News in Brief

Intellectual property conference planned
A national conference on one of the most litigated and hotly debated topics in America today — intellectual property rights — will be sponsored by the Law School and School of Education May 6-9 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center.

The “Conference on Intellectual Property in the Digital Environment: Exploring the Possibilities” will draw speakers from Napster, the Recording Industry of America, the U.S. Copyright Office, the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Library Association, AOL Time Warner and the Association of American Publishers, as well as several experts in higher education.

The keynote address Monday, May 7, will be presented by Marybeth Peters, register of copyrights in the U.S. Copyright Office.

Among the topics to be discussed will be the Napster music file-sharing issue, fair use in cyberspace, recent copyright legislation, digital copyright and libraries, copyright in distance education, global intellectual property issues and innovative education-business partnerships. For details and registration, contact Julie Seaborg, 262-5315.

Eagleburger forum to focus on global equality
Leading political figures from Latin America are scheduled to discuss the relationship between the U.S. and Third World countries on globalization and global equality at a free public forum Thursday, May 3.

The inaugural Eagleburger Forum, sponsored by the International Institute, is named after UW–Madison alumnus and former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger. The public lecture series, featuring internationally recognized speakers, encourages analysis of major issues in world affairs.

The conference, entitled “America, The Third World and the New World Economy: Global Equality in the 21st Century,” will be held from 3-6 p.m. at the State Historical Society Auditorium, 816 State St. The conference is co-sponsored by the Center for International Business Education and Research.

Several political, business and labor leaders will speak: Ciro Gomes, a Brazilian Socialist Popular Party politician expected to run for president in 2002; Carlos Heredia, director general of special urban development projects in the cabinet of Mexico City Gov. Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador; Thea Lee, assistant director for international economics, the AFL-CIO; Thomas Niles, president of the U.S. Council for International Business; and Joan Spero, a UW–Madison alum and president of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Information: Ronnie Hess, 262-5590.

‘Tiananmen Papers’ editor to address book controversy
China expert Perry Link, co-editor of the controversial book on China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square incident will give a free public lecture titled “Editing “The Tiananmen Papers'” Friday, April 27.

The lecture is planned at 4 p.m. in 2650 Mosse Humanities.

“The Tiananmen Papers” claims to reveal the secret deliberations among top Chinese leaders during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 through documents compiled and passed on to the editors by a Chinese civil servant whose identity remains hidden behind a pseudonym. “The Tiananmen Papers” has been denounced by the Chinese government as a fraud. The lecture provides an opportunity to hear the co-editor’s own story about the authenticity of the materials and how the book came into to being.

Information: Hope Rennie, 262-3643.

Villa Louis director to discuss preservation
Two champions of historic preservation will discuss their partnership in the 2001 Ruth Ketterer Harris Memorial Lecture.

Robert Bitter, co-president of the New York textile firm Scalamandré, and Michael Douglass, director of the Villa Louis Wisconsin State Historical Society site, will speak Thursday, April 19, at 5:30 p.m., L160 Elvehjem.

Both speakers will consider the role of textile technologies in historic preservation. Information: 262-1162.

Virtual environments expert to give lecture
An internationally renowned expert on computer graphics and virtual environments will lecture on three-dimensional tele-immersive environments Thursday, May 3, 4-5 p.m., AB20 Weeks Hall.

Henry Fuchs, a professor of computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the annual J. Barkley Rosser Memorial Lecture, a free public event sponsored by the computer sciences department and made possible through a generous gift of Annetta Rosser.

Fuchs, also an adjunct professor in both biomedical engineering and radiology oncology, will present “Seas of Cameras and Projectors for Tele-immersion and the Office of the Future,” and focus on the ongoing work of developing realistic three-dimensional “tele-collaborative” environments.

Information: Laura Cuccia, 262-0017.

