France: After the Elections
Sunday’s French presidential election results will be discussed by Professors Laird Boswell (History, UW–Madison) in Madison and Pascal Delisle (Sciences Po) in Paris. Click here for more information.
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Sunday’s French presidential election results will be discussed by Professors Laird Boswell (History, UW–Madison) in Madison and Pascal Delisle (Sciences Po) in Paris. Click here for more information.
Marguerite Jacqmin Soffa had a grand goal in mind when she established a fund to bring renowned women from across the globe to the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Click here for more information.
Guido Podesta, Professor in the UW–Madison Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), has been named Associate Dean in the Division of International Studies, the Dean of International Studies, Gilles Bousquet, announced today. Professor Podesta holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Minnesota-Twin …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 30, 2007 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu Madison, WI – John Campbell, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria since May, 2004, will be Diplomat-in-Residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison next fall, the Division of International Studies announced today. “We are tremendously pleased …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 30, 2007 CONTACT: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, (608) 263-1755 Madison, WI – The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the United States, Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, will visit the UW–Madison campus on Friday, May 4, 2007 and speak about “U.S.-Indonesia Relations in the Current Context of East and Southeast …
His Excellency Knut Vollebaek. Ambassador of Norway to the United States & His Excellency Jan Kenneth Eliasson, Ambassador of Sweden to the United States, President elect of the United Nations Assembly. Place: Memorial Union, Main Lounge, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI Time: 10am The Ambassadors are traveling across the United States in 2005 on the …
“Disaster in Darfur: Sudan’s Defiance of International Human Rights,” Friday evening, April 27 and all day Saturday, 28, 200, will gather leading Sudan specialists, including government and UN officials, human rights activists, international lawyers, investigative journalists, and scholars all of whom have played prominent roles in addressing the human rights disaster in Darfur. Free and …
Fifty UW–Madison students were awarded prestigious study-abroad scholarships this spring. The awards, ranging from $500 to $4,000 and totaling nearly $80,000, were made possible in large part through gifts such as the Study Abroad Alumni Awards and the generous contributions of committed UW–Madison alumni and friends. The students were honored at a study abroad …
UW–Madison students representing several campus-based human rights organizations explained their work at the annual Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture, sponsored by the Division of International Studies and the Global Legal Studies Center. Participating were the UW–Madison chapters of Amnesty International USA, Action in Sudan, Al-Awda Wisconsin, In Your Hands and Village Health Project. …
“Amnesty exec: U.S. is abuser of rights” by Samara Kalk Derby , The Capital Times “Speaker condemns U.S.” by Sean Sullivan, The Badger Herald “U.S. violates human rights, Amnesty Int’l leader Cox declares” by Marly Schuman, The Daily Cardinal