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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

3rd Year Students: Contact Melanie if you are planning to submit your Portfolio Exam materials on the spring semester submission date of April 2

The spring semester date on which Written Preliminary Portfolio Exam materials are accepted by the department is April 2 at 12:00 Noon. If you are planning to submit your Portfolio Exam materials for this semester, contact Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) regarding your intent to submit on April 2 and to confirm the members of your examination committee.

2012 May Term Dissertation Writing Retreat

The Center for Writing and the Graduate School's annual 3-week on-campus Dissertation Writing Retreat will be held this year from May 21st-June 7th, 2012. All dissertation-writing graduate students are invited to apply for one of the 15 open seats, which is a free opportunity for concentrated writing time in a supportive group setting. Applications due: April 9th by 5 p.m.

Dear Dissertator,
As you know, summer offers a unique opportunity for graduate students to work on their dissertations without having to divide their time between teaching and writing. Thanks to generous support from the Graduate School, the Center for Writing's Student Writing Support (SWS) program offers a free annual Dissertation Writing Retreat each summer. In the retreat, fifteen dissertation writers from across the University gather in 15 Nicholson Hall for three weeks of concentrated dissertation-writing time in a supportive group setting. This year's retreat will be held Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day). The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 9. Please see application details later in this letter, or at writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat.
Retreat Expectations and Activities
Participants in the retreat...
do focused, sustained work on their dissertations in scheduled blocks of writing time participate in optional meetings with experienced SWS consultants participate in brief warm-up activities designed to facilitate writing pledge not to use the internet or email during the hours of the retreat participate in three Tuesday lunch discussions on issues and strategies related to dissertation writing participate in two 15-minute assessments of the program during the course of the retreat (to help make the retreat as useful as possible for current and future participants) have no other teaching or research responsibilities during May Term
Writing Retreat Location and Schedule
If you are selected, you will gather with other retreat participants Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day), from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in 15 Nicholson Hall, which also houses a computer lab. Coffee, tea, and healthy snacks will be available. We will break for lunch from 12:15-1:15 each day. On Tuesdays, participants will be provided with lunch during a discussion of dissertation writing issues and strategies. Participants must commit to the full 11-day retreat schedule.
How to apply
Applications must be emailed to Katie Levin at kslevin@umn.edu no earlier than Monday, March 26, and no later than Monday, April 9, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. The application consists of the following three parts:
From your advisor
a brief email endorsing your participation in the retreat. This email should be sent directly from your advisor to Katie Levin atkslevin@umn.edu.
From you
· a statement (no longer than one single-spaced page) describing how participating in this retreat will help you make progress on your dissertation. In other words, what would you gain from this dissertation retreat that you couldn't do on your own?
· an abstract of your dissertation (no longer than two single-spaced pages). Because so much of the retreat is devoted to sustained writing (rather than research) time, writers whose prospectuses have not yet been approved by their departments or who still need to complete fieldwork should wait until next year to apply.
Selection criteria
Our goal is to accept fifteen participants from a wide variety of disciplines. Our first consideration will be the quality of each application; ultimately, in the event of numerous highly competitive applications, we will favor applications representing candidates from a diversity of disciplines to enrich the retreat.
Applications from writers who have not won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in previous years will be favored over applications from those who have previously won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.
Interested? Questions?
To learn more and to hear from past participants, please visit writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat. And, if you have further questions, please feel free to get in touch with me (kslevin@umn.edu; 612.624.7720).

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants Program

Each spring and fall, the Gerald R. Ford Foundation awards a number of grants of up to $2,000 each in support of research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Grants defray North American travel, living, and photocopy expenses for a research trip to the Ford Library. Postmark deadlines for applications are March 15th, 2012 and September 15th, 2012. Click here for more details.

2012 Ford Scholar Award

The Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter is an annual award of $5,000 given to a doctoral student to support dissertation research and writing on an aspect of the United States political process and public policy, broadly defined. Applicants must have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. program (coursework and examinations) by the application deadline, except for the dissertation. The postmark deadline to apply: May 1, 2012. Click here for more info.

CFP: Anthology on Queer Utopias

Palgrave MacMillian seeks submissions for their anthology on queer utopias titled "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias". The anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias and contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. Submission deadline: ASAP

Call for Papers
Title: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias
Editor: Angela Jones, PhD, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York
This is a second call for papers for an important anthology on queer utopias. The project is under review with Palgrave McMillan. Editor, Burke Gerstenschlager is excited about the project. The series editors for their Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Series have sent the project out for review. In the interim, this time has allowed us to reissue the call for papers because the publisher has indicated that there is space to add additional chapters. We are excited to issue this second call for papers for additional submissions.
http://us.macmillan.com/series/CriticalStudiesinGenderSexualityandCulture
This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. This book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and will interrogate how homonormativity conditions many queer scholars' visions of the future and queer spaces. This book will answer the following questions: how do we define queer space? Are there queer utopias? Are people creating queer spaces? How? Where? Moreover, this work will not only focus on gay, lesbian, and transgendered spaces. It aims to explore other, less well known queer spaces. Queer individuals are becoming more visible and are building both tangible and imagined social spaces; this powerful transition is occurring before our eyes and needs to be documented.
Contributors are encouraged to consider:
1) What is queer space?
2) Are there queer utopias? How do you understand this term?
3) Are there spaces real or imagined where hegemonic heterosexist discourses cease to regulate bodies?
Please forward a letter of interest, updated CV, and a detailed abstract (250-400 words)
Please forward submissions and or any questions to: jonesa@farmingdale.edu as soon as possible.
About the Editor:
Angela Jones is currently assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. Her research interests include African American historiography, social movements, gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Jones is the author of numerous scholarly publications. Her forthcoming book, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama is being published by Routledge and will be released in the fall of 2012. Jones is the author of African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. She is also the author of numerous journal articles.

Two Upcoming Presentations on Critical Theory

The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium Series "Capital and Crisis" invites you to two upcoming presentations from outstanding scholars in critical theory: Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor will present on Friday, March 2nd at 1:30pm and Professor Alex Demirovic will present on Tuesday, March 6th at 5:00pm. Both events will be held in room 1314 Social Science Tower.

1. Professor Hullot-Kentor is chair of the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford universities and written widely on Adorno. He has published among other works Things Beyond Resemblance, a collection of essays on critical theory. Professor Hullot-Kentor has translated various of Adorno's works such as Philosophy of Modern Music, and was given the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for his translation of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, published by the University of Minnesota Press. (The Department of Political Science thanks University of Minnesota Regents Professor Dr. Richard Leppert for making Hullot-Kentor's visit possible to the Colloquium.)
Professor Hullot- Kentor will present on Friday 2 March 2012, 1:30 p.m. his paper: "Severe Clear: Sacrifice and Right Wishing"
Abstract: In the context of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a sudden deepening of the economic crisis partly or entirely overshadowing the occasion, we hear raised from every corner primordial demands for the necessity of sacrifice and self-inflicted wounds as the only adequate response to the gravity of the situation. The intensification of the economic calamity itself has by any measure been intentional, while nationwide the only audible voices seem to be those calling for austerity and for every budget to be 'cut.' The moment thus urgently prompts the question of whether the seminal insight that has lapsed­-the insight from which the whole of radical modernism developed­-can be recovered: the insight into the primitive in ourselves and in the world around us.`Severe Clear,' the weather alert issued to pilots on September 11th, 2001, is an excursus on this question that examines in detail the sacral edifice now being constructed in lower Manhattan.
2. In collaboration with The European Studies Consortium, The German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Department, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Institute for Global Studies, The Center for Austrian Studies, and Carleton College, the Colloquium is glad to have Dr. Alex Demirovic, Professor of Political Theory, Political Sociology, and Political Science at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB).
Professor Demirovic has also taught at the universities of Frankfurt, Leipzig, Vienna, Wuppertal, and Toronto. He is also at the Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie. Professor Demirovic's research interests are on the first generation of Critical Theory of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, state theory, critical economics, post-structuralist analysis of power and discourse, and critical research on culture. His books include Beyond Aesthetics: The discursive order of Marxist aesthetics; Nicos Poulantzas: Actuality and Problems of Materialist State Theory; Democracy and Domination: Aspects of Critical Social Theory; The Non-conformist Intellectual: From Critical Theory to Frankfurt School; Economic Democracy: Positions, Problems, and Perspectives; Active Intolerance, etc.
Professor Demirovic will present on Tuesday 6 March 2012, 5:00 p.m. his paper: "Reform, Revolution, Transformation"
Abstract: "Our societies are confronted with a myriad of serious problems: global warming and climate change, desertification or the loss of rain forests, worldwide migration, unemployment and increase of precarious work, social polarisation and the hollowing out of democracy, economic and finance crisis or public household debt, disturbance of individual psychic and somatic as well as familial reproduction. We can summarize all these and other phenomena as multiple crises that urge for a quick and deep social change. How can conceive of this change? In the tradition of polical action and theory there are three different ways to conceptualize such a pressing and challenging reality: revolution, reform or transformation. These concepts will be examined on the background of historical experiences and shortcomings."
Please find attached the papers for both presentations:
The Colloquium meets in the Benjamin Lippincott Room, 1314 Social Sciences Building.
Please visit http://www.polisci.umn.edu/deptcolloquium/ for more information on the 2011-2012 Colloquium's description and current schedule.

Mural presentation by artist Miguel Rep

"Mural Por Los Derechos Humanos", a mural depicting the struggles for Human Rights in Argentina in the last decades, will be presented by artist and cartoonist Miguel Rep on Saturday, March 3rd at 11:00am in room 416 Folwell Hall. The event is in conjunction with the XVII the State of Iberoamerican Studies Series "Human Rights Across the Disciplines".

Miguel Rep is an artist and cartoonist. He has had many individual exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, France and Spain. He has received several awards in Argentina, Spain, Japan, and Cuba.
He has published more tan twenty books, among them: Bellas Artes, Y Rep hizo los barrios, Postales, Platinum Plus, La grandeza y la CHIQUEZA,Contratapas, Auxilio, vamos a nacer, and Rep para todos. Rep is known for having created nearly sixty popular characters and series, such as El niño azul, Postales, Bellas Artes, Barrios de Buenos Aires, Gaspar, el Revolú y Lukas. He has been publishing in the newspaper Página/12 since the first issue, and in the magazine Veintitrés and Fierro.
Since 2003 he has painted some forty murals in hospitals, book fairs, universitites, parks, cultural centers, and museums in Argentina, Spain, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and German, including Mural Treinta (2006), Mural sobre la Transicion española (2008), Desoncierto sinfónico (2008), with Luis Felipe Noé, León Ferrari and Adolfo Nigro, Mural del Bicentenario (2010), and a mural in the Argentine Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2010). More recently, following his illustration of a new edition of Don Quijote, with 260 drawings , he painted Murales de Hermanamiento (2011) as a tribute to Miguel de Cervantes when Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Azul (Argentina) became sister cities.
This event is sponsored by
The University of Minnesota Imagine Fund, supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation; The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; The College of Liberal Arts; The Institute for Global Studies; And the Global Program, the Strategy Alliance's Global Spotlight Initiative and and Gustavus Adolphus College
(Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies).

"Metronatural: Inventing Urban Nature in Seattle" Talk by Andrew Karvonen

Join the Geography Coffee Hour this Thursday, March 1st at 3:45pm in room 445 Blegen Hall featuring Andrew Karvonen's presentation "Metronatural: Inventing Urban Nature in Seattle".

Andrew Karvonen:
Research Fellow, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester
Seattle is often recognized as a city in harmony in nature, a metropolis inseparable from and infused with the dramatic and picturesque Pacific Northwest landscape. However, the historical record of Seattle reveals the supposedly harmonious relationship between humans and nature to be an invention of local and regional boosters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who implemented large-scale engineering projects to rationalise the landscape. The unintended economic, environmental, and social consequences of their so-called 'Promethean' approach to urban nature would be exposed in the 1950s but the 'metronatural' reputation of Seattle persists. In this presentation, I examine the politics of nature in the historic development of Seattle to understand how changing perceptions of the urban landscape are related to different forms of expertise, governance, and citizenship.

www.manchester.ac.uk/sed/andrew.karvonen

NEW BOOK: Politics of Urban Runoff: Nature, Technology and the Sustainable City

"Women in Afghanistan: Securing Their Future" Presentation

"Women in Afghanistan: Securing Their Future" a talk with David Cortright in honor of International Women's Day will be held on Friday, March 9th in the Humphrey School Atrium beginning at 6:30pm. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

