Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Italo Calvino "Lightness" and "Quickness" from Six Memos for the New Millennium (1985). No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be attending the …

HOLA Archives: Podcast Launch and Celebration

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

Join us to celebrate the launch of the HOLA Archives Podcast on Thursday, October 5 at 5 p.m. in the fourth floor Conference Center in the UWM Golda Meir Library. The HOLA Archives Podcast Project is a collaboration between the UWM Libraries and …

Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: A Conversation

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Tomas Lipinski, UWM School of Information Studies. Join us to discuss the problematic area where intellectual property rights and artificial intelligence cross paths: from the mining of data to feed large language models, to issues of attribution and …

Milwaukee Home Movie Day 2023

Mitchell Hall, Room B91

UWM Libraries' Archives, UWM Films Studies Program, and UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres present Home Movie Day on Saturday, October 14, 2023 from noon to 4 p.m. in Room B91 in Mitchell Hall, 3202 N. Downer …

2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

Ermitte Saint Jacques, assistant professor in the UWM Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Robert Smith, Harry G. John Professor in the Marquette University Department of History, present the 54th Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Cormac McCarthy "Wake for Susan" (1959) "A Drowning Incident" (1960) "The Dark Waters" (1965) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you will be …

Wikipedia Editing Workshop – Music of Slovenia

W194, Golda Meir Library

Celebrate Open Access Week by learning to improve the world's largest open access reference source, Wikipedia. Join us for a Wikipedia Editing Workshop at the Golda Meir Library. At this free event, anyone can learn to edit and improve Wikipedia. …

UWM’s Academic Adventurers Talk: The Geography of Taxonomy, or What is a Type Locality, Anyway?

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

Presented by Dr. Michael Pauers, UWM College of General Studies. Modern taxonomic practice demands that precise information about the location where a new species was found (the “type locality”) be included in the description of new species. Unfortunately, especially for …

The Future of Humanities Publishing: Keynote

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work. How …

The Future of Humanities Publishing: Panel Discussion and Workshop

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work. How …