BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//51 Libraries - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:/libraries X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 51 Libraries REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250306T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250501T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250311T181045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T213759Z UID:10000200-1741248000-1746118800@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Exhibit: Wood Engravers’ Network’s 5th Triennial Exhibition DESCRIPTION:51’s Mathis Art Gallery presents the Wood Engravers’ Network’s 5th Triennial Exhibition from March 6 through May 1st\, 2025\, with an exhibit opening reception\, Thursday\, March 6th from 5-7pm. \nSelected by Juror and 51 Head of Special Collections\, Max Yela\, the show features 60 contemporary relief engravings that showcase the creative innovation and technical craftsmanship of an international group of artists.  \nThe exhibit also includes a selection of materials from Special Collections demonstrating the historical use of wood engraving from the late 18th century to the present. \nThis exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday\, 10:30am until 2:30pm (closed for break March 17 through 27th). Mathis Art Gallery is on the first floor of Mitchell Hall\, 3203 N Downer Avenue.  URL:/libraries/event/exhibit_wood-engravers/ LOCATION:51 Mathis Art Gallery\, Mitchell Hall\, 3203 N. Downer Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250401T120000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250327T195813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T200115Z UID:10000205-1743501600-1743508800@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Python for Beginners Workshop DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 1 and Wednesday\, April 2 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.\nInstructor: Karl Holten\, 51 Libraries/L&S IT\nHelpers: Ann Hanlon\, TBA\nVIRTUAL ONLY\nThis 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software Carpentries “Plotting and Programming in Python” we will cover installation\, fundamentals\, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.\nRegister here: /libraries/digital-humanities/dh-lab-events/dh-event-registration-python-for-beginners/ URL:/libraries/event/python-for-beginners-workshop-3/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Faculty and Staff,Front Page Event,Students,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250402T120000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250327T195937Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T195937Z UID:10000206-1743588000-1743595200@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Python for Beginners Workshop DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 1 and Wednesday\, April 2 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.\nInstructor: Karl Holten\, 51 Libraries/L&S IT\nHelpers: Ann Hanlon\, TBA\nVIRTUAL ONLY\nThis 2-day workshop will cover the basics of learning how to program using Python for data analysis. Based on the curriculum for the Software Carpentries “Plotting and Programming in Python” we will cover installation\, fundamentals\, and data analysis (time permitting). No experience necessary.\nRegister here: /libraries/digital-humanities/dh-lab-events/dh-event-registration-python-for-beginners/ URL:/libraries/event/python-for-beginners-workshop-4/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Faculty and Staff,Front Page Event,Students,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250403T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250403T110000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250327T195508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250327T195508Z UID:10000203-1743674400-1743678000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Using OpenRefine to Clean Your Data: Regular Expressions DESCRIPTION:Workshop led by Nathan Humpal. \n\nOpenRefine is a free\, powerful tool for cleaning up data in lots of formats. One especially powerful feature is using regular expressions to search for patterns in your data to convert\, clean\, and identify. Join us to learn more about how to use OpenRefine and get the most out of using regular expressions. We will be using the Library Carpentries OpenRefine lesson\, focusing on Transformations: https://librarycarpentry.github.io/lc-open-refine/07-introduction-to-transformations.html\n\nVIRTUAL ONLY\n\nRegister here: /libraries/digital-humanities/dh-lab-events/dh-event-registration-using-openrefine-to-clean-data/ URL:/libraries/event/using-openrefine/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Faculty and Staff,Front Page Event,Students,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250407T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250407T130000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250313T154448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T154650Z UID:10000201-1744025400-1744030800@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Graduate Student Commons Grand Opening DESCRIPTION:The 51 Libraries and the Graduate School invite you to celebrate with us the grand opening of the new Graduate Student Commons\, located on the second floor\, east wing of the Golda Meir Library\, on Monday\, April 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. \nThere will be brief remarks and a ribbon-cutting at 11:45 a.m. Refreshments will be provided. \nThis fully renovated 2\,700-square-foot area provides 51 graduate students with a “third space” — an alternative to home and classroom — for studying\, networking with peers\, and building community. \nThe Commons overlooks the 51 Fountain and offers plentiful sunlight. It includes individual and group seating with a variety of comfortable chairs\, study booths\, and white boards. The space is partitioned into two zones: one for quiet study and another for collaboration and conversation. URL:/libraries/event/grad-student-commons-grand-opening/ LOCATION:Graduate Student Commons\, 51 Golda Meir Library CATEGORIES:Faculty and Staff,Front Page Event,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250113T200028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T190521Z UID:10000195-1744300800-1744304400@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI DESCRIPTION:A lecture presented by Meghan O’Gieblyn\, author of God Human Animal Machine\, and the essay collection Interior States\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. \nAt a moment when we are outsourcing many intellectual and creative tasks to machines\, it’s worth thinking about the point of thinking itself. Is it a means to an end\, or an end in itself? Are humans just “stochastic parrots\,” mindlessly producing language in a way