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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A publication of UWM's Center for International
Education, Global Passport
provides up-to-date information on
international education programs, opportunities, and resources,
including those offered by
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International Day of Peace: Teach-In/Speak-Out
Videoconference
On this Friday,
September 19, the UWM Center for International Education will recognize
International Day of Peace, with a program entitled, "Building Peace and
Security in the 21st Century: A Teach-In/Speak-Out Videoconference Linking the
United Nations with Universities and Participants from Around the World."
The videoconference will take place from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., in the UWM School of Business
Administration.
The videoconference will include:
At times of crisis, practices of prevention typically get even less media attention than usual. An important way that such ideas and information can be disseminated is through in-depth discussion on media channels with wide audiences. This Student Videoconference offers an appealing and valuable setting for this to take place.
Sponsored by:
Please join us to celebrate two major scholarly achievements at the Center for International Education: Our book series, New Directions in International Studies, published by Rutgers University Press, and the first three titles in the series, and our receipt of the Department of Education's prestigious Title VI grant, designating CIE as a National Resource Center in Global Studies.
RSVP by October 3, 2003 to Patrice Petro at 414-229-3757 or ppetro@uwm.edu.
We look forward to seeing you on October
10th.
Payment by cash or check (payable to UWM) on-site or mail to:
Institute Of World AffairsComplimentary Admission For Students.
Po Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Fees: $8.00 Public / $4.00 IWA Members
The Fall 2003 Culture Café
Schedule:
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For more information, please send an e-mail to excite@uwm.edu or Justine Wenger jwenger@cie.uwm.edu.
On Wednesday, November 19, 10:00-11:00 a.m., in the Union Theater, "The Effects of Globalization on World Cultures" will be presented. This very exciting program will feature Benjamin Barber (author of Jihad vs. McWorld) and Tyler Cowen (author of Creative Deconstruction).
Entire classes need to reserve seats by e-mailing
Julie Kline at jkline@uwm.edu or Julia Kruse
at jkruse@uwm.edu .
Sponsored by the Center for International
Education and the Global Student Alliance. For more information, contact Andrea
Herbert at 414-229-2518.
| Monday,
November 3 - 7 pm War and Peace (Anand Patwardhan, India, 148 min., Hindi/Urdu with English Subtitles, Video, 2002) An epic journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism and war that spans three years in India, Pakistan, Japan and the U.S. - beginning with nuclear tests in India and culminating in the Sept. 11th attacks. Tuesday, November 4 - 7
pm Two States of
Mind Wednesday, November 5 -
7 pm Family Across the
Sea Thursday, November 6 -
8 pm The Sound of the Violin in
My Lai Friday, November 7 - 7
pm Transparency |
U.S. colleges and universities are invited to submit proposals to host a scholar under the Understanding Contemporary Islam program of the American University in Beirut. In making selections, AUB will give priority to institutions that do not have extensive academic programs or courses on Islam or Muslim societies. Undergraduate liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions, community colleges, and other state or private institutions are encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: November 1,
2003 for programs beginning April 1, 2004 or later.
Application materials and further information can
be found at http://www.cies.org/uci or by
e-mailing uci@cies.iie.org.
"There is an alarming gap between the growing importance of other world regions to our nation's economic prosperity and national security, and most young Americans' lack of knowledge of the world outside our borders. In response to the importance of international knowledge and skills to the nation's future, the Goldman Sachs Foundation together with Asia Society are pleased to announce the creation of five new $25,000 prizes to support creative and practical models of international education in action. The prizes will recognize schools, ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, and SECONDARY, that engage students in learning about other world regions; states that are actively promoting teaching and learning about other world regions, cultures and languages in their education system; colleges and universities that have strong international content in their teacher preparation or K-12 outreach programs; and media or technology companies and organizations that are making international content and information available to students and teachers in stimulating new ways."
Applications are due: September 30,
2003. To find out more about the awards program and for application
materials, visit http://www.InternationalEd.org/prizes.htm.
The Council of Independent Colleges and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, with support from the US Department of State, are pleased to announce a three-week long seminar for faculty on Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture.
This is an excellent opportunity for full-time faculty members in all fields at CIC member institutions to learn more about the Middle East at a time when knowledge and teaching about the region are more important than ever. Intended for faculty members who are not already experts on this subject, the seminar will allow participants to learn about the Middle East and to understand better the region, Islam, and Middle Eastern history as it informs current times. As many colleges do not have experts in this field, the seminar is designed for non-experts with the expectation that they will be able to share new insights and knowledge gained at the seminar when they return to their home institutions. The seminar will take place at the American Center for Orientation Research (ACOR), in Amman, Jordan, and will include visits to archaeological sites such as Petra and Jerash. Seminar participations will also reside in ACOR.
