IN THIS ISSUE:— Sustaining Cities Conference Breaks New Ground

in Interdisciplinary Urban Research

— Exploring the Learning Organization

in the Turkish Context

— Muslim Women, Activism, and Social Justice

— From the Ideal to the Real: Understanding

International Development

A Biannual Bulletin by the Center for International Education

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Another academic year is upon us here at CIE and we are looking forward to a productive and exciting fall semester. UWM faces the unique challenge of performing on the global stage of research and scholarship while remaining

relevant and accessible to our local community. This issue of Global Currents illustrates the amazing work on campus that links the global and local in our university.

In April, CIE held its annual academic conference on the topic, “Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found.” This dynamic event brought scholars and practitioners

from around the world for a truly singular conference. Sustaining Cities continues CIE’s established tradition of original interdisciplinary research on topics of pressing significance. I would like to thank everyone from the campus community, and especially Professor Linda Krause, who helped to make this event a success.

The research section of this issue presents the work of three scholars on campus, all of whom address links between the global and local, or even the erosion of spatial boundaries altogether. Thomas Malaby shares his research on Second Life, a highly popular and populated virtual world. He examines how the structure and architecture of Second Life relates to its ostensible status as a free environment. Anna Mansson-McGinty’s article demonstrates how local and global elements continually interact in the religious life of Muslim women in Milwaukee. Her work with the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition shows the importance of university-community collaborations to our city. Finally, Mesut Akdere’s contribution covers his research on the tourist industry in Turkey. Mesut offers an interesting portrait of one community’s response to global economic and social trends.

International students and scholars are important constituents of our campus community. This issue of Global Currents features an interview with Mustafa Kemal San, a Turkish sociologist who is entering his second year as a visiting scholar at UWM. His research on Turkish communities in the United States asks important questions about identity, migration, and conceptions of homeland. We are also delighted to feature the story of Monzur Morshed and Zeeshan Habeeb, two recent Ph.D. graduates in chemistry who met at UWM and were later married. Their experiences provide a window into the lives of international students and the challenges that they face in Milwaukee.

As always, Global Currents is proud to showcase the impressive achievements of our undergraduate students. Recent alumnus Spencer Chumbley’s article is a thoughtful discussion of the conflict between the ideals and practice of international development. His piece offers a profound example of student commitment to international education.

For our extended community of CIE students and scholars, and all those new to campus who are interested in our work, we will be holding our annual welcome reception at 3:30-5:00pm on September 18 in Greene Hall. No other event on campus brings together all the international constituents at UWM for a celebration of their varied and important work. We look forward to seeing you there.

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ResearchExploring the Learning Organization in the Turkish Context:

Implications for Employee Satisfaction .......................................................................2

On the Ground Activism: Muslim Women’s Work for Civil Rights and Social Justice ......4

Making Worlds Online: A New Age of Digital Governance ........................................6

CIE Conference Breaks New Ground ........................................................................8

ProfilesDr. Mustafa Kemal San: Living in a Diverse World .....................................................9

Finding Good Chemistry in Milwaukee ...................................................................10

CIE WorldFrom the Ideal to the Real:

Understanding International Development ...............................................................12

Roles Reversed–MAFLL Faculty Become Students Again! ...........................................15

Off the Beaten Path in North Africa ........................................................................16

Engineering a Better World ....................................................................................18

Enrollments Soar in CIE Programs ...........................................................................19

Two UWM Students Win Fulbright Scholarships .......................................................19

Study Abroad in Winter 2010................................................................................20

UWM Receives U.S. Department of Education UISFL Grant .......................................24

New International Scholars at UWM .......................................................................24

CIE International Photo Contest ...............................................................................25

Notes ...............................................................................................................26

Events .............................................................................................................32

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Exploring the Learning Organization in the Turkish Context:Implications for Employee SatisfactionBy Mesut Akdere

MESUT AKDERE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Administrative Leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Human Resource Development with a minor in Human Resources and Industrial Relations. His research focuses on quality management, leadership, and performance improvement through training and organization development. He conducts research both in the U.S. and internationally. He has published in multiple journals and is an affiliated faculty member of the Master of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the Master of Science in Nonprofit Management and Leadership programs at UWM. He serves as the chair of the International Committee of the Academy of Human Resource Development. He is also an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award program as well as a reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

The tourism industry has been serving the Turkish economy as one of its main sectors and contributors for

labor and sustainable development purposes. Since the early 1980s, the Turkish government has campaigned for attracting and bringing both national and foreign investors to help develop new areas for different tourism centers. Many economic initiatives and projects have been sponsored or supported by the government to enhance these efforts. Such efforts, however, cannot be effective without preparing a skilled and qualified workforce. It is not just the buildings or other improvements that matter in this context. A highly trained labor force is the key component to success.

As a native of Turkey as well as the region (the Southwestern region of Turkey—Antalya and its environs), I have, over the years, observed the steady impact of tourism on the region– economically, socially, and educationally. In addition, as a teenager, I worked in the tourism industry in the region during my vocational high school internships in the early

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1990s. Since then, I have stayed in touch with my co-workers and other colleagues who are now at the upper management levels in many luxury hotels in the area. These connections helped me immensely with the recruitment of the participants for my study. Between 2006 and 2008, I traveled to the region to investigate the relationship between learning organizations and employee satisfaction in the Turkish tourism industry with a sample of various hospitality and tourism professionals in the region. The southwestern region of Turkey is considered the heart of the Turkish tourism industry with the highest number of tourists visiting the area each year. Since the 1990s, the tourism sector has changed this region’s economic and social landscape, transforming the region into a global center for tourism. This rapid economic development brought economic wealth to the region, improving the well-being of the people living in southwestern Turkey. However, like many other economic development efforts in developing countries, this too has impacted the region economically, politically, socially, and environmentally. The overall economic impact of tourism on the Turkish economy has been significant. In 1992, the annual revenue gained from tourism-related income was $3.6 million, whereas in 2003, it was reported as $9.7 million (Yildirim, 2005). These figures certainly demonstrate the role of tourism in Turkey’s economic development in general and the southwestern Turkish region in particular.

The study explores the learning organization concept and its relationship to employee satisfaction. A learning organization is “an organization that has an enhanced capacity to learn and to change” (Watkins, 2005, p. 415). This definition involves four levels of learning: (1) individual, (2) teams, (3) organizations, and (4) global. Employee satisfaction, on the other hand, is one of the most important factors determining the employee level of happiness with the organization. The study utilized two validated instruments from the U.S. and translations of the survey instruments were conducted by me and another Turkish expert for content validity purposes. This longitudinal study included over one thousand professionals who have been in the hospitality and tourism industry for at least 6 months or more. Preliminary findings suggest a positive association between a learning organization and employee satisfaction. Based on the current literature, it would be possible to hypothesize that organizations that embrace learning achieve higher levels of employee satisfaction, which, in turn, contributes to the organizational bottom line of performance both at the individual, team, and organizational levels. This finding presents some

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opportunities and challenges to the managers and leaders in the organizations in terms of retaining and attracting the most skilled and qualified employees in the field. There is also a direct relationship with the long-term sustainability of the Turkish tourism industry which cannot survive without such employees. Although the learning organization is a new concept in Turkey and many other parts of the world, managers and leaders are discovering the role of learning for continuous improvement. In a global competitive market, employees are the organization’s most precious assets.

References

Watkins, K. E. (2005). What would be different if higher educational institutions were learning organizations? Advances in Developing Human Resources, 7(3), 414-421.

Yildirim, S. (2005). An evaluation of the Turkish economy from the perspective of the problem of the balance of payments and the effect of tourism on its solution. Journal of Academic Studies, 7(26), 103-118.

Dr. Akdere visits ruins of ancient Lycia in south-western Turkey

New articles of Global-e (www.global-ejournal.org), an innovative online journal of Global Studies, are now released every few weeks. 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 reader 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.

UWM faculty members are invited to submit articles to this exciting new journal. If you are interested, please contact Thomas Maguire, CIE’s research coordinator, at maguire@uwm.edu.

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ANNA MANSSON McGINTY is Assistant Professor of Geography at UWM. She received her Ph.D. in European Ethnology from Lund University in Sweden. Her general research interests concern identity, gender, and religion; women and gender in Islam; Muslims and Islam in the West; Islamic feminism; social and cultural theory; and person-centered ethnography. Her book Becoming Muslim (2006) is an ethnographic study of Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. It focuses on their identity formation, personal life-story, their understanding of Islam, and the phenomenon of conversion. Her current research project examines the gender identity and political, social, and religious activism of Muslim women in the Midwest.

The last decade has seen an increase in the number of organizations, events, and programs that address the

rights and roles of Muslim women globally. In the U.S., there are several emerging Muslim women’s organizations, networks, magazines, and journals, and influential Muslim organizations such as ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America, and MSA, the Muslim Student Association, are currently being led by women. This development indicates that Muslim women are taking on an active role in asserting their voice on various salient issues, as well as defining the meaning and role of Islam in their societies. While there is a rather persistent trend within the social sciences to view religion in general as conservative by necessity and restrictive of social change, particularly when it comes to the question of Islam and gender, these emerging activities point to Muslim women’s efforts to contribute to political and social change within the framework of their own religious faith.

In October 2005, the first international conference on Islamic Feminism assembled around 400 participants from different parts of the world. A year later, a second, follow-up conference was organized. The conferences, which were held in Barcelona, Spain, brought together prominent Muslim and non-Muslim activists, scholars, and feminists who discussed the absence of women’s voices in male-dominated interpretations of Islam and ways to promote Muslim

women’s struggle to achieve equal rights. A similar event took place in November 2006, when more than 100 Muslim women leaders, human rights activists, and scholars from around the world gathered in New York to discuss their common goal of improving Muslim women’s rights and to create a space for dialogue between different voices within the Muslim umma (world community) on global issues concerning Muslim women’s lives. The event was convened by WISE, Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equity, a program promoted by the American Society for Muslim Advancement, ASMA, with sponsorship from U.S. foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Ms. Foundation. An overall vision of WISE is to address Muslim women’s marginalization and the lack of Muslim women’s participation in various debates. Importantly, in order to work within an Islamic legal framework to advocate for women’s rights, WISE launched a women’s shura (advisory council) that will issue recommendations to political and religious leaders on how to handle different issues of concern for women. Besides legal work, the initiative strongly emphasizes Muslim women’s engagement in philanthropy and community outreach, working for social justice and equality in the spirit of Islam. It is this kind of religiously inspired community activism that I’m exploring as part of a current ethnographic project on American Muslim women, gender, and activism.

A close-to-home example of such on the ground activism is the work of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, the only Muslim women’s organization in Milwaukee. The organization was founded by a handful of professional Muslim women in 1993. Their main goal is, as one of the founding members expressed it, “to serve the community broadly, but also to present a positive image of Muslim women.” By reaching out to the various parishes, agencies, schools, and organizations of the broader Milwaukee community, the coalition attempts to address the marginalization of Muslims in the society at large, to make the Muslim community more visible and involved, and to put Islam’s essential message of justice and equality into practice. Through a university-community collaboration project, initiated and organized by the coalition and supported by the Cultures and Communities Program at UWM, I had the opportunity to work with the coalition on the topic of “Combating Islamophobia by Empowering Women.” The title of the project suggests two intertwined goals – challenging stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam, as well as providing an opportunity for Muslim women to engage in public debate on an issue of pressing

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concern in their everyday lives. As one of the women involved commented, simply the active participation of modestly dressed Muslim women in hijab, the Muslim headscarf, dispels some of the more widespread ideas about Muslim women as oppressed and silent.

The collaboration project involved three seminars for educators, media, and law enforcement, respectively. The project also initiated a series of intensive educational workshops for the Muslim women, coached by an ACLU representative. At these workshops, the Muslim women were trained as “advocates,” discussing strategies of how to best counter prejudice and facilitate more fruitful dialogues across differences. During the workshop discussions, the women expressed very similar experiences of religious and racial discrimination. Following September 11, 2001, many had critical concerns about civil liberties. Besides the frequent employment discrimination that Muslim women face due to the hijab, which makes them easily identifiable as Muslims, they discussed threats and public harassment. Some of the women made historical parallels to the racism that other groups, such as Jews and African Americans, have been subjected to in the United States. They argued that, similar to the struggles of these groups against negative portrayals and the denial of civil liberties, Muslims need to fight the injustice they face today. “Combating Islamophobia by Empowering Women” is only one of many projects launched by the Muslim Women’s Coalition. In their effort to address social injustice and marginalization, the women have also organized programs such as a two-year long health care initiative, reaching out to Muslim as well as non-Muslim individuals and families without insurance, as well as a medical assistant training program open to people within the wider Milwaukee community whose first language is not English.

While women in Islam and the presence of Muslims and Islam in the U.S. are quite well-explored and researched fields, there are a lack of ethnographic studies focusing on identity formation and the social and religious activism of Muslim women. Interestingly, the political and social climate post-9/11 seems to have opened up a space for increased activism among Muslim women, an activism that strengthens their religious belonging and identity. Community outreach by American Muslim women demonstrates a fascinating interconnection between faith, identity, and activism. The experience of having one’s religious beliefs misrepresented, and sometimes attacked, in public discourse as well as in everyday encounters, triggers a sense of urgency to act. Moreover, to work for social justice and equality is viewed as a religious obligation. As one woman who volunteers in several community programs expressed, she has no choice other than to act. “I have to give. What I have is not mine.” Taking on public roles, working for a “good and healthy society” and “the common good” means performing and implementing one’s faith.

The global movement and discourse centering on Muslim women’s rights and role in society, whether it is referred to as Islamic feminism, Qur’anic feminism, or more broadly a human rights movement, are composed of a diversity of voices and differing views on gender roles and relations, but what unites the different positions is the agreement that the dialogue should be held within an Islamic framework and that the solutions are to be found within the Islamic faith. Islam calls for a continuous reinterpretation of the faith, or as one woman emphasized, “The spirit, the intent, of Islam is that it should be dynamic, be reinterpreted, and be made relevant for every time and every place.” By means of participating in public debates and adopting public roles, American Muslim women are making sure that they have a voice, a voice that Islam rightfully guarantees them. Their increased involvement and contribution are hence a vital part in the process of assessing and defining the meaning of American Islam.

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hMaking Worlds Online: A New Age of Digital Governance By Thomas Malaby

THOMAS MALABY (thomasmalaby.com) is Associate Professor in the Department ofAnthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Thomas has published numerous works on virtual worlds, games, and indeterminacy. He iscontinually interested by the ever-changing relationships among institutions, unpredictability, and technology, especially as they are realized through games and game-like processes. His newly published book, Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life (2009, Cornell University Press), is an ethnographic examination of Linden Lab and its relationship to its creation, Second Life. He is also a featured author at the blog Terra Nova.

Human beings tend to take the “world” for granted – the world in this singular sense is the “natural” world,

imagined as shared by all and immutable. But in a sense, human beings have always made many worlds, and many kinds of them – the worlds of meaning that make up such a large part of culture, the architected worlds of our built environment, and the imagined worlds of literature and other fiction – and we seem to have little trouble reaching for the term when we imagine these creations. World is a powerful concept for all of these various human artifacts because it suggests an expanse of possibilities as well as a degree of persistence, a sense that we can act within them in multiple ways, and that our efforts within them can have lasting consequences. But the term can obscure the human contrivance at work in all of these cases; it naturalizes things that bear indelibly the fingerprints of their makers.

The rise of powerful and widely available digital technology along with network connectivity has made new kinds of world making possible. High-tech corporations are now able to create spaces online that are not restricted to transformed versions of familiar media (such as the way in which blogs are in many ways a new kind of journalism). These new spaces are called virtual worlds, and they require less of an introduction by the day, as they have risen dramatically to prominence in a number of quartersi. They are characterized by their use of the internet to provide a persistent, open-ended, and shared three-dimensional space for users to interact, typically via avatars (virtual bodies that move about and act inside the world).

Second Life (“SL”), launched in June 2003, stands in contrast to many of the other well-known virtual worlds (World of Warcraft, Everquest II, Lineage II) in that it has no established and universal game objectives. It has thus quickly risen to prominence as the most celebrated “social” virtual world, but Google and other companies have launched their own such worlds. Beyond SL’s remarkable growth (it has millions of registered users and by some accounts about 600,000 active users), its distinctive feature is its users’ access to in-world “tools” for the creation of interactive virtual objects and other content to which they own the intellectual property rights. Users can furthermore control how these creations are distributed to other users, including through market transactions in the in-world currency, Linden dollars (L$).

Second Life’s land is also a purchasable commodity, and all of these features have contributed to the emergence of a remarkable economy, one which also supports the buying and selling Linden dollars for US dollars. In short, SL supports the production of various forms of capital (market, social, and cultural) and this in turn has supported continuing innovations in SL’s use by individual and institutional participants, many of whom have begun not only to pursue market interests but also to explore the potential of SL for learning and therapy. As virtual worlds like SL become more and more significant sites for stakes, shared experience, and social action, however, their architected quality raises questions about their makers: If virtual worlds are becoming persistent public spaces of consequence – a kind of “virtual commons” – how is governance to be legitimately conceived within them? Is their design effectively an act of public policy, and if so, how are they publicly accountable? Do these concerns also apply to more familiar online technologies, such as Google’s search engine and other offerings?

When I began doing research at Linden Lab in December 2004, approximately 13,000 users had created accounts in SL – small by the standards of the virtual world industry (at the time the original Lineage, a game primarily popular in East Asia, boasted over 2 million users worldwide), but this number was beginning to rise at an increasing rate, and this lent to the employees of Linden Lab a sense of urgency and hopefulness over that year. By the time I finished my research in January of 2006, more than 120,000 user accounts had been created, and SL was beginning to appear with greater and greater frequency in national and international news outlets.

In its user interface and elsewhere, one’s “second life” is held up as on a par with one’s “first life,” and there is little doubt that SL depends as much upon its analogous relationship to the affordances of first life (the avatar/body; familiar, gravity-simulating physics) as it does to new capabilities (such as

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flight). In an official SL blog post titled, “The Mission of Linden Lab,” CEO Philip Rosedale invoked simulation explicitly:

“[W]e are trying to create a close reproduction of the actual physical world we live in – one that will be easily comprehensible and useful to us because it will so closely resemble ours. The ability to simulate our world on computers means that we can make it different in ways that empower us, allowing us to do things that in the physical world we can imagine but are incapable of.”

We can see two “levels” of making here. The world of SL is a created world, and in its affordances is supposed to simulate our first life, except where it does not. SL’s departures from pure simulation are held to be in all cases consciously designed, and thereby able to serve the public good through the expansion of individual power (“we can make it different in ways that empower us”). So designed, SL stands as a place where second-order creation (creation within the system) takes place, and where simulation of offline experience allows for all the familiar capabilities of life offline, as well as the designed broadening of those capabilities for the greater good of all.

This tension was recognized in the context of certain debates at Linden Lab. One, just before I completed my research in early 2006, concerned whether users should be allowed to customize their daylight/nighttime settings (a trivial matter to control via their control over the software). A Linden put the core issues succinctly in an email:

“There are two opposing motivations: (1) We are a tool, a platform. We are plastic: users mold us as they feel. They should be able to put the damn sun wherever they want. (2) We are a simulation of the real world. Things happen naturally, and the residents build their lives around universal truths and natural cycles. We build by day and we party by night. Trying to satisfy both of these motivations is the problem, I think.”

Simulation implies a commitment to a certain kind of constraint - to the idea that by faithfully reproducing something (such as the conditions of offline life) you will support creative activity. But the metaphor of the tool suggests a readiness to change conditions when called for to support local interests or desires. The difficulty is one of public policy - to what extent might SL’s users not, in fact, know what is good for them? On the whole, in these kind of arguments, holding onto an idea that governance of SL must run against individual user preferences was a difficult argument to sustain, because it contradicted the ideals of trusting aggregate individual decision-making and open access (participation). Nonetheless, in practice the largely implicit distinction between world-makers and world-users that shaped thought around Linden Lab allowed just enough momentum for Linden Lab to retain ultimate control over what was “under the hood.”

