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News article Dec 19, 2008 Graham Sykes We are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to help support a summer school in Nanjing in July 2009. The 2009 July 22 solar total eclipse, with nearly 6 minutes available on the ground in China, is the longest one over a century. This is an …
The Division of International Studies, the College of Letters & Science, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Administration at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, along with the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) , invite all UW–Madison faculty and academic staff to apply for seed funds designed to facilitate international collaboration. Funded initiatives …
On November 20th the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) convened a panel of distinguished UW–Madison professors who offered different perspectives on the causes, consequences, and potential solutions for the global economic crisis. Experts from economics, business, law, public affairs, and political science provided insight into the following questions: How did a crisis …
The WUN Leeds FIRC provides individual development grants of between £5,000 and £20,000 for use over an 18 months period. The aim is to provide vital seed funding to allow new, high quality, long term research collaborations led by individuals or groups from Leeds with a minimum of two international partners to develop into sustainable …
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – 60th Anniversary “Where are Human Rights Today?” UW–Madison Humanities Building, Room 3650 December 10, 2008 4:30 – 6:00pm Free admission, members of the public invited Featuring guest speakers: Barbara Lawton Lt. Governor, Wisconsin – The Declaration from the Governor Barrett McCormick Professor, Marquette University – “Human Rights and …
Peter Daszak, Ph.D. Executive Director Consortium of Conservation Medicine 12:00 pm December 12, 2008 Ebling Symposium Room 1220 MSB Peter Daszak will be giving the first lecture of the series of the Global Infectious Diseases Initiative. Sponsored by: The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology The Gaylord Institute for Environmental Study & The Division of …
Join us for a special panel discussion to explore and reflect upon the complexities of the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Human Rights and the War in Eastern Congo Wednesday, December 3, 7:00pm Pyle Center, Room 325/326 702 Langdon Street The discussion will be moderated by Professor Emeritus Jan Vansina. Panelists include: …
The Division of International Studies now has a “video library” where viewers can access talks of particular interest. Students and faculty have told us that, while they often can’t make a talk (particularly during the event-saturated months of October and April) , they would jump at the chance to watch/listen on their own time. This …
Gilles Bousquet, Wisconsin State Journal 11/19/08 If there’s one thing the current financial crisis has made abundantly clear, it’s that “global economic independence” is no longer just a textbook term. It’s a headline-generating reality — and not only in the international pages, but in the local business section as well. Wisconsin is home to multinational …
Thursday, November 20 7:00-9:30 PM Morgridge Auditorium 1100 Grainger Hall 975 University Avenue The economic bad news keeps coming: a bursting housing bubble, a volatile stock market, restricted credit markets, a recession, and more. How did a crisis in the U.S. housing market grow into a full blown global economic crisis? What do these events …