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Previously Funded GAP Awards2007 Awards 2007 AwardsThe This year awards are for two grants of $20,000 each sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the University Center for International Studies. Andre Gunder Frank's Legacy of Critical Social Science Patrick Manning (History) with John Beverley (Hispanic Languages and Literature) and Thomas Rawski (Economics) and foreign partners from the University of Newcastle, England. The project will support an international conference honoring the life and work of Andre Gunder Frank, a pioneer in global analysis in history and social science. The international conference will focus on the scholarly assessment of Frank’s work and the current status of analysis in the fields in which he worked. The conference will address six topical areas: (1)Underdevelopment and dependency in Latin America; (2) World accumulation and world system; (3) 5000-year world system; (4) East Asia in the World Economy; (5) Social Movements; and (6) Contemporary political and economic analysis. To be held March 2008 Research and Training: Global Health and Sustainable Development Joseph Alter (Anthropology), P. Sudhakar Reddy (Cardiology), and Eric Beckman (Chemical and Petroleum Engineering) and foreign partners from the MediCiti Institute of Medical Sciences in 2006 AwardsGlobalization and Diversity/Inequality in Elizabeth Monasterios (Hispanic Languages and Literatures) with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Political Science) and foreign partners from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. The project will support an international conference on the current crises facing two structural models of building societies—neocolonial and neoliberal. In this light, four interrelated panels will discuss four key issues in the Latin American/Caribbean regions: (1) Global Communications and New Technologies; (2) Increasing/Decreasing Inequality; (3) Leadership and Access to Power; and (4) Social Movements in National and Transnational Contexts. To be held March 2007. Research in Sustainable Community DevelopmentKathleen Dewalt (Anthropology and Public Health; Center for Latin American Studies) with Larry Shuman (Industrial Engineering), Eric Beckman (Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), and foreign partners from the University of Brazil and the University of Puerto Rico. The project will support an international workshop to address needed research in the areas of green construction and water, aimed at generating a comprehensive research agenda attentive to cross-cultural and ethical issues. The project will additionally provide important training for Pitt's IGERT Sustainable Engineering Fellows who will conduct research in States at Risk: Building Knowledge About Children in Armed ConflictSimon Reich (Public and International Affairs; Ford Institute for Human Security), with Barry Ames (Political Science), Maureen McClure (Administrative and Policy Studies), Charli Carpenter (Public and International Affairs), and foreign partners from the Peace Research Institution of Oslo and the Norwegian The project will support one in a series of in international workshops on the issue of children in armed conflict. The workshop will be designed to examine different explanations for the phenomenon of child soldiering and to consider policy options aimed at limiting their military recruitment. The workshop will generate collaborative long-term research. To be held September 15-17, 2006. 2005 AwardsHigh-End Outsourcing: Developing a Strategy of Sustainable CollaborationJohn Camillus, Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management and professor of business administration (Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business); Bopaya Bidanda, chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering. Research conference on "high-end outsourcing" to be held in April, 2006, in which activities and functions that add significant value and are strongly knowledge-based—such as research, design, and enhanced manufacturing— are contracted out to offshore organizations. Camillus and Bidanda will collaborate with foreign partners from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras and Kharagpur) and the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore and Ahmedabad). Cosponsored by Pitt's International Business Center (IBC) within the Katz Graduate School of Business. Societal Inequality and Individual OutcomesSalvatore Babones, assistant professor of sociology; John Marx, professor of sociology; Siddharth Chandra, associate professor of public and international affairs; Mark Ginsburg, professor of administrative and policy studies (School of Education) and professor of sociology; Ravi Sharma, assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences (GSPH); Ken Thompson, associate professor of psychiatry (School of Medicine) and behavioral and community health. International conference to be held in May 2006 on the relationship between societal inequality in terms of the overall distribution of resources and individual or aggregate health. The project involves foreign partners from the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and the Singapore Management University (Tanglin). Cosponsored by Pitt's Office of the Provost and UCIS. HIV/AIDS East of the UralsRobert Hayden, professor of anthropology and director of Russian and East European studies; Richard Day, assistant professor of biostatics (GSPH); Linda Frank, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology (GSPH). International workshop held in June 2005, bringing together Russian bio-behavioral scientists concerned with controlling the spread of HIV/AIDS in the eastern region of the Russian Federation, with a large interdisciplinary group of Pitt behavioral, medical, and public health scientists. The team partnered with colleagues from the Siberian Academy of Medical Science and the Siberian Center for AIDS Prevention. Cosponsored by Pitt's Office of the Provost and UCIS. The CISG After 25 years: Conflict Resolution and Conflict Avoidance in a Globalized EconomyHarold Flechtner, professor of law; Ronald Brand, professor of law and director of the Center for International Legal Education; and Kenneth Lehn, Samuel A. McCullough Professor of Finance in the Katz Graduate School of Business. Conference held in November 2005, marking the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and involving foreign partners from the University of Augsburg (Germany) and the University of Ghent (Belgium). Law and business professionals from around the globe gathered to discuss the development of uniform law for international business and the goal of uniform interpretation of that law, as well as its application in a manner that facilitates more predictable and efficient trade relationships. Cosponsored by the School of Law. 2004 AwardsLove of Country: Intimacy and Nation in Italy's MigrationsDonna Gabaccia, professor of history; Giuseppina Mecchia, assistant professor of French and Italian; Paula Kane, associate professor of religious studies. Conference in April 2005 focusing on the 25 million persons who left Italy as migrants to live and work on four continents. Research led by an international team including partners from the University of Toronto and the University of Western Australia, who explored the relationship between human mobility, intimate (or "private") behavior and the acquisition of national identities. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost. Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, LocalityShalini Puri, associate professor of English; Marcus Rediker, professor of history; Joseph Alter, associate professor of anthropology. A new conference series on postcolonial studies, initiated with an international conference that "rethinks" the field of postcolonial studies in light of global trends that have transformed the maps of postcoloniality. In an effort to create a new model for the field, it considers the critiques of both postcolonial and area studies and draws in the work of emerging scholars. Cosponsored by the Office of the Provost. The Financial Dimensions of Terrorism: the Raising, Movement, and Disbursement of Terrorist FundsPhilip Williams, professor in the Graduate School for Public and International Affairs; Kenneth Sochats, assistant professor of information sciences. On March 19-20, 2004, a workshop on the financing of terrorism brought together a diversity of specialists including international partner Rohan Gunaratna, the pre-eminent academic specialist on Al-Qaida, from the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The workshop, which will result in an edited volume, will illuminate the dimensions of terrorist financing, the tradeoffs between the Bush administration's freeze campaign and the possibility of following funds as a warning indicator of a potential attack, achievements to date, and further policy considerations. Cosponsored by the International Business Center of the Katz Graduate School of Business. 2003 Awards
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