West Meets East (Again): A Defense of the New Orientalism
Paul Mitchinson
ANDANTE
26 September 2002

         With Asian music and culture on display in
concert halls across North America, some critics are
grumbling about the dangers of cultural appropriation,
but Paul Mitchinson says just relax ? and enjoy the
show.    In the past decade, Asian music and culture
has spread throughout the West like poppies. Yo-Yo
Ma's nomadic Silk Road Ensemble
<http://www.silkroadproject.org> has been encamped
near the top of the Billboard charts for over three
months now, and its concerts sell out regularly. Paris
and New York have staged historic performances of the
ancient Persian religious drama, the Ta'ziyeh .
Meanwhile, composers from Bright Sheng to Terry Riley
have been weaving Eastern idioms into the tapestry of
their Western-produced scores. One of the most
spectacular products of this impulse was Ang Lee's
2000 film-epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which
used a shimmering soundtrack by Tan Dun as a backdrop
for its gravity-defying martial-arts sequences. But
that grumbling you hear isn't just the sound of Tuvan
throat singers. Some in the West have complained that
the exotic trappings of the Silk Road Project have
obscured what is essentially a commercial vehicle for
a Western celebrity performer. In the New York Times,
John Rockwell suggested that Silk Road Ensemble
audiences were being treated like "imperialist
wanderer[s] in a field of gorgeous but mystifying
blossoms." The Ta'ziyeh has provoked similar
objections. Edward Rothstein worried that the work has
been completely decontextualized in its Western
performances, and that the result was merely
"undistinguished melodramas spiced by intriguing
melismas and mediocre town-band-style accompaniments."
According to Hamid Dabashi, chair of the Middle
Eastern and Asian languages and cultures department at
Columbia University, the Ta'ziyeh had been
"theaterized, stylized, orientalized, anthropologized
and ultimately museumized."  These are troublingly
familiar charges. Orientalism, imperialism and
cultural appropriation have long been recognized as
Very Bad (Western) Things. Edward Said, the
Palestinian-American activist and classical music
critic for The Nation, has famously condemned Western
"Orientalism," which he describes as a "Western style
for dominating, restructuring, and having authority"
over the East. Colonial rule was often "justified in
advance by Orientalism," which provided a critical
tool for the spread of Western imperial power. And
included in Said's indictment are paintings, novels
and operas, many of which "lent support to the global
enterprises of European and American empire." Even the
New Grove Dictionary now concedes that
nineteenth-century operas often reflected the West's
"colonialist and male-dominated outlook." It's enough
to make you wonder: is our current fascination with
Asia simply perpetuating a pattern of imperialist
exploitation? Before you throw away those tickets to
Madama Butterfly (and cancel that pre-concert meal at
Wagamama), you might want to consider one episode in
the history of musical "Orientalism." Three centuries
ago, Europe was obsessed with "Turkish" music. Ottoman
ambassadors visiting Europe often brought along their
own ceremonial bands called mehter. The musicians blew
piercing wind instruments, crashed cymbals and
triangles, and most dramatically, thumped on an
enormous bass drum. For those accustomed to the more
refined sound of European court orchestras, the effect
was thrilling. Before long, Turkish fashion swept
European capitals. Many European courts employed their
own mehter, and Western music underwent subtle (and
not so subtle) changes. The piccolo grew in orchestral
prominence, while fortepianos came accessorized with
pedals that could operate "Turkish" cymbals or bells.
The Turks, meanwhile, did some cultural appropriation
of their own, abandoning their straight trumpets for
the looped-tube variety invented in Europe. "Alla
turca" music became the rage. Mozart's 1782 opera, The
Abduction from the Seraglio, is one of the best-known
examples, though countless symphonies and sonatas of
the time were also embellished with "Turkish" themes
or movements. By the time of Beethoven,
experimentation with Turkish instruments hardly raised
an eyebrow ? they had been swallowed up in the
standard European orchestra. When was the last time
you heard the ecstatic finale of Beethoven's Ninth,
and identified the section with bass drum, triangles
and cymbals as a "Turkish" march? There's much to
celebrate in this story. Both cultures were enriched
by their encounter, both were changed, both were
"guilty" of cultural appropriation. Cultural
promiscuity is almost always a profoundly creative
act. Music and the arts thrive when they open
themselves up to foreign influences. When they remain
insulated and protected, they often become fossilized
rituals devoid of emotional relevance. Of course,
other examples of musical "Orientalism" can be more
troubling. Madama Butterfly might be a tragic love
story set to exquisite music, but the fact that it
quotes a dozen authentic Japanese folk melodies, and
is orchestrated with tubular bells, a glockenspiel and
a tam tam, does not make it a reliable guide to
Japanese culture. Butterfly's plot exemplifies the
narrative conventions of Western operatic exoticism,
as capably sketched by Ralph Locke: Young, tolerant,
brave, possibly naive, white-European tenor-hero
intrudes, at risk of disloyalty to his own people and
colonialist ethic, into mysterious, dark-skinned,
colonised territory represented by alluring dancing
girls and deeply affectionate, sensitive lyric
soprano, incurring wrath of brutal, intransigent
tribal chieftain (bass or bass-baritone) and blindly
obedient chorus of male savages. On the other hand,
those who have condemned such operas as ideological
weapons in the service of Western political hegemony
miss a larger point. Butterfly's world premiere at La
Scala took place in February 1904 ? one week after
Japanese torpedo boats launched a surprise attack on
the Russian navy in Manchuria. By the following year,
Japan had annihilated two Russian fleets, setting in
motion events that would lead to the downfall of the
Russian empire, and the decolonization of the Far East
over the course of the twentieth century. In other
words, if Madama Butterfly was an Orientalist weapon
for dominating and having authority over Asia, it
proved about as effective as a squirt gun. Bullets and
bayonets ? not Japanese bells ? are the true weapons
of imperialism. Which is why it's worth remembering
that cultural appropriation is a much broader, and
less alarming, phenomenon than many theorists of
"Orientalism" would have you believe. Butterfly is
regularly denounced for its cartoonish stereotypes of
Japanese culture. But Puccini's Girl of the Golden
West, which performs similar offences against American
culture, earns only indulgent smiles. Similarly, Aaron
Copland's bold acts of cultural appropriation are
universally admired ? even though they're rarely
recognized as such. Rodeo, Appalachian Spring, and The
Tender Land have become iconic musical works embodying
the traditional values of the American heartland ?
despite being written by a gay, socialist,
Brooklyn-born Jew. And Copland's own music was
brilliantly "re-appropriated" in 1998 by the
African-American film director Spike Lee. In He Got
Game, Lee created a moving tribute to urban black
culture (and to basketball, its unofficial sport) with
the help of Copland's soaring music. This tangle of
appropriations might be one reason why music is often
misleadingly called a "universal language." The
organizers of recent performances of Asian music have
certainly tried to present their concerts in such a
light. Ma has stated
<http://www.silkroadproject.org/about/vision.html>
that by "listening to and learning from the voices of
an authentic musical tradition, we become increasingly
able to advocate for the worlds they represent. . . .
We discover transnational voices that belong to one
world." That's a worthy goal, to be sure, though it's
difficult to conceive how music can promote the kind
of understanding that makes effective "advocacy"
possible. Maybe it's better to keep things simple, and
to think about what musicians throughout the centuries
(in both East and West) have asked themselves when
faced with the unusual or exotic: how can we use it? A
sure sign that art is speaking to us is if we also
want to speak through it. In that respect, perhaps the
Ta'ziyeh is simply too strange for us, or doesn't
answer a need in the West's political or artistic
conscience. We are uneasy about glorifying martyrdom,
suspicious of mass emotion. Or perhaps the Ta'ziyeh
simply needs better salesmanship: the Silk Road
Project benefits from the leadership of Yo-Yo Ma, one
of the greatest cultural tour guides in history. The
Project's enormous commercial and artistic success
suggests a deep resonance with its Western audience.
What is the West getting out of its encounter with
Asian music? One hint can be found in David Brooks'
Bobos in Paradise, a merciless dissection of the
West's new upper class of "bourgeois bohemians."
Bobos, writes Brooks, try to "get away from their
affluent, ascending selves into a spiritually superior
world." They relish "People Who Really Know How to
Live ? people who make folk crafts, tell folk tales,
do folk dances, listen to folk music." This is gentle
mockery, but it also illuminates a basic truth.
Cultures need to evolve in order to thrive, and
outside influences often contribute fresh and
necessary ways of thinking or expression. In this
respect, Asian music, which has captivated, inspired,
and changed Europe and North America for centuries,
has now become as essential a part of Western culture
as the symphonies of Mozart and Beethoven. Maybe it's
time to stop feeling guilty about it.  If you would
like to respond to this essay, please write to
letters@... <mailto:letters@...>.

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'Look at Me!' A Teaching Primer
By MARSHALL SPECTOR

CHE
From the issue dated September 27, 2002

I have always received high marks on student evaluations of my courses. I
rank especially high in clarity, organization, and preparedness. That has
been true when I teach philosophy of science (my specialty), introduction to
philosophy, logic, or the history of philosophy (most often, the period from
Descartes through Kant). It was after taking my Descartes-through-Kant
course at Duke University many years ago that a student wrote in the
comments section of the evaluation sheet that "Spector always clearly laid
out what the philosophers were saying, so that the students could thereby
understand their systems."

I was proud of that comment, even though I noticed the pained expression of
one of my colleagues when he read it in the campus course-evaluation book.
It took me many years to understand what bothered him. It was not jealousy.
It was a negative reaction to a display of teaching virtuosity that I have
since come to share.

Please don't misunderstand me. There is nothing wrong with clarity of
presentation, with being able to lay out the major issues and questions,
outline the main attempts at their solution, and then, in the coda, present
one's own answers in a neat package.

Such a performance -- what I call the inspired presentation of material --
can be impressive to watch. The students will often learn the material, and
at the end of the course, they will have a set of notes that may rival a
good textbook, which they may even consult later in life.

In certain types of courses, and at times in most courses, inspired
presentation is the ideal way to proceed. I can think of no better way to
teach differential equations to physics majors, or statistics to psychology
majors. That mode of teaching also offers the teacher personal rewards. It
is exhilarating to bring off such a performance. It feels good to know that
you have impressed a roomful of young people with your knowledge, style, and
perhaps even your personality. It is a type of intellectually respectable
showing off. "Look at me! Aren't I smart?"

But sometimes getting the material across isn't enough. I have come to
understand and appreciate another goal in teaching, for which inspired
presentation is not appropriate. The other goal is ensuring that the
students are at least as interested in pursuing the material of the course
when it is over as they were when it began. Have they been hooked?

The inspired presentation of material is very good at transmitting
information, but not necessarily good at maintaining or increasing students'
interest in the subject. When a good lecturer clearly and completely covers
the material, there is nothing to be said except: "OK, now I know how to
solve second-order differential equations." "So that's what Hume really said
about causality!" "Now I know how to do a reductio ad absurdum proof."
"Wasn't that teacher great?"

There is no space for the student to be active or creative. The only role
for the student is that of a good sponge. (I don't mean to imply that
soaking up knowledge as a sponge does not require talent and hard work.)

Again, that approach may be quite proper in many courses, and it has a place
in some parts of almost every course. The purpose of a statistics course for
psychology majors is not to produce students who are more interested in
creatively pursuing the study of statistics at the end of the semester than
they were at the beginning, but to supply budding psychologists with a
necessary tool of their trade. There is no particular reason for the
students to have any special interest in the tool itself.

Making sure that students remain interested in the material requires
different strategies on the part of the teacher, underlying all of which is
the recognition of certain psychological and intellectual needs of the
students. Those of us who aspire to inspired presentation must recognize
that the pride we take in our ability to show off intellectually is a human
trait that our students share. If our own continued interest in our
specialties is at least partly due to the pleasure we take in successfully
solving problems in them -- subject-matter problems, or research -- as well
as teaching problems, like designing a lecture, then perhaps we can help
maintain our students' interest by encouraging them to grapple with the
material just as we do.

Recognizing that our students too want to be able to say proudly "Look at
me!" is not a deep insight. But it carries in its wake the realization that
the inspired presentation of material cannot satisfy that desire, and hence
may not be the best way to maintain students' continued interest in the
subject matter. How many professors, after all, would be satisfied by
hearing lectures -- even good lectures -- day in and day out from experts on
various subjects without the opportunity to participate, or at least to
express their own views and have them taken seriously?

Realizing that our students share our need for recognition of creative
accomplishment (or at least the valiant attempt at it) also indicates the
kinds of strategies that we can use to satisfy their need, and thus to keep
them interested. We can ask questions, make provocative claims, stage
debates, even lecture from time to time -- but our goal must be to generate
a situation in which students attempt to sort out the issues and relate them
to their own experience, solve the problems involved, convince one another
(and perhaps the teacher) of their own views -- in short, to do the sorts of
things that we would do among our colleagues.

We find that type of activity so exhilarating and satisfying that we want to
do more of it, and we come away from it with a heightened interest in the
issues -- the material. Is it not obvious that our students should react in
the same way?

That approach, however, does not efficiently get the material across. As we
know from our own professional discussions, we can spend hours formulating a
position that takes only five minutes to state clearly after the dust has
settled. Equally, encouraging our students to struggle to find an answer
that we already know is not a good way of producing a high number of truths
per hour. At times, the professor needs great patience in the face of the
fumbling that seems to be a necessary part of the struggle.

But a student's successful struggle with the material increases the chance
that he or she will remain interested in the issues ("Look at me! I figured
that out. Now let me try another."). That is of greater value than a
notebook full of a teacher's insights. As the Chinese proverb has it, give a
man a fish and you have given him a meal; teach him how to fish and you have
given him a livelihood. As teachers, our goal should be getting students to
want to fish.

That mode of teaching is hard. I used to believe otherwise. I used to
believe that preparation and delivery of a good lecture (with space for
discussion -- usually questions directed to me) were difficult and involved
a great deal of talent, compared with leading a discussion. I still believe
that the inspired presentation of material is valuable. But in that case,
the hard work comes before the classroom presentation. The hard work of
getting students to want to participate comes before and during class.

How to tell if a class is going well also differs. When I was presenting
material, I could sense that things were going well by the attentive,
receptive expressions on students' faces. Students were indeed looking at
me. (We all know that certain students are more trustworthy than others as
guides in this respect. It takes only a week or so to find out which ones
are reliable barometers.) But in a discussion, things are going well when
the students are ignoring me!

It was a frightening feeling at first to watch a heated discussion among
students where I -- the teacher -- couldn't get in a word edgewise, or where
they would respectfully listen to my view (when I insisted on giving it) and
then quickly get back to debating their own views. It was only with great
difficulty that I came to see that those were the occasions when the course
was succeeding -- proceeding toward the goal of self-sustaining, continued
interest in the material.

Comparing teaching to parenting is unavoidable. You know you are succeeding
as a parent when you are no longer needed. It is a painful experience, but
we recognize it as indicative of success. In each case, backsliding is easy.
I have taken over the class discussion, told the class what an issue is
really about, and felt proud at my display of insight -- just as I have
taken over when my children tried to tie a shoe, do a math homework problem,
or settle a dispute with a classmate or a teacher.

At those moments, I feel needed, important, competent -- perhaps even
essential. But I am not cultivating the students' continued interest in the
material and self-reliance in dealing with it.

One final consideration. I have always looked askance at scientists who
attempt to discuss issues in the philosophy of science. They often produce a
strange mixture of wild claims, oddly expressed insights, boring truisms,
and just plain false statements, which were refuted by philosophers
generations ago. I used to wonder why the scientists hadn't simply attended
a few good inspired presentations of material in the philosophy of science.
But of course if they had, we might not have the benefit of their insights.

I am by training a philosopher of science, and de facto an educator. I am
not by training a philosopher of education. My comments in this essay may be
the sort of strange mixture I've observed when scientists grapple with
philosophy. I could probably have reached the insights here more efficiently
had I listened to a good lecture or read the proper book in the field. I
could thereby have short-circuited the struggle to achieve them.

I'm glad I didn't.

Marshall Spector is a professor of philosophy at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook.

The European Convention Working Group on Subsidiarity recommends giving more
powers to national parliaments.
  <http://www.euractiv.com/cgi-bin/cgint.exe/?targ=1&204&OIDN=500710>
Date: 30/09/2002
Future EU: Subsidiarity Background: The principle of subsidiarity means that
what the lesser entity can do adequately should not be done by the greater
entity unless it can do it better. Taken over into EU policies, it is used
as an instrument for determining when the Union is to act in areas not
coming under its exclusive competence. The subsidiarity principle was first
introduced in the the Treaty of Maastricht as a general principle applicable
to all areas of non-exclusive competence. The Edinburgh European Council of
11-12 December 1992 set down a global approach for applying the principle of
subsidiarity. The Protocol also lays down obligations for the institutions,
primarily for the Commission, which is required to substantiate its
legislative proposals having regard to the principle of subsidiarity. The
Commission is also required to submit an annual report on implementation of
the subsidiarity principle (Article 5 of the Treaty) to the European
Council, the European Parliament and the Council. Issues: The European
Convention set up a Working Group on the principle of subsidiarity, whose
mandate is part of the process of examining the delimitation of competence
between the European Union and the Member States, referred to in the Nice
and Laeken Declarations on the future of the European Union. The Working
Group made the following proposals to the European Convention in its final
report, adopted in September 2002: reinforcing the taking into account and
the application of the principle of subsidiarity by the institutions
participating in the legislative process, (i.e. the European Parliament,
Council and Commission) during the drafting and examination phase of the
legislative act; setting up an "early warning system" of a political nature,
intended to reinforce the monitoring of compliance with the principle of
subsidiarity by national parliaments; broadening the possibility of referral
to the Court of Justice for non-compliance with the principle of
subsidiarity. The Group felt that the principle of subsidiarity would be
applied all the better the earlier it was taken into account in the
legislative process. In drawing up its legislative proposals, the Commission
should take account of reinforced and specific obligations concerning
justification with regard to subsidiarity. Thus any legislative proposal
should contain a subsidiarity sheet setting out circumstantiated aspects
making it possible to appraise compliance with the principle of
subsidiarity. The presentation of the Commission's annual legislative
programme would be an important occasion providing an opportunity for a
preliminary debate on subsidiarity. The Group therefore proposes that that
programme should be discussed by the European Parliament and national
parliaments. The Working Group also considered the possibility of the
appointment, within the Commission, of a Mr or Mrs Subsidiarity, or of a
Vice-President specifically responsible for ensuring his institution's
compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. Any proposal of a legislative
nature would necessarily be referred to him. Setting up an early warning
system would allow national parliaments to participate directly in
monitoring compliance with the principle of subsidiarity. The Group proposed
the creation of a new political monitoring mechanism involving national
parliaments. For the first time in the history of European construction,
this proposal involves national parliaments in the European legislative
process. Such a mechanism would enable national parliaments to ensure
correct application of the principle of subsidiarity by the institutions
taking part in the legislative process through a direct relationship with
the Community institutions. The Group proposes that the Treaty should
stipulate that: The Commission should address directly to each national
parliament, at the same time as to the Community legislator (Council and
European Parliament), its proposals of a legislative nature. with six weeks
from the date a proposal is transmitted, and before the legislative
procedure proper is initiated, any national parliament would have the
possibility of issuing a reasoned opinion regarding compliance with the
principle of subsidiarity by the proposal concerned. That reasoned opinion
would be addressed to the Presidents of the European Parliament, the Council
and the Commission. It should relate exclusively to the question of
compliance with subsidiarity. The consequences of such opinions for the
continuation of the legislative process could be modulated, depending on the
number and substance of the reasoned opinions received: if, within the
six-week deadline, the Community legislator received only a limited number
of opinions, he would give further specific reasons for the act with regard
to subsidiarity; if, within the six-week deadline, the legislator received a
significant number of opinions from one third of national parliaments, the
Commission would re-examine its proposal. That re-examination may lead the
Commission either to maintain its proposal, amend it or withdraw it. The
Group also proposes that a national parliament which has delivered a
reasoned opinion under the early warning system should be allowed to refer
the matter to the Court of Justice for violation of the principle of
subsidiarity. The Group further proposes allowing the Committee of the
Regions the right to refer a matter to the Court of Justice for violation of
the principle of subsidiarity. This referral would relate to proposals which
had been submitted to the Committee of the Regions for an opinion.
Positions: The British Government was the first to propose a "subsidiarity
watchdog" to monitor the Commission and rule whether decisions should be
taken by the EU or national governments. Such a body would be made up of one
member of parliament from each of the 15 EU Member States. It would meet six
times a year, and would act to prevent any initiative by the Commission or
the Council of Ministers to give more power to the EU. Next Steps: The issue
of subsidiarity will be discussed at the next plenary session of the
Convention on 3-4 October. The Convention President, Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing, pledged to table the draft proposal for a future EU
Constitutional Treaty by November 2002. His objective is to have the final
proposal ready for the EU Summit in mid-2003. The Convention will be
followed by an Intergovernmental Conference in 2003 or 2004 to decide on the
revision of the treaties. Links: Time-saving documents: Overview: Role of
the national parliaments in the EU Linksdossier: Future EU Timeline: The
Future of the EU Debate Overview: The Future of the EU Debate Overview: EU
institutional reform Official documents: European Convention: Conclusions of
Working Group on the Principle of Subsidiarity (23 September 2002) European
Convention: Mandate of the Working Group on the principle of subsidiarity
(30 May 2002) European Convention: Simplification of the Treaties and
drawing up of a constitutional treaty (10 September 2002) European
Convention: Delimitation of competence between the European Union and the
Member States (CONV 47/02) [FR] [DE] (15 May 2002) European Convention:
Description of the current system for the delimitation of competence between
the European Union and the Member States Commission: Commission proposes a
far-reaching overhaul of the European Union (22 May 2002) Commission:
Communication "A Project for the European Union" [FR] [DE] (22 May 2002)
Commission: Memo Questions and Answers on the Communication "A Project for
the European Union" (22 May 2002) Governments of Germany, France, the UK,
Ireland and Poland: Joint contribution on the issue of the division of
competence (13 June 2002) COSAC: Proposal for enhancing the role of the
national parliaments in European politics and for the reform of COSAC into
the forum of the parliaments [FR] (11 July 2002) Contributions by Convention
members: Jens-Peter Bonde, member of the Convention: True Subsidiarity (18
September 2002) Neil MacCormick, alternate member of the Convention:
Subsidiarity, Common Sense, and Local Knowledge (18 September 2002) Hannes
Farnleitner and Mr. Reinhard E. Bösch, members of the Convention: Making the
subsidiarity principle operational (5 September 2002) Michel Barnier and
Antonio Vitorino, members of the Convention: The Commission's right of
initiative (3 September 2002) Elmar Brok, Mr. Jacques Santer, René van der
Linden, Joachim Wuermeling and other members: Subsidiarity must be
controlled by a judicial body (24 July 2002) Erwin Teufel, member of the
Convention, and Mr. Wolfgang Senff, alternate member of the Convention:
German Bundesrat Resolution Having Regard to the Themes of the Convention on
the Future of the European Union" (12 July 2002) Alain Lamassoure, member of
the Convention: Report on the delimitation of competence between the
European Union and the Member States (24 April 2002) Andrew Duff and Alain
Lamassoure, Olivier Duhamel, Karel De Gucht, Sylvia Kaufmann, Josef
Zieleniec, members of the Convention, and Mme Pervenche Berès, alternate
member: Issues of competence and subsidiarity, and confusion arising the
refrom (9 July 2002) Karel De Gucht and Mr Andrew Duff, members of the
Convention, and Mr Patrick Dewael, observer of the Convention: Role of the
subnational entities and of the regions with legislative competences (26
June 2002) EU Actors' positions: CEPS: Laying building blocks or just window
dressing? - The first Half Year of the Convention (July 2002) The European
Policy Centre: The Role of National Parliaments in the Future EU (18
September 2002) The European Policy Centre: Convention on the Future of
Europe - End of Term Report (10 September 2002) Centre for European Reform:
A 'competence catalogue' is code for protectionism (20 June 2002) EIPA: The
European Union after Laeken: a Convention, a Constitution, a Consensus? (6
March 2002) ERT: Discussion Paper on EU Governance (30 May

Niall Ferguson reviews Interesting Times by Eric Hobsbawm
What a swell party it was. . . for him
(Filed: 22/09/2002)
arts.telegraph.co.uk
The lives of historians are generally a bore. After all, any historian worth
writing about spends most of his time - like Gibbon - just scribble,
scribble, scribbling. Yet Eric Hobsbawm's life is the exception that proves
that rule. For his life helps us to answer one of the most puzzling
historical questions of the 20th century: why did so many otherwise
intelligent people become Communists?
That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is
undeniable. His quartet of books beginning with The Age of Revolution (1962)
and ending with The Age of Extremes (1994) constitute the best starting
point I know for anyone who wishes to begin studying modern history. Nothing
else produced by the British Marxist historians will endure as these books
will.
Though I cannot claim to know him well, Hobsbawm is also a man I cannot
resist liking. Politics aside, I find we have an uncanny amount in common:
like me, he reveres the great Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, is devoted to
jazz, as I am, and for most of his career spent four months a year in New
York, as I am about to do. We even come close to agreeing about the value of
"what if" questions in history. Hobsbawm saves for his very last page the
revelation that he too thinks "that the German Europe that would have
emerged from the Kaiser's victory [in the First World War] might have been a
better proposition than the world of Versailles".
Knowing all this, I found myself gripped by the central paradox that
dominates this autobiography. How could such a brilliant and congenial
scholar be so politically wrong for so long - for 50 years, to be exact, the
period of his membership of the Communist Party? And how can he continue to
believe, as he clearly still does, that something can be salvaged from the
ghastly enterprise of Lenin and his cronies? "The dream of the October
Revolution", he writes, "is still there somewhere inside me . . . I have
abandoned, nay rejected it, but it has not been obliterated."
Interesting Times is, in some measure, an Apologia pro vita sua. It would be
easy to read it and conclude: "Well, who would have done otherwise in his
situation?" Born in 1917 - just months before the Bolshevik Revolution -
Eric Hobsbawm's formative years were spent in Vienna and Berlin. As a
half-English Jew (his grandfathers were a London cabinet-maker named
Obstbaum and a Viennese jeweller named Grun) he already had two good reasons
for feeling an outsider. What a time for a teenager to be reading the
Communist Manifesto - with Hitler on the brink of power. Although it is
worth remarking that there were plenty of people in much the same situation
who did not rush to join the Communist Party.
Even after his arrival in England in March 1933, he remained in some measure
a "natural" Communist. From St Marylebone Grammar School he won a
scholarship to that greenhouse of the English Left, King's College,
Cambridge. Being a Communist was almost obligatory for the scholarship boys
of those days - the likes of John Cornford, the handsome great-grandson of
Darwin, who later fought and died in Spanish Civil War. And what fun it all
was later, in the 1960s, by which time Hobsbawm was one of the established
stars in the Marxist intellectual firmament, egging on the students at
Birkbeck College to revolt like their counterparts at the Sorbonne.
Yet there is a need to look a little more closely at all this. The Far Left
will always be chic while the Far Right is irredeemably repulsive. But was
there really such a great moral difference - as Hobsbawm insists there was -
between being a fascist and being a Communist?
The essence of Communism is the abnegation of individual freedom, as
Hobsbawm admits in a chilling passage: "The Party... had the first, or more
precisely the only real claim on our lives. Its demands had absolute
priority. We accepted its discipline and hierarchy. We accepted the absolute
obligation to follow 'the lines' it proposed to us, even when we disagreed
with it...We did what it ordered us to do...Whatever it had ordered, we
would have obeyed... If the Party ordered you to abandon your lover or
spouse, you did so."
Consider some of the "lines" our historian dutifully toed. He accepted the
order to side with the Nazis against the Weimar-supporting Social Democrats
in the great Berlin transport strike of 1932. He accepted the order to side
with the Nazis against Britain and France following the Ribbentrop-Molotov
pact of 1939. He accepted the excommunication of Tito. He condoned the show
trials of men like Laszlo Rajk in Hungary.
In 1954, just after Stalin's death, he visited Moscow as one of the honoured
members of the Historians' Group of the British Communist Party. He admits
to having been dismayed when, two years later, Khrushchev denounced Stalin's
crimes at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. When
Khrushchev himself ordered the tanks into Budapest, Hobsbawm finally spoke
up, publishing a letter of protest. But he did not leave the Party.
In the end, the only way to understand this extraordinary trahison d'un
clerc is precisely as a succession of acts of quasi-religious faith. In a
surprising aside, Hobsbawm himself refers to "the Party" as the "Communist
Universal Church" and later admits: "For young revolutionaries of my
generation, mass demonstrations were the equivalent of papal masses for
devout Catholics."
But what a curiously flexible faith this was in practice. On the one hand,
Hobsbawm continued - and has continued - to "favour... insurrection or
guerrilla conquest" wherever these seemed to be "realistically on the
agenda", while denouncing "global neo-liberalism" and "[free] market
fundamentalism". On the other, he has enjoyed all the imaginable benefits
which free capitalist democracies have to offer.
Apart from being excluded from intelligence work during the war - which he
rather bizarrely complains about - and having to wait rather longer than
expected to be given a chair, his long allegiance to a hostile power has
never been held against him here. Nor has it in the United States, where he
spent a third of every year between 1984 and 1997. As for his continuing
broadsides against "market fundamentalism" - as personified, of course, by
Margaret Thatcher - these ring distinctly hollow coming from a man who has
been substantially enriched by the publication of his books by a host of
commercial publishers around the world.
But then, Communism always was a schizophrenic kind of faith, preaching
equality for all, while preserving la dolce vita for the Party elite.
Italian Communism, Hobsbawm confesses, was always his favourite variant.
Where else do the Communists have Tuscan farmhouses, where one can "stretch
out...on the terrace overlooking the Val d'Orcia after lunch, listening to
the voice of Callas singing 'Casta Diva'...?" It's a far cry from the
storming of the Winter Palace.
"Can humanity live without the ideals of freedom and justice", asks
Hobsbawm, "or without those who devote their lives to them?" The tragedy of
Communism - and it was a tragedy that cost the lives of tens of millions -
was that a man of Eric Hobsbawm's intelligence could not see, and still
cannot see, that Communism was the negation of both freedom and justice, for
the sake of a spurious and ultimately bogus egalitarianism.
Niall Ferguson is Professor of Political and Financial History at Oxford.
His new book, 'Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World', will be published
by Penguin in January.

<<...OLE_Obj...>>
Tuesday, October 1, 2002
A glance at the September issue of PS: Political Science and Politics: Where
are the public political scientists?
There is a noticeable dearth of political scientists who command the public
stage these days, while psychologists and social scientists are regular
contributors to such popularly read publications as The New York Review of
Books, writes Andrew Stark, a professor of strategic management and
political science at the University of Toronto. One possible reason, offered
by Jonathan Cohn in 1999 in an article in The New Republic, is that
political scientists increasingly rely on hard-to-digest mathematical
explanations for their theories.
Yet, Mr. Stark says, if "scientization were the problem, then one would
expect the more 'sciency' social scientists -- economists ... to be even
less evident in public debate than political scientists." Not so, though,
for, as a benchmark, economists such as Amartya Sen and Robert Solow have
contributed to The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and The New
York Times in the last year, and Paul Krugman writes regularly for the
Times.
In fact, Mr. Stark writes, unlike psychology and the social sciences,
political science has not bridged the divide between academic and popular
discourse. Of all the social sciences, Mr. Stark says, "political science is
the only one that operates at a relatively greater remove from both
identifiable practitioners and identifiable clients -- in other words, from
the world outside the academy." Mr. Stark adds that "it will be up to
individual social scientists in political-science departments -- first
having become aware that they inhabit a structural oddity ... to break the
mold," and begin submitting articles "over the transom" to such well-read
publications as The New York Review of Books.

The president's real goal in Iraq
[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 9/29/02 ] Bookman is the deputy
editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal- Constitution
<<...OLE_Obj...>>

By JAY BOOKMAN <mailto:jbookman@...>
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the
Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always
seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart
people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such
flimsy evidence.
  <<...OLE_Obj...>>
	  <<...OLE_Obj...>> Download "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report
<http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm>
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Read President Bush's National Security Strategy
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html>  <<...OLE_Obj...>>

	  <<...OLE_Obj...>>   <<...OLE_Obj...>> CONTRIBUTORS TO 2000 REPORT
<<...OLE_Obj...>>
	  <<...OLE_Obj...>> 	 <<...OLE_Obj...>> 	 <<...OLE_Obj...>>
"Rebuilding America's Defenses," a 2000 report by the Project for the New
American Century, listed 27 people as having attended meetings or
contributed papers in preparation of the report. Among them are six who have
since assumed key defense and foreign policy positions in the Bush
administration. And the report seems to have become a blueprint for Bush's
foreign and defense policy.   <<...OLE_Obj...>>  Paul Wolfowitz Political
science doctorate from University of Chicago and dean of the international
relations program at Johns Hopkins University during the 1990s. Served in
the Reagan State Department, moved to the Pentagon during the first Bush
administration as undersecretary of defense for policy. Sworn in as deputy
defense secretary in March 2001.   <<...OLE_Obj...>> John Bolton Yale Law
grad who worked in the Reagan administration as an assistant attorney
general. Switched to the State Department in the first Bush administration
as assistant secretary for international organization affairs. Sworn in as
undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, May
2001.   <<...OLE_Obj...>> Eliot Cohen Harvard doctorate in government who
taught at Harvard and at the Naval War College. Now directs strategic
studies at Johns Hopkins and is the author of several books on military
strategy. Was on the Defense Department's policy planning staff in the first
Bush administration and is now on Donald Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board.
<<...OLE_Obj...>> I. Lewis Libby Law degree from Columbia (Yale undergrad).
Held advisory positions in the Reagan State Department. Was a partner in a
Washington law firm in the late '80s before becoming deputy undersecretary
of defense for policy in the first Bush administration (under Dick Cheney).
Now is the vice president's chief of staff.   <<...OLE_Obj...>> Dov Zakheim
Doctorate in economics and politics from Oxford University. Worked on policy
issues in the Reagan Defense Department and went into private defense
consulting during the 1990s. Was foreign policy adviser to the 2000 Bush
campaign. Sworn in as undersecretary of defense (comptroller) and chief
financial officer for the Pentagon, May 2001.   <<...OLE_Obj...>> Stephen
Cambone Political science doctorate from Claremont Graduate School. Was in
charge of strategic defense policy at the Defense Department in the first
Bush administration. Now heads the Office of Program, Analysis and
Evaluation at the Defense Department. 	 <<...OLE_Obj...>>
<<...OLE_Obj...>>
  <<...OLE_Obj...>>

The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was
missing.
In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place.
As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of
mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.
This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the
United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility
and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan
10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United
States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means
becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we
were.
Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why
does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq
once Saddam is toppled?
Because we won't be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will
create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the
Middle East, including neighboring Iran.
In an interview Friday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld brushed aside that
suggestion, noting that the United States does not covet other nations'
territory. That may be true, but 57 years after World War II ended, we still
have major bases in Germany and Japan. We will do the same in Iraq.
And why has the administration dismissed the option of containing and
deterring Iraq, as we had the Soviet Union for 45 years? Because even if it
worked, containment and deterrence would not allow the expansion of American
power. Besides, they are beneath us as an empire. Rome did not stoop to
containment; it conquered. And so should we.
Among the architects of this would-be American Empire are a group of
brilliant and powerful people who now hold key positions in the Bush
administration: They envision the creation and enforcement of what they call
a worldwide "Pax Americana," or American peace. But so far, the American
people have not appreciated the true extent of that ambition.
Part of it's laid out in the National Security Strategy, a document in which
each administration outlines its approach to defending the country. The Bush
administration plan, released Sept. 20, marks a significant departure from
previous approaches, a change that it attributes largely to the attacks of
Sept. 11.
To address the terrorism threat, the president's report lays out a newly
aggressive military and foreign policy, embracing pre-emptive attack against
perceived enemies. It speaks in blunt terms of what it calls "American
internationalism," of ignoring international opinion if that suits U.S.
interests. "The best defense is a good offense," the document asserts.
It dismisses deterrence as a Cold War relic and instead talks of "convincing
or compelling states to accept their sovereign responsibilities."
In essence, it lays out a plan for permanent U.S. military and economic
domination of every region on the globe, unfettered by international treaty
or concern. And to make that plan a reality, it envisions a stark expansion
of our global military presence.
"The United States will require bases and stations within and beyond Western
Europe and Northeast Asia," the document warns, "as well as temporary access
arrangements for the long-distance deployment of U.S. troops."
The report's repeated references to terrorism are misleading, however,
because the approach of the new National Security Strategy was clearly not
inspired by the events of Sept. 11. They can be found in much the same
language in a report issued in September 2000 by the Project for the New
American Century, a group of conservative interventionists outraged by the
thought that the United States might be forfeiting its chance at a global
empire.
"At no time in history has the international security order been as
conducive to American interests and ideals," the report said. stated two
years ago. "The challenge of this coming century is to preserve and enhance
this 'American peace.' "
Familiar themes
Overall, that 2000 report reads like a blueprint for current Bush defense
policy. Most of what it advocates, the Bush administration has tried to
accomplish. For example, the project report urged the repudiation of the
anti-ballistic missile treaty and a commitment to a global missile defense
system. The administration has taken that course.
It recommended that to project sufficient power worldwide to enforce Pax
Americana, the United States would have to increase defense spending from 3
percent of gross domestic product to as much as 3.8 percent. For next year,
the Bush administration has requested a defense budget of $379 billion,
almost exactly 3.8 percent of GDP.
It advocates the "transformation" of the U.S. military to meet its expanded
obligations, including the cancellation of such outmoded defense programs as
the Crusader artillery system. That's exactly the message being preached by
Rumsfeld and others.
It urges the development of small nuclear warheads "required in targeting
the very deep, underground hardened bunkers that are being built by many of
our potential adversaries." This year the GOP-led U.S. House gave the
Pentagon the green light to develop such a weapon, called the Robust Nuclear
Earth Penetrator, while the Senate has so far balked.
That close tracking of recommendation with current policy is hardly
surprising, given the current positions of the people who contributed to the
2000 report.
Paul Wolfowitz is now deputy defense secretary. John Bolton is
undersecretary of state. Stephen Cambone is head of the Pentagon's Office of
Program, Analysis and Evaluation. Eliot Cohen and Devon Cross are members of
the Defense Policy Board, which advises Rumsfeld. I. Lewis Libby is chief of
staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Dov Zakheim is comptroller for the
Defense Department.
'Constabulary duties'
Because they were still just private citizens in 2000, the authors of the
project report could be more frank and less diplomatic than they were in
drafting the National Security Strategy. Back in 2000, they clearly
identified Iran, Iraq and North Korea as primary short-term targets, well
before President Bush tagged them as the Axis of Evil. In their report, they
criticize the fact that in war planning against North Korea and Iraq, "past
Pentagon wargames have given little or no consideration to the force
requirements necessary not only to defeat an attack but to remove these
regimes from power."
To preserve the Pax Americana, the report says U.S. forces will be required
to perform "constabulary duties" -- the United States acting as policeman of
the world -- and says that such actions "demand American political
leadership rather than that of the United Nations."
To meet those responsibilities, and to ensure that no country dares to
challenge the United States, the report advocates a much larger military
presence spread over more of the globe, in addition to the roughly 130
nations in which U.S. troops are already deployed.
More specifically, they argue that we need permanent military bases in the
Middle East, in Southeast Europe, in Latin America and in Southeast Asia,
where no such bases now exist. That helps to explain another of the
mysteries of our post-Sept. 11 reaction, in which the Bush administration
rushed to install U.S. troops in Georgia and the Philippines, as well as our
eagerness to send military advisers to assist in the civil war in Colombia.
The 2000 report directly acknowledges its debt to a still earlier document,
drafted in 1992 by the Defense Department. That document had also envisioned
the United States as a colossus astride the world, imposing its will and
keeping world peace through military and economic power. When leaked in
final draft form, however, the proposal drew so much criticism that it was
hastily withdrawn and repudiated by the first President Bush.
Effect on allies
The defense secretary in 1992 was Richard Cheney; the document was drafted
by Wolfowitz, who at the time was defense undersecretary for policy.
The potential implications of a Pax Americana are immense.
One is the effect on our allies. Once we assert the unilateral right to act
as the world's policeman, our allies will quickly recede into the
background. Eventually, we will be forced to spend American wealth and
American blood protecting the peace while other nations redirect their
wealth to such things as health care for their citizenry.
Donald Kagan, a professor of classical Greek history at Yale and an
influential advocate of a more aggressive foreign policy -- he served as
co-chairman of the 2000 New Century project -- acknowledges that likelihood.

"If [our allies] want a free ride, and they probably will, we can't stop
that," he says. But he also argues that the United States, given its unique
position, has no choice but to act anyway.
"You saw the movie 'High Noon'? he asks. "We're Gary Cooper."
Accepting the Cooper role would be an historic change in who we are as a
nation, and in how we operate in the international arena. Candidate Bush
certainly did not campaign on such a change. It is not something that he or
others have dared to discuss honestly with the American people. To the
contrary, in his foreign policy debate with Al Gore, Bush pointedly
advocated a more humble foreign policy, a position calculated to appeal to
voters leery of military intervention.
For the same reason, Kagan and others shy away from terms such as empire,
understanding its connotations. But they also argue that it would be naive
and dangerous to reject the role that history has thrust upon us. Kagan, for
example, willingly embraces the idea that the United States would establish
permanent military bases in a post-war Iraq.
"I think that's highly possible," he says. "We will probably need a major
concentration of forces in the Middle East over a long period of time. That
will come at a price, but think of the price of not having it. When we have
economic problems, it's been caused by disruptions in our oil supply. If we
have a force in Iraq, there will be no disruption in oil supplies."
Costly global commitment
Rumsfeld and Kagan believe that a successful war against Iraq will produce
other benefits, such as serving an object lesson for nations such as Iran
and Syria. Rumsfeld, as befits his sensitive position, puts it rather
gently. If a regime change were to take place in Iraq, other nations
pursuing weapons of mass destruction "would get the message that having them
. . . is attracting attention that is not favorable and is not helpful," he
says.
Kagan is more blunt.
"People worry a lot about how the Arab street is going to react," he notes.
"Well, I see that the Arab street has gotten very, very quiet since we
started blowing things up."
The cost of such a global commitment would be enormous. In 2000, we spent
$281 billion on our military, which was more than the next 11 nations
combined. By 2003, our expenditures will have risen to $378 billion. In
other words, the increase in our defense budget from 1999-2003 will be more
than the total amount spent annually by China, our next largest competitor.
The lure of empire is ancient and powerful, and over the millennia it has
driven men to commit terrible crimes on its behalf. But with the end of the
Cold War and the disappearance of the Soviet Union, a global empire was
essentially laid at the feet of the United States. To the chagrin of some,
we did not seize it at the time, in large part because the American people
have never been comfortable with themselves as a New Rome.
Now, more than a decade later, the events of Sept. 11 have given those
advocates of empire a new opportunity to press their case with a new
president. So in debating whether to invade Iraq, we are really debating the
role that the United States will play in the years and decades to come.
Are peace and security best achieved by seeking strong alliances and
international consensus, led by the United States? Or is it necessary to
take a more unilateral approach, accepting and enhancing the global
dominance that, according to some, history has thrust upon us?
If we do decide to seize empire, we should make that decision knowingly, as
a democracy. The price of maintaining an empire is always high. Kagan and
others argue that the price of rejecting it would be higher still.
That's what this is about.

The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative

http://swco.ttu.edu/aton_html/index.htm

2200,  stories, in 73 volumes, full-text.

1.call for papers 2.tarih vakfi 3.press release 4.website 5.Le Monde
Diplomatique 6.reviews 7.job 8.statement 9.online course 10.fellowship

1.
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS  --------

          UNESCO Conference on INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
          15-18 June 2003 in Jyvaskyla, FINLAND

Theme:  Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding,
         Human Rights and a Culture of Peace

Organisers:    Institute for Educational Research,
                University of Jyvaskyla, Finland,
                in cooperation with UNESCO

Submission of Proposals by: 30 September, 2002

The Conference Website: www.jyu.fi/ktl/unesco2003/

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You are cordially invited to attend this international academic
conference to share and discuss your ideas, problems and
expertise concerning the issues of equity, social justice,
conflict resolution and democracy.

         We welcome you as a teacher, developer or researcher
involved in intercultural education or active in any other
field in academic or vocational higher education and willing
to examine and develop your work from the perspective of
promoting intercultural understanding. Likewise, we also
invite educators from the respective academic communities
of multicultural education, human rights education and
peace education to join this common forum.

         Please send your proposal for a paper, tutorial,
graduate student paper, workshop, performance, poster or other
conference activity to the UNESCO 2003 Conference Secretariat by
e-mail to pirjo-leena.pitkanen@...
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Chair of the Conference:
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University of Jyvaskyla
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XI INTERNATIONAL BAKHTIN CONFERENCE


Scope of the Conference


The International Bakhtin Conference has met every two  years
since 1983. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the
presentation and discussion of advanced research works
dealing with the ideas of the Bakhtin Circle.


The XI Conference

Place and dates

  The XI INTERNATIONAL BAKHTIN  CONFERENCE will
be held in Curitiba (Brazil), at the Federal  University of Paraná,
from July 21 to 25, 2003.

Curitiba is one of the largest cities in Brazil with a  population of
around two million people. It is the capital of the  State of Paraná
(in the south of the country). It can be easily  reached by plane
from São Paulo (a 50-minute flight) and from  Rio de Janeiro (a
90-minute flight). It is important to bear in mind  that the
Conference will be held in the middle of winter. The  season is
usually mild in this part of Brazil (average temperatures  around
10º Centigrade during the day), but since Curitiba is at an
altitude of 3,000 feet temperatures may fall to about 4º
Centigrade during the night and in early morning. Frosts are not
unusual at this time of the year.

Themes
  Papers on all areas of the Bakhtin Circle´s interests are
welcome, but papers on the following topics are particularly
encouraged:
-Latin American Cultures: borders and thresholds
-Readings of "Toward a Philosophy of the Act"
-Philosophical, cultural and historical background of the ideas  of
the Bakhtin Circle
-Dialogism in the Human and Social Sciences
-Literary and Language Studies.

Languages
The XI Conference will accept papers in any of the  following
languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English and Russian.

Format
The XI Conference will include 4 Plenary Sessions (one  in each
of the languages of the Conference) and Sessions for the  oral
presentation of individual papers. These presentations will be  30
minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion.


Proposals for round-tables with 3 participants will also be
considered. The round-tables will be 2 hours in length (30
minutes for each paper plus 10 minutes for discussion).

Deadline for abstracts
People interested in presenting a paper at the XI  Conference
should submit an abstract of around 500 words  before
December 15, 2002.


Proposals for round-tables should include a short  description of
its aims and an abstract of the paper to be read by  each of the
participants, in the same format as described above.


The language of the abstract will be expected to be the  language
of presentation.

  Electronic submissions of abstracts are strongly  encouraged.
The may be emailed either to


mailto:
bakhtin@...

or to


mailto:
cfaraco@...
They may also be posted to
Carlos A. Faraco
Av. Nossa Senhora da Luz 250
Ap. 1602
82510-020  CURITIBA   Brazil

and should include:

the title of the paper
the author's name and affiliation
mail and email address.
Selection

The papers for the programme will be selected by the  Academic
Committee of the XI Conference. If the paper is  accepted, a
notification will be posted to the author by February  15, 2003.

The selected abstracts will appear at the XI Conference  website
as soon as their authors complete their registration.

Additional Information
Precise details of registration both of those presenting a  paper
and of those interested in attending the XI Conference; and
information about accommodation and tourist options, will be
available by March 2003 at the XI Conference website at


http://www.educacao.ufpr.br/bakhtin

Contact

Contact Carlos A. Faraco with any questions regarding  the XI
Conference at either of the following emails:
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Gender/ Culture/ Power: Past & Present
October 12-13, at the University of Strathclyde, the RSAMD and The
Glasgow School of Art

This interdisciplinary Conference explores gender in relation to
cultural politics, both past & present, and on the local, national
and global scene.

Programme strands:

- Gender, Knowledge, Power - Enlightenment to the present: gendered
divisions in intellectual work and institutions, paradoxical ways of
contesting these,  pressing current concerns, teaching & learning
culture.  Speakers include Dorothy McMillan, Mary Maynard, Jane
Rendall, Hilary Rose, Liz Stanley, Anne Witz & Eileen Janes Yeo.

- Speaking English - gender in relation to national identity and
cultural diversity,  (be)longing, migration and exile, cultural
translation and exchange in today's globalised art circuits.
Speakers include Deborah Cherry, Roberta McGrath, Carol Mavor,
Catherine Nash, and invitees Miwon Kwon and Minoli Salgado.

Linked to an exhibition: 'Speak English', curated by Maud Sulter,
containing works by herself and Lubaina Himid.  The exhibition will
hang in the The Newberry gallery at The Glasgow School of Art and
open on Friday 11th October with a welcome reception for the
conference.

- Gender, Museology and the Arts - raises issues about gender, the
visual and textile arts, and about collecting, curating and
museology, both at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Speakers
include Sian Reynolds, Lou Taylor and Clara Ursitti.

- Gender, Fictions, Identity - themes include gender and national
identity in Scottish literature; the political possibilities of
creative writing and popular forms for individual writers and
community groups; the performance of gendered identities across a
range of media.  Speakers include Suzanne Bonnar, Margaret
Elphinstone, Nicola McCartney, Denise Mina, Murray Pittock, Claire
Robertson and Suhayl Saadi.

Plenary sessions set issues into larger contexts, in terms of
disciplines and geography. The opening Plenary explores Gender in
Cultural Politics: Past & Present; a Round Table with Patricia Adkins
Chiti (Donne in Musica) and Sonja van der Valk (Theater Instituut
Nederland) considers Gender in the European Cultural Agenda; and
Angela McRobbie addresses `Post-feminism and Popular Culture: The New
Gender Regime'.

Community Events
An enjoyable array of community events will run alongside the
Conference at the Collins Gallery, the Tramway, the Glasgow Film
Theatre, the Lighthouse and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama.

For more details and booking form:
www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/scigs or louise.dobbie@...

With grateful thanks to The University of Strathclyde, The Glasgow
Film Theatre, The CCA, The Glasgow School of Art, The Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama, The British Council, Instituto di Cultura
& Maud Sulter for the conference poster image.

Subject: CfP: Enhancing the capacity of local governments to pr ovide
equitable access to minorities, 10-12.4.2002, Bucharest

http://www.nispa.sk/conf2003/conf2003.html

For applications/deadline, see the end of the message

INVITATION & CALL FOR PAPERS for the 11th NISPAcee Annual Conference

"ENHANCING THE CAPACITIES TO GOVERN: Challenges facing the CEE
countries"

Bucharest, Romania, April 10-12 2003

Organized in cooperation with the National School of Political
Studies
and
Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania




IV. Working Group on Democratic Governance of Multiethnic Communities

Coordinators:
Petra Kovacs, LGI/OSI, Hungary ,e-mail: kovacsp@...
Jana Krimpe, Tallinn University of Educational Sciences, Estonia,
e-mail:
krimpe@...

The coordinators of the WG invites contributions on its 2003 theme:
"Enhancing the capacity of local governments to provide equitable
access to
minorities".

Background
The Working Group (WG) on Governing Multiethnic Communities had its
third
gathering at the 10th Annual Meeting of the NISPAcee. This year,
working
sessions of the WG have been devoted to an in-depth analysis of new
models
and methods of public service delivery from the point of view of
ethnic
diversity. The aim of the WG is to assess and analyze public policies
that
determine the access of minorities to public services.

The WG decided to continue its operations at the next NISPAcee
conference.
Researchers will contribute to the conference with the topic:
"Enhancing the
capacity of local governments to provide equitable access to
minorities".
This topic will be based on research results of the working group to
date.
During the next twelve months members of the research team will
continue
their field research to identify key factors of successful practice in
providing equitable access to public services for minorities. By
identifying
these key factors, the working group will contribute to promote
policies of
equal opportunities and non-discrimination at the sub-national levels
of
government. This issue has become a key priority for all governments
in
Central and Eastern Europe in the process of European Integration.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Officials as well as citizens are often frustrated in their attempts
to
get
a clear picture on the performance of government's achievement in
promoting
inclusive policies responsive to the needs of ethnically diverse
communities. Success stories or bad examples become reported by the
media
sometimes. However, comprehensive information and analysis is rarely
available on the issue equity in public service delivery.

We are calling for policy studies to provide suggestions by which
local
governments and their agencies or institutions might regularly assess
their
performance or demonstrate progress. Interested individuals are
invited
to
join the Working Group's research team and to submit papers analyzing
key
factors of successful practices in providing equitable access to
public
services for minorities.

The aim of our inquiry is threefold. First, to provide governments and
public officials with suggestions on improving particular situations.
Second, to accelerate new policy actions in areas of service
provision
to
meet the need of minorities. Third, to enhance governments capacities
to
manage ethnic diversity.

A preference will be given to papers based on empirical research (case
studies).


For further information, please contact the coordinators:
Petra Kovacs (LGI/OSI) at kovacsp@...,

or Jana Krimpe (Tallin University)krimpe@...

or write to the email list of the working group
nispawg4@yahoogroups.com

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Applications should be submitted to the NISPAcee Secretariat no later
than
September 30, 2002 and should include:
- An abstract of a paper that is relevant to the Conference theme
(maximum 2
pages), or a proposal for the panel discussion
- A completed application form (this will be available on the NISPAcee
homepage or from the NISPAcee Secretariat)
- Applicant's curriculum vitae.

Application documents should be in English and sent in an electronic
form by
e-mail to Viera Wallnerova, NISPAcee Project manager (e-mail:
Viera@...)

**********************************************
The NISPAcee Conference provides a forum to encourage the exchange of
information and developments in the theory and practice of public
administration. The Conference addresses experts, scholars and
practitioners
who work in the field of public administration in Central and Eastern
Europe
(including all countries covered by the NISPAcee membership, the
Russian
Federation, Caucasus and Central Asia).

The Conference will be structured into a plenary panel discussion and
working sessions on the main Conference theme with meetings of the
NISPAcee
Working Groups running in parallel. Papers are invited on the main
Conference theme or on the themes of the Working Groups. The call for
participation in the Working Groups for next year's Conference is
based
on
the outcomes of the NISPAcee Conference in Cracow 2002. Information
on
the
Conference is also available on the NISPAcee web site
(http://www.nispa.sk)
or at the NISPAcee Secretariat from the beginning of July, 2002.

THE MAIN CONFERENCE THEME

A naive version of quasi-neoliberal thinking has been predominant in
many of
the former communist countries in the last decade. Partly as a natural
reaction to the failures of command economies and partly to adjust to
often
ill-understood western ideas and institutions, many politicians
believed
that the market alone had the power to destroy the old-fashioned
structures
of the centrally planned economy and authoritarian politics of the
Communist
past. In other countries, the inherited patterns of tough centralized
control hindered most of the effort to replace them with efficient
regulatory structures facilitating and compatible with the market
economy
and political democracy. Both approaches paved the way to corruption.
It is
only after a series of bitter experiences in the political and
administrative practice of central and eastern European countries,
that
the
awareness of their inadequacies is now widespread.

Without doubt, the role of public policy and administration is now
much
more
valued than at the beginning of the 90s. However, there is still a
lot
of
hesitation and confusion concerning the relevant scope and appropriate
methods of administrative regulation in political practice. In
addition,
central and eastern European countries face serious problems in
respect
to
the shaping of future governmental activities and balancing them with
pressures to have results here and now. That is why cognitive,
educative and
the practical task of enhancing the capacities to govern has been
selected
as the main theme of the 2003 NISPAcee Annual Conference.

Prof. Yehezkel Dror from the Hebrew University, Israel, will be the
Conference keynote speaker. His presentation will be based on his new
Report
to the Club of Rome The Capacity to Govern (for those interested in
the
book, information about it as well as a nine-page abstract of the book
written by Prof. Kuklinski, University of Warsaw, Poland and a
nine-page
summary of the book written by Prof. Argyriades, UN Consultant is
available
on the NISPAcee homepage, or upon request from the Secretariat)

Panel discussion: The Role of Education in Enhancing Capacities to
Govern

Schools and institutes of public policy and public administration
have
the
eminent task of educating not only future politicians and top civil
servants, but also citizens, in order to prepare them for the
challenging
tasks they will be exposed to in the future in order to enhance
capacities
to govern. This is true both for universities and for in-service
training
institutes. How should they adapt their curricula? Is there a need to
introduce special courses, modules and/or teaching methods?


Subject: CFP: Central Europe & the Mediterranean [x-H-MEDITERRANEAN]

Date:    Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:28:03 +0200
> From:    H-Mediterranean <denis.bocquet@...>
> Subject: Central Europe and the Mediterranean: Call for Papers
>
> From: Richard W. Clement <rclement@...>
> Subject: Central Europe and the Mediterranean: Call for Papers
> Date: September 13, 2002
>
> Mediterranean Studies Association
> Call for Papers / Appel a communications
>
> Central Europe and the Mediterranean
>
> L Europe centrale et la Méditerranée
>
> Central European University
> Budapest, Hungary
> May 28-31, 2003
>
> The Mediterranean Studies Association's 6th annual International
> Congress, Central Europe and the Mediterranean will be held on May
> 28-31, 2003 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
> 2003 will commemorate the 550th anniversary of the fall of
> Constantinople, marking the end of Byzantium and the beginning of
> Stambul. Sessions devoted to this anniversary are especially
welcome.
> As is the case each year, papers and sessions on all subjects
relating to
> the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world
> from all periods are encouraged. Following a day of optional
excursions
> the congress will open with a plenary session and reception on the
> evening of May 28. Over the course of the next days over 150
scholarly
> papers will be delivered before an international audience of
> about 250 scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of
fields.
> Held in the center of Budapest at the Central European University,
>
> http://www.ceu.hu/
>
> the official language of the congress is English. In addition,
complete
> sessions in any Mediterranean language are welcome. A number of
> special events are being planned for congress participants that will
> highlight the unique cultural aspects of Budapest. The congress is
> sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Central
> European University, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth,
Arizona
> State University, and the University of Kansas. Selected revised
papers
> will be considered for publication in the Association's journal,
> Mediterranean Studies.
> The Mediterranean Studies Association is an interdisciplinary
> organization which promotes the scholarly study of Mediterranean
> cultures in all aspects and disciplines. It is particularly
concerned
with
the
> ideas and ideals of western Mediterranean cultures from Late
Antiquity to
> the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and
> temporal boundaries.
> Proposals for papers and sessions are now being solicited. Papers
and
> proposals for sessions are encouraged which focus on the conference
> theme, but any paper or session proposal with a Mediterranean theme,
> from any period and any discipline, will be considered. Proposals
for
> roundtable discussions of a topical work or theme are also welcome.
The
> typical panel will include three papers, each lasting twenty
minutes,
a
> chair, and (optionally) a commentator. For examples of paper and
> session topics, and the range of subjects, see the programs from
Lisbon
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/program_1998.html
>
>  Coimbra
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/program_1999.html
>
>  Salvador
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/salvadorsessions.html
>
> Aix-en-Provence
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/programaix.htm
>
>  and Granada
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/granadaprogram.htm
>
> Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a
> one-page curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and
> commentators.
> Each participant's name, e-mail and regular address, and phone
number
> should also be listed. Proposals are now being solicited for the
first round
> of consideration. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2002,
> though proposals will be considered after that date.
>
> Please send proposals to: Mediterranean Studies Association, P.O.
Box
> 212, East Sandwich, MA 02537, USA.
>
> For information on the congress or the Association see
>
> http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/
>
> or contact
>
> MSA@... <mailto:msa@...>.

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2.
Tarih Vakfý'ndan tüm elektronik abonelerimize merhaba;
Toplumsal Tarih'in Yeni Sayýsý Çýktý!
Ülkenin gündemini seçim tartýþmalarý ve ekonominin oluþturduðu
bugünlerde, tarihin gündemini takip ettiðimiz Toplumsal Tarih'in
Aðustos sayýsý çýktý. 90 yýl önce, on binlerce insanýn ölümüne neden
olan Balkan Harbi patlak verdi. Biz de, günümüzde de bu bölgede
gerilimin azalmadýðýný göz önüne alarak bu konuyu dosyamýza taþýdýk.
Osmanlý/Türkiye tarihinin dönüm noktalarýndan birini oluþturmuþ olan
bu savaþý mümkün olduðu kadar farklý açýlardan yansýtmaya çalýþtýk.
Balkan Savaþý'nýn tarihine olduðuna kadar, yarattýðý siyasal ve
toplumsal etkilere de yer vermeye özen gösterdik. Dosya editörü Hülya
Balcý Akarlý, ayný zamanda Ömer Seyfettin'in Balkan Savaþý Günlüðü'nü
deðerlendirdiði bir yazýyla yer alýyor dosyadYazýlarý bulunan diðer
yazarlar ise, Oya Daðlar, Yavuz Selim Karakýþla, Murat Koraltürk ve
1914 yýlýnýn Almanach Hachette'inden yaptýðý bir çeviriyle, Hande
Özkan.
Zafer Toprak'ýn "Cihan Harbi'nin Provasý: Balkan Harbi" adlý makalesi
dosyamýzýn ana yazýsýný oluþturuyor ve savaþla ilgili bazý temel
tezleri gündeme getiriyor. Toprak'a göre, Balkan Harbi'nin
baþlangýcýndan Milli Mücadele döneminin sonuna kadar geçen süre
ulusal bir kimlik yaratýlmasý sürecini temsil eder ve bu anlamda
Milli Mücadele 1912'de baþlamýþtýr. Ayrýca Balkan Harbi, Avrupalý
kimliði terk etme zorunluluðu karþýsýnda Türk ulusçuluðunun
Anadolu'ya yöneliþini getirir, Müslüman unsurun
birleþtiriciliðiyle "ulusal türdeþ"liðe giden yolun açýlmasýna meydan
verir.

Malum, havalar bunaltýcý derecede sýcak. Ýçkiden hoþlananlarýn
serinlemek için vazgeçemediði bira ise, Mezopotamya'ya uzanan
tarihiyle uzun yazýmýzý oluþturuyor; ancak salt o dönemle sýnýrlý
kalmayýp Osmanlý'ya, oradan Cumhuriyet'in ilk yýllarýndaki bira
kültürünü de ele alan bir içerikle. Ercan Eren, biranýn 10 bin yýllýk
tarihini, Gýlgamýþ Destaný'nýn ilgili bölümlerinden Bomonti Bira
Fabrikasý'na uzanan bir öyküyle ele almýþ.
Celal Bayar'ýn ölümünün on altýncý yýldönümü dolayýsýyla, Mete
Tunçay'ýn Bayar için ta 1983 yýlýnda, henüz Bayar ölmeden önce
yazdýðý, ancak hiçbir yerde yayýmlanmamýþ olan nekroloji yazýsý,
geçen ay meydana gelen ve dünya çapýnda bilinen ve dünya kültürel
mirasýnýn envanterine girmiþ olan Divriði Ulu Camii'nde
gerçekleþtirilen hýrsýzlýk ve tahrip de dergimizin sayfalarýnda yer
alan yazýlarýmýzdan bazýlarý.

Aðustos: Gezme Zamaný

Kültür gezilerinde 3 yýldýr biriktirdiði deneyimin sonucunda Tarih
Vakfý, STG Travel Services ile iþbirliði içinde yeni bir dönemi
baþlatýyor. Bu sezon üç gezimiz var: Mardin, Van ve Truva/Bozcaada.
Tarih Vakfý; kültür gezilerinden saðlanan gelirin küçük ama anlamlý
bir bölümünü Avrupa Birliði tarafýndan desteklenen Akdeniz'de Tarih
Öncesi Alanlar, Arkeoloji ve Halkýn Eðitimi Projesi'ne (TEMPER)
ayýrýyor. Tarih Vakfý-STG Travel Services iþbirliðiyle yapýlan
turlara katýlanlar, baþka bir iþleme gerek olmadan, World Monument
Fund'ýn "Dünyada Korumaya En Muhtaç 100 Arkeolojik Alan" listesindeki
Çatalhöyük'e destek vermiþ oluyorlar.
Gezilerimize katýlanlarýn "Tarih Dostu" olmasý için gereken iþlemi
STG otomatik olarak düzenliyor. Geziye katýlanlarýn ilk ödentisini
STG yapýyor, gezi dosyasý içinde katýlýmcýnýn o ayýn Toplumsal Tarih
dergisini, sertifikasýný ve "Tarih Dostu" kartýný veriyor. Katýlýmcý
bir ay boyunca bu kartýn avantajlarýndan yararlanabilir. Ýsterse bu
statüsünü diðer aylarda da devam ettirebilmek için dosyadaki formu
doldurarak, tüm diðer Tarih Dostlarýyla birlikte, ülkemizde çaðdaþ
tarihçiliðin yaygýnlaþmasýna doðrudan katkýda bulunmak olanaðýna da
sahip olabilir.
Gezilerimizle ilgili bilgi için Ýlker Horozcu'yu arayabilirsiniz:
(212) 233 2161/22
Gezi Takvimi
Anadolu'nun Kapýlarý Kars/Van (4 gün) (9 Aðustos, 20 Eylül, 11
Ekim, 08 Kasým)
Taþýn ve Ýnancýn Þiiri Mardin (4 gün) (23 Aðustos, 20 Eylül, 04
Ekim, 01 Kasým)
Ýki Güzelleme Truva/Bozcaada (3 gün)  (17 Aðustos, 30
Aðustos, 14 Eylül, 28 Eylül)
15 gün sonra buluþmak dileðiyle, hoþçakalýn.
Ertan Keskinsoy
Tarih Vakfý
Tanýtým Koordinatörü

Tarih Vakfý EYLÜL 2002 | 01
Tarih Vakfý'ndan tüm elektronik abonelerimize merhaba; Yüz yýla yakýn
bir geçmiþi olan, ancak zaman geçtikçe külleneceðine alevlenen bir
konu, bu ayki Toplumsal Tarih dergisinin ana yazýsýnýn konusu.
Birinci Dünya Savaþý'ndan bugüne, Ermeni Sorunu, abartýlar ve yok
saymalar arasýnda tartýþýlageldi. Uluslararasý hukuk ve uluslararasý
siyaset, olsa olsa her iki tarafýn da pozisyonlarýný netleþtirip
düþüncelerini kemikleþtirmesine yardýmcý oldu. Olayýn tarihçilere
býrakýlmasý yönündeki saðduyulu çaðrýlarsa bir türlü karþýlýðýný
bulmadý, zaten bugüne kadar ya `beðenilmeyen' yanýtlar veren
tarihçiler, ya da `bizden' tarihçiler sözkonusu oldu. Yapýcý
çalýþmalar ve çaðrýlar ise toz duman arasýnda kayboldu gitti.Sorular
bilinen sorular: 1915'te olup bitene soykýrým denilebilir mi,
Ermeniler mi Türkler'i katletti, Türkler mi Ermeniler'i, Türkiye
Cumhuriyeti, Osmanlý Ýmparatorluðu'nun günahlarýný üstlenmek zorunda
mý –tabii ortada bir günah varsa-, vb. Ancak yanýtlar can yakýcý
ölçüde zor. Hele angaje olmadan, yalnýzca tarih ve bilim adýna yanýt
vermeye çalýþmak daha da zor.Ýþte Prof. Dr. Stefanos Yerasimos,
Ermeni sorununu tarih ve hukuk alanlarýnýn bir çeliþkisi olarak
tanýmlayýp çözümleyerek bu zorluðun üstesinden gelmeye kalkýþýyor.
Ermeni sorunu hakkýnda bir çaðrý da içeren bu yazý, ayrýca tarihçiler
için bir örnek yazým modeli de oluþturuyor.Toplumsal Tarih'in bu ayki
dosya konusu, yeni eðitim yýlýnýn baþlamasý vesilesiyle, `mektepler'.
Türkiye'de okullarýn `taþ mektepten koleje' geçirdiði evrim, ayný
zamanda bu ülkenin modernleþmesinin de bir tarihçesi. Enderun'dan
Osmanlý'nýn ilk öðretmen okullarýna, tarih içinde tarih ders
kitaplarýna genel bir bakýþtan yüzyýl boyunca öðrenci pasolarýna bir
dizi yazýmýzýn yer aldýðý dosyamýz, bu tarihçeyi irdelemeye
çalýþýyor. Tüm elektronik abonelerimize, 15 Eylül'de görüþmek
dileðiyle...Ertan KeskinsoyTarih VakfýTanýtým Koordinatörü

Yüz yýla yakýn bir geçmiþi olan, ancak zaman geçtikçe külleneceðine
alevlenen bir konu, bu ayki Toplumsal Tarih dergisinin ana yazýsýnýn
konusu. Birinci Dünya Savaþý'ndan bugüne, Ermeni Sorunu, abartýlar ve
yok saymalar arasýnda tartýþýlageldi. Uluslararasý hukuk ve
uluslararasý siyaset, olsa olsa her iki tarafýn da pozisyonlarýný
netleþtirip düþüncelerini kemikleþtirmesine yardýmcý oldu. Olayýn
tarihçilere býrakýlmasý yönündeki saðduyulu çaðrýlarsa bir türlü
karþýlýðýný bulmadý, zaten bugüne kadar ya `beðenilmeyen' yanýtlar
veren tarihçiler, ya da `bizden' tarihçiler sözkonusu oldu. Yapýcý
çalýþmalar ve çaðrýlar ise toz duman arasýnda kayboldu gitti.

Ýþte Prof. Dr. Stefanos Yerasimos, Ermeni sorununu tarih ve hukuk
alanlarýnýn bir çeliþkisi olarak tanýmlayýp çözümleyerek bu zorluðun
üstesinden gelmeye çalýþýyor. Ermeni sorunu hakkýnda bir çaðrý da
içeren bu yazý, ayrýca tarihçiler için bir örnek yazým modeli de
oluþturuyor.

Toplumsal Tarih'in bu ayki dosya konusu, yeni öðretim yýlýnýn
baþlamasý vesilesiyle, `mektepler'. Türkiye'de okullarýn `taþ
mektepten koleje' geçirdiði evrim, ayný zamanda bu ülkenin
modernleþmesinin de bir tarihçesi. Enderun'dan Osmanlý'nýn ilk
öðretmen okullarýna, tarih içinde tarih ders kitaplarýna genel bir
bakýþtan yüzyýl boyunca öðrenci pasolarýna bir dizi yazýmýzýn yer
aldýðý dosyamýz, bu tarihçeyi irdelemeye çalýþýyor.
* * *
1997 yýlýndan beri Güllü Aybar ve Tarih Vakfý iþbirliðiyle Mehmet Ali
Aybar'ý anma sempozyumlarý düzenleniyor. Bu toplantýlar, Aybar
anýsýna yapýlmýþ olmakla birlikte, alýþýlmýþ anma toplantýlarýndan
farklý, onun yaþamý boyunca ilgilendiði alan ya da sorunlardan
bazýlarý üzerine entelektüel içeriði zengin tartýþma toplantýlarý
olarak gerçekleþiyor.
Altýncý Aybar Sempozyumu, 29 Eylül 2002 Pazar günü saat 10.00-17.00
arasýnda, Darphane binamýzda düzenleniyor. Bu yýlki sempozyumun
konusu, "Geleceðin Üniversitesi - Gelecekte Bilimsel Özgürlük /
Özerklik". Sempozyuma Ahmet Ýnsel, Tosun Terzioðlu, Burhan Þenatalar,
Christoph Neumann, Yahya Kemal Gümüþ, Ýsmail Ertürk ve Barýþ Ünlü
konuþmacý olarak katýlýyor. Ayrýntýlý bilgi için: (212) 233 2161/42
* * *
Tarih Vakfý'nýn kuruluþundan bu yana yayýmladýðý toplam yayýn sayýsý,
277. Yüzler basamaðýnda 3'ü görmeye bu kadar yaklaþmýþ bir
yayýnevinin ürünlerini bir arada bulundurmak isteyenler için bir
önerimiz var:

Vakfýn þimdiye dek yayýmladýðý tüm kitaplarý ve dergileri topluca
satýn alarak üretken bir sivil toplum örgütünü daha da
güçlendirebilir, Tarih Vakfý ile daha yakýn bir iliþki içinde
olabilirsiniz.

Kendinize ve yakýnlarýnýza Tarih Kütüphanesi armaðan edin. Uygulanan
% 35 indirimle bu kütüphaneye 2.693.600.000 TL'ye sahip
olabilirsiniz –katalog fiyatýnýn 4.144.000.000 olduðunu anýmsatalým.
Bu külliyatý alan ilk 25 kiþiye armaðanýmýz, Kolleksiyon Mobilya'dan
iki modül kitaplýk, ve bir yýl boyunca ücretsiz Tarih Dostu üyeliði.
Üstelik Tarih Dostlarýna, Okur Kulübü üyelerine, Kardeþ Kuruluþ
mensuplarýna ve eski/yeni abonelerimize iki taksit yapýlýyor.

Tüm elektronik abonelerimize, 1 Ekim'de görüþmek dileðiyle...
Ertan Keskinsoy
Tarih Vakfý
Tanýtým Koordinatörü
3.
For immediate release  September 16, 2002

Middle East Report 224
Fall 2002

ARABS, MUSLIMS AND RACE IN AMERICA

Among the complex and contradictory after-effects of the September 11
attacks in New York and Washington is the increased visibility of
Arab
and
Muslim citizens and immigrants in the United States. Racial profiling
shed
its hard-won opprobrium in public opinion, as an FBI dragnet zeroed
in
on
young Middle Eastern and Muslim men, and commentators painted Islam
as
an
enemy. At the same time, genuine interest in Islam and Middle Eastern
culture has reached unprecedented levels. The fall 2002 issue of
Middle
East
Report, "Arabs, Muslims and Race in America," unravels some of these
complexities and contradictions.

While Arabs, Muslims and those mistaken for them have faced hate
crimes
and
intolerance from American society, the greatest purveyor of
discrimination
against Middle Easterners since September 11 has been the US
government,
explains sociologist and immigrant rights advocate Louise Cainkar. By
targeting Arabs and Muslims, the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act
and
other
new regulations have exacerbated existing feelings of exclusion among
those
communities.

As scholar Salah D. Hassan argues, the exclusion experienced by
Arab-Americans and Arab immigrants relates to their opposition to US
Middle
East policy and their uneasy place in the binary racial thinking still
prevalent in US law and culture: are Arabs "white" or are they people
of
color? Researcher Hisham Aidi debunks the warnings of an Islamist
"fifth
column" in US inner cities sparked by the cases of alleged "dirty
bomber"
José Padilla and others, and links the rise of Islam among
African-Americans
and Latinos to persistent inequities of race and class.

But amidst this evidence of the weakness of US multiculturalism,
there
is
more encouraging news. Americans are mostly not willing to impose
special
limits on the civil liberties of Arabs and Muslims, according to
survey
data
collected by political scientist Kathleen Moore. Furthermore, as
anthropologist Ted Swedenburg reports, the "Arab wave" in world music
continues its progress toward breaking through in US popular culture.

Also featured: Fareed Mohamedi and Raad Alkadiri dissect the logic
driving
the Bush administration's war plans for Iraq; Mouin Rabbani lays out
the
dimensions of the crisis facing Palestinians nearly three years into
their
uprising; Elliott Colla looks at expressions of solidarity with the
Palestinians in Egyptian pop culture; and more.

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Dear friends,

We are happy to announce that the database of the Regional women's
directories is available on the Zenska infoteka web pages
(www.zinfo.hr/indoc/IndocHomeW.htm).  It is a result of common work
of
the
national Women's INDOC's from 9 countries done in cooperation with
Open
Society Institute – Network Women's Program.

At the moment the site is presenting an integrated database of 464
women's
groups, organizations, and institutions from 9 countries, but till
the
end
of this year (2002) three more national directories will be added. In
2003,
the entire network will be included in the database that is 16
countries.

The groups, organizations, institutions etc. are searchable not only
by
the
name of the organization, countries etc., but also upon a content and
problem-related key words/notions describing their respective fields
and
modes of work. The database is designed to reflect to numerous
references
and enables searching data on the group(s) according to the title,
abbreviation, country, key words, type of the group and reports of all
details of selected groups, like their activities, projects etc.

We believe that this database will help all of us to look for
contacts,
cooperation, to learn about the activities of other groups in all
these
countries and similar.

Please, take a look at the database and we are very keen to hear your
comments, suggestions, and critics.

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5.
Le Monde diplomatique

    -----------------------------------------------------


                           September 2002

                           In this issue:
     ... a special dossier: US, the new Rome, the hawks' first
     strike doctrine, the Christian right and Israel, the fears
     of moderate Islam, why a secret mass grave in Afghanistan?
       .. plus Sabra and Shatila 20 years on; is Germany for
    Stoiber?; India: full granaries, empty stomachs; Argentina's
                life after bankruptcy... and more...


      A small number of these articles and our editorial are
      available to non-subscribers

      To read the rest of this month's articles go to
      http://MondeDiplo.com and click on Subscribe.

      It couldn't be easier...


Target Baghdad

by ALAIN GRESH

                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/01baghdad>


AFGHANISTAN'S SECRET GRAVES

A drive to death in the desert *

by JAMIE DORAN

      President Bush wants to attack Iraq as part of his war on
      terror and the "axis of evil", and would like the United
      States to regulate world order, or disorder, alone. A new
      empire is asserting itself on the international stage,
      though not without debate inside the US. Meanwhile
      Washington has been unable to bring stability to
      Afghanistan nearly a year after its intervention.

                                       Original text in English



The wedding bombing *

J.D.

                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



THE DYNAMICS OF WORLD DISORDER

Westward the course of Empire

by PHILIP S GOLUB

      The aftermath of the terrorist attacks has revived
      imperialist ideology in the United States, rather than
      caused it to query its world role. Writers do not
      hesitate to draw parallels between their nation and
      ancient Rome, which they hold to be a model for world
      domination in the 21st century.

                                    Translated by Harry Forster

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/03westward>


The hawk doctrine *

by PAUL-MARIE DE LA GORCE

      US military strategy was already changing before 11
      September, but the attacks reinforced the new approach.
      As threats against the American homeland are seen as
      intolerable, a strategy for the pre-emptive use of force
      is being established, besides traditional deterrence and
      containment.

                                    Translated by Harry Forster



Which God is on whose side? *

by IBRAHIM WARDE

                                       Translated by the author



Don't go it alone

I.W.

                                       Translated by the author

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/05walone>


Islamists divided *

by our special correspondent WENDY KRISTIANASEN

      Since last September the gap between Islamic militants
      and peaceful movements has widened. But in Egypt there
      has been a quiet revolution as the largest radical group
      has renounced violence and denounced Osama bin Laden and
      al-Qaida.

                                       Original text in English



Hail to the (fictional) chief *

by MARTIN WINCKLER

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford



TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRES AT SABRA AND SHATILA

The past is always present

by our special correspondent PIERRE PÉAN

      The massacres in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila
      in Lebanon in 1982, when hundreds of civilians were
      butchered by rightwing militia, remain crucial events in
      the history of the Palestinian people.

                                     Translated by Julie Stoker

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/08sabra>


'LEDERHOSEN AND LAPTOPS'

Germany: the Bavarian model *

by CHRISTIAN SEMLER

      Germany is recovering after floods in August, claiming
      dozens of lives. Perhaps with the September legislative
      elections in mind, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder postponed
      scheduled tax cuts and released 7bn euros ($6.8bn). This
      welcome move has left Edmund Stoiber, his Christian
      Democrat rival, in an awkward position.

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford



FOUR DECADES OF FIGHTING TO RETAIN IDENTITY

West Papua: undefeated *

by our special correspondent DAMIEN FAURE

      For 40 years the Indonesian government has had harsh
      colonial policy vis-à-vis the people of West Papua
      (formerly Irian Jaya). Whereas East Timor became a cause
      célèbre, West Papua has been passed over. The United
      Nations is not interested. Yet the forgotten people fight
      on for their cultural and political identity.

                                   Translated by Barbara Wilson



THE DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF AGRICULTURE

India: free markets, empty bellies *

by our special correspondent ROLAND-PIERRE PARINGAUX

      The outgoing World Trade Organisation director-general,
      Mike Moore, said the WTO's greatest motivation was the
      people it served. India's small farmers do not see it
      that way. The nation's agricultural policy has long been
      geared to meeting its own needs and being self-sufficient
      in food. But the WTO is pressing India to open its
      markets, and so agriculture is being destroyed as big
      foreign producers flood in. And people stay hungry.

                                Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



When even too much is not enough *

R.P.P.

                                Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



BARTER, DEMOS, THEATRE AND A DICTIONARY OF CRISIS

Argentina: life after bankruptcy

by our special correspondent CLARA AUGÉ

      The Argentine government has acknowledged that it does
      not have the funds to do anything about a ruling of the
      country's supreme court that a 13% cut in state pensions
      and civil servants' salaries was unconstitutional. The
      people, angry and energised, are ready to continue
      fighting.

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/09/13argentina>


WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE GUARANTEES OF PROSPERITY?

Irregular deregulation *

by SERGE HALIMI

      Telecommunications liberalisation, launched by Western
      governments to media enthusiasm, was supposed to create
      brilliant new industries. IMF loans were to guarantee
      prosperity in Latin America. These hopes have been dashed
      by stock exchange crashes and by the financial crisis
      engulfing Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.

                                   Translated by Barbara Wilson




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6.
Subject: Book Review: Kaufman, NATO and the Former Yugoslavia,
reviewed
by Emilian Kavalski

Balkan Academic News Book Review 28/2002

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Joyce P. Kaufman, NATO and the Former Yugoslavia: Crisis, Conflict
and
the
Atlantic Alliance. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 250
pp.,
ISBN: 0-7425-1022-0,  29.95 USD (paperback).

Reviewed by Emilian Kavalski (University of Loughborough, United
Kingdom),
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The relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
and
the unstable Balkan actors during the 1990s has been the central
concern of
quite a number of recent analyses. Profiting from Joyce P. Kaufman's
experience in crisis-management and negotiation, NATO and the Former
Yugoslavia: Crisis, Conflict, and the Atlantic Alliance follows in
the
footsteps of this line of exploration and is a natural continuation
of
the
volume, which the author co-edited earlier with Linda P. Brady, NATO
in
the
1980s: Challenges and Responses. Building upon this research and
hands-on
experience with the investigated issues, as well as the
methodological
framework, the author develops an interesting investigation into the
reluctant involvement of the Atlantic Alliance in the crises of
former
Yugoslavia and the challenges and questions that it posed not just to
its
operations and command structure, but to its very purpose and
essence.
Kaufman follows a chronological presentation of the research topic in
order
to obviate muddling in the multifaceted complexity of Yugoslav
conflicts
and NATO's involvement in them. This allows the author to establish a
straightforward context for juxtaposing and assessing the policies of
the
Atlantic Alliance regarding its future.

The main issue that the book addresses is actually the main question
confronting NATO after the Cold War: what is it for? After the
political
changes in the former Eastern Bloc and the disintegration of its
archrival  the USSR (and the Soviet sponsored Warsaw Pact)  the major
issue
for NATO was (and still is) the reformulation of its role to the
changing
security, political and socio-economic environment.

Kaufman's argument is that the conflicts in former Yugoslavia made
the
Atlantic Alliance face its changing role sooner than it was ready and
prepared to, by confronting it with reality at a much more urgent
pace.
The
questions of out-of area missions and complicated decision-making,
coupled
with the domestic political and economic challenges to NATO
member-states,
made the organization come to terms with its new place in the post-
Cold
War
world. As one considers the roles and functions that NATO has to play
in
the contemporary world, one has to take into account that
international
organizations (being human institutions) adjust only as promptly and
as
rapidly as the thinking of their members alters. And this is the
critical
point that NATO and the Former Yugoslavia makes  it explicitly
indicates
how the thinking about NATO's role and functions changed because of
and
during the evolving Yugoslav crises. In short, the Balkans became a
test
for the successful adaptability of the Atlantic Alliance to the
changing
environment.

Thus, the issues of enlarging NATO and its new strategic concept are
explored in this study as evolving alongside the growing conflicts in
the
Balkans, which reminded NATO that it had a responsibility to ensure
peace
in Europe. What Kaufman clearly states is that much of the discourse
on
the
future of the organization was actually bogged down by the issues of
domestic policy-making of member-states. In fact, this intricate
relationship evinced the role of NATO as an `independent' actor from
the
constituting member-states; yet, tied to their internal policy-
dynamic.
In
the analysis of the decade of Balkan involvement of the Atlantic
Alliance,
the author makes the cases of Yugoslav disintegration and conflict
evidence
of NATO's confrontation with reality. Arguably, the book makes the
point
that the lack of enthusiasm indicated in the organization's approach
to
Bosnia, was contrasted with a much more committed response to the
crisis in
Kosovo. Such contextualization allows the author to look more
profoundly
into the main post-Cold War challenges for NATO: (i) who is going to
foot
the bill for enlargement; (ii) how to structure the relationship with
Russia, and (iii) which countries are going to be invited into the
organization. All these issues were compounded by the Yugoslav
crises,
which evidenced the need for a pro-active military and diplomatic
apparatus
with efficient decision-making mechanisms, able to prevent and not
just
react to conflict.

The most crucial contribution of the book is the examination of the
lessons
learned from the Balkans for the post-September 11 world. Should NATO
confide its actions to the area of `Europe' or should it go `global'?
To
what extent the invocation of Article 5 by the members of the
Atlantic
Alliance after the `attacks on America' and the subsequent neglect of
NATO
by the US in its `war on terror' are going to affect the nature of
the
organization? These and a number of other important questions are put
forward by Kaufman's book. Thus, the analysis of NATO's adaptation
and
change during the 1990s provides the necessary background for any
researcher to propound erudite hypotheses. In this way, NATO and the
Former
Yugoslavia is a timely contribution to the debate on the future of
the
Alliance.

