Past Events
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Feb 27Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in PalestineAbdel 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 …
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Feb 26Farming the RevolutionMarquee Cinema, Union South
This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and presented in collaboration with the Center for South Asia and IRIS NRC at UW–Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive …
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Feb 19The LibrariansMarquee Cinema, Union South
This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and presented in collaboration with Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) and ACLU Student Alliance at UW–Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. As an unprecedented wave of book banning largely addressing race and LGBT …
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Feb 12Mr. Nobody Against PutinMarquee Cinema, Union South
This event is organized by the Havens Wright Center and the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee and presented in collaboration with CREECA and European Studies at UW–Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with an informal conversation to follow. Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor …
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Feb 11Capital 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 …
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Feb 5The Production of Things: From Lean Production to Artificial Intelligence & Worker ResistanceKim 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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Feb 3Labor Spring 2026School of Social Work Room 300
Perhaps you are familiar with the maxim “be the change you want to see in the world”, the popular and simplified synopsis of the personal philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. But have you ever wondered how to make that change? Organizing 101: Organizing for Change is a series of four introductory workshops coordinated by social work …
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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 …