Calendar of Events
Spring 2013
With Anna Mansson McGinty (Geography, Women's Studies), Caroline Seymour-Jorn (FICL), and Kristin M. Sziarto (Geography)
a workshop in 21st Century Studies12:00 noon Curtin 939
Narrative, Database, and Algorithm in the Hospitable Network
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin 108
a workshop
12 noon Curtin 108
Cosponsored with the UWM English Department
Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom
a discussion12:30 pm Curtin 939
Cosponsored with the Feminist Theory Research Workshop
Keynote: Judith "Jack" Halberstam (English/Director, Center for Feminist Research, USC)
No Church in the Wild: Anarchy, Failure and Chaos
Friday, February 153:30 pm Curtin 175
Brown bag lunch with Professor Halberstam
Friday, February 15
11:45 am Curtin 939
Reading: Jack Halberstam, "Unlearning, " Profession 2012 (New York: Modern Language Association, 2012), 9–16.
Graduate Student Presentations
Friday, February 151:30 - 3:00 pm Curtin 175
6:00 - 8:00 pm Gasthaus Pub
Saturday, February 16
8:30 am - 5:30 pm Curtin 175
Complete MIGC 2013 Schedule
Friday, February 22, 2013
Ganaele Langlois (Social Science and the Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
Ganaele Langlois (Social Science and the Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
Software Studies: A Case for New Critical Methodologies
3:30 pm Curtin 175Part of the Social Studies of Information Research Group (SSRIG) speaker series
Digital Future Workshop: "Analyzing Social Media"
Friday, February 22, 12 noon, Curtin 939
The Speculative Turn: Science Fiction and the State of the Novel Form
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin 175
Brown bag lunch discussion
March 1
12 noon Curtin 939
Background reading: Donna Jones, from The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
The Transnational and the Comparative: Globes, Worlds, and Where We Stand
a lecture2:00 pm Curtin 368
Part of Arab and American: Literature, Media, Gender, and Cultural Politics lecture series
Specters of Arabness
a lecture3:30 pm Curtin 175
Part of Arab and American: Literature, Media, Gender, and Cultural Politics lecture series
Brown bag lunch discussion
12 noon Curtin 939
Background reading: Gana, "Rap and Revolt in the Arab World"
With C21 fellows Christine Evans (History), Caitjan Gainty (Provost Fellow, History), Shelleen Greene (Art and Design)
a conversation3:00 pm Greene Hall
3347 N Downer Ave
Chronos, Chronos Again: Composing Media-Rich Timelines with Timeline JS
a UWM Digital Future workshop
9:00 am - 12:15 pm Lapham 175
Free, but please register by April 1 via c21@uwm.edu
Supported by a grant from the UWM Digital Future initiative
With Tim Ehlinger (UWM, Biological Sciences), Karen Grattan (George Mason, Conflict Analysis and Resolution), Ryan Holifield (UWM, Geography), T. S. McMillin (Oberlin, English), Morgan Robertson (UW-Madison, Geography), and Manu P. Sobti (Architecture)
a symposium12:00 noon Curtin 175
Based on the Transdisciplinary Challenge research project, "Escaping Flatland: (Re)Writing the Histories, Geographies and Borderland Ecologies of Water"
A roundtable discussion with internationally acclaimed novelists Myriam Chancy, Louis Philippe Dalembert, Daniel Vyleta
2:30 pm Lubar N120Cosponsored with French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; the MA in Language, Literature & Translation; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Spatial Practices and Performative Streetscapes: On Oxford St., Accra
When We All Became Writers (around 1800)
Second Annual Literature and Cultural Theory Lecture2:00 pm Curtin 368
cosponsored with the UWM English Department
Brown bag lunch discussion
Monday, April 15
2:00 pm Curtin 939
Background reading: Frances Ferguson, "Writing and Orality around 1800: 'Speakers,' 'Readers,' and Wordsworth's 'The Thorn,'" Wordsworth's Poetic Theory, Alexander Regier and Stefan H. Ulig, ed., (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
Around the World in 3,500 Novels
5:30 pm Curtin 118Supported by a grant from the UWM Digital Future initiative
Interrogating Big Data
a UWM Digital Future workshop9:00 am - 4:30 pm Curtin 108
lunch included
Free, but please register via c21@uwm.edu
Supported by a grant from the UWM Digital Future initiative
Media Representations of Arabs and Muslims after 9/11: Patriotic Arab Americans, Oppressed Muslim Women, and Sympathetic Feelings
a lecture1:30 pm Greene Hall
3347 N Downer Ave
Part of the Arab and American: Literature, Media, Gender, and Cultural Politics lecture series
A C21 Conference
Plenary speakers: Sandra Braman (Communication, UW-Milwaukee), Micha Cárdenas (Media Arts and Practice, USC), Julie Cohen (Law, Georgetown University), Greg Elmer (School of Media, Ryerson University), Lisa Nakamura (American Culture, Michigan), Rita Raley (English, UC-Santa Barbara), McKenzie Wark (Culture and Media, New School), and Andrew Norman Wilson (Artist).Thursday, May 2
9:00 am - 1:00 pm Hefter Conference Center (Building Local Autonomy Networks workshop)
1:00 - 3:00 pm Curtin 175 (Registration)
3:00 - 6:00 pm Curtin 175 (Two plenary talks)
Friday, May 3
8:30 am - 5:30 pm Curtin 175 and nearby classrooms
Saturday, May 4
8:30 am - 5:45 pm Curtin 175 and nearby classrooms
Please refer to the conference website for schedule details
All events are free and open to the public
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