Past Events
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Apr 23Sobremesa Community Gathering #6
MSC Lounge, Classroom and Community Commons
Join us for the Sobremesa Community Gathering Lunches! Representatives of a department or resource unit on campus will give short presentations and hold Q&A sessions for students from noon to 1:00pm. You can expect to have lively discussions about academic life, to learn about resources available on the UW–Madison campus, build a strong sense of …
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Apr 23Interrogating 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 …
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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 …
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Apr 16Sip, Share, Connect: Aguas Frescas y Buenas Pláticas
On Wisconsin AB, Red Gym
Join the CLS Program for a social mixer in which students and faculty can get acquainted, and students can learn about professors’ research and classes. There will be Mexican-style aguas frescas and other refreshments.
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Apr 14Day of the Badger 2026
Check out the Day of the Badger website for more information.
Get ready to support the CLS Program during Day of the Badger 2026. The campaign starts April 14th and runs through April 15th. Are you ready to donate? If so, we hope you’ll post images of yourself in Wisconsin gear during those days and tag us on our socials, @UWChicLa. All gifts are welcome.
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Apr 9Speaker Series: Building Communities of Care and Resilience in Times of Crisis, Panel #4
Panel 4: Gender, Care Networks, and Social Justice This panel features the work of feminist scholars who examine how Latina women organize, collaborate, and engage in practices of care in their communities as they fight social inequalities in areas of reproductive justice, disability rights, and environmental justice. Speakers include Patricia Zavella (UC Santa Cruz), María …
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Apr 9Sobremesa Community Gathering #5
Join us for the Sobremesa Community Gathering Lunches! Representatives of a department or resource unit on campus will give short presentations and hold Q&A sessions for students from noon to 1:00pm. You can expect to have lively discussions about academic life, to learn about resources available on the UW–Madison campus, build a strong sense of …
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Mar 24Toward 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 …
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Mar 24CLS Spring 2026 Graduate Student Meetup
Ingraham 340
CLS is organizing a meet-up event for grad students interested in the Program, its events, and its doctoral minor. This is a chance to get to know some other folks on campus who are interested in Latine studies and hear some useful ideas from a speaker. We will serve food and drink with the event. This …
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Mar 18CLS/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 …