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  • Apr 23
    Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies Symposium

    Pyle Center

    The Puerto Rican Studies Hub at UW–Madison invites you to a two-day symposium featuring a series of panels with scholars, artists, and practitioners reflecting on the present and future of Puerto Rican Studies. The program is organized as a sequence of conversations with no concurrent sessions, allowing attendees to participate in the full set of …

  • Apr 22
    “El Taller” Solidarity Workshop Debrief

    Ingraham Hall 336

    El Taller is an intensive, in-person mentorship program hosted by the Puerto Rican Studies Hub at UW–Madison that brings together scholars working on Puerto Rico and its diaspora with senior mentors for focused feedback an a work-in-progress and a public presentation of their research. During their stay, participants will join an intellectually vibrant environment centered …

  • Mar 24
    Toward a Regenerative Anthropology: Epistemic Alternatives From Indigenous Peoples

    Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    The Havens-Wright Center’s Visiting Scholars Program presents a lecture by Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, a Maya-K’iche’ journalist, activist and social anthropologist. She has been at the forefront of the struggles for respect for indigenous rights and culture in Guatemala and in Latin America. She is part of a long line of struggle and resistance in her …

  • Mar 18
    CLS/VOCES Care Circle

    Ingraham Hall 336

    The VOCES student group and the CLS Program will host a care circle for students on March 18th to counter the stigmas and generational trauma that sometimes keeps students in higher education from seeking help. The event seeks to create a safe environment for students to express their frustrations and emotions about the current social/political …

  • Mar 16
    A Roundtable with Puerto Rican Authors

    Ingraham Hall 206

    The roundtable features authors Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús, Cezanne Cardona Morales, and Nicole Cecilia Delgado. The event is 5:00 pm Monday, March 16th, in Ingraham 206. The CLS Program is a co-sponsor for the event.

  • Mar 4
    Comic Collective

    MSC Lounge, Classroom and Community Commons

    Curious about comics? Use them to explore meaningful topics! Join the Latine Cultural Center, Latin American, Caribbean, & Iberian Studies, and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies as their Ph.D. students help facilitate expression through comics. Find community through expression. Food will be served. For more information, contact lcc@studentaffairs.wisc.edu.

  • Mar 3
    Reporting on Immigration in Times of Crisis: Wisconsin and Beyond

    Melissa Sanchez

    Memorial Union Play Cirlce

    Join the UW Center for Journalism Ethics and the Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies program in hearing from 2026 journalist-in-residence Melissa Sanchez, immigration and labor reporter at ProPublica, about her work covering Wisconsin dairy farms, ICE activity in Chicago and more. Wisconsin Watch reporter and Center board member Natalie Yahr will interview Sanchez for this event, …

  • Feb 19
    Jorell Meléndez-Badillo: Fom Archives to Albums

    MSC Lounge, Red Gym

    Jorell Meléndez-Badillo will discuss his recent collaboration with the reggaetón superstar Bad Bunny on the Grammy award-winning album Debí Tirar Más Fotos.  Food will be provided.

  • Feb 11
    Capital Accumulation and Racial Oppression: Contingency or Necessity?

    Ruy Braga

    Hybrid: Zoom and Sewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108

    The Havens-Wright Center’s Visiting Scholars Program presents a lecture by Ruy Braga. Braga has a degree in Social Sciences (1993), a master’s degree in Sociology (1996; dissertation on Contemporary crisis and restoration of capital: from criticism of dominant economism to the analysis of class struggles), PhD in Social Sciences from Unicamp (2002, with thesis on …

  • Nov 3
    Lunch and Lecture with Gustavo Arellano: “Navigating a Changing Media Landscape”

    Gustavo Arellano

    Vilas 2195

    Gustavo Arellano is a columnist with the Los Angeles Times whose 25-year career has encompassed everything from the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal to tacos, civic corruption to rock en español, ridiculous Instagram Live chats to Pulitzer-winning contributions. He will share stories from his career, insights about what has kept him employed and tips about …

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