Corey Robin: Clarence Thomas’s Radical Race Politics

Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Avenue
@ 5:00 pm

Clarence Thomas’s Radical Race Politics and the Future of the Supreme Court This Humanities Without Boundaries event is presented in partnership with Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Visiting Scholar Program and the event is co-sponsored with …

Humanities Without Boundaries: Cho Nam-joo

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

Moderated by Professor Eunsil Oh, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison. Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Book Festival. In this engaging Humanities Without Boundaries conversation, author Cho Nam-joo will talk about her recent and upcoming works as well …

McKay Lecture: Wendy Chun

Helen C. White, Room 6191, 600 N. Park St.
@ 5:00 pm

My Mother was a KeyPunch Operator (But She Never Learned to Drive) This Nellie Y. McKay Lecture in the Humanities is presented in partnership with the Institute for Research in the Humanities.  This lecture delves …

PUBLIC Asian Studies: Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

Online: see QR code in poster
@ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Speakers: Tuong Vu, thvu@uoregon.edu, Vietnam-in-the-World Project (VIEW) Chien-Kai Chen, chenc@rhodes.edu, Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS) Stan Hok-Wui Wong, Hok.Wong@stthom.edu and Maggie Shum, mps6969@psu.edu, Global Research Association of Politics in Hong Kong (GRAPH), Moderator: Nhu Truong The webinar will address the intersection of research as well as “PUBLIC” …

Disappearance of Disappearances: Normalization and the State of Human Rights in Kashmir

Dr Ather Zia, University of Northern Colorado
Via zoom: https://bit.ly/3F1CzDv
@ 5:30 pm

The Borghesi Mellon Workshop on Public Asian Studies linked here is excited to have Dr Ather Zia for an online talk on human rights in Kashmir for Spring 2025. Dr Zia is a political anthropologist, poet, short fiction writer, and columnist. She …

Film Screening: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

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 …

Public Works: Career Diversity Panel

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 …

Humanities Without Boundaries: Meghan O’Gieblyn

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 …

Focus on the Humanities: Finn Enke

Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
@ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

Of Doubtful Nature: Archive of an Amphibious Childhood in a Nuclear Age Focus on the Humanities lectures are a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. This …