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Undergraduate Paper Award competition for AY 2019-2020 open!

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 …

UPDATED: New international reporting fellowship available

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 …

UW-Madison awarded 3 Flagship Language Initiatives

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 …

Fulbright-Hays DDRA 2020 competition open; open house, info session & technical review scheduled!

The 2020-2021 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) competition is now open. Yes, it’s early this year. Very, very early. But open! The deadline for submission of a complete application, including all supporting documents, is 10:00 am, Thursday, February 13, 2020. Go to http://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/ddra/ for information on the application process & campus guidance, documents, resources, …

Meet the IRIS Project Assistants

IRIS is pleased to welcome and introduce its new Project Assistants. Pursuing a wide variety of graduate degrees, each PA brings unique international experiences to their work at IRIS. We look forward to seeing all they accomplish and contribute to us and our centers. By Laura Bunn, IRIS PA Laura PAship: IRIS Central and LACIS …

Artist Talk: Ibrahim Mahama, “Freedom, Art, Production”

On Friday, September 27, 2019 at 3pm, the Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama,  will give a talk on “Freedom, Art, Production” at the Chazen Museum on the campus of UW–Madison. The event is free and open to the public. Learn more…