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  • Sep 16
    Godwin’s Engine: Muskism and the Automation of Consent

    Quinn Slobodian, Boston University

    Online via Zoom

    This event is presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of History at UW-Madison. Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University. He is the author with Ben Tarnoff of Muskism, selected by the Financial Times and The Economist as one of the Best Books of 2026. Other …

  • Oct 1
    (Im)migration, State Violence & Community Solidarity

    Christine Neumann-Ortiz and Jimmy Patiño

    Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417

    This event is presented in collaboration with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program (CLS) and Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) at UW-Madison. Christine Neumann-Ortiz is the founding Executive Director of Voces de la Frontera and Voces de la Frontera Action. Ms. Neumann-Ortiz is recognized as a national leader in the immigrant rights movement. Ms. Neumann-Ortiz …

  • Oct 8
    “Foreign” Black Women: Confronting Xenophobic Antiblackness Globally

    Lorgia García Peña, Princeton University

    Online via Zoom

    This event is presented in collaboration with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies Program (CLS), IRIS Global Connect, and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) at UW-Madison and with generous support from CLS and LACIS. Dr. Lorgia García-Peña, Nave Visiting Scholar, is a writer, activist and scholar who specializes in Latinx Studies with a …

  • Nov 6
    The Origins of Western Marxism & the Colonial Question

    Gabriel Rockhill, Villanova University

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    This event is presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the Department of History at UW-Madison. Gabriel Rockhill is a philosopher, cultural critic, and activist. He is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop / Atelier de Théorie Critique, Professor of Philosophy and Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University, Director of the Cultural Studies …

  • Nov 10
    What Brazil Reveals about the Global Far Right

    Rodrigo Nunes, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    This event is presented in collaboration with IRIS Global Connect at UW-Madison. Rodrigo Nunes is an associate professor in modern and contemporary philosophy at the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in Brazil, and a visiting fellow at the University of Essex in the UK. He is the author of Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal: A Theory …

  • Dec 3
    Community Collapse, Capital, and Lessons from Evangelical Organizing

    Eric Blanc, Rutgers University

    Online via Zoom

    Eric Blanc is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a longtime union activist. His latest research project explores the political-economic roots of the decline of community in the US and examines what progressives can learn from evangelical Christians about organizing on our atomized terrain. His writing can be found at laborpolitics.com. Eric …

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