April 2021 Book: Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche Speaker: Jost Zetzsche Resources: Living Dictionaries Wisconsin DPI World Language Education Resources Wisconsin Association For …
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Go Big Read Book Discussion: Transcendent Kingdom
October 2021 Book: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi UW-Madison Initiative: Go Big Read Resources: Discussion Guide Go Big Read Toolkits
Social Justice: Writing For, Writing Back
November 2021 Book: The Lines We Cross, by Randa Abdel-Fattah Resources: Online Resources & Discussion Questions Teaching about Refugees
New Immigrant and Refugee Visions
May 2020 Film: New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Resources: Links to Immigrant Refugee Shorts
The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan
June 2020 Film: The Lethal Soviet Legacy in Kazakhstan Speaker: Dr. Andy Bruno Resources: Discussion Questions Lesson Plan
This Changes Everything
April 2020 Film: This Changes Everything Resources: Discussion Questions
The Haitian Revolution: Impact on the World
September 2020 Film: PBS’s Égalité for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution Speaker: Professor Brenda Gayle Plummer
Understanding Windrush and the Black Caribbean Diaspora in the U.K.
January 2021 Film: BBC Documentary: The Unwanted- The Secret Windrush Files Speaker: Professor Joan Anim-Addo, Goldsmiths, University of London Resources: Windrush Children and Broken Attachments
From Local to Global: Promoting Community Immunity in the Time of COVID
December 2020 Film: Frontline: The Vaccine War and COVID’s Hidden Toll Speaker: Dr. James Conway
Russia’s Strategies in Foreign Elections: What Does the Kremlin Want?
October 2020 Film: Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War Speaker: Anton Shirikov