October 2020 Books: Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir by Mona Prince, Samia Mehrez Speaker: Professor Nevine El Nossery Resources: Presentation Slides
Year: 2022
Discussion of The Best We Could Do
This Event Was Not Recorded, Sorry! September 2020 Books: The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui Speaker: Dr. Victor Jew Resources
Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters
This Event Was Not Recorded, Sorry! March 2020 Book Link: Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters by Douglas Haynes Speaker: Douglas Haynes Resources
The Dawn of Everything Book Club: Rethinking the Roots of Inequality
February 2023 Book: The Dawn of Everything: A New History Of Humanity Speaker: Katherine (Katie) Robiadek
The Partition of South Asia through Literature
November 2020 Book: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani Speaker: Zara Chowdhary, Associate Lecturer in Hindi at UW-Madison Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Resources: Teacher’s Guide Discussion Questions and Activities Teaching Ideas and Resources Museum of Material Memory
The Haitian Revolution: Impact on the World
September 2020 Film: PBS Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (2009) Speaker: Dr. Brenda Gayle Plummer, Merze Tate Professor of History at UW-Madison Department of History
Russia’s Strategies in Foreign Elections: What Does the Kremlin Want?
October 2020 Film: Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War (2018) Speaker: Dr. Anton Shirikov, Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Kansas
Talking About South Asian Culture and History through Earth
November 2020 Film: Earth (1998) Speaker: Professor Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College Resources: India Partition lesson plans and documents Videos, discussion questions, suggested readings, and additional educational resources
From Local to Global: Promoting Community Immunity in the Time of COVID
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War (2017) and COVID’s Hidden Toll (2020) Speaker: Dr. James Conway
The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan
This Event was Not Recorded, Sorry! June 2020 Film: The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan (2019) Speaker: Dr. Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Department of History at IU Bloomington