TimeSlips
2026-03-23 09:00 - 2026-04-30 16:30 (America/Chicago) | Archives, Golda Meir Library
Now through April 30, patrons are encouraged to visit the Archives Gallery on the third floor in the east wing of the Golda Meir Library to view TimeSlips, the spring 2026 Archives exhibit. The display highlights the Time Slips Project, a series of creative storytelling workshops for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias led by UWM English Professor Dr. Anne Basting from 1998-1999 while she was a fellow at the UWM Center for 21st Century Studies. Basting collaborated with UWM Film Professor Dick Blau and artist Beth Thielen to produce Time Slips programming for wider audiences. Participants interact with images and other prompts to create stories together, which have been adapted into plays, exhibits, and other output. Curated by Archives Intern Megan Moeller, the TimeSlips exhibits features photographs and other materials from the Time Slips Project.

Mapping Brasil
2026-03-26 09:00 - 2026-08-14 16:30 | American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States
In Mapping Brasil, an exhibit in conjunction with the 2026 Maps & America: the Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series, the American Geographical Society Library investigates cartographic traditions and innovations in Brazil. From colonial-era maps to counter-mapping projects in Rio, explore the ways cartographers have and continue to make sense of the nation on multiple scales. The key to this exhibit is the exploration of who is making these maps and for what purpose. Colonial exploration and exploitation, economic resources, and community empowerment are all represented in this snapshot of Brazil’s mapping past, present, and future.

Mapping Brasil is on view now through Aug. 14 in the American Geographical Society Library on the third floor in the west wing of the Golda Meir Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Visit StoryMaps to view the digital exhibit companion for Mapping Brasil.

Paper Engineering and Pop-Up Books
2026-03-31 10:00 - 2026-04-15 17:00 | Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
Drop by the Special Collections Reading Room now through April 15 to see the latest exhibition: Paper Engineering and Pop-Up Books, curated by Library Assistant Melissa Burger. Located on the fourth floor of the Golda Meir Library, this exhibition is free and open to the public for viewing during Special Collections’ open hours, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Special Collections at the UWM Libraries is the premier public collection of rare books and special printed materials in southeastern Wisconsin.

An Evening with Dick Blau
2026-04-14 19:00 - 21:00 | UWM Union Cinema, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, 53211, United States
As part of the UWM Union Cinema’s Experimental Tuesdays series, on April 14 at 7 p.m., the UWM Union Cinema will be presenting An Evening with Dick Blau, presented in conjunction with the UWM Archives. Dick Blau, a local photographer, artist, and filmmaker, has been making films and video works for over 40 years, and recently donated his archival collection to the UWM Archives. The evening will highlight his film and video works, including three 2K restorations remastered from original elements stored at the UWM Archives. The event will also include discussion about his career, and stories about working in the Milwaukee art community. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres.
Dick Blau (BA Harvard 1965; PhD Yale 1973) is professor emeritus and founder of the UWM Department of Film, Video, Animation, & New Genres. He is the author of six photo books and numerous films on many different subjects: from interpersonal family dynamics to the music and culture of the Roma of northern Greece. Covering a wide number of subjects and styles, Blau’s work ranges across the genres — from documentaries to fairytales to studies in pure abstraction. Blau’s films show internationally and his photographs can be found in major collections both here and abroad: in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Thessaloniki Museum of Contemporary Art, and locally at the Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum of Wisconsin Art.
See the Student Affairs Events and Activities Calendar for more information about An Evening with Dick Blau.

Digital Humanities Services: Introduction to Unix Shell
2026-04-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Archives, Golda Meir Library
Learn how to use one of the most basic tools for programming and other tasks, the Unix Shell. Use of the shell is fundamental to a wide range of advanced computing tasks, including high performance computing, and agentic AI tools. The workshop will be use the Software Carpentries Shell Novice curriculum, and will cover as much as possible to help you get started.
The workshop will be led by UWM Libraries Geospatial Information Librarian Stephen Appel in the UWM Archives Classroom on the third floor in the east wing of the Golda Meir Library. Register to attend the in-person workshop.

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies Speaker Series
2026-04-15 15:00 - 16:00 | American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library, 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States
Ancient Urbanism in Peru’s Casma Valley
Join University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Art History and Archaeology Dr. David Pacifico for his talk “Ancient Urbanism in Peru’s Casma Valley,” part of the Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latinx Studies (LACUSL) Speaker Series being held on April 15 from 3-4 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library on the third floor in the east wing of the Golda Meir Library. In this presentation, Pacifico will discuss the process of investigating the ancient Casma culture from the North Coast of Peru, circa 700-1400CE. He details the methods he and others have used to find and interpret remains they left behind and how those conclusions fit into wider academic narratives. In a conversational format, he also explains his strategy for developing his career to this point and in guiding what comes next.
The LACUSL Speaker Series is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Email clacs@uwm.edu with questions or to request accessibility accommodations.

Dr. David Pacifico

A Polychromatic Proposition
2026-04-20 - 2026-05-20 | Fourth Floor Exhibition Gallery, Golda Meir Library
Owen Jones, Chromolithography, and the Decorative Arts in the Nineteenth Century
Showcasing Special Collections’ collection of design portfolios and decorative-arts books of the late nineteenth century, this exhibition celebrates chromolithographic printing alongside design propositions from the mid-19th century The Grammar of Ornament by noted British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-1874). Large portfolios that claim to examine decoration from all cultures and all time periods mingle with ephemera highlighting the ubiquity of chromolithography during its period of dominance in printing.
Curated by Special Collections Graduate Intern Amanda Haag, A Polychromatic Proposition: Owen Jones, Chromolithography, and the Decorative Arts in the Nineteenth Century is on view through May 20 in the fourth floor exhibition gallery at the Golda Meir Library.

