• Writing for the Underground: A Talk by Neil Horsky

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

    Neil Horsky -- an artist and an adjunct instructor at 51 and at Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design -- will talk about his work as an arts journalist at an independent newspaper, The Boston Compass, and how audience demographics …

  • 51’s Academic Adventurers Talk — Pedestrian Safety at Night: Illuminating the Problem and Strategies for Safer Streets

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

    Presented by Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, 51. US pedestrian fatalities increased by 51% between 2010 and 2020 (4,302 to 6,516 fatalities per year), and nearly all of the additional pedestrian fatalities that occurred …

  • 2024 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture

    American Geographical Society Library, Golda Meir Library/Online

    Tim Wallace, Senior Editor for Geography at The New York Times, presents the 2024 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library, located on the third floor of …

  • Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin

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

    Join us for a talk at 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 10 by Sergio González, author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press), as …

  • 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    This lecture will be presented simultaneously in person and virtually. The Zoom link is here.  The 2024 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture will be presented by Nan Kim (Associate Professor, 51 Department of History). What can offer resources for hope at a time of escalating …

  • Trick or Treat? AI Research Assistants Disrupting Information Discovery 

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    The 51 Libraries invite you to a discussion in which we will examine emerging AI research tools, their benefits, and shortcomings from viewpoints of information content providers, librarians, and users. Many academic content providers, including JSTOR, are developing AI Research …

  • 2024 Ettinger Book Artist Series Lecture: Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    Collaborative photographers and books artists Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman have worked together on photographic projects and photo-based artists books for over 40 years. Ciurej is a Chicago-based photographer and graphic designer. Lochman is a Milwaukee-based photographer and former art lecturer …

  • Celebrating AGSL’s Leardo Mappamundi

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

    One of the American Geographical Society Library's most cherished holdings, the 1452 Mappamundi by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo, is undergoing multispectral imaging this winter. Join us for a series of events, starting with a talk by AGSL Curator Marcy …