Past Event Category: Upcoming Events
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Mar 10🍽️ Lunch and Learn: Associated Students of Madison Panel
Helen C. White, Room 6191
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 directly from student leaders about how shared governance works and how students can get involved. This free, in‑person event is …
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Mar 5📚 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
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 Entanglements: African Literature’s Ecological Imaginary. This event offers an engaging look at African literary studies, ecological thought, and the imaginative …
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Feb 20🎓 Humanities Career Fair 2026
Memorial Union
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 career paths that value the skills humanities and language students possess. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with campus …
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Feb 19🧠Attitudes Toward Generative AI and Writing from Faculty Across the Disciplines – Initial Results From a Cross-Campus Study
Helen C. White, Room 7191
Emily Hall, faculty in our English Department and a member of the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program, will share preliminary findings from a campus‑wide study examining faculty attitudes toward generative AI and the teaching of writing across disciplines. This session will open a conversation about how generative AI is shaping writing instruction and classroom …
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Feb 17Online Session: Teach English in Iberia & Latin America🌎
Online
Learn how to use your knowledge of Spain, Latin America, or teaching English to speakers of other languages to launch a career abroad. his online session features panelists who have built their own teaching careers across the region—specifically in Spain and Costa Rica—and who now hire teachers at their institutions. Representatives from UW International Internships …
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Feb 17📘 English: Make a Sticker Book!
Helen C. White, Room 7188
English majors are invited to stop by this drop-in social event to grab a blank mini notebook and fill it with stickers we’ll have available. This is a casual, come-and-go space to relax, get creative, and meet others in the major. This free, in-person event is open to undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and staff. No registration …
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Feb 15📣 Call for Papers: Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH) 2026
Submissions for the 2026 Midwest Undergraduate Conference on the Humanities (MUCH) are now open! MUCH is a gleeful rejection of the idea that humanities scholarship is “much ado about nothing,” bringing together undergraduate researchers, writers, and creators from across the Midwest and beyond. Students are invited to submit work from any humanities course—critical or creative. …
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Dec 10Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch🥪
Helen C. White, Room 6191
Join your colleagues to build community around our teaching experiences, troubleshoot pedagogical challenges, and learn and grow together as teachers in our Pedagogy Brown Bag Lunch workshops. Anyone who teaches in the English Department, including TAs, instructional staff, and faculty, is warmly welcome. BYO lunch. This free, in-person event is open to graduate students, faculty, …
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Dec 4📖 Book Launch: Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture
Lake City Books, Madison
You are invited to celebrate the launch of Amanda Shubert’s Seeing Things: Virtual Aesthetics in Victorian Culture. Amanda will be in conversation with Dr. Sarah Anne Carter in an event co-sponsored by the UW–Madison Center for Design and Material Culture. Attendees will also have the chance to explore and play with 19th-century optical toys, bringing …
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Nov 18📚 Lunch & Learn: “Forms of Comparison: British Romanticism and Spanish American Modernismo”
Helen C. White, Room 6191
How can we compare on equal terms seemingly unrelated literary movements, such as British Romanticism (1780-1830) and Spanish American Modernismo (1880-1920), from different periods, regions, languages, and cultures? In this talk, guided by Diego Alegría, we will explore a form of comparison based not on a logic of themes, influence, subgenres, chronology or center/periphery relations, but …