having benefited from a FLAS fellowship.

United We Read: Faculty/Student Readings from the Creative Writing program
2024-10-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Woodland Pattern, 720 East Locust Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53212, 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 English Professor Valerie Laken and graduate students Timothy Knapp, JT Lachausse, and Sophie Nunberg.
March 7 – With English Professor Rebecca Dunham. Student names yet to be announced. Location for this event will be Boswell Book Company.
April 11 – With English Professor Liam Callanan. Student names yet to be announced. Location TBD.

The Limits of Economic Power: Supply Chains, Sanctions, and the God-almighty Dollar
2024-10-16 13:00 - 14:30 | St. John’s on the Lake, 1840 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53202, United States
The 2024 George F. Kennan Lecture presents James Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.

From malaria to chatGPT: the birth and strange life of the random walk
2024-10-16 16:00 - 17:00 | UWM Chemistry Building – Room 108, 2000 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, 53211, 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 to the latest developments in AI. Ellenberg will talk about the surprising history of this concept, which between 1905-1910 was invented simultaneously by multiple people in multiple countries for completely different purposes, from mosquito control to physics to finance to winning a theological argument (really!) And then he will move to the present day and talk about the rise of large language models, the modern descendants of the random walk. Are they just mindless algorithms, or can they generate authentically new ideas in writing and math?
Ellenberg is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers “How Not to be Wrong,” and “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything,” as well as many research papers. Most recently he has been collaborating with Google DeepMind on projects at the interface of math and artificial intelligence.
Books can be purchased from Boswell Book Company at the event and a book signing with Ellenberg immediately follows the lecture. Book sales are credit or debit only.
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Math Colloquium: Long-Time Behaviors of Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems
2024-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 | UWM EMS Building, Room E495, 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 the so-called cell problem in the homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, we reveal the turnpike properties of the linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems from various perspectives.
A reception follows the presentation.

UWM Gallery Night
2024-10-18 16:00 - 19:00 | WI
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 Picassos with exhibitions honoring prolific collectors. More into artifacts than art? Head to the American Geographical Society Library to learn more about the history of American explorations of Antarctica.
All events are free and open to the public and are located on the main campus at UW-Milwaukee. Information about parking can be found on the UWM Parking & Transportation website. Questions? Email c21@uwm.edu.
See event on Gallery Night MKE’s website listed below. Download a map of gallery locations.
Participating Galleries:
American Geographical Society Library
American Ambitions in the Antarctic | American Ambitions in the Antarctic tells the story of how the United States began exploring the southernmost continent. Beginning with the Western world’s earliest explorations in the region, this exhibit leads viewers through history with maps, atlases, books, and artifacts from several major expeditions to Antarctica. Golda Meir Library, 3rd Floor, East Wing, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
Center for 21st Century Studies
Story Cart: Trust and the Vote | In the spring and summer of 2024, with an historic U.S. presidential election on the horizon, UWM’s Center for 21st Century Studies interviewed over 60 Milwaukeeans about their relative trust, or distrust, in the U.S. voting system. Story Cart: Trust and the Vote features select interviews, images, and other memoranda documenting these exchanges—MKE’s collective hopes, doubts, and ideas for transforming democracy. Curtin Hall, 9th Floor, Room 929, 3243 N. Downer Ave.
Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery
Modern Impacts: Celebrating 50 Years of the Rosenberg Collection at UWM | Modern Impacts honors the fiftieth anniversary of the Rosenberg Art Collection bequest to UWM by showcasing the extensive number of modern paintings, prints, and sculptures donated to support teaching and learning on campus. This exhibition features artwork by such legendary twentieth-century artists as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Ernst Kirchner, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, and more. Mitchell Hall, First Floor, Room 170, 3203 N. Downer Ave.
Special Collections, 4th Floor Exhibition Gallery
Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection | Distinguished attorney Jill Wine-Banks is a MSNBC Legal Analyst, podcast host, and a specific kind of jewelry collector who uses the pin as a messaging device. This exhibition and archiving project features pins mined from her personal collection accumulated over a lifetime of work in the political and legal landscape of the US. The exhibition also features work by emerging and established artists and jewelers, and UWM Jewelry & Metalsmithing students who have created artwork that act as messaging devices inspired by items from the Special Collections. Golda Meir Library, Room 472, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.
Union Art Gallery
Colors of Our Communidad: Latine Artists in Celebration | Colors of Our Communidad: Latine Artists in Celebration, is an exhibition that spotlights the creative brilliance of Latine artists, whose works reflect the multifaceted heritage, identity, and vibrant community spirits that define Latine culture within Milwaukee and the Midwest. This exhibition will highlight local artists including Nicole Acosta, Conhg Lopez, Richie Morales, Melissa Mursch-Rodriguez, and Mi Salgado and is cosponsored by Sociocultural Programming and the Roberto Hernandez Center. UWM Student Union, 1st Floor, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
UWM Archives Exhibit Gallery
The Art of Organizing in Latinx Milwaukee | Explore the visual culture of protest through art from Voces de la Frontera and earlier generations of Latinx activists. Golda Meir Library W307, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.

How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them
2024-10-18 19:00 - 20:00 | UWM Union Wisconsin Room, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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, Rohr Professor of International Affairs at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego and one of the world’s leading experts on civil wars, violent extremism, and domestic terrorism.
In this moderated discussion, with WTMJ radio’s Kristen Brey, Walter will discuss the lessons from her New York Times bestseller How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them. The first 50 attendees will receive a free copy of the book.
RSVP at https://uwmunion.vbotickets.com/event/An_Evening_with_Barbara_F_Walter/140136 (clickable link below in the web site section)

A conversation with translator Denise Kripper
2024-10-24 14:30 - 15:30 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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=[REDACTED]

Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
2024-10-24 15:00 - 16:30 | TBD, UWM Campus, Exact Room To Be Determined, WI, 53211, 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 explores the intellectual, emotional, and bodily lives of young black women through voice, music, and hip-hop inflected magical realist techniques. She is the author of the short story collection Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary; The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (2022), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association; and her critically acclaimed debut novel Big Girl (W.W. Norton & Co. 2022), which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Balcones Fiction Prize.
About Sullivan’s debut novel, Big Girl, Kiese Laymon says, “There are three books on earth that I would give anything to be able to write and reread until the sun burns us up. Big Girl is one of those books. The sound, the expansiveness of the whispers, the critical, brilliant, sometimes bruising, beautiful Black girlness explored in this novel is literally second to none. I know I have just read and reread a new American classic that we as a culture and country desperately need. Believe that.” While Rick Moody succinctly observes her writing to feel “nearly Faulknerian.”
Sullivan’s short stories have appeared in Best New Writing, Kenyon Review, American Fiction: Best New Stories by Emerging Writers, Prairie Schooner, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Stories, BLOOM: Queer Fiction, Art, Poetry and More, TriQuarterly, Feminist Studies, All About Skin: Short Stories by Award-Winning Women Writers of Color, DC Metro Weekly, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, and many others. A 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the Glenna Luschei Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lambda Literary, and the Center for Fiction in New York City, where she received an inaugural Emerging Writers Fellowship.
A proud native of Harlem, NY, Sullivan’s critical and scholarly work on sexuality, identity, and poetics in contemporary African Diaspora culture has appeared in The Cut, Feminist Studies, American Quarterly, College Literature, The Rumpus, Ebony.com, The Feminist Wire, Black Futures, and many others. Mecca’s research and scholarship have earned support from the Mellon-Mays Foundation, the Social Sciences Research Council, Williams College, Rutgers University, Duke University, the American Academy of University Women, and the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation).
She is a Professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC.

Living on the Edge: Armenian art and the margins of art history
2024-10-24 17:15 - 18:30 | UWM Mitchell Hall, Room 195, 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 and Architecture), where she holds the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies. Professor Maranci taught in our own department from 2001 until 2008, and we are thrilled to welcome her back to Milwaukee.
Professor Maranci is the author of four books and over 100 articles and essays on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including most recently, the Art of Armenia (Oxford UP, 2018). Her 2015 monograph, Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Brepols, 2015) won the Karen Gould Prize for Art History from the Medieval Academy of America and as well as the Sona Aronian Prize for best Armenian Studies monograph from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). She has also published op eds. and essays in the Wall Street Journal, Apollo, The Conversation, and Hyperallergic, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s Open Source with Christopher Lydon.
For her work, she received in 2024 the Moses Khorenatsi Medal from the President of the Republic of Armenia.
Image: Lectionary of Het’um II, 1286. Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS 979, fol. 293r. Decorated chapter heading. Photo: Matenadaran.
Additional support provided by the local chapter of AIA (Archaeological Institute of America)

Indigeneity and Writing: Rethinking Indigenismo in Early 20th Century Latin America
2024-10-28 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 the Latin American 20th century. His goal in doing so is to understand a separate body of lettered practices whose origins cannot be accounted for without considering the role of indigenismo. These ‘other’ lettered practices are mostly, but not solely, created by indigenous peoples. As importantly, accounting for this body of literature involves articulating a notion of indigeneity that does not arise exclusively as an expression of an indigenous identity or culture, but rather as the product of collaborations and exchanges between indigenous and non-indigenous actors in a wide, or widened, discursive field.

Natural Treasures of Milwaukee: The Story of the Thomas A. Greene Geological Collection
2024-11-01 18:30 - 20:30 | UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150, 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 to Milwaukee and beyond. Explore the Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum and glimpse behind the scenes into our collection storage, home to 65,000 minerals and fossils. Be there when we formally announce the Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum as the first, internationally recognized Geoheritage Geo-Collection in the United States.
“More than 700 experts from 80 nations and 16 international organizations participated in this global endeavor, consolidating the recognition of geological heritage by the IUGS. [The Thomas A Greene Geological Collection] is now officially ranked on the level of the ‘gold-standard’ of IUGS geocollections.”
All donations will go directly to the Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum fund, to support outreach efforts and collection digitization, permitting long-term preservation of this important scientific resource.
6:30 Reception
7:00 Program
8:00 Tours/Open House of the Gallery
Register at https://secure.supportuwm.org/s/1902/m19/interior-dev.aspx?sid=1902&gid=3&pgid=2762&cid=6965
Questions? Contact Rob Graziano at graziano@uwm.edu or Chase Shelburne at shelbur2@uwm.edu.

Lunch & Learn: Another Way of Being-Black Feminist Practice and the Social Life of Social Death
2024-11-07 11:30 - 12:30 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 535B, 3243 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The speaker is Dr. Kidiocus King-Carroll, Assistant Professor in African & African Diaspora Studies at UWM. In person or via Teams.

Happy Cows: Human-Environment Networks in Agriculture
2024-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 decisions, social institutions, and environmental systems. We examine dairy farms to better understand how social relationships and biophysical dynamics interact to spur or hinder growth of multifunctional agriculture in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York. This work blends a variety of methods, including social science surveys, environmental field work, and spatially-explicit modeling. This research advances our understanding of how social networks and ecosocial feedback affect the sustainable development of managed ecosystems.
Presented by Steven Manson, Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota.

Literature in the Age of Automated Cognition
2024-11-11 17:30 - 18:30 | UWM Union Wisconsin Room, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), which was called “a masterpiece” (Publisher’s Weekly) and “a tour de force” (The Washington Post) and selected by The New York Times as one of its ten best books of the year. His first novel, American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), was published in over 20 languages.
As a playwright, he has written Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What (Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations). His play McNeal premiered at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in September 2024.
Among other honors, Akhtar is the recipient of the Steinberg Playwrighting Award, the Nestroy Award, the Erwin Piscator Award, as well as fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, MacDowell, the Sundance Institute, and Yaddo, where he serves as a Board Director. Additionally, Ayad is a Board Trustee at PEN America, where he served as President from 2020 – 2023. In 2021, Akhtar was named the New York State Author, succeeding Colson Whitehead, by the New York State Writers Institute.
RSVP not required but appreciated at (a clickable link is further down the page labeled “Event Website”):
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This event is underwritten and supported by the Vilas Trust.
Photo credit: Vincent Tullo

Lacrosse Book Talk: Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning Through Rematriation
2024-11-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Marquette University Alumni Memorial Union, 1442 West Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53233, 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 the medicine game as it is part of a medicine ceremony named in creation narratives and the Great Law of Peace that binds the six nations of the Haudenosaunee confeeracy. The number of Haudenosaunee women and girls playing the sport has burgeoned since the 1980s. This book roots lacrosse as a Haudenosaunee sport both within and outside of these communities.
Dr. Sharity Bassett is an Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Associate Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI) at UW-Milwaukee. Dr. Bassett teaches courses for UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies and American Indian Studies programs, including Indigenous Feminisms, Indigiqueer Theory and Praxis, Critical Disability Studies, and Feminist Research Methods.
Dr. Bassett will, in conversation with Dr. Samantha Majhor, Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University and Alex Gambacorta, former Marquette women’s lacrosse player.

Muslims in Milwaukee: Place, Relationality, Activism
2024-11-13 18:30 - 20:30 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 include:
Anna Mansson McGinty, PhD, Associate Professor, Departments of Geography and Women’s & Gender Studies
Kristin M. Sziarto, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Caroline Seymour-Jorn, PhD, Director of International Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Studies
Virtual link available to those who pre-register at this URL (clickable link is in the web section below).
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The Grenada frog: Long term monitoring, mapping, outreach and conservation
2024-11-18 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 List). The Grenada Dove is featured on the national emblem and is considered to be a national treasure. By contrast, the Grenada Frog is virtually unknown. We worked with the IUCN in 2021 to assess the conservation status of all Lesser Antillean amphibians, where mapping and quantitative ecological analysis prompted a status update of the Grenada frog to “Red List, Critically Endangered”. This classification is warranted given extinction threats by habitat fragmentation significantly limiting dispersal and gene flow, reduced global footprint, threats from development, climate change, invasive species, and disease. Our ongoing work is focused on understanding these threats, through ecological and genetic studies, and on strategic and innovative outreach efforts to increase awareness for the Grenada frog and engage citizens to amplify the impacts of conservation actions. These are what shape the overall aims of our research project: 1) to assess species range, demography, and population connectivity for this endemic montane frog, 2) to understand the impact of the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, and 3) to increase awareness of this unique species through targeted, long-term education and outreach activities. We will present these initiatives and challenges along with some exciting new community and student engagement projects.

Teaching English Abroad and Locally
2024-11-19 15:30 - 16:30 | WI
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!

Language Works
2024-11-19 17:00 - 18:30 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 will increase in the next 5 years
Even a few semesters of language learning can provide opportunities, within your job search and beyond. Learn

how language skills can benefit all career paths
how language study develops skills most valued by employers
how best to present language skills on your resume and in interviews
about internship and study abroad opportunities on campus
about careers in interpreting and translation
and more!

Drop-in event: come for a few minutes or the whole event. Refreshments provided!
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Gene-Environment Interactions with Essential Heterogeneity - An applied microeconomics workshop
2024-11-20 11:30 - 12:30 | UWM Bolton Hall, Room 812B, 3210 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Presented by Johannes Hollenbach, Paderborn University and RWI

Careers & Internships with U.S. State Department
2024-11-21 12:00 - 15:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 opportunity for all majors to learn more about a career in federal service.
Learn more and register at Handshake https://uwm.joinhandshake.com/stu/events/1620283

Noon-1pm: Lunch with diplomat
1-2pm: Drop-in office hours and networking
2-3pm: Business career opportunities at US Department of State

Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti: The Midwesterner who Adapted Italian Culinary Traditions for American Kitchens
2024-11-22 12:00 - 13:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Italian ‘cucina casalinga’ (home cooking) to American households, inspiring a lasting appreciation for Italian culinary traditions. This event offers a unique opportunity to see how Italian cuisine was adapted and embraced in the U.S. over a century ago.
Co-sponsored by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Chicago;Consulato Generale d’Italia Chicago; Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale; UW-Madison Department of French and Italian; and UW-Madison Center for European Studies.

Data you can use: Engaging Communities with Data and Mapping
2024-11-22 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
A Department of Geography colloquium with Amy Rohan and Amanda Beavin from the Milwaukee organization, Data You Can Use.

Does Gibrat’s Law apply to chain organizations? The case of franchising.
2024-12-04 11:30 - 12:30 | UWM Bolton Hall, Room 812B, 3210 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
An applied microeconomics workshop presented by Antonio Porto, dissertator in the Lubar College of Business management science program.

Puerto Rican bomba: free drum-and-dance workshop
2024-12-04 13:00 - 14:15 | UWM Zelazo Center, Room 250, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 out different traditional instruments and learn some dance moves from UWM alum Imani Jalil of Milwaukee’s own organization Bembé Drum & Dance. No experience necessary – come learn about this rich musical genre!

Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution - Art Exhibition Opening Reception
2024-12-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Mexican Revolution, featuring works from Manuel Carrillo, Leopoldo Méndez, Diego Rivera, Francisco Toledo, and more.
This show was curated by the ARTHIST 704: Intro to Art Museum Studies II class, this collaborative course teaches Art History graduate students the methodologies and technologies of art museum work, including collection management, exhibition organization, catalogue production, and educational programming.
Exhibit is open Mondays through Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm, December 9th, 10th and 11th. The exhibit re-opens January 22 and runs through February 20th, also Mondays through Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm. Free and open to the public.

Listening for ‘Undesirables’ and Other Archival Voices
2024-12-06 11:00 - 12:30 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 181, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 and was previously a professor at Penn State University. Her research and teaching look at how colonial spaces in West Africa, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the French Caribbean were shaped by intersections between class, politics, and urban culture around the world wars and decolonization. Completed in part thanks to a Paris Institute for Advanced Studies fellowship, her second book is entitled Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952 (2022, University of Chicago Press). Undesirable tells the virtually unknown history of hundreds of women in Southeast Asia (French Indochina) and West Africa (AOF) tracked by authorities because they were traveling alone and claiming Frenchness. Drawn from Cambodian, French, and Senegalese archives, Undesirable’s focus on how ordinary people react to being policed gives historical depth to pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence in France today and of similar reckonings on a global scale.

Struggle for the City: Rhetorics of Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement
2024-12-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual/Online Event, Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The UW System Faculty Lecture Series and The Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM present Derek Handley. Register for this online event to receive the link. A clickable link is below in the website section or copy and paste: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uw-system-faculty-lecture-series-derek-handley-tickets-1043213679197
The urban renewal policies of the 1950s and 1960s destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in the United States. Struggle for the City recovers the agency and solidarity of African American residents confronting this diagnosis of “blight.” This presentation discusses how African American residents in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the Bronzeville neighborhood of Milwaukee, and the Rondo neighborhood of St. Paul enacted Black Rhetorical Citizenship to fight for their communities. By centering the residents in their own narratives of displacement, this presentation demonstrates how local organizers, leaders, and residents used rhetorics of placemaking, community organizing, and critical memory to resist the bulldozing visions of urban renewal.
Derek G. Handley is an assistant professor in the English Department, affiliated faculty in African and African Diaspora Studies department, and affiliated faculty in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is co-director of the Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County (MRR-MKE) project, which comprehensively maps racial covenants and uncovers Black resistance to such discrimination.
The UW System Lecture Series is co-hosted by C21 and UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities and highlights faculty research across the Universities of Wisconsin.

From 20th-Century ‘Undesirables’ to the 2024 Paris Olympics: Women Defying French Colonial Policing
2024-12-06 16:00 - 18:00 | UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Global History at UNC. She received her PhD in History from Yale University and was previously a professor at Penn State University. Her research and teaching look at how colonial spaces in West Africa, Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the French Caribbean were shaped by intersections between class, politics, and urban culture around the world wars and decolonization. Completed in part thanks to a Paris Institute for Advanced Studies fellowship, her second book is entitled Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952 (2022, University of Chicago Press). Undesirable tells the virtually unknown history of hundreds of women in Southeast Asia (French Indochina) and West Africa (AOF) tracked by authorities because they were traveling alone and claiming Frenchness. Drawn from Cambodian, French, and Senegalese archives, Undesirable’s focus on how ordinary people react to being policed gives historical depth to pressing contemporary issues of migration and violence in France today and of similar reckonings on a global scale.

Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution - Art Exhibition
2024-12-09 10:00 - 16:00 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution - Art Exhibition
2025-01-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Mexican Revolution, featuring works from Manuel Carrillo, Leopoldo Méndez, Diego Rivera, Francisco Toledo, and more.
This show was curated by the ARTHIST 704: Intro to Art Museum Studies II class, this collaborative course teaches Art History graduate students the methodologies and technologies of art museum work, including collection management, exhibition organization, catalogue production, and educational programming.
Exhibit is open Mondays through Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm through February 20th. Free and open to the public.

Studying Successful Doctoral Students from Underrepresented Groups
2025-01-24 14:00 - 15:00 | UWM EMS Building, Room E495, 3200 N. Cramer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 (pre-qualifying exams), advanced graduate students (dissertation level), and recent PhDs (0-5 years since graduation). The research questions in the study are:
What are lived experiences of successful underrepresented students who are pursuing mathematics PhDs?
What formal and informal structures are perceived by doctoral students as effective supports?
Themes drawn from the interviews can inform department policies and practices to create environments that support students from underrepresented groups as they earn PhDs in mathematics.
Presented by Dr. Sarah Sword
Principal Research Scientist
Education Development Center, Inc.

Beyond Borders: Writing as Activism & Healing
2025-02-05 18:00 - 19:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 an undocumented child immigrant.  Grande has also authored several novels and co-edited an anthology by and about undocumented Americans called Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival and New Beginnings (HarperVia, 2022).
This event is free and open to the public; the lecture will be immediately followed by a book signing at no cost. Boswell Book Company will have books available for purchase at the event (credit, debit, Apple and Google pay).
Supported in part with grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Centers program and support from the Mellon Foundation, UWM Sociocultural Programming, and the Vilas Trust.
Free but registration requested at https://uwm.edu/clacs/reyna-grande-author-talk-beyond-borders-writing-as-activism-healing/ (clickable link below in the website section)
Questions may be directed to Monica VanBladel at vanblade@uwm.edu.

Strength in Adversity: Promoting Resilience and Healing Among Latina Immigrant Women Through the Cultivating Resilience Intervention
2025-02-06 11:30 - 12:30 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 535B, 3243 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Part of the Women’s & Gender Studies Lunch and Learn program.
Presented by Gabriela Nagy, professor in UWM’s psychology department.
In person and on Teams.
Meeting ID: 251 056 995 968
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Interrogating Historical Silences and Listening to the Voices of the Excluded
2025-02-13 08:30 - 11:15 | 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 Listening to the Voices of the Excluded
Date:
February 13, 2025
Time:

Session 1: 8:30 – 9:45 am CST (3:30 – 4:45pm WAT)
Session 2: 10:00 – 11:15am CST (5:00 – 6:15pm WAT).

Venues (In-person):

University of Wisconsin: Holton G80
University of Nigeria Nsukka: IAS Seminar Room

Virtual:
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 942 1136 1493
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Paper Presenters:

Carolyn Eichner (Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Topic: “Viewing Transnational Colonial Whiteness through Feminist Lenses.”
Chidi Ugwu (Professor of Anthropology, University of Nigeria Nsukka).
Topic: “A Decolonial Ethnography of Subaltern Agency.”
Rebecca Shumway (Professor of African and African American History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
Topic: “Challenges of Historicizing Enslaved Africans both in Africa and in the African Diaspora between the 16th and 19th centuries).
Chukwuma Opata (Professor of Economic History and African Heritage Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka).
Topic: “Spirituality as Unsung Driver of Development in Traditional Igbo Societies: Extrapolations from Northern Igboland-Nigeria).

Convener:

Vitalis Nwashindu (Eliana G. Berg Scholar & Doctoral Student of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Hosts:

Professor Joseph Walzer
Director, Cultures and Communities, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Hmong Diaspora Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Professor Ozioma Onuzulike
Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka.

Welcoming Well-Being: A Chancellor Chat Event
2025-02-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Student Health and Wellness Center, 2025 E Newport Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 provides medical and mental health support, health promotion, survivor support and victim advocacy for UWM students.
The Student Health & Wellness Center is located in the Northwest Quadrant on UWM’s campus, Building D, Floors 7 and 8.
Register at https://events.blackthorn.io/en/8c8QaW37/g/4NX3MdMKAx/welcoming-well-being-a-chancellor-chat-event-4a5jQkLuon/overview (clickable link below in the website section)

Black History Month Alumni Social & Trivia Night
2025-02-13 17:30 - 21:00 | UWM Gasthaus, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 – 9 p.m. Trivia Night Contest
The UWM Alumni Association will provide snacks. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

Alumni Panel Discussion: What Can You Do with a Geography Degree?
2025-02-14 14:30 - 15:30 | American Geographical Society Library inside the Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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. Discover the diverse career paths you can pursue with a geography degree.
Our distinguished alumni panelists will share their professional journeys and insights with the UWM community.

Tom Bertrand (Milwaukee County Transit System)
Jack Kovnesky (City of West Allis)
Amy Rohan (Data You Can Use)
Elton Rogers (Department of Natural Resources)
Francesca Sanchez (Wisconsin Department of Water Resources)

For more information or to request accommodations, please email yoon3@uwm.edu or mansson@uwm.edu.

Darwin Day
2025-02-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168), 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Victorian naturalists, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural selection—one of the driving mechanisms behind biological evolution—published in his seminal work: On the Origin of Species. Today, this theory forms the foundation for many of our natural sciences. Darwin Day is a national celebration of Darwin’s scientific legacy typically held on (or near) his birthday. Darwin Day is a free event and open to guests of all ages. Many wonderful geological and biological specimens will be available to observe, with volunteers on hand to explain their fascinating histories. Learning tables focusing on the natural history of Wisconsin and the contributions of Thomas A. Greene to our understanding of local Wisconsin geology will be spread throughout Lapham Hall, with many rare and beautiful samples on display from the Thomas A. Greene geological collection. Other activities will be available throughout the day, including presentations by UWM scientists and guest speakers, a scavenger hunt, activities for kids, and booths featuring many community organizations. There’s something for everyone, so bring the family and have a full day of science fun! See below for our list of featured event speakers, special activities, and community partners:
Featured Event Speakers:

[11:00 AM] Underworld Wonders: Exploring Cave and Climate Connections (great for kids!) Mel Reusche | Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
[12:30 PM] Setting the Stage for Life: How the Universe Created the Conditions for Evolution on EarthDr. Michelle Thaller | NASA astrophysicist
[2:00 PM] Museum Collections and the History of Life Dr. Jonathan Hendricks | Milwaukee Public Museum

Special Activities:

Scavenger Hunt [all day; find the specified specimens throughout the event to win a cool prize!]
T. A. Greene’s Glowing Cavern [all day; come see fantastic glowing fluorescent minerals!]
Touch Room [all day; feel nature under your fingers with real specimens you can actually touch!]
How Animals Defend Themselves [all day; experience live animals and learn how Earth’s organisms defend themselves from predators!]
Student Research Discussion [10:30 AM – 2:30 AM; hear our UWM student researchers throughout the day discuss their amazing scientific research!]
Student Research Poster Display [all day; check out the past research of UWM’s student researchers and learn what’s happening on campus!]
Children’s Activities Hall [all day; Let your kids have a ball with coloring, jewelry making, button stamping, and many other fun activities!]
Star Lab Portable Planetarium Show [10:00 AM – 2:30 PM; see the stars with this awesome planetarium show hosted every thirty minutes by the Wehr Nature Center]

Community Partners:
We want to thank all the community organizations that help Darwin Day come together. Each of these partners will be present at the event. Stop by and say hi!

Manfred Olson Planetarium
Mequon Nature Preserve
Wisconsin Geological Society
Kettle Moraine Geological Society
Wisconsin Geological & Natural History Survey
CoffeeShop Astrophysics
Upham Woods Outdoor Learning Center
Weis Earth Science Museum
Schlitz Audubon Nature Center
Wehr Nature Center
Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Wisconsin Master Naturalist

Planning Your Day:
For location and parking information, please follow the link below: Plan Your Visit Thanks, and we hope to see you there! For more information, please contact: Chase Shelburne: shelbur2@uwm.edu Rob Graziano: graziano@uwm.edu

Asia in Conversation, "Media Circulations and Risky Publics"
2025-02-21 15:30 - 17:00
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, February 21st,
3:30pm-5:00pm
Zoom, open to the public.
Registration is via https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/eh01aEbOTAOQiIIuiL6OPw or the QR code on the flyer. Registering will also give those who register the link to the zoom meeting.
Contact: huang32@uwm.edu

LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Anjana Mudambi
2025-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 racialization (CRR) as a way for communities of color to explore and renegotiate our racialized identities in relation to other marginalized groups to build interracial solidarity with each other. I’ll recount my own experiences as a scholar of South Asian origin engaging in research across South Asian American, Latinx, and Black communities and discuss how CRR can help us move out of our racial/ethnic silos as scholars and build interracial solidarity through our research practices.
Join us to learn about the many topics you can study through the interdisciplinary LACUSL major at UWM.

WGS March Lunch & Learn, "Obscene Matter: Architecture Theory and Anti-Trans Politics"
2025-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 | Curtin Hall 535B
Thursday March 6th,
11:30am-12:30pm in Curtin 535B or virtually on Teams.
Presented by Adrienne Economos Miller, Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Link for Teams
Meeting ID: 220 868 522 562
Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Workshop with Dr. Nicole Ranganath, "Methods for Hearing Women's Transoceanic Voices in the South Asian Diaspora"
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 104, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Friday March 7th,
11:00am-12:00pm in Curtin Hall 104
Registration is required, can be filled out via https://forms.office.com/r/ZiPJWif8Yw or the QR code on the flyer.
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Demoted Exhibition
2025-03-13 10:30 - 14:30 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 work.
Demoted opens in the Mathis Art Gallery, first floor Mitchell Hall, Thursday, March 13th and runs through May 1, 2025, with an opening reception from 5:00pm until 7:00pm featuring remarks from undergraduate co-curators at 5:30pm. The gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 10:30am until 2:30pm. Gallery and events are free and open to the public.

