Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
A special conference dedicated to the life and legacy of Susan Stanford Friedman (1943-2023) will take place on Saturday, April 6, 2024 in the Pyle Center. Susan Stanford Friedman was the Virginia Woolf Professor Emerita …
Pyle Center, Auditorium Room 121, 702 Langdon St. @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
“On Racial Capitalism (Redux)” Featuring: Walter Johnson, Harvard University Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies This event is presented by the UW-Madison Department of History and co-sponsored by the Department of …
Taylor Brorby, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama
Zoom @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://nelson.wisc.edu/events/boys-and-oil-growing-up-gay-in-a-fractured-land/
In this talk, Brorby will explore the connections between extractive economies, targeting the LGBTQ+ community through book banning and censorship, and the role of storytelling to transform the systems in which we live as well as ourselves.
225 Pyle Center @ 4:00 pm
This event is from the UW-Madison Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+. It is co-sponosired by the Center for European Studies and the Center for the Humanities. Younghill Kang (1898-1972), who emigrated to the United …
Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Graduate students and faculty are invited to this small-group conversation with visiting Professor Tsitsi Jaji. Seats are limited and an RSVP is required. To join the workshop, please send your name, title, or affiliation to: …
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 …
Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Ave. @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
The Efficacy of the Slight: Zhuangzi and Lucretius in Times of Ecological Crisis Jane Bennett’s talk explores a trans-temporal resemblance between the Zhuangzi (a source-text for Daoism, China, 5th-3rd century, BCE) and the materialism of …
Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. @ 5:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Conjure: Art and the Black Supernatural This event is presented by the UW-Madison Department of Art History. More information is available here. Reception: 5:00–6:00pm Lecture: 6:00–7:15pm Bridget R. Cooks is a scholar and curator of …
H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building, 330 N. Orchard Street @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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ChatGP-Why: When, if Ever, is Synthetic Text Safe, Appropriate, and Desirable? This event is presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute. More information is available here. Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT, the internet has been …
