Online @ 2:25 pm - 3:15 pm
https://african.wisc.edu/event/azuah/
Join for a virtual lecture and Q&A with Prof. Unoma Azuah, author of Embracing My Shadow: Growing Up Lesbian in Nigeria, the first full-length memoir about a lesbian’s experiences in Nigeria.
Sharon Hutchinson
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/nuer-wisdom-preserving-the-past-empowering-the-future/
In this talk, Sharon Hutchinson will explain her post-retirement efforts to empower and encourage a new generation of war-displaced Nuer (Naath) men, women and children, many of whom were born far from original South Sudanese homelands, to discover for themselves the wisdom and complexity of their dynamic cultural and linguistic heritage.
Alfonso Morales, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture, UW–Madison
Online @ 4:15 pm
https://sage.nelson.wisc.edu/events/ai-and-computing-for-local-food-systems/
This lecture reviews topics that broadly deal with the use of computing (and sensing) solutions to address the mounting challenges we face in securing our food systems. The lecture focuses on three dimensions: Precision agriculture. This includes micro weather modeling, crop selection and adaptation, land management, real-time sensing for efficient crop watering, fertilization and pest control, etc. Intelligent food distribution systems: This covers transportation optimization, local sourcing promotion, distribution and markets, waste management and avoidance (through smart sensing and tracking), etc. Inter-silo connections: This includes connections to public health, marketing and consumer behavior, and ecological / ecosystems management and services of farm production. Morales will expose opportunities for collaboration across these dimensions.
International Community Center (Suite 130), Pyle Center @ 5:30 pm
https://iss.wisc.edu/get-involved/peace/
✓ English conversation practice ✓ Learn about the U.S. and countries around the world ✓ Make new friends!
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/soldiers-paradise-militarism-in-africa-after-empire/
Samuel Fury Childs Daly is a historian of law and warfare. Daly is an Associate Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and master’s degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Cambridge. He previously taught at Duke University. He is the author of Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire (Duke University Press, 2024) and A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020). He is currently writing two books: a global history of military desertion and a history of military imposters.
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://seasia.wisc.edu/event/friday-forum-tricia-seow-education-and-singapores-climate-transition-challenges-opportunities-and-pathways/
Singapore is a low-lying tropical city-state with a high population density and limited land area, making it vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise, flooding, and heat stress. As a more developed country in Southeast Asia, Singapore also has a responsibility to its region and to the international community to transform its society – shifting from a culture of consumption and growth to one of sustainability and stewardship. This lecture evaluates the role of education in this transformation by situating it within larger state-sanctioned plans for adapting to and mitigating climate challenges, particularly the Singapore Green Plan and the Eco-Stewardship Porogramme. It assesses the structure and goals of the national curriculum and its recommended pedagogies for meeting these goals and further examines the potential of other developments in the informal education space (including the role of experiential galleries and programmes) to support and address current gaps in the system.
Goodman Community Center-Ironworks 149 Waubesa St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704 @ 8:45 am
https://isthmus.com/events/accelerate-sustainability/?occ_dtstart=2025-04-11T08:45
This 1/2 day workshop connects you to the tools, people, & case studies you need to accelerate sustainability at your business/organization. Sustain Dane's Accelerate Sustainability Workshop is a leadership opportunity designed to help achieve sustainability initiatives at your business and organization. Workshop will include how to harness incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act and case studies from local businesses.
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/density-as-praxis-story-texture-and-scavenging/
Dotun Ayobade is an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Black Studies at Northwestern University. He studies how embodied forms of popular culture shape the meanings of community, justice, and activism in West Africa. His writing covers late twentieth century dance, performance, and popular music cultures in Anglophone West Africa. He is the author of Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion (2024), a pioneering book-length study on the lives and times of women in Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat music. His work has appeared in leading journals, including in The Black Scholar, Journal of African Cultural Studies (JACS), Dance Research Journal (DRJ).
Livia Apa
206 Ingraham Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/lusophone-african-literatures/
Livia Apa works on Lusophone literary and cultural studies and is a researcher at the Centre for Studies on Contemporary Africa at the University of Naples L’Orientale. She currently works on African cinema and on knowledges produced on the African continent and in the diaspora. She is also a translator