TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Upcoming Shows: International Focus
  • This Summer:  Lambada at the Lake:  Alterra to Host Latin Music Performance Series
  • July 26-28:  IAMCR Conference:  “Media Panics"
  • August 1:  Deadline for Submissions on Global Indigenous Media
  • August:  Call for Submissions -- Gender and State Reform in Latin American and the Caribbean
  • WPSA Annual Conference
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Abe Fellowship Program
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • The Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center
  • The Power of Culture
  • CIA: The World Factbook 2005
  • International Freedom Center
  • Sister Cities International
  • Global Museum
  • World Myths & Legends in Art

International Focus
Viewers are invited to tune in Sundays at 5 p.m. to Channel 36, WMVT, for the International Focus series hosted by Rob Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs.  The upcoming schedule will tentatively feature:

• July 3 - "The European Union"
  • Wolfgang, Schmidt, Fellow, Foreign Policy Association
• July 10 - "World Affairs Roundup"
  • David Kelling, Central Intelligence Agency (Ret.)
  • Carla Freeman, Research Scholar, UW-Parkside
  • David Garnham, Political Scientist, UWM (Emeritus)

• July 14th: 4-K-Torce (Dominican merengue & bachata)
• July 28th: Pangaea (Caribbean steel pan)
• August 11th: Luís Díaz Quintet (Afro-Caribbean jazz)
• August 25th: Punto De Vista (salsa)

All performances will be held at Alterra at the Lake, 1701 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive.  Limited parking is available in the lot behind the café, though attendees are strongly encouraged to park in the free, public marina parking lot across the street.  In the event of inclement weather, the event will be held indoors.

Guests are welcome to enjoy their food and drinks outside, either on the patio or on the adjacent grassy area.  In addition to coffee, espresso-based beverages, and baked goods, the lakefront café serves a variety of sandwiches, soups, and salads.  This summer Alterra will operate an outdoor concession tent so that attendees of both Música del Lago and Florentine at the Lake do not have to go into the café to purchase refreshments.

Música del Lago is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with additional support from Latino Arts, Inc.
of the United Community Center.

Headquartered on the East Side, Alterra Coffee Roasters has supplied Milwaukee with fresh-roasted specialty coffees since 1993.  The company operates five retail locations in the metropolitan area and supplies more than 400 wholesale accounts in Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest.  Alterra is committed to developing open, respectful relationships with partners in both the local and global communities.

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 collection will pay careful attention to the diversity of this expression by incorporating discussions of the full range of production: feature film, documentary, video art, multimedia works, television programs, radio broadcasts, internet activism, and journalism. Clearly, growing international and national support has multiplied the outlets for cultural expression: combating discrimination, preserving indigenous cultures and environments, and advocating for cultural rights, such as the right to one's own language, protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and sufficient provision of resources to indigenous peoples and their media to promote indigenous language use.

Given the expansiveness of the category of indigenous media, Drs. Stewart and Wilson would like to encourage contributions that think across the divides of geographies, technologies (film, television, radio, internet), cultures, and politics.  Moreover, they would like this collection to reflect the interdisciplinarity of indigenous media studies.  They thus welcome contributions from Native American studies, cinema and television studies, visual anthropology, cultural studies, art history, journalism, and communication.  Stewart and Wilson will include historical research, local case studies, interviews with producers, cross-cultural analyses,international perspectives, as well as metacritical work.

Submitted essays will be grouped in the following sections:

• Histories
• Contemporary Practices, Technologies, Industries, & Politics
• Producers-Interviews, Manifestos, Portraits and Monographs
• Local Case Studies
• Connections: Indigenous Media in a Global Perspective
• Indigenous Media Practices and Political Activism-Supranationalism, Group Rights, Sovereignty
• Festival Networks
• Activist and Artist Networks
• The State of the Field

• Dr. Michelle Stewart, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Literature, SUNY-Purchase College:  Michelle.stewart@purchase.edu
• Dr. Pamela Wilson, Associate Professor of Communication, Director of International Studies, Reinhardt College: Psw@reinhardt.edu

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.

If you have any ideas for papers, panels, or anything else, please please contact Dr. Russell Brooker, Social Science Department, Alverno College, at Russell.Brooker@alverno.edu. Any field of political science is welcome.  Some interesting papers and presentations have already been proposed on Plato, Russian politics, American public opinion, and the politics behind public memorials (with particular emphasis on the World Trade Center site).

To submit your ideas or for more information, please e-mail Russell.Brooker@alverno.edu.

Alverno is only about 20 minutes from UWM and has "massive amounts of free parking."

The Abe Fellowship supports professional research in the social sciences or humanities on contemporary policy-relevant issues, especially those which promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between Japan and America. Applicants must be citizens of the U.S. or Japan (or be able to demonstrate serious affiliations with research communities in the U.S. or Japan) and hold the terminal degree in their field by the start of their fellowship term.

The Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center
    http://famine.tufts.edu/
Around the world, various individuals and organizations continue to tackle the complex issue of famine from an increasingly holistic approach. The Alan Shawn Feinstein International Famine Center is one such organization, and it continues to work "to improve humanitarian, relief and refugee efforts in times of famine, war and complex emergencies." Through its work during the past nine years, the Center continues to build a number of partnerships with international, national and indigenous private, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. Visitors to the site can learn about the organization's latest work by looking through the "New Developments" listed on the left-hand side of the homepage, or by browsing the "Featured Updates" on the other side of the homepage. Here they will find a number of recent publications, such as "Coping with War, Coping with Peace: Livelihood Adaptation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1989-2004". Overall, the site will be of great interest to those working in the fields of public health and a number of allied fields.

The Power of Culture
    http://www.powerofculture.nl/uk/index.html
The link between culture and various forms of development remains a somewhat mysterious one, but this website provided by the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs begins to explore this rather compelling connection. The website states that "Culture is not a peripheral matter", then proceeds to offer a number of themes that visitors will want to take a closer look at. The themes that are covered on the site include policy, cultural diversity, cultural heritage, and global ethics, along with several others. Within each theme, visitors can view latest news releases on each topic, along with a selection of links to related sites, such as those provided by UNESCO. The "Specials" section is well-developed, and features in-depth discussion of such emergent cultural trends as the relatively undiscovered worlds of African cinema and Chinese media art. Finally, visitors can also choose to enter their own comments in the online visitor's book.

CIA: The World Factbook 2005
    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Known to several generations of students as a potentially valuable source of basic information about the various nations of the world, the CIA's World Factbook has been published every year since 1962. Since 1971, the Factbook has been available to the general public, and in recent years, the CIA has made new editions of the work accessible via the Internet. From the homepage, visitors can select various countries of the world and learn some basic facts about each country's history, their geography, their demographics, and their government. As might be expected, the site also contains a gallery of the flags of the world's nations, a number of helpful reference maps, and a history of the World Factbook itself. Finally, visitors can also elect to download the entire World Factbook, if they so desire.

International Freedom Center
    http://www.ifcwtc.org/index.html
Originating from Daniel Libeskind's master plan for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, the International Freedom Center will serve as a multi-dimensional cultural institution that combines education, history and civic engagement. This particular site provides ample information about the plans for the Center, along with material about the people responsible for the direction of this impressive and laudable structure. A number of partners have been signed on to this project, including IBM, the Tribeca Film Festival, and a host of universities, including the University of Capetown and the City University of New York. At the "Words of Freedom" section of the site, where visitors can read inspirational documents, such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Sister Cities International
    http://www.sister-cities.org/
People from around the world have sought to establish links with other individuals from different nations, and since 1956, cities have sought to also establish meaningful relationships with other urban areas through the Sister Cities International organization. Currently, the organization represents more than 2,500 communities in 126 countries. Visitors to the site can learn which cities are currently seeking partnerships with other cities, read about the organization's annual conference, and also read about the programs they administer. Also, its calendar of events is quite full with programs designed for the general public, such as those dealing with relationships with countries in the Middle East and the question of local government. Finally, the material on the site is available in a number of different languages, including French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

Global Museum
    http://www.globalmuseum.org/
While there are numerous sites about different museums of all sizes around the world, there are also numerous sites about the wide world of museology and exhibition techniques. One such site is the Global Museum, which provides information about important and new exhibits around the globe, along with job postings from a wide range of museums. Persons interested in a course of study on museums would do well to look at the site's listings of internationally accredited museum studies courses, which is offered in the Study area of the website. Visitors can also look through the online bookstore, which contains a wide array of titles that are of great relevance. Finally, the site is rounded out by an Ideas area that focuses on providing external links to sites that deal with marketing, conservation, and World Heritage sites.

World Myths & Legends in Art
    http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/
Primarily for teachers and students (but fun for anyone), this website from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts uses 26 works of art selected from its collections to explore mythology from around the world. Each work of art has a corresponding essay that includes key points; the story that inspired the work of art; background, such as history, cultural context and style; and suggested discussion questions. For example, the entry for a Navajo ketoh includes a Navajo creation myth describing the adventures of the earliest beings as they moved through the first four worlds; explains that while this particular piece is decorative jewelry, the ketoh form is based on wrist guards worn by archers to protect their forearms from the snap of their bowstrings; and also provides background information on the Navajo, and their arts and crafts.