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Popular Feminisms Roundtable: November 7th, 2018 It’s the day after the election. A record amount of women have been elected to congress. I feel hopeful for a shifting cultural and political landscape – one that is feminist, inclusive and representational. It isn’t a coincidence that the Center for 21st Century Studies hosted the “Popular Feminisms […]
Responding to Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017), four UWM faculty members participated in a roundtable discussion on the afternoon of Friday, November 2, 2018. Each panelist explored the scale and violence of climate change based on their expertise and disciplinary affiliation. Expanding the conversation and making this event a truly […]
I joined a large group of graduate student and faculty colleagues on Friday, October 5thfor the Brown Bag discussion with Katherine Hayles. The roomed continued to fill past capacity as our ninety minutes together progressed, which began with Hayles expressing concern for the future of our species – a sentiment shared by many in the […]
Sitting in the back of the Wisconsin Room in the UW-Milwaukee Student Union, it is October 25th, 2018 and I am doing my very best to fade into the background at tonight’s Distinguished Lecture by Roxane Gay. As the leaders of a campus multicultural sorority introduce both the moderator Dr. Amber Tucker (MKE LGBT+ Community […]
“The Anthropocene has made clear that the enlightenment way of viewing history as forward progress is wrong. Rather, history is a labyrinth– and we are inside of it.” Often the question at talks about climate change have to do with hope. What can we hope for? Is there any hope at all? According to Amitav […]
Last week on October 25th, an excited crowd came together in the Wisconsin Room at the Student Union to see author, Roxane Gay, speak in conversation with UWM’s Amber Tucker. Within our cultural moment of the #MeToo movement and larger national consideration of bodily autonomy, Gay’s talk felt especially urgent and powerful. In Gay’s initial […]
I’m enjoying the comfort of my usual chair in Curtin 939, C21’s conference and meeting room. The room’s large windows offer incomparable views of the neighborhood that surrounds UWM. Most days, the lake is visible. Today, Friday October 5th, my view is met with a solidly grey sky that obscures the lake. Mist coats the […]
Palpable excitement hung in the air of Curtin 175 on the Thursday afternoon prior to the Century for 20th Century studies 50th anniversary Symposium. Now known as the Center for 21st Century studies, the center’s long legacy enjoyed a well-deserved celebration this past week. Guests from the Center’s past and present spoke of their experiences […]
What does it mean for a country to have an historical policy? For Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, this question begins and ends in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Historical policies—shaped by myriad realms of public discourse from politics to media to museums— engender civic attitudes; they give form to […]
Taking a seat amid the twinkling blue lights that lined either side of the aisles in Curtin 175, I arrived at the October 5th lecture by Dr. N. Katherine Hayles expecting an encounter with material semiotics and notions of digital bodies. What I experienced was even more: a riveting discussion of symbiosis, cognitive assemblages and questions of the world to come as compared […]