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WI-Global
engages UW-Madison undergraduates in issues related to globalization
and its impact on the world's communities, cultures, literatures,
and languages, as well as on its systems of governance, exchange,
education, and technologies. WI-Global has two different components:
the WI-Global Forum and the WI-Global Paper
Award. Additional details on each follow below.
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Global
Studies and the Offices
of the Dean of Students announce the first WI-Global
Awards for Spring Semester 2008.
Kristin Jokela (Sophomore,
College of Letters & Science) is the recipient of the WI
Global Forum Award for best posts on the topicmusicand
the way it shapes our understanding of the wider world. Her posts
reflect an engagement both with a wide range of music from around
the world and the artistic, business, and governmental milieux
in which contemporary musicians create and fans consume music.
Jokela will receive a $125 gift certificate to the DoIT Techstore.
Rebecca Gilsdorf (Sophomore,
College of Letters & Science) receives a WI
Global Paper Award for her paper, "Humanitarian
Intervention Policies: Cultural Relativists' Vs. Universalists'
Doctrines." The paper was written for the course "Understanding
Human Rights" (Anthropology 940) taught by Sharon Hutchinson (Anthropology)
and Dr. Florence Chenoweth (Human Rights Initiative). This paper
highlights the "increasing need for human rights protocols that
actually solve problems and do not simply create temporary solutions."
Gilsdorf discusses interventionist practices in a variety of contexts:
female circumcision in Africa, the system of Tribunales in Guatemala,
and Engineers Without Borders (USA). Emphasizing "the possibility
of blending cultural relativism," to assure human rights, the
paper makes a strong argument for reconsideration of intervention
policies in a global context.
Mark Thompson (Senior,
College of Letters & Science) receives a WI
Global Paper Award for his paper, "Historical Forgetfulness:
Writing Against the Past." The paper was written for the course,
"Communities, Homelands, and Exiles" (English 563) taught by Theresa
M. Kelley (English). This paper evaluates notions of history,
the work of memory, and representation of past in three novels:
W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique
Land, and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Thompson
demonstrates ways in which these prominent novelists "embrace
a past that writes against memory and embraces forgetting." The
paper makes a strong argument for the "necessity of a communal,
expansive account of past" in globally dispersed historical and
cultural contexts.
Gilsdorf and Thompson will
each receive $125 University Bookstore Gift Certificate. Instructors
nominating the papers will receive reimbursements for research
materials.
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The WI-Global Forum
sponsored by Global
Studies and the Offices
of the Dean of Students is an online discussion forum
for UW-Madison undergraduates on contemporary global topics and
their relevance to and impact on local communities. The purpose
of the forum is to encourage and promote student awareness of issues
of global concern, as well as to highlight and showcase our students’
participatory role in shaping and impacting the global agenda.
The discussion will take place
on the WI-Global
Forum site where additional details (rules for participation,
information on prizes awarded, calendar, etc) can be found. Any
UW-Madison undergraduate, regardless of major, may participate in
the WI-Global Forum, but you must first register
with Blogger (if you don't already have a Google account)
and register with WI-Global.
Complete details are available on the WI-Global
Forum site.
If you cannot find the answers
to your questions on the WI-Global
Forum site feel free to email
WI-Global directly.
More information on the WI-Global
Forum for Fall 2008 will be available in August 2008.
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Global
Studies and the Offices
of the Dean of Students sponsor the WI-Global Undergraduate
Paper Award to encourage and recognize academic excellence
in the area of global studies, as well as to recognize our faculty's
efforts in training students as global citizens.
Two awards will be given each
semester for papers written for a Global Studies course. Awardees
will receive a $125 University Bookstore Gift Certificate. All nominees
will receive a certificate of recognition. Instructors who nominate
the winning papers will each receive reimbursements for research
materials.
Only papers written by undergraduates
for courses included in Global
Studies Course Listing are eligible to be nominated for
the award. (Faculty members: to have a course considered for inclusion
on the Global Studies course list, please complete the course
submission form.) Paper topics can be from any academic
discipline in any UW school or college. Only continuing students
are eligible to have their work considered for the award (i.e. graduating
seniors cannot have their work nominated).
The Spring 2008 award was
announced on 6
June 2008. More information and deadlines for the Fall 2008 award
will be available in September 2008.
Course instructors can nominate
one paper per course and email it to WI-Global along with a copy
of the course syllabus (see below). Nominations should be made on
the basis of the paper's successful fulfillment of the requirements
for the course and expectations from the specific assignment.
Nominated papers will be evaluated
on the following criteria:
- The paper reflects a rigorous and sincere engagement with a
particular theme, concept, phenomenon, or aspect of contemporary
global studies.
- The paper makes an effective and convincing argument for the
consideration of its topic as a matter of global concern.
- The paper combines original thinking with a judicious acknowledgement
of the scholarship in the field and/or engagement with the reading
materials for the course.
If you have questions regarding
the award, nominating procedure, etc, please
email us.
Please
a paper for consideration.
Be sure to attach a copy of both the paper and course syllabus.
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