Past Events
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Sep 11MADISON WORLD MUSIC FESTIVALMusic and dance from unique and unexpected parts of the world, this festival is a celebration of cultures.
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Sep 11MADISON WORLD MUSIC FESTIVALOnline via Zoom
Music and dance from unique and unexpected parts of the world, this festival is a celebration of cultures.
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Mar 9Desert Melodies: Bedouin Women’s Oral Ghazal PoetryIngraham 206
Miral Mahgoub al-Tahawy is an associate professor of Modern Arabic literature, an award-winning Egyptian novelist and short story writer, and an affiliated member of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.
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Mar 7Chadi Abdel Salam movie: THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (AL-MUMMIA)In the late 1800s, an isolated Egyptian mountain clan sustains itself by exploiting Egypt’s ancient heritage, secretly raiding the tombs of the Pharaohs in Thebes.
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Mar 6HOMELAND inSECURITYNancy Nicholas Hall
Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez will offer a very personal view of what it’s like for an upper-middle class Damascene family to become forced migrants – their lives before and after, decision points, forced hands, and adjustment to new realities.
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Mar 6International Conference: Refugees in/from the Middle EastPyle Center
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who examine forced migration within the context of the Middle East. It is organized by Nevine El Nossery, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin and Nell Gabiam, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Political Science at Iowa State University.
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Feb 26Dr. Charles Cohen on Abrahamic TraditionsCenter for the Humanities 432 E. Campus Mall WI
Dr. Charles L. Cohen is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he taught for 34 years. He also served as the founding director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions that preceded the CRGC. His award-winning scholarship has included work on Puritanism, Mormonism, and …
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Feb 26DR. CHARLES COHEN ON ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONSCenter for the Humanities
Dr. Charles L. Cohen is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, where he taught for 34 years. He also served as the founding director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions that preceded the CRGC.
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Feb 10Powering Empire: “How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global CarbonizationIngraham 206
Focusing on the flow of British carbon energy to the Middle East, On Barak excavates the historic nexus between coal and empire to reveal the political and military motives behind what is conventionally seen as a technological innovation.
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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.