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Visiting Fulbrighters to discuss democracy
The Wisconsin Chapter of the Fulbright Association has organized a panel discussion comprised of visiting Fulbright scholars, students and teachers entitled “International Perspectives on Democracy in America.”

The event will be Thursday, Jan. 25, from 4-6 p.m. at the Pyle Center. A reception will follow the panel discussion.

More than 600 Fulbright alumni live in Wisconsin, and each year the state welcomes more than 50 visiting Fulbright scholars, teachers and students. This year’s visitors come from countries such as Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Bulgaria, Germany, Russia, India, Japan, South Africa, Hungary, Turkey, Iceland, Israel, Korea, Madagascar, Tanzania, Oman, Sweden, Philippines, UK and Finland.

Auditions scheduled for performance
Auditions for remaining openings for the cast of “Io and Her and the Trouble with Him” are scheduled Jan. 27-29 at Old Music Hall on campus. Participants should have the ability and desire to experiment with movement and sound.

As part of her spring residency on campus, composer Pauline Oliveros will premiere the new work April 13 at the Wisconsin Union Theater.

The “dance-opera” will be a collaborative venture among artists of all types, a multimedia panorama of experimental theatre and technical virtuosity that includes aerial ballet, masks, video projection, a sinister thousand-eyed monster and a highly imaginative electronic soundscape.

The one-act story, set in primeval time, retells the myth of Io from a matriarchal perspective. Io, Argivian priestess, is transformed by a terrible spell and roams the world, lovely but tormented. While enduring entrapment by Argus, the terrible monster, she is befriended by the brilliant Bird who helps her discover the key to her escape. Only upon her arrival in Khemt (Ancient Egypt) does she begin to understand the true mystery of what her journey has been about and its meaning for the future of the world.

More information: Sarah Schaffer, 263-9222, slschaffer@facstaff.wisc.edu.

Conser on campus
Reverend Nan Conser of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, will discuss “Why People of Faith are Prayerfully Pro-Choice” Wednesday, Jan. 24, 7-8:30 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Frederic March Play Circle. The event commemorates the 28th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade.