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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Doctoral Oral Prelim Exams are now scheduled online through the Grad School

The Graduate School has announced that doctoral students will now be required to schedule their Preliminary Oral Examinations online through the Grad School.

Doctoral Oral Prelim Exams are now scheduled online through the Grad School
The Graduate School is pleased to announce that, effective November 24, 2009 doctoral students will schedule their doctoral preliminary examinations with the Graduate School online.
How the Prelim Oral Exam electronic scheduling process works:
1. Doctoral students are expected to schedule their preliminary oral exams with the GSSP office at least one week in advance. This is current practice.
2. The electronic scheduling process must be initiated by the student. To do so, the student clicks on the Preliminary Oral Examination Scheduling link listed on GSSP's doctoral forms Web page (http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/forms/doctoral.html).
3. From the Preliminary Oral Examination Scheduling page (http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/prelimschedule/), the student clicks on the link to schedule the exam, and then logs in using their Internet ID (http://onestop.umn.edu/non-degree/initiate_your_internet_account.html) and password.
4. The student enters the preliminary oral examination date and clicks "submit." (All other required student information fields are automatically populated by PeopleSoft.)
5. The GSSP office will notify the student by e-mail of any outstanding preliminary oral exam requirements and how to fulfill them. The student will also receive confirmation from the GSSP office when the Graduate School authorizes the preliminary oral examination, continuing current practice.
6. The DGS assistant will automatically be copied on all of the above-mentioned e-mail messages so that the graduate program office is informed of the Graduate School's review and authorization of the student's preliminary oral exam.
Electronic scheduling of doctoral preliminary oral exams is part of the GSSP office's continuing efforts to improve our services for graduate students, faculty, and staff. Benefits of electronic scheduling include the elimination of the hard-copy Preliminary Oral Examination Scheduling form and improved communication among the GSSP office, the doctoral student, and the student's graduate program office throughout the preliminary doctoral exam scheduling and authorization process.
We are very interested in your comments, questions, and concerns about the effectiveness of electronic doctoral preliminary oral exam scheduling. Your reactions not only will help us to identify future modifications that may be needed but will also inform our decisions as we create other electronic processes.
For More Information
If you have questions about the new preliminary oral examination scheduling process, please contact Shannon Gilligan at gradssp@umn.edu. Detailed doctoral degree completion procedures are available on GSSP's Web site, http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/doctoral/index.html

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Position

The College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Asian American Studies Department with specialization in Chinese American Studies. Term of appointment begins fall 2010. Ph.D. required. Salary will commensurate with rank and qualifications. Application deadline: December 15, 2009.

San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Position
The College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University invites
applications for a full-time tenure-track position in the Asian American
Studies Department with specialization in Chinese American Studies, to
commence Fall 2010 semester (Search #2.09).
Qualifications: PhD or equivalent terminal degree by August 1, 2010.
Candidates must demonstrate excellence in curricular development and student
advising, ability to teach general and comparative Asian American Studies
courses (both undergraduate and graduate levels), and commitment to
scholarly/professional activities and community service. Open fields of
specialization in the social sciences and humanities. Consideration will be
given to candidates with bilingual/bicultural competency and expertise in
the areas of Chinese American history, literature, writing/composition,
and/or cultural studies.
Rank and Salary: Assistant Professor. Salary commensurate with rank and
qualifications.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2009. Submit application dossier (cover
letter, official transcripts, samples of published or other related
professional works) and a minimum of three references to:
Asian American Studies Hiring Committee, Search #2.09
College of Ethnic Studies - EP 103
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4100
For further information contact aas@sfsu.edu, 415/338-2698

The 2010 Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium on "American Studies as Transnational Practice"

Texis Tech University is pleased to announce a call for proposals for their 2010 Comparative Literature Symposium on "American Studies as Transnational Practice" on April 9-10, 2010 in Lubbock, Texas. Proposal submission deadline: January 18, 2010.

The 2010 Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium on "American Studies as Transnational Practice"
April 9-10, 2010 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the United
States of America
Texas Tech University houses the internationally known Southwest Collections
and the Vietnam Archives. Spring in Lubbock is mild and sunny.
Keynote Speakers:
Eva Cherniavsky, Department of English, University of Washington
Colleen Lye, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley
Walter Mignolo, Department of Literature, Duke University
Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College
Art Exhibition:
Margarita Cabrera, Mexican artist in El Paso, "US Immigration Policy and
Maquiladora
Practices"
Joomi Chung, Korean artist resident in Miami, Ohio, "Installation Art about
South Korean-U.S.
Relations"
Scott Townsend, U.S. visual artist in Raleigh, North Carolina, "Interactive
Installation and
Film on 'Border Relations'"
Qingsong Wang, Chinese photographer in Shanghai, "Photography and the
Consumerist
Invasion of China"
Proposal Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010
American Studies as transnational practice not only raises questions on the
changing roles that the United States has played as a great power in the
global arena since the late nineteenth century, but also calls attention to
its own disciplinary premises, interests, and imaginaries in relation to
area studies and comparative literature. As American Studies has recently
intervened in U.S. exceptionalism and neoliberal capitalism in its critique
of discourses that vary from "manifest destiny" to "market democracy," it
also foregrounds its own formation as a product of the Cold War and its
renewed influence in the post-socialist regimes in China, Russia, and East
Europe. Meanwhile, with new paradigm shifts in transnational and global
studies that encompass transoceanic, hemispheric, and planetary
consciousness, how does American Studies negotiate and reconfigure its own
field imaginaries and boundaries? If Hemispheric Studies highlights the
issue of "the Americas," how would its critical disposition "provincialize"
American Studies? If the westward movement in the nineteenth century was
central to U.S. nation-building and the national imaginary, how do the
generations of Mexican presence in the Southwest as well as more recent
northward migrations of Latinos/as impact the U.S. consciousness as
simultaneously old and new national narratives? If Trans-Atlantic movements
have informed and reshaped U.S. literary, cultural, and historical
experiences, then what new possibilities would Trans-Pacific movements pose
for American Studies in the twenty-first century? What are the new
opportunities and challenges if we reconsider U.S. literature, history, and
culture in planetary terms?
This symposium invites presentations that investigate the theory and praxis
involving American Studies in transnational contexts at various historical
junctures, and seeks projects that explore specific cases in U.S. history,
literature, and culture with global dimensions and implications. We welcome
proposals that examine American Studies from U.S. regional locales and
global sites as well as abstracts that reconsider U.S. historical and
cultural experiences in transnational and planetary frameworks.
Topics may include but are not restricted to the following:
-- Rethinking the Boundaries among American Studies, Area Studies, and
Comparative
Literature
-- Empire, Race, and Trans-Atlantic Studies
-- Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational American Studies
-- The Local and the Global in Trans-Pacific Studies
-- Borderland, Natural Environment, and Planetary Consciousness
-- Border Crossing and Critical Cosmopolitanism
-- Border Literature, Chicano/a Theory, and Hemispheric Studies
-- American Studies and Post-socialism in China, Russia, and Eastern
European Countries
-- The Trans-Pacific Movement of Asians in Diaspora
-- Wall Street and the Future of "Market Democracy"
-- Westward Movement and U.S. Southwestern Literature
-- Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
-- Global and Local Wars: Displacement, Migration, and Expulsion
-- The Vietnam War and Vietnamese in Diaspora
-- Transnational Feminist and Queer Studies
-- Postcolonial Studies and beyond
-- The Role of Spanish in American Studies
-- Transnational Cinema
Please send your one-page proposal and one-page C.V. by January 18, 2010:
Dr. Yuan Shu
Department of English
P.O. Box 43091
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
You may email your inquiry, proposal, and C.V. to Dr. Yuan Shu at
(yuan.shu@ttu.edu). Symposium information will be available on our website:
http://english.ttu.edu/complit/.

Crossings: "Race, Migration, and Neoliberalism"

Next Monday, November 30th, please join us for the last Crossings session of the semester. Sociology professor Lisa Sun-Hee Park will be speaking about her research and then leading a discussion about "Race, Migration, and Neoliberalism." Crossings is from 3:30-5:00pm on Mondays, and will be meeting in the Scott Hall Commons (room 105).

PCard Receipt Reminder

PCard receipts for all purchases made through 11/25/09 are due to Laura by November 30, 2009.


PCard Receipt Reminder
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GEOG 8230: Reading Marxi(sms)

GEOG 8230, "Reading Marxi(sms)", will be taught by Professor George Henderson in spring 2010 on Wednesdays from 2:00-4:30 p.m.

GEOG 8230: Reading Marxi(sms)
Geography 8230, Reading Marxi(sms), Professor George Henderson, Spring, 2010, Wednesdays 2-4:30 p.m.
This seminar is an introduction to the study of capitalist formations from various Marxist perspectives. It begins with texts written by Marx and proceeds to a selection of authors who follow but also contest and disrupt him. Some of the key questions we will explore are:
• What does it mean to call a social formation capitalist?
• Is capitalism propelled by an "inner logic"?
• Why does capitalism unfold unevenly in time and space?
• What is meant by the concept of value?
• Does the idea of a beyond-capital inhere in the idea of capital itself?
The seminar pays special attention to the idea that Marx's work can be read openly, in an exploratory fashion; it emphasizes the surprising multiplicity of inferences that have been drawn from Marx's work. A substantial part of our time will be spent reading Marx (including Capital, vol. 1, and works written before and after) and a typically overlooked text by David Harvey, The Limits to Capital.
Other authors we will read: J.K. Gibson-Graham, Christopher Arthur, Gayatri Spivak, Nicholas Thoburn, Louis Althusser, Diane Elson, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, Bertell Ollman, Timothy Mitchell, and others.
* Come to first class having read Ch. 1 of Capital, vol. 1
Student work: Take turns presenting readings and leading weekly discussions; write one paper of 20-25-pages.
Permission number required for enrollment.

PA 8204

PA 8204, "Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development" will be taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Greg Schrock on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00-5:15 p.m., spring 2010.

PA 8204
If you are interested in economic development policy and planning at both international and domestic scales, consider taking PA 8204, Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development. The course, a seminar format with an online data analysis lab, will meet from 4:00 to 5:15 P.M., Mondays and Wednesdays, with the Lab at 5:30 - 6:20 P.M. on Wednesdays during the Spring 2010 semester.
The course surveys job-oriented economic development in the US and internationally. It explores how urban and regional economies grow, why industries and employers locate where they do, and how workers decide where to live and work. It reviews the strategies and practices that federal, state/provincial and local economic developers use to create jobs, including tax incentives, technological R&D and entrepreneurship, 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. We will also examine recent initiatives to harness the "green economy" toward job creation and the revitalization of regional economies.
PA 8204 counts as a domain course for the Humphrey Institute's Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree, and toward the requirements of the Economic and Community Development concentration for the Master's of Public Policy degree. However, students from all degree programs and concentrations are welcomed to take the course. Non-MURP students are strongly encouraged to take PA 5036 (Regional Economic Analysis, 1.5 credits) concurrently, as that course will introduce analysis techniques discussed in PA 8204.

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program

The Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite applications for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program. Second and third-year Ph.D. students are encouraged to apply. Application deadline: January 29, 2010.To view the six areas and further detail please see entire entry.

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program
The Social Science Research Council has just announced six areas for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program. The areas are:
After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Discrimination Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Spaces of Inquiry
Virtual Worlds, and
Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
A total of 12 students, covering a wide range of disciplines, are admitted to each area. Admitted students attend workshops in June and September of 2010, designed to aid their engagement with the area to which they are admitted.
They encourage promising second- and third-year Ph.D. students to apply to the program. Discrimination Studies (DS) is not about race; instead, Discrimination Studies treats discrimination as a general social phenomenon even as any DS analysis may focus on discrimination concerning a particular social category. Thus, Discrimination Studies extricates the study of discrimination from a focus on race, or sex, or age, or any of many other social categories. There are many means by which the field accomplishes this aim.
The first link below provides general information:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
while the next link is specifically for the 2010 areas:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/competitions/dpdf-fellowship/9E56E847-B2D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/

Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences

The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students on all UMN campuses. The funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences. Proposal deadline: February 8, 2010.

Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences
The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
(http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students at all UMN campuses. This funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad societal implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences.
The Request for Proposals (RFPs) may be found at http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/rfps/. Deadline for submission is February 8, 2010.
The Consortium currently links 18 University programs and centers to examine the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by the life sciences.
If you have questions concerning this RFP, please contact Audrey Boyle at Boyle032@umn.edu or 612.626.5624.

The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar

The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute invites graduate students to join them for their 6th Annual Seminar, "Identity, Inequality, and Public Policy: Integrating the Humanities and the Social Sciences", on July 26 - August 6, 2010. Application deadline: February 1, 2010.

The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar
This seminar, jointly taught by a humanist and a social scientist, will draw on recent developments in cultural theory and the social sciences in order to examine how the findings and methodologies of very different disciplines and traditions of social inquiry can be integrated. The primary focus will be on questions of social identity and inequality. Using literary and cultural texts (e.g., novels) and social-scientific data, the seminar will address questions of social causation and discursive and textual analysis, and tackle the practical and theoretical problems involved in the formulation of public policy. One key concern will be the recent debates about affirmative action and reparation programs, both in the U.S. and abroad. In a climate where "post raciality" has become a major theme, we will also examine whether redress for race-based disparities can be accomplished with-out the use of racial--and, more broadly, identity-based--classification.
The seminar incorporates 2-3 workshops taught by visiting scholars.
SEMINAR LEADERS
William Darity, Jr.
Public Policy, African and
African American Studies,
and Economics
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Satya P.Mohanty
English
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
____________________________________________________________________
Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on July 30th and 31st.
Eligibility: Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their Ph.D. work, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions who are working on minority issues, are invited to apply to the 2010 FMS Summer Institute. Minority scholars and those who are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouragedto apply. For the 12-14 scholars selected to participate in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, board, and (if needed) travel costs. Application deadline: February 1st 2010; results announced by March 8th 2010.
The 2010 FMS Summer Institute will be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Updated information about the summer institute, especially the workshops and the colloquium,
will be available at: www.fmsproject.cornell.edu, or email Alice Cho, Coordinator,
FMS Summer Institute, at: fmsproject@cornell.edu

Monday, November 23, 2009

"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference

Museum and Curatorial Studies at UC-Santa Cruz invites professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display with their conference, "The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention, and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice", on May 14, 2010. Proposal deadline: February 5, 2010.

"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference
Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display. This year we are hosting a number of events related to the 2009-2010 research theme, "Critical Curations." We are pleased to welcome Griselda Pollock, Irit Rogoff, and Carolina Ponce de León for our annual Speaker Series. For more information about our organization and events, please visit: http://macs.ucsc.edu/
On May 14, 2010, our year of collaboration will culminate with a conference open to scholars from around the world. "The Task of the Curator" will explore the roles of curators in relation to how objects are displayed in museums and galleries, considering a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's theories of translation, brings attention to the often overlooked or naturalized labor of curators, which involves subtle but nonetheless transformative acts of framing and poetic interpretation. Presenters are encouraged to "look outside of the white box" toward new and alternative display methods. Proposals are due on February 5th, 2010 (instructions below).
A PDF of our CFP and updated information can be found at: http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Keynote Speaker:
MARY NOOTER ROBERTS
World Arts & Cultures, UCLA
Panel Moderators:
JAMES CLIFFORD
History of Consciousness, UCSC
JENNIFER GONZ√Ã…LEZ
History of Art & Visual Culture, UCSC
SHANNON JACKSON
Performance Studies & Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley
BETTI-SUE HERTZ
Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Opening Remarks:
LUCIAN GOMOLL
History of Consciousness, UCSC
Closing Remarks:
LISSETTE OLIVARES
History of Consciousness, UCSC
SUBMISSIONS:
Please send the following documents by Friday, February 5, 2010 via e-mail to: macs@ucsc.edu
• 350-500 word abstract
• Curriculum Vitae
We welcome and encourage early submissions. Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the deadline.
Final Drafts will be due Friday, April 23, 2010 to macs@ucsc.edu
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
* Artist as Curator
* Exhibition as Translation
* Critical Histories of the Curator & Curatorial Practices
* Contemporary Approaches to the Art/artifact Debate
* Feminist/Queer Curating
* Radical Curating, Curatorial Interventions
* Marxist Museology, Archival Anarchy
* Curating Performance and/or Performance Art
* Para-Sites: Exhibiting in Alternative Spaces
* New Media & Display Practices
* Disciplining Objects in Museums & Galleries
* Comparative Studies of Exhibitions
* Strategies for Relaying Trauma in Museums & Galleries
* New Approaches to the Archives
* Collaboration and/or Curatorial Collectives
* Producing Virtual Collections & Displays
* Curating and Authorship
* Reflections on Biennale Projects
* Outsider Exhibition Proposals
* Dramaturgy of Display, Experience-Driven Practices
* Addressing Visitors, Imaginary Publics, Engaging Feedback
* Curatorial Mistakes
* Exhibitions & Pedagogy
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department at UC-Santa Cruz.

University of Southern California Call for Papers

The University of Southern California seeks papers for an issue of Spectator that engages in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Submission deadline: November 29, 2009.

University of Southern California Call for Papers
This issue of Spectator seeks papers that engage in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Questions of post-race, post-gender, and post-human identities have been consistently raised within the disciplines of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new media theory, and gender studies, and this issue will examine the implications of these claims and their relationship to the field of media studies. Academic essays, interviews, and book reviews that interrogate the idea of "transcending" or moving beyond identity, as well as representations of "post-identity" within film, television and new media, are all encouraged for submission. Deadline for submission is November 29, 2009. Send manuscripts in email format to: Janani Subramanian, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California at jananisu@usc.edu.

Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War

New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. Application deadline: February 15, 2010.

Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War
New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce that it will be offering a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Our mission is to support research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society. We are particularly interested in proposals that deal with the impact that the Cold War had on the U.S. political economy, the national security state, civil rights, civil liberties, labor relations, and gender relations. The Center also looks forward to supporting projects that relate foreign policy to domestic politics and those that see the central issue as U.S. response to revolutionary nationalism and decolonization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
The application deadline is February 15, 2010. In order to apply, please send the information listed below to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
Copy of curriculum vitae.
1. Short project description (five pages maximum).
2. Statement describing the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project.
3. Two letters of recommendation.
4. Writing samples are also welcome (10 page maximum)
Applicants for dissertation fellowships must have passed their comprehensive examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have received the Ph.D. within the past five years. Travel grants are open to all.
Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. One-semester fellowships may be offered at half of the above stipends. Health insurance is also available. Office space will be provided and all fellows will have a formal affiliation with New York University.
For more information applicants are encouraged to contact Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu

Department of French and Italian-Northwestern University Call for Proposals

The Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University is currently seeking paper proposals for an interdisciplinary graduate student conference entitled, "Cultural Bankruptcy: Bail Out or Bonus? Rethinking Culture in the 21st Century", to be held April 8-10, 2010 in Evanston, IL. Abstract deadline: January 15, 2010.

Department of French and Italian-Northwestern University Call for Proposals
Cultural Bankruptcy: Bail Out or Bonus?
Rethinking Culture in the 21st Century
April 8-10, 2010
Keynote Speakers: Susan Hegeman and Phillip Wegner
Associate Professors of English, University of Florida
The postmodernisms have, in fact, been fascinated precisely by this whole "degraded" landscape of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and Reader's Digest culture, of advertising and motels, of the late show and the grade-B Hollywood film, of so-called
paraliterature, with its airport paperback categories of the gothic and the romance, the popular biography, the murder mystery, and the science fiction or fantasy novel: materials they no longer simply "quote" as a Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but
incorporate into their very substance. ~ Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The cultural moment that Jameson describes in his 1991 work calls into question the nature of art--broadly understood as visual arts, cinema, architecture, music and literature--in the postmodern society. Devoid of depth and the ability to "think historically," has cultural production truly become nothing but pastiche, art without affect or referent? If Jameson's evaluation is accurate, then we are faced with several particular concerns: the relationship between art and everyday life, canonicity in an age dominated by ideological pluralism, the reinterpretation of high/low distinctions in previous centuries, and the validity of the intellectual categories that have previously served as cornerstones of our discipline--divisions of genre, historical period, national tradition, and medium, to name a few.
Whether our object of study is contemporary culture or the artistic production of past
centuries, as scholars we share this current historical moment in which we write. How does our current cultural moment affect the way we read the past? How are we to understand
culture? What are the implications of theories that attempt to repudiate culture as an object of inquiry? Can cultural production exist independently of capitalism? What is the current relationship between cultural producers and consumers? How has that relationship changed historically? Do modern and traditional forms of pastiche have similar or divergent functions and objects? Where do the historic, the synchronic and/or the diachronic stand in relation to cultural production? How do art and theory mediate the notions of surface and depth? We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines that address the above questions, in whole or in part, or a related topic.
Please submit your abstract of no more than 350 words to culturalbankruptcy@gmail.com by
January 15, 2010. Include your name, address, e-mail address, school affiliation, and any A/V requirements in your email. Notification will be on or before February 15. Papers must be in English and no more than 20 minutes long. Conference participants will have the opportunity both to formally present their paper and to workshop it the following day with the other presenters, the keynote speakers, and the conference moderators. To facilitate this we will require a final copy of the conference paper to be submitted by April 1. For more information, please visit http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/events/culturalbankruptcy.html.

Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor to begin August 2010. Ph.D. required. Preferred candidates are those who have a strong background in transnational and intersectional feminist theories and methodologies. Application deadline: December 4, 2009.

Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University Assistant Professor Position
The Department of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, appointment to begin August 2010, Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. This position is contingent upon budgetary approval. We seek a candidate who demonstrates a strong record of interdisciplinary research and teaching in the field of Women's & Gender Studies, consistent with a tenure-track appointment at a research university. We are interested in a scholar with a strong background in transnational and intersectional feminist theories and methodologies, and are particularly interested in candidates who specialize in Latina, Chicana, Latin American, and/or Caribbean feminist scholarship. Interdisciplinary doctoral training required; Women's Studies or Interdisciplinary Ph.D. preferred.
The candidate's work should complement the mission, goals, and strengths of the WGS Department at SU. The candidate will be expected to contribute to our core undergraduate curriculum and to expand our offerings at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our department http://wgs.syr.edu/ is distinguished by its commitment to intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches, and an emphasis on issues of race, class, disability, sexuality, and ethnicity as an inherent part of our signature focus on transnational feminist analyses of gender and gender justice.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
For full consideration, candidates must complete an online Dean/Senior Executive/Faculty Application http://www.sujobopps.com and attach a letter of application and a CV. In addition, a teaching statement, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation are required and should be forwarded separately to: Dr. Vivian May, Chair, Search Committee, Women's & Gender Studies Department, 208 Bowne Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-1200. Deadline for RECEIPT of all materials is: December 4, 2009. Syracuse University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Mentoring Graduate Students Workshop

"Faculty Member as Mentor: Best Practices in the Successful Mentoring of Graduate Students" is a workshop offered through the Graduate School and the Student Conflict Resolution Center on December 3, 2009 from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in Rooms A, B, & C of the Campus Club.

Mentoring Graduate Students Workshop
The Graduate School and the Student Conflict Resolution Center cordially invite members of the graduate faculty to participate in a workshop on graduate student mentoring:
"Faculty Member as Mentor: Best Practices in the Successful Mentoring of Graduate Students"
***Thursday, December 3
***3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Rooms A,B&C of the Campus Club (Fourth Floor, Coffman Memorial Union)
Mentoring can be one of the most rewarding aspects of a faculty member's career--and it is a critical element in a graduate student's successful development. Yet, not all mentoring relationships yield the desired benefits. What are effective mentoring practices and characteristics of a successful mentoring relationship? What are the barriers to effective mentoring? What are some of the tools and resources available to mentors? This workshop is intended to help mentors of graduate students--as well as aspiring mentors--learn how they can best support a graduate student's professional development goals and career plans. In an interactive session, participants will explore mentoring issues in several contexts (communication, climate, conflict and networking), and tools will be provided that reflect best mentoring practices.
Space is limited and early registration is encouraged at http://www.grad.umn.edu/dgs/workshops/.
Questions may be directed to field001@umn.edu or 612-625-6532.

New College at Arizona State University Assistant Professor Position

The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the New College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. Ph.D. required. Application deadline: January 8, 2010.

New College at Arizona State University Assistant Professor Position
The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) in the New
College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. HArCS is
interdisciplinary and committed to a critical examination of human meanings,
values and experience.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach and develop courses in
relevant areas and to engage in creative/collaborative performance
practices. Scholarly research and/or creative activity and service to ASU
and the profession appropriate to tenure track guidelines are expected. Only
candidates with a Ph.D. or M.F.A. at the time of hire and college teaching
experience will be considered. Desirable qualifications include technical
expertise and potential for interdisciplinary collaboration.
HArCS is one of three divisions that comprise ASU's New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. It includes several degree programs:
Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance; Women and Gender Studies; English;
History; Integrative Studies; American Studies; Religion and Applied Ethics;
Philosophy. There are two M.A. programs: Interdisciplinary Studies and
Applied Ethics and the Professions. The Interdisciplinary Arts and
Performance (IAP) degree program is the only one of its kind in the
Southwest. IAP offers courses in: Digital Media, Music and Electronic Sound
Art, Performance Studies, and Theater/Performance.
Performance Studies should be conceived in the broadest sense. A candidate's
areas of expertise may include but are not limited to those above, with
scholarly and/or creative/practice performance specialization in:
documentary, documentary studies, sexuality/gender studies, cross-cultural
performance, performance/cultural theory, community/social performance,
performance and technology, Southwest Studies, and/or other fields and
areas.
Send a letter of application, statements describing your research and/or
creative program and teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, a sample of two
pieces of scholarship and/or creative activity, and three reference letters
electronically to Jamie.Howell@asu.edu (Performance Studies Search
Committee, Attention: Jamie Howell, Arizona State University at the West
Campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100).
All application materials should be submitted as electronic documents (CDs
or DVDs of single artistic works can be mailed under separate cover).
DEADLINE for applications, including materials, is January 8, 2010.
Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Academic Job Interview Questions & Advice

For a helpful job market resource with questions one should be prepared to answer for job interviews in American Studies and academic job interview advice, please visit http://faculty.virginia.edu/schoolhouse/ProfessionalizationPage/JobAdviceandQuestions.html

Yale University Assistant Dean and Director of Native American Cultural Center Position

Yale University is pleased to announce a search for an Assistant Dean and Director for the university's Native American Cultural Center. The full-time three-year, renewable term appointment is designated to provide strategic direction for the work on the Native-American Cultural Center, and supervise its daily operation. Appointment to begin July 2010. Review of applications begins: January 19, 2010.

Yale University Assistant Dean and Director of Native American Cultural Center Position
http://www.yale.edu/hronline/stars/application/external/index.html
STARS Requisition number 8572BR
Department Undergrad Affairs
Posting Position Title Director, Native American Cultural Center and Asst Dean, Yale College
Job Category Managerial & Professional
Work Week Standard - 37.5 hrs (M-F, 8:30-5:00)
Position General Purpose
While reporting to the Dean of Student Affairs, provide strategic direction for the work of the Native-American Cultural Center, and supervise its daily operation. Serve on committees and lead various student and academic programs.
Anticipated start date: Negotiable, but we anticipate July 1, 2010 or thereafter. Review of applications to begin January 19, 2010. Three-year, renewable term appointment.
Essential Duties
1. Manage and oversee the Native-American Cultural Center in all its aspects.
2. Work collaboratively with members of the administration to define the appropriate identity for the Center and to plan for its support and nurture; with undergraduates in developing services, organizing activities and sponsoring events; and with Deans and faculty in academic and personal advising, counseling and guidance matters.
3. Work with the Dean of Admissions and his staff, and with the Dean of Freshman Affairs in admitting and aiding integration of Native-American students into the larger community.
4. Actively work with the Advisory Board to advise and provide support for the Center and its goals. Develop a long-term strategic plan for the Center.
5. Oversee the physical facilities of the Center. Hire, train and supervise student workers. Manage the budget for the Center and assist in seeking additional sources of support.
6. Work cooperatively with directors of cultural centers and other organizations to foster intergroup dialogue and enhance intercultural interactions.
7. Oversee programs in Yale College including serving on committees, chairing committees, running special projects, and working for the welfare of all Yale students.
8. Other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
1. Master's Degree in a related field and four years of experience in academic administration or management.
Additional Education and Experience
1. Proven experience in working with students, faculty, academic administrator and community groups.
2. Preferred: PhD in related field.
Skills & Abilities 1. Excellent oral and written communication and analytical skills.
2. Ability to work a schedule that is flexible and includes evenings and occasional weekends.
3. Ability to work independently as well as a committee member and a member of teams.
4. Strong interpersonal and group facilitation skills.
5. Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with senior administrators, staff and faculty.
6. Ability to supervise a staff of professionals, graduate students and undergraduate students.
7. Strong leadership skills, and the ability to create and lead effective teams.
8. Budgeting and strategic planning skills.
9. General computer knowledge and working knowledge with a variety of software packages including Outlook, Word and Excel.
10. Knowledgeable about issues in the Native American communities and a commitment to translating these into a local academic context.
Background Check Requirements All external candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment screening. All offers are contingent on successful completion of a background check.

Monday, November 16, 2009

"Economies in Motion" Call for Papers and Performances

Dance Under Construction is pleased to announce a call for papers and performances for next year's conference, "Economies in Motion", on April 16 & 17, 2010 at UC Riverside. Submission deadline: January 15, 2010.

"Economies in Motion" Call for Papers and Performances
"Economy" most often conjures thoughts of finances and money, or the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods. Yet the economy
and economies proffer rich terrains of exploration for choreographers,
performers, and dance scholars. Inspired by the global financial
crisis, U.S. recession, and unprecedented budget cuts across the UC
system, this year Dance Under Construction will explore and
interrogate "Economies in Motion."
In response to the times, the conference theme intends to investigate
and unravel economies in dance, the body, performance, and other
embodied sites of critical analysis. The economy as defined by its
financial or monetary meaning greatly impacts dance and the study of
dance in a university setting, but there are so many other economies
at play, in motion. Economy also refers to the organization of
something, a system of exchange and interaction. Choreographers
account for these economies (for example, of space, sexuality, gender,
politics, power...the list goes on and on) when creating work and these
encounters and systems of organization are ripe for the picking by
dance scholars.
"Economies in Motion" will be addressed during panels presenting
choreography and paper. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
• choreographing the recession
• embodying economies
• economies of politics, gender, race, class, power, etc.
• intimate economies/economies of intimacy, love, sex, sexuality
• global bodies and transnational bodies
• inverting, protesting, and challenging systems of exchange
• performing institutional culture(s)
• transgressing systems of power
• tactics for creative fundraising
• laboring bodies/bodies as labor
• dance and/or bodies as a commodity
• negotiating citizenships and blurring boundaries
• the poetics of economy in movement practice
We invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme
through papers, projects, and performances. Work that utilizes and/or
analyzes various mediums such as dance, film, text, cultural
production, and other performance genres are encouraged. Proposals for
panels, working groups, professional development workshops, and
roundtable discussions are also welcome.
Applicants should submit an abstract (250-300 words) of your paper,
performance, or project and working bibliography, if applicable.
Please include your full name, contact information, institutional
affiliation, brief biography (2-3 sentences), and indicate all
technological and space requirements. Specify in your application
whether a performance space or classroom setting would best suit your
work, and please plan not to exceed a time limit of 20 minutes. DUC
aspires to foster a community and network of support for dancers and
scholars, so please be prepared to talk about your work and to engage
with the work of others.
Please direct your proposals or inquiries to http://us.mc435.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dance_under_construction@yahoo.com
by January 15, 2010.

