Certificate of International Studies in Business Program (CISB)

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Business is global!

Are you interested in business, language and culture?  If so, apply to the nationally-ranked undergraduate Certificate of International Studies in Business Program (CISB) and get the competitive edge you need to succeed in this interconnected business world!  CISB, an intensive supplement to the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, gives you the academic and real-world preparation you need for a global business career through immersion in a foreign culture, study/work abroad, language study, practical experience and leadership skill development.

Come to an upcoming info session to hear from staff and students about the benefits of CISB!

Tuesday, October 13, 3:30 p.m., Paccar 456

Thursday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., Mackenzie 132

Wednesday, November 11, 12:30 p.m., Mackenzie 132 

For more information, please contact CISB at cisb@uw.edu or 206-543-5985.

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Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in South Africa – Problems and Perils at 21

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The Honorable Edwin Cameron, LLB
Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Monday, October 12, 2015; 7 – 8 p.m.; Kane Hall, Room 130

Justice Cameron will describe his country’s transition 21 years ago, after a deep history of racial injustice, to constitutional democracy aspiring to non-racialism, equality, dignity and social justice. His personal narrative will recount the difficulties of crime, corruption, healthcare and institutional malfunction that confront the young democracy, but also the solid material achievements and ambitious aspirations of the world’s most progressive Constitution.

This event is free and all are welcome to attend!

Sponsors

Department of Global Health, Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), International Clinical Research Center, Global Health Resource Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, African Studies Program, Department of Political Science & defeatHIV Community Advisory Board

For more information contact the Global Health Resource Center at ghrc@uw.edu or 206.685.7362. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at dso@u.washington.edu or 206.543.6450, 206.543.6452/TTY.

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Other limits and other borders”: The Queer Country of the Blind in Gabriele Pedullà’s “Miranda”

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Please join us for this lecture exploring queer sexuality and blind epistemology in Italian literature.

University of Washington Disability Studies Program presents

Speaker: Kate Noson

Title: “Other limits and other borders”: The Queer Country of the Blind in Gabriele Pedullà’s “Miranda”

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015, 5:00pm

Location: Odegaard Library 220, University of Washington

Access information:

The room is wheelchair accessible. Please do not wear any scents. ASL interpretation and CART captioning will be provided.

To request another disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at: 206.543.6450 (voice), 206.543.6452 (TTY), 206.685.7264 (fax), or email dso@uw.edu.

Directions:

Address: 4060 George Washington Lane Northeast, Seattle, WA 98195

Campus map: http://www.washington.edu/maps/#!/OUG

Abstract & bio:

In this lecture, Noson theorizes literary “transability” as an appropriation of disabled modes of being and knowing, to read Gabriele Pedullà’s story “Miranda” as an expression of anxiety regarding both queer sexuality and blind epistemology.

Kate Noson is Lecturer of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where her fields of research are disability studies, modern Italian literature, and gender and sexuality studies.

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