Climate Optimism: Finding Creative Solutions and Making Positive Impacts – A Virtual Workshop for Educators; Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIRC) K-12 Educator Event
This workshop will provide new ideas for teaching related to climate, enabling more optimistic approaches in the classroom and mitigating the phenomena of doomscrolling and “climate despair.” Featured speakers will bring international, regional, and local expertise to our exchange to provide attendees with practical classroom activities, tangible examples of success, and suggestions for incorporating climate optimism outside of the science classroom.
The Good Life: Global Perspectives on Wellbeing and Happiness
This virtual workshop will discuss the how different cultures define topics related to “the good life,” such as wellbeing and happiness. It will also discuss how world events, appropriation, and the passage of time have effected these definitions and practices.
International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and Fairy Tales
The International Children’s Literature Celebration: Folk and Fairytales is a workshop for educators, librarians, students, and children’s literature enthusiasts. Award winning authors will present mini lectures and host roundtable discussions, with signed copies of their books available for attendees.
Environmental Crisis, Development, and Human Rights in South Asia: Past and Present
Environmental Crisis, Development, and Human Rights in South Asia: Past and Present – An online workshop for educators seeking new ways of addressing the climate crisis.
Supporting materials will be provided for all attendees. K-12 and Community College Educators: early registrants will be entered into a drawing for free book bundles containing materials recommended by our panelists! Register by July 1 to enter!
Featured speakers include:
Deepa Badrinarayana (Professor, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University) – topics will address ongoing work with environmental law and human rights in South Asia
Shobhana Chelliah (Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and Associate Dean of Research and Advancement at the College of Information, University of North Texas) – topics may include Indigenous and endangered language documentation in South Asia and the mounting crisis climate change poses to minoritized language communities
Thomas Crowley (PhD Candidate in Geography, Rutgers University and author of Fractured Forest, Quartzite City: A History of Delhi and Its Ridge) – topics may include the environmental history of Delhi and its contemporary relevance, or the intersection of caste, development, and the disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities.
Empowering Educators to teach on Genocide
Join the Center For Southeast Asian Studies in their professional development workshop, empowering Wisconsin’s K-12 educators to teach on genocide and fulfill the mandates of Act 30, the new law passed by the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Evers in April 2021. There will be two sessions, the first on Saturday, January 15 featuring talks on genocide cases in regions of the world that our UW-Madison area studies centers represent. The second session on Sunday, January 16 will feature an overview of Act 30 and a talk by Samantha Goldberg, Director of Education at the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center (HERC), on practical techniques and resources available for teaching confidently on genocide and other sensitive issues covered by the workshop. Click here to access more information on the CSEAS page
Global Partition Series
A People’s History of Heaven Book Club
IRIS International Book Club: Social Justice: Writing For, Writing Back
Join the UW-Madison Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) International Book Club and the Center for South Asia (CSA) for the online November Book Club which will include a presentation by Author Randa Abdel-Fattah and a discussion of how she has come to understand social justice from a local, individualized struggle to a global solidarity movement and what inspires her to write The Lines We Cross. Click here to access the official flyer for the event.
IRIS International Book Club: Using Literature to Explore SDG 4: Quality Education
Join the UW-Madison Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) International Book Club, Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Global Change, and the Center for South Asia (CSA) for the online September Book Club which will include a presentation by Dr. Elisheva Cohen (Postdoctoral Fellow in International Issues and Sustainable Development at Indiana University) and a discussion of Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai (K-5), Sarafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg (6-8), and The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare (9-12). Click here to access the official flyer for the event.
Language, Identity, and Nation in South Asia
New Perspectives on the Ancient Indus Civilization