Past Events

UW Elvehjem Building, University Club Rm 313 - 800 University Ave. , Madison, Wisconsin 53703
March 7, 2025 @ 2:00 pm
https://isthmus.com/events/become-ungovernable-trans-life-against-the-state/?occ_dtstart=2025-03-06T17:00

While surveillance technologies proliferate, Tourmaline’s 2017 film “The Personal Things” explores Miss Major’s escape from the lockdown of state recognition. Along with Major’s theorization, this paper thinks with the double bind of trans/queer youth of color that the state deems “ungovernable”. This structuring antagonism might find these young people captured by the totalizing violence that is youth jail, while it also names a tactic of getting free. Following them, it is the collectivizing of these practices that grows an alternative to democracy and its mandates of legibility. These commitments to an errant life—gender fugitives on the run from classical recognition by way of provoking an encounter with unintelligibility—illustrates the fierce strategies necessary for becoming, as Denise Ferreira da Silva suggests, a “nobody against the state.”

Morgridge Center for Public Service (1st Floor of Red Gym)
March 7, 2025 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
https://morgridge.wisc.edu/graduate-student-resources/association-of-community-engaged-scholars/

Tracey Bullington is a PhD candidate in the department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her dissertation project investigates writing and composing practices within one fifth grade classroom and asks how students negotiate among various modes of meaning making including drawing, oral storytelling, alphabetic writing, and more. Tracey inhabited multiple identities throughout this project including researcher, co-teacher, and artist. This informal talk explores the tensions and possibilities of multiple, conflicting roles within qualitative research.

206 Ingraham Hall
March 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
https://seasia.wisc.edu/event/friday-forum-mai-der-vang-reframing-language-expanding-hmong-discourse-through-poetic-investigation-from-yellow-rain-to-saola/

Poetry is largely seen as a tool for literary and creative output, but its malleability and shape-shifting nature lends itself to other possibilities of form and engagement. Within its power to convey and reshape ideas, there is room for historical research, critical inquiry, and the act of restructuring language. Through a process of documentary poetry, past and present injustices are revisited and investigated to allow for new reckonings to emerge. Narratives are recentered to amplify what has been historically silenced, and the page becomes a space in which to rupture convention and restore one’s agency. With these ideas in mind, I’ll be discussing my practice as a poet and will also read from my work. My second book, Yellow Rain, examined the dismissing of allegations surrounding the use of a chemical biological weapon against Hmong refugees following the end to the US war in Vietnam, while my newest collection, Primordial, looks to the environment and the endangered saola as a means by which to understand Hmong survival and loss.

Education Building, WI Idea Room 159, 1000 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706
March 7, 2025 @ 8:45 am - 5:00 pm
https://place.education.wisc.edu/k12-programs/education-for-every-generation/

The 2025 EPS Conference pushes us to traverse across space and time and to consider what it means to be educators, scholars, and advocates for generations to come. In a time of conflict, with grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren facing violence all over the world, we hold the responsibility to deeply reflect on the following questions: How do we map a better future for the generations to come? How do we think about alternative educational opportunities amid complex times? How do we consider what we are borrowing from future generations?

Education Building, WI Idea Room 159, 1000 Bascom Mall
March 7, 2025 @ 8:45 am - 5:00 pm
https://irisnrc.wisc.edu/event/2025-eps-conference-education-for-every-generation/

The 2025 EPS Conference pushes us to traverse across space and time and to consider what it means to be educators, scholars, and advocates for generations to come. In a time of conflict, with grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren facing violence all over the world, we hold the responsibility to deeply reflect on the following questions: How do we map a better future for the generations to come? How do we think about alternative educational opportunities amid complex times? How do we consider what we are borrowing from future generations?

Marquee Theatre, Union South, UW-Madison
March 6, 2025 @ 6:30 pm
https://lacis.wisc.edu/event/film-screening-igualada/

In Colombia, a nation marred by profound racial and socio-economic disparities, a Black woman from a rural background challenges the status quo by launching a presidential campaign. Reappropriating the term “igualada,” Francia Márquez, catapults a movement to the upper echelons of power, by refusing to “know her place.” Fifteen years in the making, this documentary peels back the curtain on how unprecedented change can happen.

Elizabeth Jacob
Virtual - https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98522891013
March 5, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://africa.wisc.edu/event/love-money-and-modern-life-photoromances-in-1970s-cote-divoire/

Elizabeth Jacob is a historian of modern West Africa who focuses on gender, family, and politics in twentieth-century Côte d’Ivoire. Her first book project examines how ideas about African motherhood shape possibilities for Ivoirian women’s civic action and how expectations of civic motherhood change over time. She holds a PhD in History from Stanford University, with a minor in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and a certificate in African Studies. She received a BA in History and French & Francophone Studies from Columbia University. Her research has been supported by institutions such as the American Philosophical Society, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Fulbright Program, and the Stanford Humanities Center.

International Community Center (Suite 130), Pyle Center
March 4, 2025 @ 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!

Dr. Adriana Angel
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
March 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
https://lacis.wisc.edu/event/womens-voices-in-climate-change-activism-in-colombias-public-sphere/

Colombia is the most dangerous country for environmental leaders, according to the latest report from the NGO Global Witness, with four out of ten defenders being murdered. Despite this, environmental activism continues to grow in the context of climate change. Women play a key role in the formation of social movements through which they exercise resistance against environmental degradation. As environmental issues gain relevance and their movements strengthen, many women go on to hold public office. The present talk, focused on three of the most prominent environmental activists in Colombia—Vice President Francia Márquez, Congresswoman Isabel Cristina Zuleta, and Minister of the Environment Susana Muhamad— will explore how activist discourses of climate change and environmental justice in Colombia construct contesting ontologies of environmental protection and social change within the Colombian public sphere.

Online via Zoom
March 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/havenswrightcenter/1534182

Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007); and currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture, and Media, History of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bogues’s major research and writing interests are intellectual, literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory, critical theory, Caribbean and African politics as well as Haitian, Caribbean, and African Art. He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history, contemporary critical theory, comparative literature of Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as courses on the history of Haitian society and art. He was a member of the 2003 Slavery and Justice steering committee and one of the authors of its final report in 2006.