Category: Student Opportunities

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Career Workshop for undergraduate and graduate students

Calling all certificate students and anyone else with international experience! Join us this Wednesday, 11/17, for a career workshop hosted by the IRIS NRC in collaboration with Middle East Studies, and many more. Register to learn how to clearly explain: • Major and certificate content knowledge • International experiences outside of the classroom • Short …

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 …

Become a Student Ambassador!

The MESP is thrilled to recruit students interested in becoming Student Ambassadors for the Middle East. This is a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to share the mission of the MESP and promote Middle Eastern languages, cultures, history and geopolitical issues, and to encourage cross-cultural understanding with and among the diverse communities and …

Model Arab League Spring ’21 Registration Open

  The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) invites students to participate in this year’s Model Arab League conference, which will happen virtually this year. Through participation in Model Arab League program, students learn about the politics and history of the Arab world, and the arts of diplomacy and public speech. MAL helps prepare students …

MESP Graduate Student Paper Award (deadline May 6)

The Middle East Studies Program will award $500 to an outstanding graduate student paper or papers for AY 2021-2022.   Eligibility You must be currently enrolled as a graduate student at UW–Madison. The paper must focus on a topic in Middle East Studies. The paper must have been substantially written during the current academic year. …

International Career Bootcamp: Global Security

  Join the International Studies department at UW–Madison for this career event designed to support you in developing your career path in international fields. Our theme will be Global Security. Register to attend to learn about: career advice and ways to network recommendations for skills development practical issues on career searching The talk will be …

AIMS Mark Tessler Graduate Student Award

  AIMS Research Grant Awards for 2021 AIMS invites submissions of papers by Graduate Student members of AIMS (The AIMS Graduate Student Association, GSA) for the Mark Tessler Graduate Student Prize Award which has a monetary value of $750. Papers must be complete in written form and must have been delivered in-person or virtually before …

Model Arab League Fall 2020

  Fall 2020 Model Arab League Opportunities The National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations cordially invites instructors and students to participate in an online Youth Leadership Development Program / Model Arab League conference this fall. The program is open to high school and university students. Model Arab League is an educational, role-playing exercise simulating meetings of …

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 also includes some content in English and French. The newspapers cover the period from the late nineteenth century through the …