TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • How Do We Raise the Next Generation of World Citizens?
  • New Journal: Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • February: International Focus:  Program Schedule
  • Now-March:  2005 "Great Decisions" Series
  • February 1:  Paper proposals due for 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • February 1: Paper proposals due for "Media and Society in China Today" Conference
  • February 17:  Musée d'Orsay Conservator General to Speak
  • February 22:  Amit Yoran Videoconference
  • February 23:  Study Abroad Fair
  • March 7 and June 1:  Deadlines for GSA Conference Submissions
  • March 15:  Submissions due for YJIA
  • March 17:  Submissions due for Making Our Media text
  • April 4:  Applications due for Dar al Islam Teachers Institutes
  • April 26:  Kennan Forum
  • June 16-17:  Incommunicado Work Conference (ICT4D)
  • July 26-28, 2005:  IAMCR Conference:  “Media Panics"
  • The Fund for American Studies:  Student Internship Program in DC
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • February 1:  Proposals due for Congressional Research Awards
  • February 21:  Applications due for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • European Union: Regional Policy
  • An Uncertain Road: Muslims and the Future of Europe
  • World Meteorological Organization
  • Simon Wiesenthal Center: Multimedia Learning Center Online
  • Kanji Alive
  • Life at the End of the Road
  • Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings
  • Urbis

How Do We Raise the Next Generation of World Citizens?
Michael Levine, Executive Director of The Asia Society, was featured January 23 on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Here on Earth with Jean Feraca."  Levine discussed international studies in schools and Wisconsin's International Education Summit that was co-convened by Governor Jim Doyle and School Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster.

To hear the broadcast (requires Real Player), visit the WPR archive site at

• http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/ideas_audioarchives.cfm?Code=hoeor click directly on

• http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/hoe/hoe050123k.rm

Full text articles may be downloaded free of charge from the journal site.

This issue, on Media And Migration, features:

• Tarik Sabry - Editorial
• Nick Mai – “Looking for a more modern life...The role of television in the Albanian migration to Italy”
• Yuiko Fujita – “Young Japanese ‘Cultural Migrants’ and the Construction of their Imagined West”
• Tarik Sabry – “Young Amazighs, the Land of Eromen and Pamela Anderson as the embodiment of modernity”
• Roza Tsagarousianou – “Rethinking the concept of diaspora: mobility, connectivity and communication in a globalised world”
• Aybige Yilmaz – “Victims, Villains and Guardian Angels Batman suicide stories”
• Paddy Scannell – “Love and Communication: A Review Essay”
• Book Reviews

• February 6 -- “The Dollar, The Euro and World Finance”
  • Panel of Local International Business Figures
• February 13  -- “World Affairs Roundup”
  • Panel of Local Foreign Policy Experts
• February 20 -- “US Intelligence Reform”
  • Ray McGovern, Former CIA Intelligence Analyst

Wisconsin Great Decisions 2005 Co-sponsors: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Midwest Airlines, The Foreign Policy Association, Wisconsin Public Radio, UWM Center for International Education, USBank, and Brady Corporation.

Great Decisions 2005 Cooperating Organizations:   UWM Student Union,Mead Public Library Racine Unified School District, J.I. Case High School, Waukesha County Technical College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee Public Television, UW College-Sheboygan, Fond du Lac Public Library, Marian College, UW College-Fond du Lac, Bemis International Center, and St. Norbert College.

For information, contact the Institute of World Affairs at 414-229-3220 or iwa@uwm.edu.

To register online:  http://www.iwa.uwm.edu

Sponsored by: East West Council for Education, the Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University and the University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from June 13 (Monday) to June 16 (Thursday), 2005 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social sciences related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

For more information:

Web address:  http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org

Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences P.O. Box 75023 Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 946-9932
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail:  social@hicsocial.org
Website:  http://www.hicsocial.org

The rapid transformation of Chinese society over the last two decades, and the increasing importance of the market in economic and social life, has had a major effect on the mass media. Increasingly, the old command model of media is being replaced by a market-driven media. On the other hand, the continuation of the CCP monopoly of legitimate political expression has meant that there is still strong political influence over some media, and political concern about many others.   These changes in the media have been accompanied by a flowering of scholarly research on the mass media, both from scholars in China itself and those working outside. This conference aims to provide a showcase for this richly diverse work and to encourage a conversation between scholars from different traditions. To that end, proposals are invited that address any subject within the broad theme of the conference. We would, however, particularly welcome work on the following questions:

• The regulation of Chinese media in a market environment
• The economics and management of Chinese media
• Politics and the media
• Journalism in China: history, forms and functions
• Chinese culture in an epoch of market-oriented media
• Audiences for the media
• The impact of new media, particularly the Internet
• Media exchanges between different Chinese societies

Anne Pingeot was instrumental in setting up the Musée d'Orsay from its inception and is currently the Conservator General for Sculpture at the Musée d'Orsay.  A world-renowned specialist on Rodin and the sculpture of Degas, she has organized several important sculpture exhibitions for the museum and written over twenty works devoted to this period of modern art, including, in 1991, the seminal catalogue Degas, Sculptures.

Mme. Pingeot will open the Degas Sculptures exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum on February 16, 2005.

Mme Pingeot’s  presentation at UWM is co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, the Center for International Education, the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, and the Alliance Française of Milwaukee.

From September 2003 until September 2004, Mr. Yoran was Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security.  Mr. Yoran previously served as Vice President of Managed Security Services Operations for Symantec, Director of the Vulnerability Assessment Program within the Computer Emergency Response Team at the Department of Defense, and Network Security Manager at the Department of Defense where he was responsible for maintaining operations of the Pentagon's network.

The public is invited to attend, though space will be limited for this exciting event to  be moderated by Dr. Robert J. Beck.  For more information, please contact Natalia Aiello at nmaiello@uwm.edu or visit these web sites:

• http://international.uwm.edu
• http://security.uwm.edu

Summer is a great time to study abroad and UWM offers over 20 programs! Starting in May, students may earn credits toward a UWM degree by studying in a wide range of programs such as Flamenco Guitar in Spain, Environmental Justice in Brazil, Architecture Programs in Europe, Exploring the Digital Divide in Mongolia, Art and Social Welfare programs in England, Business Programs in France and Germany, and Studio Art in Florence, Italy. In addition, there are opportunities for language and culture studies in Paris, Madrid, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, China, Ireland, Poland, Germany and Korea. UWM also offers many study abroad venues for semester or year-long programs. Sites include the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Senegal, Korea, Germany, France, Chile, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. It is not too early to start planning your fall semester program now.

The application deadline for summer programs is March 15, 2005.

For more information, please contact:

    Overseas Programs and Partnerships
    Center for International Education
    Pearse Hall 166
    Tel: (414) 229-5182
    Toll Free: (800) 991-5564
    E-mail: overseas@uwm.edu
    Web: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/OPP.html

Spend part of your summer in Mexico.  >From July 27 to August 3, 2005, the Global Studies Association will co-sponsored with the Center for Global Justice a conference on “Women And Globalization” at San Miquel De Allende, Mexico. Registration will be $200.  The abstract deadline is June 1, 2005.

For complete details, please see the GSA web site:  http://Www.Net4dem.Org/Mayglobal

Guidelines:

• All articles should follow Chicago Manual of Style guidelines
• Articles: 3,000 – 5,000 words
• Book reviews: 1,000 – 2,000 words

Please send submissions to: jonathan.baum@yale.edu or:

Yale Journal for International Affairs
International Affairs Council
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520

For more information please contact puongfei.yeh@yale.edu

The book will consider several dimensions of the emerging transnational movement for a more just and democratic communications environment, including the development of alternative information and communication systems; new relationships between the alternative media sector, social movements and corporations or governments; and renewed efforts to democratize the public sphere.

"Studies published in the series consider advancements in democratic theory, and are grounded in empirical investigations of recent communicative innovations. Although the primary objective of Euricom Monographs is to contribute to intellectual understanding of transformations in the democratic process, some titles are designed to contribute to improved political practice, policy and action."

Hampton Press is an internationally oriented publisher specializing in the field of communications.  Hampton Press publishes in English, but we will also aggressively pursue the possibility of a Spanish language publication.
 

The book is divided into several sections for which we seek relevant chapters: Theoretical perspectives.  We are looking for submissions dealing with conceptualizations of citizen's media, prescriptions for a more democratic public sphere, and articulations between social movements theory and communications theory.  Submissions might also consider the relationship of information and communication technologies to civil society, community, and public commons. Policy issues.  We will explore political, legal or policy interventions regarding the democratization of media.  What tensions are manifest between civil society, corporate media and states at the policy level?  How do policy advocates, activists or allied social movements interact with the state and multilateral organizations, such as the World Trade Organization or the World Summit on the Information Society? Empirical studies.  We seek historical or contemporary case studies of citizen's media, though it is essential that such articles also have a scholarly or theoretical foundation.  Submissions might focus on Indymedia, community radio, citizen's media, or alternative community media development, practices, aims and goals, strategies, effects, participants or audiences.  We are also interested in the larger structural political and economic factors that affect these media. Methodological issues.  We seek studies that propose, design, develop or analyze methodological processes to evaluate citizen's media and other democratic uses of media, to study media and social movements, or to investigate grassroots initiatives around media policy. Future directions.  New ways that citizen's media are interacting with and affected by the political and technological landscape, including issues related to communication rights and the information society, intellectual property regimes and other global issues, peace and justice media, and the role of new media forms and functions.  We seek studies that report and analyze new directions for the movement for democratic communication.

Interested authors should submit a 500-700 word abstract or summary of their article, a list of relevant references you'll be drawing on for the article, a 100-150 word short biography and a list of any articles you have published on related topics.  If available, please send the complete article as well.

Abstracts should indicate the author's specific theoretical or scholarly approach; the method of analysis; the substantive topics, cases or issues examined; and the conclusions drawn.   Submissions may be made in English or Spanish.   Submissions can be made via email or in hard copy or on disk (3.5" floppy or CD ROM).  Disks should be labeled with the author's name, the title of the article, and the type of software used.  A cover page on your article should include your name, any affiliations or titles, your full contact information, and your article title.

Please send submissions by March 17, 2005 to:

Dorothy Kidd, Clemencia Rodriguez and Laura Stein

Department of Media Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, California, 94117-1080
USA

Or E-mail them to Kiddd@usfca.edu

There are no application forms.  Each applicant must provide:

• A brief description (200 words) of your responsibilities including the coming academic year together with a description of your institution
• A resume (limited to 2 pages please)
• Two letters of reference, one of which must be from the head of your institution or your supervisor
• A one-page statement of personal and professional reasons to attend

Karima Diane Alavi, Director
Dar al Islam Teachers Institute
P.O. Box 180
Abiquiu, NM 87510
(505) 685-4584
kdalavi@cybermesa.com

For more information about the Teachers’ Institute and other Dar al Islam programs please visit our web site at http://www.daralislam.org.

Date: April 26, 2005
Time:  4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pabst Theater in downtown Milwaukee

Price: $10 general public, $5 IWA Basic and WPR members, complimentary admission for Premium members and above and students.

Ben Merens, Host at Wisconsin Public Radio, will be moderating this exciting debate at the Pabst Theater.  The program will be broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Program in partnership with Ideas 90.7 Wisconsin Public Radio.  Support from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Midwest Airlines, Wisconsin United Nations Association, Wisconsin Governor’s Commission on the United Nations, and the Annette J. Roberts Fund for World Peace, World Law and Peace Education.

 For more information, please call 414-229-3220 or visit http://www.iwa.uwm.edu.

Incommunicado http://www.incommunicado.info is a two-day workshop that intends to approach the growing 'ICT for development' (ICT4D) sector and its conceptual and organizational idioms from a committed yet- critical 'insider' perspective.

The Incommunicado gathering wants to explore discourses, concepts and strategies. It offers neither an esoteric, self-referential 'critique fest' nor a mere exhibition of best-of-ICT4Dprojects. Instead, it aims to create a space to allow those active mainly in the field of ICT4D to come together with people from other areas of media activism and criticism.  To facilitate such encounter and exchange, the Incom event will not follow the standard academic conference format but organize an open workshop to encourage cooperative work and informal networking.

The call outlines five (overlapping) topic areas, and an editorial collective will ensure that current information on all topics as well as moderators and focused presentations are available. A pre-conference publication will bundle perspectives considered most relevant by participants and made available online. The conference location itself supports open exchange and networking and can accommodate self-organizing groups anywhere between 15 and 200 people.

Pre-conference cooperation via the conference wiki or the incommunicado mailing-list is encouraged.  With this conference the Waag-Sarai exchange platform also intends to intensify Euro-Asian dialogues.

The event is part of the activities of the Incommunicado network, a research list and weblog that focus on the reappropriation of ICT across the 'Global South'. The idea of being (held) incommunicado - to be in a liminal state vis-a-vis multiple regimes of information as well as human rights - serves as point of departure for analyses, critiques, and projects beyond the standard agenda of ICT-for-Development.

