BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20100314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20101107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:25940@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100326 DESCRIPTION:*Note: actual end time may vary.* \n Germanic Languages and Cu ltures in Global Perspective. This conference examines the increasing pres sure exerted on the model of the nation state by today’s rapid movement of people and information\, focusing on the relationship between language\ , culture and transnationalism in the scope of Germanic languages. By prov iding discussion among scholars in the fields of sociolinguistics\, social anthropology\, social geography\, education\, cultural studies and litera ry studies\, participants aim to establish a platform for long-term collab orative initiatives.\n\nCONTACT: 262-7546\, kkurdylo@wisc.edu\n\nURL: http ://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/WUN_conference.htm LOCATION:TITU\, Memorial Union SUMMARY:Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/WUN_conference.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:25400@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100326 DESCRIPTION:*Note: actual end time may vary.* \n 100 Years of the Art and Science of Eating. Exhibition held in conjunction with the "Go Big Read" r eading program. Themes include include the history of the food pyramid\, t he story of Victory Gardens\, the confusion inherent in diet advice\, the "voice of authority" in cookbooks and nutrition literature\, the marketing of food products and the evolution of hospital diets. Exhibition run exte nded to April 6.\n\nCONTACT: 262-2402\, msullivan@library.wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/events/details.cfm?session_id=516 LOCATION:Ebling Library Historical Reading Room\, Health Sciences Learning Center SUMMARY:It's Good for You URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/events/details.cfm?session_id= 516 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27072@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100325 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100326 DESCRIPTION:*Note: actual end time may vary.* \n Washington\, DC. An educa tional weekend in the nation’s capitol includes a performance of music b y Janacek\, Schubert and Dvorak by the National Symphony\; a visit to the National Museum of African Art\; and more. March 25-28.\n\nCONTACT: 263-7 787\, dwhittle@dcs.wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://www.wisc.edu/classes/classtoc.h tm LOCATION:Washington DC SUMMARY:Division of Continuing Studies URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wisc.edu/classes/classtoc.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27062@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T120000 DESCRIPTION:In this course\, get introduced to the concept of the relationa l database by using the Microsoft Office Access 2007 and its information m anagement tools. Class continues on Friday\, March 26.\n\nCONTACT: 262-360 5\, classes@doit.wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/pte/cl ass.aspx?class=7515 LOCATION:B207 Computer Sciences SUMMARY:Access 2007 Beginners URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/pte/class.aspx?class=7515 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:25714@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T130000 DESCRIPTION:Interested in looking into international opportunities for the semester? The summer? Following graduation? Looking for a summer internshi p? A volunteer opportunity over break? Post-graduation work abroad? Go Glo bal! is pleased to offer advising for those interested in looking into int ernational opportunities of all sorts.\n\nCONTACT: 265-6070\, go@global.wi sc.edu\n\nURL: http://go.global.wisc.edu/advising.htm LOCATION:301 Ingraham Hall SUMMARY:International Opportunities Advising URL;VALUE=URI:http://go.global.wisc.edu/advising.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27532@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T170000 DESCRIPTION:Belgian photographer Filip Dujardin creates imaginary buildings by resampling pictures of real buildings\, digitally piecing together ele ments of existing architecture to create fictional structures. The exibit includes 16 works that show the artist’s expertise as a photographer and as an image manipulator. This exhibition is the first of Dujardin’s wor k in the United States.\n\nCONTACT: 263-2246\, sday@chazen.wisc.edu\n\nURL : http://www.chazen.wisc.edu LOCATION:Conrad A. Elvehjem Building SUMMARY:Imaginary Architecture: Photographs by Filip Dujardin URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.chazen.wisc.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27863@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T123000 DESCRIPTION:Morgridge Center for Public Service. Meet with the campus liais on for assistance in finding the right non-profit agency and volunteer opp ortunity to meet your needs. 1:30 -3 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays\; 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Other times available by appointmen t\, schedule online.\n\nCONTACT: 262-0542\, volunteer@morgridge.wisc.edu\n \nURL: http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/students/local.html LOCATION:Morgridge Center for Public Service\, Armory and Gymnasium (Red Gy m) SUMMARY:National and International Drop-In Volunteer Advising URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.morgridge.wisc.edu/students/local.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27946@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T130000 DESCRIPTION:The State of World's Fisheries: Gloom and Doom or Are We Moving to Sustainable Fishing. # Ray Hilborn\, the Center for Limnology’s Kaes er Scholar for 2010\, will be visiting March 24 and 25. Hilborn is a profe ssor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Wa shington specializing in natural resource management and conservation. He authored “Quantitative fisheries stock assessment” with Carl Walters i n 1992\, and “The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data” with Marc Mangel in 1997.\n\nCONTACT: limnology@mailplus.wisc.edu LOCATION:132 Noland Hall SUMMARY:Kaeser Scholar Lecture: Ray Hilborn END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:24166@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T133000 DESCRIPTION:Improving Labor Market Outcomes and Transitions to Adulthood: E vidence From Career Academies. James Kemple\, director of the K-12 educati on policy area at MDRC\, lectures as part of the IRP Seminar Series on "He althy Families: Assessing the Role of Public Policies."