Wikipedia Editing Workshop – Music of Slovenia

W194, Golda Meir Library

Celebrate Open Access Week by learning to improve the world's largest open access reference source, Wikipedia. Join us for a Wikipedia Editing Workshop at the Golda Meir Library. At this free event, anyone can learn to edit and improve Wikipedia. …

UWM’s Academic Adventurers Talk: The Geography of Taxonomy, or What is a Type Locality, Anyway?

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

Presented by Dr. Michael Pauers, UWM College of General Studies. Modern taxonomic practice demands that precise information about the location where a new species was found (the “type locality”) be included in the description of new species. Unfortunately, especially for …

Indigenous Photographers

Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

The UWM Union Art Gallery is presenting Swinomish and Tulalip photographer Matika Wilbur's exhibition "Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Voices of Native American Women," November 16 through December 15. The exhibition is based on Wilbur's 2023 New York Tims Best Seller Project 562: …

Scholar Sip: Benefits and Phenology of Native Flora — A Multi-Year Project

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

Presented by Dr. Gary Britton. 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 …

The Future of Humanities Publishing: Keynote

Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work. How …

Shadows of Industrialization

UWM at Waukesha Library

The UWM at Waukesha Library is pleased to present "Shadows of Industrialization," a multi-media art exhibit by Milwaukee-based artist Barbara Miner. The photographic exhibit documents first-hand accounts of the deindustrialization of Milwaukee from the 1970s to the present through the …

The Future of Humanities Publishing: Panel Discussion and Workshop

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Universities and their affiliated publishing landscapes continue to change rapidly. In the arts and humanities, presses, libraries, and humanities centers have all played different roles in publishing and dissemination. Open access and community-engaged efforts continue to redefine our work. How …

Workshop: Python for Beginners

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by Ann Hanlon, UWM Libraries, and Karl Holten, UWM Libraries and L&S IT. This 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software Carpentries “Programming …

Artificial Intelligence and Metaphor

Room E272, Golda Meir Library

Presented by John Jordan, UWM Dept. of Communication New technologies like AI require metaphors for understanding. But these metaphors do more than provide context; they shape and steer people’s attitudes and future policies. We can learn much about AI by …