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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, April 10, 2006 CONTACT: Steve Smith, Associate Director, Global Studies, sksmith@wisc.edu INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH CONFERENCE TO EXAMINE BEST PRACTICES Madison, WI –Wisconsin’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Elizabeth Burmaster, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Title VI and Fulbright-Hays National Outreach Conference, as world studies outreach specialists from across …
By Aaron Nathans, The Capital Times French students and young workers are fighting a new labor law in the streets because it cements their status as second-class members of the workforce, said panelists at a University of Wisconsin–Madison forum. Jonathan Zeitlin, a UW–Madison professor of sociology and public affairs at the La Follette Institute, said …
Untitled DocumFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu SERIES OF UW-MADISON TALKS TO EXAMINE CULTURE, CONFLICT IN IRAQ Madison – The UW–Madison Division of International Studies announces a series of talks, “Three Perspectives on Iraq, Three Years Later,” to be held on the UW–Madison campus …
by Barbara Wolff, UW–Madison Communications Exquisite roast beef, among certain other things, draws Tom Rensink to dinner at the University of Wisconsin–Madison French House. “It’s simply unbelievable,” waxes Rensink, a senior in physics. The French House, the nation’s oldest residential language immersion community, was founded in 1918 and began opening its doors to the campus …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: April 3, 2006 CONTACT: Lara Kain (265-6298; outreach@creeca.wisc.edu) or Mustafa Ozkaynak (263-2658; mustafa_mats@yahoo.com) JOURNALIST HUGH POPE TO SPEAK ON UW-MADISON CAMPUS Madison, WI – Former Wall Street Journal correspondent Hugh Pope, a leading expert on Turkey, will visit the UW–Madison campus later this month. Pope will speak on “Journeys through the …
Students and members of organized labor have been demonstrating across France recently against a new labor law. Jonathan Zeitlin, director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and professor of Sociology, Public Affairs and Political Science, UW–Madison, recently discussed the demonstrations with Wisconsin Public Radio’s Joy Cardin. http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/jca/jca060330c.rm
Untitled Document NEWS ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu FRENCH STRIKES FOCUS OF UW-MADISON PANEL DISCUSSION Madison, WI – The French student strikes will be the subject of a special talk, “Behind the French Strikes: Youth Protests and Employment Reform,” at 12:00 p.m., …
Gilles Bousquet has been dean of International Studies and director of the International Institute since 2002 and is a professor of French. When the institute was founded 10 years ago as a joint initiative of the Division of International Studies and the College of Letters and Science, he was program director of the European Studies …
by Brian Mattmiller, UW–Madison Communications Scott Straus became a foreign correspondent stationed in central Africa in 1995, one year after one of the most unspeakable crimes in modern history: A swift genocide campaign in Rwanda that killed a half-million people. Straus says what he saw as a journalist left him with many questions about how …
Untitled Document FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, March 20, 2006 CONTACT: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, Division of International Studies, UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu UW-MADISON LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Madison, WI – Thanks to a new, first-of-its-kind program at UW–Madison, a core group of undergraduates will soon be able to experience what it’s like to …