Fall 2023
Workers' Views of Working in Wisconsin
Organized by COWS
A Radical's Journey from Campus to the Shop Floor in 1970s Wisconsin
Jon Melrod, labor organizer & human rights activist
International Development, Global Migration, and the Rise of Economic Imperialism
Immanuel Ness, City University of New York
The Struggle of Border Farm Workers Against Capital
Carlos Marentes, labor organizer & human rights activist
Housing the Third Reconstruction: Property and Its Insurgencies
Ananya Roy, University of California - Los Angeles
What Is Antiracism (And Why It Means Anticapitalism)?
Arun Kundnani, writer
Understanding the Conjuncture: Political Capitalism, Class Dealignment & Strategies for the Left
James Foley, Glasgow Caledonian University
Matthew Karp, Princeton
Dylan Riley, University of California - Berkeley
Spring 2024
How We Save Us: Rethinking Strategy and Collective Action in US Politics
Maurice Mitchell , Working Families Party
Abortion and Demographic Fears in the Heartland
Lina-Maria Murillo, University of Iowa
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 3: Decolonizing the Canon
Michael Burawoy
Building a Social Justice University: What Will It Take to Free Higher Education from Its Current Conditions?
Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College
Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Transitions
Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Wrecked: State Politics and the Deinstitutionalization of Public Higher Education
Barrett J. Taylor , University of North Texas
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 4: Black Marxism
Michael Burawoy
Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization and Activism
Chris Zepeda-Millán, UCLA
The Alchemy of Organizing: Turning Insecurity Into Solidarity
Astra Taylor, writer & activist
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
Phil Gorski, Yale University
W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture 2: Race, Class and Capitalism
Michael Burawoy
When Heaven & Earth Changed Places
Le Ly Hayslip
The Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) lecture series brings distinguished critical scholars and activists from around the world to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to deliver lectures in virtual and in-person settings. The VSP series enriches the campus and community in several ways. Scholars speak with expertise on a wide range of topics, very often presenting the findings of recently conducted original research. Havens Wright Center lectures are also sites of cross-disciplinary discussion among faculty and students, and they provide a context in which people from the broader community can participate in intellectually stimulating programs with scholars and activists. The Center maintains an extensive archive of audio and digital video recordings of past lectures on our website.