2024
12/4/24 Navigating Childhood and Conflict in “The Cat at the Wall” (cosponsored with IRIS NRC)
11/25/24 Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian Lullaby (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
11/11/24 Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian Lullaby (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
11/7/24 Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries(organized by the Department of Art History, cosponsored by the Anonymous Fund, the Howard and Ellen Louise Shwartz Fund for Islamic Art, L&S Associate Dean’s Office, the Middle East Studies program, and the Center for Design and Material Culture)
10/16/24 Atef Said (University of Illinois at Chicago): Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt (cosponsored with the African Studies Program).
10/2/24 Mouin Rabbani: Gaza Apocalypse: Causes and Consequences (organized by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, cosponsored with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) and World BEYOND War – Madison. Click here for the video recording.
7/15/24 Dr. Özge Samanci (Northwestern University): Evil Eyes Sea (organized by A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, cosponsored with the Institute for Regional and International Studies-National Resource Center (IRIS-NRC), Kemal H Karpat Center for Turkish Studies, the Middle East Studies Program, and the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI))
6/28/24 Climate Optimism: Finding Creative Solutions and Making Positive Impacts (cosponsored online workshop with WIRC)
5/13/24 Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
5/1/24 Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey): ‘Twilight Diplomacy‘ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey (cosponsored with the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies)
4/11/2024 Empire of Refugees: Muslim Migration from Russia to the Middle East (cosponsored with the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies)
2023
12/18/2023 Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
12/7/23 Rethinking Commemoration: Legacies of 1923 Exchange in the Civilizationist Present (cosponsored with the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies)
12/4/2023 Dreams and Displacement in Afghanistan (cosponsored with IRIS NRC)
12/2/2023 International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and Fairytales (cosponsored with WIRC)
11/29/2023 A Panel Discussion: Conflict in Israel-Palestine (cosponsored with the Political Science Department). Click here for an audio recording.
11/27/2023 Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt” (cosponsored with the African Studies Program)
7/24/23 The Good Life: Global Perspectives on Wellbeing and Happiness (online workshop with WIRC)
4/25/2023 CALS Global Day (with the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences)
4/16/2023 Film: “World War III” (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/14/2023 Film: “Cairo Conspiracy” (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/14/2023 Film: “World War III” (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/14/2023 World Cinema Day 2023: “Rickshaw Girl” (with the Wisconsin Film Festival and WIRC)
4/1/23 Overture Center for the Arts International Festival (with WIRC)
3/30/23 Professor Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington): From Gecekondu to A Strangeness: One-Hundred Years of Rural-Urban Relations in Turkey (with the Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies, Department of History)
3/1/23 Languages of the World Day (with WIRC)
2022
11/14/22 Peter Alegi (Michigan State University): From South Africa 2010 to Qatar 2022: The lessons and legacies of sporting mega-events (with IRIS NRC)
11/9/22 International Film Club: The Workers Cup with Natasha Iskander (with IRIS NRC)
10/24/22 Film: Distant (Uzak) (with UW Cinematheque)
4/26/2022 Kenneth Moss (Univ. of Chicago): Palestine as Possibility: Polish Jews and the Yishuv as Fact in the 1930s (with the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies)
4/22/2022 Professor Lisa Mahoney (DePaul University): Frankish Church Façades and the Art of Diplomacy (with the UW Department of Medieval Studies)
4/21/2022 Professor Lisa Mahoney (DePaul University): The Lost Royal Tombs of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (with the UW Department of Medieval Studies)
4/9/22 Film: Amira (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/9/22 Film: At Tale of Love and Desire (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/9/22 Film: Commitment Hasan (with the Wisconsin Film Festival)
