Past Event Category: Spring 2023 VSP
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Apr 27Massiveness and Transversality: Reimagining Political ArticulationOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program at UW-Madison. In the last few years, the feminist movement has taken to the streets to intervene and channel anti-neoliberal protests, popular and Indigenous uprisings and strikes, as well as impregnated parliamentary candidacies and constituent reforms. March 8 was re-established …
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Apr 20Populism and the Autonomous Role of PoliticsOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History at UW-Madison. Monica Prasad is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Her areas of interest are political sociology, economic sociology, comparative historical sociology, and the sociology of development. She has written three award-winning books using comparative and historical methods to examine the political economy of the …
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Apr 13The Strategic Dilemmas of Working-Class Politics and Organization TodayOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER. Daniel Chavez is Knowledge Hub Researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI). After the defeat of left governments in Latin America following the 2008 economic crisis, and disappointments in European left projects, he initiated the New Politics project at TNI to stimulate innovative thinking on questions of participatory democracy and …
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Apr 4Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”Elvehjem Building, Room L140
This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities. Sianne Ngai is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Ugly Feelings (2005) and Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (2012), winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize. Her most recent book is Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment …
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Mar 28How Social Movements Change the WorldVan Hise Hall, Room 254 (hybrid event)
Paul Engler is a co-founder of Momentum, which instructs hundreds of activists each year in the principles of effective protest. He is co-author, along with Mark Engler, of the influential book on the craft of mass mobilization, This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (Nation Books, 2016). Paul is the founder of The …
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Mar 23I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Night of Stand-up TragedyArts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston Street, Suite 100
This event was presented in collaboration with the Arts + Literature Laboratory, COWS, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison. Andrew Boyd is an author, humorist, and climate activist. His new book, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor is forthcoming from New Society Press in February …
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Mar 9Feeding the World Without Devouring the PlanetOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison. George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose current research focus is on the global food system. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, and Out of the …
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Mar 2How Democracies LiveVan Hise Hall, Room 254 (hybrid event)
Stein Ringen is a political scientist and an authority on states, governance and democracy. He has published scholarly books and other works on topics ranging from the Scandinavian welfare state via constitutional matters in Britain and the US to dictatorship in China, and on inequality, poverty, income distribution, public policy and comparative government. His journalism …
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Mar 1Extraction: The Frontiers of Green CapitalismOnline via Zoom
Thea Riofrancos is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2020-2023), an Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College, and a member of the Climate and Community Project. She is the author of Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (Duke University Press, 2020), the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green …
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Feb 22Who Are the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) and What Do They Do?Online via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER. Catherine Liu is the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2021 and The American Idyll: Academic Anti-Elitism as Cultural Critique was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2011. She works on Critical …