This webinar series brings together educators, refugee resettlement service providers, college students with refugee background, scholars, employers, and community members to learn about the barriers and supports that impact the college and career success of …
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Upcoming FLAS information sessions for Summer 2021 & AY 2021-2022
We will be hosting 4 information sessions about the Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) awards for the study of less commonly taught languages at the UW-Madison for summer 2021 and academic year 2021-2022! Open …
Critical Language Scholarship information session – October 29 @ 6:30pm
Join Esha Bera and Jay Forrester from the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) – https://clscholarship.org/ – to discuss the programs available for summer 2021 and the application process! Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:30 – 7:30pm CDT …
Boren Fellowship information session: October 29, 2020
The IRIS Awards office is sponsoring an information session for UW-Madison graduate students interested in learning more the Boren Fellowship program: Boren Graduate Fellowship Online Information Session Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00 – 4:00pm, via …
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 …
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. …
The IRIS Virtual Film Club meets again…
On June 24, IRIS outreach convened the third meeting of the IRIS Virtual Film Club, a group that consists of educators from around Wisconsin, as well as outreach staff from UW-Madison’s federally-funded area-studies centers. Prior …