Language for Life: A Look Back at Past Events
Language for Life is a program of the Language Institute that gives current students the opportunity to meet with working professionals who studied a foreign language and are using that language in their professional or personal lives in inspiring ways.
Date |
Topic |
Speakers |
Featured Languages |
March 5, 2013 |
Languages and Social Justice |
Amy McGann, Eugenia Podesta, and Adam Taylor |
French, Hindi, Spanish |
November 13, 2012 |
Languages and Business |
Jillian Bau, Steve Feldman, and Mia Johnson |
French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish |
April 25, 2012 |
Languages and Professional Opportunities in National Security & Intelligence |
Al Leftwich, William Rivers, Patrice Shackleford, Errol Smith, Peter Sursi |
General |
March 22, 2012 |
Languages and Global Health |
Lauren Mueenuddin, Claire Wendland, and Mollie Overby |
Chichewa, French, Hindi, Navajo, Persian, Spanish, Urdu |
April 4, 2011 |
Languages and Engineering |
Christopher Bareither, Eyleen Chou, Jeffrey Schacherl |
French, Haitian Creole, German, Spanish |
December 6, 2010 |
Languages and Medicine |
Jehad Algharabli, medical student, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Elizabeth Longmeir, M.D., Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program
|
French, Spanish, various |
May 7, 2010 |
Careers in Translation and Interpretation |
Sarah Berquet-Clignet, independent translator
Alison Carroll, independent translator
Tomislav Longinovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
French, German, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish |
April 14, 2010 |
Languages and Environmental Careers |
Richard Beilfuss, International Crane Foundation
Ted Petith, Madison-Freiburg Sister City Program
|
German,Nepali, Portuguese, Vietnamese |
October 18, 2009 |
Languages and the Peace Corps |
Jessica Doyle, First Lady of the State of Wisconsin
John Sheffy, campus Peace Corps representative
|
Ewe, French, Spanish
|
February 26, 2009 |
Languages and Law |
Carmel Capati, Wisconsin Court Interpreter Program
Erik Ibele, Neider & Boucher
David Miller, Law Office of Michael C. Rakower
|
Filipino, German, Russian, Spanish
|
September 8, 2008 |
Sports and Languages |
Matt Beyer, interpreter for NBA
Brian Doherty, soccer in Germany
Eric Horne, basketball in Spain
Ben Johnson, football in Germany |
Chinese, German, Spanish
|
October 15, 2007 |
Languages and International Development |
Stephan Boucher, University of California-Davis
Malcolm Childress,
World Bank
Nick Magnan, University of California-Davis
|
French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish |
November 8, 2006 |
Translation and Interpretation in Government and Private Sectors |
Kathleen Egan, TSWG Language Program
Jacolyn Hudson, Geo Group Corporation |
Arabic, French, Spanish |
March 1, 2006 |
Languages and Business |
Pamela Delfosse, PLACES International,
Mark Rhoda-Reis, Springs Window Fashions
Jill Simpson, Island Spirit Adventures
|
Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
|
October 11, 2005 |
World Languages and Medicine |
Ryan Sydor, medical student
Elizabeth Magnan, medical student
Nona Mei, medical student
Byram Ozer, medical student,
|
Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish |
March 9, 2005 |
Language in the Real World |
Jennifer Brick, government/NGOs
Carol Schroeder, Orange Tree Imports
Alisha Steele, NGOs/social services
Molly Todd, graduate study/translation
|
Russian, Tajik, Persian, Scandinavian languages, Spanish, Tajik, Turkish, Uzbek
|
February 10, 2005 |
Conversation with Karina Shook |
Karina Shook, Aerospace Technologist, NASA |
Russian
|
September 8, 2004 |
Conversation with Anthony Shadid |
Anthony Shadid, correspondent, Washington Post
|
Arabic
|
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