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Events Category: Inclusive Engagement

Shaping the Future of Women’s Health: Insights and Innovations

UW Discovery Building 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, Wisconsin 53715
@ 7:00 pm
https://isthmus.com/events/shaping-future-womens-health-insights-innovations/?occ_dtstart=2025-03-17T19:00

Despite the many advances in human health, research focused on women’s health has a more complex history. The Morgridge Institute for Research invites you to a panel discussion on women’s health, focusing on discovery, prevention, and access to care. Experts will share groundbreaking research on the link between certain viral infections and gynecological cancers, present innovative approaches to identifying and preventing preterm birth, and explore how access and social factors influence health outcomes. Please join Morgridge Institute Investigators Dr. Melissa Skala and Dr. Megan Spurgeon and UW-Madison Associate Professor Dr. Noelle LoConte at our latest Fearless Science Speaker Series event as they delve into the complexity surrounding health for women at all stages. Reception to follow. Register now!

Media, Politics, and Emergency Communication in Puerto Rico

Room 206 Ingraham Hall - 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
@ 12:00 pm
https://isthmus.com/events/media-politics-emergency-communication-in-puerto-rico/?occ_dtstart=2025-03-18T12:00

The presentation will offer an overview of the recently published book Comunicación Política en Puerto Rico: Primera antología de ensayos, investigaciones empíricas y críticas, which has chapters by 14 authors and co-authors, and was co-edited by Federico Subervi Vélez and Ángel Israel Rivera Ortiz. This is the very first book in Puerto Rico fully dedicated to political communication on the Island and includes historical essays, empirical research and critical essays about, among other topics, cyber-propaganda and nefarious political trolling. The presentation will also highlight key findings of Subervi Vélez’s two recent emergency communication research projects in Puerto Rico. One of the studies focused on Puerto Rican media and government officials; the other study assessed emergency communication at the municipal level in six coastal and six mountainous municipalities. The projects were made possible thanks to grants from the Natural Hazards Center with funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An Evening with Emil Wakim

MENA Heritage Month Keynote
Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union
@ 5:30 pm
https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/206618

The Middle Eastern North African Heritage Month Planning Collective presents stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Emil Wakim as the 2025 keynote. Emil was born and raised in Chicago before moving to Bloomington, Indiana for college where he began performing stand-up. This fall, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for its milestone 50th season as the first Lebanese-American cast member. Emil made his late-night television debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and is featured on Don't Tell Comedy as well as Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Featuring and was selected as a New Face of Comedy at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. Celebrate MENA Heritage Month as Emil performs a 30-minute stand-up routine followed by a moderated Q&A. This event is free and open to the public. Doors Open at 5 PM.

“New Images of Indigeneity in Contemporary Peruvian Cinema”

Rafael Ramirez Mendoza
206 Ingraham Hall | VIRTUAL
@ 12:00 pm
https://lacis.wisc.edu/event/new-images-of-indigeneity-in-contemporary-peruvian-cinema/

Rafael Ramirez Mendoza will analyze how the Peruvian film industry has represented indigeneity in the last twenty years, paying special attention to recent fictional feature films made in the Quechua and Aymara languages. Attempting to leave behind both the aesthetic of the so-called “cine regional” and Limeño perspectives about the Andes, these films revisit topics like migration and the negotiation of indigenous heritage, thus renewing the debate regarding the pursuit of cultural authenticity.

Save the Date: 2025 Wisconsin Idea Conference

https://morgridge.wisc.edu/events/wisconsin-idea-conference/#conference-goals
@ 9:00 am
https://morgridge.wisc.edu/events/wisconsin-idea-conference/

The Morgridge Center is excited to announce that the third annual Wisconsin Idea Conference will be held on April 7, 2025. This day-long conference brings together community leaders, academics, service providers, and university staff and students interested in fostering partnerships that advance meaningful impacts within Dane County and across Wisconsin. Conference Registration will open in early January.

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