Past Events
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Sep 24🎵 Lea Bertucci: The Oracle — Live Performance
Hamel Music Center, Collins Recital Hall
Experimental musician Lea Bertucci will perform music from her 2025 solo recording The Oracle. This body of work features processed voice, tape, folk flutes, and electronics. Brad Rose (Foxy Digitalis) describes The Oracle as “dizzying and textural, a gilded aural mirror reflecting anxieties and mythologies back at strange angles. Sure to be a heady trip.” …
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Sep 23🎵 Artist Talk by Musician Lea Bertucci: A Primeval Future
Hosted by Professor Frederic Neyrat, experimental musician Lea Bertucci will present a lecture on her recent work exploring electronic and spatial extensions of instrument and voice. She will discuss her project The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a composition for archaic flutes in 8‑channel sound, and offer a brief stereo demonstration …
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Sep 18Graduate Welcome Social Picnic🌳
Brittingham Park Picnic Shelter
Join us for a relaxed outdoor gathering to welcome new and returning graduate students in English. Come enjoy the early fall weather, meet fellow grads, and build community at Brittingham Park. All English graduate students are invited. If you have questions or need help with transportation, please contact the Graduate Welcome Committee co‑chairs: Matt Louie …
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Sep 9🍎 Pedagogy Brown Bag
Helen C. White Hall, Room 7191
Pedagogy Brown Bags are loosely facilitated discussions about teaching, led by Amanda Shubert. These sessions offer space to talk about your classroom experiences, troubleshoot challenges, share strategies, and build relationships with fellow instructors. Teachers at all ranks and across all areas—including TAs, E100 instructors, and Writing Center instructors—are warmly welcome. In addition, faculty and staff …
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Sep 8🎉 English Welcome Event
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
Join us for a welcome event in the English Department! All undergraduates are invited to stop by for free boxed lunches, community, and information about getting involved in student organizations. Drop in anytime between 12–1 PM to meet peers, connect with department staff, and learn more about opportunities in English. For questions or accessibility accommodations, …
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Apr 23🍕 TESOL Certificate Event
Helen C. White Hall, Room 6191
Learn about opportunities to teach English to speakers of other languages and connect with current TESOL certificate students and staff. This info session and networking event will introduce pathways into TESOL, share student experiences, and offer space for informal conversation. Pizza and snacks provided. This free, in‑person event is open to undergraduates and graduate students. …
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Apr 14Day of the Badger🦡
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Day of the Badger returns on April 14 and 15. Join the English Department in celebrating UW–Madison’s annual tradition of pride, connection, and giving. For 1,848 minutes, Badgers everywhere come together to support the teaching, writing, and learning that shape nearly 20,000 students each year. Visit dayofthebadger.org and search “English” to find our campaign page. …
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Mar 24🎤🧠 Humanities Now: The Humanities as a Toolkit for Citizenship
Elvehjem Building, Room L160
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 components of the humanities “toolkit,” including media literacy, historical awareness, and interpretive and rhetorical skills. Hosted by the Center for …
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Mar 24🧠 Psychoanalysis for Diabetics: Freud in the Popular Jewish Press
Memorial Union, Old Madison Room
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 European Jewish readers were deeply fascinated by Freud—following his life, attending lectures, and eagerly consuming articles about “the most famous …
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Mar 23📚 Pathways into Library & Information Studies
Virtual (Zoom)
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 for undergraduates who are curious about LIS pathways, coursework, and career directions. Attendees will hear personal perspectives and have the …