Past Event Category: Spring 2026 VSP

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  • Apr 8
    The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology

    Jason Resnikoff, University of Groningen

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the School for Workers at UW–Madison. Jason Resnikoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) where he specializes in labor history and the history of technology. His book, Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, …

  • Mar 24
    Toward a Regenerative Anthropology: Epistemic Alternatives From Indigenous Peoples

    Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, Journalist and Activist

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8417

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies (CLS) Program, the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program at UW–Madison. Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj is Maya-K’iche’ journalist, activist and social anthropologist. She has …

  • Mar 18
    A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community

    Naomi R. Williams (Rutgers University) in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)

    Memorial Library Room 126

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of History & the School for Workers at UW–Madison, the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL), and the Wisconsin Labor History Society. Naomi R. Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their …

  • Feb 27
    Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in Palestine

    Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rice University

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Middle East Studies Program at UW–Madison. Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the Associate Professor of History and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies at Rice University. He is historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon …

  • Feb 11
    Capital Accumulation and Racial Oppression: Contingency or Necessity?

    Ruy Braga, University of São Paulo

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies (CLS) Program and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies (LACIS) Program at UW–Madison. Ruy Braga has a degree in Social Sciences (1993), a master’s degree in Sociology (1996; dissertation on Contemporary crisis and restoration of capital: from criticism of dominant economism to …

  • Feb 5
    The Production of Things: From Lean Production to Artificial Intelligence & Worker Resistance

    Kim Moody, author & activist

    Online via Zoom

    This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities and the School for Workers at UW–Madison. 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 Movement in the United …

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