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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 18, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Global Hot Spots: The Economic Consequences of Trump’s War on Multilateralism |
| Date: | October 18, 2019 |
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| Time: | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
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| Location: | Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center For Executive Education |
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| Description: | About the eventnProfessor Menzie Chinn will discuss how, formost of the postwar era, the United States has led the establishment andextension of the multilateral economic system, represented by the World Trade Organization and its precursors, as well as by the IMF and World Bank. Chinn is a professor of public affairs and economics at UW–Madison’ |
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| URL: | https://www.uwalumni.com/event/the-economic-consequences-of-trumps-war-on-multilateralism/ |
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Embedded Calendar | MANNRS Regional Conference |
| Date: | October 19, 2019 |
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| Time: | 07:00 AM - 08:00 AM |
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| Location: | Best Western Hotel, 2424 University Ave. |
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| Description: | Opportunity Fair, Mock Interviews, Student Competitions, Alumni Mixer, oh my!. MANRRS is a national society that welcomes membershipof people of all racial and ethnic group participation in agricultural andrelated science careers. Their regional meeting is two days over the weekend. Peace Corps will have an recruiting table at this event, with an opportunity to speak with the Peace Corps Recruiter for the state of Wisconsi |
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| URL: | http://www.manrrs.org/ |
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Embedded Calendar | MANNRS Regional Conference |
| Date: | October 20, 2019 |
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| Time: | 07:00 AM - 08:00 AM |
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| Location: | Best Western Hotel, 2424 University Ave. |
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| Description: | Opportunity Fair, Mock Interviews, Student Competitions, Alumni Mixer, oh my!. MANRRS is a national society that welcomes membershipof people of all racial and ethnic group participation in agricultural andrelated science careers. Their regional meeting is two days over the weekend. Peace Corps will have an recruiting table at this event, with an opportunity to speak with the Peace Corps Recruiter for the state of Wisconsi |
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| URL: | http://www.manrrs.org/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Peace Corps Advocates Meeting |
| Date: | October 20, 2019 |
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| Time: | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | Beefeaters, Memorial Union |
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| Description: | Learn more about Peace Corps on campus and what you can do to enhance your competitiveness. At this planning meeting, learn what you cando to support Peace Corps on campus, while ensuring that you're developing the skills you need to be a competitive applicant after graduation.nn |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 21, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Peace Corps Walk-In Advising |
| Date: | October 21, 2019 |
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| Time: | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 200B Bascom Hall |
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| Description: | The Campus Peace Corps Recruiter can answer your questions!. The UW Campus Peace Corps Recruiter is on hand to answer your questions about Peace Corps service and provide application assistance. No appointment n |
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Embedded Calendar | Lecture: "Favelas at the Vanguard: Rethinking Our Assumptions in Sustainable Development" |
| Date: | October 21, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 260 Bascom Hall |
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| Description: | Presented by Theresa Williamson, PhD, City Planner and Executive Director of Catalytic Communities. Favelas as models of sustainable development. This goes straight to what our organization has become most kno |
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Embedded Calendar | Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS) UndergraduateDrop-in Advising |
| Date: | October 21, 2019 |
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| Time: | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Are you interested in geography, culture, languages, and more? Please drop in and meet with the LACIS undergraduate advisor, Sarah Ripp, who will review your DARs report and discuss the program with you!n |
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Embedded Calendar | Women's Global Health and Human Rights |
| Date: | October 21, 2019 |
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| Time: | 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
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| Location: | 2301 Sterling Hall |
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| Description: | Claire Eldred will speak at the Gender Womens Studies class onher humanitarian aid work. Claire Eldred is a UW alum 2008 in Anthropologyand a certificate in African Studies. She served in Peace Corps Benin inthe Health sector from 2011-2013. In 2016 she gained her Masters in PublicHealth. Since then she's been working in humanitarian aid on maternal andchild health issues in countries including DRC, Nigeria, Mali, and Bangladesh. She will be speaking about her work and the issues at this class |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Language Institute Brownbag: Inclusivity in the Language Classroom |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 254 Van Hise Hall |
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| Description: | Jeanne Schueller, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic.A brownbag for language educators on cultivating a classroom environment that is welcoming to all learners and grounded in inclusivity, equity, an |
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| URL: | https://languageinstitute.wisc.edu/language-matters-brownbags-for-language-educators/ |
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Embedded Calendar | LACIS Lecture Series: “From the Grounds Up: Building and Export Economy in Southern Mexico” |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Presented by Casey Lurtz, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University. In the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical fruits, and staple goods across oceans to satisfy the ever-increasing demand from foreign markets. In this talk, Casey Lurtz uses thegrowing coffee economy of southernmost Mexico to examine who built theseexport economies and how they transformed rural societies.nnCasey Lurtzis a historian of modern Latin America and an Asst. Prof. at the Johns Hop |
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| URL: | https://lacis.wisc.edu/outreach/upcoming-events-2/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Spanish Conversation Table |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
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| Location: | The Sett, 2nd floor, Union South |
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| Description: | La mesa de conversación. All levels of Spanish speakers are welcome at this informal weekly conversation table, sponsored by the Depart |
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| URL: | http://spanport.wisc.edu/department-life/conversation-tables |
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Embedded Calendar | Film Screening: "The Unafraid" |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
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| Location: | Marqee Theater, Union South |
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| Description: | Screened in English (1 hr, 27 minutes).. Imagine you are a kidgrowing up in Georgia. You attend elementary school with kids from your neighborhood. In high school, you cheer on the football team; you attendprom with your sweetheart; you have dreams of going to college. Youare an American. Until one day you realize you’re not. You don’t havethe same rights as your classmates because you are undocumented. And the |
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| URL: | https://www.facebook.com/events/2638990122811816/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Umberto D. |
| Date: | October 22, 2019 |
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| Time: | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
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| Location: | L196 Education Building |
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| Description: | Hosted by La Cineteca Italiana. When elderly pensioner UmbertoDomenico Ferrari (Carlo Battisti) returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady (Lina Gennari)demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his smalldog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time,Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid (Maria-Pia Casilio) for tempo |
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| URL: | https://www.facebook.com/events/418106548817903/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 23, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Boren Graduate Fellowship Information Session |
| Date: | October 23, 2019 |
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| Time: | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 336 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Boren Fellowships provide up to $36,000 to U.S. graduate students to add an important international and language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, orincreased language proficiency. We will review the range of options, eligibility requirements, the application process, service requirements, an |
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| URL: | https://iris.wisc.edu/funding/students/boren/ |
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Embedded Calendar | The Lost Art of Literary Criticism |
| Date: | October 23, 2019 |
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| Time: | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
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| Location: | L140 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building |
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| Description: | 2019 Germaine Brée Lecture. Professor Alice KaplannFrench, Yale UniversitynnWhat did it mean to be a literary critic in 1960, and what does it mean today? Kaplan will explore the life and career of Germaine Bree (1907-2001), reflecting both on her key role in bringing Albert Camus’s fiction to American readers, and on her clear-eyed engagement with “French theory” at the onset of the great culture wars of the 1960s |
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| URL: | https://irh.wisc.edu/event/the-lost-art-of-literary-criticism/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | CSA Fall Lecture Series: Meenakshi (Sumathi) Krishnan (Director, Research Centre, Music Academy, Madras) |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | The Making of Carnatic Music (CE 1800- 2000) & The Forces of Change. In the 200-year period of the 19th and 20th centuries, there have been unprecedented changes in music theory and practice. These have givenrise to upheavals, revolts against traditional practices, and a breakingfrom accepted and existing formats of performance in what has come to kno |
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| URL: | https://southasia.wisc.edu/2019-fall-lecture-series/dr-meenakshi-sumathi-krishnan/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Peace Corps Walk-In Advising |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| Location: | 200B Bascom Hall |
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| Description: | Get your questions about Peace Corps service answered. The UW Campus Peace Corps Recruiter is on hand to answer your questions about Peace Corps service and provide application assistance. No appointment necessa |
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Embedded Calendar | Lecture: "The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and Times of Crisis" |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM |
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| Location: | 336 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Presented by Dr. Federico Subervi-Vélez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communication, and Honorary Fellow. The presentation will address the current state of the mass media and journalism in Puerto Rico in the midst of the Island’s ongoingeconomic and political crises; it will bring together three areas of inqu |
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| URL: | https://www.facebook.com/events/532699214158693/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Demand and Supply in Post-Conflict Governance: Legacies of Armed Conflict in Chechnya |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | CREECA Fall Lecture Series. What alternatives to the state exist after conflict and when do citizens rely on them instead of state authorities? In the case of Chechnya it is best characterized as a case of centralized governance but the pathways to centralization varied across domainsof governance. While the historical legacies of Soviet institutions constrained the range of possible governance arrangements, the differential patterns of violence in the Chechen Wars altered both the demand and supply |
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| URL: | https://creeca.wisc.edu/event/sasha-klyachkina/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Info Session for Chinese Art, Design and Wellness, Summer Study Abroad |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
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| Location: | 3115 Nancy Nicholas Hall |
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| Description: | Join us to learn more about Chinese Art, Design and Wellness -- an exciting program combining arts, wellness, history, environment, |
