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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
Accommodation
of Persons with Special Needs Support the
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Workshop on Research in
Information and Communication Technologies and African
Development
This
workshop is designed for UWM individuals seeking to identify grant and research
opportunities. Because space is limited (60 attendees), priority will be
given to Faculty and Academic Staff Researchers.
Date: Tuesday, October 11,
2005
Venue:
Union Room
191
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00
PM
Sponsored by: UWM School of Information
Studies, UWM Graduate School, and School of Information Technology/University of
Pretoria, South Africa
Supported by: UWM Center for International Education
You are invited to register for and to
participate in an interdisciplinary workshop on the role that Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) play in the development of Africa. The workshop
is organized and initiated by the School of Information Studies and the School
of Information Technology (University of Pretoria, South Africa) in close
collaboration with Dr. Abbas Ourmazd, UWM’s Vice Chancellor for Research and
Dean of the Graduate School. Dr. Ourmazd will officially open the
workshop and faculty members from the University of Pretoria’s School of
Information Technology will participate.
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Space is limited, please register early! If you plan to participate, please register before October 8 by clicking on the following link: http://www.sois.uwm.edu/cgi-bin/ict4.pl. The registration is free and we can accommodate up to 60 people. If you have problems with the online registration please email Evelyn at evy@uwm.edu. Lunch will be provided. Funding
Information:
Featured Participant:
The "ICT and development in Africa" research field includes, among other areas:
The aim of the day is to promote interdisciplinary and international research on campus with a particular focus on Africa and can be summarized as follows:
The workshop will be structured as follows:
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General Admission: $9
*Student/Seniors: $7
5 movie
pass : $40 General Admission *$30 Student/Senior
Tickets can be purchased only through the JCC or at
the door one hour before movie, space permitting. Space is Limited. Buy Tickets
Early.
To purchase tickets, call Esther Kahn at
414-967-8227. For information about the festival, contact Cindy Benjamin,
Jewish Arts and Culture Coordinator, 414-967-8233 or cbenjamin@jccmilwaukee.org or Micki
Seinfeld, Director Special Events, 414-967-8235 or mseinfeld@jccmilwaukee.org
For more detailed information about the Winterim programs and other study abroad opportunities, interested students should visit the Overseas Programs and Partnerships office in Pearse Hall 166.
See also: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OP/programs.shtml
and http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/OP/winterim.shtml.
The program will feature best practices in a wide variety of curricular and program areas, including:
The registration form may be downloaded here: http://www.uw-igs.org/userimages/registration_form6.pdf.
Further conference information is available
at http://www.uw-igs.org.
The Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and Marian College invite you to Fond du Lac, WI, this November 3-5 for an interdisciplinary conference.
Human rights is a perennial focus for peace and conflict studies, and such key concepts benefit from continual reexamination in, through, and across different professions, fields of service, and academic disciplines. This conference invites participation from interested parties of any background to join in our planned critical reflection on how human rights can and ought to be pursued in the foreseeable future.
The conference will offer panels and round tables on themes including:
Registration Information
Admission Fees for the 2005 Fall
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Register online at http://www.iwa.uwm.edu or by phone at 414-229-3220. Pre-registration required for Luncheon Discussion Groups. On-site registration is available at all evening programs.
The Global Issues Fall Series is made possible by partnerships with:
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."
Tomorrow: September 27, 2005 - 7:00-8:30 pm in the UWM Union, Union Ballroom, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Speakers:
$8 General Public; $4 IWA Basic and UWM
Community Members; complimentary admission for IWA Premium Members and students
with a valid student ID.
Conference Overview
ISSE 05 provides a virtual forum for
presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers,
information and systems sciences and engineering. The virtual conference will be
conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by
the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or
video presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel.
Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where
session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation and
(or) during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation.
This international conference will be held entirely on-line. The accepted and presented papers will be made available after the conference both on a CD and as a book publication.
Conference participants - authors, presenters and attendees - only need an internet connection and sound available on their computers in order to be able to contribute and participate in this international ground-breaking conference.
The on-line structure of this high-quality event will allow academic professionals and industry participants to contribute work and attend world-class technical presentations based on rigorously refereed submissions, live, without the need for investing significant travel funds or time out of the office.
Potential non-author conference attendees who cannot make the on-line conference dates are encouraged to register, as the entire joint conferences will be archived for future viewing.
CISSE 05 is composed of the following four conferences:
(1) International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology & Automation (IETA 05)Paper Submission
http://www.cisse2005.org/ieta.aspx
Topics: Advanced and Distributed Control Systems, Intelligent Control Systems (NN, FL, GA, .etc), Expert Systems, Man Machine Interaction, Data Fusion, Factory Automation, Robotics, Motion Control, Machine Vision, MEMS Sensors and Actuators, Sensors Fusion, Power Electronics, High Frequency Converters, Motors and Drives, Power Converters, Power Devices and Components, Electric Vehicles and Intelligent Transportation, Process Automation, Factory Communication, Manufacturing Information System Advances in Manufacturing Systems, Industrial Applications of MultiMedia, Intelligent Systems Instrumentation, Industrial Instrumentation, Modeling and Simulation, Signal Processing, Image and Data Processing, VR and Parallel systems.(2) International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe05)
http://www.cisse2005.org/tene.aspx
Topics: Optical Networks and Switching, Computer Networks, Network architectures and Equipment, Access Technologies, Telecommunication Technology, Coding and Modulation technique, Modeling and Simulation, Spread Spectrum and CDMA Systems, OFDM technology, Space-time Coding, Ultra Wideband Communications, Medium Access Control, Spread Spectrum, Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11, HIPERLAN, Bluetooth, Cellular Wireless Networks, Cordless Systems and Wireless Local Loop, Mobile Network Layer, Mobile Transport Layer, Support for Mobility, Conventional Encryption and Message Confidentiality, Block Ciphers Design Principles, Block Ciphers Modes of Operation, Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication, Authentication Application, Stenography, Electronic Mail Security, Web Security, IP Security, Firewalls, Computer Forensics.(3) International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 05)
http://www.cisse2005.org/scss.aspx
Topics: Grid Computing, Internet-based Computing Models, Resource Discovery, Programming Models and tools, e-Science and Virtual Instrumentation, Biometric Authentication, Computers for People of Special Needs, Human Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Engineering, Algorithms, Parallel and Distributed processing, Modeling and Simulation, Services and Applications, Embedded Systems and Applications, Databases, Programming Languages, Signal Processing Theory and Methods, Signal Processing for Communication, Signal Processing Architectures and Implementation, Information Processing, Geographical Information Systems, Object Based Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Real Time Systems Multiprocessing, File Systems and I/O, Kernel and OS Structures.(4) International Conference on Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning (EIAE 05)
http://www.cisse2005.org/eiae.aspx
Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum Design, Educational Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching Design at the Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools, Assessment Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning tools, Economical and Social Impacts of E-learning, Platforms and Systems for K-12 / Industry and Higher Education Cooperation.
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or PDF format through the website of each conference at http://www.cisse2005.org Accepted papers must be presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors.
To submit your paper, visit http://www.cisse2005.org/author/submit.aspx or visit the individual conference pages.
I/S, a new journal published jointly by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies of the Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law and the Institute for the Study of Information Technology and Society (InSITeS) at Carnegie Mellon University's H. John Heinz III School for Public Policy and Management, is planning to devote its Winter 2006 issue to research on cybersecurity and public policy. L. Jean Camp, as guest editor, will be contributing an introductory essay to the issue.
Contributions from all disciplines are welcome, although our goal is to have the maximum effect on regulators, legislators, and other public policy makers in the field of computer security. (We are thus not focusing on "policy" in the sense of "institutional policy," for example, how firms should respond to the economics of cybersecurity and information protection.) It will be important to place your expert insights into a clear enough context to render your ideas accessible to an informed, but non-specialist public policy audience.
