Events Category: Global and Cultural Competence

8108 Sewell Social Sciences & Online
October 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
https://havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/event/international-development-global-migration-and-the-rise-of-economic-imperialism/

Immanuel Ness is Research Associate at the Centre for Sociological Research & Practice and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg and Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. He is the author of books and collections on labor, globalization, migration and protest movements, including Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (Polity 2023).

Ingraham Hall, Room 206
October 25, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
https://chicla.wisc.edu/latinx-studies-in-midwest/

Puerto Rican Studies in the Midwest, Panel II The second panel in the series focuses on island Puerto Rico, exploring debt, spatial politics, and sexuality. 

Virtual
October 27, 2023 @ 12:00 pm
https://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/multiliteracies-identity-and-second-language-spanish-learning-in-a-historically-black-college/

An invited lecture for language educators Dr. Gabriela Zapata Associate Professor, School of Education University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Friday, October 27, 12:00 pm CDT On Zoom REGISTER HERE About the talk In her recent survey …

Virtual
November 15, 2023 @ 11:00 am
http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/184898

Lunch and Learn Talk by Elizabeth Buckner This talk examines sustainable development as a new mandate for universities worldwide. Drawing on a random sample of 3,000 universities worldwide, it examines what types of universities are most likely to explicitly include sustainability and sustainable development in their mission and vision statements and how they frame these commitments.

TBD
February 22, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
https://chicla.wisc.edu/latinx-studies-in-midwest/

Latinx Labor and Reproductive Justice at the Border and in the Midwest This panel considers the precarity that Latinx laborers face in the Midwest and the history of cross-ethnic relations among Latinx laborers in Chicago in the context of global and hemispheric neoliberal economies.