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Wisconsin EventsOctober 2019
Oct17
Healthy Aging Series — “Moving More to Improve Your Life”
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Capitol Lakes Retirement Community,
333 W. Main Street, Madison, WI 53703
Attend this talk to learn how reducing sedentary behavior can benefit your health.
Oct18
Global Hot Spots: The Economic Consequences of Trump’s War on Multilateralism
1:30PM - 2:30PM
Location: Fluno Center, Howard Auditorium,
601 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53715
Join us to hear from a UW–Madison expert on this relevant topic!
Oct22
Badger Café: “Take Two Onions and Call Me in the Morning”
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Café 1906, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts,
51 Sheboygan Street, Fond du Lac, WI 54935
Join fellow Badgers in Fond du Luc as they explore the ancient connection between food and health — focusing on vegetables
Oct22
Badger Café: “We’ve Been Here All Along: A Conversation with Dick Wagner”
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: One Alumni Place,
650 N. Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706. Please enter through Alumni Park.
During this year’s LGBTQ History Month, don’t miss hearing from the author of We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History at this Badger Café in Madison. Please enter through Alumni Park.
November 2019
Nov7
Badger Cafe: The Unexpected Origins of the Division of Korea: How Korea Was Divided and Why It Matters
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: University Club of Milwaukee,
924 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202
About the event Learn about the division of Korea, which was much more than a last-minute decision made by two colonels in August 1945. Instead, it happened in a much longer sequence of events that has its origin in an obscure 19th-century treaty and in Americans’ belief in their own exceptionalism. This timely talk will address the origins of the division of Korea and how this history shapes events on the Korean peninsula today. The speaker David Fields MA’09, PhD’17,…
Nov8
Home Game Friday
1:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: One Alumni Place,
650 N. Lake Street, Madison, WI 53706. Please enter through Alumni Park.
Nov11
UW–Madison Presents: The MIA Project
6:00PM - 8:30PM
Location: EAA Aviation Center,
3000 Poberezny Road, Oshkosh, WI 54903
This Veterans’ Day, hear from a panel of UW faculty and student speakers who work with the MIA Project.
Nov15
Global Hot Spots: Cryptocurrencies — Where Are They Gaining Real Traction?
10:00AM - 11:00AM
Location: Fluno Center, Howard Auditorium,
601 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53715
Don’t miss this chance to hear from a UW–Madison expert on this topical issue!
Nov19
UW–Madison Presents: Ada Deer — Making a Difference
6:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Memorial Union, Play Circle Theater,
800 Langdon Street, Madison, WI 53706
Join this celebration of Ada Deer ’57, former assistant secretary of Indian affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior and head of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Nov21
Healthy Aging Series — “From Planarians to Parasites: Stem Cells and Regeneration in Flatworms”
7:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Capitol Lakes Retirement Community,
333 W. Main Street, Madison, WI 53703
About the event Join a discussion about planarians — flatworms with the ability to regrow an entire new animal from a small piece of tissue — to discover how they use stem cells as a source of new tissue during regeneration and tissue maintenance. You’ll also learn how the UW’s work with planarians has led to studying the biology of parasitic flatworms, which has significance for global health. The speaker Phil Newmark, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Burnell R. Roberts Chair…