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IU Receives $6.2 Million in Title IV Grants Innovative Internship Programs for Southern Africa On One Poem by Wislawa Szymborska Interest in Hungary Thrives at IU New International Resource Center Supports Indiana IU Education Faculty Assist Vietnam IUSB Nursing, Irish-Style

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Phone (812) 855-8467 Fa,,,: (812) 855-6884 Email: [email protected]. IU Receives $6.2 Million for Eight Title IV Area Studies Centers

resident of Indiana University The programs that won grants are the quality of IU's international pro- Myles Brand has announced the African Studies Program, the Cen- grams and our desire to expand and Pthat eight international programs ter for Latin American & Caribbean enhance them." at IU have received a total of $6.2 mil- Studies, the Russian & East European Brand noted that since the presi- lion in grants from the federal govern- Institute, the East Asian Studies Cen- dency of Herman B Wells, IU has mel11 for the next three-year cycle ter, the Inner Asian & Uralic National been a pioneer in the development of under Tide VI of the National Re- Resource Center, and "\X,esEt uropean international programs. "The Tide VI sources and Fellowships Program. Studies. funds help the university maintain its The Department of Education pre- The India Studies Program was superb position in helping its faculty, sents such grants to undergraduate, awarded a grant under the Undergradu- students, and constituency throughout graduate, and professional schools to ate International Studies and Foreign the state and the nation prepare for the help them strengthen research and Languages Program. Additionall)~ Ill's challenges of an increasingly complex training in foreign languages and area Center for the Study of Global Change international environment," Brand said. or international studies. becomes a "national resource center" IU has also been awarded funds to for undergraduate education and will organize the 40th anniversary confer- offer an international certificate pro- ence of the Tide VI program in May gram. 1998. "This is an endorsement from the Scholars from IU and elsewhere will "This is a very federal government of the long-stand- travel to Washington, DC., to review ing tradition of our international pro- the accomplishments of Tide \'1 and great honor for grams," said Brand. "It is indicative of discuss the future of area studies. IU. Title VI has been ih the IU Historian Honored for Research on foref~~nt of fund- Mercantile History of Russia

ing for interna- hen Herbert Kaplan's recent The dinner celebrated the opening of W book, Russiall Overseas Commerce two magnificent art exhibits, one on "Pe- tionalresearch 1J~"thGreat Britai1l DNnllg the Reigll of ter de Grote en Holland" at the and teach ing, and Cathen'lle II, was published in 1996 by Amsterdam Historic Musewn, and the the American Philosophical Society, it other on "Catharina, de kaizerin en de the area studies won the Society's John Frederick Lewis kunsten"at the Nieuwe Kerk. After a Prize in the Humanities. The book was private viewing of the two exhibits, centers have had subsequently selected by Choice (Asso- Kaplan spoke to a select gathering of the ciation of College & Research Libraries) bank's clientele. an influence on as the "Outstanding Academic Book In his address, "Hope & Co., Baring 1996." Bros & Co., and Russian International national thinking I,-aplan's current research on com- Trade and Finance:' Kaplan spoke of about strategic mercial relations between Russian the challenges presented to the re- czars, the Dutch banking house of searcher by the wealth of relativelv world areas." Hope & Co., and the British Baring untouched archival documents, how Bros. & Co. brought him further rec- they complement what is being found ognition this January. Kaplan (History, in Russian archives, and how a com- - Patrick O'Meara, IUB) was invited to Amsterdam to be parison of these collections reveals im- dean for International the kevnote speaker at a dinner hosted plications for the development of by MeesPierson, the leading merchant economic strategies and policies for Programs bank in The etherlands and reposi- modern Russia. torv of the Hope & Co. documents. Southern Africa Gains from IU's Innovative Internsh ip Programs

rogram counselor working on tional Education and Development support in South Africa and the _'\meri- AIDS prevention and education Assistance (CIEDA) since 1995, has can communities interns have been p\ in South Africa, Aloma Foster, been so successful that the U.S. gov- placed. spent two months with the National ernment has begun to pay close atten- The internships provide a broad ar- Task Force on AIDS Prevention in San tion to it. ray of professional skills ,-ia hands-on Francisco. Foster was able to visit the This farch, in fact, the United States training, short-term management work- Black Coalition on AIDS, the San Fran- Information Agency awarded a con- shops, and periodic seminars. In all cisco AIDS Foundation, Ward 86 of the tract to CIEDA to create a new ex- cases, CIEDA program officers work San Francisco General Hospital and the change program, the South Africa with local host organizations to design \\edge Program. She came away with a Regional Internship Program, that will placements that match the needs of the clearer understanding of the holistic bring mid-career professionals from interns as demonstrated in their appli- approach used in treating AIDS pa- Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Botswana to cations. tients. She also discovered that educa- the U.S. for two-month internships. Program officers target organiza- tional programs are often culturally The goal of the new program is to tions that can devote the time and per- specific and require prevention and support democratic and economic re- sonnelnecessary to train an intern over education strategies tailored for specific forms in southern Africa by training a relatively short period of time. As populations and communities. Foster professionals in the areas of public ad- closely as possible, the host agencies believes that for AIDS education to be ministration, international trade, judi- selected to participate in SAIP perform successful in South Africa, a similar cial reform, and journalism. The interns tasks and func tions similar to those model must be followed. will join organizations across the performed bv the interns' employers in A mediator for the Cape Town City United States in order to gain hands- South Africa. Council, Chris Ferndale, was hosted by on management skills in their focus Upon their return, SAIP interns have the city of Gary, Indiana, where he areas. contributed to the development of spent time with many of the city's de- The new regional program will be South Africa-whether by improving partments pursuing issues of dispute modeled after SAIP, which continues resolution and government transpar- to grow, having achieved widespread ency. Assigned to the Director of Eco- nomic Development, Ferndale found that many of the issues facing Gary are similar to the economic development questions in Cape Town. An issue of particular interest to Ferndale was the introduction of casino gambling in Gary, a development strategy being considered by Cape Town. He had an opportunity to sun-ey firsthand Gary's casino boats with the Gary Mayor Scott I...:ingand financier Donald Trump. Thanks to Indiana University's inno- vative South African Internship Pro- gram (SAIP), Foster and Ferndale and 48 other mid-career professionals have been able to participate in internships in cities across the United States, in- cluding not only San Francisco and Gary but also Denver and St. Louis, Cleveland and Indianapolis. The internship program, which has Participants in Indiana University's innovative South African Internship Program been run b,' IU's Center for Interna- get together in Bloomington to meet each other and the staff of C1EDA. COl/til/lled]rom page 2 The Department of Education, linkages bet:\yeen the Northern Cape the traffic flow in Johannesburg, ap- Training, Arts, and Culture in North- and Indiana University can contribute plying innovative teaching techniques ern Cape ProvitKe has asked CIEDA to tertiary education development in at Leaf College in the \Xlestern Cape, to assist in developing the administra- the Northern Cape. adapting AIDS education methods in tive capacity and curriculum design for The IU Office of International Pro- rural atal, or helping facilities man- an emerging community college. grams is committed to strengthening agers prepare for CapeTown's Olym- Northern Cape ProvitKe, which does its growing professional programs it1 pic bid-and strengthened the bonds not have a university withit1its borders, southern Mrica, and we are excited that that tie our two countries together. is strugglit1gto retait1its educated youth these programs are contributit1g to last- In addition to providing the partici- who are attracted to universities in ing economic and democratic reform pants with useful professional experi- South Africa's urban centers. in the region. - Stel'e DriehallJ ences, SAIP also facilitates a valuable CIEDA is working with public and Program Officer cultural exchange between Americans private partners to determine how the CIEDrl and South Africans. Interns and hosts come to recognize the similarity of the challenges facing our two countries through host family living arrange- ments, informal social gatherings, and day-to-day exchanges at the workplace. The "home sta)J' is a critical dimen- sion of SAIP. Living with an American family allows interns to learn more about American culture and share their . ., knowledge of South Africa with the afo!)" research during the summer, host family.During the two-month sta)~ and subsequently to submit a fully an intern is hosted by two or more developed dissertation research pro- families. The "famil,~' may consist of posal to funding agencies in the fall. parents and children, a retired couple, The/19%- 97 seminar \va§; co-di- a single parent household or an indi- e vidual willing to share his/her hospi- c tality. of Global Change, and Diana SAIP interns view the home stay as Pritchard of me Center for Latin an important part of their American American & Caribbean Studies. experience. In their evaluations, they kfeatured presentations by fac- repeatedlY commented on the value of ul docto candidates from living in an American family setting. "I dis accompanied my host families to so- cial hll1ctions, book clubs, dinners, etc. I made some yery good friends," said Rooksana Omar. Such people-to-people exchanges are opening doors to future programs in South Africa. Because of a need iden- tified by SAIP participants, the IU Cen- :\Tnu nge ter on Philanthropy in Indianapolis was phaS:is on active participation an area. recendy it1,-ited to coordinate a fund- regular attendance throughout the Students who actively participated raising school in South Africa that t:\v6 semesters in order to Create ,a in all sessions and fulfilled the as- would be administered as multiple «community d£ scho sessment criteria were eligible to workshops 111 Cap Town, ertati 10r- Johannesburg, and Durban. If all goes according to plan, the e.nts school will help develop fund-raisit1g The serninar;eries is es.pecially ap: capabilities for nonprofit community propriate for. those students who organizations that continue to be con- plan to complete a preliminary dis- strained by limitations it1funding from sertation res ch the end the south African government. joy, no matter what its origin. On One Poem Yet one cannot claim that this is a systematic tendency of hers, for by Wislawa Szymborska's imagination resists all systems by creating anti-systems. Al- Szymborska, the mos t every statement we can find in her poetry has an opposite statement. 1996 Nobel In her verse, a casually conjured image is often complemented by a refined im- Laureate in age taken from high culture, be it a me- dieval book illumination or a Rubens Literature painting. All forms of culture, low or n the cover of The Elld and the high, are for Szymborska a source of O Beg/llllillg, the latest volume by the cognitive amusement and surprise. renowned Polish woman poet \X'islawa Other than children, poets perhaps are Szymborska, is an abstract painting by the only individuals that never lose the Poland's foremost painter Jerzy gift to be surprised and, in turn, to sur- owosielski. It was in fact Nowosielski, prise the reader. Sz\"mborska is a mas- Szvmborska's old friend, who intro- ter at achieving this effect. duced me to her a few years ago in Photograph of the poet from Wrodosc Let us look, for example, at her I--::rak6w._!\lthoughI had been interested Czytania 5zymborskiej (Krakow: poem, "Breughel's Two Monkeys." The in both her verbal and \-isual output, I 1996) title already informs us of the poem's asked the poet about her lesser known point of reference-Pieter Breughel's her eye w1erringly travels from one as- yet equally fascinating collages. Her painting from the Dahlem Museum. deferential response was interspersed pect of reality to another and celebrates Szymborska takes care to preserve the with self-conscious laughter. Since then, its wonders. She does not seek, nor does painting's integrity and content. Its min- for me, she will remain forever the rar- she trust, the so-called ideal beauty, iature scale is a perfect match for est type of celebrity, the one that does since perfection-in her view--does Szymborska's miniature poem on art. not exude an aura of self-importance. not belong to this world. Thus her best The many details captured in the Svzmborska, who creates, from time poetic images are not so much touched painting'scity and seascapeare jlL\.1:aposed to time, pun- filled collages, is an art by imperfection but appear to us rather with a rudin1entary interior that serves connoisseur, and, moreover, in her po- unexpectedly, peripherally. Her eye is as a confinement for two monkeys. etry frequently evokes masterful paint- suddenly attracted to an onion, or the Szymborska-without imposing her ings. In this triple role, she expresses sole of a shoe, or a dead beetle, and we poetic ego on the painting--engages her fascination with the visible world; are caught up in her wonderment and in a dialogical interaction with our dis- tan t cousin, the monkey. Then, she ironically reverses the roles and endows the monkey (in this case, two monkeys) with superior wisdom and experiences stemming from enslavement. In an as- tonishingly simple way, she shifts This is I see my exams: Breughel's personal statement on his two monkeys, chained to the floor, sit on the windo\Vsill~ marriage and leaving Antwerp into a the sky b~~in~~~~~'71t~r§~!!i universal message concerning the er- the sea lstaIciri.g itsbams, ...... roneous History of Mankind. The exam is the History of Mankind. \X'hy then are the two nouns marked with capital letters? I stammer and hedge. The poem appeared in 1957 during

