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A publication of UWM's Center for International
Education, Global Passport
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Culture Café
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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:
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:
Dr. S. Tamer Cavusgil is University Distinguished
Faculty, and The John W. Byington Endowed Chair in Global Marketing at the Broad
College of Business at Michigan State University. He is the Executive
Director of MSU’s Center for International Business Education and Research
(CIBER), and also serves as coordinator of Doctoral Programs in Marketing and
International Business. He is currently the editor of the Journal of
International Marketing and the JAI Press Annuals, Advances in International
Marketing.
Dr. Cavusgil has held
leadership positions in such professional associations as the Academy of
International Business and the American Marketing Association. He is the
recipient of a number of professional awards that include the Richard J. Lewis
Quality of Excellence Faculty Award, Ralph H. Smuckler Award for Advancing
International Studies and Programs at MSU, as well as the International Trade
Educator of the Year award from North American Small Business International
Trade Educators. He received both his MBA (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from the
University of Wisconsin. Previously, he taught at the Middle East Technical
University in Turkey, the University of Wisconsin, and Bradley
University.
Co-sponsored by the Lynde & Harry Bradley
Foundation and UWM School of Business Administration.
Admission is $8 for the general public. Complimentary admission is available for Institute of World Affairs Members and Polish American Congress Members.
To Register
Ileana Rodriquez-Silva, a scholar-in-residence at
the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, will speak on the myths of racial
democracy in Latin America that have persisted because of the successful
construction of strategic silences regarding issues of racial inequality.
Through the Puerto Rican case, one can uncover the social, political, and
economic foundations that led divergent groups to participate in constructing
these silences.
On Thursday, April 29, 2004, at 11:30 a.m. in Garland Hall 104, Professor Antler will address the Brown Bag Colloquium on "Constructing the 'Jewish Mother' Lessons from Social Science, Popular Culture, and Biography."
Professor Antler focuses on Biblical texts, legal narratives, folklore and pop culture to determine how the power and presence of Jewish matriarchs are represented in strikingly different ways. Honored, sometimes feared, and occasionally reviled, the real Jewish mother has been lost to history. How can we connect ancient to contemporary portrayals of this compelling figure? Why has she become a worldwide touchstone of ambivalence toward women, especially mothers? What are the real contributions of Jewish mothers to family, community, religion, and culture?
Joyce Antler teaches courses in American women's history, gender history, Jewish women's history, and the history of education. Her books include The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America; America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers, Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture; The Challenge of Feminist Biography; and Changing Education: Women as Radicals and Conservators.
For more information, please contact: Professor Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Director, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 414-229-6551, chava@uwm.edu or Mary Margaret Krenek, Administrator, Center for Jewish Studies 414-229-6121, krenek@uwm.edu
Sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Co-Sponsored by UWM Golda Meir Library; Milwaukee
Jewish Historical Society; Woman’s Division, Milwaukee Jewish Federation;
Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning; UWM Center for Women's Studies.
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.
The young artists use the paintings to express their own visual interpretations of traditional Mayan-Chontal beliefs and customs.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's cultures and communities artist in-residence, Raoul Deal, participated in workshops in Mexico, which taught the youth how to paint. The workshops used the legend of "Kantepec", a mythical figure who shared his teachings with locals—encouraging them to live in harmony with nature. In the 1980s when the forest neighboring the community was cut down, Kantepec—who was thought to live in and protect the forest—became the theme of many of the paintings. Many of these original students now serve as a source of knowledge and inspiration to others who want to learn to paint and embody the spirit of Kantepec.
Free admission. Contributors from UW-Milwaukee to the exhibit include:
| Zabuzhko is the author of the
autobiographical prose work Field Research on Ukrainian Sex (1996).
The director interprets the philosophical text and feminist intonation of
the writer’s view of national consciousness in a timeless cultural
environment with an associative fabric of words and expressive images. She
constructs the imaginary mythological space of the studied phenomenon from
metaphorical actions and performances, assemblages of past events and
excerpts from historical films. She thus also evokes Shevchenko’s approach
to the female essence and the lot of women in the Ukraine, represented by
the female body (the body of culture), tormented and desecrated here by
repugnant dwarfs. The latter symbolise male totality – the source of the
Ukraine’s passive fate, past and present. The staged episodes, treating
the absurd and the grotesque, allegory and parody, also reflect the
Ukrainian literary tradition (irrationality and poeticism) and film
(Dovzhenko).
Oksana Chepelyk: currently in residence as a Fulbright scholar at UCLA, Oksana Chepelyk studied at the State Institute of Art in Kiev (1978-1984), which was followed by a post-graduate course in Moscow (1986-1988). She then studied at the CIES in Paris (1995) and at Amsterdam University (1998). As an artist she was awarded grants in France, Germany, Spain, USA, Canada and England (1992-2003). >From 1993 she organised thirteen solo exhibitions in Europe and America, and participated in a number of joint exhibitions (Russia, Germany, Lithuania, Ukraine, France, USA, Sweden, Croatia, Brazil, Austria, Macedonia). She has also attended various festivals focusing on film, video and new media: 1998 (Kiev, New York, London, Tallinn, St Petersburg), 1999 (Osnabruck, Kiev, Montecatini, Linz, Tallinn, Moscow), 2000 (Kiev, Paris), 2001 (Paris-Berlin, Oberhausen, Montecatini, Kiev, Liverpool, Moscow), 2002 (Paris, Osnabruck, Belo Horizonte, Karlovy Vary, Montecatini, Chisinau, Kiev, Weimar, Tel-Aviv), 2003 (Paris, Osnabruck, Ankara, Pesaro, Weimar, Berlin). Her debut Chronicles of Fortinbras (2001) reflects her extensive experience in the arts and multi-media. |
Free and open to the public. For further
information please contact the Department of Film at
414-229-6015.
This workshop will provide an opportunity for foreign language educators (high school and post-secondary) to reflect on how they construct writing tests. It will help instructors consider how they select topics for testing a variety of ACTFL levels, construct writing tasks, evaluate their student writing and give feedback. Also, guidelines for portfolio-based assessment will be outlined. Participants will take a close look at their current writing tests and reflect on them in light of principles of proficiency-based assessment. In this one-day workshop, participants will:
The workshop is free; however, pre-registration by May 3 is required. Register online at: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/outreach/workshops.html
For more information, contact Julie Kline at 414-229-5986 or jkline@uwm.edu
Sponsored by the UWM Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies and the Center for International Education, in collaboration
with the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA),
University of Minnesota. CLACS and CIE are National Resource Centers, and
CARLA is a National Language Resource Center, funded by the U.S. Department of
Education Title VI Program.
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:
For more information and application materials,
consult the CIE website http://www.international.uwm.edu or
contact Global Studies Coordinator Nan Kim-Paik (414-229-2976, nkim-paik@cie.uwm.edu).
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:
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:
Black
Ships & Samurai
http://www.blackshipsandsamurai.com/
In the early days of July 1853, the residents of
Uraga on the outskirts of the feudal capital of Japan at Edo were privy to a
rather unusual sight: Four hulking foreign warships had entered their harbor
under the power of coal, and under the command of Commodore Matthew Perry of the
United States. So began one of the pivotal cultural interactions between East
and West. Commodore Perry came as an emissary of the United States in order to
create a formal relationship with the empire of Japan. Developed by Professors
John W. Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa from MIT, this site brings together a wealth
of rarely seen graphics from both sides of this historic encounter, and original
textual commentaries by Professor Dower. The Core Exhibit area contains the bulk
of these amazing visual materials, including those renderings of the initial
encounters of the two cultures in the years 1853 and 1854 and some revealing
portraits of both Japanese officials and Commodore Perry himself. Visitors
should not leave the site without viewing at least part of the interactive
recreation of the 30-foot-long Japanese Black Ship Scroll, which was painted in
1854. The scroll features a number of scenes documenting these encounters, and
also includes explanatory text as well.
Great
Mirror
http://www.greatmirror.com/
Interpreting and documenting landscapes has been
the province of photojournalists, art historians, writers, filmmakers, and other
interested parties since time immemorial. Geographers have contributed much to
this endeavor as well, though not nearly as many of them have a presence on the
internet. That lacuna is partially filled by the Great Mirror website, created
by geographer Bret Wallach, who is also a professor at the University of
Oklahoma. On this site, visitors may peruse over 5000 photos taken by Wallach
over the past thirty years that show "cultural rather than physical landscapes
and are intended to illuminate the people who have shaped these landscapes and
are reflected in it." The user interface on the site allows visitors to browse
through photographs for various countries, which are often subdivided into
smaller divisions (called chapters here), that hone in on a particular locale,
such as London within Britain or Kushtia within Bangladesh. Each photograph also
features information about its particular subject as well
Living in
Europe
http://www.livingineurope.net
Weblogs on just about every topic imaginable
(including a few which no one would have imagined) are now available. And, after
some time spent living in the shadows of traditional formats such as television
and mainstream periodicals, they have garnered the attention of major media
programs. One of the more interesting weblog sites out there is Living in
Europe, which consists of a cooperative of bloggers and writers who contribute
essays, photographs, personal diaries, and news items from Europe. The
perspectives section of the site offers some commentaries on the expansion of
the European Union and a diary of a foreigner living in Turkey. The photos
section features contributions from various parts of Europe, including some
musings and photos from Catalonia and Bristol. Visitors who develop a penchant
for the site may sign up to help with the administration of the site, or just
offer their own commentaries on life in Europe.
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States
http://www.9-11commission.gov/
Created by congressional legislation and
President George W. Bush near the end of 2002, the National Commission on
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States is an independent bipartisan commission
that was chartered to prepare a "full and complete account of the circumstances
surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." This authoritative site
provides biographical information about the members of the Commission, a
frequently asked question section, and information about the dates and times of
the various public hearings. Not surprisingly there is an extensive section of
press releases and detailed statements from various staff members of the
Commission regarding its ongoing work. The hearings section provides detailed
information on upcoming and previously held hearings, along with archived
broadcasts of each hearing and complete hearing transcripts. So far, the
Commission has held nine public hearings, dealing with topics such as emergency
preparedness, security and liberty, and counterterrorism policy.
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