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Doug Moe, The Wisconsin State Journal Wednesday evening, at the Sa-Bai Thong restaurant on Odana Road, a distinguished-looking visitor from Thailand eased into a booth and smiled broadly as he was handed a copy of a newspaper story four decades old. Pongsak Payakvichien is a legend in journalism in Thailand. When the Wisconsin Alumni Association …
By: Andrea Carlson /The Daily Cardinal – March 9, 2009 UW–Madison students began a charity program in Kenya after visiting the country on a study abroad program last spring. When twelve UW–Madison students traveled to Kenya through a study abroad program in the spring of 2008, they had no idea how much the experience would affect …
Nadav Shelef (Political Science, UW–Madison) Friday, March 13 1:30 – 2:30 p.m Room 121, The Pyle Center, UW-Campus Nadav Shelef (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2005) is the Harvey M. Meyerhoff Assistant Professor of Israel Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science. His current project, Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Religion, and National …
Ali İlker Gümüşeli Professor of Educational Administration & Supervision Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:00-1:00 p.m. Room 259 Educational Sciences Building Global connectivity increases every day, countries can no longer be isolated from each other. The reflections of any single change that happens in any part of the world can be …
By Gil Halsted, Wisconsin Public Radio Listen to the audio (in Realplayer). (MADISON) As the U.S. war in Iraq appears to be winding down, officials at UW–Madison are exploring a unique partnership with the university in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. President Barack Obama’s recent promise to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by the end …
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are invited to apply to WUN at UIUC for up to $15K for participation in new WUN collaborations. The deadline is May 1. UW–Madison collaborators of UIUC researchers may want to encourage their partners to apply. The Division of International Programs and Studies (IPS) at the University of …
UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) are pleased to announce a 2008-2009 virtual seminar on Contemporary China organized by the University of Leeds. UW–Madison will connect via videoconferencing technology with colleagues at WUN partner institutions for three talks followed by discussion: March 5, 2009, 11:00 a.m., Pyle Center “Rural land …
The Global Legal Studies Center and the Human Rights Initiative are pleased to invite you a lecture on: “Environmentalism and Human Rights” by Judge Christopher Weeramantry Former Vice President, International Court of JusticeThursday, March 5, 2009 Lubar Commons (7200 Law) , 4-5pm followed by a reception at 5pm About the speaker: Judge Christopher Weeramantry …
Cinematic visions of Tel Aviv will be the focus of the 2009 Israel Film Festival, which kicks off at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Sunday, March 1. The UW Hillel Foundation and the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies announced the film festival, which will be held at the Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: February 27, 2009 CONTACT: Kimberly Coulter, (608) 261-1016, kcoulter@international.wisc.edu Madison– The Division of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) are pleased to announce the awarding of ten International Collaboration Grants totaling more than $32,000. The awards are designed to “seed fund” UW–Madison researchers’ international …