Join us in conversation for Changing Global Connections: New Formations of Identity, Place and Region, a four-part lecture series on how today’s changing geopolitics is creating new configurations across regions and in the field of international studies. Each lecture will be moderated by Jackson School faculty followed by a Q&A session. Events are free and

The shift to online teaching, learning, and engagement has created an exciting opportunity for the Center for Global Studies to increase accessibility to our programming. Videos and recordings from past events are now available on the Center for Global Studies Videos and Media page. As we continue to offer online events, the Center will be sharing

The Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT) Conference is now accepting proposals for their annual conference, which will be held on November 4-6, 2021.  WAFLT is commited to the growth and expansion of language learning and teaching throughout the state of Wisconsin. In addition, WAFLT offers numerous opportunities for professional development, grants and awards  reaching out to language

The Jackson School’s Winter 2021 Lecture Series, “Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds,” invited emerging scholars to trace Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging. Watch the recordings of past talks below. Each lecture was moderated by Jackson School Director Leela Fernandes followed by

The Center for Global Studies is proud to support two lecture series organized by the Center for West European Studies and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence: The E.U. Democracy Forum is a four-part lecture series addressing actors, institutions, and policies in the European Union and its neighborhood, and runs from January 11, 2021—May 20, 2021. Talking Gender in the E.U. is

“Despite finding themselves in novel and precarious situations, many prisoners exercised considerable agency and resisted colonial authorities, in some cases even becoming their own ‘warders.’” In “Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia” (University of California Press, January 2021) Jackson School and History Professor Anand Yang, former chair of the department of history and a

The Foundation for International Understanding through Students (FIUTS) CulturalFest is an annual event honoring the diversity and vitality of the student community. Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, it is the largest multicultural student event at the University of Washington. Although many in-person FIUTS programs remain paused through the coming months, there is a robust schedule

In a particularly timely Task Force after the wildfires of 2020, Dr. Scott Montgomery’s JSIS 495 – Climate Change and the Wildfire Threat: What Can Be Done? tackles the question of how the wildfire threat should be addressed. The course has three key aims: 1) research the key causes of these fires, 2) evaluate methods being used

The latest Jackson Report – an annual sampling of JSIS activities; new offerings; and student and faculty research, honors, and awards – is now available online. From Leela Fernandes, JSIS Director and Stanley D. Golub Endowed Chair: “The first six months of my Directorship took place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a sharply contested election and

Associate Professor and Chair of the South Asia Center Sunila S. Kale is the special issue editor of the November issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies on comparative land politics in China and India. Kale has also written on the topic in this recent piece also published in the Journal on November 6, 2020. The twelve