TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • CLACS Newsletter
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • February: Culture Café Continues
  • February 11-20:  French Film Festival
  • February: International Focus:  Program Schedule
  • Now-March:  2005 "Great Decisions" Series
  • February 15:  Abstract Submissions due for YJIA
  • February 17:  Musée d'Orsay Conservator General to Speak
  • February 22:  Amit Yoran Videoconference
  • February 22:  Proposals due for 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
  • February 23:  Study Abroad Fair
  • February 25:  Global Studies Colloquium
  • February 28:  Papers due for Third International Conference on new Directions in the Humanities
  • March 7 and June 1:  Deadlines for GSA Conference Submissions
  • March 17:  Submissions due for Making Our Media text
  • April 4:  Applications due for Dar al Islam Teachers Institutes
  • April 26:  Kennan Forum
  • June 16-17:  Incommunicado Work Conference (ICT4D)
  • July 26-28, 2005:  IAMCR Conference:  “Media Panics"
  • The Fund for American Studies:  Student Internship Program in DC
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • February 21:  Applications due for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
  • March 4:  Postmarked applications due for NALEO Ford Motor Company Fellows Program
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • SINGOV
  • The Encyclopedia of World History
  • Mapping the Risks
  • Our Earth as Art
  • The African-American Migration Experience
  • Mappr!
  • Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

CLACS Newsletter Published
The Winter 2005 issue of The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies News can be viewed at:

• http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/resources/news/winter05.html

Culture Café is held in Garland Hall Room 104 from 2:00-3:30pm.

• February 24: Greece
• March 10: Paraguay
• March 31: TBA
• April 14: TBA
• April 28: TBA

All films are in French with English subtitles. Film descriptions follow the festival schedule below.

Many of the featured films are free and open to public.  There will be “talk-back” sessions after several of the screenings.

For more information, please call the UWM Union Theatre at (414) 229-4070 or visit their website:  http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre

• February 20 -- “World Affairs Round-up”
  • Robert J. Beck, UWM Center for International Education
  • Carla Freeman, Research Scholar, UW-Parkside
  • Julie Enslow, Peace Action Wisconsin

Wisconsin Great Decisions 2005 Co-sponsors: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Midwest Airlines, The Foreign Policy Association, Wisconsin Public Radio, UWM Center for International Education, USBank, and Brady Corporation.

Great Decisions 2005 Cooperating Organizations:   UWM Student Union,Mead Public Library Racine Unified School District, J.I. Case High School, Waukesha County Technical College, Milwaukee Area Technical College, Milwaukee Public Television, UW College-Sheboygan, Fond du Lac Public Library, Marian College, UW College-Fond du Lac, Bemis International Center, and St. Norbert College.

For information, contact the Institute of World Affairs at 414-229-3220 or iwa@uwm.edu.

To register online:  http://www.iwa.uwm.edu

Anne Pingeot was instrumental in setting up the Musée d'Orsay from its inception and is currently the Conservator General for Sculpture at the Musée d'Orsay.  A world-renowned specialist on Rodin and the sculpture of Degas, she has organized several important sculpture exhibitions for the museum and written over twenty works devoted to this period of modern art, including, in 1991, the seminal catalogue Degas, Sculptures.

Mme. Pingeot will open the Degas Sculptures exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum on February 16, 2005.

Mme Pingeot’s  presentation at UWM is co-sponsored by the Center for 21st Century Studies, the Center for International Education, the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, and the Alliance Française of Milwaukee.

From September 2003 until September 2004, Mr. Yoran was Director of the National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security.  Mr. Yoran previously served as Vice President of Managed Security Services Operations for Symantec, Director of the Vulnerability Assessment Program within the Computer Emergency Response Team at the Department of Defense, and Network Security Manager at the Department of Defense where he was responsible for maintaining operations of the Pentagon's network.

The public is invited to attend, though space will be limited for this exciting event to  be moderated by Dr. Robert J. Beck.  For more information, please contact Natalia Aiello at nmaiello@uwm.edu or visit these web sites:

• http://international.uwm.edu
• http://security.uwm.edu

Since many people have individually asked for an extension of the submission deadline, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Tuesday, February 22, 2005.

Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports, research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions, research tables, or reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums, panel discussions, and tutorials.  For more information on the format of submissions see http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm

All areas of Social Sciences are invited.   For a complete list of suggested areas see http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm  Submissions may be made electronically via e-mail to social@hicsocial.org

Conference co-sponsors:  East West Council for Education; Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University; University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

Summer is a great time to study abroad and UWM offers over 20 programs! Starting in May, students may earn credits toward a UWM degree by studying in a wide range of programs such as Flamenco Guitar in Spain, Environmental Justice in Brazil, Architecture Programs in Europe, Exploring the Digital Divide in Mongolia, Art and Social Welfare programs in England, Business Programs in France and Germany, and Studio Art in Florence, Italy. In addition, there are opportunities for language and culture studies in Paris, Madrid, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, China, Ireland, Poland, Germany and Korea. UWM also offers many study abroad venues for semester or year-long programs. Sites include the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Senegal, Korea, Germany, France, Chile, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. It is not too early to start planning your fall semester program now.

The application deadline for summer programs is March 15, 2005.

For more information, please contact:

    Overseas Programs and Partnerships
    Center for International Education
    Pearse Hall 166
    Tel: (414) 229-5182
    Toll Free: (800) 991-5564
    E-mail: overseas@uwm.edu
    Web: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/OPP.html

The Global Studies Colloquium series features international research by UWM faculty.

The presenters will discuss their paper co-written with Steve Tucker (University of Canterbury, New Zealand).

This presentation is open and free to the public.  For more information contact Nan Kim-Paik at nkim-paik@cie.uwm.edu

The conference will include keynote presentations by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of the Humanities, published in print and electronic formats. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.

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

Spend part of your summer in Mexico. From July 27 to August 3, 2005, the Global Studies Association will co-sponsored with the Center for Global Justice a conference on “Women And Globalization” at San Miquel De Allende, Mexico.  Registration will be $200.

The abstract deadline is June 1, 2005.

For complete details, please see the GSA web site:  http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/Events/Conference%202005/conference2005.htm

Guidelines:

• All articles should follow Chicago Manual of Style guidelines
• Articles: 3,000 – 5,000 words
• Book reviews: 1,000 – 2,000 words

Please send submissions to: jonathan.baum@yale.edu or:

Yale Journal for International Affairs
International Affairs Council
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520

For more information please contact puongfei.yeh@yale.edu

The book will consider several dimensions of the emerging transnational movement for a more just and democratic communications environment, including the development of alternative information and communication systems; new relationships between the alternative media sector, social movements and corporations or governments; and renewed efforts to democratize the public sphere.

"Studies published in the series consider advancements in democratic theory, and are grounded in empirical investigations of recent communicative innovations. Although the primary objective of Euricom Monographs is to contribute to intellectual understanding of transformations in the democratic process, some titles are designed to contribute to improved political practice, policy and action."

Hampton Press is an internationally oriented publisher specializing in the field of communications.  Hampton Press publishes in English, but we will also aggressively pursue the possibility of a Spanish language publication.
 

The book is divided into several sections for which we seek relevant chapters: Theoretical perspectives.  We are looking for submissions dealing with conceptualizations of citizen's media, prescriptions for a more democratic public sphere, and articulations between social movements theory and communications theory.  Submissions might also consider the relationship of information and communication technologies to civil society, community, and public commons. Policy issues.  We will explore political, legal or policy interventions regarding the democratization of media.  What tensions are manifest between civil society, corporate media and states at the policy level?  How do policy advocates, activists or allied social movements interact with the state and multilateral organizations, such as the World Trade Organization or the World Summit on the Information Society? Empirical studies.  We seek historical or contemporary case studies of citizen's media, though it is essential that such articles also have a scholarly or theoretical foundation.  Submissions might focus on Indymedia, community radio, citizen's media, or alternative community media development, practices, aims and goals, strategies, effects, participants or audiences.  We are also interested in the larger structural political and economic factors that affect these media. Methodological issues.  We seek studies that propose, design, develop or analyze methodological processes to evaluate citizen's media and other democratic uses of media, to study media and social movements, or to investigate grassroots initiatives around media policy. Future directions.  New ways that citizen's media are interacting with and affected by the political and technological landscape, including issues related to communication rights and the information society, intellectual property regimes and other global issues, peace and justice media, and the role of new media forms and functions.  We seek studies that report and analyze new directions for the movement for democratic communication.

Interested authors should submit a 500-700 word abstract or summary of their article, a list of relevant references you'll be drawing on for the article, a 100-150 word short biography and a list of any articles you have published on related topics.  If available, please send the complete article as well.

Abstracts should indicate the author's specific theoretical or scholarly approach; the method of analysis; the substantive topics, cases or issues examined; and the conclusions drawn.   Submissions may be made in English or Spanish.   Submissions can be made via email or in hard copy or on disk (3.5" floppy or CD ROM).  Disks should be labeled with the author's name, the title of the article, and the type of software used.  A cover page on your article should include your name, any affiliations or titles, your full contact information, and your article title.

