Fall 2022-Spring 2023 Events
Fall 2022
Working Wisconsin 2022: What’s Motivating Worker Organizing in Wisconsin
September 7 @ 2:30 PM
Online event
Co-sponsored event
Freedom, Now
Alberto Toscano
Goldsmiths, University of London
October 13 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
The Precariat: Confronting Rentier Capitalism
Guy Standing
SOAS University of London
October 18 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Engaging Human Rights to Organize for Reproductive Justice
Zakiya Luna
Washington University in St. Louis
October 24 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
The Final Question?: Global Realignments & Prospects for a Livable World
Noam Chomsky
November 3 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Is There an Alternative?
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Harvard University
November 8 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
Ruth Conniff
Editor, Wisconsin Examiner
November 15 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Co-sponsored event
Time and Motion: US Labor in the Era of Disease, Digitization, and Disruption
Kim Moody
University of Westminster – London
November 17 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism and Transnational Solidarities
Harsha Walia
Organizer & writer
November 29 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Spring 2023
Who are the “Ruling Class” Today?
Doug Henwood, Ho-fung Hung & Göran Therborn
February 13 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
IRIS NRC Book Club: The Dawn of Everything
February 15 @ 4:00 PM
Online event
Who Are the Professional Managerial Class (PMC) and What Do They Do?
Catherine Liu, Gabriel Winant & Pete Ramand
February 22 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
Thea Riofrancos
Providence College
March 1 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
How Democracies Live
Stein Ringen
Kings College London
March 2 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
George Monbiot
Writer & activist
March 9 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
I Want a Better Catastrophe: A Night of Stand-up Tragedy
Andrew Boyd
Writer & climate activist
March 23 @ 6:30 PM
In-person event
How Social Movements Change the World
Paul Engler
Writer & activist
March 28 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
Inhabiting Error: From “Last Christmas” to “Senior’s Last Hour”
Sianne Ngai
Northwestern University
April 4 @ 5:45 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
The Strategic Dilemmas of Working-Class Politics and Organization Today
Cat Boyd, Daniel Chavez, Vivek Chibber
April 13 @ 11:00 AM
Online event
Populism and the Autonomous Role of Politics
Monica Prasad
Northwestern University
April 20 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
Massiveness and Transversality: Reimagining Political Articulation
Verónica Gago
Universidad Nacional de San Martín
April 27 @ 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.