4/9/2022 Global Learning Summit 2022 for K-12 teachers (with WIRC)
3/12-13/22 Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies annual conference (with IRIS NRC)
2/23/2022 Nevine El Nossery (UW Madison): When Comics Dismantle Taboos in Morocco (with the UW Department of French & Italian)
1/15/22 Spring 2022 Workshop: Empowering Educators to Teach on Genocide (with IRIS NRC)
2021
11/18/2021 Social Justice: Writing For, Writing Back (with IRIS NRC)
11/17/2021 How to Highlight International Experiences on a Resume (with IRIS NRC)
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’ (with the French House)
7/24/2021 APTLI Lecture: Reading Middle Eastern and North African Voices in Translation- What Literature can teach us in a Global Pandemic with Esra Taşdelen (with APTLI)
7/23/2021 APTLI Lecture: Kurds and Yezidis in the Middle East with Tyler Fisher (with APTLI)
7/17/2021 APTLI Lecture: Baha’ AbuShanab, Palestinian Filmmaker (with APTLI)
7/16/2021 APTLI Friday Feature: Persian Dance with Niosha Nafei Jameli (with APTLI)
7/10/2021 APTLI Lecture: Problems of Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment in Muslim-Majority Countries with Dr. Ahmet Kuru (with APTLI)
7/10/2021 APTLI Lecture: “How is it like to be an LGBTI+ in Turkey?” with Emirhan Deniz Çelebi (with APTLI)
7/9/2021 APTLI Friday Feature: Arab Music, a Glimpse into the Soul of a Culture with Musician Karim Nagi (Lecture & Musical Performance) (with APTLI)
7/3/2021 APTLI Lecture: Gamze Canli, How Military Coups Shape Politics & Education in Turkey: 1960 to 1998 (with APTLI)
7/2/2021 APTLI Friday Feature: Istanbul, Bosphorus, and Art with Nurettin Erkan (with APTLI)
7/1/2021 APTLI Special Feature: Arabic Yoga(with APTLI)
6/27/2021 APTLI Lecture: Traditional Miniature Art and Modern Interpretation with Murat Palta (with APTLI)
6/25/2021 APTLI Friday Feature: Persian Poetry Workshop with Ramin Ghamkhar (with APTLI)
4/8/2021 Paul Cobb: “Saladin’s Jerusalem” (with Medieval Studies Program/UW-Madison)
3/17/2021 International Studies Careers: International Education (with IRIS NRC )
3/7/2021 ¡ACTIVISTA! An International Women’s Day Celebration Framing Solidarity Through Culture (with Forward Global Women & others)
2/24/2021 Teaching About the Middle East and North Africa – Rethinking Approaches (with IRIS NRC)
2/17/2021 International Studies Careers: Global Security (with IRIS NRC)
2/2/2021 Using Persepolis to Teach about the Middle East (with IRIS NRC)
2020
10/19/2020 IRIS INTERNATIONAL BOOK GROUP: The 2011 Arab Spring, w/Nevine El Nossery (with IRIS NRC)
9/11/2020 MADISON WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL (with Wisconsin Union Theater)
2/26/2020 Dr. Charles Cohen Lecture: “The Abrahamic Traditions: A Story of Braided Histories” (with the Center for Humanities at UW-Madison)
2019
11/18/2019 An Evening With Mariela Shaker: Music for Peace, Advocacy, & Social Change (with the Wisconsin Union Directorate)
11/4/2019 An Evening With Daniel Shapiro: Former US Ambassador to Israel (with UW Hillel)
10/6/2019 Asifa Quraishi-Landes: “Sharia and the American Muslim Voter” (with Muslim Women of Madison)
4/22/2019 71 Years Without a Country – Nakba Tour 2019 (with Madison-Rafah Sister City Project)
4/12/2019 MESA Webinar: Academic Freedom in Middle East Studies (with Middle East Studies Association)
3/13/2019 Africa at Noon: Maria Vendetti – “Torture Testimonials of the Algerian War of Independence: Framing the Unseeable” (with African Studies Program at UW-Madison)
3/13/2019 Pontecorvo at 100: Reflections on the Battle of Algiers in Maghrebi Studies (with African Studies Program at UW-Madison)
2/22/2019 Humanities Friday Lunches: Jennifer Pruitt – “Construction, Destruction, and Concealment under Cairo’s ‘Mad Caliph’”(with the Center for Humanities at UW-Madison)
2018
11/29/2018 How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (with the Chadbourne Residential College)
10/7/2018 Demystifying Muslims and Islam (with Muslim Women United for Peace & others)
9/15/2018 Madison World Music Festival (with Wisconsin Union Theater)
4/12/2018 Soffa Keynote Lecture by Najma Ahmed Abdi (with the Women’s & Gender Studies Consortium)
4/11/2018 Africa at Noon: “Portrait of Rural Egyptian Women: Peaceful Voices from Siwa Oasis, Upper Egypt and Nubia” (with African Studies Program at UW-Madison)
2/9/2018 Cultures in Conflict: Navigating Cultural Difference in International Human Rights Reporting (with IRIS NRC)