Campus Begins Self-Study Process
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
For areas of focus see http://www.chancellor.wisc.edu/strategicplan/areasOfFocus/ For UW–Madison’s strategic plan, along with action plans and progress reports, visit http://www.chancellor.wisc.edu/strategicplan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: April 10, 2007 CONTACT: Dianna Murphy, Associate Director, Language Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Tel. (608) 262-1575, Fax (608) 890-1094, diannamurphy@wisc.edu Madison, WI – Several hundred Wisconsin high school students and teachers will be in Madison April 13, 2007 to participate in World Cinema Day. World Cinema Day is an outreach program …
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the University of Wisconsin Press announce two new publications in their New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies, edited by Professors Alfred W. McCoy, Kris Olds (Managing Editor), R. Anderson Sutton, and Thongchai Winichakul. The books are: Viet Nam: Borderless Histories, edited by Nhung Tuyet Tran and Anthony …
The Wisconsin Film Festival opens Thursday, April 12, 2007. The four-day annual festival presents new independent films, including world cinema. See special “streams” such as “Contemporary European Cinema,” “African Action”, “Diaspora Melancholy: Asian-American,” and “the World of Jewish Film” at the festival’s Website.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: April 4, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590 Madison, WI — UW–Madison students took top honors last month at the third Midwest Chinese Speech Contest, sponsored at Northwestern University by the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago. According to Hongming Zhang, associate …
International human rights will be the focus of a series of important campus events this April featuring prominent scholars, government officials, journalists, and human rights activists. April 17, 2007 Amnesty International’s executive director Larry Cox April 20, 2007 International conference on judicial responses to atrocity April 27-28 International conference on Darfur
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, March 29, 2007 CONTACT: Sharon E. Hutchinson, Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 608-262-2866 or 262-7381; or James Delehanty, Faculty Associate, African Studies Program, UW–Madison, (608) 262-4458; or e-mail symposium@africa.wisc.edu Website: www.africa.wisc.edu Click here to download the conference program. Madison, WI — The African Studies Program, the …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, March 29, 2007 CONTACT: Sumudu Atapattu, Associate Director, Global Legal Studies Center, UW Law School, Phone:(608) 890 1395, saatapattu@wisc.edu Madison, WI — The University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of International Studies announces an all-day conference, “Responses to Atrocity: International and Domestic Judicial Mechanisms,” Friday, April 20, 2007. The conference will be …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Thursday, March 29, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI –Larry Cox, the executive director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will deliver the Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mr. Cox will speak on “The …
From The Badger Herald by Peter Sielski, The Badger Herald A large audience was treated to an array of cultural skits and dances Tuesday night as part of a Languages and Cultures of Asia Department program to educate students about a lesser-known part of the world. The program — called “LCA Cultural Night” and held …