On Wisconsin RM Red Gym @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Community Gathering Lunch
Past Events
Roberto Bolaño as a Question of ‘History of Literature’
Dr. Heriberto Yépez, Professor of Critical Theory At the Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana.
Bascom Hall 260 @ 6:00 pm
Yépez is a scholar, novelist, blogger, and translator. Author of The Transnational Battlefield, The Colonization of the Voice, and The Empire of Neomemory, exploring the connection between U.S poetry, Charles Olson and Imperialism. He is also a translator …
The Humanities as a Toolkit for Citizenship
Joshua Calhoun, Ainehi Edoro, Ralph Grunewald, Paola Hernández
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Ave. @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
https://humanities.wisc.edu/event/humanities-toolkit-citizenship/
Recent polling suggests that we are a deeply divided society, even as we collectively confront significant challenges at the local, national, and global levels. At a time when the value of the humanities is often …
4W WIT PROGRAM Spring 2026 – Translation Ecologies: Re-Thinking Binaries Ecologías de la traducción: repensar lo binario
Zoom @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Zoom Link
Session II: Tuesday, March 24 Roca Mínima II de Sofía Sánchez (México) – Primera versión de Sarli Ramales II, III, IV de Giordana García Sojo (Venezuela)- Primera versión de Ulises
Writing the “Homeland” and its Borders: of Meaningless Passwords, Poetic Transparencies, and Photosynthesis in Latin American Eco-Poetics
Ingraham Hall 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zoom Registration Link
LACIS Lunchtime Lecture:
A Roundtable with Puerto Rican Authors
Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús, Cezanne Cardona Morales, and Nicole Cecilia Delgado
Ingraham Hall 206 @ 5:00 pm
https://chicla.wisc.edu/event/a-roundtable-with-puerto-rican-authors/
The roundtable features authors Xavier Valcárcel de Jesús, Cezanne Cardona Morales, and Nicole Cecilia Delgado. The event is 5:00 pm Monday, March 16th, in Ingraham 206. The CLS Program is a co-sponsor for the event.
Sobremesa
336 Ing Hall @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Community Gathering Lunch
2026 Kaleidoscope Graduate Conference
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Kim Potowski, Dr. Edmundo Paz Soldan, Dr. Victoria Saramago
UW-Madison Pyle Center @ 8:00 am - @ 7:00 pm
https://kaleidoscope.spanport.wisc.edu/
COLLECTIVE FUTURES: COLLABORATIVE NARRATIVES, COLLABORATION, AND THE POLITICS OF IMAGINING FUTURES The 2026 Kaleidoscope Graduate Student Conference explores futures shaped by collaboration, community, and resistance. It invites interdisciplinary reflections on how collective narratives and linguistic …
Comic Collective
MSC Lounge @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join the Latine Cultural Center, Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies, and Chicanx/e & Latinx/e Studies as their PHD students help facilitate expression through comics. Find Community through expression! Food and refreshments will be served!
Sustaining and Strengthening Less Commonly Taught Languages in Precarious Times: Focus on Pedagogy and Placement – A webinar for language educators
Carter Griffith, University of Minnesota / Ida Moen Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison / Ryan Platte, Northwestern University / Aleksei Rumiantsev, Indiana University
Webinar @ 12:00 pm - 4:15 pm
https://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/sustaining-and-strengthening-less-commonly-taught-languages-in-precarious-times-focus-on-pedagogy-and-placement/
Register HERE Presentations Heritage-friendly LCTL Placement Tools Carter Griffith, University of Minnesota In recent years, the University of Minnesota has developed several new placement tools for LCTLs, both formal placement tests and non-binding enrollment recommendation …