Past Event Category: Fall 2025 VSP
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Dec 4Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of NatureAlyssa Battistoni, Barnard College
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History at UW–Madison. Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. She is the author of Free Gifts: Capitalism and …
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Oct 30Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor SolidarityCedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of African American Studies and the School for Workers at UW–Madison. Cedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published six books. His newest, Freedom Train, with University of California Press is about the role of …
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Oct 23DEI and the Road to Environmental Rollbacks in the USLaura Pulido, University of Oregon
Online via Zoom
Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and the Centennial Professor of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. Her research and teaching centers on race, Latina/o studies, environmental justice, cultural memory and the right. A central goal of her work …
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Oct 16Culturally Centering Organizing for Social Justice: Co-Creating Voice InfrastructuresMohan J. Dutta, Massey University
Online via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Rhetoric, Politics and Culture Colloquium, Department of Communication Arts, at UW–Madison. Mohan J. Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication at Massey University – University of New Zealand. He is the Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), developing culturally-centered, community-based projects …
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Oct 8How Finance Wrecked Democracy and a Radical Plan to Rebuild ItMichael A. McCarthy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108
Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book is Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal, was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor …
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Sep 30America’s New Racial Battle Lines and the Second Trump AdministrationRogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison. Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of many articles and nine books, most recently America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair …
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Sep 18Sanctuary for NoneA. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois Chicago
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8108
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison. A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (2020, University of California Press) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II …
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Aug 9Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic EconomyPelle Dragsted, Danish Member of Parliament
A Room of One's Own Bookstore
A conversation between Danish MP, Pelle Dragsted, and author of the book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, and Dean Krouk, Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW–Madison. This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW–Madison and A Room of One’s Own bookstore. Pelle Dragsted …