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Global Currents Fall 2008 GLOBAL CURRENTS A Biannual Bulletin by the Center for International Education
IN THIS ISSUE: — CIE Welcomes New Visiting Professor of Global Studies Ghada Masri — Professor of English Gregory Jay Reports from Indonesia — Embedded Networks in East Asian Manufacturing — New UW–Milwaukee/Madison Joint Program in Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures
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elcome back to campus for the 2008-2009 academic year! The Center for International Education has been active throughout the spring and summer months and we are pleased to present many of our achievements in this issue of Global Currents. We are also honored to showcase some of the other exemplary international activities that are taking place on campus.
First, it gives me great pleasure to welcome our new Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Ghada Masri, to UWM. Ghada received her Ph.D. in geography from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on feminism and the cultural geography of the Middle East. It is wonderful for CIE to have Ghada as a resource for our research and teaching activities. Global Studies students have a lot to look forward to! The Research section of this issue includes an article by Professor Masri entitled “Sectarian Narratives and Lebanon’s National Museum.” We invite readers to acquaint themselves with her compelling research agenda. We are also happy to include contributions by Assistant Professor of Architecture Arijit Sen and Assistant Professor of Sociology Kuangchi Chang. Their articles serve to underline the impressive international expertise present on our campus. In this issue’s Profiles section, we focus attention on two individuals who are improving language instruction at UWM. First, Abdelaadim Bidaoui arrived on campus in fall 2007 as an Arabic teaching assistant and graduate student in the MAFLL program. In summer 2008, CIE was fortunate to have Abdelaadim as one of our student workers. Also, we are pleased to welcome Janet Wilgus, the new Director of English and Second Language Programs, to UWM. She is a US Foreign Service veteran whose expertise is a great asset for our intellectual community. We look forward to working with her in the years to come. CIE is also pleased to showcase the many activities across campus that are helping to build a more international university. This issue of Global Currents highlights the important work of the School of Information Studies, the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Their commitment to international teaching and research are a credit to our university. And as always, Global Currents features student achievements. In this issue, we welcome a contribution by Christine Brownfield, a Global Studies student who spent time in Milan working in the fashion industry. Closer to home, in August 2008, CIE hosted a group of college students from the Middle East who came to Milwaukee through the US State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative Program. For ten days, they made Milwaukee their home, visiting all corners of the city, and even attending a Brewers game. This type of exchange is vital to promoting cross-cultural education and understanding. CIE is pleased to support such an important venture. We look forward to another exciting and productive academic year. Our doors are always open for anyone interested in internationally focused teaching, research, or public programs. Feel free to stop in at CIE!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Research Sectarian Narratives and Lebanon’s National Museum . .............................................2 Changing Vantage Point: The Study of the Everyday Cultural Landscape ....................5 Embedded Networks in East Asian Manufacturing .....................................................7
Profiles Abdelaadim Bidaoui: Making my New Home in Milwaukee......................................10 Janet Wilgus: State Department Veteran Heads up ESL Programs at UWM.................11
CIE World Multiculturalism and Globalization: A Report from Indonesia.....................................12 Global Studies in Style............................................................................................15 School of Information Studies Teaches Worldwide.....................................................16 CIE Hosts College Students from Middle East............................................................17 Helen Bader School of Social Welfare Welcomes International Students......................17 Study Abroad in Winter 2009................................................................................18 CIE Supports Undergraduate Research.....................................................................20 CIE Honors Klotsche Scholarship Recipients..............................................................21 New UW–Milwaukee/UW–Madison Joint Program in Architecture............................21 CIE Spring 2008 Conference A Great Success..........................................................22 Think Tank Courses Add Learning Options for Global Studies Students.......................23 Institute of World Affairs Creating Role-Playing Simulations for Global Education .............................................................................................24 Global Commons...................................................................................................24 Global Studies Summer Institute...............................................................................25
Notes CIE Welcomes New Staff........................................................................................26 Study Abroad Scholarships.....................................................................................26 New International Scholars at UWM........................................................................27 Research Notes......................................................................................................28
Events ..............................................................................................................32 Published by: Center for International Education University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Garland Hall 138 P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 www.international.uwm.edu CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
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By Ghada A. Masri GHADA A. MASRI is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UWM. She specializes in Urban Geography of Southwest Asia and Feminist Geography. Her dissertation research at the University of California, Davis focused on urban public space, gender, and identity formation under conditions of globalization in Beirut. Ghada approaches city urban planning as a means of conflict management and postwar reconciliation, with special attention to global trends in urban and national policy. Her current research examines gendered effects of sectarianism and the remaking of local and national identities in the Middle East.
through these sites and the spatial texts created through the state-sanctioned narrative at the Lebanese National Museum. The museum, archeological sites, and the city itself are important sites of cultural production where identities are constructed, naturalized, and museumized. This is evident in the historical order created through the archeological displays at the Beirut National Museum. Before delving into the museum displays, it is important to understand the history of the National Museum as it relates to the nation’s legitimacy, and as a strategic site for the production of national meaning. The National Museum, built in 1937, opened in May 1942 just before the country’s 1943 independence from French colonial rule. The idea for the museum began in 1919 by a French administrative officer stationed in Beirut who had collected a few artifacts and placed them on display in one of the rooms of an administration building.
Yet today, this potentially unifying space remains fractured as each group draws upon parochial beliefs to re-inscribe their histories and identities in Beirut’s new urban landscape. Among the new promenades, public gardens, museums, and archeological sites, public space is inflected with new meanings of national belonging. Lebanese nationalism is made visually more evident, not simply through the spatial segregation of ethno-confessional communities, but additionally through the marking of specific sites (archeological) as essential to the nation’s history.
The post-war rebuilding of the museum began in 1995 under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, the Directorate General of Antiquities, and the National Heritage Foundation. The museum was partially reopened in November 1997. “This partial re-opening had as its main objective to recreate a contact between the Lebanese and their Past.”2 This Past is not a pre-given natural essence that is only to be revealed, but is one that must be created. The museum, in its displays and organization of artifacts, is a critical site for this creative process. Barbara KirshenblattGimblett (1998) argues that ethnographic objects are made into artifacts. Artifacts, as special kinds of objects, are seen to carry significance through a direct connection to the past. The meanings objects are seen to bear and communicate do not reside in the objects themselves, but rather, are attached to them through their manner of arrangement, catalogue, and display. This “agency of display,” where objects reveal their truth, becomes a form of fiction. KirshenblattGimblett explains how exhibitions are fundamentally theatrical in that they perform meaning.3 Meaning is here deployed through several strategies of display. This process of display removes objects from their social context of origin and translates them into new contexts. This re-scripting of the artifact locates it within a new context and thus a new construct of meaning. This in-context strategy of reading meaning into objects is used in politically powerful ways to communicate ideas about identity, belonging, and authenticity in the Beirut National Museum.
The dominant discourse on the post-war construction of Beirut’s central district has emphasized a linear and coherent development of a Lebanese entity through the presentation of history.1 The story of the city and the nation is told
Ideas around national identity, struggled over since the inception of the Lebanese nation-state, continue to be constructed via public space. The National Museum, as a public site that houses the “authentic” pieces or chapters in
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uring the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, Beirut was the focal point of the multiple disparate groups in the country (the Druze in the Shouf, the Shia in Hermel, the Maronites in the Metn & Kisserwan). After nearly two decades of protracted violence and devastation, reconstruction efforts were underway in 1992 to build the city anew expressing the ‘rebirth’ of the nation. Beirut, long serving as the center of administrative and political power, now emerged with a vital new role in the peace-building efforts of a wounded nation. The city offered a new geographic space in which feuding ethno-sectarian communities could interact more cooperatively.
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the story of the nation, also bears state sponsored legitimacy. Thus, the objects on display and their manner of ‘speaking’ to the contemporary nation—at the national center and heart (Beirut)—become of vital importance to competing nationalist discourses. This is evident in the National Museum’s presentation of Lebanese history. In-context display techniques are evident in the spatial organization of the National Museum into separate rooms identified by historic era. The seven eras used in the filtering, ordering, and translation of artifacts are: Prehistory (1M – 3200BC), Bronze Age (3200BC - 1200BC), Iron Age (1200BC 333BC), Hellenistic Period (333BC - 64BC), Roman Period (64BC - 395BC), Byzantine Period (395BC - 636AD), and Arab Conquest/Mamluk Period (635AD - 1516AD).4 On first observation, the framing of temporal categories (after prehistory), bound by the reference to “Age” or “Period,” appear benign in their factual description. However, at another level of observation, one may notice that the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods are not described as ‘conquests,’ as compared to the Mamluk period of Arab conquest. Is this because the ‘foreign’ presence of earlier groups was not a form of conquest and domination on the local people? Or, perhaps, the locals wanted and liked control by these earlier groups. This inconsistency in labeling indicates that something more is involved than just a benign display of factual chronological stages of history. What myth is being alluded to, yet not directly stated? Answers to these questions may be found in returning to the social and political context of Lebanese nationalism and the result of the 1975-1990 civil war.
informing state nationalism. In this manner, objects are deployed through display in specifically political terms that speak to the larger socio-political climates that they animate. Cities are often perceived as a spatial system of diverse social and economic exchange, promoting increased cultural understanding and cooperation. Alongside this increased cooperative potential is increased conflict over legitimacy and identity. Such struggles are articulated and contested through public space and the built environments of cities. Unfortunately, the redevelopment of Beirut has made the disparities and conflicts more acute in this plural society. Endnotes: See Benedict Anderson for further discussion on the construction of nation and its mythology of movement through linear time.
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This theatricality is expressed in two forms: in-situ and in-context display. In-situ displays incorporate a collection of objects placed within a scene, like a diorama. In-context displays place objects in relation to other objects within a schema or frame of reference. This is done through charts and explanatory labels. One example is the famous chart of human evolution showing the different stages of transformation from monkey to man. See KrishenblattGimblett, pp. 19-23.
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One of the primary conflicts, not only during the civil war, but throughout the formation and legitimation of Lebanon as a nation-state, has been the question of identity. The central debate is whether Lebanon is part of a Western civilization in its historic and cultural development, or at heart, attached to the Arab world. This issue remains unresolved since the nineteenth century.
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Given this context, the historical periods marked by the National Museum may be read to hold more political significance than a simple benign schema. Given that the Maronite leadership views itself as descendents of the autochthonous Phoenicians, and the Muslims see themselves and Lebanon as part of the Arab and Muslim worlds, history becomes highly politicized in the attempts to construct legitimacy for both perspectives. The parceling and presentation of time through the National Museum displays attempt to depoliticize history as self-evident rather than socially constructed. The Museum, as an extension of the state, ultimately reaffirms the dominant mythology CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
el-Khazen, Farid. 1991. The Communal Pact of National Identities: The Making and Politics of the 1943 National Pact. Papers on Lebanon, 12 vols. Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies. Kaufman, Asher. 2004. Reviving Phoenicia: In Search of Identity in Lebanon. London: I.B. Tauris. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1998. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Berkeley: University of California Press. 4
Changing Vantage Point: Study of the Everyday Cultural Landscape By Arijit Sen ARIJIT SEN is assistant professor of architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is a recipient of the Graduate School Research Award for 2008-09 and a past fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies. He is the 2008 Quadrant Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis where he is completing his book manuscript. Since his arrival to UWM, Sen has sought out multiple collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities for students at SARUP. He started the talk@midday, a brown bag seminar at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning that serves as a forum where scholars, practitioners and researchers of the built environment from the UWM campus present their work. Sen also worked with colleagues to create a joint doctoral companion program between UW Madison and UW Milwaukee called Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures. This program focuses on the study of architectural, urban, and suburban cultural landscapes with a transnational and historical perspective.
The everyday cultural landscape is a cultural artifact. But it is not merely a product of human acts and imaginations. It is an agent implicated in the reproduction of social worlds. This means that the material world actively affects the way we construct and construe culture and cultural practices and understand the world around us. My focus is the urban cultural landscape of immigrants in the United States. My work straddles multiple geographical scales – architecture, urban design, global culture, and historical periods. My current book project draws from research on South Asian immigrant spaces in the Bay Area. As newcomers in a land of immigrants, the story of the South Asians is similar to the many who preceded them except in the following important way: unlike European immigrants, South Asians were brown-skinned, spoke English, and until 1947, were British subjects. Their complex racial, national, religious, cultural, class, and gender backgrounds made their stories good examples of cultural contact and transnational identity-formation. The case study of The Vedanta Temple from my book manuscript serves as an example. It is the story of the completion of The Vedanta Temple of San Francisco on the corner of Webster and Filbert Street in 1908. Only a mere fifteen years ago, this area, known as the “cowhollow” was drained of its lagoons and livestock was ordered out of the area to make way for the encroaching residential developments. In succeeding years the area developed fast and new fancy Victorian mansions and Edwardian style homes now dotted the landscape. In 1905, when the construction of the temple started, there were still a few vacant lots in the area and construction activities were in full swing.
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large number of architecture students in midwestern colleges come from suburban and smaller communities. While they have first-hand experiences with the everyday physical world – the gas stations, the grocery stores and the ball parks – their education gives them few opportunities to utilize their lived experiences for professional practice/training. Instead the design world is replete solely with famous designers, specialized esthetic jargon called archispeak and an alienation from everything that is ordinary. My teaching goal is to facilitate ways by which design students can learn from their everyday landscape and apply such knowledge to their professional work. Such learning can be triggered by systematically changing the vantage point through which students encounter their world. Such changes in vantage points can be easily done by changing one’s scale of analysis – be it geographical scale (architectural, urban, global) or the social scale (individual, family/kin, institutional) or even temporal (social, individual, geological time frames).
In the middle of “cow hollow” this building, viewed from across the street, conjured up a distinct world of its own. As the first Hindu temple in the west, it was not only a unique piece of religious architecture, but also a social space that intrigued San Franciscans. The opening of temple in 1906 (and expansion in 1908) caused quite a stir in San Francisco. The eye-catching architecture of the new temple claimed elements from Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, and western domestic building traditions and attracted crowds. The Vedanta Society members explained this eclectic architectural novelty as symbolic of the inclusiveness and universality of Hindu traditions from which “all other world religions and cultures had emanated.”
A change in vantage point also prepares well-rounded professionals who, in addition to learning trade skills, also develop a critical world view that allows them to situate their work within the larger social, cultural, economic, and political domains. The study of “everyday cultural landscapes” is one such way of situating the study and knowledge of a building within larger social contexts.
Encountering this architectural motif in fin de siècle San Francisco raises some important questions. Why was it important for the makers of this building to use this hyper-visual and eclectic architecture? The architecture marked this building 5
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architecture. Yet, in addition to the story of exotic difference – architectural and cultural – the temple and its architecture had other diverse and complex readings.
as alien, a blatant exhibition of alterity that seemed out of place at a time when negative reports of Hindu religious backwardness and permissiveness flooded California Christian and popular media. In order to respond to this question we need to examine its larger contexts.
If we carefully examine the everyday events inside the temple, the many small changes in the form and structure of the building, we find (among other things) that the architecture of the building was carefully responding to the raciast ideologies of the time. It became part of a racially-inflected argument, already popular among German Orientalist scholars who argued that Hindus were descendents of the Aryan race. By situationally adapting this argument – because the application of this argument was not consistent -- the Society members in America sought to legitimize their presence in an Anglo and Christian society. They argued for the inclusion of Hindus in American society because their so-called “Aryan origins” made them “better qualified to defend, to explain, and to practice all faiths, ancient or modern, Eastern or western, spiritual or materialistic.” The Vedantists cemented their place in San Francisco public imaginations by claiming control over a turf that western Orientalism had unwittingly given them access.
The story of this building is complicated by the membership and its socio-political context. The monks and some residents were Indian men while the congregation was almost all Anglo American. A large number of the Society members were women. Although the time was rife with anti-Asian sentiments, the organizational coffers of this temple grew and the building’s popularity among white San Franciscans led to increased membership. By 1907, in the years leading up to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the temple had become an urban landmark. Its success cannot be understood by merely studying its architecture or by framing it solely as a place of worship. Rather the analytic lens used to study this temple has to take into account the relationship and negotiations between various engaged social constituencies and the small, often insignificant everyday actions and changes that occur in this place. It is easy to lose sight of the latter when the architecture is imposing and eye-catching. The material world once constructed blinds us in many ways. First it is a visual reality that claims our attention. Second, it stays in place for a long time (because buildings survive longer than their inhabitants), while social life and cultural practices in these spaces change at a faster rate. Third, because of its high visibility a primary narrative and symbolism associated with this building-form becomes that rendered visible by its
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Despite its visual alterity, the architecture of the building supported the above argument for inclusion while also serving as a site to practice and propagate multiple and hybrid versions of Hindu worship. The new Hindu Temple building became a place where familiar images and activities were creatively re-employed to comprehensibly translate otherwise esoteric ideas of Hindu identity and difference to a diverse American audience.
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Embedded Networks in East Asian Manufacturing By Kuangchi Chang
KUANGCHI CHANG is Assistant Professor of Sociology at UWM. Her research interests include sociology of organizations, economic sociology, East Asian industries and corporations, and Chinese economic transformation. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled “Unraveling Embedded Networks,” while also pursuing several research projects, all of which concern organizations in the economic arena.
friends for economic favors – though sometimes this can be the case. Instead, it means our social relationships are often intertwined with our professional relationships, and these personal ties frequently connect people to information and opportunities that otherwise would not be available to them. More often than not, your friend is not going to “get” you a job, regardless of your qualifications; but we often see cases of a friend letting you know about an opening which would be a great fit for you, and which you might otherwise never hear about. Companies are the same way. Since no company can exist by itself without inputs and outputs, they deal with other companies that are their suppliers and customers. Sociologists have found that many companies form long-term relationships with their suppliers and customers and these inter-firm relationships tend to be embedded, in the sense that people of the two companies know each other well personally and that they establish personal trust and emotional liking toward each other. These personal relationships have important effects on the companies involved. In terms of business transactions, personal relationships make communication easier, increase the amount of information exchanged between the parties, and make mutual understanding easier. Therefore companies can learn better from their close partners, and they also develop specific routines and improve their problem-solving ability when they work with someone close. Furthermore, close relationships reduce fraud and malfeasance. Sociological research has demonstrated that embedded relationships with personal trust and attachment help companies reduce costs, perform better and survive longer.
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our research focuses on “embedded networks”. What are embedded networks and why are they an emerging area of study? “Embeddedness” is a concept in sociology that has been applied to studies in other academic fields in recent years, such as political science and management studies. This concept describes how individual actors are embedded in a web of social relationships as well as their institutional environment. In other words, your job, to use just one example, involves not just a formal contractual and organizational relationship with your employer, but also dozens of other social relationships, not just with your coworkers, your bosses, the people who work for you, etc., but also who you meet and get to know in the course of your work – suppliers, customers, competitors, and so on. Thus people’s political and economic behaviors and decision-making are not just driven entirely by economic or political motivations, but are also influenced by the people they know, the committed relationships they have, the social obligations they endure, and the social norms that they perceive.
These findings have important contributions to our understanding of organizations. In the past, researchers saw organizations as structures and hierarchies, and their relationships with each other as transactions determined by little more than economic values such as price, frequency and volume. But now we know we have to take into account social factors when analyzing how these organizations interact, and this knowledge has changed many organizational practices in the real world. For instance, many companies now embrace referral hiring, where they can find competent job candidates through their employees’ friendship networks. Not only can companies save costs in searching for potential candidates, but the referred candidates tend to match the jobs better and stay in the jobs longer. Many companies also embrace the “Toyota Model.” They establish knowledge sharing routines and encourage close interaction between the employees of their firm and the employees of their suppliers, following the famous Toyota Production System that has helped both Toyota and its suppliers achieve better inter-organizational learning and higher performance.
I and a number of other sociologists are particularly interested in the “embedded networks” of economic actors. Specifically, we examine how economic relationships are often intertwined with social factors, and how these social factors can have profound influences on actors both within and outside the networks. For instance, a person’s career network is often embedded so that his or her social relationships can affect the person’s job searching or performance. He or she may be referred to a job by an acquaintance or may be friends with somebody at the new workplace. This does not necessarily mean that people always rely on their 7
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What have you learned concerning the significance of Taiwanese manufacturers moving to China?
For many Taiwanese computer firms, transplanting the existing supplier relationships to China greatly reduced these three types of uncertainty. Friends (existing suppliers) share valuable information, and they can pool resources together to increase their bargaining power vis-à-vis local firms or government agencies in the host country. Working with friends also reduces partner uncertainty because companies can rely on trust and deal with those whom they know. In addition, computer manufacturers and their existing suppliers share coded language and tacit knowledge that were accumulated from their past working experience. These along with the already established communication channels are critical for the partners to coordinate their inter-related activities.
My recent research investigates an industry-wide migration during the late 1990s and early 2000s when the majority of Taiwanese computer manufacturers moved certain functions to Mainland China as a response to the increasing competition in the international economy. Taiwanese manufacturers typically work in a flexible production system where specialized firms (manufacturers, suppliers, and contractors) in a network cooperate with each other to meet the demands of a constantly changing market. The production networks of firms tend to be socially embedded, in the sense that the computer firms and their suppliers have stable and long-term collaborative relationships that are infused with friendship and personal trust. The social relationships that link these firms have generated many benefits that help the manufacturers to achieve efficiency, flexibility and good performance. In this type of large-scale business migration where hundreds of firms are on the move in such a short period of time, supplier networks often break up during the process of relocation. But many Taiwanese computer firms and their suppliers moved to the same geographical region in China, some even transplanting whole supplier networks across the Taiwan Strait. The result has been a revival of the supplier networks where manufacturers and suppliers seek to replicate the flexible production networks that they had back in Taiwan.
Some of your research focuses on guanxi in China. What is the meaning of this term? Could you please summarize the different theories about the significance of guanxi in contemporary China? “Guanxi” is a Mandarin Chinese word that literally means “social connections.” If you were to pick up a book on Chinese business in an airport bookstore, you’d probably come away with the very common impression that Chinese society – and Chinese business in particular – is based entirely upon a “it’s not what you know but who you know” ethic. In fact, I suspect the book would tell you that “understanding” guanxi is critical to doing business in China and that you wouldn’t even be able to get a reservation at a restaurant if you don’t know somebody who knows somebody. However, although China scholars generally agree that guanxi implies social obligations and soliciting special favors, among those who seriously study this topic there is considerable debate about the role guanxi plays in Chinese culture. Currently no consensus exists as to the general principles that underlie guanxi, or the role guanxi will play as China undergoes economic and social transformation. This disagreement is particularly acute between cultural scholars and institutional theorists. On one side, cultural analysts view guanxi as a unique type of relationship deeply rooted in Chinese culture. Networking is viewed as a form of instrumental exchange carried out and cultivated through a process of social interactions and characterized by (for example) gift-giving and social eating. Guanxi is believed to be a part of Chinese culture that reflects family values, local traditions, and social norms reinforced by Confucianism.
Why relocating in groups? I found that this was a strategy that these manufacturers use to cope with uncertainty. When uncertainty is high, economic actors rely on trust that can be found in their embedded networks, and hence they migrate with their friends. There are at least three types of uncertainty that the computer manufacturers seek to mitigate when they relocate to China. The first is environmental uncertainty. Although China’s legal system has improved over the past ten years, some laws are still obscure, legal institutions are still underdeveloped, and some government officials are unpredictable. All of these pose a high level of environmental uncertainty to foreign firms. Secondly, there is partner uncertainty that companies face in a new environment – that is, it is difficult to evaluate and determine with whom they can enter business relationships. And, third, there is task uncertainty. Computer manufacturers work closely with suppliers in product design and manufacturing to achieve flexibility and speed to market. When two companies’ activities are highly inter-related like the computer manufacturers and their suppliers, it is not easy to coordinate everything at all times. CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
On the other side, institutionalist scholars view guanxi as an “institutionally defined system” and believe that guanxi is a set of practices resulting from particular historical and institutional conditions found in the “pre-reform” (i.e., Maoist) People’s Republic of China (PRC). During the 8
Some may describe guanxi as just another form of corruption. Is this a fair assessment?
pre-reform era, social and economic resources were controlled by the central government, alternative resources were rare or non-existent, and legal protections for property and contract rights were arbitrary and undeveloped. People therefore placed an inordinate reliance on personal connections. These personal connections were used to bypass officially sanctioned (and onerous) bureaucratic procedures, solicit protection from more powerful actors, and acquire otherwise unavailable resources. But, according to this theory, if that institutional environment changes, reliance on guanxi will also change. For this reason, institutional scholars predict that market competition and an evolving legal system in China should create pressures on both state and private actors against favoring personal relationships above all else. As a result, guanxi should gradually become less important.
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Guanxi is just a Chinese word describing people using social connections to achieve specific goals. Essentially this is just a type of networking behavior. In China’s pre-reformed era where there were scarce resources, limited alternatives, and an opaque system where people had limited access to information and few ways to evaluate the quality of the information they do have, people rely on their social connections to access information and needed resources. In pre-reform China, these resources and information might have included anything from train tickets and marriage licenses, to jobs and housing, etc. In today’s China, valuable resources, information and business opportunities are still limited and often not available through public channels. Individuals and companies, both foreign and local, still frequently use social connections to acquire things that they need and to get ahead of others. However, to equate guanxi with corruption is not a fair assessment. From the perspective of economic sociology, it is natural for people to rely on their social relationships. Chinese do it, Americans do it, and even educated fleas do it. If in fact the process of making social connections involves bribery or other illegal arrangements with government officials, networking can indeed be associated with corruption. But to say that networking itself is a type of corruption is not accurate.
However, I believe that both these approaches miss important elements regarding what guanxi is. Based on my research, it appears that the underlying logic and strategic potential of guanxi clearly resembles the “embedding” concept described in economic sociology. There is a great number of similarities between the Chinese way of using social connections and its Western counterparts. I believe that guanxi is a networking behavior that should be treated as a variable that is both contextual and contingent on a set of social factors – it is determined by institutions and by economic factors, but culture also plays a role by shaping the institutions and social factors play a major role in determining how we respond to the institutions in which we operate. Guanxi behavioral strategies and their associated benefits are not exclusive to Chinese actors, and they are not beyond the comprehension of non-Chinese. Frequently, however, foreign companies misinterpret the difficulties they encounter in the Chinese market as being cultural barriers to doing business that place them at a permanent disadvantage vis-à-vis their ethnically Chinese competitors. In reality, as new entrants to the Chinese market, foreign companies may even occupy special positions in the power structure, given the resources they may bring to the negotiating table. Not only can foreign firms make personal contacts quickly and use guanxi, but they may be in an advantageous network position where their financial and technological advantages make them attractive partners for both Chinese officials and business organizations.
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My experience as a student was also a great success for three main reasons. First, the kindness and warmth of the professors made learning an easy task. They were always available, during office hours or otherwise, which helped me overcome any difficulties that I encountered. Second, the flexibility of the educational system in terms of choice of courses and methods of exams made learning a source of pleasure and not a cause of stress. The third reason, which I found no less motivating, is the diversity of students in class. This reinforces the idea that the world is a small village. The classroom offers a chance to meet students from different countries such as China, Korea, Germany, and Mexico. This diversity allows us to be aware of different global issues, widens the sphere of our knowledge, and enriches our experience.
graduated from Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra, Morocco in 1997 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature. I then worked as a teacher of English for five years at different high schools and technical colleges. I had always hoped to pursue a graduate degree in English and linguistics and in January 2007 my hopes were materialized when I was recruited by HAMID OUALI, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the Arabic Program at UWM, to study for a Masters degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and to work as a Teaching Assistant in the Arabic program.
Living in Milwaukee is very relaxing. I start my day in a good mood thanks to the greetings of the people I meet on my way to the University. Middle Eastern and North African stores make me feel at home. I can find everything I am used to in my country from sardines to couscous. Besides, shopping at different ethnic stores is also a good experience. Above all, Milwaukee as a city is very fascinating. The trees and green spaces make every corner of Milwaukee feel like a small garden.
When I arrived in Milwaukee in August 2007, I was worried about this new experience especially because it was my first time leaving Morocco, and because my wife, Hayat, who was pregnant at that time, stayed behind. I felt homesick at first and thought that I would not succeed in this challenge. Fortunately, the friendliness of the faculty and staff of the University made life easy for me. Everybody took into consideration that I was a foreigner and tried to provide me with all the support I needed. My life in Milwaukee became much better when my second half, Hayat, who was still pregnant, joined me in December 2007. Three months later, she gave birth to our first baby girl, Yasmine. My first year experience as a teacher at UWM was a great success thanks to the students’ willingness to learn Arabic, their conduct in class, as well as their desire to learn about my country, culture, and religion. In addition to this, it provided me with cultural experience and was an opportunity to build a closer relationship with American students. This professional relationship turned into a personal one and many of my students visited me in my apartment to talk about different subjects that concern cultural issues.
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State Department Veteran Heads Up ESL Programs at UWM
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WM’s new director of English as a Second Language Program, JANET WILGUS, comes to the university from a distinguished career in the Foreign Service. In her work for the State Department Janet oversaw English language programs worldwide as Director of the Office for English Language Programs. In the course of her career, Janet worked at American embassies in Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Ethiopia, and several other countries. The English as a Second Language program at UWM is an important means to draw international students to the university. The program recently included over 100 students from 33 different countries who speak 17 different languages. In Spring 2008 the largest numbers of students came from Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, and Columbia. The program also offers short-term programs for foreign students, which recently included groups from Japan and France. According to Janet, the importance of the English as a Second Language program for UWM is as a stepping stone for international students who wish to study at UWM but lack the necessary language skills. Also, due the UWM’s conditional and dual admission policy, students can come to the campus with an assurance of admission to a degree program, rather than starting the admission process anew after completing language instruction. The program also supports ongoing efforts of the university to increase its research profile, where international graduate students play a major role. The program assesses English language proficiency of international teaching assistants and also offers a course in advanced oral skills. Unlike many other programs on campus, the English as a Second Language program is required to be self-sustaining and contributes a portion of its revenue to the university. Like many departments on campus, the English as a Second Language program is working with limited space that inhibits expansion. However, the program benefits from close support from the Language Resource Center. Janet also hopes to build relationships on campus that will integrate the program more closely with the goals of other departments. The English as a Second Language program is currently pursuing program accreditation, a trend in the field which provides professional recognition. The Center for International Education is pleased to welcome Janet Wilgus to campus as an important partner in establishing UWM’s global footprint.
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Multiculturism and Globalization: A Report from Indonesia
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GREGORY JAY is Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Cultures and Communities Program Office at UWM. He recently returned from a U.S. State Department sponsored trip to Indonesia. CIE is pleased to include his account of the journey in this issue of Global Currents.
Indonesian nationalism, then, is an especially good example of an “imagined community” brought into being by the forces of politics, technology, and media. The islands (there are more than 17,000!) had for centuries been a matrix of cross-cultural contact because of their crucial position along the trade routes from China to India, Africa, and Europe. Beginning in the 13th century traders and immigrants from these routes brought Islam to the islands, where it eventually displaced traditional Hindu and Buddhist cultural dominion (though not on Bali). Today Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, though in practice many rituals, beliefs, and stories from pre-Islamic cultures persist. Thus Indonesia is a complex fabric of ethnic, religious, racial, and geographical interests, bound together tenuously by an official ideology of “Unity in Diversity” and a national language that is still not universal.
