IRIS
Today, April 16, 2026
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
2026 Petrovich Lecture by Benjamin Nathans
4-5:15 p.m.
121 Pyle Center
Friday, April 17, 2026
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Annual Middle East Studies Conference
The United States and the Middle East: Geopolitics, Resistance and Power
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
126 Memorial Library
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Friday Forum: Bao-Son Trinh – “Microplastics in Aquatic Environments: Sources, Impacts, and Implications” and Chit Wityi
An "Earth Fest" Event
12-1:30 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall
Sunday, April 19, 2026
Monday, April 20, 2026
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Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies' Spring Artists-in-Residence
Featuring Mexican sculptor, puppeteer, and actor Alejandro Jimenez Molina and artist and documentarian Dr. Carolyn Kallenborn, UW–Madison emeritus professor
All day
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Children's International Story Hour: "Tales Told in Tents: Stories from Central Asia"
Presented by WIRC, the Institute for Regional and International Studies Area Studies Centers
4-5 p.m.
Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
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The Syncretism of Water Goddesses
From India’s Sarasvati to Japan’s Benzaiten and Ichikishimahime
4 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall
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Film Screening: The Man Died
with a live Q&A session featuring the director — Awam Amkpa.
4 p.m.
Marquee Cinema, Union South
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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Study Abroad 101
Info Session
10-11 a.m.
Study Abroad Resource Center, 301, Armory and Gymnasium (Red Gym)
Thursday, April 23, 2026
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Andrew Sartori (New York University)
The Monetary Landscape of State Formation in the Eighteenth-Century Eastern Subcontinent: Coasts, Rivers, Deltas, and Highlands
12-1 p.m.
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Study & Intern Abroad in Spain: English-Language Programs
Info Session
1-1:45 p.m.
Study Abroad Resource Center (3rd Floor Red Gym)