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Are you majoring in History, English, Communications, Urban Studies, Sociology, Political Science, or other social science or humanities area? Would you like to learn about options for internships, how to find and secure one, and what you might learn? Please …
A virtual event with Helen Boyd Kramer from Lawrence University. A quick but thorough tour of how we came to be where we are now, starting with the first theories of trans identity, visibility movements, and trans activity in the …
Elizabeth Emery, Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University, is giving a free public talk about her recent book Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853-1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and her …
John Gurda is a Milwaukee-born writer and historian who has been studying his hometown since 1972. He is the author of twenty-two books, including histories of Milwaukee-area neighborhoods, industries, and places of worship. Gurda’s most ambitious efforts are The Making …
This lecture analyzes the history of legal abortion since 1973 and discusses the factors that led to the overturning of Roe earlier this year. Johanna Schoen is professor of History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick with an affiliation at the Institute …
A public talk on craft and globalism by Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky Alperstein, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). This lecture will center on folk art (handcraft / arte-popular) as a cultural agent during the Global …
Learn about quilting by contributing a stitch to finish the backing of a quilt. Featuring artists Heidi Parkes and Molly Hassler. Visit and contribute a stitch, no experience is necessary, and supplies are provided. From 10:00 AM until 12:30 PM, …
The keynote speaker is Claire Dunning, assistant professor of public policy and history at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (University of Chicago Press, 2022). AGENDA …
Presented by Dr. Jennifer L. Rice, Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, and a faculty affiliate at the Institute for Women’s Studies and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research at the University of Georgia. She is a co-editor of Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, and Resistance (University of Georgia Press, 2023). The title of her talk is: Climate Justice in the City
Part of the "Growing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukee’s Community Guardians" exhibit currently showing at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Community guardians are common folks—homeowners, renters, block leaders, elders, and civic minded …
Part of the “Growing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukee’s Community Guardians” exhibit currently showing at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Community guardians are common folks—homeowners, renters, block leaders, elders, and civic minded …
Part of the “Growing Resistance: Untold Stories of Milwaukee’s Community Guardians” exhibit currently showing at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Community guardians are common folks—homeowners, renters, block leaders, elders, and civic minded …
The narrative of Ukraine’s 300-year struggle for freedom resounds with the stories and voices of its multiethnic population – such as Jews, Muslim Tatars, Roma, and Poles. This lecture highlights the coalescence of perspectives of Ukraine’s different ethnic, religious, and …
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois, filed a lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide—the psychological equivalent of genocide. In this lecture, historian James …
The Urban Forum will bring together community, university, and city partners to explore topics that matter to Milwaukee. A pop-up exhibit and a panel discussion will gather community leaders, residents, university scholars, students, and city officials to explore why community …