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
Tue
26
Local to Global Learning with the Global Madison Self Guided Walking Tour
September 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Oct
10
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth in London and New York
October 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Oct
22
A Justice Conundrum: Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights (78th Anniversary of the United Nations)
October 22 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Nov
10
Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State
November 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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