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The C21 Reproductive Justice Collaboratory hosts this community event.Β We are an interdisciplinary 51ΑΤΖζ group who create space for conversations, resource sharing, and networking among local leaders engaged and interested in reproductive justice around Milwaukee. This event takes a deep dive …
Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society hosted by 51ΑΤΖζ's Department of Mathematical Sciences. See https://www.ams.org/meetings/sectional/2318_program.html for program agenda, registration and details.
Presented by Professor Peter Hinow, 51ΑΤΖζ Dept. of Mathematical Sciences (College of Letters and Science)
Nicky Beer visits 51ΑΤΖζ as part of the Creative Writing program's visiting writer series. Craft Talk @ 3 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/47xam2et Reading @ 7 pm - to livestream: https://tinyurl.com/mr3tdhx7 Nicky is a bi/queer writer, and the author of …
Thesis presentation of Mathew Ugwuanyi: Studies over the United States has shown that disparity still exists in lung cancer mortality. Such disparity has been greatly attributed to several risk factors such as genetics, socio-economic status, comorbidities, amongst others. Primarily, this …
The Urban Forum will bring together community, university, and city partners to explore topics that matter to Milwaukee. A pop-up exhibit and a panel discussion will gather community leaders, residents, university scholars, students, and city officials to explore why community …
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. "Coded Bias" explores the fallout and Joy's journey to push for the …
A discussion with special guest author Arika Okrent. Arika is the author of Highly Irregular-Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language published in 2021:Β English can be so illogical and frustrating. Ugh, English, why …
How does the particular produce the universal? In this seminar, Dr. James Loeffler will discuss how Jewish Studies engages this question by drawing on research on Raphael Lemkinβs creation of the legal concept of genocide in interwar Polish Jewish culture. …
The 2024 Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies, Distinguished Lecture by James Loeffler. This event is both in-person or via Zoom. To register for the Zoom link see https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8tdtZrqyTdecQvrjdfKEyg#/registration Can law limit hate speech without violating the First …
The goal of this talk is to study a fourth-order nonlinear parabolic system with dispersion for describing bacterial aggregation. Analytical solution of traveling wave is found by taking into account the dispersion coefficient. Numerically, we demonstrate that the initial concentration …
Presented by Dr. Daniel Stoertz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at St. Olaf College. In Complex Dynamics, we study the iteration of holomorphic or meromorphic functions on the complex plane or the Riemann sphere. Of particular interest is the behavior …
The 2024 George F. Kennan Lecture presents James Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. chair in government/business relations and professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.
The Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Natural Sciences for 2024 features Professor Jordan S. Ellenberg from UW-Madison. The βrandom walkβ is a mathematical concept which underlies the way scientists now think about everything from stock markets to Wisconsinβs legislative districts …
Presented by Prof. Qingshuo Song, associate professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In this talk, we will discuss the asymptotic behavior of the solution to a linear-quadratic stochastic optimal control problems. By establishing a connection between the ergodic cost problem and …
Join us for an engaging event hosted by the nonpartisan organization United to Preserve: Democracy and the Rule of Law and sponsored by 51ΑΤΖζ College of Letters & Science. The 2024 Dean's Social Impact Lecture will feature Barbara F. Walter, …
Denise Kripper is a translation studies scholar, author, literary translator, and associate professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College. In person or via Zoom: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/j/98120350254?pwd=9Qfz1huX6mP8emmO8bMQdjZMaEFpwD.1#success
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the visiting writing for Fall 2024. Mecca is an award-winning fiction writer and critic. The craft talk will be at 3 pm and a reading and Q&A will be at 7 pm. Mecca Jamilah Sullivanβs fiction …
The 2024 Friends of Art History Lecture marks the 60th anniversary of the Department of Art History at 51ΑΤΖζ. Our speaker is Professor Christina Maranci of Harvard University (Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Department of History of Art …
Presented by Jorge Coronado, Professor of Latin American and Andean Literatures, Co-Director, Andean Cultures & Histories at Northwestern University. In this talk, Professor Coronado reconsiders the scholarly frameworks within which we locate indigenista literature, arguably the broadest literary movement in …
The speaker is Dr. Kidiocus King-Carroll, Assistant Professor in African & African Diaspora Studies at 51ΑΤΖζ. In person or via Teams.
