• 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • Scholarly Publishing With Springer Nature

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    The 51 Libraries invite you to a workshop in which you will learn about the best practices for scholarly article publishing in Springer Nature journals. This year, the 51 Libraries and Springer Nature signed a new “read and publish” agreement …

  • Attentive or Absentminded: Habits of Mind in the Age of AI

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    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. At a moment when we are outsourcing many intellectual and creative tasks to machines, it's worth thinking …

  • 51 Authors Recognition Ceremony

    Fourth Floor Conference Center, Golda Meir Library

    The Libraries are hosting a celebration honoring 51 faculty and staff whose published monographs and recordings have been added to the 51 Authors Collection during the two years since the previous ceremony in 2023. The event is co-sponsored by the …

  • 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 …

  • 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 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 …