Dear all, This year, TWELVE amazing students graduated with a certificate in Middle Eastern Studies. On behalf of the MESP, the International Division, and IRIS, it is my pleasure to congratulate you all on your graduation …
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Area and International Studies Undergraduate Paper Awards
Area and International Studies Undergraduate Paper Awards https://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/undergraduate-paper-awards/ Submission deadline: May 1, 2020 by 10am The MESP is awarding up to $1,000 (actual award amounts vary) to the best paper/s and projects written by an …
A new Open Access collection of newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa now available!
A new Open Access collection of newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa is now available to us from Eastview and the Center for Research Libraries. Content in the collection is generally in Arabic language, but …
GET FUNDING TO STUDY AN AFRICAN LANGUAGE WITH A FLAS FELLOWSHIP
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award applications are now open! African language FLAS Awards are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the African Studies Program to assist students in acquiring …
WISLI TUITION SCHOLARSHIP
WISLI is pleased to offer the WISLI Tuition Scholarship, which covers full payment of tuition for language study at APTLI, CESSI, SASLI, SEASSI or SIPI in summer 2020. APPLICATIONS DUE April 10. …
35th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in the Historic and Contemporary Middle East
Call for Papers 35th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in the Historic and Contemporary Middle East The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL May 1-3, 2020 We invite proposals for papers …
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Application Now Open
U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program at http://www.clscholarship.org/apply Applications are due Tuesday, November 19, 2019 by 8:00pm EST. …
Spring 2020 Courses Now Available
The list of courses that would count towards the Middle East Studies (MES) Certificate is now available. Go to our courses page at https://mideast.wisc.edu/courses/
Aili Tripp’s new book, Seeking Legitimacy Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights
In her new book Seeking Legitimacy Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women’s …
RACE, RELIGION, AND REVISIONISM
RACE, RELIGION, AND REVISIONISM: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER NOW 5:30 PM, SEP 11 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street With public violence increasingly on display in our society, history too is under siege. …