Late last semester, UW–Madison professor Adam L. Kern sent an urgent, cryptic email to four of his students. He summoned them to his office early the next morning, promising something “potentially extremely interesting and important, if not …
Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages Saturday April 15th 2017, 8 am-12:00 pm Location: Grainger Hall Keynote Speakers: Prof. Lening Liu 刘乐宁 (Columbia University) Prof. Chaofen Sun 孙朝奋 (Stanford University) Prof. …
Nature of Language Acquisition: Argumentation from Chinese Language Education
Nature of Language Acquisition: Argumentation from Chinese Language Education Yang Zhao 赵杨 Professor and Dean, School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, China Friday April 14th 2017, 4:30-6:00 pm 104 Van Hise Hall …
2017 US Midwest Chinese Bridge Speech Contest and the Forum on Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages
In order to further promote Chinese language and culture education in the Midwest and to strengthen exchanges between Chinese programs at the college level in this region, Chinese Language Program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison …
NSA Grant Funds Korean Language Program for Local High School Students
Posted on February 27, 2017 by Steven Barcus This summer, as many as 20 students from across Dane County will be exploring Korean language and culture through the UW-Madison STARTALK Korean Language and Culture Academy. The STARTALK program, an …
15th Annual Japanese Speech Contest
The annual speech contest brings the Madison community together and also provides a venue in which students speak confidently in Japanese and connect with many people not only from Madison but also from many parts of …
ALC End-of-Semester Gathering
Samson Lim (Public Talk): The Visual Culture of Criminal Detection in Modern Thailand
Modern criminal investigation entails the production and use of a range of visualisations, from fingerprints and photographs to maps and diagrams. In this talk, I present an analytical history of these visual practices as they …
Tyrell Haberkorn (Public Lecture): Towards an Accounting of Late Cold War Human Rights Violations in Thailand
The 6 October 1976 massacre and coup first ended nearly three years of open politics in Thailand, and then began an extended period of arbitrary detention, torture, and killing of citizens who came to be …
BJ Lim has been selected for funding as part of the STARTALK 2017 program
I am happy to inform you that we have just heard from the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) that the proposal “UW-Madison STARTALK Korean Lang & Culture Academy”, developed by BJ Lim …