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A. Important Announcements

Contact hyon.kye@yale.edu or christine.tsang@yale.edu if you'd like to submit to
the Asian American Art Exhibit!

Cultural Connections 2006 Aide Application are now available!

(Attached)

The applications are due on Monday, February 27, 2006, at 5:00pm.

Applicants for the Aide position can be students who did not attend Cultural Connections. Each year, our group of Aides is made up of students who participate in a variety of activities on campus and in New Haven. Some attended CC and others attended other pre-orientation programs or did not attend any.

There is a description attached to the application.

Thanks for your help in getting the word out.

Rosalinda V. Garcia
Assistant Dean of Yale College
Director, Latino and Native American Cultural Centers
Yale College Dean's Office

SUBMIT TO REVELASIANS.

FICTION, NON-FICTION, POETRY, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHY, ETC

EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO GITA@YALE.EDU BY FRIDAY MARCH 3, 2006

B. Events on Campus

From 9066 to 9/11: a day of remembrance event linking the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans to the post-9/11 treatment and detainment of Arabs and Muslim Americans. The event will feature performance artist Makato Hirano along with a screening of the 9066 to 9/11: America's Concentration Camps, then and now.

February 15th at 7:30pm in Pierson/Davenport Auditorum. RSVP to takeo.toyoshima@yale.edu or come at the door. The event is FREE.

Come reclaim Valentine's Day for the love of Justice! On Feb 14th join grad and
undergrad organizations celebrating social justice and activism. Slifka, 8:30p:
live DJ and readings on love and justice in a post-Hallmark age.

declared by...
Rev. John G. Magee Fellowship at
Dwight Hall Center for Public Service & Social Justice
Yale Office For Diversity & Equal Opportunity
Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life @ Yale
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztl�n (MECHA)
Black Student Alliance @ Yale (BSAY)
Yale Peacemaking Initiative
Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)
YSM Medical Student Council
M?KA

The Occasional Conversation Series of the
Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program

Breaking the Silence:
The Politics of Speaking Out as a Muslim Woman

ASRA Q. NOMANI
Activist, author, journalist, mother
Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 5:00 pm, WLH 309, 100 Wall St.

Ms Nomani takes us on a personal journey from silence to activism. Inspired by tragedy and hope – the murder of her friend and colleague Danny Pearl and the birth of her own son – she has emerged as one of the leading activists in modern day Islam, seeking and winning reform from the mosque to the bedroom. In a civil war of ideas raging within Islam, she hopes to help shape a modern day Islam that provides a space for many voices.

Born in Bombay, India, Asra Nomani came to the United States at the age of four. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, she harkened a revolution in October 2003 by walking through the front door of her local mosque in Morgantown, WV, and into the main hall, defying a rule that women enter through the back door and pray in a secluded balcony. In a front page story, the New York Times noted her “Rosa Parks-style activism.”

With support from the Poynter Fellowship
Free and open to the public.
Info: wgss@yale.edu

Islamic Awareness Week:

Against the Grain: Breaking the Muslim Stereotype

February 20-24, 2006

Monday, February 20: Filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz and FUNdamentalist Films
Pierson Master’s Tea, 4p, a conservation with Zarqa Nawaz and film screening

Tuesday, February 21: Film Screening of “Me and My Mosque,” 7.30p, LC 211
A look at the past and present role of women in Islam

Wednesday, February 22: Dinner at Commons with World Fellows, 5.30p

Join us with Palestinian human rights lawyer Hassan Jabareen, Nigerian women's rights defender Hauwa Ibrahim, and fomer Uzbek National Coordinator for Regional Development Strategy Bakhodir Ganiev!

Thursday, February 23: Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak
Davenport Master’s Tea, 4p

A conversation with Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur, former chief executive of Azizah magazine, and editor of Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak

Muhammad Cartoons: Blasphemy, Islam, and the Free Press
A faculty discussion, 7.30p, LC 101

Friday, February 24: TGIJ (Thank God it’s Juma’a)

Open Sermon/Friday Prayer, 12:45p, LC 317

With support from: Davenport College, Pierson College, Asian American Cultural Center, Women’s Center, Yale Women in Film, InSight (Yale Chapter of National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum)

"A Reading and Discussion with Jamaica Kincaid"

Critically acclaimed author of Annie John, A Small Place, My Brother, and
Mr. Potter, Jamaica Kincaid will read selections from her latest book Among
Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.

