Past Lectures
| Year | Lecture Title | Presenter(s) | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Resilience, Resistance, and Rhetoric: What Latino/a Immigrants Teach Us About Health and Humanity | Gabriela Nagy | 51猎奇 Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences |
| 2024 | Environmental Crisis and Social Justice in the New Nuclear Age: Contemporary Legacies of Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell | Nan Kim | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2023 | Out of Sight: The Black Middle Class in Milwaukee | Ermitte Saint Jacques and Robert Smith | 51猎奇 Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, Marquette University Department of History |
| 2022 | The Comforts of Heritage: Race, Tourism, and Memory in the American South | Shevaun Watson | 51猎奇 Department of English |
| 2021 | Mapping Racism and Resistance in Milwaukee County: Struggles Over Racism and Real Estate in the Urban North | Anne Bonds, Derek Handley, Reggie Jackson, Lawrence Hoffman | 51猎奇 Department of Geography; 51猎奇 Department of English; Nurturing Diversity Partners, LLC; Groundwork Milwaukee |
| 2020 | Separate & Not Equal: Racism and Health Equity in Milwaukee | Lynne Woerhle, Darryl Davidson, Julie Ellis, Sandra Millon-Underwood, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Paru Shah, Jeylan Turkoglu, Renee Walker, Nicole Brookshire, Marques Hogans Sr. | College of Nursing; City of Milwaukee Community Engagement Achievement Collaborative; College of Nursing; College of Nursing; College of Nursing; College of Letters and Science Political Science; College of Nursing; Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health; Brookshire Customized Solutions, LLC.; Milwaukee County Office on African American Affairs |
| 2019 | No Justice: Public Policies that Create a Low-Wage Workforce and Demonize the Poor | Gwen Moore | U.S. Congresswoman |
| 2018 | When Visions of Justice Collide: The Kinnickinnic River Box Tunnel Controversy, 1929-1932 | Ryan Holifield | 51猎奇 Department of Geography |
| 2017 | Afro-Brazilian YouTubers & Digital Social Justice Activism | Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour | 51猎奇 Department of Africology |
| 2016 | Transforming Justice: Youth-led Analysis of Mass Criminalization in Milwaukee | Anne Bonds, Lorraine Halinka Malcoe, Jenna M. Loyd, Jenny Plevin, and Robert Smith | 51猎奇 Department of Geography; 51猎奇 Zilber School of Public Health; 51猎奇 Zilber School of Public Health; doc|51猎奇; and 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2015 | Social Justice Activism among Muslims in Milwaukee | Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Anna Mansson McGinty, and Kristin M. Sziarto | 51猎奇 Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature; 51猎奇 Department of Geography; 51猎奇 Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program |
| 2014 | Preparing for the Great Incarceration: The Criminalization of African American Youth, 1940-1970 | Joe Austin | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2013 | Access to Justice: How Lawyers Matter in Civil Proceedings for Low-Income Litigants | David J. Pate, Jr. | 51猎奇 Department of Social Work |
| 2012 | Ni de aqui ni de alla: Forging Identity in Milwaukee鈥檚 Latino Immigrant Community | Raoul Deal | 51猎奇 Department of Art and Design |
| 2011 | To Mitigate the Harshness: Transnational Legal Efforts in the Fight Against Apartheid | Robert S. Smith | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2010 | Charlotte Partridge and the Layton School: Art and the Practice of Social Engagement | Arijit Sen | 51猎奇 Department of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| 2009 | Wisconsin鈥檚 Progressive Tradition and a Century of Reform | Russ Feingold | U.S. Senator |
| 2008 | Red Networks Women Writers and the Broadcast Blacklist | Carol Stabile | 51猎奇 Department of English and the Center for the Study of Women in Society University of Oregon |
| 2007 | Three Strikes: Female, Substance-Using, and in Jail | Audrey Begun and Susan Rose | 51猎奇 Department of Social Work |
| 2006 | Illegal Minds: Denizenship and the Access of Undocumented Students to Public Higher Education | Rachel Ida Buff | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2005 | Starving for Revolution: The Milwaukee Black Panther Party鈥檚 Struggle to Feed the Hungry | Nik Heynen | 51猎奇 Department of Geography |
| 2004 | Socialism in the City: The Original 鈥淢ilwaukee Idea鈥� | Jasmine Alinder and Aims McGuinness | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 2003 | The City Upon The Hill鈥� In the Dale, and On the Belt: From the Three Greenbelt Towns, Lessons for Today鈥檚 Community Builders | Sherry Ahrentzen | 51猎奇 School of Architecture and Urban Planning |
