Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tonight, the Center for the History of Print Culture hosts Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. She give a talk entitled “From Texting to Twitter: Digital Media Across Generations”. Refreshments are provided. This is in 4217 Helen C. White Hall, 600 North Park Street, at 7. Call 263-2900 for more information.

Tomorrow morning, a collection of University groups host a free lecture by MIT Professor Hanna Rose Shell. She will give a talk entitled “Refashioning Identity: Secondhand Clothing in Haiti & the Diaspora”. It examines "pèpè," or secondhand clothes imported into Haiti from North America. Recycled clothes wear the traces and bear the burdens of an increasingly global history of American material culture. This is in L160 of L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building at 8:30 am. Check visualculture.wisc.edu for more details.

This weekend, the Wisconsin People's Assembly meets to build lasting personal connections with Wisconsinites coming from all trades, communities, and backgrounds. This first Wisconsin People's Assembly will focus on three common themes: Building a Popular Movement that overcomes segregation and discrimination and unites all of us in common cause; Direct Action Campaigning in order to achieve the will of the people when the official government closes its doors to us; and Winning Democracy by strengthening local democracy, expanding participation, democratizing elections, and amending our constitution. This is at the Downtown MATC at 211 North Carroll Street. It begins at noon on Saturday and ends Sunday at 8. Check wisconsinwave.org for more information.