This is because while Lindens tried continually to downplay their degree of control over SL, their efforts to act with respect to SL were intimately connected to how they imagined their users and

how to govern them. Or, more precisely, they were connected to whether and to what extent they should be directly governed, govern themselves, or be governed by the array of affordances (including constraints) that SL presents as an intrinsic feature of its code, which Linden Lab inevitably controls. At the same time and not coincidentally, Linden Lab was continually over the course of 2005 struggling to govern itself, as it grew in size and its world grew in both size and complexity. What organized their ideology and their practice when challenges of governance appeared?

In general, I found that there was a consistent initial commitment in both cases to attempt to let emergent effects themselves generate governance. Much like Adam Smith’s invisible hand, there was a trust in the “collective wisdom” of aggregate action or decision-making. This faith in technology as the means by which to harness the ability of a “system” to govern itself has an important history - it characterized an important segment of the counterculture of the 1960s, most notably in the writings of Stewart Brand. This group evinced the same combination of distrust of vertical authority and faith in technology that characterized Linden Lab, along with a similar impulse to create new communities. For Linden Lab, this explicit commitment to a disinterest in vertical control over SL, and their own company, was contravened in practice, most obviously in their ultimate control over the code.

Creativity is a central ideal of how Lindens imagine themselves and their users, in particular how they (roughly) imagine what their users might do with one added capability or another. But does “real” creativity lie in the hands of those who create within a world, or those who make the world itself? In setting out to make a world that is supposed to make itself, Linden Lab evinced a remarkable and anti-bureaucratic commitment to unintended consequences, and then found itself shaped by Second Life as the world and its effects grew. Making it up as they went along, Linden Lab’s original ethical attitudes (in practice and discourse) toward people and technology were subtly changed, but not necessarily overturned, and this challenges our previously-held ideas about institutions and their relationship to what they create. Above all this underscores for us the importance of understanding the power of the deep architectural position of the relatively small number of people and organizations at the forefront of constructing the digital societies to come, and how those organizations, in their struggles to act and preserve their position relative to their creation, are working out new institutional and technological techniques for governance.

iThey have also been called, variously, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs, or simply MMOGs), massively multiplayer online [worlds] (MMOs), and synthetic worlds, but virtual worlds currently enjoys precedence, despite the misleading suggestion that “virtual” makes: that there is a clear separation of it from the “real.”

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CIE organizes annual academic conferences that examine dynamic, interdisciplinary themes with a select group of esteemed scholars. In April 2009, CIE sponsored Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found, a pioneering conference in interdisciplinary urban research.

Sustaining Cities featured a roster of diverse and internationally renowned speakers, with topics including: planning initiatives in Milwaukee, cutting-edge global trends in urban design, the representation of cities in both U.S. and Chinese film, and the sociology of automobile culture. Organized by Professors Patrice Petro and Linda Krause, the conference met with rave reviews from the campus community and wider public. Several representatives from local government also attended the conference.

Given UWM’s singular commitment to exploring, sustaining, and contributing to urban life, the Sustaining Cities conference provided a profound service in connecting the academy to Milwaukee for important discussions that impact the city’s future. In a difficult era for cities worldwide, the university has a unique role to play in conceptualizing a healthy economic, environmental, political, social, and cultural future.

Audio recordings of conference talks will be released shortly on the conference website: http://www4.uwm.edu/CIE/research/conferences/Sustaining_Cities/index.html

CIE’s 2010 academic conference, “Law and Disciplinarity: Thinking beyond Borders,” will take place at UWM’s Hefter Center on April 23-24, 2010.

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New Release in CIE’s Book Series Freya Schiwy’s Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes, & the Question of Technology is the latest release in the New Directions in International Studies book series (Edited by Professor Patrice Petro) from Rutgers University Press. This original contribution explores new terrain in indigenous media. From the back cover:

“Latin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Columbia. Indianizing Film zooms in on a selection of award-winning and widely influential fiction and docudrama shorts, analyzing them in the wider context of indigenous media practices and debates over decolonizing knowledge. Within this framework, Freya Schiwy approaches questions of gender, power, and representation.

Schiwy argues that instead of solely creating entertainment through their work, indigenous media activists are building communication networks that encourage interaction among diverse cultures. As a result, mainstream images are retooled, permitting communities to strengthen their cultures and express their own visions of development and modernization.”images are retooled, permitting communities to strengthen their cultures and express their own visions of development and images are retooled, permitting communities to strengthen their cultures and express their own visions of development and

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CIE is honored to present this interview with MUSTAFA KEMAL SAN. As a sociologist who is conducting fieldwork with Turkish communities in the United States, San is making important contributions to transnational research at UWM. His work highlights the complex interaction of global and local processes in our community.

Please describe your research specialization and the kind of work you did in Turkey.

For fifteen years, I have been working in the University of Sakarya, which is located in northwestern Turkey. I started at the university as a research assistant and I remained in this position for almost ten years. Since 2002, I have been working as Assistant Professor. My primary research interest has always been the sociology of literature, and this was the focus of my dissertation. My early publications examined the relationship between literature and society, the sociology of intellectuals, and some aspects of post-industrial societies. My interests have since broadened to include many areas of contemporary sociology, particularly gender, ethnicity, postmodernity, and post-industrial societies. My current work examines multiculturalism and social capital.

Why did you choose to come to UWM?

I was interested in finding a rich environment for the study of multiculturalism and diversity, and the United States is perhaps the most diverse country in the world. After some initial correspondence, UWM invited me to campus as a visiting scholar. I am particularly thankful to Dr. Barbara Daley, Dr. Mesut Akdere, and Dean Alfonzo Thurman for their kind invitation and support. I am also especially grateful to my own university, the University of Sakarya. Their support for my extended research abroad made this all possible.

How has your experience here impacted your research?

I have been living in Milwaukee since August 2008. Throughout my time here, I have had significant opportunities to understand diversity in the American experience. Close observation is extremely valuable when studying foreign cultures, particularly for those things that are not learned from books. Despite the depth of sociological literature about foreign cultures, there are many aspects of life that you can only learn in the field. Since arriving in Milwaukee, I have gained valuable knowledge about the American university system and American society at large. I have been particularly impressed with the stability of academic freedom and the richness of American diversity.

Why is it important to study ethnic and national communities in the global context?

Today, pluralism has almost become the natural structure of all societies. As a result of the social transformations that globalization brings, plural identities and the increasing role of global institutions related to these transformations have become the shared realities of our present world. It is very difficult to find a unique community anywhere in the world. We now live in a global village, as mentioned by Marshall McLuhan, a famous Canadian communications scholar. Migration processes accelerate every day as people travel the world. It seems impossible to stop. In this global era, 2.5% of the world’s population live in other than their native country. We can now find tremendous diversity in many countries, particularly in the United States, Canada and Australia. Whether or not they define their states as multicultural, ethnic diversity is an undeniable reality of our age. For these reasons, sociology today is highly interested in ethnicity, diversity, and national identity.

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The ethnic structure of the United States is evident in academia, where ethnic and multicultural studies are very common. A simple search of any American university library will uncover hundreds of books on ethnic identity. However, despite this richness, there are few existing studies about Turkish Americans. This situation has encouraged me to investigate Turkish communities in the United States. Currently, approximately 5 million Turks live abroad, 70% of whom reside in Western European countries. Most of them serve as the labor force. As European countries closed their doors, Turkish migration shifted to the Middle East, North America, and Australia.

For this reason I wanted to conduct a comprehensive study about Turkish people living in the U.S. Today, it is estimated that up to 300,000 people of Turkish origin live in the United States. Most

of them chose to live in big metropolitan areas such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami. In this study, I am attempting to observe some aspects of multicultural attitudes among the Turkish population. Why do Turkish people desire to live in the United States and how do their attitudes change after migration? What do they think about American society and American pluralism? What are their future plans? Do they want to live in the United States permanently or do they want to return to Turkey? What are their religious and political attitudes? Are they interested in American politics? To what degree do they assimilate within mainstream American society? Do they view the United States as their home or as a strange place? Through this study, I want to find valuable information about Turkish people living in America.

ZEESHAN HABEEB and MONZUR MORSHED got more than they bargained for as international graduate students at UWM. Monzur arrived to campus as a graduate student in 2002. Zeeshan started as an undergraduate in 1999 and later joined the graduate school in 2003. Although they were both studying chemistry, they did not know each other before the fall of 2003. In 2004, they got married.

Zeeshan and Monzur hail from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but as Muslims, they share a common faith. They are still learning each other’s language. Zeeshan is an Indian citizen but was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. Her cultural background is Saudi but she speaks English as a first language. Monzur hails from Bangladesh and his first language is Bengali.

Their cultural differences were initially a concern but they were able to overcome this obstacle. Affinity for one another was not enough to ensure marriage. Among Muslims from the Indian sub-continent, parental permission for marriage is paramount. The prospect of marriage proved a bit shocking for both sets of their parents due to the cultural and linguistic barriers. Fortunately, Zeeshan and Monzur found strong support from family and friends in Milwaukee who were able to mediate with their parents overseas. Zeeshan’s aunt, a Milwaukee local, played a very important role. After getting permission from their parents, they got married on 11th of March, 2004, within four months after the initial introduction! The wedding was a small family gathering. Their reception ceremony was honoured by the presence of friends from UWM’s Department of Chemistry, along

with members of Milwaukee’s Muslim and Bangladeshi communities.

Wisconsin proved to be a good environment for Zeeshan and Monzur to overcome their cultural differences. It was through the local pastime of fishing, and by spending time in Milwaukee’s beautiful parks, that they grew to know each other more. Monzur earned his PhD in May 2009 and Zeeshan just finished in August. They are looking forward to more fishing in Vancouver, Canada, where they recently relocated.

Monzur and Zeeshan are very grateful for the help and support from friends and family in Milwaukee, especially the Muslim and Bangladeshi communities in the city. They are also very thankful for the support and care from the Center for International Education and Chemistry Department at UWM.

