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China’S African Economic Policies Evaluation, Chuan He

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

During the semester of spring 2009, from February 08, 2009 to April 18, 2009, I interned at the Institute for Global Initiatives (IGI). Global Initiatives is a recognized global learning leader at Kennesaw State University. It provides services, programs, research and scholarship to Kennesaw State University’s faculty, students, and communities to promote global learning and studies. My supervisor, Dr. Akanmu Adebayo, is the executive director of the department. He is also a historian and focuses on African and African Diaspora studies.

What I do during the internship are: 1) collecting the information about trade, communication, cooperation between China and Africa; …

Project Management And Program Evaluation For Study Abroad Program Evaluation, Hongchun Lin

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The purpose of this paper is to report on my internship experience at the Office of International Services and Programs (OISP) of the Kennesaw State University (KSU) based on the Public Administration theories. The author did his internship from January to April, 2009. This paper is divided into two sections: the first part provides an in-depth description of the OISP, and the second part details my internship assignments and experience.

The internship report first provides a general introduction to the Office of International Services and Programs (OISP) in terms of its history, purpose, principal functions and its productivity. From the …

Application Of Project Management In Study Abroad Project, Hui Chen

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The Office of International Services and Programs is a major component of the Institute for Global Initiatives, and is also an important department of Kennesaw State University. With the awareness of internationalization and global integration, it shares different cultures and customs, serves and helps international students, and greatly develops the study abroad programs.

During the internship in the office, I realized the importance of international communication and mutual learning. Thus, I paid much attention to the ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs). Majoring in Public Administration, I tried to combine the theory of project management to the practice of ISEP. Thus …

Job Description Of Office Of International Services And Programs, Li Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This paper includes two major parts. The first part is introduction of Office of International Services and Program (OISP). The second part is job description analysis.

In the first part, I introduce the purpose of the OISP, the importance of OISP to KSU, the principle functions of OISP. These contexts indicate the OISP’s specific services for the campus communities and external organizations. I also talk about the structure and personnel of OISP in this part. Explain the responsibilities of each position. I knew the stockholders, and the leadership style of OISP. Additional, I analyzed the prospect of OISP based on …

Initiatives In The Confucius Institute At Kennesaw State University, Qian Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

During the spring of 2009 my internship experience with the Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University (CIKSU) has given me great insight into how the recently established nonprofit organization collaborated by Kennesaw State University and Yangzhou University together operates. Under the leadership of my supervisor, Mr. Ken Jin, the director of CIKSU, I have worked with the coordinator, Ms. Cathy Liao to deal with the routine affairs and participate in the programs that were planned in the first half of 2009. Besides the daily tasks including archiving the documents and editing the content of CIKSU website, I was assigned especially …

Application Of Project Management In Isep Promotion, Yanhong Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

I chose my Internship at the Institute for global initiatives (IGI) department of Kennesaw State University. During the January 5 to April 3, I have interning in the Office of international Services and programs (OISP).OISP is the core of IGI. My supervisor was Michele B. Miller. She is the Program Specialist & Exchange Coordinator. This year Ms. Miller has began a promotional campaign to promote the exchange student Program, especially the ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs). My job was to help her strengthen ISEP management. I accomplished this through class presentation and promotional tables at the student center of KSU. …

In Case You Missed It: Big White Lie, Peter Zarrow

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I want to share some impressions of a book that the sinologically inclined (like me) might otherwise ignore. Big White Lie, by John Fitzgerald, is most importantly a polemic about Australian history—subtitled “Chinese Australians in White Australia”—but it also has a lot to say about modern Chinese culture, politics, and business. What follows is not a systematic review but a few xinde: somewhat random and incomplete notes on what I got out of the book.

The study of overseas Chinese has always seemed to me like an orphan field—an interesting and important area of research that has long produced major …

Review Of Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations Of Native North American Literatures. Edited By Elvira Pulitano, Laura Castor

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Transatlantic Voices represents some of the most recent critical studies of contemporary Native North American literature by fourteen European scholars. Drawing on Paul Gilroy's notion of the Atlantic as a site for cross-cultural exchange in our globalized era, editor Elvira Pulitano suggests that until now the Atlantic has not been sufficiently recognized as important for Native American studies. Transatlantic Voices seeks to fill this gap. Acutely aware of their strategic location as neither Natives nor Americans, the authors explore various kinds of "crossings": theoretical, geographical, thematic, and epistemological. Their essays present original contributions to current debates in Native North American …

Chinese New Year In West Kalimantan: Ritual Theatre And Political Circus, Margaret Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Since 2002, when Chinese New Year became a national holiday in Indonesia, spirit medium parades on the fifteen day of the New Year (called Cap Go Meh) have been growing in size in certain West Kalimantan towns, especially Singkawang. This parade in particular has become a major tourist draw-card. Referring to local history, Chinese popular religion and Hakka culture, this article applies a performance analysis methodology to dissect this contemporary phenomenon from religious, historical and inter-ethnic perspectives. It shows how the parades have become enmeshed in current inter-ethnic politics in West Kalimantan, as well as revealing the way that adaptations …

More Than A Cultural Celebration: The Politics Of Chinese New Year In Post-Suharto Indonesia, Chang Yau Hoon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In the aftermath of the May 1998 riots that forced President Suharto to step down, ethnic Chinese received unprecedented freedom to assert their long suppressed cultural and religious identity. Following the transition from assimilation to multiculturalism, for the first time in over three decades Chinese culture became more visible and ethnic Chinese could finally enjoy the freedom to celebrate Chinese New Year (Imlek) publicly. This article focuses on the politics of the re-emergent Chinese New Year celebration in the Indonesian public sphere. It demonstrates the significance of Imlek as an ethnic symbol to Chinese-Indonesians. Borrowing Hobsbawm’s concept of “invented tradition”, …

Archaeology, Obama, And The Long Civil Rights Movement, Christopher Matthews

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

No abstract provided.

Research & Action Report, Fall/Winter 2008, Wellesley Centers For Women, Peggy Mcintosh, Sally Engle Merry

Research & Action Report

In this issue:

Q & A with Sally Engle Merry

Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents

Update on Work to Empower Children for Life

Dual-Trauma Couples: Why Do We Need to Study Them?

SEED Project Moves Educational Equity and Diversity Forward

Africanisms And Cultural Modifications: A Study At Southall Quarter, Williamsburg, Virginia, Jessie Chaiya Cohen

LSU Master's Theses

Archaeological studies at sites of enslaved Africans and African-Americans have been intensely undertaken in recent years. In particular, the search for Africanisms and cultural processes has become a common trend within these studies. I analyzed previously recorded investigations of Southall Quarter (44JC969), an eighteenth-century enslaved African and African-American site in James City County, Virginia. Dominating anthropological themes of slave resistance, owner-imposed hegemony, and agentic actions guided my search for Africanisms at Southall Quarter. I hoped to prove that the distance of the quarters from Southall’s residence and therefore the lax owner supervision provided the enslaved inhabitants with opportunities to express …

Demographic Profile Of Palestinian Migration, Ismail Lubbad

Faculty Journal Articles

This working paper was prepared for the Centre of Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) within the overall framework of the creation of a Middle Eastern and African Center for migration and refugee studies. The lack of available border registration data - Palestinian borders in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) are controlled by Israel - has restricted research on the demography of Palestinian migration. Furthermore, demographic statistics have been a political issue in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since the beginning of the 20th century. A number of research studies, however, have been conducted on …

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 44, February 20, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 38, January 30, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Impact Of Diaspora Communities On National And Global Politics: Annotated Bibliography Based On Survey Of The Literature, William J. Lahneman

Security Studies & International Affairs - Daytona Beach

“The Strategic Assessments Group (SAG) tasked us to survey the literature for information dealing with various aspects of Diasporas and their behavior as part of the Impact of Diaspora Communities on National and Global Politics Project.”--Executive Summary from the Impact of Diaspora Communities on National Global Politics: on Survey of the Literature.

Naccs 32nd Annual Conference, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

NACCS Conference Programs

Visión: Articulating, Imagining, and Contextualizing Chicana/o Spaces
April 13-17
Hyatt Regency

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 28, No. 3, October 2001, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Noticias De Naccs, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 2000, National Association For Chicana And Chicano Studies

Noticias de NACCS Newsletter

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Vol. 04, No. 07 - March 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Book A Patchwork Shawl: Chronicles Of South Asian Women In America, Anjali Ram

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

Ever since western feminist scholarship was accused of defining gender in transhistorical and transcultural ways, there have been attempts to add the category, `woman of colour’, in feminist enterprises that rang e from the academic to the administrative. Such toke n gestures inevitably re-inscribe the problem by glossing over distinctive material histories and the particularity of women’s experiences and struggles. For those of us who refuse such additive, tokenist approaches, A Patchwork Shawl edited by Shamita Das Dasgupta is a welcome contribution. Written by South Asian immigrant and first generation women, A Patchwork Shawlis, to us e Dasgupta’s words, `a …

Summer Newsletter 1999, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

Fall Newsletter 1996, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 101.14: January 18, 1989, Hope College

The Anchor: 1989

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.