TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Institute of World Affairs:  Global Issues Fall Series
  • International Focus: October Program Schedule
  • September 17 – October 15:  Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World
  • October 13:   Images of Latin American Art and Literature
  • October 15:  Center for Jewish Studies:  Lecture Series Commences
  • October 15:  First round call for papers closes:  The Fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations
  • October 15:  Chinese Information Law
  • October 15:  Paper proposals due for Third International Conference on New Directions In The Humanities
  • October 15:  Applications due for Guatemala Human Rights Study Tour for Young Leaders
  • October 21-31:  Milwaukee International Film Festival
  • October 27-29:  Australia and America in Global Context
  • November 10:  Marc Israël-Le Pelletier
  • Apply now for Winterim Study Abroad Programs
  • Register now for October 24-26 IGS Best Practices Conference
  • December 31:  Papers due for JIC on the "UN at 60"
  • January 3:  Paper Abstracts due for ATINER Conference
  • Call for Papers:  The 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Apply now for Fulbright Scholar Program
  • December 1:  Applications due for UWM Faculty Travel Grants
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • The World War I Document Archive
  • The State of the World’s Cities: 2004/2005
  • Open Hearts/Closed Doors-The War Orphans Project
  • Bollywood Dreams
  • Organization of World Heritage Cities

IWA :  Global Issues Fall Series
All Institute of World Affairs programs will be convened in the evening, with venues and program times to be announced.

• Iraq and Afghanistan: A View from the Field, October 12
  Wisconsin Room of the UWM Union -- 7:00 - 8:30 PM program
  Speaker: Jim White, Mercy Corps Operations Director

  The Institute of World Affairs is proud to cooperate with Mercy Corps for this rare look at the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mercy Corps is an international relief organization which has been working in Afghanistan since 1986 and began working in Iraq after the start of the 2003 conflict.  Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear about the reality from the ground.

  Discussion Group – Iraq and Afghanistan -- October 13, 2004, Noon – 1 PM:

  • UWM Student Union 340 (moderator: IWA),
  • UWM School of Continuing Education, 7th Floor, Plankinton Building, Grand Avenue Mall 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. (moderator, Ben Merens, Host, Wisconsin Public Radio, 90.7 FM-WHAD)
     
• Election 2004: Critical Foreign Policy Choices, October 26
  Engelman Hall 105 -- 7:00 - 8:30 PM program
  Speakers: Larry Korb Secure America Project, Tom Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute
  Co-sponsor:  The “Secure America Project” of the Fourth Freedom Forum.

  This critical debate will focus on Bush and Kerry’s foreign policy platforms. Donnelly and Korb, experts with divergent views on these issues, will debate which candidate’s platform will make America more or less secure. Join this important pre-election discussion!

  Discussion Group – Foreign Policies of the Presidential Candidates -- October 27, 2004, Noon- 1 PM:

  • UWM Student Union 340 (moderator: IWA)
  • UWM School of Continuing Education, 7th Floor. Plankinton Building, Grand Avenue Mall 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. (moderator, Ben Merens, Host, Wisconsin Public Radio, 90.7 FM-WHAD)
     
• Finding the Foreign Policy Center:  Annual Carol Edler Baumann Event, November 9, 2004
  Ballroom, UWM Union -- 7:00-8:30 PM
  Speakers: Five panelists with politically divergent views
  Moderator: Rob Ricigliano, Director, Institute of World Affairs

  As with so many political issues in the U.S., foreign policy has become so polarized that it is difficult to have a constructive dialogue.  This panel will explore questions such as: What values do we want our foreign policy to serve? What do we, as Americans, want from our foreign policy?  Even if finding common ground proves elusive, IWA hopes to model a respectful conversation where people can disagree without being disagreeable and learn from each other.

  Discussion Group – The Foreign Policy Center -- November 10, 2004, Noon – 1 PM:

  • UWM Student Union 340 (moderator: IWA)
  • UWM School of Continuing Education, 7th Floor. Plankinton Building, Grand Avenue Mall 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. (moderator, Ben Merens, Host, Wisconsin Public Radio, 90.7 FM-WHAD)
     
• Special Program:  France and the U.S., December 14
  Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, Embassy of France will address the Milwaukee community.  Details on time and program format will be confirmed in September.

• Public Programs:
  • General Public: $8 per program/$20 for the series of four programs.
  • IWA Basic members: 50% discount on admission
  • IWA Premium Members: Free
  • Students free with student I.D.
     
• Discussion Groups: Free

Information: For more information about individual programs, or to register, please call 414-229-3220 or send an e-mail message to: iwa@uwm.edu.

• October 3 – World Affairs Roundup with a local panel of foreign policy experts
• October 10 – A Conversation with Gary Hart, former US Senator from Colorado and Presidential Candidate
• October 17 – World Affairs Roundup with a local panel of foreign policy experts
• October 24 – On the Ground in Iraq and Afghanistan with Jim White, Operations Director of Mercy Corps

A lecture series will also be offered.

The archeological drawings of Christiane Clados, Ph.D. (Post-Doctoral Fellow, UW-Madison and Research Associate, Free University of Berlin) will be on display.
Dr. Clados paints her "reconstructions" based on archaeological finds in Mesoamerica and the former Inca lands of South America. Like other archeologists, she uses sites reports, stratigraphic profiles and iconography, yet the uniqueness of her work resides in how she uses scientific method to create magnificent artistic reconstructions of pre-columbian life.  Cosponsored by Latino Arts, CLACS, UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, with additional support from the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
 
 

Exhibit Lecture Schedule Christiane Clados: “Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World,” September 24, 5 pm, Latino Arts Auditorium, Milwaukee and October 19, 5 pm, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison. Jean Hudson (Department of Anthropology UW Milwaukee): “Peruvian North Coast Archaeology,” September 28, 5:30 pm, Latino Arts Auditorium, Milwaukee. Jason Yaeger (Department of Anthropology UW Madison): “’Gold and silver and jade, OH MY!’ An anthropological perspective on the ‘treasures’ of ancient American civilizations,” October 1, 11 am, Latino Arts Auditorium, Milwaukee and October 21, 7:30 pm, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison. Andrea Stone (Department of Art History UW Milwaukee): “Words Made Visible: Ancient Maya Hieroglyphic Writing,” October 1, 5 pm, Latino Arts Auditorium, Milwaukee. Frank Salomon (Department of Anthropology UW Madison): “The Immortality of the Flesh: Why Ancient Americans Created Mummies,” October 15, 5 pm, Latino Arts Auditorium, Milwaukee and October 25, 7:30 pm, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (Department of Anthropology UW Madison): “Archaeology, Art and Interpretation,” October 19, 5 pm, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison. See also the accompanying online curriculum at:  http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/currmat.html

Sponsored by Latino Arts, Inc, the UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with additional support from the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

See http://www.latinoartsinc.org for more information.

Two presentations on Latin American Art and Literature will be made at UWM:

• "Becoming Kantepec: "Art and the recovery of historical memory in a community art project in Tabasco, Mexico"
  • Raoul Deal (Visual Art / Cultures and Communities).
  • Frank Campenni,I&M T, producer of the Becoming Kantepec documentary video will also be on hand to answer questions.
• "A reading of new work by poet Mauricio Kilwein Guevara"
  • Mauricio Kilwein Guevara (English)

Shale Horowitz, Associate Professor of Political Science, will speak on the relevant and dynamic topic, "The War on Terrorism & the Arab Israeli Conflict".

The event includes a free dairy lunch for students and faculty (Kosher meals available upon request).  Please RSVP so we can get a meal head count.

• Our next Lunch and Learn will be hosted by our friends at the Jewish Community Center on November 10, 2004 and will feature Professor Mark Raider from the University of Albany, NY.  Professor Raider specializes in American Jewish History and Israel.
• We then return to UWM on November 12, 2004 for a lecture from Tasha Oren, Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Film Studies.  Professor Oren will discuss "Jewish Television or Mickey Mouse Culture" from her recent book, Demon in the Box; Jews, Arabs, Politics, & Culture.
• In 2005, our Lunch and Learn Lecture Series continues with Ellen Amster, Assistant Professor of History, on February 18.  Professor Amster turns the focus to "Saints, Sultans, and Saffron: Jewish Life and the Sephardic Tradition in Morocco".
• April 15, 2005, our own Director of the Center for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology, Chava Frankfort-Nachmias will discuss topics from her new book, Sappho in the Holy Land,  including "Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel."

First round call for papers closes on October 15, 2004.

The conference will include major keynote addresses by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers is October 15 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found on the conference website: http://www.Diversity-Conference.com.

Sponsored by
Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (ASIST)
UW-Milwaukee Center for International Education UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies UW-Milwaukee ASIST Student Chapter

The conference will continue in its endeavours over recent years to develop agenda for the humanities in an era otherwise dominated by scientific, technical and economic rationalisms. What is the role of the humanities in thinking the shape of the future and the human? Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology or Religion - these are just some of the many disciplines represented at the Humanities Conference. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical to the expansive and theoretical.

Included as part of the conference program will be major keynote presentations by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Participants are also welcome to submit presentation proposals, either as 30 minute papers, 60 minute workshops or jointly presented 90 minute colloquium sessions. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of the Humanities, published in print and electronic formats. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.

The revised deadline for the first round call for papers is October 15, 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.

This conference will be held in Homerton College, University of Cambridge. The historic city of Cambridge is the home of one of the oldest Universities in the world. Its first college was officially founded in 1284.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found on the conference website: http://www.HumanitiesConference.com

Global Youth Connect invites young leaders (ages 18-25) interested in expanding their knowledge and understanding of human rights and social justice to join us for a 2-week study tour to Guatemala.

"This experiential education program will take participants to Guatemala City, Antigua, and Quetzaltenango to explore the range of human rights issues that are currently impacting Guatemala's development.  We will explore the roots of the violent conflict which held Guatemala in its grasp for almost four decades and learn how this legacy of violence has impacted the country and its people.  Participants will meet with leading human rights defenders, government representatives, youth and others from local communities to learn about the political and social challenges faced by Guatemalans.  We will also connect with young Guatemalans in Quetzaltenango in an interactive workshop designed to build cross-cultural understanding.  Through hands-on service activities, participants will also have a chance to work side-by-side with Guatemalans in finding positive solutions to social and economic concerns. We will consider the ways in which we can help raise awareness on the issues and provide collaborative support to Guatemalans who are already working to create change."

For more information on how to apply, visit this web site:  http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/countries/guatemala/studytour.html

Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.milwaukeefilmfest.org or by phone at (414) 736-4324.

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education.

In the last two hundred years, and particularly in the postcolonial era, relatively new societies have emerged, with complex and ambivalent relations to their founding nations. The complexities now extend to the relations between these and other societies. In some cases, notably the United States, and to a lesser degree Australia, once-marginal societies have become centers themselves, with still more complex relations to their own minorities (Aboriginal, Afro-American, Asian, Latino, etc.). As always, history and geography have played a key role in shaping the cultures of all these emergent societies.

Although the focus of the papers will be on Australia and America, the conference avoids polarization by encouraging multipolar perspectives.  Thus, for instance, key relations currently obtain between, not only Britain and Australia or Britain and America, but also between Australia and America, and between both and Asia, indeed the world.

The conference also avoids undue generalizations by mirroring the “complex fate” of these societies in particular cultural works, in art, literature, film, and architecture. Hence the balance, in conference speakers, between artists and scholars of various kinds.

All sessions free and open to the public.
 

Wednesday, October 27 4:00 p.m. Greene Hall, 3347 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee Ihab Hassan (UWM), Chair Dean Richard Meadows (UWM), “Welcome” Marc Pachter (Smithsonian Institution) “Larrikins and Wowsers: Cultural Tilts and Australian/American Relations” 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Greene Hall, 3347 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee John Koethe (UWM), Chair Nicholas Jose (PEN Australia) and Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Melbourne) read from their work Thursday, October 28 3:30 p.m. Bolton Hall, Room B91, 3210 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee Creative Writing Symposium, English Department Nicholas Jose and Chris Wallace-Crabbe 6:00 p.m. University Center (off campus) Creative Writing Seminar, School of Continuing Education  4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Bolton Hall, Room B52, 3210 N Maryland Ave, Milwaukee Anne Marsh (Monash), “Displacement and Identity: Contemporary Australian Indigenous Photography” Friday, October 29 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Curtin Hall, Room 118, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee The Writer’s and Artist’s Perspective Patrice Petro (UWM), Chair Peter Paik (UWM), Commentator Nicholas Jose, “The Dreaming and the Dream: Australia and America” Ihab Hassan, “Views of the Void: Painting a Continent” Chris Wallace-Crabbe, “Slouching Toward the Nightmare of History” 3:30 – 5:30 p. m. Curtin Hall, Room 118, 3243 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee Multicultural Australia II Daniel Sherman (UWM), Chair Diane Bell (George Washington), “Engaged Ethnography: A feminist exploration of the politics of gender, race and religion” Elizabeth Povinelli (Chicago), “Without Shame, The New Cultural Unilateralism” Patricia O'Brien (Georgetown University), "White Australia and the Brown Pacific: National Interest

One of the contemporary playwrights featured by the "Playing French Festival" this fall, the first theater festival of its kind in Chicago, http://www.playingfrench.org

Marc Israël Le-Pelletier has had a truly international career in the theater. He was born in France where he studied Fine Arts at the Arts Décoratifs and Beaux-arts in Paris, as well as Anthropology and Cinema at the Sorbonne.  In the late seventies, he completed his studies at Columbia University in New York and majored in the Arts.  In 1987 he moved to New York where he lived for ten years and attended the HB Studio, taking courses in directing and playwriting.  Since 1995 he has written some twenty plays, which have been translated into several languages and staged in France, the US, Canada, and Germany.   Marc moved to Montreal in 1998 where he now lives which his wife and their young daughter, Jade. He is also a documentary film-maker, an artist and a photographer. He will speak and answer questions -- in English or French - on his transatlantic experience as playwright.

http://www.lesfrancophonies.com/PAGES/maison/AUTEURS%202002/ISRAEL_LE_PELLETIER.htm

His recent play,  Sarah and Lorraine will premiered in English at the "Playing French" Festival in Chicago. By the Storefront Theater, Nov. 7-10, 7:30 PM.

A contemporary look at race and culture in America, Sarah and Lorraine tells the 30-year story of a blind, Polish-Jewish widow, her African-American housekeeper, and the man they shared. For more information, click on  http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/events/104341,0,5271870.event

Marc Israël-Le Pelletier's visit to UWM s co-sponsored by the French Cultural Services in Chicago,  the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, the Theater Department, the Center for International Education and the Center for 21st Century Studies.

Destinations include:  Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Taiwan.  For more information, please see:

• Program List
  • http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/programs.html
     
• Program Flier (in Adobe Acrobat format)
  • http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/Winterim%20general%20flyer.pdf

Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global education, the conference will highlight innovative initiatives in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

• Campus-wide strategic planning for internationalization
• General education curriculum
• Professional schools
• World languages
• International students and scholars
• Study abroad
• Faculty development
• Technology and international collaborations

• Conference Agenda:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/draft_agenda.pdf
• Registration Form:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/registration_form.pdf

At the launch of the Participatory Communication issue of JIC in 2001, the UN Representative in Australia remarked that the issues covered by JIC are all issues of concern to the United Nations. JIC covers these issues from a variety of disciplinary and critical perspectives drawing on scholars drawn from all over the world.  In 2005 the United Nations will celebrate 60 years of international regime development and management in areas related to security; trade; political, economic and social development; culture, education and communication; and  environmental protection, to provide a cross-section of the United Nation’s areas of concern.  A quick look at the United Nation’s organizational chart at http://www.unsystem.org/ shows the full breadth of governance that the UN engages, even if it is debatable that it is a world ‘government’ in the sense of the word as applied to the nation state. JIC proposes a Special Issue to mark the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations that is not purely celebratory, but one that recognises the United Nation’s interest in promoting Civil Society throughout the world. The issue will provide a critical space that will allow international communication scholars to theorize and analyse the structure, processes and projects of the United Nations system so that this scholarship may be drawn on by the United Nations in a year of self-reflection, as it looks forward to its next 60 years.
 