':..:::... -.\.::'.'.. \.':".'::.. ..,... ::....\. .':...... •.• ':...:,.:.•. ',.•. ...••....•...•.••.•.... :::. a political thaw that offered One tnonk~v ~tares Szvmborska a brief moment of free- the other se~ms to be dreaming away- dom and allowed her to publish the first but when it's clear 1don't knowwha of herw1Censored volumes. The Historv he m~~vi~a g~nt1~ Exam was over. Very few Polish poets prompts passed that exam during the Stalinist era. clinking 0 f his chain. l\lan~; in fact, compromised fueirtalents,

COlltill/led 011 page 5 ment of Central Interest in Eurasian Studies, the Hungarian program IS en- Hungary hanced each vear by the Thrives at IU holder of the Gyorgy Ranki he Bloomington campus ofIndiana Chair in Hun- T University is the major center for garian Studies. the study of Hungary in the United The Hungar- States. It is home to the Hungarian Stud- ian Chair is an ies program, the only such U.S.program endowed po- leading to an advanced degree offering sition funded a concentration of courses devoted to join t1y by the Ambassador Gyorgy Banlaki (left) with Jean Sinor (middle) Hungary, her history, culture, literature, HWlgarianAcad- and Denis Sinor (right) at the Hungarian Conference. and language. In addition to courses emy of Sciences taught by regular faculty in the Depart- and III and filled by a professor appointed from Hungary. policy, while working on a historical Established by an agreement in 1979, it study of the American response to So- represented the rather unusual arrange- viet rule in Hungary during the period ment of an appointee from a Commu- 19-1--1--56. Borhi also organized an in- nist COWltry serving on the faculty of an ternational conference, "Hungarian American public wliversity. Contributions to Scholarship," which This year's Hungarian Chair is was attended bv the Ambassador of the Laszlo Borhi of the Institute of His- Hungarian Republic, His Excellency tory at the Hungarian Academy of Sci- Gyorgy Banlaki. Laszlo Borhi (left) and Mihaly ences. This spring, he has been teaching The conference took place April 5- Szegedy-Maszak at the formal dinner two courses on the political economy 6 and brought together some 20 honoring the Ambassador. of Hungary and Hungarian foreign COlltillued 011 page 9

