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EDITOR ChristineMoritz DESIGNER Duy-KhuongVan

M A R Y L A N D I N T E R N A T I O N A L

is the newsletter of the Office of

International Programs and the two

organizations under its auspices, the

Institute for Global Chinese Affairs

and International Education Services.

It is published twice during the spring

semester and twice during the fall

semester, with an additional issue

in the summer. For submissions or

suggestions for future issues, please

contact the editor, Christine Moritz,

by e-mail at [email protected]

or by telephone at 301.405.4771.

4 November 15 Deadline for International Activities and Travel Grants

5 Spring2004RecipientsofGrantsforInternationalTravelandActivities

6 NewHumphreyFellowsArriveatPhilipMerrillCollegeofJournalism

7 GovernmentandPoliticsMajorWinsScholarshipforChinaStudies

7 UMandFudanUniversityEstablishJournalist-in-ResidenceProgram

8 Telhami’sThe StakesChosenasFirstYearBook

9 GovernmentandPoliticsMajorWinsScholarshipforChinaStudies

9 SecondAnnualConferenceonWorldHungertoTakePlaceinDecember

10 IGCAHostsFiveTrainingGroupsOverSummer

11 IGCACo-Sponsors“WhenEastMeetsWest”EventSeries

12 SymposiumtoExamineBrazilianDictatorship

13 AmericanPortugueseStudiesAssociationtoHoldInternationalConferenceatUM

14 CenterforRenaissanceandBaroqueStudiesContinues“TeachingEastandWest”

15 LatinAmericanStudiesCenterAnnouncesFall2004Events

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seminars, workshops and other activities

that are clearly international in scope.

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activity will enhance the University of

Maryland’s internationalprofile.Also, the

activity must have a significant student

component(organization,participation,or

audience).Whenheldoncampus,theevent

must be free of charge and open to the

generalpublic.

Deadlines: April 15 and November 15.

Maximumgrant:$2,000.

InternationalTravelGrantFull-time faculty members are invited

to submit a proposal to the International

TravelFundCommitteeforsupporttocarry

outresearchoverseas.Proposalsmustshow

the ways in which the applicant and the

University of Maryland will benefit from

thecompletionof theproject.Awardsare

madeforeconomy-classtravelandassume

that other sources of support, particularly

from the home Department/College, are

alsobeingappliedtotheproject.

Deadline: April 15 and November 15.

Maximum grant: Economy airfare and a

totalof$300forincidentalexpensesforthe

entiretravelperiod.

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O f f i c e o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l P r o g r a m s

November 15 Deadline for International Activities and Travel Grants

TheOfficeofInternationalProgramsispleasedtoannouncethefollowinggrantsfor2004-2005.

Onlyfull-timetenure-trackfacultyareeligible.

Forfurtherinformationandapplicationforms,seewww.intprog.umd.edu.

Ifyouhaveanyquestions,[email protected]

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O f f i c e o f I n t e r n a t i o n a l P r o g r a m sInternational Travel Grants

MIKHAILANISIMOV,ProfessorofChemicalEngineering

CollaborativeresearchonphasetransitionsincomplexfluidswithaphysicistattheUniversityofKyoto,Japan

MATHIASFRISCH,AssistantProfessorofPhilosophy

ColloquiumspeakerinLouvain-la-Neuve,Belgiumataworkshoponphysicsandphilosophy;partofaplanningworkshopinvenice,Italy

DAVIDGORDON,AssistantProfessorofHistory

ResearchandaconferenceinLusaka,Zambia,andresearchintheBembaHighlands

GAyGuLLICKSON,ProfessorofHistoryandAssociateDeanofGraduateStudies

ResearchintheSuffrageandAnti-SuffrageCollectionsoftheWomen’sLibraryinLondon

SCOTTKASTNER,AssistantProfessorofGovernmentandPolitics

ResearchinTaipei,TaiwanandShenzhenandShanghai,Chinaoneconomicandpoliticalrelations

