UWM Chinese Club Hosts Fan Painting Event

On November 15th, 2024, UWM’s Chinese Club held a two-hour long Chinese fan painting event. At the beginning of the event, Chinese Club President Mei Shuting gave a short presentation about the four types of Chinese paintings, and shared some …

Author and Illustrator Reza Dalvand Visits UWM and MPS Students

In partnership with the UWM Libraries and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, IWA hosted an uplifting visit by acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator Reza Dalvand.  At an event tied to UWM’s International Children’s and Young Adult Literature collection, …

IWA Brings the World to Hundreds of Local Students and Teachers

As we reach the end of 2024, the Institute of World Affairs is celebrating another inspiring year of global-to-local programming for students, teachers and our community! Through partnerships with our UWM colleagues and exchanges with global artists, educators, peacebuilders and scientists, we …

Art of Paper Folding Event

On October 25, UWM’s Chinese Club, hosted their “Art of Paper Folding” event, where participants learned how to fold their zodiac animals out of paper. The creation of Origami was invented by Cai Lun around 105 A.D. during the Han …

Artist in Residence: Ammar Khalifa

In partnership with the Lynden Sculpture Garden, the Institute of World Affairs co-hosted a visit by Sudanese artist Ammar Khalifa in early October.  During a week of outreach activities with Milwaukee-based artists, campus and community members, and MPS high school …

MPS Service Learning Workshop

In September, the Institute of World Affairs (IWA) co-hosted a workshop with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) exploring service-learning as a powerful instructional practice to engage students in learning for action.  Approximately twenty MPS educators participated in this interactive program to discover …

UWM World Language Café

On August 30, 2024, UWM’s language and culture programs hosted the World Language Café event as part of Fall Welcome Week. Incoming students were able to meet students, faculty and teaching staff from UWM’s language and culture programs including Arabic, …