{"id":34088,"date":"2022-06-21T11:19:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=34088"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:41:41","slug":"fromkin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/fromkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2025-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture\">2025 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino\/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity&#8221; <\/strong>presented by <strong>Gabriela Nagy<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 30, 2025<br>4th Floor Conference Center<br>51ÁÔÆæ Golda Meir Library<br>and virtually via Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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image and text promoting the Fromkin Lecture\" class=\"wp-image-43789\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-33382\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/\">Special Collections<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/directory\/?uwmpeoplecat=22&#038;_people_categories_facet=special\">Staff<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/about\/\">About Special Collections<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/collections\/\">Collections<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/\">Events<\/a><ul><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/fromkin\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/span><\/a><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/fromkin\/call-for-proposals\/\">Call For Proposals<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/fromkin\/past-fromkin\/\">Past Fromkin Memorial Lectures<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/great-books\/\">Great Books Roundtable Discussions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2023-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture\">2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p>The 54th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture<strong> &#8220;Out of Sight: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee&#8221;<\/strong> was presented by&nbsp;<strong>Ermitte Saint Jacques<\/strong> (Assistant Professor, 51ÁÔÆæ 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John Professor, Marquette University Department of History).&nbsp;The lecture was held <strong>October 19, 2023 at 4:00 p.m.<\/strong> in the 4th Floor Conference Center at the Golda Meir Library on 51ÁÔÆæ&#8217;s campus and virtually via Zoom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1275\" height=\"1650\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a the poster for the 2023 Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture titled &quot;Out of Sight: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee&quot; features three black and white images.\" class=\"wp-image-42425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023.jpg 1275w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/572\/2024\/02\/Fromkin-Flier-2023-1187x1536.jpg 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-recent-fromkin-lectures\">Recent Fromkin Lectures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-53rd-annual-morris-fromkin-memorial-lecture-the-comforts-of-heritage-race-tourism-and-memory-in-the-american-south-was-presented-by-shevaun-watson-associate-professor-uwm-department-of-english-on-october-27-2022-at-4-00-p-m-in-the-4th-floor-conference-center-in-the-golda-meir-library-and-virtually-via-zoom\">The 53rd Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, \u201cThe Comforts of Heritage: Race, Tourism, and Memory in the American South\u201d was presented by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/english\/about\/directory\/watson-shevaun-1\/\">Shevaun Watson<\/a> (Associate Professor, 51ÁÔÆæ Department of English) on\u00a0October 27, 2022 at 4:00 p.m.\u00a0in the 4th Floor Conference Center in the Golda Meir Library and virtually via Zoom.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/events\/fromkin\/past-fromkin\/\">Click here to view the list of previous lectures in this series.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1458,"featured_media":32054,"parent":33722,"menu_order":113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-34088","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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