\n\nCONTACT: 262-61 75\, cwilliam@ssc.wisc.edu LOCATION:8417 Sewell Social Sciences SUMMARY:Institute for Research on Poverty Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:28001@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T163000 DESCRIPTION:The Metabolic Basis of Ecology. \n\nCONTACT: 265-2191\, mudrak@ wisc.edu LOCATION:132 Noland Hall SUMMARY:Biology Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:28256@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T170000 DESCRIPTION:Atomic-resolution EELS and XEDS imaging in Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Masashi Watanabe\, Lehigh Univ ersity.\n\nCONTACT: 263-1795\, rhoads@engr.wisc.edu LOCATION:265 Materials Science and Engineering Building SUMMARY:Materials Science Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:26424@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T170000 DESCRIPTION:Bride Abduction in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Marking a Shift To wards Patriarchy through Local Discourses of Shame and Tradition. Cynthia Werner\, Texas A&\;M University\, uses local discourses of shame and tr adition to explain changing marriage practices and to mark a shift towards greater patriarchy in post-Soviet Central Asia.\n\nCONTACT: 262-3379\, ev ents@creeca.wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/ LOCATION:206 Ingraham Hall SUMMARY:CREECA Lecture Series URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.creeca.wisc.edu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27980@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T170000 DESCRIPTION:Tiptoeing Through the Minefield. Gavin Schmidt\, climate modele r for NASA GISS and co-founder of RealClimate.org. Climate change is an ex ample of a science that\, given the large perceived impacts\, has become h ighly politicized. In such an environment\, science is often used within t he political context as a proxy for political positions. How far do scient ists’ responsibilities go in ensuring that relevant science is appropria tely transmitted and understood by the public and policy makers?\n\nCONTAC T: 890-2199\, spwilliams@wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://www.wage.wisc.edu/events/ ?ID=659 LOCATION:1106 Mechanical Engineering Building SUMMARY:Communicating Climate Science URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.wage.wisc.edu/events/?ID=659 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:26401@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T170000 DESCRIPTION:Matt Brody\, doctoral candidate\, Y. Lee Lab.\n\nCONTACT: 263-4 580\, emstevens@wisc.edu LOCATION:140 Bardeen Medical Laboratories SUMMARY:METC Graduate Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:24334@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T183000 DESCRIPTION:Felt: The Most Ancient Modern Material. A lecture by Susan Brow n\, Assistant Curator\, Textiles\, Cooper-Hewitt\, National Design Museum. The Cooper-Hewitt’s recent exhibition “Fashioning Felt” presented a dazzling array of felts ranging from industrial products to one-of-a-kind jewels\, from walls to wearables\, from the ethnographic to the ultra-mod ern. Curator Susan Brown will discuss the traditional antecedents of conte mporary experiments in felt-making in conjunction with a survey of highlig hts from her exhibition.\n\nCONTACT: 262-1162\, msalomon@wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://textilecollection.wisc.edu/events.html LOCATION:Ebling Symposium Center (room 1220)\, Microbial Sciences SUMMARY:Ruth Ketterer Harris Lecture URL;VALUE=URI:http://textilecollection.wisc.edu/events.html END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:28002@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T183000 DESCRIPTION:Felt: The Most Ancient Modern Material. Susan Brown\, assistant curator of textiles\, Cooper-Hewitt\, National Design Museum.\n\nCONTACT: 262-1162\, msalomon@wisc.edu LOCATION:Ebling Symposium Center (Room 1220)\, Microbial Sciences SUMMARY:Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27481@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T200000 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Middle East Studies: February Series: Israel and Palestine in Focus. When a group of U.S. soldiers throw an Iraqi boy off a bridge in Samarra\, results in yet another cycle of violence between the insurgents and the corrupt Iraqi police. Anna\, a U.S. journalist\, decid es to follow the assassination of an Iraqi leader. At the same time\, she is breaking from a relationship with Dan\, a U.S. intelligence official\, and towards Zaid\, a young Iraqi photographer who shows her there are peop le\, rather than sides\, in the conflict.\n\nCONTACT: 444-3855\, cmes@mide ast.wisc.edu SUMMARY:Film Screening: The Situation (Iraq 2006) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:27002@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100326T160000 DESCRIPTION:Major Gift Fundraising. In this workshop you move toward a majo r-gift focus that can help your organization carry out its mission more ef fectively\, regardless of its size.\n\nCONTACT: 265-4077\, rbrooks@dcs.wis c.edu\n\nURL: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/languages LOCATION:Pyle Center SUMMARY:Division of Continuing Studies: Languages URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/languages END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:26872@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T210000 DESCRIPTION:Watercolor: Intermediate. For watercolorists who have taken a b eginning class and want to advance in the medium\; to achieve a better und erstanding of watercolor and how to enjoy using it in your own way. Thursd ays through April 29.\n\nCONTACT: 263-6322\, loneill@dcs.wisc.edu\n\nURL: http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/classes/classtoc.htm LOCATION:West Madison Ag Research Station\, 8502 Mineral Point Rd\, Verona\ , WI SUMMARY:Division of Continuing Studies: Arts URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.dcs.wisc.edu/classes/classtoc.htm END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;TZID=America/Chicago:20260420T153927 UID:19999@calendar.wisc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325T203000 DESCRIPTION:A University Theatre Production. The stranger's return was Elli da's worst fear. After a mysterious lost love resurfaces\, Ellida Wangel\, a young wife in the midst of marital turmoil\, struggles to act "of her o wn free will" when faced with the choice between her family and her heart. Ibsen's psychological drama explores the plight of nineteenth century wom en through Ellida's difficult dilemma. By Henrik Ibsen\, adapted by Pam Ge ms. Directed by Jeremy Thomas Poulsen.\n\nCONTACT: 265-2787\n\nURL: http:/ /www.utmadison.com LOCATION:Hemsley Stage\, Vilas Hall SUMMARY:The Lady from the Sea URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.utmadison.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR