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Global Studies seeking applicants for Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Grants

February 16, 2012   Division of International Studies   No comments

Applications are now being accepted for two graduate fellowships offered by UW–Madison Global Studies for Summer 2012:

  • Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship Grants to graduate students (working towards a doctorate) interested in undertaking practitioner internships on social justice issues.
  • Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Pre-Dissertation Travel Grants to support summer travel for doctoral students exploring potential field research sites.

These fellowships are awarded in memory of Scott Kloeck-Jenson who, after two years with the Peace Corps in Lesotho, began studying for his doctorate in political science at UW–Madison. He completed his M.A. in 1993 and then embarked on his doctoral research with the prestigious Fulbright and MacArthur fellowships.

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Global Education Summit aimed at spurring coordinated actions

February 13, 2012   Division of International Studies   No comments

A day-long Global Education Summit, being held February 24 at Monona Terrace in Madison, aims to bring together advocates from Wisconsin’s business and education communities, as well as other stakeholders, to seek concrete ways to collectively advance international education across the state.

State Superintendent Tony Evers and Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison’s dean of International Studies and vice provost for globalization, are hosting the event. Bousquet, who chairs the State Superintendent’s International Education Council, and Evers will give opening remarks to frame the day’s discussion.

“Many of us who have participated in discussions with the business and education communities have come to realize that the various stakeholders agree on the importance of global education—including many of the same desired outcomes—but, for the most part, have not come together to help create environments for advancing these goals,” says Bousquet.

Previous efforts to strengthen international education in Wisconsin have produced recommendations, most notably from the Wisconsin International Trade Council (1998) and the State Superintendent’s Statewide International Education Council (2005). The Global Education Summit aims to serve as a catalyst for putting at least some of these earlier recommendations into action.

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New documentary highlights Mildred Fish-Harnack

November 01, 2011   Division of International Studies   No comments

A new one-hour documentary on Mildred Fish-Harnack—Milwaukee native, University of Wisconsin alumna, and the only American woman executed on direct orders from Adolf Hitler—is scheduled to premiere Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Television (WPT).

Also, a free preview screening of Wisconsin’s Nazi Resistance: The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story is scheduled Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m., at UW Hillel/Barbara Hochberg Center for Jewish Student Life, 611 Langdon Street, Madison. Rudy Koshar, UW-Madison professor of history and religious studies, will introduce the showing, and a question-and-answer session with WPT producer Joel Waldinger will follow.

“The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story will incorporate historical video from Milwaukee, Madison, Berlin and WWII Germany,” Waldinger says. “Newly uncovered information, official German documents and papers from U.S. archives will provide a glimpse into the world of the resistance.”

The documentary, narrated by actress and UW–Madison alumna Jane Kaczmarek, marks the latest effort to bring attention to Fish-Harnack’s story, which has been the subject of two books. In 1986, the Wisconsin Legislature designated September 16 as “Mildred Harnack Day” across in Wisconsin.

At UW–Madison, the Division of International Studies and the Global Legal Studies Center have honored her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice through the annual Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture. The series is designed to promote greater understanding of human rights and democracy.

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1979 Delegations to China have Enduring Impact

October 14, 2011   Division of International Studies   No comments
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Among the hundreds of new graduate students who arrived on campus for the start of the fall 2011 semester, Zhao Jingzhou of Shanghai could claim a unique connection to a  special moment in UW-China relations.

Mr. Zhao’s grandfather arrived in Madison 32 years ago as a member of the first group of visiting scholars to come to Wisconsin following the  normalization of US-China relations.

“Those two years in UW-Madison were one of the most precious memories of my grandfather,” Mr. Zhao said.

His family ties are a reminder that UW-Madison was a national leader in resuming academic connections to the People’s Republic of China.  In 1979, then-Chancellor

Irving Shain, 2011

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Irving Shain led one of the first university delegations to China.  That opening resulted in the most extensive exchange agreement of any American university.

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[West Bend News] UW Professor to Speak on Higher Education in China

September 29, 2011   Division of International Studies   No comments

West Bend Daily News – September 27, 2011

“UW Professor to Speak on Higher Education in China”

University of Wisconsin scholar Gilles Bousquet will speak about the lessons Wisconsin can take from China’s investment in higher education and its cultural tradition of stressing the importance of higher education on Wednesday at the University of Wisconsin-Washington County.

Reflecting on recent trips to China, Bousquet urges Wisconsin students to learn a language like Chinese or travel to a place like China. He emphasizes that Americans are now global citizens and can benefit from exposure to other cultures.

Bousquet is dean of the Division of International Studies, vice provost for globalization, director of the International Institute, special assistant to the chancellor for international engagement, and Pickard-Bascom professor of French at UW-Madison.

According to Bousquet, the Chinese educational system is profound and impressive and cause to reflect on our own educational system.

“On my most recent trip to China, the delegation I led visited 11 campuses, ranging from a teaching hospital in Beijing to the highly-regarded comprehensive Fudan University in Shanghai to the sparkling new Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,” said Bousquet. “At every single campus I toured, I was impressed – indeed sometimes overwhelmed- by the investment in higher education under way in China. These universities are hiring professors, adding new campuses, and building new programs. They are looking to the United States for ideas and collaborations because we are respected and admired for our higher education system. The question I now grapple with is: do we ourselves respect and admire this system?”

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