UW–Madison Observes International Education Week

Untitled Docu UW–Madison Observes International Education Week Over a dozen talks, gallery tours, conferences, and first-run foreign films will mark International Education Week on the UW–Madison campus, November 14-18, 2005. IEW, a joint initiative of the U.S. Departments of State and Education, celebrates the benefits of international education and promotes various educational programs around the world. Among the highlights of the week will be:
  • Talks by Walter Cutler, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia
  • The pre-release screening of the German film “Sophie Scholl – The Final Days” and a roundtable discussion with its director
  • A series of conversations surrounding the exhibit, “Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory”
  • An international children’s literature conference featuring four internationally-acclaimed authors
  • A conference on doing business in India
  • Plus presentations on the Mongol empire, the challenge of nuclear North Korea, migrant workers in China, social stability and labor mobility in Europe, and women and social entrepreneurship in India.
The events are sponsored by member programs of the International Institute, the Institute’s research circles and other campus units. Established jointly by the Division of International Studies and the College of Letters and Science in 1996, the International Institute is the UW campus’ “portal to the world,” with sixteen member programs promoting in-depth knowledge of societies, cultures, economies, and languages of countries and world regions. Eight of the Institute’s programs are federally funded national resource centers, a record number in the U.S. For a listing of events, click here or for updates visit our calendar at http://www.international.wisc.edu/news/ For more information on IEW, go to http://iew.state.gov