The Havens Wright Center puts on a wide variety of conferences, some of which are strictly academic in character and aimed at a campus audience, and others which are more public in character and designed for both the campus and off-campus communities. These have included:
- RadFest/Midwest Social Forum/Forward
- International Conference on Local Democracy
- National Conference on Media Reform
- Nature, Raw Materials and Political Economy
- The New Latin American Left: Origins and Future Trajectory
- Private Military Contractors in Latin America
- Renewing Radical Scholarship