TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • International Focus: December Program Schedule
  • Center for Celtic Studies - Two December Events
  • Through December 31:  James Joyce Exhibit
  • December 13:  Applications due for Japan Studies Institute
  • December 14:  Institute of World Affairs Dinner in Honor of His Excellency Jean-David Levitte
  • December 14:  Globalization and the Study of Mexicano Transnational Communities
  • 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
  • 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 15:  Deadline to Apply for ALLEX Program
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • Center for Immigration Studies
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • AllYouCanRead.com

International Focus:  December 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 remainder of the 2004 line-up follows here:

• December 12 -- Militias in Latin America
  • Pablo Policer, Colombian Scholar
  • Pablo Dreyfus, Brazilian Scholar
• December 19 -- U.S. - French Relations
  • Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, Republic of France
• December 26 -- 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.)

• Wednesday December 8 -- our Celtic Christmas Celebration begins with a traditional fiddle performance by Liz Carrol and her UWM students.  They will be joined by friends and other guests.  Please come along for traditional Christmas cheer and hospitality at the UWM Hefter Center at  6:30 p.m.
   
• Monday December 13 -- the Joycean Joviality concludes with a humorous talk by professor Michael Gillespie (Marquette University) entitled "Joyce's Humane Comedy" followed by a screening of John Huston's masterpiece, The Dead. Golda Meir Library Conference Center at 7 p.m.

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.

Each year AASCU sponsors an intensive one-month National Faculty Development Institute on "Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum."  The Institute is designed for full-time faculty without prior experience in Japanese studies who wish to incorporate information about Japan into the undergraduate courses they teach.  The program is multidisciplinary in approach, and introduces participants to a comprehensive range of teaching and learning resources related to the study of Japan.

The Institute is open to full-time faculty and administrators at member institutions of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) who have the potential to impact undergraduate education and have no prior training or professional experience in Japanese studies

The Institute provides a $5,500 Sasakawa Fellowship for each participant selected.  The Fellowship includes the administrative and academic costs of the Institute and campus housing. Participants receive up to $600 for transportation and an $800 stipend for meals and other expenses.  Institutions whose faculty are accepted for the fellowships pay a partial tuition of $500.

Application materials and information are available online at http://www.aascu.org/programs/jsi.  For additional information, contact atricia Fesci at telephone 202-478-4668, or by email at fescip@aascu.org.

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Institute of World Affairs will host a dinner in honor of His Excellency Jean-David Levitte, Ambassador of France to the United States on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at 6:30 p.m. in The Pfister Hotel on 424 East Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As part of this “Dialogues with Diplomats” program, Ambassador Levitte will also give an address and take questions.

Globalization, of which NAFTA is a good example, has led to continuing migration and the formation of Mexicano transnational communities in the U.S.  The social reproduction of this community is now embedded within the political and economic sectors of the two countries.  As such, anthropological and educational investigations of this transnational community requires new methodolgical approaches as well as the development of new binational policy studies.

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

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

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

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.
 

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 Energy Alternatives Ethnic Studies/International Studies Geography History International Relations Journalism New Urbanism Political Science Preservation and Green Urbanism Psychology Public Administration Sociology Sustainable Development 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.

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.

ALLEX provides colleges with professionally trained, native Japanese instructors who teach in exchange for tuition waivers to pursue a master's, associate's, or second bachelor's degree.  Both four and two year institutions may partner with ALLEX; high schools are encouraged to partner with neighboring colleges and universities that can provide for an instructor's pursuit of a degree while teaching at the high school.

Institutions do not pay a salary to the instructor; colleges simply open a seat in their classrooms so the Japanese instructor can take advantage of the American and Canadian learning experience while teaching 1st or 2nd year Japanese language courses.

ALLEX trains its Japanese instructors in a specially designed eight-week summer teacher training program taught by experts in Japanese pedagogy and master university instructors.  Four of these experts also serve on the training program's academic board: Dr. Jorden, Cornell University Professor Emerita; Ginger Marcus, Senior Lecturer of Japanese at Washington University in St. Louis; Robert J. Sukle, Director of Japanese FALCON and Senior Lecturer of Japanese at Cornell University; and Patricia Wetzel, Director of the Institute for Asian Studies and Professor of Japanese, at Portland State University.

The deadline for requesting a lecturer through ALLEX is December 15, 2004.  More details on the program are available on our website at:  http://www.EastAsia.org

Center for Immigration Studies
    http://www.cis.org/
Founded in 1985, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization which happens to be the United States' only think tank devoted "exclusively to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal, and other impacts of immigration on the United States." From the homepage, visitors can peruse a number of common topics in immigration, such as immigration history, statistics on immigrants, and citizenship. The site's homepage also contains links to current news articles addressing various aspects of immigration, and also contains a feature titled "This Day in Immigration", which highlights various important dates in immigration history and policy. Perhaps the most helpful section of the site is the "What's New" area of the site, which highlights various new policy briefs and papers released by the CIS.

Department of Homeland Security
    http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/
Created during the first term of President George W. Bush, the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for preventing terrorist attacks within the United States and to also reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism. On its website, visitors can learn about grant opportunities provided by the department, read about its current leadership, and read the agency's overall strategic plan. Given the department's broad mission, the site is divided into several thematic areas, including emergencies and disasters, travel and transportation, immigration and borders, and threats and protection. Each section contains relevant information, such as various efforts to protect the country's waterways and ports, and the homeland security advisory system. The research and technology area is quite helpful as it includes rather interesting material on the various research facilities and laboratories that are performing different operations under the agency's direction.

AllYouCanRead.com
    http://allyoucanread.com/
Perhaps some of our readers have a desire to read an Albanian architecture magazine, a daily paper from Montreal, or a small publication from Hong Kong. Sorting through all of the material returned from a search engine can be time consuming, so fortunately there's the AllYouCanRead website. With listings for approximately 26,500 magazines and newspapers that have an online presence, visitors can find what they need quickly. Currently, these sites are culled from over 200 countries, and are categorized not only by country of origin, but also subcategorized by topic. Some of these topics include art, business, or travel. Also, this site allows registered users the ability to customize their own page that features only the publications that they designate. It should be noted that the site does have a number of advertisements, but is still worthy for the assembled and well-organized newspaper and magazine links provided here.