Welcome to SIPI!
8-Week Summer Session
Monday, June 16-Friday, Aug 8, 2025
Pre-Service Orientation Week for WISLI Instructors
Monday, June 9-Friday, June 13, 2025
The Summer Intensive Portuguese Institute (SIPI) is a special eight-week program optimized for those who wish to study beginning Brazilian Portuguese. While optimized for learners who have studied a Romance language, all undergraduate students, graduate students, and adult learners are eligible to apply. Students learn speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills though classroom instruction and a full range of co-curricular activities.
SIPI is one of six Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI). It is sponsored by the Language Program Office; the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), a Title VI National Resource Center; Institute for Regional and International Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC); and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Applications for SIPI Summer 2025 are open!
SIPI 2025 will be ONLINE
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Wisconsin in Latin America: A Regional and Personal Account
Please join LACIS for Alberto’s lunchtime lecture — the last one of the fall semester — next Tuesday, December 10th @ Noon in 206 Ingraham Hall. If you are unable to join in person, please …
December 6, 2024WISLI Tuition Scholarship is Now Open!
Apply for the WISLI Tuition Scholarship to support your summer studies! Deadline to apply is March 2nd, 2025. To apply http://go.wisc.edu/WISLI-scholarship…
December 4, 2024WISLI Applications Open Friday, Nov. 22nd
WISLI Applications open on Friday, Nov. 22nd! Please visit the MEDLI website to apply! Program dates: June 16 – August 8, 2025 Priority deadline: March 15, 2025
November 20, 2024UW-Madison FLAS Applications for Summer 2025 are Open
The FLAS application for the summer 2025 and academic year 2025-2026 awards is now open! The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. Central Time on Friday, February 14, 2025. Apply Here Sign up for an upcoming …
November 8, 2024Funding for International Graduate Students
Wednesday, November 20 12:15 – 1:30 pm TITU, Union South Registration link: https://explore.wisc.edu/fundinginternationalgrads Discover valuable resources and strategies for securing grant funding with guidance from Ellen Jacks, Grants Information Librarian at UW-Madison Libraries. This session is …
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UW-Madison Events
- December
- December 10LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series:“Wisconsin in Latin America: A Regional and Personal Account”12:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall
Also offered online - December 10"Geology of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail": In-Person Badger Talk in Milwaukee, WIPresenter: David M. Mickelson5:00 PM, 3565 N Morris Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53211
- December 11Last Fall Semester class dayAll day
- December 12Study Day All day
- December 12"Swedish Pancakes for Breakfast?": In-Person Badger Talk in Janesville, WIPresenter: Marcus Cederstrom10:30 AM, 69 South Water Street, Janesville, WI 53545
- December 13ExamsAll day