University of Wisconsin–Madison
Please note: This event was rescheduled from February 25, 2011 to March 4, 2011, due to an emergency meeting of the Board of Regents held in the same location. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to see you Friday, March 4 at 1:30 p.m. in the Pyle Center, Room 235. Please note: This event …
Dr. Lalita du Perron is the associate director of the Center for South Asia and the faculty associate for the India Initiative, as well as a faculty liaison for the study abroad program in Varanasi, India. She has come to UW–Madison by way of London, with a background in South Asian Studies and Hindi. Du …
India: Steps for Business Success Friday, February 25 Holiday Inn Campus 2703 Craig Road Eau Claire, Wisconsin The Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) is pleased to partner with the UW–Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and the Center for South Asia to co-sponsor the workshop India: Steps for …
The University of Wisconsin Law School will host a ‘Teach-in’ on the legal and political issues raised by Governor Walker’s budget repair bill on February 23, 2011. This academic forum seeks to provide insights into the dramatic developments that have followed the introduction of the bill from an historical, legal, and political perspective. The University …
UW–Madison has the honor of hosting Dr. Balasubramaniam Murali of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a series of free talks focusing on development in Afghanistan, careers with the United Nations, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which target poverty, hunger, education, equality, health, and the environment around the world. UW–Madison has the honor …
As events in Egypt continued to make headlines around the world, the University of Wisconsin–Madison brought the discussion to campus. The Division of International Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Middle East Studies Program hosted a roundtable discussion on the mass protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his government. As events in Egypt …
UW- Madison News — February 8, 2011 StoryCorps, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs, will visit the University of Wisconsin–Madison from March 24-26 as part of “Peace Corps and Africa: 50 Years,” an event honoring and assessing a half-century of volunteer service. …
February 18-20: Traveling Film South Asia 2010 Twelve outstanding documentaries from South Asia Memorial Union The Center for South Asia presents: Traveling Film South Asia 2010. The 12 touring documentaries of Traveling Film South Asia 2010 (TFSA ’10) are outstanding examples of non-fiction productions of the last two years from this part of Asia. They …
Ben Wildavsky, author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World, gave a public speech on the rise of the global education market on Monday, January 31, 2011. A senior fellow in research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation, Wildavsky has worked as a journalist and educational policy consultant, and remains …
UW–Madison News — February 3, 2011 For the 11th year in a row, UW–Madison has placed in the top tier of the Peace Corps’ nationwide list of large schools producing Peace Corps volunteers. With 91 undergraduate and 13 graduate alumni currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, UW–Madison is eighth in the rankings. The university has …