TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • International Focus: End-of-Year Programs
  • Through December 31:  James Joyce Exhibit
  • December 31:  Papers due for JIC on the "UN at 60"
  • December 31:  Paper proposals due for 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
  • January 3:  Paper Abstracts due for ATINER Conference
  • February 1:  Paper proposals due for 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • February 1: Paper proposals due for "Media and Society in China Today" Conference
  • July 26-28, 2005:  IAMCR Conference:  “Media Panics"
  • The Fund for American Studies:  Student Internship Program in DC
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • December 30:  Applications due for Fromkin Grant and Lectureship
• EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
  • Student Services Coordinator Sought by CIE
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • OECD: Global Forums
  • Afghanistan Unveiled
  • 10x10
  • ACCION International

International Focus:  Program Schedule
Viewers are invited to tune in Sundays at 5 p.m. to Channel 36, WMVT, for the International Focus series hosted by Rob Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs.  The upcoming line-up follows here:

• December 26 and January 9 -- 2004 World Affairs Roundup: the Year in Review
  • Carol Edler Baumann, Professor of Political Science Emerita, UWM
  • David Garnham, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, UWM
  • John Katzka, U.S. Foreign Service, (Ret.)
• January 2 -- France and the US
  • Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, Republic of France
• January 16 -- World Affairs Roundup
  • Panel of Local Foreign Policy Experts

This exhibition tells the story of the Irish writer, James Joyce (1882-1941), one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

International in his vision and impact, but always intellectually rooted in his native city of Dublin, Joyce could be said to represent the spirit of modern Ireland.  Joyce’s importance as a writer can be measured more through the authors and artists that have been inspired by him than by the number of books he sold.  Like Pablo Picasso, Joyce makes his readers question the assumptions they bring to works of art.  Authors as diverse as Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, Ralph Ellison, Margaret Atwood and Mario Vargas Llosa show Joyce’s influence.  Many of the finest novels produced across the world can be said to be written either in the tradition of or in reaction against Ulysses and much contemporary experimental poetry can be traced back to Finnegan’s Wake.  Perhaps the most important legacy of Joyce’s work is the way his stylistic innovation was tied to a reverence for, and a need to represent honestly, common human experience.

The exhibition was created to mark the centenary of the day in 1904 on which his novel Ulysses is set.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Irish Consulate General, the Center for Celtic Studies and the Golda Meir Library at UWM and was officially opened at 4:30 p.m. Friday, November 19 by the honorable Charles Sheehan, Consul General of Ireland.

If you have any questions, please call the Center for Celtic Studies at (414) 229-6520.

Articles must be submitted before December 31, 2004.

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

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

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

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

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

For more information:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fromkin Research Grant assists UWM scholars in their research on individuals, groups, movements, and ideas, in the Americas and elsewhere, which have influenced the quest for social justice and human rights.  All full-time members of the faculty and academic staff at UWM are encouraged to apply for the $5000 award which is intended to cover costs of research such as support for summer salary, travel, research assistance, and other appropriate expenses.

For detailed requirements for the application, please see our website at:

http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/special/fromkin/grant.htm

For further information, please e-mail libspecial@uwm.edu, or call 414-229-4345.

For more information about job duties, qualifications and how to apply, please see our website:  http://www.international.uwm.edu .

UWM is an AA/EO employer.

OECD: Global Forums
    http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34607_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
In the early 21st century, there are a multitude of evolving policy questions that are inherently transnational in scope and breadth, and thus require an ongoing dialogue across various political and organizational boundaries. It is not surprising that one of the international organizations involved in creating a meaningful dialogue and exchange of ideas is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its Global Forum program is an excellent way to learn about some of these complex policy questions and programs they are emerging, as the organization addressed such issues as governance, international investment, the knowledge economy, and sustainable development. Within each thematic section, users can view working papers, statistics, and other relevant documents related to each theme. For persons with an interest in these topics, this site will be of great use, and one that is worth returning to several times.

Afghanistan Unveiled
    http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/afghanistanunveiled/
Get a first-hand look at women's lives in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban by following a team of female journalists. These 14 young women, some still teenagers, trained as camera operators and video journalists at the AINA ( http://www.ainaworld.org/) Afghan Media and Culture Center in Kabul between July 2002 to August 2003. They used their new skills to document the harsh lives of rural women of Afghanistan, who are not yet experiencing the greater freedoms enjoyed by the journalistic team. For example, in Herat, known as a cultural center with some of Afghanistan's finest architecture, a woman cannot travel without a male chaperone. Although it was difficult to find women who would speak on film because of their fear of punishment, the journalists interviewed a young woman whose husband was killed by U.S. bombs when she was six-months pregnant and who now struggles to feed her family.

10x10
    http://www.tenbyten.org/
How does one effectively set out to represent the ever-changing and almost hyperkinetic amount of activity that characterizes the modern world? It's certainly not a simple question, but this site offers a visual representation of this ongoing process every hour. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale (culled from a number of leading international news sources, such as the BBC World News), and present that as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames. As their site notes, "Scanning a grid of pictures can be more intuitive than reading headlines, for it lets the news come to life, and everything feels a bit less distant, a bit closer to heart, and maybe, if we're lucky, gives us pause to think." Compelling and original in its approach to the subject, it should be noted that 10x10 was designed and developed by Jonathan Harris, in conjunction with the FABRICA communication research center in Italy.

ACCION International
    http://www.accion.org
Part of the ongoing debate about the process of globalization throughout both the developed and developing world is that a good deal of the world's population continues to grow poorer and poorer while a number of international transnational corporations continue to increase their share of the world's assets. There have been a number of efforts to combat poverty in the developing world, including the highly publicized and generally well-received efforts of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. One such nonprofit program that has successfully been transplanted from the developing world to the developed world is the ACCION International program of microlending. On its homepage, visitors can learn about the organization's various programs designed to raise people out of poverty through microlending, and also read some key statistics behind its work. For those looking for more detailed information, there is also a publications area, where visitors may download works on topic such as the sustainability of such programs and various "how to" manuals for microentrepreneurs. Many of the publications are available at no charge, and a number of them are also available in Spanish. Finally, visitors may also sign up to receive the ACCION e-News as well.