• Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776)

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    Virtual Event

    Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1976) For the month of October, we will discuss Thomas Paine's wildly influential American revolutionary tract Common Sense, radically advocating full independence from the British crown. Common Sense has been called "the most incendiary and …

  • 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Register for Event Gabriela Nagy, 51 assistant professor of psychology, will present the 2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk is “Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric:  What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity.” This talk challenges …

  • Kyushu in World History, or What I did on my Summer Vacation

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

      A presentation by Dr. Hilary Snow, 51 Honors College Situated at the southwestern edge of the main Japanese archipelago, Kyushu has a rich history shaped by the environment, proximity to the Asian mainland, and distance from the capitals of …

  • Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    The history of AI is the history of an overhyped intellectual brand that has only very recently come to signify a set of deployable technologies with broad application and clear, if somewhat horrifying, purposes. Since its debut in 1955 the …

  • Fact, Fiction, and Storytelling in the Archive

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    “Partridge and Frink haven’t been entirely forgotten nor erased like so many others, but there is still a lack of visibility and understanding about their personal dynamics and professional impact... While doing my research, I found nearly every component in …

  • GIS Day at 51

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library 2311 E. Hartford Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

      The 51 GIS Council invites students, faculty/staff, alumni, and the larger community to join us at GIS Day at 51 on Friday, November 21st!  This year’s theme, “Geo-Generalist Era: Where Spatial Meets Everything,” celebrates the expanding influence of GIS across …

  • Slow AI: A Human Training Workshop

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Led by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (English), Ann Hanlon (51 Libraries), and Anne Pycha (Linguistics). 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 …

  • Violins of Hope Opening Event

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Hear from musicologist and 51 Music Professor Gillian Rodger as she provides an historical perspective for the Violins of Hope: Call and Response exhibition, which spotlights Holocaust-era violins from Violins of Hope paired with documentary library resources and original art …

  • Records Management Basics, Fall 2025

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    In this virtual presentation, Derek Webb (51 Records Officer) and Shiraz Bhathena (Digital Archivist) will walk campus employees through some fundamentals of records management such as: How does records management benefit campus offices and employees? Who is responsible for managing …

  • Chancellor’s Study Break

    Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons, Golda Meir Library

    Set your textbooks down and join Chancellor Gibson for a study break on Monday, Dec. 15, from 6-8 p.m. in the Daniel M. Soref Learning Commons on the first floor of the 51 Golda Meir Library. Students can visit with …