SAMIRKHuLLER,AssociateProfessorofComputerScience

OrganizingaworkshopinBertinoro,Italyonalgorithmsforschedulingandcommunication

MANELLACORTE,AssistantProfessorofSpanish

CollectingdataonthestateofSpanishappliedlinguisticsinMexicoCity,Mexico

ZHONGCHILIu,AssociateProfessorofCellBiologyandMolecularGenetics

CollaborativeresearchonepigeneticregulationwithacolleagueattheUniversityofGeneva,Switzerland

International Activities Grants

DEBORAHGOODINGS

ProfessorofCivilandEnvironmentalEngineering

AccompanyingUM’sstudentchapterofEngineersWithoutBorderstonorthernThailandtobuildahealthcentertoserveremotehilltribes

ROBERTAL AVINE,AssociateProfessorofSpanish

JAMESGREENBERG,ProfessorofEducation,CenterforTeachingExcellenceFellow,

andDirectorofCTEInternationalPrograms

BringingtogetherrepresentativesfromEcuador,Peru,andChiletoplanaconferenceoneducationalleadershipinLatinAmerica

ERICZ AKIM,AssistantProfessorofHebrew

ELIZ ABETHPAPA ZIAN,AssistantProfessorofRussian

Supporting(aspartoftheInternationalFilmSeries)anInternationalDirectors’Series,

whichinthe2004-2005academicyearwillbringtocampusIsraeliandPalestinianfilmdirectors

Spring 2004 Recipients of Grants for International Travel and Activities

For the 2004-2005 academic year, the University of

Maryland’sPhilipMerrillCollegeofJournalismishosting13

HubertH.HumphreyFellows.

The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program is

administeredasaFulbrightexchangeactivitybytheInstitute

ofInternationalEducationincollaborationwithanetworkof

U.S.universities,withprimarysupportfromtheU.S.State

Department.TheprogrambringstotheU.S.accomplished

mid-careerprofessionalsfromdesignatedcountriesinAfrica,

Asia,LatinAmerica, theCaribbean, theMiddleEast, and

Eurasiaforayearofstudyandrelatedprofessionalexperiences.

Fifteenhostuniversitiesofferplacementsinanumberoffields

rangingfromlawtointernationalfinancetoepidemiology.

TheUniversityofMarylandhostsHumphreyFellowsin

thefieldsofcommunicationsandjournalism.Eachacademic

year, 13 or 14 international journalists and public affairs

specialistscomehereaspartof theprogram,takinggradu-

ate-levelcoursesandengaginginprofessionaldevelopment

events.

The Humphrey Fellowship Program was initiated in

1978tohonorthememoryandaccomplishmentsofthelate

U.S.SenatorandvicePresidentHubertH.Humphrey.The

UniversityofMarylandhasbeenahost institution for the

programsince1993.

NATAlIA AbrAmovA russia

Senior editor, Tv and film director at the National

BroadcastingCompany,Saratov

IlmA AjANovIc bosnia and Herzegovina

MarketingmanagerandchiefeditorofPrizma,afinancial

magazine

mIcHee cAsImIr boko benin

ReporterfortheInterPressServicenewsagency

moHAmmeD bAsHeer India

PrincipalcorrespondentforThe Hindu

mIleNA DurDIc montenegro

NewseditorofTvMontenegro

ANA luIzA De olIveIrA FArIAs brazil

Publications manager for the city of Belo Horizonte’s

communicationsdepartment

AbDul kArIm Afghanistan

Information assistant for the United Nations High

CommissionerforRefugeesinKabulandsupervisoroftwo

radioprograms

AbDul lewAl Afghanistan

SpokesmanforAfghanistan’sConstitutionalCommission

reyHANA mAsTers-smITH zimbabwe

Newsmagazinedirectorandmediaresearcher

moHAmmeD mATrANe morocco

Press attaché to the provincial coordinator of the local

chapterofUNICEF

AsHINA kIbIbI mweNI kenya

Director, producer, and scriptwriter for an independent

televisionproductioncompany

sANDor orbAN Hungary

DirectoroftheCenterforIndependentJournalismtraining

instituteinBudapest

rAjeNDA sHArmA Nepal

DeputyexecutiveproducerforRadioNepa

New Humphrey Fellows Arrive at Philip Merrill College of Journalism

2004-2005 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows at the University of Maryland

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Thi s pa st June , David Broder of the Philip Merrill

College of Journalism went to China to give two weeks

of lectures at Fudan University as part of a Journalist-in-

Residence program recently launched by Fudan and the

University of Maryland. He also spent a week at Wuhan

University,locatedinHubeiProvince.

A nationally acclaimed political reporter and a

columnist for the Washington Post, Broder joined the

UniversityofMarylandasaprofessorin2001.Hecontinues

to cover government and politics for his twice-weekly

syndicatedcolumn,whichappearsworldwideinmorethan

300newspapers.Broder,whoin1973wonthePulitzerPrize

fordistinguished commentary,has taught seminars at the

UniversityofMarylandonthepressandCongressandon

politicalreporting.

LocatedinShanghai,FudanUniversityisoneofChina’s

leadinguniversities.ItsSchoolofJournalismbeganonthe

departmentlevelin1929astheearliestprogramofjournal-

ism education in China, and in 1988 became one of the

university’sschools.

While in China, Broder wrote five editorials for his

syndicatedcolumn.“WardPolitics,ShanghaiStyle”exam-

inedaprogressivemunicipal leader.“Growthvs.History”

lookedatcontrastsandculturalpreservationinthecityof

Suzhou,focusingontheeffortsofDuGuo-Ling,thecity’s

vicemayorandagraduateoftheInstituteforGlobalChinese

Affairs’ExecutiveDevelopmentProgram.“Democracy’svital

voices” profiled a Beijing-based scholar-dissident in the

largercontextofdemocracyasaprincipleofU.S. foreign

policy.“WritingtotheEdge”discussedtheincreasingfreedom

Chinaisallowingitsjournalists,and“TheChineseDivide”

exploredthecountry’sincreasingurban-ruralsplit.

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism will be

sendingadistinguishedfacultymembertoFudanUniversity

everyyear.In2005,HaynesJohnson,professorandKnight

Chair(andalongtimeWashingtonPostcolleagueofBroder)

willvisit.

FormoreinformationonthePhilipMerrillCollegeofJournalism,

seewww.journalism.umd.edu.

UM and Fudan University Establish

Journalist-in-Residence Program

ABOVE DavidBroder


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Dr. Shibley Telhami’sThe Stakes: America and the Middle

East—The Consequences of Power and the Choice for Peace

(Westview)istheUniversityofMaryland’sFirstYearBook

selectionforthe2004-2005academicyear.

TelhamiistheAnwarSadatProfessor

forPeaceandDevelopmentattheUniver-

sityofMarylandandanon-residentsenior

fellowattheBrookingsInstitution’sSaban

Center.The Stakes: America and the Middle

East analyzes Arab and Muslim attitudes

toward the United States and proposes

solutions for improving how the U.S. is

perceived.

The goal of the First Year Book

Programistoprovideasharedintellectual

experiencefornewstudents.Allfirst-year

students receive a copyof the book, and

the Office of Undergraduate Studies (in

conjunction with many other units on

campus) sponsors programs around the

selectedtopic.AmongpreviousFirstYear

Book selections are Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project,

which examines the aftermath of the murder of Matthew

Shepard; and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, a

semi-autobiographicalworkontheexperienceofAmerican

soldiersinvietnam.

Anumberofeventshavealreadybeenplannedforthe

fall semester inconjunctionwith theFirstYearBook.On

September 14, Telhami and fellow Brookings Institution

scholarPeterW.Singerhostedatownhallmeetingnamed

“PointsofContact:HowOurGenerationCanBegintoHeal

theU.S.-ArabWorldDivide.”OnSeptember20,Telhami

moderated“ThreeYearsafter9/11:GlobalAttitudestoward

the U.S.,” a panel discussion between Andrew Kohut of

the Pew Center for the People and the Press and Steven

Kull of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at

theUniversityofMaryland’sSchoolofPublicAffairs.On

September 23, a panel discussion titled “Embedded: The

Journalists’ Perspective” examined the

impactofembeddingjournalistswiththe

military. October 6-8 sees the Actors’