For more information:  http://www.incommunicado.info

For more information on this International Association of Media and Communication Research Conference, please see: http://iamcr2005.shu.edu.tw/basic_info.htm

Certain events, from time to time, shock the world: sometimes into action; sometimes into paralysis. Often, it seems, it is because of the way they are featured in the media. Generally, they are 'bad news' - disaster and conflict. Recall the Chicken Flu sacre in Asia, the SARS epidemic, various terrorist atrocities, the 911 attacks in the USA. Even Janet Jackson's exposure of herself. Twenty five years after observers of the 'active audience' challenged effects theory, the media and their messages seem to reassert their power. And some governments seek to strengthen their controls, whatever the cost to democracy.

Media panics have themselves became the focus of media attention, as well as of scholarly interest. The 2005 IAMCR conference will focus on the topic "Media Panics: Freedom, Control and Democracy in the Age of Globalisation."

At least two theoretical perspectives apply. One is that exaggerated media reports of disasters and violence are either things to be corrected and controlled or as reflective of the culture of our time. Any attempt to curb them is an infringement on our freedom. The other involves the age-old debates that pit social and psychological effects of media against their mass market orientations. How and why have media panics come to be the major concerns of our societies? How do people in different worlds and circumstances respond to this communication phenomenon?

The use of new technology in communication, the process of news production, the content of media coverage from opposing perspectives, and the influence of these events on different audiences and national are some examples. Furthermore, regulation/deregulation of the global media, empowerment of audience in the development of media literacy, as well as meanings of the global and local interactions in this "panic" context are all critical issues to be examined.

Four programs are offered in the summer and Capital Semester is held in the fall and spring.  Programs are offered in the following subject areas:

• Politics and Economics
• Journalism
• Business and Government Affairs
• Nonprofit and Community Service

• Internships – Competitive placements with top sites in DC
• Classes – Transferable credits from Georgetown University
• Housing – Furnished on-campus apartments in the heart of DC
• Scholarships – Over half of all students receive full or partial funding
• Networking – Numerous opportunities for professional growth
• Leadership Development - Leadership and career building activities
• Site Briefings— Hear from national leaders at Washington’s places of power, such as The White House, State Department, House of Representatives, and the Federal Reserve.

Professors and academic advisors have proven to be our most valuable resource in recruiting quality applicants.  We invite you to utilize our new online nomination form, where you can choose up to four students to receive priority acceptance and scholarship consideration (https://inq.applyyourself.com/?id=tfas&pid=1054).

If you have any questions, please contact us at admissions@tfas.org or (202) 986-0384.

Proposals must be postmarked no later than February 1, 2005.

There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any time. Incomplete applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration.

All application materials must be postmarked on or before February 1, 2005. Awards will be announced in March 2005. Complete information about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center's Web
site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm.  Frank Mackaman is the program officer -- fmackaman@dirksencenter.org.

The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $620,000 to support 325 projects.

Information can be found on the CLACS website: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/student/scholarship.html.

European Union: Regional Policy
    http://europa.eu.int/pol/reg/index_en.htm
Since the creation of the European Union (EU), there has always been a great deal of concern among its member nations about the welfare of disparities of income and opportunity between its regions. The recent entry of 10 new member countries in May 2004 has widened these gaps, and made the need for a cohesive regional policy all the more pressing. In the words of this regional policy site created by the EU, "regional policy transfers resources from affluent to poorer regions". This site provides a host of documents that detail these various policies and implementation tools, including the very useful overview document, "Working for the Regions", which is available in a number of languages. The site also contains a number of legal documents related to the ways in which these polices are implemented, and what policy instruments have been most successful thus far.

An Uncertain Road: Muslims and the Future of Europe
    http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=60
A number of policy-makers from around Europe and elsewhere have commented that the successful integration of Muslims into their respective countries will continue to be a critical issue for decades. This December 2004 report, authored by David Masci, addresses that very subject, and is part of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life publication series. In the work, Masci suggests that Muslim immigration into Europe poses special challenges, largely due to the fact that most nations in Europe are constructed around a population with a common ethnicity. Masci also suggests that another possible crossroads involves the proposed (and highly debated) entry of Turkey into the European Union. While formal talks with Ankara are scheduled to begin in 2005, Masci goes on to suggest that the argument about Turkey's entrance into the EU could be problematic due to the fact that recent polls show that majorities in many European countries remain opposed to Turkish accession. This report is definitely worth a look, particularly to those people with an interest in immigration and strategies of effective assimilation.

