TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS
  • Continuing This Month:  New Global "Travel" Program for Children and Parents
  • Funding Opportunities and Planning Meetings for Global Studies
  • January 22:  Registration due for "Pedagogies of Engagement" Conference
  • May 14:  Applications due for Summer "Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law"
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Study Abroad Scholarships for High School Students
  • Graduate Student Funds for Latin American/Caribbean Area Studies
  • Washington Center Seminars
  • January 12:  Essays due for "Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans"
  • January 27:  Applications due for Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • January 30:  Papers due for International Conference on Learning
  • January 31:  Applications due for Boren Graduate Fellowships
  • United States-Eurasia Awards for Excellence in Teaching Program
  • February 12:  Applications due for Boren Undergraduate Scholarships
  • March 19:  Applications due for "Cuba for Teachers" Program
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • The Arab Population: 2000
  • New France, New Horizons: On French Soil in America
  • Kennedy & Castro: The Secret History

New Global "Travel" Program for Children and Parents
"Travel the Globe with UWM and the Public Library" is a new program for children (elementary school age) and their parents to learn about different parts of the world.

"Travel the Globe" will take place every second Saturday of the month from 10:30 to 11:30 AM in the new Washington Park Public Library  (2121 N. Sherman Blvd., Milwaukee).  Children and parents will listen to folk tales from the country featured that day, hear from an international student about his/her childhood, and play music or work with paper to make an artifact from the featured country. The event is free for children and their parents.  The 2004 schedule:

• January 10 - Travel to Macedonia
• February 14 - Travel to El Salvador
• March 13 - Travel to China
• April 10 - Travel to Peru

• Global Communication Faculty Forum - Friday, January 30, 2004, 1:00-3:00 p.m. in Garland 104
  • Additional funding is available to support research, teaching, or professional development concerning Global Communication. All interested faculty are invited to attend the next Faculty Forum to receive more information about funding opportunities and to discuss the further development of this track, including the content of three upper-level core courses and several recently proposed electives.
     
• Global Security Faculty Forum - Friday, February 6, 2004, 1:00-3:00 p.m. in Garland 104
  • All who wish to be involved with discussions about developing the Global Security curriculum are welcome to attend. This meeting is part of a series of discussions that will determine the content of three upper-level core courses for the Global Security track. We will also provide information about applying for funds to support research or course development for the next round of funding applications, which will be due on April 21, 2004.
     
• Global Studies Information Brown-Bag Lunches - Wednesday, January 28, 2004 and Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Garland 104
  • These informal discussions are intended for faculty and teaching academic staff who have general questions or would like more information about the Global Studies program. For those faculty new to Global Studies, the January 28 Brown-Bag may also serve as a preliminary orientation for the January 30 Global Communication Faculty Forum, and the February 3 Brown-Bag, for the February 6 Global Security Faculty Forum.

Sponsored by the Center for International Education.

The UW System (through the Office of Academic Diversity and Development, the Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Women’s Studies Consortium, the Institute for Global Studies, and the Office of Professional and Instructional Development) is pleased to announce a conference focusing on pedagogies of engagement.  The conference will be held on Friday, February 27 at the Pyle Center in Madison.  We invite you to join us in celebration of the work that is being done across the UW System.

There is no campus nomination procedure; participants may register on a first-come, first-served basis with no registration fee.  The workshop can accommodate up to 150 participants.
 

