🎤🧠 Humanities Now: The Humanities as a Toolkit for Citizenship

Elvehjem Building, Room L160
@ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

This panel explores how the humanities cultivate essential skills for navigating the complex issues of our time and strengthening our capacities as citizens—both within our communities and in broader civic contexts. Panelists will highlight key …

🧠 Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press

Memorial Union, Old Madison Room
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Join Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto) for a lecture exploring the “Freud craze” in the Yiddish press of the interwar period. Although Karl Kraus famously quipped that psychoanalysis was “the disease of assimilated Jews,” Eastern …

📚 Pathways into Library & Information Studies

Virtual (Zoom)
@ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Explore what the MA in Library and Information Studies actually looks like through the experiences of three current students who began their academic paths in the UW–Madison English Department. This graduate panel is designed especially …

🗣️Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH)

Undergraduates from across the Midwest and beyond will gather at UW–Madison to share their work in a day-long celebration of humanities scholarship. The conference features student panels chaired by graduate students, themed faculty panels, and …

🧠 Center for Culture History and Environment (CHE) Graduate Symposium

Dr. Sarah Dimick
Pyle Conference Center, Room 213
@ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History, and the Environment (CHE) invites you to the CHE Graduate Student Symposium 2026. Hosted by CHE’s Graduate Associate Organizing Committee and co‑sponsored by the English Department, this year’s …

🌍 Passport to Postgrad: Exploring Graduate School Abroad

Online
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Are you interested in attending graduate school outside of the United States? Join this virtual panel featuring UW alumni from humanities and language programs to learn what it takes to pursue graduate studies internationally. Panelists …

🍽️ Lunch and Learn: Associated Students of Madison Panel

Helen C. White, Room 6191
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join leaders from the Associated Students of Madison to learn about the role of student governance in campus decision‑making, key historic victories, and their vision for the future. This session offers an opportunity to hear …

📚 Forest Imaginaries and Environmental Entanglements: A Conversation between Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk Sides

Professors Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk B. Sides
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, 2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 53704
@ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

A Room of One’s Own welcomes Professors Ainehi Edoro‑Glines and Kirk B. Sides for a conversation celebrating their newly released academic works. They will discuss Edoro‑Glines’s Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think and Sides’s Environmental …

🎓 Humanities Career Fair 2026

Memorial Union
@ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Tailored for humanities undergraduate students, this event will showcase local employers, graduate programs, networking opportunities, and internship and job positions in various industries! Whether or not you’re on the job market, you’ll learn more about …