International Studies Resources

First TRIP Annual Festival

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:13:26 -0500

The Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP) will hold its first annual Translation Festival June 20-21, at the Binghamton University Downtown Center. For more information, e-mail Reham Alhossary at ralhoss1@binghamton.edu.

News from Africa

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:21:06 -0500

For those interested in keeping up with the most recent news about Africa, check out the new news feed on the Africana Studies library resources page - http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/subjects/africana/index.html. With stories from the BBC's Africa coverage, as well as stories from the UN, this news feed provides reliable international reporting on events in Africa.

For information on how to develop your own personalized news feed using Yahoo! Pipes, or to learn how to receive journal content updates online, contact Area Studies Librarian, Martha Kelehan (mkelehan@binghamton.edu).

Hip Hop Conference in Ithaca

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:20:19 -0500

Cornell University and the Ithaca community are planning a Hip Hop Conference for Fall 2008.

Save the dates: October 31 & November 1

Confirmed speakers/guests include: Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, and Joe Cuzo, with more to come.

This conference will celebrate the arrival of the Hip Hop Collection, recently acquired by Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

For more information on the conference planning, check out the Hip Hop Conference Blog.

Books for Africa Seeks Donations

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:44:25 -0500

Students, faculty and staff may donate used textbooks to the Books for Africa program. Books can be dropped off in the residence halls, CIW library and the Off Campus College office. For more information, call Faculty Master Al Vos at 607-777-4716. (cross-posted from Dateline). Books For Africa is a 501(c )(3) nonprofit organization serving as the largest shipper of donated textbooks to the African continent. Learn more from their website at: http://www.booksforafrica.org/.

Scholarships for Peace & Conflict Studies

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:25:58 -0500

The Rotary Foundation announces a call for applications for the 2009-11 Rotary World Peace Fellowships (RWPF) and January and June 2009 Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies (RPCS) Program sessions. The deadline for completed applications to be submitted to the Rotary Foundation for these sessions is 1 July 2008.

The Rotary Centers for International Studies program offers fellowships for master’s degree study fields related to peace and conflict resolution. Beyond academics, Rotary World Peace Fellows also gain practical skills in conflict resolution appropriate to their individual careers.

Up to 60 Rotary World Peace Fellows each year enroll in the six Rotary Centers based at leading universities in five countries: International Christian University, Japan; Universidad del Salvador, Argentina; University of Bradford, United Kingdom; University of Queensland, Australia; University of California-Berkeley, California, USA, and Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

The Rotary Peace and Conflict Studies Program is a professional development program held in Bangkok, Thailand, through which up to 30 participants embark on three months of intensive study instructed by some of the leading specialists in the peace and conflict resolution fields. The specialized curriculum has been crafted to capitalize on the experience of both participants and lecturers while balancing theoretical and practical learning.

For more information please contact Laura Tell, Rotary Centers Program Assistant, at 847-866-3307 with any questions or for more information.

CFP: Undergraduate Conference at Columbia

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:05:51 -0500

The Columbia University Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race presents our Annual Conference: Race and Ethnicity in America and the World

Undergraduate Student Conference
Call for Papers/Abstracts

The conference is open to undergraduate juniors and seniors in all disciplines in New York City and surrounding areas. They are invited to address the broad range of questions that bear upon the ideas and ideologies of race and ethnicity in America and the modern world. We are looking for papers that deal with the art, lives and experiences of persons of Latino, Afro-American, Asian and Native American descent within North America and beyond.

The conference will take place at Columbia University on May 2 and is designed to give undergraduate students an opportunity to showcase their work and experience in presenting it. Abstracts and proposals will be accepted
until April 8th. Accepted presentations will be notified by April 11th and drafts will be expected by April 24th .

Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be submitted, along with your contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department, e-mail address) to cserconf08@gmail.com using the form below or as you wish. Submissions should be 500 words or less and must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document.

Conference presentations will be approximately 10-15 minutes. For more information see http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cser/ or direct inquiries to Horace Grant at cserconf08@gmail.com.

Name:
E-mail address:
University:
Department:
Expected Graduation Date (mm/yyyy):
Expected Paper Title:
Description:
AV or other needs:

Upcoming Conference at Cornell on African Diaspora Art

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:52:52 -0500

"Diasporic Bodies and Visual Culture: Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art Perspectives"

Cornell University

April 11-12, 2008

The Cornell University Department of History of Art and Visual Studies is pleased to announce its annual graduate
symposium. For more information, please visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/histart/symposium.html or contact Amanda Gilvin at akg28@cornell.edu.

CFP: BU International Innovation Fund

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:51:08 -0500

The newly established Lois B. DeFleur International Innovation Fund has launched its first round of competition for grants, in the amount of $2,000 to $5,000, to be awarded to any member of the University community (faculty, staff, or students) before the end of the Spring 2008 semester. Brought into being by President Lois B. DeFleur's contribution of the Harold R. McGraw Jr. Prize in Education she received last September plus additional contributions from prominent BU alumni, the Fund will support projects in line with the "comprehensive internationalization" to which BU has been committed throughout President DeFleur's tenure as President beginning in 1990.

Project Dates: Begin as early as June 1, 2008 and end no later than August 31, 2009. Due Date for Proposals: April 15, 2008. For award criteria and application details, see the Call for Proposals.

New Research by Professor Anthony Ephirim-Donkor

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:21:47 -0500

Africana Studies Assistant Professor Ephirim-Donkor has an article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony. "Akom: The Ultimate Mediumship Experience Among the Akan." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76, no. 1 (March 2008): 54-81. DOI 10.1093/jaarel/lfm091.

The Libraries have online access to the journal, as well as receiving it in print.

CFP: "Translation: Empowerment, Employment, Enjoyment"

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:08:24 -0500

With a theme "Translation: Empowerment, Employment, Enjoyment" Binghamton University's Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP) invites translators to celebrate the University's new downtown campus, the College of Community and Professional Affairs, at a festival June 20 and 21, 2008.

TRIP welcomes both presentations and readings. Those wishing to present or read should get in touch with either Carrol F. Coates (ccoates@binghamton.edu; 607-777-4632) or Marilyn Gaddis Rose (mgrose@binghamton.edu; 607-777-6726) at their earliest opportunity.

All replies should be received by May 1, 2008.

Wikisource: International Full-Texts

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:10:30 -0500

Wikisource is another project initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation, the same folks who created the popular Wikipedia. The Wikisource Project aims to bring together all kinds of public domain full-texts and even audio files. A good explanation of the scope of the project is found on their Community Portal Page. And, according to the latest information, there are now over 53 different languages represented. As a Wiki project, of course, it is user-generated, relatively unstructured and best approached in a spirit of exploration and discovery! The Main Page allows you to select from among all the languages.

A tool for conversion between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:27:50 -0500

Even though simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese are two writing forms of the same language, it may cause troubles if you only set up one as your Chinese input in your computer. For instance, when you do a search in a current trial database, China Academic Journal, you wouldn’t be able to retrieve a reasonable amount of full text articles if your search term was in traditional Chinese. The reason? The majority journals in the database are published in the form of simplified Chinese. How can you convert your search term to a simplified Chinese without reset your language input in your computer? Here is a quick solution. Go to a Chinese language conversion tool (http://www.chinesetools.eu/tools/gb2big5/), you can switch between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese quickly and easily.

As you look at more into this page, ChineseTools.eu (http://www.chinesetools.eu/) you may find other interesting tools if you are learning Chinese.

New Films for Africana Studies

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:09:23 -0500

Thanks to generous donations to the Libraries, we added several films to our collection. In particular, we have added a number from the California Newsreel's series, The Library of African Cinema. These titles will expand our growing collection of videos and DVDs on Africa and Africans in the diaspora.

The titles include:

Afrique je te plumerai. VHS. Directed by Jean-Marie Teno. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1992.
Black Athena. VHS. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1990.
Clando. VHS. Directed by Jean-Marie Tano. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1996.
Le grand blanc de Lambarene. VHS. Directed by Bassek ba Kobhio. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1995.
In the Tall Grass: Inside the Citizen-based Justice System Gacaca. DVD. Directed by J. Coll Metcalfe. Beverly Hills, CA : Choices Inc., 2006.
Keita: The Heritage of the Griot. VHS. Directed by Dani Kouyaté. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1994.
Living the Hip Life. DVD. Directed by Jesse Weaver Shipley. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007.
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet. VHS. Directed by Raoul Peck. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1992.
On the Downlow. DVD. Directed by Abigail Child. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2007.
Prime Time in South Africa: A Selection of Post-Apartheid Television Programs VHS. San Francisco : California Newsreel, 1997.
Race is a Four-letter Word. DVD. Directed by Sobaz Benjamin. Montréal: National Film Board of Canada, 2006.
Rain in a Dry Land. DVD. Directed by Anne Makepeace. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 2006.
Rouch in Reverse. VHS. Directed by Manthia Diawara. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1995.
Samba: On Your Feet. DVD. Directed by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. New York: Filmaker's Library, 2005.
Tableau Ferraille. VHS. Directed by Moussa Sene Absa. San Francisco: California Newsreel, 1997.
Who’s Afraid of Ngũgĩ? DVD. Directed by Manthia Diawara. New York: Third World Newsreel, 2006.

Visual materials are available for loan from the Reader's Services/Circulation Desk at Bartle Library. To search for other DVDs and videos in our collection, use infoLINK, the Library catalog.

To learn more about our Gifts program, see Gifts and Endowments.

Naxos Music Library

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:14:31 -0500

Naxos Music Library offers a large selection of world music from Afghanistan to Zimbabe! Especially impressive is Naxos' huge collection of Chinese music. The database also contains music in classical, contemporary jazz, folk music and a small collectioon of pop and rock. The database offers access to over 250,000 (and growing) tracks of music to the campus community. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. Tracks in NML are *NOT* downloadable to any device.

The database is available 24/7 to the entire University community via the internet, thus greatly increasing the access to recorded music in the Libraries' collection of vinyl, tape and CD audio recordings.

Try Naxos Music Libraryhttp://binghamton.naxosmusiclibrary.com/default.asp

The Ottoman Empire and Why It's Important in Today's World

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:37:29 -0500

Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12noon-1:30pm

The Reinhardt Room LNG332

Dr. Donald Quataert of the History Department will speak about the importance of the Ottoman Empire in today's fast-paced world.

Materials from Dr. Quataert's personal collection of artifacts will be on display in Special Collections on the second floor of the Bartle Library. A display of related materials from our Libraries' circulating collections will be on display on the Bartle Library mezzanine.