From Local to Global: Promoting Community Immunity in the Time of COVID
December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War and COVID’s Hidden Toll Speaker: Dr. James Conway
Institute for Regional and International Studies
December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War and COVID’s Hidden Toll Speaker: Dr. James Conway
October 2020 Film: Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War Speaker: Anton Shirikov
November 2020 Film: Earth Speaker: Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College Resources:
February 2021 Film: Persepolis Speaker: Professor Roozbeh Shirazi, University of Minnesota Resources
March 2021 Film: Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart Speaker: Ni Luh Gede Sri Pratiwi Resources
In this APTLI lecture (July 2021), Palestinian Filmmaker Baha’ AbuShanab discusses his film experience and filmmaking in Palestine. His documentary, The Living of the Pigeons, will be covered. The film is “A haunting glimpse of the surreal early morning hours and the daily experience of “rush hour” for Palestinian workers at the Israeli Checkpoint 300, which …
April 2021 Podcast series: Language Latte: A Podcast for World Language Teachers Speaker: Kate Grovergrys, Madison Area Technical College Resources:
October 2021 Film: The True Cost Speaker: Nikki Anderson, Owner of Change Boutique in Madison, WI. Resources:
IRIS NRC is one of eight area studies centers participating in the third annual Area and International Studies Undergraduate Paper Award. This monetary award provides undergraduate students up to $1,000 for the best paper on transregional themes, written during the academic year to fulfill a UW–Madison course or thesis requirement. Please join the awards committee …
Steven Brooke in an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS). He is also a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative.