Fall 2024-Spring 2025 Events
Fall 2024
Workers Speak: The State of Working Wisconsin & Policy Priorities
September 4 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Co-sponsored event
The Missing Revolution: Forms and Outcomes of Anti-systemic Explosions, 2010-2020
Vincent Bevins
Journalist & writer
September 5 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality
Colin Gordon
University of Iowa
September 11 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
Lesbian-Homoville, Colorado: Relocating the Origins of the Anti-Queer Movement
Jennifer Holland
University of Oklahoma
September 19 @ 1:00 PM
Hybrid event
The Contest for the Working Class: Organizing Rural Communities
George Goehl
Community organizer & activist
September 25 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
Gaza Apocalypse: Causes and Consequences
Mouin Rabbani
Researcher & commentator
October 2 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Practical Radicals: How Oppressed People Change the World
Deepak Bhargava
JPB Foundation
Stephanie Luce Deepak
CUNY
October 10 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Uses and Misuses of Holocaust Memory and the Weaponization of Language
Omer Bartov
Brown University
October 15 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
A Progressive Path Forward
Pramila Jayapal
Representative (D-WA 7th District)
October 24 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
Spring 2025
Laundering Black Rage: Place, Space & Race in State Institutions
Rasul Mowatt & Too Black
January 28 @ 5:00 PM
Hybrid event
What Good Is the National Interest? Rethinking the Roots of Peace, Democracy, and War
Van Jackson
Victoria University of Wellington
February 4 @ 3:00 PM
Online event
American Politics and Society – The Rise of Illiberalism – A Black Critique Perspective
Anthony Bogues
Brown University
March 4 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
After the 2024 Election: Possible Futures for the Democratic Party
Ruy Teixeira
American Enterprise Institute
April 1 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity Along the Mekong
Prasenjit Duara
Duke University
April 14 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
Rock Throwing, State Violence, and the Question of Resistance
Karma Chavez
University of Texas – Austin
April 18 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Elites & Left Politics
Marie Moran
University College Dublin
April 24 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Can Employer-driven Reform Be a Good Thing for Workers? The Case of the Four-Day Week
Juliet Schor
Boston College
May 1 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
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.