AI Literacy📕

Helen C. White, Room 6172
@ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Join specialists from Learn@UW and our WAC Director Emily Hall for a panel exploring UW-Madison’s approved AI tools, including how these tools work, how they compare to other AI tools, and data and privacy issues. …

Panel: Cultivating Latine/x Resilience Amidst Challenging Conditions✊

Memorial Library, Room 126
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

This panel brings together scholars from literature, ethnic studies, and geography to examine how Latine/x communities have created communities of resistance within exclusionary conditions. The panelists examine how Latine/x resilience has allowed for the creation …

Panel 2: Cultivating Latine/x Resilience Amidst Challenging Conditions🌱

Memorial Library, Room 126 / Zoom
@ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join us, along with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program and other sponsors, for the first panel in the 2025–2026 speaker series, Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis. This panel brings …

Careers in TESOL🌍

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Undergraduate and Graduate students can learn about career opportunities in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Hear from three panelists about how they navigated their TESOL careers, starting as undergraduates. The panelists have …

Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany📽️

Memorial Library, Room 126
@ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

We often think of cinema’s politics as matters of subject and style, distribution and reception. This talk, however, locates them in film’s raw materials—in substances like silver, gelatin, and cotton, on which cinema’s play of …

🎤When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

the Modernism/Contemporary Graduate Student Colloquium is hosting guest speaker CalArts Professor and boundary 2 co-editor Arne De Boever for his talk, “When the Wild Things Are: Variations on the Eternal Return (of the Same).” Professor …

🗣️English Alumni Speaker Series: Michael Braun

Lecture: Helen C. White, Room 6191 (11:30-12:15pm) / Lunch: Helen C. White, Room 7191 (12:30-1:30pm)
@ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Join us in a conversation with alumnus Michael Braun, Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Orange Hat Publishing. Braun will talk about Orange Hat, share his journey into editing and publishing, and offer insights into the path …

🧠 English Alumni in PhD Programs, a Panel

Zoom
@ 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Curious about pursuing a PhD in English Literature? Hear from four alumni of our undergraduate major who are currently enrolled in doctoral programs at institutions across the country. Panelists will share their experiences, offer advice …

Rachel Carson’s Kitsch Ecologies🏞️

University Club, Room 313
@ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Twenty-first-century ecological thought tends to coalesce around a certain critical framework. Decenter the human and resist anthropomorphism. Highlight “weedy” or “feral,” interstitial landscapes rather than pretty or picturesque ones. Refuse the reduction of the more-than-human …

🍎 Secondary Education Masters in English Information Session

Helen C. White, Room 7191
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Interested in becoming a teacher? Join Danny Miller and Addy Hagen for an overview of the Secondary Education Masters in English program. Learn about the application process, the teacher pledge, and what life in the …