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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,
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Aftermaths: Exile, Migration,
Diaspora
A Conference at the
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee: April 22-24, 2004
Primary Venue: Hefter Conference
Center
This conference seeks new perspectives and challenging insights on the subject of global migration and exile in recent history, across various regions and sites, whether geopolitical, representational, or conceptual.
The conference is free and open to the public. Register now!
For more information, please telephone
414-229-3757 or send an e-mail inquiry to Amy Kuether at kuether@uwm.edu.
Culture Café is held in Garland Hall Room 104 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM. The Spring 2004 Schedule:
Highlights of Rwanda Alive include a live broadcast from the natural habitat of the rare mountain gorilla (in partnership with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund), and opportunities for your students to learn directly from their Rwandan counterparts.
UWM's Center for International Education, in partnership with the UWM's History Department and the Peace Studies program, will be locally hosting this exciting videoconference series. Please check out the Rwanda Alive website http://www.gng.org/rwanda for program information.
The videoconference series will be viewed in BUS S-250. Dates, times and topics of the series follow here:
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 has been extended to April 16, 2004.
NOTE: Our Cuba travel license, granted by the U.S. Department of Treasury, mandates that program participants be degree-seeking students at accredited U.S. institutions. Credits earned on this program must transfer to home institution and count towards an academic program.
For further information, please consult these web documents:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/programs.html#Summer%20ProgramsYou may also contact UWM Overseas Programs and Partnerships directly at:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/summer%20flyers/summer%20flyers%202004/Cuba%20Flyer%202004.pdf
Pearse Hall 166
Phone: 414-229-5182
E-mail: overseas@uwm.edu.
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:
The Greater Milwaukee United Nations Association is among the 20 sponsors that will give information on: International Student Exchanges, International Travel Programs, Ethnic Dinners, International Volunteer Opportunities…and much more!!!
Food Concession Available.For more information please call Richard M. Franz at 262-542-4026.
26th Annual Latin American Film
Series
This series,
presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UWM Union
Programming, Union Theatre and The Department of Film, will be offered April
16 - 23, 2004 in the UWM Union Theatre
located at 2200 East Kenwood Boulevard.
All films are free and will be shown in their original language with English subtitles. (Films not rated; many include adult content.) A comprehesnive schedule is available at:
For more information please call the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at (414) 229-5986.The series is co-sponsored by UWM
Union Sociocultural Programming, the Center for International Education, the
Center for 21st Century Studies, the Center for Women's Studies, the Office of
Multicultural Affairs, the Departments of Africology, Art History, English,
Geography, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Spanish and Portuguese, the
MAFLL Program, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Certificate Program.
In collaboration with the Chicago Latino Film Festival.
Featured Speakers
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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.
Admission is $8 for the general public. Complimentary admission is available for Institute of World Affairs Members and Polish American Congress Members.
To Register
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.
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
Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global education, the conference will highlight innovative initiatives in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:
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:
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.
Under the Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Program, interested institutions submit proposals to invite scholars to teach one or more courses and to be in residence for a semester or an academic year. Proposals are welcome from individual institutions, as well as from consortia of two or more institutions. Institutions can propose to invite specific scholars or, through CIES, request that Fulbright Commissions abroad recommend scholars in the particular fields they would like to develop. Detailed information and proposal guidelines are available on the CIES website (http://www.cies.org) under the non-U.S. scholar programs.
The program application booklet mentions that proposals should be received at CIES on or before September 15, 2004. It also mentions that for 2005/2006 extra funds will be available under the Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program to support scholars from Muslim-majority countries in the field of Islamic history, culture, and society, broadly defined.
Contact persons at CIES are:
Athens
2004 Olympic Games
http://www.athens2004.com/athens2004/
The 2004 Olympic Summer Games may be several
months away, but preparations have been going on for many months, and the city
of Athens is looking forward to hosting its first official Olympic Games
competition since 1896. As one might expect, the site's main page offers a
veritable cornucopia of information on visiting Athens, accommodations, ticket
information, and a special area designed for young people. Additionally, the
site also provides extensive material on the Paralympic Games, which will also
take place this summer. Visitors will want to take a look at the key dates
section, as it offers details on when and where each competitive event will take
place, along with the ever-popular opening and closing ceremonies. The site has
some nice extra features, such as volunteer applications for the Games, e-cards
to send to friends and family, and information on the extensive transportation
infrastructure improvements added to the urban fabric of Athens for this
historic event.
European Register of Marine Species
http://erms.biol.soton.ac.uk/
This website presents the European Register of
Marine Species, an EU-funded marine biodiversity research consortium involving
research groups in nine European nations. An ultimate goal of the project was to
"produce a register of marine species in Europe, linked with a bibliography of
identification guides, register of taxonomic experts, locations of collections
of reference specimens, and an Information Pack on European marine biodiversity
(based on this project’s results)." The site links to brief and full checklists
for numerous taxa including information on genus, higher taxon, authority,
specific epithet, distribution, and more. From the species pages, site users can
link to information about the checklists, identification guides, and taxonomic
hierarchy. The homepage provides links to information about project
participants, project background, and a simple map illustrating the geographic
scope of the project.
Forced
Migration Review
http://www.fmreview.org/
Published tri-annually since January 1998, the Forced
Migration Review (FMR) is the in-house journal of the Refugee Studies Centre
at the University of Oxford. The journal (and its online edition made available
on this site) is published in English, Arabic, and Spanish, and "provides the
humanitarian community with a practice-oriented forum for debate on issues
facing refugees and internally displaced people in order to improve policy and
practice." From the site, visitors can browse through single articles or
complete issues of the journal all the way back to 1998. Many of the issues are
dedicated to a single theme, including recent issues which have been titled When
does internal displacement end? and Reproductive health for displaced people:
Investing in the future. The site also provides ample information on submitting
articles to the journal, material on the current editorial board, and the themes
for upcoming issues. Rounding out the site is a collection of related links for
consideration, organized into topics such as international law, reproductive
health and forced migration research institutes and centers.
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