UWFox offers a wide range of lectures and fine arts programs to the campus and its community members. Many are free to UWFox students or at a reduced admission. Please check the Events Calendar for schedule and fees information.
- Aaron Bohrod Gallery Exhibits
- Musical Performances
- CAB Noon Performances
- UWFox Theatre Performances
- Scholars Series
Musical Performances
Fox Valley Concert Band
Friday, October 17, 2008, 7:30 pm
UWFox Theatre, Admission: Free
Saturday, December 13, 2008, 4:00 pm
UWFox Theatre, Admission: Free
Saturday, March 14, 2009, 4:00 pm
UWFox Theatre, Admission: Free
Friday, May 8, 2009, 7:30 pm
UWFox Theatre, Admission: Free
UWFox Jazz Ensemble and UWFox Chorale
Information Comming Soon
CAB (Campus Activities Board) Events
For more information about CAB contact Jeff Kuepper at jeff.kuepper@uwc.edu
September 12th Noon Campus Picnic
Front Lawn by Planetarium (rain site—Fieldhouse)
September 24th Noon Chad Daniels - Comedian
Student Union
http://www.chaddanielscomedy.com/#/aboutchad/4527629662
October 1st Noon Norman Ng
Student Union
http://www.normanmagic.com/
October 8th Noon Teri Jendusa Nicolai Student Union (alternate location Emeritus Room)
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During the cold harsh winter of Wisconsin in 2004, beaten with a baseball bat by her ex-husband, placed in a garbage can only to be placed on the flatbed of his pick up truck with their two little girls sitting in the front seat, he drove off. Teri was then placed in a storage locker left for dead; Teri Jendusa Nicolai survived to tell her story. The ABC network placed her story on 20/20, newspapers told the horrific story of domestic abuse and attempted murder, national talk shows are helping to get the word out on this tragedy. Teri lost all her toes due to frostbite and lost her unborn baby with her second husband from her injuries. She has somehow dug down deep and is now out speaking to law enforcement agencies, middle schools, high schools, colleges and shelters. Teri will share her experience and will tell the tall signs of domestic abuse only to hope she can save someone else from this tragedy. |
Scholars Series
All Scholar Series events start at 12:00 - noon in the UWFox Theatre. They are free of charge and open to all who desire to learn. Topics of lecture and dates are listed below.
Freshman and Sophomore Years:
Developing Skills That Are Valued More Than a Major
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Convocation
Dr. Jim Perry has served as Campus Executive Officer and Dean of UWFox since 1993. He began his undergraduate work in 1966 at Wausau’s UW-Marathon County campus developing his leadership skills by serving as Student Government President.
Perry received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Wisconsin’s public flagship university in Madison. In 1993 he took a faculty position at Frostburg State University in the University System of Maryland, where he became a tenured professor and chair of the Department of Biology, Wildlife and Fisheries. He was elected by his peers as the Chair of the University Faculty and Faculty Senate, where he came to appreciate as faculty member the job that administrators had in the life of the university. Within the UW Colleges Perry is a Professor of Biological Sciences.
Taking a Step: Making a Commitment
Student Presenter at Convocation
Michelle Yandre
Michelle Yandre is currently a sophomore at UWFox. Her major is presently undecided but is leaning towards journalism. She is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, an academic honor society, as well as the English honor society Sigma Kappa Delta. She is planning to transfer to the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to complete her major.
Tricksters and Fools
Monday, September 22, 2008
12:00 Noon and 7:00 PM
Gwyn Calvetti
Gwyn Calvetti is a professional storyteller, spinning yarns throughout the Midwest. Reaching a wide range of listeners, she tells stories from world folklore and life experience, bringing special magic to already magical tales through the use of drums and string figures. She continues to teach in Wisconsin public schools, as she has done for over 25 years.
Tricksters and Fools
Bugs Bunny may be the trickster known to most in the modern era, but he was hardly the first to use his wit against a foolish adversary. Folklore around the world features stories of clever tricksters, from Anansi the Spider of West Africa to the clever fool Nasrudin of the Middle Eastern countries. This program entertains with stories from folklore traditions around the world. Calvetti shares stories that feature clever wit rather than brute force. They are especially valid in today's world, where cycles of bullying need to be broken—whether in the corporate world of hostile takeovers or on school playgrounds.
A Debate on English as the Official Language
Monday, October 20, 2008
Rob Toonkel and Alfonso Zepeda-Capistran
Facilitated by Dr. Malcolm Allen
Alfonso Zepeda-Capistrán holds a B.A and M.A.in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of California Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin- Madison, respectively. He is currently an Education Specialist for the Wisconsin DPI's Migrant Education Program. Alfonso has also been widely recognized for his commitment to community building and is the recipient of the Dane County Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. recognition Award, the Wisconsin Migrant Coalition Outstanding Leadership Award, and the Social Justice Center and Capital Times Visionary Award.
In more than six years with U.S. English, Inc., Rob Toonkel has become one of the nation’s foremost experts in the debate on English as the official language of the United States. As Director of Communications, Mr. Toonkel focuses on the stories, facts and accounts regarding language use in our nation. His 2005 study, Many Languages, One America, received worldwide coverage and remains one of the most comprehensive examinations of languages spoken in the United States.
