• 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.