Black Men’s Health & Wealth Summit

Madison College-Truax Campus 1701 Wright St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
@ 10:00 am
https://isthmus.com/events/black-mens-health-wealth-summit/?occ_dtstart=2025-02-08T10:00

People Building Opportunity through Grace and Action (Peboga) hosts the Black Men's Health & Wealth Summit, a free event open to the public that will take place on Saturday, February 8, 2025, at Madison College. The project highlights the disparities and issues that are unique to Black men. This relates to building the capacity and competence of Black men and youth in marginalized communities through workshops and discussions on health care, financial literacy, job creation, business, and personal development. The summit will provide opportunities for attendees to be equipped with essential skills and information on how to take care of their health, develop business & financial strategies, and provide them with connections to technical assistance resources and private companies that provide business development services. Additionally, the Black Men’s Health & Wealth Summit is focused on encouraging aspiring and existing entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses, reinvest in their businesses, and revitalize our local economy.

A Conversation with Youssef Rakha

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 9:30 am
https://african.wisc.edu/event/rakha/

Novelist, essayist, and photographer Youssef Rakha discusses his work from recent years, including his newest book, The Dissenters (Graywolf, 2025). Rakha will read from his English prose and address current developments in Arabic fiction, a field in which he has published some of the most important novels of the last two decades. Please join for a conversation about World Literature, translation, Egypt’s political history, and visual culture.

Does Contact Reduce Conflict? Experimental Evidence from Nigeria (with Oeindrila Dube and James A. Robinson)

206 Ingraham Hall
@ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/does-contact-reduce-conflict-experimental-evidence-from-nigeria-with-oeindrila-dube-and-james-a-robinson/

Soeren J. Henn’s research lies at the intersection of comparative politics, political economy and development economics. He studies the politics of development with a focus on fragile state settings, informal institutions, and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Great Lakes region, and Latin America. Using a range of methods, from field and natural experiments to qualitative interviews, his research aims to address the overarching question of what characterizes governance in fragile states and how it might be improved.

“The Black Hawk War”: In-Person Badger Talk in Stoughton, WI

Presenter: John Hall
317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI 53589
@ 7:00 pm
https://badgertalks.wisc.edu

This is a free, in-person event on February 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM hosted by the Sons of Norway -- Stoughton Mandt Lodge as a part of their monthly lodge meeting. No registration is required. Outside of Wisconsin, the Black Hawk War is best known as the conflict in which Abraham Lincoln earned his limited military experience. Within Wisconsin, it is somewhat better known if only because its namesake and his Sauk tribe are memorialized by parks, towns, inns, and roads throughout the state.

The Effect of Allotment on Native American Households During the Assimilation Era

Dustin Frye, Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building
@ 12:15 pm
https://www.irp.wisc.edu/2025-spring-irp-seminar-calendar/

In the early twentieth century, the U.S. government sought to culturally assimilate the hundreds of thousands of Native Americans living on reservations. One key mechanism was the Dawes Act (1887), which broke up tribally held lands and allotted them to individual Native households. This presentation examines how these land allotments shaped Native households’ economic, educational, and social outcomes. It draws on newly digitized records from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, land allotment records from the Bureau of Land Management, and the 1940 U.S. Census to assess the impact of allotment at both the individual and community levels. Special attention is given to the role of local Indian Agents, whose movements across reservations reveal how their decisions influenced the policy’s implementation and its long-term consequences for Native communities.

“From Wood to Watercraft: Dugout Canoes of Wisconsin”: In-Person Badger Talk in Cottage Grove, WI

Presenter: Sissel Schroeder
107 E Reynolds St, Cottage Grove, WI 53527
@ 6:00 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/204345

This free, in-person presentation on February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM is a part of the Village of Cottage Grove Library Board's free library programming. It will be hosted at Drumlin Residences. No registration is required to attend! The Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project highlights the persistence of cultural traditions and technological ingenuity.