David Cortright directs Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and co-authored Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan
"The prospect of a political solution to the Afghan war has generated much public debate about the fate of Afghan women. Since the overthrow of the Taliban by U.S.-led forces in 2001, the promotion of Afghan women's rights has been a highly politicized appendage of the military intervention. International efforts to assist women have produced mixed results: while Afghan women have achieved improvements in their health, education, and economic and political participation, escalating violence has eroded those gains in many provinces ... Because of the symbolic and cultural value of women in Islamic society, differing views on women's roles have been a battleground over which competing visions for Afghan society and claims to power have been fought. Women -- so often objectified in times of war -- have been at the frontlines of the Afghan conflict."
Full report at:
http://www.nd.edu/~jfallon2/WomenAfghanistanReport.pdf
Free but registration required at: http://afghanistanwomen2012.eventbrite.com/
Sponsored by:
Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/wpp/
Women's Action for New Directions: Women Legislators Lobby (WiLL) http://www.willwand.org/
Co-sponsors:
Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota http://hrp.cla.umn.edu/about/
Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota http://www.icgc.umn.edu/
World Without Genocide http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/
Friends for a Nonviolent World http://fnvw.org/
AAUW Minnesota http://www.aauwmn.org/
Advocates for Human Rights http://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/
St. Catherine University School of Business and Leadership http://www.stkate.edu/schools/sbl/

"Gender and Sexuality and the Black Arts Movement" Lecture

Join the Department of OF Theatre Arts & Dance and Penumbra Theater for Sydne Mahone's lecture entitled "Gender and Sexuality and the Black Arts Movement" on Thursday, March 1st at 7:00pm in the In-flux Auditorium, room 110 E Regis Center for Art.

The lecture will be followed by a conversation involving Sydne Mahone, Dominic Taylor and Lou Bellamy. It's FREE, and light refreshments will be provided.
For more details: see the Dept of Theatre Arts and Dance website.
Click here for a full list of Lecture Series Events.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Time change for Preliminary Portfolio Exam Workshop

NOTE: The "Preliminary Portfolio Exam" workshop will begin at 3:45pm (instead of 3:30) on Monday, February 27th in the Scott Hall Commons.

American Studies Teaching and Assisting Applications for 2012-13

To apply for a TA-ship next year, please complete the attached application (s). One is a form used to indicate your preference for assisting in the classroom, and the other for teaching. Because assisting positions are limited we recommend that all students who will be ABD next year also apply to the teaching pool. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, March 21st, 2012.

American Studies Teaching and Assisting Applications for 2012-13
To apply for a TA-ship next year, please complete the attached application (s). One is a form used to indicate your preference for assisting in the classroom, the other for teaching. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Because assisting positions are limited we recommend that all students who will be ABD next year also apply to the teaching pool. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, March 21st, 2012. The processes and selection criteria by which teaching assistant resources are distributed in American Studies are intended to seek balance among the following rationales: curricular needs, programmatic obligations, equity, and merit. The goal of the Department is that every graduate student will, at some point before graduation, have the opportunity to teach his or her own American Studies course. In accordance with University policy, the Chair of the Department ultimately makes staffing decisions.
Click here for Application for the Teaching Pool in the Department of American Studies Fall 2012, Spring 2013
Click here for Application for the Department of American Studies Teaching Assistant Pool Fall 2012, Spring 2013

Child's Book Reviewed

Prof. Brenda Child's book Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community was reviewed by the Star Tribune. Click here to read the article.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Carwright received PhD

Ryan Cartwright has received his PhD with his dissertation titled "Peculiar Places: A Queer History of Rural Nonconformity." Rod Ferguson and Kevin Murphy, advisers.

