Global Sources Spring 2010

Students in Hanjiaping Village School outside of Xian. Read more about the event on page 4-5.

Global Sources The University of Kansas International Outreach Newsletter

Global Sources

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Spring 2010

As 2009 drew to a close, the Center for Global and In-ternational Studies hosted an open house to welcome colleagues and associates to its new offices in Blake Hall and formally announce the appointment of Thomas Heilke as Center Director.

The announcement was made by former Acting Direc-tor and Associate Dean for International Studies, Bill Tsutsui, and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Greg Simpson. Prior to becoming Center Director, Thomas Heilke served for six years in a variety of roles in International Programs at KU, including Interim Co-Associate Vice Provost when he co-directed the office. A professor of political science, he teaches and publishes on the history of political thought, religion and politics, and international relations. He has been a Distinguished Lecturer in the KU Humanities and Western Civiliza-tion program, in which capacity he directed a study abroad semester in Italy and France in Spring, 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1990.

KU CGIS WELCOMES NEW CENTER DIRECTOR

Thomas Heilke

Bianca Elliot presents“Experiencing Mongolia” at a KU workshop for educa-tors. Read more about Bianca on pg. 2.

Greetings! It is a great honor to be asked to direct the new Center for Global and International Studies at KU, and I am pleased to be aboard since January 4th. We are all excited to be in our new and newly-painted “digs,” complete with gently-used furniture and a full comple-ment of staff who are ready and eager to help you in whatever ways possible. This week, we have enjoyed the sounds of demolition and reconstruction as the of-fice for the IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) program is readied for occupan-cy, and we continue to laugh about the little things that need doing to fully establish our office (like rounding up paper clips and scotch tape and finding everyone a working computer).And of course, there are the big things. Our ambitious goals are listed for you on the website (http://global.ku.edu/about/index.shtml), and there is much to do on the way to realizing them. We are in the midst of writing a grant proposal for the NRC (Title VI) grant competi-tion, establishing a new home for an undergraduate ma-jor and two tracks of an MA program, and coordinating a host of other activities around the common intention of achieving our goals step by step. I am confident that in partnership with the hundreds of affiliated faculty

we have in the College and across campus, with strong institutional support, with our collaborators in International Programs and the area studies centers, with related interdisciplinary programs, and with the many other resources we enjoy at KU and around the region, we will achieve those

goals. In the meantime, has anyone seen a stapler? Thomas Heilke

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CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES

TEACHERS TAKE A PART IN REIMAGINING CENTRAL EUROPE

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SPRING 2010In this Issue:

Message From the Director ............................... 1

Reimagining Central Europe ............................. 2

CEAS Celebrates 50 Years .................................. 3

Chinese Language Outreach Programs ........... 4

Update on Teaching About Asia ....................... 4

KASC 2010 Teacher Summer Institute ............ 5

Director Honored with International Educator Award ...................................................................... 6

México Indígena .................................................6-7

The Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Stud-ies (CREES) had a very busy fall 2009 “Fall of the Wall: Reconstructing Central Europe” semester. As a part of the semester, CREES and the Spencer Museum of Art (SMA) presented “Reimagining Central Europe: Transition and Identity,” a workshop for educators. The event took place in the Spencer Museum on November 7. While waiting for the gallery tour educators, students and professionals gathered in the Spencer’s charming reception room. The workshop organizers—Tatyana Wilds, Outreach Coordi-nator (CREES/International); Amanda Martin-Hammond, Public Programs Coordinator, and Kristina Mitchell, Di-rector of Education (SMA) greeted participants with tasty breakfast snacks.Natalie Svacina, SMA intern, gave an inspired tour at the Spencer’s Central European Collection that included post-ers, photography, and prints. After the gallery tour and a discussion, Professor Nathan Wood, History, gave an exciting lecture on “Solidarity: Non-Violent Protest and the Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.” Along with the lecture, Professor Wood also showed a unique movie episode called, “We Caught God by the Arm.” The episode belongs to series entitled, “A Force More Powerful.” After a short break, Professor Svetlana Vassileva - Karagyozova, Slavic Languages and Literatures, captivated listeners with a talk on “The Leaders of the Revolution: Lech Walesa and Vaclav Havel.” Her presentation helped participants to understand the complex characters of these two leaders and to learn about their personal connection, struggles, and achievements.

