| Advising Update | April 11 - 22, 2022 = Early Registration for fall 2022 University of Iowa courses. After you register for classes, generate NEW degree audits. Review them to make sure that your future classes satisfy remaining requirements. Email meredith-gall@uiowa.edu with questions.
May 6, 2022 = Deadline to file a Second Grade Only option to be reflected on a student transcript for the sp22 semester.
Upcoming International Studies Courses
Summer 2022
- IS:2020 World Events Today!
Fall 2022
- IS:2000 Introduction to International Studies
- IS:2020 World Events Today!
- IS:2500 Working Internationally: Global Business and Communication (1sh)
- IS:3010 Writing and Research for the World
- IS:3011 Global Research: Strategies and Skills (1sh)
| | | Paid Summer Internship with UI Institute for International Business | The IIB is currently seeking 2 full-time interns (40 hours per week)* to assist with our fast-paced summer programs. Interns will gain experience with cross-cultural program and event coordination, day-to-day office operations, developing promotional materials, and reporting.
If you are a detail-oriented problem solver with strong interpersonal and writing skills, please send your resume with cover letter to Kelly Bedeian, Assistant Director and Grant Administrator, at kelly-Bedeian@uiowa.edu by April 20th.
This position requires interns to work on-campus from May-August. Pay is $10.50 per hour.
Find out more about the Institute for International Business here: https://www.iowajpec.org/community/international-business | | | Reading and Writing about the Refugee and Immigrant Experience (Iowa City Foreign Relations Council): April 13th | When: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @12pm
Where: Online via zoom / Register here
Speakers: Andrea Wilson, Chuy Renteria, Eyad Said, Antonia Rivera
Reading, for people around the world, has been one of the primary ways to better understand the vast, complex, and uneven global landscape of immigration. Yet, immigration is not simply an abstract subject of study, not simply headlines flashing on our smartphone screens about distant events, not simply a topic for (often heated) policy debates. Immigration, we cannot forget, is peoples’ lives. And the experiences of refugees, immigrants, asylees—their journeys, fears, and hopes—are as varied and complicated as the individuals living them. Books like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen and We the Interwoven: An Anthology of Bicultural Iowa, Vols. I, II, and III, edited by Andrea Wilson, are important and necessary counterweights. In them, refugee and immigrant writers bind us together through the power of storytelling and the sharing of personal experiences. They imbue personality, nuance, and contradiction—humanity—to that vast, complex, and uneven subject. Through their words, we see each other with our many similarities and differences, anew. Empathy deepens and understanding grows. Perhaps, too, a call to action—for us, the impetus to welcome and support new neighbors to Iowa. In this session, the panel will discuss what it has been like for them to write and share their migration stories, why they chose to do so, and maybe offer some insights about the craft of writing personal narratives. | | | Fulbright Week is April 11-15 | Would you like to teach English, study, or do research abroad for an academic year at no cost? Join us for a week of virtual events to help you learn more about the Fulbright US Student Program! The 9th Annual Fulbright Week will take place April 11-15, 2022. Each session will provide different information and will have a Q & A period, so please attend as many as you can.
We’ll be joined by:
new UI Fulbright 2022-23 awardees McKenzie Toma (Creative Writing, Romania), Adam Beaser (Creative Writing, Hungary), Sarah Nunez (English Teaching Assistantship, Mexico); current Fulbright grantee Megan Lenss (Study/Research, Geoscience, Norway, 2021); UI Fulbright alumni Alex Bare (English Teaching Assistantship, Colombia, 2019), Rita Guzman (English Teaching Assistantship, Portugal, 2018), Sophie Amado (English Teaching Assistantship, Spain, 2014); and Faculty Mentors and Fulbright Program Advisors.
All levels of undergraduate and graduate students are welcome (Fulbright applicants must be U.S. citizens)
SESSIONS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM: pre-registration is required
Monday, April 11, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Fulbright Week Session I: New Competition Opens / Please register at: bit.ly/FulbrightWeekSessionI
Tuesday, April 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Fulbright Week Session II: The Application Start to Finish / Please register at: bit.ly/FulbrightWeekSessionII
Wednesday, April 13, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Fulbright Week Session III: New Grants and Countries Available! Please register at: bit.ly/FulbrightWeekSessionIII
Thursday, April 14, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Fulbright Week Alumni and Faculty Conversation Hour (alumni share application tips and stories from their experiences abroad) Please register at: bit.ly/FulbrightWeekConversationHour
Friday, April 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Fulbright Week Faculty and Student Alumni Panel Information Session / Please register at: bit.ly/FulbrightWeekPanelSession
Please direct questions to Karen Wachsmuth, associate director, International Fellowships, International Programs, karen-wachsmuth@uiowa.edu, 319-335-1436. | | | Virtual Internships with the Iowa International Center |
Internships are available in:
| | | Upcoming Events | Reading for Ukraine
Monday, April 11, 2022 / 4pm / Shambaugh House (430 N Clinton St. or Livestreamed / More Info
Ukrainian Conversation Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays / 5-6:30pm / 120 PH / No prior experience necessary
The Ongoing War in Ukraine
Wednesday, March 13th, 2022 / 12:30-1:45pm / Livestream / Sponsored by the Iowa United Nations Association / More info
Asian Pacific Heritage Month 22
Click here for events from April 13th through April 29th: https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/celebrations/apida-heritage-month
Financial Literacy Fair
Tuesday, April 26 11:00am – 1:00pm, IMU: Hubbard Commons | | | |
