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Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community

A conversation with Naomi R. Williams, Rutgers, and Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan

Event Details

Date
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time
4-5:30 p.m.
Description
Naomi R. Williams is associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University and a historian of working people in the United States. They received their PhD from the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014. Naomi’s research examines the ways working people impact local and national political economies, and the ways workers participate in collaborative social justice movements. Heather Ann Thompson is a historian at the University of Michigan.
Cost
Free
Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-772-4103 (text only) or email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, March 4, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.

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