University of Wisconsin–Madison

Past Event Category: Fall 2022 VSP

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  • Silhouettes of hands behind a barbed wire, suggesting a refugee camp, a border crossing, or a prison.
    Nov 29
    Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Transnational Solidarities

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Institute for Regional & International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) at UW-Madison. Harsha Walia is an organizer and writer who has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for two decades. She is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press, …

    Silhouettes of hands behind a barbed wire, suggesting a refugee camp, a border crossing, or a prison.
  • Nov 17
    Time and Motion: US Labor in the Era of Disease, Digitization, and Disruption

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER, the School for Workers at UW-Madison, and the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL). Kim Moody is a founder of Labor Notes in the US and the author of several books on labour and politics including Breaking the Impasse: Electoral Politics, Mass Action & the New Socialist …

  • Nov 15
    Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS) program at UW-Madison. LACIS Honorary Fellow, Ruth Conniff, will present her recently-published book (July 2022), Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers. Ruth Conniff is the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief …

  • Nov 8
    Is There an Alternative?

    YouTube Live

    Progressives appear on the contemporary scene, all over the world, as the humanizers of the inevitable, yet their program tends to be the program of their conservative adversaries, albeit with a humanizing discount. Meanwhile, the world remains restless under the yoke of a dictatorship of no alternatives. What direction should progressives take? Roberto Mangabeira Unger …

  • Nov 3
    The Final Question?: Global Realignments & Prospects for a Livable World

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER and the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison. Noam Chomsky was born in 1928, in Philadelphia Pa. He attended the U. of Pennsylvania, where he received his BA, MA, and Phd degrees. From 1951-55 he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In I955, …

  • Oct 24
    Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive Justice

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for Research on Gender & Women at UW-Madison. Zakiya Luna is Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her research, teaching and community work focus on social movements, reproduction, human rights and intersectionality. She has published multiple peer-reviewed …

  • Oct 18
    The Precariat: Confronting Rentier Capitalism

    Online via Zoom

    Guy Standing is an economist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and previously was a professor at SOAS and the Universities of Bath (UK) and Monash (Australia). These followed a long career at the International Labour Organization where he was Director of …

  • Oct 13
    Freedom, Now

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison. Alberto Toscano is Term Research Associate Professor at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University and Professor of Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he co-directs the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought. He is the author of Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010; …

  • The faces of five people look at the viewer: a woman with chin-length brown hair and rimless eyeglasses; a man with closely worn dark brown hair, mustache and beard in a gray t-shirt and large gold chain; a man with shoulder-length brown hair, mustache, and beard with clear acetate frames; a man with short brown hair and black acetate frames; and a woman in bright blue scrubs, light blue hair net, and white face mask.
    Sep 7
    Working Wisconsin 2022: What’s Motivating Worker Organizing in Wisconsin

    Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with COWS. 2022 has been a banner year for workers demanding more of work nationally and in Wisconsin. COWS’ State of Working Wisconsin this year features that work and this panel is a chance to hear directly from the workers who are at the forefront of these efforts. In celebration of …

    The faces of five people look at the viewer: a woman with chin-length brown hair and rimless eyeglasses; a man with closely worn dark brown hair, mustache and beard in a gray t-shirt and large gold chain; a man with shoulder-length brown hair, mustache, and beard with clear acetate frames; a man with short brown hair and black acetate frames; and a woman in bright blue scrubs, light blue hair net, and white face mask.
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