Sessions of World Languages Day 2004
1. African Story-Telling: The Music of Words
Presenter: Professor Harold Scheub
2. Ancient Greek and the Legacy of Ancient Troy
Presenter: William Aylward
3. Aquí se habla español: Living Among Languages
Presenter: Professor Rubén Medina
4. Around the Philippines in 40 Minutes: A Language and Culture Sampler
Presenter: Monita Manalo
5. Balkan Beat: Language, Music, and Culture in Southeast Europe
Presenter: Professor Margaret Beissinger
6. Brazilian Rainforest: The lost/last paradise?
Presenters: Vanessa Fitzgibbon & Rebecca Atencio
7. Chinese Martial Arts in Literature and Film
Presenter: Professor Nicole Huang
8. Choose Your Own Adventure: Study Abroad
Presenters: Peer Advisors from International Academic Programs
9. Creole: A Language of Difference
Presenter: Professor Deborah Jenson
10. Czech Culture: Why do 40,000 American Ex-Pats Live in Prague?
Presenter: Professor David Danaher
11. The Documentary Impulse in French Film
Presenter: Professor Kelley Conway
12. Dutch: A Big "Little" Language (And why is water so important to the Dutch?)
Presenter: Professor Jolanda Taylor
13. From Mask Dance to Hip Hop: Korean Language as Cultural Expression
Presenters: Professors Andy Sutton & Peggy Choy
14. From SHALOM to L'HAYIM to HALLELUJAH, from HUTZPAH to MAZAL TOV to AMEN: Hebrew Is Not As Foreign As You May Think
Presenters: Professors Bilha Mirkin & Haya Yuchtman
15. German-Americans in Wisconsin
Presenter: Professor Monika Chavez
16. Greet Your Friend in Persian
Presenter: Professor Atefeh Oliai
17. Hebrew in Caves: The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Presenter: Michael Lyons
18. India is Closer Than You Think: A Journey Through its Languages
Presenter: Professor V. Narayana Rao
19. The Inkas' World Through Inka Language
Presenter: Armando Muyulema
20. Italiano: sì, grazie!: Why Study Italian
Presenters: Professor Ernesto Livorni & Sara Gelmetti
21. Japanese in the Kitchen: Iron Chef
Presenter: Professor Charo D'Etcheverry
22. Kendo
Presenter: Professor Mark Kenoyer
23. KINO: un microcinéma planétaire
Presenter: Professor Ritt Deitz
24. The Language of the Mandala: Tibetan Buddhism and World Creation
Presenter: Professor John Dunne
25. Languages and Jobs: National Security Opportunities
Presenter: Professor Ben Rifkin
26. Languages of Wisconsin
Presenter: Professor Mark Louden
27. Latin: Alive and Well
Presenter: Professor Victoria Pagán
28. Mino-Bimaadiziwin, the Good Life
Presenters: Professor Rand Valentine, Lea Wolf & Henning Garvin
29. More than you bargained for: Spanish, culture, cities, and money
Presenter: Professor Juan Egea
30. Nawruz: New Year in Central Asia
Presenter: Professor Uli Schamiloglu
31. New Sounds from the North
Presenter: Professor Tom DuBois
32. Peace Corps Life is Calling. How far will you go?
Presenter: Lisa Wandke
33. Scandinavia for All Your Senses
Presenters: Professors Susan Brantly & Nete Schmidt
34. Speaking Swahili Through Your Clothes
Presenters: Professor Magdalena Hauner, Karin Gleisner & UW students
35. Study Abroad in France: You Can Do It!
Presenter: Professor Sally Magnan
36. Study in South India for College Credit
Presenter: Rachel Weiss
37. Surfing Indonesian, Exploring the Islands
Presenters: Professor Ellen Rafferty, Amelia Liwe and UW Students
38. Top-Ten Hits of Arabic Music and Cuisine
Presenters: Professor Dustin Cowell & UW Students Pyle
39. Turkish Sufi Poetry
Presenters: Professor Sarah Atis, Derya Senol & UW students
40. Vampire as a Metaphor
Presenter: Professor Toma Longinovic
41. Vietnamese can be fun
Presenter: ThuyAnh Nguyen
42. A Viking Adventure
Presenter: Professor Peggy Hager & UW Students
43. Village Life in Northern Thailand: A Journey through Photography
Presenter: Professor Katherine Bowie
44. Visit Xhosaland in South Africa
Presenter: Hlumela Sondlo
45. What You Can Do with Japanese: Voices of Recent Graduates
Presenter: Professor Naomi Geyer
46. Where Do Sugar and Pajamas Come From? India and the Puzzles of Knowledge
Presenter: Vinay Dharwadker
47. Yoruba Greetings
Presenter: Professor Antonia Schleicher
48. The Yucatec Maya Tradition
Presenter: Nancy Forster
Teachers' Session #1
Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium: What resources we offer for your classroom
Presenters: Representatives from Title VI area studies centers
Teachers' Session #2
Careers, Carreras, Carrières, Karrieres....The Foreign Language Advantage
Presenters: Leslie Kohlberg, Associate Director of L&S Career Services; Katia Albright, Advisor at L&S Career Services, and Andrew Irving, Director of the French House
Teachers' Session #3
The Nuts & Bolts of Language Requirements and Enrollment Procedures at UW
Presenters: Sally Magnan, Department of French & Italian; Diana Frantzen, Department of Spanish & Portuguese; Ben Rifkin, Department of Slavic Languages & Literature; Monika Chavez, Department of German, as well as faculty from other languages on hand to answer questions.
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