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Take HIS 202/300 & INS 360 for 3 weeks this summer, Led by Dr. Heidi Morrison Includes 4 credits tuition, housing, and cultural excursions Learn more at www.uwlax.edu/international-education/
In her new book Seeking Legitimacy Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women’s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption …
History Department Colloquium This month’s theme: Gender & Violence With Lin Li “Curating Japanese Wartime Sexual Violence: Feminist Museums across East Asia” and Katrina Thompson “Becoming Muslims with a ‘Queer Voice’: LGBT Muslim Resistance to the Symbolic Violence of Ideological Erasure” (with Kate Turner as moderator). Monday, September 23rd 11:50 am-1:20 pm, Curti Lounge, Humanities
The Wisconsin School of Business announces a scholarship opportunity for undergraduates to attend the Middle East Institute (www.mei.edu) annual conference, to be held on November 12-13, 2019, in Washington, D.C. The mission of the Middle East Institute is to provide nonpartisan, expert information and analysis on the Middle East. The MEI Annual Conference typically attracts …
The Middle East Studies Program is looking for an Assistant (student hourly position) who will be able to support some activities of the MES through providing solid and efficient administrative support. Experience with most parts of Microsoft Office and a Content Management System such as WordPress is preferable. Excellent communication skills and a high capability for multitasking …
RACE, RELIGION, AND REVISIONISM: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER NOW 5:30 PM, SEP 11 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street With public violence increasingly on display in our society, history too is under siege. This Humanities NOW panel asks where we stand, as scholars and as a community, on the issues of the Middle Ages …
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND SUBMISSIONS MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Deadline: August 31, 2019 See nomination guidelines The Middle East Studies Association invites submissions of graduate student research papers on any aspect of post 600 CE Middle East studies for the 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize. The author of the winning paper will be presented with …
Ten students are graduating in 2019 with Middle East Studies (MES) certificates. They include: Anna Ambrosi (majors in Legal Studies and Political Science); Mica Beckmann-White (International Studies and Spanish); Justin Brewer (History); Thomas Augusta Hersman (History); Sean Jackett (International Studies, Accelerated Masters in International Public Affairs) Fernanda Martinez Rodriguez (Art History and Religious Studies); Ollie …
Four UW–Madison professors affiliated as core faculty of the Middle East Studies Program (MESP) were recently recognized with awards and fellowships. Nevine El Nossery, MESP chair and associate professor of the departments of French & Italian and African Cultural Studies, has been selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes …
Do you want to know how different faiths relate to your own? Be inspired by tough, yet respectful, interfaith conversations? Work together to advocate for the interfaith issues on campus and beyond? Learn vital dialogue and organizing skills for campus and life after college? If so, apply to be selected as a Center for Religion …