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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Pitzer College Adjunct Professor position

Pitzer College announces a Adjunct Professor position in Media Studies. Click here to learn more about the position and to apply.

Kate Beane Postdoctoral Award

KATE BEANE was awarded a 2014 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Santa Cruz.

Geography, Environment, and Society Graduate Course

THE DEPARTMENT of GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, and SOCIETY present their Fall 2014 graduate seminar 8980 "The Event of the Anthropocene." The course will be held on Thursdays from 2:00 - 5:00pm and will be taught by Bruce Braun and Kate Derikson.

The possibility of the 'Anthropocene' was posed just over a decade ago, but in the short period since has enjoyed a meteoric career. How should we understand its sudden centrality in public and academic discourse? What new ideas and concepts does it demand, what critical practices, what methodological innovations, and what ethical and political responses?
This seminar explores and evaluates efforts to represent and address the Anthropocene in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In particular, it examines questions of time and temporality (deep time, geological time, temporalities of capital); the relation between the inhuman, the human and the posthuman; new modes of government and administration (resilience, geoengineering); globality, planetarity and postcoloniality; and diverse ethical-political responses (new nihilism, dark ecology, geocommunism, accelerationism). Particular attention will also be paid to the epistemological and methodological challenges of the Anthropocene (experimental criticism, interdisciplinarity, transductive research).
Readings will include, among others: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Nigel Clark, Elizabeth Povinelli, Claire Colebrook, Isabelle Stengers, Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Kathryn Yusoff, Reza Negarestani, and Gayatri Spivak.
Requirements will include (a) weekly reading responses, and (b) term paper to be determined in discussion with instructors.
For more information, and registration numbers, please contact Bruce Braun (braun038@umn.edu) or Kate Derickson (kdericks@umn.edu)

Kansas State University VAP Position

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY announces a Visiting Assistant Professor position in Women's Studies, emphasis in Queer Studies. Click here to learn more about the position and to apply.

John Campe Talk

THE ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT presents a talk by John Campe. He will be presenting his dissertation research entitled "Multicultural Community building in the Whittier Neighborhood of Minneapolis." The talk will take place on Monday, May 5th at 11:00am in 15 Humphrey. Click John Champe Defense Flier.pdf for the full event details

Rose Miron piece published

ROSE MIRON recently had a piece titled "Sacrificing Comfort for Complexity: Presenting Difficult Narratives in Public History" published on the National Council of Public History's blog History@ Work. Click here to check out her piece.

UC Davis PostDoc Position

UC DAVIS announces a postdoc position in Innovating Communication in Scholarship. Click here to learn more about the position and to apply.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Spring Evaluation Forms

SPRING INSTRUCOTRS and TAs: Evaluation forms and instructions have been distributed to mailboxes for all instructors and TAs leading sections this semester. If you have any questions, contact Zac or Colleen.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

CSCL Conference CFP

CULTURAL STUDIES and COMAPRATIVE LITERATURE DEPARTMENT announces its call for papers for its annual conference. This year's conference is titled "Intellectual Properties: Archive, Canon, Copy, Clone." It will take place on campus September 25th - 27th. Click cscl intellectual properties cfp.pdf for more information and to submit papers.

English Summer Course 3070: American Specters

THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT is pleased to announce its summer course ENGL 3070: American Specters. The course is taught by Wes Burdine and will meet from 6/16 - 8/8 on Tu, W, and Th from 1:25 - 3:20pm. See below for a course abstract.


ENGL 3070 American Specters
The American landscape is dotted with ghosts. From the revenant figures of the American Indians to the legacy of slavery, the ghosts which haunt American culture are both real figures and the figured traces of the past. In recent history, ghosts have become a useful tool for understanding race and legacy in American history. In this class, we will interrogate the ways in which the American psyche has emerged through these haunted encounters. We will read fiction with spades in hands, unearthing the bodies hidden beneath their texts. Some novels we will read, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved quite literally present the ghost as an image of the past returning to haunt. Others such as Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland depict the early American nation as haunted by the beliefs of its religious refugees. We will read more traditional "scary" stories, such as Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Edith Wharton's Ghost Stories, and Henry James' A Turn of the Screw. We will also read some folk stories of "real" ghosts, as well as some examples of how ghosts have materialized in contemporary criticism. We will also ask the troublesome question of just what the implications are of thinking about the past as returning in incorporeal bodies. Does this give the past a power or does it inoculate us from its meaning?

Barnard College, American Studies Professor Position

BARNARD COLLEGE is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies to begin Fall 2014. Click here to find out more information on the position and to apply.

Tom Sarmiento published journal article

TOM SARMIENTO'S journal article, "The Empire Sings Back: Glee's Queer Materialization of Filipina/o America," has been published in MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. The article is available here.

Andrea Truitt Talk

THE GRADUATE WORKSHOP in MODERN HISTORY presents a talk by Andrea Truitt. She will be presenting her paper "Seeing the Interior: Feminine Subjectivity and the Exoticization of the Self through Magazine Illustrations." Professor Elaine Tyler May will offer faculty comment. The presentation will take place on Friday, April 25th at 1:30pm in 1229 Heller Hall.

Hard copies are available in the history department main office in Heller Hall, and an electronic version is also currently available at the GWMH Moodle site (see below).
Pizza will be served, so wait to have your lunch with us! 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://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 and enter the one-time enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Option 2: If you prefer to access the site anonymously, go to http://moodle2.umn.edu and scroll down on the left-hand side to click on "Read-only access." Next, go to https://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 (or search for "Graduate Workshop in Modern History") and enter the enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.

Fulbright Information Sessions

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP OFFICE is pleased to announce four Fulbright Information Sessions in May and June for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2015-16 academic year. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. The UM campus application deadline is Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Click here for more information on the information sessions

GWSS Roundtable Event

GWSS presents a colloquium event titled "Feminism, Time, Event: A Roundtable." The event will feature Kate Derickson, Lorena Munoz, and Miranda Joseph. The roundtable will take place on Friday, April 25th at 1:00pm in 400 Ford Hall. Click here for the full event details.

Newberry Urban History Dissertation Group CFP

NEWBERRY URBAN HISTORY DISSERTATION GROUP announces its call for papers for the next academic year. Click here for more information and to submit a paper.

Panel Talk with Amy Tyson

IAS TEACHING HERITAGE COLLABORATIVE & MHS present a panel discussion titled "Interpreting Painful Histories: Historic Fort Snelling and Beyond." The panel will feature Richard Josey, john Crippen, and Amy Tyson (who received her PhD from our department). The panel will take place Monday, April 28th at 3:30pm in 125 Nolte Center. Click fort snelling panel.docx for the full event details.

Saint Louis University American Studies Visual Culture Confernce

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSTIY announces its call for papers for its for its American Studies Visual Culture Conference. The conference is titled "Black & White / Red & Blue" and will take place at Saint Louis University on October 10th and 11th. Click SLU AmSt Confernce.docx to find out more about the conference and how you can submit a paper.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Art History Fall Courses

THE ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT is offering two American Art History courses for next fall. The first, ArtH 3005 is called American Art and meets Tues/Thurs 1:00 - 2:15pm. The second, ArtH 3577 is called Photo Nation and meets Tues/Thurs 9:45 - 11:00am. You can find more information below.

