Fall 2026 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 YouTube Channel.

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. Ezequiel Gómez Caride
Dr. Ezequiel Gómez Caride

SEPTEMBER 8:  “What Counts as Teacher Expertise? An Argentine Inquiry” | Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Educational Policy, Dr. Ezequiel Gomez | VIDEO RECORDING

Co-sponsored by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

The Rhizomorph: The Who Gave the Order? image
The Rhizomorph: Who Gave the Order?

SEPTEMBER 15: “From erasure to circulation: How a censured digital image shaped public memory in Colombia“ | Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Luis Miguel López-Londoño, Professor at the School of Communication and Journalism at Universidad de Manizales, Colombia | VIDEO RECORDING

Dr. Rodolfo Elbert
Dr. Rodolfo Elbert

SEPTEMBER 22: “Class antagonism without class politics: Understanding the recent far-right turn in Chile and Argentina using two national surveys” | Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Sociology, Dr. Rodolfo Elbert

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.

Lina Meruane
Lina Meruane

SEPTEMBER 29: “A corazón abierto” | Presented (in Spanish) by Nave Visiting Scholar, Lina Meruane, Director, Distinguished Writer in Residence, NYU

Kelly Calles
Kelly Calles
Noemí Delgado
Noemí Delgado
Marina Diaz
Marina Diaz

OCTOBER 6: “Sustaining Our Movements: 40 Years of Solidarity and Resistance” |  Presented by a delegation invited to Madison by the Madison-El Salvador Sister Cities Organization

*Please note that this presentation will not be livestreamed, nor it will be available on our YouTube channel.

Agustin Lao-Montes
Agustin Lao-Montes

OCTOBER 13: “Maroon Nation: Haiti at the Heart of Du Bois’ Trans-American Pan-Africanism”| Presented by Dr. Agustin Lao Montes, U of Massachusetts-Amherst | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-organized by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and LACIS with funding from the Anonymous Fund. Co-sponsored by the Puerto Rican Studies Hub.

Dr. Eduardo Santana Castellon
Dr. Eduardo Santana Castellon

OCTOBER 20:  “Social performance indicators for museums of social change: The Environmental Sciences Museum of the University of Guadalajara” | Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Eduardo Santana | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

Dr. Alejandro Velasco
Dr. Alejandro Velasco

OCTOBER 27:  “Crude Futures: Venezuela, the US, and the new Landscapes of Oil Dependency” | Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Dr. Alejandro Velasco, New York University | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Ana Gomez
Ana Gomez

NOVEMBER 3: “Migrant Solidarity, Indigenous Language Justice, and Defense of Territory: Organizing from Guatemala” | Presented by Nave Visiting Scholar, Ana Gómez, Promotores de la Liberacion Migrante | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography.

Ines Dussel
Ines Dussel

NOVEMBER 10: “Traditional knowledge, southern theories and communitarianism in recent educational reforms in Mexico: towards a new wave of global educational policies?” |  Presented by Nave Visting Scholar, Dr. Ines Dussel, Department of Educational Research, CINVESTAV, Mexico | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Co-sponsored by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Image of Dr. Pablo Gómez
Dr. Pablo Gómez

NOVEMBER 17: “The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality”| Presented by Dr. Pablo Gomez, Professor of History and the History of Medicine, UW-Madison | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION

Tinker Foundation LogoDECEMBER 1: “Tinker-Nave Summer Field Research Recipient Panel”| Presented by the grant recipients | 206 Ingraham & Virtual | ZOOM REGISTRATION