The Modern American City: Can We Ever Make it Sustainable?
Monday, November 17, 2008
Kimberly Gray
Kimberly Gray is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a secondary appointment in Chemical and Biological Engineering and is a member of the Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Institute of Policy Research and the Transportation Center at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 and worked as a research engineer for the Lyonnaise des Eaux in Paris, France for 2 years. She joined the Northwestern faculty in 1995 and since 2003 has been the Director of the Environmental Science, Engineering and Policy Program.
The Modern American City: Can We Ever Make it Sustainable?
The short answer to this question is "not at the rate that we are going." Yet, if we really wanted to, we could
make great strides in the short term and with our current technical knowledge in the ways we use energy and
resources. So what is stopping us? We’ll begin by looking at the various perspectives on "sustainability," a term
that means very different things to different people, and make the case for why this is a pressing issue to be
addressed sooner rather than later. Then we will discuss the requirements and the feasibility of developing truly
renewable energy sources, as well as the role of technology in finding solutions to the problem of sustainability.
Deeper understanding of the structure and function of ecological systems is key to designing sustainable cities,
such as examples of re-engineering the water cycle and a 100-year vision for the City of Chicago. Finally, sustainability
requires that we address equity issues and the definition of prosperity across our own society as well
as across the globe.
"Fighting AIDS, the Challenge of a Lifetime"
Monday, December 1, 2008
Mary Beth Gallagher
Mary Beth Gallagher is an international volunteer who has spent the past 12 years living and working with the people of Bolivia, El Salvador, Bangladesh and currently, Namibia. As an elementary school teacher, soccer player, coach and referee she has developed urban and rural sports programs, community libraries, public sports facilities and early childhood development centers. She has recently published a book titled, “It Costs Almost Nothing” and gives workshops on making educational games and toys out of garbage and recycled materials throughout Namibia. For the past three years she has worked with orphans and other vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.
"Fighting AIDS, the Challenge of a Lifetime"
Mary Beth Gallagher will speak about her first hand experience with international volunteering, her work with the
children in poor and politically unstable countries, her book and "Miriam" a woman living with HIV/AIDS.
RFID Chips: Your Privacy at Risk
Monday, February 2, 2009
Lee Tien
Lee Tien is a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in free speech and privacy law, including electronic surveillance law. Before joining EFF, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of publishing computer software. Lee received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford University, where he was very active in journalism at the Stanford Daily. After working as a news reporter at theTacoma News Tribune for a year, Lee went to law school at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley. Lee also did graduate work in the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC-Berkeley.
RFID Chips: Your Privacy at Risk
Radio-frequency ID (RFID) chips are quickly becoming part of our lives. These tracking devices are being
embedded into consumer goods as well as ID cards that we carry in public -- credit cards, passports, and driver's
licenses -- which means that we can be tracked as well. This talk will explore the privacy risks of these"tiny trackers" as well as the politics of surveillance today.
Emergence at Midlife
Monday, March 2, 2009
Judith Waller
Judith Baker Waller is a Professor of Art at UW-Fox Valley. She arrived in the Fox Cities in Fall, 1993 having taught in colleges and universities in Indiana, Washington state and Illinois. She earned an MFA in Painting from Indiana University-Bloomington. Her undergraduate BFA degrees in Studio Art –Drawing and Painting and in Art History are from Wichita State University.
Painting and drawing make up the bulk of her professional work and she is very much interested in traditional and historical painting methods. Her paintings and drawings can be described as somewhat expressionistic and both the form and content as ‘neo-romantic’. Some favorite and repeating images include human figures, birds, cicadas and objects such as power lines and telephone poles. The mix of all of these images contributes to what Waller describes as ‘urban naturalism’. She has taught drawing, oil painting, watercolor, design, and art history survey and has been involved in the co-development and teaching of a number of interdisciplinary courses combining art and science.
Emergence at Midlife
Judith Baker Waller’s talk, Emergence at Mid-Life, will include an overview of the speaker’s art from the last three decades and the evolution of that work and her ideas. She will speak about her curious interest in cicadas and how the life-cycle of those insects can be likened not only to her creative life but to all who spend many years methodically and tenaciously building their art.
FC Book Festival
Monday, APRIL 16, 2009--7:00 p.m.
Speaker TBA
More or Less Human
Monday, May 4, 2009
Patrick Boelyn-Fitzgerald
Dr. Patrick Boelyn-Fitzgerald is the Edward F. Mielke Professor in Ethics in Medicine, Science, and Society and Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics at Lawrence University. Professor Boleyn-Fitzgerald received an M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Arizona. He has published a variety of articles on issues in bioethics, ethical theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of law.
More or Less Human
With recent advances in biotechnology, we now have the power to alter what many believe to be “human nature”—a power that will increase dramatically in the near future. This talk will focus on ways that individuals may be able to use technology to enhance or transcend their humanity, and the ethical issues that such attempts raise.