Ackerman headlines at final Roundtable
Steven Ackerman, director of the Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, will be the speaker at the final Roundtable of the academic year Tuesday, May 15. Reservations are due by Tuesday, May 8, to Colleen McCabe, 270 Bascom, cmccabe@bascom.wisc.edu. Cost: $8.50. The buffet luncheon will be held in Memorial Union’s Tripp Commons starting at 11:45 a.m.

Gil and Orli Shaham scheduled at Union Theater
Violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham have a partnership of rare quality, between two strong musical personalities who understand each other very well. The brother and sister duo has been making music together since they were young prodigies. They will perform at the Union Theater on Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m.

For their Union Theater concert, the duo will perform Copland’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano,” Faure’s “Sonata in A Major,” Brahms’ “Hungarian Dances” and “Sonata No. 3 in D minor”. Tickets: $29 ($28 for Union members, $14 for UW–Madison students), Union Theater Box Office, 262-2201.

Event to feature hip hop artists
Hip Hop Generation’s second annual “Hip Hop as a Movement” conference, April 20-22, focuses on youth activism, the influence of hip hop and the role of youth and elders in the social justice movement.

The free public conference brings together artists, performers, students, professors and community organizers from around the country. The conference features panel discussions, workshops and performances, all designed to teach, entertain and provide a forum to develop the necessary strategies and methods to politicize and mobilize the hip hop nation.

This year’s panels address such topics as “Education Not Incarceration,” “The Evolution of DJ Culture,” “Political Prisoners,” “Hip Hop in Latin America,” “The War On Drugs,” “Generations of Activism” and more. To register: http://www.hiphopgeneration.org.

Scholar to discuss Thai media
Professor Ubonrat Siriyuvasak, chair of the Department of Mass Communication at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand will discuss democratization of the broadcast media in Thailand when she visits campus this month. The free public lecture is Friday, April 27, noon in 206 Ingraham.

Ubonrat, a leading media scholar in Thailand, researches media structure, the media industry and popular culture.

Library unveils No. 6,000,000
The university’s six millionth book, “Papermaking By Hand in America,” will be presented as part of the Friends of the Libraries lecture at 5:30 p.m., today, April 18, in the Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center. Kenneth L. Frazier, director of the libraries, will give the annual lecture as part of his talk, “The Golden Age of the Research Library.” The illustrated lecture, which is open to the public at no charge, is part of Celebrating Books, a series of events that commemorates the acquisition of the six millionth book. Information: 262-0076, djohnson@library.wisc.edu

Parallel Press releases ‘How Dumb the Stars’
Francine Conley, who earned her Ph.D. in French literature and theater at UW–Madison, is the author of the 12th chapbook from the Parallel Press, “How Dumb the Stars.”

A chapbook is a small-format literary work, usually of poetry or essays. The chapbooks are published by the Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW–Madison Libraries.

Each chapbook is $10; annual subscriptions for six are $50. Titles may be ordered by writing: The Parallel Press, 372 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI 53706.

Day on Campus turns 40
Day on Campus turns 40 Friday, May 11, and the Wisconsin Alumni Association is marking the continuing education program’s anniversary with a renewed emphasis on the history and future of the university.

Day on Campus will begin at 9 a.m. at the Below Alumni Center. Among six seminars are examinations of the successes and goals of two of the university’s programs: “Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Studies,” conducted by professor Virginia Sapiro, and “The University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Experience,” led by associate professor David T. Bernhardt.

Other seminars feature Jan Plug, associate professor of comparative literature; Craig Werner, professor of Afro-American studies; Charles Cohen, director of the religious studies program, and John J. Magnuson, director of the Center for Limnology. The day’s entertainment will feature pianists Martha Fischer and Bill Lutes. Cost: $25 per person. Deadline: Friday, April 27. For reservations, call WAA’s Sue Miller, 262-9647.

Shakur speaks April 22
Political activist Afeni Shakur will speak Sunday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series at the Wisconsin Union Theater. Shakur will deliver a talk called “Remember Me: The Living Legacy of Tupac Shakur.” Afeni Shakur is the mother of the rap superstar who was shot and killed in 1996. Free tickets are available at the Union Theater Box Office, 262-2216.