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Reviewed for H-GAGCS by Regine Heberlein
    George William Shea.  _Spoiled Silk: The Red Mayor and the Great
    Paterson Textile Strike_.  New York: Fordham University Press,
    2001.  xii + 205 pp.  $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8232-2133-4; $20.00
    (paper), ISBN 0-8232-2134-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=264041031051229

Reviewed for H-GAGCS by Christiane Harzig
    Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore, eds.  _The German-American
    Encounter:  Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-
    2000_.  New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001.  xix + 340 pp.
    $72.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57181-240-7; $25.00 (paper), ISBN 1-57181-
    290-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=264131031051234

Reviewed for H-Albion by Catherine Patterson
    Peter Clark, ed.  _The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume
    2, 1540-1840_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
    xxviii + 906 pp.  $140.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-43141-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=264161031051237

Reviewed for H-Law by Donald L. Robinson
    Dale M. Hellegers.  _We the Japanese People: World War II and the
    Origins of the Japanese Constitution_.  2 vols. Stanford, Calif.:
    Stanford University Press, 2001.  xvii + 826 pp.  $99.00 (cloth),
    ISBN 0-8047-3454-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=264281031051242

Reviewed for H-Albion by Edward M. Furgol
    Terry Coleman.  _The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio
    Nelson_.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.  xx + 424 pp.
    $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-514741-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=264621031051254

Reviewed for H-Law by Stephen B. Presser
    Albert W. Alschuler.  _Law without Values: The Life, Work, and
    Legacy of Justice Holmes_.  Chicago and London: The University of
    Chicago Press, 2001.  x + 325 pp.  $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-226-
    01520-3; $18.00 (paper), ISBN 0-226-01521-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=269661031051448

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Annette Weinke
    Lawrence Douglas.  _The Memory of Judgement. Making Law and
    History in the Trials of the Holocaust_.  London: Yale University
    Press, 2000.  318 p.  $35.00 (gebunden), ISBN 03-000-8436-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61361031084977

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Martin Zückert
    Hans Mommsen, Dulan Kovác, Jirí Malír, und Michaela Marek, Hrsg.
    _Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Beziehungen zwischen Tschechen,
    Slowaken und Deutschen_.  Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2001.  330 S.
    EUR 24, ISBN 3-88474-951-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61601031084991

Reviewed for H-Albion by Nicholas Canny
    Patricia Palmer.  _Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland:
    English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial
    Expansion_.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.  xii +
    254 pp.  $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-521-79318-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61761031084999

Reviewed for EH.Net by Sheila L. Skemp
    Jane R. Plitt.  _Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How
    One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business_.  New York:
    Syracuse University Press, 2000.  Ix + 184 pp.  95 (hardback),
    ISBN 0-8156-0638-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62221031085006

Reviewed for H-Museum by Hubert Köhler
    Jan Carstensen und Joachim Kleinmanns, Hrsg..  _Freilichtmuseum
    und Sachkultur_.  Münster und New York: Waxmann, 2000.  328 S.
    EUR 29, ISBN 3-89325-995-3.
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Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by <ch.hacke@...>
    Daniela Taschler.  _Vor neuen Herausforderungen. Die außen- und
    deutschlandpolitische Debatte in der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion
    während der Großen Koalition (1966-1969)_.  Beiträge zur
    Geschichte des Parlamentarismus und der politischen Parteien 132.
    Düsseldorf: Droste Verlag, 2001.  421 S.  DM 98, ISBN 3-7700-5240-
    4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=45081031159373

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Simone Barck
    Lothar Ehrlich, Gunter May, und Ingeborg Cleve, Hrsg..  _Weimarer
    Klassik in der Ära Honecker_.  Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2001.  315 S.
    EUR 30, ISBN 3-412-03601-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=47081031159458

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christine Bartlitz
    Steffen Radlmaier, Hrsg..  _Der Nürnberger Lernprozeß. Von
    Kriegsverbrechern und Starreportern_.  Frankfurt a.M.: Eichborn
    Verlag, 2001.  367 S.  EUR 25, ISBN 3-8218-4725-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=47371031159466

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael Brauer
    Patrick J. Geary.  _Europäische Völker im frühen Mittelalter. Zur
    Legende vom Werden der Nationen_.  Frankfurt am Main: Fischer
    Taschenbuch Verlag, 2002.  223 S.  EUR 12, ISBN 3-596-60111-8.
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Reviewed for H-Appalachia by Penny Messinger
    Pem Davidson Buck.  _Worked to the Bone:  Race, Class, Power, &
    Privilege in Kentucky_.  New York: Monthly Review Press, 2001.
    Viii + 279 pp.  $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-58367-047-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=47501031159480

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Guido Messling
    Andrew Morall.  _Joerg Breu the Elder. Art, Culture and Belief in
    Reformation Augsburg_.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.  308 pp.  $89.95
    (cloth), ISBN 1-84014-608-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=48111031159518

Reviewed for H-Amstdy by Bill Bush
    Marsha E. Ackerman.  _Cool Comfort: America's Romance With Air-
    Conditioning_.  Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian
    Institution Press, 2002.  ix + 214 pp.  $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-
    58834-040-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36171031323164

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Nedra McCloud
    Shibley Telhami and Michael Barnett, eds.  _Identity and Foreign
    Policy in the Middle East_.  Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell
    University Press, 2002.  vii + 207 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-
    8014-3940-X; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8014-8745-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36281031323170

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Arne Kislenko
    Sheldon W. Simon, ed.  _The Many Faces of Asian Security_.
    Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.  x + 259 pp.  $69.00
    (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-1664-4; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-1665-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36311031323173

Reviewed for H-Minerva by Heidi Hamilton
    Elizabeth P. McIntosh.  _Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the
    OSS_.  Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.  xiv + 282 pp.
    $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-55750-598-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36361031323176

Reviewed for H-Albion by Philip Morgan
    Harold Fox.  _The Evolution of the Fishing Village:  Landscape and
    Society along the South Devon Coast, 1086-1550_.  Leicester
    Explorations in Local History.  Oxford: Leopard's Head Press,
    2001.  xviii + 208 pp.  £13.50 (paper), ISBN 0-904920-43-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36381031323179

Reviewed for H-Florida by Robert Olwell
    Bernard Romans.  _A Concise Natural History of East and West
    Florida_.  Edited by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. Tuscaloosa: The
    University of Alabama Press, 1999.  xiv + 442 pp.  $44.95 (cloth),
    ISBN 0-8173-0876-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=36431031323181

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Steven L. Piott
    Nancy Unger.  _Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer_.
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.  xiii + 393
    pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2545-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=318251031471782

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Nancy C. Unger
    Nancy Cohen.  _The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-
    1914_.  Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina
    Press, 2002.  xi + 336 pp.  $59.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2670-7;
    $22.50 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5354-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=318291031471789

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Evelyn S. Cooper
    Julie K. Brown.  _Making Culture Visible: The Public Display of
    Photography at Fairs, Expositions and Exhibitions in the United
    States, 1847-1900_.  New York: Routledge, 2001.  xii + 192 pp.
    $54.00 (cloth), ISBN 90-5823-139-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=318321031471792

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Clifford Putney
    Mark F. Bernstein.  _Football: The Ivy League Origins of an
    American Obsession_.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
    Press, 2001.  xiii + 336 pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8122-3627-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=318341031471796

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Howard Phillips
    Diana Wylie.  _Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph
    of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa_.  Reconsiderations in
    Southern African History Series. Charlottesville and London:
    University Press of Virginia, 2001.  xiv + 319 pp.  $55.00
    (cloth), ISBN 0-8139-2047-7; $18.50 (paper), ISBN 0-8139-2068-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=318481031471801

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Wyatt A. Reader
    Arie Kacowicz, Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Ole Elgstrom and Magnus
    Jerneck, eds.  _Stable Peace Among Nations_.  Lanham, Md.: Rowman
    and Littlefield, 2000.  vii + 326 pp.  $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-
    7425-0179-5; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7425-0180-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=51791031473055



7.
Montclair State University Assistant Professor, European Women's
History
Location: NJ, U.S.A.
Closing Date: December 15, 2002

        Subject to available funding. The History Department of
Montclair State University invites application for an Assistant
Professor, tenure track  position, in European Women's History for
September 2003. Areas of specialization include: early modern Europe,
French History (through the Revolution), and gender. The successful
applicant will teach (50%) in the History Department and 50% in the
Women's Studies Program, and  will teach general education courses as
well as advanced level and graduate courses in both areas.
Qualifications include: Ph.D. in History and strong promise of or
demonstrated excellence with teaching.

Send letter of application, dossier, and a writing sample to the
address below.
      Screening of applications will begin November 1, 2002, and
continue until the position is filled. Montclair State University is
AA/EOE.


          Dr. Amy Srebnick, Chair
          Search Committee
          History Department
          Montclair State University
          Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
          (973) 655-7571
          srebnicka@...

--

Kenyon College 20th-Century Continental Europe
   Location: OH, U.S.A.
Closing Date: December 2, 2002

20th-Century Continental Europe. The history department at Kenyon
College seeks to fill a tenure-track position in the field of
20th-century   continental Europe (Russia included). Sub-field in
women's history highly advantageous. The appointment will be at the
rank of assistant   professor. Preference given to candidates with
PhD in hand by August 2003, promise of teaching excellence, and
strong evidence of scholarly  potential. Teaching responsibilities
include a survey course in modern European  history, seminars on
topics of interest to the appointee, and participation in the
department's honors program. The normal teaching expectation is three
courses one semester and two the other. Letter of application,
dossier, and three letters of reference should be sent to the address
below. All materials should arrive by December 2, 2002. An  Equal
Opportunity Employer, Kenyon is committed to building a culturally
diverse faculty and community and strongly encourages the
applications  of women and minority candidates.


           Jeffrey Bowman
           Kenyon College
           Department of History
           Seitz House
           Gambier, OH 43022
University of Plymouth Research Fellow
United Kingdom
Closing Date: October 3, 2002

      University of Plymouth
      Research Fellow
      Ref. 4998/SCI
      "Globalisation, cultural practice and youth identity in former
east Germany"

      Department of Geographical Sciences.   A postdoctoral researcher
is required for this one-year position. The project is funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.). It  investigates how the
socio-spatial identities of adolescents in former east Germany are
shaped by transnational cultural flows. The researcher will  be
responsible for conducting qualitative field research, including
diaries and focus group discussions, one-to-one interviews and
participant observation. The successful applicant will also be
involved in data analysis and publication of research results.

      The applicant must have, or be near to completion of a PhD in
Human Geography or a related Social Science subject and be
experienced in conducting qualitative social research. Fluency in
spoken and written German is essential. A proven ability to work with
young people would be a   distinct advantage.

      Deadline for receipt of applications: 3 October 2002
      Interviews will be held on 17 October 2002.
      Salary: £17,624

      Informal enquiries should be directed to: Dr. Kathrin
Hörschelmann, University of Plymouth, Department of Geography and
Geology, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Tel: 01752 233068, Fax:
01752 233054, e-mail: khorschelmann@...

For an application pack and further information, please contact us,
quoting Ref no. 4998/SCI and Job title, via e-mail, telephone, or the
web.
          Tel: 44 (0)1752 232168

          Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/vacancies
8.
Dear Friends:

As we approach the anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, the
Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) has issued a
statement
denouncing terrorism and affirming the peaceful nature of Islam.

To view the statment, please go to
http://www.islam-democracy.org/terrorism_statement.asp.  (The
statement
is also included as inline text below.)

Sincerely,



Svend A. White
Secretary & Webmaster
svend.white@...

Center for the Study of
Islam & Democracy (CSID)
P.O. Box 864
Burtonsville MD
20866
tel/fax (202) 251-3036
http://www.islam-democracy.org
--------------------------------------------------
PRESS
INFORMATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

American Muslims and Scholars denounce Terrorism


Washington, DC (September 9, 2002) — Several prominent American
Muslims, organizations, and scholars issued the following statement
denouncing
violence and terrorism, especially in the name of Islam, a religion
of
peace and justice.

The statement was issued on the eve of the first anniversary of the
tragedy of Sept. 11, and has been signed by 199 prominent American
Muslims, and scholars of Islam from all over the world.

For more information contact:

Dr. Radwan A. Masmoudi
Executive Director
(202) 251-3036
radwan.masmoudi@...

  Mr. Abdulwahab Alkebsi
Director of Dialogue of Civilizations
(301) 529-9816
aalkebsi@...

Or visit the CSID website at http://ww.islam-democracy.org.


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STATEMENT REJECTING TERRORISM
As  American Muslims and scholars of Islam, we wish to restate our
conviction that peace and justice constitute the basic principles of
the
Muslim faith.  We wish again to state unequivocally that neither the
al-Qaeda organization nor Usama bin Laden represents Islam or
reflects
Muslim beliefs and practice. Rather, groups like al-Qaeda have
misused and
abused Islam in order to fit their own radical and indeed anti-
Islamic
agenda.  Usama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's actions are criminal,
misguided
and counter to the true teachings of Islam.  We call on people of all
faiths not to judge Islam by the actions of a few.

We believe in justice and peace for both Israelis and Palestinians.
We
are convinced that security for Israel can only be achieved by
justice
for Palestinians.  Today, a modicum of justice requires the
establishment of an independent Palestinian state through the
exercise of
Palestinian self-determination.  We believe that the continued
occupation of
Palestinian territories, and Israel's repeated disregard of
international
law, have made life in the occupied territories unbearable.  We say
most clearly, however, that the killing of innocent civilians,
whether
Christian, Muslim, or Jewish, is always wrong and is forbidden in
Islamic
law and ethics.  Illegitimate means can never be justified by a
desirable or noble goal.

On this first anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, we call on
all people of conscience to denounce violence and to work peacefully
for
the creation of a better world.  We also urge our government leaders
to
work for peace, justice, liberty, and democracy around the globe.

  Signatures:

Name  Affiliation/Institution*

CSID BOARD MEMBERS(12):
Radwan Masmoudi  Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
Abdulwahab Alkebsi Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
Louay Safi  Center for Balanced Development
Muqtedar Khan Adrian College
Jamal Barzinji International Institute for Islamic Thought
Abdulaziz Sachedina  University of Virginia
Louis J. Cantori   University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Charles E. Butterworth  University of Maryland
John L. Esposito      Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding,
Georgetown University
Tamara Sonn    College of William and Mary
Antony T. Sullivan  Fund for American Studies
Svend A. White     Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)
ISLAMIC MOSQUES & ORGANIZATIONS(45):
Muzammil H. Siddiqi       Islamic Society of Orange County,
California
Imam Talal Eid  Islamic Center of New England, Quincy, MA
Kevin  James   Islamic Soc. of Fire-Fighting Dept., Brooklyn, NY
Sheila Musaji    Editor, The American Muslim
Shahed Amanullah    United Muslims of America, Fremont, CA
Aasma Khan    Muslims AGAINST Terrorism
Moina Noor    American Muslims Intent on Learning and Activism, Bay
Area, CA
Aslam Abdullah  Editor, The Minaret and The Muslim Observer
Mahjabeen Islam, M.D.  United Muslim Association of Toledo
Ali A. Aatz    Islamic Association of Greater Hartford
Omar Bouderdaben   North Austin Muslim Community Center
Kamal Yassin   Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis
Muhammad Sannah   Islamic Society of W. Maryland
Kamal Abu-Shamsieh   Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles, CA
Mohamed Nimer  Council on American-Islamic Relations
Rashid Makhdoom  American Muslim Council
Siraj I. Mufti    CSID, Tucson, AZ
A.S. Hashim, MD    Islamic Education Center, Potomac, MD
Mirza Moin Baig   Houston Mosque, TX
Kamal L. Abdul-Khalik    Muslim Students Association
Hasan Mohamed   Islamic Center of Irving
H. Anjim Khan   al-Huda School/Islamicbookstore.com
Ismail Abdul Alim   al-Fajr Masjid
Abeda Haque  Muslim Community Center of MD
Sulayman Abdul-Mussawer    Masjid an-Nur, Boston, MA
Samira Hussein  Muslims of Montgomery County
Abdul Rahman Rasheed   Masjid al-Islam, CT
Mariam Kazemi    Islamic Relief, Los Angeles, CA
Quarashia al-Shehab   Dar-ul-Islah, NJ
Akber Mohammed  Masjid al-Madina, OH
Imam Zaid Shakir    Masjid al-Islam
Shoukat Ali Islamic   Society of Central Jersey, Princeton, NJ
Khursheed Mallick  Islamic Medical Association of North America,
Downers Grove, IL
Riad Adhami  American  Center for Civilizational and Intercultural
Studies
Inayat I. Lalani    American Muslim Council – Dallas Fort Worth
Chapter
Abdul Aziz Eddebbarh  Muslim Public Affairs Council, Las Vegas, NV
Sayed Qazi    Muslim Public Affairs Council, Las Vegas, NV
Atif Fareed    Muslim Public Affairs Council, Las Vegas, NV
Muhammad Sayeed   Islamic Circle of North America, New York
Ramzieh Azmeh    Islamic Society of North America
S. Arif Rizvi  Islamic Medical Association of North America
Ahsan Siddiq   Islamic Society of North America
Syed Ahmed   Islamic Society of North America
Mariyam Imran  Islamic Society of North America
Khalid Chatta  Muslim Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh/
Islamic Society of North America

ACADEMICS(44):
Mohammed Abu-Nimer  American University
Khaled Abou El Fadl  UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA
Asma Afsaruddin  University of Notre Dame
Ahmad Sheikhzadeh  Political scientist, New York City, NY
Hibba Abugideiri  George Washington University
Kamran A. Bokhari  The University of Texas at Austin
John P. Entelis    Fordham University, New York
John O. Voll  Georgetown University
Mohammed Sharif  University of Rhode Island
Mahmoud Sadri    Texas Woman's University
M. Mobin Shorish   Prof. Emeritus, Urbana, Il
Adila Masood  Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
Engin I. Erdem  Department of Politics, University of Virginia
Syed Nasar   University of Kentucky
Fred Dallmayr    University of Notre Dame.
Jillian Schwedler   University of Maryland
David Burrell  University of Notre Dame
Robert Olson  University of Kentucky
Daniel Micallef   University of Texas in Austin
Ikbal Akhtar    Tulane University
Michael Toler  SUNY Binghamton
Wanda Krause    University of Exeter
Gasser Auda   Islamic American University
Val Moghadam  Director, Women's Studies, Illinois State University
Asma Afsaruddin  University of Notre Dame
Amir Hussain  California State University, Northridge
Rima Pavalko  University of Maryland
Mahdi Alosh    Arabic Language Program, Ohio State University
Gunes Murat Tezcur   University of Michigan
Ali R. Abootalebi   University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Ibrahim Kalin  College of the Holy Cross
Mohamed Nur-Awaleh   Illinois State University
Mahmoud Al-Batal  Emory University
Waheed Samy   University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Abdul H. Raoof State  University College at Buffalo
Edward L. Angus  Prof. Emeritus, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
Jon Mandaville   Portland State University
Zaineb Istrabadi    Indiana University
Catherine Asher   University of Minnesota
Zayn Kassam   Pomona College
Sharon L. Parker   University of Arizona
Mahdi Alosh    Ohio State University
Fauzi M. Najjar   Prof. Emeritus Michigan State University
Eiman Hajabbasi  George Mason University
Sajida S. Alvi   McGill University, Canada

FROM AROUND THE GLOBE(32):
Tariq Ramadan   University of  Fribourg
Suleman Dangor   University of Durban-Westville, Durban, South
Africa
Najah Kadhim    International Forum for Islamic Dialogue, London
Fatma Bostan Unsal    Justice and Development (AK) Party, Turkey
Shaikh Kabir Helminski   The Mevlevi Order, The Threshold Society
Nor Azurah Zakaria    Sisters-in-Islam Forum Malaysia
Ahmed  Abdalla   Islam Online, Egypt
S. Abdallah Schleifer  Adham Center, American University in Cairo
Tawfiq Alsaif   Centre for Study of Democracy, London, UK
Amina Rasul    Magbassa Kita Foundation, Philippines
Aftab Mack  AMAL press (UK)
Arwa Hassan   Transparency International, Berlin, Germany
Hajj Muhammad Legenhausen    Qom, Iran
Randy Fermo  Moro Committee, Philippines Solidarity Committee
Hassan Shi    Aga Khan University
Abdelhamid Lotfi  Mohammed V University, Rabat - Morocco
Mokhtar Benabdallaoui   University of Hassan II - Morocco
Rachid  Tlemçani Institute of political Science, Algiers, Algeria
Cherno M.Jallow   Civil Affairs Officer, UNAMSIL, Sierra Leone
Haytham Mouzahem  Al-Mustaqbal newspaper, Beirut-Lebanon
Allan Ismail  Allieds Interpreters, Amman, Jordan
Hassan Saeed Hussain  Editor, Aafathis Newspaper, Rep. of Maldives
Anja Pistor-Hatam    University of Kiel, Germany
Mohammed Faisal Rahman   Way of Islam Service (WOIS), Port of Spain,
Trinidad.
Ibrahim Abu Bakar     Malaysia
Nancy Roberts    Amman, Jordan
David Osgood    Cairo, Egypt
Kyoko N.Calhoun     Tokyo,Japan
M. Abdul Qavi   Blackheath, London, UK
Sahar Talaat  Cairo, Egypt
Shan Haq    Pakistan
Hamid Saeed   Pakistan

THINK TANKS(8):
John Duke Anthony
   National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Washington DC
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
   Minaret of Freedom Institute, Washington DC
Aly R. Abuzaakouk
   ARA Media Services
Robert D. Crane
   Center for Understanding Islam
Gray Henry
  Fons Vitae/Islamic Texts Society
Lobna Ismail    Connecting Cultures
Aziz al-Taee  Iraqi American Council
Mirsad Mujovic Independent Institute for Social Studies

INTERFAITH COMMUNITY(7):
Mary Ann Fadae   Christian Theological Seminary
Osman Bakar   Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Michael Kirtley   President, The Friendship Caravan, Inc.
Hashim El-Tinay   Founder, Salam Sudan Foundation
Loucia Isaac Seropian    Haigazian University – Beirut
James Redington   Woodstock Theological Center
Alim Khan     Granada Muslims and Jews for Human Rights, Chicago

CONCERNED CITIZENS(51):
Avis Asiye Allman    Independent Scholar, New York City
Michael Wolfe    Santa Cruz, CA
Mahin Khatami  Medical Scientist
Mohammed el-Sheikh   US Air Force
Arshad Khan   National Press Club
A. Nooruddeen Durkee   Green Mountain School
Noora I. Durkee      Green Mountain School
Tahha N. Harp   Pharmacist, Dearborn, Michigan
Arif Parwani    Civil Engineer, Fremont, CA
Peter Molan  USDOD Middle East Analyst (retired)
Lily Yazdi
Mahir Haroun      Reliable Financial Services, Silver Spring, MD
Janet McElligott  Washington, DC
Tooba Mayel    Alexandria, VA
M. Salim Chowdhrey, MD    Livingston, NJ
Mediha Ozdindar  Orange, California
Mehar N Chowdhrey, MD    Livingston, NJ
Mohamed Osman    Charlotte, NC
Mohamed Jarbu    Charlotte, NC
Manzoor Husain   Durham, NC
Ashraf Khan   New York
Muhammad Feroz   Orlando, FL
M. Husam    Arkansas
Masood A. Sheikh  N. Andover, MA
Katam Falou    Maple Grove, MN
Karim Pathan  Raleigh, NC
Najib Abdul-Haq  Atlanta, GA
Shamiul Islam    Nashville, TN
Gamal Selim    NYC, NY
Kenrick W. Hackett    Philadelphia, PA
Aishe Syed    Richmond, BC
Ridwanur Rahman   Olney, MD
Areeb Quasem   Silver Spring, MD
Rana Khandekar Atlanta, GA
Rahmatullah Syed    Montpellier, VT
Tabasum Saeed  Edison, NJ
Bibi A. Khan    Farmingdale, NY
A. L. Poonawalla    No. Brunswick, NJ
David Haula    Fairfax, VA
Mokhtar Zitoun    Fairfax, VA
Aydan Kalyoncu  Fairfax VA
Kamal Halwagi    Environmental Engineer
Maliha Mohiuddin   Manlius, New York
Jawaid Ahsah    Nashville, TN
Kareem Irfan  Chicago, IL
Hamza Kashif  Alexandria Comm. Co.
Ismail Obeidallah Bowie, MD
Shali al-Khatib    NIH, Maryland
Ayesha Mohamed    NYC, NY
Mustafa Amier
Marjorie Ackerman


* Organizations for identification only (partial list as of Sept. 9)

9.
Subject: Online course: Transforming Civil Conflict, Bradford,
9.9.-4.10.2002

Original sender: Lambrecht Wessels <tcc@...>


Amsterdam August 2002

Dear Colleague,

The Network University in co-operation with the Centre for Conflict
Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University is
organising from 9 September to 4 October (and 4-29 November) its
successful award winning four-week online certificate course in
Conflict
Resolution. The course is designed for professionals that work in
conflict areas and students with a special interest in the topic. For
more information contact Lambrecht Wessels tcc@... or
website:
www.netuni.nl/demos/tcc/ (recently updated). Other courses will be
given
in the Fall 2002 and throughout 2003.
For more information please read on below.

Aim
The aim of the program is to help prepare participants for work in
conflict areas or to make their work more effective: by giving them
more
insight into the processes in conflicts and the roles of different
organisations. A sense of humility and the asking of relevant
questions
is central here rather than directly finding the right solution and
answers.

Content

During the course the participants are familiarised with contemporary
theories of conflict and conflict resolution, acquainted with a range
of
relevant information on conflict on the Internet and introduced to
practical issues and debates within the field. They are brought
together
in a 'learning community' with people with a professional interest in
conflict. The subjects for each of the course weeks are: Introduction
to
Conflict Resolution, Conflict Analysis and Conflict Prevention. The
students participate through online debates, assignments and exercises
and are coached intensively online. The TCC course is an applied
course
where much time is spent on analysis of a particular conflict chosen
by
the participant and through assignments and supervision new insight is
gained into a particular conflict. This experience can then be used to
make analyses of other conflicts as well, thus providing the
participant
with a set of tools.

Target Group

The target group for this course is professionals that work in
conflict
areas and students with a special interest in the topic. One can think
of (inter)national relief agency workers, development professionals,
conflict resolution trainers, military personnel, business people,
journalists, students, academics and others working for governmental
or
(local) non-governmental organisations (NGO's) in countries and
territories that are the scene violent conflict and civil strife.

Intensive Tailored Supervision

Although the course is designed for a minimum of 10 hours of total
study
time a week, the supervision is daily. You can send questions, request
for information to the coaches. They are present at the online 'call
center' to answer them 14 hours a day. The course is tailor made:
participants receive personal feedback. They can choose the conflict
(s)
they would like to study. In addition they can suggest and initiate
online debate topics. These often link into current affairs and
student's special interests. The website is open 24 hours a day,
updated
and added to as needed. The site is permanently accessible to the
students, also after finishing the course thus providing them with a
constant source of information and theoretical backup.

Collaborative learning

The participant will participate in a collaborative learning
experience
in an online 'learning community' of professionals. Every week there
will be different assignments. These are mostly NOT of the type: 'read
some articles, write a paper and send it in before Friday.' The
assignments aim to stimulate discussion and cooperation between the
participants. In addition to individual and group assignments there
will
be online discussions and exercises.

Overview

This is the overview of the course:

1: Introduction to Conflict Resolution

During this first week we will discuss some of the most used concepts
in
Conflict Resolution. We will discuss different phases of a conflict
and
the peace building efforts associated with it, the difference between
Conflict Management, Resolution and Transformation and conflict
structures. The assignments include exercises to search for specific
information on Peace and Conflict related websites and discussion
between participants.

2: Conflict Prevention

During this week you will be familiarised with the debate on Conflict
Prevention, Early Warning and Early Action. Many organisations and
governments are interested in questions of: How can conflicts be
prevented? What are the tools available? To what parties and
organisations? This week aims to help participants identify conflict
prevention opportunities in conflicts.

3: Conflict Mapping (conflict analysis)

The last two weeks we will provide the participants with the knowledge
to make a 'conflict map'. Theory and exercises are aimed to gather
relevant information on a particular 'target conflict' of your
choosing,
in a structured way. This will help you get an overview of the
particular conflict and the role your organisation is playing in it.
You
are taught where to find and keep track of interesting information for
your conflict. Included is also theory on 'multi-track diplomacy'.
This week makes heavy use of Internet information resources. You will
be
pointed towards many websites for different types of information.

A demo-site with some information is available online at
www.netuni.nl/demos/tcc (regularly updated).

Do you lack Internet skills?

An additional free of charge 'do it yourself' course in Internet
Skills
is provided for those who are not familiar with the many uses of
Internet. It can be taken at any time, but we recommend doing it
before
the course. Find it through the Network University Website
(http://www.netuni.nl/learning/). Participants will be provided with a
password free of charge.

For more information and specific details on the Network University
and
the Program visit our website at www.netuni.nl/demos/tcc or
www.netuni.nl

Timeframe: How much time, 'A-synchrone'-teaching

The July course will start on Monday 1 July and finish on Friday 26
July
2002. There always is a month of extra time for debates as well
(optional). The course is designed for people who want to study, learn
and work at the same time. The amount of time needed to complete the
assignments and participate will depend on your experience with
Internet, level of participation (in discussion groups) and
familiarity
with the subject. As most of our participants are working, we strive
to
make it possible to complete every week's assignments with 10 hours of
reading, debating and studying. The course is taught 'a-synchrone':
which means you do not have to be present at certain hours. You can
spread your work over the week. So if the weekends and evenings are
better for you then you can use those to work on the course. We will
be
present at the 'call center' about 14 hours a day, but you can make
your
assignment submissions, contributions to discussions and ask your
questions to coaches 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The website will be
open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well. Sometimes we allow
participants (by exception) to spread their course participation over
the period of two separate courses. This way they can still
participate
even if they have to leave for work, where they do not have
Internet-access, or have unexpected emergencies.

Course Coaches

Supervisors (usually two) of the course are:
Course manager Lambrecht Wessels, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, MA
Political Science (University of Amsterdam '97), BA Conflict Research
(Uppsala University, Sweden, '96),
Course coaches:
Jeannie Grussendorf, based in Austin, Texas, USA, Ph.D. Conflict
Resolution, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace
Studies,
Bradford University, UK
Laina K. Reynolds from the same centre based in Bradford UK, Ph.D
candidate
Claske Dijkema, MA sociology (University of Amsterdam) specialisation
Conflict Resolution, Berkeley, USA.
Other supervisors and specialists provide their services as needed or
requested, depending on the course. Technical assistance is provided
by
TNU.

Certificate, New Short Courses in 2002 onwards

Participants will be provided with a certificate of
completion/attendance from both the (European) Network University and
the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies,
Bradford University, after the course is finished. The course will be
offered again several times in 2002 and 2003. In the future a special
10-14 day courses will be available and courses on new topics will be
added, including 'Post Conflict Development' (currently being
developed), 'Gender and Conflict' (currently being developed), 'Civic
Scenario training', Youth and Conflict and specific conflict areas.

Network

For the further production of the program we are currently co-
operating
with the following institutions: The International Relations and
Security Network [www.isn.ethz.ch]., Switzerland, The Centre for
Conflict Resolution Department of Peace Studies, University of
Bradford
UK [www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/], The Clingendael Institute
[www.clingendael.nl], The Netherlands and The European Platform on
Conflict Prevention www.conflict-prevention.net, the Netherlands and
the
Mediterranean Women's Study Centre KEGME,[www.kegme.org.gr/] Greece.
New
partnerships beyond Europe for new courses are being set up.

Awards for the Transforming Civil Conflict Programme

December 1999 the Transforming Civil Conflict program won the
International Relations and Security Network (www.isn.ethz.ch) EMPIRE
GRANT [www.isn.ethz.ch/edutrain/index.cfm?service==empire] for the
development of outstanding high quality learning programs in the field
of international relations and security policy.  See also:
www.isn.ethz.ch/edutrain/index.cfm?service==empire&parent= 99&menu==3
In December of 2000 the Transforming Civil Conflict program won the
Empire Grant for the development of a follow up program on Post
Conflict
Development, to be added to the current course.

Registration and Information

Requests for information can be sent through email to Lambrecht
Wessels
at tcc@...
Feel free to forward this information people you think might be
interested.
Registration is possible through www.netuni.nl/courses/ or the
homepage
of the Network University www.netuni.nl
Registration implies an intent to participate and transfer the fee. If
you are not sure about this contact us first.


Reports
A report of our experiences have been published by Bradford
University,
Centre For Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford
BD7 1DP, Working Paper 8, Developing an Online Learning Pedagogy for
Conflict Resolution Training,
[www.brad.ac.uk/acad/confres/working.html]
Laina K. Reynolds & Lambrecht Wessels, May 2001, available for only
£2.50. An article has been published on the course in the March 2000
newsletter of the Relief and Rehabilitation Network. The web-version
is
available now at: www.odihpn.org/editme/publications.asp (p. 43).

Costs:

The regular fee for the course is € 900 ($ 750). Students pay a
special
reduced price of  €530 ($495), participant from so-called 'third world
countries' € 410 ($ 395). Additional reductions are available: A
limited
amount of partial scholarships is available for shoestring-budget
NGO's,
groups and individuals in special circumstances. In that case a CV
and/or short letter of intent should be sent to tcc@.... The
fees are due before the start of the courses.

With kind regards,

Lambrecht Wessels

The (European) Network University, [www.netuni.n/]
Email: tcc@...
Transforming Civil Conflict
PO Box 94603
1090 GP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: 020-561 8167
Fax.: 020-561 8164

and

Laina Reynolds
Centre for Conflict Resolution
Department of Peace Studies
University of Bradford
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10.
Subject: CfA: East and Central European Research Fellowships at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

East and Central European Research Fellowships at the
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)

We are offering two doctoral or postdoctoral
fellowships for applicants from Central and Eastern
Europe in autumn 2002.

http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de/ak/central-europ-fellows_en.html

Awards will be made on the basis of proven scholarly
excellence and of a research proposal outlining the
project applicants intend to pursue while at the
MPIfG. Research projects should relate to the
substantive concerns of the institute's research
program and to its ongoing work.


The MPIfG plans to offer two doctoral or postdoctoral
fellowships for applicants from Central and Eastern
Europe every year. The deadline for application is
October 31. Awards will be made and applicants
notified by November 30. MPIfG East and Central
European Research Fellowships can be taken up any time
between the award and following midyear.



Fellowships are awarded for up to twelve months; in
exceptional cases they may be extended by up to one
additional year. At current rates, doctoral fellows
will receive a stipend of Euro 920 per month while the
stipend for postdoctoral fellows amounts to Euro 1,650
per month. Fellows with family will be entitled to a
small family allowance. The MPIfG pays for one round
of travel to and from Cologne. It will be able to help
with finding housing in Cologne if arrangements are
made in time.



Applicants should either be writing their dissertation
or have received their doctoral degree no longer than
five years before they plan to take up their
fellowship. Awards will be made on the basis of proven
scholarly excellence and of a research proposal
outlining the project applicants intend to pursue
while at the MPIfG. Research projects should relate to
the substantive concerns of the institute's research
program and to its ongoing work.



Working languages at the MPIfG are German and English.
Applicants must have good command of at least one
working language, in writing and speaking. During
their tenure fellows are expected to be resident in
Cologne and participate actively in the intellectual
life of the institute. The institute prefers that
fellowships be taken up in one piece.



Applicants should send in their current CV, list of
publications, a research proposal not exceeding ten
pages, and two letters of recommendation from academic
teachers. They should also indicate how much time they
would want to spend at the MPIfG and when they would
like to start their tenure.



The Max-Planck-Society gives priority to women in
fields where they are underrepresented. Women are
especially encouraged to apply. Handicapped applicants
with equal qualification will be given preferential
treatment.



Address | Phone | Fax

Max-Planck-Institut for the Study of Societies
Paulstrasse 3
50676 Köln
Germany



Email to: lautwein@...

Phone + 49 2 21 / 27 67 - 0
Fax + 49 2 21 / 27 67 - 5 55
http://www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg

1.call for papers 2.virus warning 3.fellowship 4.bulletin 5.sinema
kursu 6.reviews 7.website 8.TSI news 9.progressive response

1.
Subject: CfP: Macquarie University Law Journal:"Self-determination,
Secession and the Creation of States"

From: Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural Diversity Newsletter
No.
26,
September 2002

Macquarie University Law Journal is accepting papers for its upcoming
special issue on "Self-determination, Secession and the Creation of
States". Guest editors are Aleksander Pavkovic and Peter Radan. For
information on how to submit an essay, contact Alex Reilly, Macquarie
University Law Journal, Division of Law, Macquarie University,
NSW2109,
Australia, alex.reilly@... tel: 61-2-98507066; fax:
61-2-98507686.

Title: Women's History Network Conference 2003: Contested
       Terrains: Gendered Knowledge, Landscapes and Narratives.
    Date: 2003-01-31
    Description: Papers are requested from academics, students, women
       and men in associated areas (museums, libraries etc) and
       independent scholars. The Conference will consider how women
       have been represented in the historical record and how women
       have challenged men's claim to own the spatial and intellectual
       terr ...
    Contact: conference2003@...
    URL: www.womenshistorynetwork.org/conference_2003.htm
    Announcement ID: 131445
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131445

    Title: Fifth European Social Science History Conference
    Deadline: 2003-04-01
    Description: Fifth European Social Science History Conference
       Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 24 - 27 March 2004 The
       ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in
       explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social
       sciences. The conference is characterized by a lively exchange
       in many  ...
    Contact: esshc@...
    URL: iisg.nl/esshc
    Announcement ID: 131450
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131450


    Title: 2nd Global Conference: Environmental Justice and Global
       Citizenship
    Deadline: 2002-11-07
    Description: Environments, Sustainability and Technologies This
       inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to
       explore the role of ecology and environmental ideas in the
       context of contemporary society and international politics, and
       assess the implications for our understandings of fairness,
       justi ...
    Contact: rf@...
    URL: www.inter-disciplinary.net/ejgc2cfp.htm
    Announcement ID: 131443
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131443

    Title: "Border Cities/Border Cultures" Conference
    Location: Wisconsin
    Begins: 2002-11-15
    Description: The conference "Border Cities/Border Culturers" to be
       held Nov. 15-16, 2002, at UW-Milwaukee's Hefter Center,
       Milwaukee WI, will bring together 20 speakers discussing issues
       ranging from immigration to language policy, literature and the
       arts. Speakers will compare US-Mexico and US-Canada borderland
       ...
    Contact: joerod@...
    URL: www.uwm.edu/People/joerod/bordercities.htm
    Announcement ID: 131455
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131455

Title: Critical Moments: Re-Membering Community & Self
    Location: Georgia
    Deadline: 2002-11-01
    Description: Call for Submissions Emory University The Graduate
       Institute of the Liberal Arts Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA
       March 28-30, 2003 Critical Moments: Re-Membering Community &
       Self Historically and culturally, individuals and collectives
       have experienced certain events and transitions as particularly
       ...
    Contact: CMsubmissions@...
    URL: www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ILA/events/criticalmoments/index.html
    Announcement ID: 131469
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131469

    Title: Western Perception of East-European Identities (11/12/02;
       PCA/ACA, 2/12/03-2/15/03
    Location: New Mexico
    Date: 2002-11-12
    Description: "Western Perception of East-European Identities"
       SOUTHWEST - TEXAS PCA/ACA REGIONAL MEETING 24th Annual
       Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 12-15 February, 2003 The
       panel "Western Perception of East-European Identities" accepts
       papers and ready panels treating any aspect of popular culture
       and acad ...
    Contact: dora_panayotova@...
    URL: www2.h-net.msu.edu/~swpca/
    Announcement ID: 131472
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131472
Title: Internet/Web Culture (panel)
    Location: New Mexico
    Deadline: 2002-12-01
    Description: Seeking paper proposals on analysis of Internet
       Culture for the 24th annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas
       PCA/ACA at Albuquerque. Will consider topics such as Web page
       design, Web sites and ideology, and cultural studies of
       e-zines, discussion groups, chats, fan sites, blogs, and so
       forth. We will  ...
    Contact: jchaney@...
    URL: www.swtexaspca.org
    Announcement ID: 131476
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131476

    Title: News Culture on the Web (panel)
    Location: New Mexico
    Date: 2002-12-01
    Description: Seeking paper proposals on News Culture on the Web
       for the 24th annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA at
       Albuquerque, New Mexico. Noting the popularity and expansion of
       news sites and resources on the Web, we are confronted with the
       possibility that the Internet will be the dominant news sit ...
    Contact: jchaney@...
    URL: www.swtexaspca.org
    Announcement ID: 131477
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131477

    Title: Cyber Fiction: With or Without History? (panel)
    Location: New Mexico
    Date: 2002-12-01
    Description: Seeking paper proposals on cyber fiction--recent
       novels, short stories, Web creations--for the 24th annual
       meeting of the Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA at Albuquerque, New
       Mexico. We especially want papers on literary works that look
       to the future to understand the past or that see forces from
       the past op ...
    Contact: jchaney@...
    URL: www.swtexaspca.org
    Announcement ID: 131478
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131478
Title: Call for Papers:  Race and Sexuality
    Location: Nova Scotia
    Deadline: 2002-12-15
    Description: The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association will
       convene its annual conference May 31-June 2, 2003 at Dalhousie
       University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The conference coincides
       with the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. This years
       conference theme is Conflict and Cooperation. To that end, ...
    Contact: tooferbell@...
    URL:  www.arts.ualberta.ca/~clgsa/
    Announcement ID: 131468
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131468
Title: Call for proposals
    Description: The Ohio State University Press is soliciting
       book-length proposals (both monographs and focused collections
       of essays) in classics in the areas of gender and sexuality,
       literature and narrative, and neo-Latin. Proposals should
       include at least a detailed prospectus, a table of contents, a
       projected ...
    Contact: oconnor.136@...
    Announcement ID: 131465
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131465

    Title: Call for Publications from <i>Academic Exchange Quarterly
       (AEQ</i>)
    Description: The emergence of web-based instructional delivery has
       expanded the continuum of learning environments and has
       resulted in an explosion of online learning initiatives. These
       online efforts run the gamut from independent, self-paced
       instruction to cohort-based, highly interactive and totally
       asynchron ...
    Contact: mfetzner@...
    URL: www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm
    Announcement ID: 131474
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131474

Subject: CfP: The Anthropology of the South-Eastern Europe in-between
the reorganisation of the object and the methodological explosion,
2-5.4.2003, Craiova (new dates)

From: Fifor Mihai <mihai_fifor@...>

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce you that the Conference on The Anthropology
of
the
South-Eastern Europe in between the reorganisation of the object and
the
methodological explosion, which was to take place in November in
Craiova,
Romania, had to be postponed for 2-5 April 2003.

We attach the new invitation and the new deadlines for further
registration
[attachment in body of message below, F.Bieber]

With best regards,

Mihai Fifor, Ph.D

manager of the Centre for Studies in Anthropology and Ethnology
Craiova

28 Alexandru Macedonski Street, 1100 Craiova

Romania

tel/fax 0040 251 124844; 123053

e-mail: ccpdolj@...

The Council of the Dolj County
The Faculty of Letters of the University of Craiova
The Department of Ethnography of the Museum of Oltenia
The Center for Studies in Folklife and
Traditional Culture of the County of Dolj

The Anthropology of the
South-Eastern Europe
in-between the reorganisation of the object
and the methodological explosion

Craiova, 2  5 April 2003





Dear Madam/Sir ,


It is our great pleasure to let you know that, from 02 to 05 April
2003, it
will take place in Craiova the International Conference in Ethnology
and
Anthropology; AnthropoEast-The Anthropology of the South-Eastern
Europe
in-between the reorganisation of the object and the methodological
explosion.
Organised by the The Centre for Studies in Folklife and Traditional
Culture
of the County of Dolj in co-operation with the Faculty of Letters of
the
University of Craiova and The Department of Ethnography of the Museum
of
Oltenia, our conference's aim is to create a debate framework for
academics
both from Romania and from abroad, who are concerned with the
(re-)defining
of the epistemological limits of the research field each of them
cover.

The Conference  will be divided in three large sections as follows:

Folkloristics:  The perspectives of the "science": (in) dependence or
dissolution

"Home" Ethnology:
             	 From the methodological rigour to the "academic" essay
	 Identity and Globalisation; Region and regionalization

Anthropology:
                Language and representations
	 Objective perception and cultural prejudice


Without having any intention to cover the entire problems of the
anthropological research in the South-Eastern Europe, the
conference  we  organise is intended to be only a simple X-raying of
the
discipline as it looks like at the beginning of the Century.
Papers will be given in English or French and they are not to exceed
20
minutes of time. In order to improve communication we are going to
edit
and
publish the volume of the conference, Symposia. Studies in Ethnology
and
Anthropology, issue no. (II) 1/2003 in advance, so that each
participant
should have it in its conference portfolio. That is why the papers to
be
presented during the conference, the in extenso copy, should be
submitted
to our editorial board by February 1st, 2003.

The submitters should send the papers to the publisher at the
following
address:
- Mihai Fifor, manager
- Nicolae Mihai, editor in chief
Centrul Creatiei Populare Dolj (The Centre for Studies in Folklife
and
Traditional Culture of the County of Dolj)
28 Alexandru Macedonski Street
1100 Craiova-Romania
Tel./fax. +40 251 124844, +40 251 123053
E-mail: ccpdolj@...

The papers, which can be written in English or French, should be
original
and should not be under consideration elsewhere.
Articles should be no longer than 9000 words. On a different sheet of
paper
you are to write the author's name and academic affiliation and also
the
title of the paper.
All contributions should be clearly typed or printed on one side of
an
A4
paper or American Quarto, one and a half spaced and with wide margins
throughout (including footnotes and bibliographical references).
Footnotes  should be kept at a minimum. Essential notes should be
presented
in a typed list at the end of the article, one and a half spaced.
Bibliographical references should be given in parentheses in a
standard
author-date form in the body of the text: (Thomas 1991: 123)
A complete list of references cited, arranged alphabetically by
author's
surname, should be typed at the end of the article:
Thomas, K. 1991. Religion and the Decline of Magic. London: Penguin
Books.
Declich, F. 2000. 'Sufi experience in rural Somali. A focus on
women',
Social Anthropology 8, 3 : 295-318.
Lash, S. and Friedman, J. (eds.) 1996. Modernity and Identity.
Oxford:
Blackwell.
Quotations. Single inverted commas should be used except for
quotations
within quotations, which should have double inverted commas.
Quotations
of
more than 60 words should be set off from the text with an extra line
of
spacing above and below, and typed without inverted commas.
Spelling. British English (not American English) spelling should be
used in
English articles except in quoted matter which should follow the
original.
Use -ise not -ize word endings.
Participation expenses. All the expenses, excepting the travel costs
from
your country to Bucharest and from Bucharest back home, will be
covered
by
the organisers.

Therefore, we would kindly invite you to take part in our conference,
your
presence being a real guaranty for our reunion success.
We would very much appreciate a reply to our invitation, the deadline
for
participation confirmation and submitting the tentative title of your
paper
being December 20, 2002.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

Truly yours,

Mihai Fifor, Ph.D
researcher
Manager of the The Centre for Studies in Folklife and Traditional
Culture
of the County of Dolj













THE PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE

Wednesday, April 2, 2003
17.00         Arrival
19.30         Dinner

Thursday, April 3, 2003
08.00        Breakfast
09.30        Official opening of the
                   conference
10.30        Coffee break
11.00        Plenum
14.00        Lunch
16.00        Workshops
17.30        Coffee break
17.45        Workshops
20.00        Dinner
21.00        Ethnologic Film Show

Friday, April 4, 2003
08.00        Breakfast
09.00        Workshops
10.30        Coffee break
11.00        Workshops
12.30        Vernishing of the Naïve\
                   Painting Exhibition
14.30        Lunch
16.00        Workshops
17.30        Coffee break
18.00        Workshop reports
19.00       "O ltenia" Philharmonic
                   Orchestra Concerto
22.00        Farewell Party

Saturday, April 5, 2003
08.00        Breakfast
09.00        Workshops final reports in plenum
10.00        Coffee break
11.00        Conference final conclusions
12.00        Departure.

2.
Subject: Virus Warning

Dear subscribers,

please note that in recent days a virus has been circulating, using
old
email messages, including some message which look like or are old
Balkan
Academic News messages. These virus message neither originate from me
or
from Balkan Academic News. Generally, Balkan Academic News does not
distribute emails with attachment (exception pictures of books
attached
to
book reviews). Thus if you receive a message seemingly from Balkan
Academic
News with an attachment, be suspicious. In case the attachments are
.exe
.scr or .pif files, delte the message and attachment. Below are more
details in the virus.

Best Regards,
Florian Bieber

This Virus is called Bugbear or Tanatos.

* it redistributes itself by adding an attachment to a message
already
in
the users mailbox
with the ending .exe .scr or .pif
* it attempts to stop the functioning of virus detection systems
* it logs keyboard activity, and
* it can allow access to your system by an outside hacker

Do not use the "preview pane" in the Microsoft Outlook e-mail client.


Sophos reports at http://www.sophos.com/support/bugbear.html

W32/Bugbear-A exploits a security loophole in some versions of
Microsoft
Outlook. Microsoft issued a patch which reportedly fixes this
loophole
last
year, but some users have still not patched against it. For this
reason
the
worm appears to be particularly infecting home users who are
sometimes
less
security conscious.
   Read more and download the patch from Microsoft. (This patch fixes
a
number of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software, including the one
exploited by this worm.)

   Home users are advised to visit www.windowsupdate.com, a service
set
up
by Microsoft to scan Windows computers for security vulnerabilities
in
Microsoft applications and provide advice on how to protect against
them.

Sophos recommends users of Microsoft products consider subscribing to
Microsoft's security bulletin
   notification mailing list. Details on how to do this are described
on
Microsoft's website.

Here is the F-Secure Virus Warning notice from:
http://f-secure.com/bugbear/


Global Bugbear Worm Information Center
   Updated: Thursday, 3rd of October, 17:00 GMT

   Bugbear e-mail worm is spreading at an alarming rate

   The Bugbear e-mail worm (also known as Tanatos) was first seen on
Monday,
   September 30. Since then it has been located in dozens of countries
worldwide
   and continues to spread at an increasing rate. Current statistics
show that
   Bugbear/Tanatos has passed Klez as the most common virus currently
in
the
   world. Klez has been the most common virus for almost all of 2002.

   Bugbear is a Windows mass mailer, spreading itself in infected e-
mail
   attachments, sometimes executing the attachment automatically. It
also
tries to
   spread through open Windows fileshares. A side effect of this is
that
the worm
   sometimes prints massive amounts of nonsense text on network
printers.

   The worm also attempts to terminate the processes of various
antivirus and
   firewall programs. Once a machine is infected, it can be remotely
controlled via a
   graphical backdoor, allowing the hacker to steal and delete
information
from
   affected computers.

   VIRUS OPERATION

   The worm can pick up old e-mail messages from an infected system
and
send
   them to random e-mail addresses. This means that private e-mails
will
be
disclosed to third parties. Forwarding old
   e-mails is actually a social engineering trick - When people receive
such e-mails, they will be baffled by the contents. In
   many cases they will click on the file attachment just to figure out
what the strange e-mail is all about - thereby
   becoming infected.


Here is the Symantec Security Posting from
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm
.html
#threatassessment

NOTE: Due to an increased rate of submissions, Symantec Security
Response
has upgraded this threat from a Category 3 to a
Category 4 as of October 2, 2002.

W32.Bugbear@mm is a mass-mailing worm. It can
also spread through network shares. It has keystroke-logging and
backdoor
capabilities. The worm also attempts to
terminate the processes of various antivirus and firewall programs.

Because the worm does not properly handle the
network resource types, it may flood shared printer resources, which
causes
them to print garbage or disrupt their normal
functionality.

Also Known As: W32/Bugbear-A [Sophos],
WORM_BUGBEAR.A [Trend], Win32.Bugbear [CA], W32/Bugbear@MM [McAfee],
I-Worm.Tanatos [AVP], W32/Bugbear [Panda],
Tanatos [F-Secure]
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 50,688 bytes
Systems Affected: Windows 95, Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me
Systems Not Affected: Macintosh, Unix, Linux


3.

    Title: Klein Fellowship for Graduate Study in Early American
       History at the University of Tennessee
    Description: Milton M. Klein Fellowship for Graduate Study in
       History at the University of Tennessee. This nonservice
       fellowship is offered for a two-year period to a graduate
       student specializing in Early American History (defined as the
       history of of the experience of Native Americans, Europeans,
       and African A ...
    Contact: lglover@...
    URL: web.utk.edu/~history/
    Announcement ID: 131456
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131456

    Title: Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2003-04:
       "Violence"
    Location: Illinois
    Deadline: 2002-12-09
    Description: The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
       at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign anticipates
       the appointment of two external Post-Doctoral Fellows for
       2003-04, during which the IPRH annual theme will be Violence.
       The IPRH invites applications for academic projects that
       consider  ...
    Contact: catanzar@...
    URL: www.iprh.uiuc.edu
    Announcement ID: 131442
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131442

    Title: Ray D. Wolfe Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowship
    Deadline: 2003-03-03
    Description: RAY D. WOLFE PRE-DOCTORAL AND POST-DOCTORAL
       FELLOWSHIP The University of Toronto Jewish Studies Program
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4.
British Academy Email Bulletin 08-Oct-02

Invitation to Forthcoming British Academy Public Lectures/Events

Cheltenham Literary Festival Talk:
SHAKESPEARE'S WORDS
Professor David Crystal FBA (Honorary Professor of Linguistics,
University
of Wales, Bangor) & Ben Crystal (Actor)
4pm, Sunday 19 October
Venue: Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Bookings: 20 free tickets for subscribers of the British Academy E-
Bulletin,
Tel:  0207 969 5263

4th British Academy Centenary Lecture (Geography):
GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE/POLITICAL POWERS
Professor David Harvey FBA (City University, New York)
5.00pm, Tuesday 22 October 2002
Venue: Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED Tel: 028 9033 5334

5th British Academy Centenary Lecture (Ancient World)
CLASSICAL ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY TODAY: CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE,
POWER
Professor Josiah Ober (Princeton University)
5.15 pm, Monday 28 October 2002
Venue: Great Hall, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Bookings: Chris Harries, Registrar's Office, Tel: (0117) 928 7675.

6th British Academy Centenary Lecture (Scottish, Welsh and Irish
Studies):
LOCATION AND DISLOCATION; IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IN THEIR INSULAR
ALIGNMENT
Professor Keith Robbins (Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Wales)
5.00pm, Tuesday 5 November 2002
Venue: The Auditorium, King's College Conference Centre, University of
Aberdeen
Bookings: Aberdeen University Public Relations, Tel: 01224 274444

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5.
SINEMA KURSLARI BASLIYOR. www.sinematek.org

Film Atölyesi ve Senaryo Atölyesi 12 Ekim'de ANKARA'da 19 Ekim'de
ISTANBUL'da basliyor... 2 ay sürecek Sinema Atölyelerinde
katilimcilar kendi filmlerini de çekme olanagi bulacak...


FILM ATÖLYESI: Film atölyesindeki amaç, katilimcilarin bir film
çalismasinin tüm asamalarini görerek, yasayarak, bir film ekibinin
görevlerini üstlenerek ögrenmelerini saglamaktir. Bunu
gerçeklestirmek için temel sinema bilgileri teorik olarak
anlatilacak, senaryo yazimi, sinema teknigi bilgisi, kamera, kurgu ve
çekim bilgileri uygulamali yapilacaktir.

2 aylik atölye sonunda tüm katilimcilar bir film çalismasi süreci
yasayacak ve ortak bir kisa metraj film üreteceklerdir. Atölye
bitiminde tüm ögrencilere içinde kendi filmleri olan birer vcd
verilecektir.

Atölye, 2 aylik bir kurs dönemini kapsamaktadir. 1 gün hafta içi 1
gün hafta sonu (çekim pratikleri yapabilmek için) olmak üzere haftada
2 gün x 2,5 saat ders yapilacaktir. (Hafta sonu dersleri genellikle
ders mekani disinda çekim yaparak islenmektedir ve en az 4-5 saat
sürmektedir.)

Film Atölyesi Dersleri:

*Sinemaya giris

*Görüntünün Özellikleri

*Film Yapim Süreci

*Senaryo Yazim Teknikleri

*Kameralar ve Kamera Kullanimi

*Objektif ve Filtre Bilgisi

*Çekim Teknikleri

*Ses, Müzik, Renk

*Isik, Aydinlatma Bilgisi

*Atmosfer Yaratma

*Oyunculuk ve Oyuncu Kullanimi

*Dekor, Kostüm, Aksesuar, Makyaj

*Kurgu Yöntemleri

*Yönetmenlik ve Film Yönetmek

*Sinema Tarihinden Önemli Filmler Izleme ve Kritik

*Çekim Seti / Plato Gezisi

*Kurgu Stüdyosu Gezisi

*Çekim Gezileri

*Ve kisa film & belgesel çekimi

SENARYO ATÖLYESI: Senaryo Yazim Teknikleri, Sinopsis, Treatment,
Çekim Senaryosu, Story-Board, Sinamatografi, Kisa Film, Belgesel,
Dizi Film, Animasyon, Klip Senaryosu, Uyarlama, Karakter Yaratma,
Mizansen, Türler, Proje dosyasi hazirlamak, Senaryo uygulamalari...
Yapilan bu çalismalar Film Atölyesi ögrencileri tarafindan
çekilecektir.

Atölye, 2 aylik bir kurs dönemini kapsamaktadir. 1 gün hafta içi 1
gün hafta sonu olmak üzere haftada 2 gün x 2,5 saat ders
yapilacaktir.

Senaryo Atölyesi Dersleri:

*Sinemaya giris ve Çekim Teknikleri

*Görüntünün Özellikleri ve Sinematografi

*Senaryo Yazim Teknikleri

*Sinopsis, Çekim Senaryosu, Story-Board

*Yazim Uygulamalari, Mizansen, Karakter Yaratma,

*Uyarlama

*Film Türleri (belgesel, kisa, animasyon, Klip, Dizi)

*Proje Dosyasi Hazirlamak

*Ses, Müzik, Renk

*Isik, Aydinlatma Bilgisi

*Atmosfer Yaratma

*Oyunculuk ve Oyuncu Kullanimi

*Dekor, Kostüm, Aksesuar, Makyaj

*Kurgu Yöntemleri

*Sinema Tarihinden Önemli Filmler Izleme ve Kritik

Atölye Katilim Kosullari:*Grup çalismasina uyum *Aktif katilim
*Yardimlasma

Katilimci sayisi: 12 - 15 kisi

ANKARA KURSLARI: 12 Ekim -15 Aralik 2002 (8 hafta X 2 gün X 3 saat
ders)

Son Basvuru, Tanitim Toplantisi: 12 Ekim 2002 C.tesi saat:14.00

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ders)

Son Basvuru, Tanitim Toplantisi: 19 Ekim 2002 C.tesi saat:14.00

Adres: Asmalimescit Sok. No:56/3 Tünel - Istanbul

Tel:0.212.245 43 76 GSM:0.536.472 03 28

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e-mail: sinematek@..., asinematek@...

web page: www.sinematek.org

6.
Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 30 Sep 2002 - 07 Oct 2002

The following 25 reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
30 Sep 2002 and 07 Oct 2002.

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Philipp Zitzlsperger
     Giovanni Battista Piranesi.  _Die Wahrnehmung von Raum und Zeit;
     Akten des internationalen Symposiums_.  Marburg: Jonas Verlag,
     2002.  124 S.  EUR 20, ISBN 3-89445-301-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D92341033689940

Reviewed for H-Urban by David Beriss
     Richard D. E. Burton.  _Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation
     in Paris 1789-1945_.  Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press,
     2001.  ix + 395 pp.  $36.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-3868-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D74201033568222

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Jutta Voorhoeve
     Jonathan Crary.  _Aufmerksamkeit. Wahrnehmung und moderne Kultur_.
     Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 2002.  408 S.  39, ISBN 3-518-58321-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D93541033689988

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Daniel Greene
     Michael Alexander.  _Jazz Age Jews_.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
     University Press, 2001.  239 pp.  $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-691-
     08679-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D95101033690053

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Achim Timmermann
     Athene Reiss.  _The Sunday Christ: Sabbatarianism in English
     Medieval Wall Painting_.  Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000.  209 p.
     =A350.00 (cloth), ISBN 184171040-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D95501033690069

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernd Gehrke
     Erhart Neubert und Bernd Eisenfeld, Hrsg..  _Macht - Ohnmacht -
     Gegenmacht. Grundfragen zur politischen Gegnerschaft in der DDR_.
     Bremen: Edition Temmen, 2001.  457 S.  EUR 24, ISBN 3-86108-792-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D98111033690227

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Marek J. Olbrycht
     Monika Schuol, Udo Hartmann, und Andreas Luther, Hrsg.
     _Grenz=FCberschreitungen. Formen des Kontakts zwischen Orient und
     Okzident im Altertum_.  Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002.
     415 S.  EUR 76, ISBN 3-515-07962-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D98181033690240

Reviewed for HABSBURG by John Spielman
     Karl Vocelka.  _Glanz und Untergang der h=F6fischen Welt.
     Repr=E4sentation, Reform und Reaktion im Habsburgischen
     Vielv=F6lkerstaat_.  Vienna: =DCberreuter, 2001.  542 pp.  EUR
51.90
     (cloth), ISBN 3-8000-3529-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D228881033927366

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Peter H=FCbner
     Rita R=F6hr.  _Hoffnung - Hilfe - Heuchelei. Geschichte des
     Einsatzes polnischer Arbeitskr=E4fte in Betrieben des DDR-
     Grenzbezirks Frankfurt/Oder 1966-1991_.  Berlin: Berliner Debatte
     Wissenschaftsverlag, 2001.  283 S.  EUR 35, ISBN 3-931703-82-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D230321033927424

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Heike Amos
     Reinhard H=FCbsch, Hrsg.  _"H=F6rt die Signale!". Die
     Deutschlandpolitik von KPD/SED und SPD 1945-1970_.  Studien des
     Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat an der Freien Universit=E4t Berlin.
     Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002.  215 S.  EUR 64, ISBN 3-05-003648-
     6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D230501033927431

Reviewed for H-Women by Melanie Perreault
     Kirsten Fischer.  _Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in
     Colonial North Carolina_.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
     Xii + 265 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-8679-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D230601033927434

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Elaine Windrich
     Jakkie Cilliers and Christian Dietrich, eds.  _Angola's War
     Economy: The Role of Oil and Diamonds_.  Pretoria: Institute for
     Security Studies, 2000.  X + 370 pp.  $16.00 (paper), ISBN 0-620-
     26645-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D233091033927513

Reviewed for H-South by Ben Marsh
     Joanna Bowen Gillespie.  _The Life and Times of Martha Laurens
     Ramsay, 1759-1811_.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
     2001.  xxviii + 315 pp.  $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-57003-373-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D233151033927517

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Carsten Kretschmann
     Johannes Heil und Rainer Kampling, Hrsg.  _Maria - Tochter Sion?
     Mariologie, Marienfr=F6mmigkeit und Judenfeindschaft_.  Paderborn:
     Sch=F6ningh, 2001.  271 S.  DM 78, ISBN 3-506-74254-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D234381033927572

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Kirwin Shaffer
     Jesus Arboleya.  _The Cuban Counterrevolution_.  Athens: Ohio
     University Press, 2000.  xvi + 361 pp.  $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-
     89680-214-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D243231033928242

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Tobias Wunschik
     Matthias Wagner.  _Das Stasi-Syndrom. =DCber den Umgang mit den
     Akten des MfS in den 90er Jahren_.  Berlin: edition ost, 2001.
     259 S.  DM 24, ISBN 3-360-01021-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D244441033928363

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Alec Balasescu
     Susan Ossman.  _Three Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo_.
     Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002.  x + 204 pp.
     $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2881-X; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-
     2896-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D89291033965397

Reviewed for H-Survey by Adam M. Sowards
     Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, eds.  _North America:
     The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent_.  Second
     Edition. Lanham, Md. and Oxford, U.K.: Rowman and Littlefield,
     2001.  xii + 500 pp.  $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7425-0018-7; $47.95
     (paper), ISBN 0-7425-0019-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D89321033965404

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Mark T. Berger
     Kyle Longley.  _In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin
     America_.  Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 2002.  ix + 340 pp.
     $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-88295-968-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D89341033965406

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Ann Jefferson
     Rachel A. May.  _Terror in the Countryside: Campesino Responses to
     Political Violence in Guatemala, 1954-1985_.  Athens: Ohio
     University Press, 2001.  xix + 234 pp.  $26.00 (paper), ISBN 0-
     89680-217-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D90291033965482

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Barbara A. Sommer
     Seth Garfield.  _Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State
     Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988_.
     Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001.  316 pp.  $59.95
     (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2661-2; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2665-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D91131033965489

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Jeremy King
     Monika Glettler and Alena Miskova, eds.  _Prager Professoren 1938-
     1948. Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik_.  Essen: Klartext, 2001.
     682 pp.  EUR 21,50 (paper), ISBN 3-88474-955-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D103721033965773

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Nora Faires
     Robert P. Swierenga.  _Faith and Family: Dutch Immigration and
     Settlement in the United States, 1820-1920_.  New York and London:
     Holmes and Meier, 2000.  xx + 362 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-
     8419-1319-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D111861033966170

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Scott C. Zeman
     Catherine Cocks.  _Doing the Town: The Rise of Urban Tourism in
     the United States, 1850-1915_.  Berkeley: University of California
     Press, 2001.  xii + 287 pp.  $37.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-22746-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D113271033966289

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Scott C. Zeman
     Marguerite S. Shaffer.  _See America First: Tourism and National
     Identity, 1880-1940_.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
     Press, 2001.  429 pp.  $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-56098-953-X; $18.95
     (paper), ISBN 1-56098-976-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D113291033966292

7.
Title: Women's History Network website
    Description: The UK Women's History Network has a new website. The
       site contains information on UK and regional WHN activities,
       conferences, calls for papers, details of the WHN annual essay
       prize, events, publications, WHN magazine and membership
       details. ...
    Contact: webadmin@...
    URL: www.womenshistorynetwork.org
    Announcement ID: 131447
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131447

8. TURKISH STUDIES INSTITUTE NEWS (TSI NEWS)
             TSI NEWS Volume 1, Issue 2 (October 2002)
                      Direct Circulation 1,002
                      Editor, Ozgul Erdemli
                   Assistant Editor, Joy Pincus
         ------------------------------------------------
TSI is a project of the Global Research in International Affairs
(GLORIA)Center. Site: <http://tsi.idc.ac.il> . Email:
<gloria@...> .
GLORIA is affiliated to the Lauder School of Government,
Interdisciplinary
Center IDC.
         ------------------------------------------------
CONTENTS:
Editorial Announcement
Other Announcements
New Publications in Turkish and English
Ongoing projects/ Work in progress
Conferences
------------------------------------------------
EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

      Turkish Studies Institute (TSI) would like to invite you to
publicize
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on:
upcoming or recently published books and articles; conferences;
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or
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Turkey, which is being compiled in conjunction with TESEV (Turkish
Economic
and Social Studies Foundation) of Istanbul. This directory is
intended
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for
listing. This directory will soon be  available at the TSI website:
<http://tsi.idc.ac.il>.
      Ozgul Erdemli has joined the GLORIA Center as a fellow. Her work
includes being assistant editor of Turkish Studies journal and
assistant
director of the Turkish Studies Institute (TSI) and editor of TSI
News.
She
has previously worked as a Research Associate at the Eurasian
Strategic
Studies Center (ASAM) in Ankara, Turkey, editing its journal, The
Review of
International  Affairs. Ozgul holds an MA degree from the London
School
of
Economics and a BA from Bosphorus University, Istanbul.
      She is currently working towards her Ph.D. in International
Relations
at Middle East Technical University.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS IN TURKISH/ENGLISH

BOOKS:
1. By Barry Rubin, ISTANBUL INTRIGUES
2. Barry Rubin, Kemal Kirisci, GUNUMUZDE TURKIYE'NIN DIS POLITIKASI
3. Murat Cizakca, DEMOKRASI ARAYISINDA TURKIYE: LAIK-DINDAR/DEMOKRAT
UZLASMASINA BIR KATKI
4. Clement Dodd , STORM CLOUDS OVER CYPRUS: A BRIEFING
5. Brian Beeley, TURKISH TRANSFORMATION: NEW CENTURY, NEW CHALLENGES
6. Jessica Lutz, DE GOUDEN APPEL, TURKIJE TUSSEN OOST EN WEST
7. Efraim Inbar, TURK-ISRAIL STRATEJIK ORTAKLIGI (The Israeli-Turkish
Entente)
8. Murat Hatipoglu, DUNDEN BUGUNE MAKEDONYA SORUNU (The Macedonian
Question
from Past to Present)

JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS AND PAPERS
1. TURKISH STUDIES (Vol.3, No.2 and Vol.4, No.1)
2. TURKISH POLICY QUARTERLY (Vol.1, No.1 and Vol.1, No.2)

BOOKS
1. Barry Rubin, ISTANBUL INTRIGUES
      This is the new English edition of the book on war, diplomacy,
and
espionage on Istanbul and the Balkans during World War Two. Based on
extensive use of archives and dozens of  interviews with participants,
Istanbul Intrigues combines new information on that period as well as
telling the story of individuals caught up in that complex and
exciting
era.
      The book covers the Allied and Axis struggle over winning
Turkey's
support; covert efforts to liberate Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and
Hungary,
the role of journalists, the rise and fall of spy networks, the
attempts to
rescue Jews, and other events.
      In addition, the book analyzes Turkish policy and the positions
of
the
key Turkish leaders, using British, American, and German archives. It
recounts the earnest but often bumbling way that the United States
started
its own intelligence agency as well as how the region slipped into
the
Cold
War. The remarkable cast of characters in this true story includes,
Stalin's
chief murder expert, stalking Berlin's ambassador to try to set off a
German-Turkish war; the young Vatican emissary who later became Pope
John
XXIII; Hungarian leaders secretly negotiating peace with the Allies;
an
eccentric American ex-governor who considered himself the world's
greatest
superspy; and the British ambassador's valet who became the greatest
German
agent of the war (though his information was ignored).
335 pages, $15 plus postage. More information is available at:
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2. Barry Rubin, Kemal Kirisci, GUNUMUZDE TURKIYE'NIN DIS POLITIKASI
GUNUMUZDE TURKIYE'NIN DIS POLITIKASI is the Turkish translation of
TURKEY IN
WORLD POLITICS. The book is available from Bosphorus University Press,
Istanbul.
      Once characterized by an avoidance of foreign entanglements,
Turkey's
diplomacy has changed dramatically in the present era of regional
agreements
and organizations. Tracing the evolution of that change, this
comprehensive
study explores the country's new international posture. The authors
assess
Turkey's policy toward Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S., as
well
as its growing role within the Middle East region. They also address
in
depth the critical issues of economic, energy, and water policy. Their
discussion of the interest groups and institutions affecting the
policymaking process and the challenges facing the country's rapidly
urbanizing and industrializing economy contribute to the picture of a
complex, dynamic nation.

ICINDEKILER (TABLE OF CONTENTS)
Turkiye: Degisen Uluslararasi Rol-B. Rubin. (Turkey: A Transformed
International Role)
1990'lardaki Turk Dis Politikasi -S. Kut. (The Contours of Turkish
Foreign
Policy in the 1990s)
Turkiye'de Askeriye ve Dis Politika-G. Ozcan. (The Military and
Foreign
Policymaking in Turkey)
Turkiye ve Avrupa Birligi: Uyelige Dogru Uzun Yol.-W. Hale ve G.
Avci.(Turkey and the European Union: The Long Road to Membership)
Balkanlar: Turkiye'nin Dengeleyici Rolu-I. Uzgel. (The Balkans:
Turkey's
Stabilizing Role)
Komsu Batiya Ne Soyler? Turk-Yunan Iliskileri Uzerine-A. Nachmani.
(What
Says the Neighbor to the West? On Turkish-Greek Relations)
Turkiye'nin Ortadogu Politikasinin Gelecegi-K. Kirisci. (The Future of
Turkish Policy Toward the Middle East)
Turk-Israil Stratejik Ittifaki-E. Inbar. (The Strategic Glue in the
Israeli-Turkish Alignment)
Amerikan-Turk Iliskileri: Yenilenen Ortakliktaki Yeni Belirsizlikler-
K.
Kirisci. (U.S.-Turkish Relations: New Uncertainties in a Renewed
Partnership)
Rusya: Jeopolitik Rekabeti Ekonomik Ortaklik ile Uzlastirmanin
Zorluklari-D.B. Sezer (Russia: The Challenges of Reconciling
Geopolitical
Competition with Economic Partnership)
Turkiye ve Yeni Bagimsiz Orta Asya Devletleri ve Kafkasya-G. Winrow.
(Turkey
and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia and Transcaucasus)
Globallesme ve Turkiye'nin Degisen Ekonomik Politikasi-M. Eder. (The
Challenge of Globalization and Turkey's Changing Political Economy)
Turkiye'nin Enerji Politikasi-B. Sasley. (Turkey's Energy Politics)
Su Uyusmazliklari: Firat ve Dicle Havzasi-A. Carkoglu ve M. Eder.
(Water
Conflict: The Euphrates-Tigris Basin)
Turkiye'nin Yeni Dis Politikasini Anlamak-B. Rubin. (Understanding
Turkey's
New Foreign Policy)
To read the description in Turkish:
<http://gloria.idc.ac.il/publications/books/turkey_world_politics_turk
ish.ht
ml>
To order this book in English, see:
<http://gloria.idc.ac.il/publications/books/turkey_world_politics.html
>
paperback, 13,5X21cm, viii+396pp, index, ISBN 975-518-170-9, 15$
To order, write to us at: <mailto:gloria@...
or"gloria@...
>
contact the publisher at:
<bupress@...> Or by post: Bogazici Universitesi Yayinevi
Bogazici
Universitesi Kuzey Kampus ETA B Blok Zemin Kat Etiler-Istanbul By
phone
or
fax: 90 212 257 87 27

3. Murat Cizakca, DEMOKRASI ARAYISINDA TURKIYE: LAIK-DINDAR/DEMOKRAT
UZLASMASINA BIR KATKI
      This book addresses the question of how Turkey can achieve true
democracy while maintaining its Islamic character. As such, it
addresses a
universal problem pertaining to the whole Islamic world. The author
argues
that the sine qua non for the true democracy under such conditions is
an
elite settlement between the secularist establishment and the
Muslims.
The
author then goes on to investigate the conditions under which such a
settlement can take place. Finally, he assumes that a Muslim-
democratic
government comes to power, and then draws the outlines of a viable
program
of such a government that would be acceptable to both the secularists
and
the Muslim-democrats.
To order this book:
Contact the publisher, Yeni Turkiye Yayinlari, at: <ytder@...>, or
fax;
90 312 442 62 52. The author can be contacted at:
<mcizakca@...> or
<mcizakca@...>.

4. Clement Dodd, STORM CLOUDS OVER CYPRUS: A BRIEFING.
      This book is the second updated and much expanded edition of the
original. It begins by providing the history of the conflict and then
shows
how each side interprets the course of events and which features of
the
conflict each side emphasizes. This is followed by analysis of the
role
of
the UN as broker, and the EU as catalyst, for a solution. The
progress
of
the current face-to-face talks is then examined, as too are the
international implications of the conflict. Nine new documents are
appended
to the second edition, making eleven in all, and including excerpts
from the
UN's 1992 'Set of Ideas', the important UN Secretary-General's Report
of
September 2000, an authoritative statement on Turkey's Cyprus policy
by
Foreign Minister, Ismail Cem, the Greek Cypriot National Council's
proposals, and Turkish Cypriot proposals for a settlement.
Paperback, 123 pages, ISBN 0 906719 37 2, £9,95 Euro 15.50, $19. 95.
To
order this book:  Contact the publisher, The Eothen Press at
<theeothenpress@...>. Or by post: The Eothen Press, 10
Manor
Road, Hemingford Grey, Huntingdon, UK, PE28 9BX. By phone or fax: 44
1480
466106. For orders from North America: Email <orders@...>. Or
by
post:
Independent Publishers' Group, 814 Franklin St, Chicago IL 60610.
Tel:
312
337 0747, Fax: 337 5985.

5. Brian Beeley, TURKISH TRANSFORMATION: NEW CENTURY, NEW CHALLENGES
      Another recent book published by The Eothen Press, is Turkish
Transformation. This book takes stock of the present Turkish reality
at
this
important time in Turkey's history, and assesses political, social and
economic trends, emphasizing future prospects and potential in a
number
of
areas. It arose from a recent two-day workshop initiated by the
British
'Turkish Area Study Group'.  The contributions are:
Malcolm Wagstaff and Brian Beeley, The National Space: Patterns and
Potential
Andrew Mango, Kemalism in a New Century
Brian Beeley, People and Cities: Migration and Urbanization
Ersin Kalaycioglu, Civil Society in Turkey: Continuity or Change?
David Shankland, Religion
Celia Kerslake, New Directions in the Turkish Novel
Arin Bayraktaroglu, The Media: Change and Impact
Mina Toksoz, The Economy: Achievements and Prospects
William Hale, Democracy and the Party System in Turkey
David Barchard, Society and Bureaucracy: the Civil Service
Tunc Aybak, Foreign Policy in the New Century
Clement Dodd, Democracy and the European Union
Paperback, 279 pages, ISBN 0 906719 34 8, £19.50, Euro 32.00, $32.95.
Hardcover, ISBN 0 906719 33 X, £30.00, Euro 47.50, $55.00. To order
this
book: Contact the publisher, The Eothen Press at
<theeothenpress@...>.
Or by post: The Eothen Press, 10 Manor Road, Hemingford Grey,
Huntingdon,
UK, PE28 9BX.  By phone or fax: 44 1480 466106.  For orders from North
America: Email <orders@...>. Or by post: Independent
Publishers'
Group, 814 Franklin St, Chicago IL 60610. Tel: 312 337 0747, Fax: 337
5985.

6. Jessica Lutz, DE GOUDEN APPEL, TURKIJE TUSSEN OOST EN WEST (The
Golden
Apple, Turkey between East and West)
      This book is a Dutch reporter's view of contemporary Turks,
their
quest
for a European identity and their struggle to preserve what they
value
of
their eastern past. Breda : De Geus, 2002. - 256 pages - ISBN
90-445-0095-3
To order this book: Contact the publisher at <email@...> . By
Phone:
31 76 522 81 51 By Fax: 31 76 522 25 99

7. Efraim Inbar, TURK-ISRAIL STRATEJIK ORTAKLIGI (The Israeli-Turkish
Entente)
      Efraim Inbar's book The Israeli-Turkish Entente published in
English by
King's College is now available in Turkish (Turk-Israil Stratejik
Ortakligi)
by ASAM. The Israeli-Turkish Entente is the first comprehensive study
that
explains the timing of the entente, its present substance, and its
impact on
the regional environment. The book argues that the entente with
Israel
was
part of a reorientation of Turkey's foreign policy as a result of the
emergence of a new international constellation, following the demise
of
the
Soviet Union.
To order this book in Turkish, contact ASAM (Avrasya Stratejik
Arastirmalar
Merkezi) at
<http://www.avsam.org/turkce/siparisformu.htm>. Or by post: ASAM,
Konrad
Adanauer Cad. No: 61 Yildiz -Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Or by email:
<kitapdagitim@...>  Paperback, 104 pages, ISBN: 975-6769-41-6
To
order this book in English, contact the publisher at: King's College
London,
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England, United Kingdom. By Phone: 44 (0)20
7836
5454

8. DUNDEN BUGUNE MAKEDONYA SORUNU (The Macedonian Question from Past
to
Present), Edited By Murat Hatipoglu
      This book is part of Balkan Studies Series, and is published by
ASAM, a
foreign policy think tank in Ankara.
Table of Contents
Orta Cag'da Makedonya: Bir Siyasi Cografyanin Sureklilik Oykusu- Osman
Karatay (The Medieval Macedonia:Story of Continuity of a Political
Geography)
Makedonya'da Osmanli Hakimiyeti: Degisen ve Degismeyen Kimlik- Mehmet
Inbasi
(Ottoman Rule in Macedonia: Changing and Unchanging Identity)
Osmanli Imparatorlugu'nun Son Doneminde Makedonya Sorunu- Meltem Begum
Saatci (Macedonian Question in the Late Ottoman Period)
Makedonya Uzerindeki Mucadeleler ve Makedonya Cumhuriyeti - Ulker Alp
(Quarrels over Macedonia and the Republic of Macedonia)
Yunanistan'daki Slav-Makedon Azinligi ve Sorunlari - Damla Aras (The
Slavo-Macedonian Minority in Greece andits Problems)
Makedon Diasporasi: Ege Makedonlarinin Diasporasina Tarihsel ve
Guncel
Bir
Bakis- Murat Hatipoglu (The Macedonian Diaspora: A Historical and
Actual
View on the Diaspora of the Agean Macedonians)
Makedonya Bicak Sirtinda: Balkanlar'in Eski "Model Ulkesi", Yeni
Istikrarsizlik Unsuru Mu? - Birgul Demirtas-Coskun, Emir Turkoglu
(Macedonia
at the Crossroads: Is the 'Model Country' of the Balkans a New
Element
of
Unstability?)
Turkiye'den Makedonya'ya Bakis - Mustafa Kahramanyol (A Look at
Macedonia
from Turkey)
Makedonya'da Turkler- Omer Turan (Turks in Macedonia)
To order this book:
Contact ASAM (Avrasya Stratejik Arastirmalar Merkezi) at
<http://www.avsam.org/turkce/siparisformu.htm>. Or by post: ASAM,
Konrad
Adanauer Cad. No: 61 Yildiz -Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey. Or by email:
<kitapdagitim@...>

JOURNALS, NEWSLETTERS AND PAPERS
1. TURKISH STUDIES (Vol.3, No.2 and Vol.4, No.1)
Turkish Studies Fall issue (Vol. 3, No. 2) is now out:
Articles:
Yakup Bulut and Muhammet Kosecik, NGOs and Municipalities: A Research
On
Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality.
Efraim Inbar, Regional Implications of the Israeli-Turkish Strategic
Partnership.
Yuksel Sezgin, The October 1998 Crisis In Turkish-Syrian Relations: A
Prospect Theory Approach
Sebnem Udum, Turkey and the Emerging European Security Framework.
Nathalie Tocci, Cyprus and The European Union: Catalyzing Crisis or
Settlement?
H. Tarik Oguzlu, The 'Turkomans' as a Factor in Turkish Foreign Policy
Essays:
Cem Emrence, Imagining The Free Republican Party of Turkey (1930):
Keeping
The Political Elites In Power.
Fusun Turkmen, Turkey and the Korean War.
Leonard A. Stone, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Perceptions of
Europe:
Continuity and Change.
Yucel Acer, Recent Developments and Prospect for Settlement of the
Aegean
Disputes.
      Turkish Studies' next issue (Vol.4, No.1, Spring 2003) will be
out
in
March 2003. This issue is a special issue on "Turkey and European
Union" and
it is a joint project of Turkish Studies Institute/GLORIA and TESEV
(Turkish
Economic and Social Studies Foundation). Ali Carkoglu from TESEV and
Sabanci
University is the guest editor of this special issue of Turkish
Studies.
Frank Cass Publishers, UK will also publish this issue in book form.

Articles in Vol.4, No.1:
Ziya Onis, Domestic Politics, International Norms and Challenges to
the
State: Turkey-EU Relations in the Post-Helsinki Era
Esra ?ayhan, Towards European Security and Defence Policy: With or
Without
Turkey?
Semin Suvarierol, The Cyprus Hurdle On Turkey's Road To Membership Of
The
European Union
Kemal Kiricci, Justice and Home Affairs Issues in Turkish-EU
Relations:
Assessing Turkish Asylum and Immigration Policy and Practice
William Hale, Human Rights, the European Union, and the Turkish
Accession
Process
Nergis Canefe and Tanil Bora, Intellectual Roots of Anti-European
Sentiments
in Turkish Politics: The Case of Nationalist-Conservative Tradition
and
Radical Turkish Nationalism
Gamze Avci, Turkey's Slow EU candidacy: Insurmountable Hurdles to
Membership
or Simple Euroscepticism?
Ali Carkoglu, Who wants the Full Membership? Characteristics of Public
Opinion Support for EU Membership in Turkey
Lauren M. McLaren Meltem Muftuler-Bac, Turkish Parliamentarians'
Perspectives on Turkey's Relations with the European Union
Mine Eder, Implementing Economic Criteria Of EU Membership: How
Difficult Is
It For Turkey?

2. TURKISH POLICY QUARTERLY, Summer 2002 (Vol.1, No.2)
      Turkish Policy Quarterly is an academic journal that focuses on
Turkish
foreign and economic policy. The journal publishes articles on current
affairs, opinions, policy pieces, review articles and interviews. It
is
published by the ARI Movement, an independent Turkish think tank,
based
in
Istanbul. The journal contains articles from policy makers as well as
academic circles. The current issue (vol.1, no.2) addresses
globalization
from a regional perspective. Authors discuss topics related to
globalization
such as conflict prevention, new challenges and possible effects
arising
from Globalization and European integration with regards to Turkey,
among
other relevant issues.

Articles in Vol.1, No.1
Turkish Foreign Policy: Opening New Horizons For Turkey At The Ismail
Cem,
Beginning Of A New Millennium
George Papandreou, Greece's Foreign Policy In the 21st Century
Dani Rodrik, Economic Development: Institutional Convergence Versus
Experimentation
Mehmet Ogutcu, Turkey's New Economic Diplomacy Balancing Commercial
Interests With Geopolitical Goals
Nathalie Tocci, Cyprus And the Eu Catalyst For Negotiations Or
Settlement
Meltem Muftuler-Bac, Turkey's Foreign Policy Challenges in The New
Millennium
Cem Akyurek, Argentina's Experience: Any Lessons For Turkey
Umit Kumcuoglu, Turkey Vs. Argentina: A Comparative Analysis With of
the
Ideological Space Underlying Turkish Party Preferences
Ali Carkoglu and Melvin J. Hinich, A Long Term Perspective,
An Analysis

Articles in Vol.1, No.2
Kemal Dervis, The Social Liberal Synthesis
Izak Atiyas, The Turkish Experience with Regulatory Reform and the
Role
of
Independent Regulatory Authorities
El Hassan bin Talal, A Regional OSC/OECD for the 'Arc of Crisis'?
E. Fuat Keyman, Globalisation, European Integration and Turkey
Daniel Pipes, Does Poverty Cause Militant Islam?
David S. Saltzman, TA Legal Survey Of Some Of The Aegean Issues Of
Dispute
And Prospects For A Non-Judicial Multidisciplinary Solution
Tam?s D?vid, Economic Transformation in South Eastern Europe: Lessons
from
Central Europe and a strategy for success in the globalised economy
Riza Turmen, 11 September and Human Rights
Sinan Ulgen, The Customs Union As The Catalyst Of Globalisation
Strateji Mori, Turkish Public Opinion Survey
More information about the Turkish Policy Quarterly is available at:
<www.turkishpolicy.com>. Contact the publisher for subscription at:
<subscriptions@...>. Or by post: Ayazaga Ticaret
Merkezi,
Tahiraga Cesme Cad. No:1, B Blok, 7th Floor, Maslak 80670 Istanbul
By phone or fax: 90 212 2863034, 90 212 2863036

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ONGOING PROJECTS/ WORK IN PROGRESS

Christopher Brewin has a Leverhulme Foundation award starting in
January,
2003 to write a book on "The European Union And Turkey".

