Upcoming Events & Announcements
2010 Fall Calendar
Our Fall 2010 calendar continues our bi-annual theme of Figuring Place & Time, featuring part one of our symposium on Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces, as well as presentations by scholars of new media, geography, film, and medical anthropology. Additionally, new Center director Richard Grusin will be presenting his vision of "The Future of 21st Century Studies."
If Fall 2010 is too future-oriented for you, you can peruse our Spring/Summer 2010 newsletter that recaps our many events over the last semester, including our very timely conference on Debt.
If Fall 2010 is too future-oriented for you, you can peruse our Spring/Summer 2010 newsletter that recaps our many events over the last semester, including our very timely conference on Debt.
Richard Grusin: New Center Director!
The Center is pleased to announce that Professor Richard Grusin (English, Wayne State University) has been named the Center's new director, starting with the 2010-11 academic year. He will also hold a concurrent position in the English department.
Grusin received his Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley, and has held faculty appointments at the College of William and Mary, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Wayne State (where he chaired the Department of English from 2001 to 2008). He brings an outstanding record of institutional service and interdisciplinary scholarship to UWM, and is the author of Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible; Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks; and Remediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay David Bolter). His most recent book, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11, was just published by Palgrave Macmillan in April. Please join us in welcoming Professor Grusin to the Center!
Grusin received his Ph.D. from the University of California–Berkeley, and has held faculty appointments at the College of William and Mary, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Wayne State (where he chaired the Department of English from 2001 to 2008). He brings an outstanding record of institutional service and interdisciplinary scholarship to UWM, and is the author of Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible; Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks; and Remediation: Understanding New Media (co-authored with Jay David Bolter). His most recent book, Premediation: Affect and Mediality After 9/11, was just published by Palgrave Macmillan in April. Please join us in welcoming Professor Grusin to the Center!
Photo: Arijit Sen
Embodied Placemaking
Save the date! The first part of our symposium, Embodied Placemaking in Urban Public Spaces, will be held on Friday, October 8, 2010. This symposium will focus on how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and the ways physiological bodily responses get implicated in the making and experiencing of place. For further information and tentative schedule . . .
Friday, October 8, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Curtin Hall 175, 9 am - 5 pm
Co-sponsored by UWM Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultures & Communities Program, Peck School of the Arts, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and the Urban Studies Program
Co-sponsored by UWM Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Initiative, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultures & Communities Program, Peck School of the Arts, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, and the Urban Studies Program
- postal address: p.o. box 413 milwaukee, wi 53201
- street address: curtin hall 929 3243 n downer ave milwaukee, wi 53211
- phone: 414.229.4141
- fax: 414.229.5964
- email: C21@uwm.edu