Conferences

                         Major Conferences and Book Series

                              
                                    Rethinking Global Security and Global Currents

                             
                                               Truth Claims and Global Cities

The Center for International Education supports scholarly conferences, symposia, lectures and publication series that showcase UWM faculty members' expertise and enhance student learning opportunities while connecting UWM scholars with colleagues from around the world.

CIE Annual Conferences focus on different Global Studies themes related to UWM's international curriculum development.  Participants consider the causes and effects of globalization from diverse disciplinary perspectives.  The proceedings of these conferences have been published in the New Directions in International Studies series of Rutgers University Press.
 

• CIE Annual Conference 2009, Sustaining Cities: Urban Lost and Found, April 17-18, 2009
• CIE Annual Conference 2008: World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media, April 18-19, 2008

• CIE Annual Conference 2006:  Constant Capture: Visibility, Civil Liberties, and Global Security, April 21-22, 2006

• CIE Annual Conference 2005:  Command Lines:  The Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace, April 29-30, 2005
• CIE Annual Conference 2004:  Aftermaths: Exile, Migration, Diaspora, April 22-24, 2004
   
• CIE Annual Conference 2003:  ReThinking Global Security, April 11-12, 2003
   
• CIE Annual Conference 2002:  Transmissions: Globalization, Technology, Media, April 25-27, 2002
   
• CIE Annual Conference 2001:  Global Cities: Culture, Urbanism and Globalization, April 5-7, 2001
   
• The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America, April 19-20, 2001 (CIE co-sponsored)
   
• Human Rights and Societies in Transition: Causes, Consequences, and Responses, March 1-3, 2001 (CIE sponsored).