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Embedded Calendar | A Day in the Life of a Peace Corps Volunteer |
| Date: | October 24, 2019 |
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| Time: | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
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| Location: | 159 Wisconsin Idea Room, Education Building |
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| Description: | Hear from returned volunteer Alexandra Walters, the Gambia inAgriculture. Alexandra and Kevin Walters served together as a married couple in The Gambia from 2015-2017, supporting many community activities inAgriculture and in Health. Today they are both grad students at the UW working on Masters degrees in Agriculture Science and Microbiology, respectively. Alexandra will be speaking at the Badger Volunteers Program Education session about her Peace Corps experience. Expect to hear many stories ab |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 25, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Annual United Nations Day Luncheon: "Women's Rights are Human Rights" |
| Date: | October 27, 2019 |
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| Time: | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM |
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| Location: | Monona Terrace Convention Center |
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| Description: | Presented by Honorable Satya Rhodes-Conway, Mayor of Madison,WI. Please join UNA-USA Dane County Chapter for their annual luncheon featuring a keynote presentation by Madison Mayor, Satya Rhodes-Conway. TheGlobal Citizen of the Year Award will be given to Lori Diprete Brown of UW-Madison.nnCo-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program at UW-Madi |
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| URL: | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-un-day-luncheon-womens-rights-are-human-rights-tickets-72154603361 |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 28, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Peace Corps Walk-In Advising |
| Date: | October 28, 2019 |
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| Time: | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 200B Bascom Hall |
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| Description: | The Campus Peace Corps Recruiter can answer your questions!. The UW Campus Peace Corps Recruiter is on hand to answer your questions about Peace Corps service and provide application assistance. No appointment n |
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Embedded Calendar | Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies (LACIS) UndergraduateDrop-in Advising |
| Date: | October 28, 2019 |
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| Time: | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Are you interested in geography, culture, languages, and more? Please drop in and meet with the LACIS undergraduate advisor, Sarah Ripp, who will review your DARs report and discuss the program with you!n |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Memorials of Waste: Disaster Monuments as Sites of Encounter in Nigeria |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
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| Location: | 4322 Sewell Social Sciences |
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| Description: | Special lecture by visiting African Studies Association scholarDr. Babajide Olusoji Ololajulo, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Addis Abadan, Nigeria |
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Embedded Calendar | “The Jakalteko Language of Guadalupe Victoria: Documenting an Endangered Dialect of the Mayan Language Jakalteko-Popti' |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
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| Location: | 206 Ingraham Hall |
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| Description: | Presented by Grant Armstrong, Associate Professor, Departmentof Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison. Please join us for weekly lecture |
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| URL: | https://lacis.wisc.edu/outreach/upcoming-events-2/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Funding Study Abroad Info Session |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| Location: | TITU, Union South |
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| Description: | Applying to study abroad or considering making an internationalexperience part of you time at UW, but not sure how to fund the opportunity? Attend our upcoming Funding Study Abroad Info Session! Offered in col |
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| URL: | https://studyabroad.wisc.edu/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Spanish Conversation Table |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
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| Location: | The Sett, 2nd floor, Union South |
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| Description: | La mesa de conversación. All levels of Spanish speakers are welcome at this informal weekly conversation table, sponsored by the Depart |
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| URL: | http://spanport.wisc.edu/department-life/conversation-tables |
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Embedded Calendar | Dogman (2018) |
| Date: | October 29, 2019 |
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| Time: | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM |
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| Location: | L196 Education Building |
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| Description: | Hosted by La Cineteca Italiana. Marcello is a mild-mannered doggroomer who commits petty crimes for Simoncino, a former boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino's abuse brings Marcello to the breaking point, he finally decides to take matters into his own hands.nnCON |
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| URL: | https://www.facebook.com/events/355149048773462/ |
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Embedded Calendar | Telling 100 Stories: Italian History and Culture in Special Collections |
| Date: | October 30, 2019 |
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| Time: | 09:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Location: | 976 Memorial Library |
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| Description: | Framed by Boccaccio’s Decameron, a collection of tales set during the Plague, this exhibit highlights holdings in Special Collectionsabout Italy, its history, language, and culture. Books & manuscripts on display (in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Latin) datefrom the Renaissance through the 20th century. Installed in conjunction with the triennial conference of the American Boccaccio Association (Madison, October 3-6). Local conference sponsor is the Department of French & It |
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| URL: | https://www.library.wisc.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/physical-exhibits/ |
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