Past Events Category: Guest Lecture

Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
Hybrid Event: Zoom and Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108
April 14, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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This event is presented in collaboration with the Department of History and the Havens Wright Center at UW-Madison. Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated …

206 Ingraham
April 3, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
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                                  About the Lecture:  In this book presentation, Agnieszka Pasieka will draw from her fieldwork among Italian, Polish, and …

Dandhy Laksono
206 Ingraham Hall
March 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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  As one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, Indonesia is facing serious challenges with its dependence on fossil fuels for its energy source. Yet with climate change and the global environmental concerns around …

Dr. Mario Novelli
159 Education Bldg - Wisconsin Idea Room
March 19, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am

The Department of Educational Policy Studies is delighted to host, "From Education For All to Scholasticide: The Rise and Fall of the Global Liberal Education Order," with Dr. Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education at the University of Sussex.

Anthony Bogues
Zoom
March 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana Studies, Royce …

Zaynab El Bernoussi
Ingraham 336
March 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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Sino-Moroccan relations go back to the late 1950s, capturing a rise in Third World solidarity. However, these relations quickly faded away by the mid-1960s with Morocco’s pro-West focus. With the BRI, China has been catching …

Dr. Allen, Dr. Wendland, and Dr. Abadie
1333 Sterling
February 25, 2025 @ 8:00 am - 9:15 am

Join us for a discussion on the health impacts of climate change, inspired by the Wisconsin RISE initiative.

Joy Olson
Ingraham 206, or on Zoom
February 11, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Joy Olson is a human rights expert and former Director of the Washington Office on Latin American (WOLA). Joy’s presentation will discuss the problem of migrant kidnapping in Mexico, where extortion payments are demanded of …

Van Jackson
Online
February 4, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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The concept of the “national interest” has become an under-appreciated source of global insecurity. Not because there is anything intrinsically wrong with people having interests that must be preserved, promoted, or protected. Rather, the “national …

Jake Watson
206 Ingraham
December 2, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
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Join IRIS NRC on December 2nd at 11:00am in 206 Ingraham for the next event in our Global Dialogues series, "How Bureaucrats Culturally Entrench Inequalities in Refugee Resettlement," with Jake Watson.