Professor Greg Aldrete and Scott Bartell’s linothorax collaborative research project is gaining national and international attention. During a session taped by a German news crew for a European TV series, Green bay Channel 2 and Channel 11 reported on the project:
Channel 11:
And see Professor Aldrete shoot Scott Bartell with an arrow at Channel 2:
Full stories available at Channel 2 and Channel 11.
Professor Harvey Kaye comments on his favorite books for Oxford University Press:
The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, December 8 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Art Speigelman, Maus I & II
presented by Professor Clifton Ganyard, UWGB History Department
The discussion is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend. Of course, we encourage you to read the book before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.
See you there!
Professional Opportunities in the Arts: A Panel of Writers, Editors, and Money-Makers
December 3rd – 5:15 – 7pm in the 1965 room in the University Union
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Panelists include:
Professor Tara DaPra - discussing opportunities in publishing and editing nonfiction
Professor Ellen Rosewall - discussing opportunities in the arts management arena for both visual and writing arts
Professor Chuck Rybak – discussing opportunities in publishing and editing poetry
Professor Kim Nielsen – discussing the process of getting involved in publishing a book involving a great deal of research
Panelist Bios:
Tara DaPra has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she served as the Managing Editor of the literary magazine Dislocate. She was an intern at the now-defunct Minneapolis magazine The Rake and worked a proofreader at the University of Minnesota Press. Feathers in her cap include a Gesell Award for excellence in poetry and a Walter H. Judd Fellowship for creative research in Ireland. She teaches composition part time at UWGB and would love to get some health benefits. Her MFA thesis, “What to do After Your Boyfriend Commits Suicide” is yellowing in her desk drawer as she thinks about looking for an agent.
Ellen Rosewall’s thirty years of experience in the arts industry makes her uniquely qualified tocoordinate and teach the Arts Management program. Rosewall taught voice at MacPhail Center for the Arts in Minneapolis and had an active career as a freelance singer, actor and pianist in the Twin Cities before entering arts management full-time in 1989. She has been Executive Director of Schola Cantorum (Palo Alto, CA), Interim Director and Capital Campaign Manager of the Green Bay Botanical Garden, and Director of Marketing and Development at the Weidner Center. She has served on several boards of directors, and is currently president of the Wisconsin Public Radio Association and serves on several nonprofit arts organization boards in Northeastern Wisconsin. Rosewall is known nationally as an arts management specialist and advocate for the arts, and an active advocate for the arts at the local, state and national level. She was a member of the Joint Legislative Council’s Special Committee on Arts Funding, which drafted successful legislation to create an endowment for the arts in Wisconsin in 2001. As President of the Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts, she presided over three Arts Advocacy Days at the state capitol, and is a member of the founding committee of Arts Action Wisconsin and a charter member of the Arts Action Network.
Kim Nielsen has been a Professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay since January 1999. Her scholarship has centered on historical questions and debates about who is fit to participate in civic life. Her newest book is Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (Beacon Press). Her earlier book, The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (New York University Press), has just been released in paperback. NYUP also published her edited collection Helen Keller: Selected Writings. Recently, she collaborated on the exciting new 3 volume Encyclopedia of American Disability History (Facts on File).
Chuck Rybak grew up in Buffalo, New York, and earned his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati in 2003. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in: The Fourth River, The Ledge, Pebble Lake Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. His collections of poetry include Nickel and Diming My Way Through, Liketown, and Tongue and Groove. Chuck is a Professor of English for the University of Wisconsin Colleges-Fox Valley, and the current editor of Fox Cry Review, a national literary journal.
Palin’s Unlikely Hero
by Harvey Kaye
Thomas Paine gets a nod in Going Rogue, and Sarah Palin’s not the only conservative who loves this American revolutionary. But the right has him—and their American history—all wrong, writes historian Harvey Kaye.
“Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories”
A lecture by Craig Lockard
November 19, 3:30
Christie Theatre, University Union, UWGB
Please join Social Change and Development as we honor our retiring colleague Craig Lockard. Professor Lockard has served the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as a dedicated teacher, scholar, and institutional and intellectual leader. To our benefit, he has also served the larger academy and intellectual world as a distinguished historian and theoretician of world history.
Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Center for History and Social Change. Please contact Kim Nielsen at nielsenk@uwgb.edu with questions or if accommodations are needed.
The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, November 10 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451
presented by Professor David Voelker, UWGB History Department
The discussion is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend. Of course, we encourage you to read the book before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.
See you there!
On Wednesday, October 7, Helen Keller was honored with a bronze statue at the U.S. Capitol, recognizing her efforts on behalf of people with disabilities. Kim Nielsen, UW-Green Bay professor of Social Change and Development and author of several books on Keller, including The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, was interviewed for Thursday’s Democracy Now!, a daily TV/radio news program. Nielsen discussed Keller’s efforts on behalf of those with disabilities, feminists, and working people.
Watch the Interview!
The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, October 13 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
presented by Professor Heidi Sherman, UWGB History Department
The discussion is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend. Of course, we encourage you to read the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.
See you there!
FDR’s Forgotten Freedoms
by Harvey J. Kaye
“Michael Moore’s new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, not only takes on corporate power and greed in America. By featuring rarely seen footage of FDR calling for a “Second Bill of Rights” in January 1944 and of the Flint, Michigan, sit-down strikers fighting for their rights in 1937, the film also challenges our political passivity with the democratic ideals and struggles that made the men and women of the 1930s and 1940s the most progressive generation in American history.”
