Public Works: Media Training for Humanities Scholars

Center for the Humanities, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

At this small-group, brown-bag seminar, we’ll help humanities scholars improve their experiences and results with media outlets, particularly radio and podcasts. You’ll learn best practices on how to pitch stories to media outlets, prepare and …

Ways of Knowing: A Sonic Celebration of the Humanities

The Digital Scholarship Hub, Memorial Library, 728 State St.
@ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

A Special Multi-Channel Audio Event The World According to Sound presents Ways of Knowing, a multi-channel audio event about humanities research and thought. NOTE: An RSVP is required; please register here to attend this event. …

Cotton Complicity: Markets and Moral Objects in Antebellum America

Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street (Room Information Shared Upon Registration)
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

A Friday Lunch talk with David Zimmerman Between 1830 and 1860, “free-produce” advocates insisted that purchasers of goods made from cotton harvested by enslaved people shared fully in the enslaver’s criminality. The production paths, distribution …

Model Collapse: Art, AI, and the Seductions of Hallucination

Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave.
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

A Special Event with Kris Paulsen This special event with Kris Paulsen is co-hosted by UW-Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) and UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities as part of a collaborative research initiative …

Inheriting an Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian Peninsula

Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street (Room Information Shared Upon Registration)
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  A Friday Lunch talk with Jennifer Pruitt More information on this talk is coming soon. Please note: A catered lunch will be provided at this Friday Lunch event. Seats are limited and available on …

The Virtue of Uncertainty

Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Ave.
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

A Focus on the Humanities lecture with Jordan Ellenberg More information on this talk is coming soon. This event is presented in partnership with the Institute for Research in the Humanities.

Humanities Without Boundaries: Nnedi Okorafor

Madison Central Public Library, 201 W. Mifflin St.
@ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

A Conversation with Author Nnedi Okorafor Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Book Festival. Moderated by Ainehi Edoro, Vilas Early Career Professor and Constellations Mellon-Morgridge Professor at UW-Madison and founder and editor of Brittle Paper. In this engaging …