Gang perform the political theatre work

Embedded at theClariceSmithCenter for

thePerformingArts.OnOctober14,Azar

Nafisi,authorofthememoirReading Lolita

in Tehran,willgiveareadingaspartofthe

Jiménez-PorterWriters’HouseSeries.On

October27,Telhamideliversa lecture in

theTawesTheater.OnNovember9, the

eclectic world-music group RebbeSoul

Power Percussion Trio performs at the

ClariceSmithCenter.Currently, Telhami is working on

Ref lections of Hearts and Minds: Media,

Opinion, and Identity in the Arab World, to

bepublishedbytheBrookingsInstitution

Press.IntheMiddleEast,recentyearshaveseenthegrowth

ofinfluentialnewmediaoutletssuchasAl-Jazeeraandother

satellite television stations. This is a contrast to previous

decades,inwhichmediaintheMiddleEastwaslimitedand

government-controlled.Thebookanalyzestheimpactofthe

newMiddleEasternmediaonArabpublicopinionandthe

shapingofidentityintheregion.

FormoreinformationontheFirstyearBookProgram,see

www.firstyearbook.umd.edu.FormoreinformationonShibleyTelhami

andtheSadatChair,seewww.bsos.umd.edu/sadat.

Telhami’s The Stakes Chosen as First Year Book

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Second Annual Conference on World Hunger to Take Place in DecemberThe Second Annual Conference on World Hunger willtakeplaceonThursday,December2 intheStamp

StudentUnion.Theconference is jointly sponsoredby theOfficeof InternationalPrograms, theCenter forSustainable

Development,theJointInstituteforFoodSafetyandAppliedNutrition( JIFSAN),andtheCollegeofAgricultureandNatural

Resources.

Theconference’stwosessionsfocuson“SettingtheWorldStagefortheUnitedStates’RoleinFightingWorldHunger”

and“TheRoleofLand-GrantUniversitiesinDealingwithWorldHunger.”Inthefirstsession(moderatedbyDavidLineback,

DirectorofJIFSAN),speakerswilladdresstheoverallpictureofworldhungerandtherolesthattheU.S.,science,andnutrition

playinsolvingtheproblem.Thesecondsession(moderatedbyDr.ThomasFretz,ExecutiveDirectoroftheNortheastern

RegionalAssociationofStateAgriculturalExperimentDirectorsandformerDeanofUM’sCollegeofAgricultureandNatural

Resources)examinestheinfluenceoftheU.S.researchfundingsystem,methodsofmobilizingtheresourcesoftheland-grant

system,andreasonswhycollegesofagricultureshouldbeinvolvedinsolvingtheworldhungerproblem.

Formoreinformationontheconference,seetheOfficeofInternationalProgramswebsiteatwww.intprog.umd.eduorcontactPernilleLevineby

[email protected].

Univers ity of Maryland studentDevinEllishaswon

thePresidentialScholarshipforChinaStudiestostudyabroad

duringthe2004-2005academicyear.

Funded by the Chinese government, the scholarship

is awarded to eight selectU.S.universities.TheOfficeof

International Programs contributed to

theUniversityofMaryland’sscholarship

by covering the cost of Ellis’ travel

toChina.

Anativeofthestateof NewYork,

Ellis began his undergraduate studies

at the State University of New York

and then transferred to the Univer-

sityofMaryland,recentlyfinishinghis

junioryearhere.Agovernmentandpoliticsmajor,Ellis is

simulta-neouslypursuingamaster’sinpublicpolicyfromthe

UniversityofMaryland’sSchoolofPublicAffairs.Ultimately,

hehopestoworkfortheU.S.government.

This will be Ellis’s f irst study-abroad experience.

Hebecame interested inChinese studies as a resultofhis

focus on international relations; he describes China as an

important areawith regard toU.S. foreignpolicyand the

globaleconomy.

