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Untitled Document By Tamir Moustafa Originally published July 9, 2006 in the Baltimore Sun It is conventional wisdom these days that the Arab world has a thing or two to learn from the United States when it comes to democracy. After all, the region is plagued by recalcitrant regimes willing to sacrifice most everything to …
IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: Monday, July 10 Contact: Ronnie Hess, Director of Communications, UW–Madison Division of International Studies. (608) 262-5590, rlhess@wisc.edu FIGS GO GLOBAL Madison, WI – There’s something new about FIGS, those First -Year Interest Groups where about 20 entering students enroll in three thematically-linked classes together for a semester. FIGS First Year Interest …
For nearly 30 years, Wisconsin archaeologist T. Douglas Price has tramped the damp fields and coastal meadows of Denmark looking to put flesh on the bones of prehistory. In the Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age, an epoch that spanned a period of about 6,000 years beginning in 10,000 B.C., Denmark, it turns out, was a …
Untitled Document Summertime Reading is a World Beyond Our Borders Just in time for summer are several new books written by some of UW–Madison’s top scholars affiliated with the International Institute. The books are worth traveling with, wherever your vacation plans take you, and provide important perspectives on world history and current events. Edward Friedman’s …
North Korea says it has a right to carry out nuclear missile tests, but now is willing to talk with the U.S.. After four, Ben Merens and his guest take a look at the latest on the situation. Guest: Jeremy Suri, Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of …
The International Academic Program in Aix-en-Provence, France will celebrate its 45th anniversary next year. Aix is one of IAP’s largest and oldest programs. Since its inception, 850 UW–Madison students have studied in Aix, once the seat of the Kingdom of Provence and now a lively as well as beautiful city of 120,000 inhabitants. This fall, …
UW–Madison’s growing reputation as a global research university was very much in evidence this past May when Chancellor John Wiley and Gilles Bousquet, Dean of International Studies, traveled to England for a series of important and exciting international events. The Chancellor joined Dean Bousquet and members of the International Studies Advisory Board in London for …
“Female Leaders in the World” Aili Tripp, associate dean of International Studies, director of the Women’s Studies Research Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison What do Chile, Liberia, and Germany have in common? They have all elected their first female leaders in the past year. Is it women’s time to rule? Find out this hour on Here …
By Anita Weier, The Capital Times PARIS – Ties to the University of Wisconsin–Madison hold firm no matter where alumni end up. That was proven during a recent trip to Paris organized by the UW Alumni Association, where traveling alumni had dinner with members of the Paris-based UW Alumni Club of France. Club President Kyle …
by DANYA HOOKER dhooker@madison.com In some UW–Madison dorms, speaking English might get you a talking to or a blank stare. In the past, students learning German, Spanish, Italian or Japanese have had the chance to live in dorms where their second language is spoken most of the time. And now, the university hopes students will …