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SUMMARY:55 Years of Black Reality at UWM
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Department on Wednesday\, Feb. 26\, 2025 from 3-5 pm in the Ballroom of the UWM Student Union (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.).  \nRecent UWM graduate County Executive David Crowley and UWM Chancellor Mark Mone will kick off our celebration. Dr. Mary Pattillo\, a Milwaukee native\, Chair of the Black Studies Department\, and the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University will give a keynote speech. Dr. Pattillo will discuss the reality of Black Studies in our current moment and what the future may hold. Following the keynote speech\, a panel of AADS alumni will share perspectives on the impact of Black Studies courses in their professional careers. The Ko-Thi Dance Company will close the program with a performance. Current AADS students will display their research projects immediately after the program during the reception.     \nThis celebratory event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available. No RSVP is necessary. If you have questions or need accommodations\, please contact Lin Haggerty at mshgerty@uwm.edu.  \nKeynote Speaker:\nDr. Mary Pattillo\, a Milwaukee native\, is Chair of the Black Studies Department and the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at Northwestern University. Her areas of research include race and inequality\, housing\, urban politics\, education reform\, criminal legal studies\, and stratification within the Black community. She is the author of two award-winning books – Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press\, 1999) and Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (University of Chicago Press\, 2007).   \nDownload the flyer for the 55 Years of Black Reality at UWM. \n55 Years of Black Reality at UWM\n 
URL:https://uwm.edu/urban-studies/event/55-years-of-black-reality-at-uwm/
LOCATION:Ballroom of the UWM Student Union\, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States
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SUMMARY:27th Annual Student Research Forum
DESCRIPTION:Nourishing Places: Community Gardens as a Model For Neighborhood Engagement & Revitalization. \nJoin us for the 27th Annual Student Research Forum\, a collaborative event bringing together community members\, university scholars\, students\, and city officials to discuss community engagement\, neighborhood collaboration\, and urban development and policy change. As part of this year’s Student Research Forum\, there will be a juried poster session showcasing senior capstone\, service learning\, and graduate student projects that examine critical issues facing Milwaukee\, a panel discussion that will explore the significance of community engagement and neighborhood collaboration centered around community garden spaces in Milwaukee\, and an awards ceremony and reception. \nEvent Details:\nDate: Friday\, May 2\, 2025\nTime: Noon – 5:00 PM\nLocation: UWM Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge \nPanelists: \n\nJoseph Kaltenberg (Milwaukee Parks Manager\, City of Milwaukee Dept. of Public Works);\nSinai Mendoza-Zarate (Executive Director\, Chavez BID & Urban Studies MS student);\nAngela Pruitt (Neighborhood Leader and Community Garden Steward);\nAdrian Spencer (Deputy Director\, Rooted & Rising – Washington Park);\nDarrell Terrell (Neighborhood Leader and Art Lot Steward)\n\nAgenda: \n\nNoon -1:30 PM: Buffet Lunch and Juried Poster Session\n1:30 – 2:00 PM: Climates of Inequality Media Project Film Screening and Talk Back\n2:00 – 3:30 PM: Panel Presentations and Discussion\n3:30 – 4:00 PM: Awards Ceremony\n4:00 – 5:00 PM: Reception and Refreshments\n\n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n
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SUMMARY:28th Annual Student Research Forum\, Spring 2026
DESCRIPTION:Bench Ansfield\, author\n\nThis year’s keynote speaker is Bench Ansfield\, Assistant Professor of History at Temple University and author of Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W. W. Norton\, 2025). They are a historian of racial capitalism\, the carceral state\, and twentieth-century U.S. cities. They hold a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Prior to joining the faculty at Temple\, they were an ACLS and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Dartmouth Society of Fellows and an American Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. \n\n\n\nThe title of their keynote presentation is: \n\n\n\n“Racial Capitalism in the Burning Years” \nAlumni Panel Information and Panelist Bios\n\n\n\nThis year’s event also includes a juried senior capstone and graduate student poster session following a buffet lunch\, a moderated USP alumni panel where students can hear from and connect with practitioners working in Milwaukee across a variety of fields in the public and private sector\, an awards ceremony\, and a reception following the keynote presentation. \n\n\n\nEvent Details: Date: Friday\, May 8\, 2026 Time: 11:30 – 4:30 PM Location: UWM Student Union Alumni Fireside Lounge (2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211) \n\n\n\nProgram: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:15–11:30 AM: Registration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11:30–12:00 PM: Buffet Lunch\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:00–1:30 PM: Juried Poster Session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1:30–2:30 PM: Alumni Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:30-2:45 PM: Coffee Break and Networking\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2:45–3:00 PM: Awards Ceremony\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:00–4:00 PM: Keynote Speaker Presentation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:00–4:30 PM: Reception
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