This calendar includes events sponsored by the Language Institute and select other UW-Madison departments and programs. There is a wealth of international programming on the UW-Madison campus! For more event listings, please check out the following links:
April, 2008 |
Event |
Date, Time, Location |
Sponsor(s) |
Taste of Cultures
|
Thursday, April 3
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Union South, Room 240
|
International Student Services |
World Cinema Day
website |
Friday, April 4
12:15 - 3:00 pm
Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson
|
International Experiment 2008
|
Saturday, April 5
9:30 am - 3:00 pm
Union South, TITU
|
International Student Services |
Global Dialogue: Social Justice Around the World
website |
Monday, April 7
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Chadbourne Hall Lounge
|
International Student Services |
Day in Russia |
Tuesday, April 8
8:30 am -12:30 pm |
Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia
Contact:
Nancy Heingartner |
Lecture: "Compañero, la vocación se respeta: The Culture of Work in Post-Soviet Cuban Fiction and Film."
Presenter: Vicky Unruh, University of Kansas |
Thursday, April 10
3:30 pm
1418 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive |
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Contact: Guillermina De Ferrari |
Lecture: Dynamic Assessment: The Dialectical Integration of Instruction and Assessment
Presenter: James P. Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University
website |
Thursday, April 10
4:00 pm (note change of date and time)
254 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Drive |
Language Institute
Contact: Dianna Murphy
|
Lecture: Cultural Transfer in the Norse World: The Case of Klari Saga
Presenter:Professor Marianne E. Kalinkie, University of Illinois-Urbana
website |
Thursday, April 10
7:00 pm
7187 Helen C. White Hall
|
Department of Scandinavian Studies |
Symposium: Evolving Persepctives in SLA
Organizers: Second Language Acquisition Graduate Students
website |
Friday, April 11 - Saturday, April 12
University of Wisconsin-Madison Lowell Center, 610 Langdon Street |
UW-Madison SLA Graduate Student Organization (SLAG), University of Iowa Foreign Language Acquisition Research and Education Students (FLARES), L&S Anonymous Fund. |
Around the World Children's Fair
website |
Saturday, April 19
12:00 - 4:00 pm
The Villager Mall at 2300 S. Park St. |
WUD Global Connections
Contact: Shira Weiner |
World Languages Day
website |
Tuesday, April 22
8:30 am - 2:00 pm |
Language Institute
Contact: Wendy Johnson
|
NCOLCTL Pre-
Conference Workshop: Lessons Learned in the World of Conducting and Publishing Research: Ten Little Questions and Their Important Answers
website |
1:30-5:30 pm, Thurday, April 24
University Room, Madison Concourse Hotel
Open to all UW-Madison (LCTL) instructors |
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
Contact: Antonia Schleicher
|
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) Eleventh International Conference
website |
April 24-27
Madison Concourse Hotel
|
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
Contact: Antonia Schleicher
|
German Day
website |
Thurday, April 24 |
German Department
Contact: Charles James
|
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