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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
@ 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 …
@ 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 …
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, …