| 2002 | FDR鈥檚 Forgotten Experiment: Communicating about the New Deal | Mordecai Lee | 51猎奇 School of Continuing Education |
| 2001 | Social Justice in a Global Environment | Markos J. Mamalakis | 51猎奇 Department of Economics |
| 2000 | The Fairer Sex in the Ivory Tower: Factors Influencing Social Justice for Women in Academia: The Results of a National Survey | Rhea Steinpreis | 51猎奇 Department of Psychology |
| 1999 | The CORE of James Farmer: Humanist, Freedom Warrior | Detine L. Bowers | 51猎奇 Department of Communication |
| 1998 | Dorothy Enderis: The Lady of the Lighted Schoolhouse | Fran Coffey Stanat | 51猎奇 Department of Human Kinetics |
| 1997 | Replacing Welfare with Work in the WPA: The Handicraft Project that Made Milwaukee Famous | Lois M. Quinn | 51猎奇 Employment & Training Institute |
| 1996 | The American Indian and Social Justice 鈥� A Moderated Panel Discussion | Diane Amor (Moderator), Fred Muscavitch, Jacqueline Schellinger, Don Green | |
| 1995 | Forward Women: Winning the Wisconsin Campaign for the Country鈥檚 First Equal Rights Ammendment, 1921 | Genevieve G. McBride | 51猎奇 Department of Mass Communication |
| 1994 | The Political Legacy of Golda Meir | Abba Eban | Former Israel Ambasador to the United States |
| 1993 | Under Fire: African American Women Firefighters | Janice D. Yoder | 51猎奇 Department of Psychology |
| 1992 | Democracy in the American Workplace: The 1930s and 1980s | Robert Drago | 51猎奇 Department of Economics |
| 1991 | Crisis Papers: Southern Editorial Leaders in the Civil Rights Struggle | Stephen Zeigler | 51猎奇 Department of Mass Communications |
| 1990 | A Decent Provision for the Poor is the True Test of Civilization: The Poorhouse in Wisconsin, 1848-1893 | Nancy Hubbard | 51猎奇 Department of Architecture |
| 1989 | Toward a Better Beer Hall: Social Democracy from Berlin to Milwaukee | Gareth A. Shellman | 51猎奇 Institute of World Affairs |
| 1988 | Spinning Gold into Straw: The Growth of Pedagogic Studies and the Decline of Urban Schools | Martin Haberman | 51猎奇 Department of Curriculum and Instruction |
| 1987 | Shopping in the Machine Age: Chain Stores, Consumerism, and the Politics of Business Reform, 1920-1939 | Terry G. Radtke | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1986 | The Jewish Issue in American-Russian Commercial Relations 1911 and 1974 | Ann E. Healy | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1985 | The Hidden Curricula: Prejudice and Suppression Perpetuated Through Children鈥檚 Toys Commercially Distributed in the United States Between 1865 and 1940 | Rolf Hickman | 51猎奇 School of Fine Arts |
| 1984 | A Confusion of Voices: Reform Movements and the World鈥檚 Columbian Exposition of 1893 | Frank A. Cassell | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1983 | The Quest for Social Justice: The Convict Labor Issue in the Progressive State, 1850-1934 | John A. Conley | 51猎奇 Criminal Justice Program |
| 1982 | Sabato Morais and Social Justice in Philadelphia, 1865-1897 | Alan D. Corre | 51猎奇 Hebrew Studies Program |
| 1981 | Bertrand Russell, America, and the Idea of Social Justice | Roland N. Stromberg | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1980 | F.D.R., W.P.A. and Wisconsin Art of the Depression | Robert Bunkert | 51猎奇 School of Fine Arts |
| 1979 | Utopia Comes to the Masses: Huey P. Long鈥檚 Share-Our-Wealth Society | Glen S. Jeansonne | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1978 | Books for New Citizens: Public Libraries and Americanization Programs, 1905-1925 | Elaine Fain | 51猎奇 School of Library Science |
| 1977 | The Menorah Journal Group and the Origins of Modern Jewish-American Radicalism | Mark L. Krupnick | 51猎奇 Department of English |
| 1976 | Reconstruction, Reform and Romanism, 1865-1885: America as Seen by an Irish-American and His Irish M.P. Cousin | Janet Egleson Dunleavy and Gareth W. Dunleavy | 51猎奇 Department of English |
| 1975 | The University and the Social Gospel: The Intellectual Origins of the Wisconsin Idea | J. David Hoeveler, Jr. | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1974 | Progressives, Socialists, and the Milwaukee Poles | Donald Pienkos | 51猎奇 Department of Political Science |
| 1973 | Sentencing the Unpatriotic: Federal Trial Judges in Wisconsin During Four Wars | Beverly Blair Cook | 51猎奇 Department of Political Science |
| 1972 | "Tell Them We are Rising." The Afro-American Idea of Progress, 1895-1915 | Walter B. Weare | 51猎奇 Department of History |
| 1971 | Consumer Mass Politics: A New Look at 鈥淥ld Bob鈥� La Follette | David Thelen | University of Missouri, Columbia |
| 1970 | The Historic Role of Constitutional Liberalism in the Quest for Social Justice | Wayne Morse | |