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IRIS awarded Katya Garza and Emily Janicik with its 2020 Area and International Studies Undergraduate Paper Awards. Garza was awarded for her paper, “Ni de aquí, ni de allá” – Transnational Latinx Communities: Roots and Migrations, and Janicik for her work, Xenophobic Policies in the Name of Gratitude: Refugee Experiences with the Conservative Austrian Government. …
Are you a graduate student looking for an internationally-focused seminar for Fall 2020? Tana Johnson, a new faculty member in the La Follette School and Department of Political Science, will lead a graduate seminar on International Organizations (POLI SCI 959) which may be of interest. Details below… Course Description: POLI SCI 959 (International Organizations) From …
Congratulations to Laura Hammond, director of UW-Madison’s South Asian Summer Language Institute (SASLI) for receiving the 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Leadership at the School, College or Community Level – a well-deserved honor and recognition of years of exceptional work and commitment to SASLI and language instruction at UW-Madison! Details on Laura’s award and …
The application for the 2021-2022 Fulbright US Student Program (FUSP) competition opened on March 31 and we have added two more online information sessions for students & alumni to learn more about all that the FUSP award offers!! The IRIS Awards Office is hosting two additional information sessions on Monday, April 27 (4pm CDT) and …
Interested in China’s role in the 21st century? The Schwarzman Scholars Program – a highly-selective, fully-funded scholarship program designed to ensure that the next generation of business, political, and civil society leaders can effectively serve as bridges between China and the rest of the world – is currently accepting applications for its 2021-2022 academic year …
Participating area and international studies centers of the Institute for Regional and International Studies are each awarding up to $1,000 (actual award amounts vary) to the best paper/s and projects written by an undergraduate and focused on their respective world regions. To be eligible you must be currently enrolled as an undergraduate student at the …
The application for the 2021-2022 Fulbright US Student Program (FUSP) competition opens on March 31 and we have a number of opportunities for students & alumni to learn more about all that the FUSP award offers!! The IRIS Awards Office is hosting information sessions on March 2 (3pm), March 31 (4pm CDT), and April 15 …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is partnering with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to support one student journalist in covering an international story. The fellowship amount is $5,000. The student can use this money to pay for the cost of travel and for incidentals in the field. Throughout the summer that the student spends covering the …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was recently awarded three summer language programs: SAFLI (South Asian Flagship Languages Initiative), IFLI (Indonesian Flagship Language Initiative), and TURFLI (Turkish Flagship Language Initiative). These programs will bring approximately 40 students to UW-Madison this summer for intensive language study of Hindi, Urdu, Indonesian, and Turkish at the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language …