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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
the CIE Center for International Education |
Command Lines: The Emergence of
Governance in Global Cyberspace
THIS WEEK: April 29-30, 2005
Hefter
Center
This working conference will
examine the diverse ways in which governance is both implemented and emerging
within cyberspace and the effects of such approaches to governance in the
off-line world. Sessions will cover the entire range of types of governance
mechanisms, from the formal laws of government through the formal and informal
governance mechanisms of both state and non-state actors to the cultural
practices of governmentality that sustain and enable both governance and
government.
For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/CommandLines/ or contact Amy Kuether at kuether@uwm.edu
Conference Organizers: Sandra Braman and Thomas Malaby.
Conference presenters will include:
Articles should be between 5000-8000 words. Reviews should be between 800-1200 words. Manuscripts must include an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate sheet and may be submitted by regular mail (typed in double-spacing) or by email (in MS Word or rtf.format). Authors will be asked to provide a diskette or CD-ROM of the final version.
The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author's name and date in the text and a full reference in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
Submit articles for the journal to:
Jan Servaes
School of Journalism and Communication
University of Queensland
St.Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Fax: +61 7 3365 1377
Email:
j.servaes@uq.edu.au
Culture Café is held in Garland Hall Room 104 from 2:00 - 3:30 PM.
The opening weekend showcases unconventional romance and urban depictions both ultra-real and surreal in The World, Dolls, Oasis, and The Beautiful Washing Machine. In the following week the festival brings Milwaukee audiences a series of documentary films with Hara Kazuo's experimental works, depictions of rural Chinese life in A Student's Village and urban in This Happy Life, and a look Inside the Hermit Kingdom that is North Korea. Finally, the second weekend exhibits films that are melancholy, meditative, and hopeful with Last Life in the Universe, Magnifico, and Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
Many of the films offered at the Asian Film Festival have won awards from around the globe and all are being shown in Milwaukee for the first time.
Sponsored by UWM's Center for International Education and the Department of Foreign Languages & Linguistics with support from the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, the Community Media Project, the Milwaukee International Film Festival and the Japan Foundation.
All films are free to the public with seating on a first come first serve basis.
To contact the Asian Film Festival please call (414) 229-4423, or email gossett@uwm.edu for more information about ongoing Asian film events.
UWM Union Theatre
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., 2nd level, UWM Union
(414) 229-4070 or (414) 229-4825
Website: http://www.aux.uwm.edu/Union/events/theatre
At the 2005 George F. Kennan Forum, a panel of internationally known experts will offer differing perspectives on the UN's future:
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.
Conference web site: http://www.uic.edu/nursing/events/optimizing.htm
Sponsoring hosts include: University of California, San Francisco, University of Washington, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania & UIC affiliates University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, Northern Illinois University, and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Abstracts may be submitted on any global,
global-relevant, or cross-cultural local health and nursing topic.
Presentation and poster sessions plus ‘think tank’ group sessions will be
held. Any questions may be directed to: Olga Sorokin - osorok1@uic.edu
The Salzburg Law School on International Criminal
Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, an annual course under the academic
supervision of Professor Otto Triffterer, editor of the Commentary on the Rome
Statute of the International Criminal Court, invites advanced law students as
well as young professionals to apply for its Seventh Summer Session.
This year's course on First
Decisions of the Security Council and the Organs of the International
Criminal Court - Shaping and Paving the Roads towards "Peace, Security and
the Well-being of the World"? will focus on three major
areas.
The academic program runs Monday 8 through Thursday 18 August, daily from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with a free week-end. The course consists of lectures, work shops and case studies and will be held at the University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law, a 16th- century- Baroque- style palace located in the centre of the old town. In addition, the Salzburg Law School provides for in-depth working materials, full board accommodation and a rousing social programme for a reasonable price! Participants will obtain a certificate of attendance, but may also take an oral or written exam for which 8 credits according to the European Credit Transfer System are available. |
To apply, send a letter of motivation, your CV and relevant application documents until May 15, 2005.
For further information please visit our homepage
at http://www.sbg.ac.at/salzburglawschool
or contact astrid.reisinger@sbg.ac.at
The Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program is currently seeking teachers or administrators with general proficiency in Spanish and strong cross-cultural skills to act as teacher trainers and make presentations on general education topics in Uruguay for six weeks in Summer 2005. Priority will be given to applicants who have previously hosted Uruguayan principals or teachers through the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program.
For more information: http://www.outreachworld.org/activity.asp?eventid=203
This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.
As well as impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. 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 this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round call-for-papers: June 1, 2005. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an
online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference
website: http://www.SustainabilityConference.com
Following the success of the inaugural International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of California - Berkeley, a second conference will be held in one of the emerging IT centers of the world, Hyderabad.
The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the interests addressed by the conference include: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.
As well as an impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 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 this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings.
The deadline for the first round call for papers is June 1, 2005. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an
online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.Technology-Conference.com
"The North-South Divide and International Studies"
In the second half of the twentieth century, a good proportion of international relations was colored significantly by the East-West cleavage. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective allies, generated structural influences that were all-pervasive. Many, if not all, of these influences have now dissipated. Yet there is a good chance that the first half of the twenty-first century will be equally shaped by a North-South cleavage. The gap between North and South is hardly new but it is likely to become more prominent as intra-Northern disputes wane. Many of the processes of current interest to members of ISA - globalization, democratization, nuclear democratic peace, nuclear proliferation, the ascent of China, and terrorism, to name a few - all have strong links to the differential resources, opportunities, and challenges confronted by more affluent and lesser developed parts of the world.
Is the North-South gap receding or becoming more entrenched? What does it take to move from the South to the North? Are parts of the South descending into reinforcing traps of poverty, civil war, and state failures? To what extent is North-South conflict manifested in non-state terrorism? Is the North likely to become increasingly preemptive in its attacks on perceived Southern threats? If so, how is the South likely to fight back? Do North-South antagonisms reflect in some way the celebrated clash of civilizations thesis? Or, are we simply exaggerating the extent to which a new structural cleavage will predominate in coming years and/or how we might best interpret it? These are only some of the questions that are likely to dominate international relations discourse in the decades to come. We invite ISA members to tackle these questions, and others like them, for the San Diego meeting - a particularly propitious site given its location quite close to the U.S.-Mexican border for a consideration of the prospects for North-South conflict and cooperation.
Paper and panel submissions will be accepted beginning on March 21 and are due by June 1, 2005. Acceptance letters and notifications for those who submitted proposals will sent by e-mail from ISA on September 30, 2005. Proposals may be submitted online using the following links:
Paper submission:
http://www.isanet.org/SanDiegoSubmit/PaperSubmit.htm
Panel submission:
http://www.isanet.org/SanDiegoSubmit/PanelSubmit.htm
For more information on the 2006 Annual Convention
please see http://www.isanet.org/sandiego/
or e-mail isa2006@indiana.edu.
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
The conference will be held at the United Nations in New York from July 19- 21. Please visit the CASIN website to apply: http://www.americanstudents.us/crimeapp.shtml
The application deadline is June 1,
2005. Details about the conference can be found in the application and
on the UN website:
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/prev_dip/fr_preventive_action.htm.
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law invites high quality papers and book review submissions that examine timely issues in international human rights law. The journal seeks to advance the understanding of human rights and analyze their impact on international law and policy. The Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law encourages academics, students and related professionals of all nationalities to submit their original work. We aim to be a resource for scholars and professionals devoted to the practice and study of international human rights law.
Submissions should be between fifteen and forty pages each and should be sent electronically to arthur@americanstudents.us by June 1, 2005. Please include the word "Submission" in the subject line of the e-mail.
Questions and correspondence should be sent to the same email address.
About CASIN
The Council for American Students in International
Negotiations, Inc., (CASIN) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that
promotes scholarship, discourse and engagement in international policy.
CASIN seeks to deepen the United States' commitment to its international leadership role and encourages student participation in the international policy-making process.
Arthur Traldi
Editor-in-Chief, Interdisciplinary Journal of Human
Rights Law arthur@americanstudents.us The
Council for American Students in International Negotiations http://www.americanstudents.us
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the fundamental areas of interest in peace and conflict studies, providing
much of the vocabulary and concepts for both theoretical and practical
endeavors in this field. The purpose of this conference is to provide a
forum for scholars, policy makers, practitioners, and concerned citizens
to come together for the purpose of reexamining their understanding of
human rights, and how those understandings are relevant to the conflicts
the world faces, both currently and in the foreseeable
future.
The conference committee seeks paper and roundtable proposals from all disciplines, occupations, and backgrounds. The only requirement is that the proposals seek to address some aspect of human rights, and to relate those rights to the nature of human conflict and the hope for eventual peace. We invite proposals on any topic related to the reexamination of human rights, including (but not limited to):
Send proposals by June 1, 2005 to: Brandon Claycomb (bclaycomb@mariancollege.edu)
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This conference is sponsored by the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and by Marian College and its Social Justice Committee.
Dr. John Davies is currently Co-Director of the
Partners in Conflict and Partners in Peacebuilding Projects, and Senior Faculty
Associate with the Center for International Development and Conflict Management
(CIDCM), Department of Government and Politics, at the University of
Maryland.
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.
This issue seeks to provide a forum for studies
dealing with the relationships between the first and second generation of state
reforms and the cultural, economic, and social situation of women. We welcome
papers on gender differences in the civil service, cultural stereotypes of
bureaucracy, and women as the clients of changing public services and
structures.
Also, we strongly encourage
discussions into new terrains such as the interactions between gender and the
privatization of public utilities, as well as women's collective action and
their incidence on those public policies geared towards state innovation and
change.
Papers can be submitted in Spanish, English, or Portuguese. If accepted, the author will have to provide a Spanish version of the article. The review panel is composed of international scholars from institutions in Latin America, Europe, and the U.S.
The deadline for submission is August of 2005. The expected publication date is March of 2006.
All papers should be sent electronically to:
revistapoliticaygestion@unsam.edu.ar
Attn. Ana L. Rodríguez-Gustá, Guest
Editor.
A downloadable Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) version of the application and related information is now available by a link at the bottom of UWM's Global Studies homepage: http://www.global.uwm.edu
Some noteworthy points associated with the grant:
Al-Islam.org
http://www.al-islam.org
Created and maintained by the Ahlul
Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP), this nice website is designed to
facilitate access to high-quality resources related to Islamic history, law,
practice, and the societies of various Muslim peoples. The homepage is well
designed, as it provides a general search engine, and an option to browse the
site and its materials in four different languages. For those unfamiliar with
the subject, they may want to begin by perusing the materials in the "Discover
Islam" section. Here they will find essays that introduce the basic tenets of
Islam and Muslim practices. The homepage also contains a list of the "Most
Popular" areas of the site, which include a fine gallery of photos and
calligraphy, along with a Shi'ite encyclopedia.
Canada Gazette
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/index-e.html
Published regularly by the Queen's
Printer since 1841, the Canada Gazette is the "official newspaper" of the
Government of Canada. The Canada Gazette serves Canadians by giving them access
to the laws and regulations that govern their daily lives, along with assisting
the private sector in meeting legal requirements. Essentially, what appears in
the Gazette are new statutes and regulations, proposed regulations, and an
assortment of other government notices. Before perusing a copy, visitors may
want to examine the very detailed explanatory section, including Publishing
Information. Visitors can view all of the latest publications from the Gazette
and may also browse back issues dating back to 1998. Overall, this site will be
a great find for those who are seeking to keep track on pending Canadian
legislation and other related items, either for personal or scholarly
reasons.
Heritage
Council
http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/
Ireland has a great of historic
material culture to preserve, especially when one considers its history and
patterns of human settlement over the preceding millennia. In 1995, the Heritage
Council was established under the Heritage Act of 1995 with a primary role "to
propose policies and priorities for the identification, protection, preservation
and enhancement of the national heritage. Visitors can begin on the homepage by
looking at a number of the Council's news releases, or by signing up to receive
the electronic edition of its monthly email newsletter. The publication section
is quite strong, and visitors can search currently available online materials by
"sector", such as forestry, ecclesiastical heritage, and stained glass. Visitors
may also want to take a look at their thematic areas of research and outreach,
which also contain documents and practical information about visiting various
sites and locales throughout Ireland.
Tackling Nurse Shortages in OECD
Countries
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/11/10/34571365.pdf
Among its members, the Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) includes such nations as Italy,
Japan, Korea, and the United States. Within these countries (and the numerous
other members of the OECD) there has been great concern over the lack of skilled
health-care professionals, and in particular, nurses. Currently, many member
nations have to effectively import nurses from all over the world in other to
fill the rapidly increasing demand for these important professionals. This
58-page report on the nature of such nurse shortages was authored by Steven
Simoens, Mike Villeneuve, and Jeremy Hurst and was released to the public in
early 2005. Not surprisingly, the report notes that current nurse shortages
exist in almost all OECD countries and that current nurse shortages seem "to be
caused by fewer young people entering the workforce, a greater range of
professional opportunities open to young people, the low social value given to
nursing, negative perceptions of nurse working conditions and an ageing nurse
workforce." The report concludes with some helpful policy suggestions, including
the observation that a variety of mixed incentives (including innovative
approaches to nurse education) may ameliorate the situation.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1396&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
The United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has five specialized sectors, and
one of them happens to be dedicated to examining the social and human sciences.
Within this broad heading, this sector examines a number of key themes,
including ethics, human rights, philosophy, and social transformations. The
well-designed homepage allows visitors easy access to the organization's various
programmatic areas of action and links to a number of helpful features including
its newsletter. One particularly timely feature is a link to the upcoming
International Forum on the Social Science-Policy Nexus planned for September
2005. Also, within each primary section there are links to publications and
subthemes, such as gender equality and development and human security and
peace.
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