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Recipe for a Start-Up Nation: Chutzpah, Innovation, Academia and Everything in Between

Lecture by Israel Deputy Consul General Dr. Daniel Aschheim

Making the Gulf: Regulating Movements and Politics

This conversation will explore the strategies deployed in the Gulf to regulate the mobility of labor, and the ways those strategies enact power relations in the region and beyond.

Online Talk: “The Madman of Freedom Square”

Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright in Conversation With Amir Ahmadi Arian and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

2022 Keyman Annual Conference on Turkey – Call for Papers

Each year, the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program brings together scholars from around the world to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing Turkey from a global perspective.

Online Lecture: The Messy, Volatile, and Unpredictable Energy Transition to Come

The National Council on US-Arab Relations presents an online briefing. Watch LIVE on YouTube on Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 9-10 am CT

CALL FOR PAPERS: Queer in the Middle East, Queering the Middle East

An online conference devoted to understanding current queer methodologies used in the study of the Middle East. Abstracts due Dec. 15.

Spring 2022 Workshop: (Virtual) Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocide

This virtual event will empower Wisconsin’s K-12 educators to teach on genocide and fulfill the mandates of Act 30, the new law passed by the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Evers in April 2021. It will offer participants the chance to hear presentations by top experts and acquire free book sets and other practical materials for teaching on the subject of genocide and five specific cases: the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Argentina, and the Uyghurs in China.

Student Applications – Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes – UW–Madison

Student applications for Summer 2022 now open (SEASSI opening by the end of this week)! Learn more.

This Friday: Iranian Film showing “Chess of the Wind”

In an opulent, candlelit mansion, a wealthy family schemes against one another in pursuit of the remains of their inheritance. Chess of the Wind is an essential addition to the canon of Iranian art cinema (MK). Co-presented with the support of UW Madison’s Middle East Studies Program.

Online Lecture: “Political Theology, Theological Profiling, and High School Kids”

Professor Brett Bertucio examines questions in the context of a study tracing the development of modern American religion clause jurisprudence and secondary civics curricula designed to introduce students to constitutional law.