The program will feature best practices in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

Human rights is a perennial focus for peace and conflict studies, and such key concepts benefit from continual reexamination in, through, and across different professions, fields of service, and academic disciplines. This conference invites participation from interested parties of any background to join in our planned critical reflection on how human rights can and ought to be pursued in the foreseeable future.

Register online at http://www.iwa.uwm.edu or by phone at 414-229-3220. Pre-registration required for Luncheon Discussion Groups. On-site registration is available at all evening programs.

Conference Overview
ISSE 05 provides a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and systems sciences and engineering. The virtual conference will be conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel. Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and (or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation.

This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available after the conference both on a CD and as a book publication.

Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference.

The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office.

Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing.

Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF format through the website of each conference at http://www.cisse2005.org Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors.

The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to education today. Main speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers and in the field of education, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and teachers. This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning - and in any of its sites, from home to school to university to workplace.

Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of Learning. 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 the journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The next round call for papers closes on October 31, 2005.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website.

The Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations
Monash University Centre, Prato (Near Florence), Italy, July 11-14, 2006
http://www.ManagementConference.com

To be held on the Tuscan town of Prato, the conference will include some of the world's leading thinkers in the field of knowledge, culture and change management, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. The conference venue is the Monash University Centre in the Palazzo Vaj in central Prato, a sixteenth century town just to the north of Florence, and close to Florence International Airport.

I would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management. 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 the journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website. The next round call for papers closes on October 31, 2005.

Please see: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/ for showtimes, trailers, and more information.

On Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 12:00 Noon - 1:00 p.m., in Cunningham G75 (1921 E. Hartford Avenue, on the UWM campus), a discussion session on the "U.N. Development Goals" and "Rx for Survival" will he convened.

Bring your lunch and join us for this brown bag session led by Professor Aaron Buseh, from the UWM College of Nursing.

Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Diversity and Global Health, UWM College of Nursing.

Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anne Banda at banda@uwm.edu

Summer Session I: May 22-June 30, 2006
Summer Session II: July 3-August 11, 2006

The Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) is the center for international business education, programs and activities at the University of Hawaii College of Business Administration (CBA). It offers Certificates in International Management and International Entrepreneurship to graduate and undergraduate students completing the PAMI requirements of three PAMI courses and attendance at special lectures over the summer. The program is open to students from any academic discipline, professionals, to residents as well as foreigners. For information on PAMI and last summer's course offerings, please access the PAMI website: www.pami.hawaii.edu.

The PAMI program is recognized as a leading U.S. international business certificate program that emphasizes business and cultural factors affecting modern enterprises in the Pacific-Asian region.

Obtaining either of the Certificates indicates completion of an intensive study of international business or entrepreneurship topics.
Faculty and participants come from all over the world and engage in a variety of activities that include the weekly Pacific Asian Lecture Series (PALS), the N. H. Paul Chung Memorial Lecture and luncheon, field trips and social events, and a certificate completion ceremony.

We are looking for a few select faculty who would be interested in teaching traditional (classroom-based) and/or online international business courses: management, marketing, HR, entrepreneurship and accounting. We try to balance the number of offerings between undergraduate and graduate courses so feel free to propose a course for either level or for a combined section. While the level of compensation for Summer 2006 is not yet available, we can guarantee that it will not be less (could be more) than last summer's base pay of US$4470 for a 3-credit course. We appreciate that this amount is relatively modest so we normally make an effort to secure external funds that enable us to provide an additional stipend that might cover your airfare to and from Hawaii. You will also receive an office for the duration of the specific session in which you are teaching, assistance in securing housing accommodations, priority campus parking (for a modest fee) and a faculty ID that gives you access to our libraries and laboratories and discounts for a variety of on- and off- campus events and performances.

