Public Works: How Ordinary People Can Change the World

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

Public Works: How Ordinary People Can Change the World Lessons from Creating the ACT UP Oral History Project, with Sarah Schulman NOTE: We are at capacity for this seminar. Please RSVP to be added to the …

Public Works: How to Engage Someone with Different Ideas

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

With Christine Goding-Doty and Virginia Heffernan Following the Civics Lab dialogue with Christine Goding-Doty and Virginia Heffernan on Thursday, Oct. 23, we invite faculty, staff, and graduate students to attend a small-group discussion where we’ll …

Public Works: What is a “Public Humanities” project?

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

Best Practices for Proposing, Implementing, and Evaluating a HEX Project The Public Humanities Exchange Program—HEX for graduate students, and HEX-U for undergraduate students—funds original projects that cultivate partnerships between community organizations and UW-Madison students. These …

Public Works: How to Write About Charged Political Issues

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

With Michael Rothberg How can scholars weigh in on the crisis of our moment? What are the risks? How can writers navigate the challenge of using academic knowledge in public settings? Following the Humanities Without …

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 …

Breakfast Book Talk: Musa al-Gharbi and the Contemporary Context of DEI

Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall
@ 9:00 am - 10:00 am

To join: Bagels and coffee will be provided, and seats are limited. To register, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, or affiliation. Faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to join Musa …

Public Works: Translating Research to Narrative Nonfiction with Aaron Robertson

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

Aaron Robertson is a writer, editor, and translator (from Italian); he was also a judge for the 2024 International Booker Prize. His nonfiction debut, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in …

Public Works: Measuring Intangible Outcomes: Evaluating Humanities Projects

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

In this workshop, participants will learn how to evaluate arts and humanities programs and how to use evaluation plans to help inform every step of project development. Evaluation is a process through which one can …

Public Works: Introduction to Asset Mapping with Wisconsin Humanities 

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

In this workshop, participants will learn how to use asset mapping, both in the form of literal maps and as an organizing tool, to collaboratively organize information, understand community needs, and kickstart community projects. What …