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t first I thought it was some colleague of mine pulling my leg: “Hello, this is Carmen Garcia Aponte from the U. S. Department of State. We’re calling to see if you would accept an all-expense paid speaking trip to Indonesia.” Those weren’t her exact words, but you get the idea. The U. S. Embassy in Jakarta had proposed organizing a two-week program on “Multiculturalism in a Democratic Society,” and they needed an expert.
Like many post-colonial nations, Indonesia fell victim to the rise of autocracy. First under Sukarno, and later Suharto, democratic principles and freedoms were sacrificed in the name of security and prosperity. The exploitative practices of the Dutch were inherited and refined by multinational corporations that took over harvesting such natural resources as oil and rubber, contributing to an explosive growth in corruption as government officials and their families made fortunes. Suharto was eventually forced from power by the uprisings of 1998. In the decade since, Indonesia has been struggling to institutionalize a multicultural democracy that would have both the strength to reform its colonial past and the imagination to devise workable representational structures for the future.
For such programming the embassy or consulate puts together a series of lectures, seminars, video conferences, and media events in various cities, featuring a scholar enlisted by Washington. But how had they decided on me? Blame the Internet. When Ms. Aponte received the request from Jakarta, she went to Google and entered “multiculturalism.” Among the top hits (still) is a six-page handout on “What is Multiculturalism?” that I use in class. She read it, liked it, and called me. And so although I had never been to Indonesia or written extensively on multiculturalism in a global context, I soon found myself on a plane to Jakarta.
When I received the official itinerary before leaving, I almost called and cancelled. I would be making presentations at eight higher education institutions, sometimes two in a day at different campuses; my audiences would range from professors and lecturers to undergraduate students, government and religious officials, and education administrators; I would be doing two distance-education video conferences, one of which would link people at over twenty sites; and my venues would include major secular campuses, such as the University of Indonesia-Jakarta, as well as Catholic University in Semarang and the Islamic University of Madura. I was also scheduled for various media events, including a one-hour radio call-in-show (in Indonesian), a half-hour TV interview, and a wide-ranging session with the staff at the Surabaya Post. I would begin in Jakarta and fly on to Surabaya, then take a ferry and car trip
Researching the situation in Indonesia, I came to understand why the announced topic was so urgent. The “Spice Islands” of South Pacific Asia had been mercilessly colonized by the Dutch, who for over three centuries subjected Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, and adjacent areas to a brutal regime of plantation exploitation. Anti-colonial resistance at the start of the twentieth-century coalesced around a strategy of anti-imperial nationalism, though no “nation” had existed before. The name “Indonesia” was coined in the 1920s, and became a rallying idea for the movement that eventually drove out the Dutch after the end of World War II.
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• Democracy is the process by which individuals make choices about their society, free of arbitrary tyranny by authorities
for four hours to the little capital of Pamekasan on Madura, then back to Surabaya, then finish up with a flight to Semarang for final presentations. An intervening long weekend in Bali hardly seemed rest enough.
• If individuals are to make informed decisions, they must be free to get information, discuss issues freely, and express their opinions without censorship
It took a few days to refine my basic PowerPoint, which I kept changing in response to the questions and comments I was receiving and the difficulties the translator faced (about half the sessions were in English, the rest in Indonesian, which I don’t speak). Usually I would present for 30-45 minutes, which was just a pretext for the hour or more of lively questions and answers that were the heart of the meetings. In my prepared remarks, I put the topic in the context of the framing forces of nationalism, decolonization, globalization, and democratization that shape multicultural states today.
• If any ethnic, racial, religious, or other cultural group is silenced or excluded, democracy cannot flourish • Thus multiculturalism is essential to successful democracy What kind of reception did I receive? Given the reports of America’s low standing in the world, and the predominance of Muslims in my audiences, I was surprised by people’s openness and warmth. Yes, there were the expected statements about the war in Iraq and expressions of concern about the presumed hostility of the U.S. to Islam. But more often there were probing questions about religion and the state, education and diversity, globalization and the “new colonialism” of multinational corporations. Since many had had few if any opportunities to question an American of late, they asked me about everything,
I reviewed the history of democratic movements since the 17th century, focusing an increasing amount of time on individualism as foundational to Western democracies and as central to multiculturalism. Given the usual association of multiculturalism with identity politics and group pluralism, this at first seemed counter-intuitive. But as the dialogue with my interlocutors continued, I came to see the centrality of this foundation. As one of my slides reductively explained, 13
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from Pakistani nuclear weapons to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to the inclusion of “same gender love” in multiculturalism.
example, the institution of slavery and the challenges faced by new immigrants.
Many questioners wanted to examine comparisons and contrasts between multiculturalism in the U.S. and Indonesia. These exchanges helped clarify fundamental distinctions between the situations in our nations. For example, in the U.S. racism has played the major role, while in Indonesia religious and ethnic conflicts are central. A related issue frequently discussed was the U.S. “separation of church and state,” which creates different possibilities than the more limited approach to religious diversity in Indonesia. Multicultural education was also the subject of questions at many venues, as audience members wanted to know how the curriculums were designed in the U.S., and as we explored the centrality of multicultural education to the creation of a sustainable diverse democracy. As the presentation closed with an explanation of how individualism and “The American Dream” give American multiculturalism its unique character, discussion also focused on the historic inequalities that have plagued American society and been evident in, for
Finally, globalization exercises two contradictory influences in Indonesia. On the one hand, nationalism and identity politics gain momentum as ways of resisting the subversion of autonomy and cultural tradition associated with capitalism and Western hegemony; on the other hand, Indonesians are attracted to the benefits of modernity and wish to participate in the wealth and choice that globalization offers. Hence the tension between the small but powerful group calling for an Islamic state and the majority of moderate Muslims who see no reason to renounce their jeans, cell phones, and “super malls.” This majority wishes for closer ties to the United States, and at every venue I heard enthusiastic anticipation for the end of the Bush presidency. Tours of Obama’s boyhood neighborhood in Jakarta have already started.
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Global Studies in Style By Christine Brownfield
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tudying abroad is an experience in itself, and to be paired with an internship makes it an experience similar to no other. I was lucky enough to find an internship in the field I plan to go into, fashion, and was given an access key to an exciting, fast paced industry. Despite traveling to seven different countries, my internship forged my most brilliant memories. Partaking in Milan fashion week, meeting famous models and various fashion industry insiders, not to mention bringing out my inner artist by helping draw the latest collection were the types of activities that rounded out an average day at Maurizio Pecoraro.
language skills, I developed a wonderful relationship with the workers, and transformed “buon giorno” and “arrivederci” into full conversations.
While he may be little known in this country, it was an honor working with someone who actually has made the rounds of the fashion industry. Having learned his trade from Gianni Versace, Maurizio also headed the fashion houses Thierry Mugler and Vionnet. Of course now he heads up his own company and has slowly been making a name for himself in his own right.
I learned that travels, while enriching and fulfilling, are not the memories that transformed my study abroad experience, but rather the interactions with the people I met along the way.
Getting the chance to work in a real work environment while studying abroad certainly made my experience, but getting to live in Italy was also an amazing opportunity. Seeing how other cultures live and work was an occasion to put into practice everything I have studied with my Global Communications major as well. Especially with the upcoming election, political conversations were not in short supply. Despite what we as Americans may think, the results of this election not only matter, but affect the rest of the world, so believe it that the rest of the world is just as interested as we are. The primary results actually made the front page in Italian newspapers. I think, perhaps, the best interaction I had with Italians was the contact I had with the workers at the café at the end of my block. Rain or shine, my roommate and I would head into the coffee shop to try their amazing brioches, sip espressos or marochinos, and chow down on (what I feel to be true) the best pasta in Milan. Aside from my internship, I have by far the fondest memories of hanging out in this coffee shop. Despite my limited Italian
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ith a long history of pioneering work in online education the School of Information Studies (SOIS) offers a full online option for its Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. Through the well crafted use of multimedia and networking technologies, faculty aspire to provide online students with an optimal experience, especially those who may never set foot on the UWM campus. In the early 1990s, the School of Information Studies began experimenting with online education options via the Internet. By the late 1990s, SOIS was an early adopter of WebCT courseware. Today, SOIS combines a sophisticated use of UWM’s D2L software along with strategic uses of live streaming, online video tutorials, using Camtasia, and podcasting to maximize the student experience. According to Dean JOHANNES BRITZ, online education flourishes only with a serious faculty commitment. He comments, “Our faculty has gone through the stages of early, mid and late adopters of teaching online and now we have a maturity in this field that has allowed the program to grow tremendously in recent years.”
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community of learning and this can be a challenge in the online environment. For this reason, SOIS administrators make student services and community-building a top priority for distance education.
Enrollments in the MLIS degree have increased from 200-300 to over 600 graduate students in recent years. Students from across the world have taken advantage of the SOIS online degree option. Canada and Europe are particularly well-represented among distance students. One of the main advantages of this program is the ability for students to enroll and complete their degrees without worrying about visa requirements or the expenses and difficulties of traveling to pursue a graduate degree. The online option only adds to the already impressive roster of international universities that partner with SOIS. The list includes institutions in South Africa, Austria, Taiwan and Korea.
We welcome these challenges as exciting opportunities to employ the strategic use of technology to positively impact all distance education students. Recorded lectures, greater opportunities for online discussion, guest lectures, online chat and a culture of interaction and feedback contribute to the experience of all students in the MLIS degree program. The School of Information Studies is among the premier schools of its kind in the United States. Its output in research and teaching has received national accolades. CIE would also like to congratulate SOIS for its ambitious and innovative contribution to international education on the UWM campus.
Distance education through online technology presents unique challenges and advantages to students. According to Assistant Dean CHAD ZAHRT, distance education programs must pay careful attention to student services. The on-campus experience helps to integrate students within a
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CIE Hosts College Students from the Middle East
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MEPI is intended to expose student leaders from the Middle East to civil society and democracy in America. Participants also gain an understanding of America’s complex social order, challenging the common stereotypes of the United States as a land of universal wealth and privilege. CIE is proud to support this important program and hopes students will make good on its lofty goals.
n August 2008, the Center for International Education hosted 16 college students from countries across the Middle East as part of the U.S. State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI institutes are six-week education programs developed by a select group of U.S. colleges and universities for college-aged students from the Middle East and North Africa. The nine female and seven male participants represented many nations, including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. Institute programming, a mixture of classroom visits and field trips, focused on three primary themes: the history of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region; volunteerism and community service organizations; and democracy and the media. Community outings included volunteering at a homeless shelter and a Boys and Girls Club, as well as visits to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, a local television studio, the Urban Ecology Center, several community restoration organizations, the Wisconsin State Fair, and a Brewers baseball game. CIE staff organized the program in partnership with Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
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Helen Bader School of Social Welfare Welcomes International Students
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he Center for International Education salutes the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare for its important work with international students. The School of Social Welfare has welcomed several international students in recent years. Their presence helps to complement an existing research agenda that includes collegial and professional relationships with England, Israel, Mexico, Mohamed Sharkawy Kenya, and Palau. During the 2007-2008 academic year, the School of Social Welfare hosted MOHAMED SHARKAWY, a guest scholar from Helwan University in Egypt. Housed in the Center for Addiction and Behavioral
Health Research (CABHR), Dr. Sharkawy worked to tap the knowledge and experience of Center staff to enhance his own research program in Egypt. Additionally, Dr. Sharkawy attended CABHR seminars and presented his own data about Egypt to his UW-Milwaukee colleagues. He was particularly appreciative of the intensive research culture at CABHR. According to CABHR director Professor MICHAEL FENDRICH, international scope is an important consideration in behavioral health research and a priority for collaborative efforts in the field. He cites the work of an important journal, Substance Use and Misuse, as an illustrative example. The journal emphasizes multiple contexts for observation (e.g. the unique trauma of Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) to help understand how cultural context and universal physiological factors interrelate. The Helen Bader School of Social Welfare proves that a dedicated commitment to the local community does not preclude a global perspective in research and teaching. 17
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Study Abroad in Winter 2009 the program crosses the sea to London, England, and visits many institutions including Lloyds of London, the Bank of England, and the House of Parliament. Students will also have the opportunity to visit Stratford at Avon, Warwick Castle, and Oxford during the program.
The Center for International Education is pleased to offer the following study abroad programs during winter 2009.
Bahamas - Oceanography in the Bahamas Faculty Director: Adjunct Professor JAMES LUBNER, Geosciences This UWinteriM field studies program will take place on board Pier Wisconsin’s S/V Denis Sullivan, a recreated 1880’s-era three-masted schooner. The 3-credit, intensive program will provide students with practical experiences in marine science as well as an experiential study of the Bahamian Archipelago. The strategic position of the Bahamas causes it to have a distinct history and culture that is a blend of European and African heritages. Students will experience the more remote Bahamas, as few others have. They will participate actively in all of the ship’s operations while investigating the physical, geological, chemical, and biological features of the Gulf Stream current, Bahamian carbonate banks, and the overlying water column. The program will begin and end at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution campus of Florida Atlantic University, with an opportunity to interact with Harbor Branch scientists and to experience oceanographic research laboratories firsthand.
Germany - Environmental Engineering: Renewable Energy Sources Faculty Director: ROBERT BALMER, College of Engineering and Applied Science Imagine studying engineering in Germany! The seminar will focus on the important topic of renewable energy resources, specifically: solar-thermal, wind energy, biomass, and photovoltaics. This unique program features lectures by professors from Kassel University in Germany. The seminar includes several site visits to local German factories and companies. Workshops include field trips and hands-on project work. Students will live with German families and will be partnered with Kassel students to help them during their stay. Don’t miss out on this outstanding opportunity to earn 3 academic credits while exploring one of Germany’s most attractive regions — the state of Hessen.
Ghana - Africology
Costa Rica - Ecology in Costa Rica
Faculty Director: AHMED MBALIA, Africology
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Experience Ghana through visits to rural and urban areas and by meeting with scholars to discuss cultural traditions. Explore historical and cultural sites including the departure point for the Middle Passage and the W.E.B. DuBois Museum. This 3-credit program is based in Accra, Ghana’s political capital, and includes a visit to Kumasi, Ghana’s cultural capital. These academic and cultural encounters are designed to help students better understand the complexities of the political, economic, and gender issues facing Ghana today.
Costa Rica’s Tirimbina Rainforest is the spectacular setting for this study abroad program. Spend your Winterim conducting research at a remote field station in the middle of Tirimbina, 750 acres of tropical forest area. The program starts at the Milwaukee Public Museum then travels to Costa Rica’s lush forest reserve to continue lab work and learn about tropical streams and water sheds. This is a rugged field experience and students live and work under primitive conditions. Students may earn 3 undergraduate credits in Biology or Environmental Science.
India - Architecture
England & Ireland - Business in London and Dublin
Faculty Director: MANU SOBTI, Architecture SARUP’s India UWinteriM program welcomes students from architecture, global studies, art history, geography and urban studies majors. This year shall include a focused study on the city of Chandigarh, leading to an urban design studio in close partnership with two local schools in Ahmedabad & Chandigarh. Designed by the iconic architect Le Corbusier, Chandigarh is the quintessential city par excellence for urban designers. It presents a unique tabula rasa based on man’s
Faculty Director: AMIT BHATNAGAR, Lubar School of Business Travel to England and Ireland while learning the dynamics of European business in this 3-credit study abroad program. This high-quality program begins with an exploration of Ireland. In this country with a thriving new economy, we will have lectures at Irish businesses and institutions. Then CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
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have completed BioSci 310 (General Ecology) or must obtain instructor approval.
vision, fed by the growing aspirations of a newly-forged democracy and political control. Today, fifty years after its inception and eventual inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List of Cultural Icons, Chandigarh remains an enigma in its successes and failures. How does it connect to the past, present and future? How “Indian” is its embedded Indian-ness? What shall the city be in the decades to come? These are among the plethora of questions the students shall encounter.
South Africa - Information Poverty and Development Faculty Directors: JACQUES DU PLESSIS and JOHANNES BRITZ, School of Information Studies This is the third time this exciting program to South Africa is offered. Students will look at information poverty as one of the underlying challenges to social and financial success. The program will focus on the campaign to curb the spread of HIV/ AIDS in South Africa (Cape Town and Pretoria). Students will visit an orphanage, a local hospital, government departments, and be taught by South African professionals in the private sector, government, and academia. Students will be involved in a service learning component, working with AIDS orphans to improve the reading culture in their community. Students will learn about the roles of culture and technology in the access, use, and interpretation of information in South Africa. Students may earn three undergraduate/ graduate credits in Information Studies for this program. Other activities include a visit to a Bushmen settlement, sightseeing around the Cape of Good Hope, and a two-day safari.
This trip to India shall also include visits to New Delhi, Ahmedabad & Agra. All students will attend two pre-departure classes. For SARUP students, work done in India will continue into a Spring 09 design studio (ARCH 645/855).
Laos - History and Culture Faculty Director: CHIA YOUYEE VANG, History This three-credit program offers a unique, exciting opportunity for students to explore Laos’ rich history and cultures. Among other unique opportunities, the group will visit prominent historical sites and have first-hand experience of village life. Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR) is a dynamic country in Southeast Asia with 49 recognized ethnic groups who speak more than 200 languages. Distinctive monuments/temples and architectural styles fill its landscape. Remnants of French colonial rule remain in large cities alongside older and more modern influences. Since joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1997, the country has established trade relations with its neighbors and increased foreign investment. It has become a popular destination for travelers and investors in the region and is likely to grow in prominence.
South Korea - Health Care Faculty Directors: SUSAN DEAN-BAAR and RACHEL SCHIFFMAN, Nursing On this exciting program, students will spend time in Korea’s dynamic capital, Seoul, and visit down country in Daegu, home of Keimyung University College of Nursing. Participants will learn how Eastern and Western medicine are utilized in Korea. Students will visit hospitals and clinics, which provide Western and Eastern health care; meet with students from the College of Nursing at Keimyung University; hear lectures about Korean health care systems; and explore cultural activities. Participants may earn three undergraduate or graduate credits on this program. Don’t miss this unique opportunity!
The beginning and end of this eye-opening journey will include one day in Bangkok, Thailand, a vibrant and bustling city filled with intriguing juxtapositions of old and new.
Panama - Tropical Biology - Spring Break (Part of the spring semester-long course BioSci 475, 3 credits) Faculty Director: STEFAN SCHNITZER, Biological Sciences Tropical Biology is a Spring Semester course with a 9-day spring-break trip to the Republic of Panama. While in Panama we travel to a variety of tropical forests to gain an appreciation for the basic patterns and processes in tropical forests, and the mechanisms believed to be responsible for them. We explore tropical rainforests, dry forests, and forest fragments located on islands in the center of the Panama Canal. The trip also includes an in-depth tour of the Panama Canal. Interested students should
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CIE Supports Undergraduate Research The Center for International Education (CIE), in partnership with the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), has awarded 17 student grants of $1,000 each for overseas research projects and international internships. Congratulations to the grant recipients!
Cassandra Motta (Dance) • Cassie researched the costuming of the Bumba-MeuBoi festivals that take place in São Luis in the State of Maranhão Megan Zintek (Dance) • Megan focused on discerning and describing the influence of Catholic symbolism found in the Bumba-Meu-Boi festival.
Grants for Independent Overseas Research Kristin McElligott (Conservation and Environmental Science) Kyle Meyer (Biological Sciences & French) • Kristin and Kyle conducted tropical ecology research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, under the supervision of Professor Stefan Schnitzer, during the summer of 2008.
Peru Past & Present: Art, Literature & Culture led by Professor Christopher Davis-Benavides and Professor César Ferreira, Summer 2008 Cara Campbell (Spanish & Linguistics) • Cara studied the theme of internalized racism in the work of author Julio Ramón Ribeyro. Ruth Cullen (Art & Global Studies) • Ruth explored the cosmology and belief system of the Ashaninka or Campa people of the Amazon. Gregory Martens (Art) • Gregory investigated Colonial art in the Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco in Lima.
Grants for International Internships Izmira Aitch (Global Studies/Global Management & German) • Izmira completed a summer internship at the Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order in Frankfurt, Germany. Angie Domagalski (Global Studies/Global Security) • Angie completed a summer internship with an environmental organization called Peru Verde. Aaron Home (Global Studies/Global Management) • Aaron will be completing a business-related internship while studying at the Beijing Institute for Asian Studies this fall. Brittany Nicholls (Global Studies/Global Management) • Brittany completed a summer internship with Eduinnova, an educational software and consulting company in Santiago, Chile.
Paris & Florence Architecture Trip led by Professor Kyle Talbott, Fall 2008 Kristina Clapp (Architecture) David Gleisner (Architecture & Business) Kevin Hinz (Architecture) Jacinda Ross (Architecture) Jason Vogel (Architecture) • These students will help Professor Talbott in his research on the two end-conditions of the Piazzale degli Uffizi in Florence. The main public space of the Piazzale has been well-documented but the northern entrance leading to the Pizza della Signorina and the southern exit to the Arno River have not been.
