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MARCH 3, 2005 EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT
by Sherine Walton

C) WEEKLY EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT (A weekly supplement to John Brown’s Public Diplomacy Press Review.) The following articles are related to educational and cultural exchange programs. Specific topics in this supplement include USG-funded exchange programs (e.g., Fulbright scholarships, Ron Brown Fellowship, International Visitors) as well as issues relating to student visas, study abroad, and NGOs involved in exchanges. The articles are aggregated weekly by MS. JENNIFER BRIGHAM, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. A) USG–FUNDED EXCHANGE PROGRAMS (SCROLL DOWN TO SECTION B FOR OTHER TOPICS) 1.  POLISH AND AMERICAN SCHOLARS GATHER IN WARSAW TO ANALYZE HOW MEMORIES ABOUT RACE AND NATIONALISM CAN BE DISTORTED, FORGOTTEN (Ascribe Newswire - Feb 23, 2005): ROCHESTER, N.Y. The American Studies Center at Warsaw University and the University of Rochester will address some of the most intractable issues that strain relations among people - race, nationalism and how they’re remembered - during two days of discussions in Warsaw, Poland, on March 7 and 8. Scholars from both universities and other American and Polish institutions will speak on the cross-cultural theme of “Comparative Perspectives on Race, Nationalism and the Politics of Memory: Poland and the United States.”  (Funds from the U.S. Fulbright Scholar Program are supporting the conference and two years of academic collaborations between the University of Rochester and Warsaw University.) LINK 2.  CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING STUDY BY CU-BOULDER SOCIOLOGIST REVEALS ... (AScribe - Feb 28, 2005): “People often think that all child sex traffickers kidnap their victims, but in many cases the children end up funneled into the system by their own families because of extreme poverty,” according to assistant Professor Ann Janette Rosga.  “Sometimes the children leave home voluntarily because of abuse or other harmful conditions.”  Fulbright scholar, Rosga oversaw all aspects of a study that resulted in the report “Research on Child Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” commissioned and published in October by UNICEF and Save The Children Norway. LINK 3.  AMERICAN, SRI LANKAN ARCHITECTS JOIN FORCES TO REBUILD TSUNAMI ... KIRINDA, SRI LANKA (AP) (China Post, Taiwan - Feb 23, 2005):...A group of architects has come to Kirinda with a plan to redraw it in a way that they hope will improve their lives and become a model for rebuilding tsunami battered communities in this island nation, where at least 31,000 people were killed.  The group’s plan is to rebuild Kirinda on a 7 hectare (17.5-acre) patch of hinterland owned mostly by the government. It includes a school, health clinic, marketplace, public gathering places and semidetached houses linked with a road that leads to a rebuilt harbor, Shah said. (Samir Shah, 29, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, an architect with the nonprofit group Architecture for Humanity which is involved in formulating plans to rebuild Kirinda, was studying the building traditions of Sri Lanka on a Fulbright grant when the tsunami struck.) LINK 4.  FESTIVAL CELEBRATES ALL CULTURES - ANDREA J. COOK (Rapid City Journal, SD - Feb 25, 2005): BOX ELDER - Students sampled thin crepes, spicy chicken gumbo, Indian tacos and crispy plantains…... FULL TEXT
 
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