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
ITP | Advanced Placement Gatekeeping and Racialized Tracking (Online only)
Noah Hirschl, ITP Fellow
December 10, 2021, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Mitigating the Effects of Invalid Survey Responses in Estimating LGBQ-heterosexual Youth Risk Disparities
Joseph Cimpian, New York University Steinhardt
October 8, 2021, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
Brown Bag Talk | Scripting the Moves; Culture & Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School
Joanne Golann, Vanderbilt University
October 8, 2021, Noon-1 pm Central time, online only, Online
ITP | Partnerships in Times of Transition: Challenges and Opportunities
Carl Frederick, Annalee Good, Beth Vaade, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Madison Metropolitan School District
October 1, 2021, Noon-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power
Jarvis R. Givens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education Faculty Affiliate, African & African American Studies Harvard University
September 24, 2021, Noon-1pm, Wisconsin Idea Room - 159 Education Building, Zoom link: https://go.wisc.edu/givenslecture
ITP | Engaging Policymakers: Best Practices From Those Who Study It and Do It
Dr. Karen Bogenschneider, Rothermel-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, UW-Madison
September 24, 2021, 12-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Access denied: The effect of geographic boundaries on White-Black gaps in access to educational opportunity
Dr. Peter Rich, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
September 17, 2021, 12-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
ITP | Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap
Dr. Xiang Zhou, Harvard University
September 10, 2021, 12-1:30 pm Central Time, 259 Educational Sciences
CCWT | Panel discussion: College Students with Refugee Backgrounds Discuss Experiences with College and Careers
Matthew Wolfgram and panelists, Associate Researcher and Assistant Director, Center for Research on College to Workforce Transitions
May 25, 2021, 3 pm Central Time on Zoom, Zoom Virtual Presentation
CCWT | Participatory Research as Autoformación (Self-Education) and Consciousness Raising
Andrea Dyrness, University of Colorado Boulder
May 10, 2021, 4:30 pm Central Time on Zoom, ZOOM Virtual Presentation
CCWT | A Discussion with Karin Brown on Challenges in the Recognition of Refugees’ Educational Credentials
Karin Brown, Executive Director & Senior Evaluator, One Earth International Credential Evaluations
April 27, 2021, 3 pm Central Time on Zoom, Zoom Virtual Presentation
CCWT | Girls of Color and PAR: Investigating Sex Education in Chicago Public Schools with the Womxn that Fight Research Team, Chicago, IL
TBD, TBD
April 26, 2021, 4:30 pm Central Time on Zoom, Zoom Virtual Presentation
2021 UW-Madison Education Research Virtual Poster Fair
Sarah Carroll and teri engelke, HR Competency Program Manager, UW-Madison Office of Human Resources, and Assistant Dean for Human Resources in the UW-Madison Sc
April 26, 2021, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Online
ITP | ITP Fellows Internship Presentations
ITP Fellows, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 23, 2021, 12- 1:30 pm Central Time on Zoom, Zoom Virtual Presentation
MSAN Consortium | Spring Educator Conference
The authors of the "Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership," Sharon I. Radd; Gretchen Givens Generett; Mark Anthony Gooden; George Theoharis, Speaker affiliations include: St. Catherine University, Duquesne University, Columbia University, Syracuse University
April 19, 2021, 12:30 - 4:15 pm each day, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
