Events Bulletin
Learning
Studio glass retrospective
The Art Department and the Elvehjem Museum will host a three-day symposium to draw attention to the historical role of the UW–Madison in founding and promulgating the studio glass movements. Eight of Harvey Littleton’s most prominent students plan to return: Bill H. Boysen (MFA 1966), Fritz Dreisbach (MFA 1967), Henry Halem (postgraduate studies, 1968-9), Audrey Handler (M.S. 1967, MFA 1970), Roland Jahn (MFA 1966), and Marvin Lipofsky (MFA 1964).The artists, along with Harvey Littleton and curator William Warmus, will be part of a weekend symposium including lectures by artists and critics, a panel discussion, workshops and demonstrations, an oral history project and plenty of opportunities for informal conversation.
Friday, Nov. 17
9 a.m.-noon: Artists Presentations by Boysen, Dreisbach, Handler, Halem, Jahn and Lipofsky, 160 Elvehjem Museum.
2 p.m.: William Warmus lecture.
3 -5 p.m.: Panel discussion, “Glass Art: Developing a Tradition of Innovation,” with by Boysen, Dreisbach, Feren, Handler, Halem, Jahn, Lipofsky, Warmus at the Elvehjem Museum.
5 p.m.: Harvey Littleton lecture at the Elvehjem Museum followed by reception.
Saturday, Nov. 18
9 a.m.-5 p.m.: Workshops and demonstrations, Glass Lab, 46 North Randall St., Boysen, Dreisbach, Feren, Handler, Halem, Jahn, Lipofsky, Van Duerzen
Sunday, Nov. 19
10 a.m.: Oral history project.
2 p.m.: Wrapup discussion by William Warmus, “From 1951 until 1977.”
Internet Courses
Six-week courses begin Nov. 8 and include 34 choices such as: Creating Web Pages, Dreamweaver, JavaScript Programming for the Web, CGI Programming for the Web, Introduction to PC Troubleshooting, Basic A+ Certification: Hardware I, Photoshop Basics, Introduction to Excel, Access, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint.
There are also non-computer courses like: The Craft of Magazine Writing, A to Z Grantwriting, Start Your Own Consulting Practice, Marketing for Small Businesses, Debt Elimination Techniques That Work, Project Management Principles 1 and a Paralegal Certificate Program.
A complete description and registration for the courses can be found at
http://www.ed2go.com/cme/courses.html. The registration link is at the bottom of each course description.To receive monthly notices about online courses, or for general information, email Rhonda Dix, rkdix@facstaff.wisc.edu; or call 265-5221.
Punctuation and Grammar: Complete Course in Good Writing
Wednesday-Thursday, Dec 13-14, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Pyle Center. Fee: $200.
Instructor: Greg Galica. Learn and polish up on grammar, punctuation, word usage and editing. Information: 262-3032; chcarbon@facstaff.wisc.edu.
The Art of Conflict Transformation
Thursday-Friday, Dec 7-8, 8:30 am-4:30 pm. Lowell Center. Fee: $165.
Instructor: Kathy Germann. Shift from an either-or way of thinking to an attitude of curiosity and openness, out of which people in conflict can create win-win solutions. Information: 262-2352; j9c@mail.dcs.wisc.edu.
Power Photography
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Pyle Center. Fee: $149.
Instructor: Shiela Reaves. This seminar helps the writer/editor achieve greater visual impact in print or on the Web. Learn how to: improve lighting and composition, indoors and out; handle routine group shoots and awards; and make portraits, landscape and travel photographs more engaging. Participants are encouraged to bring technical questions and samples of their work. Register: 262-2451.
Repair, Restore Heirloom Photos
Monday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Pyle Center. Fee: $99.
Instructor: Ellen Tyler. Image enhancement software makes it possible to restore and repair cherished images, output them on a printer and preserve them for generations to come. This seminar (not hands-on) demonstrates simple repairs and enhancements using consumer-level software and more sophisticated restoration using Photoshop; it also covers scanning. Registration: 262-2451.
Adobe Photoshop Intro: Print
Tuesday, Nov. 28, 8:30 a.m.- 4 p.m., Pyle Center. Fee: $259.
Instructor: Ellen Tyler. Photoshop has become the industry standard for image manipulation. This hands-on workshop introduces the basic tools for outputting an image at the desired size and quality for print. Learn how to: enhance, tone, size and sharpen grayscale and color photos; determine correct resolution; remove scratches and dust; composite images; add type; clone portions of one image onto another; and work with layers. Registration: 262-2451.
Peer Review of Teaching Workshop
Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1-4 p.m., Pyle Center.
All non-tenured faculty are invited to attend this workshop with a mentor to join in discussion of the many ways peer review can be helpful. This workshop will include a brief overview of a Web site designed by a group of UW–Madison faculty to provide a menu of options for peer review (http://www.wisc.edu/provost/ccae/MOO).
The workshop includes examples of some of the most popular techniques, followed by breakout sessions to help you design your own individualized plan for peer review, in collaboration with your mentor. If your mentor is unavailable, there will be trained reviewers available. Additionally, hear a panel discussion with members of each of the four divisional committees describing the process of evaluating evidence gathered about teaching. Finally, discuss ways in which a department can foster conversations in teaching and formal/informal peer review.
Peer review is required by all divisions as part of showing evidence of good teaching at the UW, so this is an opportunity to make a plan for yourself to both enhance your teaching and show evidence of it. For more information about this workshop, please contact Katherine Sanders, kjsander@facstaff.wisc.edu. Register by Tuesday, Nov. 14, at: http://www.wisc.edu/provost/ccae/MOO/register.html.
The Dialogue Workshop
Tuesdays, Nov. 14, 28, Dec. 5, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lowell Center Fee: $95.
Instructor: Christine DeSmet. Participants work with the instructor, who is an award-winning scriptwriter, to discover tools for better characterization, emotional hooks, melodrama vs. mellowing out, creating subtext vs. “on the nose” dialogue, tags, action/reaction, plot-driven dialogue, dialects, correcting punctuation gaffes and more. Register: 262-2451.
Writer’s Retreat: Rx for First Drafts
Saturday. Nov 11, 9:30 a.m.-Sunday, Nov. 12, noon. St. Benedict Center, Middleton Fee: $145.
Instructors: Laurel Yourke and Marshall Cook, Division of Continuing Studies. Fiction and nonfiction writers gather in a beautiful setting outside of Madison and focus on first drafts of their writing projects. This intensive, fun weekend introduces methods and ways of thinking about writing. 262-3447.
American Education Week
Monday, Nov. 13
Brown Bag: “Using Video-Based Mediators to Contextualize the Problem-Solving Skills of Students With Disabilities.” Noon-1 p.m., 378 Educational Sciences Building.
Workshop: “Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement: Administration, Scoring and Interpretation.” 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Pyle Center.
Distance Education: “Biography and Autobiography for Children and Young Teens.” 4-5:30 p.m., via satellite
Tuesday, Nov. 14
Workshop: “The Science of Art: Exploring the Science Behind the Beauty.” 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Pyle Center.
Lecture: “Let Pictures Tell the Story,” illustrator Anthony Browne. 5:30 p.m., L160 Elvehjem Art Museum.
Lecture: “The Critic and the Artist,” Mira Schor and Susan Bee. 5:30-6:20 p.m., L150 Elvehjem Museum of Art.
Wednesday, Nov. 15
Discussion: “A Dialogue with Mira Schor and Susan Bee.” 9-11:30 a.m., Art Department Gallery, seventh floor, Humanities Building
Discussion: “Coming to an Understanding,” editor Emma Dryden and novelist Marc Kornblatt. 5:30-6:30 p.m., Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Helen C. White Hall.
Thursday, Nov. 16
Brown Bag: “Today’s Distance Education Isn’t Your Parents’ Distance Education.” Noon-1:30 p.m., 212 Educational Sciences.
Keynote address: “Setting the Record Straight: Debunking Myths about Public Education,” Gerald Bracey, author, policy analyst, researcher. 7:30 p.m., Wisconsin Union Theater.
Fall Faculty Dance Concert. 8 p.m., Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.
Friday, Nov. 17
Fall Faculty Dance Concert. 8 p.m., Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.
Saturday, Nov. 18
Workshop: “Nuclear Physics in the Science Curriculum: A Primer for Middle and High School Teachers.” 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Engineering Hall.
