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Events Category: Inclusive Engagement

Go Big Read: Disability Jeopardy

Hawthorne Library, Community Room (2707 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI 53704)
@ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/events/go-big-read-disability-jeopardy-1274121

Join us for one of American’s favorite games shows-the Disability Edition! A fun and engaging way to learn more about historic figures, disability culture, inclusion practices, and more! Whether you are new to this topic or trivia wiz, this event is great opportunity to build community and expand your knowledge. Stick around after for a book discussion of this year's Go Big Read, Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig at 6:30. Hosted by the City of Madison's Disability Rights & Services Specialist.

Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Patchwork Apartheid: Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality

A lecture by Colin Gordon, University of Iowa
8417 Sewell Social Sciences, Sewell Social Sciences
@ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/197854

Colin Gordon is Professor & Chair of History at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023). He has written for the Nation, In these Times, Jacobin & Dissent (where he's a regular contributor). His digital projects include online companions to Patchwork Apartheid, Citizen Brown, Mapping Decline & public history on the history of racial segregation in Iowa counties, and in St. Louis.

Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Lesbian-Homoville, CO – Relocating the Origins of the Anti-Queer Movement

A lecture by Jennifer Holland, University of Oklahoma
8108 Sewell Social Sciences
@ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/197857

Jennifer L. Holland is the Sara Louise Welch Chair & the L.R. Brammer, Jr. Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in histories of gender, sexuality, conservative politics, and the American West. Her current book project, Straightening Out: A History of Anti-Queer Politics in Rural America, tells the story of the anti-LBGTQ+ movement in the American West, explaining how rural places, not suburban ones, became the bedrocks of social conservatism in the US.

Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve

Virtual
@ 12:00 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/195604

Lunch and Learn Talk by Roseann Liu In this talk, Liu will provide an inside look at the Pennsylvania state legislature and campaigns for fair funding to show how those responsible for the distribution of school funding work to maintain the privileges of majority-white school districts. Join via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97529362610?pwd=L3NDaEtqd0huc05QNUpBV2ZPQzRrUT09#success

Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch sponsored by Neider & Boucher, S.C.

Jazmynn Appleton, Chief Director of Entrepreneurial Growth and Innovation at the Progress Center for Black Women
4151 Grainger Hall
@ 12:15 pm - 1:00 pm
https://buswisc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N2WUFaXku3OCyO

Jazmynn Appleton is an entrepreneur from Chicago making waves in Madison, WI. At the Progress Center for Black Women, she uplifts Black women through entrepreneurial support. Co-founder of FOCUS, she guides entrepreneurs to success. Recognized for her expertise, she's also a passionate cook and aspiring private chef. RSVP to https://buswisc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N2WUFaXku3OCyO.

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