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SPENCER CHUMBLEY graduated from UWM in May 2009 with an Honors degree in Economics and Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies from UWM. His interest in international development drove him to seek an internship with the United Nations Development Program in Timor-Leste this past summer. He intends to pursue a graduate degree in Integrated Water Resource Management in Fall 2010 to further specialize in a sector that will increasingly challenge international development efforts in the future.

Sergio Vieira de Mello, a career United Nations diplomat and administrator was quoted as saying, “the transition from the ideal to the real is often extremely long, hard, costly, and cruel.” What he was referring to was the difficult and often criticized mission of the United Nations to transform not only war into peace, but directly impact the lives of millions who are suffering from the effects of conflict and poverty world wide.

As a former student of Economics and recipient of the Center of International Education’s (CIE) Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Certificate, I have been able to slowly understand de Mello’s statement within its suggested global context, as well as how it applies to students bridging the divide between their education and its application in what is affectionately called the “the field.”

Through my studies at UWM, I was provided with a base of knowledge to understand the complex realities of the international development and humanitarian sector. The course material and classes were often more than exciting. Conversations about holistic peacebuilding, human trafficking and sustainable development did not end after the lecture was over, but were often carried out over dinner and drinks later in the evening. A community of people began to develop, with our education and dedication to “saving the world” as a common bond between all of us.

“We were idealists and regarded the occasional cynic with contempt.” While this was originally written in the memoirs of Brian Urquhart, of UN Peacekeeping fame, this quote perhaps best describes the overall feelings of the community that had developed at UWM. Riding the high on our idealism and education, many of us scattered to different parts of the world in May, 2009. Some left with our degrees and others to complete the study abroad and international internship component of the Global Studies degree. The locations were truly world wide and included Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia.

After almost three days in transit, I landed in Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste, the world’s newest nation. With only 10 years since the infamous 1999 UN-sponsored independence referendum, and following destruction carried out by pro-Indonesian forces, the country remains a hotbed for

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From the Ideal to the Real: Understanding International Development

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development junkies and humanitarians alike. I had spent my last year at UWM using Timor-Leste as the case study for numerous papers and I was keen on seeing a place that I had spent so many hours writing about. My interest in Timor-Leste was sparked originally by reading about de Mello’s time as the Special Representative to the Secretary General after the referendum and the lead-up to independence in 2002. On the ground, I would be interning for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), part of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)

The initial descent into Dili gave a spectacular view of the island’s mountainous interior. During the touch down and taxi, I was quick to get a view of several large UN transport helicopters as well as Australian combat helicopters. The imposing technology would be the first indicator of the large international community that resides in the country and its effect on national conditions, good and bad.

Most introductions here begin with “where are you from?” and are quickly followed up with questions regarding what agency you work for, as well as how long you have been in country. The responses range from places as far from home as Nairobi and as close as Madison. Some people I met were as new to Dili as I was, and others, such as famed journalist Jill Joliffe, were here when Indonesian forces invaded in September of 1975. The international community provides a wealth of knowledge and experience in which a young student can learn the tricks of the

trade, but also remains daunting as respect is only earned as fast as days turn into weeks and weeks into months. In the field, time is experience.

While my initial assignment was to Human Resources, skills in photography quickly garnered the attention of the Media and Public Information unit and I was reassigned. Sammy Mwiti, the Kenyan head of the unit, and I quickly found common ground through our shared experience of bitter Midwestern winters, as he in an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame. Sammy and I spent several weeks covering community dialogue meetings in the mountain villages of Liquisa, mediation and conciliation training in Dili, and agriculture and irrigation projects in the distant enclave district of Oecussi. Although I have accomplished a few of what I like to call “UN stereotypes”, such as fording small rivers in large UN sport utility vehicles, and taking helicopter rides to distant locations, much of the real work is carried out in the UNMIT compound, known simply in Dili as the Obrigado Barracks.

The endless hours of planning in the office is the front line of the transition between the ideal vision for Timorese development and its implementation into the real lives of the Timorese people. It is this step where de Mello’s words ring true. The transition from the ideal to the real is extremely long, hard, costly and cruel if planning is poor and oversight is non-existent.Project implementation takes long hours of planning and only upon a later evaluation do you face the hard realities of either

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success or failure. In our trip to Oecussi, neither the European Commission evaluators nor our accompanying project officer were happy to see only half of the irrigation completed. Morale did not improve after we saw that the costly new structure designed to house the community market was not being utilized. Due to lack of organizational oversight in planning its location, it was placed miles from the current market and main transport route.

Oftentimes, the misuse of large amounts of foreign aid by non-governmental organizations and project contractors can only be described as cruel. Unfortunately, with the current structure of the international aid and development system, it is often hard to avoid. Jose Ramos-Horta, Timor’s president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, recently urged western governments to review their foreign aid policies and claimed that little of the $3 billion pledged to Timor has been seen by its people. In a recent speech in Australia, he is memorably quoted as saying, “if that money was really used for capacity building in a proper way, every Timorese would have a PhD by now.”

My time in Timor-Leste passed quickly. As I tied up loose ends and said my goodbyes, I could not help but think about how my views of the United Nations and the field of international development had changed. I witnessed first hand poorly managed development projects of one agency, while being astounded by the efficiency and success of another. It has made me wonder: where is the disconnect?

Why are overarching global plans with unobtainable deadlines so popular when piecemeal policy interventions and projects are showing the most success? Why do individual aid and development agencies attempt to address all problems facing a particular country, or in a sense “do it all” when specialization has proven to be the most economical approach worldwide? Why are aid agencies duplicating projects and services when resources could be used to address problems that have received no attention? My questions are endless, yet I am not the first to ask them. Many development economists and practitioners have called for aid reform before, but why isn’t anyone listening?

This fall, many who spent their summer or semester abroad will regroup in Milwaukee. I look forward to this time when we can come together again as a community and share our individual experiences in the world of aid and international development. I hope together we can make sense of the world we have seen. Although, I question whether our original idealism will remain. Perhaps we will be the cynics that hold the occasional idealist with contempt, but a more critical approach to understanding development is what is needed for success.

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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!

Roles Reversed–MAFLL Faculty Become Students Again!

Abdelaadim Bidaoui, Linguistics concentrator and Arabic TA, taught Intensive Arabic for four weeks in July 2009 to French professors Anita Alkhas, Larry Kuiper, Lori Terando, Gabrielle Verdier, Spanish professors Nancy Bird-Soto, Kathy Wheatley, Ester Suarez-Felipe, and Language Resource Center Director Mingyu Sun, with the assistance of Arabic language and literature professors Hamid Ouali and Caroline Seymour-Jorn. This is the first phase of an exciting project, Arabic for Speakers of French and Spanish, supported by a grant funded by the Center for International Education. The premise is that French and Spanish (and Italian) provide an advantageous gateway into the study of Arabic due to many linguistic, historical and cultural exchanges over fourteen centuries. There are also significant contemporary cultural, economic and political ties among the French, Spanish and Arabic speaking worlds. The project will result in a new course, “Arabic for Students of French and Spanish,” which

will include an important online component on cultural and linguistic “bridges” between the countries on both sides of the Mediterranean. In addition, research shows that learning a third or fourth language is facilitated after learning a second because students are able to draw on the learning strategies and meta-linguistic skills that they have developed. This project and resulting course will thus also provide a source of data for better understanding 3rd language learning/acquisition.

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In January I left Cairo, Egypt after finishing a four-month study abroad program there. I boarded a plane for a short three and a half hour flight to Tunisia for an internship in the capital city of Tunis. However, that is about as much as I knew about where I was going, and what I would be doing. In fact, when I applied for an internship at AMIDEAST in Tunisia, I had to ‘Google’ a map to just know for certain where Tunisia was. I was quite surprised at how well Tunisia seemed to be able to “fly under the radar”, despite having such infamous neighbors. However, most of my family and friends have no idea where I spent those three months. This is partially shameful, yet, Tunisia’s relative invisibility can be attributed to its ability to stave off conflict and attain social and economic stability that is almost unrivaled in Africa and the Middle East.

From the airport to the hotel, I could already perceive many differences between the bustling city of Cairo and the seemingly quiet, quaint, and unassuming city of Tunis. Please know that when I say quiet, quaint, and unassuming, I mean it in the most endearing sense imaginable. After

what felt like four hard fought months in the chaos that is Cairo, Tunisia was a welcome respite.

Tunisians would often ask me, “What did you expect Tunisia to be like?” And “What do Americans think of Tunisians?” Before this, I hadn’t really pondered over an answer and thought possibly that most Americans didn’t know that Tunisia exists. This brings about a certain sense of amusement because they are so concerned about Western culture, and yet it also is embarrassing how unaware some Westerners can be. I responded to them with my own question; “Who are the Tunisians?” I quickly discovered that Tunisians are the most hospitable people I’ve ever encountered. However, they also have a knack for having the

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lowest possible opinion of themselves and acting downright schizophrenic regarding their own cultural identity. A virtual collision of culture, Tunisia’s identity is stretched over a barrage of influences. Ranging from their indigenous North African Berber heritage, a stint as the “Bread Basket” of the Roman Empire, the indelible impression left by the Muslim Empires of the Middle East, and a most recent tenure spent as a French colony. This has collectively left them with a current schism between their Maghrebian and Francophone “ness.” Yet, regardless of the fact that Tunisians have difficulty fitting in amongst their nearby French and Arab neighbors, they have an awful lot to be proud of. In terms of quality of living and economic stability, Tunisia ranks amongst the top of African and Middle Eastern countries. Furthermore, they boast perhaps the most progressive position on women’s rights worldwide. However, where Tunisians perhaps show their greatest tenacity and ambition as a people currently is in regards to education. All Tunisians are free to pursue higher education as a result of the nationwide socialization of public universities. In 2007, it was recorded that 58% of the student population were women. In recent years, however, Tunisia’s prosperity has been more difficult to access for the increasing number of college graduates. In order to seek jobs, Tunisians are increasingly looking internationally. Already fluent in Arabic and French, young Tunisians are now in hot pursuit of English. AMIDEAST is a United States based non-governmental organization that has provided English language courses throughout the Middle East and North Africa for over 25 years. They have intensely intimate relationships with their communities and have managed to transcend political turmoil. They have also managed to bridge gaps and open communication in a fashion

that ought to embarrass several of the world’s greatest political powers. In short, they have a service and the market for it is as wide open as the Sahara that encompasses half of Tunisia. The AMIDEAST office in Tunis has doubled its class sizes over the past decade and is only restricted by the pace it takes them to purchase its neighboring buildings one by one. Demand has grown such that they even went as far as to open a second office to the south in Sousse, which has quickly outgrown its apartment-sized office. My own time at AMIDEAST was spent operating a small English resource library. Twice a week, I moderated a free English language discussion that, over the course of three months, grew from around 10 participants per session to easily 20-30. Most weren’t even AMIDEAST students, but local university students, the majority of which were, again, women.

Tunisia is small country that lies at Africa’s northernmost point. It enjoys beautiful beaches, dramatic green plains, and breathtaking desert rockscapes. To its credit, it may always remain a quiet and quaint place to the stray or random traveler. However, it may be this young generation that takes the nation to new, less unassuming, heights. And simply being Tunisian will be enough to define a culture, a people, and a nation.

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After a year of planning and design with the aid of the EWB-USA advisement committees, and with our professors’ oversight, we sent seven students and one mentor to Guatemala in June 2008 to implement a water distribution system. The design encompassed a concrete spring box to capture the water at its source and protect it from waste runoff, 1500 meters of buried PVC pipe, and a centralized distribution tank. The project’s sustainability stemmed from its local design and the community participation to dig the trenches and build the concrete structures.

During our implementation of the water distribution system, we did more extensive water testing and found that the spring water being used by the community tested positive for fecal coli forms. During the fall 2008 and spring 2009 semesters, our group, which had grown to 35 students, completed the design of Phase II of this project, emphasizing

water sanitation and home distribution. Excited to complete the project, eight members and two mentors traveled to Quejchip this past June. With the cooperation and collaboration of the village of Quejchip, the masons of Agua Para la Salud, and Engineers Without Borders at UWM, the group constructed a 1700 meter distribution pipe line bringing the water from the distribution tank to 51 individual home taps. We also built a chlorinator for the distribution tank, and a hand washing station and four latrines for the elementary school.

While there, we also introduced a community education program completed through door-to-door visits aimed at increasing sanitation techniques for children and adults. We were recently informed that the chlorinator was turned off by the region’s government due to misconceptions about chlorine. However, we are hopeful that our continued visits, work, and support in this region will sway the government to trust their new chlorine sanitation technology to improve Quejchip’s hygiene and health. Our work with Agua Para la Salud continues next year as we are designing a water distribution project in the nearby village of La Libertad to be constructed in the summer of 2010.

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Enrollments Soar in CIE Programs

The Center for International Education administers a wide range of academic programs for UWM students, including the Global Studies and International Studies majors and several certificate programs. Enrollments in these programs have shown remarkable growth in recent years, a testament to the increasing significance of international learning and global competence for today’s college student.

CIE’s innovative and cross-disciplinary Global Studies program has seen declared and intended majors triple since fall 2005. Close to three hundred students are currently working toward their Bachelor’s degree in one of five Global Studies tracks: Global Cities, Global Classrooms, Global Communications, Global Management, and Global Security.

UWM’s longstanding International Studies major and minor remain strong. Several certificate programs have witnessed substantial growth, particularly the Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution certificate program which enrolled 82 students for fall 2009.

The importance of international education for the new global century cannot be underestimated. In addition to academic program administration, CIE also oversees study abroad, international student services, and public outreach on issues of global significance.

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CIE congratulates Amy Samuelson and Kyle Meyer for their selection as 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholars. The renowned Fulbright scholarship is the premier international exchange program of the U.S. government.

Amy Samuelson (Ph.D. student in Anthropology) will study the practices of environmental NGOs in Moldova. Her research plan is a fascinating combination of social and natural sciences that will examine this critical issue through a unique interdisciplinary lens. Moldova presents an interesting case study because its agricultural society is impacted by a diverse and competing array of international political actors.

Kyle Meyer (UWM Class of 2008; majored in Biology and French) will study marine sponges in New Zealand. Sponges are one of the greatest sources of bioactive chemicals with potential applications in pharmaceutical research. At present, global climate change raises serious questions about the important symbiotic relationship between sponges and microorganisms. Kyle plans to examine the stability of these microbial communities and the potential impact of invasive microbes.

The Fulbright scholarship is a remarkable achievement and UWM is honored to have two students chosen for this prestigious award.

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ARGENTINA: Public Education in ArgentinaFaculty Leader: SANDRA PUCCI, School of Education

The UWM School of Education’s Argentina UWinteriM program welcomes students from all majors! This exciting program will focus on Argentina through the lens of one of the most important institutions in the modern world, public education. By studying public education, students will examine intersections of the political, historical, migratory, international, and cultural forces which have shaped this institution. Education will be critically examined, and its relationship with other public institutions, such as the different areas of government, public health, the military, and the church, will be explored. Consequently, the content will be broader than the particular “disciplinary focus” on education. This course will be offered for both undergraduate and graduate credit, and require junior status. Although some proficiency in Spanish is desirable, it will not be required. Other activities will include visiting the Teatro Colón, attending a Tango show, and taking a guided tour of La Boca.

UNITED KINGDOM: Sociology Field Research: Perceptions of the National Health ServiceFaculty Leader: ANN GREER, Sociology, College of Letters and Sciences

In this exciting program students will explore British citizens’ experiences with and attitudes toward the National Health Service (NHS). Since 1948, the NHS has cared for the British and their many immigrant guests according to three principles set down at the time of its launch. It shall care provide care to all, be free at the point of delivery, and be comprehensive in its coverage of health care needs. Traditionally the NHS has been ranked in public opinion polls as the most trusted of British social institutions and the most popular, after the Monarchy. This does not mean that it has no problems. Students will conduct themselves as a research team and interview a diverse array of London citizens seeking their experiences with the NHS and their perceptions and feelings about it proceeding through the steps of research to a statement of our findings. Other activities will include a tour of London, museum visits, a theater performance, neighborhood walking tours, and a day trip outside of London.

GHANA: Traditions of GhanaFaculty Leader: MENSAH ABORAMPAH, Africology, College of Letters and Science

West Africa is the ancestral home of the greater percentage of people of African descent currently living in the U.S. Ghana, one of the sixteen nations of West Africa, offers a tremendous opportunity to study the political, economic and cultural forces that have helped to shape the “African Personality”.

Join us in January 2010, as we travel to Ghana and experience the country 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.

GERMANY: Kassel International Winter University: Environmental Engineering and Renewable ResourcesProgram Leaders: SHARON KAEMPFER, Engineering Advisor and Prof. ROBERT BALMER, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Imagine studying engineering in Germany! This unique English-language program features lectures by professors from Kassel University. The seminar will focus on the important issues of climate policy and renewable energy resources, specifically: solar-thermal, wind energy, biomass, and photovoltaics. Visits to local German renewable energy sites and companies are built into the program. Workshops include field trips and hands-on project work. As part of the 3-credits earned for the course, students will be assigned a design project to work on when they return to Milwaukee that incorporates the topics of the course. Past projects include a solar photovoltaic website, renewable energy strategies for the Central Milwaukee Public Library and design of a solar self-sufficient zone for Bradford Beach vertical axis wind turbines.

Students live with German families and are provided with two meals a day. In addition, UWM students will be partnered with Kassel students to increase the value of the experience. Don’t miss out on this outstanding opportunity to earn academic credit while exploring one of Germany’s most attractive regions – the state of Hessen.

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INDIA: The Making and Un-Making of an Indian CityFaculty Leader: MANU SOBTI, School of Architecture and Urban Planning

SARUP’s India UWinteriM program welcomes students from architecture, global studies, art history, geography and urban studies majors. Students from additional majors are also welcome on a case-by-case basis. Building on two earlier successful trips in 2008 & 2009, this year’s itinerary includes focused studies on the cities of Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. Besides a vibrant urban setting, both cities have several iconic buildings designed by Le Corbusier and Chandigarh is the quintessential city par excellence for urban designers. It presents a unique tabula rasa based on one man’s 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, it remains an enigma in its successes and failures. Ahmedabad - once the so-called ‘Manchester of the East’ with its several dozen now-largely derelict textile mills - is today a Mecca for architects and designers worldwide. Besides a superb School of Architecture, its architectural culture was fed by Corbusier and Kahn, leaving behind an enduring legacy that continues through its influential designers.

India is changing, and changing rapidly. How does this radical and irrevocable change connect to the past, present and future? How “Indian” is its embedded Indian-ness? What shall these cities become in the decades to come? These are among the plethora of questions students shall encounter. This trip also includes visits to New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh & Agra. An additional, unique feature of this trip is the opportunity for a short, urban workshop with students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, done en route.

UNITED KINGDOM/SPAIN: Economy of the European UnionFaculty Leader: AMIT BHATNAGAR, Lubar School of Business Assistant: RACHAEL DANIEL, Senior Academic Advisor, Lubar School of Business

Travel to London, England and Madrid, Spain while learning the dynamics of European business in this 3-credit study abroad program. This high-quality program begins with an exploration of London, where students will visit institutions such as Lloyds of London, British Museum, the House of Parliament, etc. Then the program crosses the sea to Spain. In this country, participants will visit and receive lectures at various Spanish businesses, such as Bolsa de Madrid, Real Madrid football Club, El Corte Ingles department store, etc. Students will also have cultural day trips in both England and Spain.

MALAWI: Nursing & Community HealthProgram Leaders: Prof. LUCY MKANDAWIRE-VALHMU, Prof. PATRICIA STEVENS, ANNE BANDA, College of Nursing

This unique program, sponsored by the College of Nursing, will give participants a first-hand look at the way communities are dealing with health and wellness concerns in this southern African nation. Students will visit hospitals, clinics, social service organizations and the University of Malawi to learn how practitioners, community activists and others are working for better health care for Malawians. Most of the visits will be in and around Blantyre, the commercial capital of the country. Trips will include visiting a family that hosts orphans, an extended trip into the rural areas around Lake Malawi and an overnight stay in a wildlife preserve. You will be part of an extended Malawian family on this trip and will have a chance to experience the beauty of southern Africa! Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Priority will be given to nursing students but all those interested in community and public health are encouraged to apply. All participating students must attend both mandatory pre-departure meetings. This program will involve a competitive review so all interested students are strongly encouraged to attend an informational session for tips on applying and more details about the program.

MEXICO: Air Pollution and Ancient CulturesFaculty Leader: JONATHAN KAHL, Atmospheric Sciences, College of Letters and Science

Numerous pre-Hispanic and colonial structures in Mesoamerica are made of limestone. This soft stone building material, sometimes covered with paintings and stucco, steadily deteriorates in the presence of acidic pollutants. In the developing countries of Latin America, efforts to protect cultural artifacts from the damaging effects of air pollution are in their early stages. In this course students will examine firsthand the relationships between meteorology, air pollution, and cultural artifacts. The course will blend lecture and laboratory experiences at universities in Milwaukee, Mexico City and Campeche with visits to spectacular museums and cultural heritage sites throughout Mexico.

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SOUTH AFRICA: International Information LiteracyFaculty Leaders: JACQUES DU PLESSIS, DEAN JOHANNES BRITZ, School of Information Studies

This is the fourth 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 academics. 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 2-day safari.

THAILAND: Culture, Ethnicity and GlobalizationFaculty Leader: GARRY DAVIS, Foreign Languages and Linguistics/ German, College of Letters and Science

This program is open to all students interested in Thailand in particular and Southeast Asia in general. The course includes time in Bangkok and beautiful Chiang Mai, in Thailand’s Northern highlands. The goal of this program is to allow students to acquaint themselves with the process of borrowing and synthesis that shaped the development of modern Thailand. This includes by definition the opportunity to interact with and to learn about the cultural diversity of Thailand as a multi-ethnic nation. Students will explore not only the dominant culture of Thailand (Siamese), but also examine the historical ties of the Siamese to other groups such as the Hmong and the Lao in the north and east of Thailand. By the end of this program, students should better understand Thailand’s modern role in the region and the on-going process of globalization there while also being able to explore how ancient cultural traditions, aspirations and attitudes can remain a strong force even as modernization occurs.

Spring 2010 Semester Programs:

The following are study abroad programs that CIE administers each spring. Though geared towards the needs and interest of UWM students, they are open to students from all colleges and universities.

London AIFS London is an exciting city to live and study. One of the world’s most beautiful capitals, it is rich in art, music, theater and literary history. The UWM London Study Program is administered in partnership with the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS). AIFS provides important student support services including: classroom facilities, housing, advising, special cultural and social events, and much more. AIFS also arranges an optional pre-semester European tour as well as other mid-semester tours to other European destinations.

The academic setting for the program is at the University of London, located at the heart of the Bloomsbury district, just minutes away from Piccadilly Circus, Big Ben, the tower of London, and Buckingham Palace.

Courses are taught by faculty from partnership U.S. campuses as well as instructors from London. In addition to a mandatory course on British Life and Culture, course topics vary but typically include art, history, literature, political science, social science and theater. There is also the potential to earn three honors credits from UWM. Note that students will take classes with fellow Americans and will not be in classes with British students. The courses are specially selected to maximize the benefits of being in London.

Paris IC This joint UW-Milwaukee/ UW-Madison study abroad program offers students the exciting opportunity to spend spring semester in Paris, living in a French home and taking French language and culture courses. This program is good for students who want the experience of living in Paris and participating in French university-sponsored classes but who also prefer to have an on-site Faculty Director and to maintain direct ties with a US university. The structure of the curriculum also allows for students with a lower level of French to participate fully in the program.

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Intensive language courses are offered at the Institut Catholique (IC), a university founded in 1875 and located near the Jardin du Luxumbourg in the center of Paris. All students participate, with other international students, in an intensive 6 credit language course at the Institut de Langue et de Culture Françaises (ILCF), a branch of the IC. The language courses are designed to improve students’ written and oral proficiencies.

The Faculty Director and two local instructors will each teach a culture/ civilization course. Students are required to take at least two of these study abroad program-specific courses and may take all three. Courses include field trips and site visits. For an additional fee students can take a culture or language course at the ILCF which offers a variety of courses for every language level. Special program options include a 2-3 credit internship and a course on international business (for UWM students only).The program is administered on location by a faculty director from UW-Milwaukee or UW-Madison and by the Paris Accent office. Accent, a program provider, offers an array of trips and tours exploring Paris’s unlimited cultural and historic resources. Visits are also made to the surrounding areas, including Versailles, Chartres, Giverny & Fontainebleau.

Colmcille From Medieval times to the present, Ireland has inspired writers, fascinated visitors, and beguiled the uninitiated with its captivating countryside, its wealth of music, art, and architecture, its lifestyle and history—an ideal destination for an in-depth cultural experience!

As a participant on the Colmcille Semester students will experience the life and culture of two very different places on the Irish landscape: rural Glencolmcille and urban Derry. Coursework emphasizes Irish language and culture with an option to take a course in Politics.

This English-speaking, semester-long study abroad program is divided into modules of varying duration between Glencolmcille – a small coastal valley community in the Donegal Highlands in the Northwest corner of the Republic of Ireland, and at the University of Ulster, Magee College, Derry – the second largest city in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. These program sites and the general structure of the program are selected to give students a diverse glimpse of Irish life. The required internship, in particular, provides students with the unique opportunity to work in-depth with a local organization. Internship placements are made based, as much as possible, on student interests and skills.

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CIE is pleased to announce that UWM has received a prestigious Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language (UISFL) grant. The federal funds will support the expansion and development of the Arabic and Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs at UWM. In cooperation with CIE staff, the program was conceived by Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Caroline Seymour-Jorn, Assistant Professor of History Ellen Amster, and Assistant Professor of Arabic Hamdi Ouali. Dr. Ouali runs the university’s Arabic instruction program while Drs. Seymour-Jorn and Amster oversee the Middle Eastern and North African Studies certificate program. Associate Professor of French Anita Alkhas will also contribute significantly to the grant through the development of an introductory Arabic course for French and Spanish speakers.

UISFL funds will support the development of an Arabic minor and underwrite a wide array of curricular and co-curricular programs in Middle Eastern and North African studies. Among the activities supported are course development, language tables, library materials acquisition, and a film festival.

CIE will function as the administrative home of the UISFL grant with the generous support and oversight of a diverse advisory committee drawn from across campus. The grant period will span two years, after which UWM hopes to stand as a regional leader in these important fields of learning.

Name Country of Citizenship Academic Department

LAN BING China Architecture and Urban Planning

CHANGNIAN CHEN China Mechanical Engineering

GRIGORIOS ITSKOS Greece Industrial Engineering

DONGXIAO GU China Business Administration

ALEXANFER PICHLER Austria Information Studies

MARLENE PETER Austria Information Studies

YI LI China Information Studies

DIMITRIOS TSIOKOS Greece Civil Engineering

GEORGIOS KANELLOS Greece Civil Engineering

SIMONA RATTI Italy Physics

EUNSUN JI Korea Nursing

YING ZHOU China Information Studies

MATTEO DE ANGELIS Italy Business Administration

SU-HUEI LIN Taiwan Foreign Languages & Linguistics

BABU KOTHANDAPANI India Mechanical Engineering

XIAOWEI ZHU China Psychology

DANIEL MARTINEZ AVILA Spain Information Studies

ZHIGANG ZHANG China Industrial Engineering

YI-CHUN LIN Taiwan Information Studies

STEPHANIE HAGER Austria Information Studies

QING WEI China Electrical Engineering

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CHANGNIAN CHEN China Mechanical Engineering

GRIGORIOS ITSKOS Greece Industrial Engineering

DONGXIAO GU China Business Administration

ALEXANFER PICHLER Austria Information Studies

MARLENE PETER Austria Information Studies

YI LI China Information Studies

DIMITRIOS TSIOKOS Greece Civil Engineering

GEORGIOS KANELLOS Greece Civil Engineering

SIMONA RATTI Italy Physics

EUNSUN JI Korea Nursing

YING ZHOU China Information Studies

MATTEO DE ANGELIS Italy Business Administration

SU-HUEI LIN Taiwan Foreign Languages & Linguistics

BABU KOTHANDAPANI India Mechanical Engineering

XIAOWEI ZHU China Psychology

DANIEL MARTINEZ AVILA Spain Information Studies

ZHIGANG ZHANG China Industrial Engineering

YI-CHUN LIN Taiwan Information Studies

STEPHANIE HAGER Austria Information Studies

QING WEI China Electrical Engineering

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Algocratic Modes of Organization,” Sociological Theory, forthcoming.

MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with Y. Wang, “The J-Curve at the Industry Level: Evidence from Trade Between U.S. and Australia,” in the Australian Economic Papers, Vol. 46, 2007, pp. 315-328.

MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with G. Goswami and B. Talukdar, “The Bilateral J-Curve: Canada Versus Her 20 Major Trading Partners” in the International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 22, January 2008, pp.93-104.

MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with R. Mitra, “Exchange Rate Risk and Commodity Trade Between U.S. and India,” in the Open Economy Reviews, Vol. 19, 2008, pp. 71-80.

MOHSEN BAHMANI-OSKOOEE, Economics, published with G. Goswami and I. Miteza, “Could Changes in Black Market Exchange Rates be Expansionary in LDCs?,” in the Economics Bulletin, Vol. 6, No. 13, 2008, pp. 1-9.

ROBERT BECK, Political Science, published “Grenada,” in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Rudiger Wolfrum, ed., Oxford University Press, 2009.

ROBERT BECK, Political Science, published “International Law and International Relations Scholarship,” in Routledge Handbook of International Law, David Armstrong, ed., Routledge, 2009, pp. 13-43.

