Sep 2021
Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the first speaker in a free multipart series entitled, “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World.” Dorothea Salo, an expert on digital information at the iSchool at UW-Madison, will lead the discussion. This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will be simultaneously livestreamed on Facebook. Salo has also built “Recover Analog and Digital Data” to save personal, family and community history in Wisconsin…
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Academic Surveillance: Big Data Policing in Libraries and Classrooms
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the second speaker in a free multipart series entitled “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World." Sarah Lamdan, a professor of law at CUNY School of Law in Long Island City, New York, leads the discussion “Academic Surveillance: Big Data Policing in Libraries and Classrooms.” This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will be livestreamed on YouTube.
Find out more »Nov 2021
Data After Death: Remembrance & Resurrection
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the third speaker in a free multipart series entitled, “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World.” Alexis Elder from the University of Minnesota Duluth will lead the discussion “Data After Death: Remembrance & Resurrection.” This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will be livestreamed on YouTube. Elder’s talk will focus on how individuals should engage with people’s data after death. Information ethicists have…
Find out more »Mar 2022
Death and Privacy in the Digital Age
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the fourth speaker in a free multipart series entitled, “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World.” Natalie Lynner from Drake University Law School will lead the discussion “Death and Privacy in the Digital Age.” This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will also be livestreamed on YouTube. Americans store an overwhelming amount of sensitive and personal information online. When developers created these online…
Find out more »Apr 2022
Privacy and Personal Data in Modern America
The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Jim Dan Hill Library presents the fifth speaker in a free multipart series entitled, “Data Deluge: Privacy in a Connected World.” Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson professor of history and Dean of Strategic Initiatives for the School of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University, will lead the discussion “Social Insecurities: Privacy and Personal Data in Modern America.” This community event will take place in the Jim Dan Hill Library’s main floor and will also be livestreamed on…
Find out more »Oct 2022
Author Event: Phong Nguyen
Author Phong Nguyen will read from his recently acclaimed novel Bronze Drum, about warrior-sisters who once ruled Vietnam. A Q&A session will follow the reading. Light refreshments will be served.
Find out more »Mar 2023
Nyanyika Banda
The University of Wisconsin-Superior will welcome 2017 graduate, chef, entrepreneur and food writer, Nyanyika Banda to campus. Banda will discuss attending UW-Superior in an event for the campus community. Currently, Banda teaches culinary arts at Barnstable High School in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and runs the catering company, Martha’s Daughter.
Find out more »Books with Buzz
UW-Superior’s Future Teachers Association student organization, the Department of Education and the Veteran and Nontraditional Student Center is celebrating National Reading Month by hosting Books with Buzz on the second floor of the Jim Dan Hill Library. Students and staff will provide crafts, activities and book readings for children in the Twin Ports area with opportunities to meet UW-Superior mascot, Buzz and other special guests like the Cat in the Hat!
Find out more »Apr 2023
UW-Superior Visiting Writer Series: Michael Kleber-Diggs
UWS' Visiting Writer Series invites Michael Kleber-Diggs to campus. Kleber-Diggs is a poet, essayist, literary critic and arts educator living in St. Paul. His debut poetry collection, Worldly Things, was awarded the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. There will be a reading, Q&A and refreshments.
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