Letters & Science

Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe (Art Exhibition)
2024-04-22 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-23 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-25 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Saintly: Christian Women in Early Modern Europe explores the relationship between laywomen and holy women from the Christian canon by examining depictions of the Virgin Mary and Women Saints in works from the 16th through 18th centuries. Curated by graduate student Nikki Ranney, this thesis exhibition brings perspective to the religious lives of women during this period and the expectations to which they were subjected.
Opening night is April 11 from 5 to 7 pm with a curator talk at 5:30 pm.
Regular gallery hours for this exhibit are Monday through Thursday from 10 am to 4 pm. This exhibit is free and runs through May 9.

What the Folk? (Art Exhibition)
2024-04-22 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-23 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-24 10:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery, 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Accompanying a course on American Folk Art taught by the UWM Art History Department, What the Folk? explores the terminology and history that have shaped understandings of folk art, self-taught art, Americana, outsider art, and visionary art. It asks which artists and objects are included in such categories, why people have invested in the concept of folk art, and how we can uncover the stories of American artists whose work deserves greater attention, no matter what it is called. Co-curated by Dr. Kay Wells and Leigh Mahlik.
Opening night is April 11 from 5 to 7 pm with a curator talk at 5:30 pm.
Regular gallery hours for this exhibit are Monday through Thursday from 10 am to 4 pm. This exhibit is free and runs through May 9.

French Language Table
2024-04-24 13:00 - 14:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 766, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Practice language skills outside of the classroom with informal conversations. All levels welcome!

UWM Greenhouse Open House
2024-04-24 14:00 - 18:00 | UWM Greenhouse, 3209 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Celebrate Earth Week by exploring our plant collection featuring 600+ species from around the world!
Enter NWQ and take “Red” elevators up to 4th floor.

German Language Table
2024-04-24 16:00 - 17:00 | UWM Language Oasis – Curtin 187, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States

Japanese Language Table
2024-04-25 12:30 - 13:30 | UWM Language Oasis – Curtin 187, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Practice language skills outside of the classroom with informal conversations. All levels welcome!
Not held on March 21 during spring break.

Visiting Writer: Nicky Beer
2024-04-25 15:00 - 16:00, 2024-04-25 19:00 - 20:00 | UWM Curtin Hall, Room 175, 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Nicky Beer visits UWM as part of the Creative Writing program’s visiting writer series.
Craft Talk @ 3 pm – to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/47xam2et
Reading @ 7 pm – to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdhx7
Nicky is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022), winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry. She has received honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Poetry Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She has also led workshops, craft classes, and craft talks for the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, the Minnesota Northwoods
Writers Conference, the Yale Young Writers’ Workshop, and more. She is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she is a poetry editor for Copper Nickel.
Her latest book of poems is “Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes.”
What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?
Nicky Beer’s latest collection of poems is a labyrinthine academy specializing in the study of subterfuge; Marlene Dietrich, Dolly Parton, and Batman are its instructors. With an energetic eye, she thumbs through our collective history books—and her personal one, too—in an effort to chart the line between playful forms of duplicity and those that are far more insidious.
Through delicious japery, poems that can be read multiple ways, and allusions ranging from Puccini’s operas to Law & Order, Beer troubles the notion of truth. Often, we settle for whatever brand of honesty is convenient for us, or whatever is least likely to spark confrontation—but this, Beer knows, is how we invite others to weigh in on what kind of person we are. This is how we trick ourselves into believing they’re right. “Listen / to how quiet it is when I lose the self-doubt played / for so long I mistook it for music.”
“Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes” asks us to look through the stereoscope: which image is the real one? This one—or this one, just here? With wisdom, humility, and a forthright tenderness, Nicky Beer suggests that we consider both—together, they might contribute to something like truth.

Spatiotemporal analysis of lung cancer disparity in Wisconsin, USA
2024-04-26 14:30 - 15:30 | UWM Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing), 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Thesis presentation of Mathew Ugwuanyi: Studies over the United States has shown that disparity still exists in lung cancer mortality. Such disparity has been greatly attributed to several risk factors such as genetics, socio-economic status, comorbidities, amongst others. Primarily, this study aims to examine spatiotemporal variation in lung cancer mortality rates in the State of Wisconsin, U.S.A. The study also seeks to explore the relationship between socio-economic, environmental variables and lung cancer mortality. For this study, lung cancer mortality county level data from the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) and, the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER), which is aggregated and age-adjusted according to the 2000 U.S standard million population were used. Also, county level socio-economic data like education attainment, median household income, unemployment and PM 2.5 data were gathered from the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) respectively. Scan statistics (SaTScan) will be used to analyze the spatiotemporal pattern of mortality clusters. In addition, regression analysis will be used to assess statistical significance and measure the relationship between lung cancer mortality and county level socio-economic and environmental factors in Wisconsin. This study hopes to show potential cluster patterns in lung cancer mortality in the study area, which might suggest uneven spatial temporal mortality risk. Also, through findings, we hope to suggest interventions to help ameliorate lung cancer mortality.

