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Global Passport:  Your Digital Source for 
International Education Information @ UWM
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Center for International Education
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Established February 12, 2001       March 1, 2004

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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 All those interested in international education are invited to subscribe.  Subscription instructions and general policies are included at the end of each newsletter.  Please send your comments and proposed contributions to: rjbeck@uwm.edu.  Previous issues of Global Passport may be accessed at: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/GlobalPassport/newsletter.html

Support the CIE
With a gift to the Center for International Education, you can help support internationally oriented research and public programming.  Your unrestricted gift allows the Director to launch special initiatives among the Center's programs.  Please make your check payable to the UWM Foundation, with the "Center for International Education" on the memo line, and mail to:

Center for International Education
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

 
 

Culture Café
Back for 2004, Culture Café is bringing the world closer to UWM by creating a time and place for all students to get to know each other over FREE food, coffee, games, and a brief informal presentation about the featured culture.

Culture Café is held in Garland Hall Room 104 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM.  The Spring 2004 Schedule:



Wisconsin "Great Decisions 2004"
This exciting foreign policy series, coordinated by the IWA's Gary Shellman, began in February and will continue this month.  It will be featured at Milwaukee, Waukesha County, Racine, and Sheboygan locations in Wisconsin.  Local newspaper, radio and television resources supplement the program.
 
Milwaukee Great Decisions
150 Bolton Hall, UWM
7: 30 – 9:00 PM
Tuesdays, February 3 – March 23
  • February 3  The News Media and Foreign Policy 
    • Ben Merens, Wisconsin Public Radio
    • Richard Foster, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    • Jeffrey Smith, Professor, Mass Communications, UWM
       
  • February 10 The Philippines 
    • Michael Cullinane, (invited) Professor of Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison
       
  • February 17 Weapons of Mass Destruction
    • Dr. Helen Caldicott, Founder and President, Nuclear Policy Research Institute 
    • Location: UWM Student Union Wisconsin Room
    • Co Sponsor:  Peace Action Wisconsin 
       
  • February 24 The U.S. and Europe
    • Carl Lankowski, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State
    • Co-Sponsors: World Affairs Councils of America, Foreign Policy Institute, U.S. Department of State
       
  • March 2  Varieties of Islam
    • Barbara Stowasser, Professor, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
       
  • March 9  Latin American Overview 
    • Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Professor of Political Economy and and Latin American Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
    • Co-Sponsor:  UWM Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
       
  • March 16  Public Diplomacy 
    • Kathy Fitzpatrick, Assistant Professor, Mass Communications, DePaul University
       
  • March 23  Reform in the Middle East
    • Joseph Montville, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Distinguished Diplomat in Residence, American University
To Register
Institute of World Affairs - UWM
P.O. Box 413 – Milwaukee, WI 53201
Phone: 414-229-3220 * Fax: 414-229-3226 * e-mail: iwa@uwm.edu
Cost
  • $30 Members and UWM Faculty/Staff
  • Students No Charge
  • $4 individual lectures
  • IWA Members will receive the Great Decisions briefing book, a $15 value

Waukesha County Great Decisions 2004

Racine Great Decisions 2004 Sheboygan Great Decisions 2004
Newspaper Articles
Starting Sunday, February 1, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel will publish in its Crossroads section articles focusing on each of the 2004 Great Decisions topics.  Richard Foster, senior editorial writer, will present thoughtful topic analyses and updates.
Radio
Starting February 2, 3:00 PM. Mondays, Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio, “Conversations with Ben Merens,” weekly interviews with the Milwaukee Great Decisions speakers beginning February 2 on this statewide public radio network.  Area Stations: WHAD-FM (90.7) Delafield/Milwaukee - WHA-AM (970) Madison
Television
Starting February 8, 4:30 PM Sundays, Channel 36, WMVT-TV - “Great Decisions 2004”  Gary Shellman, Wisconsin Great Decisions Coordinator, interviews each of the Milwaukee speakers in this locally produced program.

Wisconsin Great Decisions 2004 Co Sponsors:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Midwest Airlines, The Foreign Policy Association, Wisconsin Public Radio, UWM Center for International Education, USBank

Great Decisions 2004 Cooperating Organizations:  Peace Action Wisconsin, UWM Student Union, World Affairs Councils of America, U.S. Foreign Service Institute, UWM Center for Latin America & the Caribbean, 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, St. Norbert College

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



New Global "Travel" Program for Children and Parents
"Travel the Globe with UWM and the Public Library" is a new program for children (elementary school age) and their parents to learn about different parts of the world.