Papers dealing with any of the following topics or areas are invited. Of course, the topics could be combined and there may be additional issues related to these topics that could be addressed: How is the United Nations system best described as an international communication system and how does it fulfil or fail to fulfil this role?  How do component parts of the United Nations system act as international communication systems?  What models of international communication are at work here?  How can they be improved?  What alternative models should displace existing models? Communication scholars theorize the press in relation to the state and market.  How can we theorize international media in relation to the UN form of governance and transnational actors?  What is the shape of the global public sphere and who are the citizens who occupy this space? Do the media have responsibility in relation to ‘civic education’ based on a UN sponsored globally acceptable ‘civic culture’?   How does such a culture interface and interact with parallel cultures? Has the United Nations succeeded in educating nation states about its potential and vision, including its vision of universal democracy?  How is the vision of the United Nations regenerated through international communication processes within the United Nations itself?  What are the intercultural and geopolitical obstacles to an effective education process?  What can we expect in the future? How are the relationships between political and economic power and influence played out in the construction of patterns, processes and practices of global governance?  What role do diplomatic skills play in these processes and practices.

The above topic areas are provided as triggers for the generation of ideas.  They are not meant to be exhaustive or exclusionary.  If a scholar is working on an area related to the United Nations which is of interest to the multidisciplinary field of International communication, s/he is welcome to send an abstract to Professor Chitty:

Professor Naren Chitty, Editor
The Journal of International Communication
c/o Macquarie University Centre for International Communication DCSMP,
Macquarie University
North Ryde, NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA
naren.chitty@mq.edu.au

The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) organizes its third international conference on International and European Political & Economic Affairs, May 26-28, 2005.

The registration fee is €250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, one Dinner, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a Greek Night with live music will be organized.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of political and economic studies. Political sessions will be devoted to Comparative Politics, European Union Politics and Enlargement, NGO, International Organizations, Intergovernmental Relations, Political Parties, Democracy, Government (Federal and Local) and Political Ethics. Economic sessions will be organized in the areas of International Economics (Trade, International Factor Movements and International Investment), International
Financial Economics, Economic Development, Technological Change, Growth, Economic Systems, Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Urban, Rural and Regional Economics. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings.

If you think that you can contribute, please send your abstract (no more than 300 words), via e-mail, before January 3, 2005 to:

Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Head
Research Unit of European Affairs, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)
atiner@atiner.gr

Call for Papers
Since 2000, ISTC has been working to establish an annual space for open conversations between anyone (scholars, young and old, graduates, public intellectuals and professionals) wanting to explore ideas, old and new, introduce new projects and research ideas, and report on completed projects. The Centres of the Consortium cover social and political theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, inter-civilizational studies and the Consortium exists only to promote debate and critical reflection. We invite prospective participants to send in paper ideas and proposals for panels. As this is the first ISTC conference to take place outside the Trans-Atlantic axis, we are keen to receive proposals on Asian perspectives and Asian concerns from people working in Asian contexts.

We have already received expressions of interest in panels on:

• Pathways to and through Modernity: alternative or multiple modernities?
• Transnational diseases, transborder transactions
• China and India in 21st century
• Insiders and Outsiders: Ethnos and demos in Asia and beyond
• Cultures of consumption
• Religious revitalization and Inter-civilizational Dialogues
• War, Terror, Territoriality
• Urban sexualities, media, and social movements

6th ISTC Conference
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Fax: 65 – 6777 9579

Faculty and administrators from two-year, four-year and graduate institutions are invited to apply. Retired and adjunct faculty frequently receive grants as well.

Traditional Fulbright awards vary from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English.

Application deadline for 2005-2006 grants for which applications are still being sought:

• November 1, 2004 – spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for international education and academic administrators as well as for the summer German Studies Seminar

Awards will be given partially to defray University-approved travel expenses (transportation, room, board, and conference fees).

Awards will be limited to support for:

• research leading to results expected to be disseminated in scholarly papers, books, or other means
• formal participation, performance, or exhibition outside the U.S.  Participation is defined as presenting the results of research at an international professional meeting, not merely attending a conference. Appropriate documentation must be submitted.
• curriculum development
• travel to plan, develop, or strengthen exchange programs for students to earn degree credits through overseas study or internships, and for faculty to participate in research and scholarship at foreign institutions.

