Past Event Category: K-12
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May 25Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin: Webinar Series
Panel discussion: College students with refugee backgrounds discuss experiences with college and careers. Participants TBA. Register here.
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Apr 27Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin: Webinar Series
A discussion with Karin Brown (Executive Director & Senior Evaluator, One Earth International Credential Evaluations) on challenges in the recognition of refugees’ educational credentials. Register here.
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Mar 30Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin: Webinar Series
A discussion with Sarah Dryden-Peterson (Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education) on her research and on the civic education of refugees. Register here.
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Feb 24Teaching About the Middle East and North Africa – Rethinking Approaches (2/24/21)
Join us for a book club with Dr. Maria Hantzopoulos, Associate Professor and Chair of Education and Coordinator of Secondary Teacher Education, Vassar College. Professor Hantzopoulos was the primary investigator for and recipient of the British Council/Social Science Research Council “Our Shared Past” Grant (along with four other co-investigators), which culminated in the curriculum “Rethinking …
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Feb 23Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin: Webinar Series
A discussion with Paul Van Auken (Associate Professor of Sociology, UW-Oshkosh) about his research refugee resettlement and refugee communities in Wisconsin. Register here.
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Feb 2Using Persepolis to Teach About the Middle East (2/2/21)
Join us for our online February Film Club event with Professor Roozbeh Shirazi from the University of Minnesota, who will present about the film and graphic novel Persepolis and its use in the classroom. Professor Roozbeh Shirazi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and one of the co-authors of Rethinking the region: …
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Jan 28Understanding Windrush and the Black Caribbean Diaspora in the U.K. (1/28/2021)
Join us for our online January Film Club event with academic, poet, playwright, and publisher Professor Joan Anim-Addo from Goldsmiths, University of London. Professor Anim-Addo will present about The Windrush scandal and Black Caribbean diaspora in the U.K. The Founder and Director of Goldsmiths’ Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, Professor Anim-Addo is the first Black female …
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Jan 26Supporting Higher Education and Career Success for Refugees in Wisconsin: Webinar Series
A discussion with Becca Schwartz (Resettlement Director, Jewish Social Services of Madison) on current issues with refugee resettlement in Wisconsin. Register here.
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Nov 12CCMTI: Talking about South Asian Culture and History through Earth
Community College Master Teacher Institute: In celebration of International Education Week 2020, the IRIS International Film Club is sponsoring four talks for community college instructors on teaching international studies through film. K-12 teachers are also welcome to attend. REGISTER HERE! Before the talk, participants are encouraged to watch the film Earth, which shows the consequences of the …
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Oct 26October IRIS International Film Club: Operation InfeKtion
Join the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) as we meet for the October Film Club. Participants will watch Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War, from the New York Times. On Oct. 26, meet via Zoom with Anton Shirikov, a doctoral candidate in Comparative Politics at UW–Madison, to discuss the impact …