TABLE OF CONTENTS

• PROGRAMS AND SCHOLARSHIP
  • Institute of World Affairs:  Fall Programs
  • International Focus:  September Program Schedule
  • 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 6-8:  20th Annual WIPCS Conference
  • 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
  • UN Cyberschoolbus
  • ECAI Iraq
  • UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
  • Ancient China
  • Canadian Economy Online

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.

• September 5 – The Arab World and the U.S. with UWM Middle East expert Abbas Hamdani and UWM anthropologist Caroline Seymour-Jorn
• September 12 – World Affairs Roundup with a panel of UWM and other local experts
• September 19 – The Darfour Crisis in Sudan with UW-Madison anthropologist Sharon Hutchinson
• September 26 –  Program to be announced

Starts at 1 p.m. and will feature dance, music, capoeira, and Brazilian food and coffee.  Co-sponsored with Alterra by the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the UWM Cultures and Communities Program.  Call 229-5986 for more information.

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

This conference invites participation from scholars, policy makers, and practitioners interested in exchanging ideas and experiences on issues of challenges and paths to justice that extend beyond national borders. The conference will offer panels and round tables on themes including: Paths to Transitional Justice; Promoting Peace and Justice; NGOs, Development, and Justice; Economic Paths to Justice; Migration, Refugees and Justice; Human Rights and Justice; Terrorism and Justice; Wars, Propaganda and Memory; and Power, Justice and Policy.

The conference will begin with a dinner and keynote address on Wednesday evening October 6 featuring Dr. Kevin P. Clements, Professor and Director, The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, and former Secretary General of International Alert. The conference will conclude on Friday, October 8 with a reception honoring the 20th Anniversary of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies.

For additional information contact Dr. H. Richard Friman, by e-mail (h.r.friman@marquette.edu) or at 414-288-5991.  See also http://www.marquette.edu/polisci/ITJWeb/

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

Cyberschoolbus
    http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
Online since the heady boom days of the Internet back in 1996, the United Nations Cyberschoolbus is part of a broader mission to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The overall mission of the project is "to provide exceptional educational resources (both online and in print) to students growing up in a world undergoing increased globalization." The site is quite a success, as students have access to country profiles, a well-written introduction to the history and work of the United Nations, and some fun quizzes (such as the one on national flags) and the Urban Fact Game, which is a creative on-line quiz about cities and their populations. Teachers are well-served by the site as well, as it includes helpful curriculums such as those on racial discrimination and age-appropriate briefing papers. Interested teachers may want to sign up to review content for the site, as they will receive free materials for their own classroom if they do so.

ECAI Iraq
    http://ecai.org/iraq/
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) Iraq website offers users "a temporal-spatial portal into existing digital resources about history, cultural sites, archaeological excavations and heritage preservation initiatives." Utilizing unique interactive and thematic maps, visitors to the site will find an incredible array of information including topics such as the Akkadian Empire, the Hittites, the Roman Empire, and much more. By clicking on one of the topic areas, users are taken to a page with lists related books, artifacts, maps, and timelines pertaining to that area. The maps are especially helpful in picturing how the world was divided between groups in 700 B.C., for instance. This site will definitely be a great resource for the researchers and students who are interested in the historical cultural trends of this area of the world.

UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
    http://www.unep-wcmc.org/
It is widely accepted that global biodiversity is at risk. While humans are often encouraged to think globally yet act locally, who's watching out for the bigger picture. The answer is in the form of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), which is a function of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It is now noted as "the world’s foremost intergovernmental environmental organisation." This site offers up-to-date news and publications about world biodiversity issues as well as providing an incredible array of information on the several projects in which the centre is involved, ranging from habitat to species to protected area issues. The site also offers great Interactive Map Services, which take the visitor through in-depth presentations of topics ranging from Coral Disease to Marine Turtles.

Ancient China
    http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html
This excellent interactive site, produced by the British Museum, contains a wealth of information about ancient China. Explorers can follow any of five links that cover major sections of the website, including Crafts and Artisans, Geography, and Tombs and Ancestors. Each section contains historical information in the topical area and Story, Explore and Challenge links. The Challenge links are especially useful for classroom activities.

Canadian Economy Online
    http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/index.cfm
It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Captain Economy! That's right, at this very comprehensive site devoted to Canada's economy, visitors can ask the little green guy with the cape and dollar sign on his chest for help. In fact, his first feat is to address just what an economy is anyway. The site offers all sorts of statistics about all of the great economic indicators like inflation rate, unemployment rate, exchange rate, etc. Visitors to the site can click on one of the subpages devoted to explaining economic topics such as Key Indicators, Economic Concepts, and Key Economic Events.