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MATC Global Horizons Welcomes Guest Speakers
on Immigration
Author Agate Nesaule and Canada’s former
Ambassador to Jordan, Michael James Molloy, to speak
As
part of its Global Horizons Lecture Series on Immigration and Migration,
Madison Area Technical College welcomes two guest speakers in April
who will discuss
global issues of immigration. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
On
Wednesday, April 6, at 7 p.m., MATC will host Agate Nesaule, author of A
Woman in Amber, who will speak on “Stories of War, Exile, and Immigration.” Nesaule,
was forced to flee her childhood home in Latvia during World War II, eventually
coming to the U.S. to live. Her lecture will explore her experiences, address
distinctions between exile and immigration, and discuss how writing has served
as a vehicle for healing herself and others who have experienced the trauma of
war and exile. Nesaule will speak at the MATC Downtown Education Center (211
N Carroll Street) in Room D240.
On Tuesday, April 12, at 7 p.m., the college welcomes
former Ambassador Michael
James Molloy who will present a lecture entitled, “And Now for the Hard
Part: Refugees, Jerusalem and the Search for Peace in the Middle East.” Molloy
served as Canada’s Ambassador to Jordan from 1996 to 2000 and has served
in his country’s foreign service since 1968. Currently, he is a visiting
scholar with the Jerusalem Project at the Munk Center for International Relations
at the University of Toronto, a public policy think tank devoted to developing
a just and lasting peace to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Molloy will speak
in the Wisconsin Ballroom of the Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison located
at
1 W Dayton, across the street from the MATC Downtown Education Center. Both lectures
are made possible by the MATC Global Horizons Series, an initiative in global
education for the MATC campus and community.
The Global Horizons
Series hosts lectures and events that promote continuous learning with
regard to diversity, interdependence and global citizenship. Programs
are also co-sponsored
by the MATC Student Life Educational Programming Board, a student organization
that strives to raise awareness of global, cultural, environmental and
social issues facing students and communities today.
MATC is one
of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System's 16
colleges and serves about 50,000 individuals each year. It provides
a comprehensive
curriculum of technical, liberal arts and science, adult basic education
and
life enrichment studies and activities, as well as customized employee
training. MATC provides training in more than 100 career programs. The
college serves
all or parts of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin and offers
instruction through five campuses and various other locations throughout
the district.
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April 4, 2005
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