Demoted Exhibition Reception
2025-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Jessica Nelson
2025-03-31 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 economies were closely intertwined. Fundraising, sponsorships, and other obra pias (charitable works) covered the cost of endeavors like paying the dowries of orphaned girls, or constructing a convent for Indigenous women. Centuries later, not all of these projects have been remembered equally. Some made permanent changes to the urban landscape and are still discussed today; others have been essentially forgotten. This talk will explore the history of philanthropy in Mexico, the process of researching these projects, and contemporary public history of colonial events.
Join us to learn about the many topics you can study through the interdisciplinary LACUSL major at UWM.

Jodi Eichler-Levine "Bezalel's Daughters: How Jewish Women Make Objects"
2025-04-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Curtin Hall 175
Without Jewish American women, we would have no Barbie dolls, far less modern art, and less-interesting ritual objects. Through the stories of women artists, crafters, and other creators, this talk sheds light on Jewish American life by focusing on how people create objects and how those objects, in turn, shape the people who create and make use of them.
Jodi Eichler-Levine is the Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Civilization and a professor in the department of Religion, Culture, & Society at Lehigh University. She is the author, most recently, of “Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis: How Jews Craft Resilience and Create Community.” Her work has also appeared in “The Washington Post,” “CNN,” “Salon,” and other popular publications. Her teaching and research explore the intersections between Jewish American history and religious life in the United States more broadly. She directs the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh and serves on the board of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Thursday, April 3
7:00–8:30pm
Curtin Hall 175 and Zoom
This is a hybrid event. Zoom attendance requires pre-registration: http://bit.ly/EichlerLevine
Free & Open to the Public. Parking is available in the UWM Student Union parking structure, or on the street.

46th Annual Latin American Film Series
2025-04-03 19:00 - 2025-04-10 21:00 | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 the Caribbean. This year’s lineup includes a variety of dramatic, comedic, and documentary titles, with stories set in urban capitals (Lima, La Paz), rural communities (Mexico’s Michoacán, Colombia’s Caribbean coast), and places in between. Join us to explore society, history, and the human experience.
All films will be shown in the original language with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public
Visit our website for titles, showtimes, trailers, and more: https://uwm.edu/clacs/news/the-46th-annual-latin-american-film-series/

WGS April Lunch & Learn, "Leveraging the UN 'Shadow Report': Global South Feminists' Oceans Advocacy and Scientific Dissent for Women's Human Rights"
2025-04-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Curtin Hall 535B
Thursday April 10th,
11:30am-12:30pm in Curtin 535B or virtually on Teams.
Presented by Dr. Nan Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of History.
Link for Teams
Meeting ID: 239 361 345 405
Passcode: [REDACTED]
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Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope
2025-04-11 14:30 - 15:30 | American Geographical Society Library inside the Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as technocapitalist development processes and the platformization of everyday life produce racialized removal, surveillance, impoverishment, illegalization, even premature death – structural harms for which critical social science research has a well-developed conceptual-epistemological apparatus. Here, I make the case for an intentional turn toward methodologies of hope, a re-orientation toward apprehending creative politics that advance sociospatial relations of emplacement, collectivity, accountability, mutuality and thriving. I explore digital and emplaced tactics of mutual aid, direct action, and insurgent visual politics created by Stop the Sweeps, a horizontal network of local collectivities fighting public eviction of tent encampments of unsheltered people in cities and towns across the US.
Hope is an animating force underlying these digital, material and ideological pathways toward staying put and living well in the city, yet ironically, hope is largely absent from the theoretical-epistemological fabric of ‘critical’ social science research on digital cities. I argue for abundance-oriented analyses of the urban politics being forged by precarious communities and their allies, showing how this shift opens a vital window onto complex networks of solidarity and mutual support that are generating profound challenges to the circuits of harm that define life in the digital city.

Creative Writing Workshop with Slow Growing in the Time of Trees
2025-04-17 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 939, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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, or whatever material you want to use for composition (and perhaps decomposition).
Workshop led by Katharine Beutner. Space is limited. Registration is required.
For more information and a registration link, visit: https://uwm.edu/c21/event/slow-growing-writing-workshop/
Slow Growing in the Time of Trees is a C21-sponsored collaboratory formed to cultivate an interdisciplinary creative space that examines the long duration of tree-time in the face of human and non-human interventions. This workshop is part of C21’s Slow Knowing program series.

C21 Spring Lecture with Kyle Whyte: Kinship, Our Experience of Time, and Environmental Responsibility
2025-04-24 17:30 - 18:30 | UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
We are often given mixed signals about the relationship between our responsibility to take action to address climate change and our sense of time. Is there a climate crisis that is so urgent that we must take whatever measures are necessary to lower carbon footprints? Or will buying too much into emotions of urgency generate hasty solutions that actually stymie progress? Some Indigenous traditions offer ethics based on responsibility and kinship that present ways in which time and ethics can be aligned, allowing us to be urgent but moral, and address the physical causes of climate change while fostering solidarity with the communities who experience climate injustice.
Dr. Whyte’s research addresses moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the anthropocene. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) fosters innovative research and community engagement at the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences. C21’s theme for 2024-2025 is Slow Knowing: The Pace of Being Human, with programming and sponsored research that calls attention to embodied processes of building and maintaining collective life that resist the fast-paced efficiency models and short attention spans that increasingly define human responses to 21st century social, political, and ecological challenges.
Doors open at 5:00pm. Refreshments will be served before and after the talk.
This event is free and open to the public. Prior registration is requested.
For more information and a registration link, visit: https://uwm.edu/c21/event/slow-knowing-kyle-whyte/

Spring Asia in Conversation Series
2025-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | WI
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, Senior Teaching Faculty, Department of Global Studies at UWM will be in conversation with Dr. Muhammad Yunus Anis, Lecturer, Arabic Literature Department, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia, and they will be discussing “Arabic and its Relation with Asia.”
The event is open to the public.
Registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Asia in Conversation series is intended to showcase the academic and social significance of the creative work on Asia at UWM in science, social science, the arts, and humanities. It takes the form of informal (but not casual) conversations between UWM faculty and their interlocutors in the wider world.
This series is co-sponsored by UWM Community Empowerment & Institutional Inclusivity and the William F. Vilas Trust.

Urban Studies 27th Annual Student Research Forum
2025-05-02 12:00 - 17:00 | UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 Research Forum, there will be a juried poster session showcasing senior capstone, service learning, and graduate student projects that examine critical issues facing Milwaukee, a panel discussion that will explore the significance of community engagement and neighborhood collaboration centered around community garden spaces in Milwaukee, and an awards ceremony and reception.

Noon -1:30 PM: Buffet Lunch and Juried Poster Session
1:30 – 2:00 PM: Climates of Inequality Media Project Film Screening and Talk Back
2:00 – 3:30 PM: Panel Presentations and Discussion
3:30 – 4:00 PM: Awards Ceremony
4:00 – 5:00 PM: Reception and Refreshments

From a Whisper to a Symphony
2025-09-18 18:30 - 20:30 | UWM Chemistry Building – Room 108, 2000 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, 53211, 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 stars since the first observation of gravitational waves.
Please reserve your free spot for this event before September 14, 2025.
The event will be held in room 108 of the new Chemistry building on the campus of UW-Milwaukee. There will be a reception at 6:30 PM. The program starts at 7:00 PM. There will be complimentary appetizers and a bar with drinks for purchase in the lobby. We look forward to seeing you there!

Coffee Shop Astrophysics
2025-09-27 13:00 - 14:00 | Anodyne Coffee Shop, 224 W Bruce St, Milwaukee, WI, 53204, United States
Join us at the Coffeeshop Astrophysics for a series of informal public lectures given by graduate students and postdocs from the UWM Physics Department. The talks are designed to promote scientific outreach to the broader Milwaukee community.

