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Monday, November 09, 2009 9:00AM to 9:30PM
International Education Week
The Center for Global Education and the International Student Association invites you to celebrate International Education Week!  This full week of activities is designed to educate, enlighten, and entertain anyone who participates.  Events this year include international movies, lectures, dance lessons, and more!
 
Monday, November 09, 2009 3:00PM
The Local Economic Impact of the Stimulus Package
The Fall 2009 Fairhaven Lecture Series will look at various aspects of our global, U.S., and local economies, from macro- and micro-economic perspectives, as seen through the eyes of trained economists, historians and political scientists. Join us on Mondays at 3:00pm.
 

The Local Economic Impact of the Stimulus Package

Bud Gayhart, Director of Business Outreach Services, College of Business and Economics
 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:00AM to 9:30PM
International Education Week
The Center for Global Education and the International Student Association invites you to celebrate International Education Week!  This full week of activities is designed to educate, enlighten, and entertain anyone who participates.  Events this year include international movies, lectures, dance lessons, and more!
 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:00AM to 2:00PM
International Bake Sale

Come enjoy tasty treats from around the world
 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:00PM to 4:00PM
Experience Japan
Kabuki demonstrations, Japanese stories and Origami tables.
 
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:30PM to 9:30PM
International Movie Festival
The Movie "To Be and To Have"  will be shown.
 
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:00AM to 9:30PM
International Education Week
The Center for Global Education and the International Student Association invites you to celebrate International Education Week!  This full week of activities is designed to educate, enlighten, and entertain anyone who participates.  Events this year include international movies, lectures, dance lessons, and more!
 
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:30AM to 1:30PM
Travel Study Fair
The Center for Global Education along with the International Student Association is hosting International Education Week.
The Travel Study Fair is one of the highlighted events.
Students will be able to receive information on the spring 2010 University of Wisconsin-Whitewater faculty led international travel study courses.
Destinations include: The Balkans, China, Ireland, Japan, Paris, Peru and Vietnam.
The Travel Study Fair will be held at the University Center in front of the Hamilton Center by the main entrance.
 
Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:00AM to 9:30PM
International Education Week
The Center for Global Education and the International Student Association invites you to celebrate International Education Week!  This full week of activities is designed to educate, enlighten, and entertain anyone who participates.  Events this year include international movies, lectures, dance lessons, and more!
 
Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:00PM to 8:30PM
7th Annual BSU Cultural Explosion
The UW-Whitewater Black Student Union would like to invite the faculty, staff, students, and members of the community to the Annual BSU Cultural Explosion taking place on Thursday November starting at 7:00pm in the University Center Hamilton Center. Performances by the UW-Whitewater Gospel Choir, TIFU Cultural Ensemble, Urban Praise, Traditional African Dance, the Southeast Asian Dancers, the ALMA Dancers, Poets, and much more. There is a suggested $2.00 donation; ALL proceeds will benefit the "BSU Scholarship."
 
Friday, November 13, 2009 9:00AM to 9:30PM
International Education Week
The Center for Global Education and the International Student Association invites you to celebrate International Education Week!  This full week of activities is designed to educate, enlighten, and entertain anyone who participates.  Events this year include international movies, lectures, dance lessons, and more!
 
Friday, November 13, 2009 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Alumni Exhibition
Featuring a number of alumni from recent graduates to more established artists this exhibit will include a variety of media and styles. Invited artists include Mutope Johnson, Frank Korb, Patrick Turner and Greg Gent.
 
Monday, November 16, 2009 12:30PM to 1:30PM
Letters & Sciences Brown Bag Symposium on Research
Chris Calvert-Minor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, will present “How Epistemic Agency Can Thwart Good Epistemology”
 
Monday, November 16, 2009 3:00PM
An Armchair Economist's Dusty Crystal Ball...
The Fall 2009 Fairhaven Lecture Series will look at various aspects of our global, U.S., and local economies, from macro- and micro-economic perspectives, as seen through the eyes of trained economists, historians and political scientists. Join us on Mondays at 3:00pm.
 

An Armchair Economist’s Dusty Crystal Ball: Seeing the Economic Future and Other Reckless Prognostications

Jeff Heinrich, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Economics
 
Monday, November 30, 2009 7:00PM
Chris Abani- "Campus/Community Reading Initiative"
Chris Abani, imprisoned by the Nigerian government as a teenager for his writings, is currently a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and has been recognized as one of the best writers to emerge from Africa in half a century.   He is the recipient of the PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.  His most recent recognition is as a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction.  Three of his books, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and Song for Night, were named a New York Times Editor's Choice.