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Noticias de la Semana
November 8th - November 14th, 2009
Compiled by the Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program
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Greetings,
LACIS is pleased to announce our fabulous stainless steel water bottles!
They are available for just $10 each!
Sarah Ripp (LACIS Outreach Coordinator/Undergraduate Advisor)
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Sunday, November 8
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Tales From Planet Earth Environmental Film Festival - Free
12:00-9:00 pm
4 venues: Memorial Union Theater, Frederic March Play Circle, UW Cinematheque, & Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
LACIS is pleased to provide co-sponsorship for this event once again...Tales from Planet Earth: Justice in Four Strands: Landscapes of Labor, Precious Resources, Strange Weather, and In The Company of Animals.
Last day of the three-day film festival showcasing 50 environmental films from around the world. Discussions with filmmakers, scientists, and other guests will complement films. Free to the public.
Sponsored by Center for Culture, History, & Environment, Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies, Working Films, Global Studies, and many others.
For information, visit the website or call 608-263-3185.
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Monday, November 9
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No Events Scheduled.
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Tuesday, November 10
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LACIS Lunchtime Lecture Series:
"Lisbon Stories: Modernism and Visual Culture in Early 20th Century Portugal"
12:00-1:00 p.m.
206 Ingraham Hall
Presented by: Ellen Sapega, Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
A light lunch & beverages will be served.
Sponsored by: LACIS |
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Peace Corps Info Session
12:00 p.m.
336 Ingraham Hall
Learn about how to apply your diverse international interests and skills in the Peace Corps.
UW-Madison Peace Corps representative John Sheffy will talk about how he combines his Peace Corps experiences with graduate school. Explore Peace Corps opportunities and get tips on making your application more competitive. Bring questions! Enjoy FREE PIZZA.
Sponsored by the UW-Madison Title VI Area Studies Programs: LACIS, African Studies Program, Center for East Asia, Center for European Studies, Center for Russia East Europe and Central Asia, Center for South Asia, Go Global!, Global Studies.
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Wednesday, November 4
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La mesa de conversación
Rathskeller, Memorial Union
All levels of Spanish are welcome are welcome to
join informal Spanish conversation sponsored by the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese. |
Thursday, November 12
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Bate-Papo (Portuguese Language Table)
4:30 p.m.
Kollege Klub (corner of Lake and Langdon Streets)
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Friday, November 13
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Global Hot Spots Lecture: "Is Organic/Fair-trade Agriculture Sustainable? Observations from Mexico, Peru, and Wisconsin"
November 13, 2009
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Pyle Center
Presented by: Brad
Barham, Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and
Co-Director of the
Program on Agricultural Technology Studies
For
the
latest updates, specific topic information, and more, visit uwalumni.com/learning.
To get questions
answered, e-mail Kevin Check at kcheck@waastaff.com
or call him directly at (608) 262-9599 or toll free at (888) 947-2586.
The
2009
Global Hot Spot Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the UW-Madison
Division of International
Studies, the Wisconsin Alumni
Association, Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute or UW OLLI, and Participatory
Learning
and Teaching Organization or PLATO, which is a program of OLLI.
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International Conversation and Coffee Hour
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
MSC Lounge, Red Gym and Armory.
Relax.
Enjoy coffee, tea, sweets, and a break from studying. Mingle with
international faculty, staff and community members in a fun, informal
atmosphere.
Sponsored by: International Student Services |
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Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Info Sessions |
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November 16, 6pm (Mezzanine AB, Red Gym, 2nd floor)
November 17, 5pm (Room 154 Red Gym, 1st floor)
December 1, 4:30pm (Room 154 Red Gym, 1st floor)
WI Idea Undergraduate
Fellowships provide opportunities for
undergraduates to collaborate with a community partner and
faculty/instructional staff sponsor to meet pressing community needs
locally,
nationally or internationally. Students earn three credits and receive
a
stipend (up to $3000 for individuals and $5000 for groups). Additional
funding
is also available to develop and implement the project.
The application
deadline is Friday, February 12, 2010.
More information and
application materials are available
online at www.morgridge.wisc.edu/students/wif.html
or at the Morgridge Center, 154 Red Gym.
For more information, contact Elizabeth Tryon, etryon@wisc.edu
or (608) 890-3334 .
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Day of Action to Stop Wage Theft
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November 19
Time & Location TBA
Program will include:
- Local workers speaking about the different aspects of wage theft (withheld checks, subminimum wage, non-payment of overtime, etc).
- Community and faith leaders speaking about the effects wage theft has in Madison.
- Students relating it all back to our campus and other labor struggles that happen around us every day.
Wage theft is rampant across the country. A recent study of low-wage workers found that 26 percent of them were paid less than minimum wage, while 76 percent were not paid overtime. I hope that you can help us raise awareness of this issue and to organize students to take concrete action to put a stop to it.
Sponsored by the Interfaith Worker Justice's National Day of Action to Stop Wage Theft, UW Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC), the Madison Workers' Rights Center, and LACIS.
For more information about the national campaign: http://www.iwj.org/index.cfm/a-call-to-action-to-stop-wage-theft
For more information about SLAC: http://slac.rso.wisc.edu
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Upcoming Writing Center Events
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Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
December 4, 2009 - 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Come to this workshop to learn what employers say they want in resumes and cover letters and how to meet those criteria impressively.
Writing Applications and Statements of Purpose for Graduate School
November 20, 2009 - 1:30-3:00 p.m.
For those applying to masters and doctoral programs in the sciences, social sciences, or humanities, this class will explore general principles for writing convincing and persuasive essays and statements-ones that review your undergraduate work and emphasize your research interests.
All workshops will be held at the Writing Center, 6171 Helen C. White.
For
more information, visit www.writing.wisc.edu or call 608-263-1992.
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International Book Club Discussion: "Brother, I'm Dying" - UW Milwaukee
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November 20
12:00pm - 1:00 pm
Garland 104,
UW-Milwaukee
Please join us for a discussion of Brother, I'm Dying, an
award-winning
memoir by Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. Danticat will be
at UW-Milwaukee on Monday, November 23, as part of the UWM Union's Distinguished Lecture Series.
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-born author who has written several books
including Brother, I'm Dying, which won the 2007 National Book
Critics Circle Award. Danticat's writing has appeared in The New
Yorker and other anthologies, and she has taught at New York
University and the University of Miami. She was recently named a 2009
MacArthur Fellow.
Read about the book at:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400041152
Cosponsored by the Institute of World Affairs/Center for International
Education and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
UW-Milwaukee. Free and open to the public. For more information:
414-229-5986 or jkline@uwm.edu.
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8th Annual
International
Children's & Young Adult Literature Celebration
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
TrippCommons, Memorial Union
University of Wisconsin-Madison
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
"Open a Door... Open a Book... Open your Mind... to the World"
Featuring: Sylviane
Diouf, Rachna Gilmore, Kelly Herold, James Rumford
This
celebration is an
annual workshop for educators, librarians, student teachers and
children's
literature enthusiasts, with an aim to internationalize statewide
reading
curriculum. Each author will discuss the
stories that they have written and highlight the work they feel is most
suitable for classroom discussion. Two authors will speak in the
morning and
two following lunch. In conclusion, we will have a reception and book
signing.
This event is
sponsored by
the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) in observance of
International Education Week 2009. International Education Week is a
joint
initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of
Education
to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and
attract
future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in
the United States.
For more
information and to register, please go to: http://www.wioc.wisc.edu/childlit/2009/registration09.htm
Please
register and pay by
Monday, November 13, 2009. We are
not able to accept payments on location at the Memorial Union.
For more
information call
(608) 262-9224, or e-mail: rweiss@wisc.edu
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Field Trip to Milwaukee Public Museum to view Pre-Columbian Collection
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November 21, 2009
8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Christiane Clados, a research associate of the Free University of Berlin and a post-doctoral fellow (anthropology) at UW-Madison who is currently teaching art history 390-Pre-Columbian Art, is organizing a bus trip to Milwaukee to see the Pre-Columbian exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum. There are still seats available - first come, first served. The costs for the bus plus entrances to the Milwaukee Public Museum is $30 cash if paid by Nov. 6th. Cost after Nov. 6th, will be $20.00 and you will have to purchase your entrance ticket at the museum.
People can bring the $30 ($20 after Nov. 6th - exact change only please), to the Art History Office, 232 Elvehjem Bldg.
Buses leave: UW Memorial Union, Nov 21, 8:30 AM, (spot time 8:15 AM)
Buses return: From Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 West Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53233. Arrive Madison approximately 4:30 PM.
The Milwaukee Public Museum website is: www.mpm.edu/
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Feminisms, Democracy and Diversity in Latin America in the XXI Century |
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December 2, 2009
12:00-1:00 p.m. 105 Ingraham Hall
Presented by Tinker Visiting Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Virginia Vargas
*Professor Vargas comes to UW-Madison from Catolica Universidad, Lima, Peru.
For Professor Vargas' biography, visit http://womenstudies.wisc.edu/CRWG/Visitingscholarscurrent.htm
Co-sponsored by LACIS, TARGET Research Circle (Transnational Applied Research in Gender Equity Training), Gender & Women's Studies.
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World Literature: The Allophone, the
Differential, and the Common |
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December
4
(Time & Location TBA)
Lecture presented
by NAVE Visiting Scholar Djelal Kadir, Professor of
Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University as part of of
the symposium
"In a Few Wor(ld)s: A Conference on World Literature/s"
Co-sponsored
by the LACIS NAVE Fund, Division of International
Studies, Anonymous Fund, Center for German and European Studies, Center
for
European Studies and UW's German Department.
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Global Studies Graduate Workshop: Rio's Other Gang? The Cult of the Special Police Forces (BOPE)
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December 2, 2009
12:00 p.m.
Presented by: Erika Robb Larkins (Anthropology)
The Global Studies Graduate Workshop offers an informal, stress-free environment where graduate students of all levels can meet to discuss their work. Each session, one student presents a dissertation chapter, job talk, conference paper, or similar item for discussion. Papers are normally circulated prior to the meeting so that participants can read them ahead of time. However, there is no required reading or other preparation needed in order to participate. The workshop has proven to be a useful venue precisely because of its interdisciplinarity. People from a variety of departments bring their perspectives to share with others who also come from places where perhaps international/global studies are not the main focus. Any UW-Madison graduate student is welcome to participate in any or all of the workshop meetings. We provide some food, you provide the intellectual nourishment.
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Call for volunteers
Do you have a conference presentation that you would like to polish? A job talk you need to try out? Or maybe you have a paper you would like to submit for publication or a dissertation chapter that isn't quite ready to show your advisor? If you have any of these or any other sort of written document that deals with international issues and would like to have it looked at by like-minded graduate students, this is your chance! Global Studies continually accepts volunteers to present at upcoming meetings of the Global Studies Graduate Workshop. We aim for two workshops per semester, but dates are flexible and can be determined by the presenters. What we need are people who would like to run their work by a group of friendly internationally minded graduate students.
RSVP to info@global.wisc.edu for location of each workshop and to access the papers. Additional information on the Workshop and other Global Studies activities is available at: www.global.wisc.edu. |
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18th Annual Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative $2,000 Rural Health Prize
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Deadline April 15, 2010
The Hermes Monato, Jr. Prize of $2,000 is awarded annually for the best rural health paper. It is open to all students of the University of Wisconsin (any campus). Students are encouraged to write on a rural health topic for a regular class and then to submit a copy to the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative as an entry by April 15. Previous award winners as well as judging criteria and submission information are available at http://www.rwhc.com/Awards/MonatoPrize.aspx
For more information, contact Jane Yahr Shepard at 608-263-7561 or jyshepard@wisc.edu
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Joaquim Nabuco Award
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The Brazil Initiative of the Division of International Studies and the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program announce the creation of the Joaquim Nabuco Award, to be given annually to the best essay on Brazil (any field) by a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate or undergraduate student. The prize includes a cash amount of $1,000 and round-trip airfare to Brazil. Submissions for the 2010 Joaquim Nabuco Award will be accepted until May 3rd, 2010.
Please visit: http://brazil.wisc.edu/joaquim_nabuco_award.php for further details.
Good Luck!
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VOLUNTEER & JOB OPPORTUNITIES...
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Volunteers needed to tutor native Spanish-speaking students in Verona
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The Schools of Hope Program in Verona seeks volunteers to tutor native Spanish-speaking students in Spanish literacy. The time commitment is at least a half-hour per week working one-on-one with students.
For more information, contact Kristen Huschitt at Kristen.Huschitt@verona.k12.wi.us .
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Register for BuckyNet to search Jobs & Internships
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BuckyNet is replacing eRecruiting
to better serve you! It is an online system that allows you to
search for jobs and internships from hundreds of employers, participate
in on-campus interviews, plus much more!
Two Ways to Register:*
In person --
Tuesdays - 5pm, Suite 205, Thursdays - 12:30pm, Room 102, Middleton
Building , 1305 Linden Drive
*NOTE: Economics majors
must attend the Economics Majors Orientation to register - 7324 Social
Sciences - 2pm on Wed. 9/9, 9/23, 10/7, 10/21 or at 9:30am Tues. 9/15,
9/29, 10/13, 10/27
Sponsored by: L&S
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Sign up for Goinglobal
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Goinglobal is a great reference for resumes and cover letters for anyone considering working abroad, and lists global job opportunities.
To register, stop by the Letters & Science Career Services office (1305 Linden Drive, Suite 205) anytime 8AM-4:30PM, Monday-Friday, and sign up for Goinglobal (http://online.goinglobal.com/).
To schedule an appointment with a Career Adviser, call 262-3921.
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| Go Global! International Careers Advising |
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Interested in looking into international work for the se mester? The
summer? Following graduation? Looking for a summer internship? A
volunteer opportunity over break? Post-graduation work abroad?
Internationally-oriented work here in Madison? Washington, DC?
Go
Global! is pleased to offer drop-in advising for those interested
in looking into international work opportunities of all sorts.
Fall 2009 drop-in advising hours are:
Tuesdays 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Thursdays 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Advising is not available every Tuesday and Thursday. Complete details
on drop-in availability and how to set up an appointment are available
at http://go.global.wisc.edu/advising.htm
Go Global! is in 301 Ingraham Hall. You can also reach an advisor
by email (go@global.wisc.edu) and phone (608.265.6070). For information on Go Global! visit http://goglobal-uw.blogspot.com or http://twitter.com/Go Global
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If you would like to submit an event to the LACIS Noticias de la Semana, or wish to be removed from our mailing list, please send an email to LACIS' Outreach Coordinator, Sarah Ripp at: skripp@wisc.edu or 608-262-0616.
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