Grants for Participation in Faculty-Led Overseas Research Brazil Dance Program led by Professor Simone Ferro, Summer 2008 Lauren Hafner Addison (Dance) • Lauren explored the history and significance of drumming in north-eastern Brazil
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CIE Honors Klotsche Scholarship Recipients
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he J. Martin and Roberta Klotsche Scholarship was established by UWM’s first Chancellor, J. Martin Klotsche, in recognition of the vital importance of interdisciplinary, international studies. The Klotsche Fund provides merit scholarships for outstanding students participating in the International Studies Major and the Global Studies Degree Program.
CIE is proud to recognize the 2008/2009 Klotsche Scholarship recipients: Ian Arzeni; Global Studies Noah Gehling; International Studies Amalia Postier; Global Studies Alison Szarzynski; Global Studies Nora Wilson; Global Studies
(from left to right) CIE Director Patrice Petro, Allan Klotsche Jr., Noah Gehling, Professor Don Pienkos, Amalia Postier, Chancellor Carlos Santiago, Nora Wilson.
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global intellectual focus. The program will emphasize a transnational outlook, with an aim to draw a global student body and promote global perspectives. The methodologically unique program offers a distinctive opportunity for research that is unavailable elsewhere.
he Center for International Education commends UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the new BuildingsLandscapes-Cultures joint doctoral concentration. This pioneering program will draw on the strengths of both institutions, offering students a unique opportunity to study cultural landscapes, material culture, and ordinary environments, along with environmental behavior, cultures, and resources (i.e. building landscapes).
CIE welcomes this path-breaking program that looks beyond the frontiers of discipline and region. It brings a fresh angle to the study of global perspectives and processes.
In June 2008, UW-Milwaukee hosted a meeting funded by the Chipstone Foundation, and attended by some of the top names in the field, to chart the course of this program. According to Assistant Professor of Architecture ARIJIT SEN, the program will use the city of Milwaukee as a “laboratory” while maintaining a
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n April 2008, the Center for International Education welcomed a diverse group of scholars, artists, and professionals to the UWM campus for World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media. In the tradition of CIEsponsored academic conferences, this event pushed the boundaries of interdisciplinary research and dialogue. Participants included professors of film, sociology, and anthropology, along with an international media activist, a sustainable business executive, and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Foundation genius award. World Making was organized and moderated by CIE Director PATRICE PETRO and Professor of English LANE HALL.
UWM faculty were also well represented at the World Making Conference. Presenters included ERICA BORNSTEIN, CAROL STABILE, THOMAS MALABY, LISA MOLINE, TAMI WILLIAMS, DENNIS LYNCH, A. ANEESH, KRIS RUGGIERO, GILBERTO BLASINI, ARIJIT SEN, PETER PAIK, MANU SOBTI, and PETER SANDS.
The conference began with a challenging discussion of media theory by Mark Poster of the University of California-Irvine, and an eye-opening look into the world of alternative Arab media by Daoud Kuttab, Ferris Professor of Journalism and Princeton University. Other highlights of the conference included presentations by: David Wilson, Curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, who discussed his years of collaboration with artists in the former Soviet Union; Greg Steltenpohl, CEO of Adina World Beat Beverages, who discussed the topic, “business for social change”; and Thomas Elsaesser, Professor of Film and Television at the University of Amsterdam, whose offered his thoughts on current trends in cinema.
Preparations are also underway for the 2009 CIE Conference, tentatively entitled “Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found.” For more information, please contact CIE’s research coordinator, Thomas Maguire, at maguire@uwm.edu.
Currently, CIE Director Patrice Petro, Professor Lane Hall, and Assistant Professor of Sociology A. Aneesh are developing an edited volume on World Making, drawn largely from the conference proceedings.
CIE Grateful for Generous Donors The Center for International Education at UWM is pleased to recognize these generous donors: Perry Granof—for general CIE programs Dr. Cynthia Schuemann—for the J. Martin and Roberta Klotsche Scholarship Program Thank you!
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Other Think Tank topics have included:
WM’s Global Studies undergraduate degree program offers a diverse curriculum designed to cultivate students’ intellectual and professional capacities. Among the unique components of the Global Studies degree are one-credit Think Tank Learning Communities—discussion intensive courses that draw from students at every level of the program. Global Studies majors are required to complete four think-tanks during their time at UWM.
Applied Alternative Media Cross-Cultural Issues in Study Abroad Current Issues in Globallization & Transnationalism Global Health Global Issues As Seen Through Film Globalization, Migration and Immigration Policies Great Decisions: Discussions on US Foreign Policy - ONLINE Identity in an Intercultural Context Immigration International Information Policy Media & Conflict Model UN Origins and Elements of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Origins of Political Islam People, Politics and Globalization World Press Perspectives Writing Like A Pro
Think Tank courses offer a unique opportunity for students to explore professional and scholarly issues within a common learning community. Students agree that think tanks help to promote a deeper understanding of contemporary global issues. Think Tank topics range from more traditional academic subjects such as “Development in the Arab World” and “Globalization and Human Rights” to skill-oriented seminars such as “International Careers” and “Grantsmanship”.
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uring the Fall 2008 semester, two Global Studies Alumni offered presentations in TRACY BUSS’s International Careers Think Tank. BRIAN THOMPSON (Global Studies ’07), a technical support coordinator at Hayes Bicycle Group, described the many opportunities and resources available for students interested in careers overseas. From government agencies, to global corporations based in the Milwaukee area, Brian covered a wide range of options available to current students. He also described how his Global Studies degree has helped him to succeed at Hayes, whose staff and products span the world. Global Studies alumnus LAURA UBBELOHDE (Global Studies ’07), who now works as Market Analyst/Kitchen & Bath for the Kohler Corporation’s Asia markets, presented students with an inspiring account of her own job search. She emphasized that hard work and dedication during the process can often lead to unexpected outcomes. Laura also illustrated the many professional advantages that she enjoys due to her Global Studies degree. Her work at one of Wisconsin’s most famous corporations is a great testament to the program.
Giving to the Center for International Education The mission of the Center for International Education is to foster international education at UWM. The Center offers a wealth of international, global and area studies programs, activities, and resources for educators, students and the public. CIE is committed to promoting and sustaining exciting international education initiatives across the UWM campus, Wisconsin, and the nation. If you are interested in sponsoring a particular program, activity or event, or you wish to provide funding for a current or new scholarship or research project in international education at UWM, please feel free to contact Sara Tully, CIE’s Administrative Director, at 414-229-3767 or swtully@uwm.edu. All donations are tax deductible. Your generosity in supporting such programs will help to strengthen international education at UWM in the years to come, to underscore the quality of International Studies and Global Studies at UWM, and to recognize the best of our best in a manner that will assist them significantly in their intellectual and professional development!
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Institute of World Affairs Creating Role-playing Simulations for Global Education
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he Center for International Education’s Institute of World Affairs is collaborating with the Letters and Science IT office (LSITO) to create a series of digital curricular modules for global education. The modules will allow students to grapple with difficult policy-making decisions associated with issues such as national separatist movements, the world food crisis, and HIV/AIDS. The project was funded by a grant from the UWM Educational Technology Fund, which is generated by student technology fees.
between the College of Letters and Science and the university’s professional schools and colleges. They are designed for use both as a series and as individual stand-alone units. Faculty in disciplines as diverse as nursing, political science, and mass communications have expressed interest in incorporating them into their teaching. IWA Assistant Director DOUGLAS SAVAGE who is managing the project says the over-arching goal is to provide students with an opportunity to engage with critical global issues in a more personal way. “Globalization often makes it difficult to identify the good guys and bad guys,” he said. “At a minimum, we think students will gain a greater appreciation of the complexity of these issues and the competing interests policy-makers face.”
Each simulation is based on a scenario requiring a policy response. Scenarios are set in fictitious countries but drawn from actual events. Characters offering various perspectives appear in videos that the students view as part of their decision-making process. The videos are being produced by the Multimedia Technologies unit of UWM’s University Information Technology Services.
The modules will be made available to the UWM community for instructional use as they are created. For more information, contact Doug Savage at dbsavage@uwm.edu
The modules are aligned to the various tracks in UWM’s ground-breaking Global Studies major, a partnership
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ike the blind men and the elephant in the classic Indian fable, we construct our reality from our own unique experience. We each possess a few pieces of the global mosaic, but the big picture becomes discernable only when we share our perspectives and points of view. That’s the idea behind the Global Commons, a virtual world affairs community established by the UWM Institute of World Affairs. The Global Commons site is being launched on November 17th to coincide with celebration of International Education Week. Global Commons is designed to encourage and facilitate the exchange of perspectives and opinions about our interconnected world. It is a non-partisan, open marketplace of ideas where visitors can discover educational resources, engage in discussions through online forums, and find tools to move from awareness to action. The site will include a growing video collection from the Institute’s public programming, as well as episodes of its weekly video magazine, International Focus. This content is currently available in streaming video format and will soon be available for download. The Global Commons site can be found at: www.globalcommons.org. For more information, please contact the Institute of World Affairs at: 414-229-3032.
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Global Studies Summer Institute 2008 The Faces of Globalization: Global to Local Connections in Teaching and Learning Over twenty-five educators from Wisconsin, Illinois, New York and Arizona gathered at UW-Milwaukee in July 2008 for a three-day professional development program on globalization. Participants included educators from diverse subject areas who teach at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels. The 2008 Global Studies Summer Institute featured a mix of presentations, documentary films and curricular sessions, and explored a variety of globalization themes and case studies, including the impacts of trade and technology on society, culture and the environment. The interactive program also encouraged educators to identify ways globalization affects their classrooms and communities. The Global Studies Summer Institute is an annual conference offered to educators at a substantially discounted cost; the conference is heavily subsidized by UWM’s Center for International Education and the UWM Institute of World Affairs as part of their outreach mission. This year’s co-sponsors also included UWM’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the UW-Madison Center for International Business Education and Research.
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LARRY BORCHARDT joined CIE as Business Manager in June 2008. He holds a Masters of Urban Planning degree from UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Larry previously worked as the Director of Parish Planning for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and as an Operations Manager for U.S. Bank in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Prior to coming to UWM he served as the administrator for the Recorder’s Court of Chatham County (Savannah), Georgia.
GHADA MASRI is Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UWM. She specializes in Urban Geography of Southwest Asia and Feminist Geography. Her dissertation research at the University of California, Davis focused on urban public space, gender, and identity formation under conditions of globalization. Entitled Wounds in the City, Scars in the Nation: Making Sense of Identity, Modernity, and Reconstructed Urban Space in Post-Civil War Beirut, this project examined the rebuilt urban and gendered spatial expressions in post-civil war Beirut. Ghada approaches city urban planning as a means of conflict management and postwar reconciliation, with special attention to global trends in urban and national policy. Her current research examines gendered effects of sectarianism and the remaking of local and national identities in the Middle East.