Proposals should offer original work that has not and will not be previously published in another venue, although it may be based on previously published research findings. The work should not simply offer the author's opinion, but should shed significant light on the topic presented through the rigorous presentation and analysis of evidence. We envision that completed articles should be roughly 10,000 words each, exclusive of references (but including textual footnotes). (Proposals for shorter, less formal essays, of no more than 5,000 words, that represent advocacy or more preliminary analysis, are also welcome.)
Please forward proposals as soon as possible to Sol Bermann, Managing Editor of I/S, at bermann.1@osu.edu. The proposal need not be longer than 1-3 pages, but should indicate whether a completed manuscript could be ready by October 1.
For more information about I/S, see
http://www.is-journal.org.
The MPSA is a national organization with a membership of over three thousand political science professors, students, and public administrators. Founded in 1939, the MPSA is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science.
In 2006, the MPSA Annual National Conference will be held from Thursday, April 10th to Sunday, April 23rd. The MPSA Conference is held in Chicago, in the historic Palmer House Hotel, and should have more than 3,000 presenters from across the United States and around the world as well as over 700 sessions.
The deadline to submit proposals for the 2006 conference is October 10, 2005. The presentations are organized by topic in about four dozen sections; each is managed by a section head that makes the decision about which papers are accepted and in what capacity. Decisions about acceptance are made by November 7th. If you do not hear from the section head by that date, you are encouraged to contact them.
The MPSA also publishes the American
Journal of Political Science, a premier journal for research in all major
areas of political science.
Please send essays on this theme by October 15, 2005. Essays should run between 2500 and 3500 words, and should be jargon- and footnote-free. See Submission Guidelines at http://www.usfca.edu/peacereview/PRHome.html.
Send essays to:
Robert Elias (Editor) or Kerry Donoghue (Managing
Editor) Peace Review University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street San
Francisco, CA 94117-1080 USa
Following the success of the inaugural International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of California Berkeley, USA, we are pleased to announce the second conference, to be held in one of the emerging IT centres of the world, Hyderabad.
The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital information and communications technologies, the conference will address: human usability, technologies for citizenship and community participation, and learning technologies. Participants will include researchers, teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied technological and social sciences.
The conference features an impressive line up of international main speakers, including Mr. S. Gopalakrishnan, COO, Co-founder and Member of Board, Infosys Technologies Ltd, and Genevieve Bell, Senior Researcher, Intel Research. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations.
We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. The conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations. Papers submitted by participants will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. 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. Proposals are reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an
online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website: http://www.Technology-Conference.com.
Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking
University
University of
Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org
The 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from May 31 (Wednesday) to June 3 (Saturday), 2006 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social science related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Social Sciences are Invited):
For detailed information about
submissions see:
http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm
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/fellowships.html
“No job for a woman”: The effects of war on women’s
lives during the 20th and 21st century
http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/30/women/index.htm
Throughout the 20th and 21st century, women
have played a variety of roles during various military conflicts, both on the
homefront and on the front lines of battle. This online exhibit from the
Imperial War Museum in Britain explores some of the complexities faced by women
during these conflicts. The site is divided into four primary sections,
including those that deal with both World Wars. Within each section, visitors
can look at some of the activities that draw on the extensive visual
documentation offered within. Some of the more fascinating activities here
include “War babes: Stereotypes, Pin-ups and Prejudice” and “A woman’s place is
in the home”. Even the most casual visitors will enjoy the wide range of
digitized photographs offered here, such as shots of female air mechanics
working on the fuselage of an Avro Biplane and an anti-nuclear demonstration in
front of the Imperial War Museum from the 1980s.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos: City in the
Clouds
http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/sagalassos/index.html
At the beginning of the 18th century,
Sagalassos, City in the Clouds, was discovered in Turkey. Upon first seeing the
ruined city, Paul Lucas, on a mission for Louis XIV, described the ruined city
as someplace once inhabited by fairies. Over a century later, the preserved
ruins of Sagalassos were considered indispensable by students of antiquity, and
in modern times, the site has been excavated extensively by a team of scholars
from the Catholic University of Leuven. This site is designed by the good people
at Archaeology Magazine for people interested in the site who cannot make it to
Turkey themselves. On the site, visitors can read field reports from the
different areas of the site (such as the Roman baths located there), look at the
“Find Of Week” item, and learn about the daily life in and around the camp.