Idris Bal is currently editing a book entitled "New Big Game" about
the
Eurasian policies of global and regional powers in the post cold war
era. He
invites academics to contribute to his book. For more information
about
his
project, and submission of articles please contact him at
<idrisbal@...>.

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CONFERENCES

The upcoming one day Turkish Studies conference at Koc University,
Istanbul
is entitled: "The Turkish Economy at the Crossroads: Critical
Perspectives
on the 2000-2001 Financial Crisis". The conference will be held on
Friday,
September 27, 2002 and is jointly sponsored by Koc University and the
Turkish Studies journal. The papers, which will be presented at the
conference, will form the basis of a special issue of Turkish Studies
to be
published in 2003. For further information
contact Ziya Onis at: <zonis@...>.

Engin, Erdem, "Does Domestic Politics Matter? Turkish-Israeli
Relations
in
the 1990s,"
3rd Annual Graduate Student Research Conference- Innovations in Global
Research- Organized by Graduate Program in International Studies
(GPIS)
and
the Center for Regional and Global Study (CRGS),Old Dominion
University
(Norfolk, VA), Feb 15, 2002.

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*** UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS CURRENTLY BEING
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By Stephen Zunes

*** GLOBAL TOXICS TREATIES: U.S. LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY SLIPS AWAY ***
by Kristin Schafer, Pesticide Action Network


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*** PALESTINIANS HAVE REAPED THEIR TRAGEDY ***

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*** UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS CURRENTLY BEING
VIOLATED BY COUNTRIES OTHER THAN IRAQ ***
By Stephen Zunes

(Editor's Note: In its effort to justify its planned invasion of
Iraq,
the Bush administration has emphasized the importance of enforcing UN
Security Council resolutions. However, in addition to the dozen or so
resolutions currently being violated by Iraq, a conservative estimate
reveals that there are an additional 91 Security Council resolutions
about
countries other than Iraq that are also currently being violated.
This
raises serious questions regarding the Bush administration's
insistence
that it is motivated by a duty to preserve the credibility of the
United Nations, particularly since the vast majority of the
governments
violating UN Security Council resolutions are close allies of the
United
States. Stephen Zunes <stephen@...>, University of San Francisco
professor and Middle East Editor for Foreign Policy in Focus (online
at
www.fpif.org), compiled the following partial list of UN resolutions
that
are currently being violated by countries other than Iraq. The cases
are listed in order of resolution number, followed by the year in
which
the resolution was passed, the country or countries in violation, and
a
brief description of the resolution. Included here are a sampling of
the resolutions that continue to be violated, followed by an
explanatory
note by Zunes.)

1319 (2000) Indonesia
Insists that Indonesia "take immediate additional steps, in
fulfillment
of its responsibilities, to disarm and disband the militia
immediately,
restore law and order in the affected areas of West Timor, ensure
safety and security in the refugee camps and for humanitarian
workers, and
prevent incursions into East Timor." Stresses that those guilty of
attacks on international personnel be brought to justice and
reiterates the
need to provide safe return for refugees who wish to repatriate and
provide resettlement for those wishing to stay in Indonesia.

1322 (2000) Israel
Calls upon Israel to scrupulously abide by the Fourth Geneva
Convention
regarding the responsibilities of occupying power.

1359 (2001) Morocco
Calls on the parties to "abide by their obligations under
international
humanitarian law to release without further delay all those held
since
the start of the conflict."

1402 (2002) Israel
Calls for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities.

1403 (2002) Israel
Demands that Israel go through with "the implementation of its
resolution 1402, without delay."

1405 (2002) Israel
Calls for UN inspectors to investigate civilian deaths during an
Israeli assault on the Jenin refugee camp.

1416 (2002) Turkey/Cyprus
Reiterates UNSC resolution 1251 and all relevant resolutions on
Cyprus.

1435 (2002) Israel
Calls on Israel to withdraw to positions of September 2000 and end
its
military activities in and around Ramallah, including the destruction
of security and civilian infrastructure.

Explanatory Notes:
This list deals exclusively with resolutions of the United Nations
Security Council, a fifteen-member body consisting of five permanent
members (the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United
Kingdom)
and ten non-permanent members elected for rotating two-year terms
representing various regions of the world. The Security Council's
primary
responsibility, under the UN Charter, is for the maintenance of
international peace and security. For a resolution to pass, it must
be approved by
a majority of the total membership with no dissenting vote from any
of
the five permanent members. Since the early 1970s, the United States
has used its veto power nearly fifty times, more than all other
permanent
members during that same period combined. In the vast majority of
these
cases, the U.S. was the only dissenting vote. The preceding list,
therefore, includes only resolutions where the United States voted in
the
affirmative or abstained.

This list does not include resolutions that merely condemn a
particular
action, only those that specifically proscribe a particular ongoing
activity or future activity and/or call upon a particular government
to
implement a particular action. Nor does this list does include
resolutions where the language is ambiguous enough to make assertions
of
noncompliance debatable, such as UNSC resolutions 242 and 338 on the
Arab-Israeli conflict that put forward the formula of "land for
peace," to cite
the most famous. Similarly, it does not include broad resolutions
calling for universal compliance not in reference to a particular
conflict,
particularly if there is not a clear definition. For example, in a
resolution that proscribes the harboring of terrorists, there is no
clear
definition for what constitutes a terrorist. This list does not
include
nonstate actors, such as secessionist governments, rebel groups or
terrorists, only recognized nation-states.

Furthermore, this list does not include resolutions that were also
violated for a number of years that are now moot (such as those
dealing
with Indonesia's occupation of East Timor, South Africa's occupation
of
Namibia, and Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon). If these were
also
included, the number of violations would double. In most of these
cases, the United States played a key role in blocking enforcement of
these
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*** GLOBAL TOXICS TREATIES: U.S. LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY SLIPS AWAY ***
by Kristin Schafer, Pesticide Action Network

(Editor's Note: Multilateralism is about more than peace and security
issues, more than UN resolutions. Multilateralism is also the
framework
for international norms and rules--a noninstitutional form of global
governance that addresses transnational issues that nations cannot
resolve alone. The aggressive anti-multilateralism of the Bush
administration
extends beyond its unilateralism in security issues to its dismissal
of
the threats of rising transnational problems such as climate change
and
toxics. This new FPIF policy brief (available in its entirety at
http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol7/v7n11toxics.html) examines the
problem
of our increasingly toxic global environment, the conventions and
protocols designed to reduce this problem, and the recalcitrant
policy
position of the U.S. government.)

Once again, the U.S. is squandering an opportunity for leadership in
the international environmental policy arena. As the Bush
administration
continues to backtrack on environmental protection at home and
abroad,
these opportunities are increasingly few and far between. The issues
at
hand are global elimination of persistent chemicals and control of
trade in toxics, and the opportunity is early ratification of two
international treaties that effectively address these challenges: the
Stockholm
and Rotterdam conventions. Fast action from the White House and the
Senate could still make a difference.

Many NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), including the Pesticide
Action Network (PAN) International and the International POPs
(Persistent
Organic Pollutants) Elimination Network (IPEN), called on nations
around
the world to bring these important treaties into effect before the
World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South
Africa. Both
treaties require fifty ratifications before implementation can begin.
As of September 2002, 21 countries had ratified the Stockholm
Convention, and 27 had ratified the Rotterdam Convention. The U.S.
has yet to
ratify either.

The chemicals addressed under the Stockholm Convention are persistent
organic pollutants. These toxic substances currently are transported
across the globe, persist in the environment, accumulate in the body
fat
of humans and animals, and concentrate up the food chain. Even at
very
low levels of exposure, POPs can cause reproductive and developmental
disorders, damage to the immune and nervous systems, and a range of
cancers. Exposure during key phases of fetal development can be
particularly
damaging, and infants around the world are born with an array of POPs
already in their blood. POPs are found in today's U.S. food supply,
even
though many of the chemicals in question have been banned in the U.S.
for decades.

The global nature of these pollutants led the United Nations
Environment Program (UNEP) to sponsor extensive negotiations that
culminated in
the signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants
on May 23, 2001, by 91 countries as well as the European Union. The
treaty identifies an initial list of twelve POPs slated for
elimination.
Nine of the 12 (aldrin, endrin, dieldrin, chlordane,
dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), heptachlor,
hexachlorobenzene, mirex, and
toxaphene) are pesticides that have been targeted for elimination by
NGOs
around the world since the early 1980s. The other chemicals on the
convention's initial list are polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
dioxins, and
furans. The nine listed pesticides and PCBs have already been banned
in
the U.S., some--like DDT--for decades. The U.S. continues to produce
dioxins and furans as byproducts of chlorine-based industries and
waste
incineration.

The Stockholm Convention establishes various timetables for the
elimination of the listed POP chemicals. Provisions specific to the
ever-controversial DDT call for its ultimate elimination but allow
interim use of
the pesticide for malaria vector control, if use is accompanied by
aggressive efforts to develop and implement safe and effective
alternatives. DDT is currently used to control malaria in about two
dozen
countries, mostly in Africa.

The Rotterdam Convention is a complementary treaty providing
important
controls on international trade of highly toxic chemicals. This
convention, signed by 73 nations in 1998, is the formalization of a
voluntary
Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure administered jointly by UNEP
and
the Food and Agriculture Organization since 1989. The Rotterdam
Convention requires that any country importing pesticides and certain
other
hazardous chemicals must be informed of bans or severe restrictions
on
that chemical in other countries. This gives receiving countries the
option of refusing shipments of chemicals on the grounds that they
may be
harmful to the environment or to the health of their populations.

U.S. customs records from U.S. ports reveal that more than 3.2
billion
pounds of pesticides crossed international borders between 1997 and
2000. Nearly 65 million pounds of this total were pesticides that
have
either been banned or are severely restricted in the United States.
Developing countries often lack the capacity to adequately evaluate
and
regulate highly toxic chemicals imported from their northern
neighbors. The
PIC procedure is the international community's response to this
inequity, and it continues to be implemented on a voluntary basis,
while the
treaty accumulates the 50 ratifications needed to enter into force.
Although the convention could be strengthened--some analysts believe
that
the rules for adding chemicals to the PIC list are designed to limit
the
number of new substances--it represents an important tool to help the
international community monitor and control the world's massive trade
in
dangerous substances.

(Kristin S. Schafer <kristins@...>, program coordinator with
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), is coauthor of
Nowhere to
Hide: Persistent Toxic Chemicals in the U.S. Food Supply (San
Francisco:
PANNA, 2001). A version of this article appeared in the September
2001
(vol. 6, no. 31) issue of Foreign Policy in Focus.)


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II. Letters and Comments

*** YOUR LEGACY NOT MINE ***

Re: Overcoming the Legacy of the Vietnam War (online at
http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol5/v5n26vietnam.html)
Just what kind of "legacy" am I suppose to be overcoming. I was a
U.S.
Marine "Grunt" who served his country proudly and did no wrong while
serving. The only legacy I have is of a brave, highly decorated
Marine
doing what he had to do. I have absolutely no legacy to "overcome". I
would love to know if Mr. Wells-Dang was there; and if he was, what
type
of legacy he is trying to overcome.

- George Nicol <nicolgs@...>


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*** PALESTINIANS HAVE REAPED THEIR TRAGEDY ***

Re: Why U.S. Supports Israel (online at
http://www.fpif.org/papers/usisrael.html)
The mingling of facts and leftist idealist lies scares me. What
humanitarian crimes has Israel committed? They are surrounded by
enemies who
hate them and want to commit genocide. They are at war with every
Arab
state who brainwash their people to unconditionally hate Jews.
Anybody
who cares about the truth knows that the Palestinians destroyed
themselves with Jordan and Egypt acting as the puppetmasters. The PLO
has
reaped what they have sown and deserve no sympathy. Read real history
and
Israel gave everything a people could want to the Palestinians in the
beginning, but they would accept nothing less than control of all of
Israel and the death or exile of all Jews. The diaspora happened
because
Muslims hate Jews and to survive they had to flee their homeland. The
Jews
know the real meaning of Jihad--conversion or death. To simplify the
Middle East's problems as the Israel's fault is ignorance at best or
criminally partisan politics.

- Joe Shaffer <jshaffer1545@...>


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*** INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE THESIS OF "ANTICIPATORY SELF-DEFENSE"
***

By Peter Mark

The Bush administration threatens a preemptive attack on Iraq. It is
important to ask what affect such an attack might have on the
relationship of the United States to the rest of the international
community.
Almost without exception, America's closest allies have voiced
opposition
to a military attack against Iraq. What might their response be if
the
U.S. actually carries out its threats? In the light of widespread
international opposition to the use of military force against Saddam
Hussein's government, it is important for American citizens to ask:
can such a
preemptive use of military force against another nation be justified
by
international law?

Here, succinctly, are some elements of international law that relate
to
the situation between the United States and Iraq:

An important principle of international law is the avoidance of armed
force. Article 2-4 of the United Nations Charter prohibits all
recourse
to military force, including war. The U.S. is a signatory member of
the
United Nations and must therefore respect the Charter.

Article 2 of the UN Charter:

The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes stated
in
Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles. ...

4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from
the
threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political
independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with
the
Purposes of the United Nations.

Would the use of armed force against Iraq be compatible with the aims
of the United Nation? Article 51 of the Charter authorizes the use of
armed force for legitimate self-defense, but this right is applicable
only if a member of the United Nations is the object of an armed
aggression.

Article 51 of the United Nation Charter:

Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of
individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs
against a
Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken
measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
Measures
taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defense shall
be
immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way
affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under
the
present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary
in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Armed intervention is justified under the following conditions:

1. The existence of armed aggression (the definition adopted by the
UN
General Assembly, Resolution 3314 of 1974):

         Aggression is defined as the use of armed force by one state,
against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political
independence
of another state.

2. The absence of necessary measures by the UN Security Council to
maintain peace. Once the Security Council has taken these measures,
the
right to armed self-defense ceases. A state that takes measures of
legitimate self-defense is obligated to inform the Security Council.

3. Legitimate defense only justifies "those measures proportional to
the armed aggression that has occurred, and that are necessary for
ending
that aggression." (International Court of Justice, June 27, 1986 in
re
Nicaragua)

Self-defense only warrants "measures which are proportional to the
armed attack and necessary to respond to it". It implies that the
victim of
aggression must not occupy the aggressor state's territory, unless
strictly necessary.

         The use of armed force may on occasion be justified as part
of
humanitarian assistance, but only in order to prevent human suffering
and "to protect life and health and to ensure the respect of persons"
(International Court of Justice, June 27, 1986 in re Nicaragua). Such
intervention must not be discriminatory.

         In each of these cases, it is clear that the United States
does
not have the right to intervene without the approval of the Security
Council. Nevertheless, on several occasions the U.S. has used the
argument of Article 51 of the UN Charter to justify attacks that do
not fall
within the domain of legitimate defense:

-in 1986 against Libya (to justify an attack that caused the death of
37 people, mostly civilians) in reprisal for the bombing of a Berlin
disco that caused the death of an American soldier.
-in 1993 against Iraq (purportedly to prevent an assassination
attempt
against the U.S. President orchestrated by Iraq).

         The rationale of anticipatory self-defense has been invoked
by
Israel to justify attacks against Palestinian camps in Lebanon in
1975.
Subsequently, UN Security Council resolutions have condemned this
attack while contesting the idea of self-defense where there has been
no
armed intervention by the 'aggressor.'

         The thesis of anticipatory self-defense is thus not an
acceptable principle of international law today, because it is prone
to
arbitrary interpretation. A preemptive attack on another sovereign
nation is
counter to established and universally accepted standards of
international law. This may help to explain the vehemence of
opposition to a
preemptive attack, among even our staunchest European allies.

- Peter Mark <pmark@...>
(Peter Mark is an historian who teaches at Wesleyan University. This
article was written with the assistance of Claudia Sciotti, a doctor
of
international law who works for the Commission on Human Rights of the
European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France.)


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*** PLANNING A JUST WAR ***

Re: Why Not to Wage War with Iraq (online at
http://www.presentdanger.org/cgaa/talkingpoints/0210iraq.html)
I can't tell you how helpful this was for me to share with a family
member who sent me the following link
http://www.aclj.org/news/bibpers/020917_preemptive.asp regarding the
biblical basis for war and three criteria for a just war. Your
article
was just what I needed to show this person that the set of criteria
they
had me looking at was NUTS.

- Amy Vennett <jajvennett@...>


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1.call for papers 2.GDN news 3.fellowship 4.website 5.institute
6.bulten 7.course 8.workshop 9.freeprint

1.
Title: 29th Annual Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference
    Location: California
    Deadline: 2002-01-15
    Description: Rebuilding the Labor Movement: Historical and Current
       Perspectives 29th Annual Southwest Labor Studies Association
       Conference May 8-10, 2003 International House University of
       California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by Labor Center for Education
       and Research, UCB Conference Call For Presentation Proposals
       ...
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    Announcement ID: 131439
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    Title: The National Conference on Organized Resistance: Call for
       Workshop Proposals
    Location: District of Columbia
    Deadline: 2002-10-14
    Description: The National Conference on Organized Resistance: Call
       for Workshop Proposals The National Conference on Organized
       Resistance (NCOR) collective is currently accepting workshop
       proposals for the 6th annual NCOR, which will take place
       January 24-26, 2003, at American University in Washington, DC.
       Last  ...
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    Announcement ID: 131422
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2.
••••What's New at GDN?
••••Bridging Research and Policy News
••••Research Highlights
••••Regional News
••••Opportunities Highlights!

What's New at GDN?

• Call For Proposals - Understanding Reform: Country Studies

GDN is supporting a large multi-disciplinary global research project
on
Understanding Reform. This is a call for proposals to undertake
country
studies on this important theme. Studies in thirty countries will be
supported around the world. Selections will be made on a competitive
basis
with regional allocations. More information, including eligibility and
requirements, can be found at:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform_proposals_countryst
udies.html.

General information on the project can be found at:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform.html.
The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2002. They should be
sent
to
gmcmahon@....

• Coordinator for New Global Research Project
José María Fanelli of Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES;
Center for Studies on the State and Society) in Buenos Aires,
Argentina
has been chosen as coordinator of the new global research project on
`Understanding Reform'. Dr. Fanelli has a doctorate in economics from
the
University of Buenos Aires. He has numerous publications in the areas
of
macroeconomics, financial markets, trade, stabilization, and
structural
reform. `Understanding Reform' will be the sixth large multi-country
research project coordinated by Dr. Fanelli.

• GDN's Relocation

GDN has visited two of the 5 short-listed cities identified for GDN's
relocation; Prague (September 16-19) and Cairo (September 20-27). GDN
intends to visit New Delhi and Istanbul in October and Mexico City in
November. The purpose of the visits is to meet with government
officials,
public and private IT vendors, realtors, and other informative sources
relevant to GDN's assessment of alternative locations. GDN will
produce
a
report presenting information on two sets of factors: Official
support
to
GDN including privileges typically accorded to international
organizations, financial assistance for office space and technology,
sponsorship of a Research Medal, and willingness to officially
sponsor
and
participate in GDN's annual conference whenever it is held in the host
city; and Local conditions, including travel costs, access to
internet
and
other dimensions of technological capability, office availability and
costs, and presence of a local academic community. Based on the
report,
GDN's governing body will decide to which city GDN will relocate at
GDN's
Fourth Annual Conference.

• GDN's Fourth Annual Conference

The Government of Egypt will be the official host of Globalization and
Equity, to be held in Cairo at the Conrad Hotel, January 19-21, 2003.
The
conference will be preceded by three workshops scheduled for January
16-17, 2003. In addition to addressing the participants in the opening
plenary, His Excellency, Atef Ebeid, Prime Minister of Egypt, has
agreed
to lead a panel of policy makers in a discussion on "Coping with
Issues
of
Globalization." It is expected that 500 participants will be in
attendance, including high-level representatives of the World Bank and
policymakers from within and without the region. For more information,
please visit: http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/events_gdn4thAnnual.htm

_________________________________
Bridging Research and Policy News

• Meeting of the Bridging Research and Policy Steering Committee

The Steering Committee for the project on Bridging Research and Policy
will hold its first face-to-face meeting on October 24-25 at GDN
headquarters in Washington. The primary purpose of the meeting is to
prepare for the workshop that will be held in Cairo on January 16 and
17,
2003, immediately before the Fourth Annual Global Development
Conference.
In preparation for the workshop, the October meeting will benefit from
presentations by Fred Carden on IDRC's experience with linking
research
and policy and by John Young on an ODI project that is covering
related
issues. The meeting will also be the occasion for reports on the
surveys
of research institutions and policy-makers (Natalia Dinello, GDN) and
on
the case studies collected so far (Julius Court, ODI). The meeting
will
also see the formal introduction of the project's new coordinator,
Leena
Srivastava of TERI in New Delhi.

• More BRP Case Studies Urgently Needed!

The Bridging Research and Policy project aims to collect 50 case
studies
of research-policy linkage during 2002. Over 26 case study proposals
have
now been received, 10 are finished and posted with the other 16 coming
soon. But we urgently need more proposals if we are to reach the
target
of
50 cases by the end of October. We are especially interested in cases
from
regions other than South Asia, particularly the Middle East and
Africa;
on
all issues, but particularly political issues; and from sources other
than
researchers – policymakers, NGOs and the media. We will pay $1000 for
only
1000 words!

For more information, please visit:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/RAPNet/Case_Studies_Intro.html

__________________
Research Highlights

• China's entry to the WTO: global implications
How will China's entry affect developing countries?
by by F. Noshab for Institute of Strategic Studies, Pakistan 2001

http://www.gdnet.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?
QB0=AND&QF0=DOCNUM@DOCNO&QI0=DOC10448&MR=1&TN=allgdn&DF=comfull&RF=com
full&DL=0&RL=0&NP=3&MF=gdnmsg.ini&AC=QBE_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-
wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%
3A//www.gdnet.org/community/publications.html

• Turkey and the EU: the economics of accession
Turkey's accession to the Europe Union would benefit both parties by
S.
Togan, Bilkent University, Turkey , 2002

http://www.gdnet.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe?
QB0=AND&QF0=DOCNUM@DOCNO&QI0=DOC10258&MR=1&TN=allgdn&DF=comfull&RF=com
full&DL=0&RL=0&NP=3&MF=gdnmsg.ini&AC=QBE_QUERY&XC=/dbtw-
wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%
3A//www.gdnet.org/community/publications.html



• Oxfam Report: "Global Finance Hurts the Poor"
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/art2613.html

This report is a literature review of the impact of global private
financial flows on growth, inequality and poverty. It is a
diagnostic,
not
a policy paper. Its two aims are to challenge complacency on the
issue
of
reforming the global financial architecture, and to identify avenues
for
future research that would allow to narrow the gap but supporters and
critiques of financial globalization.

The value added of this report is:
- It is systematic and structured: arguments are not just a laundry
list
but add up to a case
- It is recent: there have been a lot of new studies in the past year
- It addresses inequality: most other studies focus on growth only
- It contains new data about the cost of capital flows, based on a
database recently developed at the IMF. For more information, please
visit:http://www.oxfamamerica.org/art2613.html

• Voices of the Poor: Reports

Voices of the Poor consists of three books which bring together the
experiences of over 60,000 poor women and men. The first book, Can
Anyone
Hear Us?, gathers the voices of over 40,000 poor women and men in 50
countries from the World Bank's participatory poverty assessments; the
second book, Crying Out for Change, draws material from a new 23
country
comparative study. The final book, From Many Lands, offers regional
patterns and country case studies.
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/voices/reports.htm

• Louder Voices: Strengthening developing country participation in
international ICT decision-making: A Study by the Commonwealth
Telecommunications Organization and Panos

International decisions about information and communication
technologies
(ICTs) have far-reaching implications for developing countries. Yet
developing countries are poorly represented when agendas are set and
decisions made.

This survey - commissioned by the UK's Department for International
Development (DFID) - from the Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation
(CTO) and Panos London, maps out who makes the decisions in the world
of
international ICTs, the actual level of developing country
participation
and what obstacles are preventing them from effective engagement.

The survey outlines practical initiatives to give developing
countries
a
louder voice in the international ICT decision-making process.
For more information on this study, please visit:
http://www.panos.org.uk/ICT_decision_making.htm

_____________
Regional News

South Asia

•Fourth Annual SANEI Conference

The Fourth Annual Conference of the South Asia Network of Economic
research Institutes (SANEI) was held at Dhaka, Bangladesh during
August
27-29, 2002. The Conference brought together around 70 participants
from
the SANEI member countries in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka). Chairman, SANEI, members of the Steering
Committee,
members of the Research Advisory Panel, SANEI researchers, GRP (Global
Research Project) authors and eminent economists from research
institutions in Bangladesh participated in the Conference. GDN (Global
Development Network) representatives were also present at the forum.

A GRP (Global Research Project) workshop on South Asian country
studies
was held on August 27, 2002. The final drafts of the country studies
prepared for the South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka) under the Global Research Project (GRP) were
presented by eminent researchers engaged in the preparation of these
papers in the respective countries. It has been decided to bring these
papers together in a volume.

Researchers undertaking collaborative projects under SANEI Round II
presented their final reports on 28th August, 2002. Members of RAP
(Research Advisory Panel) gave their comments on these papers. The
researchers would need to incorporate these comments in their final
reports and submit the revised versions to SANEI by November 2002. It
was
decided to compile these papers in a volume which would be edited by
Dr.
Mohsin Khan, Director, IMF Institute, and RAP member, SANEI.

Work-in-progress of the three research projects funded under SANEI
Round
III were presented at the Conference on 29th August, 2002. The
presentations were followed by discussions and comments from RAP. On
the
same day, 9 research proposals, which were screened for funding under
SANEI IV, were also presented by researchers who had submitted these
proposals.

The Steering Committee of SANEI met on the evening of August 29,
2002.
It
was decided that the next Annual Conference would take place in
Colombo.
For more information on SANEI, please visit
http://www.saneinetwork.org/.

• New Secretary Coordinator
Dr. Rakesh Mohan relinquished office as Director & CE, ICRIER and
Secretary (Coordinator), SANEI. Dr. Shankar Acharya has taken over as
Acting Director & CE, ICRIER and Secretary (Coordinator) for SANEI,
in
the
interim period.

• SANEI Launches its Newsletter
To learn more about SANEI and to get access to its newsletter, please
visit http://www.saneinetwork.org/pdf/newsletter.pdf


• Launch of South Asia Foundation's Portal and Documentation and
Information Centre

Founded by UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh, South Asia
Foundation is a secular, no-profit and non-political youth movement
for
promoting regional cooperation at all levels of society in the seven
SAARC
countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and
Sri
Lanka. SAF's activities are in conformity with the spirit, purpose and
principles of the SAARC charter. SAF's seven parallel and autonomous
Chapters in each country have eminent public figures in their
respective
Advisory Boards. South Asia Foundation is preparing a comprehensive
portal, the inputs and contents for which are being provided by each
member country. To start with they are now launching the Indian
section
of
the portal. Other member countries would be completing their
respective
sections shortly. To visit their portal, please visit:
http://www.southasiafoundation.org

South Asia Foundation Information and Documentation Centre (SAFDIC) is
another major activity of SAF. SAFDIC is designed to be the most
up-to-date Documentation and Information Centre in the whole of South
Asian region. It is housed at the SAF-India Chapter premise located at
A-33, Vasant Marg, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi 110 057. The SAFDIC houses
almost all the important books, journals, documents and monographs
related
to South Asian countries published by both national and foreign
publishers
and institutes.

In order to make SAFDIC accessible to anyone interested on South Asian
issues and affairs, most of the documents that are available with the
Centre are being digitized in a steady way. For more information on
SADFIC, please contact them at: feedback@... or safdic@...


•CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI
Invites application/nominations for Visiting Professorial Fellow

Applications are invited from scholars from any discipline working on
governance issues with special reference to the new public management
perspective. Experience in conducting empirical research is
desirable.
The
Centre expects the visiting Professorial Fellow to contribute to its
activities by assisting in the setting up of a research programme in
the
area and developing seminars/workshops for senior administrators to
create
greater awareness about innovative administrative practices.
Duration:
The
fellowship is available for two years but may, in special cases, be
awarded for one year. Fellowship: The fellowship will be at the level
of
the salary of an Indian Professor in the UGC scale with free furnished
accommodation within the University Reasonable funds for research with
adequate office facilities will also be provided. Travel costs
(national/international) to join the Centre will be provided. Please
send
your nominations/applications with copies of three of your research
publications to the Academic Director, Centre for the Study of Law and
Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - 110067 India
E-mail
dir_cslg@... All candidates will be informed about the
status
of their applications by December 31, 2002. Joining date can be
negotiated. For more information, please visit:
http://www.jnu.ac.in/cslg/cslg_1/professorship.htm


•Call for Papers on Closing Gaps in the Digital Divide Regional
Conference on Digital GMS,
Asian Institute of Technology

Bangkok, Thailand
February 26-28, 2003

Accessing information, boosting business, saving time, money and
lives.
These and other priorities are on the agenda for bringing the
benefits
of
information and communications technology closer to the Greater Mekong
Subregion (GMS) community.The Regional Conference on Digital GMS
seeks
to
address various factors that continue to foster such digital divide.
The
conference will cover the following sub-themes:

Remote sensing and GIS applications for sustainable development
Wireless and mobile technology
Internet and information technology for GMS business
Distributed learning and education

The conference is being organized by GMSARN with support from the
ASEAN
Foundation through the project Comprehensive Capacity Building for
Sustainable Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion
(JFA-ASEAN-GMS).
GMSARN is an initiative geared towards building self-reliance among
GMS
countries by developing a strong service-oriented science and
technology
presence in the region. GMSARN is composed of eight academic
institutions:
the Asian Institute of Technology (GMSARN directorate office), Hanoi
Univ.
of Technology, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Khon Kaen
University,
Kunming Univ. of Science and Technology, National Univ. of Laos,
Thammasat
Univ., and Yangon Technological Univ.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.ait.ac.th/digital_gms/GenInfo.asp



Russia and CIS Countries

• Call for proposals for the fall 2002 round for Economics Research
Grant
Competition (EERC)

DEADLINE: October 15, 2002

ABSTRACT: This call may be of particular interest to those CEU
graduates
and students who have received solid economics education and are
looking
for ways to apply their knowledge in policy relevant research.
Proposals
are solicited in the following five areas with relevance to current
policy
concerns in Russia and CIS: Enterprises and product markets, Labor
markets
and social policy, Macro, financial markets and open economy, Public
economics, International trade and regional integration.

The best research teams will be invited to present their projects at
the
EERC Research Workshop (December 17-19, 2002, Moscow). Grants are
awarded
to individual researchers or small research teams (up to 3 persons)
for
a
period of one year. Most grants fall within the $6,000 to $15,000
range
according to the nature, scope, and budget requirements of the
project.
Heads of projects must attend the workshop in order to be considered
for a
grant. For more details and contact information, please visit the
following site: http://www.eerc.ru

For more funding opportunities in Russia and the CIS states, please
visit:
http://www.eerc.ru/news/default.htm

• Spring 2002 research competition concluded, three projects
nominated
for
the Zvi Griliches Award

From among 14 completed projects, three — by Alexey Savvateev, Valery
Marakulin and Georgy Trofimov — have been nominated candidates for
the
Zvi
Griliches Award. The results of these outstanding studies will be
published in the EERC working paper series. The full texts will also
be
available on the research network's website http://www.eerc.ru.

• "The State of Economics, and of Transition" Conference (upcoming)
A special two-and-a-half day academic conference, "The State of
Economics,
and of Transition" will be jointly held in Moscow on December 19-21 by
EERC, NES, CEFIR, SITE, and the William Davidson Institute, to
celebrate
together ten years of NES. A number of leading economists from around
the
World and Russia have committed to present papers, including, among
others, Richard Ericson, Stanley Fischer, Elhanan Helpman, Joel Mokyr,
Viktor Polterovich, Vladimir Popov, Ariel Rubinstein, Klara
Sabirianova,
and Suzanne Scotchmer. Many of the presenters will be NES and EERC
alumni,
who are currently teaching and doing research at NES, CEFIR and other
leading institutions around the world. The conference will be
concluded
with a roundtable "Post-Crisis Russia", which will be attended by
leading
Russian reformers, past and current policymakers.

•"Explaining growth" project news
The "Explaining Growth" project is drawing to a close this fall. 10
CIS
country studies of growth are soon to appear in a special volume,
edited
by Gur Ofer and Richard Pomfret.



MENA and Africa

• ERF's Ninth Annual Conference
26-28th October 2002
American University in Sharja, the United Arab Emirates
http://www.erf.org.eg/erf_ninth_annual_conference.asp

Names of Scientific Committee for the ERF Ninth Annual Conference.

Ezzeddine Azzam
Mongi Bougzala
Mahmoud El Gamal
Bernard Hoekman
Heba Handoussa
Insan Tunali

About the conference
Over the past eight years, the ERF conference has become more than a
meeting venue to discuss and debate recent policy related research
findings. Indeed, it has developed into a hub bringing together
distinguished senior economists and promising junior researchers to
coordinate comparative cross country research, data initiatives,
multidisciplinary research programs and capacity building activities.
This
year the conference is expected to host in excess of 250 participants
from
inside and outside the region. We expect to have about thirty papers
to
be
presented and another thirty to be distributed as background papers.

Conference Activities and Themes:
Conference Program. The program is organized around four main themes:
Trade, Labor, Finance and Industry & Environment. Over thirty papers
expected to be presented in four parallel sessions over the three day
conference, and twenty papers expected to be circulated as background
papers. Many papers are multidisciplinary covering economics,
political
science and development related research work. Special meetings. Three
meetings are scheduled to bring together researchers working on
long-term
research projects to discuss their findings with external experts.
These
projects focus on:

1. Micro and Small Enterprises;

2. Governance in the MENA Region;

3. Growth Experience in the Region (the GRP).

Meeting for Statistical Agencies. To provide an opportunity for
producers
of data, namely heads of the Statistical Agencies in the region, to
meet
with users of data, namely economics, statistical and other social
science
researchers and analysts to meet. This meeting is a unique
collaboration
between the producers and the users of the data. This meeting is
aiming
to
promote further data access, improved data collection, and serve as a
medium for mutual understanding between the two groups.

IMF Recruitment Program. ERF conference will provide, for the third
time,
the opportunity to meet with the researchers and work on the IMF
recruitment campaign for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
For more information, please visit http://www.erf.org.eg

• Economic Trends in the MENA Region, 2002

This Publication draws upon a reservoir of knowledge and quality
research
accumulated over a two-year period, under the auspices of the Economic
Research Forum (ERF). It is based on background papers prepared by
fifty
ERF fellows, affiliates and other distinguished colleagues, and
provides a
reliable and independent analysis of the economic trends and
prospects
for
the Middle East and North Africa. The volume has also benefited from
data
provided by the Arab Fund and Economic Social Development, the Arab
Monetary Fund, the Economist Intelligence Unit, ESCWA, ILO, IMF,
UNCTAD,
UNIDO, and the World Bank, as well as regular statistical bulletins
published by the central banks and national statistical agencies of
MENA
countries. For more information on the publication, please visit:
http://www.erf.org.eg/Indicators%2002/economic_trends.asp


Africa

• AERC Searching for a New Executive Director

The Board of AERC has started a search for the new Executive Director
for
the African Economic Research Consortium to succeed Dr. Delphin
Rwegasira,
who will leave in November 2002 to take up a new appointment at the
International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC.
http://www.aercafrica.org/announcements/info.asp


________________________
Opportunities Highlights

• INTERN IN SOCIAL SCIENCE STATISTICS

The Global Development Network (GDN) is looking for an Social Science
Statistics intern. The successful candidate will assist in handling
and
analyzing survey data. The position offers no monetary compensation,
but
it presents a wonderful opportunity to:

• prepare for a career in academic policy-relevant research and
international studies
• get exposure to the operation of a high-profile international
network
of
research institutes from the developed and developing worlds; and
• benefit from a congenial work environment where professionalism and
accomplishments are valued.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/GDN_Team.html#social_scienceintern

• INTERN–EDITOR

The Global Development Network (GDN) is looking for an intern. GDN is
an
international non-profit organization whose goal is to promote
research
in
developing/transitional countries. The successful candidate will edit,
proofread, format, and write GDN-generated materials. The position
offers
no monetary compensation, but it presents a wonderful opportunity to:

• prepare for a career in academic policy-relevant research and
international studies
• get exposure to the operation of a high-profile international
network
of
research institutes from the developed and developing worlds; and
• benefit from a congenial work environment where professionalism and
accomplishments are valued.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/GDN_Team.html#editorintern

• POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERN

The Global Development Network (GDN) is looking for an intern. GDN is
an
international non-profit organization whose goal is to promote
research
in
developing/transitional countries. The successful candidate will
assist
the Senior Political Scientist in reviewing research on globalization
and
development worldwide and contributing to GDN-generated materials. The
successful candidate will assist in handling and analyzing survey
data.
The position offers no monetary compensation, but it presents a
wonderful
opportunity to:

• prepare for a career in academic policy-relevant research and
international studies
• get exposure to the operation of a high-profile international
network
of
research institutes from the developed and developing worlds; and
• benefit from a congenial work environment where professionalism and
accomplishments are valued.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/GDN_Team.html#psi

• SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL's International Collaborative
Research
Grants
Program on the Middle East & North Africa 2002-2003

Reconceptualizing Public Spheres in the Middle East and North Africa

The SSRC's Program on the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) is
pleased
to
announce its second annual grant competition supporting international
collaborative research focusing on the MENA region (defined as Iran to
Morocco). SSRC invite proposals that bring together researchers in
different locations to address issues related to the changing nature
of
public spheres in the region. The notion of "public spheres" is used
in
a
broad sense, to cover a range of historical and contemporary aspects
of
the MENA region. For more information on this grant competition,
please
visit:
http://www.erf.org.eg/html/ssrc_international funding.asp


• Youth Focal Point opportunity
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Global Knowledge Partnership is seeking a Youth Focal Point is
presently seeking applications for the position of Youth Focal Point.
The
position is a 1-year-internship open to young Africans (under age
28),
and
is based at the GKP Secretariat in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and begins
December 2002. Details and an application form can be found at:
http://www.takingitglobal.org/documents/GKP_Intern_Application_form_20
02-2003.doc.
For more information on the Global Knowledge Partnership, please visit
http://www.globalknowledge.org.

3.
Title: Social Science Research Council International Collaborative
       Research Grants
    Deadline: 2002-11-15
    Description: 2002-2003 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
       RECONCEPTUALIZING PUBLIC SPHERES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH
       AFRICA The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Program of the
       SSRC is pleased to announce its second annual grant competition
       supporting international collaborative research focusing on
       ...
    Contact: mena@...
    URL: www.ssrc.org/programs/mena
    Announcement ID: 131425
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131425


FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

IREX (the International Research & Exchanges Board) is pleased to
announce
an open competition for the FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship
Program.
The
deadline for this application is November 22, 2002.

The FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program, a program of the
Bureau
of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State,
funded
under
the FREEDOM Support Act, and administered by IREX, provides
opportunities
for experienced professionals and specialists from Eurasia to conduct
policy-oriented research in the United States for four months.

This is a fully funded fellowship, covering travel, housing, stipend,
medical insurance, and a professional development allowance.
Fellowships are
available to citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan.

All applications must contain developed and focused research projects
that
are policy-driven and have practical application in Eurasia. Research
may be
conducted in the following fields:

-Business Administration
-Civic Education
-Educational Policy
-Economics
-Environmental Policy
-Human Rights
-International Relations
-Journalism & Media
-Law Enforcement
-Military/Security Issues
-NGO Development and Management
-Political Science
-Public Administration (Government)
-Public Health Policy
-Rule of Law
-Social Welfare

Professionals eligible for the program include (but are not limited
to)
the
following: economists, government officials (local, regional, and
national),
lawyers, political advisors, public health specialists, NGO leaders,
journalists, and other policy developers.

At the time of the deadline, applicants must be at least age 24 but
no
older
than age 55, have an academic degree of diplom or above, have at
least
three
years of professional experience in the topic of their research, and
possess
a level of English language proficiency adequate to conduct
independent
research in the United States. Other eligibility requirements apply.
Refer
to the program application for more details.

Applications for the FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program can be
obtained and submitted by contacting IREX field offices and
representatives
in Eurasia. Applications are also available at Educational Information
Centers (EIC) and at IREX-administered Internet Access and Training
Program
(IATP) public access sites throughout Eurasia and can be downloaded
from
http://www.irex.org/programs/ci.

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4.
Subject: CENTRAL ASIA MIRROR - OCTOBER 2002 ISSUE ONLINE NOW

October 2002 issue of Central Asia Mirror is online now. Besides
comprehensive news package about Turkmenistan, it contains insightful
articles about Caspian, Trans-Afghan Pipeline and other current
issues.

You can see the ezine at:

www.saeedi.4t.com

Thanks

Tariq Saeedi

5.
The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies [MIGS] is a recently
formed
non-profit making organisation which promotes and contributes to
projects of
social, political, and economic themes relating predominantly, but not
restricted, to women in the Mediterranean.

MIGS recognises the institutional discrimination against women in the
Mediterranean as well as in other societies, and accepts that this
discrimination takes different forms. It is committed to the
elimination of
this discrimination and will use a combination of scholarship,
academic
research, and activism with the aim to:

· Stimulate interest in gender research in the Mediterranean region
and
identify key areas of concern and action in the area.

· Systematically address, analyse, and conduct research on, for, and
by
women; review and use existing information on women and the gender
system
such as research, statistical information and other available data
and
make
relevant recommendations on policy and practices in related areas.
Identify
the need to develop new legislation that corresponds to the new
conditions
and protects women's rights effectively.

· Increase awareness of gender issues in Cypriot civil society and
facilitate better capacity for action, providing all interested
parties
with
information and organising training, campaigns, seminars, workshops,
and
lectures.

· Support gender research through library and documentation services,
including the introduction and promotion of a system of data
collection
by
gender.

· Support and promote educational programs, including post-graduate
work, in
related areas in collaboration with research institutes and
universities.

· Develop methods and take initiatives on peace-building and conflict
transformation as these relate to gender issues.

· Support regional, European, and global initiatives and programmes
concerning issues affecting women's lives, such as domestic violence,
substance abuse, trafficking, and war, and the labour market.

· Create and support networks with other non-governmental
organisations
in
related areas.

Thus, in summary the Institute aims to:

· Act as a main contributor to the intellectual, political, and
socio-political life of the region as this relates to issues of
gender.

· Do so in a multidisciplinary approach and in collaboration with
other
institutions.



MIGS concentrates on the following areas of activity.

A. Civil Society Programme:

In order to contribute towards the creation and enrichment of a
diverse
and
pluralistic society, MIGS will promote initiatives that strengthen and
enhance civil society participation and that give voice and power to
women,
especially in the processes of governance. Priority will be given to
issues
of involvement of women in local government; engaging minority and
socially
excluded groups in training and debate in order to help promote
diverse
public dialogue; combating gender discrimination and domestic
violence;
enhancing and promoting social empowerment, human rights and people's
diplomacy.

B. Education and Leadership Programme

The dynamics of political leadership will be explored through two
approaches
used in conjunction to one another: academic and experiential learning
[through training, workshops, conferences, meetings and so on].
Emphasis
will be put on younger women, potential leaders, and socio-political
female
leaders who will work directly with international academics and
specialists
in dealing with traditional and contemporary decision-making
processes.
Particular focus areas will be young women's development and
organising;
information technologies and the media and, women's political
participation.
The Institute can further sponsor female students whose post-graduate
work
is related to the work of the Institute.

C. Trans-national Peace Initiatives

Given the Cyprus issues and the unstable political climate and
conditions in
South Eastern Europe, the Near East, the Middle East, but also
elsewhere in
the world, priority will be given to areas such as the following:
Gender and
Peace-making, Peace-building, Peace-Keeping; Preparing for Peace;
Policy
Making and Ethnic Identities; The Role of Culture in Reaching
agreements;
The Role of Women in Peace; The Role of Violence during Peace
Processes;
Minority Rights; Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution;
Demilitarisation; Development and Conflict; Media, Gender, and
Conflict;
Post-Conflict Conditions. The above areas have attracted the
attention
of
various funding agencies and scholarly work both in Europe and
elsewhere.

D. Archival and Publications Programme:

The progressive development of a well-organised, informative web-page
on the
activities of the Institute, a specialised collection of publications
at the
Institute's offices and its function as a reference centre for
academics,
students and other interested parties in its areas of competence
would
be an
important channel of information and networking. Some publications
will
include the works of influential thinkers in any area of gender
studies.
This library will specialise in archival material on Cyprus and the
region
that might relate to gender studies, and publications with reputable
works,
which relate to the Institute' s programmes and activities.

The institute will encourage alternative approaches, creative
activities,
and diverse methods, methodologies, and epistemologies in order to
promote
its broader objectives of an egalitarian, non-sexist, pluralistic,
democratic, and tolerant society.

For more information, please email info@...
<mailto:info@...> , Myria Vassiliadou, Director,
Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, 46 Makedonitissas Avenue,
P.O.Box
24005, 1703 Nicosia, Cyprus. Tel: ++357 22 84500, Fax: ++357 22
357481.
[Please note that the website is still under construction - further
details
will be posted shortly].

6.
 	 	 Ekim 2002 | 07

	 Tüm elektronik abonelerimize merhaba,"Tek Partili Hayat"
Toplumsal Tarih'teCumhuriyet Halk Fýrkasý'nýn 15-20 Ekim 1927
tarihleri arasýnda Ankara'da toplanan Ýkinci Kurultayý, Atatürk'ün
Söylev'ini sunduðu yer olarak biliniyor. Bu ay, 36,5 saat süren bu
yol gösterici söylevin 75. yýldönümüne denk düþüyor.Biz de bu
vesileyle Toplumsal Tarih dergimizin 106. sayýsýnda bir "Tek Partili
Hayat" dosyasý hazýrladýk. Ýþin ilginci, dosya konusu seçildiðinde
Cumhuriyet tarihinin 18. seçimleri gündemde dahi yoktu. Ancak
bahaneyle bir karþýlaþtýrma zemini yaratmýþ olduk.Zafer Toprak'ýn
yazýsý, Söylev'in okunduðu 1927 CHF Kurultayý'ný, burada belirlenen
ideolojik seçimleri, nizamnameler ve diðer belgeler eþliðinde
tartýþýyor. Erol Þadi Erdinç ise, Cumhuriyet'in ilk yýllarýnda, Halk
Fýrkasý'nýn grup toplantýlarýný konu edindiði yazýsýnda, Fýrka'nýn ne
gibi ülke sorunlarýný tartýþtýðýný ve bunlara ne gibi çözümler
ürettiðini irdeliyor. Murat Koraltürk ise kendi yazýsýnda, CHP'nin
1930'lardaki devletçi söyleminin Ýkinci Dünya Savaþý sonlarýna doðru
liberalizme doðru nasýl kaydýðýný Þirket-i Hayriye örneðiyle
inceliyor.Bu ayýn tartýþma yaratacak yazýlarýndan biri, Þeyh
Bedreddin üzerine. Þeyh Bedreddin "ilmi derinliði derya gibi sonsuz
bir âlim" midir, "sultanýna karþý ayaklanmýþ bir âsi" mi, gerici
midir, ilerici mi, "Stalin'in þeyhi" mi, "kýzýl batýnî peygamberi" mi?
Hiç þüphe yok ki bu deðerlendirmelerin hemen hepsi belirli bir
ideolojinin prizmasýndan yapýlmýþ; Þeyh Bedreddin figürü
ise "düþüncesine tarih arayan" bilimadamlarý ile devletin verdiði her
kararý "devlet-i ebed müddet" anlayýþýyla sahiplenen resmi ideoloji
taraftarlarý arasýndaki çarpýþmanýn bir cephesi haline gelmiþ. Ýþte,
Þerafettin Severcan, Þeyh Bedreddin'in hem ortodoks hem heterodoks
ideolojik zemine malzeme olmaktan kurtarýlmasý için çaðrýda bulunuyor
ve bu çaðrýsýný güçlü kanýtlarla beslediði savýna
dayandýrýyor.Ýstanbul'da "Eðlenmek"Bir haftasonu gecesi Ýstiklal
Caddesi'nde, Ortaköy'de, ya da Sarýyer'de dolaþan biri, ekonomik
krizin bu ülkede sanýldýðý kadar aðýr biçimde yaþanmadýðý
yanýlsamasýna kapýlabilir. Yer bulmakta zorluk çekilen restorantlar,
kulüpler, barlar, týklým týklým dolu eðlence mekanlarý ve sokaklar,
Ýstanbul ile eðlence kültürü arasýndaki etkileþimi yeniden
tanýmlamayý zorunlu kýlýyor. Üç aylýk Ýstanbul dergimizin bu
sayýsýnda böyle bir tanýmlama için uðraþtýk. "Eðlence Kültürü"
baþlýklý dosyamýzda Ali Akay 1970'lerden 2000'lere eðlencenin
dönüþümünü incelerken 1990'lý yýllardaki belirginleþmeyi kýsmen
apolitikleþmeye baðlýyor. Mustafa Sönmez ise Ýstanbul'daki `eðlence
sektörü'nü ekonomik baðlamda ele alýyor.Eðlence deyince aklýmýza
Laila gibi yerlerin, Beyoðlu'nun ya da `in' mekanlarýn gelmesi biraz
da bizim kabahatimiz. Aslýnda buralara hiç yolu düþmeyen insanlar da
bir eðlence kültürüne sahip, ve bu kültür, hiç þüphe yok ki çok daha
köklü. Ayþe Düzkan, Ýstanbul'da bir Kürt düðününün konuðu olup o
düðünü bizler için yazdý.Dosyada Ýstanbul'daki eðlence yaþamýný
tarihsel baðlamda ele alan yazýlar da var. Bizans, Osmanlý,
Cumhuriyet'in ilk yýllarý ve 1960'lý yýllar, mercek altýna aldýðýmýz
dört dönem. Anlaþýlýyor ki, Ýstanbul, tarih boyunca eðlencenin eksik
olmadýðý bir þehir olagelmiþ.Ýnsanlar eðleniyor dedik, ama öte yanda
da bu þehrin baþýnda sallanan bir Demokles'in kýlýcý var: Deprem.
Gürhan Ertür ve Argun Yum –kendilerini Açýk Radyo'daki
programlarýndan anýmsarsýnýz- "Deprem Gündemi" adlý bölümde her
sayýda depremi ve bu konudaki çalýþmalarý bizlere iletecekler. Bu
sayýda Prof. Semih Tezcan ve Mehmet Gürsoy'un "Olasý bir Depremde
Sýfýr Can Kaybý Projesi" baþlýklý çalýþmasý var.Ýstanbul'da
Demokles'in kýlýcý bir deðil: Üçüncü Köprü de sýrada bekliyor. Biz de
gündem bölümümüzde bu konuyu yeniden ele alýyoruz.Ýstanbul'un bu
sayýsýnda ilginizi çekecek bir diðer bölüm ise Ayþe Düzkan'ýn Vivet
Kanetti ile Prens Adalarý'nda yaptýðý foto-rçportaj. Ýstanbul'un
gizemli köþelerini kendilerine sýðýnak yapmýþ sanatçýlar, bundan
böyle sayfalarýmýza konuk olacak.Tüm elektronik abonelerimize, 15
Ekim'de görüþmek dileðiyle...Ertan KeskinsoyTarih VakfýTanýtým
Koordinatörü


7.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE ORGANISED BY HREA

HREA has been extremely pleased with the interest and participation
in
the
distance learning courses offered in 2002: "Research & Evaluation in
the
Human Rights Field", "Human Rights Advocacy", "Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Human Rights Work" and "Human
Rights
Monitoring". I am happy to announce the first distance learning course
that will be offered in 2003, on Human Rights Advocacy.

Please note that there is now also the possibility to audit the
course.
Auditors will: receive the course materials; read the weekly
facilitator
message; follow the course discussions, exercises and assignments.
Auditors will not: be entitled to participate in the course
discussion,
exercises or assignments; receive a Certificate of Participation.

The registration deadline for this course is 1 January 2003.
Scholarships
are available. If, after reading the announcement below, you have any
further questions about the content of the course or the application
process, please write to: <applications@...>.

Best wishes,

Felisa Tibbitts
Director, HREA

----------------------------------

HREA Distance Learning Course 2E03:
HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY
17 February - 11 May 2003
Instructor: Dr. Valerie Miller

This distance learning course provides human rights activists with a
range
of proven human rights advocacy methods and critical concepts as a
means
for them to reflect on and deepen their own work. The course will
look
at
the theoretical foundations and critical issues of human rights
advocacy,
elements of advocacy planning, and strategies for action.

In this course, participants should deepen their knowledge about
advocacy
and its relationship to: Politics and Democracy; Citizenship and
Rights;
Power, Empowerment and Citizen Education and Action. Participants will
gain basic skills and knowledge in: visioning; contextual analysis;
problem/issue identification; analysis and prioritisation; power
mapping;
goal/objective setting; analysis of advocacy arenas and strategies;
message development, reports and media; public outreach and
mobilisation;
lobbying and negotiation; advocacy leadership and coalition building;
and
assessment of success.

The course involves 60 hours of reading, on-line working groups,
interaction with students and instructors/facilitators and
assignments,
and is offered over a 12-week period, beginning on 17 February 2003.
E-mail will be the main medium for the course, although participants
will
need to have periodic access to the Web (part of the
readings/assignment
will be distributed via CD-ROM). The course is based on a
participatory,
active learning approach, with an emphasis on peer-to-peer learning.
Participants will do the required readings, prepare interim and final
assignments and participate in group discussions. The main course text
will be "A New Weave of Power, People, and Politics: An Action Guide
for
Advocacy and Citizen Participation" (World Neighbors, 2002), by Lisa
VeneKlasen and Valerie Miller. The maximum number of course
participants
is 25. It is also possible to be an auditor of the course. Students
who
successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of
Participation.


COURSE OUTLINE

Weeks 1-3: Conceptual Foundations and Critical Issues

Week 1: Politics, Advocacy, Democracy, Rights and Citizenship
Week 2: Power, Empowerment and Citizen Education and Engagement
Week 3: Advocacy Effectiveness: Factors and Measures of Success

Weeks 4-7: Elements of Advocacy Planning

Week 4: Overview of Planning; Analysis of Political and Social Context
Week 5: Identification, Analysis and Definition of Problems;
Selection
of
Priority Issues
Week 6: Analysis of Political Arenas and Advocacy Strategies;
Selection
of
Policy Hooks and Angles
Week 7: Analysis of Forces, Friends and Foes; Review and Readjustment
of
Strategies

Weeks 8-12: Doing Advocacy: Strategies for Action

Week 8: Messages, Reports and Media
Week 9: Public Outreach and Mobilization
Week 10: Lobbying and Negotiation; Advocacy Leadership and Coalitions
Week 11: National and Local Cases (and links between)
Week 12: International Cases (and linking Global, National and Local)


ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Valerie Miller has worked in advocacy, international development,
gender
and human rights for more than 30 years. She has collaborated with
grassroots organisations, NGOs, and international agencies in many
capacities -- as an organiser, trainer, advocate, evaluator, and
researcher. Over the past 15 years, she has been policy advocacy
director
at Oxfam America, director of policy and exchange programs at the
Institute for Development Research, and advisor and associate of a
wide
variety of organisations including the Global Women in Politics
Program;
Women, Law and Development International; and the Highlander Center.
She
has taught courses on advocacy under the auspices of the University of
Brasilia and New Hampshire University. Dr. Miller holds a doctorate in
adult education and she has published numerous articles and books on
issues of advocacy, development, education, and politics.


ABOUT HREA's DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMME

HREA's Distance Learning Programme (DLP) was initiated in 2000 in
response
to an unaddressed need for the continuing education of human rights
professionals and practitioners. The programme builds on HREA's
extensive
experience in both the training of professionals (teachers,
advocates,
law
schools) and the use of the new information technologies to provide
resources and to network human rights advocates and educators. By
offering
short, practical yet specialised courses via distance learning
barriers
that prevent many practitioners from participating in continuing
education, such as a lack of time and/or lack of funds to travel to
regional or national workshops/trainings, can be overcome. HREA
annually
organises distance learning courses on human rights monitoring;
research &
evaluation in the human rights field; programme development and
management; use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
for
human rights work;  new developments in international human rights
law;
NGO management; and human rights advocacy (in English and Russian).
For
more information about the DLP, please visit: http://www.hrea.org/dlp/

Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international
non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the
training of activists and professionals; the development of
educational
materials and programming; and community-building through on-line
technologies. HREA works in partnership with education agencies, NGOs,
governments and inter-governmental organisations to implement training
programmes for teachers, NGO staff, jurists and other professionals
involved in human rights work. Current and past partners include,
inter
alia, Amnesty International, the Constitutional Legal Policy Institute
(COLPI), Council of Europe, Croatian Ministry of Education, HURIDOCS,
the
Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, University of Minnesota Human Rights
Center
and UNESCO. HREA is registered as a non-profit organisation in the
Netherlands and the USA. More information on HREA can be found at:
http://www.hrea.org


WHO SHOULD APPLY

The course is intended for staff members of human rights/social
justice
organisations. Candidates should have a good written command of
English
and have high competence and comfort with computer and Internet use.
HREA
aims to ensure equal gender and geographical distribution across the
selected participants.


COSTS

The course tuition fee is US$ 455. Tuition for auditors is $ 200.
Scholarships are available for applicants from Africa, Asia-Pacific,
Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America/Caribbean.


APPLICATIONS

Further information about the course and application forms (in Word
and
PDF) can be downloaded at: http://www.hrea.org/courses/2E.html
Applications need to be submitted by 1 January 2003. Successful
applicants
will be notified by 10 January 2003. Full tuition payment is due on 7
February 2003.

Inquiries about the course can be sent to <applications@...>.




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From: Rutvica Andrijasevic: Rutvica.Andrijasevic@...

Please find enclosed information about a call for workshop organized
by
NextGENDERation
at the European Social Forum (http://www.fse-esf.org/).

NextGENDERation is a network of (young) feminist activist and
scholars
in
Europe who would like, in the occasion of ESF, to discuss the 'missing
linkes' between feminism and global movement. We would like to draw
your
attention to this workshop in particular becasue feminist initiatives
are
few and not much visible at the ESF.

The ESF is the first continental european meeting, following the World
Social Forum in Porto Alegre. It is an an open meeting space designed
for
in-depth reflection, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of
proposals,
free exchange of experiences and planning of effective action among
entities
and movements of civil society that are engaged in building a
planetary
society centered on the human being.

We hope you to see you all at the ESF in Florence, Italy (from 6th to
10th
Nov) and especially at our workshop. For any updates please clic out
web
page
http://nextgenderation.let.uu.nl/esf/index.html
For registration clic the web page of ESF directly.

In love and struggle,
Rutvica Andrijasevic
-----------------------------

http://nextgenderation.let.uu.nl


The NextGENDERation Network
at the European Social Forum,
(http://www.fse-esf.org/)
Firenze, 6-10 November 2002
calls for your participation in a workshop:

Missing Links: feminism and globalised resistance

The NextGENDERation network is a European network of (about 150)
students in
the field of women's studies and feminist theory (both in academic
contexts
and outside of the academia). We are very concerned with the
production
of
critical knowlede that enables the transformation of the world we
live
in.
In our workshop, we want to discuss following concerns:

1.      The neoliberalisation of (higher) education in Europe.
Commercial
and labour market interests are increasingly putting pressure on and
shaping
our institutions of (higher) education. We believe that knowledge -
its
production and transmission - should be socially relevant and able to
transform the world we live in. How can we make our institutions of
(higher)
education into centers of critical thinking and resistance? How can
the
critical knowledge generated by the social movements transform our
institutions of (higher) education?

2.      We recognise that the production and transmission of critical
knowledge is happening in different locations, in different ways and
in
different speeds. Within the spaces of Women's Studies and of the
feminist
movements in Europe, we notice a reluctance or a delay in taking on
insights
and analyses that come out of other social movements, such as migrant
and
refugee movements, or the movement of globalised resistance against
neoliberal capitalism. We desire feminist theories and practices that
are
more infused with the critical knowledge generated by transnational
struggle
(of for instance the World Women's March). How can we work towards a
re-politicisation of the feminist movements and women's studies in
Europe,
in solidarity with feminists and women activists around the world?

3.      Within the movement of globalised resistance, we notice a
real
lack
of feminist perspectives and analyses. Orthodox anti-capitalism is
NOT
going
to do away with sexist and racist power relations - we know that from
our
long histories of struggle. Our starting point is that power
relations
are
interwoven: sexual difference intersects with ethnicity, with class,
with
sexuality, with geo-political location, with age, with ability, etc.
This
knowledge has been generated (in different ways) within various
feminist,
migrant, post-colonial movements and needs to be taken seriously in
the
current globalised resistance or the "movement of movements" in order
not to
reproduce existing inequalities, in order for an other world to be
truly
possible. How can we infuse the current globalised resistance with
feminist,
anti-racist and post-colonial politics?

In the workshop, these areas of concern will be shortly introduced by
scholars/activists working on these issues, and then discussed in
smaller
groups. The aim of the workshop is to make some "missing links"
between
different sites of (potential) resistance visible, and to create new
alliances enabling us to make such crucial links in our future work
and
struggles.


Contact:
Rutvica Andrijasevic: Rutvica.Andrijasevic@...
Sarah Bracke: Sarah.Bracke@...
Cristina Gamberi: gambericristina@...
Marta Garro: Marta.Garro@...
Anna Rappazzo: a.rappazzo@...

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It is an enduring paradox of business that companies are prepared to
spend massive sums on systems to manage information, but balk when it
comes to putting money and time into interpreting what comes out of
them. In one of the many studies of information overload, Gartner
estimates that organisations worldwide will spend a cool USD 30bn on
information management systems in 2002. Yet the same survey reports
that 90% of companies feel that they are overwhelmed with information.

So what is happening here? Do information management systems simply
not work? I don't think that's the case. There's no doubt, for
example, that a well-managed intranet cuts down the time that staff
spend looking for things. But no matter how well-managed it is, if
readers then have to read lengthy, badly-written copy in order to get
the information they need, the intranet will not have done its job. To
put it another way: what's the point of a great medium if the message
doesn't get through?

The web in particular has led to an explosion of publishing that we
are still struggling to manage. On the Internet today, commercial
websites live or die by the quality of their design and their written
content. And since the technology boom ended, only the best sites,
with the best writing, are still surviving. The popularity of weblogs,
with their brief, informal style of writing, is testimony to the power
of good writing online to draw and retain an audience.

But not every online communication is subjected to the savage
Darwinism of the Internet. Internal websites, extranets, email
newsletters, press releases: many of these continue to survive
regardless of the quality of their written content. But as
hard-pressed companies start to look for a return on investment from
their information systems, good content becomes key. Because it is
content that drives readership, traffic and results.

So how can information professionals boost the value of information
with good writing? Here are five practical steps.


1. Make sure content is written for its audience
------------------------------------------------

Even the smallest organisations contain a mix of different people --
technologists, accountants, salespeople -- who consume information in
different ways. Some are happy to read dense, complicated text. Some
would rather not read at all, and prefer to get their information from
meetings and phone calls. When you are distributing content within a
company, this difference in 'information consumption' style needs to
be borne in mind. For example, only a few staff might bother to read a
lengthy management announcement full of jargon, even if it does
contain vital information on the future of the company.

Finding out about your audience is a key first step in producing
effective written content. So if an announcement is targeted at the
entire company, it should be written to extremely high standards. It
is a paradox of writing that concise, clear writing often takes the
most effort, as Pascal said: "I have made this letter longer than
usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter".
However if content is targeted uniquely at specialists, for example
engineers, then lengthy jargon and specialist terms are fine.


2. Recognise the strengths and weaknesses of different media
------------------------------------------------------------

One of the biggest errors with any new medium is to over- or
underestimate what it can do. So we had early websites dense with text
and slow-loading graphics. Much online information continues to ignore
the strengths and weaknesses of the medium. If information is to be
effective online it should:

* use the 'inverted pyramid', where a brief summary explains the
   content to follow. This is the same technique used in news stories.
   Online readers would rather not scroll

* be brief. It is suggested that web-based content, for example,
   should not exceed 500-700 words per article. Anything longer than
   this needs to be on separate pages or to be designed for print

* be 'scannable', using bullets and bold text to draw readers'
   interest. The low resolution of screens relative to paper makes
   people read more slowly

* use the power of hypertext. Good use of hypertext aids readability
   and builds the value of web pages


3. Tell stories
---------------

Much writing in business assumes that readers are more interested in a
lengthy explanation of, say, a product's features than an interesting
narrative explaining why it is good. So we get sentences like this:

"X's core product suite delivers an open, robust, cross-platform
scalable solution for the indexing, categorisation and integration of
disparate information feeds."

Someone knows what this means. But the intended reader is unlikely to
get the point. Putting the same information in a narrative form, using
examples and case studies, is much more effective:

"X's technology can manage information from many different sources. It
has helped companies to:

* Categorise information effectively (link to brief customer case
   study)

* Integrate their information where different technology platforms are
   involved (link to brief example)"

People like stories. Using a narrative structure -- with a beginning,
middle, and end -- is a powerful way of making complex information
easy to interpret.


4. Remember that some writers are better than others
----------------------------------------------------

Online (particularly web) publishing can make it possible for anyone
to publish, yet quality in the online medium -- for example a public
corporate website -- is just as important as, say, in the printed
annual report. Just as many staff would never make good salespeople,
not everyone is a natural writer. It is important to recognise and
deal with this, either by training or by giving staff access to
templates and style guides. The alternatives are to outsource writing
or to ensure only selected staff can publish directly online.


5. Build style guides and editorial processes and apply them
------------------------------------------------------------

Rules and processes are well-established in the fields of information
and knowledge management. Applied to writing, they can help to ensure
quality and credibility. Organisations need to have a policy on
questions such as: when is it OK to use abbreviations? How do we treat
job titles? Product names? Who has final sign-off?

Building and managing style guides, for example, takes a little effort
and time. But the value of minimising errors and
inconsistencies -- a misquote, an out-of-date reference, or a
misplaced decimal point -- far outweighs this.

In summary, good writing has a major part to play in helping companies
to get the maximum value from their investment in information. Getting
it right takes a little work, but if the reward is information that
people want to use, the effort is worthwhile.

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current political climate, but also a reality for most librarians.
Given the growing emphasis on cross-sector and cross-domain working,
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with other sectors is referred to, there isn't the level of detail I
was hoping for, as someone working in the health sector.

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   activities involving higher education, museums, just to mention two
   examples. This includes some reference to the British Library's work
   on the international scene, which readers may be less familiar with.
   Some indication is given of the future direction of travel.

* An overview of the work of Resource, particularly relevant given
   their recent announcement concerning cross-sectoral working. This
   chapter starts with a fun vision of the future where an entire
   family is making use of library and museum services in much the same
   way as they might use their TV or Playstation today. The author
   gives an interesting overview of the strategic direction of
   Resource, in three priority areas: user focus, seamless services and
   format of delivery.

I especially liked the positive outlook on co-operation given by the
editors in the Introduction: "co-operation is about breaking down the
artificial boundaries between institutions, between sectors and
between domains in order that better services can be provided". The
editors and contributors, whilst maintaining a positive approach, are
nonetheless realistic and cover some of the thornier issues around
co-operation.

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and initiatives and offering practical lessons. I imagine it's
probably of more interest to colleagues in the public library sector
or to those working in the allied services of museums or archives.
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this reason it would make interesting background reading for anyone
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years. In her current role, Alison liaises with health librarians to
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opportunities for partnership working. The overall aim of the NeLH is
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            "From Knowledge Economy to Knowledge Ecology?
               - IBM's David Snowden Maps a 'Third Way'
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                          By Andrew Everest

Monday 8th of July saw David Snowden, Executive Director of the IBM
sponsored Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity, acknowledged
KM 'guru' to governments, corporations and their ilk, deliver an
agenda-setting lecture at The Open University on the next generation
of Knowledge Management.

Entitled "Complex Acts of Knowing - beyond the baleful influence of
the 'tacit' and 'explicit' words", the lecture, hosted by the Open
University Library & BBi (Beds and Bucks Information), gave Mr Snowden
a platform to outline an iconoclastic 'organic' approach to KM.
Offering effectively a 'third way' for KM, his approach does away with
previous simplistic notions based purely on knowledge capture, and
focuses on employing and exploiting traditional human knowledge-
building instincts and behaviours. It conceptualises 'knowledge' as a
flow, rather than a confinable commodity, in need of channelling and
divining rather than control, and suggests use of a variety of
'pragmatic', sometimes unorthodox techniques to bring knowledge to the
surface. With references to channelling of flows and the unorthodox,
and a mysterious Welsh-/Druidic-sounding Moniker, one might have been
be excused for thinking this new 3G KM had something of the 3rd Age
about it!

David Snowdon's talk, however, avoided mysticism and concentrated on
practicality. After a brief "Cooks' tour" of the sins of past
generations of KM, he described the means by which his IBM-sponsored
Cynefin Centre plans to explore and stimulate new ways of acting on
the whole arena of knowledge discovery and knowledge-centred problem
solving. His talk briefly illustrated a variety of devices/techniques
used to tap underlying truths or hidden knowledge, including a
memorable and amusing description of the appropriation of 'The Sims'
computer game to unearth the undisclosed knowledge of executives'
families in a study of work/life balance in corporate life.

The Cynefin approach rests on three tenets, paraphrased here from
David Snowden's talk (the text after the maxim is the my
paraphrase/interpretation of David's comments):

1. KNOWLEDGE CAN ONLY BE VOLUNTEERED; IT CANNOT BE CONSCRIPTED -
    Unless the conditions are right, people will only let slip what
    they wish to disclose, and will often only provide the minimum
    amount or inferior grade 'knowledge' required for compliance when
    forced to 'share knowledge' as the KM mantra often exhorts.

2. WE CAN ALWAYS KNOW MORE THAN WE CAN TELL, AND WE WILL ALWAYS TELL
    MORE THAN WE CAN WRITE DOWN - The amount of knowledge that can be
    codified into abstractions (e.g. a textbook or written procedure, a
    know-how database or best practice) is restricted by time and the
    ability to express complex instincts in a common language
    understandable to an audience.

3. WE ONLY KNOW WHAT WE KNOW WHEN WE NEED TO KNOW IT - Knowledge is
    contextual, i.e. it only rises to the surface or can be captured
    when required or in reaction to an appropriate stimulus or set of
    conditions, which may relate to a shared history, environment, or
    situation. Thus 'knowledge' or useful knowing will often only
    present itself in reaction to an event and can remain hidden or
    dormant unless prompted by techniques that mimic or somehow tap the
    factors that elicited its manifestation and creation in the first
    place.

The Cynefin Centre and its programme of seminars and 'action research'
aims to promote:

* Descriptive self-awareness - creating the conditions where new
   meaning, understanding and insights emerge by looking at things in a
   new light.

* Diverse response - turning things on their heads; not settling too
   quickly into a comfortable solution or one way of doing things (i.e.
   no recipe).

* Embracing paradox - refraining from artificially resolving
   contradictions because contradictions are often rich sources of
   meaning and new insights.

Delivered in a lecture theatre these tenets and objectives could sound
a tad high-concept and perhaps a little glib. However, where David
Snowden scores over the average 'guru' is his use of anecdotal
evidence (appropriate to the man who brought Storytelling to KM),
underlining their practical applicability. Where do Descriptive Self
Awareness, Diverse Response and Embracing Paradox fit into the real
world of business, politics and the everyday operations, you might
ask? Mr Snowden gave us the tale of the US Military Academy class,
reduced to ashen-faced anguish when invited to understand the
motivation and commitment of their new found terrorist foes, by
re-imagining their present conflict in terms of a guerrilla war much
closer to home, the American War of Independence, with the US cast
as the British, and Al-Qaeda as the colonists. A valuable lesson
learned, an insight gained and real knowledge generated, focusing on a
real-world situation, using paradoxical cultural similarity to access
existent, but untapped knowledge.

Coming off the global stage, David Snowden also illustrated how
Cynefin seeks to exploit the paradoxes of human behaviour in relation
to knowledge, and elicit new reactions to knowledge capture, creation,
transmission and definition at ground level. Witness experiments
carried out in association with Cynefin in weaning people off email,
which actually improves the level of communication and knowledge
sharing. Paradoxically something designed to aid knowledge transfer
has become a bane, and often limits valuable knowledge transfer in its
time-consuming volume.

An equally interesting project is the Cynefin centre's attempt to
solve or at least provide an alternative answer to the sometimes
thorny question, often posed by accountants, 'Why libraries?'. Once
more, a paradox appears in that something as arguably useful as
libraries are constantly under threat in the commercial and non-
commercial world as a perceived cost. The Cynefin Centre in
association with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals (CILIP) is exploring an alternative approach to cost-
based justifications, by attempting to position libraries not as a
cost to be borne, but vital eco-systems required for the survival of
organisations. The aim is to provide a model of ecological impact
measurement within an organisation, calculating environmental impact
of using or losing the library on surrounding areas (e.g. communities,
parent organisation, business units, etc.) as linked ecosystems,
rather than relying on previous financial/resource based measures. In
the process, mainstream ecologists have been enlisted to view the
problem, thus providing a degree of external validity to the thesis,
rather than relying on the library profession to justify itself, with
the obvious bias toward self-protection. For more details of this
study see this month's CILIP Knowledge Bulletin - Starship Librarian
<http://www.cilip.org.uk/practice/km_bulletin/num1_040702.html/>,
where
Mark Field, CILIP's Knowledge Advisor, describes the project briefly,
going boldly as it were into the undiscovered country of 3G KM.

Whilst the Cynefin or '3rd generation' approach, as described
by David Snowden, does not seek to completely throw out current
thinking on KM, it does aim and claim to modify and challenge these
substantially, with new insights from the science of complex adaptive
systems.

The Cynefin approach -- and similar human centred approaches to KM,
emphasising the power of approaches such as those that focus on the
Human- Centred and Narrative aspects of knowledge -- would seem to
have a great deal to offer, refocusing the attention of KM away from
the 'bottle it and keep it and drink it like so much wine' mantras
that have been generally swallowed whole as a cure-all for the
information deluge. They might even provide the spark that re-ignites
faith in KM, amongst punters who have yet to see convincing results
from the mechanistic and IT-heavy information-retrieval biased
versions of KM, turning the spotlight, as they do, on the deeper and
more satisfying (and perhaps rewarding) dynamics of the knowledge
equation.

Anything that makes the point that knowledge is a dynamic quantity,
challenging a phrase that has launched a thousand expense accounts,
but whose results are unsubstantiated, is worth a look. Insight into
this new methodology does however come with a price tag. Participation
in 'Action Research' programmes of the Cynefin Centre weighs in at a
GBP 5K for a place at the table (something not mentioned too loudly
during the lecture). Nevertheless, given the amounts thrown at KM
systems whose return on investment are open to question, some might
consider this new methodology a bargain, particularly if it yields
early (and perhaps unexpected) results.

David Snowden certainly made an interesting and entertaining case for
his new paradigms at the OU keeping a mixed audience of OU academics,
external visitors and assorted University Knowledgistas listening
avidly over their otherwise prized lunchtime.

The subject matter of the Cynefin approach is complex, and reviews
tend toward over-simplification. As Mr Snowden's theory points out "We
can always know more than we can tell, and we will always tell more
than we can write down", certainly true for this reviewer. An in-depth
view of the concepts underpinning this '3rd way ahead' for KM can be
obtained at
<http://www-1.ibm.com/services/files/Complexactsofknowing_1.pdf/>.

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knowledge/information
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contracting/freelancing for the Open University Library and Spark
Knowledge. He created Everest Informatics
<http://www.e-informatix.com>, for freelance/contracting purposes and
marketing knowledge/information services and products.

Presently working for CFBT, an educational services provider, he
maintains Everest Informatics, as agent for Datanet, a business class
ISP, and for enquiries on Knowledge/Information projects. He can be
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1.
Subject: CfA: Authors wanted for handbook on Ottoman Empire

   Facts on File, a New York publisher of high-quality reference,
   young-adult, and trade books, is looking for a scholar or
   small team of scholars to write a book on the Ottoman Empire
   in the publisher's Handbook to Life series.

   The main audience comprises high school and college students,
   with a secondary audience comprising teachers, professors,
   librarians, and general readers.

   The book would contain about 170,000 words and require about
   1 1/2 to 2 years to write.

The book would be divided into chapters or sections, to be
determined by the author/editor. Other books in the series
contain sections on topics such as daily life, religion, science,
military affairs/warfare, economy and trade, and geography.

The ideal candidate will know the subject, have (or be close
to having) a relevant PhD (e.g., in history), have an excellent
command of the English language and be able to write for a
nonspecialized audience, and be punctual and well organized.

   Please note that the author(s) will receive a royalty contract
   and that this project is not a salaried position or job.

   Interested scholars should send a letter and c.v. (preferably
   by email, but USPS is fine too) to:

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    Title: Call for Papers: Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa,
       and the Middle East
    Deadline: 2002-12-06
    Description:  Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the
       Middle East (CSSAAME) Call for papers for a special issue on
       the occasion of the Centennial of the Iranian Constitutional
       Revolution Editors: Houri Berberian and Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
       On the occasion of the centennial of the Iranian Constitutional
       ...
    Contact: hberber@...
    URL:
www.history.ilstu.edu/mtavakol/cssaame/future/constitution.html
    Announcement ID: 131375
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131375

Subject: CfP: Ethnographies of Postsocialism, 7-8.2.2003, Amherst

CFP- Soyuz Annual Symposium, February 7-8, 2003, UMass Amherst
2003 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM
Ethnographies of Postsocialism
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts February 7-8, 2003
SOYUZ, the Network of Postsocialist Cultural Studies invites paper
submissions for its 2003 meeting. Presentations may be from any
discipline
(anthropology, sociology, folklore, political science, history,
literary
criticism, etc.) and may focus on any aspect of social life -
religion,
politics, economics and exchange, kinship and the family, gender,
language,
the arts - but papers must strive to creatively and successfully
combine
solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with cultural theory. We
hope
to be able to make travel subsidies available for up to two foreign
presenters (from the region), and to be able to offer a limited
number
of
travel grants to graduate students. Panelists will be encouraged to
publish
their papers in the Anthropology of East Europe Review.
Soyuz is an official interest group of the American Anthropological
Association. Its members are scholars of a variety of disciplines who
share
an interest in ethnographic, historical, and cultural studies
approaches to
scholarly inquiry of the former socialist world. The symposium, held
annually since the early 1990s, is at once an intimate forum where
scholars
can exchange ideas and engage in dialogue, and the site of cutting
edge
presentations from some of the most exciting thinkers within the
subfield.
Please send abstracts of 250 words or less by email to:
Julie Hemment, Department of Anthropology, UMass, Amherst
(jhemment@...). Please include your name, title of paper
and
academic affiliation.
The deadline for abstracts is November 10 2002
Julie Hemment
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
UMass Amherst

1. H-Gender-MidEast:  CfP:  Education and Colonialism in South Asia

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Date:    Mon, 30 Sep 2002 06:02:12 +0200
From:    Martina Rieker <mrieker@...>
Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  CfP:  Education and Colonialism in South
Asia

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

A Call for Papers (Edited Collection)

Research and Publication Centre at the National College of Arts,
Lahore,
Pakistan, invites research papers for publication in a peer-reviewed
collection. The aim of the book is to examine the relationship between
education and colonialism. Therefore, the papers should examine the
pedagogical practices, institutions and British colonialism in the
subcontinent, especially with reference to contemporary Pakistan. The
editors would eagerly welcome those papers that employ theoretical
innovation with rigorous scholarship in order to analyze the nexus of
education and the legacies of imperialism in South Asia.

Possible areas of investigation can include:

Education as a colonizing technology
Institutionalization of art education
Marginalization of the South Asian artisan
Erasure of orality and orature
Eurocentrism of academic knowledge
Erasure of traditional knowledge systems from the public sphere
(In)validation of knowledge through certification
Introduction of the difference between art and craft
Education as cultural capital in contemporary South Asia

The contributors are encouraged to discuss other themes with the
editors
before submitting their papers.

The length of the papers should be between 5000 to 8000 words. Please
mail
your CV and an abstract (250-500 words) by the 30th of October 2002 to
Samina Choonara (choonara@...), Nadeem Omar
(ntarar@...) or Saeed Urrehman (urrehman@...).

Research and Publications Centre
National College of Arts
Lahore
Pakistan

------------------------------
GDN is supporting a large multi-disciplinary global research project
on
Understanding Reform.  This is a call for proposals to undertake
country
studies on this important theme.   Studies in thirty countries will be
supported around the world.  Selections will be made on a competitive
basis with regional allocations.   More information, including
eligibility
and requirements, can be found at:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform_proposals_countryst
udies.html.
General information on the project can be found at:
http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform.html.

The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2002.  They should be
sent
to
gmcmahon@....



2.
Subject: CfA: Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship, Washington

Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship
Application deadline: October 22 - annually

The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship Programme invites college
graduates to apply for full-time, six-to-nine month Fellowships in
Washington, DC. Individuals will be selected to work with nonprofit,
public-interest organisations addressing peace and security issues.
Applications
are especially encouraged from candidates with a strong interest in
these issues who have prior experience with public-interest activism
or
advocacy.Scoville Fellows will be placed with one of the 23
organisations
participating in the Programme. The Fellows will receive a stipend of
$1,600 per month and health insurance, plus travel expenses to
Washington, DC.

Peace Fellowship Programme
110 Maryland Avenue, NE, Suite 409
Washington, DC 20002, U.S.A.
Phone: (202) 543-4100
scoville@...





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    Title: NSF Graduate Fellowships: Science, Medicine, and Technology
       in Culture
    Location: Pennsylvania
    Deadline: 2003-01-15
    Description: Call for Applications NSF Graduate Fellowships
       Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture, Pennsylvania
       State University The Science, Medicine, and Technology in
       Culture initiative (SMTC) at Penn State University will be
       offering six National Science Foundation graduate fellowships
       for studies beg ...
    Contact: lls10@...
    URL: faculty.la.psu.edu/ssps/smtc.html
    Announcement ID: 131373
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131373

Title: Erasmus Institute Residential Fellowships 2003-4
    Location: Indiana
    Deadline: 2003-02-03
    Description: The Erasmus Institute offers three types of
       fellowships: for dissertation students (advanced graduate
       students actually in the writing phase); for recent Ph.D.s and
       untenured faculty; and for more senior faculty. Fellowships are
       tenable for a semester or a full academic year, and fellows are
       expecte ...
    Contact: erasmus@...
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    Announcement ID: 131391
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Subject: CAORC Fellowships [x-MESA-GSO]

MESA-GSO Digest - 29 Sep 2002 to 1 Oct 2002 (#2002-106)
Date:    Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:38:38 -0500
From:    magid shihade <mshihade@...>
Subject: funding opportunity

Council of American Overseas Research Centers Invites Applications for
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Deadline: December 31, 2002

The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (
http://www.caorc.org/ )
was founded in 1981 with the following purposes: to advance higher
learning
and scholarly research by providing a forum for communication and
cooperation
among American overseas advanced research centers; to provide general
and
continuing publicity about the importance and contributions of the
centers; to
exchange operational and administrative information among the
centers;
to
exchange scholarly and research information among the centers; and to
encourage joint research projects. CAORC is incorporated as a 501(c)
(3)
organization, housed in the Smithsonian Institution, and is funded in
part
by Congress through the budget of the Smithsonian.

CAORC is currently accepting applications for its Multi-Country
Research
Fellowship Program to support advanced regional research. The program
is open
to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned
their
Ph.D.
in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and
wish
to
conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance.

It is anticipated that nine awards of up to $9,000 each will be given
to
scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of
multi-country
significance in the humanities, social sciences, and related natural
sciences.
Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one
country, at
least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research
center.
(Countries that host overseas research centers include Bangladesh,
Cyprus,
Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan,
Senegal/West Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Bank/Gaza
Strip,
and
Yemen. See the CAORC Web site for details.)

Doctoral candidates that have completed all Ph.D. requirements with
the
exception of the dissertation and established post-doctoral scholars
are
eligible to apply as individuals or in teams. Preference will be
given
to
candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional questions
requiring
research in two or more countries. All applicants must be U.S.
citizens.
Fellowship tenure must be of at least ninety days' duration.

Application materials are available at the CAORC Web site or by
writing
to the
organization's offices.

Contact:
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
Smithsonian Institution
P.O. Box 37012
NHB Room CE-123, MRC 178
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012

RFP Link: http://www.caorc.org/pages/Cpages/caorcus.htm

Amy Solomon
2334 Federal Ave. East
Seattle, WA  98102
(206) 323-0349  fax (206) 323-3899

3.
Subject: CfA: Winter School The Surce in Nonstate Violence,
9-26.2.2003, Andalo (Italy)

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "TOR VERGATA"
UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI - Rovereto
FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE - Autonomous Province of Trento
U.S.P.I.D. - Section of Trento
Italian Pugwash Group
ISODARCO Founded in 1966
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS
16th WINTER COURSE ANDALO - ITALY 9-16 FEBRUARY, 2003
"THE SURGE IN NONSTATE VIOLENCE: ROOTS, IMPACTS AND COUNTERMEASURES"
ISODARCO has been organizing residential courses on global security
since 1966.
The courses are intended for people already having a professional
interest in
the problems of international conflicts, or for those who would like
to
play a
more active and technically competent role in this field. The courses
have an
interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters extend from the
technical
and scientific side of the problems to their sociological and
political
implications.
This will be the third time an ISODARCO course will focus on the
problem of
NonState Violence. Courses on this topic were organised in 1974 and
1978 when
NonState or SubState violence had the limited attention of
specialists.
Now,
after the dramatic events of the year 2002, Isodarco returns to the
discussion
of these problems.

