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  • UW-Green Bay helps others see immigration through a different lens

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    Editorial Student

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    The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is hosting program beginning in Februrary to help middle school students and their families gain a deeper understanding about local immigration. Students will see three films and a theatrical production with follow-up discussion about what leads to immigration. Each event will be hosted by a UW-Green Bay faculty member who…

  • UW-Green Bay helps others see immigration through a different lens

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    Sue Bodilly

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    Programming begins in February for middle-schoolers, public Green Bay, Wis. — The world is witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record, according to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. More than 33,000 people are forced to flee their homes daily and more than 65 million forcibly were displaced people worldwide. This displacement is concerning…

  • German film ‘Measuring the World’ is Wednesday at Neville

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    Sue Bodilly

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    The Green Bay Film Society’s International Film Series continues this week with a screening of the 2012 German film “Measuring the World,” a fictionalized account of Alexander von Humboldt’s and Carl Friedrich Gauss’ travels and their attempts to “measure the world” in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The film is free and open to…

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    Ganyard, Film Society host screening of Polish/Jewish story, Ida


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    Christopher Sampson

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    At 7 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 21) at the Neville Public Museum, historian and Associate Provost Clif Ganyard will introduce the screening of the Academy Award-winning Polish film Ida as part of the Green Bay Film Society international series. Ida tells the story of a young woman who is about to take her vows as a…

  • Film Society offers timely take on illegal immigration


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    Christopher Sampson

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    This Wednesday (Oct. 7) the Green Bay Film Society presents the 2010 Belgium film Illegal, a very timely work about illegal immigration examining the situation of many immigrants in Europe and the process of being placed in detention centers. Prof. David Coury of Humanistic Studies and German will introduce the film’s showing at 7 p.m.…

  • Art faculty of UW-Green Bay (age 50) to exhibit at Neville Museum (age 100)


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    Christopher Sampson

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    The teaching faculty of UW-Green Bay have been invited to exhibit art at the Neville Public Museum in co-celebration of the museum’s 100th anniversary and the University’s 50th. The anniversary art show will run from Jan. 22 to March 13, 2016 on the mezzanine of the museum. Participating faculty are Kristy Deetz, Sarah Detweiler, Carol…

  • ‘Wisconsin from the Air’ screening is Tuesday night

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    Christopher Sampson

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    The Green Bay Film Society is teaming up with Wisconsin Public Television and the Neville Public Museum for a special advanced screening of “Wisconsin from the Air,” an hour-long documentary showcasing the spectacular landscape of Wisconsin as filmed from the air, at 7 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 18). The film premieres Dec. 1 on WPT, but the…

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    At the Neville: Boswell talks beer and democracy

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Historian Caroline Boswell, associate professor of Humanistic Studies, will lead a free public presentation, “Alehouses, Inns, and Taverns and the Origins of a Democratic Society,” on Tuesday evening (Sept. 9) at the Neville Public Museum. Boswell is assisting with a series of programs related to the museum’s exhibit on alcohol in history and culture. She’ll…

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    Beer here! Prof. Boswell to moderate Neville lecture series

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    Christopher Sampson

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    Historian Caroline Boswell, associate professor of Humanistic Studies, will be the moderator of what should be an intellectually intoxicating lecture series at The Neville Public Museum in downtown Green Bay. The series relates to the Neville’s current social-history exhibit, “From Agriculture to Tavern Culture,” over the next several weeks. The first talk is on “German…

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    Thanks, Cathy Harden: Faculty, staff get Neville membership discount

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    Kelly Moore

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    UW-Green Bay faculty and staff can take advantage of special membership rates at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County, and it’s all thanks to Cathy Harden. The folks at the Neville are extending a special 20 percent off membership through July 14 as a thank you to Harden, who served on the museum’s board…