Congratulations to Prof. Robin Pickering-Iazzi, whose latest publication, Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018, is now available for free through UWM Digital Commons!
At the start of this final week of spring classes at UWM, a student held a swastika sign near a public event celebrating Israeli Independence Day. Campus administration has noted that this reprehensible behavior is protected by the First Amendment …
University of Wisconsin – MilwaukeeWomen’s & Gender Studies Presents:Spring 2019 Brown Bag Series February 27: Robert Bruss, PhD Candidate, Dept. of English, UWM“The Potential for Queer Game Mechanics in Queers in Love at the End of the World.”March 27: Simonetta …
Tuesday November 27, 2018 in the Language Oasis (CRT 187), starting at 6:30pm, the Program in French and Francophone Studies joins with the Alliance française of Milwaukee to live-stream Pascal Brice’s talk: “Welcoming the Refugees: Lessons of the European Crisis from a …
We support FICL faculty member Demetrius Williams in his efforts to work with local organizations and investigate apparent racial profiling in our community. Read more about the article, “Two black pastors wanted help with a flat tire. A sheriff’s deputy …
Congratulations to Simonetta Milli Konewko, Associate Professor of Italian, on the publication of L’Italia neorealista: Compassione e identità nazionale nel dopoguerra (Carocci editore, 2018), her own translation of her monograph Neorealism and the “New” Italy: Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Congratulations to Anita Alkhas, Associate Professor of French, whose book is now out in Italian translation: L’arte vivente: Baudelaire e Duchamp (Archivio Dedalus Edizioni).
Multi-media artist Bassem Yousri will be on campus May 8 and 9 for an artist’s talk, film screening, and talk-back!
The international language and culture programs at UW-Milwaukee cordially invite you to our annual International Dessert Competition. All UWM students (undergrad and grad) are invited to compete individually or in teams. The public is invited to attend and to sample desserts …
Caroline Seymour-Jorn of our Program in Comparative Literature will be speaking on Monday, March 26, at a panel discussion of the Arab Spring at Marquette University.