PRINCIPAL LECTURERS: Will be added later
Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have
been
invited to lecture at the School. The course will be articulated in
formal
lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and
general open
discussions.
GENERAL INFORMATION
A) English will be the working language of the School. There will be
approximately 60 participants. They are expected to attend all
lectures
and
seminars.
B) Applications should be submitted with the following information
that
is
compulsory also for those who have previously attended:
Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including
e-mail
address, telephone and fax numbers if available). Present nationality.
Degree
and/or other academic qualifications. Present professional activities
and work
address. Publication list and field of interest. In lieu of
publications, a
letter of recommendation from a professor or a scholar in the field.
No
special
application form is required.
C) Applications should arrive not later than December 13, 2002 and
should be
addressed to the Director of the School:
Prof. CARLO SCHAERF
Department of Physics
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Tel.: (+39) 06 72594560/1 -- Fax: (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail: isodarco@...
D) Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the
basis of
the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed of the
Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than December
30, 2002.
E) Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo any time on February
9 and
leave in the morning of February 16, 2003.
F) The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation
and full
board is Euro 200.00. Students without a salary up to the age of 26
can
ask for
a reduced fee of Euro 120.00. Participants will be housed in double or
triple
rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested and available,
will be
Euro 400.00; participants asking to share a room with somebody in
particular,
if this is possible, will be charged Euro 50 extra for each person.
G) The school is unable to provide any contribution towards traveling
expenses.
H) The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, Via Strigole 1,
38010 Andalo
(Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461 585813 and Fax (+39) 0461 585269.
I) A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel
Gruppo
Brenta. Room and board for each member is Euro 300.00 for the entire
period.
Admission of families is limited and will be examined on an individual
basis.
Participants wishing to bring their families are requested to submit
their
applications as soon as possible.
J) Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short
abstract
of their proposed contribution in their application. The Director of
the School
will reserve some time for seminars considered particularly relevant
to
the
programme of the Course.
K) The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any
necessary
changes to the programme.
L) Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating
to
which
Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it takes some time to
receive
a visa
we urge participants requiring it to apply to the School as early as
possible
and to apply for the visa immediately after being accepted to attend
the
School.
Additional information on the School can be found on the Isodarco web
page at
the following address:
www.isodarco.it
Andalo in winter:
http://www.andalovacanze.com/html/the_slopes.html
Hotel Gruppo Brenta where the course is held:
http://www.gruppobrenta.it/ (in Italian):


CARLO SCHAERF
Director of the School
--
ISODARCO
c/o Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 ROMA, Italy
Tel. (+39) 06 72594560/1 Fax (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail isodarco@...
Web: www.isodarco.it

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4.
Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 23 Sep 2002 - 30 Sep 2002

From: H-Net Reviews <hbooks@...>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 07:00:01 -0400

The following 22 reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
23 Sep 2002 and 30 Sep 2002.

Reviewed for H-Law by Felice Batlan
     Nancy F. Cott.  _Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the
     Nation_.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.  297 pp.
     $27.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-674-00320-9; $15.95 (paper),=20
     ISBN 0-674-00875-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D82951032791741

Reviewed for H-Women by Melissa Walker
     Evelyn Nakano Glenn.  _Unequal Freedom:  How Race and Gender
     Shaped American Citizenship and Labor_.  Cambridge and London:
     Harvard University Press, 2002.  ix + 306 pp.  $39.95 (cloth),
     ISBN 0-674-00732-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D112431032792905

Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Louise Meyer
     Margaret Musgrove.  _The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth_.
     New York: The Blue Sky Press, 2001.  40 pp.  Ages 4-10. $16.95
     (cloth), ISBN 0-590-98787-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D132921032793637

Reviewed for H-AfrTeach by Ronald J. Leprohon
     Melvin Berger and Gilda Berger.  _Mummies of the Pharaohs:
     Exploring the Valley of the Kings_.  Washington: National
     Geographic Society, 2001.  64 pp.  Ages 9-12. $17.95 (cloth), ISBN
     0-7922-7223-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D144531032794136

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Robin S. Gendron
     Aloysius Balawyder.  _In the Clutches of the Kremlin: Canadian-
     East European Relations, 1945-1962_.  East European Monographs.
     New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.  192 pp.  $36.00
     (cloth), ISBN 0-88033-444-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D179711032795488

Reviewed for H-Albion by Sears McGee
     Peter Lake.  _The Boxmaker's Revenge: "Orthodoxy," "Heterodoxy"
     and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London_. =20
     Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain. =20
     Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.  x + 422 pp.=20
     $65.00 (cloth)  ISBN 0-7190-5967-4; $24.95 (paper), ISBN
     0-8047-4128-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D200811032796192

Reviewed for H-Italy by Christopher Carlsmith
     Kathleen M. Comerford.  _Ordaining the Catholic Reformation:
     Priests and Seminary Pedagogy in Fiesole, 1575-1675_.  Biblioteca
     della Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa. Firenze: Leo S
     Olschki, 2001.  xxii + 161 pp.  Euros 19.63 (paper), ISBN 88-222-
     49607.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D209521032796648

Reviewed for H-Women by Karol K. Weaver
     James S. Olson.  _Bathsheba's Breast: Women, Cancer and History_.
     Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.  x +
     302 pp.  $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-693-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D293711032799863

Reviewed for H-Buddhism by Charles B. Jones
     Marc L. Moskowitz.  _The Haunting Fetus: Abortion, Sexuality,=20
     and the Spirit World in Taiwan_.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i
     Press, 2001.  viii + 206 pp.  $49.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-8248-2354-0;
     $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8248-2428-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D307391032800564

Reviewed for H-Indiana by Jeanette Vanausdall
     Russell Duncan and David J. Klooster, eds.  _Phantoms of a=20
     Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose
     Bierce_.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.  xiv +
     343 pp.  $60.00 (cloth) ISBN 1-55849-327-1;  $19.95 (paper), ISBN
     1-55849-328-x.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D324301032801284

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by David L Carey Miller
     Penelope Andrews and Stephen Ellman, eds.  _The Post-Apartheid
     Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa's Basic Law_.
     Johannesburg and Athens: Witwatersrand University Press and Ohio
     University Press, 2001.  x + 606 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8214-
     1400-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D184861033029332

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Gerald Horne
     Martin Meredith.  _Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the
     Tragedy of Zimbabwe_.  New York: Basic Books, 2002.  243 pp.
     $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-58648-128-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D185721033029433

Reviewed for H-SAWH by Kelly McMichael Stott
     Angela Boswell.  _Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural
     Southern County, 1837-1873_.  Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life.
     College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.  xii + 224 pp.
     $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 1-58544-128-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D185771033029444

Reviewed for H-Florida by Daniel S. Murphree
     Paul E. Hoffman.  _Florida's Frontiers_.  A History of the=20
     Trans-Appalachian Frontier Series. Bloomington: Indiana University
     Press, 2002.  xvii + 470 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-253-34019-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D197241033029693

Reviewed for H-Caribbean by Robert J. Stewart
     Patrick Taylor, ed.  _Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and
     Cultural Difference in the Caribbean_.  Bloomington: Indiana
     University Press, 2001.  xii + 220 pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-
     253-33835-2; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-253-21431-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D246791033032087

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Juergen Zimmerer
     G=FCnther Reeh.  _Hendrik Witbooi, ein Leben f=FCr die Freiheit:
     Zwischen Glaube und Zweifel_.  K=F6ln: R=FCdiger K=F6ppe Verlag,
2000.
     87 pp.  EUR 12.27 (cloth), ISBN 3-89645-315-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D222071033030914

Reviewed for H-Florida by Joshua Piker
     Bill Grantham.  _Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians_.
     Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.  xi + 337. =20
     $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-2451-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D177311033080281

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Claus-Christian Werner Szejnmann
     Dieter Gessner.  _Die Weimarer Republik_.  Kontroversen um die
     Geschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002.
     131 S.  EUR 16, ISBN 3-534-14727-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D177531033080293

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Mischa Meier
     Michael Lipka.  _Xenophon's Spartan Constitution. Introduction,
     text, commentary_.   Berlin: de Gruyter, 2002.  Viii + 302 S. =20
     EUR 98, ISBN 3-11-017466-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D178021033080303

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Gunther E. Rothenberg
     Manfred Reinschedl.  _Die Aufr=FCstung der Habsburgermonarchie von
     1880 bis 1914 im internationalen Vergleich. Der Anteil
=D6sterreich-
     Ungarns am Wettr=FCsten vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg_.  Frankfurt:
Lang,
     2001.  202 pp.  EUR 33, ISBN 3-631-36924-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D181231033080439

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Claudia Hattendorff
     Carola Muysers.  _Das b=FCrgerliche Portrait im Wandel.
     Bildnisfunktionen und -auffassungen in der deutschen Moderne 1860
     - 1900, Hildesheim - Z=FCrich - New York_.  Berlin: Georg Olms
     Verlag, 2001.  392 S.  EUR 49, ISBN 3-487-11342-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D184541033080724

Reviewed for H-Florida by James V. Holton
     Glen E. Swanson, ed.  _Before This Decade is Out: Personal
     Reflections on the Apollo Program_.  Gainesville: University Press
     of Florida, 2002.  x + 377.  $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8130-2537-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D184591033080732

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast Book Review: Mahdi on Khan, _Aversion and
Desire_

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Gender-MidEast@... (September 2002)

Shahnaz Khan. _Aversion and Desire; Negotiating Muslim Female
Identity
in
the Diaspora_. Ontario, Canada: Women's Press, 2002. xiv + 130 pp.
Notes,
bibliography, appendix, and index. $24.95 Canadian (paper), ISBN
0-88961-400-8.

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Ali Akbar Mahdi<aamahdi@...>,
Department
of Sociology/Anthropology, Ohio Wesleyan University

Most immigrants encounter stereotypes of themselves, their native
culture,
and their religion, if different than the one in the host society.
Living
in North America, Muslim women are often incorrectly viewed as Arabs
and,
more importantly for Shahnaz Khan, as oppressed and in need of
rescuing.
Like other women of color, they are labeled as the "other" and
subjected
to discriminatory attitudes and practices.  Khan's book examines the
few
fortunate Muslim women who escaped postcolonial underdevelopment and
oppression of their homeland by moving to Canada, yet who are
confronted
with a host of new oppressions in diaspora: racism, sexism,
stereotypes,
and multicultural homogenization.  They are treated as homogenized
Objects/Others: undifferentiated by sociological factors (of race,
ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality), oppressed by their own
religion,
conditioned by their Islamic culture, and void of any agency.

This book problematizes the concept of Muslim identity in diasporic
context.  By probing the implications of race, class, religion, and
sexuality, Khan attempts to show the intricate intersections of these
forces in the lived experiences of Muslim women in Canada.  She is
critical of Orientalist depictions of Islamic societies as "totalizing
religious and ideological orders" and of Muslim women as passive,
oppressed, and homogenous. These women are neither what the
Orientalists
depict them to be nor what Islamists want them to be.  Disturbed by
these
disempowering stereotypes, Khan challenges Western assumptions about
the
female position in Islamic societies in general, and Canadian Muslim
female identity in specific. She also criticizes attitudes of Islamic
conservatives who deny female believers individuality by presenting
them
to the world as a homogeneous mass.

Muslim women's understanding and experiences of their religion are not
uniform and coded, as perceived by Westerners and projected by Islamic
fundamentalists, but are rather maleable, fluid, manifold, and even
contradictory.  Most of the women Khan talked to while doing her
research
are in a double bind.  On the one hand, they desire to maintain an
Islamic
identity in a non-Islamic environment, and on the other they avert the
discriminatory and complicating aspects of their cherished religion.
They
find a sense of security in their religious identity but cannot be
comfortable with its totalizing prescriptions. These immigrants are
also
attracted to the opportunities the new country provides them, but
cannot
tolerate its mythologies about Islam and Muslim women. The combined
effects of this discriminatory treatment and misgivings about their
own
religion have produced feelings of diasporic estrangement and
vulnerability among these female immigrants. The choices presented to
these women often come in a binary form: faith and freedom, religious
and
secular, native and host cultures, family loyalty and individual
autonomy,
and past and present.  Khan examines the ambivalence reflected in the
lives of these women by looking for its causes in Orientalist and
Islamist
myths about Muslim women. To challenge these myths, Khan aims "to
complicate the term Muslim and write in the history that constructs
and
reinforces the duality of Orientatlism and Islam" (p. xxiii).

Using a heavy dose of postcolonial, postmodernist, and feminist
jargons,
Khan argues for a constructed understanding of Muslim women based on
their
own sense of who they are and/or wish to be. Caught on the horns of
two
totalizing views of Orientalists and Islamists, these women struggle
to
construct a meaningful identity outside of these paradigms.  To avoid
these pressures and find a space of their own, these women resort to a
"third space" within which they resist oppression, confront racism and
sexism of their adopted country, and negotiate a unique identity for
themselves. Khan believes that this third space, which she views as an
in-between gray zone, is where progressive politics emerges and where
Muslim women can explore a new identity.

This book is the paperback edition of _Muslim Women: Crafting a North
American Identity_, originally published by University Press of
Florida
in
2000.  The latest edition includes a new preface reflecting on the
political environment surrounding Muslim immigrants in North America
after
the tragedy of September 11, 2001.  There has been no revision in its
content, yet the author does not explain the reasons for changing the
title, especially from "North American" to "the Diaspora" in the
subtitle.
In addition to five chapters, the book contains a preface, an
introduction, a conclusion, an appendix, and a bibliography.  Several
interviews included in the book were previously published in journals.

The book presents a theoretical discussion of the non-structured
interviews the author conducted, as a part of her dissertation
research,
with sixteen non-randomly selected Muslim females in the Toronto area
during the early 1990s.  The theoretical disposition of the book is
exemplary of the dominant discourse in the diasporic public sphere--a
focus quite different from assimilation and integration theories of
earlier period. The book still maintains its dissertational character
by
uniformly shifting between offering supporting accounts for her
theoretical claims and theorizing interviewees' accounts.  Selections
from
interviewees' accounts are presented alongside a heavy dose of
theoretical
insertions and discussions.  Both the selection of subjects and the
presentation of their accounts make the book's generalizations
problematic. Khan's cues during interviews are not always neutral. She
appears to be directing her subjects to opinions and expressions not
of
their own construction.  At times, it appears that she is badgering
interviewees into expressing an opinion more closely aligned with her
own.
During the interview with Nabia, Khan is visibly frustrated with her
inability to provide the kind of response Khan wants, by which point
the
interview had turned into a debate.  Khan also ignored many of the
statements and explanations of her subjects that would have pointed
away
from conflicts between Muslims and Canadian society.

Issues raised by this book are extremely significant because, as the
movement of people across the globe brings us closer to a post-
national
world, identity issues will arguably be rendered more ambiguous.
Khan
is
against the static and singular notion of identity, arguing instead
for
fluid, dynamic, and oppositionally grounded identities.  While this
approach is relevant and represents an improvement over classical
treatments of identity, it is not without risk.  Fixed and
undialectical
notions of identity have to be problematized, but not at the expense
of
obliterating all demarcations of human experiences.  The idea of a
"fluid
identity" has limited utility and cannot be valid for all people, all
places, and all times.  It is a post-modernist cliche to see
everything
in
fluidity, so much so that there is nothing to hold onto, nothing to
refer
to, and nothing to rely on.  One may have conflicting attitudes about
objects, people, ideas, and locations, but in the moment of action,
one
chooses to either go with an existing option or invent a new one. In
case
of an invention, the choice still has a reference, however vague, and
is
fixated in a time and place, bounded by the person's capabilities, and
privileged by his/her enactment.

Peoples situated in transitional times and locations are more likely
to
experience feelings of confusion, contradiction, uncertainty, and
self-examination, especially if they are dislocated or exiled from
their
own cultural center. However, these contradictions, fragmentations,
and
fluidity are not to be essentialized so much so that distinctions and
relationality become meaningless.  Diluting Muslim women's identities
denies them a sense of "community." Muslim identity is not the final
destination of these immigrants, but a point of entry from which they
construct their reality.  While these women will continue to
experience
a
certain level of ambivalence, they have no choice, at least not for
too
long, but to either leave or get rooted in their new homeland.  In
fact,
as Khan's interviews show, most of her subjects feel rooted enough to
safely engage in a critical examination of both their native and host
culture.

Certainly, Muslim identity is fluid and has room for negotiation,
interpretation, and transformation.  However, high fluidity and
abundant
contradictions are neither theoretically sound nor empirically
sustainable.  These immigrants cannot stay too long in this in-between
space where they remain detached from both their native culture and
the
mainstream experiences of their new home. After all, the third space
is
a
space in-between, a make-shift station, a temporary sanctuary, where
one
buys time for regaining energy and developing a perspective for the
challenges on the way to a new settled status.

For Muslim immigrants, fluid identity is more relevant during the
earlier
stages of their settlement in the diaspora.  While many immigrants
maintain such identities for a long time, many more grow out of them
as
they become more integrated into their adopted homeland.  With the
increased stay and structural integration of these immigrants, their
transitional identities will transform into transnational ones.
Those
who
are either unable or unwilling to make this transition will certainly
experience more anxiety, distress, and alienation.  The latter cannot
be
the fate of majority of these women.  In time, immigrants are able to
make
such a transition, though not without continued experiences of
discrimination and stereotyping. In the case of Muslim immigrants in
North
America, we need more specific studies of how, where, when, and by
whom
they are discriminated against, what in the Sharia works for them in a
non-Muslim environment and what does not, and who in the diasporic
community wishes to remain Muslim or who does not and why.

Khan wishes to show that the Muslim identity of these female
immigrants
remains paramount, despite their high degree of diversity in religious
affiliation, sexual orientation, class background, and ethnic
differences.
She believes that the discrimination against these women by the larger
Canadian society is apparently much harsher than the inequalities they
experience from Sharia laws.  Despite their unhappiness about the
unequal
status assigned to them by the Sharia, these women still follow it
because
of its centrality in their lives and pressures from their families and
communities.  More concrete evidence of specific instances of
discrimination, due to being Muslim, would have been helpful, since a
closer look at interviewees' ethnic background and their accounts
reveals
that much of the discrimination against them, first and
foremost,seems
to
be based on their color.  The specifics of others' complaints can be
easily categorized as prejudicial treatment of immigrants in general.
Similarly, it is regretful that Khan does not cite any Orientalists'
direct stereotypical statements about Muslim women.  She only refers
her
readers to other authors who have discussed these Orientalist
assumptions
about Islamic women.

Khan's approach to Islam is very subjective and phenomenological.  She
does not treat it as a given and allows for interpretative
appropriation
of this religion by her subjects.  Islam and Muslims should be viewed
in a
situated manner.  Islam is what Islam means to Muslims and Muslims
are
who
they are, and not what we perceive or wish them to be.  To understand
religion, culture, and identity, lived experiences of people are as
important as the abstract explanations offered by the experts.  Yet,
Khan
herself does not engage different traditions within the Islamic
community
available to Muslim immigrants in North America.  Two of her subjects
are
Shia, one i s Ahemedi [sic], and the rest Sunni.  Throughout the book,
Khan discusses these women's struggles with categorical stereotypes of
Muslim women generated by both Islamic fundamentalists and
Orientalists.
Which fundamentalism? Which Orientalism? Is Shia fundamentalism
imposed
on
Iranian women the same as the one imposed by Saudi Arabian Wahabis?
Is
Ahmadi's notion of Islamic gender roles the same as those of Sudanese
traditionalists?  Do all female immigrants from Islamic countries, who
remain loyal to their faith in the diaspora, have the same definition
of
"Muslim woman"?  Khan complains of totalizing language and ideologies
of
both Orientalists and Islamists, but she also ignores the diversity of
views among Islamists by not making any distinction among various
Islamic
traditions in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.  (In a footnote, she
does
name a few "serious"  Western scholars who studied Islam "with
integrity").

Khan's theoretical approach to Islam also poses serious and perplexing
questions about the theoretical and empirical challenges facing what
has
come to be termed "Islamic feminism."  Khan views Islam in a much more
open-ended manner than most Muslim intellectuals could imagine.  It
would
be interesting to see how both modernist and traditionalist Islamic
scholars, as the field has been divided, react to her approach.  For
reasons that are not hard to contemplate, the reaction seems to be
muted.

Khan is very critical of Canadian multiculturalism for its static
notion
of culture and how it denies diversity among Muslims.  As much as one
has
to acknowledge the ills of Canadian multiculturalism, one cannot
ignore
the fact that such a policy is the product of a long process of
resistance, pressure, and bargaining by various cultural and ethnic
groups
in that country--a state of affairs much more progressive than
previous
biculturalism or earlier Anglo domination.  There may be many more
changes
these groups have to work for and demand, but criticism of
multiculturalism has to have a constructive and forward direction.
Today,
Muslims in diaspora in the West are subjected to undeserving
suspicion
of
being a potential fifth column for Islam. In the Manichean moral
discourse
of post-September 11 in North America, where everything is reduced to
good
and evil, and reactionary pulses and panic feelings converge,
post-modernist attacks on multiculturalism weaken its achievements and
offer the opportunity for a conservative rollback of limited civil
rights
achievements of the earlier era. Criticisms of unfounded assumptions
and
essentialized notions of Mulisms, as well as demand for public
respect
for
Islamic identity, have to be squared with the contradictory
manifestations
of such an identity.  Equally, the quest for demystification of Muslim
women and the attempts to privilege their identities in North America
should not weaken their struggle for recognition.

Despite these misgivings about her theory and methodology, the book
is
an
important reminder about the interplay of Muslim identity with race,
gender, class, and sexual identities in the Canadian society.  It
should
be read widely by those who are concerned with the simultaneous rise
in
the number of Muslim immigrants and negative attitudes towards them in
North America.

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Waiting to receive the book "War and Peace in the Balkans Macedonia
at
the
crossroads?", I expected to read an analysis of the difficult
external
and
domestic situation of the Republic of Macedonia. My expectations,
however,
were thoroughly disappointed, and I fear that other readers will
share
this
feeling. The editors of this collected volume are not to blame for
the
fact
that their book does not deal with the violence that erupted in
Macedonia
in 2001the book was obviously ready before that. The editors are
however
responsible for a rather dubious choice of chapters which hardly
contribute
to our understanding of the protracted problems, which the Republic
of
Macedonia has been facing in recent years.

"War and Peace"from the title of the bookin this case means the
Kosovo
War
of 1999 and the wave of Kosovo Albanian refugees who fled to the
Republic
of Macedonia as well as the international efforts to preserve
stability
in
Macedonia and prevent a spill-over of the war in Kosovo. These events
form
only the context for the book, however, and are not analyzed.
Instead,
most
chapters describe German support for refugees from Kosovo as well as
other
German activities in Macedonia. One of the two editors of the volume,
Walter Kolbow, who is parliament state secretary in the German
Ministry
of
Defense and was representative of the German government for the
co-ordination of German help in Macedonia from April through December
1999,
sets the self-adulating tone of much of the book, as he writes in his
introductory remarks that his contribution in Macedonia
was "decisive"
(p.
13). In other chapters the readers are informed about the
humanitarian
mission of the German Bundeswehr, the "competence" of the German
Bundesgrenzschutz, the beneficial role of German companies in
Macedonia,
efforts of German political foundations to contribute to civil
society
building in Macedonia etc. There are no critical remarks about the
role
of
the German government in handling the Kosovo crisis and its impact on
Macedonia. For example, the question could have been posed why the
German
and other NATO governments failed to take preventive preparations for
the
mass-influx of refugees from Kosovo to Macedonia, although the
expulsion of
Kosovo-Albanians by Milosevic's troops in the case of NATO
bombardments
was
anything but unforeseeable.

These chapters do not aim to meet academic standards, and therefore
deserve
to be judged with some leniency. As documents for the particular
problems
of handling the refugee crisis and of German efforts to build up an
economic and political presence in Macedonia they might have some
value,
although most of them contain to many irrelevant details and have too
self-affirmative a tone to be really interesting. But what serves to
be
criticized are those chapters of the book, which attempt to present
explanations or analyses. In the first chapter "Makedonien - ein
Vielvölkerstaat" (pp. 17-25), Andreas Raab reiterates standard
positions of
the Macedonian historiography on the history of Macedonia that are,
however, at odds with non-partisan scholarship. He maintains
the "deep
roots" of the Macedonians (p. 25) and obviously presumes the
primordial
character of national identities. The author also has a strange
understanding of "oral history", because with that expression he
describes
the oral transmission of Macedonian traditions, which is now
allegedly
intensively studied by "young Macedonian historians, not compromised
by
any
ideological current," (p. 19). His chapter will please Macedonian
historians as it also speaks of a [medieval] Macedonian kingdom. This
idea
forms one of the cornerstones of contemporary Macedonian national
mythology, which considers Car Samuil's Empire of the 10th and 11th
centuries as a `Macedonian' state. The same assumptions can be found
in
Martin Trenevski's (ex-minister in two Macedonian governments)
chapter
on
the Macedonian Question (pp. 26-31). He also mentions
the "Macedonian"
state of the 10th century (p. 27). He presents the creation of ASNOM
Macedonia in 1944 as if it were the established as a Macedonian
state,
which only later was forcefully incorporated into Yugoslavia, which
he
describes as an "artificial creation" (p. 27). Trenevski's chapter,
however, is a good illustration of the distorted views on the past,
which
many Macedonians are holding. Jordan Boskov, member of the Macedonian
parliament, writes about the birth of independent Macedonia (pp.
32-35). He
stresses the important role of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNEfor which he
was
obviously elected to parliamentwhile criticizing the post-communists
for
their reluctance in seeking independence (p. 33).

The former German ambassador Klaus Schrameyer gives a very friendly
vision
of independent Macedonia as a success story to Macedonia(pp. 70-80).
Schrameyer knows the situation in Macedonia well, but he tends to
over-identify with his subject. He nevertheless makes an important
point: a
possible social collapse poses a grave danger to Macedonia (p. 74).
But
the
social crisis is certainly not the "only real danger" to Macedonia,
as
maintained by Schrameyer, because last year's events which brought
Macedonia on the brink to civil war showed that also ethnic tensions
might
destroy the country. A rather strange contribution comes from Peter
Dreist,
from the legal department of the German Ministry of Defense, on
"Humanitäre
Intervention - Zur Rechtmäßigkeit der NATO-Operation ALLIED FORCE"
(pp.
83-104). He argues for the legality of the NATO intervention against
Yugoslavia, which is not very surprising given he is employed by one
of
the
main actors in the bombardment of Yugoslavia. While his argument that
the
ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo made an "humanitarian
intervention" by NATO legitimate even without an according mandate by
the
U.N. certainly deserves consideration, and is also shared by several
specialists for international law, his style of arguing is too
complacent.
He discusses the facts and arguments in a way that the necessary
outcome is
clear from the very beginning. For example, as the main advocate of
those
who deny the legal legitimacy of the NATO intervention he cites a
German
documentary film (p. 84-86)! He accuses the opponents of his position
to
fabricate facts or to lie, while he does not mention the dubious
remarks of
his former boss, Minister of Defense Scharping, during the Kosovo
War.
In
the last instance he refers to ethics: "The operation [NATO
intervention]
was also legitimate from an ethical point of view" (p. 103).

Arguably one of the most interesting contributions to the book is
Arben
Xhaferi's one. The leader of the Albanian party DPA, which since 1998
is
part of the coalition government, gives some insight into the demands
of
the Albanian minority, and their perceptions of the developments of
independent Macedonia. The text also reveals Xhaferi's ideological
assumptions, such as his anti-Yugoslavism, which he shares with the
VMRO-DPMNE party, his coalition partner in the government since 1998.
Xhaferi also points to the ethno-centric character of the Macedonian
constitution of 1991 as a source of conflict (p. 42).

Unfortunately, the book does almost nothing to illuminate the
difficult
situation of and in the Republic of Macedonia. Its 31 chapters are
rather a
document of image cultivation than an attempt to provide an analysis,
an
impression that is supported by the pictures in the book, which
mainly
portray scenes of German help. In an appendix of more than 50 pages,
ten
reports of Walter Kolbow's mission in Macedonia are reproduced, which
contain some interesting details. Summing up, the volume falls far
behind
existing scholarship on Macedonia and throughout the book it does not
become quite clear what the editors intended to tell us.

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7.
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
>
>http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm
>
>Commentary No. 98, October 1, 2002
>
>"The Battle of the Resolutions"
>
>The second U.S.-Iraqi war is undergoing its mobilizing skirmishes.
It
is
>the battle of the resolutions - two resolutions to be specific, one
to
be
>passed by the U.S. Congress and one to be passed by the U.N.
Security
Council.
>
>The story starts somewhere in the early summer of 2002. At that
time,
the
>decision of the U.S. government to invade Iraq soon had clearly been
>taken. The hawks believed they had won entirely the internal U.S.
battle.
>What they wanted was an invasion in October, without any
resolutions.
They
>didn't want resolutions for two reasons. They thought they might
have
some
>difficulty in getting the kind of resolutions they would find
acceptable.
>But even more important, they wanted to show that they didn't need
the
>resolutions, now or in the future. They wished to establish the
principle
>that the U.S. government could and would engage in pre-emptive action
>anywhere at any time if they thought it desirable. And they wished to
>start the war in October to guarantee a Republican majority in both
houses
>of Congress in the November elections.
>
>To their surprise, the U.S. government ran into more opposition than
they
>had expected - not only from the dubious allies (France, Russia,
China,
>Saudi Arabia, Egypt, U.S. Democrats) but from more influential
sources:
>the so-called "old Bushies" (that is, high-ranking Republican
>personalities); Rep. Armey, the Republican Majority Leader in the
House;
>and a long list of very prominent retired generals (obviously
speaking
for
>the Army generals on active duty). In addition, Tony Blair explained
that
>he was having a hard time pulling along the British public and
British
>politicians. The pivotal figure, President Bush himself decided that
he
>would have to stanch the outflow of support, and that the way to do
this
>was by seeking the resolutions. The main internal arguments were
>threefold: a) the U.S. government could get the resolutions; b)
Saddam
>Hussein would never agree to real inspections; c) the U.S. could then
>start the war in January, but with greater international and national
>support. January seems to be a deadline imposed by the U.S. military
>because of climate conditions in Iraq. If not January, then a
postponement
>of at least 6-9 months beyond January. Furthermore, the fight for the
>resolutions, by putting the fire under the feet of the Democrats,
would
>serve almost as well politically in November as an actual war.
>
>So, in September, Bush made his speech to the United Nations, and
called
>for the two sets of resolutions (U.N. and U.S. Congress). This
decision
>was actually a minor victory for the Powell-army generals-"old
Bushie"
>faction. That they were pleased and appeased can be noticed in the
>congratulatory op-ed piece that James A. Baker wrote immediately.
That
the
>hawks were less than pleased can be read in great detail in the
article
>published just before the speech in the September issue of Commentary
>magazine by that old superhawk, Norman Podhoretz. The article is
entitled
>"In Praise of the Bush Doctrine." It is a fascinating article and is
worth
>reading carefully. It makes three points: (1) The Bush doctrine of
>preemptive action is terrific and is in the tradition of Ronald
Reagan
and
>not of Bush's father; (2) Bush (junior) has been good on these
issues
only
>since 9/11; (3) Bush seems to be wobbling now.
>The key sentence, in good American colloquial style, is: "That is
not
to
>say that the count is in yet whether Bush will walk the walk as well
as he
>has talked the talk."
>
>What Podhoretz has in mind in "walking the walk" is that, after
>Afghanistan and Iraq, Bush should take on not only Iran and North
Korea
>but Syria, Lebanon, Libya and then Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the
>Palestinian Authority (even without Arafat). Podhoretz exempts
Pakistan
>only because of the turn-around of Musharref, but if Musharref were
to
go,
>clearly Podhoretz would add Pakistan to the list. So, at least we
know
>that the hawks are thinking of absolutely continuous warfare in the
Muslim
>world (and no doubt beyond - Cuba anyone?).
>
>Now what I can read, members of the U.S. Congress and members of the
U.N.
>Security Council can read as well. Will they then pass the
resolutions?
>Yes, of course, but that is not the battle. The battle is in the
wording
>of the resolutions. And the battle is in how the battle is being
fought.
>
>In the U.S. Congress, the battle is being fought with a mix of
>intimidation and weaseling. The Bush camp is threatening the
Democrats
>with a charge of appeasement or worse if they don't vote the
resolution in
>the form the government wants. This has clearly worked, up to a
point.
The
>Democratic leadership has been anxious to agree on a resolution
swiftly so
>that they can try to use the remaining time before the election to
remind
>voters of other issues (the state of the economy, threats to social
>security, insurance for seniors needing medical prescriptions,
etc.).
But
>there is a lot of unease about the war out there among ordinary
voters. Al
>Gore decided to stake his renewed campaign for the presidency by
issuing a
>note of great caution about Iraq. He is being viciously denounced for
>this. Nonetheless, the speech was enough to encourage Sen. Kennedy
>(and others) to echo it, to get Tom Daschle to express public anger
at
>Bush's attack Democratic asserted lack of "concern for national
security,"
>and to encourage Rep. Bonior, No. 2 Democrat in the House, to fly
off
to
>Baghdad and to say, let's not rush to war yet. The result of all of
this
>is that the original proposed resolution has been watered down
slightly.
>It now will no longer give Bush sanction for any and all military
actions
>but only for one in Iraq. That version will probably pass by very
large
>majorities in a week or so, although there still may be wrangling
over
the
>wording.
>
>The debate in the U.N. Security Council is probably more difficult
for
>Bush. The U.S. wants a tight deadline on Iraqi disarmament and an
>authorization for war if that doesn't occur. Iraq has confounded
Bush
by
>saying he will accept inspectors, but it seems, only on the basis of
the
>last (1998) U.N. resolution that the U.S. finds far below the
acceptable
>norm. Hans Blix, on behalf of the United Nations, is in Baghdad
right
now,
>negotiating for a return of inspectors, but of course on the basis
of
the
>existing U.N. mandate, that of 1998.
>
>Meanwhile, the U.S. has been putting great pressure on the three
doubtful
>veto-holding members - France, Russia, and China - to get them to
accept
>(or at least not veto) what the British will propose (which is what
the
>U.S. wants). So far, each of the three has issued statements that are
>ambivalent. France has said they absolutely do not want an
authorization
>for war in the resolution, that such an authorization should be in a
>second, later resolution, once it is determined that Iraq has defied
the
>first resolution. The French version would put off the war for a
while.
>For it would take time to determine whether the first resolution was
>defied, and it would take agreement that it was. Therefore, a second
>resolution formula would move us beyond January, and thus into the
fall of
>2003. France, Russia, and China will have an eye on each other, and
will
>probably in some sense synchronize their final positions.
>We cannot be sure of the wording of a U.N. resolution at this point.
But
>even with enormous U.S. arm-twisting, it is probable that the U.N.
>resolution will be weaker than the U.S. wants.
>
>So, what may we expect? A fairly strong U.S. Congress resolution,
>uncertain electoral results in November, and an in-between U.N.
>resolution. And then ambiguous responses by Saddam Hussein to
whatever
the
>U.N. tries to do. Comes December, we shall be at the moment of
choice.
The
>world will not agree on whether or not Hussein is fulfilling the U.N.
>resolution. And we are back at whether the U.S. proceeds alone
(probably
>with Great Britain). For the hawks, it would be now or never. And
they
>will push their hardest to go ahead in January, with or without
>international sanction. President Bush will either be their hero or
their
>villain. I would bet he would prefer to be their hero, whatever the
>longer-term consequences.
>
>Immanuel Wallerstein
>
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>These commentaries, published twice monthly, are intended to be
>reflections on the contemporary world scene, as seen from the
perspective
>not of the immediate headlines but of the long term.]

Becky Dunlop
Secretary, Fernand Braudel Center
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/index.htm

8.
English version

The Penelopes
september 2002
http://www.penelopes.org


Who can tell if this bulletin won't be the last that we send in
peaceful
times? How can we know if this North American relentlessness against
is
not hiding more pernicious purposes (Humeur), long term strategies to
reinforce the US and the liberalism's position of hegemony ? The Earth
Summit in Johannesburg in South Africa (Actualités/International et
Evénements) confirms the global tendency of multinationals to overtake
everything that concerns us and the policy of  "yes,sir" displayed by
states. Whether it is in Colombia where Coca-Cola continues its crimes
(Actualités/Amérique Latine), in Congo, where women are raped in total
impunity, (Actualités/Afrique), in Bosnia-Herzegovina where repressive
forces are implicated in the system of prostitution
(Actualités/Europe),
or in the US, where the fetus is now a human being
(Actualités/Amérique
du Nord), the signs that would make us believe we live the last
worries,
do not seem to match.  Even if W and his administration do everything
to
avoid the stock exchange from falling down, as well as the exhaustion
of
resources, the endemic crisis, it would be missing, before they
definitely break down, the toast of populations, particularly of
women.
It would be not enough to just state, even if fair, the "vetoization"
of
the world by the US. Since as it can be well seen in South Africa, the
three pillars that ensure the systems of domination – class, race,
sex
–
remain untouched. (Ressources). It can be proved by our immigration
policies in the North and the destiny reserved to our immigrant women
in
our regions (Dossier). Evidently, resistances persist, they are even
enhanced. Women move to ask for prosecution for Sharon under the label
of war crimes (Actualités/Proche-orient), Latino-Americans get on the
move, more than ever against the Alca (or FFAA in English)
(Actualités/Amérique Latine), syndicates and social movements protest
in
the streets in Sri Lanka (Actualités/Asie), women march against the
holocaust in Ciudad Juárez (Actions), solidarity gets organized for
the
"without papers" (Rencontres), rural women write their memories in
South
Africa (Ressources) and because a sign of progress should be
underlined,
a Saudi woman is now at the head of world family planning
(Ressources).
But let's stay aware. Just like the ceremonies of September the 11th
inspired us (the one of NYC and not the one of Chileans.
(Actualités/International), "Terrorism is patriarchy and vice versa "
(Ressources).





HUMEUR
- Who benefits from war ?
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2098


DOSSIERS
- Immigrant women, our citizens of the world
http://www.penelopes.org/xdossier.php3?id_article=2177


SOUS DOSSIERS
- Canada : traps of polygamy
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2099

- Douala-Paris : the exodus of mothers
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2100

- Brussels : Black associations against Black Demolition
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2101

- The feminization of migration
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2104

- " I am dead alive "
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2105

- Immigration in Europe : a tool for economic politics
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2106

- Migrants and refugees : multiple oppressions to fight
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2113

- Manifest of the "without papers" women
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2114

- When Algerian lesbians open the way
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2115

- The knitters of Lodève
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2178

- March for justice on September 13th
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2082

- A link 11th september on Alternet
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2081

- The guardians of women's vertud in the world
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=964

- Mothers in anger
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=961

Slaves rebel themselves
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2212

Solidarities here and there
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2211

RESSOURCES
- Gender and developement
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=776

- The blue helmets, pachas of Kinshasa
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2103

- A Saudi at the head of world family planning
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2102

- Québec, feminist paradise ?
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2112

- Class, race and sex : the three breasts of capitalism
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2145

- Rights and democracy, a resource site
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2190

- Women and extreme right
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2191

- Writing for living
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2206

- Terrorism is patriarchy and vice versa
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2085

- Hypocrisy and contradictions of development by and for women
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=966

- My child, my belonging
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=884


EVÉNEMENTS  (ACONTECIMIENTOS)

- Resistance and alternatives
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2144

- Joburg 2002 by the international press
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2093

- The eco of the summit by the press
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2092

- Shy coverage of international press
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2094

- Press still does not go into the streets
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2095

- Signs of fatigue in the press
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2096

- Morose press for the end of the summit
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2097

- Fighting against Aids : a matter of social change ?
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2076

- France against the elimination of negative subventions
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2079

- 31 august : international day of action
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2078

- Recovering one's dignity
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2077

- From social to economic
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=2080

- International Social Forum in Argentina
http://www.penelopes.org/xarticle.php3?id_article=905


AFRICA
- Apartheid post-apartheid
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2126

- Violence against women : action plan
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2146

- Last independent radio in Zimbabwe attacked
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2154

- Sexual Violence  as war weapon in Congo
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2158

- A Rwandese minister prosecuted for rape
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2167

- Morocco : the Parliament gets feminized
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2168

- Africa turns its back to GMO
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2193


  NORTH AMERICA
- Urgent Contraception authorized for rape victims
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2141

- Puritans win the Chamber
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2160

- Marital Violence : California gives the example
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2161

- Better be rich and healthy…
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2162

- Will ultra right take the justice ?
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2163

- Status change for fetus
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2164

- Elected make the difference
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2165

- The anti-choice feel free in Kentucky
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2166


  LATIN AMÉRICA
- Sterilization of women in Peru
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2179

- Colombia : human rights deteriorate
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2195

- Colombia makes war to syndicates  – Murders by Coca-Cola
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2196

- Quito : " ALCA NUNCA ",  USA and Ecuador against the FTAA
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2197


ASIA
- Social struggles in Sri Lanka
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2143

- 5000 sexual slaves from American soldiers in South Corea
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2157

- Nice victory for Nepalese
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2171

- India : war rape and abuse in Gujarat
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2172

- Malasia : a rapist policeman acquitted
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2176


EUROPA
- Gender Dimension in work health
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2135

- Retirements 2001 : far away from parity
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2147

- L'APGL and Cadac out from CSIS
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2148

- Policemen implicated in forced prostitution in Bosnia-Herzegovina
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2155

- Sexist Insults in our farmlands
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2173

- Spain : sexual harassment comes out
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2174

- Law analysis of the situation of East European from the south
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2180


INTERNATIONAL

- No to US Attacks to IPC
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2117

- Women to IPC now !
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2118

- Johannesburg's Summit, a non exhaustive balance sheet
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2119

- A sad action plan
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2120

- Zoom on some over discussed subjects within the action plan
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2121

- Red carpet to companies, and NGOs to the closet
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2122

- The Us and the rest of the world
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2123

- Kids make their summit
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2124

- Land, work, food !
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2125

- Socio environmental injustice and racism
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2127

- From NGO's summit come out the alternatives
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2128

- African visions
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2129

- Earth democracy
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2130

- WEDO net in Jo'burg
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2131

- WSSD : women's rights on the balance
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2132

- Sustainable development and human rights
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2133

- Warfare must  not replace welfare
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2134

- the voice of a GI against war in Irak
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2156

- 700 000 dead people on the conscience
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2169

- Mandela treats the US as brute
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2183

- The other  september 11
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2205

- Warning to women's rights !
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2087

- Miss World in the country of lapidations ?
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=1029


MIDDLE EAST

- Bahreïn shakes!
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2170

- A dead afghan costos 200000 times less than an Italian one
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2184

- Besieged women
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2198


NEAR EAST
- Kill the cooperators " with humanity "
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2142

- "Judge Sharon for war crimes"
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2185

- Women in balck in Jérusalem
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2192


ACTIONS
- Water and gender management: it goes on
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2111

- Migrants against Aids needs support
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2175

- March against the holocaust of women in Ciudad Juárez
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2208

- demonstration against publicity aggression in Parisian metro
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2091


PÉTITIONS EN LIGNE (Petitions)
- Presence asked for olive harvesting in Palestine
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2186


RENCONTRES  (Meetings)
- Solidarity without papers
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2090

- Amsterdam receives entrepreneurial women
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2108

- third World debt in discussion
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2109

- Garance : program autumn 2002
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2139

- Improvisations by women
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2140

- Electronic French-speaking Conference " gender and water "
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2149

- Attac's cinema : for another globalization
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2181

- Feminist strategies for peace
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2187

- On the barriers, between Israël and Palestine
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2189

- Time of women in Nantes
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2084


NOS SITES PRÉFÉRÉS  (our favorite websites)
- Equiterre, equitable
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2136

-  Collège Coopératif on line!
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2138

- Canadian Centre for women information
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2151

- Labrys :  digital feminist magazine
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2188


REVUES (magazines)
- Parents care – Prostitution
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2150

- Folha Feminista Nº 37
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2202

- We ! Nº 20
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2203

- Lola Press july-october 2002 (en inglés y español)
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2204


EXPOSITIONS
- Latin-american art in Montreuil
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2089


TIC À LA UNE
- Women in pole position for Geneve 2003
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2110


PETITES ANNONCES (Ads)
- Hilarious and satiric drawing workshop
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2137

-  EMPAN magazine about " Youth and generation / youth and
transmission
"
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2152

- The crazier we are, the more we have fun
http://www.penelopes.org/xbreve.php3?id_article=2199






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11.
Dates: June 3-26, 2003  Application Deadline: Feb 1 2003
The West Point Summer Seminar in Military History is
       open to faculty and advanced graduate students in the field of
       history who wish to enhance their ability to study and to teach
       military history. Applicants will be selected based upon their
       potential contributions to the field of military history  ...
    Contact: kf7725@...
    URL: www.dean.usma.edu/history/USMA/fellowship.htm

Background

     The Department of History has conducted a summer program in
military history since the 1960s.  Originally, this program took the
form of a fellowship for the instructors who would teach military
history courses for Army ROTC programs in various colleges around the
country.  The USMA-ROTC Fellowship ran for three decades, and trained
more than five hundred teachers from over three hundred different
colleges and universities.  After the summer of 1996, however,
reductions in the Army's budget made it impossible for the Army to
continue funding the program.  At the same time, the Department of
History concluded that a change in focus and target audience was in
order.  Through the generosity of a private donor, the Department is
now able to offer a new program -- the West Point Summer Seminar in
Military History.

Who Can Participate?

     The West Point Summer Seminar in Military History is open to
faculty and advanced graduate students in the field of history who
wish to enhance their ability to study and to teach military history.
Applicants will be selected based upon their potential contributions
to the field of military history and upon the contribution the program
can make to their future study and teaching. Preference will be given
to junior faculty (including those who received their doctorate), and
to graduate students who expect to teach or study military history and
who have completed all requirements for the doctorate other than
submission of the dissertation.
What Is It?

     The Summer Seminar focuses primarily on the Western (European and
American) military experience and the Asian military experience during
World War II, Korea, and Vietnam.  Further topics of discussion
include the use of air and naval power, Eastern armies of the 20th
Century, international military diplomacy, warfare in the post-Vietnam
era and future war.  The program is built around a series of seminars,
a variety of guest lecturers, and a Civil War and American Revolution
battlefield staff ride.  Classes consist of groups of fourteen to
sixteen Fellows who meet for three hours each morning.   There are
fifteen daily sessions. Each session begins with a USMA faculty member
introducing the topic and then continues with him or her leading a
detailed discussion of the subject area and an analysis of
bibliography, historiography, and important questions about the war or
period.  Each class also includes suggestions for approaches to
teaching the topic.

     The guest lecture program brings a variety of noted military
historians from universities throughout the United States, United
Kingdom, and Canada to speak to the Fellows.  These lectures usually
occur in the afternoon and are followed by a discussion period.
Lecturers also may include Army officers from the USMA History
Department and other military schools or institutions who give
presentations on topics in which they have special or personal
expertise.  Past lecturers have included John Shy, Mark Grimsley, Gary
Gallagher,Williamson Murry, Holger Herwig, Don Higginbotham, Paul
Fussell, Gerhard Weinberg, George Herring, Ron Spector, Donald
Horward, David Chandler, and Generals (Retired) Frederick Franks and
William Westmoreland.  Evening lectures or colloquia focus on a
variety of interesting subjects and are used to cover topics that do
not fit easily within the standard sequence of lessons.

     During the 2003 Summer Seminar, the Fellows will spend four days
visiting various Civil War battlefields including Antietam and
Gettysburg. Members of the USMA History Department normally lead these
tours.  At Gettysburg, the participants learn how to conduct a staff
ride and gain an appreciation for a staff ride's value in teaching
military history.  Staff rides are an extremely important part of
high-level military history instruction, especially for civilians,
because they allow the participants to gain an understanding of the
effects of terrain on battle and analyze the decision-making of the
key commanders, as well as to gain an appreciation for the scale of
the battles they are studying.  The main objective of all of these
exercises is to show the participants that professional military
history is intellectually engaging, readily accessible to them, and
fun, because the overarching goal of the program is to encourage as
many of the participants as possible to continue to study and teach
military history.  The program also provides the participants with an
introduction to contacts within the Army who can assist them in
further study in the field of military history. Fellows will also have
the opportunity to make a direct contribution to the study of military
history while at the seminar. During their time at West Point, Fellows
will complete an individual seminar project.  They may choose between
writing a historiographical essay, creating a primary source document
packet, developing a series of lesson plans, designing a web site, or
developing links to benefit a military history web site. At the
conclusion of the seminar, Fellows will leave with a collection of
their peers' contributions.
Costs

The program does not cost the participants anything. Travel, food, and
lodging, are provided. Participants will receive a $1,500 stipend.

THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM

Calls for applications for MA, PhD and DSP studies at the Central
European University in Budapest.

The deadline for application is January 6, 2003.

For information on the program and the offered grants and financial aid
please visit our homepage
(http://www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html).

With questions regarding the program or the admission process please
turn to Szabolcs Pogonyi, the program coordinator (pogonyi@...)


Dear Prospective Student:

We encourage you to apply to our program if you wish to engage in an
empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, self-determination,
ethnic conflict, xenophobia, minority protection and the related theme
of globalisation. We offer a comprehensive introduction to the main
approaches to the study of nationalism involving the disciplines of
history, sociology, anthropology, legal studies, political science and
political theory.
As you know, very few universities in international higher education
provide this kind of specialization on both the MA and PhD level. Our
distinctive focus, intellectually exciting teaching profile and
interdisciplinary approach has been developed by the most eminent
experts in the field, including Rogers Brubaker, Will Kymlicka, Yael
Tamir, Tibor Várady, Michael Stewart and Erica Benner. We are proud to
have them among our faculty. Our common focus is to explore how liberal
norms and models of dealing with ethnocultural diversity can be adapted
in Central and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. Our approach
is widely comparative. This helps us to avoid the dangers of
parochialism, auto-celebratory tendencies and epistemological insiderism
and to provide an open, critical, non-sectarian and cosmopolitan
perspective on the study of nationalism. Please consult our webpage for
further details on our courses.
As a student in our program you will benefit from the resources of our
excellent faculty and high-quality student body and from the uniquely
lively atmosphere of Budapest at the heart of Central Europe.

Mária M. Kovács, Program Director

________________________________________________________________________________\
__________
The Nationalism Studies Program was established by Central European
University with the aim of promoting the study of nationalism in the
post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program is a
successor to CEU's Center for the Study of Nationalism in Prague
directed by the late Professor Ernst Gellner. Situated at CEU's Budapest
teaching site, the program offers students an MA degree accredited by
the Board of Regents of the State of New York. The program also offers a
PhD degree in the framework of a joint History-Nationalism PhD track in
collaboration with CEU's History Department. In addition the program's
MA graduates may apply to the PhD program in Political Science based on
a special agreement between the two units. Graduate students enrolled in
PhD programs at universities outside CEU and who wish to utilize CEU's
innovative programs and resources to assist the development of their
dissertations can apply for the Doctoral Support Program.

The Nationalism Studies Program is intended to respond to the growing
demand for new knowledge and teaching in the field.  Drawing upon the
uniquely supranational milieu of the Central European University, it
encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism with
special emphasis on problems created by the new configuration of states,
nations and minorities in the region.

Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of
nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally
interdisciplinary. For this reason, the international teaching staff has
been assembled to represent a wide range of relevant disciplinary
expertise including history, social theory, economics, legal studies,
sociology, anthropology, international relations and political science.
The program offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex
theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and
nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of
applied social science. Another group of courses place problems of
nationalism in the context of economic and political transition as well
as constitution building in post-1989 East-Central Europe with a
comparative outlook on regime transitions outside the region.

The faculty of the Nationalism Studies Program this year includes Mária
M. Kovács, András Kovács, Petr Lom, Micahel Miller, Will Kymlicka,
Rogers Brubaker, Yael Tamir, Michael Stewart, Erica Benner, Michael
Stanislawski, Marsha Rozenblit, Tibor Várady, Victor Karády, Panayote
Dimitras and Florian Bieber.



Szabolcs Pogonyi
Program Coordinator
CEU Nationalism Studies
www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html
Nador u. 9. FT  Room 205
1051 Budapest
phone:  (+361) 3273000/2086
fax: (+361) 2356102

Uzbekistan sub-directory of World Wide Web History Virtual Library
Location: Uzbekistan
Date Submitted: 2002-10-06
H-Net Announcement ID: 131471

http://www.ku.edu/kansas/uz/ is the Uzbekistan sub-directory of World Wide
Web History Virtual Library. http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/ founded and
administered by Professor Emeritus Lynn H. Nelson, University of Kansas,
Lawrence (which in itself is a sub-directory of www-vl).
http://www.ku.edu/kansas/uz/ contains links to both historical and current
information on Uzbekistan.



  H.B. Paksoy
Texas Tech University
Visit the website at http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/hpaksoy


  Mail this announcement to a colleague!

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:28:01 -0400
From: Joan Kallis <jkallis@...>
To: POL Faculty <hlevy@...>,
      POL Ph.D. Students <jkallis@...>,
      Post-Docs <hlevy@...>
Subject: JOBS: San Francisco State, tenure-track

The International Relations Department at San Francisco State is
currently conducting a search for candidates for assistant professor
positions in the following areas: International Legal Studies,
Globalization, and Transnational relations of Muslim societies. For
more information please consult the Jobs Binder in the Grad Office.
Deadline dates are from October 15th (Int'l Legal Studies), December
15th (Muslim Societies) and January 11th (Globalization) and go until
positions are filled.

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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:08:46 -0400
From: Joan Kallis <jkallis@...>
To: POL Faculty <hlevy@...>,
      POL Ph.D. Students <jkallis@...>,
      Post-Docs <hlevy@...>
Subject: JOB: McMaster, tenure-track

McMaster University
Department of Political Science


The Department of Political Science at McMaster University
invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant
professor or junior associate professor level whose focus will be the
politics of citizenship and intercultural relations, including such
issues as diversity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, human rights
and diaspora relations. The candidate should be capable of effective
teaching and supervision at the graduate level in the Department of
Political Science and be able to provide a course for a proposed new
MA in Globalization Studies offered by the Institute on Globalization
and the Human Condition. The candidate must also be able to
contribute effectively to the undergraduate programme in Political
Science.

The candidate should have a PhD or be near completion and show
promise of excellence in teaching and research.  The Department
expects the person who takes up the position to engage in an
independent research programme yielding significant peer-reviewed
publications. The candidate's research should show expert knowledge
of theories and debates of globalization and should address key
questions from this literature. Research that addresses these issues
from a broadly comparative perspective or at the global level will be
a decided asset. The appointee will be expected to be an active
participant in McMaster University's Institute on Globalization and
the Human Condition. A candidate's programme of research should be
one complementary to the SSHRCC Major Collaborative Research
Initiatives project on "Globalization and Autonomy."  The project's
research plan is available at
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~global/.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian
citizens and permanent residents will be considered first for this
position.  McMaster University is strongly committed to employment
equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and
staff.  The University encourages applications from all qualified
candidates, including women, members of visible minorities,
Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with
disabilities. An application, including a curriculum vitae, three
letters of reference, a teaching dossier (including an outline for an
undergraduate course in Political Science and an interdisciplinary
graduate course in Globalization Studies) and a copy of a recent
publication or paper should be sent to:


Dr. Tony Porter, Chair, Department of Political Science/
Dr. William Coleman, Director, Institute on Globalization and the
Human Condition McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4.

Deadline for applications:  December 31st,  2002

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:53:11 -0400
From: Janet Hyer <janet.hyer@...>
To: unlisted-recipients:  ;
Subject: Call for Papers


CALL FOR PAPERS

BEYOND POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITION: RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

February 7  and 8, 2003
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto

Over the past decade, the countries of South-Eastern Europe have undergone
traumatic regime changes, including in some cases wars of secession, and
profound shifts at the social base. One of the results of these changes has
been an unprecedented number of reconstruction initiatives. These
initiatives, both international and domestic, address economic, social and
political needs, and indeed in many cases can be understood as attempts to
resolve an impasse in development which most of the region has faced since
the late 1970s.

The Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the Munk Centre for
International Studies (University of Toronto), will be hosting an
interdisciplinary graduate student conference on the topic of
reconstruction and development. We are interested in papers dealing with
any of the following three broad issue areas, preferably in a comparative
manner:

Political and institutional reconstruction  issues of state consolidation,
nation building, interest representation, problems in functioning of
political institutions, “democratization” initiatives, etc.

Socio-economic development  development viewed from sociological,
anthropological and political-economic perspectives, including issues of
elite formation and organization, economic policy development,
socio-economic impact of policy choices, international aspects of
development, etc.

Development of civil society  including issues of gender equality and
women’s development, media, religion, minority rights, etc.

We will be considering only those papers dealing with the following
countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia
(FYROM), Montenegro, Romania and Serbia (including Kosovo/a).


SUBMISSIONS

This conference is open to graduate and post-doctoral students. Those
wishing to participate should send a CV and a 300 word abstract:

·       as an e-mail attachment in Word 97 or as an .RTF file to
see.reconstruction@...  or
·       by fax to (416) 946-8939 or
·       by mail to :
      Conference on Reconstruction and Development in South-Eastern Europe
      Centre for Russian and East European Studies
      Munk Centre for International Studies
      University of Toronto
      1 Devonshire Place
      Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7

Applications should be received by November 22nd, 2002 and selected
panelists will be notified by December 16th, 2002. Each participant will be
allowed to present on one panel only.

Participants are strongly encouraged to seek funding to cover their travel
costs. Accommodations will be provided by organizers, subject to availability.

1.call for papers 2.job 3.review 4.siir 5.fellowship 6.website 7.e-
conference 8.invitation 9.open democracy 10.MA and PhD

1.
Subject: CfP: Journal of European Area Studies/Journal of
Contemporary
European Studies

    Thursday 10, October

Journal of European Area Studies

New title from 2003:
Journal of Contemporary European Studies

Special Issue on
European Studies Threats and Opportunities

Call for Papers
The Journal of European Area Studies/Contemporary European Studies is
preparing a special issue on the above theme, to be published in the
issue
11/1, May 2003. The issue will be focusing on the following topics:

* The re/definition of European Studies
* The problems experienced by practitioners in the recent past
* The relationship between Language Studies and European Studies
* Interdisciplinarity as a challenge
* European integration and the study of individual nation states
* European Studies and Globalisation
* Conflicts between teaching and research?
* Confrontation between European and non-European cultures?
* The future of European Studies?

Abstracts and contributions electronic submissions welcome should be
sent
to Brian Jenkins or Jeremy Leaman:

Dr. Brian Jenkins
Research Professor
Department of French
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK
jenkins@jenkins5063. freeserve.co.uk

Dr. Jeremy Leaman
Dept of International and European Studies
Loughborough University
LOUGHBOROUGH, LE11 3TU, UK
J.Leaman@...



Subject: CFP:Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power: An Interdisciplinary
Conference

Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Location:United Kingdom
Call for Papers Begins:2004-04-05
Date Submitted:2002-10-10
Announcement ID:131521


Hosted by the Department of HIstory, University of Southampton, 5-7
April 2004.

The theme of masculinity now has an established status within popular
and academic discourse, but to date there has been little cross-
cultural
and cross-period comparison to accompany the many detailed case
studies
which have been published in the last decade. This conference seeks
to
forge those comparative links, and invites proposals for papers
addressing the conference theme from historical, literary,
anthropological and
political perspectives within the period 500-2000 C.E.

Proposals are invited for papers of 30 minutes on any of the
conference
strands:
masculinie socialisation and childhood
male life cycle/s
patriarchy as an oppressive force in men's lives
male sexuality and reproductive rights
masculinity and material culture
alternatives to the 'warrior male' paradigm
virility as a quality and female masculinity

Proposals (preferably by email, and including an abstract and a short
CV) should be sent to Trish Skinner for pre-1700C.E. topics or Julie
Gammon for topics post 1700C.E.

Dr Trish Skinner or Dr Julie Gammon
Department of History
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Email: j.gammon@... or p.skinner@...

Visit the website at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pes1/masccfp.html



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Panels for the Gender and Politics Section at the next ECPR
General Conference at Marburg, September 2003 are now
confirmed.  Please visit the Women and Politics Group
website on
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/women/w_papers.htm> for
details.

Details of the 'Gender Quotas in Comparative Perspective'
Research Session held in Geneva September 2002 are also
available on the website at
<http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/women/w_papers.htm>

best wishes,

Judith



----------------------
Judith Squires
Department of Politics, University of Bristol
10 Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU
+117 928 8239

judith.squires@...


Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: CfP: Mediterranean Studies Association
          Congress(Budapest)

H-Gender-MidEast
**************
Mediterranean Studies Association Congress, Budapest, May 2003

The Mediterranean Studies Association's 6th annual International
Congress,
"Central Europe and the Mediterranean" will be held on May 28-31,
2003
at
the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. 2003 will
commemorate
the 550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, marking the end
of
Byzantium and the beginning of Stambul. Sessions devoted to this
anniversar=
y
are especially welcome. As is the case each year, papers and sessions
on al=
l
subjects relating to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean
cultures
around the world from all periods are encouraged. Following a day of
optional excursions the congress will open with a plenary session and
reception on the evening of May 28. Over the course of the next days
over
150 scholarly papers will be delivered before an international
audience
of
about 250 scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of fields.
Held
in the center of Budapest at the Central European University, the
official
language of the congress is English. In addition, complete sessions
in
any
Mediterranean language are welcome. A number of special events are
being
planned for congress participants that will highlight the unique
cultural
aspects of Budapest. The congress is sponsored by the Mediterranean
Studies
Association, the Central European University, the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth, Arizona State University, and the University
of
Kansas. Selected revised papers will be considered for publication in
the
Association's journal, Mediterranean Studies. The Mediterranean
Studies
Association is an interdisciplinary organization which promotes the
scholarly study of Mediterranean cultures in all aspects and
disciplines. I=
t
is particularly concerned with the ideas and ideals of western
Mediterranea=
n
cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence
beyon=
d
these geographical and temporal boundaries.

Proposals for papers and sessions are now being solicited. Papers and
proposals for sessions are encouraged which focus on the conference
theme,
but any paper or session proposal with a Mediterranean theme, from any
period and any discipline, will be considered. Proposals for
roundtable
discussions of a topical work or theme are also welcome. The typical
panel
will include three papers, each lasting twenty minutes, a chair, and
(optionally) a commentator. For examples of paper and session topics,
and
the range of subjects, see the programs from Lisbon (1998), Coimbra
(1999),
Salvador (2000), Aix-en-Provence (2001), and Granada (2002).

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a
one-page
curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and
commentators.
Each participant=B9s name, e-mail and regular address, and phone
number
shoul=
d
also be listed. Proposals are now being solicited for the first round
of
consideration. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2002,
though
proposals will be considered after that date.

Please send proposals to the address below. For information on the
congress
or the Association see our website or contact us via e-mail.

Mediterranean Studies Association
P.O. Box 212=20
East Sandwich, MA 02537
USA

Email: msa@...
Visit the website at http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org


Title: Women's Spirituality Conference: Body and Soul - Connecting
       to an Expanding Community. May 2-4,2003
    Deadline: 2002-10-30
    Description: WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY: BODY AND SOUL Connecting with
       an Expanding Community Call for Papers/Art
       Presenters-Exhibitors Must Register Invitation to Scholars,
       Artists, Ritual Presenters Deadline: October 30, 2002
       Notification by January 15, 2003 Women Only Submissions
       Academic and creative papers in wom ...
    Contact: wsconference@...
    URL: www.womens-spirituality-conference.org
    Announcement ID: 131583
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131583

    Title: CFP - 2003 Peace History Society- deadline approaching
    Location: Michigan
    Date: 2002-11-01
    Description: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE APPROACHING THE
       PEACE HISTORY SOCIETY will be sponsoring its third
       international conference, Peace Work: The Labor of Peace
       Activism, Past, Present, and Future, April 25-27, 2003 at
       Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, USA.
       Professor Mitch Hall wil ...
    Contact: lekus@...
    URL: www.berry.edu/phs/
    Announcement ID: 131550
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131550

    Title: CFP: Popular Culture (11/18/02; 2/21-22/03)
    Location: Texas
    Deadline: 2002-11-18
    Description: Border Crossings: Interplay within English Studies
       Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas February 21-22, 2003
       Sponsored by: The Graduate English Society, Texas Tech
       University Chair: Russell Willerton (Russell.willerton@...)
       GES Conference Texas Tech University Department of English, Box
       43091 L ...
    Contact: concord2424@...
    URL: english.ttu.edu/ges/
    Announcement ID: 131571
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131571

    Title: CFP: The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe
    Location: Louisiana
    Deadline: 2002-11-30
    Description: Consortium on Revolutionary Europe Lafayette,
       Louisiana February 21-24, 2003 CALL FOR PAPERS In February of
       2003 the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe will meet at the
       University of Louisiana at Lafayette - a.k.a. l'Universit des
       Acadiens - in the heart of the Acadian prairie. Since 2003 is
       the occ ...
    Contact: SVN4713@...  and SVN4713@...
    Announcement ID: 131541
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131541

    Title: Mediterranean Studies Association Congress, Budapest, May
       2003
    Deadline: 2002-12-01
    Description: The Mediterranean Studies Association's 6th annual
       International Congress, "Central Europe and the Mediterranean"
       will be held on May 28-31, 2003 at the Central European
       University in Budapest, Hungary. 2003 will commemorate the
       550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople, marking the
       end of Byz ...
    Contact: msa@...
    URL: www.mediterraneanstudies.org
    Announcement ID: 131543
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131543


    Title: Activating Human Rights and Diversity
    Deadline: 2003-02-03
    Description: Call for Papers Activating Human Rights and Diversity
       Local and Global Voices Byron Bay 1-4 July 2003 This
       international conference is for everyone who cares passionately
       about human rights, and who wishes to activate/re-activate
       human rights and their importance in the twenty-first century.
       We hope ...
    Contact: rofford@...
    URL: www.scu.edu.au/research/clpc/human_rights/index.html
    Announcement ID: 131557
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131557

Title: Book and Empire: Textual Production, Distribution and
       Consumption in Colonial and Post Colonial Countries
    Begins: 2003-01-30
    Description: The conference will be open to papers dealing with
       any aspect of the study of print culture, editorial theory and
       practice, and bibliography. However, there will be a special
       emphasis on imperial and colonial and postcolonial histories of
       the book, from the moment oral cultures met print cultures up
       ...
    Contact: leena.messina@...
    URL: www.anu.edu.au/hrc/activities/conferences_2003/index.html
    Announcement ID: 131554
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131554

First announcement for a new women's studies conference to be held in
January 2003 in Helsinki:

The 1st Christina Conference on Women's Studies: Rights and
Representations
University of Helsinki
January 10 -11, 2003

The Christina Institute, the women's studies unit at the University of
Helsinki, is starting a new biennial series of conferences to present
and promote the foci and strong fields of women's studies in our
university. The themes for the first conference are "Visual
Representations of Gender" and "Women's Law and Rights". Both themes
provide an exciting angle to the concept of representation and its
different meanings. By inviting international and domestic speakers we
seek to combine these two main themes into an interesting and
inspiring,
truly interdisciplinary, conference.

The keynote speakers of the first Christina Conference are Sara Ahmed
(Lancaster University), Tuula Gordon (University of Helsinki), Kevät
Nousiainen (University of Helsinki), Irina Novikova (Universities of
Latvia and Helsinki), Jo Shaw (Manchester University), and Ella Shohat
(New York University). In addition there will be two separate panel
sections where invited domestic speakers will present their work on
the
two themes of the conference.

The conference language is English. There is no conference fee, but
registration in advance is recommended. The conference dinner will be
held on Friday at Ravintola Kappeli (35 €, registration required in
advance). More information on the conference programme and
registration
will be posted on this mailing list at the end of October. The
conference will also have its own web pages under the Christina
Institute web site at http://www.helsinki.fi/kristiina-instituutti/.

Best regards,
Maija Urponen
Conference Secretary

Christina Institute for Women's Studies
P.O.Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38E)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
tel: +358 (0)9 191 23387
fax:  +358 (0)9 191 23315
e-mail: maija.urponen@...
http://www.helsinki.fi/kristiina-instituutti/

Subject: CfP: BISA Working Group on the Balkans

From: <ETHNOPOLITICS@...>

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce that the third workshop of the BISA Working
Group on the Balkans is scheduled for Saturday, 7 December 2002, at St
Antony's College, University of Oxford.

The workshop will consist of two thematic panels:

1. Reform and Transition in the Balkans
This panel is intended to explore the various political, social and
economic aspects of change in the region, and welcomes papers on
post-communist reform and transition as well as on post-conflict
reconstruction and development. Cross-country comparisons are
encouraged.

2. EU-Balkan Relations
As the projected 2004 date for EU enlargement draws closer, and with
the
announcement that only one South-East European state, Slovenia, is to
be
included in the first round, EU-Balkan relations are at the
crossroads.
We are interested in papers that look at the political, social and
economic implications of the relationship between the European Union
and
the Balkan countries plus Turkey.

We welcome academic papers as well as work-in-progress. Proposals in
the
form of a 150-word abstract should be sent to:

Jenny Engstrom
j.m.engstrom@...

and

Dimitar Bechev
dimitar.bechev@...

http://www.bisa.ac.uk/groups/balkans/index.htm

The deadline for submission is Thursday, 7 November  2002

Call for papers: The Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the
Modern
Period

Vienna, 22-25 September 2004

Symposium on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Institute
for
Austrian Historical Research (in cooperation with the Department of
His-tory, University of Vienna)

Deadline for the return of lecture proposals: 31 January 2003

Address: Dr. Martin Scheutz, Institut fürÖsterreichische
Geschichtsforschung (Austrian Institute of Historical Research), Dr.
Karl
Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Vienna, martin.scheutz@...

ORGANIZERS: Dr. Marlene Kurz, Dr. Martin Scheutz, Dr. Karl Vocelka,
Dr.
Thomas Winkelbauer

The Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy share a common history
rife
with conflicts. In view of this centuries-long, clearly adversarial
relationship, research has yet to shed much light on how the people in
these two, organizationally very different state
structures "perceived"
each other, reacted to each other, traded with one another and
received
different religious ideas, as well as on how the image of the "other"
was
constructed in the respective propaganda. The emphases of the
symposium,
which is being mounted on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the
founding of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, are,
apart
from
the relatively well-researched adversarial relationship and mutual
military
history - which have been paid much attention in Austrian historical
research - particularly the cultural transfer that took place. The
contacts
spanning the period from the late Middle Ages to the First World War
should
be more closely examined and given a more prominent place than they
have
had up to now. A networking of the research activities of
Turkologists,
historians and, for example, those researching in the fields of
literature,
anthropology and ethnology - as well as strengthening the ties between
special research and general history - should also be goals of this
symposium.

Possible emphases:
- Diplomatic history (resident ambassadors, exchange of
messages,
espionage), conduct of negotiations (harmonization of ceremony)
- Travelogues (including letters)
- Economic exchange (trade), spoils of war, gifts, art objects
[see,
for example, the numerous pieces of Ottoman jewelry and weapons in the
Imperial Treasury (kaiserliche Schatzkammer) and in the Collection of
Arms
and Armor (Hofjagd- und Rüstkammer)].
- Booty objects, alla turca masks and tournaments as
representation
of the "other", exotic performances, illustrations (e.g. pictures from
diplomatic missions)
- Vehicles of cultural transfer (translators), Ottoman
prisoners,
Ottoman/Christian converts and the means of cultural transfer
(translations
of  important literature of the adversary, dictionaries, 'enemy
handbooks',
etc.), exchange of everyday things (such as culinary and dining
cultures,
hygiene, plants), mutual reactions to the plague, etc.
- Technology transfer (weapons, fortifications, methods of
fighting,
etc.)
- Reception of collective images of the respective adversary
(by way of
- pamphlets, treatises, travelogues, letters, sermons, etc.)
- Reception of religious beliefs of the adversary (portrayal of
Christian or
- Islamic religious ideas to the subjects)
- Mutual influence on state-creation processes, reception of
literature on the other state, religious tolerance or coexistence
(e.g.
as
alluded to by the saying, "The Turk is the Lutherans' luck")
- Migration from west to east and vice versa (ways in which
subjects
might have come to know the adversary personally, etc.)

Symposium languages: German, English

Lectures: 30 minutes in length

The symposium will be sponsored by the Magistratsabteilung 7 der
Stadt
Wien
(Municipal Department 7, Cultural Affairs / H. C. Ehalt of the City of
Vienna).

Subject: CfP: European Political Economy Review

Papers may be sent until the end of October.
Thanks for diffusing the call!!!
EPER editors

*******************************************
First issue of the European Political Economy Review (EPER)

The European Political Economy Review (EPER) is a new online
journal coordinated and managed by members of the European
Political-economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC), a European
network supported by the European Commission and created on the
joint initiative of the LSE (London), the WZB (Berlin), the EUI
(Florence) and the Juan March Institute (Madrid)
(www.epic.ac.uk). The workshops have brought together around
hundred Ph D students from different academic fields and
countries between 2000 and 2002. The Review is thought as a
project to extend this constructive dialogue into the larger
research community.

Why a new journal?

Although European Political Economy is today a flourishing
research field, only few academic journals/reviews choose this
focus to bridge the gap between political, economic and also
juridical sciences on European questions. Facing the growing
interdependence characterising the post bi-polar world, scholars
of international and European Political Economy analyse two
major interconnections: first, the way politics constructs
economics at the same time as economics constructs politics
within the processes of Europeanisation and
internationalisation. Second, the interdependence created
through transnational economic processes and the growing role of
non-state actors in international relations as a challenging
phenomena to the traditional distinction between European and
international on the one hand, and national spaces on the other.
In the particular and unique case of the European construction,
there is a strong need to understand, in an interdisciplinary
perspective, the blurring of boundaries between politics and
economics, as well as between national and European questions.

Specificity of the Review

Run by advanced doctoral students from different disciplinary,
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of Political Economy in Europe. It will demonstrate a broad and
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For further questions, please e-mail to:
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Subject: Call for Contributors: Berkshire|Routledge Religion and
Socety
series
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:29:41 -0400

Call for Contributors: Encyclopedia of Religion and War
                                 Encyclopedia of Religious Rituals


Berkshire Publishing Group is seeking scholars and other experts who
can
write an article or two for a general audience for the upcoming
volumes
of
the Religion and Society series. The Encyclopedia of Religion and War
and
the Encyclopedia of Religious Rituals will be the fifth and sixth
volumes in
the Berkshire/Routledge series. The three previous volumes, the
Encyclopedia
of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, the Encyclopedia of
African
and
African-American Religions, and the Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism
have
been
well received for their outstanding quality and clear, readable
explanations. (Library Journal, January 2002).

The next three volumes on Religious Freedom, War, and Rituals are now
being
prepared and will be published by Routledge in 2003. The Freedom
volume
(edited by Catherine Cookson, Center for the Study of Religious
Freedom,
Virginia Wesleyan College) is nearing completion while we are still
in
the
contributor recruitment stage for War (edited by Gabriel
Palmer-Fernandez,
Youngstown State University) and Rituals (edited by Frank Salamone,
Iona
College).

You can find out more about each of the projects by visiting the
author
websites.
Encyclopedia of Religious Rituals:
<http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/pjlogin.asp?projID=20>
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<http://www.berkshirepublishing.com/brw/pjlogin.asp?projID=22>

Contributors will be paid an honorarium in addition to receiving a
free
volume (estimated retail value: $125). We would like to receive
articles for
these volumes in November or December in order to insure a 2003
publication.


Please send a message telling us of your areas of research and
interest,
along with a paragraph about your position and publications (we do
not
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a CV at this stage), to our project coordinator, Elizabeth Eno, at
elizabeth@.... Liz will be glad to send you a
short
list
of topics that remain.

We look forward to hearing from you and very much hope that you will
be
able
to join us on these two exciting new projects.

Best wishes,
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Title: A global history of textile workers, 1650-2000
    Deadline: 2002-12-01
    Description: The International Institute of Social History has
       recently started a new research project. The aim of this
       project is to write a global and comparative history of textile
       workers 1650-2000. In order to do this, national overviews as
       well as thematic papers will be written by several historians
       acros ...
    Contact: textile@...
    URL: www.iisg.nl/research/textile.html
    Announcement ID: 131606
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131606

Title: Reconsidering the Cold War: A UCSB-GWU Graduate Student
       Conference
    Location: California
    Deadline: 2002-12-31
    Description: Reconsidering the Cold War A UCSB-GWU Graduate
       Student Conference May 2-4, 2003 UC Santa Barbara The UC Santa
       Barbara Center for Cold War Studies (CCWS) and the George
       Washington University Cold War Group (GWCW) announce a graduate
       student conference on the Cold War, to be held at the
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    Contact: sbardellati@...
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Title: Conference: Honour and Fame in History
    Location: Ontario
    Date: 2002-10-26
    Description: Honour and Fame in History An Interdisplinary
       Conference Saturday, October 26, 2002, 10AM-5PM Trent
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    Contact: history@...
    Announcement ID: 131590
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Title: History and the Media Conference
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    Description: One of the most visible signs of the current boom in
       history is the unparalleled amount of space being devoted to it
       on television, on the radio and in film. For those to whom this
       is a wholly admirable development it presents an unprecedented
       opportunity for historians to reach a broader public aud ...
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Subject: CfP: East Looks West: East European Travel Writing on
European
Identities and Divisions, 1600-2000, 1-2.2.2003, London

As part of the 3-year research project EAST LOOKS WEST: EAST EUROPEAN
TRAVEL WRITING ON EUROPEAN IDENTITIES AND DIVISIONS, 1600-2000,
funded
by
the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the project coordinators
invite
contributions to a workshop to be held at the School of Slavonic and
East
European Studies, University College London, provisionally scheduled
for
1-2 February 2003.

The workshop aims to enable scholars to share and compare data and
research results currently scattered through a disarray of
publications
in over a dozen different countries and languages; to considered the
utility of East European travel writing as a source of new questions
and
new approaches to problems of textuality and identity; and to pinpoint
issues for further study.  We intend the workshop to lay the basis for
on-going collaboration among the participants, leading to a conference
(planned for 2004) and a volume of studies.  (For a full description
of
the research project, see http://www.ssees.ac.uk/eastwest.htm.)

There are a limited number of spaces for participants. Those
interested
in applying should send a CV with a covering letter stating the
nature
of
their interest and involvement in the topics outlined above. Deadline
for
applying: 30 November 2002. For further information please contact
Wendy
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Title: UCLA <i>Critical Planning Journal</i> Call for Papers
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       international forum for new and innovative research in the
       history, philosophy, and impact of historical scholarship. We
       welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences
       and humanities and from all subfields of history, that will
       cont ...
    Contact: alp31@...
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    Announcement ID: 131615
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Title: CFP: Science, Values and Public Policy
    Location: Ontario
    Deadline: 2002-12-15
    Description: Wilfrid Laurier, Brantford Campus' 3rd annual
       interdisciplinary conference will be held April 3-5, 2003. This
       year the theme will be Science, Values and Public Policy. We
       invite papers from all disciplines that address the complex
       interaction between "facts" and "values" in public
       policy-making. Con ...
    Contact: shaller@...
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    Announcement ID: 131620
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    Description: Call for Papers Journal of Economic and Social
       Research The Journal of Economic and Social Research , a
       scholarly publication of Fatih University, Istanbul, is
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       academic rese ...
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       Notions about Region and Regional History
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    Registration Deadline: 2002-11-15
    Description: Pacific Northwest Contours: Complicating and
       Questioning Notions aboutRegion and Regional History A
       Symposium at the University of Washington, Smith Hall 304
       November 23, 2002 Hosted by the Pacific Northwest Historians
       Guild and the Center for theStudy of the Pacific Northwest 7:30
       / Coffee and Donu ...
    Contact: cspn@...
    Announcement ID: 131612
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2.
Subject: CfA: Minority Rights Group (Job)

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) - Job opening
Vacancy announcement

Working to secure the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples

Programme Coordinator
South-East Europe Programme

9 months sabbatical cover  Ref: A-ECAPC
Salary =A323,080 - =A326,098  per annum (Full time)

This post involves effective coordination and delivery of MRG's
programme in
this region (with a particular focus on South East Europe). The work
includes training, advocacy, roundtable intercommunity workshops, and
publications.

The post holder will work with partners, consultants, and programme
assistance staff in London and Budapest. Some travel will be required.

The successful candidate will have a good knowledge of human rights,
development and the rights of minorities in the region. S/he will
have
at
least 2 years experience of project design, delivery and evaluation
and
experience of national and international advocacy, running training
events, carrying out research and will have some experience of
fundraising.

To receive an application pack, send a large SAE (if applying from the
UK send 57p stamp) marked Recruitment specifying which post(s) you
are
interested in, quoting the relevant job title and reference code to:

Minority Rights Group International
379 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DE - United Kingdom

Or visit our website at http://www.minorityrights.org

Closing date for all posts: 25 October 2002

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) strives to be an equal
opportunity employer.



Below are job postings for tenure-line positions in History and
Sociology at the University of South Carolina Spartanburg.   Please
share widely.  Both searches are replacement hires, and therefore
should be funded (no clear sense of state budgets will be available
until after the election).  The selection committees will place
emphasis on hiring candidates with expertise in women's/gender
issues.  As Director of the Center for Women's Studies and Programs
at USCS, I would be happy to talk to anyone wishing more information
about the campus.  I can be reached at the contact information at the
bottom of the posting.  Betsy Eudey

University of South Carolina - Spartanburg: Assistant Professor,
European and Women's History
The University of South Carolina Spartanburg invites applications for
a tenure-track assistant professorship in European and Women's
History to begin August 16, 2003, subject to funding.
Responsibilities include teaching a broad range of upper-level
undergraduate courses in European history, concentrating on the
period through early modern; women's history; and an introductory
European survey. Ability to teach British history courses desirable.
Four courses per semester. Preference to those with strong commitment
to excellence in teaching and advising. Scholarly activity and
service expected. Ph.D. necessary for tenure-track appointment. ABD
with expected completion of doctorate by August 2003 considered. USCS
is a comprehensive public university with approximately 4,000
students, located along the I-85 international business corridor
between Charlotte and Atlanta. Review of applications begins November
11, 2002, and continues until position is filled. Send undergraduate
and!
   graduate transcripts, vita, and three letters of reference to Dr.
Jim Brown (See below).

University of South Carolina - Spartanburg: Assistant Professor of
Sociology
University of South Carolina Spartanburg invites applications for an
Assistant Professor of Sociology with preferred areas of
specialization in Gender, Race and Ethnic Relations, and Social
Inequality. Four courses per semester including introductory
sociology. Preference to those with strong commitment to excellence
in undergraduate teaching and advising. Scholarly activity and
service expected. USCS is a comprehensive public university, located
between Charlotte and Atlanta, with approximately 4,000 students.
Ph.D. necessary for tenure-track appointment. ABD with expected
completion by August 2003 considered. Review of applications begins
November 11, 2002, and continues until position is filled. Position
starts August 16, 2003, subject to funding. Send undergraduate and
graduate transcripts, vita, and three letters of reference to Dr. Jim
Brown

Dr. Jim Brown, Chair, Social & Behavioral Sciences
University of South Carolina Spartanburg
800 University Way , Spartanburg, SC 29303
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Website: http://www.uscs.edu

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Subject: Job: European Junior Expert, Centre for European Policy
Studies (Podgorica)

Resident European Juinor Expert

Based in Podgorica, Montenegro

The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) is recruiting a
resident
European Junior Expert to work on a project funded by the European
Agency
for Reconstruction in Podgorica, Montenegro.

The project `Montenegro Economic Trends' (MONET) aims to disseminate
a
quarterly publication which presents and analyses all the main
macroeconomic indicators for the Republic of Montenegro. Training
sessions
and workshops will also be organised to develop the team capacity.
The
Montenegrin partner in this project is the Institute for Strategic
Studies
and Prognoses (ISSP).

The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that MONET is produced
according to a strict time schedule. The candidate will also
participate in
the organisation and delivery of the training programme. The
candidate
should ensure effective liasion between the different stakeholders in
the
project.

Qualifications

Advanced degree, preferably PhD, in Economics

Experience in transition countries

Very good command of English and preferably a Slavonic language

Very good project management skills, some experience is preferable

Ability to work to tight deadlines

Very good communication skills

Starting Date

As soon as possible

Duration of contract

One year

Salary

3,500 Euro gross per month

Applications

Applications should include a covering letter and CV and should be
sent
to
Sally Scott ; CEPS, Place du Congrès 1, B-1000 Brussels ; email :
sally.scott@....

Closing Date

Applications should reach CEPS by Friday 8 November.

Further information

www.ceps.be

www.isspm.org MONET Website


Subject: Job: Social Capital Research, CPS, Budapest (deadline 4.11.)

Social Capital Research in Central and Eastern Europe
Request for literature review

Background
The Center for Policy Studies (www.ceu.hu/cps) is an
academic unit within the Central European University,
Budapest.  Recently created, its role is to stimulate
policy debate through the production and dissemination
of high quality research. CPS intends to participate
in a Europe-wide research network investigating
questions of trust,co-operation and institutional
development. To that end, we are commissioning a
literature reviewer to examine social capital research
carried out in Central and Eastern Europe.

Social capital research encompasses the relations
between trust,networks and norms to social, economic
and, more recently, institutional development.  It
attracts the attention of a range of social
scientists,
particularly, education research, political science
and development studies.  Its significance, perhaps,
is in the degree that the concept has been taken up by
those outside the academic field, by policy makers,
politicians and international donors for example.
Perhaps because of this diverse constituency, even
though the concept has been around for over thirty
years, there are still significant debates over the
basic features and importance of social capital.
Approaches can range from the enthusiastic, the World
Bank for instance, and its argument that social
capital can be the missing link in development, to the
hostile, critics for instance, that argue that social
capital research has no conception of power or
conflict.

Central and Eastern Europe (including the southern
non-accession countries) has provided and continues to
provide an interesting site forsocial capital
research.  In one set of studies, social capital seems
to provide justification for programs which aim at
invigorating civil society, something which fitted
very well with early approaches to post-socialist
reform.  On the other hand another theme within social
capital research is that social capital needs to be
classified into types, those that have positive
inclusive effects against those which were linked to
more exclusionary practices.  Again, this could have
resonance in the region, for instance, the
privatization process where the cultivation of
personal networks provided unfair advantages in
accessing supposedly public resources.

