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Fulbright US Student Program Information Sessions!
For undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni interested in exploring options abroad in the years ahead – to study, teach English, practice art, conduct independent research, and more – look into the Fulbright US Student Program …
IRIS NRC welcomes Foreign Service Officer Lachlyn Soper as International Visiting Practitioner in Residence, March 20-March 24, 2023.
UW-Madison’s Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center is delighted to welcome Foreign Service Officer Lachlyn Soper to campus as its Spring 2023 International Visiting Practitioner in Residence. Lachlyn Soper is a diplomat …
Apply Now for the Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship | Deadline March 24, 2023
The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship is open to undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline currently enrolled at UW-Madison, and provides up to $5,000 in funding for students to pursue an international reporting project. The …
Apply for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant!
The 2023-2024 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) competition is now open. The deadline for submission of a complete application, including all supporting documents, is: Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8:00 am. The Fulbright-Hays DDRA …
Apply now for WCSS Mini-Grants! (Due 1/27/23)
IRIS NRC wants to send educators who have not previously attended WCSS to the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS) Conference: Many Voices, One Wisconsin (March 10-12, 2023). If you are an educator who …
Campus Partners
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- March 28“Opportunity and Inequality in Cuba’s Changing Economy: Housing as a Means or Barrier to Social Mobility”As part of the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program's Lunchtime Lecture Series12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
Also offered online - March 28Paradise Found: The Long Landscape of 1486 and the Peach Blossom Spring UtopiaProfessor Steffani Bennett, UW-Madison4:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
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