Year: 2006

Perspectives on a Post-9/11 World

Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, August 28, 2006 CONTACT: Alison Alter, Associate Director, WAGE, (608) 262-9774, abalter@wisc.edu UW-MADISON FORUM TO OFFER PERSPECTIVES ON POST-9/11 WORLD Click here to download a pdf of the poster. Madison, WI – On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Division of International Studies and the …

International Conference on Camus

Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, August 28, 2006 CONTACT: Carol Witzeling, Assistant Director, Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, cawitzel@wisc.edu, (608) 261-1018 CAMPUS TO BE FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AT UW-MADISON Madison, WI – A literary figure that American undergraduates and academics have known about for at least a generation is …

Photos Celebrate Traveling the World

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, August 24, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu; Courtney Skare, Director of Marketing/Communications, International Academic Programs, UW–Madison, (608) 261-1020, caskare@bascom.wisc.edu EXHIBIT OF UW-MADISON STUDENTS’ PHOTOS CELEBRATES STUDY ABROAD, TRAVELING THE WORLD Madison, WI – Two dozen photographs from around the world …

UW Participates in Africa Fest

by Barbara Wolff, UW–Madison Communications Like rare perfume, the intoxicating call of African drums will waft over Madison’s Warner Park on Saturday, Aug. 26. The occasion is the eighth annual Africa Fest, sponsored by the African Association of Madison (AAM). Click below to read more http://www.news.wisc.edu/12806.html

New Federal Awards for Area, International Studies

Untitled Document DATE: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu NEW FEDERAL GRANTS REFLECT CONTINUED PREEMINENCE OF UW-MADISON IN AREA, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Madison, WI – Eight of UW–Madison’s international and area studies programs have been awarded a combined total of nearly four million dollars …

School strengthens its global perspective

by Kerry Hill Communications Coordinator, UW–Madison School of Education We live in a world that’s becoming increasingly interconnected, notes Ken Zeichner, the Hoefs-Bascom Professor of Teacher Education and the associate dean responsible for teacher and international education in the School of Education. “We want students coming out of here to have the broad perspective of …

World Music Festival Conversations

<brFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, August 21, 2006 CONCTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, rlhess@wisc.edu, (608) 262-5590; Esty Dinur, Marketing and Communications Manager, Wisconsin Union Theater, edinur@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3907 Madison World Music Festival Features Talks About World Music, Musicians Madison, WI – The Third Annual Madison World Music Festival, with …

Atapattu Is GLSI Associate Director

By Dennis Chaptman, UW–Madison University Communications Legal scholar and attorney Sumudu Atapattu has been named Associate Director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative (GLSI), a joint program of the University of Wisconsin Law School and UW–Madison Division of International Studies. Professor Heinz Klug, Director of the GLSI, comments, “The Law School and the GLSI are …

Helping South Africa in Science

A summer exchange program brings South African science teachers to UW–Madison. For more, see the Capital Times article at the URL below. http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2006/08/12/0608120104.php

Joe Elder Op-ed on Middle East

UW–Madison professor of Sociology Joe Elder commented on U.S. policy on Israel/Lebanon in a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel op-ed. To read the article, visit the link below. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=480144