The provisions of the Presidential Scholarship allow

recipientstostudyatanyuniversityinChina.Ellissayshe

chosePekingUniversitybecauseitisChina’smostprestigious

university,andbecauseBeijingis the“heartofpolitics”in

China.WhileinBeijing,heplanstotakeclassesatPeking

University,conductresearchforhishonorsthesis,andimmerse

himself in the culture and language. He is also looking

forwardtohavingopportunitiestotravelaroundChina.

Government and Politics Major Wins Scholarship for China Studies


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This summer ,theInstituteforGlobalChineseAffairshostedaspartof

itsExecutiveDevelopmentProgramgroupsfromtheAgriculturalBankof

China,HenanProvince,ShandongProvince,thecityofGuangzhou,andthe

legislativeyuan(branch)oftheTaiwanesegovernment.

Withprogramstailoredtotheinterestsandexpertiseofeachdelegation,

theExecutiveDevelopmentProgramenablesexecutivestolearnaboutU.S.

institutionsandculture,publicandbusinessmanagementpractices,economic

development,scienceandtechnologymanagement,finance,andeducation,

andalsotodiscussmajorissuesfacingtheglobalChinesecommunityandits

relationshipswiththeUnitedStatesandinternationalinstitutions.

InJuly,afour-persondelegationfromtheAgriculturalBankofChina’s

AdvancedFinanceTrainingGrouparrivedforatwo-monthprogram.This

wasthesecondgroupthatthebankhassenttoIGCA;asimilargroupcamein

thefallof2003.Oneofthecountry’stopfourstate-ownedcommercialbanks,

theAgriculturalBankofChinaisstrivingtoimproveefficiencyandadopt

techniquesfromtheWest.Thegroup’sprogramconsistedoflecturesonbank

finance,marketing,developmentofnewproducts,riskmanagement,finance

management,investmentbanking,andhumanresourcemanagement.

A32-persondelegationfromHenanProvincebeganasix-monthcourse

ofstudyinAugust.Havingsentthreeearliergroupsforsimilarlong-term

programs,HenanhasalongstandingrelationshipwithIGCA.InAugust,a

23-persongroupfromShandongProvincebeganatwo-monthversionofthis

sameprogram.AswithothergroupswhohaveparticipatedinIGCAtraining

IGCA Hosts Five Training Groups Over

Summer

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IGCA Co-Sponsors “When East Meets West”

Event Series

Together with the “voicesIntegratingEastand

West” (vIEW) faculty consortium launched by Dr.

ShenglinChangandMargaritaHilloftheLandscape

Architecture program, IGCA co-sponsored a series

of “When East Meets West” events this fall. Other

co-sponsors includedtheFreemanFoundation,UM’s

EastAsianScienceandTechnologyinTransformation

group,theDepartmentofNaturalResourceSciences

andLandscapeArchitecture,andtheMarylandChapter

andMarylandStudentChapteroftheAmericanSociety

ofLandscapeArchitecture.

The event series began with two lectures by Dr.

Tianxin Zhang of Peking University: one on urban

designinJapanesecities,theotheronpreservationof

traditional Chinese villages. It continued with two

symposiumswiththetheme“LearningEast,Learning

West”:“Communities inTransformation”and“Land-

scapeinTransformation.”Theseriesculminatedwith

an“ArtInstallationwithCulturalDialogues,”featuring

studentperformersfromUMandfromMeijiGakuin

UniversityinJapan.

The vIEW collaborative also launched a new

two-weekintensiveUMcourse,“EastAsianLandscape

and Community in Transformation.” The course is

a partnership with Keiro Hattori of Meiji Gakuin

University.

FormoreinformationontheVIEWcollaborative,see

www.megacitysite.com/view.

programs,themembersofthesedelegationsaremid-career

leaders who are implementing reforms in China at the

municipal,county,andprovinciallevels.

An18-persondelegationfromthecityofGuangzhou

is currentlyfinishing a yearlongprogrambegun last fall.

SinceMarch,theyhavebeenworkingonresearchprojects

relatedtotheirindividualinterestsasheadsofavarietyof

municipaldepartments includingfinance,policyand law,

agriculture andwater, construction, science, technology,

andculture.AnothergroupfromGuangzhouwillsoonbe

arrivingforasimilarone-yearprogram.

