This Dept of Defense site (!) lists housing and meals allowances around the world.
research sources: January 2005 Archives
had a hard time navigating the Eurail's official webpage, so found a US seller.
I'm having a hard time finding a train or a flight from Strasbourg to Budapest. :-(
Priority 7: These have a closing date of April 13 (electronic submission to Brussels).
shit. Here's a specifically policy related call due Feb 1! argh! (Is my stress showing?) %-/
I'll have to select the "research instrument" of being an SSA: a Specific Support Action.
Oh my gosh. They want a 25-page first stage proposal. And then a second (longer?) one upon invitation! to be valuated by relevance and potential impact (p. 4, pdf).
Should have joined the CES Immigration Network awhile ago: email Fiona Anderson f.adamson@ucl.ac.uk.
"Substantive areas of research covered by the network include: citizenship, national identity and multiculturalism in Europe; diaspora populations and diaspora politics; transnational communities; political asylum; refugees; forced migration; illegal migration and human trafficking; migration of skilled professionals; Roma and other transborder groups; dual citizenship; and relations between migration-sending and migration-receiving states. The network also supports research which examines the nexus between migration and other phenomena, such as: European integration; European Union enlargement; economic and cultural globalization; the welfare state; urban politics; Euro-Mediterranean relations; European security; organized crime; economic development; human rights regimes; ethnic politics; and indigenous and minority rights."
Retracing my steps:
applied for membership to SPSSI to become eligible for their $1000 grants due May 1.
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid-of-Research is due March 15.
The CES fellowship is due February 1. Hurry! Oh my. It is very involved. :-(
I'm trying to figure out if any of my academic sources qualify.
Found a youth site which announces an upcoming (Feb) conference on the constitution and includes press releases. One regards Turkey and the Constitution.
Robin recommended this guy and I checked out his webpage - found urban multilingualism working papers. Follow up!
This site has some interesting papers, including one Tom recommended by Werner Schiffauer.
i googled myself today to find "documentation" that I'm really a sign language interpreter who wants to do research in Europe this summer. I came across this article in Utne Reader, which quotes me!
Community Leaders Says Public's Y2K Interest Is Waning. Yep, I was one of those. :-) I wasn't convinced there would be a crisis, but it didn't seem out of the realm of possibility. Maybe I've read too much science fiction. And, it was an issue I could care enough about to get involved with other folk who also cared in a concrete way about local community. I got to meet a lot of really neat people. :-)
AllÈe du Printemps
B’timent Louise Weiss
BP 1024/F
F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex
+33 / (0)3 88 17 40 01
+33 / (0)3 88 17 51 84
epstrasbourg@europarl.eu.int
Back to the official chain-of-command. I was thinking I'd already sent emails to them, but perhaps it was to other places? And, my request is obviously a miniscule detail amid a vast range of priorities.
Here's what's new: March 4 broadcast of "A First Review", an all-day conference on interpreting in the EU which will be webcast.
And, I have just learned that the SCIC does NOT arrange for interpreting at the Parliament's Plenaries. sigh Back to the drawing board!
Another lead trickles in. :-) This, from Elvira:
International Association of Conference Interpreters
A Chief Interpreter's View is an address from 1996 about interpreting within the UN system.
Making progress! Mechtild is coming through for me!!! :-)
The sites are all in German, but Norbert Z”nker is head of the German national interpreting association (BDÐ). He does conference interpreting, as does another woman who's name and email Mechtild provided.
This yellow pages link is for German-Turkish interpreting. Isn't this awesome?!!!
Also: the German sign language association and its Berlin chapter.
I've been slow to follow up on this lead from Jackie Urla: The European Bureau of Lesser Used Languages. However, it seems to be only invested in autochthonous languages? And I'm more interested in the allochthonous ones.
I've received the name of one Turkish-German interpreter who works in legal and medical settings in Berlin, but no contact info. No luck with the EU folk in Strasbourg yet. But I keep getting more leads and tossing out more feelers. Eventually I'll get some bites. :-)
I just picked up Tove Skutnabb-Kangas' co-edited book on linguistic human rights...
I like her opening to her homepage, "I am what I write?" :-) There are many links to follow. (go there again!) Many Deaf education and interpreter training programs use her work.
a sociolinguistic perspective on linguistic human rights
bibliography with links re linguistic human rights
i'm already in trouble. gulp!. Probably not really, but making language work accurately and precisely is going to be even more of a challenge in a context I don't know so well. Tom advises (his words but the links are mine):
"I notice you write of "Turkish culture" - in case you're not aware:
Turkey is / Turks are almost as diverse as Europe/ans, despite the Turkish
state's efforts to forge a unitary culture. And a lot of the 'Turks' in
Europe are Kurds for a start, or Alevis (whom some call the 'Blacks' of
Islam) or from the many other minorities (and many in the UK are
Cypriots)... For an expert and activist I suggest the author of "Turkish
Speaking Communities and Education: No Delight" and other books - Aydin Mehmet Ali."
The transfer of authority for decision-making, finance, and management to local government. Devolution usually transfers responsibilities for services to municipalities that elect their own mayors and councils, raise their own revenues, and have independent authority to make investment decisions. In a devolved system, local governments have clear and legally recognized geographical boundaries over which they exercise authority, and within which they perform public functions. It is this type of administrative decentralization that underlies most political decentralization.
http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/civilservice/glossary.htm
Tom Cheesman turned me on to Marilyn Martin-Jones. :-) I've yet to actually land a specific person in the Berlin area but the list of names and network of contacts keeps growing. Very exciting!
She and Tom were in contact about asylum issues with (lack of) interpreting. Tom wrote that he's been "getting heavily involved in local voluntary work with refugees (see www.hafan.org). This brings me up against the realities very sharply (sheer lack of interpreters / translators, lack of funding for such services in legal, medical and other critical contexts, huge harm done by unethical and incompetent practitioners and lack of understanding of translationissues among service providers, reliance on children, friends... Also growing reliance by organisations on telephone services which are rarely satisfactory from clients' p.o.v.). "
of Germany is located in Berlin. Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Ðbersetzer e.V.. Of course all the info is in German. :-) My friend Mechtild (met at CL4) might be able to hook me up with folks there.
And, this link is very promising - monthly parliamentary meetings in Strasbourg, which is right on the border with Germany.
7th Conference on Minority Languages
Nation-Building, Ethnicity and Language Politics in Transition Countries
Information seminar on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages - The role of non-governmental organizations within the scope of the Charter.
