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  • Welcoming Well-Being: A Chancellor Chat Event

    Student Health and Wellness Center 2025 E Newport Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 51 Alumni Association invites you to join us as Chancellor Mark Mone sits down with Dr. Aamir Siddiqi, the director of UW-Milwaukee’s Student Health and Wellness Center (SHAW) and members of the SHAW clinical staff, to discuss how SHAW …

    Free
  • Black History Month Alumni Social & Trivia Night

    51 Gasthaus 2200 East 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the 51 Alumni Association and the Black Student Cultural Center for the Black History Month Alumni Social & Trivia Night Event. An evening of connection, in honor of Victoria Pryor. Event Schedule: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Alumni Social 7 …

    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), 51 Golda Meir Library, Third Floor East Wing Cost: FREE Join us for an engaging alumni panel discussion hosted by the Department of Geography. …

  • Darwin Day

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

    When: Saturday, February 15th, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM Where: 3209 N Maryland Ave, Lapham Hall, Milwaukee, WI, 53211 Darwin Day is a community science outreach event celebrating the life and times of one of the most brilliant and influential …

    Free
  • Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution – Art Exhibition

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

    Revolutionary Realism: Prints and Portraits after the Mexican Revolution explores the traditions of print and portraiture in 20th-century Mexico and their influence in other Latin American countries. This exhibition examines the visual language of revolution, labor, and identity following the …

    Free
  • Asia in Conversation, “Media Circulations and Risky Publics”

    Virtual Event

    Darshana Sreedhar, Mini Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Pallavi Rao, Assistant Professor in Department of Media Studies at University of Virginia; and Lia Wolock, Assistant Professor in Department of Communication at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Friday, …

  • LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Anjana Mudambi

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

    Critically Reflexive Racialization: Building Interracial Solidarity through Research Practices Monday, February 24, 2025 3:00-4:00 PM AGSL (51 Libraries, third floor) UW-Milwaukee Dr. Anjana Mudambi Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this talk, I’ll share my framework of critically reflexive …

  • Demoted Exhibition Reception

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

    "Demoted" is an exhibition featuring research by 51 undergraduate Art History students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson. The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical …

  • LACUSL Speaker Series: Prof. Jessica Nelson

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

    “Remembered in Our Prayers”: Colonial Mexico, Philanthropy, and Public History Monday, March 31st, 2025 3:00-4:00 PM AGSL (51 Libraries, 3rd floor) UW-Milwaukee Dr. Jessica Nelson Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In colonial Oaxaca, Mexico, the spiritual and material …

  • 46th Annual Latin American Film Series

    46th Annual Latin American Film Series
    51 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Presented by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with 51 Union Student Involvement and Union Cinema 51’s Latin American Film Series (LAFS) returns this April for its 46th year, showcasing recent feature-length films from across Latin America and …

  • Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope

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

    Department of Geography's Harold and Florence Mayer Lecture Digital Geographies & the City: Methodologies of Hope Professor Sarah Elwood (Department of Geography, University of Washington) April 11, 2025 2:30-3:30pm AGSL Digital Geographies & The City: Methodologies of Hope In many …

  • Creative Writing Workshop with Slow Growing in the Time of Trees

    51 Curtin Hall, Room 939 3243 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies and Slow Growing in the Time of Trees for a generative writing workshop about art and the most generative of living things: fungi. Come with a writing implement and paper, or birch bark, …

  • Spring Asia in Conversation Series

    We would like to invite you to our Spring Asia in Conversation Series. The conversation is on Friday, April 25th, from 3:30-5:00 pm CST, on Zoom. Dr. Hamid Ouali, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Dr. Fahed Masalkhi, Arabic Program Coordinator, …

  • Demoted Exhibition

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

    “Demoted” is an exhibition featuring research by 51 undergraduate Art History students from the Fall 2024 colloquium taught by Associate Professor Richard Leson. The paintings in this exhibit raise questions about authenticity, value, and the ethical implications of traditional art-historical …

  • Urban Studies 27th Annual Student Research Forum

    51 Union Alumni Fireside Lounge 2200 E. 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    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 year’s Student …

    Free
  • From a Whisper to a Symphony

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

    The Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics, in partnership with the Manfred Olson Planetarium, invites you to an evening with Dr. Patrick Brady and friends as they discuss what we have learned about black holes and neutron …

    Free
  • Global Works Career Fair

    51 Union Alumni Fireside Lounge 2200 E. 51., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Please stop by as your schedule allows and join us for this fall's Global Works Career Fair. It's a great opportunity to network, learn about global careers and internships, and hear from the experts!

  • Play Mental Health & Philosophy

    8th Note Cafe at the Student Union

    Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on mental health, games, and the therapeutic use of RPGs! Featuring Brian Thomas, Anthropology PhD candidate at 51 Everyone is welcome!

  • Searching for Life in the Universe

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

    Speaker: Professor Dawn Erb of the 51 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 51 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!

    51 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, …

  • The Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin

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

    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 Wisconsin’s Quaternary geology with an emphasis on lithostratigraphy, cartography and geodatabase schema.

  • United We Read: Creative Writing Faculty and Graduate Student Reading Series

    Boswell Book Company 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The 51 Creatuve Writing Program Graduate Student-Faculty Series: United We Read will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14 at Boswell Book Company (2559 N. Downer Avenue) with Sam Wingfield-Karpowitz, Sophie Nunberg, Kurt Olsson, and Prof. Katharine Beutner. …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

    51 Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Prompting isn’t just for ChatGPT. In this workshop, we’ll return our attention to older ways of writing and thinking that get hijacked by – but are also prototypes for – contemporary productivity models. The first ten attendees to register will …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American 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 …

  • American Icons: Sacralizing A Nation

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

    This exhibition explores the ways that religion has been deeply interwoven into the iconography of the United States. Historically, the term ‘icon’ (Greek for ‘image’) is associated with Christian traditions, aligning most notably with venerated religious figures. Today, ‘icon’ is …

  • Rebellious Stripes: The American 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 …

  • Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies

    Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. AI is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise …

  • Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies Opening Event

    Kenilworth Square East Gallery 2155 N Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Artists Sasha Stiles and Nathaniel Stern install their show Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies for a week-long run at Kenilworth Square East Gallery from February 12 to 20. Join Stern, Stiles, and The Brooklyn Rail editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a workshop, gallery …

  • 29th Festival of Films in French

    51 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51., 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

    51 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

    51 Union Cinema 2200 E. 51., 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

    51 Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. 51., 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 León (Amilinda …

  • 13th Annual Japanese Speech & Recitation Contest

    Curtin Hall 175

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

  • Aesthetics, Art, & AI: Kite

    Join the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) on March 12 for an artist talk with Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite), an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning-driven performance, …

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

    51 Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 2100 E. 51., 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 …

  • Jennifer Caplan, “Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Jews, Comedy, and Gender”

    51 Golda Meir Library, 4th Floor Conference Center 2311 East Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Faye Greenberg Sigman “Woman of Valor” 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 “counted” Jewish engagement in …

  • 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

    51 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 Project (QZAP) co-founder 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

    51 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 …