Past Events

Film: “The Other Side of Hope” (Toivon Tuolla Puolen)

February 10, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm UW Cinematheque 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706

The newest feature from Finland’s most celebrated auteur follows the unpredictable exploits of a Syrian refugee in Helsinki.

Cultures in Conflict: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting

February 9, 2018 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Discovery Building

Scheduled over two days and hosted at UW–Madison’s state-of-the-art Discovery Building, the conference features award-winning, professional human rights reporters, organized into two keynote presentations and five thematic panels. Each panel includes three experienced reporters who will discuss various challenges they have faced in the process of narrativizing their encounters with people from disparate ethnic, racial, …

MES Lecture Series: Aili Mari Tripp

February 5, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Ingraham 206

The talk looks at women’s rights reforms in Algeria since the Black Decade (1992-2002) to show how Algeria is converging with Tunisia and Morocco in legislative and constitutional reforms, but also why these trends differ from trends in the Middle East, where these reforms have been much slower.