Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies

We are pleased to invite you to a unique exhibit introducing Washington DC to the extraordinary efforts of The Parents Circle, Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families working for reconciliation and peace.

Offering Reconciliation is an exhibit of ceramic bowls designed by 135 prominent Israeli and Palestinian artists on the theme of reconciliation.

JOIN US
April 30 - May 5
MC Atrium The World Bank, Main Complex Building
1818 H Street, NWWashington, DC 20433

This exhibition has been made possible by our kind hosts, The Middle East and North Africa Region, The World Bank; InfoShop, Public Information Center at The World Bank; And the generous support of Mr. James Wolfensohn, The Foundation for Middle East Peace and the Association of Israel’s Decortive Arts.

Guests must RSVP to: infoshopevents@worldbank.org: To coordinate group visits, with a private showing and meeting with Parents Circle speakers, please contact Talya Gitin: americanfriends at parentscircle.org

2007 U.S. Tour
Brandeis University Waltham, MA
March 22 - April 1
The World Bank Washington, DC

April 30 - May 6
The Bellevue Museum Bellevue, WA

June 7- August 19
The United Nations New York City, NY

September 1-28
The Pomegranate Gallery New York City, NY

October 4-18
Annual SOFA Expo Chicago, IL

Please help us open American hearts and minds to the message of this inspiring exhibition:
For more information about The Parents Circle Families Forum please visit: www.theparentscircle.org
American Friends of Parents Circle114 West 26th StreetSuite 1000New York, NY 10001

2007 Global Seminar Series

Enhancing awareness of contemporary global issues and the role of the United Nations in addressing them.

In the UNU Global Seminar Series, students and young professionals are given the opportunity to interact with distinguished scholars and practitioners from Japan and abroad, and to explore a specific issue in depth through lectures and group discussions. Seven regional sessions (each of three or five days duration) will be held in Japan in 2007.

These sessions are open to university students, graduate students, and young professionals residing in Japan. Lectures may be in Japanese or English, so participants are required to understand both languages. A participation fee covers accommodation, meals and seminar documentation. A limited number of fellowships are available for foreign students studying in Japan.

Estimated colleagues,

conflict & communication online , Vol. 6, No. 1 (April 2007), has appeared and can be downloaded from www.cco.regener-online.de.
Best regards,

Wilhelm Kempf
Editor

Table of contents

Peace Journalism II: Case studies and teaching modules

Lea Mandelzis: Representations of Peace in News Discourse: Viewpoint and opportunity for peace journalism
Rune Ottosen: Emphasizing images in peace journalism: A case study from Norway’s biggest newspaper
Jake Lynch: A course in peace journalism
Bev Keever: De-escalating the language of killing – an instructional module
Dov Shinar: Epilogue: Peace journalism – The state of the art

Non-thematic contributions

Bruno Baltodano, Jared Bishop, Jay Hmielowski, Jezreel Kang-Graham, Andrew Morozov, Brion White & Susan Dente Ross: Discourses of Blame and Responsibility: U.S./Canadian Media Representations of Palestinian/Israeli Relations
Nicole Haußecker: Terrorismus in Fernsehnachrichten. Eine Analyse der Berichterstattung über Terroranschläge am Beispiel der Ereignisse in Kenia.

Book reviews
Bläsi, B., 2006. Kein Platz, keine Zeit, kein Geld…? Konstruktive Konfliktberichterstattung und die Medienrealitäten. Berlin: regener.
Acknowledgements

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Kempf
Department of Psychology
University of Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz
Germany

Terrapon, Charlotte [C.Terrapon@leedsmet.ac.uk]
phone: ++44(0)113 283 2600 ext29176
web: www.tourism-culture.com

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

Diaspora community festivals, cultural events and tourism

4-6 October 2007, York, United Kingdom

Organised by:

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Leeds Metropolitan University

Journeys of Expression VI will bring together researchers who share interests in diaspora community cultures as expressed, translated and consumed through festivals and cultural events. The conference encourages contributions from contrasting but related theoretical and conceptual approaches from Social Science and Humanities disciplinary perspectives. The conference will also attract researchers from the fields of tourism and festival studies.