Thursday, February 16, 2006
4 to 6pm
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall followed by a reception in the
Memorabilia Room

Co-sponsored by African American Studies, Afro-American Cultural Centre,
Agrarian Studies, American Studies, Beinecke Library, Calhoun College
Master's Office, Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, English,
Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Sterling Memorial Library,
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies and the Whitney Humanities Centre
Working Group on Nationalisms and Empires

The Third Annual TRANS ISSUES WEEK AT YALE Feb 20-24, 2006

Gender Outlaw: Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein
Monday, February 20th 8:00 pm
Harkness Hall (WLH), 100 Wall Street, room 309
Sponsored by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale

The Gendered Body: Body Modification and Transgender Identity
A forum of trans-identified individuals moderated by author Helen Boyd
Tuesday, February 21st, 7:30 pm
Yale Women?s Center, 198 Elm Street
Sponsored by the Yale Women?s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Intersections: Race and Transgender Identity
A panel of trans-identified college students discussing their experiences with
race, gender, and sexuality
Wednesday, February 22nd, 4:00 pm
Yale Women?s Center, 198 Elm Street
Sponsored by the Yale Women?s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

King Me!
A Gender Bending performance and Drag King workshop with Queer Soup
Thursday, February 23rd, 7:30 pm
Dwight Hall Chapel, Old Campus at Yale (High St, between Elm and Chapel)
Cosponsored by the Yale Women?s Center and the Yale LGBT Co-operative

All events are free and open to the public.

Questions? Contact lgs@yale.edu

Southeast Asia Cultural Festival

Details on some of the evening's events, now available!
See http://www.yale.edu/seas/Festival06.htm Friday, February 17, 2006, 6:00 P.M. - Luce Hall Common Room and Auditorium

food, fun, & entertainmentfeaturing:Ramakien Thai RamayanaAmnaj Jatuprayoon dance troupe of NYC

Phin Pia Performance(rare 8-12th century plucked string instrument)Andrew McGraw, Wesleyan University

AND MUCH MORE !

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s
Women's Liberation Movement in Japan Directed by Yamagami Chieko / Seyama Noriko (2004, Documentary, 57 min)

4:30 PM, Room 102, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street

Participants include:Y amagami Chieko - Film Director Seyama Noriko - Film Director Akiyama Yoko - Professor of Chinese Studies, Surugadai University Doi Yumi - Film Critic Miki Soko - Professor of English and Women's Studies, Kyoto Seika University Urara Satoko - Film Director Karen Nakamura - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Christopher Gerteis - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University

Chaired by:William Kelly - Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University

Introduction and translation by: Yamaguchi Tomomi - Post-Doctoral Scholar, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago

For more information, please contact anne.letterman@yale.edu

The Occasional Conversation Series of the Women?s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program Presents

INBETWEEN & THE CENSUS

Two films directed by
Robert Crusz
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
5:30pm
WLH 309, 100 Wall St.

INBETWEEN (1992)- 45min - When I was a child in Sri Lanka, my father encouraged me to consider everything European and Western to be of greater value than things Asian and Eastern. I was taught to speak, write and make love in English; to pray and feel guilty in the Roman Catholic tradition; to think and act Rationally; and to leave Sri Lanka, settle in England, and lay claim to my cultural, intell! ectual and psychological inheritance.
Inbetween, explores the hybrid identity of a Sri Lankan of Burgher ethnicity and its intersections with issues of masculinity and class.
THE CENSUS (Sangananaya) (2001) - 27min. (Based on the Malayalam short story The Wooden Dolls by Karoor.)
A woman defines the complexities of her private and public identities in a manner that is fundamentally in conflict with the State's assumptions about women as codified in the national census.

Robert Crusz has worked for nearly thirty years as a researcher, writer, filmmaker and educator in film and television. He was a founder member of Sankofa, a black British film collective which made films for Channel 4 and the independent film circuit, on the editorial boards of 'Framework' and 'Screen', and currently edits 'Cinesith', a film journal. He is the Director of the Tulana Media Unit, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and has just completed a video archive entitled Bearing Witness: Women's Experience of Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka.

Free and open to the public.
Info: wgss@yale.edu

10. Movie Screening

11.

