Category Society & Culture

International urban movement conference celebrates 10th anniversary

April 30, 2013

A decade of urban dance movement evolution will be marked as competitors from around the world converge on UW–Madison May 1-5 for 10th Annual International Festival of Urban Movement. Read More

Violinist Tyrone Greive to retire from School of Music

April 30, 2013

After 36 years as professor of violin at UW–Madison, Tyrone Greive is retiring this spring. But the indefatigable musician, well-known to Madison audiences as the former concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, will still teach, perform and indulge his lifelong passion for Polish string literature. Read More

Filmmaker, glaciologist, artist to receive honorary degrees May 17

April 23, 2013

Honorary degrees will be bestowed on three individuals considered to be pioneers in their fields at UW–Madison commencement in May. One is a groundbreaking documentary filmmaker, another is a trailblazing glaciologist, and the third is a world-renowned glass artist. Read More

Choral Union, Chamber Orchestra to perform Kyr’s ‘Passion’

April 23, 2013

In its 120 years of existence, the UW–Madison Choral Union has established a reputation for performing major choral compositions by well-known masters. But the Choral Union has also presented contemporary compositions and will do so Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 when it performs Robert Kyr’s “Passion According to Four Evangelists.” Read More

English Professor Levine talks Mad Men

April 11, 2013

Caroline Levine is a scholar of Victorian literature — one who’s spent plenty of hours poring over the words of Charles Dickens, George Eliot and the Brontë sisters. Yet one of the University of Wisconsin–Madison English professor’s newest publications is an essay on the popular television series Mad Men, an edgy drama centered on a Madison Avenue ad agency in the 1960s. Read More

Recent sightings: Buzz talk

April 5, 2013

Internationally recognized artist and barber Faisal Abdu’Allah talks about his work while cutting the hair of volunteer Alison Jones-Chaim during a live salon held… Read More

UW film professor reflects on friendship with Ebert

April 5, 2013

David Bordwell first met Roger Ebert, who died yesterday after a long battle with cancer, in 2000. Ebert invited him and his wife, film theorist Kristin Thompson, to dinner after Bordwell gave a speech in Chicago. Read More

MFA Student Emily Belknap Receives 2013 Chazen Prize

March 19, 2013

Painter and sculptor Emily Belknap has been named the winner of the 2013 Chazen Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student. Read More

Indian author Arundhati Roy to visit

March 5, 2013

Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus March 20-21, 2013 to speak to Wisconsin high school students. Roy will offer the keynote presentation for the Great World Texts Student Conference, sponsored by the UW–Madison Center for the Humanities, and will spend the day interacting with students who have read her Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things." Read More

Wisconsin Film Festival expands to eight days

March 1, 2013

The Wisconsin Film Festival - the largest campus-based film festival in the United States, averaging over 100 films and up to 34,000 attendees each spring - will spread out beyond one weekend for the first time this year, giving audiences eight days to take in the wide range of cinema being offered. Read More

Art in the public eye highlights community expression

February 27, 2013

A public humanities project that began as an effort to help Latino youth express themselves through art has produced a gigantic mural, a moving documentary, and a new Madison youth collective, thanks to a partnership between University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate students and community partner Centro Hispano. Read More

Science + art exhibit focuses on the beauty of a cure

February 20, 2013

An unusual exhibit focusing on cancer recovery through the lens of art and science will open Feb. 22 in the Biochemistry Department on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. Read More

Stunning works featured in staff art gallery

February 7, 2013

The Academic Staff Art Gallery in Bascom Hall this semester is featuring works that combine art and science, encompassing the scientific impact of models of invertebrates, glassblowing and photography. Read More

Artist in residence explores black cultural identity

February 6, 2013

Faisal Abdu’Allah, an internationally acclaimed British artist whose iconographic images of power, race, masculinity, violence, and faith challenge the values and ideologies society attaches to those images, is the The Arts Institute and the Department of Art History’s Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence. Read More

Speakers to be announced at Big Learning Event kickoff reception

January 29, 2013

Panelists for the second Big Learning Event (BLE) will be revealed at a kickoff reception in Gordon Dining and Event Center on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 4 to 6 p.m. Read More

Book discussion and exhibit highlight Go Big Read selection

January 28, 2013

Even if you don't recall fallout shelters and duck-and-cover drills from the 1950s, a book discussion and exhibit will provide a window into that era and this year's Go Big Read selection. Read More

Tandem Press to host printmaking symposium

January 19, 2013

Tandem Press will host "Printmaking: Steeped in the Past, Shaping the Future," a free printmaking symposium at the Chazen Museum of Art, on Thursday, Jan. 31 and Friday, Feb. 1. Read More

Retired administrator joins words and art in new exhibits

December 13, 2012

After retiring in 1994 as associate dean in the College of Letters & Science, Blair Mathews has maintained his connection with the university through a variety of channels. Now, as a poet, Mathews brings a different kind of work back to campus. Read More

Explore SoundWaves at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery

December 11, 2012

What do genetics, plant infections, West Nile virus, the human brain and Bach have in common? Read More

Film examines fate of prisoners after 1920 war

December 3, 2012

The Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and the UW Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia present "What Can Dead Prisoners Do?" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at The Marquee in Union South. Read More