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Apr05
World Cinema Day: "Totem" @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm Barrymore Theater: 2090 Atwood Ave, Madison, WI 53704 Register Here
In conjunction with the Wisconsin Film Festival (WFF), the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium will be hosting World Cinema Day, bringing middle and high school educators and students to Madison for a free showing of an acclaimed and newly-released international film.
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Apr05
Film: About Dry Grasses @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm Bartell Theater Click here to purchase tickets
No working filmmaker is as adept at transposing the pleasures of literature to cinema as master writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and About Dry Grasses achieves novelistic profundity with its vivid characterizations and deep philosophical complexity.
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Apr08
Film: About Dry Grasses @ 6:45 pm - 9:45 pm Flix Brewhouse: 85 E Towne Way, Madison, WI 53704 Click here to purchase tickets
No working filmmaker is as adept at transposing the pleasures of literature to cinema as master writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and About Dry Grasses achieves novelistic profundity with its vivid characterizations and deep philosophical complexity
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Apr12
MESP Annual Conference: Environment and Climate Change in the Middle East @ 8:30 am - 5:15 pm Memorial Union, UW-Madison
Hear academic experts across a variety of fields present new and cutting-edge work on this important issue.
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May01
Selçuk Esenbel (Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey) will discuss the Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in Istanbul
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MENA Heritage Month
Join us for some exciting events this March!
Fulbright Week!
There will be a mix of both in-person and virtual events during the week of March 4-8, 2024
Dr. Jack Shaheen Media Scholarship
Undergraduate Juniors and Seniors, as well as Graduate Students majoring in Journalism, Radio, Television, and/or Film are eligible to apply.
Online Lecture: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of Education in Gaza
February 23, 2024, 1-2 pm
Federal Job Opening: Historian who speaks/reads Arabic
This position is at the US Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC
Two Information Sessions: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
Come join us for two information sessions to learn about this opportunity!
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