Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue @ 5:30 pm
Rewilding the Zoo: Animal Captivity and the Future of Extinction This event is presented in partnership with the Institute for Research in the Humanities. How do zoos, historically developed in the nineteenth century as public …
Virtual (Zoom) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Struggle for the City: Rhetorics of Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement The UW System Lecture Series is co-hosted by UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) and UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities …
Memorial Union, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Knives Out: Medieval Recipes, Culinary Violence, and Literary Character This Friday Lunch talk will explore how the inherent violence of premodern culinary technique left its traces not only in the recipes of late medieval England, …
Memorial Union, 800 University Avenue (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Sembawang’s Malayali Settlement: Fiction, Memoirs and Literature as Inter-Asian Method At this Friday Lunch event, Assistant Professor Darshana Mini locates the longer histories of migration of Indian indentured labor to Malaya and Strait settlements through …
Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St. (Room Information Shared Upon Registration) @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Banished Women: A Hidden History of Mexican Repatriation This Friday Lunch talk discusses the history of forced and coerced relocations of Mexican Americans from the US to Mexico during the Great Depression, a process commonly …
Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Aaron Robertson is a writer, editor, and translator (from Italian); he was also a judge for the 2024 International Booker Prize. His nonfiction debut, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in …
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in the Nuclear Age This Focus on the Humanities lecture is presented in partnership with the UW-Madison Art Department Colloquium and the Visiting Artist/Critic Program. What is …
Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Automated Thought: The Life of the Mind in the Age of AI What’s the point of thinking? This is not an idle question but a dilemma we face constantly in daily life — and one …
Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join us to hear from four Wisconsin-based public humanities professionals who pursued non-academic career paths, from academic and nonprofit administration to editorial, fundraising, and community engagement work. This panel will be moderated by Danielle Weindling, Assistant Director, Center …
The Marquee Cinema at Wisconsin Union, 1308 W. Dayton Street #245 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Please join the UW-Madison Center for the Humanities for a free film screening of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 Directed by Kim Do-young (South Korea, 2019). Based on the bestselling novel by Cho Nam-joo, this powerful …
