[Exhibit] Celebrate Black History Month
Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir LibraryA tabling exhibit of materials on Black history and culture, drawn from the UWM Libraries collections.
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UWM’s Academic Adventurers: “Monitoring Downer Woods by People and Satellites”
American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WIPresented by Dr. Alison Donnelly, Associate Professor, UWM Dept. of Geography. Dr. Donnelly will discuss the importance of monitoring shrubs and trees in Downer Woods to understand how climate change will impact temperate deciduous forests in general. She monitors the... Read more
ARS Autopoetica: AI Poetry Workshop
Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / onlineSasha Stiles, Artists Now! Guest lecturer and AI PoetTuesday, February 21 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. What do advances in AI-powered natural language processing mean for creative writers and poetic thinkers? This generative poetry workshop with Stiles, author of Technelegy and a... Read more
Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion
OnlineMarco Polo “The Court of Kublai Khan,” Book II, Chapters 1-12 of The Travels (1298/99) 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,... Read more
ChatGPT in Context: A Discussion about Artificial Intelligence
Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / onlinePresented by Tom Haigh, History (co-author, A New History of Modern Computing, MIT Press, 2021) Susan McRoy, Computer Science (author, Principles of Natural Language Processing, 2021, https://uwm.pressbooks.pub/naturallanguage/, and Chair, Computer Science) Join us for a discussion about artificial intelligence and the technologies... Read more
Mapping Land History: Collaborating with the Oglala Lakota Nation on Land Research
American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WIDr. Sharity Bassett, visiting assistant professor of Women & Gender Studies and manager of the American Indian Student Center, presents a UWM Academic Adventurers talk, "Mapping Land History: Collaborating with the Oglala Lakota Nation on Land Research," on Friday, March... Read more
Using GitHub to Build Websites
OnlinePresented by Stephen Appel, UWM Libraries. GitHub is most commonly understood as a site to share and collaborate on code. But non-coders can get a lot out of GitHub as well, including using GitHub to build digital exhibits (using Juncture, for... Read more
Scholar Sip: Is Avatar a Communist Plot? Marx & the Alienation of Labor
UWM at Washington County Library 400 S. University Drive, West Bend, WIPresented 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... Read more
UWM Authors Recognition Ceremony
Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir LibraryThe Libraries and the Graduate School are co-sponsoring a celebration honoring UWM faculty and staff whose published monographs and recordings have been added to the UWM Authors Collection during the two years since the previous ceremony in 2021. Faculty and... Read more
The Race for Time: Saving Analog Video and Audio
Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / onlinePresented 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... Read more