The World War I Document Archive
    http://www.lib.byu.edu/%7Erdh/wwi/
The “Great War” is sometimes overshadowed by the legacy of World War II, but historians and other interested parties never forget the importance of this important global war that consumed the world in the second decade of the 20th century. The people at the Brigham Young University Libraries haven’t forgotten either, and as such, they have created this archive of primary documents for interested parties. Here visitors can peruse hundreds of transcribed documents divided into sections such as diaries, conventions, the maritime war, and the medical front. The photograph archive is quite nice, as it contains over 1800 photographs that document everything from the role of animals in warfare to various heads of state associated with the times. For those who are looking for specific material, there is also a keyword search engine provided here.

The State of the World’s Cities: 2004/2005
    http://www.unhabitat.org/state_of_the_world_cities.asp
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme published the first State of the World Cities report in 2001, and just recently released this updated version which offers insight and critical analysis of the state of the world’s major urban areas and how they are changing, both for good and for ill. The report was launched on September 14, 2004, at a conference in Barcelona at the World Urban Forum, and while visitors to the site can’t read the entire report for free, they can read a brief summary of each section contained within the full report. The various sections include such provocative topics as “Ticking Time-Bombs: Low-income settlements”, “Africa’s Secret Modernist City”, and “Crimes of the Child”. These excerpts are enhanced by a Flash presentation that talks a bit about the general findings of the report and also a press kit.

Open Hearts/Closed Doors-The War Orphans Project
    http://www.museevirtuel.ca/Exhibitions/orphans/english/
The situation of Jews in and around Europe during the time of the Holocaust has been well documented, but an equally compelling question is what became of those Jews (especially Jewish children) who were part of the emigration from Europe after WWII concluded. The Virtual Museum of Canada has taken up the mantle of telling the story of those young Jewish orphans who made their way to Canada during this period through the use of first-person narratives, complemented by a rich selection of visual documents from this traumatic period. Visitors can travel chronologically through this exhibit by looking through sections titled “Displaced Persons Camps” and “Welcome to Canada”. A nice touch on the site is that all of the digitized documents here are available in the .pdf format for easy printing. Also helpful is the section that offers a broad perspective on Canadian immigration through the use of an interactive timeline that starts in 1885. Finally, visitors will appreciate the very human side of the story which is told by clicking any one of the eight black-and-white photographs on the top of the page. Each photograph provides the first-hand story of a Jewish orphan and their experiences before, during, and after immigration to Canada. [KMG]

Bollywood Dreams
    http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0306/jt_intro.html
As Dirck Halstead notes in his introduction to this online photographic exhibit which probes the thoroughly vibrant and frenetic world of Indian cinema (which is known as “Bollywood”), “It turns out far more films than Hollywood, and in fact, most of the rest of the world combined." The informed reader may not be terribly surprised by this fact, as the country does have over one billion people, many of whom go to the movies several times a week. So begins this online exhibit, which features the photographs of one Jonathan Targovnic, who was wandering the world after his time of service in the Israel Defense Force and turned his lens on the Indian film industry. On the site, visitors can view more than three dozen photographs, including a shot of the famous Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan getting ready for his next scene and a rather clever shot of dancers getting ready for a big number on the set of the Raj Kamal studios in Mumbai. The site is rounded out by a short piece titled “Indian Cinema, A Way of Life” by Nasreen Nunni Kabir” and series of short interview clips with Jonathan Torgovnik.

Organization of World Heritage Cities
    http://www.ovpm.org/index.php?newlang=eng
Cities around the world have served as the primary repositories for human culture, innovation, and diversity for millennia, so it makes sense that there is a worldwide organization dedicated to some of these important historic places. Founded in 1993, the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) consists of 208 cities, which have a combined population of 125 million. Some of their programs include symposia and seminars dealing with the management, development, and preservation of historic sites, along with creating an active and vibrant network among these places. In the section titled “The Preservation Challenge”, visitors can read some of the key documents dealing with the organization, along with information on their current initiatives. Visitors may also find out about the various cities that are part of the organization, such as Damascus, Tunis, and Galle. Finally, the site also contains registration and program material for the 8th OWHC World Symposium 2005, which will be held in Cuzco, Peru.