or-as Szymborskadid--truly believedin the utopian dream of a betterworld. fany of these poets chose to forget their own mistakes, while a handful of others, in- cluding Szymborska, did not deny them and understood the real depth of what this utopia represented. Hence the poem's chilling message. Introduced here as a poet of the ,-i- sual, Szymborska is more than a de- scriptive artist, since she imbues what is obvious to our eye with personal experience and sly reference to the dra- matic shifts and tensions of socio-politi- cal reality. Yet hers is also a rich and thoughtful summary encompassing life's many intimate paradoxes and con- tradictions, best expressed in her Rector Wlodzimierz Siwinski of Warsaw University was honored at a "Thank- You Note:" "I owe so much reception hosted by the IU Polish Studies Center. To his right is Bozena to those I don't love." Shallcross, Polish literature professor and the center's associate director. Janusz - BO'\.ellaShall.cross Grzelak (right) is dean of International Programs at Warsaw University. Siwinski Slavic LaligNages alld literatNres, TUB. and Grzelak visited Bloomington in connection with the IU-Warsaw Exchange. The IUIRC, was Firs t, the New created this Janu- IUIRC works as a ary with funding clearinghouse, re- International from the Strategic ceiving requests Directions Charter from the commu- Resource Center of IU President nity for interna- Myles Brand. The tional assistance Supports center seeks to and identifying the match Ill's interna- Il group best able Indiana's Interests tional resources to help. Second, veryday, communities across Indi- with the efforts of the IUIRC serves E ana come into closer contact with organizations out- as a broker, put- the global economy and culture. Some- side the uni,-ersity ting together part- times the change seems minor. Perhaps, that are promoting Shawn Reynolds is the director of the nerships between a foreign food suddenly gains popular- international com- IU International Resource Center. the uniyersity and ity, or a recent immigrant moves next merce and aware- outside organiza- door. Sometimes, the change seems ness. tions to create new program solutions. traumatic. A local factory relocates to The IUIRC serves its broad constitu- And, third, the IUIRC develops pro- Asia, for instance. ency of businesses, state and local gov- grams that meet the international needs To help Indiana residents adjust to this ernments, local economic development of Indiana and the Iidwest. new international context, Indiana Uni- organizations, and other nonprofit or- The IUIRC has initiated an ambi- versity has established the Indiana Uni- ganizations, in three ways. tious series of pilot programs. It is versity International Resource Center. working, for example, with the U.S.De- partment of Commerce and the IU School of Business's Global Business Information Network to develop a IU Faculty AssistVietnam With comprehensive "export market entry package" for small and medium sized Teacher Education Reform manufacturers of machine tools. The program will target 12 compa- our Indiana University School of and being graded separatel," in each nies and focus on four emerging mar- FEducation faculty members spent one. kets, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, and winter break in Vietnam serving as con- They study for a year and then take China. The IllIRC will provide speak- sultants to the Vietnam Ministry of one major test. If they fail that, they ers on cultural issues and assist in co- Education and Training on the \Tiet- must repeat the entire year's study. And ordinating the program. namese Teacher Education Reform it is not easy to change career plans. Another IUIRC initiative involves Project. Charles Barman and Natalie Mason and his wife, Ginette working with the Indiana Department Barman from IUPUI and Terrence Delandshere, and the Barmans went to of Education and Purdue Universitv to Mason and Ginette Delandshere Yietnam together as a team. They ,-is- deYelop an international learning com- from Bloomington spent three weeks ited Hanoi National University and ponent for a program on Brazil run by talking to government officials and edu- Thai Nguyen Ulllversi1\",which is re- the FFA (formerly known as the Fu- cators about ways to change the educa- allya cluster of specialized colleges that ture Farmers of ~I\merica). tional system in that country. are now trying out some aspects of the Ill's area studies centers are kev part~ The system of education in \Tietnam ~I\merican system. ners of the IUIRC. Director Shawn is different and more closely resembles The Indiana team reviewed the Viet- Reynolds is working with each center the Soviet model than any other. Un- namese plans for change. One goal of to develop new outreach programs. For like comprehensive universities in the the reform project is to improve the example, he is working with the East United States, there are many schools training of teachers. At present, the re- Asian Studies Center to develop a pro- which focus on a single profession or quirements for becoming a teacher are gram for the Bloomington Small Busi- academic discipline. A liberal arts considerablv different than those in the ness Development Corp. on Japanese/ grounding is not so wllversally stressed. U.S. Some graduate from teacher train- i\merican communication issues. Students do not progress course by ing institutions in only 1\vOyears. For more information, contact course, but year by year. They are not The IU educators explained how Reynolds at (812) 856-5961 or Donna familiar with the U.S. system of taking American universities are organized Veatch, assistant director, at (812) 856- several individual courses at one time and discussed curriculum and teaching 5507. _ SbaJl'1/ Reyl/olds Director, IUIRC Hong Kong: More Questions than Answers

he lights dim and a slick promotional China sees the return of Hong Kong Under the "one countr}~ two systems" T video flashes on the big screen. Dy- as a cause for celebration. The British approach embodied in the 1984 agree- namic Hong I"'::'ong.The best-place-on- wrested control of the islat1d from China's ment to return Hong I"'::'ong,China will earth Hong Kong. Come visit us soon. last dynasty during the OpiUl11 War in allow the territory to retain a substantial Pearl of the Orient. Home to world's larg- 1842. The Chinese Commulust Party, atn0U11t of autonomy. Hong Kong will est outdoor sitting bronze Buddha. (How which rules China toda}~ has a his torical be able to police its own borders, make many can there be?) The place with more claim to all of the lat1ds once held bv the its own laws, at1d enter into trade agree- cellular telephones per capita than at1Y- Qing dynasty including, it says, Hong ments with foreign coU11tr:ies.China has, where else. Site of Asia's best symphony Kong, Macao, Taiwat1, and Tibet. The re- however, reneged on a promise to allow orchestra, biggest floating restaurants, tum of HongI"'::'ongafter 150 years brings Hong Kong people to maintain a self- longest roller coaster. Lat1d of hyperbole. China one step closer to its ultimate goal elected representative body. Instead, Poor Hong Kong. of national U1ufication. China has created a new provisional leg- In less that1 80 days, the fun could be "The Hong Kong people will finally islature of already designated people with over. On June 30, 1997, Britain will hand be the masters of Hong Kong, in the em- the power to rewrite laws, raising fears sovereignty over this island colony to brace of China," said Yat1.But, the people that Hong I...::.ong'limis ted democracy will China. And matw people are beginning of Hong I"'::'ongseem to have mLxed feel- be dismat1tled after JU11e30. to fear that Hong Kong's freewheeling ings about the embrace. Land prices in \X-ben asked whether the press in Hong market economy will be mismat1aged by the colony are rising in the rU11-upto June I"'::'ongwould be subject to prosecution if heavv-hat1ded bureaucrats from Beijing. 30, demonstrating local confidence, but it severeh' criticized Chinese political To foretell a brighter future for Hong several multinational companies have leaders or the Chinese CommU1ust Party, Kong, the I Bloomington Hong I"'::'ong hedged their bets by moving from Hong the Chinese representative was not very Students' Association held a seminar I"'::'ongto offshore reassuring. "Under March 29 in the School of Business. But locations such as the Basic Law, while the seminar addressed the key Bermuda. Hong I"'::'ongpeople themes of "business mat1agement at1d "There is no have freedom of economics, politics at1d public adminis- doubt that Hong speech but may not tration, and key factors to the success of I"'::'ongis one of the be allowed to un- Hong I"'::'ong,"the proverbial tea leaY(~s most successful, dy- dermine the pros- stubbomly refused to divulge definite at1- narruc econonues m perity and stability swers other than this: For better or for the world and also of the country. I worse, like it or not, Hong Kong's future one of the most think the same belongs to China. successful colonies holds true for your The seminar, which was the first of in the world, sur- countrv." several events comprising Hong Kong passing England," One key to the \'\eek, featured a pat1el of distinguished said Breiter. "Ques- success of the speakers including Donald Breiter, tions rema1l1 Hong Kong trat1si- Van Kai spells out China's official owner of Venture China Associates, at1d though. \Xbat kind tion will be whether views during Hong Kong Week. Yan Kai, from the consulate general of of city will Hong China avoids ac- the People's Republic of China, plus three I"'::'ongbe in the fu- tions that symboli- ruB professors, natneh· James L. Perry ture? Does it want to compete with call,' violate the spirit of the 1984 accord, from the School of Public and Environ- Shanghai?" said Dollinger. "There are some actions mental Affairs and John D. Daniels and The Chinese view is unblushingly op- that might unnerve the people, for ex- Marc Dollinger from the School of timistic. "ClUna needs a capitalistic en- atnple the introduction into Hong I"'::'ong Business. clave like Hong Kong to serve as a of the Peoples Liberation Arm,'. The key According to Datuels, "The Chinese window to the West, while the West can issue is will the Hong I"'::'ongpeople have takeover of Hong I"'::'ongwill not affect use Hong I"'::'ongas a bridge to the U11- the civil at1d economic freedom to pros- Hong Kong's position in the global charted China market," said Yat1. per as individuals?" economy because Hong Kong is already Datuels was less rosy. "There are dif- A graduate student from Hong l"'::'ong intercolu1ected with China, at1d China has ferences between Hong Kong at1d China asked the last question. "\\1'110will de- already become part of the global in terms of ta.x,investment, in1rnigration, fme what freedom and democracy in economy." He added, ''As China goes, currency, at1dperceptions of corruption," Hong Kong meat1, the \X!est,HongI...::.ong, so goes Hong Kong." he said. or China?" The U11atUmouSat1Swerof the panel members: China. - .nf' Russia and the United States: Reflecti ng Cross- Culturally major conference on the interac- A tion between Russian and Ameri- can cultures took place on the IU Bloomington campus, February 13-15. The conference was organized by Nyusya Milman of the Department of Sla,-ic Languages and Literatures, with the support of the Russian and East European Institute (REEl) and other IU units. It featured not only outstanding in- tellectuals from Russia and the United At the conference's opening session are (left to right) Konstantin Kustanovich States but also a multi-media approach (Vanderbilt U), Alexander Genis (Radio Liberty), conference organizer Nyusya to analvzing how Russian and Ameri- Milman, Michael Epstein (Emory U), and Sven Spieker (UC Santa Barbara). can cultures have been influencing one another since \'(orld War II, with em- phasis on the much accelerated mutual cifically devoted to fJ.lm.In the after- encounters of today's global mass cul- noon, two round table discussions took ture. place, one featuring the conference con- Upcoming The conference opened with poetry tributors and the second, IU students. readings by Lev Loseff, lIya Kutic, Participants summed up the results of the Conferences & and Vladimir Gandelsman, followed presentations and explored the larger is- Workshops b~'a welcome reception. The next day's sues raised by them. E,-en-one expressed sessions featured panels on "Russians the wish that the conference could be Discovering America," "Americans in made an annual event at Ill. May 7,1997 Russia," and a video showing of the It is noteworthy that the conference "Doing Business with the Russian fIlm, "The Return of Nathan drew the attention of leading Russian Three Dragons" For Baker," the first showing of this film journalists Olga Timofeeva, deputy information, contact: The chief editor of Obshchaia gazeta; am-where in sixty years and the fIrst IV School of Business ever in the United States. In the evening, Alexander Genis, anchor at Radio Lib- Global Business participants enjoyed aconcert of Rus- ern~ and Irina Prokorova, editor-in-chief sian music, including of NOlJOeliteramoe Information an outstanding per- OboZTeilie. III fac- Nenvork formance by Olga ultv from Slavics Tel: (812) 855-5~63 Polonskaya, a stu- or REEl who par- dent of Nelli Shlml- ticipated as chairs May 19-30, 1997 nikova of the IU or discussants in- School of Music. eluded Andrew "Em-ironmen tal Saturday's ses- Durkin, George Monitoring and Assess- sions dealt with Fowler, ]erzy ment in Africa" Kolodziej, "Melancholy and For information, contact: ostalgia" and "The Vadim Liapu- The IV African Studies American in Russian nov, Nina Per- Films of the Cold lina, and David Program \,i/ar Era." Film, Ransel. Tel: (812) 855-6825 slides, and music - REEIficatioll Email: [email protected] were also analyzed NellJs!etter in sessions not spe- (March 1997) COlltil/lled from page 5 scholars from Hungary and elsewhere 1997 John W. Ryan to examine the significant intellectual contributions made by Hungarians in fields ranging from classical studies, Award Recipients literature, and music to chemistry, medicine, psychology, and the infor- Two professors have received