Past Event Category: Fall 2024 VSP
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Oct 24A Progressive Path Forward
Pramila Jayapal, Representative (D-WA 7th District)
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8417*
Pramila Jayapal, Representative (D-WA 7th District)
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Oct 15The Never Again Syndrome: Uses and Misuses of Holocaust Memory and the Weaponization of Language
Omer Bartov, Brown University
Online, Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History at UW-Madison and World BEYOND War – Madison. Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony’s College, Oxford, he has written widely on war crimes, interethnic …
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Oct 10Practical Radicals: How Oppressed People Change the World
Deepak Bhargava, The JPB Foundation & Stephanie Luce, City University of New York (CUNY)
Online, Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the School for Workers at UW-Madison. Deepak Bhargava is President of the JBP Foundation. Since 2019, he has been a distinguished lecturer at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. He previously led Community Change for 16 years, where he worked to strengthen the community organizing field and …
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Oct 2Gaza Apocalypse: Causes and Consequences
Mouin Rabbani, researcher & commentator
Online, Zoom
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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Sep 25The Contest for the Working Class: Organizing Rural Communities
George Goehl, community organizer & activist
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8417*
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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Sep 19Lesbian-Homoville, Colorado: Relocating the Origins of the Anti-Queer Movement
Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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Sep 11Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Colin Gordon, University of Iowa
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8417*
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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Sep 5The Missing Revolution: Forms and Outcomes of Anti-systemic Explosions, 2010-2020
Vincent Bevins, journalist & writer
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
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Sep 4Workers Speak: The State of Working Wisconsin & Policy Priorities
Online, Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with Kids Forward, the High Road Strategy Center, the Milwaukee Area Service & Hospitality Workers Union (MASH), and Worker Justice Wisconsin. Workers from the construction and service & hospitality industries in Wisconsin discuss the impacts of wage theft & misclassification, an insufficient minimum wage, and anti-worker/anti-union legislation on their wellbeing on the job …