Institute for Regional and International Studies
March 30, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm About the presentation: The relation between the United States and Cuba is always a controversial topic, given its history and complexity. The 21st century has seen some of the most dynamic moments in what constitutes the longest-running political conflict in the Western Hemisphere, largely driven by successive variations in …
March 31, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Click here to join the event on Zoom. Speaker: Frances Vavrus Presentation Description In today’s uncertain world, few beliefs remain as firmly entrenched as the optimistic view that more schooling will lead to a better life. Though this may be true in the aggregate, how do we explain the circumstances …
April 6, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Click here to register. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Cuba was suffering an economic crisis. With the pandemic, the crisis has aggravated as the remittances and tourism, the second and third most important sources of hard currency on the island, have decreased. Food scarcity affects Cubans’ daily lives, who …
April 7, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Register here to join a conversation with Dr. Ia Xiong on Hmong historical trauma and the possibilities of healing for our community. Dr. Ia Xiong is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. She specializes in multicultural issues and trauma-informed care. Her work focuses on historical trauma …
April 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm Register here to join this conversation about meditation, mental health, and healing in the HMong community with Pajdee Yang. Pajdee Yang, CEO & Founder of EmPajwer Meditations. Pajdee has been practicing meditation for over half a decade. She discovered it soon after her epiphany of what she believed was Nirvana …
April 8, 2021 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Click here to join on zoom. This is part of The Sociology of Gender Brownbag (FemSem). Rachael Pierotti is a Social Development Specialist for the Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank. She is a sociologist who specializes in the study of gender inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. Her research …
April 15, 2021 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Click here to join on zoom. This is part of The Sociology of Gender Brownbag (FemSem). Speaker: Celeste Vaughan Curington, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. This talk is based on my book project with Rutgers University Press, Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender and Care …
April 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Steven Brooke Political Science, UW–Madison About the talk: Why do Islamists mobilize in some mosques, but not others? We answer this question by matching a list of mosque-based lectures, sermons, and collections carried out by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in interwar Cairo with a geo-referenced 1:5,000 scale map …
April 20, 2021 @ 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm UW–Madison’s Program in German, Center for South Asia, Human Rights Program and the Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) invite you to a virtual event with: Oliver Kugler the German-British artist and illustrator on his award-winning graphic reportage (2018) on refugee camps Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees. …
April 21, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm On April 21, 2021, Steven Kamin was a guest lecturer in Professor Menzie Chinn’s course: Macroeconomic Policy and International Financial Regulation in the Master of International Public Affairs (MIPA). Presentation Description This presentation will review the spillovers of U.S. monetary policy to foreign economies, the centrality of the dollar in …