"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.  The 2004 schedule:

For more information, please call the Washington Park Library at (414) 286-3066 and ask for Gail Wilbert.


Three East-West Center Summer Professional Development Programs
The East-West Center's AsiaPacificEd Program provides K-12 educators with firsthand opportunities to experience Asia and the Pacific region. Now in its 16th year, the program offers three exciting summer options for 2004: a travel seminar in Vietnam and Thailand; a residential institute in Hawaii on teaching about Southeast Asia, and a workshop in Hawaii examining the history and meaning of Pearl Harbor in U.S. and world history. Participants can earn graduate credits and receive stipends as well as free resource materials. Participation fees vary. For application information, visit http://www.AsiaPacificEd.org  or call the East-West Center at (808) 944-7378.
E-mail: AsiaPacificEd-apps@EastWestCenter.org


Challenges and Paths to Justice
Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies -- 20th Annual Conference, October 6-8, 2004
Alumni Memorial Union, Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The new millennium has seen expanding interest in justice issues that extend beyond national borders.  Individuals, societal groups, nongovernmental organizations, governments, and international organizations have intensified calls for justice in economic, political, and social-cultural relations. Some calls seek to address the legacies of past abuses while others envision a step towards the broader redistribution of rights, privileges, and obligations on a global scale. This conference invites participation from scholars, policy makers, and practitioners interested in exchanging ideas and experiences on issues of challenges and paths to justice.

The conference organizers seek paper and roundtable proposals from diverse fields, methodologies, and backgrounds. Proposals must address some aspect of challenges to achieving justice beyond national borders, paths to addressing these challenges, and/or the ramifications of such issues for broader questions of conflict and peace. Proposals might focus on aspects of economic development and global inequality; issues of justice, security, and terrorism; issues of transnational environmental harm; aspects of transnational crime including migrant trafficking and the illicit drug trade; issues of international law and movement towards transnational protection of human rights; and efforts to achieve transitional justice in the aftermath of political regime change. Proposals might draw comparisons across these areas to explore the role of interest and advocacy groups, the media, government agencies, and international organizations. Proposals incorporating insights and parallels from the pursuit of justice at the local and national levels that can offer insights into issues of justice that extend beyond national borders are welcomed, as are theoretically informed proposals that explore the very concept of global social justice.

Proposal submissions must include contact information and a brief (no more than 100 words) description of the paper topic or interest in a roundtable theme. Send proposals by March 1, 2004 to Dr. H. Richard Friman (h.r.friman@marquette.edu), Department of Political Science, Marquette University, P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA. The conference is sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Marquette University Institute for Transnational Justice.



Two Celtic Events This Month Sponsored by UWM's Center for Celtic Studies.


Transforming Conflict: Women's Ways of Leading:  A Symposium at Mount Mary College
In spite of efforts by political and religious leaders, teachers, parents, and other leaders on all levels, and despite improved methods of communication worldwide, violent conflict in our world continues to increase. This symposium will provide the opportunity for discussion about the nature of conflict and the methods that can effectively deal with it, especially methods that tap women’s unique skills in fostering peace and cooperation.

On March 5 and 6, 2004 Mount Mary will host a symposium that will bring specialists together with students, educators, and the public to study the many ways in which women can use their unique skills to resolve conflict on the personal, community, national, and international levels

A keynote address entitled, “Confronting Global Crisis: Can Women Lead the Way?” will be delivered on Friday evening by Jennifer Turpin, Ph.D., University of San Francisco. Dr. Turpin is a founding member of the University of San Francisco women’s studies program. She also coordinated the program for five years.

For information on the schedule, registration and housing, please see: http://www.mtmary.edu/symposium.htm

To register, please complete and return this registration form:  http://www.mtmary.edu/pdfs/Symposium2004.pdf

For a copy of the brochure and registration form, please contact:

Doreen Giesfeldt
Dean of Faculty Office
Mount Mary College
2900 N. Menomonee River Parkway
Milwaukee, WI 53222-4597
Phone: (414) 258-4810, ext. 452
E-mail: giesfeld@mtmary.edu


Speaking Law to Power: International Law and Foreign Policy
March 5-6, 2004, Fluno Center for Executive Education, University of Wisconsin – 601 University Avenue – Madison, WI

Focus: The symposium explores the relationship between the practice of international law and the conduct of foreign relations. How does international law affect policy, and policy affect the practice of international lawyers? How do international lawyers inside and outside government interact with policy makers? What channels of communication exist between those who teach international law in the academy and those who practice international law in various settings? How does the field of international law cope with the tension between theory and practice, commitment and realpolitik? What is the responsibility of the international lawyer within government when confronted with an apparent clash between policy and law? How do these issues affect the various roles played by international lawyers (judge, advisor, activist, academic)? How are these issues dealt with in different national political and legal cultures and traditions?

Participants: This symposium will bring 10 world-famous international lawyers from six countries to the UW campus.  Participants include Philip Allott (Cambridge UK), Hilary Charlesworth (Australian National University), Jochen Frowein (Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg), David Kennedy (Harvard University), Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki and Finnish Foreign Office), Nathaniel A. Berman (Brooklyn Law School), Liliana Obregon (University of Los Andes), William D. Rogers (Arnold & Porter and former U.S. Under Secretary of State), and Miriam Sapiro (Summit Strategies International, LLC and former U.S. National Security Council official). Thomas Franck, the Murry and Ida Becker Professor Emeritus at New York University Law School, and former President of the American Society of International Law, will serve as Honorary Chair. David M. Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law and Director of WAGE, will serve as Program Chair. Symposium papers will be published by the Wisconsin International Law Journal in a special issue.

Dedication: This symposium is dedicated to Professor Richard Bilder who has taught international law at the University of Wisconsin since 1965. It draws inspiration from Professor Bilder's seminal l962 article on "The Office of the Legal Adviser: The State Department Lawyer and Foreign Affairs," and subsequent work in this area, including his role as Rapporteur of the Joint Committee on the Role of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State.

Who is invited: Faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin, attorneys, policymakers, and the public.

CLE Credit: Approval pending.

Registration and Fees: The conference is free but space is limited and advance registration is requested. (Same day registration is subject to space availability.)

To Register: Contact Margo Alpert, WILJ Symposium Editor, at mlalpert@wisc.edu. Please provide your full name, institutional affiliation, and contact information.

Sponsored by the UW Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, the International Institute, and the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE).  Cosponsored by the Center for European Studies, and the Global Studies Program



International Women’s Day Panel: “Growing up as a Girl in…”
On Monday, March 8 at 3 PM in Union E240, a panel of international women students who will discuss experiences of growing up female in a variety of different countries.

Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, co-sponsored by International Student & Scholar Services and the Global Student Alliance.



Workshop for Teachers of Less Commonly Taught Languages
The April 9 – 10, 2004 workshop, led by Nina Garrett, Director of the Center for Language Study at Yale University, will consist of two 3-hour hands-on sessions and an additional meeting with language coordinators.

The Friday session (3:00 pm – 6:00 pm.) will focus on materials development for teaching the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs). Teachers will be asked to develop mini-projects in their languages or present some aspect of projects they are currently working on. The first half of the Saturday morning session (9:00 – 10.30) will give participants an opportunity to share and discuss their projects with others. The second half of this session (10.30 – 12.00 noon) will be devoted to the use of technology in LCTL teaching. At 1:30 Dr. Garrett will meet with language coordinators and other interested parties to talk about her center at Yale and other professional issues. A more detailed program will be available soon.

The workshop will take place in the Indiana Memorial Union of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.

The workshop is free for participants. Coffee breaks will be provided by the organizers. On Friday evening all workshop participants are invited to the African Language Festival beginning at 6:00 pm. at the Neal Marshall Black Culture Center on the Bloomington Campus. Performances by students and teachers in different African languages will be followed at 8:00 pm. by a reception co-sponsored by the workshop organizers.

Please let us know by Monday, March 8, 2004 of your intention to participate (e-mail us at: iaunrc@indiana.edu or call: (812)-856-5263). Let us know what language you teach and at what institution. Participants from out of town will be provided with information about accommodations in Bloomington, shuttle schedules, and driving directions.

A few small travel awards are available, though only for teachers of languages taught by the sponsoring centers; we encourage you to apply for travel support at your own institution.



Engaging the Global Community: Best Practices in International Education
The University of Wisconsin System Institute for Global Studies and the Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities are organizing a conference to showcase model initiatives in global/international education. The conference will be held October 24-26, 2004 at the Grand Geneva Hotel in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.  We invite you to join us in celebration of the innovative work that is being done across the state by submitting a proposal to present as part of a panel or concurrent workshop/presentation.

Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global/international education, we are seeking presentations that highlight related best practices in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

We are particularly interested in replicable examples of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration that contribute to a coherent international/global education strategy. Wherever possible, presentations should include information on how educational outcomes have been or will be assessed.

The registration fee, which includes conference materials and meals, is $150.  Rooms for the evening of October 24th and 25th are available at the Grand Geneva at the discounted state rate of $62 per night.

Deadline for proposal submission is March 10, 2004.   Information and forms are  available on the IGS website, http://www.uw-igs.org.

Questions about the conference may be addressed to Douglas Savage at 414-229-6795 or dbsavage@uwm.edu.



International Education Conference - Education Across Six Continents
The 2004 Conference, Teaching and Curriculum for a Global Society, will be convened March 12-13, 2004 at the Pyle Center - 702 Langdon Street, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Kenotes speakers will include Harold Scheub, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities, African Languages and Literature at UW-Madison and Valters Nollendorfs, Emeritus Professor of German, UW-Madison and Director of the Occupation Museum/Latvia.

Study Abroad Faculty: Syllabus Meeting
From 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM on Friday, March 12, 2004, the Overseas Programs and Partnerships team of CIE will host a unique faculty development meeting where experienced faculty from various disciplines will share their experiences about creating a short-term study abroad program.

If you are UWM faculty member interested in leading a short-term study abroad program, but have questions about creating the syllabus, designing an itinerary, managing group dynamics, and maintaining the high quality of academic course delivery this meeting will assist you in answering these questions.

The following faculty will present their syllabi and share their experience of designing and leading a short-term study abroad program:

Lunch will be provided.  For further information or questions, please contact Terence W. Miller via email attmiller@uwm.edu or by phone at 229-3040.


Cuba for Teachers Summer Program
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee plans to run a summer 2004 "Cuba for Teachers," study abroad credit course, designed specifically for K-12 pre-service and in-service teachers.  The program is scheduled for June 20-July 5 and will  be led by Professor Rene Antrop-Gonzalez and Pablo Muirhead.

This program covers formal education, popular education, literacy campaigns and other aspects of Cuban society. You will spend time in Havana, Pinar del Río, Cienfuegos and Trinidad meeting a variety of people involved in various aspects of Cuban society. The main objective for this course is to help pre-service and in-service teachers construct curricula that would bring Cuba into their Wisconsin-based classrooms and to their students. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to
participate in this exciting and educational program.

The application deadline for this programs is March 19, 2004.

For further information, please consult these web documents:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/programs.html#Summer%20Programs
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/summer%20flyers/summer%20flyers%202004/Cuba%20Flyer%202004.pdf
You may also contact UWM Overseas Programs and Partnerships directly at:
Pearse Hall 166
Phone: 414-229-5182
E-mail:  overseas@uwm.edu.


The Journal for the Study Of Peace and Conflict:  Call For Papers for 2004-2005 Annual Edition
The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict, the annual journal of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, ISSN 1095-1962, publishes a variety of scholarly articles and essays on topics such as war, peace, global cooperation, domestic violence, and interpersonal conflict resolution; including questions of military and political security, the global economy, and global environmental issues.  We wish to promote discussion of both strategic and ethical questions surrounding issues of war, peace, the environment, and justice.

The Wisconsin Institute is committed to a balanced review of diverse perspectives.  Submissions are welcome from all disciplines.  Our intended audience includes scholars from a wide range of interests within the university community and educated members of the larger public.  The format allows the publication of original previously-unpublished works of sufficient length to give authors the opportunity to discuss a particular topic in depth.  Other forms of creative writing are invited.  Contributors should avoid submissions accessible only to specialists in their field.  The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict may also include book reviews.  Persons interested in reviewing should contact the editor.

Submissions for the 2004-2005 annual edition should be a maximum of 25 pages, double-spaced.  All manuscripts should be composed in MS word using Bookman Old Style, 10-point font.  Citations are to be in the body of the text as follows:  e.g., (Jones, p. 35) with a full bibliography at the end of the article.  Include a brief bio statement with a note that includes your institution.  Include separately your email, snail mail address, and work phone number.  Be certain that you have spell checked your manuscript prior to submission.  Send all poetry to Dr. Kent Shifferd at Shifferd@bitstream.net for possible inclusion in a new publication, the War/Peace Poetry Journal.  (The Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict is no longer accepting poetry).  Submissions are accepted on a continuing basis.

The deadline for the 2004-2005 issue is April 1, 2004.  Five copies of each submission should be sent to The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, UWSP LRC, 900 Reserve Street, Stevens Point, WI 54481.  In addition, supply the manuscript electronically to wiinst@uwsp.edu.



WIPCS Annual Student Conference:  "Promoting Positive Peace"
On April 16, 2004, St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin  will host the 18th annual Student Conference of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in the Bemis International Center from 9:00 AM until 4:45 PM, including an awards ceremony for best papers and presentations.

College and university students from across the state of Wisconsin submit and present papers, serve on panels, conduct round table discussions, or create artistic works related to the theme. Undergraduate students' submissions that are selected for presentation are eligible for monetary awards. A wide variety of topics are relevant to the theme of "Promoting Positive Peace" on an individual, national, or international level:

Initial proposals may be submitted to pjc@snc.edu.  Finished papers must be submitted in hard copy by March 19, 2004.

The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is a consortium of public and private institutions of higher learning in Wisconsin dedicated to encouraging and legitimating teaching and research on the roots of violence, national and global security issues (including ecological security) and on all factors necessary for a just global peace.



George F. Kennan Forum
Save the Date:  This year's Kennan Forum -- "Are We Safer?  A Debate on the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy" -- will be convened Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Milwaukee's historic Pabst Theater (144 E. Wells Street).  Tickets will go on sale February 20 at the Pabst Theater Box Office.  Please call  414-286-3663 or go to http://www.pabsttheater.org/. Ben Merens, Host at Wisconsin Public Radio, will be moderating this exciting debate at the Pabst Theater.  Join the live radio audience!  In partnership with Wisconsin Public Radio.

For more information: Contact the Institute of World Affairs - e-mail iwa@uwm.edu or call 414-229-3220.



Fulbright Association Invites Applications for Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund Lecture on Dance
The Fulbright Association has issued a call for applications to present the 2004 lecture under the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund for International Scholarship on Dance.  Applications must be received by April 30, 2004.

The Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund enables a dance scholar to present a major paper at the Fulbright Association’s annual conference.  The 2004 lecture will be delivered on Thursday, October 7, during the Fulbright Association’s 27th Annual Conference in Athens, Greece.  The conference will be held in conjunction with an international meeting on Oct. 8 through 10 organized by the Association of Fulbright Scholars in Greece.  The recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Fund award will receive round-trip travel and associated expenses.

The 2004 lecturer will be chosen according to guidelines developed with the founder of the fund, Dr. Selma Jeanne Cohen, preeminent dance historian and founding editor of the International Encyclopedia of Dance.  The competition is open to all dance scholars.  Proposal guidelines are available from the Fulbright Association and are posted on its web site at http://www.fulbright.org/cohenfund.

Fulbright alumnus Wayne B. Kraft, researcher, choreographer, and performer of Transylvanian village dancing, presented the 2003 Selma Jeanne Cohen Lecture on Nov. 1 in Washington, D.C.   Dr. Kraft, professor of German at Eastern Washington University and director of the Erdély Ensemble, spoke on “Transylvanian Dancing in the Final Hour.”

In 2002 Gretchen Ward Warren, professor in the School of Theater and Dance at the University of South Florida, presented “Dancing with the Wheel of Ever Returning:  A Theatrical Adventure with Australian Aborigines and Native Americans,” a project that grew out of her Fulbright award to Australia in 1997.

In 2001 Robin Marshall Grove, senior lecturer in the Department of English with Cultural Studies of the University of Melbourne, Australia, delivered the lecture “Unspoken Knowledges,” about the project of the same name, which attracted from the Australian Research Council the largest grant ever awarded for performing arts research in Australia.

Fulbright alumna Leslie Friedman, artistic director of The Lively Foundation in San Francisco, presented the inaugural lecture, “Expression in Dance,” concerning research done during her Fulbright award to India on Indian dance and aesthetics.

The Fulbright Association is a private, non-profit organization that supports and promotes the Fulbright Program, an international educational and cultural exchange initiative created in 1946 by legislation sponsored by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas.  There are now over 250,000 Fulbright alumni throughout the world.



Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College Of Law, Intensive Three-Week Summer Program
June 1-18 2004

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

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


UWM Faculty Travel Grants
Full-time UWM tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply for Center for International Education (CIE) international travel awards.  A maximum of $500 will be provided for each award.  Faculty who have received CIE faculty travel awards within the preceding fiscal year are not eligible for an award in the current fiscal year.  Applications for this round of grants are due today:  March 1.

Awards will be given partially to defray University-approved travel expenses (transportation, room, board, and conference fees).

Awards will be limited to support for:

For more information and an application form, please consult:
    http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/travel-award.html


Fulbright Scholar Program
The Fulbright Scholar Program's annual competition opens March 1 for lecturing, research and lecturing/research grants in over 140 countries. Each year 800 American scholars go abroad as part of the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Faculty and administrators from two-year, four-year and graduate institutions are invited to apply. Retired and adjunct faculty frequently receive grants as well.

Traditional Fulbright awards vary from two months to an academic year or longer. While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most lecturing assignments are in English.

Application deadlines for 2005-2006 grants are:

Faculty may visit http://www.cies.org to apply online or to download application materials.


Resident Fellowships offered by The Center for Inter-American Studies and Programs
CEPI,  Centro de Estudios y Programas Interamericanos, with the support of the Ford Foundation, invites applications from professionals of diverse disciplines and sectors to participate in its Resident Fellowship program, based at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), located in Mexico City.  Application deadline: March 15, 2004.

The CEPI mission is to provide a space for discussion and specialized research on inter-American issues in order to stimulate greater understanding and interest in this area.

For further information on the CEPI Resident Fellowships at ITAM, consult the CEPI website at: http://interamericanos.itam.mx, or contact the Center’s coordinator:  Jennifer Jeffs via e-mail: interamericanos@itam.mx

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Río Hondo 1
Colonia Tizapán San Ángel
Delegación Alvaro Obregón,
México, D.F. 01000 México
Telephone: (52-55) 5628 4000 ext. 3926 • Fax: (52-55) 5628 4092
E-mail: interamericanos@itam.mx

CIBER Grants Program
The purpose of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) grants program is to encourage and support teaching and research in international education. The program supports these activities in many disciplines from business, engineering and law to area/international studies, foreign languages and communications, etc. The nature of all requests must have bearing on CIBER's mission to increase the competitiveness of U.S. business abroad. UW System faculty and Ph.D. students are eligible to apply. Program categories and award ranges are: Grants in either category can be used to support international research (e.g., travel), purchase curriculum development materials, support visiting guest speakers for classes and/or public programs with an international focus, etc. Detailed information, including applications and instructions for each category, can be found at: http://www.bus.wisc.edu/ciber/facdev/grants.

The upcoming deadline for the Global Research/Curriculum Development program is April 1, 2004. For more information, contact Sachin Tuli, assistant director for outreach-CIBER, at tuli@bus.wisc.edu or 608-265-4938.



Amnesty International International Law and Organizations Program Internship Program
For the July – December 2004 Internship program Amnesty International requires three interns in London, one in Geneva, and one in New York.   For more information, please consult the description for the January-June 2004 program:  http://www.kodabu.de/amnesty/jur-ak-koeln/infomaterial/praktika/ILOP2004-1.pdf

Completed applications, due April 9,  2004, should be sent to:

Monica McIntosh, ILOP Coordinator
International Secretariat
Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DW, UK


Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program
The second round of competition has opened for the Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World, administered by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). This program will enable American colleges and universities to enrich their programs and courses on issues related to the Muslim world by providing opportunities to invite a Visiting Specialist from the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia or from selected countries in Central Asia, East and West Africa and Southeast Asia.

The Fulbright Visiting Specialists Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World will support 20 to 25 grants for visits of between two and six weeks by scholars and professionals from abroad. The Visiting Specialists may present lectures or short courses, team-teach with American colleagues, or assist in program and curriculum development in colleges and universities. They will also participate in public outreach programs, by speaking to community groups, service clubs, and religious and school groups.

Proposals will be accepted from liberal arts and minority-serving institutions with limited or no current programs on the Muslim world.   Proposals will also be considered from larger institutions with established area studies programs that could benefit from a Visiting Specialist in a particular subject not currently offered but needed for program development. This program does not support research or language training.

Institutions may request a specific individual as a Visiting Specialist, in which case the institution must solicit a separate application from this individual. However, if an individual is not named, a successful proposal will be matched with a scholar from among former Fulbrighters who indicated an interest in participating in the program.

Fulbright grants will include air travel, in-transit allowance, per diem and an honorarium.   Application deadline:  April 15, 2004.

Please visit http://www.cies.org/Visiting_Specialists for application materials and further information. If you have any questions please contact Mamiko Hada at vstngspec@cies.iie.org.



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UPM MIS: Museum Information System at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
    http://www.museum.upenn.edu/MIS/
Since 1887, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM) has sponsored a number of extremely valuable archaeological expeditions to sites on every inhabited continent. With the significant financial generosity of the Mellon Foundation, the UPM has begun the Museum Information System project in order to make a good portion of these highly detailed archaeological field notes and other items (such as photographs of artifacts) available online. So far, the museum has placed materials from three sites online: the Minoan site of Gournia Crete, Pech de l'Aze IV, a Middle Paleolithic site in France, and a pre-Columbian cemetery at Sitio Conte, Panama. For each site, the people at the project have offered a brief introduction to each expedition, along with offering digitized images of artifacts from each site. In the case of Pech de l'Aze, the original field notebooks have been digitized, and are available for general consideration on the website.

Churchill and the Great Republic
    http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/
The late Winston Spencer Churchill was many things, including a fine diplomat, an excellent statesmen, and quite a prodigious author. Of course, he was also a good friend to the United States, and this online exhibit from the Library of Congress explores Churchill's long relationship with the U.S., which he referred to as "the great Republic". With generous funding from John W. Kluge (and the support of the Annenberg Foundation), this exhibit is divided into a number of areas, such as those dealing with the Cold War and World War II, and features digitized images of Churchill with his grandson and as a dapper little boy, along with other visual materials. The text that accompanies each section discusses such events as Churchill's first visit to the US in 1895 and his second premiership in Britain, which began in 1951. The site concludes with a listing of public programs being held in conjunction with the in situ exhibit in Washington DC, and a list of further reading material.

Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Exhibition Catalog
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/children/
Curated by Angela Giral, Emeritus Director of the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University, this web exhibition includes 153 drawings made by children aged 7 to 14 during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Children were evacuated from the war zones to war-free areas of Spain and the south of France, and many of the drawings show children travelling to these safer areas, as well as more shocking scenes of planes dropping bombs. The largest group of these drawings (just over 600) is at the University of California, San Diego's (UCSD) Mandeville Special Collections Library where they have been made available online (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/) -- a collection annotated in the June 12, 1998 Scout Report (http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport/1998/scout-980612.html). In 1938, the American Friends Service Committee published some of the drawings in a book, They Still Draw Pictures, with a forward by Aldous Huxley, to raise money for children's war relief. The UCSD site is arranged along the lines of a book, while the Columbia site uses a geographical arrangement. Curator Giral was herself an evacuated child, and the Columbia website invites others with similar heritage to identify themselves.

NPR: Voodoo and West Africa's Spiritual Life
    http://www.npr.org/programs/re/index.html
As part of the fine NPR radio program series, Radio Expeditions, reporter John Burnett recently travelled to West Africa to learn about the ancient religion of Vodun, or as it is called in the West, voodoo. Unfortunately, what most people in the United States think about this religion is based on sensational (and generally totally inaccurate) accounts that one finds in various Hollywood movies or in a tourist-designed version that is hawked in many New Orleans shops. Before listening to the three-part series online, visitors will want to peruse the selection of photographs taken by the radio documentary producers during their travel through Togo and Benin, then proceed to read the background essay as well. The site also includes several video clips of the Epe Ekpe stone festival in Glidji, Togo and Equnqun spirit dancers in Cove, Benin.



 
 
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