Past Events
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Oct 16Culturally Centering Organizing for Social Justice: Co-Creating Voice InfrastructuresMohan J. Dutta, Massey University
Online via Zoom
This event was presented in collaboration with the Rhetoric, Politics and Culture Colloquium, Department of Communication Arts, at UW–Madison. Mohan J. Dutta is Dean’s Chair Professor of Communication at Massey University – University of New Zealand. He is the Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), developing culturally-centered, community-based projects …
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Oct 8How Finance Wrecked Democracy and a Radical Plan to Rebuild ItMichael A. McCarthy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108
Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book is Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal, was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor …
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Sep 30America’s New Racial Battle Lines and the Second Trump AdministrationRogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison. Rogers M. Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or co-author of many articles and nine books, most recently America’s New Racial Battle Lines: Protect versus Repair …
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Sep 18Sanctuary for NoneA. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois Chicago
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8108
This event was presented in collaboration with the Department of Geography and the Center for the Humanities at UW–Madison. A. Naomi Paik is the author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the 21st Century (2020, University of California Press) and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II …
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Aug 9Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic EconomyPelle Dragsted, Danish Member of Parliament
A Room of One's Own Bookstore
A conversation between Danish MP, Pelle Dragsted, and author of the book, Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy, and Dean Krouk, Professor of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW–Madison. This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at UW–Madison and A Room of One’s Own bookstore. Pelle Dragsted …
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May 1Can Employer-driven Reform Be a Good Thing for Workers? The Case of the Four-Day Week
Juliet Schor, Boston College
Online via Zoom
Juliet Schor, Boston College
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Apr 24Elites & Left Politics
Marie Moran, University College Dublin
Online via Zoom
Marie Moran, University College Dublin
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Apr 18Rock Throwing, State Violence, and the Question of Resistance
Karma Chavez, University of Texas-Austin
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
Karma Chavez, University of Texas - Austin
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Apr 14BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity Along the Mekong
Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
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Apr 1After the 2024 Election: Possible Futures for the Democratic Party
Ruy Teixeira, American Enterprise Institute
Online via Zoom and Sewell Social Science Bldg., Room 8417
Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he focuses on the transformation of party coalitions and the future of American electoral politics. Before joining AEI, he was a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress from 2003 to 2022. A political demographer and commentator, Dr. Teixeira is …