{"id":34088,"date":"2022-06-21T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=34088"},"modified":"2026-05-27T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:08:00","slug":"fromkin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2025-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture\">2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino\/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity&#8221; <\/strong>presented by <strong>Gabriela Nagy<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 30, 2025<br>4th Floor Conference Center<br>UWM Golda Meir Library<br>and virtually via Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"46910\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-663x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-663x1024.jpeg 663w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-768x1187.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-994x1536.jpeg 994w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-1325x2048.jpeg 1325w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2025\/09\/2025FromkinPoster-scaled.jpeg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity uwm-c-hr--thick\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\">Morris Fromkin Research Grant and Lectureship<\/div><ul>\n<li class=''><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/call-for-proposals\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"\" target=\"\"><span>Call for Proposals<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=''><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/past-fromkin\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"\" target=\"\"><span>Past Fromkin Memorial Lectures<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=''><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/fromkin-memorial-collection\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"\" target=\"\"><span>Fromkin Memorial Collection<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2024-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture\">2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>The 55th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture &#8220;Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in the New Nuclear Age: Contemporary Legacies of Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell&#8221; was presented by Nan Kim, Associate Professor, UWM Department of History. The lecture was held on October 17, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. in the 4th Floor Conference Center at the Golda Meir Library on UWM&#8217;s campus and virtually via Zoom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"773\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/08\/2024-poster-design-5-FINAL-e1734383557389.jpg\" alt=\"poster with image and text promoting the Fromkin Lecture\" class=\"wp-image-43789\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-\"><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2023-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture\">2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>The 54th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture&#8221;Out of Sight: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee&#8221; was presented by&nbsp;Ermitte Saint Jacques (Assistant Professor, UWM Department of African and African Diaspora Studies) and Robert Smith (Harry G. John Professor, Marquette University Department of History).&nbsp;The lecture was held October 19, 2023 at 4 p.m. in the 4th Floor Conference Center at the Golda Meir Library on UWM&#8217;s campus and virtually via Zoom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a the poster for the 2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture titled &quot;Out of Sight: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee&quot; features three black and white images.\" class=\"wp-image-42425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-recent-fromkin-lectures\">Recent Fromkin Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h-the-53rd-annual-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture-the-comforts-of-heritage-race-tourism-and-memory-in-the-american-south-was-presented-by-shevaun-watson-associate-professor-uwm-department-of-english-on-october-27-2022-at-4-00-p-m-in-the-4th-floor-conference-center-in-the-golda-meir-library-and-virtually-via-zoom\">The 53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, \u201cThe Comforts of Heritage: Race, Tourism, and Memory in the American South\u201d was presented by\u00a0Shevaun Watson (Associate Professor, UWM Department of English) on\u00a0October 27, 2022 at 4 p.m.\u00a0in the 4th Floor Conference Center in the Golda Meir Library and virtually via Zoom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/past-fromkin\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/about\/fromkin\/past-fromkin\/\">here<\/a> to view the list of previous lectures in this series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1458,"featured_media":0,"parent":30505,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-34088","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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