Lectures

Hybrid Wednesday Nite @ The Lab

"Vertical Farming" Johanna Oosterwyk, Horticulture, UW Extension

7-8:15 p.m.

Auditorium, Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building

Biology Colloquium: Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Ascent of the oaks: Legacies of the past and concerns for the future of North America’s dominant tree lineage

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Just Bust! Hip Hop Theater Workshop

1-3 p.m.

Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union

FRESH Seminar

Using comparative genomics to identify the habitat of Staphylococcus saprophyticus

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Badger Talks LIVE: Why Diversity in Children's Books Matters to Us All

Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, Associate Professor of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

12 p.m.

Online

Adding Spice: How the Chile Pepper Flavored Chinese Culture

Lecture by Professor Brian Dott, Whitman College

4-5:30 p.m.

206 Ingraham Hall

UW Space Place Guest Presentation

"Musica Universalis: Understanding the Small and Large Scale Motions Underlying the Universe" by Jonathan Rebelsky

7-8 p.m.

UW Space Place, 2300 S. Park St. (lower level of the Atrium)

Relationship and Connection – Community and Ecological Restoration

Arboretum Fall Lecture

7-8:30 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

Viral Updates: Focus on Covid-19 and Human Monkeypox

12:15-1:15 p.m.

Online

Hybrid Wednesday Nite @ The Lab (Special WSF Edition)

A Landscape of Wisconsin Discovery - The Making of a Mural Bridging Art, Science, and Technology, Sharon Tang, Amy Zaremba, and Alicia Rheal

7-8:15 p.m.

Auditorium, Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building

Food safety concerns in shared-kitchen manufacturing sites

11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Alberto Toscano

Freedom, Now

12-1 p.m.

Online

Biology Colloquium: Robert Johnson

From biogeochemistry to biodiversity: the role of herbivory in coastal marine ecosystems

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt

12-1:15 p.m.

Online

Claus Anderson

Is Autofiction Fiction? On Karl Ove Knausgård's 'My Struggle' and the Autofictional Novel

12-1 p.m.

Memorial Union

Badger Talks LIVE: The School of Human Ecology Equity & Justice Network

Dr. Janean Dilworth-Bart, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the School of Human Ecology and Professor of Human Development and Family Studies

12 p.m.

Online

Jacqueline Goldsby

James Baldwin’s Creative Process: Theorizing the 1941 Manuscript of Go Tell It on the Mountain

4-5:30 p.m.

L160 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Global Conversations

East Asia

10-11 a.m.

Online

Chinese Secret Societies and the Qing Dynasty's War Against Drugs

Lecture by Professor Mark Driscoll, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

4-5:30 p.m.

206 Ingraham Hall

Wednesday Nite @ The Lab

TBA

7-8:15 p.m.

Auditorium, Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building

Biology Colloquium: Sabeeha Merchant

Elemental economy in the green lineage

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Restoring Healthy Food Connections on Madison’s South Side

Arboretum Fall Lecture

7-8:30 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

2022 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture

Grace Lin and Alvina Ling in Conversation

7:30 p.m.

Great Hall, Memorial Union

FRESH Seminar

PFAS and food packaging — What are they and why are they used?

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Dream of Wild Health

Arboretum Fall Lecture

7-8:30 p.m.

Meet at Visitor Center, UW–Madison Arboretum

UW–Madison Sustainability Symposium

1-5:30 p.m.

Discovery Building

Press Play: Recorded Sound from Groove to Stream exhibit talk with curator Nathan D. Gibson

3-4 p.m.

Special Collections, Room 976, Memorial Library

Politics & Policy with Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight

La Follette School Journalist in Residence

7-8 p.m.

Shannon Hall, Memorial Union

Hybrid Wednesday Nite @ The Lab

"Learning from Societal Data" Ramya Vinayak, Electrical and Computer Engineering

7-8:15 p.m.

Auditorium, Genetics-Biotechnology Center Building

Biology Colloquium: Daniela Drummond Barbosa

Control of the Drosophila germline stem cell lineage by diet, temperature, and whole-body physiology

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Cultural Administration in Postcolonial Egypt: The Case of the Mass Culture Institute

An online lecture by Dr. Chihab El Khachab, Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford

12-1:15 p.m.

Online

Noam Chomsky

The Final Question?: Global Realignments & Prospects for a Livable World

12-1 p.m.

Online

Biology Colloquium: Adam Roddy

Following the rules and breaking them: simple principles that underlie phenotypic diversity

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Humanities Now: Wakanda Forever

7-8:30 p.m.

L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Monuments Reimagined: Contemporary Artists as Changemakers

Disrupting the public-art narrative and forging new paths.

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Auditorium, Chazen Museum of Art

“‘All culture is originally colonial’: Derrida, Algeria, and the Latin Empire”

12-1:15 p.m.

120 Ingraham Hall

EPS Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Marlo Reeves

Senior Research and Evaluation Associate with Socially Responsible Evaluation in Education (SREed) at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

12-1 p.m.

Online

FRESH Seminar

Leveraging surgical nutrition models to improve human health

11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Online

Biology Colloquium: Irene Gregory-Eaves

First Canada-wide assessment of lakes – what did we learn?

3:30-4:30 p.m.

B302 Birge Hall

Everyday Choices: The Role of Competing Authorities and Social Institutions in Politics and Development

An in-person lecture with Professor Ellen Lust from the University of Gothenburg

12-1:15 p.m.

120 Ingraham Hall