the 1997 John \X:Ryan Awards for distinguished mation age. contributions to international programs and studies at Indiana University. At a formal dinner for participants, Professor Emeritus Denis Sinor intro- obert M. Einterz, a clinical pro- eorge Wilson, professor of his- duced the .Ambassador, who spoke ap- R fessor medicine at the IU School G tory and director of the East preciatively of the deep ties linking of Medicine, was cited for his vision Asian Studies Center at IUB, has Hungary and IU. Other III faculty also and his efforts to improve medical "contributed in an uncommonly chairing or presenting papers were litera- education in the developing world. broad ,,'ay to furthering and deep- ture professor Mihaly Szegedy- Since his appointment in 1985, he ening the international mission and Maszak, member of the _t\cademyand has been putting this vision to work, visibility of Indiana Uniyersi0-," ac- a former HW1garianChair, Linda Degh spending a year in Haiti in commu- cording to historian \'·alter Nugent of the Folklore Institute, and Gustav nity development and then planning of the University of Notre Dame. Bayerle and Gy6rgy Kara, both of Cen- a collaborative project to involve the His first major innovation was to tral Eurasian Studies. IU School of Medicine. Since 1990, found the East Asian Studies Pro- The Bloomington campus houses Einterz has been director of the ex- gram in 1970. In 1975, he established the Institute of HW1garian Studies Li- change program between the School the Office of International Pro- brary, a unique reference collection of and Moi Uni,-ersity Iedical School grams, serying as its first dean for books in HW1garian,English, and other in Eldoret, I'-enva. three years. He then led IU's efforts languages given by major Hungarian This widely admired program has to obtain federal funds to establish donors to the university. already sent more than 135 IU fac- the East Asian Studies Center, which IU also has two formal agreements ulty and students, in departments he has headed since 1987, and to ini- with Hungarian institutions, a student/ ranging from pediatrics to surgery, to tiate important IU exchanges in faculty exchange with Lajos I,-ossuth Eldoret. Kenyans coming to IUPUI Korea, Japan, and China. University in Debrecen, and an IUPUI for clinical rotations have similarly In his own department of East faculty exchange with Semmelweis Uni- benefited from the experience. "Bob Asian Languages and Cultures, Wil- versitv of Medicine in Budapest. Einterz has established a program son has played a crucial role in its Student and community awareness which has, without question, changed development into one of the top ten of Hungary is promoted through the lives both here and in Kenya," says in the nation. His colleagues praise Hungarian Cultural Association, which James Lemons, the Hugh McK. him for his intellectual imagination, annuall,- commemorates the two most Landon Professor of Pediatarics at IU. judiciousness, and collegiality. important dates in HW1garian histof)~ hosts a Hungarian film series, and in- vites occasional speakers and cultural groups. At the Business School, under a four- year grant from the USAID, business economics and public policy chair Bruce Jaffee directs the Management Training Cooperation in Hungan- project. \X'orking in partnership with the Budapest niversity of Economic Sciences, MATCH is designing ad- vanced, practice-based courses which will better enable Hungary to move from a centrally planned economy to a market-based one. This summer, busi- ness professor Paul Marer will join the project in Hungary to assist with coor- dination between IU and Bl ES. -RMN COlltilluedfrom page 6 them to contact the dean's office in the the School of Education at IU, took to methods. They took with them many School of Education. Vietnam last lay. \\!arren was keynote educational materials including books Charles Barman is director of teacher speaker at a conference on higher edu- and videos. education at IUPUI. atalie Barman cation reform, but he soon realized that "The Yietnamese are in the initial is a part-time lecturer there and a fifili- the Vietnamese wanted and needed stages of moving from a closed system grade science teacher at Park Tudor more than a speech and a conference. of education to a more flexible credit School in Indianapolis. Mason and He pledged IUs assistance in their ef- system," Charles Barman said. "There- Delandshere both teach on the Bloom- forts to change. fore, instead of engaging in curriculum ington campus. Their venture grew out - Susall T oelkel development, we spent most of our of a trip that Donald Warren, dean of IV Home Pages time explaining how the credit system works at a major multidisciplinary uni- and the Armenian Institute of Orien- versity in the United States." Inner Asian & tal Studies. Mason said changes in Vietnam may \Xorkshop presenters included rep- be difficult and may not always have Uralic National . . resentatives of organizations that ad- the desired results, especially in light minister academic exchanges (USIA, of the fact that Vietnam is one of the Resource Center IREX and ACTR/_'\CCELS) and uni- poorest nations in the world. versity faculty and administrators with He cautioned officials against trying Workshop to do too much too fast. Superimpos- expertise and experience in Central he Inner Asian & Uralic National Asia and the southern Caucasus. ing a modern educational system too Resource Center hosted a work- One panel included students from quickly on that traditional and cultur- T the region who shared their thoughts ally different nation might cause many shop on "Opening Doors to Central on issues that must be considered in problems. In addition to the economic Asia and Transcaucasia: Keys to Suc- student and scholar exchanges. Other stresses, many educators in Yietnam are cessful Academic Exchanges." The A.pril 4-6 program was the first in the familiar and satisfied with the present panels were devoted to an overview of the history and contemporary problems system and are resisting change. "The 1997 Country/Culture \X'orkshop Se- ries funded by the United States Infor- of Central Asia and the southern leaders in education have a vision of the changes they would like to make in mation Agency and sponsored by Caucasus, with a special focus on the N.AFSA Association of International educational system, and the problems their system, but accomplishing the task Educators. of administering exchange programs will need to involve educators and Thirty registered participants inter- (including student selection, cultural teachers at all levels," TatalieBarman ested in building or strengthening ex- differences, funding concerns, admis- said. change programs with Central Asia and sions policies, and housing). ''At this time they have a shortage of the southern Caucasus attended the A particularly popular event associated qualified teachers at all levels, especialh' in the rural areas. At the same time that workshop. The workshop was also at- wim me workshop was the Nawruz fes- tivalorganized by dle IU Kazakstan Stu- dle country needs to increase the num- tended by panelists and representatives of the embassies of Georgia, Kazak- dent Association. The Friday evening bers of teachers in the classroom, thev celebration drew nearly 300 people to the also want to begin to raise the standards stan, Kng"zstan and Turkmenistan, IMU Frangipani for teacher qualification. This will be a Room for cultural pre- difficult task." sentations, live music She believes it will be better for the and dance, and authen- Vietnamese to adapt the elements of tic cuisine. the i\merican system to fit in Vietnam, Nawruz is a spring rather than simply to copy the U.S. model. festival celebrated widely among many Mason was generally pleased with the peoples in Central Asia results of the visit. "I think the Viet- and the Middle Eas t. namese did seem to gain some real Normally observed at unders tanding." the spring equinox, The faculty members hope that the Nawruz represents me next phase of the project will be to beginning of a new life bring some Yietnamese educators to cycle. Ill. They invite communication from William Fierman, director-designate of the Inner Asian others in the IU community who are and Uralic National Resource Center, chats with Rick - S coft Feickert interested in Yietnam. Mason urged Swanson of IREX. D·-lV"\J~C Tuvan Singers Take Audience on Musical JourneyThrough Siberia

