UWM World Languages & Cultures

10/15/2026

🇵🇷Join us on October 22 for a talk with Grammy Award musician (and UWM MA student) Beto Torrens! He will speak about his decades of cultural artistry working in Puerto Rico's oldest living musical tradition, bomba. This music and dance was created on the island by our enslaved African ancestors to create communities of support between the various ethnic groups that were forced to live together.

🎵Come learn about this continually evolving art form and feel the rhythms for yourself! Full event details at https://uwm.edu/latin-american-caribbean-studies/event/lacusl-talk-beto-torrens/

* Thursday, October 22
* 2:30pm - 3:30pm
* UWM Libraries – American Geographical Society Library (3rd floor east wing)

Beto Torrens is a Grammy Award musician, producer, and educator from San Juan, Puerto Rico. With a career that spans over 30 years professionally, Beto’s main interest is in creating bridges between Afro-diasporic music and dance traditions from the Caribbean and the Americas. He is currently pursuing an MA in music here at UW-Milwaukee.

10/14/2026

Photos: Families from Milwaukee French Immersion School rallied outside of Milwaukee Public Schools' central office Oct. 12 against a teacher's job cut. See link below ⬇️

📸 Rory Linnane/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

10/08/2026

Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall is Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation at Candler School of Theology and in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. Dr. Marshall focuses on contemporary Christian ethics, with particular attention to violence, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and moral agency under constraint.

"The Emotional Labor of Dialogue"

Many models of civic dialogue assume a disposition marked by "rational calm." However, the work we are doing together is emotional work. How do we think about the role of emotions in civic dialogue? How do we honor the knowledge emotions give us, remain true to them, and still converse constructively?

This event is open to all, but we request advance registration as dinner is provided https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/WE2PbWxKjq

10/02/2026

The 2026 Milwaukee Korea Day Celebration at UWM will take place at the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts next Friday, October 9, from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. This event is hosted by the Korean American Faculty and Staff Association at UWM and the Korean American Association of Milwaukee.

Details here: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/korea-day-celebration-and-symphony-orchestra-concert/

10/01/2026

Boswell Book Company - 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI

10/01/2026

Join us for Antiracists Who Language, the next ACTFL President’s Town Hall!
Hear from educators and leaders as they explore antiracism, language, identity, and belonging.
📅 Oct. 27 | 7 p.m. ET
🔗 REGISTER NOW: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VkFjXRRtSQS5C95uqINYSA #/

09/26/2026

Our annual Ceili is back, don’t miss out on dancing and live music from local Irish and Scottish musicians in Milwaukee!

09/26/2026

Welcome back panthers!! Upcoming event for Celtic Studies in October
Join us for ghost stories from Kevin Reilly! 👻💚

09/21/2026

What’s new in the ACTFL Teacher Preparation Standards? 📚

Join Dr. Teresa Bell on October 7 at 7 p.m. ET for an introduction to the revised 2026 standards and what they mean for preparing tomorrow’s language educators.

Register today! 🔗 https://bit.ly/4AlMNHl

09/18/2026