Each semester, IRIS NRC hosts or co-sponsors virtual, in-person, or hybrid lectures on global themes of interest to UW faculty, staff, and students.
Topics for lectures are identified by campus partners or other IRIS centers.
Upcoming Lectures
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Oct02
Gaza Apocalypse: Causes and Consequences @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Online Register Here
Archive of Past Lectures
- Human Rights Program Panel: Refugees and Human Rights In and Beyond the Americas
- Adam R. Sitkoff, Global Trade Amidst Tension and Transition: Supply Chain Shifts in Asia
- Arab Americans: We’re Not White, with Comedian and Professor Amer Zahr, view recording here
- Stories on Afghan Women, Art, and Everything in Between, view recording here
- 2020-2021 UW-Madison Course Guest Lecturers
- Steven Kamin: The Federal Reserve in the Global Economy
- Olivier Kugler: Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees
- Steven Brooke: Mosques and Islamist Activism: Spatial Evidence from Interwar Cairo
- Negotiating and Challenging “Dirty Work”: Cape Verdean Institutional Cleaning Service Workers in Lisbon
- Sociological research on gender inequality in conversation with development economists
- Pajdee Yang: A Journey of #Becoming
- Healing Hmong Experiences of Historical Trauma with Dr. Ia Xiong
- On the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Cuban Economy, and Remittance Flows to the Island
- Schooling as Uncertainty: An Ethnographic Memoir with Frances Vavrus
- There and Back again: US-Cuba Policy and the power transition in Washington
- Gillian O’Brien, The Rise and Evolution of the Museum in Western Culture
- Islamophobia and the South Asian Community in Britain: Locating the Student Suspect, with Tania Saeed
- Mercury Alert: Investigating Illegal Trade Across Borders
- Anti-Asian Sentiment: The Student Experience
- Indo-Caribbean Migration, Cultural Continuity, Change and Identity Formation
- University Action in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of UW Fossil Fuel Divestment
- Indian Matchmaking, Caste, and the South Asian Diaspora with Yashica Dutt