Our talks are held in person at Anodyne Coffee in Walker’s Point (224 W Bruce Street, Milwaukee) from 1-2pm. All talks are free to attend. There is no need to register. More information, including links to our social media pages, can be found on our website: https://coffeeshopastrophysics.github.io/.

Global Works Career Fair
2025-10-01 13:00 - 16:00 | UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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
2025-10-02 19:00 | 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
2025-10-15 18:30 | UWM Chemistry Building – Room 108, 2000 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, 53211, 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 to learn how the latest science is addressing this ancient question. We’ll examine what the origin and evolution of life on Earth may tell us about the potential for life on other worlds, and then turn to the possibility of life elsewhere in our solar system and on planets around other stars.
Please reserve your free spot for this event by October 12, 2025.
The event will be held in Room 108 of UW-Milwaukee’s new Chemistry building (2000 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI).
There will be a reception at 6:30 PM, and the program starts at 7:00 PM. There will be complimentary desserts and a bar with drinks for purchase in the lobby. We look forward to seeing you there!
cgca-info@uwm.edu

State of the Humanities MKE
2025-10-30 16:00 - 18:30 | 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 Centers and Institutes’ World Humanities Report warned of extinction risk to human knowledge. In the year that’s passed since that report’s publication, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lost its federal funding, the National Endowment for the Humanities was radically restructured, causing state humanities agencies to lose funding to the point of near closure, and multiple U.S. universities have taken steps to shrink, pause, or shutter humanities degree-granting programs.
But the resilience of humanities practices and institutions in the face of so much uncertainty evinces their value, and merits further dialogue.
The State of the Humanities MKE panel, moderated by C21 Director Jennifer Johung, invites four Milwaukee-based humanities advocates—Michael Carriere (MSOE), Art Derse (MCW), Jodi Eastberg (MIAD), and Maggie Nettesheim Hoffmann (Marquette)—to discuss:

What’s important about the humanities in Milwaukee, especially in our current moment?
What are we fighting to sustain, expand, or ideate?
How can we care for the humanities in MKE? What does this look like?

After the panel, guests are invited to head upstairs to C21’s headquarters for a reception and small breakout discussions about actionable steps everyone can take to make Milwaukee a haven for humanists.
This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. Prior registration is required.

About the Panelists
Michael H. Carriere is a professor of history at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE), where he also serves as director of the MSOE Honors Program. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Urban History, the Journal of Planning History, Cultural History, Reviews in American History, Pitchfork.com, and Salon.com. He is the co-author, with David Schalliol, of The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America (The University of Chicago Press, 2021). He holds a Ph.D. in American history from The University of Chicago.
Arthur R. Derse, M.D., J.D. is Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, and is Julia and David Uihlein Chair in Medical Humanities, and Professor of Bioethics and Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He directs the MCW Medical Humanities Program and is co-director of the school’s Bioethics and Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. He directs the Art of Medicine through the Humanities course. Dr. Derse is past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH). He is a fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and of the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of the American Law Institute.
Jodi Eastberg, PhD, serves as the Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Eastberg moved to Milwaukee in 1998 as a graduate student in the Marquette University history department where she received her PhD. She then served as a professor of history and in various leadership roles at Alverno College for 20 years. In her new role at MIAD, Eastberg leads a dynamic and passionate faculty offering high quality art and design programs. As a world historian, Eastberg specializes in sites of cultural and diplomatic interaction, especially those between Great Britain and China. Eastberg serves as the Vice President of the Layton Art Collection, Inc. an independent not-for-profit organization that acts as steward of the Layton Art Collection displayed at the Milwaukee Art Museum, on the board of the Wisconsin Policy Forum, and as a Trustee of the Higher Learning Commission.
Margaret (Maggie) Nettesheim Hoffmann is the Director of Graduate School Community Initiatives and Student Experience at Marquette University. She is also the PI for a $1.3M grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Humanities Without Walls consortium to Marquette. HWW is a consortium of 16 midwestern universities headquartered at the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and aims to create new avenues for collaborative and interdisciplinary research, publicly engaged scholarship, and professional opportunities for faculty and graduate students in the humanities. She has consulted on humanities doctoral education reform with the American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, the University of Texas, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Pittsburgh, and more. An historian by training, her research tracks the transformation of philanthropy in the Unites States during the Gilded Age and Progressive era with a special focus on political discourses critical of private giving to public institutions and has published her work with Bloomsbury, Adam Matthew, and Marquette University Press.
Panel moderator Jennifer Johung is the Director of the Center for 21st Century Studies and Professor of Contemporary Art and Architectural History at UW-Milwaukee. Her book, Vital Forms: Biological Art, Architecture, and the Dependencies of Life (University of Minnesota, 2019), focuses on the ways in which contemporary biological art and architecture actively engage in formulations of life. She is also the author of Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art (University of Minnesota, 2012) which considers modes of dwelling and belonging in an ever-changing world, and the co-editor of Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics and Placemaking (Ashgate, 2013). She has published widely on topics across performance, visual, and urban studies as well as bio-art and biotechnology. In addition to her research, she has curated exhibitions in Milwaukee, New York, LA, and Australia. With a background in performance studies, she teaches courses in contemporary art, new media, performance, and art museum studies.

Thursday, October 30, 4:00 – 6:30 PM
175 Curtin Hall, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI
Event calendar listing
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Before the Brewers, there were Brachiopods!
2025-11-07 18:00 - 20:30 | UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150, 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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, Department of Geosciences
Dr. Don Mikulic, Greene Collection Expert / Department of Geosciences Alumni
Registration encouraged:
https://tinyurl.com/tagbrachiopods

The Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin
2025-11-14 14:00 - 15:00 | American Geographical Society Library inside the Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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
2025-11-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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. This event is free and open to the public.
Please register to attend at: uwmunitedwereadboswellmke.eventbrite.com

Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop
2025-11-21 14:00 - 15:30 | UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 receive a notebook and pen.
This event is brought to you by the Human Club, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Ann Hanlon, and Anne Pycha.
Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Registration is required.

Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025
2025-11-24 - 2025-12-11, 2026-01-26 - 2026-02-26 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, 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 flag in pursuit of a variety of objectives, prompting intense public and legal debates about what the flag is (materially), what it represents (symbolically), and how it can or should be used. Rebellious Stripes: The American Flag in Activist Art, 1960-2025 explores the use of the American flag in activist artworks focused on political figures, racial equality, anti-imperialism, and social and economic justice. It draws primarily from the UWM Art Collection, with additions from the UWM Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, and two Universities of Wisconsin faculty-artists. Collectively, the objects in Rebellious Stripes demonstrate the ongoing battle for control of the American flag as people across the political spectrum employ it to signal a range of messages beyond ‘patriotism.

The Mathis Gallery is open from 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM M-Th and by appointment.

Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies
2026-02-12 - 2026-02-20 | WI
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.
AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise of language itself, the printing press or our harnessing of electricity, unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear, misunderstanding, and disconnection. By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation.
This groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent through an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement, and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI.
This exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics, Art, & AI series, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
Date & Time
February 12–20, 2026
Wednesday–Fridays (2–7 p.m.), Saturdays (11 a.m.–3 p.m.)
Opening: Thursday, February 12 (5–7 p.m.)

Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies Opening Event
2026-02-12 11:00 - 19:00 | Kenilworth Square East Gallery, 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53202, 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 walk, panel on AI and contemporary art, and opening reception with light refreshments on Thursday, February 12.

11a-12p: Workshop
2-3p: Gallery walkthrough
3-4:30p: Panel discussion
5-7p: Opening reception

This exhibition is part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ Aesthetics, Art, & AI series, produced in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison, with support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).

