Past Events
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Jan 27The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in the 20th Century Middle EastIngraham 206
Drawing on two Egyptian Salafi magazines, alongside a variety of pamphlets and popularly-oriented works by Salafi and non-Salafi authors alike, he challenges the view that Salafis’ commitment to gender segregation is both longstanding and well-established. Instead, he shows how this practice arose in the 1970s out of a competition with the secular-nationalist project of State Feminism and the religio-political vision of the Muslim Brotherhood, respectively.
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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 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 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 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 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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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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Oct 28Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli CultureIngraham 206
Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze.