TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS
  • December 4:  MWTA Career/Education Day
  • December 5 and 12:  Planning for Global Studies Mini-Conference Series
  • 2003 IWA Fall Programs
  • Culture Café Series Continues This Fall
  • Beginning This October:  New Global "Travel" Program for Children and Parents
  • May 14, 2004:  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
  • December 1:  Applications due for UWM Faculty Travel Grants
  • November 21:  Applications due for funding of Global Communication and Global Security Activities
  • November 28:  Applications due for First International Biennale on Negotiation
  • December 23:  Applications due for East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students
  • December 31:  Applications due for Fellowship for Study and Research in Yemen
  • January 12:  Essays due for "Justice for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans"
  • January 27:  Applications due for Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • 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
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • Places Online
  • The Hanford Site Historic Project
  • The Open Video Project
  • European Centre for Minority Issues
  • BBC: WW2 People's War
  • Understanding Foreign Policy Debates

MWTA Career/Education Day
Are any of your students interested in international business careers?  If so, please make sure they plan to attend the upcoming Milwaukee World Trade Association (MWTA) Career/Education Day: The Joys and Challenges of International Business Careers.  Small group discussions will take place with the following professionals:

• Opening speaker:  John Moore, President of WorldLink, Ltd. (International Consulting)
• International Sales and Expatriate opportunities:  Sarah Brown, Senior Manager of International Sales, West Bend Cookware
• International Sales:  Doug Dowis, Sales Consultant, SKC Inc.
• International Logistics:  Carrie Fix, Manager of Global Business Development, M.E. Dey
• International Banking:  Bruce Glaub, Vice President for Global Trade Services, US Bank
• International Law:  Masud Khan, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C.

To register or ask questions, please contact me at 262-691-5147 or sdragotta@commerce.state.wi.us, or Kathy Rehbein at Marquette University at 414-288-1446 or kathleen.rehbein@mu.edu.

While the mini-conferences will not be tied directly to the Global Studies degree, their thematic emphases will be consistent with the conceptual framework of the two tracks within the Global Studies curriculum. This collaborative, interdisciplinary approach will include examination of issues such as the following:

Global Communications: The relevance of language, culture, and identity in understanding innovations in and applications of:

. technology
. media
. communications
. information science
. technology transfers

. the causes and effects of migration, immigration, peace and conflict
. the international system
. the environment
. health and health care
. ethnicity, culture and national identity
. policymaking and government, international law, and human rights

Global Communication Planning Meeting

Friday, December 5, 2003
11am-2pm
Center for International Education, UW-Milwaukee

Global Security Planning Meeting

Friday, December 12, 2003
11am-2pm
Center for International Education,  UW-Milwaukee

The Institute is prepared to schedule a rapid response program with available candidates closer to the Wisconsin Primary Elections in February.

Stay tuned for future information.

Great Decisions 2004 will take place on Tuesdays in Milwaukee, February 3 - March 23, 2004.

For more information, please send an e-mail to excite@uwm.edu or Justine Wenger jwenger@cie.uwm.edu.

"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.

• October 11 - Travel to South Africa
• November 8 - Travel to Egypt
• December 13 - Travel to the United Arab Emirates
• January 10 - Travel to Macedonia
• February 14 - Travel to El Salvador
• March 13 - Travel to China
• April 10 - Travel to Peru

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
 

Introduction The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is the only program in the world in English and Spanish that offers three weeks of intensive summer courses with world-renowned scholars and activists in the human rights field.  The Academy has been designed as an innovative and diverse program tailored to meet the needs of counselors in international organizations, government agency workers, international relief agency workers, policymakers, NGO representatives, academics and students specializing in human rights.  Each year, the Academy offers intensive, specialized courses on regional human rights law, universal human rights law, international humanitarian law, as well as other thematic courses.  In addition to classes, the Academy offers panel discussions, on-site visits to national and international institutions in Washington DC, conferences by distinguished lecturers and human rights practitioners, and a film festival. In 2004, the Academy will be joined by distinguished professionals and human rights experts, who will teach the following courses: Courses In English European Human Rights Law, Leo Zwaak, University Lecturer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Women and International Human Rights Law, Kelly Askin, Director, International Criminal Justice Institute. Regional Approaches to Human Rights Law: Africa, America, and Asia, Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Human Rights Principal Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS, Christof Heyns, Director and Professor of Human Rights Law, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, and David Kinley*, Professor of International Law and founding Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Melbourne's Monash University. International Justice and Domestic Accountability for Human Rights Violations,  Cherif Bassiouni, President, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University, and Sandra Coliver, Executive Director, The Center for Justice and Accountability. Advocacy in Human Rights, Reed Brody, Special Counsel for Prosecutions, Human Rights Watch. Terrorism and Human Rights, Tom Farer, Professor and Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Asbrn Eide, Former Director and present Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Institute of Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway. International Humanitarian Law, Robert K. Goldman, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law, and Brian Tittemore, Human Rights Principal Specialist, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, OAS. United Nations Human Rights System, Gudmundur Alfredsson, Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the University of Lund, Sweden and former staff member of the UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva. Teaching Human Rights: Design and Methods in Law School Clinics, Richard Wilson, Professor of Law, Director of Clinical Programs, and founding director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at American University. Courses In Spanish Inter-American Human Rights Law (a) The Role of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Claudio Grossman, Dean and Professor, American University, Washington College of Law, and Claudia Martin and Diego Rodriguez-Pinon, Co-Directors of the Academy and Visiting Professors, American University, Washington College of Law. (b) The Role of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, Antonio Cançado Trinidade, President of the Inter-American Human Rights Court. International Humanitarian Law, Alejandro Valencia Villa, Advisor, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia. United Nations Human Rights System, Diego Garia Sayan, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peu and member of the Assembly of the Andean Commission of Jurists and Fernando Mario Menendez, Professor of Public International Law, University Carlos III de Madrid. Litigation and Activism in Human Rights,  Victor Abramovich, Executive Director, Center for Legal and Social Studies and Adjunct Professor, University of Buenos Aires, School of Law; and Felipe Gonzalez, Professor of Law, University Diego Portales, Chile. Impunity and International Justice, Luis Moreno Ocampo*, Chief Prosecutor of the Internacional Criminal Court (ICC) , Jose Antonio Guevara, Coordinator Human Rights Program, Universidad Iberoamericana and Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court; and  Federico Andreu Guzman, Senior Legal Advisor, International Commission of Jurists, Geneva, Switzerland. The Right to Freedom of Expression, Santiago Canton, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights; and Eduardo Bertoni, Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Professor of Criminal Law, and Institute of Human Rights Scholarship Recipient, Columbia University School of Law. * Invited Human Rights Award We are excited to announce a call for papers for the 2004 Human Rights Award.  Each of the two recipients of the award receives a full scholarship to participate in the 2004 Academy.   For this year's topic, important deadlines and more information, please consult our website at http://www.wcl.american.edu/humright/hracademy/hraward.cfm . Academic Calendar Registration Ends:  May 14, 2004 Classes Begin:  June 1, 2004 Classes End:  June 18, 2004 Exams for candidates applying for academic credit:  June 21 & 22, 2004 There is a non-refundable $55 dollar application fee. Visas For International Students Please note that because visa issuance may take up to 6 months, participants should contact the U.S. consulate in their home countries as soon as possible.

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.

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.

• Classroom Videoconferences
• Course Development
• Undergraduate Research Circles
• Faculty Travel for Professional Development

For more information on the funded activities, an application, or general information about the Bachelors Degree in Global Studies, please visit our website at http://www.international.uwm.edu.

This  conference is jointly organized by NEGOCIA, a French business school, LEARN  (Laboratory of Applied Studies and Research on Negotiation) of ESC Lille and GFN (French Group for Negotiation).

Over  60  researchers and practitioners coming from 14 different countries will be participating to explore, exchange and even confront different approaches  in  negotiation. Numerous workshops and round-table discussions will be dedicated to such matters as international commercial and political negotiations, cross-cultural  dimensions,  ethical  aspects,  negotiation and public policies, concepts of negotiation, and mediation.

• Those interested in participating in this conference should visit the website: http://www.negocia-evenementiel.com/biennale_negociation_dec_2003/index.html
• For a registration form and procedures: http://www.negocia-evenementiel.com/biennale_negociation_dec_2003/bulletin_eng.pdf

For fellowship conditions:  http://www.aiys.org/conditions.html

An application form is available at: http://www.aiys.org/application.html

For more information:

Dr. Maria deJ. Ellis, Executive Director
American Institute for Yemeni Studies
P.O. Box 311
Ardmore PA 19003-0311
(610) 896-5412, fax (610) 896-9049
E-mail: aiys@aiys.org

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.

The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes provide U.S. graduate students in science and engineering first-hand research experience in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, or Australia, an introduction to the science and science policy infrastructure of the respective location, and orientation to the language and culture.  The institutes last approximately eight weeks from June to August. Approximately 175 students will be supported for the summer of 2004.

Host Institutions: University, government and corporate research laboratories, depending on the program.

Eligibility: Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; be enrolled at U.S. institutions in graduate programs (M.S. or Ph.D.) in science or engineering or M.D. programs with an interest
in biomedical research; and pursuing studies in fields of science or engineering that are supported by the National Science Foundation. For Japan, fields of study may also include those supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Support: International round-trip air ticket; living expenses (accommodations, food and professional travel) at the foreign location; and a stipend of $3,000.

Deadline: December 23, 2003 (Please complete your application early, as you must include letters of reference and transcripts which may be impossible to get after your university closes for the winter
holidays.)

For further information:

• http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf03608
• http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/int

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): Anthropology Area Studies (African, American, Asian, European, Hispanic, Islamic, Jewish, Middle Eastern, Russian, Women's and all other cultural and ethnic studies) Communication Economics Education Ethnic Studies/International Studies Geography History International Relations Journalism Political Science Psychology Public Administration Sociology Urban and Regional Planning Women's studies Other Areas of Social Science Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas. 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.

Submitting a Proposal:

• Create a title page for your submission.  The title page should include:
  • title of the submission
  • topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
  • presentation format (choose from above list)
  • name(s) of the author(s)
  • department(s) and affiliation(s)
  • mailing address(es)
  • e-mail address(es)
  • phone number(s)
  • fax number(s)
  • corresponding author if different than lead author
     
• Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page,  to social@hicsocial.org.  Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.
  • If you do not wish to email your submission, you may send it via regular mail or fax to:
    • Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
    • P.O. Box 75023
    • Honolulu, HI, 96836, USA
      • 808-947-2420 (Fax)
      • ***If submitting via regular mail, please supply two copies of your submission***
  • There is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.
     
• 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.

Places Online
    http://www.placesonline.org/
The practice and discipline of geography has always had an intimate preoccupation with places and how human societies modify and shape them in accordance with their own interests. In keeping with that tradition, the Association of American Geographers has created the Places Online website to provide interested parties with access to the "world's very best place-based websites." The criteria for inclusion on the website is that worthy sites must provide original quality content, contain a substantive geographic content, and employ interesting and user-friendly formats. Visitors may begin to look for sites by clicking on an interactive map of the world, browsing by region, or in some cases, by continent. Coverage over most of the globe is quite good, with additional material to come on countries that are currently not featured on any available place-based websites. Additionally, visitors may elect to search the contents of the site by keyword or exact phrase

