IIE Internship Opportunity at IIE/Mexico

The Institute of International Education offers an internship program in the Office for Latin America, located in Mexico City. This internship provides students and recent graduates the opportunity to live abroad and gain practical experience within the field of international education, working for an international non-profit organization and a division of the Educational Information and Resources Branch of the U.S. Department of State.

Interns will have the opportunity to work with the various IIE/Latin America educational exchange operations, including educational advising, publications, and scholarship programs.

Location: Mexico City
Duration: 3 to 4 months
Stipend: $400/month

Requirements: Completion of at least two years of college at U.S. university. Ability to communicate well in both Spanish and English. Interest in International Education. A strong skill level in basic software applications.

IIE has current openings for the Spring internship program (April - June).

A panel of three hands-on experts fresh from Iraq where they have worked since the U.S. invasion and occupation last spring. Amid continuing attacks on U.S. forces and their supporters in Iraq, and efforts to revive the politics and economy of that country, these speakers bring to the University of Delaware campus eyewitness experience in diplomacy, military deployment and journalism. Their experience leaps through the headlines from post-war Iraq to address your questions about the U.S. military operation and the effort to instill democracy in the Middle East.

Featured speakers:

• U.S. Army Col. John Martin recently returned from Iraq, where he served since last April with the U.S. occupation agencies. Previously, in 2002, he was Director of Information Warfare in Afghanistan during the post-911 war. He is Deputy Director of the Strategic Studies Institute and Chairman of the Art of War Department at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
  
  
• U.S. Ambassador Robin Raphel also recently returned from Iraq, where she served in the diplomatic side of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Previously, Amb. Raphel served in Tunisia, and as the first Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, where she managed U.S. Relations with the Taliban government of Afghanistan during the 1990's.
  
  

Wednesday - November 19

• 2:30pm - Perkins Student Center - presentation and Q&A for students
• 7:00pm - Mitchell Hall - presentation and Q&A for students and the entire UD community and public. Free. Open to the public. No reservations or tickets required.

The Center for International Studies and the University of Delaware's Salzburg Seminar Selection Committee extend to you an invitation to The Salzburg Seminar: Report to Campus on October 23, 2003 from 12:15pm to 1:30pm in the Kirkwood Room of the Perkins Student Center. We encourage all University faculty to attend this informational session in advance of soliciting applications for the Salzburg Seminars 2004 Academic Programs in Austria.

PRESS RELEASE: (Newark, DE, June 3, 2003) The University Gallery and Center for American Material Culture Studies announce the upcoming exhibition, Land of Ice, Hearts of Fire: Inuit Art and Culture, set to open September 10, 2003. The exhibition is held in observance of the concluding year of the United Nations’ International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1994-2004); the 50th anniversary of the first Inuit art exhibition in the United States (1953); and the 25th anniversary of the founding of the University Gallery (1978). The exhibition will run through December 14, 2003. The interdisciplinary project takes up the United Nations' challenge to strengthen relationships and promote understanding between the world's indigenous people and the international community.

The exhibition will display the major gifts of a comprehensive collection of rare Canadian Inuit drawings from the Frederick and Lucy S. Herman Native American Art Collection and closely related artifacts and archival materials of Alaskan Yup’ik villages from the Harley and Mabel McKeague Collection of Alaskan Inuit Art. Sixty drawings from the Herman Collection and various artifacts from the McKeague Collection have been selected for the exhibition. Other Inuit artworks, including sculptures and prints recently donated to the University Gallery Collection will also be on view. Audiences will be able to gain insight and appreciation of the cultural values and traditions of the Inuit. An exhibition catalogue featuring contributions by students scholars is planned to further enhance the exhibition.

Public programs being organized include the official opening of the exhibition on September 10, 2003, by Peter Irniq, Inuit cultural leader and Commissioner of Nunavut, the territory officially recognized since 1999 by the Canadian government as the home of the Inuit. Mr. Irniq’s visit is co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies. Judith Nasby, noted scholar of Inuit art and Director of Macdonald Stewart Art Center in Guelph, Ontario, will also take part in the exhibition's free opening events. On October 22, 2003, filmmaker John Houston will host a free public screening and discussion of his films Songs in Stone: An Arctic Journey Home and Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts and also offer insight into the upcoming third installment in this documentary trilogy. On October 11 a children’s maskmaking workshop will be held and later in the fall local artist Gabrielle Bradley will also host a dollmaking workshop designed to allow teenagers and adults create dolls inspired by Yup’ik artifacts from the McKeague collection. Pre-registration is required and minimal participation fees will be charged for these workshops. On October 15 art conservator Bruno Pouliot will present a free noon-time lecture related to the preservation of Inuit art and artifacts.

