Past Event Category: Cosponsored by MES
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Feb 5UNPACKED: Refugee BaggageLynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery 1300 Linden Dr Madison, WI 53706
The exhibition tells the stories of different refugees through artist Mohamad Hafez’s miniaturized recreations of a moment in time or memory recollected and accompanied by an audio component with the story told in their own words.
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Nov 20World Appreciation Day: An International Education Week Celebration for Middle Schoolers
Union South
World Appreciation Day features a variety of hands-on, internationally-focused activities. The goal of this program is to draw attention to and encourage an appreciation of some of the cultural, linguistic, historical, and other riches that different countries contribute to the global community.
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Nov 19Film Screening: For SamaMarquee Cinema, Union South
For Sama is a captivating and honest testament to the experiences of one woman and her community through the recent Syrian War.
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Nov 18An Evening With Mariela Shaker: Music for Peace, Advocacy, & Social ChangeJoin us to hear from Syrian refugee, Mariela Shaker and how she has used music to advocate for peace and social change. MARIELA SHAKER is an accomplished Syrian violinist and award-winning refugee advocate who survived the civil war in Syria as well as the University of Aleppo attack in January 2013. Mariela risked death every …
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Nov 18An Evening With Mariela Shaker: Music for Peace, Advocacy, & Social ChangeWisconsin Union Theater 800 Langdon Street Madison, WI
Join us to hear from Syrian refugee, Mariela Shaker and how she has used music to advocate for peace and social change.
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Nov 11The Ramadan Debates: Science, Time, and Islamic Law in the Early Twentieth CenturyIngraham 206
By foregrounding evidence for how diverse Muslim communities in fact determined when to observe their holidays in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this talk reinterprets the calendar debates as a matter of competing visions for how to promote a globally uniform Islam.
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Nov 5Traveling Statuettes and Traveling Aristocrats? Networks of Acquisition in the Statuary Collection at the Late Antique Villa at Séviac (France)Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, Room L14
The statuary collection at Séviac provides an opportunity to examine aristocratic networks of acquisition in Southern Gaul around A.D. 400, a period when easy connectivity within the Mediterranean world was declining. Personal travel and networks probably account for the imported items at Séviac.
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Nov 4An Evening With Daniel Shapiro: Former US Ambassador to IsraelUW Hillel Foundation
Daniel Shapiro was named Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute of National Security Studies in March 2017, following a diverse career of over 20 years in senior foreign policy and national security positions in the United States government. Ambassador Shapiro was appointed by President Barack Obama to be United States Ambassador to Israel, …
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Nov 4An Evening With Daniel Shapiro: Former US Ambassador to IsraelUW Hillel Foundation 611 Langdon St. Madison, WI 53703 United States
Daniel Shapiro was named Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Tel Aviv University’s Institute of National Security Studies in March 2017, following a diverse career of over 20 years in senior foreign policy and national security positions in the United States government. Ambassador Shapiro was appointed by President Barack Obama to be United States Ambassador to Israel, …
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Oct 24The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to JusticeConrad A. Elvehjem Building L150
The lecture will cover art history, histories of genocide, cultural heritage, and the questions of the continuity of the medieval and the modern intersect in the biography of a medieval Armenian Gospels manuscript.