Events
WCER and its projects host dozens of lectures, panels discussions and other events throughout the year, including the Wisconsin Ideas in Education and Carl A. Grant series, and the annual UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair.
Nearly all these events are free, and open to the campus community, as well as to other educators, community leaders and members of the interested public.
You can scroll event descriptions beginning with the most current on this page, get a larger view and subscribe to WCER’s Google calendar, visit the individual pages for each type of event or use the search.
Past Events
K12 Education in Wisconsin: An Overview
Thomas McCarthy and Emilie Amundson, Communications Director, WI DPI (Thomas), and Chief of Staff, WI DPI (Emilie)
November 14, 2018, 11:00 - 12:00, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Wisconsin’s Demographic Changes: Impact on Rural Schools and Communities
Sarah Kemp, Researcher, UW-Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory (APL)
November 13, 2018, 11:30 - 1:00, Educational Sciences, Room 259 1025 West Johnson Street
Unbundling the Teacher: Race, Hypervisibility, and Affective Labor in New Orleans Charter Schools
Christien Tompkins, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
November 7, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Future Ready: Why Schools Will Matter in the Digital World
S. Craig Watkins, Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
November 5, 2018, Noon - 1:00, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Internships and Experiential Learning in a Chinese University: A Report from the Field
Matthew Hora, Director of CCWT and Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education, UW-Madison
November 5, 2018, 12:00 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Interdisciplinary Training Program CANCELLED
Julie Booth, Temple University, Sponsor: ITP
October 19, 2018, noon to 1:30 p.m., 253 Educational Sciences
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute & Senior Fellow, Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Sponsor: CEE
October 18, 2018, 4:30 - 6:00, 2120 Kellner Hall, Graingiere Hall
The Vocational Significance of Cultural Identity
Angela Byars-Winston, Professor, University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sponsor: CCWT
October 18, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00, 259 Educational Sciences, 1025 W. Johnson Street
WIES Lecture: Excellent Content Teaching for Multilingual Students
Kara Mitchell Viesca, Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education, University of Nebraska
October 17, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Wisconsin Idea in Education Series Lecture CANCELLED
Kara Mitchel Viesca, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sponsor: WCER, Early Career Faculty
October 17, 2018, 12:30-1:30, 159 Education Building
The Importance of Meaning: Going Beyond Mixed Methods to Turn Big Data into Real Understanding
David Williamson Shaffer, Director & Principal Investigator, Epistemic Analytics, Sponsor: E.I. Initiative and DoIT
October 16, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00, Union South (See TITU for room details), 1308 W. Dayton Street
Retrospective Item and Survey Design for Workshop Evaluation
Christine Bell, Evaluator, The LEAD Center
October 8, 2018, 12:00 - 1:00, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
Teacher Speakout! Rural Education Roundtable Discussion & Collaborative Dialogue
October 5, 2018, 1 - 4:45, Morgridge Commons & Wisconsin Idea Room (159), UW-Madison Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: Games & Learning: Use Cases
Mike Beall, Director, Gear Learning
October 3, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
National Symposium on College Internship Research
September 28, 2018, 9:00 - 6:00, Pyle Center, UW–Madison Campus
