April 2008 |
2008 WCSS/IEC International Education Conference
Monday & Tuesday, March 31 – April 1, 2008
Madison Marriott West Hotel
The Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS) and International Education Conference (IEC) have joined forces again to provide a program of over 100 stimulating conference sessions and two thought-provoking keynote speakers.
Greg Mortenson
Author of "Three Cups of Tea" – A NYTimes Best Seller (www.threecupsoftea.com)
Director of the Central Asia Institute (www.ikat.org)
Builder of over 58 Schools in Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan
Advocate for the Education of 24,000 Girls in N. Pakistan and Afghanistan
Organizer of “Pennies for Peace” Programs for Schools (www.penniesforpeace.org)
Harvey Kaye
Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development, UW-Green Bay (https://uwgb.edu/history/faculty/kaye.htm)
Director, Center for History and Social Change, UW-GB (https://uwgb.edu/centerhsc/)
Founder, Wisconsin Labor History Society (http://www.wisconsinlaborhistory.org/)
Author of 15 Books including "Thomas Paine and the Promise of America"
Some Program Highlights
Laxova – Personal Memories of Life Under Hitler and Stalin
Ratway – Developing Curriculum with a Focus on Global Connections & Comparisons
Lilleleht – Classroom Resources from the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium
Freund & Hayes – Bridging Cultures through Stories and Art
Waite & Linden – International Dimensions of Social Studies and Science
Information
PROGRAM – The entire two-day program including keynoters are on the Conference website. REGISTRATION – Registration is by mail using the website registration form or on-site. Registration includes 100+ sessions, keynoters, exhibits, continental breakfasts, plated lunches, and free parking.
COST – 1-Day Conference: $100, Student $35 and 2-day Conference: $150, Students $60.
INFORMATION: Melissa Collum (mcollum@ils.k12.wi.us) or Dean Bowles (bdbowles@wisc.edu)
http://education.wisc.edu/elpa/conferences/iec/
This event is sponsored and supported by the Wisconsin International Outreach Consortium (WIOC) and its member programs, including CREECA.
"Increasing Vulnerability: The Homeless, Alcohol, and Mortality in Russia"
William Pridemore, Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
4:00 PM, Thursday, April 3, 2008
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
About the lecture: William Alex Pridemore, Indiana University, will discuss mortality among the increasing homeless population in Russia.
About the speaker: William Alex Pridemore is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, where he is also an affiliate faculty member of the Russian and East European Institute. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research. He did his PhD work in Criminal Justice at SUNY-Albany. His dissertation, completed in 2000, examined social structure and homicide in post-Soviet Russia. Dr. Pridemore spent a year as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main research interests include social structure and violence, the impact of socioeconomic change and of hazardous drinking on homicide and suicide in Russia, and the measurement of crime and deviance. Dr. Pridemore’s research on Russia has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the National Science Foundation. His research is interdisciplinary and has been published in leading journals in several disciplines, including criminology (Criminology, J. of Quantitative Criminology, J. of Research in Crime and Delinquency), public health (American J. of Public Health, Addiction), and sociology (Social Forces, Social Science and Medicine). He also recently edited a volume, entitled Ruling Russia: Law, crime, and justice in a changing society, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield.
"How Russia Really Works: Informal Practices in Putin's Russia "
Alena Ledeneva, Lecturer in Russian Politics and Society, University College London
12:00 PM, 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Co-Sponsors: CREECA
About the lecture: In order to make the informal order transparent, one should start by altering the approach: rather than looking only at what does not work in Russia and why, one should concentrate on what does work and how. This paper addresses a relatively unexplored territory of practices “behind the facades” allegedly predominating in Russian politics and economy in the 1990s and discusses their trends in Putin’s Russia (with reference to the 2007 survey research).
About the speaker: Alena V. Ledeneva is currently a Lecturer in Russian Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She completed her first Degree in Economics at the Novosibirsk State University (1986), her M.Phil. (1992) and Ph.D. (1996) in Social and Political Theory at Cambridge University, where she also spent her postdoctoral years. She is author of Russia's Economy of Favours (CUP, 1998), and co-editor of Bribery and Blat in Russia (Macmillan, 2000); Economic Crime in Russia (Kluwer Law International, 2000). She has conducted research into informal economy, industrial barter, and shadow business in Russia. Her expertise is in post-Soviet Russian affairs: Russia in the global order, the Russian state and the rise of organized crime, barter economy, social networks and patron-client relationships.
8:30-12:30 PM, Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Great Hall, Memorial Union.
An opportunity for Wisconsin high school students to spend a half-day on campus learning about the language, history, culture, and politics of Russia.
Sponsor: CREECA
The Art of Slavery: How Masters and Serfs Created Russian Culture
Richard Stites, Professor of History, Georgetown University
3:30 – 5:30 pm, Thursday, April 10, 2008
Curti Lounge, 5233 Humanities Bldg,
"Cross-Cultural Communication: Examples from Kazakh, Russian, and American English "
Maral Nurtazina, Fulbright Fellow, UW-Madison
4:00 PM, Thursday, April 17, 2008
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Central Asian Studies Program
About the lecture: This paper is a discussion of the effects of intercultural communication issues encountered by the Russian and Kazakh students in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as both in America. The author focuses her attention on such problems as ethnic stereotypes, tolerance, acculturation process and strategies of living in a culturally diverse society. The lecture considers these issues from historical, cultural, psychological, sociological, and linguistic perspectives. It is based on a large survey study as well as focus-interview studies of Russian and Kazakh students at Eurasian University in Astana, St. Petersburg University in Russia, Harvard, Georgetown, Chicago University, Columbia, and UW-Madison. The author reports the results of a 2007 survey she conducted with 79 Russian and 92 Kazakh students between the ages of 17 and 32 regarding their views of America and the problem of adaptation, cross-cultural communication, the language barrier, and gender and other issues. Data from a 2007 opinion survey showed that when students initially live in a society that is culturally different, their own culture is still with them mainly in three ways: language, value and customs, and self-identity, all of which are related to one another. This study replicates and supplements findings from a similar 2006 survey of 182 students in Astana, Kazakhstan and 216 students in St. Petersburg, Russia, which the author reported on in numerous publications.
About the speaker: Maral Nurtazina, Fulbright scholar and Professor of the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana, Kazakhstan, teaches various courses in subjects concerning sociolinguistics, 19 th and 20 th century Russian literature, lexical semantics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, morphology, syntax, and language and culture. She is also working as a lecturer and trainer at the Academy of Civil Management under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan . She completed her post-graduate work with first-class honors from St. Petersburg University , Russia in the Department of Russian Language and Literature. Her Kandidatskaya (1985) and Doktorskaya (2007) dissertations investigated the functional-communicative aspect of Russian grammar. Over the years, she has served on many national committees and councils relevant to higher education and research in St. Petersburg and Kazakhstan . Her research interests include intercultural communication, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and gender studies. Nurtazina was the recipient of a 1999 DAAD research grant to conduct research at Trier University in Germany , and has participated in the Summer University Program at CEU in Budapest in 2002, the Curriculum Resource Center session at CEU in Budapest and Warsaw in 2003, and the CDC Pilot Course Portfolio Project (CPP) in 2005. She has 162 academic publications to her credit, consisting primarily of articles in academic journals like The Journal of Communication and Rhetoric, Linguistics. Her books include The Methodology of Investigating the Issues of Cross-Cultural Communication: Stereotypes, Identity, Diversity (published by Eurasian University, 2005) and The Coordination of Culture and Language in Cross-Cultural Communication: The Case Study of Russian and Kazakh University Students in Kazakhstan (2006).
Introduction to Bohuslav Martinu and Martinu Research
Ales Brezina, Czech composer, in residence in Madison
Location: 4 pm , 1221 Mosse Humanities Building , 455 N. Park Street
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
About the musician: Ales Brezina, a Prague-based musicologist, composer and film collaborator , will visit UW-Madison on April 23-27, 2008 . He will give a series of lectures during the week and will present several screenings of films for which he has composed music. Brezina’s lectures will explore his compositions for stage and screen, as well as his work on the important 20 th-century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, on whom he is a world authority.
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
Martinu Institute and its Projects
Ales Brezina, Czech composer, in residence in Madison
Location: 2 pm , 1221 Mosse Humanities Building , 455 N. Park Street
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
About the musician: Ales Brezina, a Prague-based musicologist, composer and film collaborator , will visit UW-Madison on April 23-27, 2008 . He will give a series of lectures during the week and will present several screenings of films for which he has composed music. Brezina’s lectures will explore his compositions for stage and screen, as well as his work on the important 20 th-century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, on whom he is a world authority.
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
Film Screening: “Musime si pomahat” (Divided We Fall, 2000)
Location: 4 pm , 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave.
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
About the film: A daring comedy of ethics, Divided We Fall takes place during World War II in a small, Nazi-occupied town in Czechoslovakia . Josef and Maria, a childless couple, have withdrawn further and further from reality even as the war circles closer to their eerily quiet town. Josef's decision to sleep through a war he doesn't want to acknowledge is soon tested when the Jewish son of his former employer arrives in the middle of the night seeking refuge. David, the sole survivor from his family, escaped from a concentration camp in Poland and managed to return to the only place he knows in search of help. As they harbor David in their pantry over the next three years, Josef and Maria discover the depth of their resolve, forced to play the role of seeming collaborators in order to save themselves and David. (120 minutes; featured as part of Czech composer Ales Brezina’s residence in Madison April 23-27, 2008)
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
"The Mongol Empire and Alcohol"
Thomas Allsen , professor emeritus of history, College of New Jersey
4:00 PM, Thursday, April 24, 2008
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
Sponsors: CREECA and the Central Asian Studies Program
About the lecture: The acquisition and distribution of alcoholic beverages was an integral part of the political culture of the steppe peoples. In the 13th-14th centuries the Mongols, drawing upon the traditions, technologies and resources of the empire's diverse populations, mobilized and dispensed alcohol on a continental scale. The lecture will explore the steppe's extensive alcoholic relations with the sown and assess the consequences of this relationship for the Mongol Empire and for the long term history of alcohol.
About the speaker: Thomas Allsen is Professor Emeritus in History at the College of New Jersey and served as President of The Mongolia Society from 1995-1998. He has published several articles and chapters in books about Mongolian culture, politics, and history. Allsen has also authored several monographs, including his most recent, The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2006, as well as Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia (2001) and Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (1997).
Ales Brezina, Czech composer, in residence in Madison
Location: 1 pm , 1221 Mosse Humanities Building , 455 N. Park Street
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
About the musician: Ales Brezina, a Prague-based musicologist, composer and film collaborator , will visit UW-Madison on April 23-27, 2008 . He will give a series of lectures during the week and will present several screenings of films for which he has composed music. Brezina’s lectures will explore his compositions for stage and screen, as well as his work on the important 20 th-century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, on whom he is a world authority.
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
Film Compositions of Ales Brezina
Ales Brezina, Czech composer, in residence in Madison
Location: 1-6 pm , Pyle Center , 702 Langdon St.
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration.
About the event: This event consists of a lecture and discussion from 1-3 pm , followed by a screening of “Horem padem” (Up and Down, 2004, 108 minutes) and a public reception.
About the musician: Ales Brezina, a Prague-based musicologist, composer and film collaborator , will visit UW-Madison on April 23-27, 2008 . He will give a series of lectures during the week and will present several screenings of films for which he has composed music. Brezina’s lectures will explore his compositions for stage and screen, as well as his work on the important 20 th-century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, on whom he is a world authority.
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
Ales Brezina’s Chamber Opera "Tomorrow Will…"
Ales Brezina, Czech composer, in residence in Madison
Location: 2 pm , 1217 Mosse Humanities Building , 455 N. Park Street
Sponsors: UW-Madison Arts Institute, UW-Madison School of Music, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of History, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration
About the musician: Ales Brezina, a Prague-based musicologist, composer and film collaborator , will visit UW-Madison on April 23-27, 2008 . He will give a series of lectures during the week and will present several screenings of films for which he has composed music. Brezina’s lectures will explore his compositions for stage and screen, as well as his work on the important 20 th-century Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu, on whom he is a world authority.
For more information, please visit http://www.news.wisc.edu/14856.
"Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: From the Synagogue to the Carousel, from the Sacred to the Secular"
Murray Zimiles, professor of art and design, SUNY Purchase
5:30 PM, Monday, April 28, 2008
Room L140, Chazen Museum of Art, 800 University Ave
Sponsors: Material Culture Program; cosponsored by the Chazen Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, the Folklore Program, the Conney Project on Jewish Arts through the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA).
About the lecture: Professor Zimiles will discuss the migration of East European Jewish artisans and their woodcarving practices to the United States, comparing rare photographs of Eastern European synagogues with carousel horses produced in the New York area to show how artistic traditions were transformed and secularized.