GWMH "Blurring the Color Lines: Photography in the Colonial Capital of Lourenco Marques 1950-1975"

Join the Graduate Workshop in Modern History for Drew Thompson's presentation "Blurring the Color Lines: Photography in the Colonial Capital of Lourenço Marques 1950-1975" held Wednesday, February 29th at 12pm in room 25 in Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Professor Saje Mathieu of the History Department will be providing faculty comment.
Hard copies will be available in the history department main office in 1110 Heller Hall, and an electronic version will also available at the GWMH Moodle site (see below).
A light lunch will be provided, and we look forward to seeing you there!
*** TO ACCESS THE WORKSHOP WEBSITE***
Option 1: If you have a Moodle account and are logged in, go to https://moodle.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=17278 and enter the one-time enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Option 2: If you prefer to access the site anonymously, go to http://www.moodle.umn.edu and scroll down on the left-hand side to click on "Read-only access." Next, go to https://moodle.umn.edu/course/enrol.php?id=17278 (or search for "Graduate Workshop in Modern History") and enter the enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Please contact Andy Wilhide (wilh0033@umn.edu) with any problems accessing the paper.

"From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics" Legal History Workshop

Sam Moyn from Columbia University will be presenting "From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics" at the Legal History Workshop session on Friday, February 24th in room 55 of Mondale Hall from 12:15 to 2:10pm. A light lunch and refreshments will be available. Click here for more info.

PCard Receipts Due

Please submit receipts for all February PCard purchases to Laura by Thursday, March 1st.

Grad Student Networking Resources & Upcoming Events

CLA's Office of Research and Graduate Programs would like to draw your attention to the following career and networking resources and events. Click here for more info.

Assistant Professor Position School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University

The School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin August 2012. The position will be a joint appointment between the School of Cultural and Critical Studies and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (formerly known as the Women's Studies Program). Earned PhD in Women's Studies or related discipline or interdisciplinary field strongly preferred; A.B.D. considered. Application deadline: March 8th, 2012.

We are searching for candidates who will make dynamic contributions to the curriculum and help build the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program's visibility on campus and in the region. The Program offers a graduate certificate, major, and minor in Women's Studies and a new minor in Sexuality Studies. Applicants' research and teaching must contribute to the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and other units in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies.
Demonstrated ability to teach online and face-to-face graduate and undergraduate courses and to contribute to Sexuality Studies required. Teaching responsibilities will include: a wide array of undergraduate and graduate courses in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program; a new School-level service-learning course; and other courses that serve the interdisciplinary School of Cultural and Critical Studies. Earned Ph.D. in Women's Studies or related discipline or interdisciplinary field strongly preferred; A.B.D. considered. Candidates who contribute to underrepresented fields in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and who have demonstrated commitment to diversity and global issues preferred.
Applicants should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, an example of scholarly work, and evidence of teaching effectiveness. Additionally, applicants should arrange for three confidential and current letters of recommendation to be mailed directly. Applications can be submitted to:
Chair
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Search Committee
School of Cultural and Critical Studies
228 Shatzel Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0214
419-372-2982 (phone)
419-372-0330 (fax)

All applications must be postmarked by March 8, 2012.

Transcript showing highest degree will be required of final candidates. Bowling Green State University is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity employer and educational institution.
Click here for job posting.

Brown University Postdoc Fellowship in Public Humanities

The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in public humanities for the academic year 2012-13. While the nature of an applicant's specific interests and areas of expertise is left open, these should be complementary to the present makeup of the Center. Annual (12-month) salary is $45,000 plus additional supplement to allow for single person health and dental coverage from university providers. Application deadline: March 1, 2012.

Areas of interest: documentary studies, community memory, digital public humanities, cultural heritage, cultural policy, and historic preservation.
Applicants must normally have received their Ph.D. from an institution other than Brown within the last five years and have expertise and experience working in the public humanities, and an interest in working with students in an interdisciplinary and public context. In addition to pursuing his or her own projects, the successful candidate will be expected to teach one course per semester, and participate actively in the ongoing development of the Center, via organization of reading or working groups or community projects that extend or develop new university-community connections. This will be a one-year position, beginning on July 1, 2012, with possibility of extension to a second year. Annual (12-month) salary is $45,000, plus additional taxable salary supplement to allow for single person health and dental coverage from university providers.
Candidates should send a cv, 2-3 page statement of interests, and potential syllabus to publichumanities@brown.edu with the subject line: "Post-doctoral Fellowship in Public Humanities first and last name".
They should arrange to have three confidential letters of reference sent directly to the above address. For full consideration, application materials should arrive by March 1, 2012
The search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
Brown is an EEO/AA employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
More information on the John Nicholas Brown Center is available at www.brown.edu/JNBC.