If you are interested in joining us for a summer in Hawaii, please prepare: (1) an updated curriculum vitae, (2) the course name, level (graduate or undergraduate) and a syllabus or a fairly detailed description of the course; and (3) mode: traditional or online. If you have taught the course elsewhere, please give that information as well. Finally, for marketing and advertising purposes, we also request that you submit (4) a one-paragraph bio and (5) a one- paragraph abstract of the course. Submit these via e-mail or mail by November 15, 2005 to the PAMI office at

Pacific Asian Management Institute (PAMI) Summer Program
College of Business University of Hawaii at Manoa
2404 Maile Way, Rm. A-303, Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel.: (808) 956-8041 / Fax: (808) 956-9685
Web: http://www.pami.hawaii.edu

Everyone will be contacted regarding the status of their submissions by around December 15, 2006. For inquiries or clarifications, please email: rmcarthu@hawaii.edu.

Following the success of the inaugural International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of California Berkeley, USA, we are pleased to announce the second conference, to be held in one of the emerging IT centres of the world, Hyderabad.

The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the conference will address: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.

The conference features an impressive line up of international main speakers, including Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan, COO, Co-founder and Member of Board, Infosys Technologies Ltd, and Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel Research. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations.

We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. Papers submitted by participants will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 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. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission.

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

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

The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from May 31 (Wednesday) to June 3 (Saturday), 2006 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social science related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

Peace Review
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/drakehtml/rbdkhome.html
With his ship, The Golden Hind, Sir Francis Drake cut an imposing swath for Queen Elizabeth (and country) as he circumnavigated the earth from the years 1577 to 1580. During this time, he claimed a portion of California for the crown and continued to wage battles against the Spanish. Many of the primary documents, including maps and engravings, related to his travels and life were collected by the late Hans Peter Kraus. Kraus was an avid collector and antiquarian book dealer who successfully compiled a significant collection of materials related to Drake, which he later donated to the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has placed these remarkable materials online in this collection, and the general public will be delighted to wander through some of these offerings. Visitors who may be less familiar with Drake’s life may wish to look over a timeline of his life, complete with period engravings and illustrations.

Global Performing Arts Consortium
http://www.glopac.org/
With an interest in developing a global consortium of arts organizations, a number of institutions, including Cornell University and Columbia University, came together “to create easily accessible, multimedia, and multilingual information resources for the study and preservation of the performing arts.” Perhaps their biggest accomplishment thus far is the Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD), which is a massive database that includes detailed multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects. As one might imagine, using the database can be a bit complicated, but fortunately there is ample information provided here for the neophyte. As might be expected, there are a number of sample searches to get users started, including production titles such as Showboat, or people such as George Bernard Shaw.

Isidore of Seville
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/
Edited and maintained since 1996, Tim Spalding’s Isidore of Seville website is a real find. It contains a number of online exhibits and collections that explore a wide range of themes, ranging from perceptions of Mona Lisa over time to the use of dragons in art. One of the most helpful collections is dedicated to the Oracle of Delphi and other ancient oracles. Here visitors can view a photographic collection of images and read a variety of academic interpretations about oracles throughout history. Those with a penchant for the ancient world will also want to look at one of his most recent additions, the Wiki Classical Dictionary. Devoted to the history, literature, as well as the mythology of the ancient world the dictionary currently contains 564 articles, all of which may be searched in their entirety.

The East Asian Collection
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/EastAsian/
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections initiative continues to surprise and delight visitors to their collections. Their latest offering is certainly no different; it includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. The collection is actually comprised of two subcollections, namely the Holmes Welch Collection and the China in the 30s Collection. Holmes Welch was a scholar of modern Chinese religions whose family donated his library of primary photographic materials of religious life in China and Hong Kong to the University of Wisconsin after he died in 1981. The China in the 1930s Collection contains a number of images connected with the military, which are mostly associated with the Japanese invasion of China and the Sino-Japanese Conflict.

Event	General Public	IWA Basic Member	IWA Premium/Above Member	Student (with ID)
*Single Evening* Program**	$8	$4	Free	Free
*All Evening* Programs**	$24	$12	Free	Free
*Single Luncheon* Discussion**	$15	$11	$11	$11
All Evening and Luncheon Programs	$76	$52	$44	$44