Demoted Exhibition
2025-04-21 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-22 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-23 10:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-24 10:30 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | 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.

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.
