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In video conference held today, UW–Madison signed an agreement with Tikrit University in Iraq to explore the feasibility of educational and scientific cooperation. The Chicago Tribune: UW–Madison to sign agreement with Iraqi school The Wisconsin State Journal: UW–Madison to connect with Iraq’s Tikrit University The Badger Herald: UW, Tikrit to sign Memorandum of Understanding
Marceline Kongolo-Bice (SOS Femmes en Dangers, Democratic Republic of Congo) Will speak on “SOS: Women at Risk in Congo Wars” March 31, Tuesday 4 pm B22 Ingraham Co-sponsored by Gender and International Policy Research Center, Women’s Studies Research Center, Transnational Applied Research in Gender Equity Training project, African Studies Program, Human Rights Initiative, Division of …
Announcing a public lecture by Klaus Scharioth German Ambassador to the United States “The Transatlantic Agenda – A German Perspective” Wednesday, April 1 1:30-2:30pm Plenary Room, 1305 Grainger Hall Germany’s highest ranking representative to the United States, Ambassador Scharioth has worked at the United Nations and the International Law Division of the German Federal Foreign …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is preparing to sign a historic agreement with one of the foremost institutions of higher education in Iraq. On Monday, March 30, UW–Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin will meet by videoconference with Tikrit University President Maher Saleh Allawi to sign a memorandum of understanding pledging to explore and pursue opportunities for educational …
UW Communications High school students in Wisconsin are digging into great world literature that would bewilder older and more experienced readers: “Don Quixote,” by Miguel de Cervantes, “Dante’s Inferno,” by Dante Alighieri, “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and “The Brothers Karamazov,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. All the students need is a chance …
Need inspiration on how to apply your interests in African Studies and Journalism after graduation? Come and meet Cyrus Farivar to find out how he went from studying abroad in UW’s Senegal program in 2003 to reporting for National Public Radio and The New York Times within five years of graduation. Thursday, March 26th, 3:30pm …
CONTACT: Wendy Johnson, 608-262-1473, wsjohnso@wisc.edu MADISON – On Friday, April 3, Wisconsin high school students and teachers will participate in World Cinema Day, for an educational screening of “Football Under Cover” (Germany, 2008: in German, Persian and English with English subtitles) , a film that documents the efforts of both the Iranian and German teams …
UW–Madison’s Global Studies and the Inside Islam team have received a second year of Social Science Research Council (SSRC) funding for Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates. Inside Islam is a collaboration of UW–Madison’s National Resource Centers and Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders.
By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Education At “globalized” universities, mapping can be a challenge – mapping where and in what forms international connections and research can be found on a campus. But try mapping what’s happening across multiple universities and you could end up – as a dozen researchers recently did – with 10,000+ pages …
By Dan Muckelbauer – GM Today Staff You wouldn’t expect detail-oriented, data-based engineering types to go all cross-cultural, change-the-world- one-village-at-a-time kumbayah. But then Engineers Without Borders at the University of Wisconsin–Madison isn’t your typical 4-year-old organization. Neither are its partnerships with groups as diverse as Rotary and churches, including in West Bend. Nor are its …