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By Graham Spanier for The Chronicle of Higher Education The humorist Dave Barry once observed, “Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.” Here’s another take on travel …
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 …
Jorge Avendaño, professor of law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, will receive the 2008 Division of International Studies Wisconsin Global Citizen Award. Avendaño demonstrated outstanding leadership in the study of international law and furthered collaborative relations between the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and legal and Latin American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. …
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 …
By Valerie Figlmiller, for Madison Commons Students have recently begun to blog about their time while studying abroad to give others perspective and to emphasize the “Wisconsin Experience.” UW–Madison’s Division of International Studies publicly launched Badgers Abroad Blog recently to commemorate International Education Week, Nov. 17 – 21. The blog gives students planning to study …
We are pleased to announce these following funding opportunities for the 2009-10 academic year. Please see the links below for proposal information, deadlines, financial guidelines, and eligibility. You may direct any questions to Associate Dean Guido Podesta: gpodesta@wisc.edu (please also cc: academicspa@international.wisc.edu). Wisconsin and the Emerging Regional Powers: Visiting International Professor Program Co-sponsors: Division of …
By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Isobel Oliphant felt she was making an offbeat choice when she graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y., and enrolled at the ancient university in this quiet coastal town of stone ruins and verdant golf courses. “I thought I was being original,” …