Fall 2023-Spring 2024 Events
Fall 2023
Workers’ Views of Working in Wisconsin
Organized by COWS
September 6 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
The Struggle of Border Farm Workers Against Capital
Carlos Marentes
Labor organizer
September 14 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
What Is Antiracism (And Why It Means Anticapitalism)?
Arun Kundnani
Writer
September 20 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
A Radical’s Journey from Campus to the Shop Floor in 1970s Wisconsin
Jon Melrod
Labor organizer
September 27 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Housing the Third Reconstruction: Property and Its Insurgencies
Ananya Roy
University of California – Los Angeles
October 11 @ 12:00 PM
Online event
Understanding the Conjuncture: Political Capitalism, Class Dealignment & Strategies for the Left
James Foley, Glasgow Caledonian University
Matthew Karp, Princeton
Dylan Riley, University of California – Berkeley
October 18 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
International Development, Global Migration, and the Rise of Economic Imperialism
Immanuel Ness
CUNY
October 25 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Irresponsible Bystanders: Reflections on the Collective Origins of War
Wolfgang Streeck
November 28 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Spring 2024
How We Save Us: Rethinking Strategy and Collective Action in US Politics
Maurice Mitchell
Working Families Party
January 30 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Transitions
Wolfgang Streeck
February 8 @ 12:00 PM
Online event
The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity
Astra Taylor
Writer & activist
February 13 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Abortion and Demographic Fears in the Heartland
Lina Maria Murillo
University of Iowa
February 21 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Wrecked: State Politics and the Deinstitutionalization of Public Higher Education
Barrett J. Taylor
University of North Texas
February 29 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Phil Gorski
Yale University
March 14 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
The Dawn of the Pacific Century: China and the Condition of the Spatial Revolution
Wang Hui
Tsinghua University
March 20 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 1: Critical Engagement vs. Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy
April 2 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 2: Race, Class and Capitalism
Michael Burawoy
April 4 @ 3:00 PM
Hybrid event
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 3: Decolonizing the Canon
Michael Burawoy
April 8 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 4: Black Marxism
Michael Burawoy
April 10 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
When Heaven & Earth Changed Places
Le Ly Hayslip
Author & peace activist
April 16 @ 7:00 PM
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, 2024 @ 6:00 PM
In-person event
Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization and Activism
Chris Zepeda-Millán
University of California – Los Angeles
April 25, 2024 @ 12:00 noon
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.