FROM THE EDITOR

Professor Wood lectures at the workshop.

KUDOS!JANE IRUNGU, Associate Director (KASC) successfully defended her dissertation enti-tled “THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENGAGE-MENT AND PERCEIVED ACADEMIC, PER-SONAL, AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES FOR SENIOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE STU-DENTS IN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES.” Jane has been a student in the Department of Educa-tional Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, KU, and her concentration was Higher Education Administration.

BIANCA ELLIOT teaches at Lansing High School, Lansing, KS. She recently defended her dissertation : “EFFECTIVE TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS: A TWO-NATION COM-PARATIVE STUDY.” The countries were Guate-mala and Japan. Bianca has been an inspiring affiliate of KU area studies centers for many years. She regularly works with the centers to train teachers during the KASC Annual Teacher Summer Institute and participates and presents at various workshops for educa-tors across the area studies centers at KU. Bianca is also a world-traveler. She has vis-ited a numerous countries around the world.

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The second part of the workshop was a roundtable discus-sion. Teachers and presenters had an opportunity to ask questions and exchange knowledge and experience on the topics of the workshop, and also to discuss possible lesson plans. CREES always encourages educators to attend its events in order to incorporate area studies into classrooms. The center offers travel grants for teachers. In the current economic climate, these grants are a noticeable help to educators. Teachers also have the opportunity to become teacher-scholars and write lesson plans, for which they receive an honorarium. As a result of this productive and fun event, four teachers chose to become teacher-scholars and wrote lesson plans. To obtain all lesson plans, please visit http://www.crees.ku.edu/teachers/Curriculum.shtml.Also, do not overlook this new website for educators, http://www.crees.ku.edu/teachers/index.shtml.These can be useful links for you and your students.

STAY TUNED FOR THIS K-16 WORKSHOP:On April 17, 2010, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Economic Education and the Center for Global and Inter-national Studies will host a workshop for educa-tors, “Teaching the Silk Road: The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Market.” A schedule is coming soon at: www.crees.ku.edu/

outreach/Workshops_for_Educators.shtml

CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIESwww.ceas.ku.edu

Natalie Svacina, SMA intern, gives a tour of the Spencer’s Central European Collection.

Librarian Vickie Doll, former CEAS director Gary Bjorge, Nancy Bjorge, and Diantha Johnson at the CEAS 50th Anniversary dinner in November.

CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIES CELEBRATES 50 YEARS

Current, former, and emeritus faculty joined alumni and patrons in November to celebrate the Center for East Asian Studies’ 50th anniversary. Dinner and drinks at the Adams Alumni Center were followed by a conversation about the history of East Asian Studies led by professors Grant Goodman, Felix Moos, and Bill Tsutsui.Thomas R. Smith, associate professor of geology, of-fered KU’s first East Asian course in 1947. By 1959, a full-fledged program in East Asian Studies was ap-proved by the Kansas legislature, the Center for East Asian Studies was founded, and Benjamin Wallacker began teaching Chinese language courses. Twenty-four students enrolled the first semester.Goodman and Moos entertained the dinner guests with stories about the protest sit-in at the CEAS build-ing by the February Sisters in 1972, touring Japan with Kansas governor Robert Docking, and celebrating the eccentricities of faculty members such as Wallacker, who kept a pet alligator in his office. John Ross (Class of ’61) amusingly recalled how the alligator would hiss during Classical Chinese lessons.Included in the festivities was a surprise announce-ment by alumnus Thomas Kurata that he had en-dowed a scholarship in Anthropology in honor of Felix Moos.

A complete timeline of CEAS, as well as photos throughout the years, are available at www.ceas.

ku.edu. Follow the “50 years” link on the front page.

