For this year's Latine Heritage Month, UWM’s Distinctive Collections (Archives, Special Collections, and American Geographical Society Library) are hosting a month-long pop-up exhibit featuring an array of rare and unique materials that show the diverse cultures of Latin America and …
Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition, Prologue and Chapter 1 (1958) Hannah Arendt For the month of September, we will discuss the Prologue and first chapter of The Human Condition, arguably the most influential work of German-American philosopher Hannah …
Check out the exhibit cases near the first floor Grind to see some materials of the American Geographical Society Library (located on the third floor, east wing), some of which will have you quaking in your boots!
Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1976) For the month of October, we will discuss Thomas Paine's wildly influential American revolutionary tract Common Sense, radically advocating full independence from the British crown. Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and …
Register for Event Gabriela Nagy, UWM assistant professor of psychology, will present the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk is “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.” This talk challenges …
Prepared for the Milwaukee residency of the Violins of Hope project, this exhibit showcases the violins owned and played by Jewish musicians and others targeted by the Nazis before and during the Holocaust. The instruments are paired with visual-art responses by members …
Hear from musicologist and UWM Music Professor Gillian Rodger as she provides an historical perspective for the Violins of Hope: Call and Response exhibition, which spotlights Holocaust-era violins from Violins of Hope paired with documentary library resources and original art …
Celebrate Black History Month with UWM Libraries by visiting the three pop-up exhibits hosted by the American Geographical Society Library, Archives, and Special Collections. The AGSL's exhibit highlights Matthew Henson, an Arctic explorer on the first successful expedition to the …
A Long, Strange Trip: Budapest, Berlin, Baraboo, and Points in Between Join University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Sociology Dr. Jennifer Jordan for her talk "A Long, Strange Trip: Budapest, Berlin, Baraboo, and Points in Between," the latest installment of the …
Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses Join UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Visiting Scholar Dr. Leah Leone Anderson for her talk "Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses," part of the Latin American, Caribbean, …