Past Events
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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 …
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Feb 15IRIS NRC Book Club: The Dawn of EverythingOnline via Zoom
This series is presented in collaboration with the Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). About the Book How did our distant ancestors live? And what can this tell us about our contemporary world? Drawing on wide-ranging research in archaeology and anthropology, The Dawn of Everything is an ambitious attempt to overturn the conventional …
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Feb 13Who are the “Ruling Class” Today?Online via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER. Doug Henwood is a journalist, economic analyst, podcaster and the author of “Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class”. Henwood is the host of Behind the News. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, Grand Street, The Village Voice, Newsday, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and Jacobin. He is a …
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Nov 29Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Transnational SolidaritiesOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Institute for Regional & International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) at UW–Madison. Harsha Walia is an organizer and writer who has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for two decades. She is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press, …
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Nov 17Time and Motion: US Labor in the Era of Disease, Digitization, and DisruptionOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER, the School for Workers at UW–Madison, and the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL). 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 …
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Nov 15Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican WorkersOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS) program at UW–Madison. LACIS Honorary Fellow, Ruth Conniff, will present her recently-published book (July 2022), Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers. Ruth Conniff is the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief …
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Nov 8Is There an Alternative?YouTube Live
Progressives appear on the contemporary scene, all over the world, as the humanizers of the inevitable, yet their program tends to be the program of their conservative adversaries, albeit with a humanizing discount. Meanwhile, the world remains restless under the yoke of a dictatorship of no alternatives. What direction should progressives take? Roberto Mangabeira Unger …
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Nov 3The Final Question?: Global Realignments & Prospects for a Livable WorldOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with CONTER and the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison. Noam Chomsky was born in 1928, in Philadelphia Pa. He attended the U. of Pennsylvania, where he received his BA, MA, and Phd degrees. From 1951-55 he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. In I955, …
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Oct 24Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive JusticeOnline via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for Research on Gender & Women at UW–Madison. Zakiya Luna is Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her research, teaching and community work focus on social movements, reproduction, human rights and intersectionality. She has published multiple peer-reviewed …
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Oct 18The Precariat: Confronting Rentier CapitalismOnline via Zoom
Guy Standing is an economist, with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is currently Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, and previously was a professor at SOAS and the Universities of Bath (UK) and Monash (Australia). These followed a long career at the International Labour Organization where he was Director of …