The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID are hosting a panel discussion following the Wisconsin Film Festival screening of Guido Hendrikx’s Stranger in Paradise. The film will be shown on Tuesday, April 4th at 6:30pm at the Sundance Theater in Madison. The film is described as “quite literally, a classroom exercise which assembles would-be migrants …
Transcending disciplinary boundaries at a research university like UW–Madison is challenging, but one group of graduate students is finding unconventional ways to eschew their departmental borders in favor of a new approach to academic inquiry. The team of eight Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID have disciplinary affiliations ranging from English to Neuroscience, but they …
The conveniences of the “internet of things” allow us to remotely check if the garage door is closed or have our phones signal the coffee maker to start brewing when we hit the snooze in the morning, but what are the implications of these conveniences? Is there such thing as being too connected? How is …