nthe Siberian republic of Tuya, hypnotically blended his own dual the air is so pure that brilliant, overtones with the natural har- Ivertical shafts of sunlight come monics of running water. streaming through the clouds at Levin claims that the mimetic sunrise and sunset. Ll Tuvan, a vocal techluques of TUnln throat- Turkic language, the phenomenon singing create sonic maps of the is known as hNNII-hNNr-!N, which physical landscape, somewhat means "sun-propeller." Listelllng akin to the "song-lines" of the to the band of Tuvan throat sing- Australian aborigines. "In short, ers who ha,-e taken that name as Tuvan music is not abstract, like their own can make YOUalmost most \\'estern music, but radicallY hear those ra,'s of sunlight danc- representational, the product of a ing across the expansive steppes. cult of imitation that ties it to an Huun-Huur-Tu visited the WB animistic understanding of the campus in late February on their world." fourth ).:orth .\merican tour. The \\bile sinlilar vocal techniques singers were greeted b,' Scott are employed by Tibetan monks Feickert (Iluler A.sian & Uralic and Mongolian herders, onl\' in National Resource Center), Larry Tuva has the technique been re- Clark (Central Eurasian Studies), fined and elevated to the le,-el of graduate student Talant a national art. In fact, in addition Mawkhanuli (Central Eurasian to Tuva's location at or near the Studies) and Mary Goetze exact geographic center of the (School of Music) at a reception Asian continent and the peculiar sponsored by the Department of triangular and diamond-shaped Central Eurasian Studies, the In· Percussionist Alexei Saryglar evokes the natural postage stamps issued in the ner Asian and Uralic National Re- rhythms of the Central Asian steppes. 1930s when Tm-awas an indepen- source Center and the School of dent nation, throat-singing is Music. Tuva's claim to fame. After a short welcoming speech and in imitation of the natural sounds that After the reception, Levin gave a gift presentation in Tuvan b,' graduate fill the Tuvan landscape. slide show of Tm-a's spectacular, ex- student Brian Donahoe (A.nthropol- Ted Levin, an ethnomusicologist at pansive landscape to l\lary Goetze's ogy), Huun-Huur- Tu regaled those at Dartmouth University who is travelling Methods for Teaching Choral Music the reception with an unscheduled half- with l-Iuun-Huur-Tu, discussed the im- class. The singers then made voice re- hour performance, in which they dis- portance of imitation in dle music of cordings of newspaper clippings for played their peculiar instruments and Tm'a. "The notion of imitation is at dle Larrv Clark (Central Eurasian Studies), astounded dle audience widl a demon- center of Tm-an music," he said. who is currendy writing a Tuvan gram- stration of their sometimes eerie, some- "Through singing, singers place dlem- mar and is teaching the only formal times croaky, and always thrilling vocal selves 11lthe natural world, and also Tuvan language course in the United g"mnas tics. bring the natural world to them." States. HUwl-Huur· Tu's stvle of singing in- Levin hypothesized that khoomei m3\' In the evening, the ,-ocal ensemble corporates a technique known as first have been developed by shamans closed out their tour of Bloomington khoollJei, from the Mongolian word for who were trying to imitate natural with a mesmerizing two-hour perfor- throat. In this type of "throat-singing," sounds in order to communicate with mance at the John \X:aldron Arts Cen- a single singer produces two and some- dle spirits of nature. The most Vivid ter, sponsored b,' the Lotus Festival times three notes at once. The deeper example of dus during the afternoon Concert Series. note establishes a droning bassline, demonstration was "'\natoli I"':'uular's,'ir- - Bn'ull DOlluhoe while dle higher notes, somewhat akin tuoso a capella solo, accompanied only .rl11!hropoLogy to a flute or a jaw harp, trill and warble by a recording of a stream, in which he 'W'hilethe IUSB students stayed both in home and in dormitories, the North- IUSB Nursing, Irish-style ern Ireland students spent their entire stay in South Bend-area homes. 'You really got the feel ing And there were some travel experi- ences as welL "Chicago was a wee bit of a shock," noted Breige Convery of a nurse is this great person' Ulster, "but fun after we got used to it." return to the University of Ulster this n a hot summer morning, For her part, IUSB's Jundt notes that Kathleen Scarry, cli.nicallecturer O past October. While there, she pre- while she left Ireland with a deeper in nursi.ng at IU South Bend, poses a sented a seminar on managed care and understanding of health care, "I'll al- nurse practitioners to students and fac- question to a roomful of students. The ways remember having tea and receiv- ulty, and explored possibilities for con- question: \,(,'hat are the top social and ing the coat of arms from the mayor cultural values in your country? For a tinuing and expanding the exchange of Ballymoney." _ ]qyce Ritchie alld moment, there is silence. program to include the field of radiog- Gai! HillChioll Mallcilli Then, the responses listed on the raphy. IU Home Pages board immediately suggest that differ- The success also is measured by the ent cultures distribute social and cul- professional growth and personal tural values in a distinctly different memories of the exchange students. order. Each group spent approximately six IU Student Wins American: (1) independence and weeks abroad; each was assigned to choice, (2) a strong work ethic, (3) observe a variety of clinical settings and Marshall money and acquisitions, and (4) status. to attend university-level classes. Irish: (1) family, kinship, and fellow- The strongest memories of the IUSB Scholarship ship; (2) health; and, (3) social life students involved the care of the very In a simple yet effective way, IUSB young. Newborns and their mothers in avid Ginger, IU senior, has earned nursing students and six visiting nurs- Northern Ireland stayhospitalized for 10 Done of the 42 prestigious Marshall ing students from the University of days and then are visited at home daily Scholarships awarded each year to en- Ulster, Northern Island, compare the for almost two weeks. For the first five able the brightest American college stu- cultural values that will influence their yearsof life,every Northern Ireland child dents to study in Britain. professional careers. is visited regularly at home by a nurse. Ginger will use his scholarship to The course is "American Health Nurses in Northern Ireland, al- study science at Cambridge University. Care: International Experience," orga- though terribly underpaid, are greatly "I picked Cambridge because it has an nized by Marian Martin Pettengill, respected. outstanding reputation for its science dean of nursing and co-taught by "You really got the feeling a nurse is program," he said. Cyndi Sofhauser, assistant professor this great person there," said student While he is going to continue his of nursing, as a part of an exchange Pam Arndt. There, midwives deliver 90 schooling, he also wants to learn about program that sent three IUSB nursing percent of the babies. But it's the phy- the culture and to experience every- students to the University of Ulster, sicians who take blood pressure and thing it offers. "It is three years in En- Northern Ireland, and brought six nurs- chart the health of the respiratory and gland. It is going to be wonderfuL I ing students here. The program is the cardiovascular systems. "Nurses con- can't think of another adjective to suf- first formal international undergradu- centrate on bedside care," said student ficiently describe it." ate nursing exchange program in the Bethany Nine. At IU, Ginger has pursued degrees IU system. IUSB nursing graduate Sue Ander- in chemistry and physics, and, for the The exchange allowed each group a son, an associate faculty member, de- last two vears, he has been conducting fresh perspective on nursing by expe- signed the clinical experiences provided research at the IU Cyclotron Facility riencing a different culture's practice to the University of Ulster students and the Brook Haven National Labo- and philosophy of health care. The during their stay here to present a broad ratory in New York. Vie Viola, an IU class, which focused on international perspective. The Northern Ireland stu- chemistry professor, said he had a very issues in health care, is just one way dents observed such health-care facili- positive experience working with Gin- the exchange experience was broad- ties as a migrant workers' site, South ger at the Cyclotron. "He has done ened to include IUSB nursing students Bend's Homeless Center, the parish much superb undergraduate research. here at home. nursing facilities of the Broadway He is a very enthusiastic and produc- The success of the program earned Christian Church, and the Chapin tive worker. I was very confident he Pettengill an IU international enhance- Street Health Center, a clinic sponsored would win and am not surprised but ment grant, which helped support her by St. Joseph's Medical Center. very proud," said Viola. A Burmese Scholar's Paean to IU Fulbright Scholar ust like Anna Lennowens from the person cooked for me. Yet another Awards for J King and I, who met the king of Siam showed me around Bloomington. through advertising, I found mv way to I have been to many places, and I u.S. Faculty and the kingdom of Indiana lln;ver~ity, come from a country renowned for its through an announcement posted by hospitality, but I think the people of Professional s: my lUlivers itv. Bloomington (This 11lcludes everyone, I had been doing coursework for my the faculty, the students, the jal;itors, 1998-99 international doctoral degree in the the porters, and even the bus-drivers.) National Institute are in a clas s bi" Competition of Development themselves. They Pportunities for lecturing and ad- Administration evince a genuine vanced research in nearly 130 (NIDi\.) for about desire to help for- O countries are available to college and a year when I eIgners. university faculty and professionals out- heard that a couple Ill's librar)~ one side of academe. Awards range from of candidates were of the bes t in the two months to a full academic year, and to be selected for United States and manv assignments are flexible to the partici pa tion in a a federal deposi- needs of the grantee. scholarship ex- tory for the Li- The basic eligibilinT requirements for change program braryof Congress, a Senior Fulbright Scholar Award are with Indiana llni- awed me. I ap- US. citizenship and the Ph.D. or com- versi ty. proached it gin- KoKo Gyi with Associate Dean parable professional qualifications. For My first reac- gerlv at first, as if Kenneth Rogers of the Office of lecturing awards, university or college tion, naturally, was International Services. it might dnve me teaching experience is expected. For- "\"Xl1ere is Indiana away. I soon eign language skills are needed for and what is it fa- learned that there some countries, but most lecturing as- mous for)" ] went straight to the pro- was no reason to fear. Even the young signments are in English. gram director's office and asked for women at the counters, who didn't look Applications are encouraged from materials about IU a dm" over 15, could and did manage faculty at all types of l11stitutions as well He handed me a brochure with pic- to overcome the clerical errors in mv as from professionals outside of aca- tures of III in all her magnificence, book-borrowing adventure with ease: deme. Every academic rank-from in- cloaked in the red and gold of Autumn's I am now attending lectures in the structor to professor emeritus-is falling leaves. School of Public and EnVIronmental represented. _A.cademic adminis trators I fell in love at first sight. Never had Administration that require scores of regularly receive Fulbrights, as do in- I seen such beaun' nor imagined such books. I thought I would never be able dependent scholars, artists, and profes- perfection possible. to get that many books at once, no sionals from the private and public I came to III expecting to see the matter how well-stocked the local sectors. Bloomington pictured 111 the brochure. bookstores were. But, somehow they The deadline for lecturing or re- \"X.l13ta shock] encountered. In the either had all the books I needed or search grants is August 1, 1997. Odler first few weeks after my arrival, I saw were able to obtain the passages I deadlines are in place for other special nothing but snow, rain, sleet, and mist. wanted from books that were unavail- programs: distinguished Fulbright I was trulv disheartened. If that was the able. It was like meeting my fairy god- chairs in Western Europe and Canada way IU wanted to greet me, I thought, mother. (May 1) and Fulbright seminars for in- I had better leave as soon as possible. Now that my first months here have ternational education and academic Like Anna and the I<:.ing of Siam, I come to an end, 1 know I have found administrators (November 1). thought of fleeing the scene on arrival. the true IU Like Anna, I have come to For further information and appli- Yet, something held me here. It was love the ICing's attitude and all that he cation materials contact Roxana Ma the attitude of the people that greeted stands for: not snow, rain, or mist but Newman, assistant dean for Interna- me at the airport in the middle of the sincerity and genuine pleasure in help- tional Programs at the following ad- night. It was the day after New Year, ing los t souls like me. This is the real dress: when everybod v was away enjoying beauty of Ill, far exceeding the lovely Brvan Hall 209, Ill-Bloomington their holidal·. All the dining halls were pictures of Bloomington in the fall. Tel: (812) 855-8467 closed and I didn't know where to eat -KoKoGi Fax: (812) 855-6884 or drink, but somebodv showed me SPErl Email: nnnewman@;indiana.edu where the amenities were and another Michael D. Higgins, Ireland's Minister of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht, spoke in Bloomington about "Irish Culture Today." Higgins, who received an MA in During a reception for the Rector of Warsaw University, sociology at IU, was accompanied by Frank Sheridan, two IU professors, TimothyWiles (left) and Samuel Fiszman consul general of Ireland. (right) are honored with the Amicus P%niae award from the Polish Embassy, in recognition of their contributions to Polish studies and culture. Dean Patrick O'Meara presents the awards as Andrzey Cieslik (3rd from left), an exchange graduate student from Warsaw, looks on.

