June 2018

UWM Distinguished Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks chairs Attending to Early Modern Women conference

UWM Distinguished Professor Merry Wiesner-Hank (History and Women’s Gender Studies) chaired another successful international, multidisciplinary conference, Attending to Early Modern Women 2018: Action and Agency. The conference takes place every three years with a different focus, and this year it was held June 14-17 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.