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A publication of UWM's Center for International
Education, Global Passport
provides up-to-date information on
international education programs, opportunities, and resources,
including those offered by
Accommodation of Persons with Special
Needs Support
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Marian Kamil Dziewanowski is
Remembered
By Donald Pienkos,
Professor of Political Science, UWM
Dr. Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (1913-2005), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and one of our country's most respected authorities on the history of Poland, Russia, and modern Europe, passed away at his home in Milwaukee on February 18, 2005. In May he would have celebrated his 92nd birthday.
Kamil, as he liked to be called, joined the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1979, following his retirement as Professor of History at Boston University. He and his dear wife Ada quickly became prominent, active, and highly regarded members of our community, Ada as the artistic director of the acclaimed Syrena Polish Dancers, he as Professor of Polish and Eastern European history here.
Dr. Dziewanowski's five year tenure at UW-Milwaukee was a result of the successful efforts of the Wisconsin State Division of the Polish American Congress, the Polish American community, and Polish American legislators in the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly to create two permanent faculty positions at UWM - one in Polish language and literature, the second in Polish history.
As our first Polish historian at UWM, Dr. Dziewanowski more than met the highest expectations of the university and Polish American communities. His class lectures brought him many devoted students. He wrote and published extensively. And he was always available to lecture on a variety of topics in which he was a specialist. For example, Kamil gave several memorable public presentations on the life, ideas and work of Pope John Paul II, whom he knew personally.
Kamil was an active member of both the Russian and East Europpean Studies and Polish Studies committees at UWM.
Following his second retirement in 1984, Kamil continued to write and to play an active role in the scholarly profession. He traveled widely, lectured in Wisconsin, in America and abroad. Indeed his last UWM lecture, on the subject of "Vladimir Putin and the New Russia" was presented only 15 months ago. He received an ovation from the class.
Among Dr. Dziewanowski's many outstanding books, one can list his histories of the Communist Party of Poland and of Soviet Russia (the second of which recently came out in its 6th edition), and his erudite studies of the political ideas of Jozef Pilsudski, a father of the modern Polish state, and of the great 19th century Polish patriot, Prince Adam Czartoryski. His history, "Poland in the Twentieth Century" (actually a history of Poland through the ages), and his remarkable history of the Second World War II, "War at Any Price" are two more works of exceptional value.
All were written in a clear, engaging, style. At the same time his work was always painstakingly-researched and filled with sound judgments.
Marian Kamil Dziewanowski lived an active and extraordinary life, one that spanned his childhood years in Tsarist Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution, growing up in interwar Poland and studies at the Jagiellonian University, military service in the Polish cavalry in 1939 and in Britain during the World War, a momentous move to America where he earned one of the first postwar doctoral degrees in Russian and East European history at Harvard University, a university teaching career in Boston and then Milwaukee, and years after as a lecturer, tennis enthusiast and swimmer, traveler, composer of limericks for all occasions, and author.
A favorite saying of Marian Kamil Dziewanowski was "To Rest is to Rust." He was ever true to those words. He will be remembered and missed!
Our sympathies go to his widow, their two children
and their spouses, their grandchildren, friends and colleagues.
Culture Café is held in Garland Hall Room 104 from 2:00-3:30pm.
The 2005 schedule follows here:
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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
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
Starting in the early eighties as a documentary photographer whose work focused on women, since 1993, she has been presenting multimedia installations which bring together her sculpture, photography, and text in a series of works. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in India, North America, Japan, Europe, and South America. She has also written on issues of gender, representation, and postcolonial visuality. Sheba Chhachhi, a multimedia installation artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and feminist activist based in New Delhi, is at present an artist in residence at the University of California, Berkeley. She is co-founder of Lifetools, which develops audiovisual and graphic materials about social issues.
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
This conference, to be convened March 11-12, 2005, will bring together teachers, administrators, and higher education specialists to provide networking, leadership, and resources for bringing the world to Wisconsin's classrooms.
For more details: http://www.education.wisc.edu/elpa/conferences/iec/2005/index.shtm
Co-sponsored by the Wisconsin International
Outreach Consortium (WIOC).
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:
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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
The Stories Behind the Headlines, Part
I:
Saturday, April 9,
2005 8:30AM - 4:30PM (8-8:30
registration)
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 206 Ingraham Hall--free parking in lot 26 along Observatory
Drive
The series of briefings will include interactive discussions on:
Teaching About the Arab World and Islam with
Audrey Shabbas:
Saturday, April 16,
2005 8:30AM - 4:30PM (8-8:30
registration)
Center for International
Education, UWM-Union (2300 E. Kenwood Blvd)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For more information, please call 414-229-4252
Registration form can be found at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/documents/AShabbas-16-05.pub.pdf
The Stories Behind the Headlines, Part
II:
Saturday, April 23,
2005 8:30AM - 4:30PM (8-8:30
registration)
University of
Wisconsin-Madison, 206 Ingraham Hall--free parking in lot 26 along Observatory
Drive
The series of briefings will continue with interactive discussions on:
Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Registration Fee: $25 per workshop includes materials, breaks and lunch. You can register for one, two, or all three workshops in the series. Registration fee is non-refundable. Please go to: http://www.wisc.edu/wioc for a registration form.
Scholarships: Scholarships may be available for travel reimbursement and lodging -- requests must be made by Friday, March 4, 2005.
Graduate Credit: Approval for 1-graduate credit is pending. Participants interested in credit option must attend both workshops at UW-Madison (April 9 & April 23)
For more information about this series, please e-mail Rachel Weiss: rweiss@wisc.edu or call: (608) 262-9224.
There are no application forms. Each applicant must provide:
Karima Diane Alavi, DirectorApplications are reviewed with emphasis on effectiveness as an educator, ability to impact curriculum, and commitment to putting the materials covered at the Institute into practice.
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.
The goal of the conference is to tackle, with an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, the problems of accountability and participation in transnational governance. The conference is specifically designed to bridge different policy communities, so that experts on the contributions and weaknesses of the World Bank Inspection Panel come together with people working on improving accountability of the UNHCR and NGOs administering refugee camps; people working on accountability of the IMF come together with people working on accountability of the Security Council and of the WTO; people involved in shaping corporate behavior on chanaka.wickremasinghe@fco.gov.uklabor rights come together with people regulating financial services businesses; and, corporate counsel concerned about how private bodies set international product standards come together with NGOs concerned about how environmental standards are set and implemented. This conference will kindle a debate about fundamental links between current developments in different areas that are seldom either seen or deeply scrutinized.
We greatly hope that you will join us for this conference.
For more information or to register for the
conference, please visit the IILJ Conference website: http://iilj.org/events/GALConference.htm
or for specific inquires, contact the Conference Manager, GuyLaine Charles at charlesg@juris.law.nyu.edu.
Tel. +1(212) 992-8194 Fax. +1 (212) 995-4341
George F. Kennan Forum on International
Issues: The Future of the United Nations
At the George F. Kennan Forum you have the opportunity to
hear not one, but a panel of internationally known experts of differing
viewpoints address the most important current world issues.
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 travel grant information, please see below.
For more information, please call
414-229-3220 or visit http://www.iwa.uwm.edu.
For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/CommandLines/ or contact epomeroy@cie.uwm.edu
Conference Organizers: Sandra Braman and Thomas Malaby. Conference presenters will include:
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:
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.
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.
This major national symposium addresses significant issues and concerns vital to United States foreign policy. The audience is encouraged to participate in the question and answer segment of the program. This annual forum is internationally recognized and is the major community world affairs event. Students, teachers, and faculty advisors are awarded scholarships to attend this event. If you are interested in a mini-grant to cover the cost of bussing for your students please read the following requirements and complete a version of the form below.
Award Eligibility:
Teachers are eligible to apply for the Institute of World
Affairs (IWA)/Center for International Education (CIE) travel awards to attend
the George F. Kennan Forum on International Issues to be held at the Pabst
Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4- 6
p.m. Awards are to be used to transport students to the forum. A
maximum of $500 will be provided for each award and a maximum of eight awards
will be given.
Scope of Award:
Awards will be given to cover or partially to defray travel
expenses (i.e. bus rental) to the Kennan Forum. In addition to travel
expenses, recipients will receive a custom designed Foreign Affairs Issue Brief
with analytical essays on the United Nations, support materials to lead
discussion groups on the future of the United Nations, and a free membership to
the Institute of World Affairs.
Application for Award:
Requests must be submitted to IWA/CIE on some version of
the application form below.
Award-Related Communications:
The funding will be sent to the recipient after
the travel has been completed. By May 30, the award recipient must have
submitted a copy of the receipt or invoice for the travel to the forum. If
this requirement is not satisfied, reimbursement for travel will not be
awarded.
Award Application Submission
Deadlines:
Requests must be submitted
by March 18, 2005.
Kindly submit all materials to:
Institute of World Affairs/Center for International EducationIf you have any questions about the application procedure, please contact Susan Yelich Biniecki at 414 229-3223 or biniecki@uwm.edu. Award notification will be made by March 25, 2005.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Attn: Susan Yelich Biniecki
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Fax: 414-229-3626
biniecki@uwm.edu
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Institute of World Affairs/Center for International Education Travel Award |
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made possible with the generous support from the Annette J. Roberts Fund
for World Peace, World Law and Peace Education.
General Information
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International Architecture
Database
http://www.archinform.net
Drawing on the contributions from
persons across much of Europe, the International Architecture Database website
has served as a valuable clearinghouse for thousands of architectural projects
(both built and unrealized) since 1996. Currently, the database contains
information on more than 13,000 projects, most from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Visitors can begin by browsing the database by name, location, or keyword.
Looking at a single record, visitors will be presented with a host of
information, such as building type, primary architect, location, years of
construction, and in certain cases with external links, photographs, and plans.
Looking through the lists of keywords can actually be quite useful, as each
keyword is linked to examples that are demonstrative of the idea suggested by
the keyword, such as early Gothic or elementary school. Overall, this is a fine
resource for those persons who wish to learn a bit more about architecture or
for those looking for information on different architectural
projects.
National Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges
http://www.nasulgc.org/
Founded in 1887, the National
Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) is the
nation's oldest higher education association. It is an association of 215
institutions, including a host of public universities, land-grant institutions,
and a number of complete public university systems. Under the direction of
current president C. Peter Magrath, NASULGC serves as a unified voice for its
various members on Capitol Hill and also performs research on various timely
issues related to higher education more generally. In the "What's New" area of
the site, visitors can learn about legislative policy issues in the news and
also read the current and archived editions of the organization's in-house
newsletter, Newsline. The publication section is quite strong, and visitors with
an interest in higher education policy will want to definitely take a look at
the report offered here titled, " Shaping the Future: The Economic Impact of
Public Universities".
St. Petersburg 1900: A Photographic
Travelogue
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/petersburg1900/index.html
Since 1995, Bob Atchison has been
creating interesting Web exhibits and collections, and he has also been
responsible for maintaining the Alexander Palace Russian History homepage. The
site features a number of specific exhibits that deal with such topics as the
Romanovs and Siberia. His most recent creation is this photographic travelogue
of St. Petersburg, which was the capital of Imperial Russia in 1900. Atchison
had the idea for such a project as he looked over a copy of the Burton Holmes
Travelogue for Russia from the period. All told, the travelogue contains 50
photographs, some of which are drawn from this original travelogue, and the
remainder of which are drawn from Atchison’s personal collection. The collection
is rounded out by a selection of links to other online works and several maps of
St. Petersburg which are provided for reference purposes.
History Channel: Audio and
Video
http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/
It’s perhaps a bit of a stretch of
the imagination to think of a place that would include both a clip of Spiro
Agnew speaking out on what he perceived to be the biases of television news
coverage and some archival footage of Depression-era gangsters, but it’s all
right here on the History Channel’s Audio and Video online archive. The speech
archive is quite nice, and may prove to be both edifying and entertaining.
Visitors can browse the speech archive by topics (such as War & Diplomacy)
or alphabetically. Some of the clips offered here include comments by the
scientist Wernher von Braun after hearing that the U.S.S.R had landed a
spacecraft on the moon. The video clip section is also quite well-developed, as
it contains clips of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and the breaking of the sound
barrier..
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