Yale Vietnamese Studies Group Presents:
Sino-Vietnamese Relations in the Beginning of the 19th Century
Venerable Thich Tri Hoang, Ph. D., Eastern Philosophy, Leiden University

When : Thursday, February 16, 2006, 4:30 P.M.
Where: Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Room 102

The YVSG brings together both graduate and undergraduate students and faculty across a range of disciplines. The current two-pronged program continues to provide a space for students and scholars to present and workshop their current research. The YVSG also works with the Council on Southeast Asia Studies to invite guest speakers throughout the year. Topics for both student and invited talks span disciplines from history to literature to public health.

See/bookmark http://www.yale.edu/seas/YVSG.

12.

Friday, February 17, 2006, 3:00 PM

SPECIAL LECTURE BY CONSUL GENERAL OF JAPAN, BOSTON
Consul General Mr. Yoichi Suzuki

Japan's Approach to International Rules: The Case of the WTO

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Consul General Yoichi Suzuki previously served in the Japanese Embassies in Paris and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the Political Section. He has also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has long experience dealing with trade negotiations and has served as chairman of various international trade bodies.

For more information, please contact jeffrey.levick@yale.edu

13.

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is please to present a special lecture series

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHINA'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT China's Economic Growth: Is It Sustainable?

Gary Jefferson, Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance, Brandeis University

4:30 PM, Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

China's sustained high rate of growth has surprised most observers. Professor Gary Jefferson's talk will explore the underlying structural conditions that account for this rapid growth and the likelihood that these conditions will persist. Among the conditions that are driving the rise in Chinese living standards are technology transfers associated with China's opening to the world economy and the migration of rural workers from low income regions to the economy's leading sectors. At the same time, several factors are emerging that have the potential to upset China's drive to catch up to the developed economies. These include environmental deterioration, the inability to provide key public goods, notably public health services, rising income inequality, and the escalating civil conflict associated with these challenges.

14.

CASA Cultural Show

When: Saturday, February 25th, 2006
Where: Sudler Hall, WLH
Cost: $5 for show alone
$8 for ViSA Cultural Dinner at the AACC beforehand + show
What: Cultural Show which showcases a variety of talents performed
by its members. Don't miss the best show of the year! Please email
emily.mathews@yale.edu if you want to get involved.

15.

February 15, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM. 158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1.

"Can There Be a Dalit Middle Class?"

GYAN PANDEY
South Asian Studies Seminar

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council
For more info, contact Barbara.papacoda@yale.edu.

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February 16, 4:30 PM. 451 College Street, Room B04.

"Being a King the Cola Way: Contested Models of the Dharmic Ruler in Tamil Literary Culture"

ANNE MONIUS, Harvard University

Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Society for the Study of
South Asian Religions.

16.

WE LEARN Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network3rd Annual (Net)Working Conference on Women & Literacy, Moving to Power & Participation, Friday, March 10 - Saturday, March 11, 2006

Linsley Chittenden Hall, Yale University
Keynote Speaker: Marcia Ann GillespieMarcia Ann Gillespie has served as Ms. magazine's editor in chief since 1993.

Gillespie's association with Ms. magazine dates back to 1980 when she became a contributing editor.
A trailblazer in the magazine industry, as the editor in chief of Essence from 1971-1980,
Gillespie is credited with transforming the then-fledgling publication into one of the fastest
growing women's magazines in the United States. During her tenure, Essence won a
National Magazine Award, the industry's most prestigious honor. A vice president of
Essence Communications, Inc., Gillespie was named "One of the Fifty Faces for America's
Future" by Time magazine.

Early-Bird Registration Deadline:February 3, 2006(15% discount)
WE LEARN Membership & ABE Student Rates Available
Open to:ABE students, teachers, administrators, researchers, writers, grad students, community activists,anyone interested in women's adult basic literacy/education and related issues.
To download registration details and form, travel information, & regular updates go to : www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

To receive more information contact:Mev Miller, Ed.D., Director | 401-383-4374 | welearn@litwomen.org182 Riverside Ave., Cranston, RI 02910Co-Sponsored by WE LEARN | Yale University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program | literacytent.org

17.

