Fall 2022
Working Wisconsin 2022: What’s Motivating Worker Organizing in Wisconsin
Organized by COWS
The Precariat: Confronting Rentier Capitalism
Guy Standing, SOAS University of London
Is There an Alternative?
Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Harvard University
Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Transnational Solidarities
Harsha Walia, Organizer and Writer
State of the World Conference
Organized by TNI
Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive Justice
Zakiya Luna, Washington University in St. Louis
Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
Organized by LACIS
Ruth Conniff
Freedom, Now
Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths, University of London
Time and Motion: US Labor in the Era of Disease, Digitization, and Disruption
Kim Moody, University of Westminster – London
Spring 2023
Who are the “Ruling Class” Today?
Doug Henwood, Ho-fung Hung & Göran Therborn
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Thea Riofrancos
I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Night of Stand-up Tragedy
Andrew Boyd, writer and climate activist
The Strategic Dilemmas of Working-Class Politics and Organization Today
Cat Boyd, Daniel Chavez, Vivek Chibber
Massiveness and Transversality: Reimagining Political Articulation
Verónica Gago, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
How Democracies Live
Stein Ringen, Kings College London
How Social Movements Change the World
Paul Engler, writer and activist
Populism and the Autonomous Role of Politics
Monica Prasad, Northwestern University
Who Are the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) and What Do They Do?
Catherine Liu, Gabriel Winant & Pete Ramand
Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
George Monbiot, writer and activist
Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”
Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”
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.