Marking the first time that IGCA has hosted an

executive development group from Taiwan, a group of

seniorstaffpersonnelfromtheTaiwaneselegislativeyuan

(branch) came for a two-weekprogram inAugust.This

diversegroupincludedlegislativecounsels,budgetanalysts,

andotherpositions.Theymetwiththeircounterpartsand

committeestaffintheU.S.Congress.

InSeptember,a15-persongroupwillarrivefromthe

Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection, and

Quarantine,aChinesegovernmentbodydealingwithfood

inspection. This is the result of a bilateral World Trade

Organizationagreement;theU.S.wantedChinatoadhere

tointernationalstandardsandtofollowbestpractices.The

U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding the group’s

11-weekIGCAprogram,andU.S.governmentexpertsare

deliveringitscontents.

Laterthisfall,IGCAwillhostgroupsfromtheeastern

coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Jiangsu

groupwillbethesixthtocometotheUniversityofMary-

landfromtheprovince,whichhasbeensendingdelegations

herefortrainingsince1995.

FormoreinformationonIGCA’sExecutiveDevelopmentProgram,

seetheIGCAwebsiteatwww.igca.umd.eduorcontactAssistant

DirectorLindaZhao(301.405.0209,[email protected])orTrain-

ingProgramCoordinatorMichaelSchowalter(301.405.3361,

[email protected]).

LEF T PresidentMoteatareceptionforIGCA’straininggroups.


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Symposium to Examine Brazilian Dictatorship

Dr.BarbaraWeinstein

From October 14 to 16 ,theUniversityofMarylandwill

host“TheCulturesofDictatorship:HistoricalReflectionson

theBrazilianGolpeof1964.”

OrganizedbyDr.BarbaraWeinstein,Professor

in the Department of History, and Dr. Daryle

Williams,AssociateProfessorintheDepartment

ofHistory,thisinternationalsymposiummarks

the 40th anniversary of the golpe (coup) in

whichtheBrazilianmilitaryseizedpower.The

conferencecoincideswithtworelatedgatherings:

aone-daygraduatestudentconferenceon“Historical

PerspectivesofLatinAmericanDictatorships,”andthe

AmericanPortugueseStudiesAssociation’sfourthinterna-

tionalconference(seearticle,facingpage).

Thegoalofthissymposiumistobringtogetherhistorians

andotherscholarstoshareinnovativeresearchonthe21-year

periodofmilitary rule inmodernBrazil, and to considerhow

historicalresearchcancontributetothestudyoftheculturesof

militaryregimes.

Dr. James N. Green of Brown

University’s Department of History

will deliver the conference’s keynote

address, “While theBrazilianGener-

als Ruled: Rethinking Political,

Social, and Cultural Assumptions

About Life Under an Authoritarian

Regime.”Subsequentpaneldiscussions

focus on “The Dictatorship on the

World Stage” (with commentary by

Weinstein), “Discourses of Rule and

Counter-Rule”(withcommentaryby

Williams), “‘New’SocialMovements

OvertheLongHaul,”and“‘New’SocialMovements:voicesand

Silences.”MichaelHusseyoftheNationalArchivesandRecords

AdministrationwillleadaworkshoponNationalArchivesrecords

onLatinAmericandictatorships.Theconferenceconcludeswith

“WritingtheHistoryoftheMilitaryRegimes:Sources,Methods,

Interpretations,”adiscussionchairedbyDr.MaryKayvaughan,

ProfessorintheDepartmentofHistory.

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American Portuguese Studies Association

to Hold International Conference at UM

The fourth internat ional conference of the American

PortugueseStudiesAssociation(APSA)willtakeplaceOctober14-16at

theUniversityofMaryland.

Founded in 1996, APSA strives to foster the expansion and

disseminationofknowledgeaboutthelanguages,peoples,andculturesof

Portuguese-speakingcountries.Since1998,APSAhasheldinternational

conferenceseverytwoyears.PastconferencehostswereYaleUniver-

sity,theUniversityofWisconsin,andtheUniversityofMassachusetts

atAmherst.