The Central and Eastern European region is an ideal
place to investigate the scientific utility as well as
the policy implications of social capital research.
The aim of this literature review is to gather
and critically analyze social capital research
produced about the region. The review should focus on
comprehensive comparative studies, theoretical or
empirical studies, as well as research works that
focus
on one or more of the following issues:

1. Social capital and the development of organized
civil society.
2. Social capital and economic development, market
norms and the informal economy.
3. Negative social capital, closed communities, elite
reproduction.
4. Social Capital and access to public services, in
particular healthcare and education
5. Social capital and institutional change.

Requirements
1. Research should be carried out among both academic
and professional publications, i.e. publications from
the major developmental agencies and policy think
tanks. The Review should focus on publications in
English from 1990 to the present, should be between
25-30,000 words and completed within three months of
starting.
2. An annotated bibliography should be compiled with
precisebibliographical data being essential.
Annotations normally should not be longer than 3-400
words. The full-annotated bibliography should include
between 40-60 items.
3. The reviewer should be willing to present
preliminary findings of the work at a conference on
Social Capital in Cluj-Napoca, January 31st-February
1st 2003.  All travel and conference related expenses
will be covered by CPS. See
http://www.ceu.hu/cps/bluebird/eve/eve_soccap.htm.
4. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and
experience.

Please a send a letter of interest describing your
capacities with a CV attached.  Furthermore, as the
literature is fragmented amongst the relatively
accessible academic field and the, perhaps less
accessible, professional domain, please describe in no
more than one paragraph how you would intend to
identify and gather the material for this literature
review. The deadline for arrival of application is
November 4th 2002

Please send all inquiries to
Andrew Cartwright,
Center for Policy Studies,
Central European University
1051 Budapest
Nador Utca 11
Hungary

Cartwrighta@...
Tel 36 1 327 3000 ext 2397
Fax  36 1 235 6170

3.
From H-NET BOOK REVIEW

Published by H-Women@... (October 2002)

Francine Muel-Dreyfus.  _Vichy and the Eternal Feminine: A
Contribution
to a
Political Sociology of Gender_.  Translated by Kathleen A. Johnson.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. x + 388 pp. Photos, notes, and
index.

$64.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2777-5; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8223-2774-
0.

Reviewed for H-Women by Rebecca Pulju <rebecca-pulju@...>,
Department
of History, University of Iowa

The Feminine Essence and France's National Revolution

In _Vichy and the Eternal Feminine:  A Contribution to the Sociology
of
Gender_, Francine Muel-Dreyfus locates the notion of the "eternal
feminine,"
the belief in an unchanging feminine essence, at the center of Vichy
France's National Revolution.  Muel-Dreyfus traces the sociogenesis
of
this
ideology from 1870 and the conservative repression following the
Commune,
through conflicts over differing ideals of femininity during the Third
Republic, to the solidification of an ideology of femininity based on
biological difference and a feminine culture of sacrifice with the
defeat of
1940.  Using the setting of disaster and upheaval at the initiation
of
the
National Revolution as a laboratory to analyze the resurgence of
mythic
reason during periods of crisis, Muel-Dreyfus highlights the broad and
apparently apolitical support for an ideology that seemed to belie
the
chaos
of the democratic "lie."  Returning women to their "natural"
and "real"
place in society was intrinsic to the Vichy Regime's project of
creating an
orderly society rid of the decadence and individualism of the Third
Republic
and firmly based on "legitimate hierarchies," for which the
masculine/feminine dichotomy was the cornerstone.

Following the armistice of 1940, conservative elements in French
society
asserted that the German victory was punishment for the sins of the
Third
Republic.  Contrition and redemption were necessary for recovery, and
Marshal Pétain was accepted as a prophet by a population in a state of
"believing expectation" and in search of salvation.  In these
despairing
conditions, where "millennial balances" seemed to hold redemptive
possibility, Muel-Dreyfus asserts, the seeming timelessness of the
myth
of
the "eternal feminine" was appealing.  The supposed ahistoricity of
this
ideology inspired collective amnesia of the debates of the Third
Republic
over women's place in society, education, and politics.  Muel-Dreyfus
examines these earlier battles over competing visions of femininity,
the
disparate producers of the "eternal feminine" that united under the
National
Revolution, and the political effects of the return to a supposed
"eternal"
social order.

In part one of _Vichy and the Eternal Feminine_, "The Hypnotic Power
of
Punishment," Muel-Dreyfus begins with the examination of a wide range
of
work by intellectuals, writers, journalists, and politicians that
united in
support of the "eternal feminine" and the National Revolution.  These
advocates of a return to the "real" were, according to Muel-Dreyfus, a
culmination of fifty-years of ideological battle waged since the
Dreyfus
Affair.  She cites a "vagueness of sympathy" (p. 34) toward the Action
Française that united these ideas and intellectuals and made them "an
effective transmission belt for the regime" (p.34).  The banality of
these
ideas about nature, femininity, and family allowed them to be
presented
as
"apolitical."

These "apolitical" ideas were eagerly accepted by the Catholic Church,
embittered by over thirty years of battle with the secular Republic.
Muel-Dreyfus states that even if the Church did not always support
government policy, it wholeheartedly endorsed the regime's ideas on
women
and the family, and "enriched the state-influenced rhetoric with
their
own
language and translated it into the familiar language used by the
many
men
and women who listened to them" (p.57).  This legitimated the regime
in
the
eyes of the faithful, a very political consequence of adherence to a
seemingly apolitical ideology.  The morality of a particular social
hierarchy was supported by the notion that the "demographic sin"
committed
by selfish individuals was cause for France's defeat.  The apparently
neutral, consensual notion of a defense of the family was mustered in
support of population growth.

In part two, "The Culture of Sacrifice," Muel-Dreyfus examines the
propaganda and publications of the Vichy government as well as the
genesis
of the notion of feminine renunciation at the center of what she
calls
"the
subculture of gender produced by the French State" (p. 170).  The
propaganda
produced by the regime, Muel-Dreyfus explains, was distant from the
reality
of battles for women's access to education and political power.  The
reinvention of "Mother's Day" as a national holiday of grand
proportions
abetted the collective amnesia surrounding the battles of Republican
and
Social Catholic feminists over women's access to employment.
Competing
visions of femininity were forgotten and it was the culture of
sacrifice of
the "Christian Feminist" movement that was mobilized by the Vichy
government.  The seemingly compatible goals of Catholic feminine
culture and
the Vichy government led to growth in size and influence of the
women's
organizations, like the UFCS (Women's Civic and Social Union) that had
steadfastly defended the patriarchal family in the decades preceding
defeat.

Muel-Dreyfus asserts that by 1940, the "eternal feminine" had won out
over
any competing notions of femininity and seemed to be "an essential
precept
for all time" (p. 170).  Having detailed the femininity propounded by
government and Catholic women's groups, Muel-Dreyfus analyzes efforts
to
legislate this notion in a society of "family imperialism and feminine
subjection."  Legal attempts to remove women from jobs, financial
rewards
for families who had children within the first two years of married
life,
and severe restrictions on divorce were instated as attempts to
restore
order and nature.  The state enlisted family and women's
organizations
to
contribute to national regeneration and a Family Charter was created
to
encourage family influence in the nation.  Muel-Dreyfus emphasizes the
importance of the family model for the inegalitarian, hierarchical
state.
"Men and women are not equal, and in the family community, which
endures
only in the complementarity of their skills and functions, they are
even
less equal than elsewhere.  The family is thus a society in which each
contributes his or her know-how; it is the model of all societies"
(p.
190).
The "eternal feminine" supported the "legitimate hierarchies" which
were
central to the regime.

   In her final section, "Biological Order and Social Order,"
Muel-Dreyfus
continues with an explanation of the political uses of the "eternal
feminine" and the family order it inspired for the state.  Educational
reform was necessary to reestablish hierarchy and order and
masculine/feminine opposition was the cornerstone of the "hierarchical
representation of the social order and of the correlative
disqualification
of social advancement through the school" (p. 209) that sought to
maintain
"legitimate hierarchies."  The control of bodies by the government
included
both the regeneration of the ill social body and the medical
legimitation of
"natural" differences and inequalities between sexes, classes, and
races.

_Vichy and the Eternal Feminine_ is an extremely useful analysis of
the
place of gender at the center of the Vichy regime's ideology.
Muel-Dreyfus
both elucidates how this ideology inspired the development of state
policy
on family issues and analyzes the ways that an ideology of gender and
femininity based on biological difference and inequality served as
the
model
for a hierarchical, patriarchal state.  The analysis would be more
complete,
however, if one had a fuller sense of how these ideologies affected
people
in their everyday lives. While she does examine various laws and
policies
concerning the family, Muel-Dreyfus' reliance on discourse analysis
leaves
little insight into how these laws were received, how effectively
they
were
enforced, and how they affected individual families and women.  The
desire
for contrition and redemption experienced after defeat existed
alongside
death, hunger, and the absence of many fathers of families who
remained
in
prisoner of war camps. Miranda Pollard's _Reign of Virtue_ is helpful
is
exhibiting how the physical conditions of defeat and occupation made
many of
the Vichy Regime's goals for the family unenforceable.[1] In
addition,
the
absence of a link between discourse and social history makes it
difficult
for the reader to determine change over time.  Historians of Catholic
intellectuals, in particular, have asserted that many of the people
who
supported the National Revolution in 1940 grew disillusioned as the
Vichy
government became more authoritarian and collaborationist, an issue
that is
not addressed in Muel-Dreyfus' analysis.[2]

It is perhaps unfair to offer too much criticism of Muel-Dreyfus
considering
that _Vichy and the Eternal Feminine_ was first published in French
in
1996
and has provided historians of gender in the United States and France
an
exhaustive analysis of discourse from which to move into other areas
of
research.  Having this work in English makes Muel-Dreyfus' work
useful
to
historians of other geographic areas.  As she states, "In fact, to
speak of
women is to speak of something else" (p. 5), and the example of the
resurgence and general acceptance of the notion of the "eternal
feminine" at
this moment of crisis in French history can be useful to scholars of
other
nations and moments of crisis as well.

Notes
[1]. See Miranda Pollard, _Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy
France_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
[2]. While work on Catholic thought under Vichy is lacking in
attention
to
gender, it does show change over time in other areas of thought.  See
Michael Kelly, "French Catholic Intellectuals During the Occupation"
in
the
_Journal of European Studies_ 23 (1993): 179-191 and John Hellman,
_The
Knight Monks of Vichy France: Uriage 1940-1945_ (Montreal:
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997).

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Subject: BR: Bowman on Wasserstein _Divided Jerusalem_  [x-H-JUDAIC]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
     Published by H-Judaic@... (September, 2002)

     Bernard Wasserstein. _Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy
     City_.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. xix +
440
     pp.  Maps, illustrations, index. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
0-300-09164-8.

     Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Bowman <steven.bowman@...>,
     University of Cincinnati

     Jerusalem has been divided as much by its history as by its
     biographers.  In this century most of her chroniclers and
     interpreters have been partisans or politicians, pursuing a
variety
     of agendas. Even reviewers fall into these categories, as a recent
     review of this book in a prominent daily demonstrated when it
     degenerated into an intellectual diatribe against the policies of
     Ariel Sharon's government. Rather than take part in the polemical
     war, Wasserstein adopts a different tack, that of a critical
     historian, which provides a sober voice that has been somewhat
muted
     in the current tensions over the Jerusalem question.  Eschewing
the
     myriad of Jewish, Arab, and Christian perspectives--albeit not
     neglecting them--he elucidates the patterns of international
     interests in Jerusalem in the modern era. His study is a neat
     counterbalance to Rashid Khalidi's _Palestinian Identity_
(Columbia
     University Press, 1997), which chronicles the local Arab response
to
     the presence of non-Muslim diplomats and non-Arab rule in the
city.

     Wasserstein's survey of the centrality of Jerusalem reminds us
that
     the bitter and seemingly ancestral invective between Israelis and
     Palestinians (read Jews and Muslims) is but a recent phenomenon.
In
     an almost sardonic tone Wassersstein notes that the competing
claims
     to several ancestral holy sites have only appeared within recent
     decades.  His main thesis is that for over a millennium, prior to
     the end of the nineteenth century and the subsequent period of
     Zionist activities culminating in the emergence of the State of
     Israel, it was Christian Europeans who had a long and violent
     relationship with Jerusalem.  Starting with the wars between Islam
     and Christian Byzantium (in the seventh century) and moving on to
     the Crusades (in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth
     centuries), through the perennial squabbles of the local Christian
     sectarian competitions--which incidentally still manifest
themselves
     in squabbles over the various buildings--European Christians have
     expressed a willingness to engage in violence over the city.
Hence
     Europeans cannot be neutral negotiators or unbiased commentators.
     This is a point worth emphasizing given the vitriolic attitude of
     European intellectuals toward Israel and its policies.

     Moreover, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries,
     European powers had to honor the Ottoman superpower's control of
the
     city; and, until the British acceptance of the surrender of the
city
     in 1917, they had to receive the permission of the Ottoman Caliphs
     both to visit, and from the mid-nineteenth century to reside in,
     Jerusalem. During the late Ottoman period, Jerusalem was the locus
     for Europeans to meet and contend for power, somewhat, but not
     quite, like Geneva during the era of the League of Nations, or New
     York at the United Nations. During the middle third of the
     nineteenth century, all the major European Christian powers--great
     and small--appointed consuls or representatives in the city and
soon
     erected their citadels of power that ringed the Ottoman walls.
These
     various consuls transplanted the obstreperous nature of European
     diplomacy, and religious rivalries, to the Middle East as they
     represented their respective government or church interests in the
     city of Jerusalem.

     What has been lacking in the plethora of literature on the
Jerusalem
     question is a sound history of the Muslim rulers of the city, as
     well as an analysis of the local political leadership.  For, after
     all, they constituted the majority population and controlled the
     rhythms of city life prior to the twentieth century. What was the
     structure of the system they ran? What were the relationships
     between the Turkish overlords and the Arab hamulas during the past
     millennium? What were the immigration patterns among Muslims? How
     did all of them view the immigration of the dhimmis into
Jerusalem?
     How did they react to the aggressive interests of the Christian
     powers who had a vested interest in a sacred area that was
     controlled by Islamic authorities?  Much of this material is
widely
     scattered in monographic treatments. Only when we have a handle on
     this aspect of the history of Jerusalem, can we study the
Christian
     and Jewish stories within a proper historical framework. I suspect
     such a study will not be forthcoming for a long time, if ever.
Moshe
     Gil's _ A History of Palestine, 634-1099_ (Cambridge University
     Press, 1992) should provide a useful scholarly model of critical
     research and unbiased approach.  The above remarks do not detract
     from the eminently readable effort by Wasserstein. After all, his
     brief is to analyze the international (primarily Christian)
interest
     in Jerusalem.  His analysis of the vicissitudes of British
     fence-sitting during the Mandate period remind us that the British
     tried to maintain the status quo that they inherited from the
     Ottoman era, a policy that was as effective as shoveling sand
     against the incoming tide.  The molasses pace of British
bureaucracy
     that sustained an empire through its inertia, however, could not
     adjust to the blitzkrieg impact of inter-war developments.  So
they
     managed to anger everyone, at least in the public domain.
     Ultimately, in their retreat from empire they left a mess in
     Palestine/Eretz Israel that has been as contentious as the mess
they
     left in India.

     It is worth pointing out, as Wasserstein does, that Zionist policy
     has been consistent from the Mandate period through the present in
     accepting the principle of the partition of Jerusalem between
Arabs
     and Jews. The most biased and ignorant of the news media tend to
     overlook this stance.  While admittedly this type of reporting
does
     keep the pot boiling, it definitely obscures what is of more
     interest to the historian, namely the continued communication and
     cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians on the local
political
     level.  To be sure, such reporting is less interesting than the
     bombing of non-combatants or the unbalanced use of force to
maintain
     order.  In occasionally reported meetings, and Wasserstein has
kept
     a wonderful file of useful news clippings, we can follow what
     transpires, at least until the politicians publicize the
parameters
     of agreement and then verbally shoot it down.  For example,
     Wasserstein provides a close analysis of the Beilin-Abu Mazen
draft
     agreement of 1995 over the partition of Jerusalem, an agreement
     which will most likely be dug out of the debris for renegotiations
     when it comes time to resolve the issue of Jerusalem.

     The state policies of Israel have to be separated, at least for
     purposes of analysis, from such a policy of compromise. The
purpose
     of the State of Israel is to provide a safe and secure home for
the
     Jews, a tough assignment at best in the shifting dunes of an area
in
     the violent throes of historical transition.  One of the
principles
     of the Balfour Declaration was the protection of the rights of
     non-Jews living in a Jewish national homeland.  Such a principle
is
     still held to be binding by the Israelis.  After all, there are
     still Arabs, Christians, and Muslims in Israel, and in the
     administered territories, as opposed to the nearly Judenrein
     situation in surrounding Arab states, including the eastern
section
     of the Palestine Mandate now called the Kingdom of Jordan. Israel
is
     in a state of war with the Arab states, save those that have
signed
     a peace treaty (a subject best left to another occasion), and with
     the Palestinian nationalism that emerged as a counter-movement to
     Zionism. Her position since the Mandate period has been to make
     peace with all of these. The basic historical principle of ethnic
     relations in the Middle East can be likened to a coiled spring
that
     contracts and expands following the historical pressures exerted
     upon it. Both Israelis and Arabs will have to find a balance they
     can both live with in Jerusalem, as well as the rest of the
     historical areas to which Jews have returned.  It would be too
much
     to expect journalists, even those not ideologically involved, to
be
     able to convey this complex message to their readers in the short
     datelines filed from the front. It is not surprising that most
     commentators (article- and book-length) are incapable of a
long-term
     perspective that puts issues in their proper perspectives. Bernard
     Wasserstein deserves our thanks for providing a sober view of the
     positions and tensions of many of the parties involved. On the
     secular level, perhaps it is only the historian who can cut the
     Gordion knot of hysteria that understandably constitutes public
     discussion on the Jerusalem issue. Wasserstein's book is a welcome
     addition to the library that such scholars as Bernard Lewis have
     generated over the past fifty years to help us comprehend the
mosaic
     of peoples and the plethora of multivalent interpretations of this
     perennially perplexing subject.

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Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Charlotte Schubert
     Jenifer Neils.  _The Parthenon frieze_.  Cambridge: Cambridge
     University Press, 2001.  Xix + 294 S.  EUR 70, ISBN 0-521-64161-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9741034663407

Reviewed for H-Soa-u-Kult by Wilfried Hartman
     Ian S. Robinson.  _Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken.  Lateinisch-
     deutsch_.  Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002.
     Vii + 453 S.  EUR 69, ISBN 3-534-01428-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9821034663419

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kimberly Luke
     David Wetzel.  _A Duel of Giants:  Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the
     Origins of the Franco-Prussian War_.  Madison: University of
     Wisconsin Press, 2001.  xvi + 244 pp.  $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-299-
     17490-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=119331034668130

Reviewed for H-Women by Seija Jalagin
     Karen Kelsky.  _Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western
     Dreams_.  Durham,  N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2001.
     294 pp.  $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2805-4; 18.95 (paper), ISBN
     0-8223-2816-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=138741034668942

Reviewed for H-USA by Raj Jethwa
     Robert A. Caro.  _Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon
     Johnson_.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.  xxiv + 1167 pp.
     $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-394-52836-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=146171034669256

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Andreas Haug
     Ken Friedman, Hrsg.  _The Fluxus Reader_.  Chichester and New
     York: Academy Editions, 1998.  X + 309 S.  EUR 55, ISBN 0-471-
     97858-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=140791034790613

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Gregor Hufenreuter
     Stefanie von Schnurbein and Justus Ulbricht, Hrsg.  _Völkische
     Religion und Krisen der Moderne. Entwürfe "arteigener"
     Glaubenssysteme seit der Jahrhundertwende_.  Würzburg:
     Königshausen & Neumann, 2001.  447 S.  DM 98, ISBN 3-8260-2160-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=140981034790630

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alexander Nützenadel
     Rolf Petri.  _Von der Autarkie zum Wirtschaftswunder.
     Wirtschaftspolitik und industrieller Wandel in Italien 1935-1963_.
     Tübingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.  534 S.  EUR 78, ISBN 3-484-
     82096-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=141541034790672

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Klaus Latzel
     Susanna Burghartz und Christa Hämmerle, Hrsg.  _Soldaten. Heft
     1/12 von L`Homme. Zeitschrift für Feministische
     Geschichtswissenschaft_.  Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2001.  224 S.  EUR
     18, ISBN 1016-362X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=141641034790676

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Andreas Fahrmeir
     Frank Caestecker.  _Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940. The
     Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees, and Illegal Aliens_.  New
     York und Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000.  Xxii + 330 S.  £47, ISBN
     1-57181-986-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=141681034790682

Reviewed for H-Albion by Cyndia Susan Clegg
     Dorothy Auchter.  _Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship
     in Tudor and Stuart England_.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
     2001.  ix + 403 pp.  $91.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-31114-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=180211034792068

Reviewed for H-Women by Jodi Barnes
     Sarah Milledge Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon.  _In Pursuit of
     Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches_.  Walnut Creek:
     AltaMira Press, 2001.  x + 433 pp.  $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7591.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=180231034792080

Reviewed for H-LatAm by Pete Sigal
     Alfredo Lopez Austin and Leonardo Lopez Lujan.  _Mexico's
     Indigenous Past_.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
     xvi + 368 pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8061-3214-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=180501034792091

Reviewed for H-Women by Susanna Calkins
     Pauline Stafford and Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, eds.  _Gendering the
     Middle Ages_.  Oxford, U.K. and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
     vi + 244 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-631-22651-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=298731035005364

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joe Mocnik
     R. J. Crampton.  _The Balkans since the Second World War_.  London
     and New York: Longman, 2002.  xxxiv + 374 pp.  $22.00 (paper),
     ISBN 0-582-24883-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=298751035005368

Reviewed for H-Albion by Walter L. Arnstein
     W. J. Mander and A. P. F. Sell, eds.  _The Dictionary of
     Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers_.  Bristol: Thoemmes
     Press, 2002.  xxviii + 1280 pp.  £350.00/$525.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-
     85506-955-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=298771035005371

Reviewed for H-Urban by Ann Durkin Keating
     Carolyn S. Loeb.  _Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers'
     Subdivisions in the 1920s_.  Creating the North American Landscape
     Series. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  xvi
     + 273 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6618-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=300531035005596

Reviewed for H-Judaic by Steven Bowman
     Bernard Wasserstein.  _Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the
     Holy City_.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
     xix + 440 pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-09164-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=302421035005829

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Andrea Pappas
     Kirsten Swinth.  _Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the
     Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930_.  Chapel Hill:
     University of North Carolina Press, 2001.  xv + 305 pp.  $45.00
     (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2642-1; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4971-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=302451035005854

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Thomas J. Mayock
     Hector C. Bywater.  _The Great Pacific War: A History of the
     American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-1933, Vol. 1_.  Bedford, Mass.:
     Applewood Books, 2002.  vii + 317 pp.  $15.95 (paper), ISBN 1-
     55709-557-4.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=92411035011178

Reviewed for H-GAGCS by Achim Kopp
     Lester W. J. Seifert.  _A Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German_.
     Edited by Mark L Louden, Howard Martin, and Joseph C Salmons.
     Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2001.
     viii + 121 pp.  $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-924119-02-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=109741035163850

Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Mark Summers
     Mark Lawrence Kornbluh.  _Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline
     of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American
     Politics_.  New York: New York University Press, 2000.  xv + 243
     pp.  $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-814704708-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=114851035164292

4.
Güzel Havalar


Beni bu güzel havalar mahvetti,
Böyle havada istifa ettim
Evkaftaki memuriyetimden.
Tütüne böyle havada alýþtým,
Böyle havada aþýk oldum;
Eve ekmekle tuz götürmeyi
Böyle havalarda unuttum;
Þiir yazma hastalýðým
Hep böyle havalarda nüksetti;
Beni bu güzel havalar mahvetti.
Orhan Veli




Ýstanbul Aðrýsý
>
>kanatlari parca parca bu agustos geceleri
>yildizlar kaynarken
>sangir sungur ayaklarimin dibine dokulen
>sen
>eger yine istanbul'san
>yine kan kopuklu cehennem sarmasiklari buyutecegim
>
>pancak pancak siirler tukurecegim
>demek yine ben
>limandaki direkler ormaninda butun bandiralar ayaklaniyor
>kapi onlerinde boyunlarini bukmus tek tek kafiyeler
>yahudi sokaklarini aydinlatan telaviv sarkilari
>mavi asfaltlara cokmus
>diz bagliyor
>eger sen yine istanbul'san
>kirli dudaklarini bulut bulut dudaklarima uzatan
>sirkeci gari'nda tren cigliklariyle bicaklanip
>intihar dumanlari icindeki haydarpasa'dan
>anadolu ustlerine bakip bakip
>aglayan
>sen eger yine istanbul'san
>aldanmiyorsam
>yakalari karanfilli ibneler eger beni aldatmiyorsa
>kulaklarimdan kan fiskirincaya kadar
>yine senin emrindeyim
>utanmasam
>gozlerimi damla damla kadehime damlatarak
>kendimi yani su bildigim atilla ilhan'i
>zehirleyebilirim
>
>sonbahar karanliklari tuttu tutacak
>tarlabasi pansiyonlarinda bekarlar bugulaniyor
>imtihan cigliklari yukseliyor universite'den
>tophane iskelesi'nde diesel kamyonlari sarhos
>direksiyonlarinin koynuna girmis bickin soforler
>uykusuz dalgalaniyor
>
>ulan istanbul sen misin
>senin ellerin mi bu eller
>ulan bu gemiler senin gemilerin mi
>minarelerini kurdan gibi dislerinin arasinda
>liman liman goturen
>ulan bu mazot tukuren bu dovmeli gemiler senin mi
>aksamlar yassildikca neden boyle devlesiyorlar
>neden durmaksizin imdat kivilcimlari fiskiriyor
>antenlerinden
>neden
>peki istanbul ya ben
>ya misralarini dort renkli duvar afisleri gibi boy boy
>gumruk duvarlarina yapistiran yolcu abbas
>ya benim kahrim
>ya senin agrin
>agir kabaralarinla uykularimi ezerek deliksiz yasattigin
>caresiz zehirle kusan cilgin bir yilan gibi
>burgu burgu icime bosalttigin
>o senin agrin
>o senin
>
>eger sen yine istanbul'san
>yanilmiyorsam
>koltugumun altinda eski bir kitap diye goturmek istedigim
>sicilyali balikcilara marsilyali dok iscilerine
>satir satir okumak istedigim
>sen
>eger yine istanbul'san
>eger senin agrinsa igneli besik gibi her tarafimda hissettigim
>
>ulan yine sen kazandin istanbul
>sen kazandin ben yenildim
>kulaklarimdan kan fiskirincaya kadar
>yine emrindeyim
>olsem yalniz kalsam cuzdanim kaybolsa
>parasiz kalsam tenhalarda kalsam carpilsam
>hic bir gun hicbir postaci kapimi calmasa
>yanilmiyorsam
>sen eger yine istanbul'san
>senin isliklarinsa kulaklarima saplanan bu isliklar
>gozbebeklerimde gezegenler gibi donen yalnizligimdan
>bir tekmede kapilarini kirip ciktim demektir
>
>ulan bunu sen de bilirsin istanbul
>kac kere yazdim kimbilir
>kac kere kirpiklerimiz kasaturalara donmus diken diken
>1949 eylul'unde birader mirc ve ben
>sokaklarinda mohikanlar gibi ates yaktik
>sana taptik ulan
>unuttun mu
>sana taptik
>Attila Ilhan

5.
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       University (NJ)
    Location: New Jersey
    Deadline: 2002-12-15
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       research on topics related to: GENDERED PASSAGES IN HISTORICAL
       PERSPECTIVE: SINGLE WOMEN. 2003-04 will be the first in a
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Subject: CfA: Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Short-term Research
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Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans: Short-term Research Fellowships
Application
deadline has been extended until October 25.

Please follow the guidelines in this announcement from CSS The
Ethnobarometer Program of the Italian Social Science Council (CSS),
in
collaboration with the Program on Global Security & Cooperation of the
Social Science Research Council (SSRC), will conduct an exchange of
young
Eastern European and American scholars. The exchange will be limited
to
students seeking advanced degrees in the social sciences and pursuing
research on issues of inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict in
Southeast Europe. The exchange program offers a total of eight 3-
month
fellowships (four Eastern Europeans and four Americans). The fellows
will
be placed in institutions appropriate to their knowledge base and
research
skills, starting in February or March 2003.

Each fellowship will cover the cost of trans-Atlantic travel and a
per
diem
adequate for living expenses.

To be eligible for the exchange program, candidates must:

Be a Ph.D. candidate, or hold a Master degree, preferably in one of
the
following disciplines: political science, sociology, anthropology,
history,
law Be a citizen of an Eastern European country
Be fluent in the English language
Show that they have been or are presently engaged in research on
issues
of
interethnic relations, ethnic conflict, including issues of human
rights,
migration and democratisation processes when relevant to inter-ethnic
relations
Submit a curriculum vitae and a brief statement describing the
research
interests they would like to pursue during their 3-month tenure at an
American center; preference will be given to those candidates whose
interests are relevant to the research areas of the Ethnobarometer
Program,
as described in www.ethnobarometer.org <http://www.ethnobarometer.org>
Submit two reference letters Submit a personal statement of how the
fellowship would aid their careers, and their intention to pursue
relevant
work beyond the fellowship tenure Commit themselves to submit, not
later
than July 30, 2003, a report on the work done during their stay in
the
US.
The report must discuss the contacts they established with other
scholars
at their host institution and, more generally, their participation in
American academic and intellectual life, and indicate whether they
expect
such contacts and participation to foster future collaborative
projects.

Applications must be addressed to the Italian Social Science Council
by
e-mail (cssroma@... <mailto:cssroma@...>) at the latest
on
25
October 2002. The originals of the applications and their annexes
must
be
sent by regular mail.

Applicants will be informed of the decisions of the Selection
Committee
by
15 December


6.
Title: Cercles book reviews online
    Description: The Cercles September and October 2002 book reviews
       are online(literature, history, cultural studies, gender
       studies). They can be found at
       http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html The next batch will
       be online in November 2002. The CERCLES team ...
    Contact: CerclesPop@...
    URL: www.cercles.com
    Announcement ID: 131546
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131546

Title: Taylor & Francis Health Sciences
    Description: Taylor & Francis Health Sciences Website The new
       global imprint for high quality, peer-reviewed new research
       knowledge in the health sciences Taylor & Francis Health
       Sciences is the new imprint for all Taylor & Francis health
       science journals. Taylor & Francis Health Sciences serves the
       internationa ...
    Contact: sharron.lawrence@...
    URL: www.healthsciences.taylorandfrancis.com
    Announcement ID: 131594
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131594

    Title: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
       (SHAFR) Online
    Description: The website of the Society for Historians of American
       Foreign Relations has been moved from Ohio University to Ohio
       State University. You can now find SHAFR online at the address
       below. The news page is updated regularly and features calls
       for papers, important deadlines, election information, and o
       ...
    Contact: shafr@...
    URL: shafr.history.ohio-state.edu
    Announcement ID: 131602
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131602

7.

http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/diamantopoulou/webstream_e
n.html

Online Conference: Muslim women in the European Union

Are you interested in human rights and cross-cultural
dialogue? Then EU Commissioner for Equality, Anna
Diamantopoulou, wants you to get in touch. As part of
the EU's efforts to combat discrimination and promote
equality, and following her recent visits to the
Palestinian Territories and Israel, Ms Diamantopoulou
invites you to take part in a live internet conference
with her on Thursday 24 October 2002, to discuss
"Muslim women in the European Union".

This is your opportunity to put questions direct to
Commissioner Diamantopoulou and her guests, so start
preparing them now. They will do their utmost to
answer as many as possible within the allocated time.

On the day, the lines, in English, French, German,
Spanish, Italian and Greek will be open from 16.00 to
18.00 CET.

8.
Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  International Team for KADIN / WOMAN 2000

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

From: netice yildiz,
  <netice.yildiz@...>

KADIN / WOMAN 2000 - Journal for Woman Studies
Eastern Mediterranean University - Centre for  Woman Studies

The editorial board and academic advisors' board of KADIN / WOMAN
2000
is
about to be reorganised within a short time. We would like to
cooperate
with
a more international team to improve the standard of the journal. I
would
like to welcome colleagues who would like to contribute to the
journal
as
referee, academic advisor or editor.  I would be much pleased if you
could
nominate some academic collegues (or yourself)  whose reserach
interest
is
in gender studies. We include the names of referees in every issue as
well
as those who contributed.

Please send me your nominations with some details or your own details
(i.e.
cv)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Netice YILDIZ
KADIN / WOMAN 2000
Chief Editor
Faculty of Architecture
Gazimagusa - North Cyprus
Mersin 10 - Turkey

Please See the web page of KADIN / WOMAN 2000
http://emu.edu.tr/www/KAEM/index.htm

9.
PAUL ROGERS, international security correspondent of
www.openDemocracy.net, puts the Bali massacre in the context of
recent incidents across
the Islamic world, and asks: is the US strategy serving actually to
further al-Qaida's ambitions?

WERNER SCHIFFAUER spent years studying the internal politics of
radical
Islam in Germany. Social change provokes a return to origin, he
finds;
but the result is an opening of minds. A surprising and even hopeful
argument in another week of tragedy.

P.S And Globolog plays a small role in facilitating an unexpected
development in the Romanian mountains.

Brazil on the brink of change
The Brazilian people are at last ready to make Lula their president,
reports ROGER BURBACH.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1918

Into the shining dark: the hope of EU enlargement
A shared identity can make a larger EU a beautiful design rather than
a
runaway train. Creating it is the problem, says TIBOR DESSEWFFY
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=6&DocID=1923

After Bali, the need to understand
Yemen, Kuwait, Pakistan, and now Bali. The al-Qaida threat is
escalating. We need better ideas not more rhetoric, says PAUL ROGERS
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=103&DocID=1928

Democratic culture and extremist Islam
When Islamists choose scripture over tradition, is a road to
democracy
opened?  WERNER SCHIFFAUER's intimate study of Turkish Islam in
Germany
is a challenge and a revelation.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=126&DocID=1916

Where is Islam going?
At London's Goethe Institute, WERNER SCHIFFAUER and DENIZ KANDIYOTI
discuss citizenship, diaspora politics and generational change in
European
Islam.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=126&DocID=1917

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Editor's Note
ANTHONY BARNETT
http://www.opendemocracy.net/dynamics/pg.asp?
DocID=1833&Action=DisplayPage#new

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

GLOBOLOG
CASPAR HENDERSON returns with: Rosia Montana update - dinosaurs and
hacktivists - terrorism, poverty and how to make things worse...
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1929

A poisoned pickle: the true story of US-German relations
The White House and Chancellery walls have ears. Their owner is
DOMINIC
HILTON
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=102&DocID=1902

The new urban landscapes
The understanding of public space needs to recognise the virtue and
even beauty of airports, shopping malls and theme parks. Dutch urban
planner MAARTEN HAJER gazes on Schipol with delight.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=4&DocID=1921

Haji A.J.: returning to Afghanistan
The harvest of this Shalima farmer is not grapes but unexploded
shells.
CAROLINE MOOREHEAD listens to his story.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=120&DocID=1922

Kabul snap-shots
Being modern is about education, not money. WENDELL STEAVENSON's
remarkable Afghanistan life-lessons continue.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=110&DocID=1926

Six days in September: mass demonstrations and British democracy
Protest movements are moving too fast for social theory - and too
slow
for democracy, finds JOHN DOWN
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1920

Hunting, gays, and protest - reply to Adam Lent
Ordinary people are not part of the protesting classes, says ROGER
SCRUTON.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1919

Play fair: the evolution of copyright
openDemocracy's copyright debate has placed the public domain - the
intellectual commons - firmly on the agenda. BILL THOMPSON connects
the
wires.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=132&DocID=1925

DTT for the public good - a response to David Elstein
A static, here-and-now approach fails to see the long-term benefit of
Digital Terrestrial Television, argues BARRY FLYNN
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=132&DocID=1924

WORLD DIARY - Campaign $, Cuban Missile Crisis, Chinese Capitalism...
From submarines to airlines, DOMINIC HILTON retrieves jewels
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=87&DocID=1930



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10.
Subject: CfA: Nationalism Studies, Central European University,
Budapest

In addition the nationalism studies program, CEU has many graudate
programs
all of which  may offer funding to students from any region of the
world.
See www.ceu.hu


THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM

Calls for applications for MA, PhD and DSP studies at the Central
European University in Budapest.

The deadline for application is January 6, 2003.

For information on the program and the offered grants and financial
aid
please visit our homepage
(http://www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html).

With questions regarding the program or the admission process please
turn to Szabolcs Pogonyi, the program coordinator (pogonyi@...)


Dear Prospective Student:

We encourage you to apply to our program if you wish to engage in an
empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, self-determination,
ethnic conflict, xenophobia, minority protection and the related theme
of globalisation. We offer a comprehensive introduction to the main
approaches to the study of nationalism involving the disciplines of
history, sociology, anthropology, legal studies, political science and
political theory.
As you know, very few universities in international higher education
provide this kind of specialization on both the MA and PhD level. Our
distinctive focus, intellectually exciting teaching profile and
interdisciplinary approach has been developed by the most eminent
experts in the field, including Rogers Brubaker, Will Kymlicka, Yael
Tamir, Tibor Várady, Michael Stewart and Erica Benner. We are proud to
have them among our faculty. Our common focus is to explore how
liberal
norms and models of dealing with ethnocultural diversity can be
adapted
in Central and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. Our
approach
is widely comparative. This helps us to avoid the dangers of
parochialism, auto-celebratory tendencies and epistemological
insiderism
and to provide an open, critical, non-sectarian and cosmopolitan
perspective on the study of nationalism. Please consult our webpage
for
further details on our courses.
As a student in our program you will benefit from the resources of our
excellent faculty and high-quality student body and from the uniquely
lively atmosphere of Budapest at the heart of Central Europe.

Mária M. Kovács, Program Director

The Nationalism Studies Program was established by Central European
University with the aim of promoting the study of nationalism in the
post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program
is
a
successor to CEU's Center for the Study of Nationalism in Prague
directed by the late Professor Ernst Gellner. Situated at CEU's
Budapest
teaching site, the program offers students an MA degree accredited by
the Board of Regents of the State of New York. The program also
offers
a
PhD degree in the framework of a joint History-Nationalism PhD track
in
collaboration with CEU's History Department. In addition the program's
MA graduates may apply to the PhD program in Political Science based
on
a special agreement between the two units. Graduate students enrolled
in
PhD programs at universities outside CEU and who wish to utilize CEU's
innovative programs and resources to assist the development of their
dissertations can apply for the Doctoral Support Program.

The Nationalism Studies Program is intended to respond to the growing
demand for new knowledge and teaching in the field.  Drawing upon the
uniquely supranational milieu of the Central European University, it
encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism with
special emphasis on problems created by the new configuration of
states,
nations and minorities in the region.

Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of
nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally
interdisciplinary. For this reason, the international teaching staff
has
been assembled to represent a wide range of relevant disciplinary
expertise including history, social theory, economics, legal studies,
sociology, anthropology, international relations and political
science.
The program offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex
theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and
nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of
applied social science. Another group of courses place problems of
nationalism in the context of economic and political transition as
well
as constitution building in post-1989 East-Central Europe with a
comparative outlook on regime transitions outside the region.

The faculty of the Nationalism Studies Program this year includes
Mária
M. Kovács, András Kovács, Petr Lom, Micahel Miller, Will Kymlicka,
Rogers Brubaker, Yael Tamir, Michael Stewart, Erica Benner, Michael
Stanislawski, Marsha Rozenblit, Tibor Várady, Victor Karády, Panayote
Dimitras and Florian Bieber.



Szabolcs Pogonyi
Program Coordinator
CEU Nationalism Studies
www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html
Nador u. 9. FT  Room 205
1051 Budapest
phone:  (+361) 3273000/2086
fax: (+361) 2356102


Location: Budapest, Hungary
Website: www.ceu.hu

Does winning the Booker Prize change things?

Robert Mason Lee
National Post


Monday, October 28, 2002
ADVERTISEMENT


LONDON - The story of Yann Martel can lay claim to being as inspiring and
unlikely as that of the fictional boy-hero in his Booker Prize-winning
novel, Life of Pi. Both stories -- that of the 16-year-old survivor, in the
novel, and the 39-year-old survivor, in real life -- force the question of
whether God exists, if only because they are both still standing. Martel
prefers to believe He does exist, in life and in fiction, if only because it
makes for "the better story."

A mere six years ago, Martel admits, he was "hungry." He was in his early
thirties and pretty much, in the eyes of the world, a slacker. He had never
lived up to the illustrious lights of his parents, the Canadian diplomatic
couple and cultural partisans Émile and Nicole Martel of Montreal. Although
his mother tongue is French -- the name Yann is Breton for John -- Martel is
equally fluent in English and writes in it. (His parents are now translating
Life of Pi into French.)

Martel's father received the Governor-General's Award for French-language
poetry in 1995, whereas Martel's first two novels received critical acclaim
but otherwise sunk without a trace. After considerable drifting, Martel fils
found himself barefoot in India, wondering where his life had lost the plot.

Then he read the story that ultimately changed his thinking, gave him
religion, inspired the novel and left him King of Writers. Martel has plenty
of time to tell it. We are crossing the south of England together on a
train, and we have privacy because I had insisted on a first-class
compartment for the interview -- they still have the old-fashioned private
compartments on the south-central line. "C'mon, Yann," I cajoled, "you can
afford it now."

Martel looked at me quizzically for a second -- I can? -- then lifted his
heavy Gallic brows in delight -- I can! -- and he slapped down the cash for
first-class tickets. His cords were clean but thin, his Rockports polished
but worn. He had a week to consider that he may have won the Booker, among
the world's most prestigious literary prizes. He had two days for victory to
sink in. Yet he had not spent a penny and not bothered to calculate that his
net worth had just jumped something like $2-million.

"Money?" he shrugs. "I don't want to buy a house and I don't want to exploit
some 14-year-old boy in Mexico by investing it. Look at this," he says,
waving at the compartment. "It's the frivolous side of writing, but here I
am on a train to I-don't-know-where, then I'll be in Hong Kong, then Berlin,
then Rome ... Money? For what?"

An industry source who has seen Martel's contract says Life of Pi was
advanced $20,000 by Knopf Canada. He received a further US$75,000 for the
U.S. rights from Harcourt. He was then turned down by five UK publishers
before a struggling independent based in Edinburgh, Canongate, paid $36,000
for the UK rights.

Now Martel, who admits that until last week no one had heard of him, is an
overnight success. But for four years, he reminds me, those advances were
his only income. "I could only do it because I don't smoke, I don't drink, I
don't have a car. I have roommates. I wear second-hand clothes. I have no
TV. I have no stereo. My only expenses are my notebooks and my computer."

Canongate estimates the Booker will generate an additional £2-million in UK
sales. On top of his cut, Martel will also bank £50,000, or more than
$120,000, from what is now called the Man Booker Prize. (Investment house
Man Group plc doubled the cash award when it took over the Booker
sponsorship.)

The Canongate imprint qualified Martel to enter the Booker competition,
becoming the third Canadian to win in a decade and inspiring talk of a
"Canadian wave" in fiction. Martel is not happy discussing matters of filthy
lucre, perhaps remembering Christ's admonition that one cannot serve two
gods at once -- in his case, art and commerce. Ah, but the Booker jury does
-- and some say, did.

Martel's victory ushers in a "new-era" Booker intent on casting out the old
regime and presenting a modern, readable, market-conscious winner, says
Robert McCrum, literary editor of The Oberver, and in Martel they have found
it. McCrum wrote in a recent column that Life of Pi was "everyone's second
choice" on the Booker jury -- he even quoted one judge as saying the book
"begins and ends badly, but has some terrific stuff in the middle." McCrum
offered his own faint praise: "It is readable, imaginative, with a nice
top-dressing of AS-level [high school] theology." In general, though, the
book has been given charmed reviews.

Martel never imagined such acclaim when he was struggling in India and came
across a review by John Updike of an obscure book by Brazilian novelist
Moacyr Scliar. The review concerned the tale of a Jew who ends up in a
lifeboat with a panther, a premise that began to obsess Martel.

The parable somehow meshed with his own emerging religious thought. In his
own version of the tale, he decided on a Muslim-Christian-Hindu castaway
named Pi, referring to the circumference of a circle divided by its
diameter. "In mathematics, pi is called an irrational number because it
never repeats, but it leads to a rational, factual conclusion. That's how I
think about faith -- as the irrational leading to the rational."

What emerged after four years of writing was Pi's story of survival adrift
at sea with only a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker for company, a tale
that challenges his rescuers to believe him -- and in the process, believe
in God's mysterious ways. Ultimately they do, because it makes for a "better
story" -- the same reason Martel came to his own faith.

"Look at those trees and fields rushing by," he says, casting his eyes out
the train window at the passing Sussex countryside. "If it makes for a
better story that I see the hand of God behind it, why not believe in that?
The question of 'truth' is a red herring. Why not believe in Jesus, if it
gives greater meaning to life?"

His convictions also drew him to volunteer work at the palliative care unit
of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. "I figured I had something to
learn from dying people," he says. "Like, that life is short and it's
beautiful. That most of our problems are created in our own heads. That
there is no room in life for irony and cynicism, because life is precious
and it's fragile.

"My novel is, in many ways, deeply unfashionable: It has no cynicism and it
has no irony. It is just dead, dumb, plain sincere."

Like me, he could have added.

© Copyright  2002 National Post

S C I E N C E
What Makes Us Do It?
In the age-old debate of nature vs. nurture, an M.I.T. prof says our genes
don't get enough respect
By MICHAEL D. LEMONICK



ILLUSTRATION FOR TIME BY JOSH GOSFIELD


Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002
In one important sense, the argument over nature and nurture has been
resolved. For centuries, the nature camp said that personalities are born,
not made, that our character is pretty much formed by the time we pop out of
the womb. The nurture people countered with the metaphor of the tabula rasa:
our mind starts out as a blank slate, and it's how we are reared that
determines what gets written on it. Modern science, though - especially our
fast-growing understanding of the human genome - makes it clear that both
sides are partly right. Nature endows us with inborn abilities and
personality traits; nurture takes these raw materials and molds them as we
learn and mature.

But if you think this compromise has stopped the arguments, think again.
Scientists and philosophers are still getting steamed up over the issue, but
now they're fighting over percentages, over how much of human character is
shaped by genes and how much by environment. And according to Steven Pinker,
a professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we
continue to give far too much credit to the latter. In a series of articles,
a lecture tour and especially in a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern
Denial of Human Nature (Viking), Pinker argues that ignorance, prejudice and
political correctness have kept scientists and the public from appreciating
the power of our genes.


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Anyone who has read Pinker's earlier books - including How the Mind Works
and The Language Instinct - will rightly guess that his latest effort is
similarly sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, richly footnoted and fun to
read. It's also highly persuasive. The view that environment is paramount
began, he says, with the philosophers of the Enlightenment: John Locke,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rene Descartes and John Stuart Mill. And it was
reinforced in the 1950s by Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner, who said that
all human behavior was simply a set of conditioned responses.

That jibed nicely with 20th century liberal social theory: violence, crime
and poverty were not the fault of the violent, the lawless and the poor but
of society. Improve living conditions and you will cure the problems. Even
mental illness and homosexuality were the result of family dynamics, went
this line of reasoning. These notions, of course, flew in the face of
everything conservatives held dear - the idea that the lower classes were
inherently stupid and lazy, for example, and that rehabilitating lawbreakers
was an exercise in futility - which may have been part of their appeal.

Then, in the 1970s, science began to show that the nurture-only view was
indeed too simplistic - which triggered a backlash from the left. When
researchers like Richard Herrnstein and E.O. Wilson demonstrated that genes
do play a significant role in human intelligence and behavior, for example,
they were vilified by many of their colleagues. And just a few years ago, a
conference designed to explore the genetic roots of violence had to be
canceled in the face of widespread condemnation.

The backlash was understandable, says Pinker. Once you suggest that human
nature is in any way hardwired, it's easier for the unscrupulous to write
off entire groups as genetically inferior - as the Nazis did with Jews,
Poles, Gypsies and gays. If have-nots are genetically lacking in drive or
intelligence or ambition, what's the point of fighting poverty?

Plenty, says Pinker. Compassion and altruism (which he thinks also are at
least partly hardwired) are good reasons to make life better for those who
start out at a disadvantage. And while he's cranky about society's
unwillingness to accept scientific discoveries about the roots of human
behavior, Pinker also admits, albeit in a less strident voice, that
environment plays a significant part in how we turn out. It's just not the
whole story.

But those nuances are generally lost in Pinker's all-out assault on those
who insist that nurture explains everything - as if anybody still believes
that anymore. And his evidence for the power of our genes is, at best, a
work in progress. Are liberal and conservative political attitudes really,
as Pinker confidently asserts, "largely, though far from completely,
heritable"? Are art and literature "in trouble" because they've drifted away
from what our genes would prefer to see and hear? Maybe. Yet as with any
polemic, this one is delivered with more certainty than it merits. The book
is hugely entertaining and highly informative. But readers would be wise to
apply some skepticism, whether it's native or nurtured.

From the Oct. 28, 2002 issue of TIME magazine

From: Amy Baxter-Bellamy <abaxter@...>

LOST COLONIES CONFERENCE

Sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
University of Pennsylvania

March 26-27, 2004

The global expansion of European economic, military, and political power
and the subsequent creation of European colonial regimes (whether through
migration or conquest) in America, Africa, and Asia together comprised one
of the most important forces shaping world history in the early modern
era.
Although today it is as likely to be depicted as tragedy rather than as a
triumph, the subsequent European (or western) domination over the rest of
the world is generally accepted as an inevitable part of the historical
processes of imperialism, capitalism, and/or modernization. In these
progressive (and often nationalistic) narratives of expanding power and
influence, episodes of unsuccessful European colonial initiatives have
long
occupied an awkward place. They are usually portrayed as faltering first
steps, wrong directions, or evolutionary dead ends in the genealogical
tree
of Europe's rise to empire.

However, by examining and comparing a number of these "lost colonies,"
spread across the world, over four centuries, and among many different
political, cultural, and economic contexts, one might begin to challenge
or
at least to problematize the "rise of the west."  Focusing attention on
the
many cases in which European colonial enterprises did not achieve their
purpose can begin both to illuminate the many difficulties that confronted
European expansionism and to open the larger historical narrative of
western expansion to new questions and perspectives.

To this end, we invite scholars to submit proposals for papers on failed
colonial enterprises anywhere around the globe that took place in the four
centuries from 1450 to 1850. By "lost colonies," we mean to refer not
merely to those examples in which the settlement literally disappeared or
died out, but also to cases in which settlers abandoned a settlement, or
in
which metropolitan support (whether state or private) was withdrawn in
effect, abandoning the colonial settlers, who may in fact have remained,
and also to cases in which colonies were conquered by rival powers, or
"lost" to another European state by treaty, wherein this imperial transfer
led to the abandonment of the original colony and the departure of its
colonial inhabitants. We urge participants to define the term broadly and
inclusively. "Lost Colonies" might appear within larger existing colonies,
such as maroon settlements, or religious communities, for example. We also
invite proposals on the failed colonial enterprises of non-European
societies. Our one limitation, besides the chronological parameters, is
that before being "lost" the colonial enterprise must have actually had a
physical existence (however brief), and did not merely exist on the
"drawing board," or in the plans and imagination of would-be colonizers.

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2003. Send paper proposals of
250
words and C.V.s (of no more than one page) to Alison Games, Department of
History, ICC 600, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 20057-1035 or
by
email to gamesa@.... Those invited to participate in the
conference will be asked to submit papers of approximately 30 pages in
length by January 15, 2004, for pre-circulation to conference attendees.
Limited support for travel expenses may be available for participants. For
additional information, email the conference organizers, Alison Games
(gamesa@...) or Robert Olwell (rolwell@...).

1.call for papers 2.reviews 3.fellowship 4.bulletin 5.Le Monde
diplomatique 6.burs 7.commentary 8.conference

1.
2003 Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference
Location: California, United States
Conference Begins: 2003-06-06
Date Submitted: 2002-07-24

Announcement ID: 130884

Western Association of Women Historians: Thirty-Fourth Annual
Conference
Clark Kerr Conference Center, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
June 6-8, 2003

Call for Papers available at our website.

Contact information:
Karen Lystra, WAWH President
American Studies Program
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92634
(714) 278-3860
Email:  klystra@...

Conference website:
http://www.wawh.org

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  CFP: Third International Conference
"Hierarchy and
          Power" (Moscow)

H-Gender-MidEast
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[x-posted from H-Asia]



                         RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

               CENTER FOR CIVILIZATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES

                        INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN STUDIES

                30/1 Spiridonovka St., 123001 Moscow, RUSSIA
              Tel.: + (7 095) 291 4119; Fax: + (7 095) 202 0786
                          E-mail: civ-reg@...

                       THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENC
E

            "HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS"

                         Summer 2004, Moscow, Russia



               FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS





Center  for  Civilizational  and  Regional  Studies in
cooperation with the  Institute  for African Studies (both under
the Russian Academy of Sciences) is  organizing  in  Moscow  in
summer (in late June or early July) 2004 the Third
International  Conference  "HIERARCHY  AND  POWER  IN THE
HISTORY O
F CIVILIZATIONS".



The  First  Conference  held in Moscow by the Center for
Civilizational
and

Regional  Studies in co-operation with the Russian State University
for
the

Humanities  in  June  2000,  brought  together over 150 scholars.
While
the

majority  of  participants  were  from  Russia, others came from
Australia,

Canada,  France,  Germany,  India,  Kazakhstan,  Netherlands, Poland,
South

Africa,  Spain,  UK,  Ukraine,  and the USA. The work of the
Conference
was

organized alo
ng 8 panels. Billed as a discussion of 'the general trends and

mechanisms  of  sociocultural evolution and the processes of
sociopolitical

evolution  in  their  regional  and  temporary variation', it turned
into a

series  of  debates about the relationship between anthropology and
history

of  the  longue dur=CAe, with contributions from (and implications
for)
those

working  in  political  science,  sociology,  cultural studies, and
related

disciplines.   The  success  of  the  First  Confer
ence  suggested  to  its

participants   an  idea  to  ensure  the  biannual  regularity  of
further

conferences.  Furthermore,  it  was  decided  to  broaden  its
disciplinary

diapason  by  inviting  to  participate  in  the Second Conference
not
only

anthropologists,  archaeologists, historians, and sociobiologists,
but
also

political  scientists,  sociologists, jurists, geographers, and
specialists

in  other  related fields aiming at the creating of a world-wide
network of

scholars =20
concerned  with  all  the  possible  aspects  of the Conference?s

general problematique.



The  Second Conference took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia in July
2002.

The  Conference  was  held  jointly  by  the  Center for
Civilizational
and

Regional  Studies  and  the  Institute  of Oriental Studies (St.
Petersburg

Branch). This time the Conference brought together 180 scholars. 93
of
them

represented research centers and universities of 14 Russian cities
while 87

participants  came
  from 30 countries of all the inhabited continents of the

Earth:  Australia,  Austria, Belorus, Canada, China (People?s
Republic
of),

China  (Republic  of),  Colombia, Czech Republic, France, French
Polynesia,

Georgia,  Germany,  Great  Britain, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran,
Ireland,

Israel,  Latvia,  Malaysia,  Mali,  Netherlands,  Nigeria,  Slovenia,
South

Africa,  Thailand,  Turkey,  Ukraine,  USA.  The work of the
Conference
was

organized  along 18 panels. The Conference was supported
  financially by the

Royal  Anthropological  Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
(London)
and

the  ?Uchitel? Publishing House (Volgograd). For more information
about
the

first  two Conferences (Announcements, Programs, electronic versions
of
the

Books  of  Abstracts  and  journal  reviews)  please  visit  the
Center
for

Civilizational  and  Regional  Studies?  Internet site at the address
http:

\\www.civreg.ru.  At this site one may also get acquainted with the
history

and  activities
   of  the  Center.  The address of the Institute for African

Studies? Internet site is http:\\www.inafr.ru.



The immediate objective of the Third Conference is to discuss the
following

issues:

- civilizational and evolutionary models of socio-political
development;

-  interaction of the socio-political and cultural-mental groups of
factors

in the processes of social transformations;

-  cultural  and  socio-biological  foundations and factors of
dominance in

human societies;

- p
ower strategies vs. stages of political evolution;

- hierarchy and heterarchy in the sociopolitical history of humankind;

- ideology and legitimation of power in different civilizational
contexts;

-  violence  and  non-violence  in  the  history  of political
institutions

formation, development and decline;

- the role of economy in sociopolitical processes;

-  access to information as a condition and its use as a means of
political

manipulation and mobilization;

- the ?classical? (ba
nd, tribe, chiefdom, state) and ?alternative? forms of

sociopolitical organization;

-  ?traditional?  and  recent  schools  and  trends  in  the  study
of
the

?hierarchy and power? problematique.

Suggestions   for   discussion   of   any  other  aspects  of  the
general

problematique of the Conference reflected in its title, are also
welcomed.



The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.



The  Organizing  Committee  will  be  glad  to consider any panel prop
osals

(within 500 words in any of the Conference working languages) which
will be

received  by  February  1,  2003. The information to be submitted
alongside

with  the  proposal,  includes  the  panel  convenor?s  full  name,
title,

institutional  affiliation,  full  mail and e-mail addresses, and fax
#, as

well  names,  institutional  affiliations, and e-mail addresses of
not
less

than  two  other  possible participants of the panel, at least one of
which

should represent a country ot
her than that of the convenor.



The  Organizing  Committee  will inform the applicants about the
results of

their  panel  proposals?  consideration by February 15, 2003. Besides
that,

the  Organizing  Committee  reserves the right to establish one or
two
free

communication  panels  (it  is  also suggested that each of the
panels
will

eventually  include  about  a  dozen  papergivers,  and the list of
all
the

participants  is  to  become known in the beginning of the year 2004
due to


the  activities of both the Organizing Committee and panel
convenors).
None

of  the  proposals  may  be  accepted  or  rejected  on  the  basis
of
its

submitter?s  previous academic credentials, ethnic or national
origin,
sex,

or  otherwise,  but  only  on  the basis of the proposal?s relevance
to
and

importance   for,   the   Conference?s   general  problematique.
Proposals

emphasizing theoretical and cross-regional approaches to the ?
hierarchy
and

power?  problematique  are strongly en
couraged. In the case the proposal is

accepted,  the  Organizing  Committee  will  send you the list of
documents

necessary  to  support  your  and your panel participants? visa
application

process at the Russian Consulate or Embassy in the respective
countries.



The registration fee is $ 100 (or the corresponding sum in euros or
Russian

rubles)  which  includes the culture program, Conference Book of
Abstracts,

reception,  coffee-breaks,  is  to  be  paid  on  the  spot  upon
arrival.


Accommodation  at  the hotel of the Russian Academy of Sciences in
Downtown

Moscow  is about $ 45 per night. It is also possible to make an
independent

reservation  in  many  Moscow hotels of different class through
Internet at

sites:  http://moscow-hotels.net  and  http://all-hotels.ru.
Estimated
meal

and other daily expenses are c. $ 15. However, please note that the
figures

above  may  be  subjected to some changes due to processes in
transnational

and  national economy which are ob
viously out of the Organizing Committee?s

control.



All  the  correspondence should be sent for Prof. Dmitri M.
Bondarenko,
Dr.

Igor  L.  Alexeev,  and  Mr.  Oleg  Kavykin  preferably  either by
e-mail (

civ-reg@...)  or  by  fax (+ 7 095 202 0786), or ordinary mail
(Center

for  Civilizational and Regional Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences,
30/1

Spiridonovka  St.,  123001  Moscow,  Russia). The telephone number
is:
+ (7

095) 291 4119.

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  JOURNAL/CFP- Central Asia and Culture of
Peace

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

[x-posted from Central-Eurasia-L]


JOURNAL/CFP- Central Asia and Culture of Peace

Dear Colleagues:

The scientific-educational journal "Central Asia and Culture of
Peace"
has
been published since 1997 by the Central Asian Conflict Prevention
Center,
non-governmental organization, located in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan invites
you to
cooperation.

International Editing Board:
Chairman: Chingiz Aitmatov (Kyrgyzstan), Helen Carrere d'Encausse
(France),
Radjmohan Gandhi (India), Federico Mayor (Spain), Vladimir Lomeiko
(Russia),
Valery Tishkov (Russia), Mukhtar Shahanov (Kazakhstan), In Suk Cha
(Korea),
Adyl Yakubov (Uzbekistan)

Editor-in-Chief: A. Toktosunova
Executive Editor: K. Moldobaev

The Journal focuses on socio-political issues in Kyrgyzstan and
Central
Asia, peace studies and conflict prevention. It provides a forum for
the
discussion of key regional issues at these times of transition and
seeks to
promote democracy, tolerance and culture of peace in new independent
states
of Central Asia. The Journal is focused on urgent problems of
development of
the region and issues of spiritual life, culture, history of the
nations of
Central Asia.

At the same time the journal is not for a narrow circle of readers,
it
is
designed for a wide auditorium of readers from various groups of
intelligentsia. The structure of the journal includes scientific part
and
educational part. Credo of the journal is: objectiveness, high level
argumentation, pluralism, informativeness and good contents.

The journal has not yet honorarium funds.

Since its inception in April 1997, thirteen numbers of the journal
have
been
published. The first issue was devoted to the problems of tolerance,
conflict prevention, dual issue No. 2-3 was devoted to the materials
of
the
lssyk-Kul Forum-97 - the Forum of world intellectual elite. The issue
No. 4
was focused on the topic "Integrational processes in Central Asia",
issue
No. 5-6 was focused on the topic "Understanding of economic
transition
in
Central Asia", issue No. 7 of the journal was dedicated to the
materials of
the UNESCO International Forum "Culture and Religion in Central
Asia".
Issue
No. 8-9 was focused on the problems of two processes ongoing today in
post-Soviet Central Asia": formation of a truly civil society and
revival of
religion. Central topic of issues No. 8-9 of the journal was "Civil
Society
and Religion". Central topic of issue No. 10-11 devoted to the 3000th
anniversary of Osh and International Colloquium "Intercultural, Inter-
ethnic, Inter-religious Dialogue". Issue No. 12-13 was dedicated to
the
following problems: 1. Central Asia as a region of interaction of
cultures,
religions and civilizations; 2. Dialogue of religious confessions:
pro
and
con; 3. Religions in Central Asia; 4. Intercultural dialogue: new
approaches
and eternal truths; And Final document of the UNESCO International
Round
Table "Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue as a part of
Dialogue
among
Civilizations" (25-26 June 2001 Bishkek)

The journal has its own website:
http://www.freenet.kg/jornal/main.html

On this site we have two numbers of the journal and we are now
working
on
other issues for inclusion on the website.

The next number will be devoted to the following themes:

  * Development of ethnic cultures in Central Asia;
  * Problems of international terrorism;
  * Reform of education;
  * Intercultural and interreligious dialogue;
  * Integration and regional identity.


NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Articles submitted to the Editorial Board should cover the journal's
subject
area, be signed by the author (co-authors) with forename and surname,
scientific degree, affiliation and position held, telephone and fax
numbers,
e-mail, postal address.

The article must be typed (in Russian or English) in two copies
(preferably
on a diskette), not exceed 14 typed pages and (if necessary) be
accompanied
by illustrations and captions to them.

Author should give sources of facts, figures and quotations used in
the
text.

The author is responsible for ensuring authenticity of the data,
facts,
quotations, proper names, geographical names and other information
made
use
of in the article as well as for the data not subject to open
publication.

The Editorial Board may publish articles for discussion, not
obligatory
sharing the author's views. Manuscripts are neither returned nor
reviewed.


Contact address: 54, Erkindik Ave. 720050, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Tel/fax: (996 312) 22 33 80; 22 66 05; tel: 22 09 36, 66 47 72
E-mail: kubat_m@..., kubat@...


Subject: CfP: Global Development Network

GDN Call for Proposals - Understanding Reform: Country Studies

GDN is supporting a large multi-disciplinary global research project
on  Understanding Reform. This is a call for proposals to undertake
country
studies on this important theme. Studies in thirty countries will be
   supported around the world. Selections will be made on a
competitive
basis with regional allocations.

   More information, including eligibility and requirements, can be
found at:

http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform_proposals_countryst
udies.html


   General information on the project can be found at:
   http://www.gdnet.org/subpages/projects_underreform.html


Title: Social Theory 2003
    Location: Florida
    Date: 2003-01-31
    Description: Welcomes papers from all of the areas and traditions
       and social and political thought for interdisciplinary
       exchange, but especially on the theme of differences in social
       theory across the world. Submission deadline: 31 January 2003
       ...
    Contact: ekahl@...
    URL: www.socialtheory.org
    Announcement ID: 131538
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131538

Title: Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power: An Interdisciplinary
       Conference
    Begins: 2004-04-05
    Description: Hosted by the Department of HIstory, University of
       Southampton, 5-7 April 2004. The theme of masculinity now has
       an established status within popular and academic discourse,
       but to date there has been little cross-cultural and
       cross-period comparison to accompany the many detailed case
       studies which ...
    Contact: j.gammon@... or p.skinner@...
    URL: www.soton.ac.uk/~pes1/masccfp.html
    Announcement ID: 131521
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131521

Title: <i>Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence</i>:
       Call for Authors
    Deadline: 2002-11-15
    Description: We are inviting editorial contributors to the
       Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence . This is a
       two-volume encyclopedia for public libraries, high-school and
       undergrad college libraries to be published by M.E. Sharpe in
       late 2004. The work is made up of some 470 articles about the
       histo ...
    Contact: golsonbooks@...
    Announcement ID: 131530
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131530

    Title: <i>Encyclopedia of Capitalism</i>: Call for Authors
    Deadline: 2003-10-31
    Description: We are inviting editorial contributors to the
       Encyclopedia of Capitalism This is a three-volume encyclopedia
       for public libraries, high-school and undergrad college
       libraries to be published by Facts On File in 2004. Some 700
       articles cover the historical contexts and rise of capitalism
       in terms of  ...
    Contact: golsonbooks@...
    Announcement ID: 131529
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131529

Masculinity, Patriarchy and Power: An Interdisciplinary Conference
United Kingdom 2004-04-05

       Hosted by the Department of HIstory, University of Southampton,
5-7 April 2004. The theme of masculinity now has an established
status within popular and academic discourse, but to date there has
been little cross-cultural and cross-period comparison to accompany
the many detailed case studies which have been published in the last
decade. This conference seeks to forge those comparative links, and
invites proposals for papers addressing the conference theme from
historical, literary, anthropological and political perspectives
within the period 500-2000 C.E. Proposals are invited for papers of
30 minutes on any of the conference strands:
          masculinie socialisation and childhood
          male life cycle/s
          patriarchy as an oppressive force in men's lives
          male sexuality and reproductive rights
          masculinity and material culture
          alternatives to the 'warrior male' paradigm
          virility as a quality and female masculinity

       Proposals (preferably by email, and including an abstract and a
short CV) should be sent to Trish Skinner for pre-1700C.E. topics or
Julie Gammon for topics post 1700C.E.

         Dr Trish Skinner or Dr Julie Gammon
         Department of History
         University of Southampton
         Highfield
         Southampton
         SO17 1BJ

         Email: j.gammon@... or p.skinner@...
         Visit the website at http://www.soton.ac.uk/~pes1/masccfp.html

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: CfP: Women, Family, Private Life,
Sexuality
(Belfast)

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

International Federation for Research in Women=92s History -
Federation Internationale Pour La Recherche En Histoire Des
Femmes

WOMEN, FAMILY, PRIVATE LIFE AND SEXUALITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

The next conference of the International Federation for Research i
n Women=92s
History will take place from  11-14 August 2003 in Queen=92s
University
Belfast,
Northern Ireland.

The conference organisers invite proposals for papers on any aspect
of
the
history of women=92s relationship and engagement with the family,
private life
and sexuality.

Among themes which will be discussed are the impact on women=92s
lives
of
changing definitions of the family and private life;  the history of
women=92s
relationship with the family in different cultures, religious groups
and
cou
ntries;  public and state policies on women and sexuality, private
life
and
the family;   the economic function of the family and women=92s
contribution to
it;  perceptions of women=92s sexuality and family role in legal and
religious
codes and practices;  and the historiographies of sexuality, private
life ,
the family and women.

The conference organisers welcome proposals for panels and individual
papers.
In order to assist the research schedules of contributors, there will
be two
deadlines for submi
ssions: 1 June 2002 and 1 November 2002.   The selection
committee will decide on proposals submitted by 1 June 2002 by 1 July
2002 and
on those submitted from 1 June to 31 October by  1 December 2002.
Proposals
should include a short summary of the paper and a brief curriculum
vitae for
each contributor.

Address for Proposals:
IFRWH Conference 2003, School of Modern History, Queen's University
Belfast,
Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Phone: 028 90 245133;  Fax:  028 90 314611;

Email: history@...

Invited Speakers Include: Sonia Nishat Amin, Judith Bennett, Gisela
Bock,
Eileen Boris, Nancy F. Cott, Mary E. Daly, Noriyo Hayakawa, Karin
L=FCtzen, Kari
Melby, Alison Mackinnon, June Purvis, Bharatai Ray, Mrinalini Sinha,
Onalenna
Selolwane, Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Maryann Gianella Valiulis

Webpage: http://historians.ie/women

------------------------------

Date:    Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:14:49 +0200
From:    Martina Rieker <mrieker@...>
Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: CfP:  ISUF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Bari)

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

[x-posted from Space and Place]

ISUF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE PLANNED CITY?
July 3-6, 2003
Castello Svevo  Trani (Bari) - Italy

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Debates on the contemporary city all point to the fragmentation of the
traditional urban organism. The city's former unity appears now gone,
with current forms and structures considered irrevocably dispersed.
Changes
in urban form parallel the transformation (and redeployment) of the
disciplines that have historically been charged to interprete and
design the urban environment. The theme of this conference, The
Planned
City, is intended to question a possible return to the unified city
while
addressing the full complexity of the urban phenomena. The concept of
the
planned city opposes plans and projects (as unified rules) to gradual
city
building where life introduces infinite exceptions, variations, and
transformations to the unavoidable rigidity contained in plans.

The structure of the conference includes the following thematic
sections:

1.      The planned city and its territory in history
The Ancient city
The Medieval city: Founded cities of the Renaissance
The city of the Enlightenment
Modern cities in theory and in practice

2.      The cultural geography of the planned city
Cities of North America
Colonial cities of South America
Cities of Northern Europe
The planned city of the Mediterranean
Cities of Islam

3.      The theory of the New City
The ideal city in ancient philosophies
The city of God
The contemporary city in architecture and in planning
The contemporary metropolis: globalization and survival
The future city: fragmentation and new organicity

Submission Requirements
You are invited to submit a short, one-page abstract not to exceed 300
words. All abstracts must be written and presented in English. Do not
place
your name on the abstracts but rather attach a one-page curriculum
vita
with
your address and name. Specify which of the conference sessions you
would like your paper to be included in. Proposals for complete
panels
and
poster sessions are also welcome.

Authors must submit an electronic copy of their abstract and CV at the
same time via e-mail. Abstracts and CVs must be placed within the
body
of
the e-mail and not as an attachment. E-mail this material to
isuf2003@....


THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSRACTS AND CVs IS DECEMBER 30, 2002

Paper Submission Process
Abstracts will be selected via a blind peer-review process. Authors
will be notified of abstracts acceptance for publication and
conference
presentation by February 15, 2003.

Full-length papers of 4,000 words or less (each graphic and table
counts for 250 words) will be due May 1, 2003. Authors must
pre-register for
the conference at this time for their papers to be included in the
proceedings and in the conference schedule.

The registration fee is 180 Euro. Please note that hotel
accommodations and travel are not covered by the registration fees.

For further information about history, constitution, aims and
activities of
ISUF please consult the conference website at
http://odin.let.rug.nl/isuf/

Organizing Committee and Conference Conveners
Attilio Petruccioli, Conference Director
Michele Stella, Conference Director

Scientific Committee
Antonio Castorani
Michael Conzen
Claudio D'Amato
Mauro Mezzina
Giuseppe Strappa
Anne Vernez Moudon
Jeremy Whitehand


Conference Sponsors
ICAR, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ingegneria Civile e
dell'Architettura, Politecnico di Bari, Italy.
Regione Puglia Comune di Trani Provincia di Bari


Conference Site
The conference will be held at the medieval castle in Trani, placed on
the Adriatic coast, 40 Km north of the city of Bari, Italy.

The old town of Trani extends along the port where the medieval castle
of Frederick the Second stands in a stupendous position directly
besides
the sea. Unique as its site, Trani presents the most beautiful
example
of
Churches of Apulian-Romanesque in the whole of Puglia. The history and
artistic heritage of this city are of great interest while the
favourable
climate, the good food, traditions, hospitality, natural
and artistic beauty all contribute to visitors' enjoyment.

In order to obtain special conference room rates at local hotels,
reservations will have to be made by May 30th, 2003.

Questions?
Contact Attilio Petruccioli
Petruccioli@...


2.
Subject: Book Review: Jovanovic, Kaser, Naumovic (eds), Between the
Archives and the Field. Reviewed by Peter Dezso

Balkan Academic News Book Review 38/2002

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jovanovic.jpg

Miroslav Jovanovic, Karl Kaser, Slobodan Naumovic (eds.), Between the
Archives and the Field: A Dialogue in Historical Anthropology of the
Balkans. Zur Kunde Suedosteuropas II/27, Beograd-Graz: UDI-Institut
für
Geschichte der Universitaet, Abteilung Suedosteuropaeische
Geschichte,
1999. 276 pp. ISBN 86-83227-01-4 (softcover).

Reviewed by Peter  Dezso (Eastern European Relations, Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj) Email: peterdezso@...


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The book is a complex collection of papers presented at an
International
Colloquium in Belgrade 1996. The papers have in common two
characteristics:
they are all studying some particular aspects of the Balkans with the
instruments of the historical anthropology. The reader cannot really
understand if the workshop was held in order to understand more what
is
historical anthropology or in order to present more aspects of the
Balkan
life and identity. Exactly because of this double goal of the papers
presented, they vary from the short descriptive presentation of
certain
particular issues to the wide academic-scientific presentation of
certain
widely spread traditions.

The first part of the book (Historical anthropology: a new dialogue
for
old
partners) contains three papers which are setting up the framework of
the
colloquium that of historical anthropology and study of Balkans. From
these
three articles, one can easily understand the need to define a new
science,
called "historical anthropology"  we find many polemics and
confusions
related to this even within one paper. After these arguments in the
favor
of defining a new school for scientific research, we would expect all
the
papers written according to the expectations of this paradigm but
they
are
not. At the end of the book, we will find description of the
polemical
tones about the notion
"historical anthropology".

The remainder of the volume comes in two chapters. The first chapter
"Sex-Gender-Family-Everyday life" contains seven papers covering
different
topics, some are very detailed and interesting only for people
researching
in social sciences, other papers are written in such an easy style
that
they could be printered in a commercial magazine. The papers from
this
chapter are presenting topics which are typical for the Balkans:
Tobelijas
a female-to-male cross-gender role, Zadruga the "Balkan family" or
the
everyday life of the people of the former Habsburg Military
Borderland
into
Croatia. We can also see in the last article of this part that a
simple
research can lead to interesting conclusions  not typical
Balkan-related
though  the "jours" in Beograd during the inter-war period are
analyze
purely based on interviews.

The third part of the book  entitled "Villages-Mentalities-
Traditions"
leads to some
interesting conclusions relating to the topic from the title. An
article to
be pointed out here is related to the recent past examining the
political
rhetoric in Serbia between 1987-1990 by Slobodan Naumovic.

An interesting paper is presented in a special chapter "Polemical
Tones"
Radomir D. Rakic is disputing  in a well-constructed way  the need
for
"historical anthropology". This article gives a balance to the book
and
it
shows that the colloquium was a place for
real open dialogue.

The closing "Instead of a Conclusion" is a follow-up discussion on
historical anthropology with many interesting examples but without
adding
much new to the introduction.

All together, the book is worth to be read for anybody interested in
Balkan
societies (which in this case is means mainly former Yugoslavia),
especially because of the breadth areas it covers. The debate in the
book
about historical anthropology is of low interest for many and
sometimes
it
becomes too technical with the risk of loosing the essence of the
research:
the results.

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Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Marc Schalenberg
     Francis Haskell.  _The Ephemeral Museum. Old Master Paintings and
     the Rise of the Art Exhibition_.  New Haven and London: Yale
     University Press, 2000.  Xiv & 201 S.  , ISBN 0-300-08534-6.
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     Francesca Weil.  _Herrschaftsanspruch und soziale Wirklichkeit.
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     Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2000.  248 S.  EUR 29, ISBN 3-412-02600-X.
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Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Jens Schöne
     Barbara Schier.  _Alltagsleben im "sozialistischen" Dorf.
     Merxleben und seine LPG im Spannungsfeld der SED-Agrarpolitik
     (1945-1990)_.  Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2001.  327 S.  EUR 19,
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Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Susan L. Roberson
     Peter S. Field.  _Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic
     Intellectual_.  Lanham and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield
     Publishers, 2002.  xv + 253 pp.  $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8476-8842-
     9.
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Reviewed for H-SHEAR by Robert J. Imholt
     Colin Wells.  _The Devil and Doctor Dwight: Satire and Theology in
     the Early American Republic_.  Chapel Hill: University of North
     Carolina Press, 2002.  x + 254 pp.  $49.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-8078-
     2715-0; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-5383-6.
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Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Sean Jacobs
     Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael, eds.  _Senses of Culture:
     South African Culture Studies_.  Oxford and New York: Oxford
     University Press, 2000.  xiii + 547 pp.  $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-
     19-5718399.
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Reviewed for H-Disability by Gay L. Gullickson
     Therese-Adele Husson.  _Reflections: The Life and Writings of a
     Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France_.  Translated and
     with Commentary by Catherine J Kudlick and Zina Weygand.  New
     York: New York University Press, 2001.  xv + 155 pp.  $20.00
     (cloth), ISBN 0-8147-4746-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=157971034388437

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Thomas Widlok
     Sandy Gall.  _The Bushmen of Southern Africa: Slaughter of the
     Innocent_.  London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.  xxxix, 264 pp.  £20.00
     (cloth), ISBN 0-701-16906-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=162851034388828

Reviewed for H-South by Scott P. Marler
     Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch.  _One Kind of Freedom: The
     Economic Consequences of Emancipation_.  Second edition. New York:
     Cambridge University Press, 2001.  xxviii + 458 pp.  $65.00
     (cloth) ISBN 0-521-79169-3; $23.00 (paper), ISBN 0-521-79550-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=212571034390915

Reviewed for H-Women by Mary E. Corey
     Sylvia D. Hoffert.  _When Hens Crow: The Woman's Rights Movement
     in Antebellum America_.  Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
     University Press, 1995.  168 pp.  $26.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-253-32880-
     2; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0-253-21500-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=309511034558432

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by David L Carey Miller
     Penelope Andrews and Stephen Ellman, eds.  _The Post-Apartheid
     Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa's Basic Law_.
     Johannesburg and Athens: Witwatersrand University Press and Ohio
     University Press, 2001.  x + 606 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8214-
     1400-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8631034559432

Reviewed for H-Texas by Linda Hudson
     Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten.  _Capitol Women: Texas
     Female Legislators, 1923-1999_.  Austin: University of Texas
     Press, 2000.  x + 328 pp.  $45.00 (cloth) ISBN 0-292-74062-x;
     $22.95 (paper), ISBN 0-292-74063-8.
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Reviewed for H-SHGAPE by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards
     Lillian Taiz.  _Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation
     Army in America, 1880-1930_.  Chapel Hill and London: University
     of North Carolina Press, 2001.  239 pp.  $39.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-
     8078-2621-9; $16.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4935-9.
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Reviewed for H-Tennesee by Russell Fowler
     James W. Ely, Jr, ed.  _A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court_.
     Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.  xvi + 459 pp.
     $46.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-57233-178-X.
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Reviewed for H-GAGCS by Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
     Margaret C. Reynolds.  _Plain Women: Gender and Ritual in the Old
     Order River Brethren_.  Edited and Foreword by Simon J Bonner;
     Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series. University Park:
     Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001.  xii + 192 pp.  $29.95
     (cloth), ISBN 0-271-02138-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=69521034561762

Reviewed for H-GAGCS by Trudis E. Goldsmith-Reber
     Peter C. Merrill.  _German-American Urban Culture:  Writers and
     Theaters in Early Milwaukee_.  Studies of the Max Kade Institute
     for German-American Studies.  Madison: University of Wisconsin
     Press, 2000.  128 pp.  $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-924119-03-9.
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     Identity in Twentieth-Century France_.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
     University Press, 2001.  ix + 356p.  95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6651-
     0.
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3.
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       "Europe: Emotion ...
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    Title: Short-term Research Fellowships "Europe and Love" in
       Eastern and Central Europe
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       thro ...
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Subject: CfA: Carnegie Council Fellowship (Deadline: 15.1.2003)

*Call for Fellowship Applications*

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4.
The October 2002 issue of Middle East Intelligence Bulletin is now
online at
http://www.meib.org/issues/0210.htm

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LEBANON
Lebanese Christians: A Unified Opposition Front?
In recent months, once-disunited Christian opposition currents in
Lebanon have shown signs of unprecedented political coordination.
Gary C. Gambill
Objectives of the MTV Closure and Ensuing Crackdown
The Closure of Murr Television was intended not just to shift the
balance of power between government and opposition, but also within
the regime.Gary C. Gambill
The Syria Accountability Act and Lebanon
The impact of the SAA is felt in Lebanon, the crackdown on dissent in
Lebanon is felt in congress. Ziad K. Abdelnour
Intelligence Briefs
SYRIA
Sponsoring Terrorism: Syria and Hamas
The second of a series of in-depth studies about Syrian ties to
extremist groups listed by the US State Department as terrorist
organizations. Gary C. Gambill
Intelligence Briefs
IRAQ
Interview : Nechervan Idris Barzani
The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Irbil
speaks to MEIB about American policy toward Iraq, Kurdish relations
with Baghdad, and the future of the country after Saddam Hussein.
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Servile states

by IGNACIO RAMONET

                                         Translated by Ed Emery

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/10/01servile>


THE PATH TO WAR

How Saddam keeps power in Iraq *

by FALEH A JABAR

      Although Iraq has agreed to let UN weapons inspectors
      back into the country, the United States still seems
      determined to topple President Saddam Hussein's regime.
      So far, he has defeated all internal opposition and
      maintained his grip on power, despite the international
      embargo. Saddam has relied on the country's various clans
      and tribes, at the expense of the Baath party, which once
      had the main role in public life.

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford



A question of human rights

                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen

        <http://MondeDiplo.com/2002/10/03rights>


Knowing and not knowing *

                               Translated by Wendy Kristianasen



Kurdistan: on the map at last *

by our special correspondent MICHEL VERRIER

      Kurdistan is looking forward to US intervention against
      Iraq. Iraqi Kurds dream of a secular, democratic republic
      where they enjoy the autonomy promised over 30 years ago.
      Kurds of Iran hope for greater involvement in central
      government. Turkey's Kurds, who have just won new rights,
      want to copy an Iraqi model. But all their hopes could
      prove illusory.

                                Translated by Malcolm Greenwood



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'THE IDF'S ARROGANCE CONCEALS A LACK OF STRATEGY'

Israel: the army in command *

by MARIUS SCHATTNER

      Israel has repeatedly rejected the UN Security Council's
      call for an immediate end to attacks on Yasser Arafat's
      headquarters in Ramallah. Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres
      claim to be responding to terrorism, but are really
      determined to follow the Israeli army strategy to its
      terrible end.

                                     Translated by Barry Smerin



Collateral damage *

by MICHEL REVEL

                                     Translated by Barry Smerin



DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, IMPERIALISTS ALL

United States: so proudly we hail *

by NORMAN BIRNBAUM

      The United States claims the status of 'Empire of Good'
      it has coveted for a century. The strategic document
      published by the Bush administration promises to defend
      liberty throughout the world. But it ends disarmament,
      prevents any power rivalling the US militarily and
      removes Americans from the jurisdiction of the
      International Criminal Court.

                                       Original text in English



NEW PRESIDENT WILL HAVE TO RETHINK THE ECONOMY

Brazil: in debt and doubt *

by EMIR SADER

      Whoever wins the next round of the Brazilian presidential
      elections will inherit a very fragile economy in a
      country that has changed. The new president will have to
      overhaul Brazil's old economic model to avoid replicating
      the financial and social crisis that has happened in
      Argentina.

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford



Show us the money *

by EMIR SADER

                                    Translated by Luke Sandford



WASTE OF A UNIQUE DIPLOMATIC ADVANTAGE

South Africa disdains its own continent *

by ANNE DISSEZ and FOUAD SROUJI

                                   Translated by Barbara Wilson



THE GAP BETWEEN IMAGE AND REALITY

Morocco: democracy denied

by JOHN P ENTELIS

      Democratic reforms in Morocco were among the few positive
      findings in a recent United Nations report on development
      in the Arab world. But the country's most popular
      Islamist party, Justice and Charity, was banned from
      September's elections.

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'DESTROYING WHOLE ECONOMIES TO SAVE THEM'

The World Bank of last resort *

by JEAN ZIEGLER

      The World Bank has defended high-minded theories to
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      and this has led to the exploitation of the world's
      poorest inhabitants and the privatisation of public
      assets.

                                    Translated by Harry Forster



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Photojournalists fight the fluff *

by CHRISTIAN CAUJOLLE

      News photographers, still wanting to reinvent
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      reality to offer to ever more visually uniform print
      media. Me too-ism and corporate mergers have worsened
      that uniformity. In a world of stereotyped images and
      information, which is dominated by television and the
      internet, a few newspapers and magazines struggle to
      fight the trend; but fewer picture agencies manage to
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by LIONEL RICHARD

                                   Translated by Barbara Wilson




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6.
Subject: Burs Duyurusu

Burs Duyurusu
Dýþ Politika Enstitüsü ÝHSAN DORAMACI ULUSLAR ARASI
ÝLÝÞKÝLER BURSU için çaðrýda bulunmaktadýr.