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KANSAS CONSORTIUM FOR TEACHING ABOUT EAST ASIA UPDATE

The Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia (www.kcta.ku.edu) was fortunate to be funded again by the Freeman Foundation of New York and Stowe, Vermont during academic year 2009-10, though funding was de-creased from prior levels due to the national economic downturn. Nevertheless, KCTA was able to bring its signature “Teaching East Asia Seminar” this fall to twenty K-12 educators working in greater Kansas City area elementary and secondary schools. Participants were from both public school districts such as Olathe, De Soto, Lawrence and Kansas City and from private schools such as St. James Academy and Pembroke Hill School. One social studies teacher even commuted from Wathena, located close to St. Joseph!The seminar consisted of eight sessions of classroom instruction followed by a gallery talk on Chinese and Japanese art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and a visit to its Educator Resource Center. Participants received a generous cash stipend for attending the seminar and then creating one lesson plan about East Asia that introduced or increased content about China, Japan or Korea in the subjects they taught. They also met like-minded educators who recognize that students must know about this increasingly important part of the world if they are to be prepared for the twenty-first century. KCTA alums were recently invited to apply for an edu-cational study tour going to East Asia in summer 2010. The tour is also subsidized by the Freeman Foundation, so out of pocket expenses for two weeks in China will be less than the price of international airfare to and from that country. The Foundation covers all other costs. In addition to seeing famous sites including the Terracotta Warriors in Xian and the Great Wall and Forbidden City in Beijing, alums will visit schools located in remote mountain villages such as the one pictured on the front page as well as ones in more accessible urban settings. They also will learn about Chinese education, history and culture while staying at Huazhong Normal Univer-sity in Wuhan. The next KCTA seminar is scheduled to be held in Ga-lena, Kansas on several Fridays and Saturdays during the spring semester. If you would like to participate in this professional development opportunity and become eligible for subsidized study tours and other enrich-ment activities, please contact KCTA Associate Director Nancy Hope at [email protected].

RECORD YEAR FOR CEAS CHINESE LANGUAGE OUTREACH

2009 was a banner year for the Center’s Chinese language outreach programs. More than 650 K-12 students benefited from this series of classroom presentations that spanned the entire Fall semester. The pre-sentations at Eudora Elemen-tary School were written up in the Lawrence Journal World (http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/nov/22/eudora-stu-

CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN STUDIESwww.ceas.ku.edu

dents-get-chinese-instruction/) and, from there, news of our program was picked up by the American Coun-cil for Teaching Foreign Language (ACTFL) and sent out nationwide. The program, entitled variously “Five Days of Chinese,” “Four Days of Chinese,” “Three Days of Chinese” or “Introduction to the Chinese Lan-guage,” teaches children about the Chinese language, including tones and writing, covers some basic vocabu-lary, including how to count to 100, and incorporates a lesson about the Chinese Zodiac in which students orally supply the names of the zodiac animals – in Chinese! – in a read-aloud legend about the origins of the Zodiac. Teachers who participated in the program were given a free copy of the Center’s middle grade chapter book, “The Fastest Pig in the West.” The book, written by outreach coordinator Randi Hacker, tells the fictional story of Jimmy Lin, a boy who is learning to negotiate his two cultures – Chinese and American – in the fictitious Kansas town of Buffalo Grove, where his family owns the only Chinese restaurant. Chapters of the story are interspersed with chapters that talk about Chinese culture, and there is an on-line chapter-by-chapter teachers’ guide with lesson plans, lesson ideas and downloads.

KANSAS CONSORTIUM FOR TEACHING ABOUT EAST ASIA www.kcta.ku.edu

The Silk Road Display at KU.

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KANSAS AFRICAN STUDIES CENTERwww.kasc.ku.edu

African cultures are some of the richest and oldest in the world. The 2010 Teacher Summer Institute will focus on enhancing K-12 teacher knowledge about Af-rica as well discussing how to use the arts and cultural events to teach about Africa. KU graduate students and upper level undergraduate students who wish to enhance their knowledge of Africa will also find these two weeks very enlightening. This Institute is recommended for all teachers and edu-cators who teach about Africa in their classrooms, or who seek quality information and thought-provoking discussion about different aspects of African art and culture. The daily format will include an array of learn-ing sessions – talks, panel discussions, hands-on proj-ects, and workshops facilitated by African area special-ists from KU and from around the region. There will be live performances by the KU African Drumming Ensemble and theater performances by KU students.Participants will create lesson plans to be used in their own classrooms, as well as by other educators, and will have opportunities to meet with faculty consultants for content and resource suggestions. The last two days of the Institute, teachers will also have an opportunity to collaborate on creating teaching modules based on

KANSAS AFRICAN STUDIES CENTERTEACHER SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010USING THE ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS

TO TEACH ABOUT AFRICA JUNE 8-18, 2010

(Right) Jane Irungu, Associate Director (KASC) greets CGIS staff at the Center for Global and International Studies (CGIS) 2009 Winter Holiday Open House reception.

