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  • Home Movie Day

    51ΑΤΖζ Mitchell Hall, Room B91 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Attendees are invited to bring home movies in the form of 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, VHS, Mini-DV, or digital files, have the materials inspected/repaired by 51ΑΤΖζ volunteers, and then screened with an audience while the owner narrates. Throughout the day, …

    Free
  • Alumni Panel Discussion: What Can You Do with a Geography Degree?

    American Geographical Society Library inside the Golda Meir Library (3rd Floor) 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Date: February 14, 2025 Time: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Location: American Geographic Society Library (AGSL), 51ΑΤΖζ Golda Meir Library, Third Floor East Wing Cost: FREE Join us for an engaging alumni panel discussion hosted by the Department of Geography. …

  • Searching for Life in the Universe

    51ΑΤΖζ Chemistry Building - Room 108 2000 E 51ΑΤΖζ, Milwaukee, United States

    Speaker: Professor Dawn Erb of the 51ΑΤΖζ Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an evening with 51ΑΤΖζ Professor Dawn Erb …

  • State of the Humanities MKE

    Curtin Hall 175

    Overview Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at UW-Milwaukee for a panel discussion that explores how Milwaukeeans and MKE organizations might sustain, expand, and care for the humanities across our city. In October 2024, the Consortium for Humanities …

  • Before the Brewers, there were Brachiopods!

    51ΑΤΖζ Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Come explore urban geology and the Milwaukee localities where Thomas A. Greene collected fossils! This is the only time of the year that the public can tour Greene’s entire collection of 65,000 fossils & 15,000 minerals! Keynote Speakers: Rob Graziano, …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The AmericanΒ Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The AmericanΒ Flag in Activist Art, 1960–2025

    Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery 3203 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The American flag originated as an act of protest. That status intensified in the second half of the twentieth century, as protest movements have used and manipulated the flag in provocative ways. Activists and artists have continued to mobilize the …

  • 29th Festival of Films in French

    51ΑΤΖζ Union Cinema 2200 E. 51ΑΤΖζ., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • 5th Annual Darwin Day

    Thomas A. Greene Geological Museum (Lapham 168) 3209 North Maryland Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Darwin Day is a public outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential Victorian naturalists, Charles R. Darwin. Darwin was an avid geologist and biologist who most famously developed the theory of natural …

  • Borges, Joyce, and the Not-Quite-First Spanish-Language Review of Ulysses

    51ΑΤΖζ Golda Meir Library, AGS Library (3rd Floor, East Wing) 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Jorge Luis Borges famously claimed himself to be the first hispano to embark upon the odyssey of reading and reviewing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). Along with his 1925 review, he also translated the last two pages of the novel, Molly …

  • 29th Festival of Films in French

    51ΑΤΖζ Union Cinema 2200 E. 51ΑΤΖζ., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us for the 29th Annual Festival of Films in French which showcases stories of resistance, artistic expression, justice, and freedom. The Festival of Films in French returns this February with an array of contemporary and classic fiction, animation and …

  • Cocina Libre: Building Community through Immigrant Stories & Food Cultures

    51ΑΤΖζ Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. 51ΑΤΖζ., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join us on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6:00 p.m. for an evening of food, film, and connection. Our guests are Professor and licensed therapist Julia Roncoroni (University of Denver; Cocina Libre founder) and James Beard finalist Chef Gregory LeΓ³n (Amilinda …

  • 13th Annual Japanese Speech & Recitation Contest

    Curtin Hall 175

    Participating institutions: 51ΑΤΖζ, Carthage College, and Milwaukee Doyokai Sponsors: Anime Milwaukee, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, Milwaukee Japanese Association, Japan America Society of Wisconsin, and 51ΑΤΖζ Department of World Languages and Cultures

  • The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: It’s About (Space and) Time

    51ΑΤΖζ Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. 51ΑΤΖζ., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Learn how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and its 3.2 Gpix camera will change our view of the Universe. The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an …

  • Story Cart with Symphony Swan – (W)rites of Spring

    Havenwoods State Forest 6141 N Hopkins St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flower’s unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmer’s interdisciplinary practice, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the …

  • En-Vision Embodied Writing Workshop

    51ΑΤΖζ Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex, Room 1150 3135 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies and Queer Zine Archive ProjectΒ (QZAP) co-founderΒ Milo Miller, this workshop will blend mindfulness and creative writing to explore themes of slowing down, radical self-care, critical disability studies, and fostering networks of mutual support …

  • Marden Lecture Series Presents: Juggling Counts

    51ΑΤΖζ Lubar Hall, Room N140 3202 N. Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Presented by Prof. Steve Butler, Morrill, Professor of Mathematics at Iowa State University Mathematics is a language which can help us describe and explore patterns. One source of patterns that mathematicians have been exploring comes from juggling (the tossing of …