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  • 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 …

  • 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), the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and Voices of Courage for Equity and Social Justice (VOCES) 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 …

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

    Quinn Slobodian, Boston University

    Online via Zoom

    This event was 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 …

  • Jul 31
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    Cedric de Leon

    Sewell Social Sciences Building

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  • Apr 8
    The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology

    Jason Resnikoff, University of Groningen

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the School for Workers at UW–Madison. Jason Resnikoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) where he specializes in labor history and the history of technology. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, …

  • Mar 24
    Toward a Regenerative Anthropology: Epistemic Alternatives From Indigenous Peoples

    Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, Journalist and Activist

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8417

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies (CLS) Program, the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program at UW–Madison. Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj is Maya-K’iche’ journalist, activist and social anthropologist. She has …

  • Mar 19
    White With Fear

    Marquee Cinema, Union South

    This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee at UW–Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. Told by the operatives in the rooms where it happened, White With Fear is an explosive deep dive into the decades-long quest by America’s conservative …

  • Mar 18
    A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community

    Naomi R. Williams (Rutgers University) in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)

    Memorial Library Room 126

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History & the School for Workers at UW–Madison, the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL), and the Wisconsin Labor History Society. Naomi R. Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their …

  • Mar 12
    Just Kids

    Marquee Cinema, Union South

    This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee at UW–Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. In states where gender-affirming care is banned, three families face an impossible choice: remain in their home communities at the risk of their transgender …

  • Mar 5
    Fault Lines

    Marquee Cinema, Union South

    This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. From directors Nate Houghteling (American Pathogen, State of Pride) and Yoav Attias (Brick City, Chicagoland) comes a new film that dives headfirst into the epicenter of …

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