General Information Location:  Pyle Center, Madison Cost: No Registration fee Registration:   First-come, first-served Time:  9am-5 pm; lunch will be served Agenda:  The agenda is currently being constructed.  At this point there are 70 UW System faculty and staff presenting in a series of panels and discussions throughout the day.  Senior Vice President Cora B. Marrett will deliver the keynote and welcome.  The tentative agenda will be sent to participants by late January. Workshops and panels will provide examples of Engaged Pedagogy.  This includes those techniques that help students develop critical insights and awareness into their own place in systems of privilege and power, and the consequences to the world of sustained systems of inequity.   The conference will highlight pedagogical connections that engage with a range of contemporary inequalities and social/cultural justice issues, by providing best practices in the ways in which faculty and academic staff have provided opportunities for their students to make these connections within traditional disciplines. Some examples of session titles are: Teaching and Learning “Diversity” in the Predominantly White Classroom Detectives, Maps and Metaphors: Creative Approaches to Teaching Multi-Cultural Literature Practices of Disruption: Working with Future Teachers to Recognize and Mediate the Effects of Privilege Conference Goals and Themes: Many educators are developing and using pedagogical strategies and innovations which recognize that discussions of multiculturalism, gender, ability, class, ethnic identity, sexual identity, racism, and equality are important ways to engage ALL of our students in their education by making new connections to traditional disciplinary content.  This conference celebrates and honors educators who take novel approaches to the teaching of race, ethnicity and related research that intersects with other markers of identity within the context of the classroom and beyond.  The title of this conference, Critical Connections, references an overarching theme that links the form and methods of student learning processes to the hierarchical social orders that sustain an array of contemporary inequalities.  It also recognizes that critical connections can be made between the content of our courses, who we are, and who we are teaching. The conference will have the following broad themes: Curricular Innovation: Creating new courses and adapting existing ones to account for new connections to old problems and traditional content. Pedagogical Dynamics: Use of politically loaded issues like religion, racism, terrorism, vengeance, ethnic differences, and racial profiling in courses requires special attention to strong emotional responses. Student Engagement: How do we know students understand the core concepts? How can we engage students who are required to take a diversity course? This event promotes student engagement and explores how our best instructors create learning environments that help students locate themselves in the broader social, political, and global context.  Please help us celebrate the excellent teaching taking place in the UW System that is preparing our students for the diverse society and economies in which they live. Registration:  To register for the conference, simply fill out the registration form (below) and send directly to Debbie Dunn via email to:  ddunn@uwsa.edu, or to fax it to her attention at (608) 262-9701.  The deadline for registration is January 22, 2004.

 

**************************************************************************************************************************************** Participant Registration Form Due: January 22, 2004 Critical Connections: Pedagogies of Engagement Friday, February 27th Pyle Center, UW-Madison Name__________________________________________________________________ Department/Campus______________________________________________________ Address________________________________________________________________ Telephone_____________________  E-mail___________________ MEALS All meals during the workshop will be served on-site; vegetarian and special diet entrees may be available if requested in advance.  Please indicate any special dietary requirements you have and we will do our best to accommodate you. LODGING For your convenience, we have reserved a block of rooms that will be held until January 27.  Please contact the Sheraton Hotel 706 John Nolen Drive, Madison, WI  (608)251-2300, to make your own reservations.  If you need to stay over the night before, you will be responsible for making your own reservations and paying for the room.  Please return this form to the attention of Debbie Dunn, by either email: ddunn@uwsa.edu or by fax: 608-262-9701 ****************************************************************************************************************************************

Questions about the program or registration procedures should be directed to Lisa Kornetsky, Director, Office of Professional and Instructional Development, at lkornetsky@uwsa.edu or (608) 263-2722, or Debbie Dunn, Office Manager, Academic Diversity and Development, at ddunn@uwsa.edu or (608) 262-9720.

We are pleased to announce that the registration period for the summer 2004 Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is now open, and we will be accepting applications through May 14, 2004.  Details of this program and course listings follow.  All of this information, as well as applications, are available on our web site at http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/hracademy

For inquiries and requests for applications, please contact us at: American University Washington College of Law Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Prof. Claudia Martin and Prof. Diego Rodriguez-Pinzon Co-Directors 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC  20016-8181 USA

Tel: (202) 274-4070
Fax: (202) 274-4198
E-mail: hracademy@wcl.american.edu
Web:  http:///www.wcl.american.edu/humright/hracademy

Scholarship deadlines are approaching rapidly. Deadlines for Summer departure programs are in December or January.

Students whose family hosts a Youth for Understanding - USA exchange student are eligible for an automatic $500 scholarship for summer programs and $800 scholarships for semester and year programs. For more information on hosting a YFU-USA international student, visit the website at http://www.yfu-usa.org

For a complete list of available scholarships, and more information about the Youth for Understanding -USA International programs, check out the website at http://www.yfu-usa.org/ao/scholarships.htm or call 1-800-TEENAGE  ( 1-800-833-6243).

