Critical scholarship in service of social justice
Since 1984, the Havens Wright Center has brought critical scholars, writer-activists, and labor researchers to UW–Madison — connecting rigorous research with the work of building a more democratic and equitable society.
Photo: Erik Olin Wright, former Director and namesake of the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, teaching at UW–Madison in 1998.
Upcoming Events
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Godwin’s Engine: Muskism and the Automation of ConsentQuinn Slobodian, Boston University
Online via Zoom
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(Im)migration, State Violence & Community SolidarityChristine Neumann-Ortiz and Jimmy Patiño
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
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“Foreign” Black Women: Confronting Xenophobic Antiblackness GloballyLorgia García Peña, Princeton University
Online via Zoom
Archive spotlight
In 2022 as part of the Visiting Scholars Program, Leo Chavez R. Chavez, distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, presented on the “Latino Resentimiento and Anti-Immigrant Populism.”
Our mission
Established in 1984 in the Sociology Department at UW–Madison, the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice promotes critical intellectual reflection and exchange — within the university and between the university and the broader society. The Center supports work that analyzes the sources of inequality and injustice, proposes both practical and utopian alternatives, and learns from social movements seeking progressive change.
The Center is named for the late Professors A. Eugene Havens (Rural Sociology) and Erik Olin Wright (Sociology), whose lives and work embodied the combination of progressive social and political commitment with scholarly rigor that the Center encourages.
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