• Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for a talk at 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 10 by Sergio González, author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press), as …

  • 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    This lecture will be presented simultaneously in person and virtually. The Zoom link is here.  The 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Nan Kim (Associate Professor, UWM Department of History). What can offer resources for hope at a time of escalating …

  • Trick or Treat? AI Research Assistants Disrupting Information Discovery 

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    The UWM Libraries invite you to a discussion in which we will examine emerging AI research tools, their benefits, and shortcomings from viewpoints of information content providers, librarians, and users. Many academic content providers, including JSTOR, are developing AI Research …

  • 2024 Ettinger Book Artist Series Lecture: Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Collaborative photographers and books artists Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman have worked together on photographic projects and photo-based artists books for over 40 years. Ciurej is a Chicago-based photographer and graphic designer. Lochman is a Milwaukee-based photographer and former art lecturer …

  • Celebrating AGSL’s Leardo Mappamundi

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    One of the American Geographical Society Library's most cherished holdings, the 1452 Mappamundi by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo, is undergoing multispectral imaging this winter. Join us for a series of events, starting with a talk by AGSL Curator Marcy …

  • Information Literacy Assignment Workshop Fall 2025 CANCELED

    W194, Golda Meir Library

    In this workshop, instructors will identify areas in which students struggle to reach the expected research outcomes in their course.  Participants will workshop strategies for getting the most out of student research assignments by reflecting on the  information literacy concepts …

  • Kyushu in World History, or What I did on my Summer Vacation

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

      A presentation by Dr. Hilary Snow, UWM Honors College Situated at the southwestern edge of the main Japanese archipelago, Kyushu has a rich history shaped by the environment, proximity to the Asian mainland, and distance from the capitals of …

  • Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The history of AI is the history of an overhyped intellectual brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear, if somewhat horrifying, purposes. Since its debut in 1955 the …