Student Life – Division of Student Affairs

Informed & Empowered: Navigating PAP Smears

Brynna — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0000

An educational event on demystifying PAP smears to reduce fear and stigma, connect students with inclusive cervical health resources on and off campus, and to encourage empowerment within healthcare settings. ��presentation��will be��led��by Dr.��Chakrabarti, MD, from Aurora, followed by a panel��with Parenthood NP Jennifer Babcock and RN Susan Thaller from the UW-Milwaukee Student Health and Wellness Center. The panel will be followed by a Q&A for all the representatives.��Coffee and snacks will be available!��All are welcome!

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Navigating Relationships: A Panel Discussion

contrera@uwm.edu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0000

Romantic and platonic relationships-alike today seem more difficult to navigate than before. Whether it’s due to social media, people going out less, or just an overall shift away from romantic interest, our panelists will engage in a research-informed discussion on how relationships are constructed, maintained, come apart, and other influences on relationships. Join the conversation and leave with a new perspective. A free reception to take place ahead of the panel at 5:30pm.

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Asian Faculty and Staff Association Social & Mahjong Night

contrera@uwm.edu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:00:00 +0000

Join the Asian Faculty & Staff Association (AFSA) for a laidback mixer at the Gasthaus to connect, build community, and expand your support network at 51��. The Chinese
Club at 51�� and the MKE Mahjong Social Group will host mahjong tables for beginners and seasoned players alike.

Free refreshments from the Gasthaus will also be provided!

Sponsored by Asian Faculty & Staff Association, Southeast Asian
American Student Center, Sociocultural Programming, Chinese Club,
& MKE Mahjong Social Group

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Self-Care Celebration

Samuel J Gobert — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:00 +0000

End your year with a celebration of self-care! Join us to finish off the semester and participate in: journal decorating, write a letter to your future self, lawn games, arts and crafts, and so much more!

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Experimental Tuesdays Presents: The Great Lakes Listening Series

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Free For Everyone! Artists in Attendance!

Experimental Tuesdays is proud to present the inaugural Great Lakes Listening Series a new annual listening event that presents multichannel sonic artworks within a cinema space.

This year’s edition will feature new works of sound art that respond to the natural, ecological, political, and cultural complexities of the Great Lakes Region, and explore the potential of the cinematic listening experience as a uniquely immersive and arresting means of engaging with these complexities.

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres & The Midwest Society of Acoustic Ecology

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Forgetting Vietnam

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

One of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam involves a fight between two dragons whose intertwined bodies fell into the South China Sea and formed Vietnam’s curving S-shaped coastline. Influential feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha’s lyrical film essay commemorating the 40th anniversary of the end of the war draws inspiration from ancient legend and from water as a force evoked in every aspect of Vietnamese culture. Minh-ha’s classic Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) used no original footage shot in the country; in Forgetting Vietnam images of contemporary life unfold as a dialogue between land and water—the elements that form the term “country”. Fragments of text and song evoke the echoes and traces of a trauma of international proportions. The encounter between the ancient as related to the solid earth, and the new as related to the liquid changes in a time of rapid globalization, creates a third space of historical and cultural re-memory—what local inhabitants, immigrants and veterans remember of yesterday’s stories to comment on today’s events.

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Special Event: Blue House

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Blue House Film Screening is a D.I.Y. film organization showcasing short films and building cinematic connections in Milwaukee.

Join us at the Union Cinema for a shorts program curated by the members of the Blue House collective!

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Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Handsworth Songs

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:00:00 +0000

In October 1985 Britain witnessed a spate of civil disturbances in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in urban centres of London. These were violent, tragic events, marked by the death of an elderly black woman, Joy Gardner and a white policeman, Keith Blakelock . Handsworth Songs takes as its point of departure these events and the inability of the British media to go beyond its concern with demonising or rationalising the rioters and their motives, to break the anxiety-driven loop of morbid responses to the presence of black people in Britain.

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Two By Black Audio Film Collective: Who Needs a Heart

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:30:00 +0000

Who Needs A Heart is a parable of political becoming and subjective transformation and remains BAFC’s most controversial film. Akin to a sophisticated home-movie history, a record of life on the fringes in London between 1965 and 1975, the film explores the forgotten history of British Black Power through the fictional lives of a group of friends caught up in the metamorphoses of the movement’s central figure; the counter-cultural anti-hero, activist and charismatic social bandit Michael Abdul Malik . Formerly known as Michael X and christened Michael De Freitas , he left England in 1970 and was tried and executed for his role in an unsolved murder in Trinidad in 1975. The film nevertheless holds him at a distance, tracing his career through contemporary TV and radio bulletins which counterpoint and parallel the lives of the group.

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Senior Screenings

rnlilla@uwm.edu — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:00:00 +0000

Free For Everyone!

Join us in celebrating the class of 2026 and their fantastic films! Seniors work all year on writing, producing, editing, and polishing short films of their own design. Come see some of the most unique and exciting films coming out of Milwaukee! Join the Union Cinema and Student Involvement an hour before the film screenings for drinks, snacks and gold carpet photos. Dress up a little, schmooze a little, and then enjoy the amazing creative work of 51��’s student filmmakers from our nationally recognized Department of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres. For full schedule & further information please visit: /arts/event/senior-screenings-2/

Cosponsored by the Dept. of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres

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