The film Seeking Bimaadiziiwin will be shown with a discussion with screenwriter Michelle Derosier to follow at 306 Folwell Hall at 7:00pm on Dec. 2, 2008.
Seeking Bimaadiziiwin
December 2nd
7:00pm
Rm. 306 Folwell Hall
6 Pleasant St. SE, MPLS, 55455l
Screenwriter Michelle Derosier will be present for discussion following the film.
This film deals with the tough issues of depression, suicide and racism. It also illustrates the diversity within modern
Anishinabe culture. This community film project was written by Michelle Derosier of Eagle Lake First Nation (Thunderstone Pictures), was shot on Super 16mm film and post-produced in high definition (HD) for maximum production value. It was shot on location in the city of Thunder Bay and on the Fort William First Nation and features a stunning cast of first-time actors from the Northwestern Ontario, Canada region.
For more information about the film visit:
http://firstnationinitiative.ca/
Directed By : Kelly Saxberg, and Dave Clement
Running Length : 31 mins.
For Event Info, Call the American Indian Studies Dept. @ 612-624-1338
Sponsored by the American Indian Studies Department , American Studies Department, and the College of
Liberal Arts Scholarly Events Fund.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
10 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin invite scholars to apply for ten post-doctoral fellowships. The fellowships are intended for scholars of history, literature, philology, political philosophy, religion and sociology who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Applications Due: Jan. 11, 2009.
10 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin invite scholars to apply for ten post-doctoral fellowships for the following research programs:
EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE
CITIES COMPARED: COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND
ADJACENT REGIONS
ISLAMIC DISCOURSE CONTESTED: MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUR'AN: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENT VIEWS
OF A SHARED HISTORY
TRAVELLING TRADITIONS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEAR
EASTERN LITERATURES
TRADITION AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY: SECULARISM,
FUNDAMENTALISM AND RELIGION FROM MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES
PREREQUISITES AND APPLICATION PROCEDURE
The fellowships are intended above all for scholars of history, literature, philology, political philosophy, religion and sociology who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their choice within the framework of one of the above- mentioned research fields and in relation to the program 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe'. In Berlin, they will be integrated into a university or non-university research institute. The working language of the research program is English. Fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 1.800 Euro (supplement for accompanying spouses: 250 Euro), and are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. As a rule, the fellowships begin on 1 October 2009 and end on 31 July 2010. The applicant's doctorate should have been completed no earlier than 2001. An application should be made
in explicit relation to one of the research fields and consist of 1.) a curriculum vitae, 2.) a 2 to 4 page project sketch, 3.) a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter) and 4.) a letter of recommendation by one university instructor.
The application should be submitted by e-mail as word document or PDF File in English and should be received by 11 January 2009. For further information on the program 'Europe in the Middle East -The Middle East in Europe' and for detailed information on the research fields, please see: www.eume-berlin.de
10 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin invite scholars to apply for ten post-doctoral fellowships for the following research programs:
EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE
CITIES COMPARED: COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND
ADJACENT REGIONS
ISLAMIC DISCOURSE CONTESTED: MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUR'AN: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENT VIEWS
OF A SHARED HISTORY
TRAVELLING TRADITIONS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEAR
EASTERN LITERATURES
TRADITION AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY: SECULARISM,
FUNDAMENTALISM AND RELIGION FROM MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES
PREREQUISITES AND APPLICATION PROCEDURE
The fellowships are intended above all for scholars of history, literature, philology, political philosophy, religion and sociology who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their choice within the framework of one of the above- mentioned research fields and in relation to the program 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe'. In Berlin, they will be integrated into a university or non-university research institute. The working language of the research program is English. Fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 1.800 Euro (supplement for accompanying spouses: 250 Euro), and are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. As a rule, the fellowships begin on 1 October 2009 and end on 31 July 2010. The applicant's doctorate should have been completed no earlier than 2001. An application should be made
in explicit relation to one of the research fields and consist of 1.) a curriculum vitae, 2.) a 2 to 4 page project sketch, 3.) a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter) and 4.) a letter of recommendation by one university instructor.
The application should be submitted by e-mail as word document or PDF File in English and should be received by 11 January 2009. For further information on the program 'Europe in the Middle East -The Middle East in Europe' and for detailed information on the research fields, please see: www.eume-berlin.de
THE KELLOGG HEALTH SCHOLARS PROGRAM
The Kellogg Health Scholars Program is two-year post-doctoral program that helps scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to the knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy, and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities. Applications Due: Dec. 3, 2008.
THE KELLOGG HEALTH SCHOLARS PROGRAM
A two-year post-doctoral program, is now accepting applications for its 2009-11 cohort. Through the Kellogg Health Scholars Program, scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to the knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy, and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities. The program consists of two tracks and offers fellowships at eight training sites. The Community Track highlights community-based participatory research and relationships between academe, community and public health practice. The Multidisciplinary Track highlights a multidisciplinary approach to studying the social determinants of health disparities. Application deadline: December 3, 2008. Only online applications are accepted. To access the application, visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org. Contact: Community Track: Saundra Bailey, (734) 647-3065; fax (734) 936-0927; saundrab@umich.edu. Multidisciplinary Track: Marie Briones-Jones, (202) 387-2829; fax (202) 387-2857; mbjones@cfah.org; www.cfah.org
THE KELLOGG HEALTH SCHOLARS PROGRAM
A two-year post-doctoral program, is now accepting applications for its 2009-11 cohort. Through the Kellogg Health Scholars Program, scholars develop as leaders with research expertise to add to the knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and interventions to reduce those disparities, the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy, and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities. The program consists of two tracks and offers fellowships at eight training sites. The Community Track highlights community-based participatory research and relationships between academe, community and public health practice. The Multidisciplinary Track highlights a multidisciplinary approach to studying the social determinants of health disparities. Application deadline: December 3, 2008. Only online applications are accepted. To access the application, visit www.kellogghealthscholars.org. Contact: Community Track: Saundra Bailey, (734) 647-3065; fax (734) 936-0927; saundrab@umich.edu. Multidisciplinary Track: Marie Briones-Jones, (202) 387-2829; fax (202) 387-2857; mbjones@cfah.org; www.cfah.org
GEO 8200: Downtown Turnaround?
The urban geography seminar, GEO 8200: Downtown Turnaround? Exploring changing economic, political, and social contexts in the space of U. S. downtowns, taught by Dr. Brenda Kayzar, will be held Fridays 10:00am-12:30pm in Spring 2009.
Spring 2009 Urban Geography Seminar
Geog. 8200
Fri. 10:00-12:30
Downtown Turnaround?
Exploring changing economic, political, and social contexts in the space of U. S. downtowns
Does renewed investment, reformulated governance, and a shift in consumer preferences equate to success for U. S. center cities, as the popular media and marketing agencies suggest? Or have the neo-liberal practices of public-private partnerships exacerbated uneven development and inequities in these urban landscapes? In this seminar we will examine the various perspectives and interpretations of the urban revitalization phenomenon. Economic growth, capital flows, political will, demographic shifts, homelessness, and arts and culture are some of the topics that will be examined through varying lenses; highlighting the links and disconnects between urban theory and practice. This seminar will appeal to graduate students interested in theorizing social, economic, and political aspects and understandings of space, and examining how theory is translated in practice, the planning and development literature, and the experience of place. Graduate students from different disciplinary backgrounds are also encouraged to participate.
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Spring 2009 Urban Geography Seminar
Geog. 8200
Fri. 10:00-12:30
Downtown Turnaround?
Exploring changing economic, political, and social contexts in the space of U. S. downtowns
Does renewed investment, reformulated governance, and a shift in consumer preferences equate to success for U. S. center cities, as the popular media and marketing agencies suggest? Or have the neo-liberal practices of public-private partnerships exacerbated uneven development and inequities in these urban landscapes? In this seminar we will examine the various perspectives and interpretations of the urban revitalization phenomenon. Economic growth, capital flows, political will, demographic shifts, homelessness, and arts and culture are some of the topics that will be examined through varying lenses; highlighting the links and disconnects between urban theory and practice. This seminar will appeal to graduate students interested in theorizing social, economic, and political aspects and understandings of space, and examining how theory is translated in practice, the planning and development literature, and the experience of place. Graduate students from different disciplinary backgrounds are also encouraged to participate.
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Ped6121/PubH 6121/Anthro 8810 On Aggression and Related Topics
The course Ped6121/PubH 6121/Anthro 8810 on aggression and related topics, taught by Michael Potegal, Ph.D, will be offered Tuesdays 10:10 AM – 12:05 PM in Spring 2009.
A COURSE ON AGGRESSION AND RELATED TOPICS TO BE OFFERED IN SPRING 2009
A 2 credit lecture-seminar course, Ped6121/PubH 6121/Anthro 8810, will be offered Tuesdays 10:10 AM – 12:05 PM in spring 09 through the Medical School, School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology. This course will cover areas of research on conflict, aggression, anger and violence in humans and other animals. Students are expected to develop an understanding of current studies of biological bases (e.g., aggression as evolutionary adaptation, genetic and brain mechanisms), development (e.g., tantrums, trajectories of aggression, bullying, influence of the media), behavioral expression (e.g., roles of environment, learning and motivation, sex differences, personality and psychopathology), and social interactions (e.g., cultural differences, criminal violence, warfare and genocide.) The course will be open to graduate students and to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
The instructor will be Michael Potegal, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics and Neurology. As a behavioral neuroscientist, Prof. Potegal worked on brain mechanisms of aggression; as a clinical neuropsychologist he now studies children’s anger and tantrums. Expert guest lecturers will present a few of the special topics.
Course Prerequisites
Graduate students and, with permission of the instructor, junior and senior undergraduates in the biological and social sciences, e.g. anthropology, educational psychology, history, political science, psychology, sociology, zoology. Also, students in the Institute for Child Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and School of Social Work are also welcome. Having taken at least one course in psychology is recommended
For further information and/or course permission numbers, contact Prof. Potegal at: poteg001@umn.edu
A COURSE ON AGGRESSION AND RELATED TOPICS TO BE OFFERED IN SPRING 2009
A 2 credit lecture-seminar course, Ped6121/PubH 6121/Anthro 8810, will be offered Tuesdays 10:10 AM – 12:05 PM in spring 09 through the Medical School, School of Public Health and Department of Anthropology. This course will cover areas of research on conflict, aggression, anger and violence in humans and other animals. Students are expected to develop an understanding of current studies of biological bases (e.g., aggression as evolutionary adaptation, genetic and brain mechanisms), development (e.g., tantrums, trajectories of aggression, bullying, influence of the media), behavioral expression (e.g., roles of environment, learning and motivation, sex differences, personality and psychopathology), and social interactions (e.g., cultural differences, criminal violence, warfare and genocide.) The course will be open to graduate students and to advanced undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
The instructor will be Michael Potegal, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics and Neurology. As a behavioral neuroscientist, Prof. Potegal worked on brain mechanisms of aggression; as a clinical neuropsychologist he now studies children’s anger and tantrums. Expert guest lecturers will present a few of the special topics.
Course Prerequisites
Graduate students and, with permission of the instructor, junior and senior undergraduates in the biological and social sciences, e.g. anthropology, educational psychology, history, political science, psychology, sociology, zoology. Also, students in the Institute for Child Development, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and School of Social Work are also welcome. Having taken at least one course in psychology is recommended
For further information and/or course permission numbers, contact Prof. Potegal at: poteg001@umn.edu
History 5690: State, Genocide, and the Twentieth-Century World
The course History 5690: State, Genocide, and the Twentieth-Century World, taught by visiting Professor Michael Meng, will meet Tuesdays, 3:35 P.M. - 5:30 P.M in Spring 2009.
History 5690: State, Genocide, and the Twentieth-Century World
Tuesday, 03:35 P.M. - 05:30 P.M. HHHCtr, Room 15
Visiting Professor Michael Meng
I. Course Description
The displacement, forced removal, and murder of people by a more powerful empire or state has occurred since the very beginning of recorded history; Homer’s Iliad and the Bible are full of episodes that today we might call ethnic cleansing. And yet the twentieth century witnessed the expulsion and mass murder of people on an almost unthinkable scale. One historian has aptly called it the “century of genocide.�? This graduate seminar will explore the history of this extreme violence in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. It will focus on several central questions: What is the relationship between the “modern state�? and mass violence? How do ordinary people become killers? What is the connection between nationalism, racism, and imperialism with mass violence?
The seminar will be divided into two main sections. The first will focus on a number of conceptual and theoretical issues such as perpetrator motivation, the role of the state, and the analytical relationship between nationalism, racism, imperialism, war, and genocide. The second section will focus on six case studies of genocide and extreme violence: the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915; the Nazi extermination of European Jewry from 1941-1945; the displacement, expulsion, and murder of Hindus and Muslims during the partition of India in 1947; the Cambodian genocide in 1975-1979; the mass murder of indigenous villagers in Guatemala in the early 1980s; and the genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994. In looking at these cases, we will explore the motivations of the perpetrators as well as the experiences of the victims, as well as pay close attention to the actions of local and international bystanders. Readings will come from scholars in a variety of disciplines and fields, so students outside of history are more than welcome to join. Indeed, my hope is that we will have discussions among people in different disciplines and different geographic fields of interest across the globe.
Please contact Prof. Meng for additional information at mengx057@umn.edu
II. Course Sources
The following books will serve as the focus of our discussions:
James Waller, Becoming Evil
Eric Weitz, A Century of Genocide
Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State
Omer Bartov, Germany’s War and the Holocaust
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition
Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime
Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre
Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers
There are no pre-requisites for this course. For additional information please contact mengx057@umn.edu
History 5690: State, Genocide, and the Twentieth-Century World
Tuesday, 03:35 P.M. - 05:30 P.M. HHHCtr, Room 15
Visiting Professor Michael Meng
I. Course Description
The displacement, forced removal, and murder of people by a more powerful empire or state has occurred since the very beginning of recorded history; Homer’s Iliad and the Bible are full of episodes that today we might call ethnic cleansing. And yet the twentieth century witnessed the expulsion and mass murder of people on an almost unthinkable scale. One historian has aptly called it the “century of genocide.�? This graduate seminar will explore the history of this extreme violence in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. It will focus on several central questions: What is the relationship between the “modern state�? and mass violence? How do ordinary people become killers? What is the connection between nationalism, racism, and imperialism with mass violence?
The seminar will be divided into two main sections. The first will focus on a number of conceptual and theoretical issues such as perpetrator motivation, the role of the state, and the analytical relationship between nationalism, racism, imperialism, war, and genocide. The second section will focus on six case studies of genocide and extreme violence: the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915; the Nazi extermination of European Jewry from 1941-1945; the displacement, expulsion, and murder of Hindus and Muslims during the partition of India in 1947; the Cambodian genocide in 1975-1979; the mass murder of indigenous villagers in Guatemala in the early 1980s; and the genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994. In looking at these cases, we will explore the motivations of the perpetrators as well as the experiences of the victims, as well as pay close attention to the actions of local and international bystanders. Readings will come from scholars in a variety of disciplines and fields, so students outside of history are more than welcome to join. Indeed, my hope is that we will have discussions among people in different disciplines and different geographic fields of interest across the globe.
Please contact Prof. Meng for additional information at mengx057@umn.edu
II. Course Sources
The following books will serve as the focus of our discussions:
James Waller, Becoming Evil
Eric Weitz, A Century of Genocide
Mark Levene, Genocide in the Age of the Nation-State
Omer Bartov, Germany’s War and the Holocaust
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition
Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime
Greg Grandin, The Last Colonial Massacre
Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers
There are no pre-requisites for this course. For additional information please contact mengx057@umn.edu
Transnationalism and Gender Dynamics in Minnesota Context
Cawo Abdi, Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Minnesota, will speak on the topic ‚ÄúTransnationalism and Gender Dynamics in Minnesota Context.‚Ä? This event will be held in 120 B/C Andersen Library from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM on Dec. 3, 2008.
Invitation to attend a seminar of the Global Race Ethnicity and Migration Series at the University of Minnesota
Speaker: Cawo Abdi, Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
Topic: ‚ÄúTransnationalism and Gender Dynamics in Minnesota Context‚Ä?
New economic and socio-political institutions migrants encounter in their new settlements often trigger contestation in normative gender arrangements. The literature indicates that the diminished economic position for migrant men within the family might decrease their authority and that might exacerbate gender conflicts in the family. One of the concerns of this presentation is: How do men and women frame this conflict? In what ways are these articulations gendered and of what consequences are these for the ways we think about tranationalism, gender, and the role of public institutions in such matters? Using case material from Somalis in Minnesota the paper will illustrate the nature of those struggles in the Minnesota context and how the state, the courts, and religion factor into the refashioning of gender struggles and roles.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
120 B/CAndersen Library
222--21st Ave. S., Minneapolis
Free and open to students, faculty, and the public.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Event notice on U Calendar: http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=411662
Directions on the Web: www.ihrc.umn.edu
Sponsored by Immigration History Research Center and Institute for Global Studies
Invitation to attend a seminar of the Global Race Ethnicity and Migration Series at the University of Minnesota
Speaker: Cawo Abdi, Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
Topic: ‚ÄúTransnationalism and Gender Dynamics in Minnesota Context‚Ä?
New economic and socio-political institutions migrants encounter in their new settlements often trigger contestation in normative gender arrangements. The literature indicates that the diminished economic position for migrant men within the family might decrease their authority and that might exacerbate gender conflicts in the family. One of the concerns of this presentation is: How do men and women frame this conflict? In what ways are these articulations gendered and of what consequences are these for the ways we think about tranationalism, gender, and the role of public institutions in such matters? Using case material from Somalis in Minnesota the paper will illustrate the nature of those struggles in the Minnesota context and how the state, the courts, and religion factor into the refashioning of gender struggles and roles.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
120 B/CAndersen Library
222--21st Ave. S., Minneapolis
Free and open to students, faculty, and the public.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Event notice on U Calendar: http://events.tc.umn.edu/event.xml?occurrence=411662
Directions on the Web: www.ihrc.umn.edu
Sponsored by Immigration History Research Center and Institute for Global Studies
American Philosophical Society Research Programs
The American Philosophical Society Research Program offers grants to support the cost of research leading to publication. Proposals Due: Dec. 1, 2008.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Franklin Research Grants: This program of small grants is intended to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. It is designed to help meet the cost of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Deadline: December 1, 2008. Contact: Linda Musumeci at (215) 440-3429; LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org; www.amphilsoc.org
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY RESEARCH PROGRAMS
Franklin Research Grants: This program of small grants is intended to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. It is designed to help meet the cost of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses. Deadline: December 1, 2008. Contact: Linda Musumeci at (215) 440-3429; LMusumeci@amphilsoc.org; www.amphilsoc.org
Graduate School of North American Studies
The Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies in Berlin invites applications for 12 Doctoral Grants for the 2009-2010 academic year. The doctoral program is interdisciplinary in its approach and focuses on those social transformations impacting the United States and Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. Applications Due: Jan. 31, 2009.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES
The Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies in Berlin invites applications for 12 Doctoral Grants for the academic year 2009/2010. Six academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences collaborate in offering a structured curriculum. The doctoral program is interdisciplinary in its approach and focuses on those social transformations impacting the United States and Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. Grants are awarded for a period of one year with the possibility of two annual extensions. The language of instruction is English. Scholarships amount to ca. 1.500 per month. It is also possible to apply for admission to the program independently from applying for a stipend. Guest students are welcome to stay for a period of up to one year. Guest students must be self-supporting. All application materials must be received by January 31, 2009 at the following address: Freie Universität Berlin Graduate School of North American Studies Professor Dr. Winfried Fluck, Director Lansstrasse 5-9 14195 Berlin, Germany For further information on application requirements and the graduate program, and for the application form, please see www.gsnas.fu-berlin.de
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES
The Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies in Berlin invites applications for 12 Doctoral Grants for the academic year 2009/2010. Six academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences collaborate in offering a structured curriculum. The doctoral program is interdisciplinary in its approach and focuses on those social transformations impacting the United States and Canada at the beginning of the 21st century. Grants are awarded for a period of one year with the possibility of two annual extensions. The language of instruction is English. Scholarships amount to ca. 1.500 per month. It is also possible to apply for admission to the program independently from applying for a stipend. Guest students are welcome to stay for a period of up to one year. Guest students must be self-supporting. All application materials must be received by January 31, 2009 at the following address: Freie Universität Berlin Graduate School of North American Studies Professor Dr. Winfried Fluck, Director Lansstrasse 5-9 14195 Berlin, Germany For further information on application requirements and the graduate program, and for the application form, please see www.gsnas.fu-berlin.de
The Center for German & European Studies
The Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota provides fellowships for U of M students to serve as interns in elementary schools in Berlin, Germany. Application Due: Feb. 9, 2009.
THE CENTER FOR GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES @ U OF M
The Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota provides fellowships for U of M students to serve as interns in elementary schools in Berlin, Germany. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Interns work in an English-language classroom four days a week. One day is open for research and other activities. Program duration: June 6 to July 4, 2009. German language proficiency preferred but not required. Up to 15 fellowships are available. Application deadline: February 9,2009. INFO MEETING: Th 12/4, 3:00-3:45 in 246 Social Sciences, Full information on the CGES website on the Internships page: http://www.cges.umn.edu/fellowships/internships.htm
THE CENTER FOR GERMAN & EUROPEAN STUDIES @ U OF M
The Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota provides fellowships for U of M students to serve as interns in elementary schools in Berlin, Germany. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Interns work in an English-language classroom four days a week. One day is open for research and other activities. Program duration: June 6 to July 4, 2009. German language proficiency preferred but not required. Up to 15 fellowships are available. Application deadline: February 9,2009. INFO MEETING: Th 12/4, 3:00-3:45 in 246 Social Sciences, Full information on the CGES website on the Internships page: http://www.cges.umn.edu/fellowships/internships.htm
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities
The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowships in the Humanities. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. at the time of application. Application Due: Jan. 12, 2009.
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2009-2010
The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library, and all proposed research must be appropriate to the collections (excluding the Terra Foundation Fellowship and certain
short-term awards). Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry's collections and with the lively community of
researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available for periods of six to eleven months to postdoctoral scholars who must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships ranges from $25,500 to $70,000. In 2008-2009 the Library inaugurated a new Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History carrying an academic-year stipend of $70,000 for a full professor (or its equivalent outside the academy) and $50,400 for all other awardees. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies form one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally $1600 per month. Applications for long-term fellowships are due January 12, 2009; applications for most short-term fellowships are due March 2, 2009. For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at:
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to the Committee
on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have
questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org
or (312) 255-3666.
Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities, 2009-2010
The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2009-2010 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library, and all proposed research must be appropriate to the collections (excluding the Terra Foundation Fellowship and certain
short-term awards). Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry's collections and with the lively community of
researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available for periods of six to eleven months to postdoctoral scholars who must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. The stipend for these fellowships ranges from $25,500 to $70,000. In 2008-2009 the Library inaugurated a new Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History carrying an academic-year stipend of $70,000 for a full professor (or its equivalent outside the academy) and $50,400 for all other awardees. Short-term residential fellowships are intended for postdoctoral scholars or Ph.D. candidates from outside the Chicago area who have a specific need for Newberry collections. The tenure of short-term fellowships varies form one week to two months. The amount of the award is generally $1600 per month. Applications for long-term fellowships are due January 12, 2009; applications for most short-term fellowships are due March 2, 2009. For more information or to download application materials, visit our website at:
http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html
If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to the Committee
on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have
questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org
or (312) 255-3666.
Social Computing in 2020
The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky Innovation Competition. This competition asks: What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020? Submissions Due: Jan. 30, 2009.
"SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020" BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION
The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky Innovation Competition." What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020?
* ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world.
* AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd prize, $500.
* SUBMISSION FORMAT: Description of an idea + Imaginative realization, embodiment, or illustration of the idea in a variety of possible formats (e.g., an essay, story, script, application sketch, fictional business plan, etc.).
* DEADLINE: January 30, 2009.
* FULL COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Guidelines & Submission Details
http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/
Students from any discipline--humanities, arts, social sciences, computer science, engineering, etc.--are encouraged to apply. The competition emphasizes visionary, thoughtful, or critical concepts rather than technical
knowledge as such.
For more information, see the full competition announcement
(http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/).
Inquiries may be directed by email to socialcomputing@lsmail.ucsb.edu
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COMPETITION ORGANIZERS
UCSB Social Computing Group (http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu) (A working
group in the UC Transliteracies Project:
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu):
* Kevin Almeroth - Department of Computer Science; Associate Dean for
Advancement and Planning, College of Engineering.
* Jennifer Earl - Department of Sociology; Director, Center for Information
Technology & Society.
* Andrew Flanagin - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility
and Digital Media@UCSB Project.
* James Frew - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.
* Alan Liu - Chair, Department of English; Director, UC Transliteracies
Project.
* Miriam Metzger - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility and
Digital Media@UCSB Project.
(With assistance from the UCSB Graduate Student Social Computing "Bluesky"
Group.)
"SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020" BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION
The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky Innovation Competition." What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020?
* ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world.
* AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd prize, $500.
* SUBMISSION FORMAT: Description of an idea + Imaginative realization, embodiment, or illustration of the idea in a variety of possible formats (e.g., an essay, story, script, application sketch, fictional business plan, etc.).
* DEADLINE: January 30, 2009.
* FULL COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Guidelines & Submission Details
http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/
Students from any discipline--humanities, arts, social sciences, computer science, engineering, etc.--are encouraged to apply. The competition emphasizes visionary, thoughtful, or critical concepts rather than technical
knowledge as such.
For more information, see the full competition announcement
(http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu/contest2020/).
Inquiries may be directed by email to socialcomputing@lsmail.ucsb.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMPETITION ORGANIZERS
UCSB Social Computing Group (http://socialcomputing.ucsb.edu) (A working
group in the UC Transliteracies Project:
http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu):
* Kevin Almeroth - Department of Computer Science; Associate Dean for
Advancement and Planning, College of Engineering.
* Jennifer Earl - Department of Sociology; Director, Center for Information
Technology & Society.
* Andrew Flanagin - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility
and Digital Media@UCSB Project.
* James Frew - Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.
* Alan Liu - Chair, Department of English; Director, UC Transliteracies
Project.
* Miriam Metzger - Department of Communication; Co-director, Credibility and
Digital Media@UCSB Project.
(With assistance from the UCSB Graduate Student Social Computing "Bluesky"
Group.)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
SOC 8735 Sociology of Culture
Soc 8735 Sociology of Culture taught by Professor Edgell is held Thursdays from 2:30- 5:00pm in SS 915, Spring 2009.
Please see course description and syllabus for more info.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Dissertation Fellowships
The Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation offers a dissertation fellowship that offers support for individuals to complete the writing of their doctoral dissertations in any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that will increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Applications Due: Feb. 1, 2009.
Title: Dissertation Fellowships
Sponsor: Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation
SYNOPSIS:
Support is provided for individuals to complete the writing of
their doctoral dissertations in any of the natural and social sciences
and the humanities that will increase understanding of the causes,
manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
Ten or more fellowships in the amount of $15,000 are awarded each
year.
Deadline(s): 02/01/2009
E-mail: info@hg.org
Program URL: http://www.hfg.org/df/guidelines.htm
Tel: 212-644-4907
Funding Limit: $15,000
Duration: 1 YEAR(s)
OBJECTIVES:
Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence,
aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the
socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare,
crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of
aggression and violence. Priority will also be given to areas and
methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other
funding sources.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants are Ph.D. candidates who are in the writing
stage of the dissertation. Applicants may be citizens of any country
and studying at colleges or universities in any country.
The sponsor anticipates awarding ten or more fellowships of $15,000
each.
Title: Dissertation Fellowships
Sponsor: Guggenheim (Harry Frank) Foundation
SYNOPSIS:
Support is provided for individuals to complete the writing of
their doctoral dissertations in any of the natural and social sciences
and the humanities that will increase understanding of the causes,
manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.
Ten or more fellowships in the amount of $15,000 are awarded each
year.
Deadline(s): 02/01/2009
E-mail: info@hg.org
Program URL: http://www.hfg.org/df/guidelines.htm
Tel: 212-644-4907
Funding Limit: $15,000
Duration: 1 YEAR(s)
OBJECTIVES:
Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence,
aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the
socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare,
crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of
aggression and violence. Priority will also be given to areas and
methodologies not receiving adequate attention and support from other
funding sources.
ELIGIBILITY
Eligible applicants are Ph.D. candidates who are in the writing
stage of the dissertation. Applicants may be citizens of any country
and studying at colleges or universities in any country.
The sponsor anticipates awarding ten or more fellowships of $15,000
each.
University of New Hampshire-Joint English & Women's Studies Position
The Department of English and the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Hampshire seek an Assistant or Associate Professor to fill a tenure track faculty position. Applications Due: Nov. 20, 2008.
*Position Announcement:*
*Joint English – Women's Studies*
University of New Hampshire
Applications Due November 20, 2008
The Department of English and the Women's Studies Program at
the University of New Hampshire anticipate a tenure track faculty
position (approval pending), with a starting date of fall 2009. We seek
an Assistant or Associate Professor to serve in a joint position.
Applicants must have strong records of teaching and scholarly
publishing in Literature in English (any field), and Women's Studies.
We are particularly interested in applicants whose areas of expertise
include one or more of the following: Africana/African American Studies,
Critical Race Studies, and/or Queer Studies. Ph.D. strongly
preferred. Teaching load is 3/2 annually. Please send a letter of
interest, a CV, names of three references, and a writing sample to:
Professor Marla Brettschneider, Coordinator, 203 Huddleston Hall, UNH
Women's Studies Program, Durham, NH 03824.
The University of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity / Equal Access /
Affirmative Action institution. The University seeks excellence through
diversity among its administrators, faculty, staff, and students. The
university prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, disability, veteran status, or marital status.
Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged.
*Position Announcement:*
*Joint English – Women's Studies*
University of New Hampshire
Applications Due November 20, 2008
The Department of English and the Women's Studies Program at
the University of New Hampshire anticipate a tenure track faculty
position (approval pending), with a starting date of fall 2009. We seek
an Assistant or Associate Professor to serve in a joint position.
Applicants must have strong records of teaching and scholarly
publishing in Literature in English (any field), and Women's Studies.
We are particularly interested in applicants whose areas of expertise
include one or more of the following: Africana/African American Studies,
Critical Race Studies, and/or Queer Studies. Ph.D. strongly
preferred. Teaching load is 3/2 annually. Please send a letter of
interest, a CV, names of three references, and a writing sample to:
Professor Marla Brettschneider, Coordinator, 203 Huddleston Hall, UNH
Women's Studies Program, Durham, NH 03824.
The University of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity / Equal Access /
Affirmative Action institution. The University seeks excellence through
diversity among its administrators, faculty, staff, and students. The
university prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, disability, veteran status, or marital status.
Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Engl 5200 Readings in American Literature
The course Engl 5200, "Readings in American Literature", taught by Edward Griffin is being held Friday from 11:00am to 1:30 pm spring 2009.
Our Wilson Library owns about 85% of the roughly 100 novels written by Americans from the time of the first one (generally acknowledged as William Hill Brown's 1789 novel, The Power of Sympathy) through the time of Cooper's Leatherstocking series (1823-41). Until recently, because these novels were unavailable in affordable editions, literary history tacitly assumed that the American novel pretty much began with Cooper. With the thoroughgoing revision of the American canon that began in the 1970s, however, and with the rise of new methods of scholarship and computer-aided research, this chapter in American literary history was discovered. The discovery generated a new willingness to teach these books in the classroom, and such eagerness (and market) produced a greater interest among publishers to reprint many of the novels in paperback. When that happened, I started teaching a graduate course in the first American novels--one of the first such offerings in the United States, I have been told. Students found these works highly interesting, perhaps because of the novelty but also because they found among them both some hitherto undiscovered jewels on a list that had for a long time remained unexplored and a revised understanding of American literary history. The reading list for spring semester is currently under construction, but it will include about eight titles drawn from the novels of such writers as the following: Hugh Henry Brackenridge; Charles Brockden Brown; William Hill Brown; Lydia Maria Child; Julia Collins; Hannah Foster; Jesse Holman; Gilbert Imlay; Royall Tyler; Susanna Rowson; Rebecca Rush; Catherine Maria Sedgwick; Tabitha Tenney. These titles use such subjects as variations of the classic marriage plot, explorations of near-insanity, political and social satire, women‚Äôs education, slavery, the encounter between Islam and early American Christianity, and race relations. They also include the newly discovered first-novel-published-by-an-African-American woman (Julia Collins, The Curse of Caste). As a term project, each graduate student will choose one of these ‚Äúfirst American novels‚Ä? that is not currently in print and prepare an original introduction to it.
Our Wilson Library owns about 85% of the roughly 100 novels written by Americans from the time of the first one (generally acknowledged as William Hill Brown's 1789 novel, The Power of Sympathy) through the time of Cooper's Leatherstocking series (1823-41). Until recently, because these novels were unavailable in affordable editions, literary history tacitly assumed that the American novel pretty much began with Cooper. With the thoroughgoing revision of the American canon that began in the 1970s, however, and with the rise of new methods of scholarship and computer-aided research, this chapter in American literary history was discovered. The discovery generated a new willingness to teach these books in the classroom, and such eagerness (and market) produced a greater interest among publishers to reprint many of the novels in paperback. When that happened, I started teaching a graduate course in the first American novels--one of the first such offerings in the United States, I have been told. Students found these works highly interesting, perhaps because of the novelty but also because they found among them both some hitherto undiscovered jewels on a list that had for a long time remained unexplored and a revised understanding of American literary history. The reading list for spring semester is currently under construction, but it will include about eight titles drawn from the novels of such writers as the following: Hugh Henry Brackenridge; Charles Brockden Brown; William Hill Brown; Lydia Maria Child; Julia Collins; Hannah Foster; Jesse Holman; Gilbert Imlay; Royall Tyler; Susanna Rowson; Rebecca Rush; Catherine Maria Sedgwick; Tabitha Tenney. These titles use such subjects as variations of the classic marriage plot, explorations of near-insanity, political and social satire, women‚Äôs education, slavery, the encounter between Islam and early American Christianity, and race relations. They also include the newly discovered first-novel-published-by-an-African-American woman (Julia Collins, The Curse of Caste). As a term project, each graduate student will choose one of these ‚Äúfirst American novels‚Ä? that is not currently in print and prepare an original introduction to it.
HEART OF THE CITY: BLACK URBAN LIFE ON 'THE WIRE'
The Black Humanities Collective and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies of the University of Michigan invite individual papers and panel proposals for the 2009 symposium, "Heart of the City: Black Urban Life on "The Wire". Abstracts Due: Dec. 1, 2008.
HEART OF THE CITY: BLACK URBAN LIFE ON 'THE WIRE'
January 29-30, 2009
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sponsored by
The Black Humanities Collective
and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Black Humanities Collective (BHC) and The Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies (CAAS) of the University of Michigan invite individual papers
and panel proposals for our 2009 symposium, "Heart of the City: Black Urban Life on "The Wire".
Critically acclaimed and nationally syndicated, HBO's series *The
Wire* depicts a racialized postindustrial cityscape, marred by the brutal
provenance of the drug economy. In its five seasons, the series is as much
a dramatic achievement as it is a complex portrait of a black urban
experience. Featuring a predominantly black cast, The Wire is an
exceptional cultural text from which to examine a wide range of urban
issues, to be approached from literary, historical, political, and
sociological perspectives.
This symposium proposes a critical consideration of *The Wire*, which treats
The show as both a topic and a model of critique. Our aim is to create a
space that is open and interdisciplinary. Graduate students, professors, and
independent scholars working in the Humanities, the Arts, Social Sciences,
Public Policy, and elsewhere are encouraged to join this collective
discussion. In this sense, *The Wire* can serve as a common point of
discussion, as a viable vehicle of social engagement in its own right and a
text worthy of careful and extended investigation.
Potential paper/panel topics include :
- Urban Renewal and Decline
- Race, Place, and Visual Culture
- The Black Family
- The City as a Transnational Conduit
- Critical Masculinities and Femininities
- Media Ethics and Issues of Representation
- Sex and Sexualities in the City
- (Counter-)Public and (Counter-)Private Spheres
- Pedagogy and Educational Practice
- City and Regional Planning
- Performance and Performativity in Urban Space
To submit a paper or panel proposal, please send a 250 word abstract via
Email to heartofthecityconference@gmail.com.
Abstracts and proposals are due:
Monday, December 1, 2008.
Acceptance notifications will be emailed by:
Monday December 15, 2008.
The Black Humanities Collective is an interdisciplinary graduate student and
faculty organization at the University of Michigan dedicated to the
intellectual and professional development of those studying Africa and its
diaspora.
HEART OF THE CITY: BLACK URBAN LIFE ON 'THE WIRE'
January 29-30, 2009
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Sponsored by
The Black Humanities Collective
and The Center for Afroamerican and African Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Black Humanities Collective (BHC) and The Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies (CAAS) of the University of Michigan invite individual papers
and panel proposals for our 2009 symposium, "Heart of the City: Black Urban Life on "The Wire".
Critically acclaimed and nationally syndicated, HBO's series *The
Wire* depicts a racialized postindustrial cityscape, marred by the brutal
provenance of the drug economy. In its five seasons, the series is as much
a dramatic achievement as it is a complex portrait of a black urban
experience. Featuring a predominantly black cast, The Wire is an
exceptional cultural text from which to examine a wide range of urban
issues, to be approached from literary, historical, political, and
sociological perspectives.
This symposium proposes a critical consideration of *The Wire*, which treats
The show as both a topic and a model of critique. Our aim is to create a
space that is open and interdisciplinary. Graduate students, professors, and
independent scholars working in the Humanities, the Arts, Social Sciences,
Public Policy, and elsewhere are encouraged to join this collective
discussion. In this sense, *The Wire* can serve as a common point of
discussion, as a viable vehicle of social engagement in its own right and a
text worthy of careful and extended investigation.
Potential paper/panel topics include :
- Urban Renewal and Decline
- Race, Place, and Visual Culture
- The Black Family
- The City as a Transnational Conduit
- Critical Masculinities and Femininities
- Media Ethics and Issues of Representation
- Sex and Sexualities in the City
- (Counter-)Public and (Counter-)Private Spheres
- Pedagogy and Educational Practice
- City and Regional Planning
- Performance and Performativity in Urban Space
To submit a paper or panel proposal, please send a 250 word abstract via
Email to heartofthecityconference@gmail.com.
Abstracts and proposals are due:
Monday, December 1, 2008.
Acceptance notifications will be emailed by:
Monday December 15, 2008.
The Black Humanities Collective is an interdisciplinary graduate student and
faculty organization at the University of Michigan dedicated to the
intellectual and professional development of those studying Africa and its
diaspora.
Free Minds, Free People: A National Conference on Education for Liberation
"Free Minds, Free People: A National Conference on Education for Liberation" held June 25 to 28, 2009 in Houston, Texas is a national conference that brings together teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a
movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Submission Deadline: Jan 15, 2009.
Free Minds, Free People
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
June 25 to 28, 2009
Houston, Texas
www.freemindsfreepeople.org
Call for Proposals
Submission deadline: January 15, 2009
Free Minds, Free People is a national conference that brings together
teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and
community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a
movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Education
for Liberation prepares the most excluded, under-served members of our
society, in particular low-income youth and youth of color, to fight
for a more just world by:
· Teaching students the causes of inequalities and injustices
in society and how communities have fought against them.
· Helping them develop both the belief in themselves that they
can challenge those injustices and the skills necessary to do that.
· Supporting them in taking action that leads to
disenfranchised communities having more power.
The goal of Free Minds, Free People is to provide a forum for sharing
knowledge, experiences and strategies that support the use of
education as a tool for liberation by:
· Connecting local community efforts to national education for
liberation activities.
· Expanding our network of education liberators by building
relationships that cross barriers of geography, race, age, class,
gender, sexual orientation, profession and other identities.
· Showcasing a broad spectrum of strategies, including arts,
popular education, organizing, dialogue and scholarship, and their
related impacts.
· Acting as a catalyst for the continued development of a
social movement around education for liberation.
We invite K-12 teachers, community-based educators, high school and
college students, activists/organizers, artists, parents and academic
researchers to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions
and other activities.
If you have any questions please contact:
Tara Mack (tara@edliberation.org)
Education for Liberation Network, Brooklyn, NY
Alex Poeter (alexpoeter@gmail.com)
Chicago Freedom School, Chicago IL
Robin Owens (robinowens@sbcglobal.net)
Local Planning Committee, Houston, TX
movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Submission Deadline: Jan 15, 2009.
Free Minds, Free People
A National Conference on Education for Liberation
June 25 to 28, 2009
Houston, Texas
www.freemindsfreepeople.org
Call for Proposals
Submission deadline: January 15, 2009
Free Minds, Free People is a national conference that brings together
teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and
community-based activists/educators from across the country to build a
movement to develop and promote Education for Liberation. Education
for Liberation prepares the most excluded, under-served members of our
society, in particular low-income youth and youth of color, to fight
for a more just world by:
· Teaching students the causes of inequalities and injustices
in society and how communities have fought against them.
· Helping them develop both the belief in themselves that they
can challenge those injustices and the skills necessary to do that.
· Supporting them in taking action that leads to
disenfranchised communities having more power.
The goal of Free Minds, Free People is to provide a forum for sharing
knowledge, experiences and strategies that support the use of
education as a tool for liberation by:
· Connecting local community efforts to national education for
liberation activities.
· Expanding our network of education liberators by building
relationships that cross barriers of geography, race, age, class,
gender, sexual orientation, profession and other identities.
· Showcasing a broad spectrum of strategies, including arts,
popular education, organizing, dialogue and scholarship, and their
related impacts.
· Acting as a catalyst for the continued development of a
social movement around education for liberation.
We invite K-12 teachers, community-based educators, high school and
college students, activists/organizers, artists, parents and academic
researchers to submit proposals for workshops, panels, poster sessions
and other activities.
If you have any questions please contact:
Tara Mack (tara@edliberation.org)
Education for Liberation Network, Brooklyn, NY
Alex Poeter (alexpoeter@gmail.com)
Chicago Freedom School, Chicago IL
Robin Owens (robinowens@sbcglobal.net)
Local Planning Committee, Houston, TX
NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship
The NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship supports promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU. Application Due: Jan. 15, 2009.
The Program
New York University (NYU) is dedicated to ensuring that its scholarly community is ready to compete in a global world and is enriched by individuals who, through their different races and ethnicities, gender identities, age, abilities, political beliefs, economic status, and sexual orientation, contribute to an intellectually challenging and inclusive educational environment. To that end, NYU has created the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity fellowship program to support promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.
*Eligibility*
The fellowship program is open to all areas of study at the University. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are from the following three categories may apply:
1. Graduate students in the final year of their dissertation
2. Postdoctoral students who have completed their dissertation
within the last three years
3. Professionals transitioning to academic careers (for those in
fields for which the doctorate is not the terminal degree)
*Awards*
NYU will award five in-residence fellowships in 2009. The two-year appointments, which begin September 2009 and end August 2011, have a possibility of a third-year extension. Graduate students in the final year of their dissertation must make significant progress toward the dissertation. Fellows teach a maximum of one course per semester.
*Stipends and Allowances*
Fellows receive an annual stipend of $40,000 as well as allowances for housing ($20,000), research ($2,000), and one-time relocation ($3,000). The University also provides a medical and dental benefits package.
*Application Procedure*
Application Procedure Required application materials include (1) a fellowship application; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a statement of research and goals; (4) a personal statement detailing the reasons for applying for the fellowship; (5) three letters of reference from individuals familiar with your scholarly or creative work; and (6) one of the following: a dissertation abstract (postdoctoral applicants), a dissertation proposal (doctoral students), or a statement of how your professional experience prepares you for a faculty position (professionals). Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
All materials must be received by *January 15, 2009*.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Awards will be announced on *March 15, 2009*.
The fellowship application and instructions for submission are available here <http://pull.xmr3.com/p/617-1FA6/84667376/http-www.nyu.edu-info-prov-ms0498.html>.
NYU Postdoctoral & Transition Program for Academic Diversity
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development
70 Washington Square South, #1230
New York, NY 10012
New York University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.
The Program
New York University (NYU) is dedicated to ensuring that its scholarly community is ready to compete in a global world and is enriched by individuals who, through their different races and ethnicities, gender identities, age, abilities, political beliefs, economic status, and sexual orientation, contribute to an intellectually challenging and inclusive educational environment. To that end, NYU has created the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity fellowship program to support promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.
*Eligibility*
The fellowship program is open to all areas of study at the University. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are from the following three categories may apply:
1. Graduate students in the final year of their dissertation
2. Postdoctoral students who have completed their dissertation
within the last three years
3. Professionals transitioning to academic careers (for those in
fields for which the doctorate is not the terminal degree)
*Awards*
NYU will award five in-residence fellowships in 2009. The two-year appointments, which begin September 2009 and end August 2011, have a possibility of a third-year extension. Graduate students in the final year of their dissertation must make significant progress toward the dissertation. Fellows teach a maximum of one course per semester.
*Stipends and Allowances*
Fellows receive an annual stipend of $40,000 as well as allowances for housing ($20,000), research ($2,000), and one-time relocation ($3,000). The University also provides a medical and dental benefits package.
*Application Procedure*
Application Procedure Required application materials include (1) a fellowship application; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a statement of research and goals; (4) a personal statement detailing the reasons for applying for the fellowship; (5) three letters of reference from individuals familiar with your scholarly or creative work; and (6) one of the following: a dissertation abstract (postdoctoral applicants), a dissertation proposal (doctoral students), or a statement of how your professional experience prepares you for a faculty position (professionals). Incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
All materials must be received by *January 15, 2009*.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received.
Awards will be announced on *March 15, 2009*.
The fellowship application and instructions for submission are available here <http://pull.xmr3.com/p/617-1FA6/84667376/http-www.nyu.edu-info-prov-ms0498.html>.
NYU Postdoctoral & Transition Program for Academic Diversity
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development
70 Washington Square South, #1230
New York, NY 10012
New York University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution.
Asian American Studies Program at the University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position in the Asian American Studies Program. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field. Applications Due: Dec. 8, 2008.
Position Description
The Asian American Studies Program at the University of California,
Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position, to
begin July 1, 2009, preferably at the level of Associate or Full
Professor but the position is open to all ranks. We seek an Asian
American studies scholar in history or social sciences with a Ph.D. in
a relevant field who has expertise in interdisciplinary, comparative
research. We are interested in a scholar who focuses on empire and
colonialism with a specialization in two or more of the following
areas: gender, sexuality, racialization, labor, citizenship,
indigeneity, and transnationalism. Expertise in Filipino American
and/or Asian Pacific Islander studies is also desirable, but we are
open to other areas of concentration.
We seek a scholar with an accomplished and innovative publication
record; an excellent record of research, teaching, and leadership in
the field, and a strong track record of departmental/university
service and collaboration, along with proven administrative abilities.
We are especially interested in candidates who will provide
programmatic leadership in the delivery of our undergraduate and
graduate curricula, who will foster outreach and grant activities to
support programmatic goals, and who are committed to building and
sustaining cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental connections to other
programs on the campus.
Our program is multidisciplinary, with strengths in humanities,
cultural studies, and social sciences. We offer an undergraduate
major and minor program, and faculty members can participate in the
Cultural Studies Graduate Group which offers a doctoral degree. Visit
our home page at: http://asa.ucdavis.edu/.
Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and samples
of written work (not more than 50 pages) as PDF or MS Word compatible
files, and three letters of reference to
AsianAmericanStudies@ucdavis.edu. If letters of recommendation cannot
be sent electronically, please mail hard copies to: Asian American
Studies Program, Attn: Search Committee, University of
California-Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Review of
applications begins on December 8, 2008 and continues until the
position is filled.
The University of California, Davis and the Asian American Studies
Program are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest
standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the
development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.
The University of California is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer.
Position Description
The Asian American Studies Program at the University of California,
Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position, to
begin July 1, 2009, preferably at the level of Associate or Full
Professor but the position is open to all ranks. We seek an Asian
American studies scholar in history or social sciences with a Ph.D. in
a relevant field who has expertise in interdisciplinary, comparative
research. We are interested in a scholar who focuses on empire and
colonialism with a specialization in two or more of the following
areas: gender, sexuality, racialization, labor, citizenship,
indigeneity, and transnationalism. Expertise in Filipino American
and/or Asian Pacific Islander studies is also desirable, but we are
open to other areas of concentration.
We seek a scholar with an accomplished and innovative publication
record; an excellent record of research, teaching, and leadership in
the field, and a strong track record of departmental/university
service and collaboration, along with proven administrative abilities.
We are especially interested in candidates who will provide
programmatic leadership in the delivery of our undergraduate and
graduate curricula, who will foster outreach and grant activities to
support programmatic goals, and who are committed to building and
sustaining cross-disciplinary, cross-departmental connections to other
programs on the campus.
Our program is multidisciplinary, with strengths in humanities,
cultural studies, and social sciences. We offer an undergraduate
major and minor program, and faculty members can participate in the
Cultural Studies Graduate Group which offers a doctoral degree. Visit
our home page at: http://asa.ucdavis.edu/.
Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vita, and samples
of written work (not more than 50 pages) as PDF or MS Word compatible
files, and three letters of reference to
AsianAmericanStudies@ucdavis.edu. If letters of recommendation cannot
be sent electronically, please mail hard copies to: Asian American
Studies Program, Attn: Search Committee, University of
California-Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616. Review of
applications begins on December 8, 2008 and continues until the
position is filled.
The University of California, Davis and the Asian American Studies
Program are interested in candidates who are committed to the highest
standards of scholarship and professional activities, and to the
development of a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.
The University of California is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer.
Translating Media
A Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD Program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California seek conference papers and creative presentations from graduate students addressing the theme of "Translating Media." The conference is to take place on April 3-4, 2009. Submissions Due: Jan. 9 2009.
TRANSLATING MEDIA
A Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD (iMAP) Program
School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
April 3-4, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Parks, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC
Santa Barbara, author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellite and the Televisual and co-editor of
Planet TV: A Global Television Reader. She is also the producer and co-producer of an
array of media arts projects such as Experiments in Satellite Media Arts (w/ Ursula
Biemman), Loom (w/ Miha Vipotnik), Postwar Footprints and Roaming.
Artist’s Talk by: To Be Determined
The graduate students in the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and
Practice (iMAP) PhD program in the School of Cinematic Arts seek conference papers
and creative presentations from graduate students addressing the theme of
"Translating Media."
‘Translation’ has gained a renewed valence within the fields of media study and arts
practice. As theoretical and creative inquiry shifts toward transmedia, transnational
and transdisciplinary approaches and renderings of the current global audiovisual
landscape, translation means more than just a linguistic exercise. Rather, the term
increasingly lends itself as a productive conceptual lens and metaphor for the
interlaced and often contradictory set of transformative processes at work when media
objects, policies, and economies traffic across geographic borders, cultural institutions,
and technological platforms. The widespread global, regional and local shifts in
cultural media practices that arise from these traversals undoubtedly call for
transdisciplinary methodologies. To address these issues, Media Studies has sought
to exchange and translate critical vocabularies among Global Critical Race Feminism,
Critical Race Theory, Ethnic Studies, Queer Theory, History, Art History, Mass
Communications, American Studies, Post Colonial Theory, and Literary and Visual
Studies. And, as many Media studies scholars seek to produce more than just textual
representations of their research, the translation of theory into audiovisual practice has
more frequently become an alternative mode of scholarship. We thus feel that
translation is a critical keyword that speaks in diverse ways to media cultures, Media
Studies and a growing body of scholar-practitioners who both thematize translation in
their media art and seek for new translative possibilities in their creative processes. We
have chosen ‚ÄúTranslating Media‚Ä? as the title for the conference to foreground media‚Äôs
translation as an ongoing process. And we believe the expansive deployment of the
term will invite an exciting array of creative interpretations and theoretical positions.
We invite submissions for 20-minute papers, 20-minute creative project presentations,
or pre-constituted panels of no more than four presenters that consider the stakes of
‘translating media’ from diverse methodological, disciplinary and creative approaches.
Panels that include both critical and creative presentations or that enact a productive
dialogue of theory and practice are especially encouraged.
Topics to explore may include, but are not restricted to:
- the various implications of media and cultural convergence
- how media policies translate into labor relations and practices
- the problems that arise when incorporating media theory into media art practice, and
translating a media art project into a gallery space, social space, institutional space,
etc.
- the rise of transmedia storytelling and media that are experienced on multiple
platforms including mobile devices, urban screens, game environments, etc.
- ongoing tensions around the status of narrative in linear vs. interactive media and the
problems of translation between games and cinema
- ideological concerns around the rise of runaway productions, co- and omnibus
productions, and transnational remakes within global film industries
- the traffic of global television ‘formats’ and/or ‘canned shows’ across national
borders and media systems
- issues pertaining to linguistic translations through subtitling and dubbing
- questions pertaining to the archive: how translation between film, analog, digital and
textual media affect archival institutions; what kinds of issues do we still face with
archival research, especially if that archive is in a different language?
- the translation of programming languages and code into critical theories of media,
and vice versa
- the difficulties and possibilities presented when media scholarship travels and
converses across the Humanities
Selected papers will be included in a special conference-themed issue of Spectator,
the University of Southern California's Journal of Film and Television Criticism, and
selected media projects may also be included on the School of Cinematic Arts website.
For individual submissions, please send abstracts or project descriptions of 300 words
or less and a brief biographical or artist statement. Links to images or media files are
encouraged but not required. For panels, please submit a 300-word panel description
and a 300-word abstract for each panelist's paper.! Please do not send large media
files as e-mail attachments. Presentations requiring special technological setup will be
considered on a case-by-case basis; these technological needs should be detailed in
the proposal. Send all submissions to usc.translating.media@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: January 9th, 2009.
Please feel free to address any questions or comments to Patty Ahn at pahn@usc.edu.
TRANSLATING MEDIA
A Graduate Student Conference co-hosted by the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and Practice PhD (iMAP) Program
School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
April 3-4, 2009
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Parks, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC
Santa Barbara, author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellite and the Televisual and co-editor of
Planet TV: A Global Television Reader. She is also the producer and co-producer of an
array of media arts projects such as Experiments in Satellite Media Arts (w/ Ursula
Biemman), Loom (w/ Miha Vipotnik), Postwar Footprints and Roaming.
Artist’s Talk by: To Be Determined
The graduate students in the Department of Critical Studies and the Media Arts and
Practice (iMAP) PhD program in the School of Cinematic Arts seek conference papers
and creative presentations from graduate students addressing the theme of
"Translating Media."
‘Translation’ has gained a renewed valence within the fields of media study and arts
practice. As theoretical and creative inquiry shifts toward transmedia, transnational
and transdisciplinary approaches and renderings of the current global audiovisual
landscape, translation means more than just a linguistic exercise. Rather, the term
increasingly lends itself as a productive conceptual lens and metaphor for the
interlaced and often contradictory set of transformative processes at work when media
objects, policies, and economies traffic across geographic borders, cultural institutions,
and technological platforms. The widespread global, regional and local shifts in
cultural media practices that arise from these traversals undoubtedly call for
transdisciplinary methodologies. To address these issues, Media Studies has sought
to exchange and translate critical vocabularies among Global Critical Race Feminism,
Critical Race Theory, Ethnic Studies, Queer Theory, History, Art History, Mass
Communications, American Studies, Post Colonial Theory, and Literary and Visual
Studies. And, as many Media studies scholars seek to produce more than just textual
representations of their research, the translation of theory into audiovisual practice has
more frequently become an alternative mode of scholarship. We thus feel that
translation is a critical keyword that speaks in diverse ways to media cultures, Media
Studies and a growing body of scholar-practitioners who both thematize translation in
their media art and seek for new translative possibilities in their creative processes. We
have chosen ‚ÄúTranslating Media‚Ä? as the title for the conference to foreground media‚Äôs
translation as an ongoing process. And we believe the expansive deployment of the
term will invite an exciting array of creative interpretations and theoretical positions.
We invite submissions for 20-minute papers, 20-minute creative project presentations,
or pre-constituted panels of no more than four presenters that consider the stakes of
‘translating media’ from diverse methodological, disciplinary and creative approaches.
Panels that include both critical and creative presentations or that enact a productive
dialogue of theory and practice are especially encouraged.
Topics to explore may include, but are not restricted to:
- the various implications of media and cultural convergence
- how media policies translate into labor relations and practices
- the problems that arise when incorporating media theory into media art practice, and
translating a media art project into a gallery space, social space, institutional space,
etc.
- the rise of transmedia storytelling and media that are experienced on multiple
platforms including mobile devices, urban screens, game environments, etc.
- ongoing tensions around the status of narrative in linear vs. interactive media and the
problems of translation between games and cinema
- ideological concerns around the rise of runaway productions, co- and omnibus
productions, and transnational remakes within global film industries
- the traffic of global television ‘formats’ and/or ‘canned shows’ across national
borders and media systems
- issues pertaining to linguistic translations through subtitling and dubbing
- questions pertaining to the archive: how translation between film, analog, digital and
textual media affect archival institutions; what kinds of issues do we still face with
archival research, especially if that archive is in a different language?
- the translation of programming languages and code into critical theories of media,
and vice versa
- the difficulties and possibilities presented when media scholarship travels and
converses across the Humanities
Selected papers will be included in a special conference-themed issue of Spectator,
the University of Southern California's Journal of Film and Television Criticism, and
selected media projects may also be included on the School of Cinematic Arts website.
For individual submissions, please send abstracts or project descriptions of 300 words
or less and a brief biographical or artist statement. Links to images or media files are
encouraged but not required. For panels, please submit a 300-word panel description
and a 300-word abstract for each panelist's paper.! Please do not send large media
files as e-mail attachments. Presentations requiring special technological setup will be
considered on a case-by-case basis; these technological needs should be detailed in
the proposal. Send all submissions to usc.translating.media@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: January 9th, 2009.
Please feel free to address any questions or comments to Patty Ahn at pahn@usc.edu.
Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies. Applications Due: Until Position Filled.
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, with a strong social science background, a particular focus in Africana/African American Studies, and with a "Womanist" critical orientation.
The person must also be able to make substantial cross-disciplinary contributions to the emerging comparative ethnic studies paradigm that informs our forthcoming graduate program, "Comparative Cultures in the Americas." The Search committee will begin reviewing applications on November 15, 2008 but will consider all applications after that date until the position is filled.
Candidates must submit their application materials at https://jobsatcu.com
Candidates are to submit a cover letter detailing their qualifications, including a statement of what they believe they have to offer the department. The applicant must also provide a curriculum vitae, samples of previously published work (attach as one "other document"), a research and teaching prospectus for the first three years post appointment (attach as one "other document"), and the names and e-mail addresses of at least three references familiar with the applicant and his/her work. Letters from external referees also may be uploaded to the Search Committee website at: ethnicst@colorado.edu or sent by U.S. mail to: Department of Ethnic Studies, Ketchum 30, UCB 339, Boulder, CO 80309-339 - Attention: Dr. Reiland Rabaka, Chair, Search Committee. See www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/Jobs/ for full job description.
The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder has an opening for an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, with a strong social science background, a particular focus in Africana/African American Studies, and with a "Womanist" critical orientation.
The person must also be able to make substantial cross-disciplinary contributions to the emerging comparative ethnic studies paradigm that informs our forthcoming graduate program, "Comparative Cultures in the Americas." The Search committee will begin reviewing applications on November 15, 2008 but will consider all applications after that date until the position is filled.
Candidates must submit their application materials at https://jobsatcu.com
Candidates are to submit a cover letter detailing their qualifications, including a statement of what they believe they have to offer the department. The applicant must also provide a curriculum vitae, samples of previously published work (attach as one "other document"), a research and teaching prospectus for the first three years post appointment (attach as one "other document"), and the names and e-mail addresses of at least three references familiar with the applicant and his/her work. Letters from external referees also may be uploaded to the Search Committee website at: ethnicst@colorado.edu or sent by U.S. mail to: Department of Ethnic Studies, Ketchum 30, UCB 339, Boulder, CO 80309-339 - Attention: Dr. Reiland Rabaka, Chair, Search Committee. See www.colorado.edu/ArtsSciences/Jobs/ for full job description.
The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment.
Latinos in the Midwest
The Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University announces a call for contemporary research studies and essays on aspects of Latinos and Latinas in Midwestern communities. Submissions Due: Aug. 1, 2009.
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FLAS Fellowship Information Sessions Held Next Week
The FLAS Fellowship invites students who have studied a language intensively to attend an informational session. Information Sessions Held: Nov. 19, 2008, Nov. 20, 2008, and Nov. 25, 2008.
FLAS Fellowship Information Sessions Held Next Week
Fellowships are awarded for intensive study in the following languages: Arabic, advanced Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, advanced French, advanced German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, advanced Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The awards include:
* Summer: $2,500 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
* Academic Year: $15,000 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
Information Sessions will be held:
* Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 205 Humphrey Institute, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
* Thursday, November 20, 2008, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
* Tuesday, November 25, 2005, 128 Folwell Hall, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Information and application/nomination materials available here: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/grad/fundflas.html
FLAS Fellowship Information Sessions Held Next Week
Fellowships are awarded for intensive study in the following languages: Arabic, advanced Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, advanced French, advanced German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, advanced Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The awards include:
* Summer: $2,500 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
* Academic Year: $15,000 living stipend PLUS tuition and selected fees
Information Sessions will be held:
* Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 205 Humphrey Institute, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
* Thursday, November 20, 2008, 246 Social Sciences Tower, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
* Tuesday, November 25, 2005, 128 Folwell Hall, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Information and application/nomination materials available here: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/grad/fundflas.html
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Pre-proposal Networking for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting
Pre-proposal Networking for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting. The ASA web site http://www.theasa.net will host a "pre-proposal networking" web page for members wishing to announce possible session topics (works in progress) for the annual meeting to be held in Washington, DC, Nov. 5-8 2009.
Pre-proposal Networking for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting
The ASA web site http://www.theasa.net will host a "pre-proposal networking" web page for members wishing to announce possible session topics (works in progress) for the 2009 annual meeting to be held in Washington, DC, November 5-8.
Proposed topics (works in progress) will be posted in the Annual Meeting section of the ASA website http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/. (No topics have been posted as of October 31, 2008). Members can continue to submit topics (works in progress) until the January 26, 2009 deadline for conference submissions.
Interested members are invited to examine these works in progress and contact the authors to construct session proposals for the 2009 Annual Meeting.
These proposed topics are an excellent way for both established scholars working in new fields and graduate students seeking panel members to find and network with interested colleagues.
After the suggested topics have been published, individuals can send abstracts or papers to the session organizer who will then be responsible for accepting papers for their proposal, finding a chair and commentator, and submitting the session for consideration to the Program Committee.
In the recent past, the odds of acceptance of a complete session have been much higher than for acceptance of individual papers, which not only need to pass the test of excellence but also must fit with other individual papers to form a panel with internal coherence. Pre-proposal networking circumvents this problem.
The topic abstracts (works in progress) are posted on the ASA website as a service to the association?s members who are developing panel proposals for the annual meeting. But this does not imply endorsement of the proposals by the 2009 ASA Program Committee. In fact, the Program Committee will not review the works in progress.
If you do plan to post a topic abstract (work in progress), please be aware of your responsibility to inform each person who may submit an abstract or paper directly to you, in a timely and collegial manner, whether or not you intend to include his or her abstract in your proposal.
This is important because each person is allowed to make and/or be listed as a participant on only one submission. The Program Committee reserves the right to eliminate from consideration those who submit and/or are listed as a participant on more than one proposal.
In the past one individual was permitted to organize numerous sessions so long as they were only participating in one session in accordance with the participation guidelines. This policy has changed for 2009
*SESSION ORGANIZERS ARE ONLY PERMITTED TO SUBMIT ONE PROPOSAL.
To submit your abstract, you must use our online form at http://www.theasa.net/opportunities/submit_a_free_announcement/
To submit the final proposal, you must use the ASA's online submission system, which can be found at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa09/index.php The ASA submission site will open on December 1, 2008, and may be used only for the submission of final proposals.
Do not submit works in progress to the ASA's online submission system, which can be found at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa09/index.php?. If a topic abstract is mistakenly submitted there it would be automatically rejected as an ?incomplete? proposal.
The theme for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington D.C., is Practices of Citizenship, Sustainability, and Belonging.
Questions of citizenship, belonging and sustainability have for some time been at the heart of much Americans Studies scholarship. Historically, categories of citizenship, traditions of belonging, and concepts of sustainability have been constructed and sustained through specific practices of state and society, individuals and communities.
They have been subject to profound redefinition, in response to changing national and geopolitical realities. This has always been so. But today, in a time of global and domestic crises, practices of citizenship, sustainability, and belonging demand reflection and debate informed by the ASA?s distinct mode of scholarly and civic engagement.
Whatever the outcome of the 2008 election, these themes are timely and compelling particularly for the upcoming meeting to be held in the nation's capitol. What better time and place to pose these and related questions: What are the practices that define us as citizens? What are the practices that have sustained and can sustainhuman communities and the planet? What are the practices that create a sense of belonging in our lives? At the same time, we must ask about the practices that delimit those communities. What costs are exacted by specific constructions of belonging and citizenship? What is sustained, and how is power enacted, in the rituals and practices of individuals and institutions?
A robust tradition of work in American Studies has often emphasized that citizenship is not given. Contrary to conventional wisdom, citizenship is not an abstract attribute, intrinsically available to all native-born and naturalized American citizens. Rather, the issue of who is a citizen, and thus able to claim, following Hannah Arendt, the right to have rights, has been a deeply contingent and contested matter since the founding of the American nation. In the past and present, the lived experience of citizenship in practice, whether defined from above, by the state, or from below, by persons and groups, has been understood as a double-edged process of inclusion and exclusion. As such, citizenship would seem to be enough for one ASA conference. But in pairing the theme of citizenship with sustainability, we acknowledge the growing interest the latter concept has had in the field of American studies, and its increased influence in national and international public discourse. Notions of sustainability, also marked by debate and contestation, have transformed the theory and practice of citizenship for people in the United States, which in turn, often has global consequences. Notions of sustainability have informed the pursuit of ideas of health, security, justice and well-being in the public arena, ranging from the personal to the planetary, through myriad forms of civic engagement, including the rise of the environmental justice movement, consumer lifestyle choices and boycotts, movements for nuclear disarmament, taxpayer revolts, public health advocacy, HIV-AIDS activism, etc.
Our interest in sustainability, however, extends well beyond the present moment. We believe this keyword can prompt serious inquiry into questions of political economy and citizenship in the past. For example, Thomas Jefferson could only imagine a particular kind of sustainable political economy, one that expanded democracy through increasing the population of landowning white males. To him, this was sustainable, but at what costs to others outside this charmed circle? When have concerns about economic sustainability precluded issues of social change, and when have they been the catalyst for such change? The use of and control over such natural resources as land, water, forests, oil, coal, uranium and other minerals have profoundly shaped national borders, citizenship boundaries and foreign relations. At times, visions of expanded citizenship have relied upon assumptions of economic expansion, while struggles for the expansion of rights frequently have been tied to national and international crises, including global wars. We welcome explorations of these anxious intersections, as well as studies that examine practices that have sought to combine economic stability and increasing equality. We envision a wide range of possible projects, including a re-examination of some utopian communities of the nineteenth century, as well as historical and contemporary examinations of religious practices, social movements, and cultural products. And we seek to encourage ongoing research in all periods, including work by Americanists in environmental studies and Native American studies, scholars of public policy, urban studies, and the social, natural, and behavioral sciences.
We propose the additional keyword, belonging, to invite examinations of the practices by which communities are formed-as sites of political engagement cultural production, and social transformation, from the local to the global. The concept of belonging enables projects that examine formulations of nationalism, as well as those imagined communities that function as alternatives to the modern nation-state, or which simply exist alongside and across its borders. The concept of belonging is crucial for the conference theme because it invites work on religion, which has been integral to the formation of communities, and on media and technology, which have variouslytransformed the conceptual possibilities and modalities through which belonging is enacted. We welcome inquiry into the full range of media, from the role of print and popular culture since the early Republic, to the rise of new media, including cable television and the internet, in the construction of new ways of belonging. The term also opens up questions about the construction of family and gender, as well as examinations of foreign policy, transnational organizations, and globalization. As with the other keywords of the theme, we envision the most expansive approach to issues of belonging. That includes us, as American Studies scholars and practitioners. The conference offers an opportunity to consider the theoretical models that scholars in our interdiscipline have drawn on to constitute our intellectual communities, and to assess the success of those models in bridging the many (and growing) subfields and disciplines within American Studies. What models, what types of questions, and which intellectual practices are appropriate to an engaged American Studies that is interested in furthering sustainable practices and states committed to upholding human rights?
Our program committee seeks panels and individual papers that, in examining past and present practices of citizenship, sustainability and belonging, will also further the ASA's commitment to forging an inclusive community of participants from the arts, policy makers, journalists, community organizers and activists, K-16 educators, and international scholars. The conference theme provides a platform, from the nation's capitol, no less, for enhancing the ASA's public profile in a consequential way. In addition to fostering collaboration with communities, both in the DC region and nationally, we also hope that the theme will attract a wider range of scholars, not only from the humanities, cultural studies, and visual culture fields that have been mainstays at ASA meetings, but also Americanists working in the social science disciplines, including economists demographers, legal scholars and advocates, scholars and practitioners in urban design and planning, geographers, and scholars in such fields as material culture, policy studies, and public health and psychology. We welcome proposals from scholars working in the pre-twentieth century fields, including the colonial era, the early Republic, and the nineteenth century.
An engagement with citizenship as enacted through various modes ofpractice opens the door to explorations of the concept from multiple perspectives and locations, including but not limited to: the historical and contemporary politics of immigration and deportation, voting rights, Native American sovereignty, practices of belonging or exclusion enacted through music, literature, or media; the history and legacy of social movements from the 18th to the 21st centuries, discourses of human rights and challenges to our understandings of the human, or projects historicizing U.S. racial practices and/or analyzing processes of racialization and constructions of religious identity in the post 9-11 world. Other key issues might include the role of market relations corporations, unions, finance, and consumer culture in shaping and redefining notions of citizenship and civic belonging; the making of global cities or pastoral dreams; contestations over citizenship through struggles over representation in artistic, literary and cultural production; histories of sex, practices of gender, and the debates over same-sex marriage; the impact of wars and revolutions on categories of belonging; systems of labor, work, and inequality and their ideological justifications; issues of academic freedom, past and present; the relation between religious practice and political behavior; the disease (mental and physical), disasters, and epidemics; politics of the body and constructions of disability; environmental justice; legal and constitutional studies, both nationally and internationally; science and technological studies; access to public spaces, spheres, and resources; internal and expansionist empires, and so on.
By no means do we wish to create the impression that proposals must literally integrate or incorporate all three pillars of our tripartite theme. Rather, we seek proposals of panels, individual papers, and roundtable sessions that foreground at least one of those admittedly big ideas, ideally while placing them in a sort of dialogue with the others. We seek papers and panels that examine issues related to one (perhaps more) of these three concepts in depth, which strikes us as preferable to proposals that attempt to cover all three concepts referenced in the theme. As with citizenship, we thus propose ideas of sustainability and belonging as somewhat free-standing and in themselves expansive rubrics for scholarship.
We feel that such an ambitious theme is warranted by the strong tradition of critically engaged scholarship in American Studies, and more importantly, by the crises--political, constitutional, economic, military, and diplomatic--faced by the United States and the world. Washington D.C., , is a fitting place to examine the relationship of the United States., with its growing extremes of wealth and poverty, and its outsized use of the world?s energy and water resources, to the poverty and numerous challenges to health, governance, and survival faced by many citizens in the global south.
With its national monuments, numerous heritage sites, and government buildings, the District attracts tourists from all over the United States and the world, and its cultural institutions have been at the center of national discussions, occasionally contentious ones, of heritage, historic preservation, and commemoration of the nation's past. At the same time, like most cities of its size, it faces its own chronic problems of inequality and exclusion, and an ongoing struggle waged by District residents for home rule and full citizenship and representation. We look forward to working with the Site Resources committee to draw on the rich cultural resources of Washington DC, and involve local constituencies and scholars seeking to address the concerns particular to residents in the District.
The ASA's commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship ensures that all panels meeting the Association's high standards of research and discussion will be included.
All participants must register for the Annual Meeting and be members of the ASA or of an affiliated international American Studies Association.
Pre-proposal Networking for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting
The ASA web site http://www.theasa.net will host a "pre-proposal networking" web page for members wishing to announce possible session topics (works in progress) for the 2009 annual meeting to be held in Washington, DC, November 5-8.
Proposed topics (works in progress) will be posted in the Annual Meeting section of the ASA website http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/. (No topics have been posted as of October 31, 2008). Members can continue to submit topics (works in progress) until the January 26, 2009 deadline for conference submissions.
Interested members are invited to examine these works in progress and contact the authors to construct session proposals for the 2009 Annual Meeting.
These proposed topics are an excellent way for both established scholars working in new fields and graduate students seeking panel members to find and network with interested colleagues.
After the suggested topics have been published, individuals can send abstracts or papers to the session organizer who will then be responsible for accepting papers for their proposal, finding a chair and commentator, and submitting the session for consideration to the Program Committee.
In the recent past, the odds of acceptance of a complete session have been much higher than for acceptance of individual papers, which not only need to pass the test of excellence but also must fit with other individual papers to form a panel with internal coherence. Pre-proposal networking circumvents this problem.
The topic abstracts (works in progress) are posted on the ASA website as a service to the association?s members who are developing panel proposals for the annual meeting. But this does not imply endorsement of the proposals by the 2009 ASA Program Committee. In fact, the Program Committee will not review the works in progress.
If you do plan to post a topic abstract (work in progress), please be aware of your responsibility to inform each person who may submit an abstract or paper directly to you, in a timely and collegial manner, whether or not you intend to include his or her abstract in your proposal.
This is important because each person is allowed to make and/or be listed as a participant on only one submission. The Program Committee reserves the right to eliminate from consideration those who submit and/or are listed as a participant on more than one proposal.
In the past one individual was permitted to organize numerous sessions so long as they were only participating in one session in accordance with the participation guidelines. This policy has changed for 2009
*SESSION ORGANIZERS ARE ONLY PERMITTED TO SUBMIT ONE PROPOSAL.
To submit your abstract, you must use our online form at http://www.theasa.net/opportunities/submit_a_free_announcement/
To submit the final proposal, you must use the ASA's online submission system, which can be found at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa09/index.php The ASA submission site will open on December 1, 2008, and may be used only for the submission of final proposals.
Do not submit works in progress to the ASA's online submission system, which can be found at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/theasa/theasa09/index.php?. If a topic abstract is mistakenly submitted there it would be automatically rejected as an ?incomplete? proposal.
The theme for the 2009 ASA Annual Meeting, to be held in Washington D.C., is Practices of Citizenship, Sustainability, and Belonging.
Questions of citizenship, belonging and sustainability have for some time been at the heart of much Americans Studies scholarship. Historically, categories of citizenship, traditions of belonging, and concepts of sustainability have been constructed and sustained through specific practices of state and society, individuals and communities.
They have been subject to profound redefinition, in response to changing national and geopolitical realities. This has always been so. But today, in a time of global and domestic crises, practices of citizenship, sustainability, and belonging demand reflection and debate informed by the ASA?s distinct mode of scholarly and civic engagement.
Whatever the outcome of the 2008 election, these themes are timely and compelling particularly for the upcoming meeting to be held in the nation's capitol. What better time and place to pose these and related questions: What are the practices that define us as citizens? What are the practices that have sustained and can sustainhuman communities and the planet? What are the practices that create a sense of belonging in our lives? At the same time, we must ask about the practices that delimit those communities. What costs are exacted by specific constructions of belonging and citizenship? What is sustained, and how is power enacted, in the rituals and practices of individuals and institutions?
A robust tradition of work in American Studies has often emphasized that citizenship is not given. Contrary to conventional wisdom, citizenship is not an abstract attribute, intrinsically available to all native-born and naturalized American citizens. Rather, the issue of who is a citizen, and thus able to claim, following Hannah Arendt, the right to have rights, has been a deeply contingent and contested matter since the founding of the American nation. In the past and present, the lived experience of citizenship in practice, whether defined from above, by the state, or from below, by persons and groups, has been understood as a double-edged process of inclusion and exclusion. As such, citizenship would seem to be enough for one ASA conference. But in pairing the theme of citizenship with sustainability, we acknowledge the growing interest the latter concept has had in the field of American studies, and its increased influence in national and international public discourse. Notions of sustainability, also marked by debate and contestation, have transformed the theory and practice of citizenship for people in the United States, which in turn, often has global consequences. Notions of sustainability have informed the pursuit of ideas of health, security, justice and well-being in the public arena, ranging from the personal to the planetary, through myriad forms of civic engagement, including the rise of the environmental justice movement, consumer lifestyle choices and boycotts, movements for nuclear disarmament, taxpayer revolts, public health advocacy, HIV-AIDS activism, etc.
Our interest in sustainability, however, extends well beyond the present moment. We believe this keyword can prompt serious inquiry into questions of political economy and citizenship in the past. For example, Thomas Jefferson could only imagine a particular kind of sustainable political economy, one that expanded democracy through increasing the population of landowning white males. To him, this was sustainable, but at what costs to others outside this charmed circle? When have concerns about economic sustainability precluded issues of social change, and when have they been the catalyst for such change? The use of and control over such natural resources as land, water, forests, oil, coal, uranium and other minerals have profoundly shaped national borders, citizenship boundaries and foreign relations. At times, visions of expanded citizenship have relied upon assumptions of economic expansion, while struggles for the expansion of rights frequently have been tied to national and international crises, including global wars. We welcome explorations of these anxious intersections, as well as studies that examine practices that have sought to combine economic stability and increasing equality. We envision a wide range of possible projects, including a re-examination of some utopian communities of the nineteenth century, as well as historical and contemporary examinations of religious practices, social movements, and cultural products. And we seek to encourage ongoing research in all periods, including work by Americanists in environmental studies and Native American studies, scholars of public policy, urban studies, and the social, natural, and behavioral sciences.
We propose the additional keyword, belonging, to invite examinations of the practices by which communities are formed-as sites of political engagement cultural production, and social transformation, from the local to the global. The concept of belonging enables projects that examine formulations of nationalism, as well as those imagined communities that function as alternatives to the modern nation-state, or which simply exist alongside and across its borders. The concept of belonging is crucial for the conference theme because it invites work on religion, which has been integral to the formation of communities, and on media and technology, which have variouslytransformed the conceptual possibilities and modalities through which belonging is enacted. We welcome inquiry into the full range of media, from the role of print and popular culture since the early Republic, to the rise of new media, including cable television and the internet, in the construction of new ways of belonging. The term also opens up questions about the construction of family and gender, as well as examinations of foreign policy, transnational organizations, and globalization. As with the other keywords of the theme, we envision the most expansive approach to issues of belonging. That includes us, as American Studies scholars and practitioners. The conference offers an opportunity to consider the theoretical models that scholars in our interdiscipline have drawn on to constitute our intellectual communities, and to assess the success of those models in bridging the many (and growing) subfields and disciplines within American Studies. What models, what types of questions, and which intellectual practices are appropriate to an engaged American Studies that is interested in furthering sustainable practices and states committed to upholding human rights?
Our program committee seeks panels and individual papers that, in examining past and present practices of citizenship, sustainability and belonging, will also further the ASA's commitment to forging an inclusive community of participants from the arts, policy makers, journalists, community organizers and activists, K-16 educators, and international scholars. The conference theme provides a platform, from the nation's capitol, no less, for enhancing the ASA's public profile in a consequential way. In addition to fostering collaboration with communities, both in the DC region and nationally, we also hope that the theme will attract a wider range of scholars, not only from the humanities, cultural studies, and visual culture fields that have been mainstays at ASA meetings, but also Americanists working in the social science disciplines, including economists demographers, legal scholars and advocates, scholars and practitioners in urban design and planning, geographers, and scholars in such fields as material culture, policy studies, and public health and psychology. We welcome proposals from scholars working in the pre-twentieth century fields, including the colonial era, the early Republic, and the nineteenth century.
An engagement with citizenship as enacted through various modes ofpractice opens the door to explorations of the concept from multiple perspectives and locations, including but not limited to: the historical and contemporary politics of immigration and deportation, voting rights, Native American sovereignty, practices of belonging or exclusion enacted through music, literature, or media; the history and legacy of social movements from the 18th to the 21st centuries, discourses of human rights and challenges to our understandings of the human, or projects historicizing U.S. racial practices and/or analyzing processes of racialization and constructions of religious identity in the post 9-11 world. Other key issues might include the role of market relations corporations, unions, finance, and consumer culture in shaping and redefining notions of citizenship and civic belonging; the making of global cities or pastoral dreams; contestations over citizenship through struggles over representation in artistic, literary and cultural production; histories of sex, practices of gender, and the debates over same-sex marriage; the impact of wars and revolutions on categories of belonging; systems of labor, work, and inequality and their ideological justifications; issues of academic freedom, past and present; the relation between religious practice and political behavior; the disease (mental and physical), disasters, and epidemics; politics of the body and constructions of disability; environmental justice; legal and constitutional studies, both nationally and internationally; science and technological studies; access to public spaces, spheres, and resources; internal and expansionist empires, and so on.
By no means do we wish to create the impression that proposals must literally integrate or incorporate all three pillars of our tripartite theme. Rather, we seek proposals of panels, individual papers, and roundtable sessions that foreground at least one of those admittedly big ideas, ideally while placing them in a sort of dialogue with the others. We seek papers and panels that examine issues related to one (perhaps more) of these three concepts in depth, which strikes us as preferable to proposals that attempt to cover all three concepts referenced in the theme. As with citizenship, we thus propose ideas of sustainability and belonging as somewhat free-standing and in themselves expansive rubrics for scholarship.
We feel that such an ambitious theme is warranted by the strong tradition of critically engaged scholarship in American Studies, and more importantly, by the crises--political, constitutional, economic, military, and diplomatic--faced by the United States and the world. Washington D.C., , is a fitting place to examine the relationship of the United States., with its growing extremes of wealth and poverty, and its outsized use of the world?s energy and water resources, to the poverty and numerous challenges to health, governance, and survival faced by many citizens in the global south.
With its national monuments, numerous heritage sites, and government buildings, the District attracts tourists from all over the United States and the world, and its cultural institutions have been at the center of national discussions, occasionally contentious ones, of heritage, historic preservation, and commemoration of the nation's past. At the same time, like most cities of its size, it faces its own chronic problems of inequality and exclusion, and an ongoing struggle waged by District residents for home rule and full citizenship and representation. We look forward to working with the Site Resources committee to draw on the rich cultural resources of Washington DC, and involve local constituencies and scholars seeking to address the concerns particular to residents in the District.
The ASA's commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship ensures that all panels meeting the Association's high standards of research and discussion will be included.
All participants must register for the Annual Meeting and be members of the ASA or of an affiliated international American Studies Association.
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance 15th Annual Conference - ‚ÄúKA‚Ä? Knowledge Into Action takes place on April 17-19, 2009 at Washington State University. Proposals were Due: Nov. 29, 2208.
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFAS Alliance)
15th Annual Conference - ‚ÄúKA‚Ä? Knowledge Into Action
April 17-19, 2009 Washington State University – Pullman Washington, 99163
Proposal Guidelines
Workshop proposals should include a title, the name of each presenter and that person’s affiliation, and a brief biographical statement (not to exceed 5 sentences). Please indicate which workshop topic you are proposing.
Please provide a one-page description and objective(s) for the workshop. Each proposal should not exceed one page (approximately 250 words), but must cover enough to enable the workshop committee to assess its content and how it fits within the conference theme.
The honorarium for presenters is one four-person hotel room and $100 per workshop.
Proposal Deadline: Sunday, November 29nd 2008
*E-mail Proposal (Preferred) to: wsufasa@googlegroups.com
Conference Co-Chairs:
Christian Granlund Nicole Crebillo
tempz86@yahoo.com nicole.crebillo@mail.wsu.edu
206-313-8754 503-415-1882
*OR mail a copy of proposal cover page, 1-page description and objectives, and 5-sentence bio to:
Compton Union Building (CUB),
PO Box 627204
Washington State University
Pullman WA 99164-7204
E-mail or mail the following:
Proposal Cover Page
One-page description and objectives of workshop presentation
5-sentence bio of each presenter (a resume/CV can be added OPTIONALLY)
See NWFAS Alliance Conference Proposal Guidelines for more information
DEADLINE: November 2nd, 2008
Presenter Information:
Name: ________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________
City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________
Phone/E-mail/Fax ________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
5) List of co-presenters: ______________________________________________
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFAS Alliance)
15th Annual Conference ‚Äì ‚ÄúKA‚Ä? Knowledge Into Action
April 17-19, 2009
Washington State University – Pullman Washington, 99163
The provided workshop choices are suggestions provided by the Alliance. Thus, we do not mean to limit your creativity, instead we provide these choices as suggested topics related to the theme of this years conference KA-Knowledge Into Action. Don’t hesitate to build on the suggested topics and their content. We encourage you and your organization to be creative and propose a workshop not listed within the following suggestions.
Proposal Caagories:
___ Young Professionals
Discuss young professionalism in the Filipino community as well as job market, economy, etc.
___ Professionalism vs. Activism
Discuss the balance between professionalism and activism in the Filipino community, particularly within the student and intellectual circles that Alliance members belong to.
___ Military in the Philippines and its Effect on our Communities
Discuss the military presence in the Philippines and how our communities (familial, cultural, regional, etc.) are effected here in the United States.
___ Language
Provide a workshop on Tagalog and other Filipino dialects. Discuss history, structure, and more behind language in the Philippines.
___ Food and Other Unifying Factors
Provide a workshop on Filipino foods and other unifying factors such as traditions, music, dress, etc.
___ Theory of Activism and its Application
Discuss the theory of activism and how to actively and progressively apply it within our Filipino-American community.
___ Philippine Revolution
Provide a historical account of the revolutionary tradition in Filipino history and culture.
___ Identification of Activism and its Many Forms
Discuss the various forms of activism and how to identify and define it.
___ Filipinos in the Media
Discuss the media’s representation of the Filipino people.
___ How to get Involved in the Governmental Process
Discuss the importance of Fil-Am youth involvement in the governmental process while providing information on how to do so.
___ Sports in the Philippines
Discuss the sport culture in the Philippines and compare it to sport culture in the United States.
___ Women’s Issues
Provide a workshop discussion Filipina issues such as mail order brides and comfort women.
___ Filipino Tattooing
Provide a workshop discussing the long history of tattooing in the Philippines and its recent ‚Äúrevival‚Ä?.
___ Other
Suggest a workshop about an issue you feel is important to the Filipino American community.
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFAS Alliance)
15th Annual Conference - ‚ÄúKA‚Ä? Knowledge Into Action
April 17-19, 2009 Washington State University – Pullman Washington, 99163
Proposal Guidelines
Workshop proposals should include a title, the name of each presenter and that person’s affiliation, and a brief biographical statement (not to exceed 5 sentences). Please indicate which workshop topic you are proposing.
Please provide a one-page description and objective(s) for the workshop. Each proposal should not exceed one page (approximately 250 words), but must cover enough to enable the workshop committee to assess its content and how it fits within the conference theme.
The honorarium for presenters is one four-person hotel room and $100 per workshop.
Proposal Deadline: Sunday, November 29nd 2008
*E-mail Proposal (Preferred) to: wsufasa@googlegroups.com
Conference Co-Chairs:
Christian Granlund Nicole Crebillo
tempz86@yahoo.com nicole.crebillo@mail.wsu.edu
206-313-8754 503-415-1882
*OR mail a copy of proposal cover page, 1-page description and objectives, and 5-sentence bio to:
Compton Union Building (CUB),
PO Box 627204
Washington State University
Pullman WA 99164-7204
E-mail or mail the following:
Proposal Cover Page
One-page description and objectives of workshop presentation
5-sentence bio of each presenter (a resume/CV can be added OPTIONALLY)
See NWFAS Alliance Conference Proposal Guidelines for more information
DEADLINE: November 2nd, 2008
Presenter Information:
Name: ________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________
City, State, Zip: ________________________________________________
Phone/E-mail/Fax ________________________________________________
Affiliation: ________________________________________________
5) List of co-presenters: ______________________________________________
Northwest Filipino American Student Alliance (NWFAS Alliance)
15th Annual Conference ‚Äì ‚ÄúKA‚Ä? Knowledge Into Action
April 17-19, 2009
Washington State University – Pullman Washington, 99163
The provided workshop choices are suggestions provided by the Alliance. Thus, we do not mean to limit your creativity, instead we provide these choices as suggested topics related to the theme of this years conference KA-Knowledge Into Action. Don’t hesitate to build on the suggested topics and their content. We encourage you and your organization to be creative and propose a workshop not listed within the following suggestions.
Proposal Caagories:
___ Young Professionals
Discuss young professionalism in the Filipino community as well as job market, economy, etc.
___ Professionalism vs. Activism
Discuss the balance between professionalism and activism in the Filipino community, particularly within the student and intellectual circles that Alliance members belong to.
___ Military in the Philippines and its Effect on our Communities
Discuss the military presence in the Philippines and how our communities (familial, cultural, regional, etc.) are effected here in the United States.
___ Language
Provide a workshop on Tagalog and other Filipino dialects. Discuss history, structure, and more behind language in the Philippines.
___ Food and Other Unifying Factors
Provide a workshop on Filipino foods and other unifying factors such as traditions, music, dress, etc.