ArtH 3005: American Art (Tues/ Thurs: 1:00-2:15pm)
This course is an introductory survey of American art from the colonial period to the cold war.
Our particular interest will be to understand how "America" is an idea and an identity that has been continually shaped, expressed, represented, and even contested through the visual medium of art. This will be true whether our artists are Spanish Catholic or Anglo Puritan, Pueblo Indian or African American, working class or elite, male or female, gay or straight, professional or amateur. While the class will generally adhere to the established canon for American art history (and so will give students a solid, working foundation for "art museum literacy"), along the way we will be careful to consider works by individuals outside of the traditional channels of art instruction and reception, and ask questions about what does and does not count as "art history."
Moving chronologically through a number of artistic developments in the geographic area now known as the "United States," we will cover topics that include the following: Spanish mission architecture; Puritan portrait painting; nationalism and history painting; Jefferson's Monticello and its hidden architecture of slavery; still-life painting and self-trained women artists; visualizing "Manifest Destiny"; labor politics and gendered identities; expatriate artists from Impressionism to Cubism; wartime propaganda and WWI; the Ash Can School; Alfred Stieglitz and modern art; New York Dada and Marcel Duchamp; the Harlem Renaissance; Regionalism and Grant Wood; art postwar Abstract Expressionism; and Pop Art.
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ArtH 3577: Photo Nation (Tues/ Thurs, 9:45-11:00am)
Students will learn about the artistic and technical developments that have shaped the practice of photography in the United States over the past 150+ years. Students will also learn how photography has been central to the idea of "America," as well as to its common cultural life and national identity.
Moving chronologically, this course examines the following topics: the defense of photography as a legitimate art form; the role of portraits and photo albums in social self-fashioning and celebrity culture; the birth of the modern criminal justice system; the technological and commercial aspects of photography; the use of photography in defining racial difference in the United States; the politics of "straight" or "documentary" aesthetics; the role of women in the history of photography; the development of an artistic taste for the "everyday"; and more.
The slide-show lectures will help you will become acquainted with the major photographs of the course, and will provide you with the necessary historical and art historical context for understanding them. Lectures will be interactive, and small group discussions (held during normal class times) will further develop the skill of interpreting and historicizing visual evidence. Together, students will practice describing photographs thoroughly, in order to itemize visual evidence. Other exercises emphasize asking questions, developing hypotheses, and identifying research strategies.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

SOC 3090/RELS 3070 Course

SOC 3090/RELS 3070: Ahteists and Others in the US is open for registration for next fall. Click SOC 3090 RELS 3070 F14.docx for more information.

Miranda Joseph Events

THE GWSS and HISTORY DEPARTMENTS are sponsoring multiple events by Miranda Joseph next week. The first event will be Open Office Hours for Grad Students on Thursday, April 24th from 10:30am - 12:30pm in 253 Ford. The second event will be a lecture titled "Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism" and will take place on Thursday, April 24th at 4:00pm in 140 Nolte. The final event will be a workshop titled "Accounting for Interdisciplinary: Contesting Value in the Academy" and will take place on Friday, April 25th from 10:00am - 12:00pm (RSVP is required).

Miranda Joseph Events - April 24-25, 2014
Miranda Joseph is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is author of Against the Romance of Community (Minnesota, 2002) and Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism (Minnesota, 2014).
Thursday 4/24, 10:30am-12:30pm
Open Office Hours for Grad Students (253 Ford)
Graduate students are invited to stop by and visit with Professor Joseph during these drop-in hours. Students interested in reading an excerpt from her forthcoming Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism in advance may email Jennifer Marshall for a copy: marsh590@umn.edu
Thursday 4/24, 4:00-5:30pm
Lecture, with Reception to Follow (140 Nolte)
"Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism"
In her forthcoming book Debt to Society (Minnesota, 2014), Miranda Joseph explores modes of accounting as they are used to create, sustain, or transform social relations. Exploring central components of neoliberalism (and neoliberalism in crisis) from incarceration to personal finance and university management, Debt to Society exposes the uneven distribution of accountability within our society. Demonstrating how ubiquitous the forces of accounting have become in shaping all aspects of our lives, Joseph proposes that we offer different accounts of accounting to turn the present toward a more widely shared well-being.
Friday 4/25, 10:00am-noon
Workshop (432 STSS)
"Accounting for Interdisciplinarity: Contesting Value in the Academy"
RSVP here to receive the pre-circulated text associated with this workshop:
In this workshop, designed for faculty and graduate students, Miranda Joseph will revisit her adventures in university administration to examine the impact of accounting and accountability on academic knowledge production. We will use a chapter of Joseph's forthcoming A Debt to Society: Accounting for Life Under Capitalism (Minnesota, 2014) as a springboard for a collective discussion; the excerpt will be pre-circulated to registered participants.
Disassembling what sometimes seems a "regime" of accounting and accountability into the miscellany of diverse, contradictory and ever changing sets of performance measures of which it is composed, Joseph suggests that there are openings for intervention and the development of alternate accounts, especially by recognizing what Randy Martin calls "derivative" or relational value. We will explore what those counter-accounts might look like and whether (and/or not) it might be possible for Foucauldian feminist cultural studies scholars to constructively engage with (rather than dismiss) particular quantitative methods. To get the discussion started, Joseph will briefly present her experiments with social network graphing to represent "impact and interdisciplinarity" in the academy, as well as her collaborative effort to rework the analysis of a longitudinal survey-based study to make new knowledge about gender and finance.
Miranda Joseph Lecture.pdf
Miranda Joseph Workshop.pdf

Ryan Lee Cartwright has accepted a faculty position

RYAN LEE CARTWRIGHT has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis.