29th Festival of Films in French
2026-02-13 - 2026-02-15, 2026-02-20 - 2026-02-22 | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom.
The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and documentary films that attend to their very form and explore notions of care, restoration and reparations, whether physical, familial, historical, environmental or symbolic. Filmed by familiar and new directors, the stories travel from Paris to Benin or the Niger Delta, Quebec to Provence, Haiti to the Congo/DRC, and are set in Mauritius, Tunisia, Iraq, France and California.
Come in from the cold for six days of thought-provoking films, and travel across space and time to witness stories of resilience, freedom, creativity and friendship.
Check out the festival’s full schedule at uwm.edu/french-film-festival/.

5th Annual Darwin Day
2026-02-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168), 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Darwin Day is a public outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential Victorian naturalists, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural selection—one of the driving mechanisms behind biological evolution—published in his seminal work: On the Origin of Species. Today, this theory forms the foundation for many of our natural sciences. Darwin Day is a national celebration of Darwin’s scientific legacy typically held on (or near) his birthday.
This event is free and open to guests of all ages. Many wonderful geological and biological specimens will be available to observe, with volunteers on hand to explain their fascinating histories. Learning tables will focus on the natural history of Wisconsin and the contributions of the Thomas A. Greene to our understanding of local geology, with many rare and beautiful samples on display in the Greene Geological Museum. Other activities will be available throughout the day, including scientific lectures presented by UWM scientists and guest speakers, coloring and crafts for young kids, and free planetarium shows. See the activities list and schedule of events on our webpage for more information.
We can’t wait to see you there!

Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses
2026-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Jorge Luis Borges famously claimed himself to be the first hispano to embark upon the odyssey of reading and reviewing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Along with his 1925 review, he also translated the last two pages of the novel, Molly Bloom’s sensation-creating, stream-of-consciousness monologue. Perhaps starstruck by the legendary pairing of two of the twentieth century’s most influential authors, many scholars have taken his claim as indisputable evidence that Borges single-handedly introduced Joyce to Latin America, and of the enduring impact of his translation. This talk will reveal that the true story of Joyce’s introduction to Spanish language readers is both more complex and more interesting than the one traditionally told.
Dr. Leah Leone Anderson is a Visiting Scholar with UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her book, Borges’s Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner (2024) was made possible with CLACS’s support. Her current research focuses on the work of Argentine critic, translator, and memoirist María Rosa Oliver (1898-1977).

Cocina Libre: Building Community through Immigrant Stories & Food Cultures
2026-02-26 18:00 - 19:30 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening of food, film, and connection. Our guests are Professor and licensed therapist Julia Roncoroni (University of Denver; Cocina Libre founder) and James Beard finalist Chef Gregory León (Amilinda restaurant, Milwaukee). Both speakers grew up in Latin America and prioritize the sharing of food cultures as a way to build belonging and connection in their local communities. Attendees will watch a short documentary (40 min.) about Cocina Libre’s impact on chef participants; hear directly from Dr. Julia and Chef Greg about their work; and sample light appetizers from Chef Greg’s Amilinda offerings! Full details and RSVP can be found here.

13th Annual Japanese Speech & Recitation Contest
2026-02-27 17:00 - 19:30 | Curtin Hall 175
Participating institutions:
UWM, Carthage College, and Milwaukee Doyokai
Sponsors:
Anime Milwaukee, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Milwaukee Japanese Association,
Japan America Society of Wisconsin, and UWM Department of World Languages and Cultures

Aesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite
2026-03-12 17:30 - 19:00 | WI
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite), an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning-driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Part of C21’s Aesthetics, Art, & AI program series; additional details can be found at uwm.edu/c21/event/aaai-kite/.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: It's About (Space and) Time
2026-03-13 18:30 - 21:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Learn how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its 3.2 Gpix camera will change our view of the Universe.
The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an evening with Rubin Observatory Deputy Project Scientist for Construction Professor Federica Bianco.
Please reserve your free spot for this event by March 6, 2026.
The event will be held in the UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center. There will be a reception at 6:30 PM, and the program starts at 7:00 PM. There will be complimentary desserts and a bar with drinks for purchase. We look forward to seeing you there!

Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”
2026-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 | UWM Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” Lecture

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor
or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE

This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically “counted” Jewish engagement in the late 20th and 21st centuries and uses those trends to argue that American Judaism looks healthier and more robust if we think differently about engagement. Humor, it turns out, is not only a valid way to approach this revisioning, but also one of the best ways to highlight positive trends in American Jewish identification. Rather than relying on older “continuity-based” models of what Judaism needs to do to survive that put disproportionate pressure (and blame) on Jewish women, acontemporary Jewish humor reimagines many aspects of Jewish life—including Jewish gender tropes—and offers younger generations a vision of Jewishness they want to embrace.

Jennifer Caplan is The Jewish Foundation Chair of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Comedy from the Silent Generation to Millennials (2023) and co-editor of Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor (2026). She publishes broadly on Judaism and popular culture with a focus on gender and representation and is currently working on Unmasked: Jewish Characters in DC and Marvel.
Made by possible by the generosity of the Taxman and Temkin families.
Cosponsored by UWM’s Departments of English and Women’s and Gender Studies.

Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring
2026-03-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Havenwoods State Forest, 6141 N Hopkins St, Milwaukee, WI, 53209, United States
W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flower’s unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmer’s interdisciplinary practice, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the changing of season as both external and internal ritual. Presented by the Center for 21st Century Studies at UWM and Symphony Swan Zawadi. March 21, 2:00 – 2:00 PM.
Free and open to the public; space is limited, prior registration required.
Registration and further details at tinyurl.com/c21swanspring.

47th Annual Latin American Film Series (3/31-4/04)
2026-03-31 | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, in partnership with UWM Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema, presents:
47th Annual Latin American Film Series
March 31-April 4, 2026
UW-Milwaukee Union Cinema (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.)
Free admission to all!
UWM’s Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this spring for its 47th year, featuring six contemporary feature-length films from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. This year’s stories bring us teenage rebellion, historical reckoning, pioneering athletes, absurdist tales from middle age… and much more! Join us to explore society, history, and the human experience.
Visit our Film Series website for film summaries, showtimes, and details on our post-film discussions and director Q&A!

En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop
2026-04-07 17:00 - 18:30 | UWM Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150, 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) co-founder Milo Miller, this workshop will blend mindfulness and creative writing to explore themes of slowing down, radical self-care, critical disability studies, and fostering networks of mutual support and caregiving. The workshop will include time for creative exploration through collaging, blackout poetry, and more. Supplies will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own collage, paper, and zine-making materials to share.
Workshop participants and the broader campus community are invited to submit artwork and creative writing pieces to a collaborative community zine project on a queer ethics of slow care. Those interested in submitting to the En-Vision Zine can find more information and submission requirements here.
This event is a part of the Center for 21st Century Studies’ inaugural graduate-led public humanities program En-Vision: Toward a Queer Ethics of Slow Care. “En-Vision” explores creative practices and embodied experiences of slow care for individuals living with chronic illness and impairments.
Free and open to the public. Held in-person and online. Food and light snacks will be provided for in-person attendees. Prior registration is requested.
Click here for information about directions, parking, and accessibility.