Ýki yýlda bir verilecek olan 20,000 Dolar tutarýndaki
burs (fellowship) uluslar arasý iliþkilerin
geliþtirilmesi, iyileþtirilmesi ve uluslar arasýnda
dostluk ve yakýnlaþmaya katkýda bulunacak bilimsel
araþtýrmalarý desteklemek amacýna yöneliktir.

1 Mart 2005'te tamamlanacak olan araþtýrma projesi
için müracaatlarýn 30 Kasým 2002 tarihinden önce
sunulmuþ olmasý gerekir. Müracaatçýlar arasýnda, dil,
din, ýrk, vatandaþlýk, cins, meslek veya benzer
herhangi bir sebeple ayýrým yapýlmayacaktýr. Tüzel
kuruluþlar da müracaat edebilecektir.

Bursu kazanan 2003 Nisan ayýndan önce ilan
edilecektir.

Burs üç eþit bölümde ödenecektir. Birinci bölüm bursun
kazanýlmasýný takiben ödenecektir. Ýkinci bölüm
ilerleme raporunun Enstitü tarafýndan alýnýp
onaylanmasý kaydý ile iki yýllýk proje döneminin
ortasýnda ödenecektir. Son bölüm ise nihai raporun
sunulmasý ve Enstitü tarafýndan onaylanmasýndan sonra
2005 yýlý Nisan ayýnda Ankara'da yapýlacak merasimde
ödenecektir (Ankara'ya seyahat giderleri Bilkent
Üniversitesi ve yerel giderler ve aðýrlama Enstitü
tarafýndan karþýlanacaktýr).

Nihai rapor onaylandýktan sonra bursu kazanan,
araþtýrma konusu üzerinde Bilkent Üniversitesinde bir
konferans vermeye davet edilecektir.

Burs müracaatçýsý aþaðýdaki bilgi ve belgeleri
sunacaktýr:

Araþtýrma Projesini yürütecek kimsenin adý
Büro saatlerinde müracaatçýya ulaþýlabilecek telefon,
faks veya elektronik posta numaralarý
Müracaat döneminde kendisine ulaþýlabilecek adres.
Bursa müracaat nedenini ve burs ile saðlanmak istenen
amacý açýklayan bin kelimeyi aþmayacak bir açýklama.
Müracaatçýnýn daha önce yapmýþ olduðu çalýþmalarý
gözlemleyenlerin veya çalýþtýðý Kurumlarýn vereceði
iki tavsiye mektubu.
Kapsamlý bir özgeçmiþ
Müracaatçýnýn, jürinin incelemesini istediði
çalýþmalarý.
Araþtýrma projesi için bir bütçe.
Müracaatlar 30 Kasým 2002'den önce postalanmalýdýr.
Bütün belgeler tek bir paket halinde gönderilmelidir.

Özel Not;

Dýþ Politika Enstitüsü veya Bilkent Üniversitesi
mensuplarý hiçbir þekilde bu burs için müracaatta
bulunamazlar.

Müracaatlar aþaðýdaki adrese gönderilmelidir:

Dýþ Politika Enstitüsü
Bilkent Üniversitesi Doðu Kampüsü
06533 Ankara


Daha fazla bilgi için müracaat:
Tel: 0312 266 28 69
Faks: 0312 266 28 71
e-posta: fpi@...

7.
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
>http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm
>Commentary No. 99,  Oct. 15, 2002
>"The U.S.-Iraqi War, Seen from the longue durée"
>
>What can be said about a U.S.-Iraqi war, see from the longue durée?
Three
>things principally. The first has to do with the reasons for which
the
>United States is taking the position it is taking at the moment. We
have
>to think of the United States as a hegemonic power in the
world-system, in
>the beginning phase of its decline. Its rise began approximately in
1873,
>when the U.S. positioned itself as one of two possible successor
powers
>(the other being Germany) to the United Kingdom, which had passed
its
peak
>and was beginning its decline as the hegemonic power.
>The long ascent of the United States went from 1873-1945, and
required
>defeating Germany in a long "thirty years' war" that went from
1914-1945.
>This was followed by the brief moment of true hegemony, from
1945-1970.
>During this period, the United States was by far the most efficient
>producer on the world economic scene. It dominated the world
politically,
>via a status quo accord with its only military rival, the U.S.S.R.
(to
>which we refer metaphorically as the Yalta arrangements), and a
series
of
>politico-military alliances (NATO, the U.S.-Japan Defense Treaty,
ANZAC),
>which guaranteed to the U.S. the automatic military and political
support
>of a series of major industrial powers. This hegemony was sustained
by
a
>U.S. military machine based on air power and nuclear weapons
(combined
>with a "balance of terror" with the Soviet Union).
>These halcyon conditions were disturbed by two things primarily. The
first
>was the economic rise of western Europe and Japan in the 1960s,
which
>ended the overwhelming economic superiority of the United States,
and
>transformed the world-system into a roughly equal triadic economic
>structure. The second was the unwillingness of certain countries of
the
>Third World to accept the implications of the U.S.-Soviet Union
status
quo
>agreements - especially China, Vietnam, and Cuba.
>The combination of the beginning of a Kondratieff B-phase (largely
the
>consequence of the economic rise of western Europe and Japan, and
>therefore of declining monopolistic profits), the war in Vietnam
(which
>also led to delinking the U.S. dollar from gold, and which ended in
>defeat), and the world revolution of 1968 (which among other things
>undermined the legitimacy of the Yalta arrangements) marked the
beginning
>of the end of the ability of the United States to enforce its
version
of
>world order in the geopolitical arena.
>The story of the United States from 1970 to today is the story of a
battle
>to slow down geopolitical decline amidst a worldwide economic
stagnation:
>the Trilateral Commission and the G-7 (as ways of inducing western
Europe
>and Japan not to move away from U.S. control too fast), the
Washington
>Consensus and neo-liberalism (as ways to hold back the surge forward
of
>the South), anti-proliferation as a doctrine (as ways to push off
>inevitable military decline). If one wishes to take the measure of
all
of
>these efforts, one would have to say that they were at best
partially
>successful. They did reduce the speed of the decline but did not
stop
it
>from occurring, with the United States all the while denying that it
was
>occurring.
>Enter the hawks! The hawks in the United States were never in
political
>power from 1941-2001. They chafed. After 9/11, they finally seized
the
>reins of power in Washington. Their view of the world was that
decline
was
>real, but that the cause of the decline was the weak will and
misguided
>policies of the U.S. government (all U.S. governments from Roosevelt
to
>the present President before 9/11). They believe that U.S. potential
power
>is unbeatable provided only that it is exercised. They are not
>unilateralists by default, but unilateralists by preference. They
believe
>that unilateralism is itself a demonstration of power and a
reinforcement
>of power.
>The second thing that is going on is the North-South struggle, which
will
>be a major focus of world conflict in the next 25-50 years. From the
point
>of view of the South, there are several different ways of conducting
this
>struggle. One mode is military-confrontational. That is the path
that
>Saddam Hussein has chosen. The reasoning that lies behind this
position is
>Bismarckian. Only if the South achieves greater political unity and
>greater real military strength will it be able to get its fair share
of
>the world's resources. Its geopolitical strategy should be built
around
>these premises. Hence, Saddam Hussein has always pushed for greater
Arab
>unification (around him as leader, to be sure) and for obtaining
so-called
>weapons of mass destruction. Ergo, everything the hawks say about
him
is
>true, except for one thing: that he is reckless, and likely to use
such
>weapons readily.
>Quite the contrary. He has shown himself to be a relatively prudent,
>careful chess player, but one willing to make bold moves (and then
>retreat, if they prove to be mistakes or get him into a blocked
position).
>Personally, I find him an extremely terrible dictator, and I do not
trust
>his virtue. But I see no reason to believe that he would use weapons
of
>mass destruction more readily or recklessly than the United States
or
>Israel (or any other power that has them, for that matter). I
certainly do
>not believe that proliferation is stoppable in the middle run. And I
am
>not at all sure that the world would be more peaceful were it to be
>stopped. The fact that the Soviet Union had the hydrogen bomb was a
major
>explanation of why the Cold War was cold. We have gone from one to
eight
>known possessors of nuclear weapons between 1945 and today, and
there
will
>be 20 more in the next 25 years. Iraq will be one of them, with or
without
>Saddam Hussein.
>The third structural trend to take into account in evaluating the
present
>situation is the economic rise and geopolitical hesitations of
western
>Europe and Japan. No longer economically dependent on the United
States,
>increasingly chafing at U.S. unilateralism, uncomfortable about U.S.
>cultural arrogance, western Europe and Japan remain hesitant to
engage
in
>actions that would deeply offend the United States. So their role on
the
>world scene now is one of considerable timidity - on almost all
issues.
>This is partly the heritage of Cold War gratitudes, partly the
result
of
>sharing some geopolitical interests as part of the North, partly a
>generational issue (the younger are less timid). This hesitancy will
not
>last. By 2010, it will have disappeared completely. But for the
moment, it
>still operates and explains current positions.
>Putting together these three realities - the fact that the hawks are
not
>open to persuasion, the fact that the South is indeed seeking to
>strengthen itself militarily, and the fact that western Europe and
Japan
>are not willing yet to be full actors on the scene - will enable
anyone to
>analyze and even predict the immediately likely (and increasingly
>unpleasant) occurrences on the current world scene.
>Immanuel Wallerstein
>[Copyright by Immanuel Wallerstein. All rights reserved. Permission
is
>granted to download, forward electronically or e-mail to others and
to
>post this text on non-commercial community Internet sites, provided
the
>essay remains intact and the copyright note is displayed. To
translate
>this text, publish it in printed and/or other forms, including
commercial
>Internet sites and excerpts, contact the author at
iwaller@...;
>fax: 1-607-777-4315.
>These commentaries, published twice monthly, are intended to be
>reflections on the contemporary world scene, as seen from the
perspective
>not of the immediate headlines but of the long term.]

Becky Dunlop
Secretary, Fernand Braudel Center
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/index.htm

8.
Subject: Conference: Hannah Arendt: Politics and Responsibility (10
November 2002, London)



     Hannah Arendt: Politics and Responsibility
       International conference, 10 November 2002, London

       Nancy Fraser and Julia Kristeva: Human Nature, Feminism and
Politics

       Ronnie Beiner and Jeffery Newman: Public and Private Thinking

       Richard Bernstein and Waltraud Meints: The Origins of
Totalitarianism

       Richard Sennet: Religion and Ideology in Arendt

Since the experience of totalitarian domination in the last century
and, more particularly, since 11 September 2001, questions
concerning the nature of political responsibility, and the costs of
failure to face up to its demands, have taken on a renewed urgency.

       This broadly interdisciplinary conference will address these
issues through discussion of the ways in which they underlie so much
of Hannah Arendt's work. Themes addressed will include responsibility
for politics in our role as citizens and, as central to our concern
for the world in which we all live, responsibility for what is done
in our name.

       The conference brings together leading thinkers from a wide
range of backgrounds, whose work has been concerned with some of the
many different aspects of the overall theme of Politics and
Responsibility, and in particular with the work of Hannah Arendt
herself.

       Conference registration and details

       £35/£20 (concs. with proof) to include lunch and refreshments
Cheques payable to Wiener Library Ltd

       Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
       4 Devonshire Street
       London W1W 5BH
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       Organised by: The Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener
Library, NYU, London, The Forum for European Philosophy, The
University of Hannover

         Arendt Conference Administration
         The Wiener Library
         4 Devonshire Street
         London W1W 5HB
         Tel 44 (0)207 636 7247

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1.call for papers 2.fellowship 3.reviews 4.website 5.summer school
6.MBA 7.MA 8.program 9.siir
Subject: CfP: Natural risks and the environment [x-H-MEDITERRANEAN]

1.
Subject: CfP: The Berkeley Journal of Sociology (BJS): Nationalisms
and
Identities


Call for Papers
Nationalisms and Identities


The Berkeley Journal of Sociology (BJS) invites submissions of
well-written, theoretically interesting papers on topics relating to
the
theme Nationalisms and Identities for Volume 47, 2003. We are
particularly
interested in research dealing with the ways in which nationalisms
are
challenged, reinforced or subsumed by competing axes of identity.
Comparative research and empirical examples are encouraged. We are
also
looking for photo essays relating to these issues. Possible topics
include,
but are not limited, to the intersection of nationalism(s)/national
identity and:
religion
colonialism
post-colonialities
gender
xenophobia (e.g. refugees)
supra-national institutions (e.g. United Nations, European Union)
immigration/migration/transnationalism
reactionary movements
public/private constructions
American fundamentalism
going beyond nation states (e.g. humanism, peaceful patriots)
reconstruction (e.g. Russia, Eastern Europe)
The BJS provides graduate students and untenured faculty in the US
and
internationally with a forum for publishing original, high-quality
sociological research. Many current academic luminaries published in
the
BJS early in their careers, including Pierre Bourdieu, Michael
Burowoy,
Craig Calhoun, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Nancy Chodorow, Randall
Collins,
Peter Evans, Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas, Arlie Hochschild,
Theda
Skocpol and Erik Olin Wright.
Students and faculty from departments outside the discipline of
sociology
(such as political science, women s studies, anthropology) are
encouraged
to submit articles that have a sociological orientation and pertain
to
issues as listed above. Researchers may include suggestions for
constructing social policy, but these suggestions should be strongly
supported by empirical sociological research. Submissions for Volume
47
are
due December 1st.2002. All papers submitted to the journal will be
considered for presentation at the 3rd annual BJS conference on March
7th,
2003.
Send two copies of your submission to:
Berkeley Journal of Sociology
410 Barrows Hall #1980
Department of Sociology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1980
Or send submission as an email attachment to:
thejournal@...


CALL FOR PAPERS

"Displacing Canons, Dislocating Cultures"
to be held at Bilkent University on Friday/Saturday February 21/22,
2003

This symposium, organized by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations
and
Ideas, attempts to rethink the often assumed relationship between
"place"-and especially the university as a place of learning-and the
idea
of culture. Specifically, what do the concerns of location-where we
read,
watch, learn, teach-have to do with ongoing struggles over the canon
and
other authorized narratives of cultural identity? Such a re-
examination
may seem timely in the context of increased scholarly and popular
attention
to the crises of globalization, fears of economic and cultural
neo-colonialism, and exacerbated ethnic chauvinism, as well as the
promises
of new forms of cosmopolitan sentiment, transnational affinity and
mobility, and cultural hybridity (not least within universities).

Papers may well choose to examine the significance of such widespread
phenomena for the apparently more "particular" concerns of our
cultural
locale (Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey...). But can we still rely on the
supposed
opposition between the global and the local, the universal and the
particular, to understand the specificities (and generalities) of
Ankara as
a cultural and pedagogical locale? And if such familiar coordinates
of
culture, and of its study, are being displaced, what of others, such
as the
ancient or traditional vs. the modern/postmodern or homogenizing
ideals of
civility vs. the politics of difference/identity?

We very much welcome proposals from Faculty and Graduate Students
from all
disciplines, and we are interested in proposals addressing these
questions

from a number of directions, potentially ranging, for example, from
close

reading of particular cultural texts to discussions of classroom
pedagogy
and the institutional history of universities to theoretical
interventions
on the shifting geopolitical, ideological, and affective contours of
"Culture," "Cultures" and "Cultural Studies."

Keynote speakers for this symposium will be Professor Meyda Yegenoglu
of
ODTÜ Department of Sociology, and Professor Mahmut Mutman, of Bilkent
University Department of Communication & Design.

Possible topics include:

Culture Wars and/or "Civilized" Discourse?
"Great Books" and (Global) Cultural Capital
Univers(al)ity in Ruins
Situated Classrooms/Borderline Pedagogies
Canons and their (W)Holes
Beyond Particularism in the Transnational University?
Rerouting "Western Civ" and "World Literature"
Orientalism and its Counter-discourses
Cultural Citizenship, Cosmopolitanism and Humanities in Turkey
Anglo(phono)centrism, Heteroglossia and the Ethics of Translation

1-page proposals for 20-30 minute papers by December 1, please, to:
CCI
Symposium, CCI Program, Engineering Building 421, Bilkent University,
06533
Bilkent, Ankara, OR to thope@...
Subject: CfP: Soyuz Symposium in Postsocialist Cultural Studies,
7-8.2.2003, Amherst

2003 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM
     Ethnographies of Postsocialism

    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
      February 7 - 8, 2003

SOYUZ, the Network of Postsocialist Cultural Studies invites paper
submissions for its 2003 meeting.  Presentations may be from any
discipline
(anthropology, sociology, folklore, political science, history,
literary
criticism, etc.) and may focus on any aspect of social life -
religion,
politics, economics and exchange, kinship and the family, gender,
language,
the arts - but papers must strive to creatively and successfully
combine
solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with cultural theory.
We
hope
to be able to make travel subsidies available for up to two foreign
presenters (from the region), and to be able to offer a limited
number
of
travel grants to graduate students.  Panelists will be encouraged to
publish
their papers in the Anthropology of East Europe Review.

Soyuz is an official interest group of the American Anthropological
Association.  Its members are scholars of a variety of disciplines
who
share
an interest in ethnographic, historical, and cultural studies
approaches to
scholarly inquiry of the former socialist world.  The symposium, held
annually since the early 1990s, is at once an intimate forum where
scholars
can exchange ideas and engage in dialogue, and the site of cutting
edge
presentations from some of the most exciting thinkers within the
subfield.

Please send abstracts of 250 words or less by email to:
Julie Hemment, Department of Anthropology, UMass, Amherst
(jhemment@...).  Please include your name, title of
paper
and
academic affiliation.

The deadline for abstracts is November 10 2002



    Title: The 5th Annual Society for Military and Strategic Studies
       Student ConferenceWAR & SECURITY: Unravelling the
       Past,Interpreting the Present,Defining the Future
    Location: Alberta
    Deadline: 2002-11-15
    Description:  The University of Calgarys Society for Military and
       Strategic Studies (SMSS) is comprised of a diverse group of
       students from a wide range of academic backgrounds with a
       common interest in security, strategy and military issues. The
       SMSS student conference provides a forum for discussion, debate
       an ...
    Contact: ymarcha@...
    URL: members.shaw.ca/keepinga/smss/index.html
    Announcement ID: 131640
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131640


Date:    Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:48:46 +0200
From:    H-Mediterranean <denis.bocquet@...>
Subject: Call for Papers: Natural risks and the environment

From: René Favier <rene.favier@...>
Subject: Call for Papers: Natural risks and the environment
Date: October 25, 2002

Troisième colloque international sur l'histoire des risques naturels
Les médias et la mémoire des risques naturels
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme – Alpes
Grenoble, 10 et 11 avril 2003

Third International congress on the history of natural risks
Medias and Memory of natural risks
Grenoble (France) April 10-11, 2003
Deadline for Submission: December 31, 2002

Au cours des deux premières rencontres organisées par l'équipe HESOP
sur
l'histoire des risques naturels et consacrées, l'une à la
confrontation
entre
histoire et mémoire, l'autre aux attitudes des pouvoirs publics dans
l'histoire, les discussions ont souligné le rôle joué par les médias
dans la
mémorisation des événements catastrophiques et la construction (et/ou
la
transmission) d'une culture des risques. Dans le cadre du programme de
recherche qui associe la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme – Alpes de
Grenoble,
la Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen de Lyon et la Maison
Méditerranéenne des
Sciences de l'Homme d'Aix-en-Provence, sera organisée les jeudi 11 et
vendredi
12 avril 2003 une troisième rencontre internationale sur le thème "
Les
médias
et la mémoire des risques naturels " qui sera l'occasion d'approfondir
un certain nombre de questions autour de cette nouvelle thématique.

Le projet se donne pour objectif trois niveaux d'interrogations. En
premier
lieu, se pose la question des modalités de restitution des
événements catastrophiques par les médias, et la manière dont, par ce
biais,
ils participent ou non à l'élaboration d'une culture du risque.
L'analyse de
cette restitution est évidemment indissociable de leur sensibilité à
la
"vulnérabilité " des personnes et des biens, en fonction de la
qualité
des
populations concernées, de l'évolution de l'emprise humaine sur le
territoire
et de la prise en compte de la notion du développement durable.
Il s'agira aussi de s'interroger sur la manière dont certains
événements, récents ou anciens, ont été valorisés (sur-valorisés ?)
pour
devenir des "événements référents ", et à l'inverse, comment d'autres
ont été
oubliés ou occultés. Seront aussi envisagés les impacts sociaux,
politiques ou
culturels de cette transmission. Dans cette perspective, il
conviendra d'étudier notamment les processus de construction des
savoirs, tant
vernaculaires que ceux des érudits, parfois repris par des
scientifiques
qui les croient établis, et les antagonismes existants entre ces
savoirs
et ceux transmis par les médias.
La réflexion imposera enfin d'aborder la relation des médias au
politique, qu'il s'agisse de la manière dont les pouvoirs
instrumentalisent
les médias – à travers la médiatisation des actions de prévention ou
de
secours engagées par le pouvoir – ou se méfient d'eux, voire des
liens
avec
les politiques publiques correspondantes.

Cette réflexion entend s'inscrire dans la longue durée.
Naturellement,
seront
interrogés en priorités les différents types de médias qui se sont
développés
depuis le XVIIe siècle : presse sous toutes ses formes (périodiques,
libelles,
canards…), littérature populaire, ouvrages inscrits dans une mémoire
collective ou naturellement, pour les périodes les plus récentes, le
rôle
particulier de la radio et de la télévision. Mais les chercheurs sont
également invités à explorer pour les périodes plus anciennes
d'autres
pistes
tels que supports iconographiques, récits exemplaires des
prédicateurs…
La liste des questions n'est qu'indicative et chacun pourra apporter
à
cet
égard sa propre expérience autour de la thématique retenue. Il va de
soi que
les questions peuvent se poser différemment selon la nature des
risques
(avalanches, inondations, risques sismiques), la fréquence de leurs
occurrences. Sur toutes ces questions, une approche pluridisciplinaire
s'impose à l'évidence. Dans cette perspective, le colloque fera aussi
appel à
des contributions de géographes, juristes, politistes, sociologues,
architectes ou des ingénieurs. Mais, à travers une recherche
historique, il
entend inscrire ces réflexions dans la longue durée de manière à
enrichir la
réflexion contemporaine grâce aux problématiques issues des analyses
des
exemples du passé.

Pour le comité d'organisation
René FAVIER

Comité d'organisation
Bernard BOUHET, Directeur de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme – Alpes
René FAVIER, Professeur d'histoire moderne, université Pierre Mendès
France –
Grenoble 2
Anne-Marie GRANET-ABISSET, Maître de conférences d'histoire
contemporaine,
université Pierre Mendès France – Grenoble 2
Jean GUIBAL, Directeur de la Conservation du Patrimoine, Grenoble
Bruno HELLY, Directeur de recherches au CNRS, Maison de l'Orient
Méditerranéen, Lyon
Philippe LEVEAU, Professeur d'archéologie, université de Provence
Claude GILBERT, Directeur de recherches au CNRS, université Pierre
Mendès
France – Grenoble 2

Troisième colloque international sur l'histoire des risques naturels
Les médias et la mémoire des risques naturels
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme – Alpes
Grenoble, 10 et 11 avril 2003

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Les propositions de contribution et les résumés devront être adressés
pour le 31 décembre 2002 par courrier ou e-mail à :
René FAVIER, HESOP – Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Alpes
1221 avenue centrale, Domaine Universitaire
BP 47,  F-38040 GRENOBLE CEDEX 9
E-mail : rene.favier@...

Frais
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2.
FORTHCOMING DEADLINES FOR BRITISH ACADEMY SMALL GRANTS:

The British Academy offers grants for postdoctoral scholars in the
humanities and social sciences, based in the UK.    The next deadline
for
the following grants is 30 November 2002:

SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS (up to £5,000)
Grants available for travel, maintenance, consumables relating to an
individual research project

Further details at www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/srg.html

BRITISH CONFERENCE GRANTS (up to £2,000)
Grants available for the costs of bringing keynote speakers from the
UK or
abroad to UK conference

Further details at www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/bcg.html

OVERSEAS CONFERENCE GRANTS (fare only)
Grants available for travel costs for UK scholars to deliver a paper
at a
conference abroad

Further details at www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/ocg.html

For all three of the above competitions there are three deadlines
remaining
in the current
academic session:  30 November 2002, 28 February 2003 and 30 April
2003.
Results are issued approximately three months after the deadline.

Tel: 020 7969 5217
Fax: 020 7969 5414
Email: grants@...

Subject: Announcement: SSRC Dissertation Workshop

[submitted by klein@...]

SSRC Dissertation Development Workshop
on Central Asia and the Caucasus

March/April 2003

         The Eurasia Program of the Social Science Research Council
invites
applications for the third and last dissertation workshop focusing
specifically on the regions of Central Asia and the Caucasus to be
held
in
March/April 2003. Graduate students in any social science discipline
who
are
currently at any stage of the dissertation process (dissertation
proposal,
write-up, etc.) and whose dissertation relates in any way to Central
Asia
and/or the Caucasus are eligible to apply. Applications from other
fields
are welcome as long as they are grounded in social science theory and
methodology.

10 graduate students and 5 faculty participants will be chosen to
attend
the
2003 workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Participants will convene for
two
days of intensive and critical discussion of both the students'
dissertation
projects, as well as larger theoretical and methodological issues.
The
SSRC
will cover all transportation, accommodation, and related expenses for
participants.

Region and topic specific or comparative projects addressing Central
Asia
and the Caucasus or any countries or themes within or across these two
geographical regions are strongly encouraged (particularly ones which
examine these areas in relation to the former Soviet Union, the Middle
East,
China, and/or other countries). The overall objectives of the workshop
are
to explore the state of Central Asian and Caucasian studies, encourage
new
approaches through multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives, and
reflect on how new research on these areas is advancing understandings
of
the "field" (in terms of discipline and/or area studies).
Participants
may
also be called upon to analyze the usefulness of regional designations
such
as Central Asia and the Caucasus both for their own research and the
general
understanding of the areas in question.


Applicants should submit the following material by 18 December 2002 in
order
to be eligible.

*       A five page, double spaced summary of the dissertation project
highlighting its relationship to the objectives of the workshop
*       One letter of academic recommendation from the applicant's
primary
advisor
*       Curriculum Vitae.

If selected, participants will be required to submit a 15-25 page
dissertation chapter or writing sample and an experimental syllabus.
Selected participants will receive detailed information as to the
requirements for both the writing sample and syllabus, which will be
due
by
February 20th, 2003.  The 5 page application statements, writing
samples,
and syllabi will be circulated among all conference participants.

To be eligible, applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents,
currently enrolled in an accredited Ph.D. program, and working at some
stage
on their dissertation projects. The deadline for the receipt of
applications
is December 18th, 2002.  Decisions regarding final participants will
be
announced by January 20th, 2003.


Please address all inquiries and correspondence, including
applications
to:

                                 Eurasia Program, Social Science
Research
Council,
                                 810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
                                 New York, NY 10019.
                                 Phone: (212) 377-2700, x459; Fax:
(212)
377-2727.
                                 E-mail: eurasia@...; Web:
http://www.ssrc.org


Funding is provided by the United States Department of State, Program
for
Research and Training for Eastern Europe and the Independent States of
the
Former Soviet Union (Title VIII).

FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER
A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and
Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The Center invites applications for its Research Associateships for
2003-2004 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational
system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political
activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with
offices in our spacious facility, computer access, library privileges,
and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research
Associate applications are accepted for either a semester or the
academic
year. The Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they
focus centrally on women or gender. Research Associateships are
non-stipendiary. However, international applicants may apply for one
of
the two special one-semester Ford Associateships for Fall 2003 or
Spring
2004, which offer a stipend of $12,000, plus a $3,000 housing/travel
allowance in return for teaching (in English) one undergraduate
women's studies course at Smith College.  Ford applicants' research
should focus
on how the economics of globalization regulate gender, race,
ethnicity,
nationality, class, and sexuality in Latin America, the Caribbean,
Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet bloc, or Asia. We are
searching for two Ford Associate positions. For one position
preference
will be given to those whose work focuses on sexuality in a global
context, including sex work, global sex trafficking, health issues,
international gay and lesbian activism and advocacy for sexual
minorities. For the second position, preference will be given to those
whose work focuses on cultural production and resistance, including
political performance, the transformation and use of international
media,
and new technologies. Ford applicants need not be studying their own
region of origin.

Applicants for both programs should submit a project proposal (up to 4
pages), curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and application
cover
sheet. In addition, Ford applicants should submit a two-page
description
of a women's studies course they are prepared to teach, which includes
their pedagogical goals and techniques.

Submit all applications to:
Five College Women's Studies Research Center
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-6406

Deadline is February 10, 2003

For further information
contact the Center at
TEL 413.538.2275
FAX 413.538.3121
email fcwsrc@...
website: http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/

Subject: CfA: ACIE Fellowship Announcement

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

  The American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
announces a
  call for applications from university professors from the Balkans
for
an
  11-month program to update teaching methodology and enhance or
develop
  courses in the U.S.

> The annual JFDP competition, funded by the U.S. Department of
State's
> Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is open to citizens of
> Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia.  Faculty must
currently teach at
> a higher educational institution in their home country, have a
mastery of
> the English language, possess a university degree, and have two
years
of
> teaching experience.
>
> Starting in August 2003, the program will consist of nine months at
a
U.S.
> host institution, followed by a two-month summer practicum.
Fellows
are
> placed at locations that have facilities and faculty appropriate to
their
> fields of study.  Activities include observing courses, developing
curricula,
> gathering resource materials, attending conferences, collaborating
with
> U.S. colleagues, giving presentations and possibly co-teaching.
JFDP
> provides a fellowship that includes round-trip international and
domestic
> transportation, medical insurance, monthly stipends, and a
professional
development
> fund.
>
> Since the JFDP is a non-degree program, Fellows may not receive
> transcripts, grades or credit.  For further information and an
application, see
> <www.americancouncils.org/jfdp>.  Applications should be sent to the
American
> Councils office in the applicant's home country by 17:00, December
27,
2002.
>
> The JFDP Balkans academic fields for 2003-2004 are as follows:
>
> American Studies
> History
> Library Science
> Business Administration
> International Affairs
> Political Science
> Economics
> Journalism
> Public Administration
> Education Administration
> Law
> Public Policy
> Environmental Studies
>
> General information about the JFDP, as well as the location of local
> program representatives, may be found at
<www.americancouncils.org/jfdp/>.


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3.
Subject: H-Net reviews posted to the web 21 Oct 2002 - 28 Oct 2002

The following 24 reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
21 Oct 2002 and 28 Oct 2002.

Reviewed for H-Environment by Christopher Hamlin
     Stephen Mosley.  _The Chimney of the World: A History of Smoke
     Pollution in Victorian and Edwardian Manchester_.  Cambridge:
     White Horse Press, 2001.  xii + 288 pp.  $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-
     874267-49-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=268981035213396

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by George Ehrhardt
     Akitoshi Miyashita and Yoichiro Sato, eds.  _Japanese Foreign
     Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Domestic Interests, American
     Pressure, and Regional Integration_.  New York: Palgrave Global
     Publishing, 2001.  x + 208 pp.  $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-312-23920-
     3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=287251035213852

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Isabel Balseiro
     June Givanni, ed.  _Symbolic Narratives/African Film: Audiences,
     Theory and the Moving Image_.  London: British Film Institute,
     2001.  244 pp.  $57.50 (cloth), ISBN 0-8517-0737-8; $24.95
     (paper), ISBN 0-8517-0855-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3311035215542

Reviewed for H-South by John Saillant
     Karla F. C. Holloway.  _Passed On: African American Mourning
     Stories, a Memorial_.  Durham and London: Duke University Press,
     2002.  xiv + 232 pp.  95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2860-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32911035216477

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Stefan Wolff
     Sumantra Bose.  _Bosnia after Dayton:  Nationalist Partition and
     International Intervention_.  London: Hurst and Company, 2002.
     viii + 296 pp.  £40.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-85065-645-2; £15.95
     (paper), ISBN 1-85065-585-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=106301035219044

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by Greg O'Brien
     Daniel K. Richter.  _Facing East from Indian Country: A Native
     History of Early America_.  Cambridge and London: Harvard
     University Press, 2001.  x + 317 pp.  $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-
     00638-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=137271035220079

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Ali Akbar Mahdi
     Shahnaz Khan.  _Aversion and Desire; Negotiating Muslim Female
     Identity in the Diaspora_.  Ontario, Canada: Women's Press, 2002.
     xiv + 130 pp.  $24.95 Canadian (paper), ISBN 0-88961-400-8.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=158441035220973

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Andreas Hippin
     Ezra F. Vogel.  _Is Japan Still Number One?_.  Subang Jaya:
     Pelanduk Publications, 2000.  141 pp.  $12.00 (paper), ISBN 967-
     978-728-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=327221035618530

Reviewed for H-US-Japan by Roger E. Chapman
     David Shambaugh, ed.  _Is China Unstable? Assessing the Factors_.
     Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2000.  177 pp.  $52.95 (cloth),
     ISBN 0-7656-0572-4; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7656-0573-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=4961035618625

Reviewed for H-Florida by Heather Portorreal
     William E. McGoun.  _Ancient Miamians: The Tequesta of South
     Florida_.  Native Peoples, Cultures, and Places of the
     Southeastern United States Series.  Gainesville: University Press
     of Florida, 2002.  xiii + 112 pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-
     2495-1.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10471035619128

Reviewed for H-Florida by Gordon E. Harvey
     David R. Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith.  _Florida's Megatrends:
     Critical Issues in Florida_.  Gainesville: University of Florida
     Press, 2002.  viii + 161 pp.  $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8130-2532-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11181035619192

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by C. Richard King
     Sherry L. Smith.  _Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through
     Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940_.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
     ix + 273 pp.  $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-19-513635-7; $19.95 (paper),
     ISBN 0-19-515727-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=11711035619202

Reviewed for HABSBURG by Hillel J. Kieval
     Scott Spector.  _Prague Territories: National Conflict and
     Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle_.  Berkeley,
     Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2000.
     xiv + 331 pp.  $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-21909-0; $24.95 (paper),
     ISBN 0-520-23692-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21591035619316

Reviewed for H-AmIndian by David Arnold
     John Fahey.  _Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to
     Be Indian_.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.  xi +
     220 pp.  $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-29-598153-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=148141035625212

Reviewed for H-AmRel by William Atto
     Thomas H. Olbricht and Hans Rollmann, eds.  _The Quest for
     Christian Unity, Peace, and Purity in Thomas Campbell's
     Declaration and Address:  Text and Studies_.  Lanham, Md. and
     London: The Scarecrow Press, 2000.  xxi + 489 pp.  $65.00 (cloth),
     ISBN 0-8108-3842-7; $45.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8108-3843-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156291035625295

Reviewed for H-Florida by David A. Sicko
     Robin F. A. Fabel.  _Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native
     Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775_.  Gainesville: University Press
     of Florida, 2000.  x + 282 pp.  $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8130-1798-
     X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=159311035625422

Reviewed for H-Urban by Bruce Stephenson
     Millard F. Rogers, Jr.  _John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New
     Town in Ohio_.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
     xiv + 260 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6619-7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=161821035625515

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Michael Lemke
     Detlef Junker, Hrsg.  _Die USA und Deutschland im Zeitalter des
     Kalten Krieges 1945-1990_.  Ein Handbuch, 2 Bände. Stuttgart:
     Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2001.  977 S (Band 1).  (Band 2). EUR
     76, ISBN 3-421-05299-9.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61231035652387

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Christian Jansen
     Ewald Grothe, Hrsg.  _Brüder Grimm: Briefwechsel mit Ludwig
     Hassenpflug_.  Kassel: , 2000.  415 S.  DM 192, ISBN 3-929633-64-
     7.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61281035652392

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Donate Strathmann
     Ruth Gay.  _Das Undenkbare tun. Juden in Deutschland nach 1945_.
     München: C.H. Beck Verlag, 2001.  312 S.  EUR 24, ISBN 3-406-
     479472-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61341035652400

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
     Mansfred Heinemann, Hrsg.  _Hochschuloffiziere und Wiederaufbau
     des Hochschulwesens in Deutschland 1945-1949. Die Sowjetische
     Besatzungszone_.  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2000.  .  EUR 64, ISBN
     3-05-002851-3.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61361035652404

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Dittmar Schorkowitz
     Rexane Dehdashti.  _Internationale Organisationen als Vermittler
     in innerstaatlichen Konflikten. Die OSZE und der Berg Karabach-
     Konflikt_.  Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2000.  488 S.  EUR 51,
     ISBN 3-593-36626-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61381035652407

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Bernhard Brunner
     Volker Zimmermann.  _NS - Täter vor Gericht. Düsseldorf und die
     Strafprozesse wegen nationalsozialistischer Gewaltverbrechen_.
     Düsseldorf: Achims Verlag Achim Freudenstein, 2002.  255 S.  DM
     20, ISBN .
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=61401035652409

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Brigide Schwarz
     Stefan Weiß.  _Die Versorgung des päpstlichen Hofes in Avignon mit
     Lebensmitteln (1316-1378)_.  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002.  752
     S.  EUR 84, ISBN 3-05-003640-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=62261035652506

Subject: Book Review: Lauer,  Die literarische Avantgarde in
Suedosteuropa und ihre politische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung.
Reviewed by
Josette Baer

Balkan Academic News Book Review 39/2002

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Reinhard Lauer (ed.), Die literarische Avantgarde in Suedosteuropa
und
ihre
politische und gesellschaftliche Bedeutung [The movements of the
Literary
Avantgarde in South Eastern Europe and their significance for
Politics
and
Society], Suedosteuropa Jahrbuch vol. 31, Suedosteuropa-Gesellschaft:
Muenchen, 2001 286pp., ISBN 3-925450-91-2 (hardback).

Reviewed by Reviewed by Josette A. Baer (REECAS, Jackson School,
University
of Washington, Seattle), Email: baerj@...

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<http://www.suedosteuropa-gesellschaft.com/>Order book from publisher

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"We declare this day as a holiday, on which we shall bury all
hypocrisy,
traditionalism, patriotism, conformity, scepticism, realism, narrow
mindedness…" (Andre Breton, quoted after Kiossev, Alexander,
Avantgardismus, Nationalismus und ihre imaginaeren Raeume, pp. 199-
213;
199)

This volume is concerned with the literary avant-garde at the turn of
the
19th to the 20th Century in South Eastern Europe and its societal and
political implications. Interesting insights are provided to the
literary
and artistic life of the region between Slovenia and the Czech
Republic
in
the West and Bulgaria and Greece in the SouthEast. I would recommend
this
volume as basic reading and consider it a good introduction for
students of
literature, arts and cultural studies. The comparative aim of the
volume is
remarkable since it covers nine national literary canons Germany
included
with Berlin as one of the main avant-garde centres. Analysis of
avant-garde
movements in Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia
and
Greece make the major part of the volume. Students of political
science,
history and sociology, however, might find the contents a little shy
of
the
political and sociological implications indicated in the title, in
particular as regards a wider theoretical framework dealing with
ideologies
such as nationalism, liberalism and fascism.

The volume consists of fifteen longer articles featuring the single
countries' avant-garde movements and a brief note on Walter
Althammer's
personal encounter with the Croat poet Miroslav Krleza. Lauer's
excellent
introduction (13-34) represents a typology of literary avant-garde in
South
Eastern Europe. The four basic features of avant-garde as literary
and
artistic movement are 1). Nihilism toward any form of tradition; 2).
The
break with the laws of form and aesthetics; 3). The artistic and
political
orientation toward the international public instead of remaining
focussed
on the national and homegrown art and 4). the untamed will to
innovation in
art, politics and social-revolutionary changes (14, 19).
Representatives of
the avant-garde are f.e. Bela Bartok, Miroslav Krleza, Tristan Tzara
(Dada), Karel Teige (Czech poetism), Hugo Ball (Dada), Andre Breton
(French
surrealism) and of course Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (Italian
Futurismo).
Assessing key concepts such as "modernism", "expressionism"
and  "futurism", Lauer delivers a definition of avant-garde being the
basic
artistic concept of European modernity in that it mirrors the
political
and
socio-psychological atmosphere at the dawn of the 20th Century. Each
country has developed its own distinct national expression of
avant-garde:
poetism in Czechoslovakia, futurismo in Italy as one of the founding
new
expressions of modern art, Dada in Zurich, surrealism in France. The
intrinsic paradox of avant-garde lies in its aim that breaking with
traditions should have an international, indeed global significance
and
scope. At the same time, the radical concept of modernity of the
avant-garde movements has failed to recognise the nationalist impetus
of
their nations entering World War I. What had begun as a revolutionary
new
Weltanschauung with art as its main promoting force, fell into pieces
in
1918, with Russian constructivism being its single exception.

The contribution of Kiossev provides interesting theoretical insights
into
the paradox of the avant-garde as mentioned above. Avant-garde and
traditionalism, so Kiossev, represent two competing forms of art
(200):
the
traditional type of "national realism" featuring conservative
political
ideas of a national nature, and second, the avant-garde movement as
artistic experiment with a revolutionary and supra-national agenda.
Kiossev
views the idea of the nation as an ambivalent one (201): on the one
hand,
the cultural agent, or the artist participates in the national
avant-garde
movement promoting its "super-modern, anti-traditional and
supra-national
thought" (201); on the other hand he cannot free himself of the
distinct
cultural peculiarities of his nation. Kiossev illustrates this
paradox
quoting Geo Milev, the Bulgarian poet: once he speaks of the "chimera
Fatherland", then calls pathetically for "Back to the nation" (201).

What I missed in the book, was a more detailed explanation why some
countries in the region failed to develop a literary avant-garde:
Lauer
writes on the first page of his article that "due to several reasons
avant-garde movements are missing in the literary rooms of Bosnia and
Hercegowina, Macedonia, Albania and Greece."(13) A comparison of
historical
and economic conditions of these cultural rooms with the countries
that
developed avant-garde movements could shed deeper insights to
politics,
culture and political culture of the European SouthEast.

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electronically, if credit is given to Balkan Academic News and the
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4.
Subject: MIT derslerini webe açýyor



MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology) Üniversitesi,  dünyada
þaný
yürümüþ, Amerikanýn önde gelen üniversitelerinden
biri.  "Paylaþýlmayan
bilgi çürür" ibaresinin farkýnda olan MIT yetkilileri, bir  güzellik
yaparak
birçok bölümde/konudaki yazýlý materyalleri (eðitmen notlarý, ders
notlarý,
kaynak listeleri, seminer notlarý ödevler vs.) internet üzerinden
herkesin
ücretsiz kullanýmýna açmaya karar verdi, bu sayede MIT bünyesinde
verilen 16
akademik programýn lisans ve yüksek lisans derslerini her isteyen
istediði
yerden takip edebilecek. MIT'nin gayet saygý duyulan ve Birleþik
Devletlerin en pahalý üniversitelerinden birisi olduðu düþünülürse,
bu
gayet
   heyecan verici bir geliþme kesinlikle.

MIT OCW (OpenCourseWare)  çerçevesinde online olacak akademik bölümler
þunlar:
Antropoloji
Biyoloji
Kimya Mühendisliði
Kimya
Çevre Mühendisliði
Dünya, Atmosfer ve Gezegen Bilimleri
Ekonomi
Elektrik Mühendisliði ve Bilgisayar Bilimleri
Tarih
Dilbilimleri ve Felsefe
Ýþletme
Matematik
Makina Mühendisliði
Deniz Mühendisliði
Politika Bilimleri
Kentsel Planlama

Bu bölümlerde okutulan derslerin yazýlý materyalleri  kýsa bir süre
sonra
online olacak. Sitede belirtilene göre, MIT OCW, MIT'de  okutulan
derlerin
içeriklerini saðlamasýna raðmen, MIT eðitimine bir eðitim  olarak
düþünülmüyormuþ. MIT yetkililerinin söylediklerine göre, MIT'nin
eðitim
felsefesinin temelinde öðrencilerin kampüs içerisinde okulla ve
birbirleri
ile  interaktif olmalarý yatýyormuþ, öte yandan online sunulucak
materyeller, kiþisel  geliþim ve baþvuru için geniþ kapsamlý bir
kaynak
saðlayacak.

Bahsi geçen  dökümantasyon indekslenmiþ bir þekilde çok yakýnda MIT
web
sitesinde online  olacak, (Sitede Eylül 2002 diyor!) Amerika'da
okuyanlarýn
ellerinin altýnda olan  bilgilerin dünyanýn her tarafýnda okuyan
öðrencilerin de eriþimine açýk olmasý  özellikle Türkiye'de
üniversite
okuyan ve üniversitelerde ders veren insanlarý  çok sevindiricek
bence.
MIT
OCW'nin web adresi ise: web.mit.edu/ocw/



The executive of the Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality is
pleased to announce the launch of our new website -
http://www.cha-shc.ca/cchs/

Established in 1996, the Canadian Committee on the History of
Sexuality
is
an official subcommittee of the Canadian Historical Association. The
aim of
the CCHS is to provide an organizational focus within the Canadian
historical profession for all those who are researching, writing,
teaching,
and otherwise interested in the historical study of sexuality.

Our aim is to highlight Canadian content and Canadian scholars, with
the
addition of key international resources for researchers. Please see
our
site
for a variety of resources for teaching and research, CFP and
publishing
opportunities, information about our annual article prize, and the
online
version of our annual newsletter. You can also find out how to join
our
mail-list.

We welcome any additional materials you might have including syllabi,
bibliographies, and links.

Cheers,
Jenéa
___________________________
j.l. tallentire gilley
Ph.D. candidate, History
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
jltallen@...
===========================
Editor and webspinner,
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality
http://www.cha-shc.ca/cchs/

5.
International Human Rights Academy
6-18 July 2003


The International Human Rights Academy is a human rights course,
organized
every year alternately in South Africa and in Europe under the
auspices
of
Ghent University (Belgium), the University of the Western Cape
(Republic of
South Africa), Utrecht University (The Netherlands), the Norwegian
Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oslo (Norway),
together
with
the Washington College of Law at American University (United States
of
America). The Belgian Government is providing financial support to
the
programme.

The various intensive courses that make up the Academy are designed
to
provide high quality legal education in comparative international
human
rights and in humanitarian law, with emphasis on the practical
aspects
in
the various fields.

Courses include the universal system of protection of human rights,
the
regional systems of protection of human rights, the American, African
and
European human rights systems, international criminal law and human
rights,
international humanitarian law, transitional law, social and economic
rights, children's rights, women's rights, minority rights, rights of
refugees, the prohibition of torture in international human rights
law,
universal jurisdiction, foreign policy and human rights, human rights
from
an Asian and Arab perspective, etc.

Lectures are given by teachers of the organizing universities and
institutes and by highly experienced practitioners in the field of
human
rights.


Level: graduate, professional.


Location: Ghent, Belgium.


Participants: academics, post-graduate students, staff of
international
organisations, staff of international and national non-governmental
organisations, judges, lawyers and other legal practitioners from
countries
all over the world. Admittance presupposes a fair knowledge of human
rights
law.


Tuition and lodging: the cost of participation is $ 900 per student.
The
amount covers Tuition, Course materials, Full board, including
accommodation and food. A limited number of scholarships will be
awarded to
participants from developing countries. The organizers of the Academy
can,
if the participant so wishes, help him to make the necessary travel
arrangements. Participants must make their own visa requirements and
take
care of adequate medical, travel and damage insurance coverage. The
organizers of the Academy will contact the Belgian diplomatic or
consular
institutions in the participant's country in order to help the
participant
in obtaining a visa. Participants will be lodged in Ghent University
accommodation.

Further information, including the application form, which has to be
filled
in on-line, can be found (from 15 November 2002) on:
http://www.law.rug.ac.be/pub/humanrightsacademy/


Contact Information:

Mr. Willem Boone
International Office
Law Faculty
Utrecht University
Janskerkhof  3
3512  BK  Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +  31  30  253 72 89
Fax: +  31  30  253 70 05
E-mail:   w.boone@...




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6.
IN ISTANBUL
3 November 2002 -  (Election Day)
Hilton Hotel - Harbiye Istanbul

Here is your  Unique opportunity to meet with international schools
coming for one day in Istanbul : World MBA Tour & Top University
Tour.Postgraduate Fair: 12 :00 -  18 :00 hrs MBA Fair:
14 :00 -  18 :00 hrs Click to Pre-register for free entry About the
World MBA Tourwww.topmba.comThe World MBA Tour is the largest series
of Business School fairs in the world.  Nearly 60 international MBAs
will be present in Istanbul on November 3rd just to meet you. Your
chance to discuss your future with top US business schools such as
Wharton, Columbia, Berkeley or Top European programs such as
Insead,  London Business School, Manchester, Bocconi, Rotterdam
School of Management, also your local Koç and Sabanci.About the Top
University Tourwww.topgraduate.comTop University Tour 's mission is
to enable the world's top graduates tomeet and discuss with the
world's top university postgraduate (non-MBA)courses - masters,
doctorates, diplomas and more  - face-to-face.International programs
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7.
Subject: CfA:  Development and International Cooperation, Bologna


> The Master's Programme in Development and International Cooperation
is
> pleased to announce a 2002/03 call for applications.
> The Programme is in English, it is new, it is international, it is
great!
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8.
Subject: CfA: Youth Facing Enlargement and the Future of Europe,
21-24.11.2002, Madrid

FROM            Mª Luisa Castro Codesal / C.E. Relaciones
Internacionales/
Spanish Youth Council

TO              Youth Forum Members

SUBJECT         EUROPEAN SEMINAR: YOUTH FACING ENLARGEMENT AND THE
FUTURE
OF EUROPE

DATE            15th October 2002


Dear friends:

We are pleased to present to you OUR EUROPEAN SEMINAR: YOUTH FACING
ENLARGEMENT AND THE FUTURE OF EUROPE which will take place in San
Lorenzo
de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain from the 21st to the 24th of November
2002.

This  Seminar is organized by the Spanish Youth Council in co-
operation
with the European Commission, through its Representation in Spain.

The object of the activity is to deepen the knowledge of the
candidate's
countries situation before the enlargement process, promote the
involvement
of young citizens in the Future of the Union debate, giving the
opportunity
to enhance European exchanges among the young participants.

Specific lessons on the Enlargement process, the Future of the Union
Debate
and European citizenship challenges will be part of the contents of
the
Seminar. During the afternoon sessions, the workshops will emphasize
the
Youth perspective in the subjects dealt in previous Conferences.
English
will be the working language.

The Spanish Youth Council considers that this activity is a very
interesting event and a great chance to meet young people from all
around
Europe and to introduce young citizens in the enlargement reality. It
will
also be a great opportunity to give young participants a real
instrument to
contribute to the construction of Europe.

The Seminar will be held in a cultural and historical environment,
very
close to Madrid. All expenses will be covered during the event for 65
participants from the European Union and candidates countries.

You may find more information about the Seminar on our web page:
www.cje.org (International/Actividades).

Please complete the application form and send it by fax to the
Spanish
Youth Council (typed and stamped): 0034 91 701 04 40

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact us:

Ana Galán Torregrosa
International Relations Commission
Consejo de la Juventud de España
Tel.91 701 0434 Fax: 91 701 0440
E-mail: agalan@...

Best regards,



          María Castro Codesal
          International Relations Commission










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Subject: "  Sürüye Saydýlar Bizi  "


Sürüye Saydýlar Bizi


Uyur idik uyardýlar
Diriye saydýlar bizi
Koyun olduk, ses anladýk
Sürüye saydýlar bizi

Sürülüp kasabaya gittik
Kanarada mekan tuttuk
Didar defterine yettik
Ölüye saydýlar bizi

Halimizi hal eyledik
Yolumuzu yol eyledik
Her çiçekten bal eyledik
Arýya saydýlar bizi

Aþk defterine yazýldýk
Pir divanýna dizildik
Bal olduk, þerbet ezildik
Doluya saydýlar bizi

PÝR SULTAN'ým Haydar þunda
Çok keramet var insanda
O cihanda, bu cihanda
Ali'ye saydýlar bizi


Pir Sultan Abdal

General Education for Graduate Education  From the issue dated November 1,
2002


  <<...OLE_Obj...>>  General Education for Graduate Education By
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON  The graduate students who came to see me had teaching
in the university's general-education program on their mind. Their brief:
They didn't like it. They had to prepare too much unfamiliar material.
Deflected away from their specialties, they were wasting time.  Privately, I
was appalled. "You are scholars and intellectuals," I said. "Surely, our
responsibility is to explore what is unfamiliar to us and to others." My
piety was treated as what it must have seemed -- a piety. Fortunately, I had
not said "our joy and responsibility," which would have doubled the dose of
piety.  I shifted from principle to expediency. "If you go on the academic
job market, teaching general education will be a part of many of the job
descriptions you will read. Learning how to do it now will be helpful
later," I cajoled. "We'll learn how to do it when we have to do it," I was
told. "We won't get near a job if we haven't done research we can publish in
our discipline."  Credit them, I thought, for understanding the harshness of
the job market they were soon to enter and its incentives to be
conventionally professional. But I was also worried about their intellectual
growth. "What ideas particularly matter to you? What fields?" I asked. "I'm
working on gender," a woman told me. And what was she teaching in the
general-education course? "Genesis," she said. "But that's one of the
founding global myths about gender," I answered with excitement. "But I've
already read it," she answered, "in an undergraduate course."  For several
reasons, that encounter haunts me. Psychologically, I wonder if I did not
behave like one of the platitude-dripping fogies whom I had satirized and
endured when I was a graduate student. Intellectually, the experience has
evolved in my mind until it has become a parable about the travails of our
appreciation of depth in contemporary culture. Why would a very smart
graduate student assume that one reading of a profound text -- in
translation to boot -- would be sufficient for understanding it? Why would a
once-over of the surface of Genesis be considered an OK interpretative
gesture?  Educationally, my exchange has also become a parable about general
education in the contemporary university. If coherently and passionately
taught, general education does much good for both students and teachers.
Where else would a graduate student interested in gender read Genesis? Yet,
graduate students often resent teaching general education and may fail to
see how it has enriched their own lives. Doing so, they are both influenced
by, and mimic, too many of their mentors and professors for whom gen ed is
an unwanted grind for serious faculty members and gruel for undergraduates.
Yet, the graduate students of today will, if they become academics, control
the curriculum of tomorrow. If they are indifferent to general education,
what will happen to it when they are in charge? I am not the first to ask
this question, but I am, I believe, the first to propose the following
innovation: general education for graduate education.  Surprisingly, the
reform movement in graduate education has done comparatively little with the
curriculum -- although it has supported interdisciplinary work, and although
individual disciplines have vigorously examined their curriculums. The
greater concerns of the reform movement have been graduate students as a
labor force, pedagogy, career training, and the processes of graduate
education -- for example, mentoring or the time it takes to extract a degree
from graduate school.  What would general education for graduate education
be like? Designed for people who have chosen advanced inquiry as their
vocation, it would not just be an upscale version of general education for
undergraduates. Its purpose would be to cultivate a sophisticated
understanding of the nature and structures of advanced inquiry itself. One
of its byproducts could be a greater appreciation of the place of a
nonspecialized curriculum. But general education for graduate education
would also serve two of the overarching purposes of general education for
undergraduates as it has developed in the United States: the provision of a
common intellectual experience to an increasingly diverse student body, and
the exploration of what it means to be a particular kind of person.  Take
each of those two in turn.  First, creating a common intellectual
experience. Quite possibly, lurking below general education for
undergraduates in the United States has been an unconscious nostalgia for
the role of the liberal arts in the medieval university. There were set
books. Eventually, there was, in scholasticism, a set methodology. The
faculty of arts was the gateway to the professional schools of theology,
law, and medicine.  However, some explicit justifications of general
education have been a response not to the backward pull of the medieval
university but to the very present push of a burgeoning, growing modern
America that has been sending more students of varying backgrounds to
college. In the mid-20th century, general education was to create a
classroom experience that would glue together cohorts of such diverse
students. For James Bryant Conant, who, as president of Harvard University,
was the moving force behind its 1945 report on general education
colloquially and commonly known as the "Red Book," universities were to
choose students not because they shared a similar social background, but
because they signaled the promise and ability to join a meritocratic elite.
General education would teach those future leaders about the connections
between truth and freedom, and, as a consequence, give them the tools to
shape a shared democratic future.  Graduate students today are as diverse as
the global map. The Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York
University, my institution, enrolls men and women from more than 100
countries. Their differences are academic as well as demographic. Merely
medium in size, we give these students a choice of 45 programs with 200
different tracks. Diversity and choice extract a price. The graduate
experience can -- and usually does -- become isolated within a department or
program. That is where seminars, advisers, dissertation committees, holiday
parties, and brown-bag lunches dwell. Such a social and educational
architecture can provide a sense of a secure home, but, negatively, it can
also breed a sense of fragmentation and isolation. As I have watched efforts
to organize graduate assistants, I have concluded that one of their
attractions, especially to the most active organizers, has been the sense of
cross-university solidarity they offer.  The common intellectual experience
that could be the foundation of general education in graduate education, and
that would set it apart from undergraduate general education, could be a
history, global in scope, of institutions of advanced inquiry themselves.
The modern research university did not arrive wrapped in cellophane in a UFO
that happened to land in Berlin in the 19th century. Significantly, the
institutions of advanced inquiry have not exclusively been universities.  I
think, for example, of European academies or of today's private biotech
laboratories. Graduate students have chosen to spend a big chunk of their
lives in a research university with a complex but mappable past that
connects the university to major social and intellectual movements.  A
teachable history would include four themes: the evolution of the
contemporary disciplines and their paradigms (that is, why graduate students
confront the fields they do); the demography of scholars and intellectuals
(that is, who graduate students are and have been); the relations between an
ideal of freedom of inquiry and inquiry itself (that is, the moral
conditions of scholarship); and the governance of institutions of inquiry
(that is, who controls and pays for them). Amputated from their own history
as they now are, graduate students have an incomplete identity and a
foreshortened understanding of the nature and contests of inquiry itself. So
wounded, how can they be expected to advance and defend inquiry fully,
spaciously, and carefully?  Such a course in history might include Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein, published in 1818 and written by a young woman, the
daughter of a radical feminist and wife of a radical poet, conversant with
the scientific theories of her time, but unable to get a university
education because of her gender. Her character Victor Frankenstein is a
gifted scientist who wishes both to discover the causes of life and to
create new life. He succeeds, but then runs away from the man he has
manufactured, whom he finds monstrous. Alone, despised, Frankenstein's
creation goes on a rampage. Frankenstein's sin is twofold: his hubris in
imitating God and creating life, and his heartlessness in refusing to
nurture and educate and love his new Adam. His story is also a vehicle for
expressing a pervasive fear of science and technology out of control, a fear
that graduate students of all disciplines must understand.  Studying Mary
Shelley in a general-education course for graduate students could also
extend to the work of her descendants from all fields who are exploring the
moral consequences of scientific inquiry, including the invention of nuclear
weapons and the cultivation of stem cells. Perhaps most profoundly,
Shelley's descendants are asking if scientific creativity has not changed
the definition of being human. The borders between man and machine,
especially between mind and computer, are no longer so sharply demarcated.
Nor are the borders between the human and other species. How purely human am
I if I have a pig valve implanted in my once-sputtering heart?  Indeed, a
second purpose of general education for undergraduates has been to nurture a
particular kind of person. For Conant, that person would fulfill his unique
functions in life, but he would also be able to sustain a common democratic
sphere and the joint culture he had inherited in the company of others. At
my university, our version of general education, the Morse Academic Plan
(MAP), in which the graduate students who visited me were teaching, also has
the formation of human capital in mind. Its goal is an intellectually agile
and buoyant person who can adapt to a changing world. Our MAP brochure
states that "no fixed canon of knowledge [can] provide an adequate
preparation for students today." It goes on that our "sequences introduce
students to the modes of humanistic and scientific inquiry ... help students
become independent and creative thinkers who will possess the skills,
background, and social awareness to thrive in dynamic circumstances."  This
second character-building purpose of general education has been a
battleground. Indeed, the history of general education has arguably been a
fight between those who believe general education should explore a set of
texts, a core curriculum or canon, and those who believe that it should
foster a set of behaviors, a core or canonical character. If so, general
education has not surprisingly been a microcosm of the tension between a
vision of undergraduate education as intellectual or professional training
and a vision of undergraduate education as moral development. General
education for graduate education could dissolve that tension by encouraging
habits of mind that sustain a fundamental commitment to learning.
Cosmopolitanism helps to define those habits of mind. By cosmopolitanism, I
mean neither urbane sophistication (think bright young things on TV drinking
cosmopolitans) nor the latent role that the sociologist Alvin Gouldner, in
the 1950s, saw academics playing. As Judith Shapiro, the president of
Barnard College, has written, Gouldner saw cosmopolitans as "those members
of the academic community whose orientation was toward their profession."
By comparison, locals "were focused on the institution, where their primary
loyalty lay." The book Cultivating Humanity, by Martha Nussbaum, a scholar
of the classics, philosophy, and the law, is a leading force for the serious
contemporary definition of cosmopolitanism, the trait of someone who is a
citizen of a homeland and of the ever-expanding, head-banging universe of
ideas.  Crucial though cosmopolitanism is, it is but one feature in what I
now call -- with praise -- codependency among scholars, researchers, and
intellectuals. Codependency may seem a strange term of praise. It usually
means interlocking weaknesses, the relationship between the sadist and the
masochist, or between the alcoholic and the enabler. However, codependency
can have the far more affirmative meaning of a relationship among equals who
recognize that they have common interests as well as complementary strengths
and who know their individual well-being depends upon the well-being of the
others. Codependency can also mean a way of thinking.  A codependent is
collaborative, willing to exchange insights and ideas, even at the risk of
making a damn fool of herself or himself. A codependent is connective, able
to function as a part of various networks of information. She or he prizes
curiosity, wondering what might be around the corner, or between the lines,
or in the folds of the cosmos. Crucially, a codependent is comparative, able
to see similarities without wanting all phenomena to converge, and equally
able to see dissimilarities without wanting all phenomena to fall away in
showers of fragments. The codependent sensibility is perhaps equivalent to
the imagination as Alfred North Whitehead, the philosopher, defined it. In
The Aims of Education, he flatly declared that the great function of
universities is to animate the imagination:  "Imagination is not to be
divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts. It works by
eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist,
and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are
consistent with these principles. It enables men to construct an
intellectual vision of a new world, and it preserves the zest of life by the
suggestion of satisfying purposes."  When I have tested these ideas about
general education for graduate education out on friends and colleagues, I
have met with three reactions. The first has been confusion and distaste for
making codependency a nice word. To that, I answer with some trite yammering
about language's malleability.  The second, more common reaction has been
the fear that graduate students, who live in a world of expanding databases
and exploding knowledge, do not need anything more to take in, especially
something as vague as general education for graduate education. I ask such
respondents to consider Whitehead's theory of the imagination, and the
possibility that an imaginative general education -- with its stress on
organizing principles, fresh interpretations, and a profound liveliness --
might not provide a way of coping with the constant inrush of information,
facts, and factoids.  The third, and most common, response has been the
insistence that graduate education is training in doing research in a
specialty. To be sure, these voices admit, graduate students should probably
learn how to behave in a classroom of their own, but the real purpose of
graduate education is expertise in specialized research.  That third
response is utterly tedious, a symptom of the difficulties that general
education in graduate education might ameliorate. The response is not
utterly wrong. A graduate degree is a research degree. But the response
reinforces that tired old dichotomy between disciplinary and
interdisciplinary work, or, to put the distinction in other words, between
specialized and interdisciplinary work. The disciplinary and the
interdisciplinary, or the specialized and the interdisciplinary, should not
be an either/or construction. They, too, are codependents, part of a
both/and construction.  Interdisciplinarians are hugely codependent; they
need to know something of all the disciplines if they are to transcend
disciplinary borders. How, in corporate parlance, can we think outside that
much-maligned box if there is no box there to think outside of?
Disciplinarians are also codependent, since they need the
interdisciplinarians to ask new questions and make fresh networks and
connections. Any worthwhile institution of advanced inquiry needs them both.
Any scholar must understand them both. General education in graduate
education would make that point clear.  Even more important, general
education for graduate education would insist that our survival depends on
bringing to bear a multiplicity of perspectives upon life's forces and
phenomena, its movements and complexities. Our constructed sense of life
must be as rich and thick and hybrid and multiplicitous as life itself.  Let
me offer one stark, contemporary example: a man planning a major act of
bioterrorism. We won't get him -- in all meanings of "get" -- if all that we
do is to declare war and have law enforcement target him. We also need the
artist to imagine him; the humanist to hear his words and translate his
language, and understand his history and religion; the social scientist to
map his politics, ethnography, and psychology; and the scientist to decipher
what his weapon is and how to disarm it. Only with collaboration will we
begin to be able to understand the terrorist, and only if we understand him
can we really stop him and the next generation of terrorists he might be
recruiting.  Yet, general education in graduate education would also defend
the necessities of specialization. As our life becomes more and more complex
and differentiated, specialization is desirable and necessary. It does focus
thought. It does force us to push further and further into a question.
Encouraging depth, it discourages shallowness and superficiality -- a
constant risk of interdisciplinarity. To be sure, specialization also breeds
rigid and isolated departmental structures, the "silos" of contemporary
jargon about advanced inquiry. Isolated departments fear and disdain The
Other, departments in another field or budgetary unit.  Specialization also
nurtures a fetishistic attachment to one subject, activity, or method.
Francis Bacon, a founder of modern scientific thought, was aware of those
dangers. In Novum Organum, published in 1620, he sought to reconstruct the
sciences. The book is also a profound analysis of the ways in which the mind
can go wrong. Of specialization, he wrote:  "Men become attached to certain
particular sciences and speculations, either because they fancy themselves
the authors and inventors thereof, or because they have bestowed the
greatest pains upon them and become most habituated to them. But men of this
kind, if they betake themselves to philosophy and contemplations of a
general character, distort and color them in obedience to their former
fancies; a thing especially to be noted in Aristotle, who made his natural
philosophy a mere bondservant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious
and well nigh useless."  Moreover, the knowledge that specialization
generates may seem notoriously arcane, useless, frivolous, worthy of nothing
but the Golden Fleece Award that Sen. William Proxmire from Wisconsin once
invented and gave to government grants he found especially ludicrous.
However, when trouble comes, and it will, the knowledge that has seemed
arcane becomes essential. Scholarship about Afghanistan no longer seems so
peripheral to American officials and citizens. I often think that great
research centers are like gas stations. Drivers speed and zoom past them
cavalierly, but then a driver suddenly needs gas or oil or spare parts, and
heads straight for the once-ignored station. Society likes the credentials
the university offers, but speeds past them -- until it has to know
something unexpectedly. Happily, there the university is with its robes and
funny hats and nerds and suddenly useful pumps of specialized knowledge.  To
institute experimental programs in general education in graduate education
on most campuses would require a shift in the culture of the research
university that faculty members -- who are responsible for a university's
intellectual climate and curriculum -- would have to lead. However, in
autumn 2000, my graduate school, with the support of two private donors,
constructed a small seedbed, a group of 10 students drawn from across the
university and from a variety of disciplines.  They were chosen as
participants either through nomination by a faculty member or by
self-nomination, and were studying epidemiology, history, comparative
literature, economics, music, neurosciences, public policy, and education.
The group is known, not very imaginatively, as the Graduate Forum.  They
meet at least once a month, and their deliberations are summarized on a
forum Web site. The purpose of the deliberations is deceptively simple --
nothing so grand as an exploration of the history of institutions of
advanced inquiry. The students are to discuss their work with each other,
baring the fundamental assumptions and methods behind it and justifying its
importance. It's a start.  The first evaluations from the students are now
in, and this is what they praise: the chance to make friends who have
different ideas; the opportunity to experiment in a setting in which they
are questioned but not subjected to hostile fire; and, finally, the new
clarity about their own work that they achieve by having to explain its
assumptions to peers and by comparing their assumptions to those that govern
their peers. What they want next, they said, is to explore the possibility
of a common project, something they could do together, an opportunity to
engage in inquiries that might become more than the sum of their parts.  I
have wondered what would happen if this seedbed were to grow beyond its
initial frame. What if it were to lead to a more systematic program of
general education in graduate schools? One can imagine learning how Genesis
changed from being a canonical text in the faculty of arts and the faculty
of theology in the medieval university of the West to being a selected text
in a general-education course in an urban university at the turn of the 21st
century. Or, one can imagine learning how Aristotle, working but a few
decades after the codification of Genesis, changed from being one of the
greatest polymaths and interdisciplinarians who ever lived to being the
object of Francis Bacon's scorn. And one can even imagine a community of
inquiry, the graduate-school general-education seminar, finding in such
explorations that all-too-rare wonder: a codependent pleasure.  Catharine R.
Stimpson is graduate dean of arts and sciences at New York University. This
essay is adapted from her presidential speech at the annual meeting of the
Association of Graduate Schools.

President of Quincy U. Resigns After Trustees Question Accuracy of His
Résumé  Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Chronicle
	 The president of Quincy University announced on Monday that he was
resigning after the university's Board of Trustees discovered some
"inaccuracies" in his academic credentials. The Rev. Eugene R. Kole had
listed two master's degrees on his résumé that he had never earned.  Ralph
M. Oakley, the board chairman at the Roman Catholic institution in Quincy,
Ill., insisted that the findings about Father Kole's background had not
prompted the resignation. Mr. Oakley said that the board had approved a set
of curricular changes this month that included phasing out unpopular or
costly majors, and that it made sense for a new president to carry out the
changes.  "We put a vision into place where the university has to go," Mr.
Oakley said. "Eugene was thinking perhaps a new leader should implement
these changes and told us of his resignation." Father Kole had been the
university's president since June 1997.  Mr. Oakley said the board had
received information -- he would not say from where -- that led it to
question claims by Father Kole that he had received a master-of-science
degree in counseling from Canisius College in 1979, and a master-of-arts
degree in psychology and counseling from La Salle University in 1985.
According to the The Quincy Herald-Whig newspaper, which first reported on
the situation, the registrar at Canisius, in Buffalo, said that Father Kole
had taken courses there during the summers of 1972 and 1973 but had not
received a degree. An official in the registrar's office at La Salle
University, in Philadelphia, said the university has no record that Father
Kole had been a student there.  According to the Herald-Whig, Father Kole
received a master's degree in psychology and counseling from a
distance-education university, LaSalle University, in Mandeville, La. But
that institution was never recognized by an accrediting agency, and in 1997,
its founder went to prison after admitting to fraud. The university changed
its name to Orion College, but has since closed.  Quincy's board was first
given information in May regarding questions about Father Kole's degree at
LaSalle, but the board determined that the president had not misled its
members about his qualifications, according to Mr. Oakley. He said that new
information that the board obtained in the past 10 days had led it to the
inconsistencies in Father Kole's credentials.  Father Kole did receive an
undergraduate degree in philosophy from Saint Hyacinth College and Seminary,
in Granby, Mass., in 1970; a master's degree in divinity from St.
Anthony-on-Hudson Theological Seminary, in Rensselaer, N.Y., in 1981; and a
doctorate in theology from Drew University, in Madison, N.J., in 1989. Both
Saint Hyacinth and St. Anthony-on-Hudson are now closed.

1.call for papers 2.fellowship 3. Les Pénélopes 4.publications
5.summer school 6.commentary 7.siir 8.reviews
1.
Subject: CfP: AAASS 35th National Convention, 20-23.11.2003, Toronto

   Call for Papers for the AAASS 35th National Convention, Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada, 20-23 November 2003.

AAASS invites proposals for the AAASS 35th National Convention, which
will
be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 20-23 November 2003, at the
Fairmont
Royal York Hotel. Deadline for receipt of all proposals is 15 January
2003.

See below for detailed guidelines for submission. Call for papers
and
proposal forms were printed in the September 2002 issue of NewsNet,
and
are
also available at AAASS Web site: www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass.

The theme of this conference is "Opening Doors: Opportunities and
Innovations in Scholarship and Teaching in the Post-Communist Era."
Robert
E. Johnson of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at
University of Toronto will chair the Program Committee.

In the past 15 years, Eurasian and Central European studies have
undergone
vast changes. All of these openings have transformed the ways we and
our
students engage with the region we study.  Programs of study,
internships,
NGO services, exchanges of personnel and research materials, and
collaborate research projects are all now possible. Simultaneously,
whole
fields of study have been transformed by archival access, new
channels
of
communication, and the opportunities to conduct first-hand research
in
the
region. Panels dealing with these themes are strongly encouraged.

Proposals must be for complete panels (individual paper proposals
cannot be
considered) and should normally involve the presentation of prepared
papers. Special consideration will be given to panels reporting on
recent
field or archival research, especially those that include
presentations
by
advanced graduate students and/or junior faculty. The Program
Committee
also encourages the submission of panel proposals that include both
women
and men. Proposals for roundtables should be submitted only when the
topic
clearly justifies this format. Please note that proposals can be
accepted
only from AAASS members or foreign non-members.

In recent years, the AAASS has experienced a welcome increase in
attendance
at the national convention, and we are grateful to all of our members
who
seek to participate. Unfortunately, due to limited affordable
convention
space, the increase in convention attendance cannot be matched by an
increase in the number of panels given. Please observe the following
restrictions on panel/roundtable participation: No participant may
serve in
more than one role on a panel or roundtable; No participant may
present
more than one paper at the convention; No participant may appear more
than
twice in the convention program.

If a participant is proposed for more than one paper or more than two
panels, all proposals listing that person will be returned to panel
organizers for clarification of the conflicts, which will delay
consideration of the panels involved.

Procedures for Submitting Panel/Roundtable Proposals:

1. By 15 January 2003 mail two copies of the proposal form and one
copy
of
a one-page c.v. for each participant to:  Wendy Walker, Convention
Coordinator, AAASS, 8 Story Street, 3rd floor, Cambridge, MA 02138.
AAASS
will conduct initial screening of all proposals and forward them to
the
appropriate members of the program committee. All proposals must be
received by the above deadline for consideration by the program
committee.
Late proposals will be discarded. WE WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT PROPOSALS
SENT
VIA FAX OR E-MAIL. We have had problems in the past with
incomplete/missing
proposals using these methods. Proposals submitted via these
mechanisms
will be discarded.

2. Indicate in the appropriate space on the form the category under
which
you would like your panel/roundtable to be considered. Choose only
from
the
list of categories shown below to ensure that the appropriate member
of
the
program committee receives your proposal.

3. Provide complete information on all panel/roundtable participants:
name,
affiliation, full address, phone, e-mail, and paper title. One-page
c.v.'s
for all participants must accompany the form. Incomplete proposals
will
be
discarded. Each participant may only have one role on a
panel/roundtable,
may only appear on two panels/roundtables, and only give one paper.
(i.e.,
you cannot be chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the
same
panel). You may give a paper on one panel and be
chair/discussant/participant on another one and you may organize as
many
panels or roundtables as you wish, but please do NOT sign up for more
than
two panels/roundtables.

4. All participants on panels/roundtables must preregister and pay
the
registration fee. All Slavic scholars living in the U.S. must be
current
AAASS members. Only foreigners and scholars outside the field of
Slavic
studies do not need to join AAASS.

5. Type or print very clearly, especially when title of the panel
includes
words in languages other than English and when names of the
participants
include special characters not used in English. Illegible forms will
be
DISCARDED.

6. Affiliate organizations of the AAASS are each allowed one
panel/roundtable, which must be specified on the proposal form. Each
affiliate-sponsored panel/roundtable will be screened in the usual
manner
by the Program Committee; we will not accept unscreened proposals.

7. Be sure to include any requests for audiovisual equipment.  Please
specify types of equipment (i.e., "overhead projector," not simply
"projector"). Please keep in mind that the AAASS can provide up to
$100
worth of equipment; you will be charged for anything above this
amount.
The
deadline for all audiovisual equipment requests is 1 July 2003.

8. We will only honor specific scheduling requests for religious
reasons.
Please make sure to include such requests on your panel/roundtable
proposal
form.

Categories for Submission of Panel/Roundtable Proposals:
Arts/Film/Electronic Media
Comparative Politics
Economic History/Transition Issues/Emerging Markets
Geography
History: Central and Southeast Europe
History: Russian and Eurasian
International Relations/Security Studies/Foreign Policy
Linguistics/Language Pedagogy
Literature
Library/Information Sciences
Miscellaneous
Religion/Philosophy
Sociology/Anthropology

With any questions regarding the convention, please contact AAASS
Convention Coordinator, Wendy Walker, e-mail: walker@...,
tel.:
617-495-0678, fax: 617-495-0680.

From: Società italiana delle Storiche <societadellestoriche@...>

SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DELLE STORICHE
Via della Lungara, 19
00165 Roma
phone/fax: +39 06 6872823
e-mail <societadellestoriche@...>

THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DELLE STORICHE
Fiesole, 14-16 novembre 2003

The third conference of the Società italiana delle storiche (Italian
Society of Female Historians) will be held in Fiesole (Florence)
November
14-16, 2003. The conference will provide the opportunity for scholarly
debate on issues and categories of analysis regarding the history of
women
and of gender relations. The SIS welcomes proposals from all members
of
associations and learned societies in the field of history and related
disciplines and from other Italian and international scholars. Paper
proposals from young scholars are particularly welcome.

          The deadline for the submission of proposals for panels or
individual papers (see enclosed guidelines) is December 15, 2002.

          We are especially interested in panels that allow for
dialogue
between scholars from different chronological, geographical, and
disciplinary areas. In line with its long-standing interest in issues
related to the transmission of knowledge, the SIS also encourages
panel
proposals that focus on the teaching of history.

The conference will be held at the
Centro Studi CISL
Via della Piazzola, 71
50133 Firenze
phone +39 055 503 21 11
fax +39 055 57 80 57
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/fmoods/cscisl.html

Currently (October 2002) at the Centro studi CISL prices, per person,
for
room and half-board are *.75 (single room) and *.55 (double room).

Anna Scattigno
President, Società italiana delle storiche


***THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DELLE STORICHE

Guidelines for panel proposals

Each panel should have a coordinator to whom the Scientific Committee
will
refer for organizational issues. Panels should include at least three
panelists as well as one or more discussants. Together papers and
comments
by discussants should not exceed 90 minutes, in order to leave
adequate
time for debate.

Interpretation will not be provided. International scholars can
present
their papers in English or French. In this case, a copy of the paper
must
be sent to the Scientific Committee at least ten days before the
conference.

If speakers need audiovisual equipment (slide projectors, overhead
projectors etc.) the panel coordinator should notify the Scientific
Committee at least two weeks in advance.

Each panel proposal should include:
·       An introduction that identifies the title, the topic and the
nature
of the panel (max 250 words) and the name of the panel coordinator.
·       A list of panelists and discussant/s, indicating for each of
them:
profession, institutional affiliation, postal address, e-mail address
and
paper title.
·       Abstracts of each paper. Abstracts should identify the topic,
indicate the nature and extent of the data on which the paper is
based
and
summarize the argument (max 250 words)

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2002.

Proposals can be submitted by e-mail, fax or post.

Società italiana delle storiche
Via della Lungara, 19
00165 Roma
phone/fax: +39 06 6872823

e-mail <societadellestoriche@...>


***Panel proposals should be submitted on this form


Panel
title:_____________________________________________________________
Panel coordinator: _____________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________
e-mail:___________________________________________________________
phone:________________________________________________

Discussant:_________________________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________e-
mail:___________________________________________________________phone:
_______________________________________________

Presenters' Name: ___________________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________e-
mail:_________________________________________________________
phone:_____________________________________________________

Name: ___________________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________e-
mail:_________________________________________________________
phone:_____________________________________________________

Name: ___________________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________e-
mail:_________________________________________________________
phone:_____________________________________________________

Name: ___________________________________________________
Profession and institutional
affiliation:____________________________________
address:___________________________________________________________e-
mail:_________________________________________________________
phone:_____________________________________________________

Anna Scattigno
President
Societa' italiana delle Storiche
via della Lungara, 19
00165 Roma
tel./fax 06 6872823
societadellestoriche@...
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ezekiel@...
Equipe Simone-SAGESSE
Université de Toulouse-le-Mirail

2.
Subject: short-term research fellowships: Europe: Emotions,
Identities,
Politics (Essen, Germany)

An international research project on "Europe: Emotions, Identities,
Politics"

The Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI) im Wissenschaftszentrum
Nordrhein-Westfalen in Essen, Germany,

invites applications for short-term research fellowships (length 4-8
weeks) for the period from January 2003 through February 2004.
Successful candidates will participate in an international research
project on "Europe: Emotions, Identities, Politics" led by Prof.
Luisa
Passerini.

For further information about the project please visit the KWI's web
site at http://www.kulturwissenschaftliches-institut.de.  You may
also
contact the project assistant, Alexander C.T. Geppert, at
geppert@....

Candidates will have a specialization in any aspect of 20th century
Eastern and Central European history including the Balkans within the
project's framework.  They should either have a PhD or be close to
completion, and an excellent knowledge of English in addition to at
least one
other foreign language.  Candidates will be asked to do their own
research, to actively participate in the study group, and to give a
public
presentation at the KWI in the course of their stay.  Salary is
commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Deadline for application is November 11, 2002.  Please send a letter
of
application, a c.v., samples of written work, and a research proposal
of no more than one page to:


Prof. Luisa Passerini
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut
im Wissenschaftszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen
Studiengruppe "Europa: Emotionen, Identitäten, Politik"
Goethestrasse 31
D-45128 Essen
Germany


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Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  Fellowship Opportunity relating to Gender,
          Work and Family in the Middle East and North Africa

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

From: Ragui Assaa, University of Minnesota
  <Rassaad@...>


FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

21 October, 2002
Graduate and Post Doctoral Fellowships in Gender, Work and Family

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) and The University of Minnesota (UM)
are delighted to announce the third round of the six-month graduate
and
post-doctoral fellowship at UM, one of the top academic institutions
in
the USA. The ERF-University of Minnesota Fellowship program is
affiliated with the UM Population Center. Eligible candidates will
work
with faculty members from the University's Humphrey Institute of
Public
Affairs, the Department of Applied Economics and the Industrial
Relations and Human Resource Center of the Carlson School of
Management
on research related to gender, work and family in the Arab Countries,
Iran and Turkey (ERF region). The fellowship is designed to support
researchers committed to a multidisciplinary approach to gender, work
and family issues whose research is centered on the analysis of
household surveys. Enrollment date for the third round of the
ERF-University of Minnesota Fellowship program will be August 1st 2003
up to January 30, 2003.

The ERF-University of Minnesota Fellowship program is funded by The
Andrew Mellon Foundation, USA. This is the last round of the
currently-funded three-year cycle of the fellowship.

Eligibility:
Fellowships are offered to eligible nationals of the ERF regions.  A
minimum eligibility criterion is an M.A. or M.Sc. degree from a
recognized university in a related discipline with strong skills in
quantitative data analysis. Preference will be given to candidates at
the post-doctoral level within five years of receiving their Ph.D. and
advanced doctoral students. Successful candidates will need to
demonstrate a record of prior research on issues related to gender,
work
and family in the ERF region. Applicants should be trained in the
analysis of household surveys such as the Demographic Health Surveys
and
the Egypt Labor Market Survey of 1998, conducted by ERF.

Fellowship terms:
Successful candidates will be awarded a six-month fellowship. A
stipend
of US $ 7,500 will be provided to cover living expenses throughout the
duration of the fellowship. A roundtrip airfare, will also be
provided.


Application Requirements and Procedures:
Application form and instructions can be downloaded from the ERF web
site (www.erf.org.eg). Completed applications for the spring round of
the fellowship should be returned to the ERF-University of Minnesota
Fellowship Secretariat by February 15, 2003 at the latest at the
address
noted below.

Fellowship requirements include the completion of a TOEFL test and
obtaining a minimum score of 550 on the regular test or a score of 225
on the computerized test.

Please address any questions or clarifications to the contact address
noted below:
ERF-University of Minnesota Fellowship Secretariat
Azza El-Shinnawy
Program Officer
Economic Research Forum
For Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey
7 Boulos Hanna st. Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Tel: (202) 748 5553-337 0810
Fax: (202) 761 6042
Email: ashinnawy@...

Ragui Assaad
Associate Professor
Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
301 19th Ave. S, Minneapolis MN 55455
(612) 625-4856

------------------------------

End of H-GENDER-MIDEAST Digest - 30 Oct 2002 to 31 Oct 2002 (#2002-
174)

Subject: Announcing 2003-2004 Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship in
Human Security

Announcing Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program on
Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique

The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) and the Center for
the
Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center of the City
University of
New York announce a Rockefeller-funded Humanities Fellowship Program,
Facing
Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique.
Fellowships are
available for 2003/2004 to selected activists, academics and
policymakers.
This interdisciplinary program explores the uses of a human security
framework for identifying non-discriminatory, sustainable policies
for
women
and girls, drawing into dialogue critical theories in the humanities
and
social sciences, and discourses of policymakers and activists.
More information and application form available at:
http://www.ncrw.org
and
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womenstudies/index.htm. Applications for
2003/2004
are due 31 January 2003

Becky Colesworthy
National Council for Research on Women
11 Hanover Square, 20th Floor
New York, NY  10005
Phone: 212 785-7335, extension 10
Fax: 212 785-7350
www.ncrw.org

3.
Les Pénélopes
Agence internationale femmes informations
31 octobre 2002
http://www.penelopes.org/





Sur le site des Pénélopes :


DOSSIER
- Women for sale
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xdossier.php3?id_article=44


SOUS DOSSIERS
- Trafficking of women and children into the European Union
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=19

- Effects of different legal measures
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=20

- The Swedish Approach to Prostitution
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=21

- Deep throat, porn chic, the old-in-and-out and a few angry feminists
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=24


RESSOURCES
- Rendering feminism blacker
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=40


EVÉNEMENTS
- News in brief of an announced meeting
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xarticle.php3?id_article=23


AFRIQUE
- Satanic lesbian strikers expelled in Uganda
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=22

- Hawknet : African website serves as forum for women issues
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=11


AMÉRIQUE LATINE
- Homeless teenagers hurt by shooting in Guatemala
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=17

- Slavery and death at the Brazilian Amazon jungle
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=18

- Women's Rights in Latin America
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=27


ASIE
- Elders in tribal region warn women not to vote in Pakistani
elections
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=4

- Opposition to the Reproductive Health Care Act in the Philippines
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=10

- Feminist Writer Sentenced to One Year in Prison
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=15


AMÉRIQUE DU NORD
- Access to Emergency contraception limited in New York
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=8

- Now openly opposes war in Iraq
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=9

- Oppose the Appointment of W.David Hager to the FDA Reproductive
Health Drugs Advisory Committee
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=12


EUROPE
- A return to the old days of France ?
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=26

- Cops involved in Forced Prostitution in Bosnia-Herzegovina
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=36

- Feminist perspectives and resistance in the "transition countries"
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=39


MOYEN-ORIENT
- Maternal Death Rates Rise in Afghanistan
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=28

- Women Vote in Bahrain
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=30


PROCHE-ORIENT
- Tel Aviv to Give 30% of Top Posts to Women
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=16

- The War against Women Intensifies in Palestine
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=33

- Prosecute Sharon for War Crimes
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=38


INTERNATIONAL
- The UN Treats the Issue of Women in Violent Conflict
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=31

- Women in the ICC Now !
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=35


NOS SITES PRÉFÉRÉS
- Discussing women issues in Africa
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=14


TIC À LA UNE
- Women issues in Africa on the net
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=13


LIVRES
- The power of partnership
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=2


PÉNÉLOPES INFOS
- Who are we ?
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=37


PETITES ANNONCES
- Call for Papers : 2nd International Conference on Violence against
Lesbians
http://www.penelopes.org/Anglais/xbreve.php3?id_article=5

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The information published on this site comes from many sources from
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found in the traditional media (television, radio, print). Some of the
articles are available here for the first time.