UNC Asheville Faculty Position

UNIVERSITY of NORTH CAROLINA, ASHEVILLE has an open Assistant Professor of Literature and Language. Click here for more information and to apply.

Finals Classroom Scheduling

SPRING 2014 FACULTY and INSTRUCTORS: Please e-mail rakke001@umn.edu by Wednesday, April 23rd to let us know if you WILL or WILL NOT be using your classroom during finals week. We need to notify the Office of Classroom Management of all course levels, so please be sure to include both your graduate and undergraduate level courses. If you are unsure of when your final is to be held click here.

Adria L. Imada Talk

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES presents a talk by Adria L. Imada. Her talk is titled "Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire." The talk will be held on Tuesday, April 29th at 4:00pm in 101 Walter Library. Click here for the full event details.

Smadar Lavie Talk

THE DEPARTMENT of SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY presents a talk by Dr. Smadar Lavie. She will be giving a talk titled "Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers, Bureaucratic Torture, and the Divinities of State and Chance." The talk will be held on Wednesday, April 23rd at noon in 389 Hubert H. Humphrey. Click smadar lavie talk.pdf for the full event details.

Students for a Democratic Society at UMN Protest

THE STUDENTS for a DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY at UNIVERSITY of MINNESOTA and other co-sponsoring organizations are coordinating a protest of Condoleezza Rice's speech on campus. Dr. Rice is being brought to speak on campus by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs under the title "Keeping Faith with the Legacy of Justice." The protest will take place on Thursday, April 17th at 4:30pm at Northrop Plaza. Click here for the full event details.

Tammy Owens Talk

INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY presents a talk by Tammy Cherelle Owens. Her talk is titled "Making Black Girls Real: The Invention of Black Girlhood in the US, 1861 - 1963." The talk will be held on Thursday, May 1st at 1:30pm in 235 Nolte Center. Click Tammy Owens Talk.pdf for more information.

Myrl Beam has accepted a faculty position

MYRL BEAM has accepted a one year position as a Faculty Fellow in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies at Colby College.

"Figural Jews" Symposium

THE CENTER for JEWISH STUDIES is hosting a symposium titled "Figural Jews: Jewish Identity in Modern Literature and Philosophy." The event will span Thursday, April 17th and Friday, April 18th and will be held in the Shepherd Room at the Weisman. Click here for the full schedule of the symposium's events.

Bernadette Perez Paper Presentation

THE GRADUATE WORKSHOP in MODERN HISTORY will have Bernadette Perez present her paper "From Shapely Bodies to Pure White Sugar: Breeding Better Beets in Colorado's Arkansas River Valley." The event will be held on Friday, April 18th at 1:30pm in 1229 Heller Hall.

Professor Susan Jones of the History of Science and Technology will offer faculty comment.
Hard copies are available in the history department main office in Heller Hall, and an electronic version is also currently available at the GWMH Moodle site (see below).
Pizza will be served, so wait to have your lunch with us! 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://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 and enter the one-time enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Option 2: If you prefer to access the site anonymously, go to http://moodle2.umn.edu and scroll down on the left-hand side to click on "Read-only access." Next, go to https://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 (or search for "Graduate Workshop in Modern History") and enter the enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.

Two talks by Sharad Chari

PROFESSOR SHARAD CHARI will be giving two talks this week at the University of Minnesota. His first talk, as part of the South Asia Colloquium, is titled "An Indian Commons in Southern Africa?" and will take place Wednesday, April 16th at 3:30pm in 710 Social Sciences. The second talk, as part of Geography Coffee Hour, is titled "Apartheid Remains: Ruins of Segregation, Remnants of Struggle" and will take place Friday, April 18th at 3:30pm in 445 Blegen.

