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  • In this Together: Feminist Mutual Aid for Survival and Mobilization

    Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Dean Spade (he/him) is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is the author of "Normal Life: …

    Free
  • Asia in Conversation: Media, Technology, and Society in Late Imperial China (Zoom)

    Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Xin Yu, Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at UWM will be in conversation with Suyoung Son, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University, and Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. The …

    Free
  • Asia in Conversation: Making Objects Speak-Material Culture in Asian History and Art History

    Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Hilary K. Snow, Teaching Faculty at Honors College at UWM will be in conversation with Morgan Pitelka, Distinguished Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Chicago. The event is open …

  • Making Objects Speak — Asian-related Materials in UWM’s Special Collections (Zoom)

    Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Max Yela, Head of Special Collections, UWM Libraries, will be in conversation with Nimal Raja, independent artist and curator in Milwaukee, and Jingwei Zeng, graduate student in UWM’s Department of Art History. Registration link: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqduCsrjsvHtLKyX2Jzff-0mT0dtu43LIJ

    Free
  • The Tragedy of Heterosexuality in Global Context: A Lecture by Jane Ward

    UWM Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    As part of the Women's & Gender Studies Feminist Lecture Series, Jane Ward, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, critiques one of the basic premises of the mainstream LGBT rights movement—that heterosexuality is easier than queerness—by asking for …

    Free
  • Navigating Asian/Asian-American Identity in the Midwest, Southwest, and West: Flourishing in Unfamiliar Terrain (Zoom event)

    Virtual/Online Event Link will be provided, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Part of the Asia in Conversation Series. Panelist include: Dr. Hyowon Ban, Department of Geography, California State University-Long Beach Dr. Seungyeon Lee, Psychology and Counseling program, University of Central Arkansas Dr. Hyejin Yoon, Department of Geography, UWM Register at: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtcumsqjkjGdWnO4d5r4sGxYnBkdJPQwJk#/registration …

    Free
  • Memory Fields and Histories of Circulation

    UWM Union Alumni Fireside Lounge 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Part of the Asia in Conversation series. Dr. Kumkum Sangari, Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities at UWM will be in conversation with Dr. Kavita Panjabi, former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. This event is hybrid with …

    Free
  • Literature in the Age of Automated Cognition

    UWM Union Wisconsin Room 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, 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 …

    Free