4.
New British Academy publications:

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 112
THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURAL ENTITIES
edited by Michael Wheeler, John Ziman & Margaret A Boden
Further details: www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/pba112.html


Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 114
REPRESENTATIONS OF EMPIRE;
ROME AND THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD
edited by Alan K Bowman, Hannah M Cotton, Martin Goodman & Simon Price
Further details: www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/pba114.html

Subject: New Books

1. Disrupting and Reshaping. Early Stages of Nation Building in the
Balkans
2. Post-Communist transition as a European Problem
3. The Turks

----------
4. Slowenen und Deutsche im gemeinsamen Raum
----------


Disrupting and Reshaping. Early Stages of Nation Building in the
Balkans,
edited by Marco Dogo and Guido Franzinetti

The papers collected in this book discuss and compare four cases of
transition from the Ottoman imperial regime to the nation-state
polity
and
legitimacy (Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turkey) in the Balkans
between
XIX and XX century.
The authors are European historians of different school, age and
provenance
(from West to East: Edinburgh, Turin, Trieste, Belgrade, Sofia,
Athens,
Ankara). Among the topics they approach in these pages, the reader
will
find: wars and "disorder", as a prologue to disruption of Ottoman
authority
and eventual secession; traditional political culture and new
political
élites; agrarian conditions, modernising policies and peasant
separateness;
legitimising ideologies and conflicting political loyalties in the
new
nation-states. Political upheaval and subsequent state-centred
activities
and trends (constitutionalism, history writing, enlarged
enfranchisement…),
rather than ethno-cultural heritages, are here proposed as relevant
factors
in the shaping of national identities.
Publishing House: Longo Editore Ravenna.
Books and Occasional Papers
can be ordered directly from the Web page of the Network:

www.eurobalk.net

----------

AVALIABLE FROM THE END OF NOVEMBER 2002

Post-Communist transition as a European Problem edited by
S.Bianchini,
G.Schoepflin and P.Shoup

When international research on the post communist transition in CEI
(Central European Initiative) countries started in 1999, the issues
analysed in this book were not on the agenda. They emerged,
unexpectedly,
in the course of the project, which involved about fifty European and
American scholars. This book, the first in a series of four, deals
innovatively and provocatively with a crucial question: to what
extent
has
the post communist transition in CEI countries gradually turned into
a
difficult transformation, which cannot be isolated from the process
of
European integration? In other words, in the post-communist
transition
an
integral part of a transition which has involved Europe as a whole,
since
the end of the cold war, in the reconstruction of its political
unity?
The
overcoming of the separation caused by bloc politics interacts with
the
process globalisation and localisms, making the European scenario
much
more
interdependent and dynamic than the now obsolete interpretations
based
on
the East-West divide are capable of investigating. This book provides
readers with interpretation tools which defy facile current opinions,
looking at post-communist Europe from the point of view of Europe,
tout
court.

Publishing House: Longo Editore Ravenna.
Books and Occasional Papers
can be ordered directly from the Web page of the Network:

www.eurobalk.net


----------

PUBL.- The Turks (English Edition)

Publication:
THE TURKS (English language edition)
Edited by Hasan Celal Güzel, C. Cem Oguz, and Osman Karatay
Published by Yeni Tu"rkiye Research & Publishing Center
Hardcover, 6 volumes, 6000 pages, ISBN 975-6782-55-2 (set)

"The Turks" is a reference work for researchers of Turkic
nations, regions, and peoples, past and present.  It contains
467 articles from noted international scholars of Turkology
dealing with such themes as ethnic origins, political
formations, linguistics, literature, calligraphy, music,
religious beliefs, trading activities, and relations with
neighboring peoples and countries.  The entries are accompanied
by extensive endnotes, bibliographic references, and thousands
of visual materials (including photographs, illustrations, and
maps).

Here is a sampling of articles pertinent to the study of Central
Eurasia: * The Ancient Cultures of Central Asia and the
Relations with the Chinese Civilizations * Western Turk Rule of
Turkestan's Oases in the Sixth through Eighth Centuries * The
Uighur Empire (744-840) * The Silk Road and Its Importance in
History * The Khorezm Shah State * Western Images of Central
Asia (c. 1200-1800) * Kazakh Language and the New Language
Policy in the 1990s * The Nomadic Kazakhs of Western Mongolia *
The Art of War and Weapons of Turkmens * Getting Together,
Getting Apart: Migration and Demographic Changes in Independent
Uzbekistan

Volume 1: The Early Ages
Volume 2: Middle Ages
Volumes 3 & 4: The Ottomans
Volume 5: Turkey
Volume 6: Turkish World

Price for the complete set: $540 (U.S.) plus shipping & handling.

Library and institutional orders are welcome.  Pre-payment is
not necessary.

Please send your purchase request to <turks@...> or
mail to:
The Turks, 4 Cannondale Drive, Danbury, CT 06810-7912 U.S.A.

Questions about "The Turks" are also invited.  The complete
table of contents can be emailed upon request.


----------
Slowenen und Deutsche im gemeinsamen Raum
Neue Forschungen zu einem komplexen Thema
Herausgegeben von Harald Heppner
2002. VIII, 170 S., EUR 24,80
ISBN 3-486-56701-2
Buchreihe der Südostdeutschen Historischen Kommission, Band 38
Zum Buch:
Der vorliegende Band, der auf eine Tagung der Südostdeutschen
Historischen
Kommission im September 2001 in Maribor zurückgeht, erfasst das
Zusammenleben von Slowenen und Deutschen in der südlichen Steiermark
und in
Krain vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart. Deutlich wird, dass erst
spät
die friedliche Koexistenz beider Ethnien zum Scheitern verurteilt
war,
als
geistige, organisatorische und politische Kräfte von außen ins Land
eindrangen und neue Denk- und Verhaltensweisen stimulierten.
Aus dem Inhalt:
Harald Heppner: Vorwort
Peter Stih: Die slowenischen Vorstellungen über die
slowenisch-deutschen
Beziehungen im Mittelalter
Norbert Weiss: Die untersteirischen Städte und ihre Bewohner im
Mittelalter
Boris Golec: Was bedeutet "slowenisch" und "deutsch" in den
krainischen
und
untersteirischen Städten der Frühen Neuzeit?
Vincenc Rajsp: Deutsche und Slowenen im Spiegel der Josephinischen
Landesaufnahme 1763-1787
Joachim Hösler: "... in der Wiege der Slowenzität": Zu den Anfängen
der
nationalen Differenzierung in Krain vom Ende des 18. bis Mitte des 19.
Jahrhunderts
Eduard G. Staudinger: Von der Mehrheit zur Minderheit: Die
deutschsprachige
Bevölkerung des Abstaller Feldes im 19. und im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Janez Cvirn: Deutsche und Slowenen in der Untersteiermark: Zwischen
Kooperation und Konfrontation
Reinhard Reimann: "Für echte Deutsche gibt es bei uns genügend
Rechte":
Die Slowenen und ihre deutsche Minderheit 1918-1941
Jerca Vodusek-Staric: The Beginning of the Ideological Dispute and its
Consequences for German-Slovene Relations


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5.
Subject: CfA: CEU Summer University, 30.6-25.7.2003, Budapest

Central European University
Summer University
Hungary 2003

A Program for University Teachers, Researchers and Professionals in
the
Social Sciences and Humanities
June 30 - July 25, 2003

Established in 1996, the Summer University of CEU is an outreach
program
with the aim of promoting academic cooperation and curriculum
development
among young faculty, researchers and professionals in the social
sciences
and humanities in countries of transition worldwide. The summer
courses
provide participants with an opportunity to gain insight into new
multidisciplinary fields and topics, update their existing knowledge
and
exchange views with their colleagues.
Course offerings cater for the various needs of academic and
professional
development in the social sciences and humanities across a wide
spectrum of
disciplines. The program encourages topics in newly emerging fields
to
which participants may not have been previously exposed. Issues
addressed
by the courses tend to focus on currently relevant ones for emerging
democracies, for instance, ethnic relations, migration, nationalism
and
transnationalism, globalization, human rights, urban development,
poverty
reduction, local governments, religion and identity, gender, etc.
The program is unique in its diversity of faculty and student body as
well
as its academic offerings. It brings together groups of interested
individuals to study together intensively for two or three weeks in
Budapest coming from an enormously varied geographical, cultural and
academic background. Participants have been accepted into the program
from
approximately 60 different countries ranging from East and Central
Europe
and the former Soviet Union to countries of Asia, Africa, North
America
and
South America. The courses are taught by a team of teachers who also
represent a wide range of countries in an effort to match the
diversity
of
the student body. Professors come from approximately 30 different
countries
from the region as well as mostly from Western Europe and America.
This
exciting multi-cultural composition of the courses provides a
stimulating
environment for engaging participants and faculty in an inspiring and
enriching dialogue during the summer school.
Eligibility and Funding

Applications are invited from all countries on a fully funded,
partially
funded or a fee paying basis.

General Eligibility Criteria

·       Applicants must have a university degree and hold a teaching
job at
a university or college in their home country, or work as a
researcher,
an
administrator or a professional. Doctoral students may also apply.
Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.
·       The language of instruction is English; thus all applicants
have to
demonstrate a strong command of spoken and written English to be able
to
participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. In
some
instances they may be contacted for a telephone interview. Accepted
applicants may receive pre-course reading and/or writing assignments,
the
completion of which is a pre-requisite for course participation.
·       Individuals are not eligible to apply to a SUN course if they
attended either a CRC (Curriculum Resource Center) session or Popper
Workshop in the same calendar or academic year (i.e., they must wait
one
year after their participation in one of the above programs before
applying
to SUN).  Additionally, applicants are not eligible to apply to SUN
if
they
have participated in two CEU faculty initiative activities (i.e.,
CRC,
SUN,
Popper Workshop) within a four-year period.  Preference will be given
to
new applicants over former participants in Summer University courses.
·       Currently enrolled CEU students are not eligible. Former CEU
students may only apply if they are currently employed in their home
country.


Program Costs
The program costs below include tuition, accommodation, health
insurance,
local transportation, meals and social events:
Two-week course:        $1,250                  Three-week
course:
$1,800
·       Scholarship participants
Full funding is available for participants from Central and Eastern
Europe
and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, as well as for those coming
from
emerging democracies worldwide. The maximum travel grant awarded is
$1,400,
participants will have to cover the amount exceeding $1,400. However,
participants from Budapest will only receive free tuition, and a
reduced
stipend.
·       Partially funded participants
If you or your institution is willing to cover the program expenses,
whether fully or partially, please indicate it in the Financial
Information
section of the application form.
·       Non-scholarship (fee-paying) participants
Those who are not eligible for funding are also welcome and
encouraged
to
apply. If they are accepted into the program, they will have to pay
for
tuition ($300/week of instruction equaling 1,200 classroom minutes),
accommodation, health insurance, travel and meals. However, there are
a
limited number of tuition waivers available which may be applied for
on
a
competitive basis. If you wish to apply for a tuition waiver, please
attach
a cover letter to your application specifying your reasons.

Applications must be received by the CEU Summer University Office no
later
than January 15. Fee-paying applications can be submitted
continuously
until June 1.


For additional information please contact:
CEU
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9.
Hungary
Tel.: (36-1) 327-3811
Fax: (36-1) 327-3124
E-mail: summeru@... (for information and general correspondence)
sunreq@... (for requesting application forms)
WWW site: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html
On-line application: https://online.ceu.hu/osun/


Non-discrimination policy statement
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis
of  including, but not limited to  race, color, national and ethnic
origin,
religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its
educational
policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and
athletic
and other school-administered programs.


The program will offer the following courses in 2003
Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Visual Culture
1       Violence and Culture:  Rethinking Ethnic, Religious and
Nationalist
Conflict in  the Post Cold War Context      June 30 -  July 11
          Course Director: Andrew Herscher, Harvard Design School,
Cambridge, USA
          Resource Persons:
      Conerly Casey, UCLA, USA
      Alan Feldman, Institute for Humanities
       Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
      Alan Keenan, International Center for Ethnic
      Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
      Uli Linke, Rutgers University, USA/Tübingen
      University, Germany
      Tomislav Longinovic, University of
      Wisconsin, USA


          Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of
the
Cold
War, a new international political geography has emerged, with
certain
areas - such as the Balkans, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, and Israel and the
occupied
territories - framed as zones of ethnic, religious or nationalist
conflict.
"Culture" is often invoked as a contributing cause of these
conflicts,
but
it is only recently that the cultural aspects of these conflicts have
become central to a range of disciplines, old and new: anthropology,
cultural history, studies of visual and material culture, and studies
of
trauma and memory. On the bases of these new conceptualizations of
the
cultural, this course will examine political violence not as an
adjunct
to
or a result of cultural activity, but as a fully cultural
materialization
and performance. The course will thus consider the centrality of
cultural
issues in ethnic, religious and nationalist conflict, attempting to
ascertain the place of political conflict and violence within the
field
of
culture and the status of the experience, representation and
interpretation
of conflict and violence as cultural phenomena.
Anthropology and History
2       The Roma: Bringing together Historical, Anthropological and
Linguistic Approaches       July 7 - July 25
          Course Director: Michael Stewart, University College London,
UK
          Resource Persons:
       Victor Friedman, University of Chicago, USA
       Paloma Gay y Blasco, The Queen's University
       of Belfast, United Kingdom
       Nicolae Gheorghe, Romanian Academy,
       Bucharest, Romania
       Katalin Kovalcsik, Hungarian Academy of
       Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
       Leo Lucassen, Institute for Migration and
       Ethnic Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands
       Yaron Matras, University of Manchester, UK
       Andrea Szalai, Hungarian Academy of
       Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
       Wim Willems, Institute for Migration and
       Ethnic Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands
       Michael Zimmermann, Ruhr University of
       Bochum, Essen, Germany     The course will introduce
participants
to
a range of perspectives from linguistics, anthropology and history in
researching Romany and Gypsy social forms. Participants will learn
how
Roma
issues cannot be treated in isolation as the problem of one ethnic
group
and yet how, at the same time, Roma cannot just be lumped together
with
other poor people. Participants will learn that to understand
Roma/non-Roma
relations is to develop a deeper (and essential) understanding of
their
own
societies.
Romany Studies was dominated through the 20th century by
folkloristic,
linguistic and then anthropological work. Only at the end of the
century,
and largely in the Netherlands and Germany, did a historical approach
to
Romany experience emerge. This course will provide an opportunity,
bringing
together the leading players in the field, to thrash out some of the
differences and explore how an interdisciplinary perspective will
provide a
rigorous set of academic challenges for the next generation of
researchers.
Anthropology, Religious Studies and Political Science
3       Religion, Globalisation, and the State  June 30 - July 11
          Course Director: Pál Nyiri, Central European University,
Budapest,
Hungary
          Resource Persons:
Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
       István Kamarás, University of Veszprem,
       Hungary
       Ina Merdjanova, Veliko Tarnovo
       University, Bulgaria
       Peter van der Veer, University of Amsterdam,
       Netherlands
       Robert Weller, Boston University, USA
       Galina Yemelianova, University of
       Birmingham, UK     This course uses an interdisciplinary
perspective
to explore the complex and often contradictory role of religion in
shaping
identities and advancing or resisting elite agendas in contemporary
society. It covers themes such as the interaction of religion and
nationalism, religion and transnational networks, religion and state
control, religion and civil society. Case material is drawn mainly
from
Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Asia.

Art and Cultural Studies
4       ? Crossing the Boundaries:  Music as the Expression of Social
and
Political Ideas in
   Modern East-Europe (with extension to the Middle East) July 7- July
18
          Course director: Judit Frigyesi, Bar Ilan University, Israel
          Resource Persons:
       Michael Beckerman, New York University,
       USA
       Walter Feldman, Jewish Music Research
       Center, Jerusalem, Israel
       Ruth HaCohen (Princzower), Hebrew
       University of Jerusalem, Israel
       Jaroslav Mihule, Charles University, Prague,
       Czech Republic



          The purpose of this course is threefold.  First, it explores
the
potential of music to articulate personal and group responses to
problems
of society. Second, it will articulate some of the special problems
of
the
twentieth century as they manifest in music. Third, it will place the
musical culture of Eastern Europe within the European cultural milieu
by
showing the ways in which it reflected both the common anxieties of
European art and the particular problems of the region.
Two units of the course will present general problems of music, the
first
one dealing with nationalism and the second one with the tension
between
individual and communal expression/demands. The remaining three units
will
discuss these and other problems in their relation to three
countries:
the
Czech Republic, Turkey and Hungary. In the course of the twentieth
century,
these countries went through a series of changing self definitions,
which
in the case of Hungary and Turkey involved also the transition from
an
imperial statehood-identity to a definition of nation that was based
on
(real or imagined) ethnic unity.  In the case of all of these
countries
the
relation with "Europe" (as an imaginary cultural entity) played a
major
role. All these issues influenced and were played out in the domain
of
culture. They manifested themselves in the policy making of music as
a
social activity as well as in the personal responses of composers and
public regarding musical style.
5       ? Visual Studies Today  July 7- July 25
          Course director: Margaret Dikovitskaya, University of
Toronto,
Canada
          Resource Persons:
       Lisa Cartwright, University of California, San
       Diego, USA
       Mark Cheetham, University of Toronto,
       Canada
       Whitney Davis, University of California,
       Berkeley, USA
       Brian Goldfarb, University of California, San
       Diego, USA
       Dusan Pajin, University of Arts, Belgrade,
       Yugoslavia
       Ruth Phillips, University of British Columbia,
       Vancouver, Canada  This course will examine the status of
art-historical knowledge and museology in relation to the recent
theoretical developments in the humanities and social sciences. It
will
explore the new critical methodologies of art-historical
interpretation
and
artwriting, and will discuss the implications of queer studies,
postsocialist studies, and new electronic media for the enrichment of
college and university teaching and research. The regional
cooperation
of
art theorists and practitioners as part of the transformative process
in
CEE will be addressed.

Economics (Agricultural and Rural Economics)
6       Agrarian Institutions Analysis  July 14 - July 25
          Course directors: Dimitar Terziev, New Bulgarian University,
Sofia, Bulgaria and Hrabrin Bachev, Institute of Agricultural
Economics,
Sofia, Bulgaria/Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
          Resource Persons:
       Konrad Hagedorn, Humboldt University,
       Berlin, Germany
       Michael Sykuta, University of Missouri, USA

          Agricultural and rural development is a real challenge for
most of
the countries in Central and Eastern Europe during their pre-
accession
to
EU stages. The main lesson from the last decade is that the
traditional
theories and approaches are not enough for explaining the real
problems
and
for building productive practical alternatives. We need a new
theoretical
foundation and new policy.
The multidisciplinary approach of New Institutional and Transaction
Cost
Economics gives us an opportunity to enrich the analysis of the
agrarian
and rural sector. Its concept will be applied in: assessment of the
role of
specific formal and informal institutions (property rights,
legislation,
trust, informal rules); analysis of comparative efficiency of market,
private, hybrid, etc. modes of governance (contracts, organizations,
collective actions, illegal forms); efficiency analysis of various
forms of
Government, international, etc., intervention (assistance,
regulation,
support, in-house organization, institutional modernization,
globalization).
The course participants will receive knowledge and skills for better
understanding of the pace, driving factors, and prospects of agrarian
transformation. It is expected that they are familiar with mainstream
economics, theory of organizations and traditional concepts for
agrarian
and rural development.

International Relations
7       ? The UN, EU and Governance in a Globalizing World      June
30
-
July 18
(Distance Learning Segment: June 15-29)
          Course director: Roger Coate, University of South Carolina,
USA
          Resource Persons:
       Paula L'Ecuyer, University of South
       Carolina, USA
       Mihály Simai, Institute of World Economics,
       Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest,
       Hungary
       Donald Puchala, University of South
       Carolina, USA
       Vladislav Kravtsov, University of Delaware,
       USA




          The course explores the dynamic interrelationships between
the
forces of globalization and governance with specific emphasis on the
role
of the United Nations system and the European Union. It is organized
around
five interrelated elements. First, "what is governance and how does
governance relate to human security?" We explore the relationship
between
global and regional systems of governance and the creation and
maintenance
of democratic open societies at the local and national levels.
Second,
the
course focuses on the evolving meanings of security. It explores the
global
value dialectic over peace and security and the transition from a
narrow
definition of securitynational security and protection from physical
military aggressionto the much broader concept of human security.
Third,
participants analyze the competing forces and tensions that underpin
systems of governance and condition the authoritative allocation of
human
needs and values.  We examine the evolving dialectics between
numerous
forces and tensions, such as integration and fragmentation,
globalization
and localization, and universalism and relativism. Fourth,
participants
are
challenged to re-conceptualize international relations and global
governance in non-state-centered terms and to explore the resulting
implications for understanding the nature and roles of international
institutions, such as the EU, the UN, and international financial
institutions, as well as transnational civil society organizations in
promoting human security. Finally, we explore the nature,
plausibility,
and
possibility of reforms in international institutions that would be
required
to bring civil society and the private sector more fully and
effectively
into international policy processes.
This special five-week mixed "in-residence"/distance learning (DL)
summer
university course is designed to enhance the professional development
of
young scholars and other young professionals who are interested in or
actively engaged in research and teaching about international
relations,
international institutions, and the future of global governance and
human
security. It will offer participants an in-depth analysis of the
forces
that affect and the challenges that confront governance at all levels
in
the twenty-first century as well as various steps that might be taken
to
enhance the effectiveness of international institutions and other
mechanisms of global governance in responding to those challenges.
The
course proposed here is designed specifically for young Ph.D.s and
advanced
doctoral students and other professionals who possess a basic
knowledge
about international relations and/or multilateral affairs.

8       ? Globalizations, Anti-globalizations and IGO - Civil Society
Partnerships in a Multi-ethnic World      July 14 - July 25
(Distance Learning Segment: Jul 1-13)
          Course directors: Roger Coate, University of South Carolina,
USA
and Timothy Shaw, University of London, UK
          Resource Persons:
       Vladislav Kravtsov, University of Delaware,
       USA
       Maria Nzomo, University of Nairobi, Kenya





          The course is organized around one of the late-twentieth
century's
most challenging intellectual and practical puzzles - a puzzle that
challenges the core of the interstate legal order's foundations in
state
sovereignty. Individuals and groups acting in the name of states and
intergovernmental organizations have generally found the policy
mechanisms
under their control to be insufficient for responding effectively to
war
(internal and interstate), poverty, malnutrition, pandemic diseases,
environmental degradation, resource depletion, and the multitude of
other
threats to human security. For their part, civic-based actors seldom
possess sufficient resources, authority, or the requisite capacity
for
launching successful large-scale independent policy initiatives and
therefore exert only meager influence on global developments. Yet
building
and sustaining cooperation between public and civic-based entities
has
proved to be an elusive objective. The course analyzes the problem of
how
to overcome the constraints of sovereignty in international
institutions in
order to create effective partnerships with civil society and the
private
sector that are needed to promote democratic governance and
sustainable
human security.
This special five-week mixed "in-residence"/distance learning (DL)
summer
university course is designed to enhance the professional development
of
young scholars who are actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or
fieldwork in international affairs and are interested in how to
create
and
manage partnerships with diverse elements of society for promoting
and
sustaining democratic governance and human development and security.
It
will offer participants an in-depth analysis of the forces that
affect
and
challenges that confront global governance in the twenty-first
century
and
various steps that might be taken to enhance the effectiveness of
international institutions in responding to those challenges. The
course
proposed here is designed specifically for young Ph.D.s and advanced
doctoral students who possess a basic knowledge about international
relations and/or multilateral affairs.
Legal Studies
9       Managing Conflict and Fostering Democratic Dialogue (In
co-operation with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and
Hamline
University School of Law, Minnesota)  July 7 - July 25
          Course director:s: Lela Porter Love, Cardozo School of Law,
New
York, USA and Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary
          Resource Persons:
       James Alfini, Northern Illinois University,
       USA
       Kinga Goncz, Political Secretary of State in
       the Ministry of Health, Social and Family
       Affairs for Hungary
       Dana Potockova, Conflict Management
       International, Prague, Czech Republic
       Stephen J. Adler, National Labour Court  of
       Israel, Hebrew University, TelAviv University
       Manfred Weiss, Johann Wolfgang Goethe
       University, Frankfurt, Germany



          This course is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas
and
cooperative projects among academics, professionals and students in
the
East and West who are pursuing the study of conflict and conflict
resolution processes.  The program, set in the context of Central and
Eastern Europe's emerging democracies, will focus both on arbitration
and
mediation, as well as other consensual methods for addressing and
resolving
conflict and promoting understanding between peoples.
In the first two weeks of the program, CEU participants will be
joined
by
approximately thirty American law students and scholars to explore
mediation theory and skills, as well as other processes to foster
democratic dialogue.  All of the offerings will include multinational
perspectives and examples.  This program will enable students to
critically
examine the challenges of the design and delivery of ADR initiatives
in
multiple contexts, including countries where the "rule of law" still
is
being established.
CEU participants will finish the sequence by participating in a
one-week
intensive course centered on arbitration, particularly as that
process
is
used in the context of labor and employment matters.

Medieval Studies and History
10      Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages in Central and Eastern
Europe:
  From Heritage to Politics (In co- cooperation with the
Max-Planck-Institut
für Geschichte, Göttingen and the Open Society Archives, Budapest)
June
30
- July 11
          Course director: Gábor Klaniczay,  Central European
University,
Budapest, Hungary
          Resource Persons:
       Neven Budak, CEU/University of Zagreb,
       Croatia
       Péter Erdõsi, Teleki Institute, Budapest,
       Hungary
       Patrick Geary, UCLA, USA
       József Laszlovszky, Central European
       University, Budapest, Hungary
       Ernõ Marosi, Hungarian Academy of
       Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
       Gerhard Oexle, Max-Planck Institut für
       Geschichte, Germany
       Andrei Pippidi, University of Bucharest,
       Romania
       František Šmahel, Center for Medieval
       Studies, Prague, Czech Republic
       Béla Zsolt Szakács, CEU/ Péter Pázmány
       University, Budapest, Hungary
          The course intends to explore a most topical issue connected
with
the Middle Ages: its "use" and "misuse" in the political and cultural
discourseas well as activity - of our times, with special reference
to
Central and Eastern Europe. The notion of a "new Middle Ages" has a
slightly different meaning in this region. Here national
self-identification is heavily leaning on the medieval past, as for
several
nations that was the (real or legendary) age of "greatness" followed
by
decline, incorporation into multinational empires, dismemberment and
"foreign rule". Conversely, events of cooperation in the region,
fruitful
in the remote past, are called upon to justify and underwrite recent
attempts at the same. Finally, the diverse attitudes to surviving (or
unearthed) remains of the medieval past have acquired crucial
symbolic
value for internal and external forces alike. Just as totalitarian
governments have destroyed or glorified monuments according to their
preference (at home and abroad), so contemporary ones make a show of
ancient jewels or castles or bomb the bridges of their enemies. In a
less
violent and manipulated manner, the presentation, (re)construction of
past
edifices and objects serve definite political and ideological aims.
Without opting for some idealistic "objectivity", the seminars and
round-tables of this course will explore the bases of this kind of
"instrumentalization". It will discuss the performance of experts in
this
field, supportive or critical, and the implications of governmental
and
non-governmental policies in respect to the future of cultural
heritage,
history-writing and teaching in the region. A comparative
perspective,
including Western Europe, may be able to place all this in a wider
historical and intellectual context.
Nationalism Studies
11      Ethnic Relations and Democratization in Eastern Europe
(Secession,
Federalism and Minority Rights)      June 30 - July 18
          Course director: Mária M. Kovács, Central European
University,
Budapest, Hungary
          Resource Persons:
       Erica Benner, London School of Economics,
       UK
       András Kovács, Central European University,
       Budapest, Hungary
       Will Kymlicka, Queen's University at
       Kingston, Canada
       Florian Biber, European Centre for Minority
       Issues (ECMI), Belgrade/Central European
       University, Budapest Hungary

          The purpose of the course is to explore how western models
of
dealing with ethnocultural diversity can be adopted in Eastern
Europe.  From the point of view of Eastern European countries
interested in
European integration, Western European countries are not simply
offering
such models for possible consideration, but rather are pressuring
Eastern
Europe to respect pan-European standards.  The decision of Western
European
organizations to insist on respect for pan-European standards is a
serious
test-case for the feasibility and desirability of  "exporting"
western
standards to the rest of Europe.
Given this background, the course will focus on two important
topics.  First, it will attempt to clarify the theoretical basis of
western
models of dealing with ethnocultural diversity so as to distinguish
the
underlying principles from the myriad of local variations in the way
that
these principles are institutionalized.  The course will distinguish
the
fundamental principles from the contingent practices and ask
questions
about the extent to which those principles are applicable
elsewhere.  Second, the course will attempt to involve participants,
scholars, advanced students and practitioners, in a transnational and
intercultural dialogue on problems of self-determination, federalism
and
minority rights and on how these problems are linked to
democratization.

Philosophy
12      Philosophy and Science in the Greco-Roman World July 7 -
July
18
          Course directors: István Bárány, ELTE, Budapest, Gábor
Betegh
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, István Bodnár,
Central
European University, Budapest, Hungary
          Resource Persons:
       Katerina Ierodiakonou, National Technical
       University, Athens, Greece/ St. Hugh's College,
       Oxford, UK
       André Laks, l'Université Charles de Gaulle-
       Lille III., France
       Henry R. Mendell, California State University,
       USA
       Reviel Netz, Stanford University, USA
       David N.  Sedley, University of Cambridge,
       UK
       Leonid Zhmud, Institute for the History of
       Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia     The course will
concentrate on the relationship of philosophy and scientific thought
in
the
Greco-Roman world, from the Presocratics through the Hellenistic age
up
to
the close of classical antiquity. We would like to investigate how
mathematics, natural sciences, astronomy, and medicine influenced
philosophy, and on the other hand, how philosophy and its methods and
techniques framed science and scientific knowledge. Our intention is
that
the course should address basic questions of interrelatedness, and
should
show how questions asked and methods used either in science or in
philosophy fertilized other areas of intellectual activity. The focus
will
be on questions concerning the structure of knowledge, methodology,
second
order theories, argumentativity, demonstrational techniques, and
polemics.
Political Science
13      ? The Politics of Market Making and Industrial Relations in
Europe      June 30 - July 11
          Course Directors: László Bruszt, Central European
University,
Budapest and András Tóth, Institute of Political Sciences, Budapest,
Hungary
          Resource Persons:
       Marino Regini, University of Milano, Italy
       Otto Jacoby, Laboratorium Europe,
       Frankfurt, Germany
       László Neumann, Institute for Labor
       Research, Budapest, Hungary
       Jeremy Waddington, Manchester University,
       UK
       Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute,
       Frankfurt, Germany
       Mária Ladó, Member of the High Level
       Group on Industrial Relations and Change in
       the European Union, Budapest, Hungary


          The course will highlight the interrelationships between the
politics of market making and the reshaping of industrial relations
in
Europe. The nineties were the decade of market making both in the
Eastern
and the Western parts of Europe. In the post-communist countries this
was
the decade of attempts to build up market economies. In Western
Europe,
this was the decade of the creation of the Single Market and the
preparation for the European Monetary Union (EMU). Market making,
both
at
the national level and at the supra-national levels went hand in hand
with
a dramatic reshaping of the political and social relations among key
national level economic actors in both parts of the continent and the
consolidation of supranational (European) actors. In Central and
Eastern
Europe the changes resulted largely in the marginalization of
organized
labour, combined in some countries with the capture of national
states
by a
small group of winners and the impoverishment of an important
segment,
if
not the majority of the population.
Within the EU, on the other hand, while traditional national
industrial
relations systems got increasingly under strain, only exceptionally
become
labour marginalised. The majority of member states searched for
labour
inclusive policies in coping with the challenges of the single
market,
and
hitherto a number of member states witnessed the revival of social
pacts.
The highly divergent fate of post '90 Europe and European states both
in
terms of market making and in terms of pursuing labour inclusive or
exclusive policies calls for investigating the interrelationship
between
market making and societal regulation of business and labour markets
embodied in industrial relations systems.
14      ? Toleration and Multiculturalism: Western and Eastern
Perspectives     July 7 - July 18
          Course Director: Matt Matravers, University of York, UK
          Resource Persons:
       Susan Mendus, University of York, UK
       Maxim Khomiakov, Ural State University,
       Ekaterinburg, Russia
       Nenad Mišèeviæ, University of Maribor,
       Slovenia



          The problem of multicultural and multiethnic states has
become
of
increasing importance, nowhere more so than in Russia and in Eastern
and
Central Europe. Minority cultures and groups are increasingly making
claims
for autonomy, group rights and representation, and for toleration.
Both
politically and philosophically, this is now an urgent issue. This
course
aims to introduce students to the problems of multiculturalism and
toleration, in terms of both theory and practice. Furthermore, the
aim
is
to examine and contrast the Russian and Western approaches to these
problems. This will encompass both the history of the idea of
toleration
and its contemporary application to Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet
Union.


Political Science , Internation Relations and Religious Studies
15      Islam and the West      July 14 - July 25
          Course Director: Ihsan D. Dagi, Middle East Technical
University,
Ankara,Turkey
          Resource Persons:
       John Calabrese, The American
       University/The Middle East Institute,
       Washington D.C., USA
       Anoush Ehteshami, University of Durham,
       UK
       Plamen Makariev, Sofia University, Bulgaria
       Hakan Yavuz, Utah University, Salt Lake
       City, USA

          Is a `clash of civilizations' inevitable between Islam and
the
West?  This renewed debate following the terrorist attacks of
September
11
on the USA, which brought up the issue of Islam's encounter with the
West,
will be the subject-matter of this course. To explore this question
further
the course will take part in the debate concerning the "formation of
identity" in relation to the "other" with reference to Islam and the
West.
As sharp ideological competitions have faded away by the end of the
cold
war we are told to face tensions along civilizational/cultural lines.
Islam
and the West, given their centuries old competition and
confrontation,
and
the presence of a militant anti-Westernism among some radical Islamic
groups, are cast as the most likely candidates to clash. In an age of
globalization it is impossible to draw lines among civilizations and
cultures. They are bound to co-exist contributing to interdependence
of
faiths and civilizations breakdown of which may result in a total
destruction of "global civilization". Thus the course will examine
the
relationship between Islam and the West from historical, political
and
sociological points of view, and question the myths of conflict to
foster
civilizational/cultural understanding among the peoples of Eastern
Europe
and former Soviet space where Islam and Christianity meet and
interact.

Public Policy
16      Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial
Management
(in co-operation with  the Local Government and Public Service Reform
Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest and the Word Bank
Institute, Washington)     June 29 - July 5
(Distance Learning Segment: April 20 - June 28)
          Course Directors: József Hegedüs, Metropolitan Research
Institute,
Budapest, Hungary, Adrian Ionescu, Local Government and Public
Service
Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary,
and
Serdar Yilmaz, World Bank Institute, Washington, USA
          Resource Persons:
        Alexei Novikov, EA-Rating Ltd., Moscow,
        Russia
        Katalin Pallai, Office of the Mayor of
        Budapest, Hungary
        Nicholas Levrat, University of Geneva,
        Switzerland



This course has been made possible by a generous grant from the Local
Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society
Institute, Budapest and the Word Bank Institute, Washington

          This course offers an analytical framework for understanding
and
implementing fiscal decentralization: improving assignment of
functions
and
responsibilities and the fiscal relations between the central,
regional, and
local governments.
Fiscal decentralization is closely related to the "restructuring of
the
public economy", meaning rethinking the role of the state in
different
sectors, such as social policy, education, housing, communal
services,
etc.
The process of restructuring took much more time than it was
originally
planned. Furthermore, the process involved little if no coordination
at
all
among the sectors, and therefore has not taken into consideration the
effect this may have on fiscal decentralization. In fact sectoral
reform
has often not organized itself along the lines of fiscal
decentralization
principles at all.
The course will start with six distance learning modules introducing
participants to the principles and legal framework of
decentralisation,
expenditure and revenue assignment and intergovernmental transfer.
The one-week workshop style course will include an advanced
discussion
and
analysis through exercises and case studies from the region, in the
following areas:  1) worldwide trends in fiscal decentralization and
the
concept and practice of the assignment of expenditure
responsibilities
and
revenue authority; 2) the design of various forms of central to
sub-national transfers and local own-source revenues;
creditworthiness
and
the financial risks of local authorities; and 3) the emerging topic
of
budgeting and local public management.
Attuned to new teaching techniques, the workshop aims to achieve the
right
mix of exercises, lectures, and interactive learning methods. This
includes
the dissemination of materials prior to the course presentation (in
paper
form and electronically). The course will use distance learning
techniques
to teach the basics, and during the course the group will focus more
on
the
case studies and exercises.
Sociology, Cultural Studies, Political Theory
17      Catastrophes and Globalization  July 14 - July 25
          Course Director: Adi Ophir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
          Resource Persons:
      Dicle Kogacioglu, Columbia University, New
      York, USA
      Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
      Dan Rabinowitz, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
      Renata Salecl, University of Ljubljana,
      Slovenia
      Ronen Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
          The course offers an interdisciplinary approach to
contemporary
catastrophes and their relation to globalization processes.
Contemporary
catastrophes ("complex humanitarian  or political  emergencies") are
multi-dimensional events that transcend national boundaries, defy
traditional ways of containing the rapid dissemination of their
destructive
effects, activate trans-national mechanisms of relief and
intervention,
and
give rise to new forms of political and moral discourse. The course
analyzes catastrophes as a sort of laboratories for the study of
certain
aspects of globalization (global civil society, multi-national
corporations, perceptions of and preparations for environmental
global
disaster), and examines the effect of the latter on the experience
and
representation of catastrophes.
The course is offered to junior faculty and advanced graduate
students
in
the humanities and social sciences, and to NGO's activists with
appropriate
academic background, who are interested in cultural, sociological,
political, and moral aspects of the way contemporary societies cope
with
recent, foreseeable or imaginary catastrophes.
CEU reserves the right to change course offerings at its discretion.


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6.
Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University
>
>http://fbc.binghamton.edu/commentr.htm
>
>Commentary No. 100 - Nov. 1, 2002
>
>"Lula: Hope Conquered Fear"
>
>On Oct. 28, on winning the Brazilian election, Luis Inacio de Silva
>("Lula") told the crowd and the world: "Today, Brazil voted for
change.
>Hope conquered fear." This phrase captures exactly what happened, and
>underlines how remarkable this event is in a world in which,
especially in
>the last year, fear has been conquering hope almost everywhere.
>
>The editor of the Uruguayan paper, Brecha, hailed this election as
"the
>greatest triumph of the Latin American left in all its history," a
>rejection of the "bitter taste of the promises of the gurus of the
free
>market." The reaction of popular forces throughout Latin America has
been
>one of joy and marvel. The reaction of the forces of neoliberalism
and
the
>spirit of Davos has been one of uncertainty as to what to do. They
have
>waffled. They have explained the triumph by the fact that Lula and
his
>party, the Partido dos Trabalhadores (or PT), "moved to the center."
But
>they are not so sure of that, since the political leaders and the
media of
>the north have been making statement after statement, telling Lula
that he
>must move to the center.
>
>The only comparable event in the last decade has been the triumph of
the
>African National Congress in South Africa in 1994. A look at what has
>happened there may give us some understanding of what is happening in
>Brazil. Let me begin with what is comparable in the two situations.
First,
>both represent the triumph of progressive forces, after a very long
>struggle, in the economically most powerful state in its region - a
>triumph that seemed most improbable even a decade before. Indeed, as
>recently as three months ago, most commentators were predicting that
Lula
>would win a plurality in the first round, and be defeated in the
second
>round. Instead he won with 61% of the vote.
>
>In South Africa, the coming to power of the ANC ended the era of
apartheid
>and established majority rule. In Brazil, the coming to power of the
PT
>meant the election of a workers' party in a country in which the
middle
>class had always held the reins of power. In both cases, the vote was
>overwhelming. In both cases, the transition was peaceful and
uncontested
>by the military which, in both countries, had once played a central
(and
>reactionary) political role.
>
>In both cases, this peaceful transition was made possible not merely
by
>popular support for the winning party but by crucial behind-the-
scenes
>discussions with some key sectors of the business world who gave
tacit
or
>even active support to the transition in return for a sort of
guarantee
>that the new government would play by at least some of the world
financial
>rules these business strata thought essential to their survival. In
the
>case of South Africa, eight years later, this deal has held more or
less.
>In the case of Brazil, we may expect the same.
>
>Why was such a deal made? From the point of view of the business
strata,
>the deal was made because a compromise made sense. They feared they
would
>lose considerably in a showdown with a left government, even if
eventually
>they might bring about its downfall. They saw the incoming government
>(ANC, PT) as run by capable, intelligent persons who had popular
support
>and whose efforts at reform, however radical, would be "reasonable."
On
>the part of the incoming popular forces, they knew they were being
elected
>to bring about improvement in the economic situation of ordinary
people,
>and they feared that a radical withdrawal of large business
investment
>from their country would bring about the opposite, and quite
quickly.
For
>both sides, it was a pragmatic arrangement.
>
>The question has been, is today, was it worth it from the point of
view of
>popular forces? Within the ANC and the PT, there were three groups
at
the
>moment of accession to power: a group of pragmatic persons, little
>constrained by ideological commitment, who saw the coming to power
and
the
>staying in power as the primary consideration of their policies; a
second
>group, more committed to the historical ideology of the movement,
but
who
>also saw the necessity of holding the party together if they were to
>achieve even part of their objectives; and a third group, quite
small,
who
>were ready to condemn and oppose any deviation from a traditional
left
>ideology.
>
>It is this second group who walk the narrowest path, and who have the
>greatest difficulty in maintaining their compass and their
influence.
In
>South Africa, this second group has an institutional base in the
so-called
>partners of the ANC, which are the trade-union federation (COSATU)
and
the
>South African Communist Party (SACP). Eight years later, COSATU and
the
>SACP are often publicly critical of the government but remain
supportive
>allies. They have continued to be influential. In Brazil, there is no
>formal equivalent, although the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST) may
play
>that role. In both countries, the third group has been thus far
extremely
>small and relatively inconsequential.
>
>There are of course differences between the two situations. When the
ANC
>came to power in 1994, the world-economy was in a relatively better
shape,
>and the South African government was not burdened with commitments
to
the
>IMF. Furthermore, the struggle against apartheid had a worldwide
resonance
>which made Mandela into a sort of world culture hero. Both the PT
and
Lula
>are less well-known, at least outside Latin America. And while Lula
is
a
>very attractive personality, he may not match the world charisma of
Mandela.
>
>But, on the other hand, Lula and the PT have some other things going
for
>them. Latin America is turning leftward, as can be seen by what has
been
>happening in Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina
among
>other places. There is a new mood sweeping the continent, and it is
the
>mood of the spirit of Porto Alegre. Lula has incarnated that spirit
from
>the beginning, and he is now in a position to back it with the
resources
>and prestige of the Brazilian government.
>
>If some sectors of the Brazilian business strata are backing him, it
is
>not only as a pis aller, but also because they hope he will
reinforce
the
>ability of Brazilian business to stand up to U.S.-controlled
>multinationals. They hope he will reinforce Mercosur and be a force
of
>constructive resistance to the Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA,
or
>ALCA). If the Brazilian military is not unhappy he is elected, it is
>because they stand in strong opposition to the U.S.-backed Plan
Colombia,
>and hope he will help to stem the spread of the violence.
>
>Lula in power is not Sendero Luminoso or the Chinese Cultural
Revolution
>in power. The PT will be a powerful progressive regime in Latin
America's
>most important country, one of the economically consequential
countries in
>the world-system, a force behind which the Latin American left and
>center-left can rally in the years to come. Lula may be quite prudent
>about the financial policies of the Brazilian government. He may
>nonetheless stand as a real barrier to the neoliberal thrust in Latin
>America and the world. Not only has hope conquered fear in Brazil
but
hope
>engenders hope throughout the world. As the world faces the U.S.
invasion
>of Iraq and the consequent chaotic turmoil this will encourage,
Lula's
>election is a sign that we may fight back.
>
>Immanuel Wallerstein
>
>[Copyright by Immanuel Wallerstein. All rights reserved. Permission
is
>granted to download, forward electronically or e-mail to others and
to
>post this text on non-commercial community Internet sites, provided
the
>essay remains intact and the copyright note is displayed. To
translate
>this text, publish it in printed and/or other forms, including
commercial
>Internet sites and excerpts, contact the author at
iwaller@...;
>fax: 1-607-777-4315.
>
>These commentaries, published twice monthly, are intended to be
>reflections on the contemporary world scene, as seen from the
perspective
>not of the immediate headlines but of the long term.]

Becky Dunlop
Secretary, Fernand Braudel Center
http://fbc.binghamton.edu/index.htm

7.
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8.
Subject: Book Review: Bose, Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist
Partition
and International Intervention

Sumantra Bose. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and
International
Intervention. London: Hurst and Company, 2002. viii + 296 pp. Tables,
maps,
notes, bibliography, index. £40.00 (cloth), ISBN 1-85065-645-2;
£15.95
(paper), ISBN 1-85065-585-5.

Reviewed by Stefan Wolff, Department of European Studies, University
of
Bath, England.
Published by H-Diplo (September, 2002)



The Merits and Flaws of "International Statebuilding" in Bosnia

Seven years after the conclusion of the Dayton accords, which brought
the
war in Bosnia to an end, Sumantra
Bose has delivered this fine account analysing not just the process
of
implementing the accords but also examining the wider lessons that
can
be
learned from the Bosnian experience for international intervention
and
the
dynamics of externally driven state and nation-building. Broadly
supportive
of the intentions and outcome of the international community's role
in
Bosnia and fairly optimistic of the long-term success of the Bosnian
experiment, this volume is bound to be received with praise by some
and
criticism by others. This is especially true at a time when the
international community is engaged in another Bosnia-type exercise in
Afghanistan and some are pushing it towards action against Iraq
where,
on
the "day after", similar challenges of rebuilding a state will await
external actors.

To be sure, Bose's book is not about whether any such intervention is
desirable, it is primarily an assessment about whether it is
politically
feasible, that is, whether international intervention can create a
meaningful and workable institutional framework for the
reconstruction
of
an ethnically plural society torn apart by civil war and the gross
human
rights violations that accompanied it. Focusing on the political
dimensions
of the reconstruction project keeps the author's task manageable.
While
some might argue that it leaves out important elements of any post-
war
reconstruction endeavor, (such as rebuilding civil society and
economic
recovery) that are vital for long-term success, I agree with the
general
premise of Bose's work that without negotiating, implementing and
operating
the "right" institutional framework, everything else becomes
meaningless.

Thus, one can read this book also as a quest for an adequate
framework,
or,
more precisely, whether the external imposition of a consociational
institutional structure and its stabilisation (or the effective
containment
of opposition to it) by a massive international military and
administrative
presence is the right approach to rebuilding a war-torn society.
After
contextualising present-day Bosnia in its historical and contemporary
time
and place, Bose examines in great detail how the Dayton state of
Bosnia
came about and how it is structured. This is informative reading,
supplying
the basic facts to those who are not familiar with recent Balkan and
international diplomatic history. What follows is a meso-level
analysis
of
the international intervention process since Dayton, taking the town
of
Mostar as an example. While this is an interesting and informative
analysis, I do not quite agree with Bose's contention that "Mostar
refracts
in a concentrated microcosm practically all the problems Bosnia &
Herzegovina faces in the aftermath of the apocalypse of 1992-5" (p.
146).
With hardly any Serbs left in a town that once held approximately
20,000,
the Mostar situation may be much more indicative of the problems in
the
Croat-Muslim federation, and their likely or unlikely solution.
Admittedly,
the future of Bosnia as a single state hinges, to a significant
degree,
on
the stability of the federation, yet the "Serbian factor" can hardly
be
underestimated. Thus, while Mostar is an interesting case study of
the
institution-building and "unification" dilemmas faced by
international
actors in post-Dayton Bosnia, it is only part of the wider Bosnian
picture.

This wider picture is what Bose turns to in the following two
chapters.
First he places the Bosnia debate in the context of the dispute
between
partitionists and integrationists that has been raging between both
scholars and practitioners for the past decade in relation to (post-)
Yugoslavia. Engaging with advocates of partition like Pape,
Mearsheimer,
Kaufman and van Evera, he argues against partition (which,
unfortunately,
is never clearly defined), primarily on the basis on its human,
economic
and cultural costs. This argument is clear, balanced and
straightforward,
and benefits from a solid comparison with the situation in Kashmir.

In chapter 5, Bose examines the dynamics of democracy in the divided
society of post-Dayton Bosnia and its "range of institutional
technologies
for managing divided societies democratically, in particular an array
of
devices associated with federalism and consociation" (p. 205). I
found
his
analysis of the Bosnian party system and the different techniques of
electoral engineering particularly enlightening as they are relevant
to
many other divided societies and serve as a warning to those who
believe
that creative electioneering can solve all the problems of such
societies.
Following a subsequent analysis of Bosnia's federal/confederal
institutions, Bose concludes that despite its limits and problems,
consociationalism still is the "most viable institutional option" for
Bosnia "short of formal partition, redrawing of boundaries and
exchange
of
populations" (p. 247).

The final chapter, in which Bose draws "lessons from (and for)
international intervention", I found the most problematic. First,
Bose
reverts to Rogers Brubaker's triadic nexus for the explanation of
post-war
Bosnia (p. 260ff.). This is a significant step back from the analysis
up to
this point: Brubaker considers host-state, kin- state and minority as
the
three essential players and has very little to say about
international
actors. While Bose (quoting Mihailo Crnobrnja) acknowledges that the
international community is the "fourth constituent part" of Bosnia
(p.
267), he nevertheless remains trapped within Brubaker's framework
when
claiming "that Bosnia, including the controversies over the
legitimacy
and
the institutional form of its statehood, is best understood through
two
levels of analysis: the local level within Bosnia, and the supra-
state,
regional level which includes but also transcends Bosnia" (p. 277f.,
emphasis in original). Clearly the earlier analysis should have
suggested
adding a third level: the international community in which another
set
of
distinct players is active, again with particular interest and
opportunity
structures that influence, and are influenced by, what happens at the
local
and regional level. Not acknowledging this risks not drawing all the
lessons from the Bosnian experience: it was no accident that a
consociational model was adopted in Bosnia as this reflected best the
interests and convictions of the main players in the international
community.

Other minor flaws in an otherwise valuable book are factual errors or
imprecisions: for example, uti possidetis juris has its origins in
Latin
American decolonisation in the nineteenth century, rather than in
Africa in
the twentieth century (p. 49). There is also what I would consider
inappropriate language: referring to Mearsheimer and Pape, Bose
describes
their proposal for the partition of Bosnia as "sheer, senseless
absurdity"
and continues that "[i]t makes one think that Saadat Hasan Manto was
rather
correct in equating partitionism with dementia" (p. 173f.). Even
though
I
personally disagree with the partitionists as well, I do not think
that
it
is necessary to condemn their point of view in such strong (if not
insulting) terms, as it takes away from the merit of the
anti-partitionist
argument replacing it with rhetoric. By the same token, labelling the
International Crisis Group a "hyper-interventionist think-tank" (p.
218),
at the very least, does not add anything to the substantive argument
on
electoral engineering in the context of which this reference is made.
Finally, I was left somewhat puzzled when Bose announces that "three
key
lessons can be gleaned from the cumulative experience of almost six
years
of intensive international engagement" (p. 274) but then only tells
the
reader two of them (institutions are more important than individuals;
and,
the transparency and accountability of international officials and
institutions is important [pp. 274-6]).

In the wider scheme of things, however, none of this really matters,
but
the author and publisher might want to take account of some of these
points
in a revised and updated edition in a couple of years. My criticisms
are
certainly also not meant to take away from the significant
accomplishment
that Sumantra Bose has made with this book and on which he needs to
be
congratulated. In the breadth and depth of its analysis it will
continue to
be an important contribution to the debate on both the limits and
opportunities of international intervention and the different ways in
which
external actors can assist the processes of state and nation-
building
in
war-torn societies.


Citation: Stefan Wolff . "Review of Sumantra Bose, Bosnia after
Dayton:
Nationalist Partition and International Intervention," H-Diplo, H-Net
Reviews, September, 2002. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/
showrev.cgi?path=106301035219044.

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for =
a
special issue on German orientalism from the eighteenth century to the
present. Omitted from Edward Said's landmark study Orientalism of
1978,
the
influence of German scholarship in and about the Middle East and
South
Asia
remains relatively unexplored. This is particularly the case with
regard to
its reciprocal relationship with the emerging states, national
movements an=
d
scholarly conventions in twentieth-century Germany, Iraq, Iran,
Afghanistan
and India.

From the formation of nineteenth-century disciplines of Oriental
Studies to
the deployment of its knowledge in the territories of the modern
Middle
Eas=
t
and South Asia, German scholarship influenced the development of
Institutional structures, political cultures and scholarly
disciplines;
"Oriental" scholars likewise informed political culture and
scholarship
in
Germany. To explore this dialogic relationship, CSSAAME seeks essays
on
the
disciplines of philology, linguistics, archaeology, philosophy and
history
in Germany, the Middle East and South Asia.

Particular interests include: German explorations and excavations; the
development and deployment of the "Aryan myth" and its influence on
political culture; the changing modalities of nationalism and their
connections to Orientalist scholarship; and the connections between
Nationa=
l
Socialism and state building. How was the ancient past of various
nations o=
f
the Middle East and South Asia "discovered," studied, and made
meaningful
for fin-de-si=E9cle Europe? What did "Aryanism" mean for the
development of
national cultures and state institutions in Germany, the Middle East
and
South Asia?

Please submit abstracts of no more than 1,000 words by December 20,
2002 to=
:
Jennifer Jenkins (jjenkins@...), Department of History
Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1062 One Brookings Dr.
St.
Louis, MO 63130.  Electronic submissions are welcome.

BULLETIN OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE FOR INTER-FAITH STUDIES
(BRIIFS)

Scholars are invited to contribute papers (8,000-12,000 words) for
publication in the Autumn/Winter 2003 issue of the Bulletin of the
Royal
Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (BRIIFS), a peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary journal that appears twice a year.

Originally a centre for the study of Muslim, Christian and Jewish
traditions in the Arab world, the Royal Institute has since widened
its
scope to become a clearing house for knowledge and ideas relating to
culture contact in the broadest sense. While it continues to study
questions of religion and religious diversity, it now does so from an
interdisciplinary perspective, covering all fields of the humanities
and
social sciences that bear on cultural or civilizational interaction.
And
while regional issues remain a particular concern, articles published
in
BRIIFS are by no means confined to the Middle East. (The tables of
contents of all issues of BRIIFS may be viewed at
<www.riifs.org/journal/journal.htm>.)

Papers may be sent to the editors by e-mail attachment at
<briifs@...>. A hard copy may also be sent by post. Each paper
should be accompanied by an abstract (max. 225 words) and a cover
letter
that includes a brief biography. After being screened by the editors,
papers will be anonymously reviewed by two referees and then returned
to
the authors for revision, if necessary, prior to
acceptance/publication.
Please note that all papers will be copy-edited after this point to
conform to BRIIFS style.

Windows users should save attachments as Word 6.0/95; Macintosh
users
should save attachments as Word 5.1 for Mac. Files may also be
submitted
in rich text format (rtf).

Please do not submit papers presently being considered for publication
elsewhere.

Published in Amman, Jordan, BRIIFS features research articles, essays,
notices, book reviews and review articles in English and French. It is
currently in its fourth year of publication. Since it is an
interdisciplinary journal, BRIIFS only publishes technical or highly
specialized material in its special conference issues.

For more information, see our website <www.riifs.org> or contact the
editors, Mona Deeb and Debra Callaghan, directly at
<mona.deeb@...> and <debra.callaghan@...>.


Subject: CfP: Beyond Post-Communist Transition: Reconstruction and
Development in SEE, 7-8.2.2003, Toronto

CALL FOR PAPERS

BEYOND POST-COMMUNIST TRANSITION: RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE

February 7  and 8, 2003
Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto

Over the past decade, the countries of South-Eastern Europe have
undergone
traumatic regime changes, including in some cases wars of secession,
and
profound shifts at the social base. One of the results of these
changes
has
been an unprecedented number of reconstruction initiatives. These
initiatives, both international and domestic, address economic,
social
and
political needs, and indeed in many cases can be understood as
attempts
to
resolve an impasse in development which most of the region has faced
since
the late 1970s.

The Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the Munk Centre
for
International Studies (University of Toronto), will be hosting an
interdisciplinary graduate student conference on the topic of
reconstruction and development. We are interested in papers dealing
with
any of the following three broad issue areas, preferably in a
comparative
manner:

Political and institutional reconstruction  issues of state
consolidation,
nation building, interest representation, problems in functioning of
political institutions, "democratization" initiatives, etc.

Socio-economic development  development viewed from sociological,
anthropological and political-economic perspectives, including issues
of
elite formation and organization, economic policy development,
socio-economic impact of policy choices, international aspects of
development, etc.

Development of civil society  including issues of gender equality and
women's development, media, religion, minority rights, etc.

We will be considering only those papers dealing with the following
countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia
(FYROM), Montenegro, Romania and Serbia (including Kosovo/a).


SUBMISSIONS

This conference is open to graduate and post-doctoral students. Those
wishing to participate should send a CV and a 300 word abstract:

·       as an e-mail attachment in Word 97 or as an .RTF file to
see.reconstruction@...  or
·       by fax to (416) 946-8939 or
·       by mail to :
       Conference on Reconstruction and Development in South-Eastern
Europe
       Centre for Russian and East European Studies
       Munk Centre for International Studies
       University of Toronto
       1 Devonshire Place
       Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K7

Applications should be received by November 22nd, 2002 and selected
panelists will be notified by December 16th, 2002. Each participant
will be
allowed to present on one panel only.

Participants are strongly encouraged to seek funding to cover their
travel
costs. Accommodations will be provided by organizers, subject to
availability.

Subject: Call for Papers: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
A One-Day Student Seminar to Explore the Issues

March 31, 2003

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains one of the most prominent
issues in
world politics today making it an appropriate topic for deep
discussion.  A
one-day seminar will be held at the University of Lodz on Monday,
March
31,
2003, to examine the history and contemporary issues of the
conflict.
An
opening lecture will cover the history and historical background of
the conflict from its earliest origins to the present day.  Students
are
invited to present papers on detailed aspects of the conflict.
Papers
from a
variety of disciplines including but not limited to Politics,
International Relations, History, Sociology, Media Studies,
Linguistics,
Religion, and other disciplines are welcome.  Papers on topics
including but
not limited to: media coverage of the events in the Middle East,
Terrorism,
Jewish Settlers, Arab-Israeli Wars, Palestinian Refugees, Specific
issues of
Middle East Politics, the role of the United States, UN, Arab
Nations,
the EU
or other members of the World Community in the conflict and
conflict resolution, and proposal for peace are all welcome.

The Seminar will be conducted in English.

Students wishing to present a paper at the seminar are invited to
submit a
one-page paper proposal along with a CV and a coversheet with the
applicant's
name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, home University,
Faculty and
Department.  Proposals which are due by December 15, 2002, and any
questions
should be sent to:

Helene Sinnreich
Department of American Studies and Mass Media
University of Lodz
Ul. Skladowa 41/43
90-127 Lodz, POLAND
another_idea@...

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
will
hold
its Eighteenth Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference on
May
9-10,
2003.

The Conference provides a forum for graduate students and faculty in
the
humanities and social sciences to present papers related to Middle
Eastern and
Central Asian culture, art/architecture, literature, society, history
and
politics. Graduate students are particularly urged to participate.
Both
individual papers and pre-arranged panels can be accommodated.

Participants wishing to present a paper are asked to submit a one-page
abstract and a CV by March 1, 2003. Working papers must be received
by
April
15, 2003. Please specify if audio/visual facilities are needed when
submitting
papers to:

Middle East History and Theory Conference
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL, 60637
Tel: 1-773-702 8297
Fax: 1-773-702 2587

For last year's conference program and activities, see our web page at
cas.uchicago.edu/meht. Further information can be obtained from the
above address or by contacting:

Patrick G. Wing
pgwing@...
Tel: 1-773-363 0901
Or
Kaveh Hemmat
kavehhemmat@...

CALL FOR PAPERS
Mediterranean Studies Association Congress, Budapest, May 2003 -
550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople

The Mediterranean Studies Association's 6th annual International
Congress, "Central Europe and the Mediterranean" will be held on May
28-31,
2003 at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. 2003
will
commemorate the 550th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople,
marking the
end of Byzantium and the beginning of Stambul. Sessions devoted to
this
anniversary are especially welcome. As is the case each year, papers
and
sessions on all subjects relating to the Mediterranean region and
Mediterranean cultures around the world from all periods are
encouraged.
Following a day of optional excursions the congress will open with a
plenary
session and reception on the evening of May 28.

Over the course of the next days over 150 scholarly papers will be
delivered
before an international audience of about 250 scholars, academics,
and
experts
in a wide range of fields. Held in the center of Budapest at the
Central
European University, the official language of the congress is
English.
In
addition, complete sessions in any Mediterranean language are
welcome.
A
number of special events are being planned for congress participants
that will
highlight the unique cultural aspects of Budapest. The congress is
sponsored
by the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Central European
University, the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Arizona State University, and
the
University of Kansas.  Selected revised papers will be considered for
publication in the Association's journal, Mediterranean Studies. The
Mediterranean Studies Association is an interdisciplinary
organization
which
promotes the scholarly study of Mediterranean cultures in all aspects
and
disciplines. It is particularly concerned with the ideas and ideals of
western Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the
Enlightenment
and
their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries.

Proposals for papers and sessions are now being solicited. Papers and
proposals for sessions are encouraged which focus on the conference
theme, but
any paper or session proposal with a Mediterranean theme, from any
period and
any discipline, will be considered. Proposals for roundtable
discussions of a
topical work or theme are also welcome. The typical panel will
include
three
papers, each lasting twenty minutes, a chair, and (optionally) a
commentator.
For examples of paper and session topics, and the range of subjects,
see the
programs from Lisbon (1998), Coimbra (1999), Salvador (2000),
Aix-en-Provence
(2001), and Granada (2002).

Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a
one-page curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and
commentators. Each participant's name, e-mail and regular address,
and
phone
number should also be listed. Proposals are now being solicited for
the
first round of consideration. The deadline for submissions is
December
1,
2002, though proposals will be considered after that date.

Please send proposals to the address below. For information on the
congress or
the Association see our website or contact us via e-mail.

Mediterranean Studies Association
P.O. Box 212
East Sandwich, MA 02537
USA
Email: msa@...
Visit the website at http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org

CALL FOR PAPERS:
THE COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

The Columbia Journal of Historiography is an annual international
forum
for new and innovative research in the history, philosophy, and impact
of
historical scholarship. We welcome submissions from all branches of
the
social sciences and humanities, and from all subfields of history,
that
will contribute to a lively critical debate on the meaning of history
and
historical scholarship.

We seek the following contributions:

1. Research articles on the history of historical scholarship.
2. Topical review essays evaluating recent scholarship.
3. Book reviews.

We encourage graduate student submissions.
For submission guidelines, editorial information, and contact details,
go
to:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/gha/cjh/

4th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting (Florence, 19-
23
March 2003).

Full Participant
Full participants proposed to present a paper (deadline was 17 July
2002)
and were selected by the workshop directors.
Call for Papers for workshop 8 Reconceptualizing Public Spheres in
the MENA
Region: New Publics and Spaces of Contestation
Deadline: 30 November 2002.
For further information:
http://www.iue.it/RSC/MED/meeting2003/Welcome.html#workshops

Listening Participant
Listening Participants do not present a paper but will be able to
attend
workshops.
Deadline: 15 February 2003
email: medmeeting.2003@...
For further information:
http://www.iue.it/RSC/MED/meeting2003/Welcome.html#listen

Fifth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting (Florence,
24 - 28
March, 2004.)
Call to Run a Workshop
Deadline: 6 January 2003
Scholars are warmly invited to send applications to run a workshop.
For
further information please see:
http://www.iue.it/RSC/MED/meeting2004/Welcome.html

Best regards,

Lotta Svantesson
Mediterranean Programme
Tel.: +39-055-4685.785, Fax: +39-055-4685.770
E-mail: medmeet@... - http://www.iue.it/RSC/MED
Mediterranean Programme - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini, 9 - 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy
From: Alissa Tolstokorova uisr@...

Dear colleagues!

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the international
conference
"Gender Mainstreaming in the Period of Social and Economic
Transformations",
hosted by the State Committee of Ukraine for Family and Youth Issues,
the
State Institute for Family and Youth Issues and the Ukrainian
Institute
for
Social Research.

The conference will be held on December 5-7, 2002.
(December 5-6, 2002 - working days and December 7, 2002 - departure
day)
The conference committee is looking for presentations relating to
various
aspects of Gender Theory, in particular:

- gender and legislation;
- gender approach to labor forces
- gender in the system of economic relations;
- gender stereotypes and gender roles transformations in transitional
society;
   process of gender identification and gender socialization;
- gender relations in private life.

Interdisciplinary papers are more then welcome.

The conference languages are Ukrainian, Russian and English.
Travel expenses and accommodation arrangements will be covered by the
conference committee. Conference submissions will be published. Those
selected for participation will be informed mid November.

Deadline for submissions is October 25, 2002.

Please send your submissions (up to 2 pages, Microsoft Word, Times New
Roman, 12 pt, double spaced)
to Alissa Tolstokorova
uisr@...
tel.:/ fax (38-044) 568-50-98
Gender Studies Center
Ukrainian Institute for Social Research
52 Dehtyarivska str., 5th floor
Kiev 04112, Ukraine

2.
Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: Fellowships: National Council for Research
on Women
          Rockefeller Humanities Grant

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

National Council for Research on Women Receives Rockefeller
Humanities
Grant

The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) and the Center for
the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) at the CUNY Graduate Center have
received a three-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities
Fellowship Program to explore the intersections of globalization,
citizenship, human rights, gender, and agency. Directors of the
program
are
Linda Basch, Executive Director of NCRW; Patricia Clough, Director of
CSWS,
and Kristen Timothy, NCRW Senior Research Scholar.

PROGRAM TOPIC

The program: Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered
Critique, will examine what constitutes a human security framework at
this
historic moment, and the ways such a framework can shape policy
priorities
and address the challenges women and girls face under globalizing
conditions
in different parts of the world. The program will also explore ways
that
activists can use a human security framework to lobby for women's
rights; to
end sex discrimination and violence; and for better living conditions
for
women and girls.

ACTIVITIES & RESOURCES FOR FELLOWS

Beginning in September 2002, and over the course of two years, four
to
six
resident Fellows will have the opportunity to examine in depth their
own
experiences through research, study, and interaction with other
scholars,
activists, and policymakers. They will participate in a biweekly
interdisciplinary seminar (in English in New York City) with other
academics, policymakers and activists as well as other meetings and
various
site visits to NCRW member centers, NGOs, and UN agencies. Fellows
will
present their analyses and work to the seminar and in other public
forums.
It is anticipated that this work will be published by NCRW and CSWS.
Fellows
will have access to the resources of the National Council for
Research
on
Women (NCRW) and the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS).

APPLICATIONS

Applications for the fellowships are encouraged from scholars, and
those
with activist and policy experience, from Africa, Asia, North and
South
America, and Europe. Applicants should have completed their PhD or
have
equivalent qualifications. Applications for the second year of the
fellowships are due by 31 January 2003.

Application Form
http://www.ncrw.org/initiatives/rockefeller_application_form.html



Subject: Fellowships for threatened scholars
Call for candidates
Fellowships for threatened scholars

The Institute of International Education (IIE), Open Society
Institute, and the Scholars at Risk Network announce the autumn
application cycle for fellowships from IIE Scholar Rescue Fund,
supporting scholars who are threatened by violations of their
fundamental human rights including threats caused by
displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment,
intimidation, or violence.

The Scholar Rescue Fund provides partial fellowships to
universities and colleges willing to host temporary visits by
scholars threatened in their home country or region.
Universities and colleges in any country may serve as hosts.
Academics, researchers, and independent scholars from any
country, field or discipline may qualify for support.
Applications for support of female scholars and scholars who are
members of ethnic, racial, cultural or religious minority
groups, or those otherwise underrepresented in their field, are
strongly encouraged.

Although the Fund invites applications from individual scholars,
it does not provide awards directly to individuals.  Fellowships
are awarded to host institutions for support of specific
individuals.  The final award amount will depend upon available
funds, needs of the scholar, costs of living, and duration of
the visit. The host institution or other source must contribute
additional support (generally in the form of a stipend, salary
or other direct funding for the candidate, although in-kind
contributions in the form of housing, airfare, maintenance, meal
programs, or tuition support will also be considered).  For this
reason, candidates are strongly encouraged--but not required--to
apply jointly with a university or college that has agreed to
host the visit and to provide the necessary matching funds.  The
Fund, through Scholars at Risk, will work to match suitable
candidates with institutions interested in hosting a scholar.

For application procedure and deadlines, please see:
http://scholarsatrisk.uchicago.edu/IIESRF.htm

Direct applications and inquiries to:
Robert Quinn, E-mail:  rquinn@...
Scholars at Risk Network
5828 South University Ave., Pick 124
Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Tel:  1-773-834-4408, Fax: 1-773-702-9286

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: Research Associateships (Five College
Women's
          Studies Research Center)

H-Gender-MidEast
***************


  FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

  FIVE COLLEGE WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER
  A collaborative project of Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and
  Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

  The Center invites applications for its Research Associateships for
  2003-2004 from scholars and teachers at all levels of the educational
  system, as well as from artists, community organizers and political
  activists, both local and international. Associates are provided with
  offices in our spacious facility, computer access, library
privileges,
  and the collegiality of a diverse community of feminists. Research
  Associate applications are accepted for either a semester or the
academic
  year. The Center supports projects in all disciplines so long as they
  focus centrally on women or gender. Research Associateships are
  non-stipendiary. However, international applicants may apply for one
of
  the two special one-semester Ford Associateships for Fall 2003 or
Spring
  2004, which offer a stipend of $12,000, plus a $3,000 housing/travel
  allowance in return for teaching (in English) one undergraduate
  women's studies course at Smith College.  Ford applicants' research
  should focus  on how the economics of globalization regulate gender,
race,
ethnicity, nationality, class, and sexuality in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet bloc, or Asia.
We
are
  searching for two Ford Associate positions. For one position
preference
  will be given to those whose work focuses on sexuality in a global
  context, including sex work, global sex trafficking, health issues,
  international gay and lesbian activism and advocacy for sexual
  minorities. For the second position, preference will be given to
those
  whose work focuses on cultural production and resistance, including
  political performance, the transformation and use of international
media,
  and new technologies. Ford applicants need not be studying their own
  region of origin.

  Applicants for both programs should submit a project proposal (up to
4
  pages), curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, and application
cover
  sheet. In addition, Ford applicants should submit a two-page
description
  of a women's studies course they are prepared to teach, which
includes
  their pedagogical goals and techniques.

  Submit all applications to:
  Five College Women's Studies Research Center
  Mount Holyoke College
  50 College Street
  South Hadley, MA 01075-6406

  Deadline is February 10, 2003

  For further information
  contact the Center at
  TEL 413.538.2275
  FAX 413.538.3121
  email fcwsrc@...
  website: http://wscenter.hampshire.edu/



3.

SÝYASÝ ÝLÝMLER TÜRK DERNEÐÝ
ÝSTANBUL BÝLGÝ ÜNÝVERSÝTESÝ
Ýnönü Caddesi, No: 28
Kuþtepe 80310 Þiþli/ÝSTANBUL
0 (212) 216 22 22 (532)

TURKISH POLITICAL SCIENCE 		 ASSOCIATION
TURQUE DES
ASSOCIATION 				      SCIENCES
POLITIQUES

TÜRKÝSCHE VEREÝNÝGUNG
FÜR POLÝTÝSCHE WÝSSENSCHAFTEN





Siyasi Ýlimler Türk Derneði'nin
Türkiye Bankalar Birliði'nin katkýlarýyla düzenlediði
"3 Kasým 2002 Seçimleri Sonrasý Türkiye"
baþlýklý paneli onurlandýrmanýzý dileriz.



Katýlýmcýlar ve Program

1 "Seçmen Davranýþlarý" - Prof. Dr. Yýlmaz Esmer, Boðaziçi
Üniversitesi
2 "Seçim Sonuçlarý ve Ýç Siyaset Üzerindeki Etkileri" - Prof.
Dr. Ýlter Turan, Ýstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
3 "Seçim Sonuçlarýnýn Dýþ Siyaset Üzerindeki Etkileri" - Doç.
Dr. Gün Kut, Boðaziçi Üniversitesi
4 "Seçim Sonuçlarýnýn Türk Ekonomisi Üzerindeki Etkileri" -
Prof. Dr. Taner Berksoy, Ýstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi


Yer: Ýstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Dolapdere Yerleþkesi Büyük Salon 1

Tarih ve Saat: 8 Kasým Cuma, saat 17.00


▪ Panel NTV'de canlý olarak yayýnlanacaktýr.
▪ Üniversitenin otoparký bulunmaktadýr.


Siyasi Ýlimler Türk Derneði


Yrd. Doç. Dr. Murat Borovalý
Genel Sekreter

4.
The following 22 reviews were posted to the H-Net web site between
14 Oct 2002 and 21 Oct 2002.

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Charlotte Schubert
     Jenifer Neils.  _The Parthenon frieze_.  Cambridge: Cambridge
     University Press, 2001.  Xix + 294 S.  EUR 70, ISBN 0-521-64161-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D9741034663407

Reviewed for H-Soa-u-Kult by Wilfried Hartman
     Ian S. Robinson.  _Bertholds und Bernolds Chroniken.  Lateinisch-
     deutsch_.  Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002.
     Vii + 453 S.  EUR 69, ISBN 3-534-01428-6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D9821034663419

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Kimberly Luke
     David Wetzel.  _A Duel of Giants:  Bismarck, Napoleon III, and=20
     the Origins of the Franco-Prussian War_.  Madison: University of
     Wisconsin Press, 2001.  xvi + 244 pp.  $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-299-
     17490-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D119331034668130

Reviewed for H-Women by Seija Jalagin
     Karen Kelsky.  _Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western
     Dreams_.  Durham,  N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 2001.
     294 pp.  $54.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8223-2805-4; 18.95 (paper), ISBN
     0-8223-2816-X.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D138741034668942

Reviewed for H-USA by Raj Jethwa
     Robert A. Caro.  _Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon
     Johnson_.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.  xxiv + 1167 pp.
     $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-394-52836-0.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D146171034669256

Reviewed for H-ArtHist by Andreas Haug
     Ken Friedman, Hrsg.  _The Fluxus Reader_.  Chichester and=20
     New York: Academy Editions, 1998.  X + 309 S.  EUR 55, ISBN 0-
     471-97858-2.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D140791034790613

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Gregor Hufenreuter
     Stefanie von Schnurbein and Justus Ulbricht, Hrsg.  _V=F6lkische
     Religion und Krisen der Moderne. Entw=FCrfe "arteigener"
     Glaubenssysteme seit der Jahrhundertwende_.  W=FCrzburg:
     K=F6nigshausen & Neumann, 2001.  447 S.  DM 98, ISBN 3-8260-2160-
6.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D140981034790630

Reviewed for H-Soz-u-Kult by Alexander N=FCtzenadel
     Rolf Petri.  _Von der Autarkie zum Wirtschaftswunder.
     Wirtschaftspolitik und industrieller Wandel in Italien 1935-1963_.
     T=FCbingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.  534 S.  EUR 78, ISBN 3-484-
     82096-9.
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     Susanna Burghartz und Christa H=E4mmerle, Hrsg.  _Soldaten. Heft
     1/12 von L`Homme. Zeitschrift f=FCr Feministische
     Geschichtswissenschaft_.  Wien: B=F6hlau Verlag, 2001.  224 S.
EUR
     18, ISBN 1016-362X.
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     Frank Caestecker.  _Alien Policy in Belgium, 1840-1940. The
     Creation of Guest Workers, Refugees, and Illegal Aliens_. =20
     New York und Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000.  Xxii + 330 S.
=A347,=20
     ISBN 1-57181-986-X.
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Reviewed for H-Albion by Cyndia Susan Clegg
     Dorothy Auchter.  _Dictionary of Literary and Dramatic Censorship
     in Tudor and Stuart England_.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
     2001.  ix + 403 pp.  $91.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-313-31114-5.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3D180211034792068

Reviewed for H-Women by Jodi Barnes
     Sarah Milledge Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon.  _In Pursuit of
     Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches_.  Walnut Creek:
     AltaMira Press, 2001.  x + 433 pp.  $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-7591.
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     Alfredo Lopez Austin and Leonardo Lopez Lujan.  _Mexico's
     Indigenous Past_.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
     xvi + 368 pp.  $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8061-3214-0.
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     Pauline Stafford and Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, eds.  _Gendering the
     Middle Ages_.  Oxford, U.K. and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2001.
     vi + 244 pp.  $29.95 (paper), ISBN 0-631-22651-6.
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     R. J. Crampton.  _The Balkans since the Second World War_.  London
     and New York: Longman, 2002.  xxxiv + 374 pp.  $22.00 (paper),
     ISBN 0-582-24883-3.
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     Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers_.  Bristol: Thoemmes
     Press, 2002.  xxviii + 1280 pp.  =A3350.00/$525.00 (cloth), ISBN
1-
     85506-955-5.
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     Series. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.  xvi
     + 273 pp.  $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8018-6618-9.
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     Holy City_.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
     xix + 440 pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-300-09164-8.
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     Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930_.  Chapel Hill:
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     (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2642-1; $18.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8078-4971-5.
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     Hector C. Bywater.  _The Great Pacific War: A History of the
     American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-1933, Vol. 1_.  Bedford, Mass.:
     Applewood Books, 2002.  vii + 317 pp.  $15.95 (paper), ISBN 1-
     55709-557-4.
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     Lester W. J. Seifert.  _A Word Atlas of Pennsylvania German_.
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     Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2001.
     viii + 121 pp.  $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-924119-02-0.
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     Mark Lawrence Kornbluh.  _Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline
     of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American
     Politics_.  New York: New York University Press, 2000.  xv + 243
     pp.  $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-814704708-6.
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Subject: H-Gender-MidEast Book Review: Flieschmann on Bell, _The
Desert
and ,
          the Sown_

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Gender-MidEast@... (October 2002)

Gertrude Bell. _The Desert and the Sown: The Syrian Adventures of the
Female Lawrence of Arabia_. New introduction by Rosemary O'Brien.  New
York: Cooper Square Press, 2001.  x + 347 pp.  Illustrations, notes,
and
index. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-8154-1135-9.

Reviewed for H-Gender-MidEast by Ellen Fleischmann
<Ellen.Fleischmann@...>, Department of History,
University
of Dayton

Chronicle of a Long Journey: Gertrude Bell in Syria

This re-publication of Gertrude Bell's 1907 book, originally entitled
simply and economically, _Syria_, chronicles her seemingly meandering
journey through the desert and countryside of Palestine, Jordan and
Syria
in the winter of 1906.  Gertrude Bell, as noted in the new
introduction
by
Rosemary O'Brien, was an extraordinary Englishwoman who ended up
being
the
"first and only woman administrator to be taken into the British
imperial
service as Oriental Secretary" (p. vi).  Born in 1868 and educated at
Oxford, the wealthy Bell traveled extensively throughout the Middle
East
in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, writing about
her
various experiences and adventures (including a temporary
imprisonment
in
a harem in what is now Saudi Arabia on the eve of World War I), in the
process becoming well-acquainted with the Arabic language, Arabic
poetry,
archeology, and, one might add, how to travel well in the area.

As O'Brien notes, "she had a talent for travel--the sort of person
who
not
only responds to fresh discoveries but speculates on their meaning"
(p.
vii), something which is borne out in the subsequent text. Eventually,
this somewhat mystifyingly meandering existence led to her becoming a
government official in Iraq during World War I, upon the
recommendation
of
T. E.  Lawrence.  From November 1915 until her death by suicide or
accident in 1926, she was based in Iraq, where she initially served as
intelligence liaison between Cairo and the British Expeditionary
Force
in
Basra during the war.

The starting point of the journey upon which this book is based is
Jerusalem; the end point is Alexandretta.  Along the way she visits
Jericho ("an unromantic village of ramshackle hotels and huts" [p.
10]),
Salt, Madaba, Homs, Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, Baalbek, and numerous
sites
of
antiquities, as well as countless villages and encampments en route.
This
leads the reader to immediately confront a major deficiency of this
new
edition, namely the absence of a map of her route, which seems to
follow
no particular plan or, at least, not one that is explained.  (In the
publication information the deletion of "one map" is noted. This is
most
regrettable.)

Nor does Bell ever explain exactly why she has embarked on this
journey.
O'Brien claims that the "_real_ purpose" of travel "was a personal
affirmation outside the narrow confines of one's normal life.  Travel
literature ultimately was about the traveler" (p. ix). This may be
true,
especially for the other Victorian era women travelers with whom
O'Brien
claims Bell shares a "genre" and themes of "imperial travel
narration"
(p.
viii). However, in the case of Bell, motives and the sense of this
traveler's self are ultimately somewhat of a mystery; personal
information
about Bell is singularly lacking. Underlying any emotional expression
in
this book (of which there is little) is a constant tone of ironic
detachment, which results in a somewhat muted personality.  Indeed,
this
is one of many ways in which this book defies the genre.

This ostensibly objective persona seems carefully constructed.
Particularly striking in this regard is Bell's curious attitude (or
lack
thereof) toward gender and her fellow women. She herself is curiously
un-gendered.  She pays scant attention to women, other than to make
remarks on their beauty or lack thereof, or to engage in discussions
with
men on subjects such as "the usual price paid for a wife" (p. 253) as
though she were an honorary man.  One cannot help but wonder how a
woman
achieved this status in the sexually segregated societies through
which
she moved.  It raises intriguing and unanswered questions about her.

Bell writes in exhaustive and (sometimes tedious) detail about all
other
aspects of her journey: she depicts every tomb, building, temple,
sarcophagus and column she visits, musing upon their origins and
date;
she
describes landscapes, flora and fauna; and she provides often
penetrating
and vivid portraits of the humans she encounters.  In part travelogue,
commentary, anthropology, archeology, and geography, this book is
difficult to neatly categorize. Bell is an astute observer about any
and
everything she encounters on her travels:  the best way to defuse a
blood
feud, the relationships between the Ottoman government and "the many
races" it governs (p, 238), the eating habits of the Arabs, the loss
of
"good manners" and unwelcome "familiarity of address" acquired by
Syrian
immigrants returned from the United States (p. 211), or the qualities
of
an Arab tent and how to pitch it.

For the historian, she is a fascinating firsthand commentator on the
historical developments she was witnessing and their figures; she is
on
first name terms with characters such as Shakib al-Arslan, and the
(Algerian) 'Abd al-Qadirs, not to mention she hobnobs with less
famous
but
notable figures such as various qaimmaqams, qadis, and other Ottoman
officials. [This is her description of Shakib al-Arslan: "a man of
education and ... experience of the world" whose "views on Turkish
politics were worth hearing." She expresses the desire "that the
enemies
of Turkey could hear and would deeply ponder the point of view of
intelligent and well-informed subjects of the Ottoman Empire" (pp.
151-152).] On another level, she logs long hours at the fireside of
many
lower status, yet equally or more fascinating, people such as local
village or Bedouin chiefs.

Her character portraits include both the high and mighty and the
lowly
and
humble, including prisoners and slaves.  One striking quality all
have
in
common is their generosity toward her.  One could almost conclude from
this account that Bell never had to buy herself a meal. Almost
everywhere
she travels, she is provided with food and shelter as an honored
guest.

Bell is ultimately a fascinating, elusive character.  Like Lawrence,
to
whom she is explicitly compared in the re-named title, she is an
ambiguous
partisan of the Arabs, whom she both admires and condescends to. This
partisanship, like Lawrence's, was limited, however.  Bell and her
fellow
British colonial officers categorized Arabs of different religious
backgrounds as separate "races," repeating gross generalizations about
"the Oriental," and unself-consciously and openly expressing
"aversions"
to whole groups of people. (She did not like Circassians, for example,
while preferring the Druze.)  Yet one cannot dismiss her out of hand
as
merely a racist orientalist, for what comes through in this narrative
is
ultimately a deep love for, and appreciation of, (some) Arabs as a
people
and Arabic culture, albeit on her own imperialistic and condescending
terms.  Her attitudes are complex.  She is an unapologetic
imperialist,
and although shrewd in analyzing and discussing Ottoman imperialism,
is
uncritical and nationalistic to the extent that it undermines one's
opinion of _her_ (political) judgment.

It is not worthy of her to compare her to Lawrence. She did not seek
the
limelight or a grandiose role for herself (at least as revealed in
this
book).  One of her more attractive personality traits that manages to
shine through in this narrative is a certain self-deprecation and
understated humor. While touring a monastery, she remarks, "In the
western
wall of the monastery I was shown a door so narrow between the jambs
that
it is scarcely possible to squeeze through them, impossible, said the
monks, for any one except he be pure of heart.  I did not risk my
reputation by attempting to force the passage" (p. 210).

