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 …
You are invited to the opening reception of the exhibit "Jewelry Speaks: The Voice of the Jill Wine-Banks Pin Collection," with speakers including Jill Wine-Banks, curators, and guest artists, on Thursday, October 24, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the …
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Selected Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Letters I, III, IX, XII No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …
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 …
Marcel Proust “Seascape, with Frieze of Girls” Part II, from Within a Budding Grove, volume 2 of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past) (1919) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. …
Naguib Mahfouz “Zaabalawi” (1962) “The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish”(1967) “The Time and the Place” (1982) “Half a Day” (1989) No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM …
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 …
Guy de Maupassant “Boule de Suif” (1880) “The Necklace” (1884) “The Wreck” (1886) 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 …
Alice Munro “Dance of the Happy Shades” 1968 “Boys and Girls” 1968 “The Beggar Maid” 1977 No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected texts. INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION If you think you …
Emily Bowe, Assistant Director of the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography at the Leventhal Center, present the 2025 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on …