On behalf of the Yale Graduate School, we invite you to join academic leaders, scholars and students from across the country at the Yale Graduate School campus (the oldest Ph.D. granting institution in the country) and the alma mater of Edward A. Bouchet (the first African American ever to receive a Ph.D. in North America) and be a part of a lively discussion on diversity and excellence in graduate education.

3rd Annual
Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education
"Working Towards a New Vision of the 21st Century University: Promoting Diversity and Excellence in Research, Teaching and Learning Within the Academy"
March 31-April 1, 2006

To be held on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, CT

For administrators, faculty, graduate students and other scholars, please consider submitting oral presentations, academic panels and workshops which address the theme of this conference, whether from a research, teaching or practice perspective.
Deadline for proposal submissions: February 28, 2006.

In addition, graduate or undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds (especially minority students and women) are encouraged to present their own individual research (in any areas of humanities, social sciences or sciences). It does not have to be based on the theme of the conference or the questions posed above, as long as it is research they have conducted on their own or in collaboration with others. Awards will be given for best oral and poster presentations.
Deadline for student proposal submissions: February 28, 2006

Go to the following website for Registration Materials, Call for Proposals, Preliminary Conference Agenda, Accommodations, Travel Information and other Conference Materials:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/diversity/news1.html

For further details, please contact Liza Cariaga-Lo, Asst Dean Yale Graduate School and Conference Co-chair at liza.cariaga-lo@yale.edu or (203) 436-1301. Feel free to forward materials to interested individuals.

18.

Fourth Annual Northeast Climate Conference

Friday to Sunday, April 7-9, 2006
Register TODAY

The 4th Annual Northeast Climate Conference will be held at Yale University from Friday to Sunday, April 7-9, 2006. Hundreds of student leaders and young professionals from across the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada will leave with the knowledge, skills, and connections to be a part of growing youth climate and renewable energy movement. Register and learn more www.climatecampaign.org The Northeast Climate Conference is hosted by the Yale Climate Campaign, the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, and the Climate Campaign, with support from Sierra Student Coalition, Energy Action, campus groups, community groups, and major regional and national networks. See you in April!

C. Events off Campus

We warmly welcome Yale University to join our 5th Annual Asian Diversity
Career Expos, the largest recruiting events for Asian Americans in the U.S.
One will be held in New York City on May 5, 2006. And due to high demand, we
’ve added another Career Expo in San Jose, California on May 1.

Last year’s ADI Expo, presented by the New York Times, drew over eighty
exhibiting companies, and five thousand job seekers. Visit
http://www.adiversity.com/events/2006-Diversity/ to learn more about this
exciting event.

Register today to secure the Early Bird discount!

Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from
you.

Sincerely,
Diana Lee
1270 Broadway, Suite 703
New York, NY 10001
T: (212) 465-8777
F: (212) 465-8396
Diana.Lee@ADiversity.com
http://www.AsianDiversity.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4^th Annual Conference on Asian-Indian Communities (ARAC) will be held on April 29, 2006 at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut

ARAC holds a one-day, annual interdisciplinary conference that is attended by students and faculty. It seeks papers from several social science disciplines (e.g., education, sociology psychology, and other allied fields) and is open to both qualitative and quantitative approaches.

4^th ARAC Conference Theme:

Investigating Indianness: Transformations of Identity in Local and Global Cultures

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sunaina Maira

Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Her research focuses on youth culture, popular culture, immigration and transnationalism, citizenship, and empire. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (2002). She co-edited an anthology, Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (1997), which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and is co-editor of Youthscapes: Popular Culture, National Ideologies, Global Markets (UPenn Press).

Deadline for Abstracts: March, 1 2006

Please send abstracts (150-200 words) to ssbha@conncoll.edu. If you have any questions about the conference, please email Sunil Bhatia at the above email address.

HPAIR CONFERENCE 2006
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DATES: August 18-21, 2006
LOCATION: Singapore
WEBSITE: http://www.hpair2006.org
FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15th, 2006

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
invites you to participate in our annual summer student conference in
Asia.

HPAIR is a partnership between the students and faculty of Harvard
University, offering a sustained academic program and a forum of
exchange to facilitate discussion of the most important economic,
political, and social issues relevant to the Asia-Pacific region.

