Past Event Category: Cosponsored by MES
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May 13Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt”featuring a reading with an Egyptian UW student, and students and staff running activities
Fitchburg Public Library: 5530 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53711
We are thrilled to be partnering with the African Studies Program here at UW-Madison to present a children’s book entitled “The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story”. A UW student from Egypt will be reading from the book. We will also introduce basic Arabic words, a display of Egyptian artifacts, create an art project based on the book, and sample Egyptian cuisine!
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May 1‘Twilight Diplomacy‘ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of TurkeySelçuk Esenbel (Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey) will discuss the Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in Istanbul
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Apr 11Empire of Refugees: Muslim Migration from Russia to the Middle EastVladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Ingraham 206
In his new book, "Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State", Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky examines how Circassian, Chechen, Dagestani, and other refugees transformed the late Ottoman Empire and how the Ottoman government managed Muslim refugee resettlement.
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Apr 8Film: About Dry GrassesFlix Brewhouse: 85 E Towne Way, Madison, WI 53704 Click here to purchase tickets
No working filmmaker is as adept at transposing the pleasures of literature to cinema as master writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and About Dry Grasses achieves novelistic profundity with its vivid characterizations and deep philosophical complexity
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Apr 5Film: About Dry Grasses
Bartell Theater Click here to purchase tickets
No working filmmaker is as adept at transposing the pleasures of literature to cinema as master writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and About Dry Grasses achieves novelistic profundity with its vivid characterizations and deep philosophical complexity.
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Apr 5World Cinema Day: “Totem”Barrymore Theater: 2090 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI 53704 Register Here
In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium will be hosting World Cinema Day, bringing middle and high school educators and students to Madison for a free showing of an acclaimed and newly-released international film.
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Feb 14War, Environment, and Infrastructure: Lessons From Middle East and North African ConflictsJeannie Sowers
Ingraham 206 Join Here for the Livestream!
Jeannie Sowers's research explores political and environmental change in the Middle East and North Africa, with a recent focus on protracted conflicts and environmental infrastructures.
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Dec 18Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt”
Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716 Join us!
We will introduce basic Arabic words, a display of Egyptian artifacts, create an art project based on the book, and sample Egyptian cuisine!
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Dec 7Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist PresentPyle Center, Room 226, 702 Langdon Street
Centennial of the 1923 exchange between Muslims in Greece and the Greek Orthodox Christians in Turkey coincides with the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. This talk will address the legacies of this exchange in the contemporary world context and revisit the implications of "commemoration" in the "civilizationist" present.
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Dec 4Dreams and Displacement in AfghanistanOnline Register Here!
Join investigative reporter and Pulitzer Center grantee May Jeong for a discussion of her experiences reporting from Afghanistan.