The book is a gold mine for geographers or historical ecologists (if
that
is a field). Bell exhaustively and lovingly documents the glorious
landscape of Greater Syria as it was and never will be again. The
photographs are quite interesting, albeit of uneven quality, and
anyone
who is intimately familiar with the various locales and sites she
describes will be quite captivated recognizing the places, as well as
realizing how much they have changed.  However, this is not an easy
read,
nor is it easy to determine its precise place as literature or its
utility
as, say, a teaching tool. It is almost more a catalogue _cum_ melange
of
disjointed stories in many respects than a coherent narrative. It is
overly long and often boring in its minutiae and apparent lack of
recognizable structure.

For researchers it is a rich source of information, albeit, like any
source, must be taken with full recognition of its limitations in
interpretation, and attitude of its author.  Unfortunately, the
introduction does not provide full answers to many questions about
Bell
and her personal life, such as why she took this journey (and why at
that
particular time), and what her aim was; rather, O'Brien highlights
certain
aspects of the book when one would prefer more about the author.  The
reader ends up feeling a bit wistful (as well as a bit tired),
wanting
to
know more _about_ this fascinating woman, and indeed, wanting to know
the
woman herself.

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Subject: Book Review: Mocnik on Crampton, The Balkans since the
Second
World War

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Diplo@... (September, 2002)

R. J. Crampton. _The Balkans since the Second World War_. London and
New York: Longman, 2002. xxxiv + 374 pp. Tables, maps, notes,
bibliography, index. $22.00 (paper), ISBN 0-582-24883-3.

Reviewed for H-Diplo by Joe Mocnik <jmocnik@...>,
Department of History, Bowling Green State University

A Survey of Post-1945 Balkan History

It is anything but easy to write a single-volume history of Albania,
Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and "the territories which between 1944
and 1992 made up the [Socialist] Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (p.
xiv).  The people of this south-eastern European region on the
mountainous Balkan Peninsula have exceptionally diverse heritage in
virtually every aspect of life including culture, economy, politics
and religion.  The region has a rich history of initiating and
participating in local and global conflicts.  The Great Schism of
1054 between Rome (Western, Catholic)  and Constantinople (Eastern,
Orthodox) divided the population's spiritual allegiances and created
artificial differences that were for centuries habitually exploited
by belligerent rulers on both sides.  Since the Middle Ages the
Balkans served as the bulwark of western civilization against the
Ottoman Empire and the Islam.  In the modern times, the region
became infamous for providing an immediate cause for the First World
War.  The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to
the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Serbian radicals detonated the
explosive international situation. During the Cold war the "iron
curtain" arbitrarily separated all Balkan countries, except Greece,
from the rest of Europe and the democratic world in general.
Following the collapse of communism, the region dominated the
headlines once again during the last decade of the twentieth century
because of the bloody dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, which
destabilized the region and brought the horrors of ethnic cleansing
and [un]civil war back to Europe.

Professor R. J. Crampton, a prominent historian who teaches East
European history at the University of Oxford, starts this survey of
the post-Second World War Balkan history by focusing on the problem
of terminology.  It is important to define terminology when dealing
with this region because virtually nobody who lives there wants to
be associated with the term "Balkan."  This is so not only because
of the stigma attached to the term, that the Balkan states are often
characterized by mutual hostilities, but each nation claims to have
individual unique reasons as well.  The Slovenes and Croats
emphasize their historic ties with Austria and the western
tradition; the Rumanians stress their regional linguistic uniqueness
that ties their nation together with the French; and the Greeks have
never considered themselves to be a proper Balkan nation because of
their Mediterranean orientation and because of the impressive
historical tradition that dates far back in time before anyone had
ever heard of Balkanization.  The Albanians, Macedonians, Serbs as
well as some other groups of people stress their particular
uniqueness and do not consider themselves to be small and mutually
hostile Balkan units, as the world often characterizes them.  This
may be particularly true for the Muslims living in the region who
are the remnants of the Turks and consider themselves to be a part
of the universal Muslim community.  Thus, the Bulgarians may be the
only Balkan nation which does not openly dispute its association
with the term.

Although the author, whose expertise is the history of Bulgaria,
tries to devote equal attention to all countries in question, one
should not discredit Crampton's book for his strong bias towards the
former Yugoslavia.  Each of the three parts of the book--covering
the period before 1949, the Cold War, and the post-communist era,
respectively--starts with the examination of Yugoslavia. Altogether
more than 120 pages--one third of the book--is solely devoted to
Yugoslav history and politics.  Crampton justifies his
disproportionate coverage by arguing that Yugoslavia dominated the
region: Yugoslavia "had the major impact on the peninsula as a whole
... [since] Albania feared Yugoslav expansionism ... Romanian
aspirations to greater freedom from the Soviet bloc were much
encouraged by the Yugoslav example, while Bulgaria found its safety
and protection in becoming the only fully pro-Soviet state in the
area" (p.  xvii).  Even Greece, the one that got away from
communism, paid close attention to what was happening at its
northern border.  Consequently, the reader is endowed with an
impression of Yugoslav relative regional importance that may not be
too far from the actual reality for the given period.  Despite its
comparatively small size, Yugoslavia during the Tito era commanded a
respect of both superpowers like few other communist or non-aligned
states in the world. Perhaps for the same reason the international
community was so slow in acknowledging the imminent dissolution of
Yugoslavia once Serbian nationalism brought into question the
country's fragile unity.

The book is skillfully written, the argument is easy to follow and
the language is jargon-free.  The bibliography is not comprehensive
but it lists some of the most important readings on the topic.
Crampton demonstrates great skill, knowledge and objectivity in
dealing with complex topics.  For instance, he explains how
communism came to power in particular states (in all except Greece),
what methods were used to keep it there, and how it eventually
collapsed.  Though space does not permit him to provide a detailed
examination of all significant events and developments in each
country, the ones that he deals with are satisfactorily discussed.
In the second chapter, for example, the author spends ample time
discussing the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, which had critical
ramifications for international relations and the overall course of
the Cold War in Europe.  This event meant that Yugoslavia had to
find a unique path "which retained the essentials of socialism but
avoided reliance upon the Soviet Union and its minions" (p. 37).

Particularly refreshing is the author's focus on social trends and
his ensuing conclusions.  He correctly argues that in the 1940s the
middle class was considerably weaker in the Balkan states than in
other European countries.  The peasantry, the relatively small
industrial working class and the disunited intelligentsia lacked
international support, and were thus too weak to oppose communist
claim to power. Therefore, active international involvement, or lack
of it, proved to be crucial.  Greek communists would have won the
civil war in 1949, making the whole Balkan Peninsula red, had it not
been for the overt and timely American and British support.
Therefore, in the same way as "the cocoon of the EU and NATO"
insulated Greece in the post-war period from the problems that other
Balkan states experienced, the continued international support will
prevent the infant Balkan democracies from "feeling forsaken" by the
west (p. 345).  Active and timely involvement of the international
community will prevent future destructions on the scale the former
Yugoslavia experienced in the last decade of the twentieth century.
This is not to say that the Balkan stability exclusively depends on
the external involvement, but there will be no stable and prosperous
Balkan without it.

One has to commend Crampton for the consistent transliteration, one
that includes the original diacritical marks.  This is usually a
minefield for any non-native scholar but in this book spelling
mistakes are rare and do not distract the reader or undermine the
overall value of the work. Thus, even a reader who is relatively
unfamiliar with the complexities of the subject should with ease
trace the important characters and their contributions to the
regional and global developments.

Crampton's book lives up to its initial goal of providing "an
introduction to the political evolution of an area which has seldom
been out of the headlines in the last dozen or more years" (p. xvi).
The crisp, textbook-like style makes this book a useful preliminary
reading for any student of Balkan history.  The local politicians as
well as the general public may also want to consult it in order not
to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

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5.
Diyalektiðe övgü

Þu adýmbaþý zulüm ortamýnda
Her egemen yeni sömürü peþinde.
Þiddet tek güvence.Düzen deðiþmesin!
Haksýzlýklara karþý çýt çýkmýyor ortalýkta
Ama ezilenleri dinlerseniz,derler ki:
"Dileðimiz gerçekleþemez hiçbir zaman…"
Oysa,yaþam sürüyorsa,dememeli "hiçbir zaman"
Hiçbir zaman kesin deðildir kesin sanýlan.
Hiçbir þey nasýlsa öylece kalamaz,birgün
Buyruktakiler baþlayacaktýr buyurmaya.
Öyleyse kim diyebilir "hiçbir zaman"
Zulüm sürüp gidiyorsa kimin yüzünden : Bizim!
Bir gün kimin yüzünden yýkýlacak : Gene bizim!
Ve bir gün mutlaka döðüþecek yeni baþtan.
Onu kim durdurabilir bilinçle donanmýþsa
Çünkü bugün yenilen yenecektir yarýn
Ve hep "bugün" doðacaktýr "hiçbir zaman"dan

                                            Bertolt Brecht

6.
The National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women
in
Collaboration with the Centre for Women's Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
are
hosting a summer institute June 1-8 in Zagreb and Porec, Croatia
titled:  Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and
Nation in
Post-Socialist Societies and the United States.  The objectives of
the
institute are to: assist faculty in integrating comparative
perspectives
on race, gender and ethnicity into their courses and educational
curricula; cultivate discussions of international issues and assist
faculty
in internationalizing their courses and scholarship; and explore
pedagogical issues related to internationalizing and engendering
courses.

The themes of the summer institute include:  Constructions of
Gendered
& Racial/Ethnic Identities; Intersections of Gender, Race, Ethnicity
and Nation; Racial/Ethnic Studies in Eastern Europe and the United
States; Comparative and Relational Analyses of Women in the Global
Economy,
Trafficking; East-West Feminisms; Women's Studies/Feminisms in
Eastern
Europe; Women, War, Nationalism, and Peace; and Gender & Ethnic
Identities and the Development of Civil Society.

The summer institute will run from 9:00 to 1:00 with a break in
between
the early morning and early afternoon sessions.  The sessions from
9:00
to 11:00 will be lead by invited speakers, while the 11:30 -1:00
sessions will be organized into round-table discussion groups or
concurrent
sessions on topics related to the themes of the institute.
Participants
will discuss various articles, engage in participant-led
presentations,
and explore pedagogical issues related to engendering and
internationalizing their courses and educational curricula.

The cost of the summer institute is $350.  Payment requirements are
as
follows: deposit of $100.00 is due 11/15/2002 and the total fee of
$350.00 is due 1/15/2003.  The deposit fee is non-refundable and
enrollment
is limited.

Lodging in Porec, is 40 Euros per night for a  shared room ( a
double)
which includes breakfast and dinner.   Lodging in Zagreb is 65 Euros
for a double.  Total hotel costs, with breadfast and dinner for a
share
room, will thus run about $300US.

  Attendees interested in presenting at one of the roundtable sessions
should send a one-page description of presentation, how it relates to
the institute themes, and what issues it will include by November 1,
2002
to NCCTRW, Towson University. Towson, MD 21252.  Also indicate
experience or qualifications in regard to presentation. More
information, a
list of speakers, and an application can be found on our web page:
www.towson.edu/ncctrw

Croatia stretches along the Adriatic coast. The country borders
Slovenia, Hungary, Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and Bosnia
Herzegovina.
The country's landscap ranges from small villages in the interior to
the dramatic Dalmatian coastline. Zagreb, the economic, cultural and
administrative heart of the region, sits prominently on the River
Sava.
Porec is located in the North in Istria, the biggest peninsula in the
Adriatic.  Istria is the part of the Mediterranean closest to Central
Europe and located almost directly across from Venice which is easily
accessible by boat.


Karen Dugger, Director
National Center for Curriculum Transformation
Resources on Women
Professor Women's Studies
Towson University, Towson, Maryland USA
email: kdugger@...
t.  410-704-5456 or 5457
f.  410-704-3469

7.
SUMMARY

Brazil and Serbia are electing presidents, Ireland is voting on the
future of Europe, the US Congress is backing war on Iraq.
www.openDemocracy.net reports on public argument in six countries.
But can democracy
survive when only half the people vote?

Amidst the mixture of hope and gloom, clear voices - Paul Rogers on
the
drive to war, Wendell Steavenson in Kabul, Caspar Henderson's
Globolog,
Douglas Murray's anti-anti-war polemic. Meanwhile, the Nobel prize
for
economics dissolves before Yves Gingras's remorseless gaze.

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MIXED SIGNALS ON IRAQ - BUT US WAR PLANS ROLL ON
The rhetoric is softer, but the facts on the ground tell the deeper
story, says PAUL ROGERS
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=103&DocID=1952

EUROPE THRIVES ON NATIONAL DEBATE
The Irish referendum opens the way to EU enlargement and signals the
emergence of a European public sphere, argues PAUL GILLESPIE
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=6&DocID=1956

BUT WHERE IS THE REAL DEBATE? A CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE
It is time for the Convention on the Future of Europe itself to take
a
lead, reports KIRSTY HUGHES
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=6&DocID=1948

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EDITOR'S NOTE
Global democracy not just openDemocracy needs to catch up with the
changing character of protest, says ANTHONY BARNETT
http://www.opendemocracy.net/dynamics/pg.asp?
DocID=1833&Action=DisplayPage#new

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GLOBOLOG
Including CASPAR HENDERSON's historical foray into Europe's role in
famines in India, China and Brazil
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1946

BRAZIL IN METAMORPHOSIS
The election of Lula will be a momentous personal triumph, but could
its significance for democracy in Brazil be even greater, asks
AUGUSTO
GAZIR
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=99&DocID=1949

SERBIA - THE ELECTION THAT WASN'T
The presidential election was a washout, and not only because of the
rain, finds KATERINA BEZGACHINA
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=6&DocID=1942

THE US CONGRESS, PRESIDENT BUSH, AND THE RETREAT TO WAR
The US Congress's consent to war on Iraq may help close off
reasonable
alternatives, argues ROBERT SNYDER
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=103&DocID=1943

ANTI-WAR OR ANTI-ISRAEL? A RESPONSE TO ROSEMARY BECHLER
The London march ostensibly against war on Iraq was tainted by its
undemocratic, violent and anti-Jewish elements, says DOUGLAS MURRAY
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=18&DocID=1945

SOLDIERS AND THE TALIBAN
A shave and a new hat - regime change, Afghan style. WENDELL
STEAVENSON'S perceptive Kabul stories continue.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=110&DocID=1941

A NOBEL PRIZE FOR ECONOMICS? MAGICAL REALISM
How does a beautiful mind win a non-existent prize? YVES GINGRAS
solves
an entertaining mystery.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=125&DocID=1944

WORLD DIARY - FROM SWAZILAND TO KABUL, VIA TV
Swazis are fuming (and dying), the US graying, Britain dumbing,
DOMINIC
HILTON commenting.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/forum/document_details.asp?
CatID=87&DocID=1947

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8.
Promotionsstipendium

Ad Frühjahr 2003 hat das Orient-Institut/Istanbul der DMG win
Promotionsstipendium zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses
zu
vergeben.
Bewerben können sich Studenten, die ihr MAgisterexamen erfolgreich
abgelegt
haben. Das Promotionsvorhaben asu dem Bereich der orientalistischen
Faecher
muss schwerpunktmaesig auf die Türkei, den Balkanraum, die
Wolgaregion,
den
Kaukasus oder Mittelasien ausgerichtet sein. Aus der Bewerbung muss
weiterhin die wissenschaftliche Notwendigkeit eines Aufenthaltes
inIstanbul
bzw. der Türkei hervorgehen. Die Stipendiendauer richtet sich nach
den
Erfordernissen des Projeckts und betraegt maximal ein Jahr.

Bei den Bewerbern wird die Bereitschaft zur Teilnahme am
wissenschaftlichen
Leben am Institut und Interesse an den Institutsveranstaltungen
vorausgesetzt.

Bewerbungem mit den üblichem Umterlagen (Lebenslauf, Kopie der
Prüfungsurkunde, Exposé des Promotionsvorhabens, Gutachten zweier
Hochschullehrer) werden bis zum 15. Dezember 2002 erbeten an den:

Leitenden Referenten des OII
PD Dr. Claus Schönig
Susam SOk. 16-18, D.8
80060 Cihangir-Istanbul

Eine Kopie Ihres Schreibens samt Lebenslauf (ohne die sonstigen
Bewerbungsunterlagen beizufügen) senden Sie bitte gleichzeitig per
e-mail
oder Faxkopie an:

e-mail: oiist@...
fax: 0090-212-249 63 59


9.
Subject: Conference: Administrative Reforms in Eastern Europe (in
French), 30-31.1.2003, Lyon

Le centre Géophile organise à l'ENS Sciences humaines de Lyon en
janvier
2003 un colloque international intitulé :

REFONDER LES TERRITOIRES :UNE NOUVELLE GEOGRAPHIE ADMINISTRATIVE A
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L'EUROPE

Le jeudi 30 et le vendredi 31 janvier 2003
à l'ENS Lettres et Sciences humaines de Lyon
15 parvis René-Descartes  BP 7000
69 342 LYON cedex 07, France.

La transition post-socialiste en Europe de l'Est est synonyme d'un
réaménagement des systèmes politiques administratifs avec une refonte
des
maillages et la reconnaissance à titre de collectivités territoriales
d'un
certain nombre d'échelons décisionnels. Ce réaménagement, véritable
bouleversement par rapport à l'ancien système bureaucratique de la
centralisation hiérarchique descendante, s'inspire des modèles de
gestion
des démocraties libérales ouest-européennes. Il vise une certaine
convergence avec ces modèles occidentaux, afin d'entrer dans les
meilleures
conditions dans l'Union européenne. Le colloque s'attachera à
analyser
les
logiques et les processus mis en œuvre dans les réformes
territoriales
en
cours, des pays de la Baltique à ceux de la Mer Noire.

Pays étudiés: Bulgarie, Roumanie, Allemagne orientale, Hongrie, Rép.
tchèque, Slovaquie, Pologne.

PROGRAMME
Toutes les interventions seront traduites simultanément en anglais ou
français.

Jeudi 30 janvier 2003

SESSION 1- L'organisation administrative des Etats post-socialistes :
le
défi de la légitimation démocratique face aux héritages
Modérateurs
   A. KRASTEVA (Nouvelle Université Bulgare, Sofia), M . BIANCHINI
(Université de Bologne)
Interventions
-Marie-Claude MAUREL (EHESS, Paris) : Le local entre soviétisation et
européanisation, un espace politique en transformation
-Marek POTRYKOWSKI (Ministère de l'Economie, Varsovie) : The issue of
the
territorial reform at the end of the socialist period in Poland
-Jean RADVANYI  (INALCO, Paris) : Réflexions sur le modèle soviétique
de
découpage territorial
-Emmanuelle BOULINEAU (Géophile, Lyon) : La persistance de la
centralisation en Bulgarie
-Vladimir SLAVIK (Univ. de Bratislava): Reform of public
administration
in
Slovakia : the challenge of democratic legitimization

SESSION 2- La commune comme collectivité territoriale et l'enjeu de
la
démocratie locale.
Modérateurs
Claude GRASLAND (Univ. Paris VII, UMR Géographie-cités), Georges MINK
(Directeur du CEFRES, Prague)
Interventions
-Zdenka VAJDOVA (Univ.de Prague) : The municipality as self-
government
unit
and the local democracy issue
-Jan BUCEK (Univ. de Bratislava) : Local autonomy, local democracy
and
participation in Slovakia
-Catherine PERRON (Sciences Po, Paris) : Les effets de mode de
construction
démocratique sur la mise en place des nouveaux pouvoirs au niveau
local
:
une comparaison Allemagne de l'est - République tchèque
-Lydia COUDROY DE LILLE (Univ. Lyon II, Géophile) : Varsovie à la
recherche
de la bonne gouvernance
-Krisztina KERESZTELY  (Académie des Sciences, Budapest) : Réforme
territoriale et macrocéphalie : le cas hongrois




Vendredi 31 janvier 2003

SESSION 3- Le niveau régional (NUTS 2) et les politiques de
développement
Modérateurs
Th. SAINT-JULIEN (Univ. Paris I, UMR Géographie-cités) ,  György
ENYEDI
(Académie des Sciences,        Budapest)
Interventions
-Stanislas REHAK (Univ. De Brno) : Les étranges régions tchèques à la
veille de l'intégration européenne
-Grazyna PRAWELSKA-SKRZYPEK (Institut de Petite Pologne de
Développement
Régional, Cracovie) :  Regional self-government : main issues of
governance. The case of Malopolska
-Vasil MARINOV (Centre National du Développement Territorial,
Sofia) :
Regions in Bulgaria in the post-socialist transition
-Octavian GROZA (Univ. de Iasi) : Le maillage sans territoire : la
région
de développement en Roumanie
-Marius SUCIU (Ecole Normale de Pise) et Catrinel TROFIN (Géophile,
Lyon) :
L'autonomie locale en Roumanie entre déficit démocratique et
anachronisme
fiscal

SESSION 4- Les injonctions pour l'intégration : vers  quel « modèle »
européen ?
Modérateurs
Henri CHAMUSSY (Univ. de Grenoble I) et Georges PREVELAKIS (Univ.
Paris
I,
Géophile)
Interventions
-François BAFOIL (Expert UE, Ministère de l'Economie, Varsovie) : La
place
des régions dans les politiques de développement territorial en
Pologne
-Jean-Yves POTEL (Ambassade de France, Varsovie) : L'évolution de la
coopération entre l'UE et les pays d'Europe Centrale et Orientale
dans
la
restructuration administrative
-Gérard MARCOU (Univ. de Paris I) : Les structures régionales à l'est
et
leur compatibilité avec les fonds structurels européens
-Jean-François DREVET (Commission Européenne, Politique régionale,
Bruxelles) : Le rôle des fonds structurels dans l'élargissement
européen

Le programme complet et l'inscription en ligne au colloque (avant le
1er
décembre) sont consultables sur le site du centre Géophile :
www.ens-lsh.fr/labo/geophile
ou inscription sur le formulaire papier joint.

Comité d'organisation, contacts
Lydia Coudroy de Lille, lydia.coudroydelille@... (tél : 04 37
37
63 27)
Emmanuelle Boulineau, emmanuelle.boulineau@...
Hélène Sallard, hsallard@... (tél :04 37 37 63 28)
Marius Suciu, msuciu@...
Violette Rey, ri@... (tél : 04 37 37 60 81)
Secrétariat de Géophile : S. Bouchaker, sbouchaker@... (tél :
04
37
37 62 34)




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10.
Subject: CfA: Trainers for course "Organizational Management in Youth
NGOs in Albania, 9-15.12.2002

From: SEE E- Newsletter, issue 10

CALL FOR TRAINERS, TRAINING COURSE "ORGANISATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN
YOUTH
NGOs
in ALBANIA", 9-15 December, 2002.
The objective of this training course will be to empower youth NGOs
in
Albania and to improve information-flow and co-operation between
youth
NGOs
within the country. It will take place in Albania and will last for 5
days
(excluding travel days). The activity will bring together around 30
participants from different youth NGOs in Albania. This should
provide
enough time for the participants to get to know each other and
exchange
experiences and information about the different youth organisations
inside
the country. The training course also provides a good basis on which
to
establish partnerships and closer future co-operation.
The programme for the activity will be developed by the training team
according to guidelines that have been developed by the BYP Steering
Group.
The key objectives for the Training Course in Albania will be
organisational capacity building and development, long term project
design/project management and information and technology.
NOTE: The training course will be carried out in the Albanian
language!!!
The organising team of trainers shall consist of four persons.
All trainers must comply with the following criteria:
· Have a general knowledge of the situation of young people in
Albania;
· Have experience from previous involvement in the youth NGO
sector in
Albania and preferably in South East Europe;
· Have a general knowledge of organisational development,
project
design
and management, information and technology;
· Be familiar with funding opportunities available for youth
initiatives in
South East Europe;
· Be between 20 and 35 years old;
· Be fluent in Albanian;
· Be fluent in English;
· Have previous documented training experience in the youth
field;
· Be able to take part in the full length of the Training
Course
(December
9-15) and the preparatory meeting for the activity (November 8-10);
· Be willing to develop the Training Course according to the
guidelines
developed by the BYP Steering Group.
Deadline for Applications: OCTOBER 28, 2002!!!
Applicants should send in their application form to the European
Youth
Forum (attention Mateja Prosek), tel. +32 2 230 6490, fax +32 2 230
2123,
e-mail: mateja.prosek@... .
The complete call for trainers including an application form is
available
on: http://www.youthforum.org/our_work/balkan.html.


11.
Call for papers
International conference 'Political Science and State Authorities
Interaction in the Formation of the
Political Processes in the Russian Federation and the New Independent
States' on November 1-2,
2002
The conference .Political Science and State Authorities Interaction
in
the Formation of the Political
Processes in the Russian Federation and the New Independent States.
is
organized by Civil Education
Project (CEP) Russia, Institute of Philosophy and Law at the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and the
Urals Academy of Public Administration. It will be held on November
1-2, 2002 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
The  conference  topics:  Contemporary  methods of applied political
analysis; political studies and
political consulting; political scientists and policy makers: methods
and ways of interaction;  career
prospects for the graduates of the political science and  public
administration  departments. Working
languages  of  the  conference  are Russian and English. Academics
and
students invited to send
proposal and register by October 12, 2002. Contact Vitaly Merkushev,
e-mail:
ConferenceCEP@...; Yelena Sazonova,  e-mail:
elena.sazonova@....
http://www.cep.org.hu/newsflash/conferences.html, 02.10.2002)

Soyuz Annual Symposium "Ethnographies of Postsocialism", University
of
Massachusetts, Amherst,
February 7-8, 2003.
Soyuz,  the Network of Postsocialist Cultural Studies invites paper
submissions for its 2003 meeting.
Presentations may be from any discipline (anthropology, sociology,
folklore, political science, history,
etc.) and may focus on any aspect of social life - religion,
politics,
economics and exchange, kinship
and the family, gender, language, the arts - but papers must strive
to
creatively  and  successfully
combine solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with cultural
theory. Abstracts  of  250  words
send  by  email to: Julie Hemment, Department of Anthropology, UMass,
Amherst
(jhemment@...). Please include your name, title of paper
and academic affiliation. The
deadline for abstracts is November 10, 2002.  (Balkan Academic News,
30.09.2002)

Keeping an Eye on Government: Independent Monitoring by the EU
Accession Monitoring Program
In cooperation with partner  institutions and individuals from
throughout the EU accession region, the
EU  Accession Monitoring Program (EUMAP) monitors compliance with
aspects of the Copenhagen
political  criteria for accession. EUMAP is seeking articles and
opinion pieces on the value of
independent monitoring of government legislation, practices and
policies to ensure human rights and
the rule of law. Papers are invited on the general topic of
independent
monitoring, touching on law and
practice at both EU and state level, the specific problems in EU
candidate and member state countries,
how  the  enlargement  process  can be used to promote effective
steps
to resolve them. Deadline of
submission:  October  21,  2002. For more details please visit the
website:
http://www.eumap.org/announcements/1033386858. Contact person: Alphia
Abdikeeva.    (Balkan
Academic News, 21.09.2002)

The 5th annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on February 7, 2003
in Cambridge U.K.
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central  Europe,  John
F.  Kennedy  School  of
Government, and the Southeast European Study Group, Minda de
Gunzburg
Center  for  European
Studies, Harvard University, will hold the fifth annual Kokkalis
Graduate  Student  Workshop  on
February 7, 2003. Doctoral students are invited to submit proposals
of
a maximum of 500 words into
one of the thematic units: Democracy in Practice, from transition to
consolidation and the challenges
ahead;  the City, urban culture, architecture and society; the
Environment, policy and sustainability.
Countries in focus: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, F.Y.R.
of  Macedonia,  Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, F.R. of
Yugoslavia.
Deadline of submission:
November 2, 2002. For more details please contact:
Kokkalis_Program@.... Proposals and
CVs should be submitted online  at
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/scholarship_form/GSW/index.html.
(Balkan Academic News, 27.09.2002)

Conference "Economic Development and Reconstruction Policies in
Southeastern Europe: Regional
Cooperation, Trade, and Foreign Investment" on April 10-12, 2003 in
Dubrovnik, Croatia
The  conference is the second in a series organised by the European
Association for Comparative
Economic Studies (EACES, http://eaces.gelso.unitn.it/Eaces/eaces.htm)
that will address the issue of
economic development and reconstruction in Southeastern Europe. Since
the end of the Kosovo war
the international community through its Stability Pact, and the
European Union through its stabilization
and  association  process,  have stressed the importance of regional
cooperation among the states of
Southeastern Europe as a key instrument to promote  economic
development.  The  conference  is
designed to bring together academics, policy makers, and
practitioners
interested in the issues relating
to economic development and reconstruction policies in Southeastern
Europe for the presentation of
research results and policy evaluations. Abstracts of not more than
300
words should be sent to Will
Bartlett, e-mail: will.bartlett@.... Deadline: November
15th,
2002. For more information about
conference visit the website:
http://www.hr/iuc/docs/konfer/confer.html.  (Balkan  Academic  News,
19.07.2002)

International Congress .Central Europe and the Mediterranean" on May
28-31, 2003 in Budapest
The Mediterranean Studies Association's 6th annual International
Congress, .Central Europe and the
Mediterranean. will be held on May 28-31, 2003 at the Central
European
University  in  Budapest,
Hungary. 2003 will commemorate the 550th anniversary of the fall of
Constantinople, marking the end
of Byzantium and the beginning of Stambul. Sessions devoted to  this
anniversary  are  especially
welcome. As is the case each year, papers and sessions on all
subjects
relating to the Mediterranean
region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all periods
are
encouraged. Proposals should
include  a  200-word  abstract  for  each paper and a one-page
curriculum vitae for each participant,
including chairs and commentators. Deadline for submissions: December
1, 2002. For more  details
please visit the  website:
http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/ms/callib_2003.html. Contact:
Mediterranean Studies Association, POB 212, East Sandwich, MA 02537,
USA, e-mail:
MSA@....  (Balkan Academic News, 13.09.2002)

International conference "What kind of political cleavages for
Central
and Eastern Europe?" on May 9-
10, 2003 in Brussels
The Social Political Analysis Group of Central and Eastern Europe
Countries at theFree University of
Brussels organizes an international conference "What kind of
political
cleavages  for  Central  and
Eastern Europe?" and invites  to  a  debate  on  the divisions in
conceptualization regarding the links
between political cleavages and political conflict.  Further
Information  on:
http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/cevipol/GASSPECO/call for paper.htm.
Deadline
for applications: December
1st, 2002. An answer for the project should be received until the
15th
of January. A short description of
presentation should be sent (in English or French) to
jmdewael@... with the subject "conference
May 2003".

Job offer:

LGI Policy Fellowship 2003, Spring-Summer 2003
LGI (Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative) is
currently accepting applications for its
research internship program. Interns will work on a voluntary basis
at
the LGI office (located
in the Budapest headquarters of the Open Society Institute) in a
diverse, challenging and exciting
environment on various topics related to local public policy
development, decentralization, public
service reform, and multi-ethnic community management. Interns will
contribute to LGI research
and publications and participate in a variety of projects
addressing
the  Central-Eastern  European,
Southeast European and Central Asian regions. The next deadline  for
submitting  application  is
December 1, 2002. More Information on:
http://lgi.osi.hu/fellowship/2002-2003.asp. Contact: Scott
Abrams, E-mail: ascott@.... (Balkan Academic News,
04.10.2002)

Authors for a handbook on Ottoman Empire
Facts on File, a New York publisher of high-quality reference,
young-adult, and trade books, is looking
for a scholar or small team of scholars to write a book on the
Ottoman
Empire in the publisher's
Handbook to Life series. The main audience comprises high school and
college students, with a
secondary audience comprising teachers, professors, librarians, and
general readers.
The book would contain about 170,000 words and require about 1 1/2 to
2
years to write.
The ideal candidate will know the subject, have (or be close to
having)
a relevant PhD (e.g., in history),
have an excellent command of the English language and be  able  to
write  for  a  nonspecialized
audience, and be punctual and well organized. Interested scholars
should send a letter  and  c.v.
(preferably by email,  but USPS is  fine too) to: Henry Rasof,
Publishing Consultant, 116 Monarch St,
Louisville, CO 80027, E-mail: hrasof@.... (Balkan Academic News,
30.09.2002)

Job offer by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
(OSCE)
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is
seeking for an Administration and
Finance  Chief as soon as possible. Deadline for applications:
October
18, 2002. Requirements:
University  degree  in  public  or  business administration,
management
or equivalent preferably with
specialization in finance or accounting and/or personnel management;
Minimum of six years  of
progressively responsible professional experience in  general
administration  and/or  accounting,
preferably in an international environment and/or in a field mission.
For more details please visit the
website: http://www.osce.org/employment/generate.php3?vn_id=825.
Contact: OSCE Secretariat, Attn:
Recruitment Section, Kärntner Ring 5-7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria,
Fax:
+431  -  514  36  96.

12.
THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY
NATIONALISM STUDIES PROGRAM

Calls for applications for MA, PhD and DSP studies at the Central
European University in Budapest.

The deadline for application is January 6, 2003.

For information on the program and the offered grants and financial
aid
please visit our homepage
(http://www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html).

With questions regarding the program or the admission process please
turn to Szabolcs Pogonyi, the program coordinator (pogonyi@...)


Dear Prospective Student:

We encourage you to apply to our program if you wish to engage in an
empirical and theoretical study of nationalism, self-determination,
ethnic conflict, xenophobia, minority protection and the related theme
of globalisation. We offer a comprehensive introduction to the main
approaches to the study of nationalism involving the disciplines of
history, sociology, anthropology, legal studies, political science and
political theory.
As you know, very few universities in international higher education
provide this kind of specialization on both the MA and PhD level. Our
distinctive focus, intellectually exciting teaching profile and
interdisciplinary approach has been developed by the most eminent
experts in the field, including Rogers Brubaker, Will Kymlicka, Yael
Tamir, Tibor Várady, Michael Stewart and Erica Benner. We are proud to
have them among our faculty. Our common focus is to explore how
liberal
norms and models of dealing with ethnocultural diversity can be
adapted
in Central and Eastern Europe and other parts of the world. Our
approach
is widely comparative. This helps us to avoid the dangers of
parochialism, auto-celebratory tendencies and epistemological
insiderism
and to provide an open, critical, non-sectarian and cosmopolitan
perspective on the study of nationalism. Please consult our webpage
for
further details on our courses.
As a student in our program you will benefit from the resources of our
excellent faculty and high-quality student body and from the uniquely
lively atmosphere of Budapest at the heart of Central Europe.

Mária M. Kovács, Program Director

______________________________________________________________________
____________________
The Nationalism Studies Program was established by Central European
University with the aim of promoting the study of nationalism in the
post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program
is
a
successor to CEU's Center for the Study of Nationalism in Prague
directed by the late Professor Ernst Gellner. Situated at CEU's
Budapest
teaching site, the program offers students an MA degree accredited by
the Board of Regents of the State of New York. The program also
offers
a
PhD degree in the framework of a joint History-Nationalism PhD track
in
collaboration with CEU's History Department. In addition the program's
MA graduates may apply to the PhD program in Political Science based
on
a special agreement between the two units. Graduate students enrolled
in
PhD programs at universities outside CEU and who wish to utilize CEU's
innovative programs and resources to assist the development of their
dissertations can apply for the Doctoral Support Program.

The Nationalism Studies Program is intended to respond to the growing
demand for new knowledge and teaching in the field.  Drawing upon the
uniquely supranational milieu of the Central European University, it
encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism with
special emphasis on problems created by the new configuration of
states,
nations and minorities in the region.

Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of
nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally
interdisciplinary. For this reason, the international teaching staff
has
been assembled to represent a wide range of relevant disciplinary
expertise including history, social theory, economics, legal studies,
sociology, anthropology, international relations and political
science.
The program offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex
theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and
nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of
applied social science. Another group of courses place problems of
nationalism in the context of economic and political transition as
well
as constitution building in post-1989 East-Central Europe with a
comparative outlook on regime transitions outside the region.

The faculty of the Nationalism Studies Program this year includes
Mária
M. Kovács, András Kovács, Petr Lom, Micahel Miller, Will Kymlicka,
Rogers Brubaker, Yael Tamir, Michael Stewart, Erica Benner, Michael
Stanislawski, Marsha Rozenblit, Tibor Várady, Victor Karády, Panayote
Dimitras and Florian Bieber.



Szabolcs Pogonyi
Program Coordinator
CEU Nationalism Studies
www.ceu.hu/nation/natdir.html
Nador u. 9. FT  Room 205
1051 Budapest
phone:  (+361) 3273000/2086
fax: (+361) 2356102

13.
ECPR Electronic Bulletin - OCTOBER 2002
======================================================
Contents:

     ECPR News
     Standing Groups
     Job Vacancies & Fellowships
     Conference and Call for Proposals
     Miscellaneous

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reports
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== European Political Science ==

Volume 2 issue 1 of EPS will only be sent out to individuals on
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== ECPR Strategic Review ==


A second review of the ECPR's activities and services (following on
from the
first one, which took place in 1999) has recently taken place. The
group
that
carried out the review was chaired by Percy Lehning, with A.J.R.
Groom,
Joni
Lovenduski, Gabriella Ilonszki and Clare Dekker.

The review will shortly be publicised on the ECPR web site and sent
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main
points at the Council meeting, which will take place during the Joint
Sessions of Workshops in Edinburgh next spring.

=================
DATES FOR DIARIES
=================

     28 March - 2 April 2003 ECPR Joint Sessions, Edinburgh, UK
     18-21 September 2003 - 2nd General Conference, Marburg, Germany
     13-18 April 2004 ECPR Joint Sessions, Uppsala, Sweden


ECPR Joint Sessions, Edinburgh 2003

The academic programme for the Joint Sessions in 2003 can be found on
the
ECPR web site. Interested participants should contact director(s) of
the
workshop in the first instance. The deadline for applications is
December
1st, 2002. A list of workshops and other information is available
online at:
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The latest newsletter of the Standing Group on Extremism and
Democracy
is
now available. It can be found here:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/ecpr/newsletter/News3_3.htm

The latest newsletter (issue 37) of the Standing Group on European
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Conferences and Calls for papers
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== 2nd ECPR General Conference, Marburg 18.-21.9.2003 ==

The ECPR web site now has a dedicated site for the Marburg General
Conference. At present it contains a list of sections, information on
the
round tables and other symposia, a preliminary programme, registration
information and tourist information. New information will be added as
they
become available. Visit the site for the general conference here:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/general_conference/index.htm

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== Call for Papers ==

ECPR Workshop in Edinburgh
28th March to 2nd April 2003

Long and winding roads?
Career patterns in European Higher Education

At the beginning of the 21st century systems of higher education are
challenged by the globalisation of knowledge production and the
expansion of
highly qualified labour in industrialised societies. The future of
European
universities depends on their ability to organize the working
processes
-
teaching, research and service - more internationally. The intention
of
the
workshop is to connect two different aspects - the structure and
policies of
higher education systems and their implications on the academic career
tracks - and evaluate them in a European comparative perspective.
Against
this background, we would like to address the national as well as the
institutional level. We are interested in participants who focus at
least on
one of the following questions:

- How and to what extent do national higher education policies shape
the
working conditions and career patterns in academia? How do national
higher
education policies affect the gender gap in academia?
- How do higher education institutions use their organisational
scopes
to
constitute career support for their academic staff? What policies and
programs do they implement (e.g. affirmative action programs, graduate
training) and how successful are those measures?
- How do academics deal with their national career perspectives in
higher
education? Do working conditions and career perspectives on the one
hand
correlate with the international mobility of researchers on the other
hand?
Under which circumstances does academic staff drop-out from a career
in
sciences?

The deadline for submissions is 1st December 2002. Those whose
abstracts are
accepted for the workshop will be notified by 25th January 2003.
The final version of the accepted papers must be send to the
organizers
latest on 8th March 2003 (max. 15 pages with 1,5 space).

To submit a paper proposal (abstract of 300-400 words; max. 2 pages)
or
for
additional information, please contact Prof. Dr. Renata Siemienska,
Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, 00-324
Warsaw/Poland (Tel: +48 (22) 826 55 91) (email:
siemiens@...) or
Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Institut
für
Politikwissenschaft, Scharnhorststr. 100, 48151 Münster/Germany (Tel:
+49
(251) 832 53 25) (email: zimmean@...).
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== Call for Papers ==

Innovation in Europe: Dynamics, Institutions and Values

The SEGERA research project is organising a conference on the
dynamics,
institutions, and values that characterize the innovation process and
technological development in Europe, with special focus on the EU. It
will be held at Roskilde University, Denmark, 8th -9th  May, 2003.
Please send abstracts (of no more than 1-2 pages) and direct any
inquires to: Kenny Larsen, Email: Kennyl@.... Deadline of
submission
of abstracts is December 1st. Further information about SEGERA project
and the Conference can be found at www.segera.ruc.dk.
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== Call for Papers ==

Felia Allum (University of Bath) and Jim Newell (University of
Salford)
are
organising a panel for the UK Political Studies Association
Conference
in
Leicester, 15-17 April 2003. The panel is entitled 'Italian politics
and the
Berlusconi government two years on'. Anyone who wants to give a paper
should
e-mail Jim Newell (j.l.newell@...) by 5th November with a
short
abstract (circa 300 words) describing the paper they want to present.
The
following paragraph describes the intended focus of the panel and the
issues
paper givers will, ideally, address.

In many ways, the general election of 2001 marked a significant new
departure in Italian politics. In bringing to office a government as a
direct consequence of the electoral outcome itself it represented the
further consolidation of a predominantly majoritarian and bipolar
dynamic to
party competition. This put the government under particular pressure
to
carry through the programme on which it had been elected while
creating
a
correspondingly new politico-strategic environment in which the
parties
of
opposition would have to work. On the other hand, the election
outcome
was
not, seemingly, the result of significant electoral change and just
as
the
old political forces ran a party-dominated state, so (many would
argue)
Berlusconi now seems to be turning Italy into a 'business state'
dominated
by his private commercial interests. It was clear, therefore, that
whether
2001 would turn out to represent a real milestone in Italian politics
would
depend crucially on the actual development of the legislature. Almost
two
years after the election it is now appropriate to begin to consider
this
issue and papers are invited which address aspects of it. We are
particularly interested in papers relevant to one or more of three
sets
of
questions:

· In the light of developments since, what is the significance of
2001
- for
the Italian political system generally and for specific institutions,
actors
and behaviour? For example, what are the most significant new
departures
that can be identified in terms of things like policy making or the
party
system?
· Are there any indicators that the current legislature is seeing any
movement towards completion of the so-called 'Italian transition'? If
so
why? If not, why not?
· How is the Berlusconi government to be understood and how is it best
characterised from a political theory point of view? If there is
something
novel about the government, in what does the novelty consist?
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1.
> Subject: H-TURK: CfC: Facts on File handbook on Ottoman Empire [H.
Rasof]
>
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:41:54 -0600
> From: Henry Rasof <hrasof@...>
>
> Facts on File, a New York publisher of high-quality reference,
> young-adult, and trade books, is looking for a scholar or
> small team of scholars to write a book on the Ottoman Empire
> in the publisher's Handbook to Life series.
>
> The main audience comprises high school and college students,
> with a secondary audience comprising teachers, professors,
> librarians, and general readers.
>
> The book would contain about 170,000 words and require about
> 1 1/2 to 2 years to write.
>
> The book would be divided into chapters or sections, to be
> determined by the author/editor. Other books in the series
> contain sections on topics such as daily life, religion, science,
> military affairs/warfare, economy and trade, and geography.
>
> The ideal candidate will know the subject, have (or be close
> to having) a relevant PhD (e.g., in history), have an excellent
> command of the English language and be able to write for a
> nonspecialized audience, and be punctual and well organized.
>
> Please note that the author(s) will receive a royalty contract
> and that this project is not a salaried position or job.
>
> Interested scholars should send a letter and c.v. (preferably
> by email, but USPS is fine too) to:
>
> Henry Rasof
> Publishing Consultant
> hrasof@...
> 116 Monarch St
> Louisville, CO 80027
> (303) 664-0183

CFP: Debt in Muslim societies [x-H-MEDITERRANEAN]

Date:    Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:55:09 +0200
> From:    H-Mediterranean <denis.bocquet@...>
> Subject: Call for Papers: Debt in Muslim societies: a
psychopathological
>          perspective
>
> From: IRMC <mail@...>
> Subject: Call for Papers: Debt in Muslim societies: a
psychopathological
> perspective
> Date: September 26, 2002
>
> 31 janvier - 1er février 2003 Tunis
>
> La dette   /   Debt
>
> Appel à communications /   Call for Papers
>
> Colloque international organisé par l'Unité de Recherche
> Psychopathologie Clinique, du département de Psychologie de la
Faculté
> des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis.
>
> Comment peut-on concevoir le système de la dette chez le citoyen
> musulman vu sous les angles psychologique, psychanalytique,
> philosophique, linguistique et anthropologique ?
> Axes proposés: "Y a-t-il une fonction de la dette ?" ; "Peut-on
isoler des
> dettes imaginaires, des dettes symboliques et des dettes
réelles ?" ;
> "Peut-on parler de dettes historiques ? Y a-t-il une transmission
de
la
> dette ? Peut-on parler de dettes inter-générationnelles ? Y a-t-il
des
> dettes par rapport aux ancêtres ?" ; "Quels rapports entretient la
dette par
> rapport à la culpabilité, à la responsabilité et au devoir ? Quel
est
la
place
> de dette dans les autres systèmes religieux ?"
>
> Les propositions de communication doivent parvenir au responsable de
> l'URPC (par courrier ordinaire ou par mail) en indiquant: 1/ le nom
et le
> statut de l'intervenant; 2/ Un titre et un résumé.
>
> Date limité d'envoi: 30 novembre 2002.
> URPC - 94, boulevard du 9 avril - 10007 Tunis - Tunisie
> Tél : 71 560 950 - 840 - 932 / poste 212. - Fax: 71 567 551
>
> E-mail : Riadhbrejeb@...
>
> Deadline for submission: November 30, 2002

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast:  CFP- Soyuz Annual Symposium:
Ethnographies
of
          Post-Socialism

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

[CentralAsia-L ]

CFP- Soyuz Annual Symposium, February 7-8, 2003, UMass Amherst

2003 ANNUAL SOYUZ SYMPOSIUM

Ethnographies of Postsocialism

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts February 7-8, 2003

SOYUZ, the Network of Postsocialist Cultural Studies invites paper
submissions for its 2003 meeting.  Presentations may be from any
discipline
(anthropology, sociology, folklore, political science, history,
literary
criticism, etc.) and may focus on any aspect of social life -
religion,
politics, economics and exchange, kinship and the family, gender,
language,
the arts - but papers must strive to creatively and successfully
combine
solid ethnographic and/or empirical evidence with cultural theory.
We
hope
to be able to make travel subsidies available for up to two foreign
presenters (from the region), and to be able to offer a limited
number
of
travel grants to graduate students.  Panelists will be encouraged to
publish
their papers in the Anthropology of East Europe Review.

Soyuz is an official interest group of the American Anthropological
Association.  Its members are scholars of a variety of disciplines
who
share
an interest in ethnographic, historical, and cultural studies
approaches to
scholarly inquiry of the former socialist world.  The symposium, held
annually since the early 1990s, is at once an intimate forum where
scholars
can exchange ideas and engage in dialogue, and the site of cutting
edge
presentations from some of the most exciting thinkers within the
subfield.

Please send abstracts of 250 words or less by email to:

Julie Hemment, Department of Anthropology, UMass, Amherst
(jhemment@...).  Please include your name, title of
paper
and
academic affiliation.

The deadline for abstracts is November 10 2002

Julie Hemment
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
UMass Amherst

tel: 413 577 1104
fax: 413 545 9494


Subject: H-TURK: CfP: 10th Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference,
          Indiana University, April 12, 2003

Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:01:16 -0500 (EST)
From: ACES <aces@...>

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE TENTH ANNUAL CENTRAL EURASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
USA

Saturday, April 12th, 2003

ACES (the Association of Central Eurasian Students, Indiana
University)
is proud to announce the Tenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies
Conference.
Graduate students, faculty and independent scholars are invited to
submit
abstracts of papers on Central Eurasian issues in all fields.

Central Eurasia is defined, for the purpose of this conference, as
the vast area including or corresponding to present-day Mongolia,
Western China (Xinjiang), Tibet, Central Asia (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as the historic regions
of Khorasan and northern Afghanistan), Azerbaijan, Turkey, Hungary,
Estonia, Finland, and other regions which include Finno-Ugric peoples.

ABSTRACTS:

Central Eurasian Studies Conference abstracts of no more than 750
words
are due by January 13, 2003.  Abstracts are expected to be
comprehensive and publishable--a collection of abstracts of accepted
papers
will be published by the date of the conference. Please provide the
following with your abstract:

   * names of all authors (also note name of the person presenting the
paper)
   * institution affiliation (if any)
   * mailing address
   * e-mail address
   * telephone/fax numbers

Please e-mail abstracts in an attachment (.doc or .rtf formats
preferred) to:

    ACES@...

OR, mail a print-out of your abstract to:

    The Tenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference
    Goodbody Hall 157
    Indiana University
    1011 East Third Street
    Bloomington, IN 47405-7005

    fax: (812) 855-7500
    Telephone: (812) 855-9510

For further details, please visit the "Events" link from the Central
Eurasian Studies Department webpage <http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/>.
The
conference webpage will be set up shortly
<http://php.indiana.edu/~aces/conf2003web.htm>.

Notifications of acceptance and other materials will be e-mailed to
the
authors of accepted papers by January 31, 2003.  ACES regrets that it
cannot provide any funding to participants.

Thank you!

Association of Central Eurasian Students
Subject: CfP: Political Cleavages for Central and Eastern Europe,
9-10.5.2003, Bruxelles

From: Jean-Michel DE WAELE <jmdewael@...>
Call for papers:

"What kind of political cleavages for Central and Eastern
Europe?".

The Social Political Analysis Group of Central and Eastern
Europe Countries (Free University of Brussels) organizes an
international conference between the 9th and the 10th of May
2003.

The topic is "What kind of political cleavages for Central and
Eastern Europe?".

We are thus addressing an open call for papers.

You can find enclosed to the present paper the main topics of
the conference.

A short description of your presentation should be sent (in
English or French) to jmdewael@...  with the subject
"conference May 2003".

The dead line is the 1st of December 2002. An answer for your
project should be received until the 15th of January.

The Central and Eastern European researchers could apply for a
financial help for accommodation.

Appel à contribution :

«Quels clivages partisans pour l'Europe centrale et orientale?«

Le Groupe d'analyse Socio - politique des pays d'Europe centrale
et orientale de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles organise les 9
et 10 mai 2003 un colloque international  intitulé :

«Quels clivages partisans pour l'Europe centrale et orientale?«

Dans ce cadre, nous lançons un appel à contribution.

Vous trouverez ci-joint les problématiques qui seront
approfondies lors de ce colloque.

Un résumé d'une page de la thématique abordée est à faire
parvenir en français ou en anglais au com ité d'organisation à
l'adresse suivante jmdewael@... avec la mention « colloque
mai 2003 »

Les propositions doivent nous parvenir pour le 1 décembre 2002.
Le comité d'organisation donnera sa réponse pour le 15 janvier
2003.

Une aide financière pour le voyage et le séjour sera
prioritairement accordée aux chercheurs issus des pays d'Europe
centrale et orientale.

Jean-Michel De Waele
Directeur du groupe d'analyse socio-politique
des pays d'Europe centrale et orientale (GASPPECO)
Directeur du Groupe d'étude pluridisciplinaire Sport et Société
(GEPSS)
Tel:32.2.650.44.81
fax:32.2.650.30.68
mail: jmdewael@...
Site web : http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/cevipol



Title: Religion and Media-Call for Papers and Reviewers
    Location: Kansas
    Date: 2003-04-01
    Description: CALL FOR PAPERSThe Religion and Media Interest Group
       of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
       Communication invites submission of research on any topic
       related to religion and media. Possible areas: studies of
       religious group members and uses of secular media, exploration
       of media cov ...
    Contact: gormly@...
    Announcement ID: 131509
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131509
Subject: CfA: National Histories in South-Eastern Europe and History
of
a United Europe, 7-10.11.2002, Lugoj, Romania

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are pleased to invite you to apply for the European Training
Program
to
be organised on the borders of the Timis River, in the beautiful
academic/cultural centre Lugoj (60 km south from Timisoara City), in
the
period 7-10 of November 2002 (South-Western side of Romania),
organised
by
the YOUTH & STUDENT DEPARTMENT of the EUROLINK - House of Europe,
Bucharest-Romania - Member of the International Federation of Europe
Houses
(FIME), in co-operation with the SOCIETY of HISTORICAL STUDIES
"ERASMUS" -
Member of the International Students in History Association (ISHA),
the
YOUTH PROGRAMME OF PEOPLE S PARLIAMENT (Serbia) and YOUTH COUNCIL IN
PRILEP
(Macedonia) within the One-Year South-Eastern Project:

National Histories in South-Eastern Europe and History of a United
Europe

sponsored by the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society
Institute (Zurich/Budapest)

Main goal of the project:

The partner-organisations are to influence the consolidation of a new
educational mentality and tools, concerning the studies and
understanding
of national History within the socio-humanistic faculties, especially
stressing the role of national minorities, in accordance to the new
European needs, standards, development trends and updated scientific/
intercultural perspectives to be implemented within the academic
environment, in view of the general process of the EU and Euro-
Atlantic
accession.

Consultants and Trainers within the project: Prof. Florian BIEBER
(European
Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg/Germany), Expert Daniela GRABE
(Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures, University of
Graz/Austria), Dr. Erich WENDL (European Academy in Vienna/Austria),
as
well as Romanian and other Southeastern European experts and scholars.

Content: The program will divide in two parts: training (9.00-13.30)
and
workshops using team-games and debates (15.00-18.00). Visits and
direct
contacts with students in Lugoj are also included.

first module: The main changes regarding the teaching of national
History;
the role of the European Idea and of the EU institutions in orienting
the
debate and modernization process in the post-communist countries

Main topics to be focused:

How the discourse and teaching of the national and European History
was
distorted through ideological pressures and manipulation techniques
in
the
academic curricula of universities in SEE;
the changing role of the Nation-State, in the conditions of the
transfer of
sovereignty from national governments to the European institutions,
during
the process of integration of SEE States within the European and
pan-European organisations;
the Council of Europe s Recommendations in the countries of South
Eastern
Europe referring to the local and regional autonomy,
multiculturality,
usage of minority languages, intercultural education, treatment
towards
Roma minority ;
the new European approaches on the relations between minorities and
majority and between minorities themselves;
the European fundamental principles and values acting after the end
of
the
Cold War;
the role and the ways to adapt the national legislation according to
the
European acquis communautaire, in the countries which already signed
an
Association Agreement with European Union or which are preparing to
do
the
same;
the meaning and function of the important European concepts of
"social-economic cohesion", "regional development" and "cross-borders
cooperation" directly related to the evolution of the European
standards
related to these themes.

Profile of applicants:

undergraduates and post-graduate students in History, European
Studies
and
other Social and Humanistic disciplines, especially from Albania,
Bosnia-Hertzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro and Turkey;
recent Alumni in the same disciplines able to maintain a close
contact
with
their younger professors and colleagues in the period of preparation
for
their first teaching or research degree/examination tests.

Application materials and conditions of attendance:

to be a representative of one of the two target-groups, able to prove
her/his personal record in the mentioned fields on the basis of a
max.
2
pages CV + short letter of motivation (max. 500 words) and
minimum.two
names/addresses of professors/heads of their work departments;
to fill the attached application form, not later than 12 October 2002.

The organisers will offer full scholarships including:

board and lodging in double rooms, in three stars Hotel TIROL;
travel reimbursement up to: 30 USD for Romanian participants and 60
USD
for
SEEC participants (on the basis of two-ways train or bus ticket)
tuition materials;
welcoming cocktail and farewell party at the PRO-Arte Gallery Hall.

Youth and Student Department of EUROLINK-House of Europe

E-mail: eurolink@...

Website: www.HouseofEurope.ro



APPLICATION FORM

National Histories in South-Eastern Europe
and History of a United Europe

Lugoj - ROMANIA, 7-10 November 2002

First name                                            Last
name
Passport
no

Studies
Major field of interest
Address
Telephone                Fax
E-mail
Date             Signed

Send a copy of this reservation for to: eurolink@... or fax: (4021)
242.86.37



EUROLINK - House of Europe
Bucharest - ROMANIA
Member of the International Federation of Europe Houses (FIME)
Consultative Status to the Council of Europe
Head Office (open for the public: 10:30-14:30):
Sos. Colentina 2A, Bloc 3 ap. 45, sector 2
Tel./fax: (4021) 242.86.37
Internet: www.HouseofEurope.ro
www.fime.org/-/eurolink-bucarest


2.
Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: ANN The Mamluk Bibliography Project Online
now
          available (U Chicago)

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

[x-posted from H-Turk]

The Middle East Documentation Center at The University of Chicago
is pleased to announce that the entirely rebuilt Mamluk Bibliography
Project is now online:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast/mamluk

The project consists of two databases: the primary and the secondary.
The secondary source bibliography is greatly expanded since its last
update, and the primary source bibliography has never before been
available. Both are searchable and browsable using new software
created specifically for this project. Between them, they contain
more than 10,000 entries.

Though the bibliographies have been tested, there are certainly bugs
yet to be found. Despite this, we are making the bibliographies
available to the public, and hope that users will report such
problems. Because of our familiarity with the system, we are probably
unable to see things that will be problematic for other users.
Please  test the system as much as you like and let us know what
you discover. We want it to be as useful as possible.

This is not a final product, and never will be. New entries are
added to the database literally every day (though the online version
will be updated monthly). Please be aware that the primary source
bibliography, in particular, is still in its infancy. Its several
thousand records are only a fraction of the tens of thousands that
exist. It is being made available at this point in its development
because it has reached a size at which it may be helpful to users.
Were we to keep it under wraps until we had 20,000 or 30,000 entries,
it would continue to be of no use to anyone for years to come. It is
not necessary to send lists of missing authors, as we are aware that
much remains to be added.

Please report any problems or questions to
mideast-library@... (there is an email link at the bottom
of every page on the site) and include "Mamluk Bibliography" in the
subject line.

Thank you.

--

Middle East Department
JRL 560
University of Chicago Library
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/mideast
mideast-library@...

3.
Subject: H-TURK: Princeton University Library visiting fellowships
[R.
Simon]

Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:26:55 -0400
From: Rachel Simon <rsimon@...>


http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/fellowships/

   VISITING FELLOWSHIPS, 2003-2004
   Princeton University Library

The Friends of the Princeton University Library offer up to ten
short-term
Visiting Fellowships to promote scholarly use of the research
collections
of the Library. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
has
substantial holdings pertaining to the western world and the Middle
East
from antiquity to the present.  The Rare Books Division, housed in the
Harvey S. Firestone Library, is especially strong in classical Latin
texts; American history and literature; English history and
literature;
and French, German, and Latin American literature.  The Manuscripts
Division, also at Firestone, holds medieval and renaissance
manuscripts
and codices and American and English literary and historical
manuscripts.
The Visual Materials Division, at Firestone, comprises the Graphic
Arts,
Western Americana, Historic Maps, Theatre, and Numismatic
Collections.
The
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library houses Twentieth-Century Public
Policy
Papers and the University Archives. The Marquand Library of Art and
Archaeology and the Gest Oriental Library and East Asian Collections
are extened branches of the Princeton University Library. Information
about all these holdings may be found on the library's homepage at
http://libweb.princeton.edu:20003/friends/fr.fellowships.html, as
well
as
the names of persons (curators and reference personnel) to contact for
additional collection information.

The Fellowships, which have a value of up to $2,500 each, are meant to
help defray expenses in traveling to and residing in Princeton during
the tenure of the Fellowship. The length of the Fellowship will depend
on the applicant's research proposal, but is normally one month.
Fellowships are tenable from May 2003 to April 2004.

The proposal should address specifically the relevance of the
Princeton
University Library collections to the proposed research. Prospective
fellows are urged to consult the Library=92s home
page (at http://libweb.princeton.edu) for detailed descriptions of the
collections, especially those in the Rare Books and Special
Collections
Department, and for the names of curators and reference staff.
Applicants should have specific Princeton resources in mind=97not
simply
a desire to make use of a major research library=97as they prepare
their
proposals.

Applicants are asked to submit an application form, a resume, a
budget,
and a brief research proposal not exceeding three pages to the
Fellowship Committee, Princeton University Library, One Washington
Road,
Princeton, New Jersey 08544.

The applicant must also arrange for two confidential letters of
recommendation (in English) to be sent to the Committee. All materials
related to the application must be postmarked no later than 15 January
2003.  A committee consisting of faculty, library staff, and members
of
the Friends will award the Fellowships on the basis of the relevance
of the proposal to unique holdings of the library, the merits and
significance of the project, and the applicant's scholarly
qualifications.
Awards will be made before April 1, 2003.

   PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY VISITING FELLOWSHIPS

   Application Form


Name: _____________________________________________________________
Last Name    First Name

Mailing Address: _________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

_________________________________________________

E-mail Address: _________________________________________________

Daytime Phone: _________________________________________________

Title of Proposal (20 words or less):
_____________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Princeton Collections Relevant to Research
_______________________________

___________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

Anticipated Research Period:

     Arrive on _________________ Depart on ________________


Status:
    ___       ___
/___/ Tenured/Senior Faculty  /___/ Graduate Student
    ___       ___
/___/ Non-tenured/Junior Faculty /___/ Free-lance researcher
    ___
/___/ Other:________________________________________________


How did you learn about the fellowship program?:

    ___        ___
/___/ Listserv posting    /___/ Library Web Site
    ___        ___
/___/ Chronicle of Higher Educ.  /___/ Princeton faculty/staff
   ___
/___/ Other: _______________________________________________




Application form, resume, brief research proposal not exceeding three
pages, budget form, and two confidential letters of recommendation
must
be postmarked by January 15, 2001, to Fellowship Committee, Princeton
University Library, One Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544.
Electronic
communications to the Committee may be sent to delaney@...,
facsimile transmissions to (609) 258-2324.

   BUDGET


Transportation:

Airfare $________

Shuttle to Princeton from Philadelphia or Newark ($21 per trip)
________

Rail ________

Auto (31.5 cents per mile) ________

Tolls/Parking/Miscellaneous ________

Housing (_____ nights @ $________) ________

Meals (______ days @ $________)              ________

Photocopying ________

Other: __________________________________ ________

__________________________________ ________

TOTAL ESTIMATED COSTS $________


In preparing your budget, please bear in mind that housing in
Princeton
is limited and expensive. Bed and Breakfast of Princeton costs $50 per
night. The Nassau Inn and Peacock Inn run about $124 and up.

Outlying motels with shuttles to campus include the Holiday Inn ($99),
Palmer Inn Best Western ($79-$82), and Hyatt ($169). Less expensive
choices such as the McIntosh ($63.95) make sense only if you have your
own vehicle, since these motels do not provide transportation to
campus
and taxis are very expensive.

The Princeton University Housing Department maintains a listing
(http://www.makingvcontact/offcampus) of off-campus apartment rentals.

A shuttle train links the campus directly to Princeton Junction,
which is a stop for numerous daily New Jersey Transit trains and some
Amtrak trains; hence, applicants can also pursue other, less-local
housing arrangements.

One should be able to eat reasonably well in Princeton for $30 per
day.

Subject: CfP: Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, 7.2.2003, Harvard

The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F.
Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeast European Study Group,
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University,
will hold the fifth annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop on
February 7, 2003.
Doctoral students are invited to submit proposals for papers to be
delivered at the workshop. Proposals should be a maximum of 500 words
and should fall into one of the thematic units listed below, relative
to one or more of the countries specified below:
Thematic units:
Democracy in Practice: from transition to consolidation and the
challenges ahead
The City: urban culture, architecture and society
The Environment:  policy and sustainability
  Countries in focus:
• Albania
• Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Greece
• Hungary
• F.Y.R. of Macedonia
• Moldova
• Romania
• Slovenia
• Turkey
• F.R. of Yugoslavia


A number of grants for travel and accommodation are available.
Deadline for submission is November 2, 2002.
Proposals and CVs should be submitted online at
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/scholarship_form/GSW/index.html
If you have trouble submitting materials online, please contact
Kokkalis_Program@....


The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe awards
fellowships to enable individuals with outstanding intellectual
promise from its region of focus to pursue Master's degrees at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Eligible to apply for the 2003-2004 Kokkalis Fellowship Program are
natives of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece,
Hungary, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania,
Turkey and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, who are applying to
one of the following degree programs at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government:  Master in Public Policy (MPP); Master in Public
Administration (MPA2); Mid-Career Master in Public Administration
(MC/MPA); Master in Public Administration in International
Development (MPA/ID).

Candidates must hold an undergraduate degree recognized by their
native state and an academic and/or professional background in one of
the following fields: social sciences, public policy and/or
administration, the non-profit sector, law, economics, business, or
work experience in related fields.  All applicants should demonstrate
a strong commitment to public service and the region of Southeastern
Europe.

Typically, 2-4 fellowships are awarded annually, and not more than
one fellowship is awarded per country per year.

Candidates must complete both the Kennedy School application for
admission and the Kokkalis Fellowship application.

Deadlines for submission of applications to the Kennedy School degree
programs vary; candidates should visit and carefully read the Kennedy
School's Admissions page (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/apply/apply.htm)
for deadline information as well as all pertinent application details.

The deadline for submission of the Kokkalis Fellowship application is
December 13, 2002.
The Kokkalis Fellowship application form can be completed and
submitted electronically for consideration here:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/scholarship_form/

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply electronically.

Alternatively, a hard copy of the application can be downloaded here:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/2003FSHIP.PDF as a PDF (Acrobat
Reader) file, completed and mailed to the address given on the form.

In addition, both  applications can be obtained in October 2002 from
the following locations:

Ankara:
  The Fulbright Commission
  +90 312 428 4824
Athens:
  The Kokkalis Foundation
  +30 10 610 5451
Belgrade:
  Ms. Tamara Jovanovic
  +381 1 311 9160
Bucharest:
  The Fulbright Commission
  +40 21 230 7719
Budapest:
  The Fulbright Commission
  +36 1 462 8040
Chisinau:
  U.S. Embassy, Public Affairs Office
  +373 2 233 772 ext. 8915
Istanbul:
  The Fulbright Commission
  +90 212 244 1105
Sarajevo:
  U.S. Embassy, Public Affairs Office
  +387 33 619 592
Skopje:
  Liaison Office of Greece
  +389 2 130 198
Sofia:
  The Fulbright Commission
  +359 2 981 8567
Tirana:
  Embassy of Greece
  +355 423 3329
Zagreb:
  U.S. Embassy, Public Affairs Office
  +385 1 661 2243

    Title: Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business
       History
    Deadline: 2002-11-15
    Description: THE HARVARD-NEWCOMEN FELLOWSHIP IN BUSINESS HISTORY.
       Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United
       States announce a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History
       for $46,000 to be awarded for twelve months residence, study,
       and research at Harvard Business School, July 1, 2003June 30
       ...
    Contact: wfriedman@...
    URL: www.hbs.edu/bhr/awards.html
    Announcement ID: 131488
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131488

    Title: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
       Fellowship
    Date: 2003-01-15
    Description: The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International
       Affairs is now accepting applications for its nonresidential
       Fellows Program. The program supports promising younger
       scholars, educators, and practitioners who are engaged with the
       ethical dimensions of international affairs. The program is
       open to ju ...
    Contact: fellows@...
    URL: www.cceia.org/programs/fellows.html
    Announcement ID: 131512
    http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=131512

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: CEP Fellowships (Central Asia)

H-Gender-MidEast
****************

Civic Education Project - Teaching Fellowships

The Civic Education Project (CEP) is now accepting 2003-04 academic
year
applications for its Visiting Faculty Fellowship Program and Local
Faculty Fellowship Program. CEP awards teaching fellowships to
faculty,
Ph.D.s
and advanced post-graduate students in the social sciences, law and
journalism/media studies. CEP Fellows teach at CEP partner
universities
located throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet
Union,
and Mongolia. CEP Fellows participating in both programs work as
lecturers
at universities throughout the region.

CEP Visiting Faculty Fellows are academics (having received Western
training) from outside of the region who teach and mentor for one
academic year (two semesters) at a college in a CEP program country.
Visiting
Faculty Fellows receive a stipend, round-trip air travel,
accommodation,
health
insurance, language lessons, and book allowances.

CEP Local Faculty Fellows are academics from within the region, who
have
graduated from a North American or West European university with a
postgraduate degree. CEP supports their efforts to stay in academia in
their ome country by providing a monthly stipend, teaching materials,
and
participation in various CEP events and activities.

Both Visiting and Local Fellows become part of an academic network
covering all CEP program countries, from Slovakia to Mongolia. CEP
Fellows
also
work on a variety of outreach projects outside the classroom. CEP has
programs
in 24 countries and supports more than 200 Fellows in a variety of
disciplines, including international relations, sociology, political
science,
law, history, economics, public administration, environmental policy,
and
journalism/media studies.

Application deadline for 2003-04 academic year:
Visiting Faculty Fellowship: January 10, 2003
Local Faculty Fellowship: March 1, 2003

For more information, from America or Australia, New-Zealand please
contact the CEP Washington D.C. Office at the e-mail address below.
Staying
elsewhere please contact the CEP European Office at
cep@... or visit our web-site.

Civic Education Project
171 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Suite 506
Washington, D.C. 20036-2001
phone: +1-202-663-7793
fax: +1-202-663-7799
email: cepdc@...

Civic Education Project
Budapest
Szent
Istvan ter 11/b
H-1051 Hungary
phone: +36-13273219
fax: +36-13273221
email: cep@...

Website: http://www.cep.org.hu

Subject: H-Gender-MidEast: FY Fellowships 2003

H-Gender-MidEast
***************

The Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program offers opportunities
to faculty members of institutions of higher education for research
and
study in modern foreign languages and area studies.

For FY 2003 the competition for new awards focuses on projects
designed
to
meet the priority we describe in the PRIORITY section of this
application
notice.

Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education.

Applications Available: September 25, 2002.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: October 25, 2002.
Estimated Range of Awards: $20,000--$100,000.
Estimated Average Size of Fellowship Awards: $47,727.
Estimated Number of Awards: 33 fellowships.

Project Period: The institutional project period is 18 months
beginning
July
1, 2003. Faculty may request funding for 3--12 months.

Absolute Priority
A research project that focuses on one or more of the following areas:
Africa,
East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, the Near East,
East
Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (Canada,
Central
and
South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean). Please note that
applications
that
propose projects focused on Western Europe will not be funded.

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3) we consider only applications that meet the
priority.

Subject: Carnegie Council fellowship

*Call for Fellowship Applications*

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs is now
accepting applications for its nonresidential Fellows Program.  The
program
supports promising younger scholars, educators, and practitioners who
are
engaged with the ethical dimensions of international affairs. The
program is open to junior scholars and mid-career professionals
worldwide.
Individuals from developing countries are encouraged to apply.  All
fellows must be fluent in English.  Candidates must link their
applications to one of the Council's five program areas:
Environmental Values,
Ethics and the Use of Force, History and the Politics of
Reconciliation,
Human Rights, or Justice and the World Economy.  The deadline for
applications is January 15, 2003.  Please visit our website at
http://www.cceia.org/programs/fellows.html for more details.
Inquiries
may be addressed to:
   Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
   170 East 64th Street
   New York, NY 10021
   e-mail: fellows@...
   NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE

4.
Subject: CfA: Regional Youth NGO Forum in SEE



RYCID - Regional Youth Center for Information and Documentation in
South
Eastern Europe

Partenership project of

Independent Youth Foundation Timis County Romania

European Voivodina Novi Sad

Student Organisation of University of Maribor

YOUTH COUNCIL of PRILEP

TIRANA YOUTH Center

Financed by

YOUTH HOUSE Conference Center Aries str. 19 Timisoara ROMANIA
tel: ++40-56-191170; fax:++40-56-201238; email: fitt@...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS on

SOUTH EAST EUROPE

YOUTH NGOs Forum

Dear friends,

We are happy to announce the next event on the framework of the
RYCID –
Regional Youth Center for Information and Documentation in South East
Europe. We invite young NGO-activist to take part in this youth event
to be
held in Timisoara, Romania between 21 and 23 of November 2002

Purpose of the Forum

The Forum is to reunite the majority of the organizations from the
network
for direct contact, discussions and activity presentation.
The first edition of the forum will create the possibility of common
projects, will expose directly NGOs are confronting with at the
regional level.
The main need that determines this type of action is that of
connecting
and
partnership between the youth NGOs.

Main Components

NGOs presentation
Workshops on the following themes:
the lack of youngsters social involvement and combating strategies;
the governmental – non-governmental partnership in the youth sector;
the prevention of the social exclusion of the young people coming
from
the
unprivileged areas;
instability factors of the region from the young inhabitant's
perspective.
Direct presentations of the financers of interest for the region and
for
the youth sector.

Methodology

The participants will be able to share their experience both in
direct
contact with the other NGOs present in the Forum, but also to present
their
work in front of the main actors in the youth field and financers of
the
region and to contribute to the outcome of the forum through
workshops
on
different themes. A small exhibition of youth NGOs materials will be
available as a tool for better presentation of the activity. We would
like
to stress the importance of partnership projects in the region
through
all
the activities of the Forum.

*Financial and practical conditions of participating

The accommodation and meals are covered by the organizers and will be
provided starting with dinner in the 20th of November and ending with
breakfast in the 23rd of November

The materials, forum support and guides are free of charge. There is
no
participation fee.

The transportation is to be covered by the participants (with some
exceptions that are subject to direct discussion). Buses will be
provided
from Belgrade free of charge.

* Languages:

Working language is English. There are no translation possibilities.

* Application, procedure and selection of participants

The participants selection will be made on the basis of a standard
application form, a letter of intention. The selection will be made
either
by the IYF or the partner organizations in Macedonia, Slovenia,
Albania.
The standard application is attached to this email. You can apply
online at
the RYCID web page: www.rycid.org or download the application form
there.

* Deadline for applications: We ask you to inform the members of your
organization about this event, and to send as the application-form
for
forum before the 6th of November 2002

* The persons you can get in touch are:
Dan Diaconu - program manager Adina Cartog - program assistant
Phone: +40723207292 Phone: +40723253571
Fax: +40256201238 Fax: +40256201238
E-mail dan@... or fitt@... Email : adina@...

The partners:

Trajce Dimitreski (for Macedonia)

Youth Council of Prilep

trajced@...

Marko Rosandic (for Slovenia)

SOU Maribor

P:+386 (0) 22285600

F: +386 (0)2 229 51 60

Email: marko.rosandic@...

Marlina Ohri (for Albania)

Tirana Youth Center

marlina_ohri@...

Best wishes and looking forward to hearing from you.

Dan Diaconu

5.
Dear GDN participant,
Thank you for completing a GDNet Researcher Profile. One of GDN's
principal objectives is to provide social science researchers
residing in developing countries with access to resources that enable
them to do their research better. The GDN Funding Opportunities
newsletter is a specific service geared to support this objective.
The newsletter is issued every two weeks with a comprehensive round-
up of funding opportunities for researchers in the social sciences,
especially selected for regional relevance to GDN members.
We would like to remind you that you are eligible to recieve the GDN
Funding Opportunities Newsletter. We would therefore like to remind
you to submitt the detalis of a publication to include in your
profile. Having a complete profile will enable you to recieve the GDN
Funding Opportunities Newsletter and have access to the GDN
specialised services including access to data and online services.
I am enclosing a sample newsletter for your review. If any furthur
assistance is required, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Warm regards,
Nadine Morcos
GDN Funding Opportunities Coordinator
nmorcos@...
nmorcos@...

GDN FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "This Newsletter, produced by
the Global Development Network in co-operation with the Community of
Science, is copyright protected. It is licensed for the personal use
of the addressee in connection with his/her research activities. It
may not be forwarded, copied, published in any form, or used for any
commercial purpose."
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
GENERAL OPPORTUNITIES

Princeton Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts: Postdoctoral
Fellowships - Princeton University; Society of Fellows***
DEADLINE: October 15, 2002
AMOUNT: $56,000
ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must have earned their Ph.D. degree between
January 1, 2000 and October 15, 2002. Those candidates who will not
meet the October 15, 2002 deadline, but are certain to have fulfilled
all conditions for the Ph.D. degree by June 15, 2003, may apply for a
postdoctoral fellowship with the support of a letter of nomination
from their department chair. ABSTRACT: The Princeton Society of
Fellows brings recent recipients of Ph.D. degrees in the humanities
and social sciences to the university for three years, to create an
interdisciplinary community of scholars with fresh approaches to
intellectual issues. Hosted jointly by the Humanities Council and
academic departments, postdoctoral fellows pursue their research and
teach half time. In addition, they have informal as well as
structured opportunities to interact with students, faculty, senior
fellows, and each other.
CONTACT_EMAIL: fellows@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.princeton.edu/~sf/application.shtml

Academy Scholars Program - Harvard University; Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs; Harvard Academy for International Area
Studies***
DEADLINE: October 15, 2002
AMOUNT: $25,000 - $38,000
ELIGIBILITY: The competition for these awards is open only to
doctoral candidates (Ph.D. or comparable professional school degree)
or recent recipients of these degrees who may already hold teaching
or research positions.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the Academy Scholars Program is to identify
very bright scholars who are at the start of their careers and whose
work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences with an
in-depth grounding in particular countries or regions. Scholars are
expected to reside in the Cambridge/Boston area for the duration of
their appointments unless traveling for approved research purposes.
CONTACT NAME:  Beth Baiter, Program Coordinator
CONTACT EMAIL: bbaiter@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/scholars.htm

Adolescent and Youth Research Award - Radcliffe College; Murray
Research Center, Henry A.; Radcliffe Research Support Program***
DEADLINE: October 15, 2002
UPPER AMOUNT: $10,000
ABSTRACT: Radcliffe College announces a program of small grants to
support postdoctoral research using data sets containing samples with
youth or adolescents archived at the center.
The Murray Research Center has received a grant from the W.T. Grant
Foundation "Facilitating Research on Youth," which involves archiving
new data sets on adolescents and youth, training for use on these
data, and providing funding for new research using these data. The
grant is especially interested in research focusing on "youth as a
resource," or positive attributes and strengths of youth.
CONTACT NAME:  Grants Program Administrator
CONTACT EMAIL: mrc@...
For more details and contact information, Please visit the following
site:
http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/grants/index.htm#rrsp

Health Services Research Project Grants - Wellcome Trust; Biomedical
Research Funding Opportunities; Career Development Programmes***
DEADLINE: October 21, 2002
ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must hold an established academic post in an
appropriate university or research institute in the United Kingdom or
Republic of Ireland. The personal support of all applicants and co-
applicants should usually be guaranteed for the duration of a grant.
ABSTRACT: The purpose of the Wellcome Trust's Health Services
Research Project Grants is to support research into the
identification and quantification of healthcare needs and the
quantitative study of the provision and use of health services to
meet them. The research is usually multidisciplinary and involves
epidemiology, statistics, economics, and social and behavioural
science.
CONTACT EMAIL: cdg@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/1/biosfgcdpfunsumhsrhsr.html

Research Project Grants - Leverhulme Trust***
DEADLINENOTE: Continuous.
ELIGIBILITY: Eligible institutions are as follows: Universities and
other institutions of higher and further education in the United
Kingdom may apply. Joint applications from more than one institution
and applicant are welcomed; however, one institution and applicant
must be designated as the lead, having undertaken to be responsible
for administering the grant if awarded. Registered charities in the
United Kingdom are eligible. Institutions or organisations of similar
status in less developed countries are eligible where, in the opinion
of the Leverhulme Trustees, the provision for research funding is
seriously limited.
CONTACT NAME:  Sarah Conner
CONTACT EMAIL: sarahc@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.leverhulme.org.uk/research_project_grants.shtml

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REGION SPECIFIC OPPORTUNITIES

AFRICA & MENA

Business Linkages Challenge Fund (BLCF) - Deloitte & Touche (United
Kingdom)***
DEADLINE: October 18, 2002.
AMOUNTNOTE: The BLCF offers grants of between £50,000 to £1,000,000
(larger grants may be considered in some cases if they will make a
special contribution to achieving the BLCF's objectives).
ABSTRACT: The Business Linkages Challenge Fund (BLCF) is a cost-
sharing grant scheme, i.e., it gives grants to enterprises to achieve
the Department for International Development's (DFID's) objective of
developing commercially sustainable business linkages that bring
benefits to the poor. It is a way of working in partnership with the
private sector towards the goal of poverty eradication.
CITIZENSHIP: Belize; Botswana; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada;
Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; Lesotho; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; Saint
Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; South Africa; Swaziland;
United Kingdom; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Bidders should not contact DFID directly.
CONTACT NAME:  David Jones, Project Director
CONTACT EMAIL: blcf@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.challengefunds.org/blcfhome.htm

2002-2003 International Collaborative Research Grants Re-
conceptualizing Public Spheres in the Middle East and North Africa -
Social  Science Research Council Program on the Middle East & North
Africa
DEADLINE: November 15, 2002
The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Program of the SSRC is pleased
to announce its second annual grant competition supporting
international collaborative research focusing on the MENA region,
which is defined as stretching from Iran to Morocco. We invite
proposals that bring together researchers in different locations to
address issues related to the changing nature of public spheres in
the region. The notion of "public spheres" is used in a broad sense,
encompassing the transformation of socio-economic conditions, state
and non-state structures, individual and collective identities and
cultural production. The research grants awarded will be for a
maximum amount of $35,000 and for a maximum period of 18 months.
CONTACT EMAIL: mena@...
For more information and contact details, please visit the following
site:
  http://www.ssrc.org/programs/mena

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ASIA

Jackson Memorial Fellowship - Griffith University; Office for
Research***
DEADLINE: October 04, 2002
AMOUNT: $2,850
The fellowship will be available once in each calendar year and is
tenable for one to three months. The fellow will be expected to visit
Griffith University during a teaching semester in 2003.
ELIGIBILITY: Only staff of full member institutions of ASAIHL are
eligible, not staff of associate member institutions.
CITIZENSHIP: Brunei; Hong Kong; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines;
Singapore; Thailand; Vietnam
ABSTRACT: The Jackson Memorial Fellowship was instituted to mark the
occasion of Griffith University's election to associate membership of
the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning
(ASAIHL). It was named the Jackson Memorial Fellowship in recognition
of the late Professor James C. Jackson's services in establishing
relationships between Griffith University and universities of
southeast Asia. The prime purpose of the fellowship is to strengthen
these links.
CONTACT NAME:  Ms. Carolyn Woodmass
CONTACT EMAIL: C.Woodmass@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.gu.edu.au/or/grant/frameset2sub0.html

Ramon Magsaysay Awards - Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.; Ramon
Magsaysay Award
Foundation***
DEADLINE: Continuous. Inquiries are accepted at any time. Applicants
are requested to send a brief preliminary letter of inquiry; full
proposals will be requested by the fund.
AMOUNT: $50,000
Often regarded as the Nobel Prizes of Asia, these awards are
presented in five categories: government service, public service,
community leadership, international understanding, and journalism,
literature, and creative communication arts. Up to five awards are
given annually by the board of trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
Foundation, which is headquartered in Manila and receives its
principal support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. (RBF).
CONTACT EMAIL: rock@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.rbf.org/ramonprog.html

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CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE

Call for proposals for the fall 2002 round for Economics Research
Grant Competition – The Economics Education and Research Consortium
(EERC)
DEADLINE: October 15, 2002
ABSTRACT: This call may be of particular interest to those CEU
graduates and students who have received solid economics education
and are looking for ways to apply their knowledge in policy-relevant
research. Proposals are solicited in the following five areas with
relevance to current policy concerns in Russia and CIS: Enterprises
and product markets, Labor markets and social policy, Macro,
financial markets and open economy, Public economics, International
trade and regional integration.
The best research teams will be invited to present their projects at
the EERC Research Workshop (December 17-19, 2002, Moscow). Grants are
awarded to individual researchers or small research teams (up to 3
persons) for a period of one year. Most grants fall within the $6,000
to $15,000 range according to the nature, scope, and budget
requirements of the project. Heads of projects must attend the
workshop in order to be considered for a grant
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.eerc.ru

Russian Fulbright Competition
DEADLINE: 18 October 2002
The Fulbright Office in the Russian Federation announces the 2003-
2004 Senior Scholars Program Competition. Russian Scholars working in
Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts are invited to apply to the
Senior Scholars Program. Approximately 35 grants will be awarded to
support research or lecturing in an American University. To be
eligible, candidates must be a citizen of the Russian Federation and
must live permanently in the Russian Federation; must have a
Kandidatskaya degree (at a minimum) or dorktorskaya degree at the
time of application.
CONTACT EMAIL: fulbright@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.fulbright.amc.ru

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LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN

Community Development Grants - Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation***
DEADLINENOTE: Continuous.
Grants from the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation support
neighborhood-based organizations that develop affordable housing,
create new businesses, generate employment opportunities, and address
critical needs such as job training, child care, and youth
development. Committed to building healthy and sustainable
communities. Deutsche Bank works in partnership with outstanding
local and national organizations to help community-based initiatives
take root and succeed.
CONTACT NAME:  Gary Hattem, President
CONTACT EMAIL: gary.s.hattem@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.db.com/community/dbaf/index.html

Environment Grants - Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation***
DEADLINENOTE: Continuous.
Grants are made to programs that work to create and maintain
environmentally healthy and sustainable communities, particularly in
neighborhoods in the process of revitalization. Environmental
organizations that help create open public space within urban
communities, provide educational opportunities for youth, and seek
new ways to reutilize environmentally harmed land, are eligible for
support. Projects that can demonstrate the economic benefits of
environmental conservation, especially for the poor, are also
eligible for grants.
CONTACT NAME:  Gary Hattem, President
CONTACT EMAIL: gary.s.hattem@...
For more details and contact information, please visit the following
site:
http://www.db.com/community/dbaf/index.html

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***  "This funding opportunity was provided by Community of Science
from the COS Funding Opportunities database, which contains over
23,000 records. To find out more about COS services visit the COS
website at www.cos.com."
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