Calendar of Events

Fall 2009

September 16, 2009
Robert S. Mattison (Art, Lafayette College)
"Whatever Is There Is a Truth: Robert Rauschenberg's Prints," a lecture
6:00 pm Haggerty Museum at Marquette University. (Parking Directions)
Co-sponsored by the Haggerty Museum and UWM Department of Art History
September 24, 2009
Glenn Hendler (English, Fordham University)
"Riot Acts," a lecture
2:00 pm Curtin Hall 368
Co-sponsored by UWM College of Letters & Science, Cultures & Communities Program, and Department of English
September 25, 2009
2008-09 Fellows Presentations

Thomas Haigh (SOIS), Lisa Silverman (History) and Florence Vatan (FICL)
and an Introduction of Incoming Modern Studies Students

2:30 pm Curtin Hall 118


followed by
C21 Open House
4:00 pm Curtin Hall 939
October 16, 2009
Open Forum
Learn more about the Center
2:30 pm Curtin Hall 118

 

Whitney Davis (Art History, Berkeley)
"Virtuality and Metaopticality," a lecture
3:30 pm Curtin Hall 118
Co-sponsored by UWM Department of Art History


October 18, 2009
Fig Trees, a film
A documentary opera, or maybe an opera documentary . . .
about the struggles of AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fought to secure access to treatment drugs

7:00 pm UWM Union Theatre
Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, October 15 - 25, 2009.
October 30, 2009
Representing the Detained
A symposium on legal and literary representations of immigrant detainees
Presenters: Davorin J. Odrcic (immigration attorney) and Kristin Pitt (UWM, Comp Lit)
Moderator: Rachel I. Buff (UWM, History)

3:30 pm Curtin Hall 118
Co-sponsored by UWM Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, and UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Note: David Christian's lecture on "World History and Big History," previously scheduled for this date, will be rescheduled for the next academic year.
November 13, 2009
Dell Upton (Architectural History & Art History, UCLA)
"The Public Realm in the American City: Conflict, Imagination, and Demeanor," a lecture
4:30 pm Architecture and Urban Planning (AUP) Building 170
Co-sponsored by UWM School of Architecture and Urban Planning and Department of Art History
November 20, 2009
Bruce d'Arcus (Geography, Miami of Ohio), and Joseph Masco (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Space, Power, and Fear in Modern America," a symposium
3:00 pm Curtin Hall 175
Co-sponsored by the UWM Department of Anthropology and the UWM Geographic Information Sciences Program
December 4, 2009
Fall 2009 Humanities Dissertator Presentations
On Sibling Incest, Conjoined Twins, and Kinks in the Queer Historical Narrative
Kate Haffey (Literary Studies, English), Susan Kerns (Modern Studies, English), and Brice Smith (Modern Studies, History)

3:00 pm Curtin Hall 118
Co-sponsored by UWM Department of English and Modern Studies Program
December 11, 2009
Margaret Atherton (Philosophy), Robert Schwartz (Philosophy), Mitch Brauner (Music), Carlos Galvao-Sobrinho (History)
"Timelessness," a symposium featuring UWM faculty
3:00 pm Curtin Hall 118
All events are free and open to the public
Tentative Spring 2010 calendar
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