Celebrating 10 Years of Coffeeshop Astrophysics
2024-04-26 18:00 - 20:00 | UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center, 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Coffeeshop Astrophysics is a science outreach group formed 10 years ago. Over the past decade, graduate students and other professionals from the UWM Department of Physics have given dozens of science talks at Anodyne Coffee in Walker’s Point on wide-ranging topics in physics.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary a special presentation will be given by former members of our group covering the importance of science communication and the connections made with the Milwaukee community.
Doors open at 6 pm, and the presentation will begin at 6:30 pm. There will be free appetizers and a cash bar. RSVP requested for planning purposes at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEFoRmRd-xZu408AA2jTKTML1zAlQRo5KOvZiG5xf6VjudZQ/viewform

Italian Film Festival
2024-04-26 19:00 - 23:00, 2024-04-27 17:00 - 23:00, 2024-04-28 15:00 - 21:00 | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
The Italian Film Festival USA of Milwaukee is returning to in-person screenings presents 8 feature films -comedy, drama and documentary – over 3 days.
For further information about each of the films, visit the link below. Cosponsored by the National Italian American Foundation. Cultural Partner, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Thank You Guys (Grazie Ragazzi)
Friday, April 26, 7:00 p.m. (Director, Riccardo Milani, Comedy, 2022, 117 min.)
Antonio takes a job as a drama teacher in a penitentiary and discovers talent in an unlikely company of prisoners. He convinces the warden to stage a play at an actual theatre. Will a triumphal tour begin?
Palazzina LAF
Friday, April 26, 9:15 p.m. (Director, Michele Riondino, Drama, 2023, 99 min.)
Caterino works at the steel mill in Taranto. Company management decides to eliminate problem employees and asks him to spy on co-workers who are then assigned to the LAF building. Not understanding the situation, he asks to be placed in the LAF building. But what really goes on there?
Romeo is Juliet (Romea Ѐ Giulietta)
Saturday, April 27, 5:00 p.m. (Director, Giovanni Veronesi, Comedy, 2024, 102 min.)
Young actress Vittoria is humiliated by a director during an audition for the role of Juliet; she tries again but under a false identity…as Fabio auditioning for the role of Romeo! Can she pull it off?
Kidnapped (Rapito)
Saturday, April 27, 7:00 p.m. (Director, Marco Bellocchio, Drama, 2023, 125 min.)
Papal States,1858. The Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family in Bologna’s Jewish quarter and take seven-year-old Edgardo because a maid, believing that when he was a baby he had been on the verge of death, had secretly baptized him. Based on the true story of Edgardo Mortara.
Bad Conscience (Captiva Coscienza)
Saturday, April 27, 9:15 p.m. (Director, Davide Minnella, Comedy, 2023, 110 min.)
Filippo is a classic good guy and faithful fiancé to Luisa. Is it possible to be so perfect? Yes, if you have a conscience like Otto that controls your every move. One day, however, Otto arrives late at his workstation in the “Other World” and discovers that in a few minutes Filippo has turned his life upside!
Billy
Sunday, April 28, 3:00 p.m. (Director, Emilia Mazzacurati, Comedy, 2023, 97 min.)
Billy, a child prodigy who hosted a successful music podcast, is now nineteen and lives with his eccentric mother. A meeting with his childhood idol will lead him to find a new way to face the future.
A Hundred Sundays (Cento Domeniche)
Sunday, April 28, 5:00 p.m. (Director, Antonio Albanese, Drama, 2023, 94 min.)
Antonio is overjoyed when his only child, Emilia, announces her engagement. He is proud to use his life savings to give her the reception she has always wanted. But is his bank hiding something?
The De Filippo Siblings (I Fratelli De Filippo)
Sunday, April 28, 7:00 p.m. (Director, Sergio Rubini, Drama, 2021, 142 min.)
Edoardo De Filippo, one of Italy’s greatest playwrights, and his siblings Titina and Peppino grew up in the early 1900s in Naples. Their difficult family life gave them a new perspective and approach to the theatre.

The Importance of Being Earnest
2024-04-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-28 14:00 - 16:00 | UWM Honors House, Room 196, 3363 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
Come see the UWM Honors College Drama Club’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde! It will be held in Honors 196, and doors will open a half hour prior to the show. All performances are open to the public. No admission is required, but donations are appreciated.