Study Abroad Scholarships Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
• Jasmin Nunez- $3,500 – participating in our exchange with Chiba University in Japan for the Fall 08 semester • Nick Evans- $5,000 – who is doing a UW-Oshkosh program at Siebold University of Nagasaki in Japan
http://www.iie.org/programs/gilman/index.html • Bao Xiong- $4,000 (Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, China for the 08-09 academic year) • Andrew Bliss- $3,000 (Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, China for the 08-09 academic year) • Kevin Hinz- $5,000 (SARUP-Fall 08 Architecture trip to Paris, London and Florence) • Chaya Nayak- $8,000 (CIEE-India)
2008-09 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship for Studies Abroad http://www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/ EducationalPrograms/AmbassadorialScholarships/Pages/ ridefault.aspx • Ramirez, Antonio Daniel: Universidad Del Cauca, Colombia
Freeman Awards for Study in Asia (FreemanASIA)
JASSO Scholarship (Japan Student Services Organization)
http://www.iie.org/programs/Freeman-ASIA/ • Alex Vincer- $7,000, going on the UWM study abroad program to Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, China for the 08-09 academic year
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DAAD(German Academic Exchange Service) Young Ambassador
Alfred Bader Scholarship for study at Herstmonceux Castle Summer 2008 ($2,000) • Franklin Anderson • Arkesia Jackson • James Lazar • Ilya Smith • Carolyn Umfress
• Beth Brinkman received a DAAD scholarship to study on the UWM exchange program at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany Last year. She is continuing her involvement with DAAD as a Young Ambassador on campus this year and will be promoting Germany and study in Germany.
Fall 2008 ($2,500) • Justine Kaempfer • Samuel Robertson
New International Scholars at UWM Name
Country of Citizenship
Academic Department
SULTAN ALDAIHANI
Kuwait
Information Studies
DANIEL BENAVIDES DIAZ
Colombia
Civil Engineering
YANG BIN
China
Mechanical Engineering
JORDI BURGUET CASTELL
Spain
Physics
LITAI CHEN
China
Finance
PANKI CHO
South Korea
Economics
WEI FEI
China
Information Studies
XUYING FENG
China
Ctr. For International Education
LISA GOGGIN
Ireland
Physics
MICHAL KARPOWICZ
Poland
Information Studies
CHRISTIAN KOELZER
Germany
English
RAKESH KUMAR
India
Civil Engineering
JAEHYUK LEE
South Korea
Physics
MARIE LEHMANN
Germany
Psychology
SONGJUN LI
China
Mechanical Engineering
HAIPING LIN
China
Biological Sciences
ZHENG MA
China
Industrial Engineering
FLORIAN NEUMANN
Austria
Information Studies
CAMILLA OLIVIERI
Italy
Physics
DONG JIN PARK
South Korea
Industrial Engineering
TANMOY RATH
India
Mechanical Engineering
SUNG HYON RHIM
South Korea
Physics
DANIEL RICO
Colombia
Industrial Engineering
YUPING RUI
China
Ctr. for 21st Century Studies
MUSTAFA SAN
Turkey
Adult and Continuing Education
JINXIANG SONG
China
Public Administration
JING WANG
China
Electrical Engineering
RONG WANG
China
Biological Sciences
ZHI-JIAN WANG
China
Chemistry
BIN XIONG
China
Mechanical Engineering
XIAOQIANG YANG
China
Mechanical Engineering
YOUNG SEONG YOO
South Korea
Economics
WANJUN YU
China
Biomedical Informatics
JAMES WESELOWSKI
Canada
Water Institute
EUN KYOUNG YUN
South Korea
Nursing Informatics
HAILONG ZHANG
China
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Research Notes BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, published with Alberro Manuel “The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula”. 2004-2008 Vol. 6 e-Keltoi. http://www.ekeltoi.uwm.edu. Center for Celtic Studies: University of WisconsinMilwaukee.
ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, published with Peter Redfied SSRC Working paper Genealogies of Suffering and the Gift of Care: A working paper on the Anthropology of Religion, Secularism, and Humanitarianism.http://programs. ssrc.org/religion/humanitarianism.pdf 4/30/08
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, published “Reading the body”: Geschlechterdifferenz im Totenritual der frühen Eisenzeit. In Ulrich Veit, Beat Schweizer and Christoph Kümmel (eds) Köperinszenierung – Objektsammlung – Monumentalisierung: Totenritual und Grabkult in frühen Gesellschaften, 2008, pp. 375-395. Münster: Waxmann.
ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, published “Harmonic Dissonance Reflections on Dwelling in the Field,” Ethnos. Vol.72(4). December 2007, pp. 483-508. ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, published “A Vision of the World” in Non-governmental Politics, Michel Feher, Gaëlle Krikorian and Yateu McKee (editors), New York: Zone Books/MIT Press, pp. 669-671.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, published “Review of J.-P. Legendre, L. Olivier and B. Schnitzler” (eds). 2007 L’archéologie nazie en Europe de l’Ouest. Paris: Infolio. Antiquity 82:234-236.
ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, published “Faith, Liberty, and the Individual in Humanitarian Assistance.” in Non-governmental Politics, Michel Feher, Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee (editor), New York: Zone Books/MIT Press.2007, pp. 658-6
MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with M. Karacel, “The demand for money in Turkey and Currency Substitution”, in Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 13, 2006, pp. 635-642.ll
NOELLE CHESLEY, Sociology, Published with Elisabeth Reichart and Phyllis Moen, “The End of the Career Mystique? Policy and Cultural Frame Work that Structure the Work-Family Interface in the United States and Germany”, in Journal of Family Research, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2007, pp. 336-369.
MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with Y. Wang , “The J-Curve: China Versus Her Trading Partners”, in Bulletin of Economic research, Vol. 58, 2006, pp. 323-343.
TRACY HEATHERINGTON, Anthropology, published “Cloning the Wild Mouflon” in Anthropology Today, 24(1): 9-14, February 2008.
MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with A. Gelan, “Testing the PPP in the STAR Framework: Evidence from Africa”, in Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 17, 2006, pp.1-7.
JOHN JORDAN, Communication, published an essay entitled “Disciplining the Virtual Home Front: Mainstream News and the Web during the War in Iraq”, in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (September 2007).
MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with A. Gelan, “On the Relation Between Nominal Devaluation and Real Devaluation: Evidence from African Countries”, In Journal of African Economies, Vol. 16, March 2007, pp. 177-197.
JONATHAN D. W. KAHL, Atmospheric Science, published with H. Bravo A., R. Soto A., R. Sosa E., P. Sánchez A. and Ana Luisa Alarcón J., 2007: Characterization of atmospheric transport to the El Tajín Archaeological Zone in Veracruz, Mexico. Atmosfera, 20(4), 359-371.
SUKANYA BANERJEE, English, published “Empire, Nation, and the Professional Citizen: Reading Cornelia Sorabji’s India calling”, in Prose studies, Vol. 28, No. 3, December 2006, pp.291-317.
HAIG KHATCHADOURIAN, Philosophy, “Democracy and the Globalization of Human Rights”, pp. 104-133 in Proceeding of the 22nd World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy ,Granada , 2005, Vol. III, Human Rights and Ethics, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007.
ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, published an article entitled “Grenada”, in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (Oxford University Press). ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, published “International Law and International Relations Scholarship,” in David Armstrong, ed., Handbook of International Law (Routledge, forthcoming). CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
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MOHAMMED AMAN, School of Information Studies, presented “Education Reform, Global Education and Education for Information Studies, in the Arab World,” Arab Conference on Library & Information Science Education-University of Um el-Qura, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.2007(August 16). (Added from U. directory).
MARY K. MADSEN, Health Care Administration & Informatics Program, published “International Exchange in Disability and Social Inclusion: American Educators’ Perspectives”, in Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Volume 38, Number 3 (Fall 2007). RICHARD D. MARCUS, School of Business, published with Chang K. and Y.C. Kim “The Ownership Structure of Korean Firms after an Initial Public Offering,” in Global Business and Finance Review, Vol.12, Number 2, Fall 2007, pp. 57-74.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented “Beasts of the Forest and Beasts of the Field”: Animal Sacrifice in Pre-Roman Iron Age Europe, at Franke Institute of Humanities, University of Chicago, April 11-13, 2008.
MICHAEL J. MIKOS, Foreign Languages & Linguistics, published “Zarys historii polonistyki w Ameryce Polnocnej”, pp. 206-222 in Literatura polska w swiecie, Vol. II, Romuald Cudak, ed.,Katowice: Wydawnictwo Gnome, 2007.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented “Mad Builder or Architect of Social Change? Eventful Archaeology, the Heuneburg Mud-brick Wall and the Early Iron Age of Southwest Germany” at the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology Conference, University of Buffalo, April 3-5, 2008.
KATIE E. MOSACK, Psychology, Published with Y. Wang, S-S. Lio, M.R. Weeks, J-M. Jiang, M. Abott, Y-J.Zhou, B. He, W. liu, “Microbicide acceptability among women in sex establishments in Southern China”, in Sexually transmissible diseases, Vol. 35, 2008, pp. 102-103.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented “Barbarians at the Gates”: Pre-Roman Iron Age Societies of Temperate Europe, at the AIA 109th Annual Meeting, Chicago January 3-6, 2008.
MARK NETZLOFF, English, published “The English Colleges and the English Nation: Allen, Persons, Verstegan, and Diasporic Nationalism”, pp. 236-260 in Catholic Culture in early Modern England, Roland Corthell, Frances Dollan, Christopher Highly and Arthur Marotti, eds., Notre Dame Press, 2007.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented “A Landscape of Ancestors: Early Iron Age Societies in Southwest Germany” at the AIA La Follette Lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, October 4, 2007.
R. PICKERING-IAZZI, French, Italian and Comparative Literature, published “Re-membering Rita Atria: Gender, Testimony, and Witnessing in the Documentary Diario di una siciliana ribelle,” Italica 84.2-3 (summer/autumn 2007): 438-60.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented a talk at the EAA 13th Annual Meeting, Zadar, Croatia September 18-23, 2007.The Talk’s title is: The Heuneburg Archaeological Landscape and the Hallstatt/La Tène Transition.
ROY ARTHUR SWANSON, French, Italian and Comparative Literature, published “Hybrid Flowers in the Danish Ulysses,” a review article on Danish translations of Ulysses, in James Joyce Literary Supplement, Spring 2008, vol. 22, no. 1, init. p.3.
