Past Events
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Mar 62026 Kaleidoscope Graduate Conference
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Kim Potowski, Dr. Edmundo Paz Soldan, Dr. Victoria Saramago
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 practices shape identities and foster liberation, survival, and social change. The event promotes collaboration among scholars and attendees, aiming to …
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Mar 4Comic Collective
MSC Lounge
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!
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Feb 27Sustaining 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
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 tools. An important component in these instruments is the recognition of heritage learner status, which, through collaboration with the LCTL …
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Feb 26
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Feb 244W WIT PROGRAM Spring 2026 – Translation Ecologies: Re-Thinking Binaries Ecologías de la traducción: repensar lo binario
Zoom Zoom Link
Sesión I The Pregnant Turtle by Sayuri Sanchez (Mexico) – Maricela’s First Version *Las infinitas by Sofía Sánchez (Mexico) – First version by Sarli
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Feb 23Glow Zumba Class
On Wisconsin RM Red Gym
Join the Latin Cultural Center for a fun zumba class- no experience required! Refreshments will be provided after. Wavier found on flyer is required for participation.
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Dec 5Translation Ecologies: Re-Thinking Binaries (Session 3)
Brenda Becette
Dear 4W-WIT friends and colleagues: 4W-WIT literary translation sessions and public events kick off on October 3rd with a virtual visit from Latin American writer, Brenda Becette (Argentina). Join on Zoom for Session 3 (of 3). Title: A “Blaze” of Landscapes and Lucid Beauty “Llamarada” de paisajes y lúcida belleza VF 4W WIT PROGRAMA OTOÑO 2025 _VISITA ESCRITORES
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Nov 25Tinker-Nave Field Research Panel #1
Anhele Sanchez Delgado/Logan Krishka/Liz Birkhauser
Presentation #1: “Writing the Wound: Collective Memory as Resistance — Preliminary Research in Lima, Peru” (Anhele Sanchez Delgado) Presentation #2: “Between Benchwork and the Bay – A Report on Pre-Dissertation Research in Salvador, Brazil” (Logan Krishka) In 2019, an oil tanker blackened hundreds of miles of Brazil’s northeastern coastline, causing the largest oil spill in …
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Nov 24
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Nov 18Navigating the Job Market
Dr. Matthew Burner and Dr. Ruth Llana Fernández
1120 Van Hise Hall Zoom Link
We know that the job market is one of the biggest questions on our minds while we’re in graduate school. Will we get a job on the first try? What kinds of documents will we need? What are the best strategies to navigate the job market, and survive to tell the tale? The first professional …