Institute for Regional and International Studies
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 …
March 17, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm This event is introduced and organized by Mike Vanden Heuvel, Professor of CANES as part of the Center for European Studies Spring 2021 Virtual Lecture Series. Click here to register. Dr. Gillian O’Brien is the author of The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland’s Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion (Doubleday, 2020) and Blood Runs …
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 …