Scholar Sip: Is Avatar a Communist Plot? Marx & the Alienation of Labor

UWM at Washington County Library 400 S. University Drive, West Bend, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Mark Peterson. Scholar Sip is a free community event held on select Thursdays over the lunch hour in the UWM at Washington County Library. Come find out about the incredible research done by UWM staff - and …

Exhibit: Barry Moser — A Thief Among Angels

Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery, Golda Meir Library

In a distinguished career that spans five decades, Barry Moser has established himself as a premier book designer, a renowned children’s book illustrator, and one of the finest wood engravers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawn from both Special …

The Race for Time: Saving Analog Video and Audio

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / online

Presented by Shiraz Bhathena, UWM Libraries. Bing Crosby Enterprises gave the first demonstration of videotape in November 1951. Since then, it has become a predominant recording format globally and has documented a massive amount of history. Unfortunately, while the technology …

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

Online

Lynn Nottage Sweat (2015) Optional: See the UWM Theatre performance of Sweat in Kenilworth 508, April 19-23. No expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. Any version of the text may be used to prepare for discussion, …

Building Digital Essays Using Juncture

Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries Juncture is an open-source framework to build multimedia exhibits that enables authors to build simple or complex narratives, building on other open tools. Tap into existing digital collections and incorporate high resolution images, zooming capabilities, …

Scholar Sip: The UW MIA Project — Bringing Fallen American Heroes Home

UWM at Washington County Library 400 S. University Drive, West Bend, WI, United States

Presented by Dr. Gregg Jamison. 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 …

A Synesthete’s Atlas: Performing Cartography — A Presentation by Eric Theise

American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library/Online

Eric Theise combines strategies from experimental film and animation, color theory, the Light and Space movement, and concrete poetry with open data and open source software to create digital maps that behave in ways never intended by the original developers. …

Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) Student Showcase

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Digital Arts & Culture Certificate students. Students from the Digital Arts and Culture (DAC) program will showcase their work in person in the Digital Humanities Lab. No registration necessary.

Author Talk: Sindiwe Magona

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library

photo credit: Valérie Marin Le Mélée © vmlm Please join us for a special conversation with renowned South African author Dr. Sindiwe Magona on Tuesday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the UWM Digital Humanities Lab, located on the second floor, …