Massiveness and Transversality: Reimagining Political Articulation

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 …

Labor Spring 2023: Worker Organizing on Campus and Beyond

The Crossing, 1127 University Ave.
@ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm

This event was presented in collaboration with COWS, The Crossing, Kids Forward, MASH, the School for Workers at UW-Madison, the University Labor Council at UW-Madison, and Worker Justice Wisconsin. The past few years have seen an upsurge in labor organizing across the US, …

Populism and the Autonomous Role of Politics

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 …

The Strategic Dilemmas of Working-Class Politics and Organization Today

Online via Zoom
@ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER.   Cat Boyd is a Glasgow-based writer, campaigner and trade unionist. She is assistant editor at Conter and host of Contercast. She writes mainly on Scottish and American …

Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”

Elvehjem Building, Room L140
@ 5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

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, …

How Social Movements Change the World

Van Hise Hall, Room 254 (hybrid event)
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 …

I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Night of Stand-up Tragedy

Arts + Literature Laboratory 111 S. Livingston Street, Suite 100
@ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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. A night of “stand-up tragedy”, Andrew Boyd invites us to come together and — …

Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 …

How Democracies Live

Van Hise Hall, Room 254 (hybrid event)
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 …

Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

Online via Zoom
@ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

This event was presented in collaboration with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the Office of Sustainability, and the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program (LACIS)  at UW-Madison. Thea Riofrancos is an Andrew Carnegie …