NY Public Library LGBT Research Travel Grant

Each year, the New York Public Library provides stipends for up to three Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library's premier LGBT history collections. The program is limited to emerging scholars--those without permanent academic appointments -or those who are unaffiliated with an academic institution. Application deadline: April 1st, 2012.

The New York Public Library LGBT Visiting Scholars Program: Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars
Proposed research projects should be based upon the NYPL's unique archival holdings. Information on the Library's holdings can be found at:
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/138008
Recipients must supply a written summary of their findings upon completion of their work. Interested applicants should send a 3-5 page research proposal specifying the relevant collections at the Library for their project, a draft budget and itinerary for their planned trip, a CV, and an appropriate letter of recommendation. Applications should be sent to:
Jason Baumann
The New York Public Library
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue, South Court 3
New York, NY 10018.
Applications must be received by April 1. Notice of awards will be sent beginning May 1st.
The Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars are funded by the generous support of Martin Duberman and Eli Zal.
If you have any questions about the program or the Library's
collections, please contact Jason Baumann, jasonbaumann@nypl.org.
http://lgbt.nypl.org

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

American Studies Assembly Meeting Agenda for Monday, Feb 20th at 3:30pm

All Core and Affiliate faculty and graduate and undergraduate students are invited to the American Studies Assembly meeting Monday, February 20th at 3:30pm in the Commons, room 105 Scott Hall. The tentative agenda for the meeting includes updates on recruitment weekend and Noble lecture and a discussion on continuing to build intellectual community. Please send suggestions for additional agenda items to Colleen at henne020@umn.edu.

"Work of American Studies" series workshop is Monday, February 27 on the topic of "Preliminary Portfolio Exam"

The next "Work of American Studies" series workshop is Monday, February 27th at 3:30pm in the Scott Hall Commons on the topic of "Preliminary Portfolio Exam". This workshop will review fulfilling the Preliminary Portfolio Exam requirement, provide guidance on preparing for the exam, and compiling portfolio components. Please review relevant sections of the handbook and come with your questions. Click here for the most up-to-date version of the grad handbook.

Center for Jewish Studies Izun/Mizan Film Series 3 events

Izun/Mizan: A Film and Dialogue Series at the University of Minnesota will present three evenings of award-winning films that explore the complexity of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict followed by dialog and listening between audience members. The first evening will be on Thursday, February 23rd at 5:30pm in room 135 Nicholson Hall.

Designed for interfaith communities as well as college campuses, IZUN/MIZAN will feature award-winning films that portray the complexity of the Israeli/Palestinian conundrum, followed by an in-depth, respectful dialogue guided by trained facilitators about the issues raised in the film and the conflict itself.
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Departments of History, German, Scandinavian and Dutch, Gender and Women's Studies and housed under the Center for Jewish Studies, Izun/Mizan will feature the film above plus twp others on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.
My So Called Enemy (http://mysocalledenemy.com/), Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, 5:30-8 p.m
City of Borders (http://cityofborders.com/), Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 5:30-8 p.m.

Precious Life (http://www.preciouslifemovie.com/ ), Thursday, April 19, 2012, 5:30-8 p.m.
Nicholson Hall, Room #135, 216 Pillsbury Dr SE, Mpls, MN 55455
Dinner will be provided at the University of Minnesota Series.
Events are free of charge but donations will gladly be accepted at the door.
Izun/Mizan is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, and with the support of Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council, an initiative of the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, the sponsoring agencies and departments at the University of Minnesota.
IZUN/MIZAN: A Film and Dialogue Series can be found online at http://www.razoo.com/story/Izun-Mizan-A-Film-And-Dialogue-Series-1

"The Presence of 'America' in India" Conference at UI-Urbana-Champaign

The International Forum for U.S. Studies will be hosting the conference "The Presence of 'America' in India: Where and How Does 'America' Appear and What are the Effects". The conference will be free and open to the public on April 5-7, 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