Please send submissions by March 17, 2005 to:

Dorothy Kidd, Clemencia Rodriguez and Laura Stein

Department of Media Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, California, 94117-1080
USA

Or E-mail them to Kiddd@usfca.edu

There are no application forms.  Each applicant must provide:

• A brief description (200 words) of your responsibilities including the coming academic year together with a description of your institution
• A resume (limited to 2 pages please)
• Two letters of reference, one of which must be from the head of your institution or your supervisor
• A one-page statement of personal and professional reasons to attend

Karima Diane Alavi, Director
Dar al Islam Teachers Institute
P.O. Box 180
Abiquiu, NM 87510
(505) 685-4584
kdalavi@cybermesa.com

For more information about the Teachers’ Institute and other Dar al Islam programs please visit our web site at http://www.daralislam.org.

Date: April 26, 2005
Time:  4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Pabst Theater in downtown Milwaukee

Price: $10 general public, $5 IWA Basic and WPR members, complimentary admission for Premium members and above and students.

Ben Merens, Host at Wisconsin Public Radio, will be moderating this exciting debate at the Pabst Theater.  The program will be broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio.

Program in partnership with Ideas 90.7 Wisconsin Public Radio.  Support from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Midwest Airlines, Wisconsin United Nations Association, Wisconsin Governor’s Commission on the United Nations, and the Annette J. Roberts Fund for World Peace, World Law and Peace Education.

 For more information, please call 414-229-3220 or visit http://www.iwa.uwm.edu.

Incommunicado http://www.incommunicado.info is a two-day workshop that intends to approach the growing 'ICT for development' (ICT4D) sector and its conceptual and organizational idioms from a committed yet- critical 'insider' perspective.

The Incommunicado gathering wants to explore discourses, concepts and strategies. It offers neither an esoteric, self-referential 'critique fest' nor a mere exhibition of best-of-ICT4Dprojects. Instead, it aims to create a space to allow those active mainly in the field of ICT4D to come together with people from other areas of media activism and criticism.  To facilitate such encounter and exchange, the Incom event will not follow the standard academic conference format but organize an open workshop to encourage cooperative work and informal networking.

The call outlines five (overlapping) topic areas, and an editorial collective will ensure that current information on all topics as well as moderators and focused presentations are available. A pre-conference publication will bundle perspectives considered most relevant by participants and made available online. The conference location itself supports open exchange and networking and can accommodate self-organizing groups anywhere between 15 and 200 people.

Pre-conference cooperation via the conference wiki or the incommunicado mailing-list is encouraged.  With this conference the Waag-Sarai exchange platform also intends to intensify Euro-Asian dialogues.

The event is part of the activities of the Incommunicado network, a research list and weblog that focus on the reappropriation of ICT across the 'Global South'. The idea of being (held) incommunicado - to be in a liminal state vis-a-vis multiple regimes of information as well as human rights - serves as point of departure for analyses, critiques, and projects beyond the standard agenda of ICT-for-Development.

For more information:  http://www.incommunicado.info

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.

Information can be found on the CLACS website: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/student/scholarship.html.

Each year, the NALEO Educational Fund, in collaboration with Ford Motor Company, offers up to eight Latino university/college students the opportunity to gain hands on legislative experience while in the office of an elected or appointed official, in addition to providing leadership, professional and diversity training opportunities.

The NALEO Ford Motor Company Fellows Program is open to rising and current seniors, recent graduates and graduate students, who are residents of (but need not attend college) in the following areas: California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Puerto Rico, Texas, and the Northeast.  An additional candidate will be selected from a national pool of applicants.  Selected participants will take part in the NALEO 22nd Annual Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they will have the opportunity to meet and network with elected and appointed officials from across the country.  Following the NALEO Conference, participants will travel to Washington, D.C., to begin a five-week placement in the office of a Member of Congress or federal department.

Since 1999, the NALEO Educational Fund has provided over forty college students with this exceptional leadership opportunity and we hope that your assistance will increase the visibility of the programs amongst students from your campus.

If you have any questions about the NALEO Ford Motor Company Fellows Program, please contact our office at (213) 747-7606, extension 127 or via e-mail at lferrer@naleo.org.

Lourdes Ferrer, Deputy Director of Constituency Services
NALEO Educational Fund
1122 W. Washington Blvd., 3rd. Floor
Los Angeles, CA   90015
213/ 747-7606 Ext. 127, 213-747-7664 Fax, http://www.naleo.org

The NALEO Educational Fund is the leading organization that empowers Latinos to participate fully in the American political process, from citizenship to public service.

SINGOV
    http://www.gov.sg/
The city-state of Singapore is widely considered to be one of the most efficiently run places in the world, and it is not so surprising to learn that the government has had an online presence since 1995. This website serves as the jumping off point for learning about various government branches and agencies, along with providing important resources for its own citizens and for people seeking to do business there. For those looking to find out about "who's who" in the Singaporean government, they should point their browsers to the government section on the homepage. Here they can learn about the various leaders within the government, along with learning about the governmental hierarchy. Users will also want to take a look at the information and policies section of the site, as they can learn about the current governmental policies as regards the creative industries, defense, and economic development. Overall, this is a good site that provides a glimpse into the workings of Singapore's government.

