A constellation of prominent scientists known for their expertise on the Amazon and climate change will present current best understandings of the complex and shifting role played by the Amazon in climate change processes. They will address the causes and consequences of forest loss and degradation, including human dimensions, and the risks of passing ecological tipping points that would lead to runaway forest loss from climate drying and fire. These experts will also explore the enormous potential of the Amazon Forest to maintain a cool, healthy global climate, and the policy change opportunities that can stop the loss of this essential ecosystem, while supporting the wellbeing of Amazonian people.  

MSU students and recent graduates are invited to this Fulbright information session, which will be presented by MSU's Fulbright Program Advisor, Joy Campbell. The most common Fulbright programs to which MSU students and recent graduates apply are administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and funded by the US Department of State. Participants will learn about the English Teaching Assistant, Open Study, and Research grants offered by IIE. The presenter will give an overview of the programs, discuss eligibility and benefits, then cover the various application requirements. The session will be a Zoom meeting, as opposed to a webinar, so there will be opportunities for interaction and ample time for Q&A. 

For more information, explore the MSU Fulbright website, and contact Joy Campbell with any questions.

Education Abroad (EA) 101 is for anyone interested in studying abroad but isn't sure where to start!

Topics covered include:

• Benefits of Education Abroad
• Things to Consider
• Program Types
• Cost Factors and Program Fees
• Scholarships and Funding
• Navigating the Website
• Searching for Programs
• Health, Safety and Security

At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

EA101 is presented online (Zoom).

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Join us for festivities and all things Indian and South Asian once each month Spring semester (Jan. 24/Spring Fest; Feb. 21/film screening; March 14/Holikerang festival (Holi); April 18/Eid Milan).  Sponsored by the Indian and South Asian Languages and Cultures Program. Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, and India Council. 

Tuesday, April 18th, 7:00-8:30 pm, JMC Library, Case Hall

GenCen is excited to be co-sponsoring this hybrid event, in-person and livestreaming on YouTube: Serling Institute for Jewish Studies.

What can we know of one person's story? How can we reconsider who is remembered, and how? How do we better understand the war by unpacking the dissolution of public life for Jews and others demonized and marginalized by Nazis? In this talk we'll look at how narrative is passed to subsequent generations and how subsequent generations address wartime trauma. What responsibility do we have to those whose words we find? How do we find new ways to look at Holocaust narratives? Whose voices were left out in early Holocaust histories?

Years ago, journalist Sarah Wildman came across a cache of letters her refugee grandfather had hidden away from the family during the Second World War and the immediate postwar period. Dozens were from one woman: Valy, Valerie, Scheftel, a fellow medical student, and the woman he left behind when he fled Vienna in the fall of 1938. Wildman set out on a search for that woman's story, combing through archives in Europe and America, through letters and ultimately, interviewing eyewitnesses. In her book, and her talk, Wildman addresses the wounds still open for third generation descendants of the war - victims and perpetrators and bystanders -- and looks for ways to tell a single story in an effort to combat erasure.

Sarah Wildman is the author of Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind. She is currently an editor and writer at the New York Times in Opinion. She was previously an editor at Foreign Policy Magazine, for which she hosted and co-produced the podcast First Person. Sarah has also been on staff at NBC News online, Vox and The New Republic. She has long contributed to a number of other publications and she has received numerous fellowships and awards in support of her work, including a German Marshall Fund Peter R. Weitz Prize for excellence and originality in coverage of Europe, a Milena Jesenska Fellowship in Vienna, and an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship in Germany as well as two Pulitzer Center grants for covering issues shaping Jerusalem and Paris, among others. 

Education Abroad (EA) 101 is for anyone interested in studying abroad but isn't sure where to start!

Topics covered include:

• Benefits of Education Abroad
• Things to Consider
• Program Types
• Cost Factors and Program Fees
• Scholarships and Funding
• Navigating the Website
• Searching for Programs
• Health, Safety and Security

At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

EA101 is presented online (Zoom).

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

2023 Muslim Studies Program Student Research Showcase

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7pm

Deadline for undergraduate and graduate paper submissions: March 31, 2023

Awards to be announced at the Showcase:

Graduate Student Paper Award ($500)

Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2022, and the deadline, March 31, 2023

Undergraduate Student Paper Award ($500)

Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2022, and the deadline, March 31, 2023

All submissions should be sent to Mohammad Khalil (khalilmo(at)msu.edu) and Laura Large (largelau(at)msu.edu)

Online viewers register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links/

2023 Muslim Studies Program Student Research Showcase

Wednesday, April 26, 2023, 7pm

Deadline for undergraduate and graduate paper submissions: March 31, 2023

Awards to be announced at the Showcase:

Graduate Student Paper Award ($500)

Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2022, and the deadline, March 31, 2023

Undergraduate Student Paper Award ($500)

Published or unpublished papers (roughly 15-25 pages with complete works cited) must have been written between March 1, 2022, and the deadline, March 31, 2023

All submissions should be sent to Mohammad Khalil (khalilmo(at)msu.edu) and Laura Large (largelau(at)msu.edu)

Online viewers register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links/

Education Abroad (EA) 101 is for anyone interested in studying abroad but isn't sure where to start!

Topics covered include:

• Benefits of Education Abroad
• Things to Consider
• Program Types
• Cost Factors and Program Fees
• Scholarships and Funding
• Navigating the Website
• Searching for Programs
• Health, Safety and Security

At the end there will be a Q&A session where you can ask us any questions you may have.

EA101 is presented online (Zoom).

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

MSU students and recent graduates are invited to this Fulbright information session, which will be presented by MSU's Fulbright Program Advisor, Joy Campbell. The most common Fulbright programs to which MSU students and recent graduates apply are administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and funded by the US Department of State. Participants will learn about the English Teaching Assistant, Open Study, and Research grants offered by IIE. The presenter will give an overview of the programs, discuss eligibility and benefits, then cover the various application requirements. The session will be a Zoom meeting, as opposed to a webinar, so there will be opportunities for interaction and ample time for Q&A. 

For more information, explore the MSU Fulbright website, and contact Joy Campbell with any questions.