Society and Culture

Distinguished Entrepreneurs Lunch Program

Kelly Weight, Co-Founder and CEO of Brillect

12:15-1 p.m.

4151 Grainger Hall

Indigenous Language Table

A safe place to practice indigneous languages

1-2:15 p.m.

1145 Discovery Building

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

An Uncommon Productions Documentary

4:30 p.m.

1220 Microbial Sciences

Fall 2025 Visiting Artist Colloquium

Grey Filastine

5-6:15 p.m.

L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Intro to Lapidary

The Wisconsin Union

5:30-9 p.m.

217 N. Paterson Street, Madison Gem and Mineral Club

The Basics of Drawing

The Wisconsin Union

6-9 p.m.

Studio G, Memorial Union

Open Mic on the Terrace

The Wisconsin Union

7-9:30 p.m.

The Terrace (In the Rathskeller in case of rain.), Memorial Union

Crossroads of Ideas: Threading the Story of Earth’s Oldest Rocks

Join us for a very special Wisconsin Science Festival edition of Crossroads of Ideas, where ancient geology meets modern creativity.

7-8 p.m.

1st Floor, Discovery Building

Who Owns Our Knowledge?

A Lunchtime Conversation on Open Scholarship

12-1:15 p.m.

Orchard View Room, Discovery Building

Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: DEI and the Road to Environmental Rollbacks in the US

A lecture by Laura Pulido, University of Oregon

12-1:30 p.m.

Online

Improving Economic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth with Disabilities: Evidence from PROMISE

Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar - Mike Levere

12:15-1:30 p.m.

8417 Sewell Social Sciences

Curator Conversation with Aurora Santiago Ortiz

3:15-4:15 p.m.

Chazen Museum of Art

2025 Germaine Brée Lecture

Paris In Ruins: How A Brutal Conflict Informed the Birth of Impressionism

4:30-6 p.m.

UW–Madison Leadership Speaker Series featuring Richard Lovett

5-7 p.m.

Overture and Concerto rooms, Gordon Dining and Event Center

How Awesome (or Not) is Social Media?

A Civics Lab Conversation with Christine Goding-Doty and Virginia Heffernan

5-6:30 p.m.

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Wisconsin Book Festival Conversation with Author Amy Yee

5:30 p.m.

Madison Central Library

UW Cinematheque - Premieres

$POSITIONS – Brandon Daley in Person! | USA | DCP | 2025 | 98 min. Director: Brandon Daley

7 p.m.

4070 Vilas Hall

Join Michelle Thaller, former NASA science communicator, for an evening exploring the origins of life. Thaller, in conve

Join us to find out why we went to so much trouble to bring back an ancient sample of our solar system and what was waiting inside that absolutely blew our minds.

7-8 p.m.

1st Floor, Discovery Building

Richard Goode, piano

Wisconsin Union Theater

The Wisconsin Union

7:30-9:30 p.m.

Shannon Hall, Memorial Union

Public Works: How to Engage Someone with Different Ideas

9-10 a.m.

313 University Club