Past Events
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Apr 17Public Lecture by Michelle Bumatay: Black Bandes Dessinées: Papa Mfumu’eto’s Making Waves, Taking Names, and Throwing Stones
Memorial Library, See Details for Rooms Memorial Library
Wednesday April 17: 4:00 P.M. A presentation of the exhibit Francophone Comics: Evolving Understandings of the Global French-Language Bande Dessinée in the Memorial Library’s main lobby* Wednesday April 17: 4:30 P.M. Public Lecture by Michelle Bumatay on Black Bandes Dessinées. Memorial Library 126* Lecture Abstract: His Majesty, Emperor Papa Mfumu’eto 1st, a self-proclaimed very famous nobody, has many monikers. …
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Apr 16La Cineteca Italiana
Chamberlin 2241
Join us for FREE showings of Italian films, with English subtitles! SPRING 2024 FILM SERIES A presto! Questions? uwcineteca@gmail.com
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Apr 16Day of the Badger
Day of the Badger is a spirited day of giving that unites alumni, friends, and students to strengthen the university and ensure future generations enjoy the same level of educational excellence. Whether you’re giving to a passion area, supporting student scholarships, taking advantage of matches and challenges, sharing UW pride, or celebrating beloved traditions, Day …
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Apr 15French Club Meeting
Van Hise, Room 394
Join us for one of our bi-weekly French Club Meetings this Spring 2024. You don’t have to be a member to try it out, just come and practice your français! Bi-Weekly: 2/12 – 2/19 – 3/4 – 3/18 – 4/1 – 4/15 – 4/29 All at 6:30 PM A bientôt!
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Apr 12Quebec was born in my country!: Stories of Encounters, from Ani Kuni to Kiuna.
Emmanuelle Dufour
Room 250 Van Hise Hall
This presentation is on the theme of the graphic memoir in Indigenous education in Québec. This is a zoom event with a live discussion in a multi-media room. Emanuelle Dufour is an arts educator (Ph.D., Concordia University 2021), based in Montreal and Baie St-Paul (Quebec), whose doctoral disseration, Le Québec est né dans mon pays …
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Apr 12Dante and Twentieth-Century American Politics
6191 Helen C. White Location Information
2 pm, 6191 Helen C. White: Workshop for graduate students and faculty. Please contact Professor Jelena Todorovic (jtodorovic@wisc.edu) for the reading. 5 pm, 6191 Helen C. White: Public lecture: Cowardice is Political: The Legacy of Inferno 3 in 20th- and 21st-Century America [view poster here] “Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in …
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Apr 9La Cineteca Italiana
Chamberlin 2241
Join us for FREE showings of Italian films, with English subtitles! SPRING 2024 FILM SERIES A presto! Questions? uwcineteca@gmail.com
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Apr 7Wisconsin Film Festival – French Film
Yannick Showings – select to order tickets: Sun, Apr 7th, 6:30 PM @ Bartell Theatre Mon, Apr 8th, 5:00 PM @ Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 7 In a sparsely attended Parisian theater, a play is interrupted by an audience member who’s had enough. But Yannick is no ordinary heckler—convinced he could do better, he vaults onstage and …
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Apr 7Wisconsin Film Festival – Italian Film
Ennio Showings – select to order tickets: Sun, Apr 7th, 1:30 PM @ Music Hall Mon, Apr 8th, 11:15 AM @ Flix Brewhouse, Cinema 2 Acclaimed director Giuseppe Tornatore orchestrates a symphonic journey into the life of Ennio Morricone, the tireless and highly influential composer of several hundred film scores, including one for Tornatore’s own Oscar-winning …
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Apr 537th GAFIS Symposium, 2024
Dr. Aubrey Gabel, Columbia University
Pyle Center
GAFIS Symposium Description: Games and play are omnipresent in human society and take innumerable forms. Questions surrounding the role of play and games have generated much theoretical debate from which various perspectives and approaches have emerged, taking different forms across time and space. Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, numerous fields of …