HPAIR's international conference has emerged as the largest annual
Harvard event in Asia and the largest annual student conference in the
Asia-Pacific region, attracting a wide variety of distinguished speakers
and future leaders as Harvard's student outpost in Asia. Past speakers
at our conferences include South Korean President Kim Young Sam,
Governor General of Australia Peter Hollingworth, Singapore President
S.R. Nathan and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Both delegates and papers are welcome! Applications for both are online
and located at www.hpair2006.org .

The theme will be Redefining Asia: Visions and Realities
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WORKSHOP TOPICS
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Our HPAIR 2006 workshops will focus on the following six topics:
-The Political Economies of China and India: Trends, Trade and
Tomorrow’s Asia
-Environmental Management in Asia: Writing Tomorrow’s Textbooks Now
-Diseases and Disparities: Improving Health Outcomes for All
-Impersonating Asia: Performing Arts and Film in Contemporary
Perspectives
-Boundaries in Flux: Religion, Nation, and Identity in Asia
-War, Domestic Conflict, and Interdependence: Peace and Security in East
Asia
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To learn more about the HPAIR 2006 conference, please go to

http://www.hpair2006.org/

D. Scholarship, Fellowship, & Internship Information

Friday, February 17 is the day. At midnight on February 17, Teach For America
will close the application process for the 2006 corps. Thousands of recent
college grads have committed themselves to fight educational inequity. Will
you join them? Be part of a movement, be part of change, be part of something
you will be proud of. Apply to Teach For America and accept a challenge you'll
never forget.

Apply at www.teachforamerica.org. Contact Josh Griggs at
josh.griggs@teachforamerica.org if you have any questions at all about this
non-binding stage of the application process.

Job Opportunity: Senior Interviewers

Each year, the Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office hires rising seniors
for the Senior Interviewer Program. I am writing to ask for your
assistance in notifying students about this exciting opportunity.

Senior Interviewers are trained to conduct evaluative interviews with
prospective applicants to Yale College, and in this capacity they help in
the recruitment and selection of future undergraduate classes.

We are seeking members of the Class of 2007 with outstanding communication
skills and the maturity to understand the public relations nature of this
position. Please publicize this position to all juniors and kindly bring
especially qualified students to my attention.

During the summer, the Senior Interviewer position will be full time (37.5
hours per week) and students must be able to work from early June through
the end of August. Freshman Counselors and Ethnic are eligible to apply;
they will be permitted to finish up interviewing responsibilities in time
for Orientation. Students will be paid approximately $12.00 per hour. We
anticipate hiring five summer interviewers who will also be responsible for
assisting with group information sessions, giving campus tours, performing
some clerical work, welcoming visitors in the reception area, and working
with Admissions Officers on various projects.

We also anticipate hiring 10 seniors for the fall to work approximately 10
hours per week. Fall Senior Interviewers are required to attend a mandatory
orientation in early September. The Fall Interviewing program runs from
mid-September to mid-November. The rate of pay is the same.

Applications for the Senior Interviewer position may be obtained from the
receptionist at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 38 Hillhouse Ave.
or by e-mail from < mailto:marcia.landesman@yale.edu>marcia.landesman@yale.edu.

The deadline for completing the application for summer and fall positions is
Friday, March 24th. All completed applications, along with an unofficial
transcript, should be returned to the Admissions Office receptionist no
later than 5:00 p.m.

Anyone with questions regarding the Senior Interviewer program should
e-mail or call Marcia Landesman, Senior Assistant Director, Undergraduate
Admissions, at 432-9335. Thanks for your assistance!

Spring Break Externships for Justice: Last Call

One more chance to spend Spring Break working for justice!
While many Spring Break Externships for Justice have filled, some organizations (especially some out west) are still seeking applicants. Housing is available with progressive Yale alums. There's still time to apply for spring break externships at the following organizations (check out www.yasj.org/externship.html for more info and to find out how to apply):

Front Range Economic Strategy Center, Denver, CO.
A lab! or community partnership dedicated to community organizing, research and policy change for economic justice.

Office of L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles, CA A progressive political office that represents 250,000 citizens in L.A.'s densest district.

Progressive Jewish Alliance, San Francisco Bay Area, CA
A non-profit, non-denominational, inter-generational membership organization dedicated to the Jewish traditions of working for social and economic justice, promoting equality and diversity, and pursuing peace.

Jefferson Center for Education and Research, Portland, OR
A group that uses popular education to create opportunities with rural working people in the Pacific West, across languages and cultures, to achieve environmental, economic, and social justice.
With questions, contact Stephen at yasjmembership@yahoo.com.