SCHOLARSHIPSScholarships ($200) are being offered to K-12 (teach-ers/educators) participants this year. To apply for the award, write a brief essay answering the following questions about your needs and interests in teaching Africa, and include one letter of reference from your primary evaluator.• What do you teach; at what grade level? • What African topics do you teach, and how much time do you devote to Africa? • To better teach about Africa, what do you or your colleagues need for your classroom or your school? (ie. content, materials, resources, etc.) THE DEADLINE TO APPLY IS TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2010. THE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE LIMITED SO APPLY SOON.P/S: Teachers who are not participating for credit are allowed to pick and choose sessions in which they are interested.DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR THE INSTITUTE: FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010Send completed Registration Form with a materials fee ($40 for teachers and $20 for KU students[Checks should be written out to University of Kansas]) to: Teacher Summer Institute Kansas African Studies Center University of Kansas Bailey Hall, Room 10 1440 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045 Phone 785-864-3754 Email [email protected] www.kasc.ku.edu

This Institute is made possible by Department of Education Title VI grant.

the content and strategies learned. This will be invaluable for use in the classroom. Participants will share their units with other participants. These lesson plans will be posted on the Center’s website and other websites related to internation-al education, providing teachers with valuable materials and resources focusing on the conti-nent. A celebration party including music, danc-ing, and African food will be held for participants on the closing day of the Institute.

CREDITSGraduate and Teacher in-service credits will be available.

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CENTER OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES www2.ku.edu/~latamst/

(Left to right) George Woodyard, Professor Elizabeth Kuznesof and Eleanor Woodyard.

DIRECTOR OF KU CENTER OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES HONORED WITH AWARD

“International Programs is pleased to present this honor to Professor Kuznesof this year,” said Director of Faculty Programs Julie Kaarbo. “It is a wonderful recognition of her outstanding record of leadership in international education. We also appreciate the generous support of George and Eleanor Woodyard for this award.” The Woodyards established the fund through KU Endowment. George Woodyard joined the KU De-partment of Spanish and Portuguese in 1966. During his career at KU, he held positions in the Graduate School and Academic Affairs. In 1989, he was named KU’s first dean of international studies. Woodyard created and strengthened exchange programs on the Lawrence campus and for the School of Medicine, and established many KU alumni chapters overseas. Dr. Kuznesof joins a respected list of past recipi-ents of the award (previously known as the Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education), including Latin American Studies affiliates John Head (2006), Anita Herzfeld (2005), Robert Timm (2003), Melissa Birch (2002), Judith McCrea (2001), and Charles Stansifer (1999).

The First Bowman Expedition of the American Geo-graphical Society (AGS), called México Indígena (MI), has renewed the society’s commitment to inform the public and governments about foreign geography in support of better policy making. Specifically, AGS pro-poses sending expeditions to gather geographic infor-mation, conduct place-based research, and combat geographic ignorance.

Dr. Elizabeth Kuznesof, Professor of History and Director of the Center of Latin American Studies, was honored with the George and Eleanor Woodyard International Educator Award during the fall 2009 semester. The award recognizes faculty on the Law-rence campus who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in strengthening KU’s international di-mension in such areas as curriculum development, study abroad programs, relationships with interna-tional partner institutions and collaboration with international colleagues in significant research and publications. Elizabeth Kuznesof received her PhD from UC-Berkeley in 1976 and joined KU’s history department the same year. Her research has focused on the his-tory of the family, women and childhood in Latin America and especially in Brazil. She was president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) in 1996-97. Kuznesof has been director of the Center of Latin American Studies since 1992. Her colleagues laud her ceaseless work in securing funding for the center, her efforts to make sure that graduate students have the opportunity to do field research in Latin America, her accomplished research and teaching skills and her success in building a community of Latin Ameri-canists at KU.

web.ku.edu/~mexind/

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KANSAS TASK FORCE RELEASES REPORT

Zapotec Family, Ixtlan, Mexico.Photo by Laura Herlihy.

