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

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

Co-sponsored by the Latine Cultural Center and Department of Anthropology @ UW-Madison.

Lapiztola
Lapiztola

SEPTEMBER 30: “A Journey through Art and Politics with Oaxaca, Mexico Artists Collective, Lapiztola” | Presented by the Lapiztola Collective from Oaxaca, Mexico | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by LOUD Wisconsin Arts.

Keith Bechtol
Keith Bechtol

OCTOBER 7: “Live from Chile: the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made”| Presented by Dr. Keith Bechtol, Physics Department, UW-Madison | VIDEO RECORDING

Flavia Piovesan
Flavia Piovesan

OCTOBER 14: “Transformative Impact of the Inter-American System” | Presented by Dr. Flávia Piovesan, Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil

Co-sponsored by the UW Law School.

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 | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by the  Department of Anthropology @ UW-Madison.

Brenda Navarro
Brenda Navarro

OCTOBER 28: “Casas vacías y la literatura latinoamericana” | Presented (in Spanish) by Brenda Navarro, Novelist | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.

Dr. Orlando Deavila Pertuz
Dr. Orlando Deavila Pertuz

NOVEMBER 4: “Race and Space in the Making of the Latin American City during the Twentieth Century” | Presented by Dr. Orlando DeAvila, Tinker Visiting Professor of History | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art, Department of History, and the Department of Anthropology @ UW-Madison.

Dr. Mariana Pacheco
Dr. Mariana Pacheco

NOVEMBER 11: “Bi/multilingual Youth Testimoniando: Sociocritical Literacies and Embodied Knowledge Entremundos” | Presented by Dr. Mariana Pacheco, Professor of Bilingual Education Curriculum & Instruction, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Jeff Hartman
Dr. Jeff Hartman

NOVEMBER 18: “Building Capacity in the Rehabilitation Sector of Belize: A shift from volunteerism to professionalism” | Presented by Dr. Jeff Hartman, PT, DPT, MPH, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | VIDEO RECORDING

Anhele Sanchez Delgado
Anhele Sanchez Delgado
Logan Krishka
Logan Krishka
Liz Birkhauser
Liz Birkhauser

NOVEMBER 25: Tinker-Nave Field Research Panel #1 | Presented by Elizabeth Birkhauser, Logan Krishka, and Anhele Sanchez Delgado| 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom

Tomas Pino
Tomas Pino
Tara Mittelberg
Tara Mittelberg
Micaela Wensjoe
Micaela Wensjoe
Rachel Wei Fen Tan
Rachel Wei Fen Tan

DECEMBER 2: Tinker-Nave Field Research Panel #2 | Presented by Tara Mittelberg, Tomas Pino, Rachel Wei Fen Tan, and Micaela Wensjoe | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom

Ruth Goldstein
Ruth Goldstein

DECEMBER 9: “Peru’s Operation Mercury and Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Green Washing and Toxic Assets in Latin America” | Dr. Ruth Goldstein, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham Hall or via Zoom | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology @ UW-Madison.