COMM 8110

COMM 8110, "Ethnopolitical Conflicts Worldwide: Multi-disciplinary Approaches, Prevention, and Policy Recommendations" is an advanced topics seminar taught by Professor Rosita Albert for spring 2010. The course meets Tuesdays 2:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

COMM 8110
COMM 8110 Advanced Topics Seminar for Spring, 2010:
Ethnopoltical Conflicts Worldwide: Multi-disciplinary Approaches, Prevention, and Policy Recommendations
Prof. Rosita Albert
Tues 2:50-5:30 (some flexibility on the schedule possible)
If you are interested in an ethnic conflict and related issues such as globalization, intercultural relations, intergroup relations, immigration, minority/majority relations, media and conflict, etc., this cutting-edge seminar might intrigue you. It is open to graduate students in any related field who want to engage with current work in this area. The seminar will focus on a variety of ethnopolitcal conflicts, on what we can learn about the amelioration and prevention of such conflicts, as well as on recommendations to policy makers.
An exciting part of the seminar will be the rare opportunity for participants to contribute comments to drafts of extensive chapters being submitted for publication in the Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict. The Handbook is being edited by Dan Landis and Rosita Albert and will be published by Springer. The chapters cover a wide variety of conflicts, including those in Israel/Palestine, Spain, France, China, India, Mexico, Sudan (Darfur), the Netherlands, Turkey, the Philippines, Peru, Hawaii, Cyprus, and other locations. A number of the chapters deal with immigrants. Others focus on ethnic groups that have been in a location for a long time. Many deal with minority populations.
The authors come from a variety of disciplines and from countries throughout the world. Most of the authors have expertise in intercultural relations. The Handbook will be the first book sponsored by the International Academy for Intercultural Research, a multidisciplinary association of researchers and senior practitioners. One unique feature of the handbook is that authors are following a common outline and are being asked to make recommendations for policy makers.
The seminar will enable participants to gain a broader and deeper understanding of existing conflicts, to enlarge their understanding of approaches to conflict management by reading state-of-the-art materials, to engage with a number of important of issues such as globalization, immigration, minorities, genocide, intergroup relations and related issues, to explore similarities and differences in conflicts in different contexts, regions and countries, and to consider important policy issues.
In addition to drafts of the Handbook, participants will read, discuss, and critique some articles and book chapters, films, videos and other resources from Communication, Psychology, International Relations, Political Science, History and related fields. Course requirements include class contributions (discussions, suggestions of materials, comments, and presentations) and a seminar paper. For further information and/or to indicate your interest on the seminar, please contact Prof. Albert at alber001@umn.edu.

"Rags to Riches to Rags" Film

Minnesota Film Arts is currently promoting a 3-week Jewish Film Series at the Oak Street Cinema. This week's film is "Rags to Riches to Rags" which will play November 19, 2009 at 7:15 p.m. This one showing is free to the public.

"Rags to Riches to Rags" Film
Minnesota Film Arts, a non-profits arts organization devoted to the
exhibition of international and independent film in Minneapolis currently
has a 3-week Jewish Film Series playing at the Oak Street Cinema, off
Washington in Stadium Village. The Series is made up of seven films and one
of them is called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags it will play Thursday
November 19th at 7:15pm, this one showing is free to the public.
A little about the film:
New York City's garment district has been a microcosm of the American
economy for the past century. It was the place for new immigrants to start
climbing the ladder. During the early twentieth century, the industry
absorbed Italians and Eastern European Jews who called it the schmatta
business (Yiddish for "rags"). Later, Latinos and other ethnicities
flowed in. For a period, the clothing industry was the biggest employer in
the United States, producing ninety-five per cent of the country's
garments. Today that figure has plummeted to five per cent. In Schmatta:
Rags to Riches to Rags, director Marc Levin explores this dramatic shift in
statistics by looking at the historical context and human faces behind it.

Is Hip Hop History? Conference

As the first hip-hop conference hosted by a worker education program, the City College Is Hip-Hop History? Conference aims to provide a forum that features the work of researchers, hip-hop industry practitioners, artists, and working adult students. Paper, panel and roundtable proposals should be submitted in the form of 200-500 word abstracts.The Conference will take place February 19-20, 2010 in New York City.

Is Hip Hop History? Conference
February 19-20, 2010 City College Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10004
Is Hip Hop History? Conference
As the first hip-hop conference hosted by a worker education program, the City College Is Hip-Hop History? Conference aims to provide a forum that features the work of researchers, hip-hop industry practitioners, artists, and working adult students.The conference invites proposals that explore how conflicting standards and values by artists and others, challenge hip-hops viability as one of the U.S.'s most important popular cultural forms. We also invite papers that address hip-hops current and potential function among established academic disciplines (education, psychology, history, communication, the arts and social sciences), as well as the role of gender, class and race in assessing the wide range of meaning invested in its various elements. We expect that these bodies of work will appropriately engage and challenge prior scholarship and most importantly, represent the future direction of hip-hop.
Paper, panel and roundtable proposals should be submitted in the form of 200-500 word abstracts. Interested participants should submit an abstract and bio. Abstracts must be 500 words or less, and they should include the title of the paper, a brief bio and description of your current work and interests, and contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department and e-mail address). All abstracts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document that includes double-spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font, and a header with your name and page numbers. Conference presentations will be approximately 30 minutes.
Elena Romero
The City College Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10004
Phone (212) 925-6625 x 258
Email: eromero@ccny.cuny.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe

"The History of North America in Global Perspective" Workshop

The Charles Warren Center, Harvard University's research center for North American history, invites applications for "The History of North America in Global Perspective." This workshop will explore a theme much discussed of late, as calls have proliferated for a more globalized history of North America. PhD required. Application deadline: January 15, 2010.

The Charles Warren Center, Harvard University's research center for North American history, invites applications for "The History of North America in Global Perspective." This workshop will explore a theme much discussed of late, as calls have proliferated for a more globalized history of North America. We will gather scholars whose work goes beyond the manifestos and begin to fill in the outlines of a global approach during the past 500 years. How do important events, themes, and episodes appear if we follow causes and consequences and trace networks of connections wherever they may lead, rather than stopping at the water's edge? We seek a range of projects that locate U.S. history and its colonial antecedents in a broader context, whether they emphasize the impact of the "outside world" on North American history, the influence of the U.S. on "other" histories, or combine both. We also seek a wide range of themes and approaches, including cultural, economic, intellectual, political, and social history. Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Sven Beckert and Erez Manela of Harvard's History Department. Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Fellows have library privileges and receive a private office which they must use for at least the 9-month academic year. The Center encourages applications, otherwise consistent with the Workshop theme, relating to the nation's life during and as a consequence of wars, and from qualified applicants who can contribute, through their research and service, to the diversity and excellence of the Harvard community. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources. Application (on our website or by mail) due Jan. 15, 2010; decisions in early March.
Arthur Patton-Hock, Associate Director
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Emerson Hall 400
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-495-3591
fax: 617-496-2111
Email: apattonh@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture10-11.html

Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute proposes to award two Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships, in any field of the Humanities or Social Sciences, for a period of up to five years, beginning October 1, 2010. The Fellowships offer an annual stipend of $40,000. Submission deadline: January 31, 2010.

Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute proposes to award two Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships, in any field of the Humanities or Social Sciences, for a period of up to five years, beginning October 1, 2010. The Fellowships offer an annual stipend of $40,000. Yearly renewal of the Fellowships will be contingent upon demonstrated progress in research. Fellows will be expected to work on their research at the Institute for consecutive years during the period of the award.
Although these are postdoctoral fellowships, other candidates may be considered in those fields in which a doctoral degree is not a prerequisite for career progress.
Candidates should submit the following documents in English to polonsky@vanleer.org.il: statement of research plans (3-5 pages, with title); summary of your previous research (3 pages); one published article or equivalent unpublished work; curriculum vitae, including list of publications; names and contact information for 3 possible recommendations. Please indicate where you saw this advertisement. The deadline for submission of completed applications is January 31, 2010.
Polonsky Fellowships Committee
Email: polonsky@vanleer.org.il
Visit the website at http://www.vanleer.org.il

Call for Authors: Key Issues in Crime and Punishment Series

Golson Media invites academic editorial contributors to a new reference series on Crime and Punishment to be published in 2011 by SAGE Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes 5 titles, each with 20 chapters of 5,000 words. Submission deadline: February 1, 2010.

Call for Authors: Key Issues in Crime and Punishment Series

Golson Media is inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference series on Crime and Punishment to be published in 2011 by SAGE Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes 5 titles, each with 20 chapters of 5,000 words. The 5 titles are:
Crime and Criminal Behavior
Police and Law Enforcement
Courts, Law and Justice
Corrections
Juvenile Crime and Justice
The chapters in each title are written to offer pro and con examinations of controversial programs, practices, problems, or issues from varied perspectives. A broad range of issues are arranged within each volume, including such hotly debated topics as amnesty for illegal aliens, medical marijuana, police brutality, racial sentencing disparities, and the death penalty for minors.
Chapter assignment deadline is February 1, 2010.
Each chapter of approximately 5,000 words is signed by the contributor. The General Editor for the series is William Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, who will review all the chapters for editorial content and academic consistency.
If you are interested in contributing to the series, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. Moreover, you can help ensure that accurate information and important points of view are credibly presented to students and library patrons. Compensation for the written chapters is the contributor's choice of 1 free copy of the book contributed to, or a SAGE book credit allowance of $200 per book contributed to.
The list of available chapters, style guidelines, and sample chapter are prepared and will be sent to you in response to your inquiry. Please then select which unassigned chapter may best suit your interests and expertise.
If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Crime and Punishment series, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your background in criminal justice-related issues.
Lisbeth Rogers
Golson Media
crime@golsonmedia.com

National Association for Ethnic Studies Call for Abstracts/Proposals

The National Association for Ethnic Studies has announced a call for abstracts/proposals for the 38th Annual Conference, "Who's Counting & Who Counts?" on April 8-10, 2010 in Washington, DC. Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2009.

National Association for Ethnic Studies Call for Abstracts/Proposals
The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on politics, community and ethnicity. How do classifications of race and ethnicity define our lives? How are they part of our individual and collective thinking? How do they become statistics? In contrast, how do issues of race and ethnicity defy demarcation? How do race and ethnicity challenge the interests and power struggles implicit in shaping definitions?
The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: the 2008 presidential election; American Indian federal recognition; sovereignty and recognition in a global economy; counting in the 2010 census; undocumented workers; LGBTQ rights; unincorporated communities; immigration at the local level; census and racial/ethnic identities; human trafficking; negotiating dual citizenships; limited citizenships; redistricting; census data and its impact on resource access; higher education; student loans; citizenship; health care by the numbers; philanthropy and ethnic communities; defining minorities and majorities; affirmative action issues; defining and supporting art; women's resources; economic ramifications of census results.
Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2009, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participant's institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper or a complete panel presentation and if A/V equipment is needed.
All program participants must pay full conference registration fees and 2010 NAES membership dues.
For questions about submission, please contact the National Office at naes@wwu.edu or 360-650-2349 or Program Chair, Carleen Sanchez at csanchez2@unlnotes.unl.edu or 402-472-3925
Abstracts must be submitted electronically to: http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm
Select the "Submit Abstract" link to proceed to the online submission form.
NOTE: A separate abstract must be submitted for each presenter (even co-authored papers, roundtable presentations and pre-arranged panels) with complete contact information.
Pre-arranged panels must include at least three presenters/speakers, but no more than five and must provide their own panel chairs. Panels with fewer than three or more than five presenters will not be considered.
Notifications on proposals will be mailed in late fall/early winter 2009.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Crossings: "Re-Framing la Mujer: Re-Framing Tejana Agency by Challenging Traditional Border Film Narratives"

Please join Crossings next Monday, November 16 at 3:30. Chicano Studies professor Dr. Lori Rodriguez will be presenting a paper entitled "Re-Framing la Mujer: Re-Framing Tejana Agency by Challenging Traditional Border Film Narratives." Crossings meets every other Monday at 3:30 in Scott Hall room 4.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

"Interdisciplinary Public History" - Kevin Murphy Grad Seminar

Professor Kevin Murphy will be offering a new graduate seminar on "Interdisciplinary Public History" in the spring 2010 semester. This seminar examines the variety of ways that "public history" is produced both within and outside the academy and explores interdisciplinary approaches to the critical analysis of public history projects and historical memory. Students will work collaboratively to produce works of public scholarship.

"Interdisciplinary Public History" - Kevin Murphy Grad Seminar
Topics in US History: Interdisciplinary Public History (HIST8910)
Spring 2010
Professor Kevin P. Murphy (kpmurphy@umn.edu)
Wednesdays, 1:25 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
This seminar examines the variety of ways that "public history" is produced both within and outside the academy and explores interdisciplinary approaches to the critical analysis of public history projects and historical memory. Students will discuss recent scholarship by historians, communication studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars, among others (below is a partial and tentative list of texts), and will also work collaboratively to develop public history projects based on primary research.
The final syllabus for this course will be developed collaboratively with students. Please notify the instructor (kpmurphy@umn.edu) of your interest in this course so that you might be included in this process.
More information about this seminar can be found in an essay written collaboratively by graduate students who enrolled the last time it was offered: Lisa Blee, et al, "Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy," Radical History Review 2008 (102):73-89.
Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz, Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Duke, 2009).
Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke, 2007)
Michael A. Elliott, Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (Chicago, 2007).
Anne Cvetkovich, "In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Public Culture," Camera Obscura 49(2002), Volume 17, Number 1.
Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa (Duke, 2003).

Monday, November 9, 2009

2010 Graduate Student Symposium-Romance Studies

The Association of Graduate Students in Romance Studies at the University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the 14th Annual Conference entitled, "Framing the Human: (De)humanization in Language, Literature, and Culture" to be held March 6, 2010. Abstract submission: December 31, 2009.

2010 Graduate Student Symposium-Romance Studies
"Framing the Human: (De)humanization in Language, Literature and Culture"
March 6, 2010 - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Plenary Speaker: Professor Deborah Jenson, Duke University
14th Annual Symposium
Hosted by the Association of Graduate Students in Romance Studies
Debates around how "the human" is defined, interrogated and regulated often delineate boundaries that separate the human and its others (e.g. the animal, the divine, the monstrous). Far from being abstract exercises in taxonomy, assessments of these boundaries impose ways of knowing, reading and seeing. Political, ideological, scientific, religious and economic regimes participate in framing the human. Determining who or what counts as human under these regimes has profound consequences. For example, one can be biologically but not politically human (e.g. undocumented workers). One's political "human-ness" can be stripped away or called into question after certain violations of the law (e.g. enemy combatants). Recent genealogies of gender, race and ethnicity remind us to what extent our "humanity" is precarious and contingent upon culturally coherent frames that not only produce the (in)human but reflexively legitimate that production. Definitions of the human are not fixed temporally or qualitatively but rather shaped by various lenses, filters and paradigms. This symposium will consider objects of literary, linguistic and/or cultural study, which engage with frames that produce, perform, disqualify, marginalize, or maintain and (re)appropriate conceptions of the human.
We welcome the submission of abstracts on topics such as (but not limited to):

  • The inhuman

  • Relative or marginal humanities

  • The human and the animal

  • Nature and the human

  • The human and the divine

  • Languages of the human

  • Discourses of human rights

  • Encounters with (in)human others

  • Subjectivity

  • Figures of the child

  • Fantasy and science fiction

  • Mental and physical "disorders"

  • Humanities and the sciences

  • Holocaust studies

  • Genocide studies

  • Feminisms

  • Queer theories and/or gender studies

  • Performance studies

  • Postcolonial studies

  • Agency

  • Collectives as human (e.g. the state, the company)


We encourage submissions from a wide variety of fields including (but not limited to): literature, art history, linguistics, music, theater arts, history, political science, philosophy, medicine, disability, gender and women's studies, religious studies, anthropology, geography, sociology, American studies, African Diaspora studies and cultural studies.
Please send an abstract of up to 300 words in anticipation of a 15-20 minute presentation in English to agsrs@umn.edu by December 31, 2009. Proposals for panels are also welcome.

Syracuse University-Assistant Professor New Media Studies

New Media Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor. Ph.D. required by time of appointment. Application deadline: November 16, 2009.

Syracuse University-Assistant Professor New Media Studies

Tenure-track assistant professor in New Media Studies. The Syracuse University English Department is continuing to expand its focus on Film and Visual Culture. Ph.D. must be in hand at time of appointment. Send detailed letter, CV, and names of three references to Erin Mackie, Chair, English Department, 401 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1170. Applications should be postmarked by 16 November 2009. Syracuse University is an EO/AA employer. An offer will be made contingent upon the availability of funds in the 2011 budget.
Contact Info:
Erin Mackie, Chair
English Department
HL 401
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 1324

esmackie@syr.edu

University of Texas-Pan American Assistant Professor Position

The Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) is seeking an assistant tenure-track professor commencing fall 2010. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. by August 2010. Teaching expectations include both courses in fields of specialization and survey courses in United States history. Initial ranking of completed applications will be on December 1, 2009, but review of files will continue until the position is filled.

University of Texas-Pan American Assistant Professor Position
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN (UTPA), Department of History & Philosophy is seeking an ASSISTANT TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR (F09/10-45) commencing Fall 2010. We prefer a scholar whose research and publishing agenda focuses on Mexican American borderlands history prior to 1877 with a focus on gender and who shows potential for future publication in those fields. Both classroom and research excellence are critical. Applicants must have received the PhD by August 30, 2010. The teaching load is a minimum of 3/3 and the typical undergraduate class is capped at thirty-five. Teaching expectations include both courses in fields of specialization and survey courses in United States history. Salary and benefits are competitive, while housing and other living costs rank among the lowest in the nation.
Applicants should submit
• a letter of application
• curriculum vitae
• transcripts
• three letters of recommendation
• a statement of research and teaching philosophy that includes areas of teaching competence
• and sample course syllabi
Send to: UTPA, College of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office COAS 334, Attn: History Search, 1201 W University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539
Initial ranking of completed applications will be on December 1, 2009, but review of files will continue until the position is filled. Foreign transcripts must be converted to U.S. equivalency. To learn more about the university and college, please visit our websites at www.utpa.edu and http://coah.utpa.edu/.
UTPA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women, minorities, and qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This position is security-sensitive as defined by the Texas Education Code 51.215(c) and Texas Government Code¬ÃŸ411.094(a) (2). Texas law requires faculty members whose primary language is not English to demonstrate proficiency in English as determined by a satisfactory grade of 500 or greater on the International Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Contact Info:
UTPA, College of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office COAS 334,
Attn: History Search,
1201 W University Dr.,
Edinburg, TX 78539
Website: http://coah.utpa.edu/

CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship

The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) at The College of Saint Rose anticipates offering two one-year diversity fellowships for doctoral candidates engaged in completing their dissertations. The one-year non-renewable fellowships carry a $20,000 stipend. Appointment term begins August 2010. Application deadline: December 18, 2009.

CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship
The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) at The College of Saint Rose anticipates offering two one-year diversity fellowships for doctoral candidates engaged in completing their dissertations. CREST seeks applicants whose research addresses issues of diversity central to the Center's interdisciplinary mission. Potential fellows' dissertations should be influenced by some of the following research agendas: race, racial identity, race relations, ethnicity, colonialism, state formation, Diaspora societies, borderlands, and citizenship in regional, national, trans-national, littoral, or comparative contexts.
This one-year non-renewable fellowship carries a $20,000 stipend, on-campus housing, $5,000 in research expenses, courtesy access to local libraries, and office space.
Fellows are expected to complete their dissertations by the end of their fellowship year and will teach one course in their respective discipline during either the fall or spring semester. During their residency, Fellows will present their research and be active participants in CREST's intellectual life.
About CREST
The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) serves as a place for scholars at The College of Saint Rose and across the region to exchange ideas and research on issues related to the social construction of race, ethnicity, and citizenship. CREST researchers gain insights and methodologies from a variety of disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, Africana Studies, Latino Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies, women's studies, critical race studies, urban studies, legal studies, and communication studies. The Center seeks to develop new and better ways to recognize, understand, and intervene in critical public policy issues, always grounding this intervention in broad-based interdisciplinary humanities scholarship.
Eligibility Requirements: (1) a record of outstanding academic achievement; (2) enrollment in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree at the time of application and for the duration of the fellowship; (3) admission to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded; (4) approval of the dissertation proposal by the applicant's committee prior to application; (5) commitment to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; (6) U. S. citizen, regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
Application Deadline: December 18, 2009 Award Announcement: March 1, 2010
Appointment Term: August 20, 2010-May 30, 2011
Only online applications will be accepted. These must consist of a letter of application no longer than two pages, curriculum vitae no longer than two pages, an abstract no longer than ten pages with a description of the dissertation's contribution to the field, a short indication of where you learned about the CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, and three recent letters of recommendation.
Please find full instructions for submitting an online application at the The College of Saint Rose Human Resources home page:
http://www.strose.edu/officesandresources/employment_opportunities
The fellowship announcement is under "faculty positions."
Contact Info:
Applications for the CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011, are only accepted online at the following link:
http://www.strose.edu/officesandresources/employment_opportunities
Website: http://www.strose.edu/CREST

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Indian Studies

Under the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Studies Program seeks two Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. Fellows will receive a $42,000 stipend including health benefits. Application deadline: January 22, 2010.

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Indian Studies
Under the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Studies Program seeks two Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. This fellowship program provides a stipend, a close working association with AIS faculty, and assistance in
furthering the fellow's development as a productive scholar. Applicants should have an ongoing research project that promises to make a notable contribution to
American Indian and Indigenous Studies. While fellows will concentrate on their research, they may choose to teach one course in American Indian Studies.
Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to participate in the intellectual community of the American Indian Studies Program. The Fellowship stipend for the 2010-
2011 academic year is $42,000, including health benefits. An additional $5,000 will be provided for the fellow's research, travel, and related expenses. Candidates
must have completed all Ph.D. requirements by August 15, 2010. Preference will be given to those applicants who have finished their degrees in the past five years.
The one-year fellowship appointment period is from August 16, 2010, to August 15, 2011. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a thorough description of the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship year, two samples of their scholarly writing, and two letters of recommendation to Robert Warrior, Director, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1204 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3818. Applications received by January 22, 2010 will receive full consideration. The review process will continue until the fellowships are filled.
For further information, contact Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Chair, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, American Indian Studies: Phone: (217) 265-9870, Email: tewa@illinois.edu, or visit the Program's website at http://www.ais.illinois.edu
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Assistant/Associate Professor Position in School of Social Transformation

The new School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University Tempe Campus invites applications for a full-time, tenure track assistant or associate professor to begin August 2010. Ph.D. required by time of appointment. Submission deadline: January 5, 2010.

Assistant/Associate Professor Position in School of Social Transformation
The new School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University Tempe Campus invites applications for a full time, tenure track assistant or associate professor to begin August 2010.
The successful candidate will join the faculty of the new School of Social Transformation and will have a joint appointment in two of the school's faculties: African and African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, Justice and Social Inquiry, and Women and Gender Studies. The school's 42 faculty are trained in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. The school seeks to think in more complex ways about race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, social and economic justice, labor, and especially how these inquiries foreground social transformation on local and/or global levels. These inquiries must also engage in collaborative forms of teaching and knowledge creation that will enhance our ability to make new discoveries, create social innovations, and engage with others in changing the world. Some of the research areas in the school include but are not limited to: Cultural Representations of Social Difference, Diasporas, Human Rights, Immigration and Migration, and Sustainability. We encourage potential candidates to go to the school website and learn more about our faculties' research. http://sst.clas.asu.edu
The school seeks a candidate whose research focuses primarily on processes of social change or social transformation, engages intersectional, transdisciplinary research, and explores global and local interconnections. The candidate will contribute to the development of diverse new degrees and certificates.
Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. by August 2010 in a relevant field such as: African and African American studies, Asian American/Pacific Islander studies, cultural anthropology, economics,ethnic studies, geography, history, justice studies, literature, political science, sociology, women's studies; ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary and collaborative setting; and a demonstrated record of scholarly achievement, including research and teaching, in the study of social change and transformation. Grant potential and evidence of publication activity desired.
Please email a single pdf file containing letter of application, cv, and writing sample to r2@asu.edu, and have three letters of recommendation sent to: School of Social Transformation Search Committee, c/o Roisan Rubio, Arizona State University, PO Box 874902, Tempe, AZ 85287-4902
Deadline for submission of all materials is January 5, 2010. For more information about SST and this position, please visit http://sst.clas.asu.edu http://sst.clas.asu.edu/ , or contact Dr. Karen J. Leong at karen.leong@asu.edu
Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For more information please see https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/ . Background check is required for employment.

"Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art"

The art history department is pleased to announce "Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art" a presentation by Professor Stephen F. Eisenman, from Northwestern University on November 19, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in Blegen 245.

"Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art"
On Thursday, November 19th at 4:30, in Blegen 245, Professor Stephen F. Eisenman, from Northwestern University, will present a lecture entitled "Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art."
There exists a portmanteau of concepts - spectacle, other, rhizomatic, transnational, flows, simultaneity, space, place, sovereignty, hybridity, multivocality, subaltern, mass, multitide, network - which, if sometimes used loosely, at least provide the common jargon necessary for the formation of a World History of Art. But theoretical perspicuity does not necessarily constitute disciplinary rigor. However subtle and sophisticated scholars may be about how to go about the study of world art, they have achieved little consensus about what to study, sometimes reverting to an otherwise discredited cultural relativism. The result is impressionistic chaos. The only alternative, Eisenman argues, is cultural discrimination, recognizing however that judgments concerning the subject matter of the World History of Art will always be contingent. If they ever solidify, art history will be back in the bad old days of ossified canons and ethnocentrism. But in order to discriminate, it is necessary to have criteria. The lecture offers three possible criteria for inclusion in a World History of Art.
Stephen F. Eisenman (Ph.D. 1984, Princeton; Professor) has dedicated his career to the proposition that the best scholarship requires a critical engagement with the present as well as the past. He thus researches, writes and reads across many disciplines, and is active in contemporary social and political movements. He is the author of seven major books and exhibition catalogues, including The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992), Gauguin's Skirt (1997), and The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007). He is also the editor and principle author of the most widely used textbook in its field, Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (1994/third edition 2007). Professor Eisenman has curated many exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and his next one, Impressionism -- The Ecological Landscapes will be held at the Complesso Vittoriano in Rome and open in March 2010. Throughout 2008-2009, Stephen Eisenman has been working with a group of Chicago artists, lawyers, and activists to end torture in a notorious Illinois prison. His article on the subject, "The Resistible Rise and Predictable Fall of the American Supermax," will be published in Monthly Review in 2010. In 2009-2010, Eisenman with serve as Chair of the General Faculty Committee, the leading governance organ of the faculty of Northwestern University.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Berkshire Conference on Women's History-Call for Papers

University of Massachusetts-Amherst is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Berkshire Conference on Women's History, "Generations: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space", on June 9-12, 2009. Proposal deadline: March 1, 2010.

Berkshire Conference on Women's History-Call for Papers
"GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space"
June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Proposals due March 1, 2010
The Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011. 2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women's History and the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, which was first
celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of "Generations" reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions such as:
* How have women's generative experiences - from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building - varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?
* What are the politics of "generation"? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?
* Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to reinscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?
* What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature?
To engender further, open-ended engagement with these and other issues, the 2011 conference will include workshops dedicated to discussing precirculated papers on questions and problems
(epistemological, methodological, substantive) provoked by the notion of "Generations."
The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions carefully. To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be principally organized along thematic rather than national lines and
therefore proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of scholars with expertise in a particular thematic, rather than geographic, field. All proposals must be directed to ONE of the
following subcommittees and should be submitted electronically. Please list a second choice for the subcommittee to vet your proposal but do not submit to more than one subcommittee. Instructions for submission will be posted on the Berkshire Conference website (www.berksconference.org) by November 1, 2009.
Preference will be given to discussions of any topic across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods. However, unattached papers and proposals that fall within a single nation/region will also be given full consideration. As a forum dedicated to encouraging innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and transnational conversation, the Berkshire conference continues to encourage submissions from graduate students, international scholars, independent scholars, filmmakers, and to welcome a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Paper abstracts should be no longer than 250 words; panel (2-3 papers and a comment), roundtable (3 or more short papers) and workshop (1-2 precirculated papers) proposals should also include a summary abstract of no more than 500 words. Each submission must include the cover form and a short cv for each presenter. If you have questions about the most appropriate subcommittee for your proposal or problems with electronic
submission, please direct them to Jennifer Spear (jms25@sfu.ca).
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2010.
*Beauty and the Body, Stephanie Camp
*Migrations : race, gender and activism, Annelise Orleck
*Economies, Labors, and Consumption, Tracey Deutsch
War, Violence, and Terror, Madhavi Kale
Youth and Aging, Jennifer Spear
*Race in Global Perspective, Marilyn Lake
*Health and Medicine, Julie Livingston
*Sexuality, Kathy Brown
Religion: belief, practice, communities, Madhavi Kale
Politics and the State, Margot Canaday

MNFTC Minnesota Week of Action

Minnesota Fair Trade Commission is pleased to announce their Minnesota Week of Action (November 30-December 5, 2009).

MNFTC Minnesota Week of Action
See flyer below for detailed calendar events:
SeattlePlus10_MNweek of action.pdf

"Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers and the Service Sector"

The University of Minnesota Labor Education Service is pleased to announce a free screening of the short film, "Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers and the Service Sector" on November 10, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the MCTC Library.

"Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers and the Service Sector"
Please see attachment below for flyer.
eyes on the fries flyer.pdf

Monday, November 2, 2009

"Jazz' and the Revolutionary Imagination: Afro/Asian Identities, New Sounds and a New World"

"'Jazz' and the Revolutionary Imagination: Afro/Asian Identities, New Sounds and a New World" will be presented by Fred Ho Monday, November 9, 2009. This lecture & performance will begin at 4pm in Coffman Memorial Union's The Whole Music Club.

"Jazz' and the Revolutionary Imagination: Afro/Asian Identities, New Sounds and a New World"
Author, composer, activist, and musician Fred Ho will be performing Monday, November 9, 2009 at Coffman Memorial Union's The Whole Music Club. Fred Ho is a well-known saxophonist and author of: Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: Collected Political, Cultural and Creative Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and AFRO/ASIA: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African and Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2006)
This event is co-sponsored by the African and African American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program.
See attachment below for flyer:
FredHo.pdf

AMST 8920

AMST 8920 Special Topics course, "Personal Narratives in Interdisciplinary Research" for spring 2010 will be taught by Professor Jennifer L. Pierce on Tuesdays from 1:25 - 3:20 p.m.

AMST 8920
Course Description: This course examines epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions related to research using personal narrative sources such as autobiographies, memoirs, oral histories, in-depth interviews, diaries, and letters. As narrative constructions about selves, these sources can provide unique insights into subjectivity, meaning, emotions, and desires that other kinds of social science and historical evidence cannot. The evidence presented in personal narratives is unabashedly subjective and, its narrative logic presents a story of an individual subject changing and developing over time. Their analysis can provide insights into the history of the "self" and its variations at the same time that they have the potential to enrich theories of social action and human agency. We begin by reading theoretical scholarship about personal narratives followed by a focus on different kinds of studies analyzing personal narrative sources in fields such as American studies, history, sociology, and anthropology. In the final section of the course, we address ethics of research drawing from life stories.
*Theoretical and Epistemological Issues*
Paul John Eakin, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves (Cornell University Press, 1999)
Mary Jo Maynes and Jennifer L. Pierce, Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in Social Science and in History(Cornell University Press, 2008)
Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Albany: State University of New York, 1991) [selections]
Arthur Frank, The Wounded Storyteller
*Oral history and Autobiographical Life Stories *
Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Stories: A Carolina Memoir

Hokulani Aikau et al., Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
*Using more than one Life Story: Adolescent Life Stories and Coming out Stories*
Wendy Luttrell, Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens. (Routledge, 2003)
Martin Duberman, Stonewall
*Composite Life histories*
Marion Goldman, Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult (Michigan, 2001).
*Histories of Selves: Diaries and Letters as Personal Narrative Sources*
Joan Brumberg, The Body Project
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life in the Antebellum Slave Market
*Hybrid Forms*
Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman
*Ethics and Life Writing*
Thomas Coules, Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell U Press, 2004)