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UW Study Abroad Student Present at a Moment in History

I will not be in Rome on Friday (today), however I did go to Rome this past Monday for the procession of the body. I can tell you a little about what is going on around me and what has gone on. Here’s what I witnessed. I am studying in Florence through the UW/Mich program …

2005 International Education Conference: Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis

March 11-12, 2005 Friday: 5:00 – 7:30 Program with Reception and Light BuffetRemarks• Roberta M. Felker, Board of Directors, Wisconsin Chapter of the Fulbright Association (Turkey 2001, Japan 2004) and Principal of Indian Mound Middle School, McFarland • Gilles Bousquet, Dean of International Studies and Programs and Director of the International Institute • Liz Stern, …

Torture: Learning to Live With It? Power, the Press, and the Two-sided Photograph

Time: 7:00 PM Location: Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street Contact Email: global@intl-institute.wisc.edu Contact Phone: 265-2631 The lecture is followed by The Media of Conflict and the Cultural Imaginary, a one-day conference presented by the Legacies of Violence Research Circle, on Friday, March 11, 9:00 AM .- 4:00 PM, 206 Ingraham Hall. http://www.humanities.wisc.edu/programs/otherprogs.html#danner

From 9/11 to the Iraq War: A Firsthand Account of U.S. Policy in the Middle East

Edward Gnehm, former ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia. Auditorium, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, 12 noon. Information: bjulrich@wisc.edu. Sponsor: Middle East Studies. A Keynote speaker at the International Education Conference: Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. March 11-12, 2005 http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/elpa/conferences/iec/2005/OverseasVisitors.shtm

The UW Annual Report on Accelerating Internationalization

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Soffa Human Rights Lecture Considers Political Violence and Daily Life in India

September 22, 2004 Contact: Christine Merritt Division of International Studies UW–Madison, (608) 262-5590 or cmerritt@wisc.edu Madison, WI –The UW–Madison International Institute is pleased to announce that Veena Das, a scholar internationally respected for both her academic research and her activist work on physical  and structural violence in India, will be this year’s J. Jobe Soffa …