MARTHA CARLIN, History, published “’What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?’ The Evolution of Public Dinning in Medieval and Tudor London,” in the Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 1, 2008, pp. 199-217.

MARTHA CARLIN, History, published “Putting Dinner on the Table in Medieval London,” pp. 58-77 in the London and the Kingdom: Essays in Honour of Caroline M. Barron, Matthew Davies and Andrew Prescott, eds., Harlaxton Medieval Studies, XVI, Proceedings of the 2004 Harlaxton Symposium, Donington, U.K.: Shaun Tyas, 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, published “China Now: Art, Language, and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program” in the Chinese as Foreign Language in the Study Abroad Context, Beijing, China, pp. 225-332 [in Chinese].

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, published “The Use of Traditional and Simplified Characters in the Chinese Language Instruction in the United States,” in Wenhsun, Taipei, pp. 80-83 [in Chinese].

MICHAEL J. DAY, Geography, published “Salvadoran lime kiln establishment in the Hummingbird karst,” Belize, Caribbean Geography 14(2), 1979-1988, pp. 133-144.

MICHAEL J. DAY, Geography, published with Urich, P.B., “Military campaigns in tropical karst: Bohol, the Philippines,” in Military Geology and Geography: History and Technology, eds. P. Nathanail, R. Bradshaw and R.J. Abrahart, Land Quality Press: Nottingham, pp. 145-158.

MICHAEL J. DAY, Geography, published with Urich, P.B., “Potential impacts of sea-level rise on Belize,” in Caribbean Geography 14(2), pp. 73-90.

ABBAS HAMDANI, History, published “The Muhtasib as a Guardian of Public Morality in Medieval Islamic City” in the Digest of Middle East Studies, Milwaukee, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 92-104.

ABBAS HAMDANI, History, published “Religious Tolerance in the Rasa il Ikhwan al-Safa” pp. 137-142 in Adaptations and Innovations (a Festschrift for Joel L. Kraemer). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishing, Spring 2008.

HAIG KHATCHADOURIAN, Philosophy, published “Addressing Root-Causes of Global Terrorism,” in the Journal for Peace & Justice Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, March 2008, pp. 105-118.

ELANA LEVINE, Journalism and Mass Communications, published “Crossing the Border: Studying Canadian Television Production,” in Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media Industries, ed. by Vicki Mayer, Miranda Banks, and John Thornton Caldwell, Routledge, 2009.

ELANA LEVINE, Journalism and Mass Communications, published “National Television, Global Market: Canada’s Degrassi: The Next Generation,” Media, Culture & Society 31:4, pp. 1-17, 2009.

MARKOS J. MAMALAKIS, Economics, published “Foreign Trade,” in the Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Second Edition, Vol. 3, E-I, pp. 273-284, Jay Kinsbruner, Editor in Chief, Erick D. Langer, Senior Editor, New Haven, CT: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Gale Cengage Learning, May 2008.

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RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, published “Millennial workers: Communication between the generations,” (“Mitarbeiter im neuen Millennium—Kommunikation zwischen den Generationen”). In G. Richers (Ed.), Generationen gemeinsam im Betrieb (pp. 201-220). Bielefeld, Germany: W. Bertelsman Verlag, 2009.

RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, published a paper with Hebl, M., Pederson, J., Hill, R., Kauffeld, S., & Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., “Exploring the sequential nature of humor in task groups,” and presented the paper to the Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, Chicago, May 2009. Co-authors Kauffeld and Lehmann-Willenbrock are from Germany.

FESTUS E. OBIAKOR, Exceptional Education, published a book Voices of Foreign-Born African American Teacher Educators in the United States, Nova Science Publishers, forthcoming.

JEANNE SCHUELLER, Foreign Language and Linguistics, published a book, Cinema for German Conversation, Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, R. Pullins Company, 2009.

LISA SILVERMAN, History, published “Elias and Veza Canetti: German Writing, Sephardic Heritage,” pp. 151-170 in The Worlds of Elias Canetti: Centenary Essays, William Collins Donahue and Julian Preece, eds., Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

CHIA YOUYEE VANG, History, published “Cold War Policies in Laos and the Hmong” in The Years of Cultural Cold War: Asia and the United States, Yuka Tsuchiya and Toshihiko Kishi (eds), Tokyo: Kokusai-Shoin, 2009. “Cold War Policies in Laos and the Hmong” was also presented at a conference at Ehime University in Matsuyama, Japan on February 28, 2009.

MERRY WIESNER-HANKS, History, published “Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe” in New Approaches to Modern European History, Third Edition, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

MERRY WIESNER-HANKS, History, published “Christianity” (Vol. 2, pp. 371-375), “Europe: Renaissance and Early Modern” (Vol.2, pp. 216-221), “Scientific Revolution” (Vol. 3, pp. 665-666), in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Bonnie Smith, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Presentations

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, presented “A multi-level examination of leadership practices in quality management: Implications for organizational performance in healthcare,” at the Fourth International Conference on Business, Management and Economics Conference Proceedings, Izmir, Turkey, 2008.

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, presented “An examination of decision making process: Implications for quality management and systemic practice,” at the Business & Economic Society International Conference Proceedings, Lugano, Switzerland, 2008.

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, presented with B.A. Altman, “Addressing interpersonal dynamics inhibiting workplace performance,” at the Proceedings of the Association on Employment Practices and Principles Sixteenth Annual International Conference, Chicago, 2008.

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, presented with S.W. Schmidt, “Employee perceptions of organizational culture: Effects of employee orientation training,” at the Proceedings of Yeditepe International Research Conference on Business Strategies, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008.

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, presented with B.A. Altman, “Performance inhibiting workplace dynamics: An initial proposal,” at the Academy of Human Resource Development 2008 International Conference Proceedings, Panama City, FL, 2008.

ANEESH ANEESH, Sociology, presented “Coding Identity: Clashes of the Future in India’s Call Centers,”Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2009.

ROBERT BECK, Political Science, presented a paper, “Teaching International Law as a Hybrid/Blended Course,” at the International Studies Association Conference, New York, NY, February 18, 2009.

ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented a lecture, “A Nexus of Suspicion: On the Ethics of Humanitarianism and Trust,” at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, as part of the 2008-09 Lecture Series on the Anthropology of Religion, Markets, and Politics, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2009.

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address, “The Impulse of Philanthropy”, “Enacting Improvement: A One-day Conference on the Ethics of Development and Philanthropy,” CambridgeUniversity, Cambridge, UK, October 6, 2008.

ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented “Suspicion, Governance and Humanitarianism in New Delhi,” at the Global Governance and Shifting Sovereignties: Who Rules and How Workshop organized by the Global Studies Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 10-11, 2009.

ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented “Gifts of Experience” at the conference, “Invidious Distinctions and Ambivalent Attachments: Religious, Spiritual, Secular,” Social Science Research Council, New York, October 23-25, 2008.

ERICA BORNSTEIN, Anthropology, presented “Accounting for Trust: Obligations in NGO-work in India” at the Legal Knowledge and Anthropological Engagement: A conference in honour or Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, October 3rd - 4th, 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, presented “The Application of Authentic Materials in Language Teaching and Assessment,” at the Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Regional Culture and Language at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 2009.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, presented “Intercultural Chinese classroom on the Internet: A study on preparatory teacher’s training and practicum,” at the 6th International Conference on Internet Chinese Education in Taipei, Taiwan, June 2009.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, presented “The Use of Authentic Materials in Chinese Language Instruction and AP Chinese Language and Culture Course and Exam” at the Seventh Annual Conference of the Association of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Hualian, Taiwan, November 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, presented “Designing Standard Based Chinese Language Textbooks for American High School Students,” at the Second International Symposium on Chinese Regional Culture and Language, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, August 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, presented “Chinese Calligraphy: Integrating Chinese Language, Culture, and Art,” at the Sixth International Conference on East Asian Calligraphy Education, Taichung University, Taichung, Taiwan, July 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, gave a speech about “The Application of Authentic Materials,” at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea on June 25, 2009.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, gave a speech about “The Analysis of the Format and Content of the AP Chinese Language and Culture Exam,” at the National Cheng-Kung University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan on November 11, 2008.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, gave a speech about “The Development of the Field of Chinese as a Foreign Language in the United States” at the National Taidong University, Taidong, Taiwan on June 5, 2009, at the Chun Yuan Christian University, Taipei, Taiwan on June 2, 2009, and at the National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan on May 20, 2009.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, gave a speech about “Issues on Textbook Development,” at the Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan on May 15, 2009.

YEA-FEN CHEN, Foreign Language and Linguistics, gave a speech about “Issues on Designing a Standardized Test,” at the Steering Committee for the Test of Proficiency—Huayu, Taipei, Taiwan on May 9, 2009.

ABBAS HAMDANI, History, presented a paper on the “Brethren of Purity between al-Kindi and al-Farabi” at the Conference of the American Oriental Society in Chicago, March 2008.

ABBAS HAMDANI, History, presented a paper on “Tawhid and Taalif al-qulub according to the Brethren of Purity” at a conference on “Druze Heritage: Roots, Development and Challenges of Modernity” at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2008.

KAY KNIGHT had three art pieces in an International Juried Competition at B.J. Spoke Gallery, Hunting, NY, Aug. 1-31, 2008. Juror: Samantha Rippner, Associate Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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MARKOS J. MAMALAKIS, Economics, presented “Collective Market’ Versus ‘Non-Market’ Services: Conceptual Issues in Measuring Economic Reality” at the 30th General Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth held Aug. 24-30 in Portoroz, Slovenia.

RENEE A. MEYERS presented the workshop “Exploring Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge” at the 2008 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference on Oct. 18, 2008 in Edmonton, Alberta .

RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, presented “Analyzing group interaction”, to faculty and graduate students at the University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, July 2008.

RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, presented with Atherton, J. A., Hadfield, P. C., & Ciccone, T., “Exploring Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge,” at the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Edmonton, Canada, October 2008. Co-authors Atherton and Hadfield are from England.

RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, presented with Kauffeld, S. A., & Lazarides, K., “The role of interruptions in team decision-making interactions,” at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 2008. Co-author Kauffeld is from Germany.

