Critical insights from C21's Tennessen Scholars
I’m enjoying the comfort of my usual chair in Curtin 939, C21’s conference and meeting room. The room’s large windows offer incomparable views of the neighborhood that surrounds UWM. Most days, the lake is visible. Today, Friday October 5th, my view is met with a solidly grey sky that obscures the lake. Mist coats the […]
Palpable excitement hung in the air of Curtin 175 on the Thursday afternoon prior to the Century for 20th Century studies 50th anniversary Symposium. Now known as the Center for 21st Century studies, the center’s long legacy enjoyed a well-deserved celebration this past week. Guests from the Center’s past and present spoke of their experiences […]
What does it mean for a country to have an historical policy? For Dr. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, this question begins and ends in the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Historical policies—shaped by myriad realms of public discourse from politics to media to museums— engender civic attitudes; they give form to […]
Taking a seat amid the twinkling blue lights that lined either side of the aisles in Curtin 175, I arrived at the October 5th lecture by Dr. N. Katherine Hayles expecting an encounter with material semiotics and notions of digital bodies. What I experienced was even more: a riveting discussion of symbiosis, cognitive assemblages and questions of the world to come as compared […]
C21’s Graduate Student Bagel Hour on Friday, September 28th, had a special edition featuring an interesting discussion with Sharon Marcus from Columbia University on her new project, “The Drama of Celebrity: Imitation.”According to Marcus, celebrity tends to combine the normative and the anti-normative. Most celebrities embody paradoxes: they are masculine and feminine, normative (they are […]
Over the course of a week, I discussed the human-like qualities of Amazon’s Alexa with a class of undergraduates, participated in a history seminar in which we interrogated writings by Hegel and Marx and their theories of consciousness and materiality, and engaged with colleagues and mentors at Dr. N. Katherine Hayles’ guest lecture and discussion […]
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