Help rebuild New Orleans over Spring Break!

Do you want to help with Katrina Relief work over Spring Break? Do you want to help people rebuild their communities while seeing the disaster that Katrina created first hand? Project Opportunity is working with Senator John Edwards and the Center for Promise and Opportunity to provide spring break trips to New Orleans for Yale College students. The trip will be in the second week of spring break. Starting dates are flexible, but the trip will last at minimum from Wednesday, March 15 to Sunday, March 19. All costs and arrangements are taken care of once students are in New Orleans, and students will only be responsible for travel costs (with options for fundraising available). For more information or to sign up, email alissa.stollwerk@yale.edu.

What would you do if you were let loose for an all-expense paid summer in
New Haven, and the only requirement was to pursue social justice?

Dwight Hall at Yale has challenged students with this question since
1968. We challenge you to frame the issues that you witness in the New
Haven community and develop a response that pursues social justice. The
distinction of this program, when compared to other internship or
fellowship opportunities for Yale undergraduates, lies in the freedom and
responsibility it places on students to pursue the project from conception
(identifying the nature of the need) to completion (planning and executing
a project that meets outcome-based goals). Come learn more about the
Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship Program - applications are due on Thursday,
February 16 at 5:00pm. Also, check www.dwighthall.org/summer for more
information.

JUNIORS: FALL FELLOWSHIPS INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS

The Fulbright Grants information meeting will take place on Tuesday, February 14 at IEFP (55 Whitney Avenue, 3rd Floor), at 7:00 p.m.

The general information meeting for students who plan to apply for Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell, Scholarships will take place on Thursday, February 16 also at IEFP at 7:00 p.m.

At these meetings, campus application procedures will be explained, and students will be encouraged to begin their preparation early (since application deadlines occur very in early fall). Students will also be able to ask questions of recent winners of these awards.

Posters announcing the February information meetings will be forthcoming. IEFP will also hold meetings on Writing Fellowship Essays and other International Fellowships for Seniors in April, after students return from Spring Break.

QUESTIONS? CONTACT: Mark Bauer, Assistant Director for UK Fellowships, (203) 764-8340, http://www.yale.edu/iefp

Summer Volunteer Teaching in Rural China with the Rural China Education Foundation

Join an energetic group of overseas Chinese students and young professionals who strive to make a difference in the lives of rural Chinese children. Experience first-hand the realities of the Chinese countryside and bring new perspectives, support, and inspiration to rural students. Be a part of our volunteer teaching team in summer 2006 (around July 15 - Aug 8)! Volunteers receive training in Beijing, which consists of workshops and lectures on rural education, rural development, and student-centered teaching. This is followed by teaching and learning in a village for two weeks. We collaborate and team up with Chinese mainland university student volunteers. Mandarin speaking is required. Expertise in education, sociology, or a related field is especially welcome.

"The volunteers gave me feelings I never had before: confidence, courage, and approval. I may not have learned much knowledge but I gained a lot of study strategies and principles I can use for a lifetime. I was very happy and enjoyed these days. I really wish time could stay still." -- Middle school student (2005)

"I learnt so much, enjoyed so much, and experienced so much. It's the most meaningful thing I've done in the past year." -- RCEF Volunteer 2005

RCEF is a non-profit organization that supports the development of well-rounded, quality education that is integrated with social responsibility and individual character development. You can also contribute to our cause as a year-round committee volunteer or as a donor.

For information and application materials, visit www.ruralchina.org.

Apply now for our Diploma Training Program in Aftercare

www.jfci.org/training

July 15, 2006 ? April 2007, New Haven, CT

(Includes practicum abroad)

Both private and government agencies around the world lament that more of these child sex slaves could be rescued immediately if there were more aftercare services. Justice for Children International and other organizations are attempting to expand the number of safehomes globally. However, children rescued out of sexual slavery can not be placed in empty buildings?they need expert care from qualified, trained aftercare workers (trauma counselors, child psychologist, etc.) who understand the specifics of caring for victims of trafficking and exploitation. The Diploma Training Program in Aftercare (TPA) is a graduate level course designed to equip and prepare such workers.

