Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Ave. @ 5:30 pm
NOTE: This event has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule it and we will share information soon. A Humanities Without Boundaries lecture with Rob Nixon In 2005, Richard Louv sounded the alarm that children were …
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 …
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave. @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals, yet it does not come without complication. In The …
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave. @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory Why do we turn to the past in order to confront the crises of the present? Michael Rothberg approaches this question from the perspective of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Avenue @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research primarily focuses on the …
Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue @ 5:30 pm
Make Sovereignty Great Again: American Feelings in a Global Age Across the U.S., citizens have begun exercising individual sovereignty in surprising ways. Internet influencers promote “life hacking” to optimize their life spans, while tech “bros” …