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The prototype project, led by a multinational team of Latin Americanist geographers, focuses on the ge-ography of Mexico’s indigenous populations and the changes in the cultural landscape and conservation of natural resources resulting from the gargantuan land certification and privatization program called PROCEDE. The MI team documents how this land tenure change will undo the ejido and other commu-nal land ownership forms, turning social property into private. México Indígena employs participatory research mapping combined with traditional, archival, and humanistic methods to develop a truly participatory GIS (Geographic Information System). Part of this GIS is now online.

http://web.ku.edu/~mexind/

Peter Herlihy, Associate Director of the Center of Latin American Stud-ies, is one of the core creators of this project, together with his geograpy colleague and ACS President Jerome Dobson. He writes: “Our multi-scale GIS database aims at crafting the digital cultural landscape of indig-enous Mexico. The MI team has an ESRI award-win-ning website (http://web.ku.edu/~mexind/), includ-ing novel online SVG interactive GIS results, perhaps the first participatory indigenous maps displayed on Google Earth.” To learn more about this research please visit: http://www2.ku.edu/~geography/peoplepages/Herlihy_P.shtml.

KANSAS IN THE WORLD -- continued on pg. 8

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from the Kan-sas Committee for International Education in the Schools, but we’ve been busy this past year respond-ing to one of the most important developments of the twenty-first century: global interdependence. With approximately one in five jobs tied to trade beyond our borders, the need to train more Ameri-can students in international education is immediate and pressing. Recognizing the significance of international edu-cation to the future prosperity and security of our youth, our nation, and our state, KCIES convened a statewide Kansas Task Force on International Edu-cation in 2008-2009. The twenty-one member Task Force, representing educational institutions at all levels, government agencies, professional organiza-tions, and businesses, surveyed the current state of international education (usually defined as knowl-edge of other world regions, cultures, languages and global issues) in Kansas public schools, evaluated needs and priorities in this area, and now has made specific recommendations for future initiatives in the short and long term. The Report of the Task Force is an important first step in starting a statewide discus-sion on the need for increased international educa-tion content and programs throughout Kansas at the elementary and secondary levels.The Report of the Kansas Task Force on Internation-al Education is now available online on the KCIES website (www.kansasintheworld.org) or you may request a hard copy from Nancy Hope ([email protected]). The sections on internet resources and re-sources in Kansas may be helpful with educators’ work in this area.

www.kansasintheworld.org.

Peter Herlihy

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The University of KansasCenter for Russian, East European& Eurasian Studies1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 320Lawrence, KS 66045-7574

KANSAS IN THE WORLD AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION

The Kansas Committee for International Education in the Schools (KCIES) is pleased to announce the fifth annual Kansas in the World Award for Excellence in International Education. This program awards a prize of $1,000 and a handsome plaque to one elementary or middle school and also to one high school showing a commitment to increasing international education across the curriculum. (The components of international education usually encompass knowledge of other world regions, cultures, languages, and global issues.) Any public or private elementary/middle school or high school in Kansas with a clear focus on raising student awareness of the world and closing the international knowledge gap is eligible. The application deadline is February 26, 2010.

An application may be downloaded from the KCIES website at www.kansasintheworld.org.

COMING THIS SPRING!

KU OFFERS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY MONGOLIAN

In 2008, The University of Kansas joined the list of the select few Universities in the United States to offer Mongolian Language courses. Studies in Elementary Mongolian Language I and II are offered in the Fall and Spring. Battsetseg Serj teaches them. She came to KU from the National University of Mongolia. As with many former communist states, Mongolia has struggled to regain its economic and cultural inde-pendence over the last two decades. Battsetseg speaks of Mongolia as a place with a rich history and a vibrant present. Beyond the grand tales of Chenghis Khan’s conquests and beyond ties to its history as a culture rooted in nomadic traditions, lies the socially and cul-turally rich contemporary Mongolia. On April 17, 2010 Battsetseg Serj will talk about Mongolia at the K-16 workshop for educators: “Teach-ing the Silk Road: The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Market.”

Nomad Encampment, Mongolia. Photo by Erik Herron.