SAVE THE DATE
CONFERENCE:
The Presence of"America" in India: Where and How Does "America" Appear and What are the Effects?
Dates: April5-7, 2012
Location: Levis Faculty Center - TBA (UIUC), 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL
Contact: Anita Kaiser
Email: arkaiser@illinois.edu
Sponsor: International Forum for U.S. Studies
During the last decade, the circulation of ideas, commodities, cultural practices, and cultural products perceived as coming from the U.S. and gaining traction in India has accelerated. We understand this process as a dialectical one, full of multiple transformations/translations/ and effects, and with a substantial history, where India is not merely a "receiving" region, but rather a complex set of national and subnational cultural and political groups actively involved in articulating relationships to "America." We use the term "America" advisedly as it does not presume to reference all of the Americas but rather to capture the sense of the U.S. as both a geo-political entity and a cultural imaginary, that is, not only as a political actor, mediating between Pakistan and India, but also as a cultural influence in many of the contemporary changes in Indian daily life and institutional structures. These include shifting practices of food consumption, modes of fashion, notions of secular democratic politics, the restructuring of Indian higher education institutions, the emphasis on "American" accents in English speech, employment in U.S. corporation customer service "call centers," the impact of the presence of the US business corporations (such as IBM), new developments in Indian agriculture and engineering, the migration of hip hop style dancing into Bollywood musicals, the much contested"brain drain" to the United States, and so on.
Invited plenary speakers from India and the U.S.including UIUC are confirmed. More details to follow. For additional information please visit IFUSS: http://ips.illinois.edu/ifuss/
FREE& OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Co-sponsors:
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - India Studies Fund, College of Business, College of Education,
College of Liberal Arts, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Sociology, Hewlett International Conference Grant, International Programs and Studies, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Religious Studies, School of Social Work, UIUC Office of Public Relations, Vice Chancellor for Research

Economic and Social Justice in the 21st Century Conference at Macalester

The American Studies Department at Macalester College is hosting the 13th annual American Studies Conference, "Economic and Social Justice in the 21st Century" on Thursday, February 23rd and Friday, February 24th, 2012. The conference seeks to highlight the links among scholarship, activism, and civic engagement. Click here for more info.

Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at Macalester College invites applications for a one-year, full-time Visiting Assistant Professor in social sciences or natural sciences to begin August 27, 2012. Area of specialization is open, but a strong preference will be given to applicants with research and teaching experience in feminist and queer theory and LGBT studies. Position is benefits-eligible and salary will be commensurate with experience. A PhD by time of appointment is required. Application deadline: March 2, 2012.

Standard teaching load is 3/2 (including introductory and intermediate courses); position is benefits-eligible and salary will be commensurate with experience. A Ph.D. by time of appointment is required.
Candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, graduate transcripts, list of three academic references, and a sample syllabus by March 2nd, 2012, to Dr. Jane Rhodes, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105 (rhodes@macalester.edu).

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

American Studies Teaching Application for Summer 2012

To apply for a summer teaching position, please complete the attached application. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012.

American Studies Teaching Application for Summer 2012
To apply for a summer teaching position, please complete the attached application. To be eligible for the teaching positions you must have passed your preliminary examinations. Please note we will be offering AMST 3114 America in International Perspective for May Term this year. Please feel free to contact Colleen (612-624-1871) with any questions. The deadline for the application is Wednesday, February 29th, 2012. The processes and selection criteria by which teaching assistant resources are distributed in American Studies are intended to seek balance among the following rationales: curricular needs, programmatic obligations, equity, and merit. The goal of the Department is that every graduate student will, at some point before graduation, have the opportunity to teach his or her own American Studies course. In accordance with University policy, the Chair of the Department ultimately makes staffing decisions.
Application attachment:
App Teaching Pool Summer 2012.docx

Child's Holding Our World Together February Events

Professor Brenda Child published her book Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking, 2012). She will discuss the book at two events in the coming weeks, one at Black Bear Crossings and one at the University Bookstore . Child book.jpg

The Circle presents an evening with nationally known Ojibwe writers David Treuer and Brenda Child at Black Bear Crossings on the Lake on February 20th, 2012 from 5:00 - 7:00pm. Click here for an event flyer.
The University of Minnesota Bookstores features Brenda Child on Thursday, February 23rd at 4:00pm at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union. For more info, please click here.

Dillon's Essay in Radical History Review

Current graduate student Steve Dillon had his essay "Possessed by Death: The Neoliberal-Carceral State, Black Feminism, and the Afterlife of Slavery" in the latest issue of the Radical History Review: Genealogies of Neoliberalism, Volume 2012, Number 112. Click here for an abstract.

Murphy's Essay in Radical History Review

Ryan Murphy, PhD '10, had his essay "United Airlines is for Lover's?: Flight Attendant Activism and the Family Values Economy in the 1990s" in the latest issue of Radical History Review: Genealogies of Neoliberalism, Volume 2012, Number 112. Click here for an abstract.

Wiggins's Essay in World Film Locations: Paris

Current graduate student Ben Wiggins's essay on the film Story of a Three-Day Pass was published in World Film Locations: Paris (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Click here for more info on the book.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

IAS Forum on "Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary"

Join the IAS for "Questions Without Borders: Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary", a forum on why large research universities need to do more to offer interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate education. The event will be held on Monday, February 13th at 3:30pm in the Coffman Memorial Union Theater. Click here for more info.

Dartmouth College's Futures of American Studies Institute Summer 2012

Dartmouth College is accepting applications for the 2012 Futures of American Studies Institute. This week-long institute will run from Monday, June 18h through Sunday, June 24th with the topic "The State(s) of American Studies". Applications will be accepted until all slots have been filled, but applications received by May 18, 2012 will be granted priority. For more information, click here.

Tenure-track assistant/associate professor in African-American History at DePaul University

DePaul University is accepting applications for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in African-American History, all subfields and periods welcome. PhD preferred, but advanced ABD considered. Primarily serving as an undergraduate student population, the department also offers a terminal MA in history. Review of applications has begun and will continue until a final decision is made. Click here for more info.

SAVE THE DATE: April 12 Graduate and Profession‚Äãal Education Assembly on Advising

The spring 2012 Graduate and Professional Education Assembly on "From First Course to First Job: Developing Rewarding Excellence in Graduate Student Advising" will be held on Thursday, April 12th from 1:30-4:00pm in the Mississippi Room at Coffman Memorial Union. For more information about the Assembly and how to register, please click here.

Center for Jewish Studies Colloquium Series

"Between Inquisition and Holocaust Landscapes: Jews in Contemporary Spanish Fiction" will be presented by Stacy Beckwith as part of the Center for Jewish Studies Colloquium Series on Thursday, February 9th at 12:00 to 1:30pm in 325 Nicholson Hall.

How and why have renowned authors in Spain engaged with their country's medieval and early modern Sephardic past, particularly since the 1992 quincentennial of the Jews' expulsion in 1492? After an overview of Jewish history in modern Spain, this talk explores ways in which contemporary Spanish authors are incorporating ancient Jewish lifestyles and patterns of persecution into their writing.
Stacy Beckwith is Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Carleton College. She is also the Director of Carleton's Judaic Studies Program and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Languages. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota in 1997. She focuses on intersections of national historiography and collective memory in contemporary Israeli and Spanish Peninsular literature, particularly inrepresentations of historic Sephardic Jewish characters. Her current book project examines an emergent focus on traumatic memory in contemporary Spanish literature that connects with medieval Jewish Iberian civilization and its aftermath.
This Event is Free & Open to the Public
A Light Lunch will be Provided
Co-sponsored by: U of M Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies
Nicholson Hall is located at 216 Pillsbury Dr SE on the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus. For more information, please contact The Center for Jewish Studies at: 612-624-4914 or by e-mail at jwst@umn.edu

Forum on Interdisciplinary Undergraduate and Graduate Education

Join the IAS for "Questions Without Borders: Why Future Research and Teaching Will Be Interdisciplinary", a forum on why large research universities need to do more to offer interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate education. The event will be held on Monday, February 13th at 3:30pm in the Coffman Memorial Union Theater. Click here for more info.

Call for Submissions: Radical History Review Special Issue

The Radical History Review invites submissions for its special issues "The Fictions of Finance". The special issue aims to decipher a vast array of moral panics, conceptual revolutions, legal constructions, and discursive forms implicated and imbricated within the world histories of capital. Submission deadline: March 15, 2012. Click here for more info.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Update from Nancy Herther

UPDATE FROM LIBRARIAN NANCY HERTHER: The Libraries has agreed to participate with four other major institutions to explore the possibilities of e-textbooks. We are in the early stages of ebook migration - working to do everything we can improve access to these key materials. More information will be coming as the project begins, but for an article published by The Chronicle about the study, click here. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Nancy.