Director Milagros Sanchez de la Blanca (2nd from right) of IUB's Spanish Resource Center poses with three IU B musicians, Carol ina South African jazz musician Johnny Mekoa, an Landriscini, Ruth Olmedilla, and Juvenal Correa-Salas, who played alumnus of the IU School of Music, and the for the audience at the opening of the Center's exhibition, "Visit Gauteng Youth Orchestra stopped briefly in Madrid," by the Madrid painter Jose LUIs Perez de Leon. Emeritus Bloomington on their U.S. tour and played for professor Wi II is Barnstone (Span ish & Portuguese) al so read IU's Wells Scholars program. Mekoa is seen excerpts from his book, Sunday Morning in Fascist Spain: A here with Director York Bradshaw of the African European Memoir, 7948-7953. Stud ies Center. Spring Events

IU's Mathers Museum of World Cultures put on a children's program on West Africa. Here, Stephanie Shonekan teaches the children some Yoruba games.

The Nawruz Spring Festival, sponsored by IUB's Kazakstan Student Association, features dancers of Central Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, including this group of colorfully costumed students from Turkey.

James Perry (SPEA, IUB) VISitS with participants Students from Angola enliven "African Cultural Night" with a at the "Civil Service Systems in Comparative spirited performance of a traditional dance. The students are in Perspective" conference held in April. The event Bloomington on a pre-academic training program administered was cosponsored by Leiden University. by C1EDA. ''A Perspective on China's New Prison COlllltrieJ and Chile, and Reglliatioll aJld Illdiall Tzffage. He is also editor of the Law," a paper by Allen Anderson SlIpeniJioll 0/ Fillal/cial I!lJtitlltiollJ ill tbe international NalJlla NewJletter. a joint (SPEA, IUI..:)was published in a recent -.rlFT.rl COlllltrieJ alld Beyolld. publication of the IPFW Anthropology edition of the Illtematiol/al Crimillal JIIJ- Michele Fratianni (Business, IUB) and Program and the ruB Center for Latin tice RevieiV. Anjan Thakor (Finance, IUB) were American & Caribbean Studies. among the international cast of con- David G. Bivin (Economics, IUPUI) tributors to these volumes. M. Nazif Shahrani (Anthropology and IS currently lecturing on CEUS, ruB) is one of 30 successful macroeconomics, statistics, economet- Sumie Jones (EALC and Compo Lit., applicants out of a field of 6-1-0to have rics, and the American economic sys- IUB) has recently published "Sentoo been selected for a fellowship award tem at Tallinn Technical University in Shinwa Kaisetsu" (Critical Introduc- from tl1e Woodrow \Vilson Interna- Estonia. Bivin's stav in Estonia was tion) to a modern edition of Selltoo tional Center for Scholars at the Smith- made possible bv a Fulbright award he Sbilll1'a ( Jew Tales from the Hot sonian Institute. The award of $51,300 was granted last vear. He plans to re- Springs, bv Sanku Juujitei and Kunisada will support Shahrani's project to com- turn to IUPUI this July. Utagawa, 1827).Jones will also be chair- plete a book titled Fami6' Li!'eJ alld Pllb- ing a panel, "Making the Most of the lic CareerJ ill S olJiet alld POJt-S oviet Arlene J. Diaz will join the IUB De- Breach in the Dike: Accommodations U::::.bekiJtall:DYllamicJ 0/ 1I1l1JfimTradi- partment of History as an assistant pro- of Cultural Studies to East Asian Com- tioll ill a Political Cllltllre of "scielltiJic fessor. Diaz, who is a specialist in Latin parative Literature," and presenting a .rltbeiJIl/. " American history and women's history, paper at the 15th International Com- comes to IUB from Chicago where she parative Literature Association Con- Dmitry Shlapentokh (History, IUSB) was a Doctoral Dissertation Fellow at gress in Leiden, The Netherlands, in has just published his book, The Frellcb the American Bar Foundation. Her re- August 1997. This March, she presented Rel'Oflltiollalld the RJmiail .rlll1i-Democratic search explores issues of gender and law her paper, "Overtext and the AIL"iet}' Traditioll: .rl Cm'e 0/ False COIIJcioIlJlleJJ. in Venezuela. of Writing: Sawada Natari's .rllla OkaJbl' (Transaction Publishers: 1997) at the AAS meeting in Chicago. Richard A. Frediand (political Sci- Francisco Solares-Larrave's (Spanish, ence, IUPUI) won a 1996-97 Fulbright Rel'OflltiollJill rrntillg: ReadillgJ ill Nille- IUI..:)co-edition of Ruben Dario's texts, award to lecture on political science and temtb-Cmtll1')' Frellcb ProJe, selected and RJ,beJIDan'oy 'EI Como defa Tarde': 1890- international relations at Chancellor translated by Rosemary lloyd (French 1891, was published last December bv College in Zomba, Malawi for eleven & Italian, IUB) has been published by the Instituto de Estudios Modernistas months, from January to December of the Indiana Universitv Press. The book in Valencia, Spain. Solares-Larrave's this year. is an anthology of prose and prose po- manuscript, "Las 'Palabras liminares' de ems from one of the most fruitful peri- Dario: una declaracion de identidad George von Furstenburg (Econom- ods in French cultural history. cultural;' has been accepted for publi- ics, IUB) in conjunction with the Cen- cation in the Fall, 1997 issue of ReviJta tre for International Studies at the Alan R. Sandstrom (Anthropology, deEJtlldioJ Hi.spallicoJ,which is published University of Toronto, organized an IPF\'\) has been selected as an Ameri- by Washington Uni,-ersity. international conference on "Monetarv cilll Council of Learned Societies Fel- and Financial Integration in an Ex- low for 1997-1998. The fellowship will Laura Stachowski (Cultural Immer- panded NAFT N' last year. The confer- support ethnographic field research sion Projects, Education, IUB) pre- ence has resulted in three publications, among Nahua Indians in the tropical sented the papers "Service Learning in all edited or guest edited by von rain forests of Veracruz, Mexico. Overseas Nations: U.S. Student Teach- Furstenburg: the Fall 1996 issue of the Sandstrom has published numerous re- ers Give, Grow, and Gain Outside the North .rlll/meall JOllmal 0/ Ecol/omicJ al/d search articles on ahua culture in pro- Classroom" and "Foreign Educators Fillallce devoted to the issue of "Finan- fessional journals and edited volumes, Provide Feedback for the Improvement cial Infrastructure Development in the and he has written two books, Traditiollal of International Student Teaching Ex- NAFT A Countries"; and two volumes Papermakillg alld Paper ClIlt FigllreJ 0/ periences" at tl1eFebruary national con- published by I

Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, IUB Stepllilnie Bower ..... Social Sciences, IUS Cif.\l'ad~~iar~~.~4e~Fo Carolyn CaJ:k)wayi4Thomas Speech Communication, IUB 'N:Uixicotit)i}'MdHc6 Frank Cauco Modern Languages, IUN Dijon, France Benjamin C Christy Fine & Performing Arts, IPF\"\:' Vienna~.Austria Elisab~th Doman$~Y History, IUB ~19gn~~Getmany John E.. Findling Social Sciences, IUS Lyon, France Steven Franks Slavics/Linguistics, IUB Potsdam (Berlin), Germany Margaret B; Gray French & Italian, IUB ~~ttier~IFr~~cei Ingeboig FIoesterey Germanic Studies/Compo Lit., IUB Ulden,Netheriands Liang; Zhongming 1anufacturing Technology~ IPF\,' H;ongKong James M. Lutz Political Science, IPF\,' Porto, portugal Jacques French & Italian, IUB ~.~pIe§~rtalYi·.·. James P. Nehf Law, IUPUI Shefficld, England Daniel T Perantoni Music, IUB Riva Del Garda, Italy Jame$. C. IUl$:Yii ....• Music, IUB l?~ijitlg;}~hi!l~ Masson L RObe~ts'on Fine & Performing Arts, IPFW Vienna; Ausiria Russell 0. Salmon Spanish & Portuguese, IUB San Jose, Costa Rica Larry N. Thibos Optometr)~ IUB

German-American Academic Coun- of 20% of the grant for overhead costs. and genetics; biological sciences; chem- cil Foundation: Transatlantic Re- Each project must be matched in equal istry; computer science; eardl sciences; search Cooperation Program amounts bv funds from U.S. and/or economics; engineering; environmental Deadline: JWle 30, 1997. Canadian sources. sciences; geography; history and phi- Fields: Humanities, social sciences, Eligibility: Applicants should hold at losophy of science; linguistics; math- economics, law, engineering and life least a Ph.D. ematics; physics; political science; sCIences. Contact: Dr. Lynda Lich-Knight or Dr. non-clinically oriented psychology; sci- Scope: Supports joint research projects Josef Rembser, Stiftung Deutsch- ence and technology policy; and soci- among German, U.S., and/ or Canadian Amerikanisches .Akademisches I-":'onzil, ology scholars. The maximum duration of TransCoop Program, Jean-Paul-StraBe Countries: Armenia, .I\zerbaijan (trav- sponsorship for a TransCoop project is 9, D-53173 Bonn, TeL: 0228-95677-0, eling only), Belarus, Bosnia (hos ting three years. Projects may include short- Fa..'c0228-95677-19, Email: lichdaak@ only), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Repub- term research visits (up to three months alex.avh.uni-bo1Ul.de. Information can lic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazak- per year for each partner), conferences, be obtained on the internet at: http:// stan, I-":'yrgyzstan, Lat,'ia, Lithuania, material and equipment, printing; and www.access.digex.net/- gaac / l'vlacedonia, Ioldm'a, Poland, Romania, research assistance, e.g. for data collec- transco.html. Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, tion and analysis (maximum 20 % of Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbeki- total). Collaboration in Basic Science and stan. Awards: TransCoop projects can be Engineering (CO BASE) Scope: The program provides grants supported by funds from the German Deadline: July 7, 1997 to individual American specialists who side with up to DM 90.000 (l S-$ Fields: archaeology and anthropology; plan to establish new researdl partner- 60,000) each, allowing for a maximwn astronomy; biochemistry, biophysics ships with their colleagues in Central/ Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Awards: Travel costs, per diem, accom- ria, and India) and in four interrelated Independent States. COBASE offers modations, fees for use of facilities and areas: women's reproductive health, two types of grants. Short-Term Project publication costs and/ or other expenses population and natural resources, com- Development Grants to support Ameri- associated with presenting results to li- mWllcations and popular education, and can specialists who wish to host or visit brarians, archivists, and scholarly peers. the fund for leadership development. their CEE or NIS colleagues for two- Contact: IREX, Carol Erickson. Tel: week periods (10-14 days only) in or- 202-628-8188; Fax: 202-628-8189; American Studies in]apan Research der to prepare collaborative research Email: [email protected]. Grants proposals for submission to NSF. Long- Deadline: August 1, 1997. Term Grants support American special- National Research Council Twin- Fields: Histof}~ economics, sociolog)~ ists who wish to host or visit their CEE ning Program for Estonia, Latvia political science, American studies. or NIS colleagues for collaborative re- and Lithuania Scope: Grants to research projects that search for periods of one to six months. Deadline: May 16, 1997. investigate the study of the United Visits developed primarily to present Fields: Natural and physical sciences. States itself, particularly on how the lectures or to organize or attend con- Scope: Grants to link U.S. scientists Japanese acquire basic knowledge about ferences are ineligible. with their counterparts in Estonia, the United States (its politics, society, Eligibility: Applicants must be US. citi- Lan-ia, and Lithuania. Support is pro- and economy) through both formal and zens or permanent residents, be affili- vided for travel and living expenses for informal chaiU1els, such as classroom ated with US. institutions, and possess research visits by American grantees instruction and media, and how to in- Ph.D. degrees or equivalent research and junior scientists from the same in- crease that knowledge and make it more experience. Visiting specialists must stihition to the cowltries listed above accurate. The following project areas possess CEE/NIS citizenship and must and for visits by their foreign counter- are of interest: research center devel- hold Ph.D. (kandidat) degrees or re- parts to the US. Applicants may also opment, research projects in and about search training and experience equiva- request modest funding for scientific US studies, faculty development, cur- lent to a doctoral degree. Foreign supplies, telecommunication fees and riculwn development, and conferences specialists already in the US. are not publication costs. and seminars. Projects receiving match- eligible. Specialists who have received Awards: Grants are generally in the ing grants from other appropriate US their doctoral degrees within the past $12,000 to $15,000 range. Contact: or Japanese sources will be given high six years will receive special consider- Office for Central and Eastern Europe priority. These and other forms of co- ation, as will specialists applring to work (F02014), National Research Council, operation will be taken as evidence of with colleagues in less frequentlr rep- 2101 Constitution Avenue T\\; Wash- broad interest and support for any given resented countries and regions. Awards: ington, DC 20-.f18.Tel: 202-33-.f-264-.f; proposal. For Short-Term Grants-Per diem and Fax: 202-334-2614; Email: ocee@ Eligibility: Citizens and permanent travel expenses of $2,200-$2,500. For nas.edu. residents of the US. and Japan. Long-Term Grants-Travel grants of Contact: Eric Gangloff, Executive Di- $1,500 and monthly living and research MacArthur Foundation Population rector, Japan-US Friendship Commis- allowances, and pre-trip language train- Program sion, 1120 Yermon t Ave N\\; Suite 925. ing for US participants of $300/mo. Deadline: Anytime. Proposals re- Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-275- Contact: National Research Cow1Cil, viewed every month if less than $50,000 7712; Fax: 202-275-7-+13; Email: Office for Central Europe and Eurasia, Fields: Social Sciences. 72133.2-.f33@compusenccom. 2101 Constitution Avenue, N\X,; FO Countries: Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, and 201-.f,\'v'ashington, DC 20-.f18. Tel: (202) India. McArthur Foundation Travel Grants 33-.f-26-.f-.Ff,;L""(::202) 33-.f-261-.fE, mail: Scope: The program advances the and Basic Research in the NIS [email protected] search for new wavs to address the com- Deadline: JWle 1, September 1, 1997 plex and evolving challenge of global Fields: Law and socien', hwnan rights, IREX Special Projects in Library population growth. The program flows energy and the environment, mass me- and Information Science from two central ideas: population is- dia. Deadline: Mid-January, 1998. sues arise from the interaction among Scope: Grants for travel and basic re- Fields: Library and information science social culhiral, economic and environ- search in the NIS in four areas: law and Countries: Central and Eastern Eu- mental forces, including the roles and society; human rights including the rope, Eurasia. status of women; and locally conceived rights of ethnic minorities and women; Scope: Provides grants to increase ac- initiatives are most likely to generate energ)' and the environment; and de- cess and improve working conditions solutions to these multidimensional relopment of an independent mass for American scholars using libraries, problems in developing nations. The media. Research and writing grants are archives, and other resources in Cen- program emphasizes activities in four awarded to II1dividualsfor projects that tral and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. focus countries (Mexico, Brazil, Nige- have practical applications for polin'- making and society. Funding is avail- Relations). Tel: 202-682-1740. Rockefeller Brothers Fund: One World able for up to 18 months. Travel grants National Science Foundation, US'; Grants, Sustainable Resource Use & for conference presentations provide France Cooperative Science - Coopera- World Security Grants. Tel: 212-373- round-trip transportation and related tive Research and Joint Seminars. Tel: 4200. costs. 703-306-1702. Contact: Elizabeth McI""::'eoonr Tatiana Zhdanova, Co-directors, MacArthur ational Science Fowldation, DA..ill- nd Fowldation, 8 khlenbnyi Pereulok, 2 NSF Collaborative Research Grants Educators in \\,'ashington, DC She and Fl, Moscow, Russia 121069. Tel: 095- (Germany). Tel: 703-306-1702. Virginia Visconti (doctoral student, 290-5088; Fax: 095-956-6358; Email: Cultural Projects, IUB) gave a presen- [email protected]. July 1 tation on "New Initiatives in the Cul- International Union Against Cancer: tural Projects" at a symposium of the Cancer Study Grants (write: 3, rue du ATE CowlCil for International Affairs. Grant Briefs (by Conseil-General, 1205 Geneva, Switzer- land). Also Due: Jan. 1. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (History and deadline) EALC, IUB) gave a presentation on Anytime China for a roundtable on "Human Canadian Studies I\.Iatching Grant Pro- Rights, Citizenship, and Revolutionary May 15 gram (ask for Academic Relations). Tel: Traditions" that was part of program American Historical Association: vari- 202-682-17.+0. of the American Historical Association's ous prizes for books and other publi- annual meetings in New York, where cations. Tel: 202-5.++-2.+22. Eurasia Foundation: Grants to Organi- was held in early Januar,~ He has also zations (to advance economic and started a two-year term as the associate June 1 democratic reform in the IS). Tel: editor of that association's journal, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation: Grants 202-23.+-7370. ....-lmericalHisl torical RevieJIJ. on International Affairs, Public Service, the Environment, and Human Rights. IREX, US.-Eurasia Interne t Access and George Wilson (History and EALC, Tel: 206-682-8565. Also Due: Sept. 1. Training Program - Internet Fellow- ruB) chaired the panel "Religion, Gen- ships. Tel: 202-628-8188. der, and Power in the Japanese Impe- IRE:A, Short-Term Travel Grants (Cen- rial Institution" at the January 1997 tral and Eas t Europe, Eurasia, Mongo- MacArthur Foundation: Program on meeting of the American Historical lia), www.irex.org; Tel: 202-628-8188. Peace & Internat'l Cooperation - insti- Association in New York. He also pre- Also Due: October 1. tutional grants. Tel: 312-726-8000. sided over the annual Conference on Asian History luncheon the same Smithsonian Institution, \X-oodrowWil- National Endowment for Democracy: month. son Center Fellowships: E. European Fellows Program. Tel: 202-293-0300. Studies, Short-Term Grants. Tel: 202- Yingjin Zhang (BALC, Compo Lit., 287-3000. Also Due: Sept. 1, Dee. 1. National Science Foundation, US./ and Film Studies, ruB) published Eastern Europe Cooperative Science "From 'Minoritv Film' to 'Minority Dis- Smithsonian Institution, I""::'ennaInn sti- Programs (including NIS). Tel: 703- course': Questions of Nationhood and tute for Advanced Russian Studies 306-1703. Ethnicity in Chinese Film Studies" in Short Term Visiting Grants; Tel: 202- CillemajOllmal (Spring 1997) and The Ci!J' 287-3.+00.Also Due: Sept.l, Dee. 1. National Science Foundation, US./ ill lIfodem Chillese literature and Film: Former Soviet Union Cooperati,-e Re- Configuratiolls of Space. Time, alld Gellder June 9 search Projects and \'\'orkshops. Tel: (Stanford ll. Press, 1996). Another three National Endowment for the Arts, 703-306-1703. books coauthored or coedited by Zhang ArtsLink Residencies - US. host orga- have been accepted for publication in nizations (exchanges with Central Eu- National Science Foundation, ATO the coming year: (1) Ellgagillg Texts: Es- rope, Eastern Europe, former Soviet Advanced Study Institute Travel sq)'J in Chillese Comparatit'e Literature Union, and Baltics); Tel: 212-6'+3-1985 Awards (for graduate students and re- alld Cli/tural Studies, (2) Romallce, Sexu- ext. 22. cent Ph.Ds)-various institute dead- ality, Identity: Cillema and Urball Clfl- lines. Tel: 703-306-1696. tItre in S hallghai, 191Os-19-10s, and (3) June 15 Encyclopedia of Chillese Film. Zhang was Canadian Studies Senior Fellowship Pew Charitable Trusts: Public Policy selected as one of five recipients for the Awards, Program Enhancement Grants, Program. Tel: 215-575-9050. 1996-1997 Outstanding Junior Faculty Conference Grants (ask for Academic Award at Ill. ~ Ind iana University International Programs Directory

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