TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • UWM's Greene Delivers Lectures in Ukraine
• PROGRAMS
  • December 12:  Planning for Global Studies Mini-Conference Series
  • 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 15:  Registration due for Directory of German Studies Scholars
  • December 22:  Paper submissions due for Second International Conference on European and International Political Affairs
  • 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
  • The British Museum: Ancient India
  • American Radio Works
  • Norway Forum on Trade in Educational Services
  • World Development Report 2004
  • MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

UWM's Greene Lectures in Ukraine
Under the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program, Victor Greene, Emeritus Professor of History, gave a short lecture course in American History at Kyiv Slavonic University, Kyiv, Ukraine,  November 15-29, 2003.

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

The Global Communication Planning Meeting was convened last Friday, December 5, 2003.  The Global Security Planning Meeting will convene this Friday, December 12, 2003at 11am-2pm in Center for International Education,  UW-Milwaukee.

For more information and to register for this Friday's meeting, please contact IGS Director David Schmidt (dschmidt@cie.uwm.edu) or Assistant Director Doug Savage (dbsavage@cie.uwm.edu) or call IGS at 414-229-6795.

"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.

The Directory will provide a comprehensive listing of scholars based in the US and Canada whose work touches upon German and the German-speaking world.  Scholars from all humanities and social science disciplines will be included. German Studies in North America will provide information on the listed scholars' research interests as well as bibliographies of their publications.

A searchable online version of German Studies in North America is already available on the GHI's website (http://www.ghi-dc.org); a print edition will be published in 2004.

The goal of this directory is to facilitate scholarly cooperation and interdisciplinary exchange within North America's large and vibrant community of German specialists.

For more information, please go to the web address http://directory.ghi-dc.org where you can register online or contact Christof Mauch by email or at the GHI for registration forms:

Christof Mauch, Director
German Historical Institute
1607 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington DC  20009
mauch@ghi-dc.org

Please respond no later than December 15, 2003.

The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) and the Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER) organize their 2nd international conference on International and European Political Affairs, May 27-29, 2004.

The registration fee will be $150, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, 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 will be organized.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of political studies and other scholars from related disciplines (economics, sociology, development and international studies). Special sessions will be devoted to Monetary and Economic Aspects of European Integration, Fiscal Issues, European Social Model, Comparative Politics, European Union Politics and Enlargement, NGO, International Organizations, Intergovernmental Relations, Political Parties, Democracy, Government (Federal and Local) and Political Ethics. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. The First conference produced a book on the European Union.

Please submit a 300-word abstract (preferably by email) by December 22, 2003 to:  Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, Director, ATINER, 14 Solomou Street, 10683 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 383-4227 Fax: + 30 210 384-7734 Email: atiner@atiner.gr.

Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Full Name(s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission.

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

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.

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) 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.

• 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.

The British Museum: Ancient India
    http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/
The Ancient India Web site from the British Museum is designed especially for middle schoolers and teachers, but all ages will enjoy exploring. There are six chapters: Buddha, Geography, Hinduism, Indus Valley, Time, and Writing; each with divisions entitled Story, Explore, and Challenge. Story in the Buddha chapter is the life of the Buddha; Explore under Hinduism features trading card-sized images of 16 Hindu gods and short descriptions; and the Geography Challenge is to plan a pilgrimage to see holy sites of the Buddha's life, traveling on foot. Other fun sections include the Writing section challenge, where students decipher ancient Indian writing, and the interactive timelines in the Time chapter. Throughout the site, clicking linked words in the text pops open a glossary with definitions of difficult terms.

American Radio Works
    http://www.americanradioworks.org/
Radio documentaries have been around almost since the beginning of regularly scheduled radio programming, but not all are created equal (or with great aplomb), and the American Radio Works is certainly one of the finer documentary production units in the field. Based at Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Works' primary themes include public affairs documentaries on major social and economic issues, investigative reporting, and the Living History series, which seeks to document the 20th century American experience "through the lives of those who witnessed it." The web-browsing public will be glad to know that all of the radio projects are available online here, and can be listened to in their entirety. Visitors can listen to close to 40 of their productions, including their most recent production which deals with the extensive phone conversations recorded by Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon during their terms in the White House.

OECD / Norway Forum on Trade in Educational Services: Conference Documents
    http://www.flyspesialisten.no/vfs_trd/ufd/confdoc.php
One of the most interesting recent developments in the debates surrounding globalization is the trends in internationalization within the world of higher education. While students have long ventured on semesters abroad, more and more universities are expanding into educational enterprises that cross international boundaries -- especially through the use of online learning programs and the like. This very important subject was addressed in a recent conference held in Norway, and was sponsored by the OECD and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. The materials from this conference are available on this site, and include over a dozen reports, ranging from some introductory remarks on the nature of cross-border post-secondary education and still other reports on quality assurance and accreditation issues. For anyone interested in the transformation of higher education, both in the United States and abroad, these documents will be of great interest.

World Development Report 2004
    http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2004/
Recently released, this annual report on the state of world development (written by staff members at the World Bank) is an important document that adopts as its main thesis that broad improvements in human welfare around the globe will not occur unless "poor people receive wider access to affordable, better quality services in health, education, water, sanitation, and electricity." From this main site, visitors can download an executive summary of the report's findings, or download any of the work's chapters, which range in content from the importance of government action and the framework for social provision. Equally compelling are the sections that detail how the World Bank worked with a wide range of stakeholders about the report's content and main ideas, and still another section that contains the transcription of an electronic discussion held about the draft edition of the report in the spring of 2003.

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
    http://web.mit.edu/globalchange/www/
Founded in 1991, the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an interdisciplinary organization that conducts research, independent policy analysis, and public communication on issues of global environmental change. The very cornerstone of the Program is the MIT Integrated Global System Model (ISGM) which is a "comprehensive research tool for analyzing potential anthropogenic global climate change and its social environmental change." From the website, visitors can learn more about the ISGM, personnel at the program, the program's public outreach efforts to communicate its findings, and its diverse set of sponsors. Many impressive publications are also available to visitors of the site, and include a number of forum papers, climate policy notes, and over one hundred full-length reports.