This fall, as most Badgers settle into Madison, three UW–Madison students, including senior Madeline Rutherford, will instead travel to Almaty, Kazakhstan, for a year of advanced Russian language study on the Russian Overseas Flagship Capstone …
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Literary Conference to Bring Major Figures From Asia to Madison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/3/2023 CONTACT: Anatoly Detwyler, detwyler@wisc.edu LITERARY CONFERENCE TO BRING MAJOR FIGURES FROM ASIA TO MADISON MADISON—Leading artists, poets, writers, and translators from India, China, and North America will gather in Madison …
UW–Madison senior and ROTC Air Force cadet receives inaugural fellowship
University of Wisconsin–Madison senior Mary Moczulewski will join the first class of recipients for the Iris Burton Bulls ROTC Fellowship Program for her work with Project Global Officer (GO). Sponsored by the Defense Language and …
Three books by UW–Madison’s Popkewitz translated into Chinese
Three books by UW–Madison’s Thomas Popkewitz have recently bolstered their international reach and were translated and published in Chinese. Read the full story.
Nichole Springer: A worldwide communicator
Nichole Springer can travel to almost every part of the world and find common grounds on which to communicate. That’s because in addition to her native English, Nichole has developed proficiency in Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin …
Badger James Llewellyn Goes Global with Help of the Boren Fellowship
Badgers may be returning to the familiar sights of Madison, Wisconsin this fall when classes resume, but James Llewellyn – a master’s student in Southeast Asian Studies – has a very different semester planned. With …
Russian language skills lead Fulbright recipient Elizabeth Olguin to Kazakh classrooms
Russian has taken 2016 UW–Madison graduate Elizabeth Olguin everywhere from her ballet classes in the U.S. to development projects in Moldova. Thanks to a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award for 2021-2022, her next destination will …
Czech women have had to use gendered last names for centuries. A law might change that.
PhD alumni awarded fellowships to support language and culture studies research
Two recent PhD alumni have received fellowships from the Graduate School to further the research topics they focused on in their dissertations. The Albert Markham Memorial Fellowship supports recent UW–Madison PhD recipients in linguistics, foreign …
You Can Learn a Language Online – Here’s How!
Your online language class with UW–Madison Continuing Studies is exactly the same as your face-to-face class, only completely different. Let me explain. The goal of our language classes is to get you talking, as research shows that …