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

The Center also seeks Faculty Leaders to lead small groups during the January seminars and convention programs, perhaps even bringing pre-formed groups as part of a class.  Talented instructors will spend one or two weeks in January and/or two weeks in Boston (Democratic Convention) or New York (Republican Convention) next summer to help with the academic side of the programs.

For more information about the faculty leader positions, please e-mail us at:  seminars@twc.edu.

It has been well over 30 years since the Asian American Student and Anti-War Movement and Third World Strike to found Asian American Studies began yet we are far from reaching justice for many Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. The sovereignty movement of Native Hawaiians, the Wen Ho Lee case, Filipino airport screeners, and on going legal battles for citizenship, illustrate how many Asian and Pacific Islander Americans have been fighting for justice in the United States.

Stereotyped as "apolitical," we want, instead, to highlight the struggles and triumphs of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in relation to quests for justice. For this issue of Peace Review, we invite both historical and contemporary works that focus on past and on-going projects to attain justice for all those of Asian and Pacific Islander ancestry.

Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary, transnational journal of research and analysis, focusing on the current issues and controversies that underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world.  We define peace research to include human rights, development, ecology, culture, race, gender and related issues.  Our task is to present the results of this research and thinking in short (2500-3500 words), accessible and substantial essays.

For writer's guidelines or to send essay submissions by email attachment to Robert Elias, Editor eliasr@usfca.edu or Anne Hieber, Managing Editor hieber@usfca.edu.  Or send correspondence to Peace Review, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117.  Telephone: 415-422-2910 or Fax: 415-422-5671, Attn. Elias or Hieber.

In recent years, the Learning Conference has been held in Malaysia (Penang, 1999), Australia (Melbourne, 2000), Greece (Spetses, 2001), China (Beijing 2002) and the United Kingdom (London University, 2003).

The overall theme of the Learning Conference 2004 will be “Learning Today: Communication, Technology, Environment, Society.” Critical issues to be addressed include education for local and global cultural diversity, the impact of new technologies, changing forms of literacy, and the role of education in social and personal transformation.

The conference welcomes presentation proposals addressing a broad range of themes across the humanities and social sciences. Conference papers will be published in print and electronic formats in the peer refereed International Journal of Learning. If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available allowing access to the full text of the electronic edition of the Journal for that year. Virtual registration also allows you to submit a paper - which will appear in the conference program, be included in the refereeing process and, if accepted for publication, be published into the International Journal of Learning as a fully refereed academic journal article.

The deadline for the first round of the call for papers is January 30, 2004. Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.LearningConference.com.

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

The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from June 16 (Wednesday) to June 19 (Saturday), 2004 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from the social sciences fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.  Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.
 

Topic Areas (All Areas of Social Sciences are Invited) The Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences encourages the following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas: Research Papers - Completed papers. Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.  Student Papers - Research by students.  Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.  Reports on issues related to teaching. For more information about submissions see: http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm Format of Presentations: Paper sessions will have three to four papers presented in each 90 minute session, giving each presenter 20 – 30 minutes. Workshop presentations will be given a full 90 minute session.  Panel sessions will provide an opportunity for three or more presenters to speak in a more open and conversational setting with conference attendees.  Submissions for these 90 minute sessions should include the name, department, affiliation, and email address of each panelist in addition to a description of the presentation and the title page.  Poster sessions will last 90 minutes and consist of a large number of presenters.  Poster sessions allow attendees to speak with the presenters on a one-to-one basis.

• Submissions will only be published in the conference proceedings if at least one of the authors registers and attends the conference. More information will be provided upon acceptance.
• If you wish to be a session chair, please e-mail your request to social@hicsocial.org and indicate the topic area in which you are interested. Registration for the conference is required to be a session chair.

Applications are due January 31, 2004 for Fall 2004 study.

For more information visit the website: http://www.aed.org/nsep or contact the Overseas Programs office at (414) 229-5182.

