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Month: April 2021

Paid Research Position with UW-Madison Professor

Posted on April 21, 2021

Seeking research assistants for a new project digitizing historic maps of interwar Egypt. Selected RAs will be responsible for using open-source spatial analysis software (QGIS) to catalogue features such as roads, houses of worship, and …

Posted in News, Student OpportunitiesTagged Job

Student Opportunity: Apply for the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry’s Interfaith Fellowship

Posted on April 20, 2021

Do you want to learn about different faiths and how they relate to your own? Connect with people of different religious and secular backgrounds and grow together through interfaith conversations, shared study, and contemplative practice? …

Posted in Student OpportunitiesTagged Religion, Student Opportunity

Free Screening of Arab-American High School Football Team Documentary

Posted on April 12, 2021

The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival is showing Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award winning documentary from 2011. The film follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice …

Posted in NewsTagged Film Festival

The Return of the Gaze: On Modern Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Melancholies of a Blessed View, with Prof. Avinoam Shalem, April 15, 2021

Posted on April 9, 2021

Please join the Medieval Studies Program on Thursday, April 15, 3pm, for their guest lecture with Professor Avinoam Shalem (colombia University). Click here to join on zoom.  The lecture is part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary …

Posted in Around Campus, NewsTagged Jerusalem, Medieval Studies Program

Watch two Iranian films at the Wisconsin Film Festival, May 13-20, 2021

Posted on April 8, 2021

The 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival, presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts, will take place virtually from May 13, 2021 – May 20, 2021. The festival will present eight solid days of refreshing, …

Posted in NewsTagged Film Festival, Iran

Apply for the 2021 Jack Shaheen Scholarship! Due April 12, 2021

Posted on April 8, 2021

Apply for the Dr. Jack Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship! The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is offering scholarships of $2,500 in honor of Dr. Jack G. Shaheen for Arab American students who excel in Media Studies. …

Posted in External Funding, NewsTagged American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, awards

Saladin’s Jerusalem, with Professor Paul Cobb, April 8, 2021

Posted on April 6, 2021

The Medieval Studies Program at UW–Madison and the Borghesi-Mellon Workshop on Jerusalem invites you to attend the lecture, “Saladin’s Jerusalem,” by Professor Paul Cobb, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Near Eastern …

Posted in Around Campus, News

2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, June 2021

Posted on April 5, 2021

Friday June 4th, 9:30am-1:30pm Friday June 11th Friday June 18th  Click here to register. This year’s annual Keyman Conference, Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, will focus on Queer …

Posted in News, Uncategorized

MESA Global Academy Fellowships for Displaced Scholars from the Middle East

Posted on April 5, 2021

Fellowship Application Deadline is April 15, 2021 MESA’s Global Academy is accepting applications for 2021-2022 scholarships for displaced scholars from the Middle East currently located in North America. The Global Academy will award up to …

Posted in Faculty Opportunities

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