Institute for Regional and International Studies
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 …
In the 2020-2021 academic year, IRIS NRC was pleased to provide funding for guest lecturers to present on transregional themes in various courses at UW–Madison. April 22, 2021 Michael Barnett presented a guest lecture “Humanitarianism: Then and Now” to 10 students of Professor Jon Pevehouse’s course Public Affairs 850- international Governance in the Master of …
Register Speakers: The panel will be moderated by Dr. Mou Banerjee from UW–Madison. About the panel Our community continues to be touched by Middle East displacements and conflicts with the latest development in Afghanistan and the ongoing Afghan refugee crisis. Given the urgency of this issue, we are honored to host this meaningful and pressing …
Register Amer Zahr, founder and producer of the annual 1001 Laughs Ramallah Comedy Festival, is a rising star in both the US and the Middle East. Amer is an Arab-American comedian, speaker, political activist, writer, and adjunct professor at the University of Detroit, Mercy School of Law. “Comedy is my form of protest,” says Amer! Join us for …