UWM Authors Collection 2026
2026-04-20 - 2026-05-22 | Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library
Recent additions to the UWM Authors Collection will be on view beginning April 20 in the exhibit cases in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons on the first floor of the Golda Meir Library.
Established in 1973, the collection documents the research productivity and creativity of UWM faculty and staff. A selection of work from UWM authors who have written, edited, translated, or illustrated a print book; composed music for a published score or recording; or had a primary role in creating a commercially distributed film or video since March 2025 will be displayed. This exhibit will run through the end of the spring 2026 semester, and replaces the biennial UWM Authors Program, which has been discontinued.

Special Collections Graduate Intern Exhibits
2026-04-23 - 2026-05-21 | Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
Now through May 21, patrons can visit the Special Collections reading room to view exhibits curated by UWM Art History graduate students Kate Lytvynenko and Olivia Young, who spent their spring 2026 fieldwork experience in Special Collections.

Lytvynenko’s exhibit showcases her interest in Ukrainian art, history, and culture, and her selections offer a perspective of Ukraine as viewed through the lens of those who would control it, highlighting the history of that country’s long struggle for sovereignty. Young’s focus is on the Pre-Raphaelites and late 19th-/early 20th-century European art — her exhibit presents turn-of-the-century decorative trade book covers by some of the most noted designers of the time. Both exhibits demonstrate some of the many lines of inquiry that can be followed through the original printed sources preserved in Special Collections.

Special Collections is located on the fourth floor of the Golda Meir Library and is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion
2026-04-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and Rita Dove
The April Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion will focus on poetry from six different writers: Robert Hayden’s “Middle Passage” (1961); Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” (1951); Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” (1978); Audre Lorde’s “Power” (1978); Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips” (1980); and Rita Dove’s “After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed” (1991).
The discussion will be held on April 29 from 7-9 p.m. via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. No expertise or prerequisites are required. Participants are asked to read the selected texts ahead of the discussion. Links to the texts are provided below.
Robert Hayden
“Middle Passage” (1961)
Langston Hughes
“Harlem” (1951)
Maya Angelou
“Still I Rise” (1978)
Audre Lorde
“Power” (1978)
Lucille Clifton
“homage to my hips” (1980)
Rita Dove
“After Reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the Third Time Before Bed” (1991)
Instructions for the Zoom Session
Those planning on attending should inform Head of Special Collections Max Yela at maxyela@uwm.edu. Notices of intent to attend will be accepted until 5 p.m. on April 29. Between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. on the day of the discussion, April 29, participants will receive an email from Max with a Zoom link to join the discussion.

Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series
2026-04-30 17:30 - 19:30 | American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library/Online
Mapping Brazil from Within: Remote Sensing, Collaboration, and Counter-Cartographic Perspectives
Maps & America: The Arthur Holzheimer Lecture Series returns on April 30 with speaker Dr. Julio Pedrassoli – associate professor at the University of São Paulo – for his presentation “Mapping Brazil from Within: Remote Sensing, Collaboration, and Counter-Cartographic Perspectives.” The event will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m., and the lecture will begin at 6 p.m.
Pedrassoli will discuss his work leading urban mapping with MapBiomas, a Brazilian-founded initiative that uses cloud computing, machine learning, and decades of satellite imagery to produce large‑scale maps displaying changes in environmental variables over time. Pedrassoli will also analyze the societal impacts of organizing mapping through a collaborative network of academics, NGOs, tech companies, and civil society. By considering maps that challenge dominant power structures, the lecture examines how such an arrangement shapes data transparency, methodological openness, and the public circulation of territorial information, particularly in deforestation, land-use change, climate governance, and land conflicts. The Brazilian experience is situated as a reference model that has been replicated across South America and the tropical world as a source of innovation in cartography.
Pedrassoli is a remote sensing scientist and geographer with a PhD in Human Geography from the University of São Paulo. His research focuses on mapping urban expansion and housing–poverty dynamics in the Global South. A former research scholar at Columbia University, he develops advanced methods for mapping informal settlements.
Held annually in the spring, the Maps & America Lecture Series was inaugurated by noted cartographic historian, Brian Harley, in 1990. Since its inception, the lecture series has been generously sponsored by the late Arthur Holzheimer and his wife Janet Holzheimer of the Chicago area. Over the years, the series has featured many leading figures in the field of map history and provided a multifaceted survey of this rapidly developing field. The lecture series is free and open to the public. To learn more, view the list of previous Maps & America lectures.
Registration has closed. Thank you to those who attended the event.
Brazil, Our Land: Map of Brazil, special series, political and regional published by Geomapas Editora de Mapas e Guias Ltda. in 1998.

Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion
2026-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3
The May Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion will focus on William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 3 (1591).
The discussion will be held on May 27 from 7-9 p.m. via Zoom. The event is free and open to the public. No expertise or prerequisites are required. Participants are asked to read the selected text ahead of the discussion. A link to the text is provided below.
William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 3 (1591)
Instructions for the Zoom Session
Those planning on attending should inform Head of Special Collections Max Yela at maxyela@uwm.edu. Notices of intent to attend will be accepted until 5 p.m. on May 27. Between 6:30 and 6:45 p.m. on the day of the discussion, May 27, participants will receive an email from Max with a Zoom link to join the discussion.