The American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan is a private, non-profit academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the fields of archaeology, anthropology, history, languages, biblical studies, Arabic, Islamic studies, and other aspects of Middle Eastern studies both historical and contemporary. Since it was founded in 1968, ACOR has served as a liason between Jordanian institutions, both academic and governmental, and international schools interested in working in the Arab world. American archaeologists often use it as their base of operations. ACOR provides advice, coordination, research facilities, and living and meeting space for scholars in an environment that is both academically exciting and socially congenial.
The seminar will be directed by Dr. Pierre Bikai, who is ACOR's director. He has also directed the Petra II Project and the St. George Church Excavation in Amman, and has also been deputy director oft he University of California excavation at Ninevah, Iraq, architect and archaeologist for the Brigham Young University expedition to the Pyramid of Seila, Egypt, and has participated in the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology excavation of a Roman ship at Yassi Ada, Turkey among other projects. Seminar leaders cooperation with Dr. Bikai will include specialists of the Middle East, Jordan, Islam, and other relevant topics. Travel expenses between the US and Jordan, visa fees, room, board, food, and excursion within Jordan will be covered. There will be no expense to participating faculty members or their institutions.
For more information: Stephen Gibson, Projects
Coordinator, Council of Independent Colleges, One Dupont Circle, Suite 32-
Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-466-7230
sgibson@cic.nche.edu
Possible themes
include, but are not limited to:
Proposals should be no longer than two typed pages. Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, and sessions will be moderated with respondents. Please send the following materials:
Please send proposals to: Sister Patricia Ann Obremski(NOTE: If your materials are sent by E-mail attachment, please use a reasonably current PC-compatible word processing program.) |
The Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs administers these exchanges under the Fulbright Program, the flagship exchange program of the U.S. government that promotes mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and other countries. Since the establishment of the Fulbright Program in 1946, more than 229,000 Americans and citizens of other countries have participated. The Fulbright Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program features direct one-to-one exchanges and offers reciprocal advantages to participating institutions. Schools and communities gain the expertise and perspective of the visiting exchange teacher and, subsequently, share the experiences of their returning faculty members. Approximately 400 educators take part in the program each year.
U.S. and international teachers continue to be paid by their home institutions while exchanging classrooms, usually for a full academic year. For the individual educator, this is the ultimate professional development opportunity. Administrator exchanges consist of reciprocal three- to six-week visits to each administrator's institution. The U.S. Administrator works with his or her foreign counterpart as a team in shadowing and sharing information on administrative duties. There is an eight-week seminar in Italy and a six-week seminar in Greece for two-year college faculty and teachers (grades 7-12) of Latin, Greek, or the classics. Please note that the 2004 Greece Classics Seminar will not be held due to preparations for the Olympic Games in Athens. The program will resume in summer 2005.
Participating countries for the academic year 2004-2005 include Argentina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Oman, Peru, Poland, Romania, Senegal, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay.
U.S. educators interested in participating must be U.S. citizens, have a full-time teaching or administrative position, be in at least the third year of full-time employment (for teaching and administrative exchanges) or in the second year of full-time teaching (for summer seminar participation), and be fluent in English. In some non-English speaking countries, demonstrated fluency in the appropriate language is required. The Presidentially appointed J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board will select participants.
Applications must be postmarked no later than October 15, 2003. Requests for applications, publicity material, and general information should be directed to:
Ms. Roberta Croll, Outreach Specialist, Fulbright
Teacher and Administrator Exchange Program, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 320,
Washington, DC, 20024; phone 800-726-0479; e-mail: fulbright@grad.usda.gov;
Website: http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org
The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars and professionals from abroad to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities for one semester or one academic year. Fulbright Scholars-in-Residence can have a significant impact on U.S. colleges and universities. In addition to teaching courses, scholars give campus-wide and community lectures, help initiate international programs and contribute to curriculum development. Although preference is given to proposals in the humanities or social sciences, other fields focusing on international issues will be considered. The program is especially appropriate for small liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions, and community colleges, many of which do not often have the opportunity to host visiting scholars.
