Past Event Category: Film Club
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Apr 5World Cinema DayBarrymore Theater Register Here
In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium will be hosting World Cinema Day, bringing middle and high school educators and students to Madison for a free showing of an acclaimed and newly-released international film. This year’s feature film will be Totem. There will be an introduction of the film prior to …
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Dec 4Dreams and Displacement in AfghanistanOnline Click here to register
Join investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee May Jeong for a discussion of her experiences reporting from Afghanistan. In preparation for this talk, attendees are encouraged to watch Afghan Dreamers, a documentary about an all-girls robotics team from Afghanistan and their fate as the Taliban came to power. The film is teen friendly and can …
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Apr 26The Struggle to Legalize Abortion in ArgentinaOnline Link
Register Now On December 30, 2020, the Argentine Senate voted to legalize abortion until the 14th week. The road to legalization was paved with the sweat, tears and devotion of activists who spent much of their lives protesting for change in the streets. Who were the women who fought for legal abortion? Why did the …
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Apr 14World Cinema DayShannon Hall Link
Register Now Mark your calendars for World Cinema Day (WCD) 2023! In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), World Cinema Day is an annual international film screening that brings middle and high school students and their teachers to Madison for a special free screening of a high-quality, newly released, international film. The 2023 featured …
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Oct 14Ethical Fashion- Local Access, Global ImpactRegister Join us for our online October Film Club event with Nikki Anderson who will present on making ethical fashion accessible on a local level. Inspired by the quote “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”, Nikki Anderson founded her retail store, Change Fair Trade Fashion Boutique in Madison, Wisconsin. Since …
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Apr 28IRIS Film Club – Language Learning Online: Films and PodcastsClick here to register. Join us for our online April Film Club event with Kate Grovergrys from Madison Area Technical College who will present about utilizing podcasts and films in a world language classroom. Grovergrys is a skilled online language instructor with over ten years of experience teaching hybrid and online courses. In her current position as …
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Feb 2Using Persepolis to Teach About the Middle EastJoin 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 …