University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: April 2021

Paid Research Position with UW-Madison Professor

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 administrative boundaries on a series of high resolution (1:25,000) scale maps of Egypt. All work is remote. Prior experience with …

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

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? Advocate for interfaith issues on campus? Develop self-awareness and dialogue skills for campus and life after college? If so, apply …

Free Screening of Arab-American High School Football Team Documentary

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 for the big game during the last ten days of Ramadan, revealing a community holding onto its Islamic faith while …

The Return of the Gaze: On Modern Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Melancholies of a Blessed View, with Prof. Avinoam Shalem, April 15, 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 Workshops in the Humanities sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. Much has been written about medieval and early modern …

Watch two Iranian films at the Wisconsin Film Festival, May 13-20, 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, view-at-home cinema to a community of film lovers across the state and beyond. The film festival is co-sponsored by Middle …

Saladin’s Jerusalem, with Professor Paul Cobb, April 8, 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 Languages and Civilizations, Chair, Department of NELC, University of Pennsylvania. The lecture will take place Thursday, April 8th, 2021 at …

2021 Keyman Conference: Queer Conditions/Kuir Haller: Social and Political Change in an Age of Authoritarianism, June 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 and Gender Studies.  The primary aim of the conference is to engage with the global debate taking place on intersectionality.  …