Public Works: Key Approaches to Pitching Public Humanities Projects with Art History Alumni

Center for the Humanities, University Club Building, Room 313, 432 E. Campus Mall
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

This Public Works seminar gives participants a chance to learn about successful approaches and strategies for pitching their academic work to public audiences. In honor of the Department of Art History’s Centennial Celebration, three alumni …

Special Event: Jennifer Holland

Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108, 1180 Observatory Drive
@ 1:00 pm

Lesbian-Homoville, Colorado: Relocating the Origins of the Anti-Queer Movement This event is presented by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities, the Center for Research on Gender & Women, …

Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

This book talk by Assistant Professor Darshana Sreedhar Mini is hosted by the UW-Madison Center for South Asia. In the 1990s, India’s mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy, soft-porn films that emerged in the Malayalam-speaking …

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 Room Alive!

Music Hall (follow link for more complete details)
@ 4:45 pm
https://wifilmfest.eventive.org/films/65c7b0d37cef710041c5f2c0

UW faculty member Lynda Barry takes center stage in this charming documentary about the “Comics Room”, where Dr. Barry and her students–including a student turned faculty, comics veteran Jeff Butler–explore their creativity through the medium of comic books, creating a lively community of artists in the process. (LSL)

Doria Dee Johnson Lecture in History and Social Justice

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 …