The TEA Program was established to provide an opportunity for award winning US teachers to utilize their talents and expertise to improve the quality of secondary education in Eurasia and to create linkages and learning partnerships between US and Eurasian schools. Participants

Take part in a three-day summer cross-cultural symposium, "Celebrating Teaching Excellence Across Cultures" and a two-week exchange program with teachers from Eurasia who won the TEA program in their country. Funds for this program were provided through a grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

For more information, please contact:

Marilee Muchow
Program Officer
US-Eurasia Awards for Excellence in Teaching
American Councils for International Education
1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036

tel: (202) 833-7522
fax: (202) 293-0037

After the scholarship, participants must work in a U.S. government agency involved in national security affairs or in U.S. higher education.  The duration of the service requirement will be equal to, but not greater than, the length of the scholarship support under NSEP auspices.  The NSEP scholarship is to be used for study abroad and awards will range from full scholarships (covering tuition and other program costs, round-trip airfare on a U.S. flag carrier, health insurance, and local transportation) to minimum awards of $2,500 for summer, $4,000 for a semester or $6,000 for an academic year.

The application deadline is February 12, 2004 for the 2004-2005 application cycle.

For more information visit the website: http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/nsephome.htm#overview  or contact the Overseas Programs office at (414) 229-5182.

This program covers formal education, popular education, literacy campaigns and other aspects of Cuban society. You will spend time in Havana, Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos and Trinidad meeting a variety of people involved in various aspects of Cuban society. The main objective for this course is to help pre-service and in-service teachers construct curricula that would bring Cuba into their Wisconsin-based classrooms and to their students. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to
participate in this exciting and educational program.

The application deadline for this programs is March 19, 2004.

For further information, please consult these web documents:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/programs.html#Summer%20Programs
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/summer%20flyers/summer%20flyers%202004/Cuba%20Flyer%202004.pdf

Pearse Hall 166
Phone: 414-229-5182
E-mail:  overseas@uwm.edu

The Arab Population: 2000
    http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-23.pdf
As part of its ongoing series of Census Briefs, the U.S. Census Bureau released this 12-page document in December 2003 that examines the Arab population around the United States. The document begins with a description of how the Census enumerates which groups tend to identify as being of Arab ancestry, and then proceeds to discuss some of the findings from data gathered in the 2000 Census. Some of the findings include that the Arab population increased by nearly 40 percent during the 1990s and that people of Lebanese, Syrian, and Egyptian ancestry accounted for about three-fifths of the Arab population in the United States. The document also contains important information about the spatial distribution among persons of Arab ancestry, such as the finding that approximately half of the Arab population was concentrated in only five states, and that the state with the greatest proportion of Arabs was Michigan.

New France, New Horizons: On French Soil in America
    http://www.archivescanadafrance.org/english/accueil_en.html
Almost 400 years ago, France created its first permanent settlement in what would later become Canada. In doing so, the French embarked on a pattern of discovery and extended settlement that would continue until Britain eventually took control of the region in the late 18th century. Designed to celebrate and explore this rich history, this site was created by the Library and Archives Canada and the Direction des Archives de France in order to bring together over one million digitized images of documents, maps, plans, and other visual material related to this long period of French involvement in this part of North America. Here visitors can view a virtual exhibition, browse a list of other institutional links, and last (but certainly not least) search the massive database. The database is quite user-friendly, as visitors can elect to search by year (or time period), institutional location of document, or collection. For example, typing in Montreal returns 2900 documents alone, including numerous maps, government correspondence, and a number of city plans. The SVG Viewer plug-in allows users to zoom in, rotate, and manipulate documents in a number of ways, and is a welcome addition to this already remarkable online resource.

Kennedy & Castro: The Secret History
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB103/index.htm
Released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this intriguing electronic briefing book (presented by the National Security Archive at George Washington University), contains an audio tape of the late President Kennedy discussing the possibility of a clandestine meeting with Fidel Castro in Havana (just several weeks before Kennedy's death). Along with this six-minute audio recording, visitors will find other key documents related to the story, including several top secret White House memoranda, a CIA briefing paper, and brief profiles of the various characters who played a role in these matters. As National Security Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh remarked, "The documents show that JFK clearly wanted to change the framework of hostile U.S. relations with Cuba. His assassination, at the very moment this initiative was coming to fruition, leaves a major 'what if' in the ensuing history of the U.S. conflict with Cuba."