Institute for Regional and International Studies
Joy Olson sat down with IRIS NRC Assistant Director, Essie Lenchner, to discuss her work in advocacy, public policy and social justice. Thanks so much for taking the time to speak with me today, Joy. To get us started, could you tell me a little about your background? I was born and raised in Wisconsin. …
The Center for European Studies at UW–Madison will be hosting Dr. Ana Catalano of the University of Bath on Friday, March 8th at 5:30PM in the Pyle Center for her lecture, “Lessons from the Fast Track to Women’s Inclusion in Europe: When and How Quotas Lead to Policy Change.” Dr. Catalano will present on her …
By Eleanor Conrad and Essie Lenchner Feb. 2, 2024 On January 8, staff from the UW Madison International Division and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) visited Waterford Union High School to talk with the students about opportunities to study and work abroad. The team engaged high school students in a discussion on language …
The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) will be having their annual Global Day conference this year on Tuesday, February 27th from 11:30AM-4:30PM at Union South! Participants will have a chance to share posters highlighting their international research and international experience’s as a whole at a dedicated session during Tuesday’s event. You can submit …
February 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Zoom link Yashica Dutt is a leading anti-caste journalist and the author of Coming Out as Dalit. She spent a decade covering arts, culture, and fashion in New Delhi and a lifetime hiding her Dalitness to pass as ‘upper’ caste. Until she ‘came out’ as Dalit in a Facebook note …
February 26, 2021 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm UW Madison faculty will vote in March about whether to encourage the university’s private foundation to divest from fossil fuel companies. On Friday, Professor Steph Tai from the UW Law School will discuss how other universities in the US have acted in the face of climate change, what …
March 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Zoom link Between 1838 and 1920 western colonial governments transported about 500,000 indentured Asians from India to the Caribbean. The arrival of these indentured laborers was in response to a labor shortage emerging from the gradual withdrawal of newly freed Africans from plantation agriculture. The indentured laborers were …
March 9, 2021 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Tev Lee of the UW–Madison Multicultural Student Center will moderate a discussion with undergraduate Thida Hok Chong (President, KΓ Chapter for ΣΛΓ National Sorority Inc. ; Treasurer, Multicultural Greek Council); and Yale Medical School student (and UW–Madison alum) Alex Chen. Zoom Webinar – no registration required. Webinar ID: …
March 10, 2021 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Join us for this unique event with the Pulitzer Center and UW Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication! Click here to register.
March 11, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Click here for zoom link. Tania Saeed (Associate Professor, Sociology Lahore University of Management Sciences) Saeed’s talk will examine the meaning of Islamophobia through everyday experiences of British Muslim female students with a Pakistani heritage and overseas Pakistanis studying in universities in England. The site of the university is …