University of Wisconsin–Madison
In a Few Wor(l)ds: The World Literature/s Conference will happen December 3-5, in the Pyle Center located at 702 Langdon Street. The keynote address, “World Literature in a Post-Literary Age” will be given by David Damrosch from Harvard University on Thursday, December 3 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. …
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2009, UW–Madison is once again ranked in the top 20 (#17) of world universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Check out Global Higher Ed’s articles to read about the complexities inherent in rankings.
The Madison Committee on Foreign Relations (MCFR) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison and invite you to participate in a special event, China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections. The event will take place December 8 from 5:30-8:15 p.m., in the Pacific Room at the Edgewater Hotel located at 666 Wisconsin Avenue. Registration is required (details …
UW–Madison’s long-standing focus on “targeted minorities” is a much-too-provincial view of “diversity” in the global world of the 21st century. This narrow approach ignores the many channels through which students are exposed to the wide range of subject matter, ideas, people, cultures, and attitudes that characterize UW–Madison. For starters, in 2008-09 UW–Madison undergraduates came from …
International children’s and young adult literature will be the focus of an all-day celebration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 21, 2009, at the Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin. The conference, entitled “Open a Book … Open a Door … Open your Mind … to …
The Human Rights Initiative invites you to a lecture, “Making Climate Change a Health Issue: The Lancet/University College of London Commission on Climate Change” by Dr. Nora Groce from the University College London, on Monday, November 23 from 3:30-5 p.m. at 206 Ingraham. Learn more about Dr. Nora Groce Professor Nora Groce is the Leonard …
UW Madison News (November 12, 2009) — The Wisconsin School of Business will attract some of the brightest real estate students from the top business schools in Asia, Europe and Latin America with a highly innovative Global Real Estate Master (GREM) program. The program builds on the Wisconsin School of Business’s expertise and tradition in …
The Global Legal Studies Center of the UW Law School will hold a workshop on the theme “After the Violence: Crimes, Prosecutions, and What Then?” on Saturday, November 14, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the UW Law School. The workshop will be held in Lubar Commons of the Law School and is …
UW–Madison News (November 4, 2009) — When the Soviet Union launched its first Sputnik satellite in 1957, it effectively defeated the United States in the first round of the space race. And while the United States responded in kind with Pioneer 1, it also transformed its Cold War engagement by launching a terrestrial initiative — …
The India Initiative and Center for South Asia present the lecture, “Coalition Politics in the 2009 Indian Election” presented by Eswaran Sridharan, academic director from the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study India. The talk will be held Tuesday, November 10 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., in the Auditorium at the Wisconsin Historical …