Wisconsin Ideas in Education Series (WIES)
WIES is an interdisciplinary speaker series intended for educators and future educators across campus. It is organized by early career faculty members from across UW-Madison’s School of Education, with support from WCER, with the goal of bringing leading scholars to UW–Madison to share and discuss their work in education research.
Past Events
WIES Lecture | Developing and Testing Interventions to Increase Racial Equity in School Discipline
Kent McIntosh, Professor, Special Education, University of Oregon
April 11, 2019, 12 - 1 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259
WIES Lecture | Proportional Reasoning: From Symbolic Formalizations to Early Intuitions
Michelle Hurst, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
April 3, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Education Building, 159, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture | Design for Social Impact: Guerilla Projections with a Graphic Witness
Adam DelMarcelle, York College, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Kutztown University
March 6, 2019, 12:30-1:30 pm, Educational Sciences, Room 259
WIES Lecture: Optimizing the Acoustic Landscape Speakers and Singers Inhabit
Ken Bozeman, Professor, Music, Lawrence University
February 20, 2019, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., 159 WI Idea Room, School of Education, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture Mutual Survival: Education Reform & Economic Change in Rural Wisconsin
Jennifer Seelig, Assistant Director, Rural Education Research & Implementation Center, WCER
February 6, 2019, 12:30 - 1:30, Education Building, 159, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: Studying the Fine Details of Multimodal Learning Interactions
Virginia Flood and Benedikt Harrer, University of California, Berkeley; San Jose State University
December 5, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Exploring Immigrant-Origin Multilingual Students’ Languages and Literacies
Amanda Kibler, Associate Professor of Education, Oregon State University
November 14, 2018, 1:00 - 2:00, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
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
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
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
WIES Lecture: The Softening of Stone: Collaborative Acts of Transformation
Anna Riley, Artist and Educator
September 26, 2018, 1:00 - 2:00, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Reducing the Prevalence and Burden of Youth Mental Health Problems
Keith Herman, Professor Educational, School & Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri
April 25, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Computational Models of Mental Models of Computational Models of the World
Robert Goldstone, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University
April 4, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
WIES Lecture: Digital Studios for Social Innovation
Matthew Easterday, Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences, Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy
March 21, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30, Educational Sciences Room 259, 1025 West Johnson Street
WIES Lecture Featuring Jorge E. Gonzalez
Jorge E. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Health and Learning Sciences, University of Houston
March 7, 2018, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