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 may suggest suitable candidates or have the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) recruit scholars from a particular world area. Proposal guidelines are available for download at http://www.cies.org/sir/sir.htm. The application form is also available for download (in Word format) at http://www.cies.org/sir/sir.htm.
A separate program exists for universities to host experts on the European Union (EU SIR) as resident fellow for one term. All institutions with appropriate programs and activities relating to EU affairs are encouraged to submit proposals under this program.
For more information on the Scholar-in-Residence
Program, please contact: Marshall Ellis at marshall.ellis@fulbright.org.
For fellowship conditions: http://www.aiys.org/conditions.html
An application form is available at: http://www.aiys.org/application.html
For more information:
Dr. Maria deJ. Ellis, Executive Director
American Institute for Yemeni Studies
P.O. Box 311
Ardmore PA 19003-0311
(610) 896-5412, fax (610) 896-9049
E-mail: aiys@aiys.org
Applications are due January 31, 2004 for Fall 2004 study.
For more information visit the website: http://www.aed.org/nsep or contact the
Overseas Programs office at (414) 229-5182.
Colombia
Simulation
http://www.usip.org/class
The U.S. Institute of Peace has assembled a
collection of materials for educators at its web site's "For the Classroom"
section. Among other available resources, simulations are educational
exercises that provide students, mediators, diplomats and others looking to
understand the dynamics of conflict, the opportunity to "role-play" the concerns
of stakeholders interested in a given scenario. In this COLOMBIA simulation,
participants grapple with a scenario of political and economic crisis in
Colombia, and debate the policy decisions to be made in defining an appropriate
American response to that situation. Participants role-play officials from the
U.S. government executive and legislative branches, officials of human
rights organizations, and journalists representing various U.S. media. In the
process, participants will have the opportunity to consider the broader
implications of the scenario on U.S. foreign policy and international conflict
in general.
The Kashmir
Conflict
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/south_asia/03/kashmir_future/html/default.stm
The BBC offer an excellent series of web pages
that examine the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan. The approach is
through maps, and goes a long way toward making sense of a complex and often
hard-to-grasp problem. The map pages are part of a broader and highly
useful site on the conflict.
Global Trees
Campaign
http://www.globaltrees.org/
Along with increasing concerns about the
extinction of different animal species, there has been increased interest in
monitoring the fate of plant species, particularly those of various trees.
Drawing on a partnership between Flora & Fauna International and the UNEP
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the Global Trees Campaign Web site serves
as an online conduit for information about endangered tree species. First-time
visitors will want to read the various tree profiles along the right-hand side
of the homepage. Some of the species covered here include the African blackwood,
Honduras rosewood, and the monkey puzzle tree, which grows naturally in Chile
and Argentina. The resources section of the site is also worth a look, as it
contains a database with information on close to 7,300 tree species, and list of
suggested readings -- including several that are available as PDF files. For
those interested in the projects initiated by the Global Trees Campaign, a
section detailing their various initiatives around the globe is also available
for consultation.
World
Heritage Tour
http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/
The purpose of the World Heritage Tour site is to
offer greater exposure to the truly diverse set of cultural heritage sites
designated by UNESCO around the world. While there are over 750 cultural and
natural sites on the World Heritage List, only 52 sites are currently covered on
the site. The site itself features over 250 virtual reality movies from 52
sites, ranging from the Philippines to Egypt. Visitors can browse a list of
sites currently covered, with each list noting how many virtual reality movies
are available, along with providing the UNESCO identification number assigned to
each site. From the site's homepage visitors can sign up to be notified when new
movies become available, contact staff members, and read a paper about the World
Heritage Tour.
St. Thomas University School of Law: Diplomacy
Monitor
http://www.diplomacymonitor.com
More and more countries around the world are
releasing official policy documents, communiques, and other crucial
communications via the Web, along with more traditional means. The Diplomacy
Monitor at the St. Thomas University School of Law is a fine way to keep track
of various communications, as it allows users to globally track diplomatic and
international official statements, press briefings through their readily
accessible monitoring system located at their site. Utilizing their own
proprietary technology, the staff at the Diplomacy Monitor review annotate and
categorize these documents several times throughout the United Nations business
day. The site includes a brief introduction to using the Monitor, along with the
option of full-text searching of every document archived within the database.
For additional discussion of how the Internet affects global diplomacy, the site
also contains some interesting working papers and reports, such as The Rise of
Netpolitik-How the Internet is Changing International Politics and
Diplomacy..
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