Year: 2007

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 …

  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), …

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 …

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 …

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; …

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 …

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 …