Fall Faculty Dance Concert. 8 p.m., Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, Lathrop Hall.
Global Visual Cultures
A conference organized by the UW–Madison Research Circle on Media, Performance, and Identity, Pyle Center Nov. 10-12
Friday, Nov. 10, Room DE 335
2:30 p.m., opening remarks, Hemant Shah, UW–Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
2:45 p.m., “The Sixties in Bamako: Malick Sidibe and James Brown.” Manthia Diawara, New York University, Department of Africana Studies and Institute of African American Affairs
4 p.m., Video Showing: “Diasporic Conversations: From Goree to Dogon.” A film by Manthia Diawara, with commentary following. Pyle Center, Ameritech Lounge (Room 106)
5 p.m., discussion with Manthia Diawara, refreshments served.
Saturday, Nov. 11, Pyle Center, Room 313
9:30 a.m., “Global Landscapes of News: Regions and Stories in the Work of Foreign Correspondents.” Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University, Department of Social Anthropology. 11 a.m., “Shooting Savvy Woman: The Iglossia of a Myth.”Aloke Thakore, UW–Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
11:20 a.m., “Satellite and Cyber Visualities: Analyzing “the Digital Earth.'” Lisa Parks, University of California-Santa Barbara, Department of Film Studies.
11:40 a.m., “Cyborg Fictions and Futures: Exploring Citizenship in a Global Information Economy.” Mobina Hashmi, UW–Madison, Department of Communication Arts.
2:15 p.m., “Geographies of Spectatorship: A Postcolonial Perspective.” Ella Shohat, City University of New York, Cinema Studies and Women’s Studies. 3:45 p.m., “Sexualized Asian Bodies: Visualizing American Global Authority.” James S. Moy, UW–Madison, Department of Theatre and Drama.
4:05 p.m., “Performing Culture(s) on the Web: Visualizing India in a Transnational Context.” Madhavi Mallapragada, UW–Madison, Department of Communication Arts.
Sunday, Nov. 12 Pyle Center, Room 335
9:30 a.m., “Art in the Wake of Violence.” Kenneth M.George, UW–Madison, Department of Anthropology.
10:45 a.m., “A Family Love Story.” Monika Mehta, University of Minnesota, Department of Film and Comparative Literature.
11:05 a.m., “Marginal Amusements: Canadian Comedy as Resistance to American Cultural Dominance.” Serra Tinic, University of Alberta, Department of Sociology.
11:25 a.m., “Globalizing Indonesia Through Television.” Deddy Mulyana, Padjadjaran University, Faculty of Communication Science; visiting Fulbright CIES scholar, Northern Illinois University, Fall 2000.
Successful Trade-Show Strategies
Friday, Dec. 1, 8:30-4 p.m. Pyle Center. Fee: $205.
Instructor: Allen Konapacki. Stay on top of today’s trade show environment and learn the latest techniques and strategies for getting maximum results from show participation. Information: 262-3032; cbcarbon@facstaff.wisc.edu.
Honoring Our Common Differences
Thursday, Nov. 16, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Pyle Center. Fee: $85.
Instructor: Kathy Germann. Learn to recognize and respect commonalities and differences, including race, ethnicity, gender, education, age and class, among others. This course helps to make people comfortable with workplace diversity and creates a productive atmosphere around coworkers. Information: 263-4431; kth@mail.dcs.wisc.edu.
Executive Writing
Thursday, Nov. 16, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Lowell Center. Fee: $90.
Instructor: Ann Linquist. This course teaches how to improve memos, letters and reports, and covers structure, supporting materials, language and audience. Participant writing examples analyzed. Information: 262-3830; r3d@mail.dcs.wisc.edu.
Strategies for Building Communication
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Lowell Center. Fee: $90. Instructor: Jeff Russell.
Apply your management skills for more effective interpersonal relations and difficult workplace situations. Improve your communication skills to enhance individual, team and organizational performance. Information: 262-3830; r3d@mail.dcs.wisc.edu.
Retention Action Project
The Retention Action Project listens to concerns and facilitates dialogue on subjects to educate everyone about differences and multicultural experiences to take action in making the campus community climate more comfortable. In collaboration with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and the Equity and Diversity Resource Center, RAP will bring a meeting to your department or community. Information: 263-4536.