The Encyclopedia of World History
    http://www.bartleby.com/67/
The good people at Bartleby.com have long prided themselves on providing a host of important works online for the benefit of those seeking online edification. One of the more recent volumes they have placed on their site is The Encyclopedia of World History, edited by Peter N. Stearns and 30 fellow historians. As the preface to this, the sixth edition, announces: "Simply put, this is a volume that has always intended to convey the key features of world history". This is no small order, and this edition represents a substantial revision from previous editions, as it also reflects the growing body of knowledge about the histories of regions outside of Western Europe and North America. The encyclopedia is complemented by a number of illustrative and informative maps, including ones that visualize India before the Muslim conquest and Italy in the 15th century. Users of the volume are welcome to use the search engine to find the information they so desire, or they may browse at their leisure.

Mapping the Risks: Assessing the Homeland Security Implications of Publicly Available Geospatial Information
    http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2004/RAND_MG142.pdf
After the events of September 11th, the United States government and its diverse set of agencies became very concerned about the amount of publicly available geospatial information. The primary concern was that terrorists and other militant groups could use such data to attack key parts of the country's infrastructure. Utilizing the resources of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, a team of researchers at the RAND Corporation wrote this report in order to develop a framework for assessing the implications of making such geospatial information available. The report itself consists of five chapters and an appendix that details which federal agencies were examined, which federal geospatial data sources where identified, and so on. Chapters contained within the work include one on key policy recommendations and another that outlines what the key information needs of potential attackers might be.

Our Earth as Art
    http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
The USGS and NASA have teamed up to bring the public stunning images of the Earth taken by the Landsat-7 satellite and the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Visitors can browse the images by continent or alphabetically. The images can be used as supplementary materials during educational lectures about rock outcrops, deserts, deltas, clouds, glaciers, and many other earth science topics. The website allows users to download the images as posters and wallpaper.

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
    http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm
Presented by the Schomburg Center, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience gathers a massive amount of material documenting African-American migrations from the 15th to the 21st centuries-more than 16,500 pages of texts, over 8,000 pictures, accompanied by more than 60 maps. The site is organized into 13 migrations, such as The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1450s-1867; Haitian Immigration: 18th and 19th Centuries and Haitian Immigration: 20th Century; and The Great Migration, 1916-1930. Each migration includes five units: Narrative, Illustrations, Research resources, Maps, and Lesson plans. For example, The Great Migration begins with a multi-section narrative that lays out reasons why Black people left the South in large numbers, how they travelled North, and what they did when they got there. Throughout the narratives, highlighted words link to a glossary. Illustrations such as a panel from Jacob Lawrence's The Migration of the Negro, a Margaret Bourke-White photo showing Black workers on an assembly line at a meatpacking plant, and a Jim Crow Car to the North, can be viewed along with the text, or visitors can concentrate on images by selecting "View Image Gallery". In addition to browsing by migration, it is also possible to browse by geography or timeline, and to search across texts, illustrations' captions, maps, lesson plans, and the glossary for keywords or phrases.

Mappr!
    http://mappr.com/
With all of the sophisticated mapping and GIS applications commonly available today, it would make sense that someone would develop a site where visitors could upload their photographs onto an interactive map. Mappr is such a website, and it serves as "an interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take." Mappr takes the photos uploaded to the Flickr photograph management-and-storage system, and maps them on to a map of the United States based on their location of origin. Visitors to the site will want to read about the methodology behind the system, and then peruse some of the recent images that have been placed on the site. Using a image scale bar, visitors can enlarge the size of the images, or just click on the ones that strike their fancy. In many cases, the photographs are "tagged" with additional information that assist Mappr with assigning a geographic location to each image.

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
    http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/
As the series producer, Laurence Rees, mentions in the introduction to this engaging online presentation, "Auschwitz is unique. It has a physical beginning in May 1940 and physical ending in January 1945, and is the site of the single largest mass murder in the history of humanity." The overall focus of this website is to offer an informed and nuanced attempt to understand the extermination process and of the mentality of the people who perpetrated these heinous crimes. Here visitors can learn about the PBS television series about Auschwitz in great detail, and also explore (through the use of some well-designed interactive features) the actual layout and structure of the camps themselves and their various elements. Perhaps the most dramatic and emotional part of this site is the four-channel video installation, "Dachau 1974". Created by the pioneering video artists Beryl Korot, this intimate reflection on the Holocaust should not be missed.