that is not so different from AI\, as some tech luminaries contend\, or is there something more going on in our minds? While these questions may seem new\, they harken back to older debates about the relationship between thought and language\, freedom and necessity\, and the fine line that exists between attention and automaticity. Long before the advent of digital technologies\, two twentieth century philosophers\, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil\, wrote about some of these questions through the lens of the technologies of their times. Their writing anticipates many of the challenges of the age of AI and calls attention to the more ordinary and insidious ways that consciousness becomes ossified by social convention\, as well as the moral and political risks that arise when we fail to “think what we are doing.” \nGolda Meir Library Fourth Floor Conference Center\nApril 10\, 2025 | 4:00 -5:00 p.m. (refreshments at 3:30 p.m.) \nCo-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies’ AI and the Humanities Collaboratory\, the 51 Office of Research\, and the 51 Libraries. URL:/libraries/event/attentive-or-absentminded/ LOCATION:Fourth Floor Conference Center\, Golda Meir Library CATEGORIES:Front Page Event X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250424T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20241119T170208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T191413Z UID:10000192-1745515800-1745523000@uwm.edu SUMMARY:2025 "Maps and America" Lecture -- “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World” DESCRIPTION:Emily Bowe\, Assistant Director of the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library\, and Ian Spangler\, Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography at the Leventhal Center\, present the 2025 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday\, April 24\, 2025 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library\, located on the third floor of the 51 Golda Meir Library\, 2311 E. Hartford Ave. \nTheir talk\, “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World\,” explores the how the computer technologies developed in the twentieth century drove changes in land management\, law and policy\, national defense\, and more. Taking a historical approach to digital mapping by comparing maps made with computers to those that came before\, the talk will invite us to reevaluate the relationships between maps\, technology\, and society. \nThere is a reception at 5:30 p.m. \nRegistration is required for this in-person and virtual event. \nThis will be the 35th annual presentation in the Maps & America: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture series\, organized by the American Geographical Society Library and supported by an endowment created by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer. \nThe lecture series was inaugurated by the noted cartographic historian Brian Harley in 1990. Over the years\, the series has featured many of the leading figures in the field of map history and provided a multifaceted survey of this rapidly developing field. URL:/libraries/event/2025-maps-and-america/ LOCATION:American Geographical Society Library\, Golda Meir Library/Online CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Faculty and Staff,Front Page Event,Lectures Conferences and Symposiums,Public,Students,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250428T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250530T000000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20250425T173148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250425T173354Z UID:10000210-1745798400-1748563200@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Pop Up Exhibits DESCRIPTION:All three of the 51 Libraries’ Distinctive Collections–American Geographical Society Library\, Archives\, and Special Collections–will have pop-up exhibits\, drawn from their collections\, celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month from April 28 to May 30\, 2025. URL:/libraries/event/45466/ LOCATION:Golda Meir Library\, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.\, Milwaukee\, WI\, 53211\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibitions X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250430T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250430T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T223255 CREATED:20240708T194420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240708T194420Z UID:10000171-1746039600-1746046800@uwm.edu SUMMARY:Great Books Virtual Roundtable Discussion: Beowulf DESCRIPTION:Selection from Beowulf (ca. 10th/11th century CE) translated by Seamus Heaney (1999)\nLines 1-1643 \nNo expertise or prerequisites are required. We only ask that you read the selected text. \nINSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ZOOM SESSION \nIf you think you will be attending the session\, please send Max Yela an email (maxyela@uwm.edu) about your intention to attend (even if you decide not to attend later). He will accept notices of intent until 5:00 p.m.\, April 30. Between 6:30 and 6:45 on the day of our discussion\, April 30\, you will receive an email from him with an automatic password-protected URL. Please use that URL to join the session (you will of course need to use a computer with a microphone and a video camera in it — if you want to be seen\, that is). When you join\, you will be placed in a waiting room that Max will be monitoring to allow attendees into the session. Only those he has emailed will be allowed into the session. This process is intended to maximize the security of the meeting. \nThese discussions are free and open to the public. \nPart of the purpose of the Great Books Roundtable Discussions is to illustrate the pedagogical method of shared inquiry. Another purpose is to disseminate an understanding and appreciation of the philosophy of great books education on the 51 campus. It was the assertion of the former Great Books Program that its methodology and philosophical approach toward the study of foreign languages\, mathematics\, history\, and great books offers a challenging\, meaningful\, and useful Liberal Arts education. \nSpecial Collections serves as host for the Roundtable Discussions in support of these educational goals. Special Collections’ programs\, services\, and policy of free\, open\, and equal access to all its collections have close affinities to the former Great Books Program’s vision of a vigorous Liberal Arts education and its method of shared inquiry. \nMore information on the program can be found on the Special Collections Great Books Roundtable Discussions webpage. URL:/libraries/event/gbrd-043025/ LOCATION:Online CATEGORIES:Alumni & Community,Arts and Culture,Front Page Event,Public,51 Campus Events X-TRIBE-STATUS: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR