TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Institute of World Affairs:  Fall Programs
  • September 6:  Brazilian Independence Day
  • September 17:  The Haitian Revolution and Human Rights
  • September 17 – October 15:  Reconstructing the Pre-Columbian World
  • October 1:  Paper proposals due for Third International Conference on New Directions In The Humanities
  • October 21-31:  Milwaukee International Film Festival
  • Apply now for Winterim Study Abroad Programs
  • Register now for October 24-26 IGS Best Practices Conference
  • Call for Papers:  The 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium
• GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Apply now for Fulbright Scholar Program
  • September 1:  Applications due for UWM Faculty Travel Grants
  • September 15:  Proposals due for Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
  • September 15:  Applications due for Helen and John S. Best Research Fellowships
• FEATURED WEB SITES
  • XV International Aids Conference
  • Modern Language Association Language Map
  • Cuba After Castro
  • UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  • The Kimberley Process

IWA :  Fall Program Schedule
All Institute of World Affairs programs will be convened in the evening, with venues and program times to be announced.

• American Power and Global Security, September 28
  Wisconsin Room of the UWM Union -- 6:30 p.m. registration; 7:00 p.m. program

  Keynote speaker: Senator Gary Hart served as co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century. The Commission performed the most comprehensive review of national security since 1947, predicted the terrorist attacks on America, and proposed a sweeping overhaul of U.S. national security structures and policies for the post-Cold War new century and the age of terrorism.  Moderated by: John Berman, National Correspondent, ABC News.   Launched in 2003 by the UN Foundation, The People Speak was established to make international affairs understandable and accessible to all Americans and help them form opinions on issues critical to the future of the U.S.
   

• Iraq and Afghanistan: A View from the Field, October 12 or 19
  The Institute of World Affairs is cooperating with Mercy Corps for this rare look at the current situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Mercy Corps is an international relief organization which has been working in Afghanistan since 1986 and began working in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 conflict.
   
• Election 2004: Critical Foreign Policy Choices, October 26
  This critical debate will focus on the Presidential Candidates’ foreign policy platforms.  Thomas Donnelly, Resident Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, and Lawrence Korb with the Secure America Project will debate which foreign policy approaches make America more or less secure.  This program is sponsored by the “Secure America Project” of the Fourth Freedom Forum.
   
• Town Hall Meeting: Finding the Foreign Policy Center, November 9
  This town hall meeting focuses on whether there is some common ground on foreign policy between liberals and conservatives.
   
• Special Program:  France and the U.S., December 14
  Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, Embassy of France will address the Milwaukee community.  Details on time and program format will be confirmed in September.

Starts at 1 p.m. and will feature dance, music, capoeira, and Brazilian food and coffee.

Cosponsored with Alterra by the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program.  Please call 229-5986 for more information.

Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Africology, and the Department of History.  Please call 229-5986 for more information.

The archeological reconstruction drawings of Christiane Clados, Ph.D. (Post-Doctoral Fellow, UW-Madison and Research Associate, Free University of Berlin) will be on display.  Dr. Clados' work illustrates archaeological finds in Mesoamerica and the former Inca lands of South America.

Sponsored by Latino Arts, Inc, the UW-Madison Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, and the UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, with additional support from the Wisconsin Humanities Council.

See http://www.latinoartsinc.org for more information.

The conference will continue in its endeavours over recent years to develop agenda for the humanities in an era otherwise dominated by scientific, technical and economic rationalisms. What is the role of the humanities in thinking the shape of the future and the human? Anthropology, Archaeology, Classics, Communication, English, Fine Arts, Geography, Government, History, Journalism, Languages, Linguistics, Literature, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology or Religion - these are just some of the many disciplines represented at the Humanities Conference. The focus of papers ranges from the finely grained and empirical to the expansive and theoretical.

Included as part of the conference program will be major keynote presentations by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Participants are also welcome to submit presentation proposals, either as 30 minute papers, 60 minute workshops or jointly presented 90 minute colloquium sessions. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the fully refereed International Journal of the Humanities, published in print and electronic formats. 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 October 1, 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.

This conference will be held in Homerton College, University of Cambridge. The historic city of Cambridge is the home of one of the oldest Universities in the world. Its first college was officially founded in 1284.

Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found on the conference website: http://www.HumanitiesConference.com

Additional information is available on the Internet at http://www.milwaukeefilmfest.org or by phone at (414) 736-4324.

Co-sponsored by the Center for International Education.

Destinations include:  Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany, Ghana, Ireland, the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Taiwan.  For more information, please see:

• Program List
  • http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/programs.html
     
• Program Flier (in Adobe Acrobat format)
  • http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OPP/Winterim%20general%20flyer.pdf

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

Call for Papers
Since 2000, ISTC has been working to establish an annual space for open conversations between anyone (scholars, young and old, graduates, public intellectuals and professionals) wanting to explore ideas, old and new, introduce new projects and research ideas, and report on completed projects. The Centres of the Consortium cover social and political theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, inter-civilizational studies and the Consortium exists only to promote debate and critical reflection. We invite prospective participants to send in paper ideas and proposals for panels. As this is the first ISTC conference to take place outside the Trans-Atlantic axis, we are keen to receive proposals on Asian perspectives and Asian concerns from people working in Asian contexts.

We have already received expressions of interest in panels on:

1. Pathways to and through Modernity: alternative or multiple modernities? 2. Transnational diseases, transborder transactions 3. China and India in 21st century 4. Insiders and Outsiders: Ethnos and demos in Asia and beyond 5. Cultures of consumption 6. Religious revitalization and Inter-civilizational Dialogues 7. War, Terror, Territoriality 8. Urban sexualities, media, and social movements

For submission of abstracts for papers (in 150 words) and proposals for panels, please e-mail sochakh@nus.edu.sg or write to:

6th ISTC Conference
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Fax: 65 – 6777 9579

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 deadline for 2005-2006 grants for which applications are still being sought:

• 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

Awards will be given partially to defray University-approved travel expenses (transportation, room, board, and conference fees).

Awards will be limited to support for:

• research leading to results expected to be disseminated in scholarly papers, books, or other means
• formal participation, performance, or exhibition outside the U.S.  Participation is defined as presenting the results of research at an international professional meeting, not merely attending a conference. Appropriate documentation must be submitted.
• curriculum development
• travel to plan, develop, or strengthen exchange programs for students to earn degree credits through overseas study or internships, and for faculty to participate in research and scholarship at foreign institutions.

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

XV International Aids Conference
    http://www.aids2004.org/
While this year's International Aids Conference is now finished, the website created to disseminate the discussions, keynote addresses, and reports remains a valuable online resource for those persons interested in this ever-important public health issue. Perhaps one of the most important areas of the site is the webcast area, which contains archived broadcasts of a number of the sessions held at the conference, provided courtesy of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Here visitors can view videos and transcripts from each of the six days of the conference, including a daily conference update and official conference press briefings. As might be expected, the site contains a number of relevant publications for consideration, such as Children on the Brink 2004, which presents the latest statistics on children under 18 who have been orphaned by AIDS and other causes. The site also contains authoritative information on the various research presented at the conference, along with a complete conference program and abstract database.

Modern Language Association Language Map
    http://www.mla.org/resources/census_main
Drawing on information from the United States Census 2000 long form, the Modern Language Association has created this important interactive map that allows users to see where the speakers of thirty-seven languages reside throughout the country. The map allows visitors the option to toggle certain themes (such as rivers, lakes, and highways) and to look through the numbers of speakers by zip code, town, city, or county. Visitors can also look at data at the state level, and they can also print out their own customized maps as well. Users of the site can also generate interactive maps for two languages in the same state, or compare the concentration of the same language in two states. If all of this seems a bit overwhelming, visitors can also take an online tour of the site's features. This site will be of great interest both to linguists and to those interested in learning about the spatial distribution of the languages spoken across the United States.

Cuba After Castro: Legacies, Challenges, and Impediments
    http://www.rand.org/publications/MG/MG111/MG111.pdf
Many people continue to speculate what will happen in Cuba after the presidency of Fidel Castro ends, and this rather interesting report from the RAND Corporation offers some insight into a number of potential scenarios. Authored by researchers Edward Gonzalez and Kevin McCarthy, the 154-page study identified five potential problem areas in particular, including an aging population, a growing racial divide, a stunted economy, and an alienated younger generation. The report contains some potentially controversial contentions, including the observation that the military may be the institution to take control of the country after Castro leaves the presidency. The report includes eight chapters in total, including one that deals with the pressing need for industrial restructuring in Cuba, one on the changing demographics of the country, and an executive summary for those looking for a general overview of the author's findings.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
    http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev_en.php?ID=2867_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC
Established in 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) was designed to meet both the needs of UNESCO Member States and to provide the international community with a wide range of statistical information in order to "analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of their programmes and to inform their policy decisions." The UIC is hosted by the University of Montreal, and performs work around four primary themes, including education, literacy, culture & communication, and science & technology. Overall, the site is a remarkable source of information, including databases, working papers, country profiles, statistical tables, and methodological material about the conduct of their research. Several of these works are featured prominently on their homepage including a working paper on financing the expansion of educational opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean and an electronic questionnaire on science and technology.

The Kimberley Process
    http://www.kimberleyprocess.com
The past several decades have seen a growing interest among various social justice organizations into investigating the various origins or manufacturing processes used to create various products and their effects on the people who make these products. One such luxury item that has come under close scrutiny is the diamond. In May 2000, Southern African diamond producing states met in Kimberly, South Africa to come up with a way to stop the trade in conflict diamonds and "to ensure consumers that the diamonds that they purchase have not contributed to violent conflict and human rights abuses in their countries of origin." Some two years later, a number of participants (including national governments and the international diamond industry) developed the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme to assure that these conflict diamonds would not enter legitimate trade. On this compelling site, visitors can learn about the process, read news updates about the process, and read documents related to the process from the World Trade Organization and examine a list of participants in the process.