Fall 2025 Lunchtime Lecture Series

Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

We will be offering lectures both live (206 Ingraham Hall) and virtual (via Zoom) this fall. If you miss a lecture, you will be able to view many of them later on our programming archive page HERE.

Please see the details for each event, and if a lecture is scheduled to be given by Zoom, please pre-register for the link.

Dr. Katherine Jensen
Dr. Katherine Jensen

SEPTEMBER 16: “The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil” | Presented by Dr. Katherine Jensen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Dr. Almita MIranda
Dr. Almita Miranda

SEPTEMBER 23: “Familias Sin Fronteras: How Mixed-Status Families Navigate Laws, Borders, and Loss” | Presented by Dr. Almita Miranda, Professor of Geography, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-sponsored by the Latine Cultural Center @ UW-Madison.

SEPTEMBER 30: Presented by the Lapiztola Collective from Oaxaca, Mexico | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

OCTOBER 7: Presented by Dr. Keith Bechtol, Physics Department, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

OCTOBER 14: Presented by Dr. Flávia Piovesan, Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Américo Mendoza-Mori
Américo Mendoza-Mori

OCTOBER 21: “Ayni and the Public Humanities: Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Andes and Beyond” | Presented by Dr. Americo Mendoza-Mori, St. Olaf College | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

OCTOBER 28: Presented by Brenda Navarro, Novelist | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

NOVEMBER 4: Presented by Dr. Orlando DeAvila, Tinker Visiting Professor of History | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

NOVEMBER 11: Presented by Dr. Mariana Pacheco, Professor of Bilingual Education Curriculum & Instruction, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

NOVEMBER 18: Presented by Dr. Jeff Hartman, PT, DPT, MPH, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

NOVEMBER 25: Tinker-Nave Field Research Panel #1 | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

DECEMBER 2: Tinker-Nave Field Research Panel #2 | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

DECEMBER 9: Dr. Ruth Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION