Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion

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Marco 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, …

ChatGPT in Context: A Discussion about Artificial Intelligence

Digital Humanities Lab, Golda Meir Library / online

Presented 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 …

Mapping Land History: Collaborating with the Oglala Lakota Nation on Land Research

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

Dr. 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 …

Using GitHub to Build Websites

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Presented 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 …

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 …

UWM Authors Recognition Ceremony

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

The 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 …

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, …

Scholar Sip: Latin America’s Cold War — Past and Present

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

Presented by Dr. Kirk Tyvela. 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 …