The enforced, encouraged or voluntary movement, migration and dispersion of people over centuries and in recent years is reflected in the family backgrounds, life histories and cultural practices of communities in many countries, regions and cities worldwide. Mobilities associated with the processes of globalisation are demonstrably, if unevenly contributing to an acceleration of migration for more or less permanent, official and legal settlement of people beyond their ‘homelands’.

In many cases, diaspora communities have been subject to hostility and discrimination in their adopted countries and some remain relatively impoverished, marginalised and excluded from ‘mainstream’ society. Others, in contrast have been more socially and economically successful and have either retained distinct diaspora community identities or have become more integrated with other communities over time.

Tourism has also grown substantially and unevenly in recent years, with tourists increasingly encouraged to attend and participate in ‘exotic’ and ‘characteristically authentic’ displays of community life in destinations visited. Such tourism typically features the packaging, promotion and consumption of diaspora community neighbourhoods, food and shopping and importantly festivals and cultural events.

The relationships between diaspora communities, festivity, cultural events and tourism are therefore of considerable interest to academic researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural and tourism policy makers and practitioners in many countries.

Theoretical issues and themes to be explored at this conference include:

* Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with
festivals and cultural events;

* Histories of diaspora communities’ mobilities and the
transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new community circumstances and settings;

* Relationships between diaspora communities and the ‘homeland’
and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural events;

* The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora festival
forms - e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish - religious and secular, established, emerging and contested;

* The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in policies
and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism;

* Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora
community members - inter-generational issues;

* Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural
city;

* Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural events;

* Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora
community festivals and cultural events;

* Performing diaspora community arts through festivals;

* Diaspora tourism markets.

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expressions conference series, we wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies, festival studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc. If you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic file to Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long@leedsmet.ac.uk). The deadline for the reception of abstracts is 16 April 2007. Please find regularly updated information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a later stage) a programme at our website www.tourism-culture.com.

Working with Private Materials in the Public Realm: Material Traces/Travelled Objects
27th April (9.30 – 4.30) Herbert Media, Coventry AHRC Workshop

Limited Places Available. To book contact N.Puwar@gold.ac.uk

A collaboration between Herbert Media, Val Hill and Shaun Hides from the Department of Media and Communications, Coventry University and Nirmal Puwar, from the Methods Lab at the Sociology Department of Goldsmiths, University of London. Funded by the AHRC.

9.30 TEA

10:00-10.45 Shaun Hides - Travels of the Father
http://www.corporate.coventry.ac.uk/?d=135&a=3116

10:45 – 12:00 Hester Dibbits and kitty Roukens: Migration and Domestic Material Culture in Holland: Moroccan and the Afro-Surinamese interiors in the Netherlands

http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/meertensnet/wdb.php?sel=81133

http://www.siswo.uva.nl/medewerkers1/roukens1.html

12:00 – 12:45 Ellen Bell Speaking Soul: language dictionaries, phrase books and letters as symbolic representations of the traveller
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=5873

1:00 – 1:45 LUNCH

2:00 – 2:45Graeme Were, ‘Lines that Connect: Exploring

Pacific Pattern’

http://www.pacificpattern.com/exhibition.htm

2:45 – 3.30 Susie Symes, Princelet street Museum of Migration: Suitcases and Sanctuary
http://www.19princeletstreet.org.uk/exhibition.html

3:30 – 4:15 Nirmal Puwar & Jitey Samra ‘As if Yesterday’: triggering memory and emotions’
http://www.coming2coventry.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Close with drinks

Directions to Herbert Media, Jordan Well, Coventry CV1 5QP Tel: 024 7683 2386 http://www.theherbert.org/

http://www.theherbert.org/visiting/herbertMedia/index.htm

On 17/4/07 10:06, “Katie Roche” wrote:
ECREA
DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND THE MEDIA SECTION (DMM)
EUROPEAN WORKSHOP

