Greetings from the Center for Campus History, and happy Latine Heritage Month! For September’s edition of the newsletter we have LHM events, archival finds, Center updates, resource recommendations and more!
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Rebecca M. Blank Center For Campus History is an ongoing university effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced, challenged, and overcame prejudice on campus. As always, if you have a story to share, an event you think should be researched, or a person you think has been overlooked, please email us at centerforcampushistory@wisc.edu.
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Meet one of our new student researchers, Arielle Raymos!
Arielle is currently a PhD candidate in Literary Studies at UW-Madison studying African American literature, with a particular interest in the intersection between race, gender, and sexuality. Hailing from Manchester, Tennessee by way of St. Augustine, Florida, she received her bachelor’s degree from Austin Peay State University in 2018, and her master's from the University of Kansas in 2020. Arielle’s dissertation continues work from her master’s thesis, exploring depictions of gay and lesbian identity in the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and their participation in the “lesbian print culture” of the 1950s-60s. Aside from academics, Arielle is fond of her 1997 Honda Odyssey (purple), video games, yard work, and spending time with her 1 ½ year old chocolate lab, Stella (pictured!).
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Are you an instructor here at UW–Madison (or beyond)? Just in time for the start of the school year, the university’s Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring has a new guide with strategies and resources to help instructors navigate common teaching challenges.
Whether it’s a discussion gone awry, an inappropriate comment from a student or an upsetting event that has students and instructors worried or distracted, knowing some basic proactive and in-the-moment strategies can alleviate stress and uncertainty for you and your students. Take a look here.
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One of the coolest parts of work for the Center is getting to spend hours in the UW Archives exploring items in their collections. But we’re clearly not the only ones who enjoy it.
The folks at the Wisconsin Union Theater recently wrote about their visit to the Archives and shared all sorts of interesting finds from the theater’s history stretching back to the 1920s. Take a look at some playbills, posters and newspaper clippings on their blog.
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This year’s theme, Illuminating Our Voices, showcases how Latine people share their passions and cultures through the arts.
LMH programming runs through October 15 with events ranging from talks of Latin American music and visual art, to a student group fair and annual Latine Ball.
Check out a full schedule of events here.
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Usually we take this space every month to share one of the many (many… many… ) books that have helped the Center’s research. But this month we’re stretching that definition just a bit by recommending a fabulous non-book resource, Mapping Teejop, a digital mapping project that guides users on Indigenous walking tours of the UW-Madison campus. A collaboration between the American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Geography’s Cartography Lab, Mapping Teejop provides content and context for visitors to learn about Ho-Chunk and Native history and presence at UW.
Current walking tours include areas around Bascom Hill, Camp Randall and the Lake Mendota shore. And this fall, the project is launching two new walking tours in the UW Arboretum, as well as interactive teaching tools for classroom use.
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It has been just over a year since the CCH transitioned from the temporary Public History Project to a permanent center here on campus, and it has been a whirlwind.
What have we been up to? Well, according to our hot-off-the-presses Year in Review document, we’ve grown our staff, started planning our next exhibition, published new research, written new teaching guides, visited dozens of classes and started a podcast, just to name a few things.
Catch up on everything here.
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Each month Center Director Kacie Lucchini Butcher will share a book, podcast, movie, quote, or something else she thinks has been adding to the CCH. We're calling it "From The Desk of KLB".
This month From The Desk of KLB, The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker. The novel retells the timeless legend of the Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. From a captured queen-turned-concubine to countless other women living behind the scenes in this war—the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead— Barker brings to life compelling characters erased by history.
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As always, if you have a story to share, an event you think should be researched, or a person you think has been overlooked, please email us at centerforcampushistory@wisc.edu.
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