46th Annual Latin American Film Series
2025-04-03 19:00 - 2025-04-10 21:00, 2025-04-04 19:00 - 2025-04-11 21:00, 2025-04-05 19:00 - 2025-04-12 21:00, 2025-04-06 19:00 - 2025-04-13 21:00, 2025-04-07 19:00 - 2025-04-14 21:00, 2025-04-08 19:00 - 2025-04-15 21:00, 2025-04-09 19:00 - 2025-04-16 21:00, 2025-04-10 19:00 - 2025-04-17 21:00 (America/Chicago) | 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/

Demoted Exhibition
2025-04-07 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-08 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-09 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-10 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.

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.

United We Read: Faculty/Student Readings from the Creative Writing program
2025-04-11 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.
