UC Santa Barbara Go Global Newsletter Title Go Global Newsletter Spring 2002 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h534t1 Author Global and International Studies Publication Date 2002-05-01 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California SPRING/SUMMER 2002 Newsletter for Global & International Studies Program • University of California, Santa Barbara Gurinder Singh Mann Conducts Summer Women, Culture Program in Punjab Studies in India and Development THE SUMMER PROGRAM in Punjab Program Examines Studies will launch its sixth year this July and August in Chandigarh, India. Chan- Field Research digarh is located in the Punjab, a fertile area of northern India and Pakistan that RESEARCHERS WHO HAD completed serves as a bread basket to both. The sum- fieldwork in regions including Pakistan, mer study program, led by UCSB Profes- India, Palestine, and Russia shared tips on sor Gurinder S. Mann (Religious Studies/ methodological issues during the recent Global & International Studies), offers an conference, Women, Culture, and Develop- exposure to the region’s literary, musical ment: New Methods and Approaches. and religious traditions, including Chaired by UCSB’s Dr. Nancy Gallagher, Sikhism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. speakers included Mary Hancock of US- Students from beginning to advanced CB’s Anthropology Department, Raka Ray levels study Punjabi, an Indo-European Prof. Mann demonstrates tea growing. UC-Berkeley’s Sociology Department, language, which is spoken by over 70 mil- Shahnaz Rouse of Sarah Lawrence Col- lion people around the world. One stu- program has attracted 80 participants lege’s Sociology Department, Alexia Bloch dent commented that the combination of from 39 universities in seven countries of the University of British Columbia’s lectures and weekend tours helped her to representing 19 disciplines. For more in- Anthropology Department, Sondra Hale understand the Punjab region “better formation or to apply, go to: of UCLA’s Anthropology and Women’s than I could ever learn from a book.” The www.global.ucsb.edu/ Studies Department, and Rema Hammami of Birzeit University’s Anthropology and Women’s Studies Department in Palestine. Barbara Bodine and Mark Juergensmeyer Graduate students attending the workshop were advised to understand Talk Terrorism with Jerry Cornfield deeply the culture of the region they will ©2002 Santa Barbara Magazine. Written by Jerry Cornfield, senior editor for Santa Barbara Magazine, study, find a compelling research ques- April 2002. Excerpt only. tion, and “stay true to themselves.” Fur- FOR YEARS, PROFESSOR Juergensmeyer and she pressed Yemeni officials for a ther, they were urged to state their re- has studied why terrorists do what they do, more thorough investigation. Bodine, a search goals at the outset, share their in- while Ambassador Barbara Bodine has UCSB graduate and newly named mem- terviews, field notes, and final projects made a career out of stopping them from ber of the UC Board of Regents, arrived with the people studied and to resist the succeeding. This spring the two are joining on campus last fall as diplomat-in-resi- homogenization of study subjects’ voices. forces – co-teaching a course at UC Santa dence. One day, Juergensmeyer invited Barbara on terrorism, in a world forever her to his class, where the two performed scarred by the events of September 11, an intellectual duet for a couple of hun- Inside this Issue 2001. Juergensmeyer’s most recent book, dred students. “We realized that we had Terror in the Mind of God this kind of natural Fred and Ginger rou- Bodine & Juergensmeyer Interview 4 [University of California Press, tine going,” says Bodine. Si Meng Global Studies Student 5 2000], took him to global hot spots where I sat down with the two of them at he dined with some of the world’s nastiest Nu restaurant for a power lunch about Sikh and Punjab Studies 6 characters. Bodine was Ambassador to teaching and terrorism. G&IS Professors on the Move 7 Yemen when the USS Cole was bombed, MORE ON PAGE 4 2 Volume 2, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2002 UCSB Delegates Attend West Coast GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Model Arab League Conference EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 2002 MARK JUERGENSMEYER ISLAMIC AND NEAR Eastern Studies In addition to learning parliamentary Director, G&IS Program; Chair, Global (INES) Program sent 11 UCSB students, a procedure in the preparatory course, stu- Peace & Security Program faculty advisor and a graduate student dents developed role-playing, writing, RICHARD APPELBAUM mentor to participate in the West Coast speaking, parliamentary procedure, and Chair, Planning Committee, Global and International Studies MA Program Model Arab League Conference at Cali- critical thinking skills. They studied the KUM-KUM BHAVNANI fornia State University in San Francisco in political affairs of the Arab League, as well Chair, Women Culture and Development April, where this year they represented as preparing to represent Tunisia. MARGUERITE BOURAAD-NASH the North African country of Tunisia. Among the course highlights this Associate Chair, Global Peace & Security Two of the student delegates, Nehall Al- year, Ambassador Barbara Bodine provid- Program Taie and Monica Fawzi won delegate hon- ed students with an expert analysis of BENJAMIN J. COHEN Chair, G&IS Planning Committee; Represen- ors, and two, Tyson Borm and Salim Az- Arab League politics, and also helped stu- tative, International Politics zam were elected as committee chairs. dents formulate resolutions to present at GILES GUNN Adrianne Gallarza, a junior in politi- the conference. Dwight Reynolds, INES Chair, Global Studies Advisory Committee cal science at UCSB, participated for the chair and Director of the Center for Mid- RONALD W. TOBIN Chair, European Studies first time in the meeting. She learned par- dle East Studies, initiated students into ALLAN GRAPARD liamentary procedure in the INEST 194 the rules of parliamentary procedure, and Chair, East Asian Studies class taught by Professor Juan E. Campo Garay Menicucci, Assistant Director of SILVIA BERMUDEZ during winter quarter. She appreciated CMES, discussed U.N. resolutions and Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies how much she learned at the conference Palestinian-Israeli peace accords. Students NANCY GALLAGHER “by hanging out with the kids of Arab interested in participating in next year’s Chair, Islamic & Near East Studies descent in the UCSB delegation. They conference, which will again be held in RICHARD HECHT Chair, Jewish Studies were very gracious and generous with April at CSUSF, should enroll in IN- GURINDER SINGH MANN their knowledge.” EST194 in Fall 2002. Chair, Punjab and Sikh Studies BARBARA HOLDREGE Chair, South Asian Studies BARBARA HARTHORNE Latin American Studies News Co-Director, Center for Global Studies, THE LATIN AMERICAN & Iberian Studies Program rocks both north and south of the ISBER border. Professor Silvia Bermudez is offering a course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to the SCOTT COOPER Director, Education Abroad Program Cultures, Languages, and Literatures of Latin America and Iberia” (LAIS 102/202) during spring ’02 in which students, among notions such as “realismo m·gico,” will also learn STAFF about the history of rock and roll in Chile and Argentina as it grew out of the protest BEVERLY MCCLINTOCK Program Manager against the dictatorships in those countries and in Mexico as a statement of despair [email protected] about the economic situation. In the course, students will examine border rock, par- 893-4718 ticularly the “narcocorrido,” as it deals with the culture of drugs, guns and guerrillas. JODI CUTLER Bermudez, who is also Director of the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program, is Undergraduate Advisor [email protected] pleased about the hiring of three new professors with offerings for the department. Pro- 893-7860 fessor Elida Valarini Oliver was hired as a specialist in Brazilian and Portugese literature. ANDREA WOODWARD Professor William Robinson has accepted an appointment in sociology and will offer Newsletter Editor courses with a focus on Latin America. Professor James Brooks in the history depart- [email protected] 893-8410 ment will offer courses which touch on border studies. “We’re quite excited about the growth in the program as we prepare for becoming a so called ‘Big’ program (we already have an MA program). By establishing our own pro- For articles in the September 2002 gram, we’ll be able to influence the hiring of faculty with a focus on Latin America, as issue of “Go Global,” please send materials by Aug. 15 contact Andrea well as offering our students the benefits granted to Departments and Big Programs,” Woodward, 805-893-8410 or email to: Bermudez said. [email protected]. 3 Global & International Studies Welcomes Human Rights Scholars THE GLOBAL & International Studies earned her Ph.D. in law from the University of Ankara, School Program is delighted to have as distin- of Law in Turkey, where she taught on Roman law, comparative guished visiting professors two leading law, international environmental law and women’s legal status. scholars on human rights issues. Pro- In the 1990s, Elver taught environmental diplomacy as the fessor Richard Falk, whose book, Pred- UNEP Chair at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic atory Globalization, has been called Studies in Malta. She also served as Legal Advisor to the Turkish “one of the most important modern government on environmental and women’s issues, later study- works on human rights,” said modestly ing as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann that he “fell into” his role as a leader in Arbor, and as a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. She has Professor Richard Falk human rights. published several articles on environmental law and women Falk explained that the current issues in Turkey. Recently, she has published a book entitled anti-globalization movement is similar to the labor movement of Peaceful Uses of International Riv- the 19th Century. “In the early stages, industrial capitalism was ers: The Case of Euphrates and Tigris very predatory towards workers—long hours, unsafe conditions Rivers by Transnational Publishers.