This program was developed by JFCI?s Director of Aftercare, Dr. Gundelina Velazco PhD. She is the recipient of the 2004 Filipino Presidential Award for her work abroad with traumatized children and is an accredited member of the British Physiological Society. Dr. Velazco?s international experience is unprecedented in training caregivers who work directly with victims of child sex trafficking and exploitation.

Lamont Hiebert Application deadline: April 15, 2006.

Executive Director, JFCI www.jfci.org/training gradprogram@jfci.org

Organizations working directly with trafficking victims may send their staff through this program and/or request TPA graduates for their work.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

gwob@gwob.net OR VISIT http://www.gwob.net/index.htm

Grantmakers Without Borders INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

China Program Intern

Grantmakers Without Borders seeks candidates for a paid internship focused on advancing US philanthropic engagement with China About Grantmakers Without BordersGrantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) is a funders? network striving to fight global poverty and foster justice by increasing international social change philanthropy. Our members include trustees and staff of private and public foundations, individual donors, donor-activists, and other allies in philanthropy. Grantmakers Without Borders taps into this wealth of resources to encourage and promote globally minded grantmaking. For those new to the field, we provide peer-to-peer guidance on international grantmaking. For current international funders, we offer a space for continued education and community. In all our efforts, Grantmakers Without Borders is committed to the ideals of justice, equity, peace, democracy, and respect for the environment. We value and respect the wisdom and experience of local communities in all their diversity, and we are dedicated to amplifying the voice of the global South in international philanthropy. For more, visit www.gwob.net .

About this Internship
Grantmakers Without Borders seeks an intern to coordinate a program aimed at advancing US philanthropic engagement with China. Among the activities of the internship are the following:

�         Production of a China funders e-newsletter
�         Development of China content on Gw/oB?s website
�         Assisting with the planning and implementation of China giving circles
�         Assisting with the planning and implementation of a donor delegation to China

Time Commitment�         Eight hours per week for a minimum of 20 weeks

Compensation�         $20/hour

Qualifications

Advanced studies related to China
Fluency in Chinese
Ability to work from home or office, with computer and e-mail access
Reliability and attention to detail

Applicants should send the following to Grantmakers Without Borders, via email to gwob@gwob.net, by February 28th 2006: Curriculum vitae

--A written recommendation from a faculty member
--A personal statement of no more than 500 words, describing the applicant?s expectations for the internship and how it will add value to her/his professional aspirations

10.

Leaders of Color intern program ( www.diversitymatters.us) is now recruiting its inaugural class ... and sponsoring agencies ... for this coming summer.

Leaders of Color is a new opportunity for exceptional graduate students/college seniors to spend summer 2006 working for Oregon state and local agencies, and not-for-profits.

FAST FACTS
Leaders of Color is a summer program for students of color who are considering careers in government or working with not-for-profit enterprises.

Program highlights: Applicants will be considered from any major, but must be currently enrolled graduate students or undergraduates who have attained senior status by the end of spring term 2006. 5-days of public sector orientation at the Hatfield School of Government in beautiful Portland, Oregon < http://www.travelportland.com/> . 10-week work assignment involving at least one major work project and one job rotation in sponsoring agency

Assigned mentor
$5,000 stipend

Student applications are due March 1, 2006
Please call or email if you have any questions!
George K Beard, Director
Leaders of Color Internship
PO Box 820103
Portland, Oregon 97282-1103
t 503 772 0222
f 206 350 5388
gbeard@pdx.edu
www.diversitymatters.us < http://www.diversitymatters.us/>

11.

The Taiwanese American Citizens League (TACL) is proud to announce its 2006 Summer Political Internship Program. TACL is a national nonprofit organization with the purpose of enhancing the quality of life for Taiwanese Americans. Our work is largely devoted to building an understanding of Taiwanese American heritage, encouraging pride in Taiwanese American identity, developing a strong Taiwanese American community, advocating around issues pertinent to Taiwanese Americans, and helping to contribute to our culture, ever richer in its diversity.

The TACL Summer Internship Program is the premier political internship program for the Taiwanese American community. We place interns at offices of public officials, including Senators, Congressmen, and local offices. This allows Taiwanese Americans to be better recognized as a developed community with a voice. Our primary mission for TACL is to promote Taiwanese culture, heritage and identity as well as involvement in American society.

We offer offices in Washington DC, Southern California, and