___ Theory of Activism and its Application
Discuss the theory of activism and how to actively and progressively apply it within our Filipino-American community.
___ Philippine Revolution
Provide a historical account of the revolutionary tradition in Filipino history and culture.
___ Identification of Activism and its Many Forms
Discuss the various forms of activism and how to identify and define it.
___ Filipinos in the Media
Discuss the media’s representation of the Filipino people.
___ How to get Involved in the Governmental Process
Discuss the importance of Fil-Am youth involvement in the governmental process while providing information on how to do so.
___ Sports in the Philippines
Discuss the sport culture in the Philippines and compare it to sport culture in the United States.
___ Women’s Issues
Provide a workshop discussion Filipina issues such as mail order brides and comfort women.
___ Filipino Tattooing
Provide a workshop discussing the long history of tattooing in the Philippines and its recent ‚Äúrevival‚Ä?.
___ Other
Suggest a workshop about an issue you feel is important to the Filipino American community.
Dimensions of Desire: Asian American Sexualities
The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the Lesbian/Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender Studies invite paper proposals for a symposium to be held on March 7, 2009. The Symposium is titled, "Dimensions of Desire: Asian American Sexualities" and welcomes paper proposals on any aspect of sexuality among Asian American subjects or communities, both historically and in the present, from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective. Proposals Due: Jan. 7, 2009.
Call for Papers
The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the
Lesbian/Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender Studies invite paper proposals for a
symposium to be held on March 7, 2009, and which will become a special issue of
Amerasia Journal, the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies for the last 40
years. This initiative expands upon the journal’s first collection "Dimensions of Desire:
Asian American Sexualities" and takes us into the new century. David Eng and Amy
Sueyoshi will be our symposium keynote speakers.
We welcome paper proposals on any aspect of sexuality among Asian American subjects
or communities, both historically and in the present, from any disciplinary or
interdisciplinary perspective. Asian American sexuality has long been analyzed as a
residual category constituted in relationship to class, race, ethnicity, and gender, or some
intersection of these forms of differentiation. Clearly stratification principles operate in
the definition of all societies and social groups, but we are especially interested in papers
that look at sexuality in and of itself. Potential topics might include the study of
transexuality as lived experience, personal identity, or industry, the emergence of lesbian,
gay, and queer identities, bisexuality as a symbol and reality, the representation of
heterosexuality among Asian Americans, genitals as cultural symbols in the fetishization
of Asian Americans, promiscuity and its perils, sex work and the commercialization of
sexual tourism, sexuality and migration, sexual pedagogies, the relationship between sex
and religious faith, and any other topics where Asian American sexualities is the primary
focus of the work.
Proposals can be sent electronically to the following email addresses by January 7, 2009:
rgutierrez@uchicago.edu and rleong@ucla.edu.
Paper proposals sent U.S. mail must reach us by the same date, with one copy each should be sent to:
Ramón A. Gutiérrez,
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, 5733 South University Ave, Chicago,
Illinois,
and Russell Leong, Editor, Amerasia Journal,
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, 3336 Rolfe Hall, Box 957225, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7225.
Paper proposals should not be more that two single-spaced pages and should be accompanied
by a short two-page resumé.
All travel and accommodation expenses will be paid by the University of Chicago for
those presenters selected for the symposium.
Call for Papers
The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, and the
Lesbian/Gay Studies Project of the Center for Gender Studies invite paper proposals for a
symposium to be held on March 7, 2009, and which will become a special issue of
Amerasia Journal, the core journal in the field of Asian American Studies for the last 40
years. This initiative expands upon the journal’s first collection "Dimensions of Desire:
Asian American Sexualities" and takes us into the new century. David Eng and Amy
Sueyoshi will be our symposium keynote speakers.
We welcome paper proposals on any aspect of sexuality among Asian American subjects
or communities, both historically and in the present, from any disciplinary or
interdisciplinary perspective. Asian American sexuality has long been analyzed as a
residual category constituted in relationship to class, race, ethnicity, and gender, or some
intersection of these forms of differentiation. Clearly stratification principles operate in
the definition of all societies and social groups, but we are especially interested in papers
that look at sexuality in and of itself. Potential topics might include the study of
transexuality as lived experience, personal identity, or industry, the emergence of lesbian,
gay, and queer identities, bisexuality as a symbol and reality, the representation of
heterosexuality among Asian Americans, genitals as cultural symbols in the fetishization
of Asian Americans, promiscuity and its perils, sex work and the commercialization of
sexual tourism, sexuality and migration, sexual pedagogies, the relationship between sex
and religious faith, and any other topics where Asian American sexualities is the primary
focus of the work.
Proposals can be sent electronically to the following email addresses by January 7, 2009:
rgutierrez@uchicago.edu and rleong@ucla.edu.
Paper proposals sent U.S. mail must reach us by the same date, with one copy each should be sent to:
Ramón A. Gutiérrez,
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, 5733 South University Ave, Chicago,
Illinois,
and Russell Leong, Editor, Amerasia Journal,
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, 3336 Rolfe Hall, Box 957225, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7225.
Paper proposals should not be more that two single-spaced pages and should be accompanied
by a short two-page resumé.
All travel and accommodation expenses will be paid by the University of Chicago for
those presenters selected for the symposium.
Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development
The course PA8204 "Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development" meets Mondays/Wednesdays 9:45 to 11:00 A.M.
If you are interested in economic development policy and planning at both international and domestic scales, consider taking PA8204 Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development. The course, a seminar format with an on-line data analysis lab, meets from 9:45 to 11:00 A.M., Mondays and Wednesdays, with the Lab at 11:15 - 12:05 on Wednesdays.
The course surveys job-oriented economic development in the US and internationally. It explores how city and regional employment grows, why industries and employers locate where they do, and how workers decide where to live and work. It reviews the practices that federal, state/provincial and local economic developers use to create jobs, including tax abatements, job training, workforce development and infrastructure, evaluating which ones seem to work and how firms can be held accountable for the outcomes. It includes case study material from Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China, Europe and other countries as well as the US, Canada and Mexico, and incorporates material on race, ethnicity, gender and class.
PA8204 counts as a domain course for the MURP degree and as an Economic and Community Development concentration required course for the MPP degree.
With our new President and the current economic crisis, we should have a great time this coming term!
If you are interested in economic development policy and planning at both international and domestic scales, consider taking PA8204 Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development. The course, a seminar format with an on-line data analysis lab, meets from 9:45 to 11:00 A.M., Mondays and Wednesdays, with the Lab at 11:15 - 12:05 on Wednesdays.
The course surveys job-oriented economic development in the US and internationally. It explores how city and regional employment grows, why industries and employers locate where they do, and how workers decide where to live and work. It reviews the practices that federal, state/provincial and local economic developers use to create jobs, including tax abatements, job training, workforce development and infrastructure, evaluating which ones seem to work and how firms can be held accountable for the outcomes. It includes case study material from Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China, Europe and other countries as well as the US, Canada and Mexico, and incorporates material on race, ethnicity, gender and class.
PA8204 counts as a domain course for the MURP degree and as an Economic and Community Development concentration required course for the MPP degree.
With our new President and the current economic crisis, we should have a great time this coming term!
Arts, Cities, and Economic Development
The course PA5590 "Arts, Cities, and Economic Development" taught by Professor Ann Markusen meets Monday/Wednesday 2:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M.
PA5590 Arts, Cities, and Economic Development
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
2-credit course for Planning, Public Policy, Design and Arts and Social Science Graduate Students
Spring Semester 2009
Monday-Wednesday 2:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M. (01/21/2009 - 04/01/2009)
Professor Ann Markusen: markusen@umn.edu
The creative economy has moved to the fore in urban planning and economic development policy. This course explores the juncture between three fields: the arts and arts policy; economic development; and urban/rural spatial structure in a seminar format.
The class will integrate in-depth understanding of artistic practice, arts organizations, the cultural industries, community arts and culture, and urban spatial structure. Tensions between traditional elite arts patronage (with its emphasis on large anchor arts institutions and individual funding of artists) and a more pluralistic approach (a broader definition of the arts, including community cultural practiced, the embedding of artists in their communities and a decentralized urban mosaic of artistic spaces) will be explored. The course will be watching an emerging and very exciting new arts policy sector reinvent itself in the US, especially with a new President who has pledged to support the arts, and review what is happening in Europe, Asia and Latin America as well.
Course goals: Prepare future professionals, researchers and academics for work in analyzing and designing planning and policy responses to the urban creative economy by immersing them in state-of-the-art practice.
PA5590 Arts, Cities, and Economic Development
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
2-credit course for Planning, Public Policy, Design and Arts and Social Science Graduate Students
Spring Semester 2009
Monday-Wednesday 2:30 P.M. - 3:45 P.M. (01/21/2009 - 04/01/2009)
Professor Ann Markusen: markusen@umn.edu
The creative economy has moved to the fore in urban planning and economic development policy. This course explores the juncture between three fields: the arts and arts policy; economic development; and urban/rural spatial structure in a seminar format.
The class will integrate in-depth understanding of artistic practice, arts organizations, the cultural industries, community arts and culture, and urban spatial structure. Tensions between traditional elite arts patronage (with its emphasis on large anchor arts institutions and individual funding of artists) and a more pluralistic approach (a broader definition of the arts, including community cultural practiced, the embedding of artists in their communities and a decentralized urban mosaic of artistic spaces) will be explored. The course will be watching an emerging and very exciting new arts policy sector reinvent itself in the US, especially with a new President who has pledged to support the arts, and review what is happening in Europe, Asia and Latin America as well.
Course goals: Prepare future professionals, researchers and academics for work in analyzing and designing planning and policy responses to the urban creative economy by immersing them in state-of-the-art practice.
Position at the University of Idaho
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies at the University of Idaho seeks applicants for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. A Ph.D. is required by time of appointment Application Due: Jan. 6, 2009.
TENURE TRACK POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies at the University of Idaho invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning August 2009. We seek candidates who demonstrate the ability to pursue a strong research and publication agenda and who show a commitment to excellence in teaching. A Ph.D. is required by time of appointment.
Preference will be given to applicants with a degree in sociology,although applicants with a degree in a closely related field with an emphasis in inequalities will be considered. The teaching load of five courses per year will include Sociology of Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations, and other courses consistent with the appointment's mission and the candidate's scholarly interests. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to contribute centrally to our interdisciplinary Academic Certificate in Diversity and Stratification. Preference will be given to candidates prepared to teach Introduction to Diversity and Stratification, the foundation course for the Certificate program (see the Certificate web site at: www.class.uidaho.edu/cds).
Experience teaching at a four-year higher education institution, teaching diverse populations, teaching/researching/training in interdisciplinary and/or applied approaches to diversity and social inequalities, and evidence of an interest in grant seeking are preferred. Closing date for applications is January 6, 2009 or until a suitable candidate is identified. Apply online at: http://www.hr.uidaho.edu For additional information about the position, please see: www.class.uidaho.edu/soc_anthro/
TENURE TRACK POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Justice Studies at the University of Idaho invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning August 2009. We seek candidates who demonstrate the ability to pursue a strong research and publication agenda and who show a commitment to excellence in teaching. A Ph.D. is required by time of appointment.
Preference will be given to applicants with a degree in sociology,although applicants with a degree in a closely related field with an emphasis in inequalities will be considered. The teaching load of five courses per year will include Sociology of Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations, and other courses consistent with the appointment's mission and the candidate's scholarly interests. The successful candidate will demonstrate an ability to contribute centrally to our interdisciplinary Academic Certificate in Diversity and Stratification. Preference will be given to candidates prepared to teach Introduction to Diversity and Stratification, the foundation course for the Certificate program (see the Certificate web site at: www.class.uidaho.edu/cds).
Experience teaching at a four-year higher education institution, teaching diverse populations, teaching/researching/training in interdisciplinary and/or applied approaches to diversity and social inequalities, and evidence of an interest in grant seeking are preferred. Closing date for applications is January 6, 2009 or until a suitable candidate is identified. Apply online at: http://www.hr.uidaho.edu For additional information about the position, please see: www.class.uidaho.edu/soc_anthro/
Sociology of Culture
The course Soc 8735, "Sociology of Culture" taught by Penny Edgell meets Thursdays 2:30-5:00pm.
Soc 8735 Sociology of Culture
(Non-Sociology Graduate Students Welcome!).
This course provides an overview of cultural sociology. The first part of the course covers central readings in theory and method; in the second half we read the best contemporary empirical work in the subfield. We will consider why the field has moved away from a focus on culture as ideas and ideals and toward a conception of culture as practice and institution, and we will read newer work emphasizing the relationship between culture, embodiment, and emotion. The course places at the forefront questions of resources, power, identity, globalization, and social change, and considers several theoretical approaches to the relationship between culture, structure, agency, and change. Readings span national contexts and include comparative analyses. Empirical works include analyses of political, civic, religious, and literary culture as well as everyday cultural practices and mass media.
Soc 8735 Sociology of Culture
(Non-Sociology Graduate Students Welcome!).
This course provides an overview of cultural sociology. The first part of the course covers central readings in theory and method; in the second half we read the best contemporary empirical work in the subfield. We will consider why the field has moved away from a focus on culture as ideas and ideals and toward a conception of culture as practice and institution, and we will read newer work emphasizing the relationship between culture, embodiment, and emotion. The course places at the forefront questions of resources, power, identity, globalization, and social change, and considers several theoretical approaches to the relationship between culture, structure, agency, and change. Readings span national contexts and include comparative analyses. Empirical works include analyses of political, civic, religious, and literary culture as well as everyday cultural practices and mass media.
Working with Others: Preventing Problems in Collaborative Work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
The CLA Office of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs hosts, "Working with Others: Preventing Problems in Collaborative Work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities." Working with Others addresses ways to address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities. The event will be held in Hanson Hall, Room 1-102 from 2:00-4:30 PM on Nov. 12, 2008.
Working with Others: Preventing Problems in Collaborative Work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Hanson Hall, Room 1-102 (West Bank)
2:00-4:30 PM, November 12
How can faculty avoid or handle ethical problems arising in collaborative research? Aimed at faculty members, post-docs, and advanced graduate students, Working with Others addresses ways to address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
Guest Speaker
Kenneth Pimple, Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Presenters
To register:
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=RC9110
Participating faculty will earn Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) continuing education credit for this Awareness/Discussion event.
Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Vice President for Research, U of MN
Melissa Anderson, Professor of Higher Education; Director of Postsecondary Education Research Institute, U of MN
Working with Others: Preventing Problems in Collaborative Work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
Hanson Hall, Room 1-102 (West Bank)
2:00-4:30 PM, November 12
How can faculty avoid or handle ethical problems arising in collaborative research? Aimed at faculty members, post-docs, and advanced graduate students, Working with Others addresses ways to address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
Guest Speaker
Kenneth Pimple, Director of Teaching Research Ethics Programs
Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
Presenters
To register:
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=RC9110
Participating faculty will earn Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) continuing education credit for this Awareness/Discussion event.
Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Vice President for Research, U of MN
Melissa Anderson, Professor of Higher Education; Director of Postsecondary Education Research Institute, U of MN
Race, Gender, and Health Policy
The course PA 5690 (Section 1) "Race, Gender, and Health Policy" taught by Professor Sonia Santos meets Tuesdays/Thursdays, from 4:00-5:15 p.m.
