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Alumni and friends: To receive newsletters via e-mail as they're published, contact Tara Hudson. Imagining Burma: A Post-National Film Series July 17, July 31, and August 14, 2008 In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the role of the state in relief operations draws attention to the type of image Burma’s state wants to project. "Imagining Burma: A Post-National Film Series" aims to critically explore the issue of blurred national boundaries of Burma through a program of feature-length films and documentaries. The film series also hopes to provide a public venue in the Triangle of North Carolina, where one of the largest concentrations of Burmese refugees has settled. The goals of the festival are to encourage debate on these films and also to assist the Burmese communities who were directly and indirectly affected by the cyclone. "Imagining Burma" will open with a party from 7pm to 9pm on July 17, 2008 at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro. This outdoor event will feature WXYC DJs spinning Southeast Asian music and free Burmese cuisine. A screening of "The Burmese Harp" will follow at Southern Rail (The Station) from 10pm to midnight. On July 31, the series will continue with a pair of documentaries, "Our Burmese Days" and "Burma" from 7pm to 9pm at Hanes Art Center on UNC's Campus. The third event in the series will be a screening and Southeast Asian Dance party from 9pm to 2am on August 14 at the Nightlight. For more information, visit the event website at http://imaginingburma.blogspot.com or e-mail lbrenner@email.unc.edu or palis@email.unc.edu. Co-sponsored by the Curriculum in International and Area Studies. Christopher Gergen August 11, 2008, 6 pm FedEx Global Education Center Christopher Gergen, author of Life Entrepreneurs, will give the keynote address for Nourish International's conference. The keynote address is open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Curriculum in International and Area Studies.
Celebrate Global Cultures at the FedEx Global Education Center!
CIAS moves to the new FedEx Global Education Center On March 16, 2007, the Curriculum in International and Area Studies moved into its new home in the FedEx Global Education Center. The building is located at the corner of McCauley and Pittsboro streets, between the Carolina Inn and the Tate-Turner-Kuralt building. CIAS is located on the second floor of the building, sharing a floor with Study Abroad and the Office of International Students and Scholar Services.
The FedEx Global Education Center, which was built incorporating a variety of "green" architectural techniques, will be the gateway to all international programs on campus and features classroom space, a videoconferencing center, a cafe, and a home for several academic and student programs now spread across campus. Click here for information on internship, career, and graduate school options for INTS majors. Indiana University has compiled a list of full-text electronic journals for global studies. UNC students can access these journals via University Libraries's E-Journal Finder. Special issue on glocalization. Since 2003, Critical Half, the bi-annual academic journal of Women for Women International, has presented various perspectives on economic, social, and political issues as they relate to women in international development and conflict and post-conflict societies. The journal aims to raise awareness and spark debate among a variety of audiences about the importance of women's participation in development and reconstruction, and to discuss the unique contributions that women can make to these processes. A journal of transnational affairs Globalizations seeks to publish the best work exploring new meanings of globalization, bringing fresh ideas to the concept, broadening its scope, and contributing to shaping the debates of the future. The journal is dedicated to opening the widest possible space for discussion of alternatives to a narrow economic understanding of globalization. The move from the singular to the plural is deliberate and implies skepticism of the idea that there can ever be a single theory or interpretation of globalization. Rather, the journal will seek to encourage the exploration and discussion of multiple interpretations and multiple processes that may constitute many possible globalizations, many possible alternatives. The journal is open to all fields of knowledge, including the natural, environmental, medical, and public health sciences, as well as the social sciences and humanities. Globalizations will especially encourage multidisciplinary research and seek to publish contributions from all regions of the world.
The Globalization Research Network is a consortium of research centers whose mission is to conduct collaborative activities among its members and others in globalization areas of scholarly and public concern. These activities include theoretical and applied research and public education. Journal of World-Systems Research New Global Studies is the first journal to approach contemporary globalization as a whole, and across disciplinary lines. It draws from history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and international relations to study the past and present of today's globalizing process. Topics include the patterns and local effects of economic globalization, global media networks, preservation of the global environment, transnational manifestations of culture, and the methodology of global studies itself. New Global Studies is an essential resource: a single journal for those who are interested in global affairs and the contemporary history of globalization, both broadly and in depth. Undergraduate Journal of International Studies Published by the International Studies Student Association of Indiana University Burch Field Research Seminars offer some of the most adventurous, hands-on, off-campus educational experiences in the world. They showcase the relationship between faculty research and undergraduate education by combining traditional course work with active, experiential learning. A changing roster of seminars is offered each year in destinations both foreign and domestic. The Center for Global Initiatives is a catalyst for the innovative work of faculty and students at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Formerly known as the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), the Center for Global Initiatives is entrepreneurial and nimble in its approach to fostering initiatives that deepen knowledge and understanding of our complex world. As the largest and oldest school at UNC-Chapel Hill, the College of Arts and Sciences forms the core of the Carolina experience: an unsurpassed liberal-arts education within a world-class research university. Great Decisions is a national program administered by the Foreign Policy Association (FPA). The FPA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, non-governmental institution that helps Americans gain a better understanding of significant world issues. UNC uses the same lecture topics as the national Great Decisions program but typically gives the lectures a more specific focus. The lecture series is held every spring as INTS 393.
UNC's Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) Program integrates the study and use of languages into the mainstream curriculum of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) was established in 1999 to expand the opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research and mentored scholarship at UNC-Chapel Hill. OUR has a variety of resources, including financial support, to help research become a distinctive feature of the undergraduate experience at our Research-Extensive university. A prestigious new program at Carolina, combining a financial award and an academic program centered around a study abroad experience in Asia, the Phillips Ambassadors Program offers an innovative approach to study abroad and a unique opportunity for students to learn about a vital region of the world. Phillips Ambassadors have the opportunity to select a summer or semester term of study from among more than 40 academic programs in Asia. School of Public Health's Office of Global Health The Office of Global Health at the UNC School of Public Health is the organizing unit for global health activities at the School. This organizational structure allows global health to be integrated into each department in the School, rather than as a separate department. This makes interdisciplinary global health research, teaching and practice easier to accomplish and more effective. As an integral component of UNC's strategy of internationalization, the Study Abroad Office provides access to a wide portfolio of educational opportunities that reflect and support the intellectual, financial and cultural needs of our diverse student body. Participation in a study abroad program encourages the exchange of knowledge and understanding, and promotes enlightened and responsible citizenship and leadership for our state and nation. |
