Global Conversations Past Sessions

    Click the links below to watch recordings of past Global Conversations sessions.

    Looking for resources from the session? Email us at global@cals.wisc.edu.


    Grand Challenges: Feeding the World: April 18, 2024

    • Sarah Adcock – Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences
    • Zhou Zhang – Department of Biological Systems Engineering

    Grand Challenges: Feeding the World: March 21, 2024

    • Sedona Chinn – Department of Life Sciences Communication
    • Audrey Girard – Department of Food Science

    Grand Challenges: Feeding the World: February 27, 2024

    • Erica Phillips – Department of Nutritional Sciences
    • Matthew Ruark – Department of Soil Science

    Grand Challenges: Feeding the World: November 16, 2024

    • Mutlu Ozdogan – Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology
    • Chuck Nicholson – Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics & Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences

    Grand Challenges: Feeding the World: October 19, 2023

    • Russell Groves – Department of Entomology
    • Rodrigo Werle – Department of Plant & Agroecosystem Sciences

    Middle East: December 7, 2022

    • Steven Brooke – Middle East Studies Program
    • K.G. Karthikeyan – Department of Biological Systems Engineering
    • Reena Maali – Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
    • Jennifer Kushner – CALS Global

    East Asia: October 19, 2022

    • David Fields – Center for East Asian Studies
    • Jiwan Palta – Department of Horticulture (Emeritus)
    • Guilherme Rosa – Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences
    • Jess Reed – Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences (Emeritus)
    • Kim Kroeger – CALS Study Abroad

    Africa: April 13, 2022

    • Aleia McCord – African Studies Program
    • Lusayo Mwakatika – ACADES Malawi
    • Jacob Breit & Derek Krismer – UW Mobile Clinics & Health Care in Ugana Program Participants
    • Joshua Garoon – Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
    • James Ntambi – CALS Study Abroad in Uganda Program Leader

    South Asia: March 9, 2022

    • Sarah Beckham – Center for South Asia
    • Terri Allendorf – Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology
    • Sweta Shrestha – Population Health Institute

    Latin America & the Caribbean: February 16, 2022

    • Alberto Vargas – LACIS
    • Chris Hittinger – Department of Genetics
    • Anika Rice – Department of Geography
    • Carlos Gomez – Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina
    • Sherry Tanumihardjo – UW Linking Agriculture & Nutrition in Mexico Program Leader

    Ensuring Health for All: December 15, 2021

    • Adam Borger – Food Research Institute

    Feeding the World: November 17, 2021

    • James Crall – Department of Entomology
    • Valentin Picasso – Department of Agronomy

    Strengthening Economies & Communities: October 27, 2021

    • Kaiping Chen – Department of Life Sciences Communication
    • Priya Mukherjee – Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics

    Ensuring Health for All: April 23, 2021

    • Francisco Peñagaricano – Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences
    • Erica Majumder – Department of Bacteriology

    Strengthening Economies & Communities: March 26, 2021

    • Shelby Ellison – Department of Horticulture
    • Nan Enstad – Department of Community & Environmental Sociology
    • Paul Dower – Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics
    • Solomon Amuzu – Call to Nature Permaculture

    Responding to Climate Change: February 26, 2021

    • Nan Li – Department of Life Sciences Communication
    • Jacob Brunkard – Department of Genetics
    • Min Chen – Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology

    Feeding the World: January 22, 2021

    • Claudia Irene Calderón – Department of Horticulture
    • Shawn Steffan – Department of Entomology
    • Michel Wattiaux – Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences