TABLE OF CONTENTS

• NEWS
  • New Web Resource Fosters Distance Collaboration in the Classroom
• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Apply now for 2004 Global Studies Summer Institute, July 26-28
  • Register now for IGS Best Practices Conference
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • August 1:  Applications due for Research Chair at McMaster University
  • Apply now for Fulbright Scholar Program
  • September 15:  Proposals due for Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
  • September 15:  Applications due for Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  • Australia:  The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
  • The Kissinger Telcons
  • Canto do Brazil

New Web Resource Fosters Distance Collaboration in the Classroom
Officially endorsed by the World History Association, The Classroom Connector is a site where users can register themselves and their teaching projects, for the purpose of finding others with compatible teaching goals. The database is searchable by discipline, projects and user profiles. It is hoped that such a site will greatly facilitate and encourage the linking of classrooms across the country and around the world.

Currently, the disciplines listed on the Classroom Connector site are American Studies, Communication, Economics, English, History, Political Science, and Sociology. In the near future, Educational Technology, Geography, Physics, and Social Work will be added.

The URL for the site is:   http://www.uwstout.edu/cas/socsci/classroomconnector/

Teachers are invited to visit the site, to consider some of the benefits of putting their students into direct contact with peers in distant places, and to register themselves as site users.

• Fosters curriculum development
• Gives teachers time to reflect on important issues.
• Develops a state-wide network of international educators
• Updates educators on important issues in the headlines
• Fosters stimulating exchanges between master teachers and leading university professionals
• Gives teachers criteria for evaluation and presenting controversial, contemporary, and difficult issues in the classroom in a balanced manner

A registration form can be downloaded at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/gssi04.pdf

Please contact Yvonne M. Reyes with any questions or concerns at yvonne@uwm.edu or 414-229-3312.

Recognizing the multifaceted nature of global education, the conference will highlight innovative initiatives in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:

• Campus-wide strategic planning for internationalization
• General education curriculum
• Professional schools
• World languages
• International students and scholars
• Study abroad
• Faculty development
• Technology and international collaborations

• Conference Agenda:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/draft_agenda.pdf
• Registration Form:  http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/registration_form.pdf

If you have any questions, concerns, or preliminary inquiries, please feel free to contact Imre Szeman at szeman@mcmaster.ca.  A full description follows below:

For further information:

• Institute on Globalization:
  • http://globalization.mcmaster.ca
• Critical Theory and Cultural Studies:
  • http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cstudies

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 for which applications are still being sought:

• August 1, 2004 – Fulbright lecturing and research grants worldwide
• November 1, 2004 – spring/summer seminars in Germany, Korea and Japan for international education and academic administrators as well as for the summer German Studies Seminar

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:

• Karen Watts, Senior Program Officer -- kwatts@cies.iie.org
• Rimma Karlin, Senior Program Coordinator -- rkarlin@cies.iie.org
• Contact person at the Fulbright Commission in Egypt, Rania Atef, Assistant Project Specialist -- ratef@bfce.eun.eg

The Best Research Fellowships offer stipends of $375 per week for periods up to 4 weeks, and will be awarded to support residencies for the purpose of conducting research which makes direct use of the Library. The Fellowships will be tenable from January 3 to December 31, 2005. The AGS Library, the former research library and map collection of the American Geographical Society of New York, has strengths in geography, cartography and related historical topics.

Applications must be postmarked by September 15, 2004.

For further information, write, call or e-mail the AGS Library, P.O. Box 399, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0399, Tel.  (414) 229-6282, E-mail agsl@uwm.edu.  Web site: http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/best.html

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
    http://www.sipri.se/
Officially established in 1966, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was first proposed by Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden in 1964 who thought such an organization would be an appropriate way to commemorate the country's 150 years of continuous peace. The primary task of the Institute is to conduct "scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solution of international conflicts and for a stable peace." With this in mind, this site provides access to many of their documents, including working papers, press releases, speeches, and lectures. Some of the most recent publications available for download on the site include Sizing and Shaping European Armed Forces:Lessons and Considerations from the Nordic Countries, as well as Security Challenges for the EU. Finally, the site also contains a nice set of databases, including one that contains country profiles that relate facts on international relations and security trends.

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
    http://www.immi.gov.au/
Australia continues to be a popular choice for immigrants from all over the world, particularly from surrounding areas, such as parts of Asia and Europe. This site is the official online presence of the Australian government's Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. Not surprisingly, the site offers information about visiting Australia, studying in Australia, working in Australia, and material on how to migrate permanently to Australia. The site also contains helpful materials about the government's work with its indigenous peoples, including fact sheets, current policy statements, and reports on the socioeconomic standing of these groups. For people looking for publications on specific topics there is also an A-Z index of titles, ranging from Atlas of the Australian People (which provides demographic reports) to work on welfare recipient patterns among migrants.

The Kissinger Telcons
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/index.htm
The National Security Archive at George Washington University has developed a fine reputation for its electronic briefing books and other publications, many of which have arisen from requests filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Released in late May 2004, this 123rd electronic briefing book in the ongoing series includes ten telcons (transcripts of telephone conversations) from the files of Henry Kissinger's collection at the Library of Congress. The subjects covered in these intriguing documents include talks on how to spin the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the bombing of Cambodia ordered by President Nixon, and conversations with Alexander Haig. Some of the other telcons released as part of the electronic briefing book include conversations with Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti and Chase Manhattan Bank chairman David Rockefeller. The final document of note here is a helpful finding aid to the Kissinger telcons, created by the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Canto do Brazil
    http://www.hillerphoto.com/brazil/
Getting to Brazil is getting more and more expensive, especially considering the rising prices of flights abroad. For those who have never been, or those looking for a compelling perspective on a few regions of this huge country, this site, designed by Geoffrey Hiller is worth a look. Hiller is a photographer who first visited Brazil 25 years ago, and recently returned to explore the country at length. The Flash introduction to the site offers some lovely images, set to the backdrop of rather enchanting music, with narration provided by a woman who talks about the nature of the Brazilian soul. The various short films, which consist of photographs that dissolve and melt into each scene, deal with such locals as Salvador Bahia, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais. After viewing each short film, visitors can wander through the images contained within each film in a separate photo gallery.