APSA has established itself as an important presence in the

communityofPortuguesescholarsandeducatorsintheUnitedStates

andbeyond.Theassociationhasoveronehundredmembersinseveral

countriesonthreecontinents.Speakersforthisyear’sconferencecome

from over 40 institutions, among them the University of Porto in

Portugal,OxfordUniversity,theFederalUniversityofRiodeJaneiro

in Brazil, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Stanford

University,andtheUniversityofMichigan.

Topic categories for the conference are Brazilian literature

andculture,Lusophone(Portuguese-speaking)Africanliteratureand

culture,Portugueseliteratureandculture,comparativestudiesinLuso-

Afro-Brazilian literaturesandcultures,andPortuguese languageand

linguistics.Inaddition,thisyear’sconferenceincludesaspecialfocuson

contemporaryPortuguesenovelistLídiaJorge.

TheUniversityofMaryland’sDr.PhyllisPereswill speakat the

conferenceon“TravelingattheTurnoftheTwenty-FirstCenturyto

AngolaandMozambique:Bay of TigersandBlood on the Tracks.”Peres

isAssociateDeanofUndergraduateStudiesandAssociateProfessorin

theDepartmentofSpanishandPortugueseandintheLatinAmerican

StudiesCenter.

Formoreinformationontheconference,seewww.conferences.umd.edu/apsa.

Theconferenceisco-sponsoredbytheCenterforHistoricalStud-

ies,theCollegeofArtsandHumanities,theDavidC.DriskellCenter

for the Study of the African Diaspora, the Department of History,

theHispanicAmericanHistoricalReview, and theLatinAmerican

StudiesCenter.

Formoreinformationabouttheconference,

seewww.history.umd.edu/HistoryCenter/2004-05/conf/Brazil64.

Symposium to Examine Brazilian Dictatorship


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Thi s f a l l , the Center for Renaissance and

Baroque Studies is preparing for the first of

two follow-up sessions that will build on

a three-day conference ithosted inApril

as part of “Teaching East and West:

A Comparison of Tokugawa Japan and

ElizabethanEngland.”

Sponsored by CRBS, the program

providesK-12teacherswithaframework

toaddressthetwocultures: thevantage

pointofmaterialculture,includingfood,

gardens, clothing, andcrafts.Theprogram is fundedbya

grantfromtheJapanFoundationCenterforGlobalPartner-

ships.

Thisfocusonmaterialcultureprovideseducatorswith

applications within and across a variety of disciplines. In

addition,theprogramreflectsthecurrentinterestinpromot-

ing comparative study of arts and humanities in Eastern

andWesterncultures as away towiden students’ cultural

perspectives. Through comparison, the program hopes to

encourageteacherstoplacebothculturesingreatercontext

usinginterdisciplinarylessonplansandnewaspectsofmate-

rialcultureintheirclassrooms.

Japan’s Tokugawa period (sometimes called the Edo

period)lastedfrom1603to1868.Theemperorwasthenomi-

nalruler,buttherealpowerlaywiththeshoguninEdo,now

Tokyo.Withastabledomesticenvironmentandapolicyof

isolationfromtheoutsideworld,thecountryexperiencedan

eraofpeacethatinturnencouragedeconomicandcultural

development.ThereignofElizabethI(1558to1603)beganin

atimeofturmoilbutendedwithsimilarpeaceandprosperity,

andmarkedafloweringofthearts.Inthethree-dayApril

conference,areaelementaryandsecondary school teachers

attendedlectures,plays,andmusicalperformances,andtook

partinfieldtripstomuseumsinWashington,D.C.