PA 5690 (Section 1) Race, Gender, and Health Policy
Spring 2009
3 credits, Tuesdays/Thursdays, from 4:00-5:15 p.m.
Professor Sonia Santos (sbsantos@umn.edu; 626-2581)
“How can we possibly talk about reproductive health policy without addressing race, as well as gender?�? (Roberts 1997: 4). This question posed by critical legal scholar Dorothy Roberts in her book “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty�? (1997) is the fundamental question driving this course.
Course Description: We will discuss how race and gender (as well as class and sexuality) intersect with and shape health policies. We will begin with an analysis of feminist scholarship that theorizes the intersectionality of race, gender, class and sexuality in the production and reproduction of discrimination. Then, we will examine texts that provide concrete examples of how discrimination operates in the realm of health policy-making. Special attention will be given to the impacts of public policies on black women’s reproductive health. The readings will include:
‚ñ™ Amy J. Schulz and Leith Mullings, (eds.). Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches (2006).
▪ bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981).
‚ñ™ Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999).
‚ñ™ Dalsgaard, Anne Line, Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilization in Northeast Brazil (2004).
‚ñ™ Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997).
▪ Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, Identity, Politics, and Violence against Women of Color." In: Critical Race Theory: Key Writings that Formed the Movement (1995).
‚ñ™ Patricia H. Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004).
‚ñ™ Thomas LaVeist, (ed.), Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader (2003).
Evaluation of student performance will be based on a combination of active seminar participation and role in discussion, essay, and a Local ethnographic fieldwork project (researching your local community through a particular issue of your research interest) in which the students are required to employ the concepts that provide the basis for the course.
PA 5690 (Section 1) Race, Gender, and Health Policy
Spring 2009
3 credits, Tuesdays/Thursdays, from 4:00-5:15 p.m.
Professor Sonia Santos (sbsantos@umn.edu; 626-2581)
“How can we possibly talk about reproductive health policy without addressing race, as well as gender?�? (Roberts 1997: 4). This question posed by critical legal scholar Dorothy Roberts in her book “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty�? (1997) is the fundamental question driving this course.
Course Description: We will discuss how race and gender (as well as class and sexuality) intersect with and shape health policies. We will begin with an analysis of feminist scholarship that theorizes the intersectionality of race, gender, class and sexuality in the production and reproduction of discrimination. Then, we will examine texts that provide concrete examples of how discrimination operates in the realm of health policy-making. Special attention will be given to the impacts of public policies on black women’s reproductive health. The readings will include:
‚ñ™ Amy J. Schulz and Leith Mullings, (eds.). Gender, Race, Class, and Health: Intersectional Approaches (2006).
▪ bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981).
‚ñ™ Cathy J. Cohen, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (1999).
‚ñ™ Dalsgaard, Anne Line, Matters of Life and Longing: Female Sterilization in Northeast Brazil (2004).
‚ñ™ Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997).
▪ Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, Identity, Politics, and Violence against Women of Color." In: Critical Race Theory: Key Writings that Formed the Movement (1995).
‚ñ™ Patricia H. Collins, Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (2004).
‚ñ™ Thomas LaVeist, (ed.), Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader (2003).
Evaluation of student performance will be based on a combination of active seminar participation and role in discussion, essay, and a Local ethnographic fieldwork project (researching your local community through a particular issue of your research interest) in which the students are required to employ the concepts that provide the basis for the course.
New Course on Civic Participation in Urban Poor Neighborhoods
The course PA 5490 “Civic Participation in Urban Poor Neighborhoods: Theory, Strategies and Structures�? taught by Professor Teresa Terrell meets Monday/ Wednesday 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Spring 2009- Course PA 5490
CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS: THEORY, STRATEGIES AND STRUCTURES
Monday/ Wednesday 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Professor Teresa Terrell
(terre058@umn.edu)
Economically disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to be viewed as dangerous places inhabited by dangerous and/or apathetic residents. Rather than dismissing all low-income neighborhoods as deficient in social capital, this course is designed to help students develop an understanding of how civic participation is activated and sustained in urban poor neighborhoods. We will examine theory and research across several disciplines that focus on the activation and maintenance of civic participation, paying special attention to the social movement, social capital and civic engagement literatures. Using observational data from a two year study of participation in four urban poor neighborhoods, we will investigate the government and civic structures of neighborhoods and the strategies employed by neighborhood leaders that both encourage and discourage neighborhood participation. Readings will include:
David E. Campbell (2006). Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson & Mark R. Warren (2001). Social Capital in Poor Communities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Thomas J. Sugrue (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Racial Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Spring 2009- Course PA 5490
CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN URBAN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS: THEORY, STRATEGIES AND STRUCTURES
Monday/ Wednesday 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Professor Teresa Terrell
(terre058@umn.edu)
Economically disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to be viewed as dangerous places inhabited by dangerous and/or apathetic residents. Rather than dismissing all low-income neighborhoods as deficient in social capital, this course is designed to help students develop an understanding of how civic participation is activated and sustained in urban poor neighborhoods. We will examine theory and research across several disciplines that focus on the activation and maintenance of civic participation, paying special attention to the social movement, social capital and civic engagement literatures. Using observational data from a two year study of participation in four urban poor neighborhoods, we will investigate the government and civic structures of neighborhoods and the strategies employed by neighborhood leaders that both encourage and discourage neighborhood participation. Readings will include:
David E. Campbell (2006). Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape our Civic Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Susan Saegert, J. Phillip Thompson & Mark R. Warren (2001). Social Capital in Poor Communities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Thomas J. Sugrue (2005). The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Racial Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Working with Others
The workshop, Working with Others, address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities and explore ways that investigators can prevent or handle such problems. Participating faculty will earn Responsible Conduct of Research continuing education credit. It will take place in
1-102 Hanson Hall from 2:00 to 4:30 PM on Nov. 12, 2008.
Working with Others
This Awareness/Discussion event fulfills a new RCR continuing education requirement. The workshop will address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities and explore ways that investigators can prevent or handle such problems.
The event features three experts in research ethics:
* Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of
the Vice President for Research
* Melissa Anderson, Professor of Higher Education, Director
Postsecondary Education Research Institute
* *Guest Speaker*: Kenneth Pimple, Director of Teaching Research
Ethics Programs, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and
American Institutions, Indiana University
*Time and Place*
November 12 (2:00 to 4:30 PM)**
1-102 Hanson Hall (West Bank)
The event is open to faculty and to advanced graduate students.
Participating faculty will earn Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) continuing education credit for this Awareness/Discussion event.
To register, click on the link below:
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=RC9110
Download file
1-102 Hanson Hall from 2:00 to 4:30 PM on Nov. 12, 2008.
Working with Others
This Awareness/Discussion event fulfills a new RCR continuing education requirement. The workshop will address potential ethical problems that can arise in collaborative work in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities and explore ways that investigators can prevent or handle such problems.
The event features three experts in research ethics:
* Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research, Office of
the Vice President for Research
* Melissa Anderson, Professor of Higher Education, Director
Postsecondary Education Research Institute
* *Guest Speaker*: Kenneth Pimple, Director of Teaching Research
Ethics Programs, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and
American Institutions, Indiana University
*Time and Place*
November 12 (2:00 to 4:30 PM)**
1-102 Hanson Hall (West Bank)
The event is open to faculty and to advanced graduate students.
Participating faculty will earn Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) continuing education credit for this Awareness/Discussion event.
To register, click on the link below:
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=RC9110
Download file
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Pacific Islands Politics Position
The University of Hawaii at Manoa is seeking an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences. A Ph.D. in Political Science or a related field is required. Applications Due: Jan. 15, 2009.
Pacific Islands Politics Position Description
Assistant Professor, Position No. #84790, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, full-time, 9-month, tenure track appointment, to begin August 1, 2009. Position contingent on position clearance and availability of funds.
- Duties: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the politics of Pacific Islands; conduct and publish research; share in mentoring; contribute to departmental, college, and community life; seek extramural funding.
- Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. in Political Science or a related field. [ABD with all requirements for degree completed by August 1, 2009, considered]. Demonstrated ability to teach and conduct research in Pacific Islands politics.
- Desired Qualifications: Applicant should demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary political issues in the Pacific Islands, other than Hawaii, with an ability and desire to teach and conduct research on the experiences and issues of concern to Pacific Islanders. The ability to contribute to one or more of the other parts of the Department's curriculum such as environment and natural resource management, political theory, governance, global politics, indigenous politics, post-colonial studies, futures studies, feminist theory, and cultural studies is also highly desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the activities associated with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, an internationally-known institute at UHM; and to be committed to innovative educational strategies and work well with students with diverse backgrounds and experiences. The College is committed to excellence in scholarship and favors candidates who are collegial and attentive to issues of race, gender, sexuality and other dimensions of diversity.
- Salary Range: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
-To Apply: Send a dossier that includes a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, a sample course syllabus, a statement of teaching philosophy, and at least three letters of reference, to Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Chair, Political Science Department, 640 Saunders Hall, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822.
- Closing Date: Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
EEO/AA Employer
Pacific Islands Politics Position Description
Assistant Professor, Position No. #84790, Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, full-time, 9-month, tenure track appointment, to begin August 1, 2009. Position contingent on position clearance and availability of funds.
- Duties: Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the politics of Pacific Islands; conduct and publish research; share in mentoring; contribute to departmental, college, and community life; seek extramural funding.
- Minimum Qualifications: Ph.D. in Political Science or a related field. [ABD with all requirements for degree completed by August 1, 2009, considered]. Demonstrated ability to teach and conduct research in Pacific Islands politics.
- Desired Qualifications: Applicant should demonstrate knowledge of historical and contemporary political issues in the Pacific Islands, other than Hawaii, with an ability and desire to teach and conduct research on the experiences and issues of concern to Pacific Islanders. The ability to contribute to one or more of the other parts of the Department's curriculum such as environment and natural resource management, political theory, governance, global politics, indigenous politics, post-colonial studies, futures studies, feminist theory, and cultural studies is also highly desirable. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the activities associated with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, an internationally-known institute at UHM; and to be committed to innovative educational strategies and work well with students with diverse backgrounds and experiences. The College is committed to excellence in scholarship and favors candidates who are collegial and attentive to issues of race, gender, sexuality and other dimensions of diversity.
- Salary Range: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
-To Apply: Send a dossier that includes a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, a sample course syllabus, a statement of teaching philosophy, and at least three letters of reference, to Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Chair, Political Science Department, 640 Saunders Hall, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822.
- Closing Date: Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
EEO/AA Employer
Monday, November 3, 2008
"Transmission, Translation, Relocation"
The National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference entitled "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 26-28, 2009, is issuing a call for proposals. This conference seeks to explore how we account for types of movements, and what types of knowledge they might form. Abstract Due: Jan. 15, 2009.
Issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference entitled "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 26-28, 2009.
The words "transmission," "translation," and "relocation" all imply the presence of movement as well as the presence (or possibility) of change. Such ideas of movement and change suggest a broad range of topics (for example, the transmission of thought, affect, or disease, the translation of a text from one language or medium to another, or the relocation of people or power). This conference seeks to explore how we account for these types of movements, and what types of knowledge they might form.
Possible topics of proposals for scholarly or creative work may
include but are not limited to:
Genre studies
Parody and Satire
Studies of disease
Performance studies
Transmission/Translation through media
Transmission of emotions and affect
Studies of Diaspora
Postcolonial studies
Ideological lineages
Disability studies
Publishing culture
Reception studies
Adaptations
Convergence culture
Studies of public policy
(Trans)gender and sexuality studies
Power dynamics
Servitude
We encourage proposals for individual projects as well as panel proposals organized by topic. We particularly encourage creative presentations and interdisciplinary projects. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short description of yourself by January 15, 2009 to < iugradconference@gmail.com>.
Issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary Graduate Student
Conference entitled "Transmission, Translation, Relocation" to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from March 26-28, 2009.
The words "transmission," "translation," and "relocation" all imply the presence of movement as well as the presence (or possibility) of change. Such ideas of movement and change suggest a broad range of topics (for example, the transmission of thought, affect, or disease, the translation of a text from one language or medium to another, or the relocation of people or power). This conference seeks to explore how we account for these types of movements, and what types of knowledge they might form.
Possible topics of proposals for scholarly or creative work may
include but are not limited to:
Genre studies
Parody and Satire
Studies of disease
Performance studies
Transmission/Translation through media
Transmission of emotions and affect
Studies of Diaspora
Postcolonial studies
Ideological lineages
Disability studies
Publishing culture
Reception studies
Adaptations
Convergence culture
Studies of public policy
(Trans)gender and sexuality studies
Power dynamics
Servitude
We encourage proposals for individual projects as well as panel proposals organized by topic. We particularly encourage creative presentations and interdisciplinary projects. Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short description of yourself by January 15, 2009 to < iugradconference@gmail.com>.
The Dirksen Congressional Center: Grants
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States. Proposals Due: Feb. 1, 2009.
GRANTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS
DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2009.
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2009. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Award.
There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any time. Applications which exceed the page limit and incomplete applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration.
All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2009. Awards will be announced in March 2009.
Complete information about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center's Web site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer -- fmackaman@dirksencenter.org.
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $747,465 to support 369 projects.
GRANTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS
DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2009.
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2009. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Award.
There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any time. Applications which exceed the page limit and incomplete applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration.
All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2009. Awards will be announced in March 2009.
Complete information about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center's Web site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer -- fmackaman@dirksencenter.org.
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $747,465 to support 369 projects.
The Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma
The Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for two tenure track assistant professor positions Candidates must have a Ph.D. in sociology at the time of appointment. Application Due: Dec, 15, 2008.
TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA -- To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 15, 2008.
The Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position to begin August 16, 2009.
For the first position the Department is seeking candidates who can teach and do research in the field of Stratification. Candidates with a sub-specialty in race/ethnicity will receive special consideration.
For the second position the Department is seeking candidates who can teach and do research in the fields of criminology and /or deviance.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in sociology at the time of appointment and have demonstrated actual or potential success in teaching and research. The salary will be competitive. The Department in housed in the College of Arts and Sciences and offers BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees. The University is located in Norman, a university community approximately 20 miles from Oklahoma City. Applicants should send a letter of applications, a Curriculum vitae, and samples of written work to: Craig St. John, Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019. Applicants should have three references send letters directly to the same address. The University of Oklahoma is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
TWO POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA -- To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 15, 2008.
The Department of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position to begin August 16, 2009.
For the first position the Department is seeking candidates who can teach and do research in the field of Stratification. Candidates with a sub-specialty in race/ethnicity will receive special consideration.
For the second position the Department is seeking candidates who can teach and do research in the fields of criminology and /or deviance.
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in sociology at the time of appointment and have demonstrated actual or potential success in teaching and research. The salary will be competitive. The Department in housed in the College of Arts and Sciences and offers BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees. The University is located in Norman, a university community approximately 20 miles from Oklahoma City. Applicants should send a letter of applications, a Curriculum vitae, and samples of written work to: Craig St. John, Department of Sociology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019. Applicants should have three references send letters directly to the same address. The University of Oklahoma is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
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