The 2024 Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Agriculture is considered multifunctional when it produces standard commodity goods alongside a broader range of human and ecological services. The degree to which agriculture is successfully multifunctional owes much to feedback among individual …
The 2024 Dean's Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities welcomes Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, returning to Wisconsin after having grown up in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Ayad Akhtar is a novelist and playwright. His work has been published and performed in over …
Since the 1970s, lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as …
A panel presentation with 51ΑΤΖζ scholars, drawing upon a multi-year community collaboration and ethnographic work within the Muslim Milwaukee Project. The panelists will discuss highlights on demographics and community-building, reflections on positionality and relationality, and different expressions of activism. Panelists …
Presented by Professor Emily Latch & Billie Harrison, Biological Sciences, UW-Milwaukee. The island of Grenada is home to only two endemic terrestrial vertebrates, the Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsi) and the Grenada Frog (Pristimantis euphronides). Both are Critically Endangered (IUCN Red …
Presented by Johannes Hollenbach, Paderborn University and RWI
Join us during "Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World" (November 16-22) for a talk by Grazia Menechella (Italian, UW-Madison). Prof. Menechella will explore Julia Lovejoy Cunibertiβs Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens (1917), a pioneering cookbook that introduced …
A Department of Geography colloquium with Amy Rohan and Amanda Beavin from the Milwaukee organization, Data You Can Use.
An applied microeconomics workshop presented by Antonio Porto, dissertator in the Lubar College of Business management science program.
A workshop with Dr. Jennifer Boittin, Professor of Global History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jennifer Boittin is the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History at UNC. She received her PhD in History from Yale University …
The UW System Faculty Lecture Series and The Center for 21st Century Studies at 51ΑΤΖζ present Derek Handley. Register for this online event to receive the link. A clickable link is below in the website section or copy and paste: …
In this talk, we will share early findings from an NSF study of 75 doctoral students and recent PhDs in mathematics from underrepresented groups. The project has conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with four cohorts: newly accepted students, early graduate students …
Part of the Women's & Gender Studies Lunch and Learn program. Presented by Gabriela Nagy, professor in 51ΑΤΖζ's psychology department. In person and on Teams. Meeting ID: 251 056 995 968 Passcode: QL3nC7gm
Spring 2025 Symposium of the Center for Cultures and Communities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Co-Sponsored by the Department of Womenβs and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Topic: Interrogating Historical Silences and …
We are often given mixed signals about the relationship between our responsibility to take action to address climate change and our sense of time. Is there a climate crisis that is so urgent that we must take whatever measures are …
Join us for the 27th Annual Student Research Forum, a collaborative event bringing together community members, university scholars, students, and city officials to discuss community engagement, neighborhood collaboration, and urban development and policy change. As part of this yearβs Student …
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 Greeneβs entire collection of 65,000 fossils & 15,000 minerals! Keynote Speakers: Rob Graziano, …
The Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey has recently published a new 1:500,000 scale map of the Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin. Dr. J. Elmo Rawling will discuss Wisconsinβs Quaternary geology with an emphasis on lithostratigraphy, cartography and geodatabase schema.
Prompting isnβt just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, weβll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by β but are also prototypes for β contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …
Join us at the Coffeeshop Astrophysics for a series of informal public lectures given by graduate students and postdocs from the 51ΑΤΖζ Physics Department. The talks are designed to promote scientific outreach to the broader Milwaukee community. Our talks are …
Jorge Luis Borges famously claimed himself to be the first hispano to embark upon the odyssey of reading and reviewing James Joyceβs Ulysses (1922). Along with his 1925 review, he also translated the last two pages of the novel, Molly …
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 …
Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk withΒ KiteΒ (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite),Β anΒ OglΓ‘laΒ LakΘΓ³taΒ artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practiceΒ investigateΒ contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machineΒ learning-drivenΒ performance, …
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 …
Faye Greenberg Sigman βWoman of Valorβ Lecture Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 7:00 pm Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor or via Zoom Register at https://bit.ly/3VmLcxE This talk examines trends in the way Jewish institutions have typically βcountedβ Jewish engagement in …
W(rites) of Spring calls us to communicate at the speed of a flowerβs unfurling. Rooted in the implosion work central to Mia Rimmerβs interdisciplinary practice, this nature walk and writing workshop at Havenwoods State Forest invites us to notice the …
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 …
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 …
Presented by Dr. Ian Owens Thursday, April 9, 2026 5:00-6:00 pm, Reception to Follow Ball Room - 51ΑΤΖζ Student Union 2200 East 51ΑΤΖζ. > RSVP Encouraged Itβs an exciting time to be a natural historian! New technologies are revolutionizing …