University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison has been under intense scrutiny for its decision to allow part-time lecturer Kevin Barrett to teach an introductory course on Islam history and culture. More than 1,000 e-mails and calls from citizens, and countless news reports and editorials have been issued related to the university’s difficult decision. For information on the …
University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Center for East Asian Studies helped make possible a three week field trip in China for Madison Memorial High School students. The Center helped pay most costs for the accompanying teachers. For more on the trip, see the Wisconsin State Journal article written by Anita Clark at the link below. http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/index.php?ntid=93520&ntpid=1
Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: August 1, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communication, Division of International Studies. University of Wisconsin–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu For poster, and more information click here. NEXT “WORLD BEYOND OUR BORDERS” SERIES EXAMINES REVOLUTION AND REFORM IN CHINA, CONTEMPORARY JAPAN, KAMIKAZE PILOTS, RWANDAN GENOCIDE Madison, WI – Edward Friedman’s …
UW–Madison’s Summer Arabic & Persian Immersion Programs were featured on WKBT television. To see both a video and print report, go to http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=5167169 For more information on the program, a joint project of the Department of African Languages and Literature and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, and coordinated by Global Studies with …
UW–Madison professor Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney is interviewed on the BBC’s “Thinking Allowed.” She discusses her recent books on Japan’s tokkotai pilots during World War II and counters the misleading parallels which have been drawn between them and those responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US mainland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20060607.shtml
Portraits of Compassion in On Wisconsin, Summer 2006 After volunteering at an orphanage in Central America, Ben Schumaker ’03 wanted to help give the children a sense of identity. Now his initiative to recruit high school students to paint the children’s portraits has achieved a success that he never dreamed of. http://www.uwalumni.com/home/onwisconsin/archives/summer2006/portraits-compassion.aspx
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Untitled Document By Tamir Moustafa Originally published July 9, 2006 in the Baltimore Sun It is conventional wisdom these days that the Arab world has a thing or two to learn from the United States when it comes to democracy. After all, the region is plagued by recalcitrant regimes willing to sacrifice most everything to …
IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, July 10 Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, UW–Madison Division of International Studies. (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu FIGS GO GLOBAL Madison, WI – There’s something new about FIGS, those First -Year Interest Groups where about 20 entering students enroll in three thematically-linked classes together for a semester. FIGS First Year Interest …
For nearly 30 years, Wisconsin archaeologist T. Douglas Price has tramped the damp fields and coastal meadows of Denmark looking to put flesh on the bones of prehistory. In the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age, an epoch that spanned a period of about 6,000 years beginning in 10,000 B.C., Denmark, it turns out, was a …