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Queer Film Series: Call Me Kuchu

Center for Equity and Diversity Classroom 800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI, United States

The LGBTQ Resource Center will view the documentary Call Me Kuchu (2012) “In their documentary, Call Me Kuchu, filmmakers Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright explore the dynamics of LGBT activism in Uganda while the Anti-Homosexuality Act, also known as the ‘Kill the Gays’ bill, is trying to be passed.” http://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2015/10/6/call-me-kuchu Talk back following the […]

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Queer Talk Show with guest Brandon Miller

Center for Equity and Diversity Classroom 800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI, United States

LGBTQ Resource Center Director Liz Cannon will interview guest Brandon Miller - Associate Vice-Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Interim Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs - about his journey to UW Oshkosh as a gay man.

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World AIDS Day

Campus-Wide , United States

Join the LGBTQ Resource Center’s World AIDS Day Fact Hunt. Look for tables throughout campus providing activities and education that will help you ACT AWARE. Different tables will present different facts about HIV/AIDS from local, statewide, national, and international perspectives. Complete our World AIDS Day Fact Hunt Questionnaire to win a prize. Use your knowledge […]

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E-Waste Recycling Drop Off

Blackhawk Commons Parking Lot #15 Oshkosh, WI, United States

Recycle your household electronic waste. Campus operating units, please contact the Sustainability Office for more info about how to recycle campus-generated E-waste. Accepted Items Cell phones, rechargeable batteries, cords, CRTs/computer monitors, CPUs/computer towers, printers, DVDs/VCRs, fax machines, cell and corded phones Items Not Accepted TVs, microwaves, dehumidifiers, light bulbs, alkaline batteries, household appliances

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Film Screening: “Containment”

Sage 1210 835 High Avenue, Oshkosh, WI, United States

Part graphic-novel part documentary, this film explores the complicated problem of how we should manage radioactive wastes that will be harmful to humans far into the distant future. Sponsors: Environmental Studies Program, Engineering Technology Program, SEAC.

University Series: Kyle Thiermann “Surfing for Change”

Reeve Ballroom 227AB 748 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh, WI, United States

Thiermann is the son of activists who exposed him early to the value of civic engagement. As a surfer, he was in a social circle with lots of young people who were not engaged in social or environmental issues, nor inclined to watch long documentaries. He knew they were nonetheless caring people and that if […]

Earth Week Keynote: Taylor Brorby “Coming Alive: Action and Civil Disobedience – Wake the Frack Up”

Reeve Ballroom 227AB 748 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh, WI, United States

Doors open at 5 p.m. Reception and dinner: 5:30 p.m. Keynote address: 7 p.m. Taylor Brorby is a poet, essayist and activist who responds to the boom in hydraulic fracturing in his beloved home state of North Dakota by writing poems and essays, engaging in action and civil disobedience. His lyrical, moving call to action […]

Food Evolution Movie Screening and Midwest Farming Discussion Panel

sage 1214 Sage Hall, Oshkosh Campus of UWO, Oshkosh, WI, United States

Join the UW Oshkosh Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations and area farmers as we screen the film Food Evolution and discuss farming and the food system in the Midwest. The 2016 film is narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson and addresses the development and use of GMO crops as well as public concerns about the technology. […]

Earth Charter Keynote

Alumni Welcome and Conference Center (AWCC) 625 Pearl Ave., Oshkosh, WI, United States

Earth Charter Community Summit keynote lecture by Kimberly Wasserman, director of Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO). Sponsored by the UWO Green Fund. Doors open at 5 p.m.