The Hanford Site Historic Project
    http://www.hanford.gov/doe/culres/historic/
During the Manhattan Project, a number of sites were developed around the U.S. in order to assist in the production of high-grade plutonium in order to create nuclear weapons. One of the best-known sites was the Hanford Site, located in the stark landscape of eastern Washington state. At the conclusion of the Cold War, many of these nuclear weapons production facilities were mothballed, yet there was a growing interest in preserving some of these facilities as historic sites. This website documents the creation of this fascinating historic site, along with offering ample written materials on the site's history along with some visual materials, such as plans and photographs. Visitors can read the programmatic statement between the Department of Energy and the Washington State Historic Preservation Office, the curation strategy for the site, and the historic site treatment plan, which was prepared in 1998. Also, visitors can peruse a number of documents on the history of plutonium production on the site, a history of the plant facilities, and an 80-page book that documents the history of the Hanford Site in great detail.

The Open Video Project
    http://www.open-video.org/
While many digital image projects and archives offer a few brief video clips of historical and other interests, the Open Video Project contains close to 2000 digitized clips and complete short films, and will be of great interest to those researching visual culture. Sponsored and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science and the University of North Carolina, the project began in 1998 with approximately 195 video segments. The archive available here provides video clips from a variety of sources, including quite a few obtained from U.S. government agencies. The entire archive may be searched by keyword, or browsed by genre, duration, or thematic collection. There are some rather compelling files to peruse here, including a collection of classic early television commercials (including one for Jello), a short silent film titled 2 A.M in the subway, and an educational film titled A is for Atom, produced by the General Electric Company.

European Centre for Minority Issues
    http://www.ecmi.de/doc/index.html
While the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) has been in existence since 1996, its history dates back to 1991 when Kurt Hamer (a representative for issues related to various Danish and German minority groups) circulated a memorandum calling for the possibility of a joint venture between Germany and Denmark that would investigate various issues affecting minorities throughout Europe. As their mission statement notes, "The ECMI conducts practice-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe." Along with this particular facet of their operations, the ECMI is also interested in the "early monitoring, study and resolution of ethnic tension and potential conflicts in all regions of Europe." On the website, visitors can learn about upcoming events and conferences sponsored by the Centre, read about its current and proposed projects, and learn about its wide-ranging publication series. While many of the handbooks and monographs are not available as free downloads, many of the reports and working papers presented here are available for free in the pdf format. Some of the more recent working papers include investigations into educational reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina and international involvement in the South Caucasus.

BBC: WW2 People's War
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2
With the passing of another Veteran's Day here in the United States, many persons may be interested to learn about the everyday experiences of persons around the world during various military conflicts. The BBC has created this website in an attempt to allow people to share their reminisces of World War II, and quite a few stories and tales have been contributed thus far. Visitors to the site can browse stories by date, location, or type; additionally, stories are organized into thematic categories such as Childhood and Evacuation, Family Life, The Blitz, and Home Front. For each story, visitors have the option of commenting on each narrative, or offering their own remembrances as well. The site also offers some links to other online features offered by the BBC, such as QuickTime movies dealing with various facets of World War II and another quirky site that details how the war affected British children.

American Choices: Understanding Foreign Policy Debates
    http://americanchoices.org/
Sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and several other organizations, this intriguing site offers individuals the opportunity to determine (in a general fashion) where they stand on the "fundamental trade-offs facing U.S. policymakers." At its essence, the website asks users 12 questions about their views on foreign policy stances in order to construct a nuanced portrait of their individual foreign policy beliefs. Along with this feature, users can also offer their views on four aspects of America's role in foreign affairs: use of military power, sponsorship of democracy and human rights, efforts to expand the global marketplace, and the level of international cooperation. In this feature, users use a sliding scale to offer their opinions on these four elements through questions like "Should we increase emphasis on diplomatic or military means to secure peace?" The site is rounded out by a selection of links to outside resources, thematically organized into areas that allow online users to engage in political discussions, learn about foreign policy debates, and read commentaries from a broad range of ideological perspectives.