2025 Events
1/13/25 Children’s African Story Hour: “My Father’s Shop” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
4/4/25 World Cinema Day: “Yasmeen’s Element” (cosponsored with WIRC and the Wisconsin Film Festival)
2024 Events
4/5/2024 World Cinema Day: “Totem” (with the Wisconsin Film Festival and WIRC)
4/13/24 Global Learning Summit: Engaged Learning to Lead for Change (cosponsored online workshop with WIRC)
5/13/24 Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
6/28/24 Climate Optimism: Finding Creative Solutions and Making Positive Impacts (cosponsored online workshop with WIRC)
11/11/24 Children’s African Story Hour: “Egyptian Lullaby” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
11/25/24 Children’s African Story Hour: “Egyptian Lullaby” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
12/4/24 Navigating Childhood and Conflict in “The Cat at the Wall” (cosponsored with IRIS NRC)
12/7/24 International Children’s Literature Event: Stories of Separation and Belonging (Exploring Migration, Partition and Displacement) (cosponsored with WIRC)
2023 Events
3/1/23 Languages of the World Day
3/10/23 WI Council for the Social Studies Conference 2023 (WCSS)
4/1/23 Overture Center for the Arts International Festival 2023
7/24/23 The Good Life: Global Perspectives on Wellbeing and Happiness (online workshop with WIRC)
12/2/23 International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and Fairytales (in-person workshop with WIRC)
2022 Events
1/15/2022 Spring 2022 Workshop: (Virtual) Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocide
3-12 to 3-13/22 WCSS conference
4/8/2022 World Cinema Day 2022: Mission Ulja Funk
4/9/22 Global Learning Summit 2022: Global Learning Inside-Out (online workshop with WIRC)
2021 Events
9/13/2021 Comedian and Professor Amer Zahr (University of Detroit): Arab Americans: We’re Not White
10/22/2021 Tristan Vigliano (University Aix-Marselle): How to Study Humanism and the Representations of Islam? A Dispatch from the Fronts of Today’s French ‘Culture Wars’
11/8/2021 Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture, with author Karim Alrawi
2020 Events
2/26/2020 Dr. Charles Cohen Lecture: “The Abrahamic Traditions: A Story of Braided Histories”
9/11/2020 MADISON WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL
10/19/2020 IRIS INTERNATIONAL BOOK GROUP: The 2011 Arab Spring, w/Nevine El Nossery
2019 Events
3/13/2019 Africa at Noon: Maria Vendetti – “Torture Testimonials of the Algerian War of Independence: Framing the Unseeable”
3/13/2019 Pontecorvo at 100: Reflections on the Battle of Algiers in Maghrebi Studies
4/22/2019 71 Years Without a Country – Nakba Tour 2019
4/12/2019 MESA Webinar: Academic Freedom in Middle East Studies
10/6/2019 Asifa Quraishi-Landes: “Sharia and the American Muslim Voter”
11/18/2019 An Evening With Mariela Shaker: Music for Peace, Advocacy, & Social Change
11/4/2019 An Evening With Daniel Shapiro: Former US Ambassador to Israel
2018 Events
2/9/2018 Cultures in Conflict: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting
4/12/2018 Soffa Keynote Lecture by Najma Ahmed Abdi, part of the 2018 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-Being
9/15/2018 Madison World Music Festival
10/7/2018 Demystifying Muslims and Islam
11/29/2018 How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America