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September 2022
[Exhibit] UWM Creates: Art and Artists’ Books by UWM Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni
"UWM Creates" is a retrospective of student/alumni- and faculty-created artwork spanning nearly 65 years from UWM Special Collections and the UWM Union Art Gallery Art Collection. These UWM artists used many different media to grapple with a wide variety of…
Find out more »[Exhibit] Winds of Change: How Cartographic Representations of Wind Evolved Over Time
This exhibit draws from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library to illustrate how the representation of wind on cartographic objects evolved as scientific knowledge of wind expanded.
Find out more »Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion
Karl Marx Wage Labour and Capital (1847) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. Any version of the text may be used to prepare for discussion, but for your convenience a link to…
Find out more »Fall into Research: Advancing Open Scholarship at UWM
Registration is requested: https://tinyurl.com/FallIntoResearch2022 The UWM Libraries and the Office of Research invite you to a discussion about Open Scholarship, what it is, and what applying principles of openness could mean for UWM and for the research enterprise as a…
Find out more »October 2022
Home Movie Day 2022 Milwaukee
The UWM Archives and the UWM Film Studies Program are proud to host the city of Milwaukee’s first Home Movie Day. Community members from Milwaukee and the surrounding cities and counties are invited to participate. The public is invited to…
Find out more »Building Visual Essays Using Juncture
Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries. Juncture is an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits that enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities,…
Find out more »Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison Selections from the Federalist Papers (1787-88) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. Any version of the texts may be used to prepare for discussion, but for…
Find out more »53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture: The Comforts of Heritage–Race and Tourism in the American South
Shevaun Watson, associate professor in the UWM Department of English, presents the 53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 4 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center of the UWM Golda Meir Library. The title…
Find out more »November 2022
Using Digital Collections: IIIF Images
Presented by Ann Hanlon and Jie Chen, UWM Libraries. IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality digital objects online at scale. Hundreds of cultural heritage institutions use this standard to deliver their archival objects online, including the University of…
Find out more »Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County: An Update and Discussion
Anne Bonds, associate professor, UWM Department of Geography, and Derek Handley, assistant professor, UWM Department of English, will discuss their project, Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County, about the history and impact of racist language in real estate covenants in…
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