TheconferencefeaturedakeynoteaddressbyDr.Thomas

Rimer, professor of Japanese literature of the University

of Pittsburgh. A number of workshops discussed ways of

exploringculturethroughcomparativeliteraryarts,artifacts,

textiles,visualarts, theaterandfilm,andperformanceand

participation. Speakers from the University of Maryland

includedDr. JaneDonawerth(English),LarryMacDonald

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TuES.,SEPT.7 Lectureonforensicanthropology

byDr.MercedesDoretti

MON.,SEPT.20 SymposiumonLatinAmericaneducation

TuES.,OCT.5 LecturebyAlbertoA.BoreaOdría,

AmbassadorofPerutotheOrganiza-

tionofAmericanStates:“TheRoleof

JuridicalInstitutionsin‘Convalescent’

Democracies”

WED.,NOV.3 LecturebyDr.PhyllisPeres,

“IntroductiontoLatinAmericanFilm”

THuRS.,NOV4 Film,Allá en el Rancho Grande(presentedbyDr.MaryKayvaughn)

WED.,NOV.10 BookpresentationonPancho Villa Retrato Autobiográfico,Dr.Guadalupevilla

WED.,NOV.10 Film,Vámonos con Pancho Villa(presentedbyDr.JorgeAguilarMora)

THuRS.,NOV.11 Presentationandreadingofthecreative

nonfictionmagazineMexican Voices

WED.,NOV.17 LecturebyCarlosdeIcaza,Ambassadorof

MexicototheU.S.:

“U.S.-MexicoRelationsToday”

WED.,NOV.17 Film,El Compadre Mendoza(presentedbyDr.SandraCypess)

THuRS.,NOV.18 “MexicanRevolutionaries”symposium,

pre-concerttalk,andconcert

THuRS.,NOV.18 Film,Jalisco Canta en Sevilla

Forroomlocations,times,andadditionalinformationontheseevents,

seewww.inform.umd.edu/las/Events/CurrentEvents.html

orcalltheLatinAmericanStudiesCenterat301.405.6459.

(Mid-AtlanticRegion“JapanintheSchools”program),and

graduate students Debra Kim Sivigny (Theatre), Phoebe

Avery(ArtHistoryandArcheology),andBenFisler(Theatre).

InadditiontoaworkshopontheJapaneseteaceremony,

participants also attended comparative food and theater

workshops. While attendees enjoyed an Elizabethan-style

banquet,graduate studentMargaretAnneCoyle (Theatre)

discussedhistoricaldiningpracticesandtheimportanceof

thematerialcultureoffoodanddining.Thefollowingday,

thegroupexperiencedatraditionalJapanesedinner.

In Washington, D.C., conference participants toured

Tokugawa-eraartworksattheSmithsonianInstitution’sFreer

andSacklerGalleries,whichtogetherformtheU.S.’snational

museumofAsianart.There,theyreceivedclassroomresources

on Japan as well as guidance on using them. Later, they

attendedaworkshopat theprivately runTextileMuseum,

learning about kimonos andmethods for using textiles to

teach about various cultures. At the National Arboretum,

they toured exhibits of bonsai and its Chinese equivalent

penjing, aswell as a Japanese-style garden and anEnglish

knotgarden.

In the two follow-up sessions this academic year,

teacherswillbeencouragedtoincorporatemoreaspectsof

international studies in their classrooms. The October 30

session, “Teaching Comparatively,” features a lecture and

discussiononsymbolisminEdo-periodtextiles,ademonstra-

tionandhands-onworkshoponcreatingceramicteabowls,

andpresentationsofparticipants’lessonplans.IntheApril30,

2005session,“SharingComparatively,”participantswilltake

guidedtoursoftheNationalGalleryofArt’sinteriorgardens

andthemuseum’scollectionoflandscapepaintings.

These workshops introduce teachers to topics that

supplement current curricula mandated by the Maryland

StateDepartmentofEducation inglobal studies,fine arts,

andEnglish literature.viaanonlinedatabase,participants

willsharetheirnewcurriculaandlessonplanswithcolleagues

aroundtheworld.

Formoreinformationon“TeachingEastandWest,”

seewww.crbs.umd.edu/eastandwest.Theprogramisdirectedby

Dr.NancyTraubitz,whoservesastheProgramDirectorfortheCenter

AllianceforSchoolTeachers(CAST).Shecanbereachedbyphone

[email protected].

LEF T JapanesecherrytreeattheNationalArboretum,

whereparticipantstouredJapanese-andEnglish-stylegardens.Latin American Studies Center

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