Past Event Category: Cosponsored by MES
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Apr 8World Cinema Day 2022: Mission Ulja FunkShannon Hall
World Cinema Day brings middle and high school students and teachers to Madison for a special free screening of a high-quality, international film with an introduction before the film and a brief Q&A/discussion after the film led by a regional expert from UW-Madison.
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Apr 8World Cinema Day 2022: Mission Ulja FunkShannon Hall, Memorial Union
Twelve-year old aspiring astronomer Ulja has made an important discovery: an asteroid is going to hit the earth in Belarus. The adults around her just aren’t interested, or don’t believe her, and her grandmother tries to banish all science from Ulja’s life. But she is in communication with a scientist who takes her seriously and will be at the impact site.
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Mar 25Moroccan Film: TRANCES4070 Vilas Hall
One of the great unheralded concert films, Trances provides a showcase for Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane. In a series of ecstatic live performances, the rhythmically intricate band tears it up for their fervently devoted audience, who are frequently seen surrounding the stage in rapture.
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Mar 18Iranian Film: “A MAN OF INTEGRITY”4070 Vilas Hall
A principled goldfish farmer is besieged by corrupt corporate and government interests in this searing drama from one of Iran’s contemporary masters.
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Feb 23When Comics Dismantle Taboos in MoroccoOnline via Zoom
Professor El Nossery first looks at how art has become more and more a receptacle of “artivism” (combining art and activism). Second, she examines the comic book’s provocative nature, both in its form and content, which challenges the genre’s conventions.
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Jan 15Spring 2022 Workshop: (Virtual) Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocidevirtual
This event 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.
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Dec 3Chess of The Wind – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque4070 Vilas Hall
In an opulent, candlelit mansion, a wealthy family schemes against one another in pursuit of the remains of their inheritance. A haunting depiction of crumbling aristocracy much more redolent of Visconti than Kiarostami, Chess of the Wind is an essential addition to the canon of Iranian art cinema (MK).
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Nov 20First Graders – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque4070 Vilas Hall
Often overlooked in the shadow of the more widely-shown Homework (1989), First Graders is the first of Kiarostami’s two documentary features about education.
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Nov 18Social Justice: Writing For, Writing BackIn this talk Randa Abdel Fattah will walk us through how she has come to understand social justice from a local, individualized struggle to a global solidarity movement and what inspired her to write The Lines We Cross.
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Nov 17How to Highlight International Experiences on a ResumeIn celebration of International Education Week, join us for a Career Workshop to practice articulating skills on your resume.