Additionally, visitors would do well to consult the map of the excavation site
in order to accurately gauge their bearings within the ancient city and
Turkey.
World
Malaria Report 2005
http://rbm.who.int/wmr2005/
The persistence of malaria in much of the
developing world remains a public health problem of staggering proportions. Most
people may be familiar with the problem of malaria throughout much of Africa,
but over the past decade, incidences of the disease increased in Southeast Asia
and a number of Central Asian countries. Recently, the World Health Organization
(WHO), with assistance from several other international humanitarian
organizations, released the World Malaria Report 2005. This site provides access
to the complete text of the report, along with a number of other helpful
features. These features include brief executive summaries of the report's
findings (in English, French, and Spanish), profiles of the state of malaria in
each country, and copious amounts of data. Users can access this information by
clicking on an interactive map or by selecting any given country of interest
from a drop-down menu on the homepage. Finally, visitors may also wish to take a
look at the "Users' Guide" area which offers some brief information on the
acronyms used throughout the documents on the site.
United Nations Millennium Development
Goals
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
In the year 2000, all of the world's
countries and all the world's leading development institutions signed on to a
compact sponsored by the United Nations in order to assist the needs of the
world's poorest people. This compact included eight primary development goals
that would be met by 2015. Some of these goals included a significant reduction
of child mortality and the promotion of gender equality. This particular site
offers updates on the progress towards these eight primary goals, along with
links to the annual report on these goals. Visitors can visit the documents area
to read the text of the previous annual reports, along with reading some of the
regional reports filed for Latin American, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The
"Background" area is another good place to look for summary materials, as it
features the text of the millennium declaration and progress reports from 2004
and 2005. The site is rounded out by a selection of links to additional sites
that may be helpful, such as those for the United Nations Population Fund and
the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Realms of
Gold
http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/r/rog.htm
As one of the oldest learned societies in
North America, the American Philosophical Society (APS) is distinguished by its
fine holdings, and as users will find out at this site, also by their fine
collection of antiquarian and tremendously valuable maps. On this site, visitors
will find the digital version of the APS's map holdings, originally created by
Murphy D. Smith in 1991. Cartographers, historians, and geographers will
appreciate the detailed records here, each of which includes information such as
the date of creation, title, size, provenance, coloring, and call number. A
number of the maps themselves have been digitized for this project, and there
are quite a few fine documents here worth perusing. These maps include a plan of
Port au Price from around 1800 and a map of the British and American troop
positions in 1776 as rendered by the noted artist Charles Willson
Peale.
Virtual
Sweden
http://www.virtualsweden.se/
Panoramic photographs that immerse their
audience in a landscape have been in vogue throughout the history of
photographic enterprises. With this in mind, users should not be surprised to
learn of the existence of the Virtual Sweden website. Established by Jonas
Carlson in 2003, the site contains 360 degree panoramic images taken by Carlson
from a wide variety of locales across the globe. Of course, visitors should
start by looking at the panoramic photograph taken from the Gronskar lighthouse
in the Stockholm archipelago, but then they would be remiss not to look at some
of the other available images. Some of the other places Carlson has seen fit to
document are Rome, Thailand, Egypt, and London. Visitors can peruse a thematic
list of these locations, or they may simply go straight to his "Latest
additions" list, which is also on the site's homepage.
Counting Immigrants and Expatriates in OECD
Countries: A New Perspective
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/59/35043046.pdf
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) has long been concerned with the state of immigration,
both across the globe and within its member nations. This latest report from the
OECD's Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers series takes on the
methodology deployed to count immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries.
Authored by Jean-Christopher and George Lemaitre, the report takes data from the
2000 round of censuses and attempts to provide a detailed and comparable
portrait of these various immigrant populations. Some of the initial findings of
the report include the observation that the percentage of the foreign-born in
European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners
and that the largest developing countries may in fact be benefiting from an
increasingly mobile populace.
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