World Meteorological Organization
    http://www.wmo.ch/index-en.html
International cooperation is considered one of the key components for monitoring global weather and climate, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has been one of the leaders in this effort since its founding in 1950. The WMO was created under the auspices of the United Nations, and continues to facilitate the "free and unrestricted exchange of data and information, products and services in real- or near-real time on matters relating to safety and security of society, economic well being and the prevention of the environment". A good place to start is the homepage link to "MeteoWorld", which is the WMO's newsletter. Here visitors can learn about recently issued publications, upcoming events, and WMO activities. Of course, visitors will appreciate the publications section as well, which includes materials published in English, French, Spanish, and Russian. Rounding out the site is a very helpful link to the World Weather Information Service, which offers official weather forecasts from selected cities around the globe, as reported by the National Meteorological Services worldwide.

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Multimedia Learning Center Online
    http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has done the Web-browsing public a great service by placing this extremely comprehensive and authoritative multimedia archive online. Online since 1999, the Multimedia Learning Center provides access to some of the past virtual exhibits sponsored by the Center's Museum of Tolerance (including a fine one dedicated to Polish Jews), a host of teacher's resources, and a helpful frequently-asked-questions area. The FAQ area may be most helpful for students, as it contains an interactive glossary of the Holocaust, a timeline of the Holocaust, and answers to 36 commonly asked questions about the Holocaust. The special collections area of the site contains a number of relevant primary documents related to the Holocaust, though it should be noted that the majority of them are available only in German and Hebrew.

Kanji Alive
    http://kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu/
A number of educational websites dedicated to helping students learning various East Asian languages have found a home on the Web, and Kanji Alive is one that interested parties will find rather compelling. Created at the University of Chicago, Kanji Alive is a searchable Web-based tool that is designed to help beginning and intermediate-level Japanese language learners read and write kanji. The tool consists of two interactive windows, one of which allows users to search for and select kanji, while the other one contains information on the selected kanji. The site also contains several supplementary materials, including a document that covers the history of kanji, stroke order basics, and radicals. The site also contains an important section specifically for instructors and a troubleshooting area.

Life at the End of the Road
    http://endoftheroad.org/
Opening up this website, visitors will find themselves whirling around an antiquated map of South America as it scrolls through the various countries of South America, then finally landing on the area known as Patagonia. Created by persons at The University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Universidad de Los Andes, this website profiles the day-to-day existence of the people in this removed corner of the world. Appropriately enough, the site is divided into three primary sections: The Land, The Sea, and The People. Each site contains a number of thematic stories which address (through audio interviews and entrancing photographs) such topics as the life of ranching families in Patagonia, the craft of shipbuilding, and of course, the dramatic landscapes of the region. Another feature of note is the interactive timeline of Patagonia available here, which stretches from 9000 B.C. to the present. It is worth noting that visitors may elect to view the site in Spanish if they so desire.

Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings
    http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/IcelOnline/
Working in partnership with the University of Iceland and a number of other sponsors (including The Andrew Mellon Foundation) the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group has created the Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings website. This website also complements the University of Iceland’s Internet course, “Icelandic Online”. Persons interested in learning a bit about Icelandic will appreciate the fact that they have access to the aforementioned course, complete with interactive lessons and exercises. Additionally, the site contains the unabridged content of the 1989 Concise Icelandic-English dictionary and a set of readings in modern Icelandic life, literature and culture. As an extra treat, visitors also have access to a collection of works by the famous Icelandic poet, Jonas Hallgrimsson. Visitors will want to make sure and read some of his well-known poems, including “The Vastness of the Universe” and “The Style of the Times”.

Urbis
    http://www.urbis.org.uk/default.asp
Located in the Millennium Quarter in Manchester, Urbis is a museum that “explores urban culture and the cities of today and tomorrow”. The museum's very distinct and novel building was designed by the noted architecture firm of Ian Simpson, and is noted for its glass facing and location within the popular Cathedral Gardens. To get a sense of the building’s design and context, visitors should take advantage of the QuickTime virtual tour offered on the website. Moving on from that part of the site, users can learn about their creative and well-designed exhibitions that profile different aspects of urban life from around the world. The resources page also offers webcam perspectives on other cities, including Singapore, Tokyo, and London.