Critical insights from C21's Tennessen Scholars
During this April 5 roundtable discussion, Jenna Freedman (Barnard College Library, New York), Milo Miller (UW-Milwaukee and the Queer Zine Archive Project) and Lane Hall (English, UW-Milwaukee) discussed some of the best practices for collecting, digitizing and sharing zines.
Visual culture theorist, activist and a professor of media, culture, and communication Nicholas Mirzoeff recently visited UWM to discuss “Whiteness and the Crisis.” His talk addressed how white supremacy and whiteness as an ideology have been able to reproduce and revive themselves, despite the long period in which multiculturalism or diversity and antiracism have been widely and actively discussed in our society.
We are living in the Anthropocene era, when humans are the leading power influencing the earth’s future. Environmental systems and ecological processes are clearly in action; however, it is hard to understand their expressions apart from human activities. On his lecture on November 1st at UWM, entitled as “Embattled Earth: Commodities, Conflict and Climate Change […]
C21’s Graduate Student Bagel Hour on Friday, September 28th, had a special edition featuring an interesting discussion with Sharon Marcus from Columbia University on her new project, “The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.”According to Marcus, celebrity tends to combine the normative and the anti-normative. Most celebrities embody paradoxes: they are masculine and feminine, normative (they are […]