Mediations of Cultural Difference:
Debating Media and Diversity

7 and 8 September 2007
University of Leeds

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Marie Gillespie, Open University
Charles Husband, Bradford University
Kim Knott, Leeds University;
Director of AHRC ‘Diasporas, Migration and Identities’ programme

The necessity to have an ongoing debate on the ‘political imaginary of heterogeneity’ (Werbner, 2002: 276) is revealed in the face-to-face encounters in the streets of today’s metropoles, the mediated urban, national and transnational encounters within and beyond European cultural scapes, as well as in the mediated political actions and reactions around diversity and its implications. It is this articulation of the debate around cultural difference, communication, and the media that is the prime focus of this workshop. How might we view the media role in this discussion? And what about other forms of communicative practices that may feed into the debate? Who participates in the debate and what form does this participation take? Do the (new) media lead in new forms of identities, subjectivities and solidarities? Conversely, do they lead to new forms of exclusion and conformism, and to new fundamentalisms?

Call for Papers

In this spirit we call for papers that both participate in, and reflect upon the wider conduct of this debate. We invite submissions that engage with, but are not restricted to, the following themes:

* Cosmopolitanism, transnationalism and diasporas: thinking about the edges of the nation-state.

* Diaspora and cultural domesticity: sustaining traditions? The conservative aspects of cultural diversity

* Diasporas and alternative media: producing political ‘meaning’/ethics?

* The city and the urban politics of representation

* Cultural diversity and marginalized voices: politics of media representation and ethics

* Multicultural backlash: opposition to multiculturalism and the role of the media

* Bottom-up multiculturalism: everyday (multi)cultural encounters

* New media and multiculturalism: what does the internet add?

* Diaspora and digital narratives: loss, gain, negotiations, and interpretations

* Blogosphere and diasporas: a new public sphere?

* Media consumption: what can we learn from ethnic and diasporic media use?

* New theoretical interrogations on media, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, diaspora.

Abstracts should be sent to: diaspora-media@leeds.ac.uk by May 1, 2007.

Fees: £50.00 (Full-time staff and professionals) £30.00 (Students)

More information will be published as it becomes available at:
http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/ecrea-diasporamedia

Dear Colleagues,

At our recent conference The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary Europe internationally acclaimed filmmakers, producers and other leading media practitioners discussed their views on what it means to make, produce and distribute films made by diasporic filmmakers in Europe. You now have the opportunity to listen to six podcasts (each approx. 45 mins.) by filmmakers John Akomfrah and Abdelkrim Bahloul; producer and diversity consultant Parminder Vir, OBE; Eve Gabereau (Soda Pictures UK); Ralph Schwingel (Wüste Film Production); Gareth Jones (Scenario Films) and Thierry Lenouvel (Amiens Film Festival).

Listen to the experts and you will make some remarkable discoveries! What are the challenges encountered by diasporic filmmakers in France and the UK? Why does the transcultural status of diasporic cinema often make it particularly difficult for these films to be entered at international film festivals? What particular funding initiatives are available across Europe to support the filmmaking of ethnic minority filmmakers? Who are the audiences of Turkish-German cinema, and why is it necessary to develop different distribution strategies for a film like Head-On in countries like France and Britain?

We are looking forward to your comments and a lively discussion on our project website: www.migrantcinema.netBest wishes,

Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg

Dr Daniela Berghahn
Reader in Film Studies
Department of Media Arts
Royal Holloway
University of London
Egham
Surrey
TW20 0EX
T. +44 (0)1784 443838

Call for papers: Sur Journal Special Issue on Transitional Justice
Submissions Deadline: 15 May 2007 T

he Human Rights University Network and the International Center for
Transitional Justice (ICTJ) welcome contributions to be published in an
International Journal on Human Rights on Transitional Justice. The Sur
Journal is published twice a year, distributed free of charge to
approximately 2,700 readers in over 100 countries. It is edited in three
languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish. The Journal aims at
disseminating a Global Southern perspective on human rights and to
facilitate exchange among professors and activists from the Global South
without disregarding contributions from other regions. For more information,
see HYPERLINK “http://www.surjournal.org/”www.surjournal.org Call for Papers: Women’s Narratives, War, and Peace-Building
Submissions Deadline: 21 May 2007
Critical Half, the bi-annual academic journal of Women for Women
International, is currently seeking submissions for its Summer 2007 issue,
which will focus on the function of women’s individual and collective
narratives during and after war and civil conflict. Women for Women
International provides women survivors of war, civil strife, and other
conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to
stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
For more information, see HYPERLINK
“http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#WNWPB”www.wougnet.org/Even
ts/projectnews07.html#WNWPB

You are invited to join us at the 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGINATION AND EDUCATION being held JULY 18 - 21, 2007 at the Coast
Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, Canada[1].

Hosted by The Imaginative Education Research Group[2] of Simon Fraser University, Canada,[3] this conference showcases presentations by teaching and scholarly communities from around the world. Featuring Dr. Vivian Gussin Paley [4] as keynote speaker, as well as invited sessions by Drs. Rosalind Horowitz (USA), Tony Sherborne (UK), Kieran Egan (Canada), Sean Blenkinsop (Canada) and Mrs. Annabella Cant (Romania), the program is full of thought provoking sessions addressing imagination and education across the curriculum.

Optional evening events are also planned including a 4 hour Sunset Dinner boat cruise along the coast of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Past delegates have shared with us that this conference has consistently been a great opportunity to get together for lively discussions and learning opportunities centered in education practice, research and theory.

If you register before May 14th, you will receive a free copy of “Teaching and Learning Outside the Box: Inspiring Imagination Across the Curriculum” in your delegate package. This Althouse/Teachers Press book, to be published in May 2007, is edited by Kieran Egan, Maureen Stout, and Keiichi Takaya of the IERG.

To read more about registering for the conference, please go to http://www.ierg.net/confs/registration.php?cf=2 [5]. If you are ready to register now, our online registration is now available at: https://webform.sfu.ca/form/edu.ierg.conf.2007[6]. Conference registration inquiries can be directed to SFU Conference Services at conference_services@sfu.ca[7]

Please do come to Vancouver this year and join the many students, researchers and teachers who will be engaging each other in this ongoing conversation about imagination in education.

If you have any questions about the conference as a whole, the program, the work of the IERG (etc.) please feel free to contact me at your convenience!

Teresa
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Conference Coordinator
Imaginative Education Research Group
Faculty of Education,
Simon Fraser University
http://www.ierg.net/confstel: 604-291-4479
fax: 604-268-7014
email: ierg-ed[@]sfu.ca

Imagination .. Is Reason in her most exalted mood!
W. Wordsworth, The Prelude, Bk. XIV, line 192

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want nothing less than to make the learning experiences of all
children in all schools more interesting, meaningful, and
imaginatively engaging. By developing teachers’ and students’
imaginations, we believe we can transform the experience of
schooling, and help students become more knowledgeable, and more
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Press Release
April 15, 2007
New Book on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Provides Compelling Psychological Perspective

WHAT IS KEEPING ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS FROM REACHING AN AGREEMENT IN THE NEGOTIATING TABLE? SALINAS EXPLAINS HOW PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS, INCLUDING MISTRUST, HATRED, STEREOTYPES, AND PREJUDICE ARE AS IMPORTANT AS DISAGREEMENTS OVER BORDERS, REFUGEES, AND SETTLEMENTS.

New Britain, CT: As renewed hatred pumped the people of Israel, Palestine and Lebanon in summer 2006, fueling a flurry of bombings, kidnappings, and murders, author and Professor Moises Salinas continued to conduct interviews and his research in those nations for his new book on the psychology of this, the longest conflict of the modern era. The psychology professor explains: “This conflict, that has been raging more than 70 years, is irrational. While in recent years both groups have basically agreed on the broad parameters of a peace agreement, the fight still rages nonetheless. Politicians fail to see that the obstacles to achieve a solution are not as much political as they are psychological.” Research - and interviews with residents - shows that just as much as disagreements over borders, refugees, and settlements, both parties are kept hurting each other because of psychological factors including mistrust, hatred, fear, stereotypes, and prejudice. Dr. Salinas shows us how the hatred and mistrust were created and persist for the populace, with interviewees ranging from an Israeli right wing settler and a Palestinian militant to commoners on both sides simply the victims of that violence. This book includes compelling, easily readable reviews of the psychological research regarding Israeli-Palestinian relationships, including chapters on stereotype and prejudice; violence, extremism and terrorism; posttraumatic stress; and reconciliation, mediation, and peacemaking.

Dr. Salinas is a Professor of Psychology at Central Connecticut State University. He earned his undergraduate degree at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the author of a previous Greenwood Title, the critically praised: The Politics of Stereotype: Psychology and Affirmative Action.

BOOK INFORMATION:

Title: Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Author: Moises F. Salinas, Ph.D.
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)
Publisher: Greenwood/Praeger Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99005-3
Publication Date: June 2007

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Available at Barnes and Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780275990053&itm=1

To contact the Author: salinasm [at] ccsu.edu

Contact: Karin Kuczynski-Holmgren
Senior Marketing Manager, Praeger
Karin.Holmgren [at] greenwood.com
203-226-3571

Engaging Men in “Women’s Issues”: Inclusive Approaches to Gender and
Development As a follow-up to our update on our Men’s Leadership Program in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, we invite you to read the latest issue of
Critical Half, our bi-annual journal. Critical Half is a publication of
Women for Women International devoted to the exchange of ideas and insight
encountered by practitioners in the field of gender, development, conflict
and post-conflict reconstruction.

Over the course of 14 years of working on gender and development issues,
Women for Women International has seen how cultural norms regarding female
roles often prevent women from realizing their economic, social and
political potential. Men frequently play pivotal roles in maintaining these
norms - it is our belief that we cannot overlook opportunities to develop
partnerships for change between women and men.

In the Winter 2007 issue of Critical Half, entitled Engaging Men in “Women’s
Issues”: Inclusive Approaches to Gender and Development, we present the
programs and observations of several individuals and organizations who work
with men to promote gender equality. Articles explore men’s perceptions of
gender roles; men’s opinions of “women’s empowerment”; factors and
incentives that influence men’s receptiveness to economic, social and
political programs for women; obstacles faced by men who wish to implement
change in their communities; and proven strategies to create partnerships
with men to positively transform gender relations.Â

Readers will no doubt notice that most of the Critical Half articles present
examples from sub-Saharan Africa. Interestingly, it appears that many
initiatives that engage men are currently operating in that region. The need
to involve men in gender issues, however, is a universal concern, and it is
our hope that by showcasing work with men in several African communities we
can provide insight and inspire debate among other communities around the
world who are searching for innovative and sustainable methods to transform
gender relations and better the lives of all.  Â

Read this issue of Critical Half today at
http://www.womenforwomen.org/repubbiannual.htm.

Support a Woman Survivor of War this Mother’s Day

Instead of buying flowers or perfume, why not do something truly meaningful
to honor a woman in your life?

Make a Mother’s Day gift to Women for Women International at
www.womenforwomen.org/mothers.

We’ll send your recipient a beautiful Mother’s Day card telling her that a
donation has been made in her honor. Your gift will help a mother in a
war-torn nation realize the most cherished dream of mothers around the world
- to care for her children and provide them with a future. At the same time,
it will be a moving symbol of how deeply you care for your honoree - and for
mothers everywhere that are working toward a brighter future.