Spring 2024 Events

How We Save Us: Rethinking Strategy and Collective Action in US Politics

Maurice Mitchell
Working Families Party
January 30 @ 2:00-3:30PM
Hybrid event

Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Transitions

Wolfgang Streeck
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
February 8 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Online event

The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity

Astra Taylor
Writer & activist
February 13 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Online event

Abortion and Demographic Fears in the Heartland

Lina-Maria Murillo
University of Iowa
February 21 @ 12:30-2:00PM
Hybrid event

Wrecked: State Politics and the Deinstitutionalization of Public Higher Education

Barrett J. Taylor
University of North Texas
February 29 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Online event

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

Phil Gorski
Yale University
March 14 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Online event

The Dawn of the Pacific Century: China and the Condition of the Spatial Revolution

Wang Hui
Tsinghua University
March 20 @ 4:00PM-5:30PM
Hybrid event

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W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 1: Critical Engagement vs. Public Sociology

Michael Burawoy
University of California, Berkeley
April 2 @ 2:00-3:30PM
Hybrid event

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W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 2: Race, Class and Capitalism

Michael Burawoy
University of California, Berkeley
April 4 @ 3:00-4:30PM
Hybrid event

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W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 3: Decolonizing the Canon

Michael Burawoy
University of California, Berkeley
April 8 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Hybrid event

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W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 4: Black Marxism

Michael Burawoy
University of California, Berkeley
April 10 @ 2:00-3:30PM
Hybrid event

When Heaven & Earth Changed Places

Le Ly Hayslip
Author & peace activist
April 16 @ 7:00-8:30PM
In-person event

Co-sponsored Event

Building a Social Justice University: What Will It Take to Free Higher Education from Its Current Conditions?

Davarian Baldwin
Trinity College
April 18 @ 6:00-7:30PM
In-person event

Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization and Activism

Chris Zepeda-Millán
University of California, Los Angeles
April 25 @ 12:00-1:30PM
Online event

The Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) lecture series brings distinguished critical scholars and activists from around the world to the University of Wisconsin–Madison to deliver lectures in virtual and in-person settings. The VSP series enriches the campus and community in several ways. Scholars speak with expertise on a wide range of topics, very often presenting the findings of recently conducted original research. Havens Wright Center lectures are also sites of cross-disciplinary discussion among faculty and students, and they provide a context in which people from the broader community can participate in intellectually stimulating programs with scholars and activists. The Center maintains an extensive archive of audio and digital video recordings of past lectures on our website.

Havens Wright Center YouTube Channel