IRIS is pleased to share that two UW-Madison undergraduate students affiliated with our international & regional studies programs have been awarded the 2019-2020 Tommy G. Thompson Leadership Scholarship: Tierney Hall and Michael Sauer. Tierney Hall …
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September IRIS International Film Club: Haitian Revolution
IRIS International Film Club: Sept. 30, 2020 Join the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) as we meet for the September Film Club. Participants will watch a film about Toussaint Louverture and then meet …
September IRIS International Book Club: The Best We Could Do
IRIS International Book Club: Sept. 24, 2020 Join us for a discussion of The Best We Could Do, a graphic novel portraying a family’s journey from armed conflict in South Vietnam to the U.S. The story …
Online workshop for community college educators, October 2020
IRIS – with partners on campus & beyond – is co-sponsoring The Growing Crisis of Refugees and Statelessness: A Practical, Pedagogical Workshop for Community-College Educators, an online program geared to our colleagues at 2-year institutions …
Global Girlhood Workshop, Saturday September 26
Global Girlhood: Wisconsin to the World – Sept. 26, 2020 Co-sponsored by the Institute for Regional and International Studies at UW-Madison and the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and Institute of World Affairs …
Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program accepting applications for 2021
The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Graduate Fellowship Program is now accepting applications for the 2021 cohort at http://www.rangelprogram.org. Key changes for 2021 include an expansion of available fellowships from 30 to 45, an increase …
IRIS recruiting inaugural cohort of Global Education Fellows
Join the inaugural cohort of Global Education Fellows at the Institute for Regional and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Participants will earn a $1,000 honorarium by: 1) meeting for five one-hour sessions (once …
Jefferson Science Fellows Program for tenured faculty – competition open
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), will be accepting applications for the 2021 cohort of Jefferson Science …
UW-Madison alum, Lawrence Andrea, named 2020 Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellow
Lawrence Andrea, a 2020 UW-Madison graduate, has been named one of 40 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellows this year. Andrea is currently working as a freelance reporter in Madison; his Pulitzer Center project will focus on …
LCTL Career Fair, Friday July 17
The Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) invites the UW community and broader public to join the Less Commonly Taught Languages virtual career fair on Friday, July 17, 2020 from 1:30-4:45 p.m. Central Daylight Time. …