Just weeks after U.S. troops ousted the restrictive Islamic Taliban regime of Afghanistan last year, women of Afghanistan began lifting their burqas, returning to schools and to work, and generally emerging from the political straitjacket into which Taliban had placed them during the 1990's. Afghan women and girls, forbidden under Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam even from using makeup, styling their hair, appearing on television or seeking education or a career... suddenly found themselves able to exercise what many consider basic human freedoms.

The U.S. "War on Terrorism" has had impacts well beyond routing supporters of Osama bin Laden. And for women in Islamic countries, especially, those impacts could be enormous.

The University of Delaware is proud to welcome Dr. Sima Samar, a lifelong advocate of women's rights and human rights in the Islamic worlds of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dr. Samar will visit the UD campus on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - next week - to meet with students and to offer a public talk entitled "Unveiled: Women's Rights and Human Rights in Contemporary Afghanistan."

Dr. Samar is widely known around the world for her advocacy of women's rights. When the Taliban regime was overthrown, the new government of Afghanistan briefly appointed her Minister of Women's Affairs. But traditional tribal political pressures forced her out of office quickly last summer, and she is now head of Afghanistan's independent Human Rights Commission.

Dr. Samar has said of Afghanistan: "I think the U.S. must help create a broad-based government that includes all ethnic groups. Women want full participation. We are the majority of the population but we have been ignored for two decades. That is not Islamic. Without women, the situation in my country will go back to how it was with the Taliban." She is also director of "Shuhada," a Pakistan-based medical and women's rights organization which worked to assist women in Afghanistan even during the Taliban regime.

Center for International Studies Unveils New Website

This September the Center for International Studies unveils a new website intended to offer the UD community a unique window on the world. The website is designed to provide faculty, students, and visitors with easy access to information regarding international activities at the University of Delaware. The website will serve as a dedicated portal through which the UD community can learn more about study abroad, international programs and research on campus, external funding opportunities, news and upcoming international events at UD and the Center, program deadlines, and also benefit from a comprehensive collection of international links and resources.

Exercise Your Bragging Rights: Study Abroad Sashes

Be a part of a rapidly growing elite! Wear The Sash!

As you proudly step out into your graduation procession, distinguish yourself as a graduating senior who has internationalize and individualized your undergraduate curriculum through your participation in one or more study abroad programs.

What better way to signify your pride in being a part of the University's outstanding study abroad legacy than by wearing a sash at all of your graduation day ceremonies.

Study abroad sashes are an optional piece of graduation garb to be worn over the graduation gown. Each attractive, eye-catching sash displays the colors of the flag, some with national emblems, of the country in which the study abroad program was held.

When your own graduation is due, consider joining the many students who have already worn the colors of the country which hosted their study abroad program. (Some students who have studied in more than one country have worn more than one sash at a time.)

Sashes are ordered along with caps and gowns through the University Bookstore. Each sash is made of highest quality satin and lined, making each one a lasting memory of your study abroad experience(s) at Delaware.

UD Conquers the Seventh Continent

Curriculum Revision Gives Semester Programs New Focus

Students seeking a new semester opportunity abroad this year may find what they’re looking for in the revamped Paris and Granada spring semester programs. Thanks to the willing cooperation of many academic departments, we are now able to offer a greater selection of courses at both sites, while giving each program its own unique academic focus. Although the Paris and Granada spring programs are open to students in any major, they are designed to appeal to students with specific areas of interest. The Paris program offers primarily courses in the humanities—art, music, literature, philosophy, and other disciplines—while courses in Granada concentrate on the social sciences (political science, sociology, economics, and the like), all taught in English. Both programs continue to offer a small selection of courses in French or Spanish so that students can improve their language skills and maintain good communication with their host families. In fact, completion of four years of high school language study or two semesters at UD (106 level) is now required for admission to both programs. Whether students’ interests lie with the masterpieces of the Louvre or with Spain’s relationship to its EU neighbors, CFIS has a fitting program for them.