CANCELLED: Humanities Without Boundaries: Helen Morales

Elvehjem Building, Room L140, 800 University Avenue
@ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

NOTE: This event has been cancelled. Professor Helen Morales is unable to travel to Madison and this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this for a future date and we will share an …

Humanities Without Boundaries: Valeria Luiselli

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

Moderated by Paola Hernandez, Mellon-Morgridge Professor of Spanish, UW-Madison. Presented in partnership with Wisconsin Book Festival. In this engaging Humanities Without Boundaries conversation, Lost Children Archive author Valeria Luiselli will talk about her latest novel …

Humanities Without Boundaries: Pete Souza

Marquee Cinema at Union South, 1308 W. Dayton Street
@ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Pete Souza, Former White House Photographer Public Images of the U.S. Presidency Presented by the UW-Madison Department of Communication Arts. In conversation with Cara Finnegan, Theon Hill, and Allison Prasch. Please join us to engage …

A Conversation with Jenny Slate

Shannon Hall at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street
@ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Jenny Slate’s career is impressive and inspiring, from stand-up comedy, music videos, and podcasts to award-winning film, television, and writing. Her national bestselling novel Little Weirds was named by Vanity Fair as one of its 31 Great Quarantine Reads. …

Film Screening: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

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 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, an award-winning, independent, animated mockumentary. “Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a …

Tommy Orange

@ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

An Evening with Tommy Orange American Novelist and Citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma Tommy Orange is the author of There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America …

Sianne Ngai

@ 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English, University of Chicago Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour” This in-person Humanities Without Boundaries lecture uses a pop song by Wham! and a reading of Marx’s Capital …

Regina Rini

Room L140, Elvehjem Building, 800 University Avenue
@ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Just over a century ago, many western intellectuals believed they were on precipice of a completed scientific picture of the world, one which would banish ignorance forever. Then it all came undone; revolutions in physics, …

Julia Stern

Helen C. White Hall (College Library), Room 6191 600 N. Park Street
@ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

In this in-person Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Julia Stern reflects on the significance of love and work, Freud’s indices of a life well lived, and on her teaching and scholarship over 30 years. Stern explores how …

Rachel Adams

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

“In March 2020 I found myself living in the epicenter of a global pandemic with a son whose disabilities put him at high risk of complications. The possibility of medical rationing meant that he might …