Marden Lecture Series Presents: Juggling Counts
2026-04-09 16:30 - 17:30 | UWM Lubar Hall, Room N140, 3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Presented by Prof. Steve Butler, Morrill, Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University
Mathematics is a language which can help us describe and explore patterns. One source of patterns that mathematicians have been exploring comes from juggling (the tossing of objects, usually balls or clubs). We will look at multiple ways to describe juggling patterns that allow us to find new juggling patterns, and to count how many possible patterns exist. We can compare answers to various problems to give a combinatorial proof of Worpitzky’s identity. We will also look at a few juggling-based problems that mathematics has not yet succeeded in answering.
This event is a part of the Marden Lecture Series, each Spring the Department of Mathematical Sciences invites a distinguished mathematician to lecture to a general audience. The Marden Lecture honors Morris Marden (1905 – 1991), who founded our graduate program and made our department a research department. The Marden lecture is funded through the Miriam and Morris Marden Fund and is co-sponsored by the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences: Artificial Intelligence, Citizen Science and the Future of Conservation
2026-04-09 17:00 - 18:00 | UWM Union Ballroom, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Presented by Dr. Ian Owens
Thursday, April 9, 2026
5:00-6:00 pm, Reception to Follow
Ball Room – UWM Student Union
2200 East Kenwood Blvd.
> RSVP Encouraged
It’s an exciting time to be a natural historian! New technologies are revolutionizing how we discover, monitor, and conserve nature. Amateur naturalists, armed with cell phones and Apps, are collecting data at a rate that would have seemed impossible only a few years ago, and there is now the prospect of using similar technologies to understand how populations are changing in even the most remote forests and deepest oceans. And tens of millions of people are getting excited about what the spring sounds like. Ian Owens will ask what the next 10 years will look like in this fast-moving area, drawing on examples from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and other leaders in the field.

Ian Owens is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. As an ornithologist, he focuses on the ecology, evolution, and conservation of birds, using their appeal to engage the public in critical scientific and sustainability issues. Since 2021, he has served as the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Executive Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, a leading scientific institute that integrates major programs in technology, research, education, communication, and global bird conservation. The Cornell Lab is not only a hub for research and training but also enjoys a prominent public profile as the home of several citizen science projects, apps, and websites. Notable initiatives include eBird, Merlin, All About Birds, Bird Cams, Celebrate Urban Birds, Birds of the World, and the Macaulay Library of sound recordings.

Climate Change: Science and Faith Perspectives
2026-04-16 19:00 - 20:00 | UWM EMS Building, Room 180, 3200 N. Cramer Street, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Bart Adrian, Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science and Mathematics, will be speaking on the topic Climate Change: Science and Faith Perspectives.
Bart will be presenting at the meeting of the Greater Milwaukee Chapter of the American Meteorological Society on Thursday, April 16, starting at 7:00pm in EMS E180 on the UWM campus.
This event is free and open to the public.

Exploring Majors Fair
2026-04-17 10:00 - 14:00 | UWM Zelazo Center, Room 250, 2419 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The College of Letters & Science is hosting an exploring majors fair this spring!
Come learn more about the programs in the College of Letters & Science. We offer a broad range of programs – natural science, humanities, and social science majors, minors, certificate programs, and pre-professional pathways.
During the majors fair, faculty and current students will be available to provide more information about programs, classes, internships, and research opportunities. This is a great way to learn more about the areas of study you are interested in and what you can do at UWM!
We hope to see you there!

WLC Speaker Series, Davorin J. Odrcic, “The Law Behind Mass ICE Arrests and Detention”
2026-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Curtin Hall 175
WLC Speaker Series
Davorin J. Odrcic
”The Law Behind Mass ICE Arrests and Detention”
Since January of 2025 the manner and intensity of ICE arrests and detention have changed dramatically compared to prior administrations. Attorney Odrcic will explain the legal underpinnings to these significant events in immigration law and policy.
CRT 175
12-1pm

Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: Black City-Builders: Reinforcing the Case for Reparatory Justice in America
2026-04-17 16:30 - 18:00 | UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Presented by Dr. Joe Trotter Jr.
Friday, April 17, 2026
4:30 – 6:00 p.m., Reception to Follow
Alumni Fireside Lounge – UWM Student Union
2200 East Kenwood Blvd.
Dr. Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the director and founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) and past president of both the Urban History Association and the Labor and Working Class History Association.
This lecture is based upon Dr. Trotter’s recent book, Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life (California, 2024). While contemporary urban and labor studies acknowledge the impact of Black labor on the built environment of American cities, both scholars and the larger public have found it more difficult to conceptualize predominantly poor and working class Black urbanites as “City-Builders.” Hence, this talk will underscore how African Americans double-taxed their own labor and built their own city within the city to serve their own needs. Whereas the case for reparations is usually based on land dispossession, unpaid and underpaid labor, this lecture will move the notion of a “Black City” from the periphery to the center of the case for reparatory justice for descendants of African people “enslaved” and later “Jim Crowed” in the United States of America. As such, the case for reparations, he concludes, must also include a focus on the creativity of Black people as “City-Builders” in their own interests as well as exploited workers.
The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities is made possible by generous funding from the Vilas Trust.

UWM Biological Sciences Greenhouse Open House
2026-04-22 14:00 - 18:00 | UWM Greenhouse, 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
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!
For questions, email engevold@uwm.edu

Friends of Art History Guest Lecture - Kim Sajet: What is Art History for?
2026-04-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Curtin Hall 175
Please join us as we welcome the new Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum!
Since 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.
Yet 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?
In 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.
Lecture is free and open to the public.

Little Free Library Walking Tour With C21
2026-04-30 17:00 - 18:00 | UWM Union – E153, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies for a walk with the Human Club to explore the Little Free Libraries in our campus community!
We 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!
The 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.
We 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!
Meet outside the SET Offices, Student Union E153, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd.
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What are Little Free Libraries?
Little 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.
Their 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.
About Human Club
Human 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!

Behind the Mic: Two Generations of Journalists in Conversation
2026-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 | UWM Union Wisconsin Room, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
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.
Register at https://uwmunion.vbotickets.com/event/A_Conversation_with_Tonya_Mosley/190303

Concurrent Exhibitions in the Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery (3/14-5/17)
2026-05-05 10:30 - 14:30 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The One-Off Print: Monotypes from the UWM Art Collection
The 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.
What Is A Print?
Prints – 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.
Exhibition run March 16 through May 14, 2026
Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery Location and Hours:
Mitchell Hall 170
3203 N. Downer Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Museum Hours: Mon – Thurs: 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
To make an appointment to visit the gallery, please contact the gallery at: mathisartgallery@uwm.edu.

Japanese Program Spring Festival
2026-05-08 10:00 - 14:30 | Mitchell Hall, Room 191, 3203 N. Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Join the Japanese Program for our annual Spring Festival!
Enjoy games, activities, entertaining performances by our wonderful students, and showcases of work by students in the Japanese Program.

28th Annual Student Research Forum, Spring 2026
2026-05-08 11:30 - 16:00 | UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
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).

They 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.

This 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.
Event Details:
Date: Friday, May 8, 2026
Time: 11:30 – 4:30 PM
Location: UWM Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211)
Agenda:

11:15–11:30 a.m.: Registration
11:30–12:00 p.m.: Buffet Lunch
12:00–1:30 p.m.: Juried Poster Session
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Alumni Panel
2:30–2:45 p.m.: Coffee Break and Networking
2:45– 3:00 p.m.: Awards Ceremony
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.: Keynote Speaker Presentation
4:00–4:30 p.m.: Reception and Refreshments

Book Talkback – Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking, Belonging, and Activism
2026-05-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Islamic Resource Center, 5235 S 27th Street, Greenfield, WI, 53221, United States
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.
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About Muslims in Milwaukee: Placemaking, Belonging, and Activism
Muslims 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.
Drawing 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.
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About the Islamic Resource Center & Muslim Women’s Coalition
The Islamic Resource Center, a project of Muslim Women’s Coalition, is Wisconsin’s only Islamic cultural center and lending library.
The 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.
Founded 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.