BETTINA ARNOLD, Anthropology, presented “Ahunting we will go”: The Fellbach-Schmiden Triptych and Elite Hunting in Iron Age Europe, at the EAA 13th Annual Meeting, Zadar, Croatia September 18-23, 2007. The session was co-organized with Derek Counts, UWM Dept. of Art History. The Session was entitled: The Master of Animals in Old World Iconography.
JING ZHANG (forthcoming). The effect of advertising appeals in activating self-construals: A case of “bicultural” Chinese X-Generation consumers. Journal of Advertising.
SUKANYA BANERJEE (Associate Professor, English) presented a paper titled “’What Status Shall British Indians Occupy Outside India?’ Debates on Imperial Citizenship in LateVictorian England” at the University of Oxford, England, on March 4, 2008.
JING ZHANG and En Mao (in press). Understanding the acceptance of mobile SMS advertising among young Chinese consumers. Psychology & Marketing.
Presentations
ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, presented “International Studies Association Compendium Project,” Panelist, ISA Conference, March 29, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
MOHAMMED AMAN, School of Information Studies, presented “Assessment of Library & Information Services.” Special Library Association-Arab Gulf Countries Chapter, Doha, Qatar. 2008 (April 15-17) (Added from U. directory).
ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, presented “Building Treaty Regimes,” Panel Discussant, ISA Conference, March 29, 2007, San Francisco, CA. 29
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ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, presented “Mock Trial Appellate Hearing on the Prosecution of the Attorney General and Defense Secretary for Torture at the International Criminal Court,” Defense Counsel member, ISA Conference, March 27, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
Environments,” Taking The Road Less traveled: Built Environments of Vernacular Artists (International conference), John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI September 2007.
ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, presented “International Law and International Relations.” at ISA Conference, March 26, 2007, San Francisco, CA.
TRACY HEATHERINGTON, Anthropology, presented “From Monuments To Matrices: Changing Projects Of Landscape In Twenty-First Century Europe”, Workshop on Comparative Ecological Nationalisms, McMillan Center for International Studies, Yale University, April 25-26 2008.
ROBERT BECK, Center for International Education, presented “UN and Human Rights Scholarship: The Interdisciplinary Research Trajectory,” at “America, Human Rights and the World” Conference, Marquette University Human Rights Initiative, September 27-29, 2007, Milwaukee, WI.
TRACY HEATHERINGTON, Anthropology, presented “Environmental Partnership and Landscapes of Transition in South-Eastern Europe” in a session on The Morality of Social Justice in a Global World, Columbia University Council for European Studies Annual Meetings, Chicago, March 6-8, 2008.
SUSAN YELICH BINIECKI, Center for International Education, co-presented “Cultural Self-identity and World Affairs Education: Contextual Building Blocks of Learning for Sustainable Communities in an Interconnected World”, at the Midwest Research to Practice Conference for Adult Education at Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.
TRACY HEATHERINGTON, Anthropology, presented “Masterpiece Theater: The Role Of Extras On The Global Scene Of Intangible Authenticities” for Society for the Anthropology of Europe invited session in honor of Michael Herzfeld, AAA meetings in Washington, D.C., November 2007.
JOHN BUNTIN, Biological Sciences, presented “Energetic of Parenting in an Avian Model: Hormones and Neuropeptides Regulating Parental Provisioning in Doves” at the international Parental Brain Conference in Boston.
TRACY HEATHERINGTON, Anthropology, presented “Living Landscape And Local Visions: Science, Culture And Environment From The Mediterranean To The Black Sea”, Unesco South East European Conference, Science For the Future, Science For Society, Tulcea, Romania, June 27-29, 2007.
ELANA LEVINE, Journalism and Mass Communication, presented “From Domestic Appliance to High-Tech Gadget: Media Convergence and the Masculinization of Television Technology,” at the Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2008. (From University Directory).
GREGORY JAY, English; Cultures and Communities, presented “Multiculturalism in a Democratic Society” at the University of Indonesia; Komunitas Utan Kayu; Ministry of National Education (digital video conference with 20 sites); Bhayangkara University; Trunojoyo State University; Islamic University of Madura; Soegijapranata Catholic University; Diponegoro University; IAIN Walisongo.
ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented “Between Charity and Rights: Orphans and Philanthropy in New Delhi,” invited lecture, South Asian Studies Program, University of Iowa, November 15, 2007. (Added from directory).
CHRISTINA MARANCI, Art History, presented lectures in Cyprus on Early Christian and Byzantine Art. JEFFREY OXFORD, Spanish and Portuguese, presented “A Young Man’s Revenge: Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War in Trapiello” at the 2007 American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese annual meeting in San Diego, Calif.
ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented a paper entitled “Sacred Philanthropy: Between Impulse and Obligation” at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. November, 2007. (Added from direcrory).
DONNA L. PASTERNAK, Curriculum and Instruction, published “Going the distance: E-Mail from Norway.” Leading and Learning with Technology. 35, 8 (June 2008).
JEFFREY HAYES, Art History, presented “Paradise lost: Thoughts on the impermanence of Vernacular
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DONALD PIENKOS, Political Science, presented “United States –Poland Relations”, at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Polish Foreign Ministry.
Forum of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Benin City, Nigeria. The travel grant also supported travel Nigeria to conduct research on monocyte/macrophage system interactions in malaria in children.
RAQUEL OXFORD, Curriculum and Instruction, presented “Managing Marvelous Multiples in Study Abroad: Opportunities for Professional Growth.” at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers. Appleton, Wisconsin. (November, 2007).
DEREK COUNTS, Art History, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “What a Tangled Web we Weave: Hybridity and Ancient Material Culture” at the Society for American Archaeology Conference in Vancouver, Canada. SANDRA MARTELL, Educational Psychology, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Understanding Student Comics: Using Comic Books as a Data Collection Tool to Investigate Learning on Field Trips and Early Career Workshops” at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
RAQUEL OXFORD, Curriculum and Instruction, presented “Cultivating Capacity in Chinese: A Wisconsin Imperative”, at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers. Appleton, Wisconsin. (November, 2007). CHIA YOUYEE VANG, History, gave a talk on U.S. foreign policies in Laos during the 1950s and 1960s at the “International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Asia-Pacific Region in the Cold War Era” on December 8, 2007. The symposium was held at Tokyo University and co-sponsored by Professor Shunya Yoshimi (Dean, Inter-Faculty Initiative in Information Studies, Tokyo University), Professor Masako Notoji (Director, Center for Pacific and American Studies, Tokyo University), and Yuka Tsuchiya (Associate Professor of Global Studies, Ehime University).
LINDA MCCARTHY, Geography, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant which supported travel to China to conduct research on their automobile industry. STEPHEN MEYER, History, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “She Town: Mechanization, Unemployment, and Male Fears of Women on the Automotive Shop Floor from the 1920s to the 1940s” at the Labouring Feminism 2 Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
JING ZHANG (2008). Comparing the persuasiveness of individualistic and collectivistic advertising appeals between Chinese X-Generation and older consumers. Presented at American Academy of Advertising 50th Anniversary Conference, San Mateo, California, March 27-30
DAVID PRITCHARD, Journalism and Mass Communication, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Sex, Lies and the Internet: The Unexplored Landscape of Criminal Libel” at the International Communication Association’s Conference in Montreal, Canada. ELIZABETH RICE, College of Nursing, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Community Mental Health Case Managers’ Perspective of Violence among Women Diagnosed with Schizophrenia” at the 5th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Grants MICHAEL MIKOS, Foreign Languages and Linguistics, was named to the advisory board of the journal Ethnolinguistyka and to the board of the International Committee of Slavists.
YI MING ZOU, Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Deodhar’ Closed Formula for Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials” at the Nankai Summer School in Representation Theory in Tianjin, China.
Faculty Travel Grants MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “A Multilevel Examination of Leadership Practices in Quality Management: Implications for Organizational Performance in Healthcare” at the International Conference on Business, Management and Economics in Izmir, Turkey. ANTHONY AZENABOR, Health Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Chlamydia trachomatis infection of human trophoblast cells and their effects” at the Research 31
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Study Abroad Fair
International Education Week
September 17 Union Concourse
The Center for International Education will be celebrating International Education Week with an array of programming this fall. International Education Week, held November 17-21, 2008, is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. It is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States. Full information on events can be found at whttp://www.thinkgloballyattendlocally.blogspot.com.
Culture Cafe As always, this fall semester the Global Student Alliance will be continuing its tradition of hosting Culture Café. Culture Café is an informal and relaxed environment with no worries, just great conversation. It is a great time for students to come together, taste traditional ethnic foods, and enjoy friendly and stimulating discussion. Each week features FREE food, coffee, and activities. This fall, the Café will be held on Thursdays in Garland Hall 104 from 2:00-3:00 pm. The first meeting will be on September 11th and subsequent meetings will be held every other week through December 4th.
Events will include: • International Welcome Reception • International Bazaar • Poster Session on International Research • Lecture on Global Health and Development • Supply drive for the Ghana study abroad program
Culture Cafe dates for fall 2008 (all events held from 2:00-3:00pm: September 11 September 25 October 9 October 23 November 6 November 20 December 4 We look forward to seeing you all again soon, and to continuing GSA’s mission to foster cross-cultural understanding. For additional information please contact Ty SrungBoonmee, Global Student Alliance Coordinator, tanyamat@uwm.edu.
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New Issues of Online Global Studies Journal Released New issues of Global-e (www.global-ejournal.org), an innovative online journal of Global Studies, are now released on a quarterly basis. The journal is jointly sponsored by: the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; the Global Studies program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison; the Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and the Center for Global Initiatives at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This online journal features short-form articles (roughly 1000 words) on a variety of topics and welcomes viewer comments. With this innovative “blog” style, unique among academic journals, Global-e offers current, cutting-edge perspectives on the emerging field of global studies. According to the Global-e précis, “commentaries focus on public issues, theoretical debates, methodological challenges, and curricular concerns.” The journal also aims to build connections among university programs in global studies
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www.international.uwm.edu The Center for International Education (CIE) fosters new areas of scholarly inquiry into internationalism and globalization by strengthening the connections between research, teaching and outreach programs on the UWM campus. CIE is deeply engaged in on-campus and overseas curriculum development, research conferences and scholarly publication, public programming, and professional development for teachers. CIE is home to Wisconsin’s only World Affairs Council, the Institute of World Affairs, which provides high quality public programs featuring international experts. Because the insights and perspectives offered by students and scholars from other countries greatly enhance our campus, CIE also provides advising services for international admissions and immigration.