Presented by John Jordan, UWM Dept. of Communication New technologies like AI require metaphors for understanding. But these metaphors do more than provide context; they shape and steer people’s attitudes and future policies. We can learn much about AI by …
Presented by Krista Grensavitch and Abigail Nye. Join us in the new Archives active learning classroom (Golda Meir Library, 3rd floor west wing, Room W315) to learn more about bringing the Personal Archive Assignment (PAA) to your own classroom! We …
Presented by Dr. Peter Gibeau. Scholar Sip is a free community event held on select Thursdays over the lunch hour at the UWM at Washington County Library. Come find out about the incredible research done by UWM staff – and …
Anne Bonds (Geography) and Derek Handley (English) on managing research data for Mapping Racism and Resistance. The Mapping Racism and Resistance project examines the critical role of racial covenants as they worked together with other discriminatory housing practices in restricting Black …
Presented by Brett Ketter, UWM Geosciences. Life hands you different choices and those choices can lead you to either flounder and fail or to adapt and flourish. According to Brett Ketter, that is his career path in a nutshell. With …
Presented by Ann Hanlon and Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries. Using the Juncture open-source framework as well as other open tools, including IIIF, we will introduce some basic techniques to use maps and geographic coordinates in a web-based environment. Expand your mapping capabilities! Registration …
In recognition of Human Rights Day, please join us for a virtual talk by Deborah Soria (Silent Books Project Director, Biblioteca IBBY lampedusa) on "Silent Books: Sharing Wordless Picture Books across Cultures and Languages" on Monday, December 11, 2023 at …
Presented by Christa P. Whitney, Director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project. How does one create an archive? What is oral history? What is informed consent? How can archival work be simultaneously reparative and generative? In this …
Neil Horsky -- an artist and an adjunct instructor at UWM and at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design -- will talk about his work as an arts journalist at an independent newspaper, The Boston Compass, and how audience demographics …
Presented by Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UWM. US pedestrian fatalities increased by 51% between 2010 and 2020 (4,302 to 6,516 fatalities per year), and nearly all of the additional pedestrian fatalities that occurred …