RENEE A. MEYERS, Communication, presented with Atherton, J, & Hadfield, P., “Threshold concepts in the wild,” at the Second International Conference on Threshold Concepts, Kingston, Ontario, June 2008. Co-authors Ather ton and Hadfield are from England.

KARUDAPURAM E. SUPRIYA, Journalism and Mass Communications, presented for the UnConventional Panel, Synergy between Communication Scholarship-Teaching: Martial Arts Perspectives and Demonstration, at the National Communication Association, San Diego, CA, November 2008.

Awards

LOREN GALVAO, Dean’s Office, received a grant for the Medical College of Wisconsin Pathways Linking Poverty, Food Insecurity, and HIV in Rural Malawi.

JANET LILLY is the recipient of the 2008 UWM Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2008 Wisconsin Dance Council Choreography and Performance Award and 2008-09 Fulbright Lecturer Award for India.

MICHAEL J. MIKOS, Foreign Language & Linguistics, received the Order of Merit from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland on Aug. 7.

Grants

MESUT AKDERE, Administrative Leadership, received the following grants: University of Wisconsin System PK-16 Teacher Quality Initiative Grant, co-principal investigator, $20,000; Institute on Race and Ethnicity Support Grants – Category A (Research), principal investigator, $2,000; and UWM Center for International Education, Faculty Travel Grant, principal investigator, $500.

Faculty Travel Grants

RYO S. AMANO, Mechanical Engineering, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Thermal Management in Laser Assisted Prototyping” at the Heat Transfer 2008 conference in Maribor, Slovenia.

ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, Information Studies, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “The U.S. Institutional Review Board and Online Research Ethics” at the Association for Internet Researchers conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

WINSON CHU, History, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant for archival research in Poland for his project “Germans, Poles, and the European Reinvention of the ‘Lodzer Mensch.”

ELISABETTA COVA, Foreign Languages and Linguistics/Classics, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to research the development of an Archaeological Excavation and Undergraduate Field School at the site of Stabiae in Italy.

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CHRISTOPHER DAVIS-BENAVIDES, Visual Art, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to participate in the Sino-Latin American Ceramic Art Residency in Fuping, China. The work produced in residency will become part of the permanent exhibition/collection of the FuLe Ceramics Art Museum in Fuping, China.

CHRISTOPHER DE SOUSA, Geography and Urban Studies, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “The Evolving Nature of Urban Brownfields Redevelopment: Where are we, Where are we going, and How are we getting there” at the Contaminated Sites conference in Canada.

DASHAN FAN, Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Some problems on harmonic analysis” at the AMS Joint International Meeting in Beijing, China.

RUNHAN FENG, Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “A unifying approach in ruin theory ad credit risk analysis” at the 13th International Congress on Insurance, Mathematics and Economics in Istanbul, Turkey.

SHELLEEN GREEN, Film, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Il Mulatto: Representing Mixed-Race Identity in the Post-War Italian Film” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Tokyo, Japan.

ANN GREER, Sociology and Urban Studies, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Inheritance of Mission: Problems of Organizational Culture in Healthcare Consolidation” at the 39th World Conference of the International Institute of Sociology in the United Kingdom.

THOMAS HOLBROOK, Political Science, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Group Interests and Voting Behavior in U.S. Urban Elections” at the International Society for Political Psychology’s 31st Annual Scientific Meeting in Paris, France.

JONATHAN KAHL, Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant for research in Mexico to develop a new course “Air Quality and Mesoamerican Heritage Sites: Is Acid Rain Dissolving the Pyramids?”

PENINNAH KAKO, College of Nursing, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Challenges and triumphs in accessing HIV-related health care in resource limited communities: Lessons from HIV-infected women in Kenya” at the 15th International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Health & Social Justice Conference in Auckland, New Zealand.

JOSEPHA LANTERS, English, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “The Impossible Promise of Innocence Untouched: The Child in Thomas Kilroy’s The Secret of Constance Wilde and My Scandalous Life” at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures conference in Porto, Portugal.

MARK NETZLOFF, English, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “The Ambassador’s Household” at the “Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies, 1500-1700” conference in the United Kingdom.

MICHAEL NEWMAN, Journalism and Mass Communication, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Indie Authenticity: Categorizing Juno” at the American Independent Cinema: Past, Present and Future conference in the United Kingdom.

GEORGIA SAEMANN, Business, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Accounting for Employee Stock Options and Proposed Changes in the International Conceptual Framework” at the Asian Pacific Accounting Conference in Paris, France.

RACHEL SCHIFFMAN, College of Nursing, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Health and Nutrition in Toddler and Preschool Children: The Family Context” at the 11th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health in Japan.

PHILIP SHASHKO, History, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Revisiting the Bulgarian Massacres of 1876: History, Memory, and Theory” at the Revisiting the Massacre in History conference in Australia.

MANU SOBTI, Architecture, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant for research in conjunction with course development for a studio series in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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NATASHA SUGIYAMA, Political Science, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “The Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America: Ideology, Norms and Interests” at the Latin American Studies Association, XXVIII International Congress in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

TAMI WILLIAMS, English/Film Studies, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to attend the Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in Tokyo, Japan.

HUIMIN ZHAO, Business, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Semantic Query Expansion for Effective EMR Retrieval” at the Second China Summer Workshop on Information Management in Chengdu, China.

CHAO ZHU, Mathematical Sciences, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “Asymptotic Properties of Hybrid Diffusions “at the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Cancun, Mexico.

MICHAEL ZIMMER, Information Studies, was awarded a CIE Faculty Travel Grant to present “’But the data is already public!’: On the ethics of research on Facebook” at the Eighth International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry in Cofru, Greece.

Student Awards

JACOB GILL received a 2009 Wisconsin Association for Language Teachers (WAFLT) Excellence in Foreign Language Study Award.

ANDREW THOMAS HABLE, University of Cambridge, England, received a 2009-2010 Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship.

ANDREW CRAWFORD LANGE, University for Peace, Costa Rica, received a 2009-2010 Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship.

CHAYA NAYAK, Global Studies major, received an $8000 Gilman International Scholarship for studies in Hyerabad, India.

NASTASSJA BATES, Dance major, received a $3000 Gilman International Scholarship for studies at the University of Salamanca in Spain.

ANTONINA PIELARZ, Russian major, received a $2500 Gilman International Scholarship for studies at St. Petersburg State University in Russia.

JORDAN MCGUIRE, International Studies major, received a $5000 Gilman International Scholarship for studies at Saratov State University in Russia.

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CIE Welcomes New Staff

SUE CONWAY recently joined CIE as a Study Abroad Administrator. Sue is a proud UWM Alum, with a double major in French and History. Her international experience includes working abroad in France and England. In addition, she has an extensive international travel background. Prior to joining CIE, Sue worked for Kaplan Test Preparation and America West Airlines.

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CIE Fall Welcome ReceptionFriday, September 18th, 20093:30-5:00pmGreene Hall

Please join us in welcoming new international students and scholars and returned study abroad students to campus.

Schedule: 3:30 PMIntroduction, Patrice Petro, Vice Provost for International Education

4:00 PMRemarks by:Mayor Tom BarrettChancellor Carlos SantiagoWolfgang Schmidt, Chair of the Governor’s United Nations Commission

At this event we will also celebrate the University’s commitment to principles of human rights, ethics and social justice, as signified by its recent endorsement of the United Nations Global Compact

Refreshments will be served. No RSVP required.

For more information contact Tracy Buss at tbuss@uwm.edu or (414) 229-5381.

www.international.uwm.edu

Culture CaféCulture Café creates a time and a space for all globally-minded members of the UWM community to interact and get to know one another over coffee, snacks and a brief, informal presentation on the featured culture. Each Culture Cafe features a different country or culture that is presented to the attendees by a UWM international student, faculty member or a return study abroad student. For more information about Culture Cafe please contact Jonathon Maas (jemaas@uwm.edu).

This fall Culture Cafe will be held in Garland 104 from 2:00-3:00pm on the following dates:

September 24 October 8 October 22 November 5 November 19 December 3

International Education WeekThe Center for International Education will be celebrating International Education Week with an array of programming this fall. International Education Week, held November 16-20, 2009, is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. Keep an eye out for event annoucements, or contact Andrea Joseph (aherbert@uwm.edu) for more information.

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Who Speaks for IslamMonday • October 19, 2009 • 7:00-8:30pm

Hefter Center3271 N. Lake Dr. • Milwaukee, WI

For more info, visit www.iwa.uwm.edu or call 414.229.3220.

The Institute of World Affairs joins with the US Center for Citizen Diplomacy to present the findings of a multi-year, 35-country study that challenges perceptions about attitudes in the Muslim world. The program features study co-author, Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, Washington D.C.

life-altering decisions in order to try to assure their families’ futures. Abid’s depiction of life-in-the-moment, full of uncertainties, hopes, excitement, disappointment and despair, does what only a film that makes a long term commitment to its subjects can. It allows us to experience events alongside those who are in the process of being deeply transformed by them. – Irina Leimbacher

Co-sponsored by the UWM Union Theare and the Center for International Education

Featured Speaker: Dalia Mogahed

Tuesday • November 3, 2009 Wedndesday • November 4, 2009 7:00pm

UWM Union Theatre2nd Floor Union2200 E. Kenwood Blvd • Milwaukee, WIwww.uniontheatre.uwm.edu

FREE ADMISSION

For more info, visit www.iwa.uwm.edu or call 414.229.3220.

(Kasim Abid, Iraq, in Arabic w/ Eng st., 155 min., video, 2008) The Iraq War is here shown exclusively through the daily life of an extended Baghdad family over four years. Beginning with joyful home video celebrating family reunion and political change, this intimate and affectionate portrait of Abid’s siblings, nephews and nieces avoids the sensationalism that characterizes Western images of Iraq. Over the course of the film, children become teenagers and teenagers adults, while parents are faced with

Life After the Fall - Milwaukee Premier

www.international.uwm.edu

P.O. Box 413Milwaukee, WI 53201

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.