Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Events
Fall 2025
Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy
Pelle Dragsted in conversation with Dean Krouk
August 9 @ 2:00 PM
In-person event
Film Festival Militancy
Genevieve Yue
New School
September 11 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored Event
Sanctuary for None
A. Naomi Paik
University of Illinois – Chicago
September 18 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
America’s New Racial Battle Lines and the Second Trump Administration
Rogers M. Smith
University of Pennsylvania
September 30 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
How Finance Wrecked Democracy and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It
Michael A. McCarthy
University of California, Santa Cruz
October 8 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Comparison Controversies: Historical Analogy and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
Michael Rothberg
University of California, Los Angeles
October 9 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
Culturally Centering Organizing for Social Justice: Co-Creating Voice Infrastructures
Mohan J. Dutta
Massey University
October 16 @ 4:00 PM
Online event
DEI and the Road to Environmental Rollbacks in the US
Laura Pulido
University of Oregon
October 23 @ 12:00 noon
Online event
How Awesome (or Not) is Social Media? A Civics Lab Conversation
Christine Goding-Doty + Virginia Heffernan
October 23 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
Environmental Justice & Sustainability: A Hegelian Perspective
Klaus Vieweg
University of Jena
October 27 @ 3:30 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
Chemistry, Autarky, and Empire: Manufacturing Film in Fascist Germany
Alice Lovejoy
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
October 27 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
Co-sponsored event
Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity
Cedric de Leon
University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 30 @ 12:00 noon
Hybrid event
The Chinese Workers & the Making & Unmaking of the Socialist Project
Yueran Zhang
University of Chicago
October 31 @ 12:30 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity: A Conversation with Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman
Northwestern University
November 6 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
The Making of the Carceral State in Iran
Golnar Nikpour
Dartmouth College
November 13 @ 12:00 noon
In-person event
Co-sponsored event
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Alyssa Battistoni
Barnard College
December 4 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
Spring 2026
The Production of Things: From Lean Production to Artificial Intelligence & Worker Resistance
Kim Moody
University of Westminster
February 5 @ 12:00 PM
Online event
Weapons of Mass Recruitment: Populism, Online Humor, and Shamelessness in Far-Right Latin America
Nilo Couret
University of Michigan
February 5 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored Event
Capital Accumulation and Racial Oppression: Contingency or Necessity?
Ruy Braga
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
February 11 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Why did Mrs. Gandhi impose the Emergency, and why did she lift it? Revisiting the Indian Emergency of 1975
Peter deSouza
University of Johannesburg
February 19 @ 12:00 PM
Hybrid event
Co-sponsored Event
Model Collapse: Art, AI, and the Seductions of Hallucination
Kris Paulsen
Ohio State University
February 26 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored Event
Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in Palestine
Abdel Razzaq Takriti
Rice University
February 27 @ 12:00 PM
Hybrid event
A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community
Naomi R. Williams (Rutgers University) in conversation with Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan)
March 18 @ 4:00 PM
Hybrid event
2026 Doria Dee Johnson Lecture: “Fear and Fury: Bernie Goetz, White Rage, and the Long Reach of the Reagan 80s”
Heather Ann Thompson
University of Michigan
March 19 @ 5:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored Event
Toward a Regenerative Anthropology: Epistemic Alternatives From Indigenous Peoples
Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj
Journalist and Activist
March 24 @ 2:00 PM
Hybrid event
The Slave and the Machine: Coerced Labor and the Origins of Modern Technology
Jason Resnikoff
University of Groningen
April 8 @ 12:30 PM
Hybrid event
Triple Shock and Image War: Rhetorical Performances and Visual Effects in the Chilean Political Battleground
Jorge Pavez Ojeda
April 9 @ 4:00 PM
Online event
Co-sponsored Event
Haller Lecture: Dialogues on Shifting Power in Rural America
John Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman
April 16 @ 4:00 PM
In-person event
Co-sponsored Event
4W Gender & Migration in Media: Miles Away
Film Screening
April 17 @ 2:30PM
In-person event
West Allis Workers vs. Corporate Power
Film Screening
May 23 @ 2:00 PM
In-person 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.