WED APRIL 16, 2014
SOUTH ASIA COLLOQUIUM
3:30pm, 710 Social Sciences
Sharad Chari
Associate Professor
Anthropology and Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
An Indian Commons in Southern Africa?
Early 20th century Durban was wrapped in a series of racial and spatial fictions, of a 'black belt' of shacks and market gardens surrounding a putatively white city reliant on Black labor and submission. This paper thinks with the remains of the early twentieth century in the early twenty-first, to ask how memories take hold of the past, disclosing multiple histories of dispossession, but also practices of commons-making. Against the odds, former indentured Indians steered between African exclusion and English racism; they transformed space and forged livelihoods as peasant-workers; they weathered the effects of epidemics and the Great Depression; and they planted fruit trees along with dwellings, mosques and temples. Transforming marginal lands and spatial routines, they rooted a particular creolized Indianness in Durban, just as a re-territorialized anti-colonial nationalism in India began to find its impoverished diaspora of little value. Dispossessed also by Indian nationalism, they poached the term 'settler' from colonial commemoration to mark their arrival on South African shores. A flow of artefacts continued to provide the means for authenticating Indian difference, and, crucially, a mimetic tradition of progressivism provided the social infrastructure to make what I call an 'Indian commons' that endures today. This remarkable historical event is entirely unremarked upon, but its presence is palpable across 'Indian Durban.' However, an 'Indian commons' is a contradiction in terms. Rather than celebrate subaltern ingenuity, I think antipodally with neighborhoods marked by mid-century as 'Coloured' Wentworth and 'Indian' Merebank. Without similar means of cultural authentication, without a parallel tradition of progressivist biopolitical expertise, among other things, Wentworth carries a sense of being out of step with its surroundings and its residents' imaginations remain vagabond, unruly, ceaselessly imaginative. In dialectical relation to Indian 'settlement,' this nomadic metaphysics points to a revolutionary postracialism beyond claims to autochthony or landed property. Or, another commons-making is possible.
FRI APRIL 18, 2014
GEOGRAPHY COFFEE HOUR
3:30pm, 445 Blegen
Apartheid Remains: Ruins of Segregation, Remnants of Struggle
Sharad Chari
Associate Professor
Anthropology and Centre for Indian Studies in Africa,
University of the Witwatersrand
ABSTRACT. The Indian Ocean city of Durban is a palimpsest of many layers of segregation, apartheid and struggle. The differentiated remains of the past speak to different moments in a century of state-sanctioned racism and opposition. This paper emerges from research grounded in two neighbourhoods in South Durban, in which the key question is how remains of the past persist as obstacles to change in the present. In this talk, I focus on the revolutionary outburst in 1970s and 1980s Durban that was key to apartheid's end. I trace the spatial dialectics of revolution through four moments: a communitarian or 'politico-theological' moment, an insurrectionist moment, an attempt to bring the two together in something like an urban revolution, and what I call the moment of the disqualified, exemplified in a spectacular sabotage cell and in the limits to revolutionary expertise from the perspective of people who still live in frustration in neighbourhoods next to oil refineries today.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Michael Denning Talk

THE IAS MUSIC and SOUND STUDIES COLLABORATIVE presents Prof. Michael Denning. He will be giving a talk titled "Decolonizing the Ear: The Reverberations of Vernacular Musics in the Era of Electrical Recording." The talk will be held on Friday, April 18th at 4:00pm in the Crosby Seminar Room in Northrup. Click here for the full event details.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Chicano & Latino Studies Fall Seminar

THE DEPARTMENT of CHICANO & LATINO STUDIES announces its fall seminar course, Comparative Ethnic Studies: Power, Subjectivity, and Resistance. The course will meet on Mondays from 3:45 - 6:15pm. Click Comp. Ethnic Studies_Fall_2014_Patino - Flyer.pdf for more information.

Scripps College: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Professor

SCRIPPS COLLEGE is hiring an Assistant Professor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality. Click here for more information and to apply.

Qadril Ismail Talk

CONSORTIUM for the STUDY of the PREMODERN WORLD presents their second Talking Terms Seminars of the semester. The seminar will feature Prof. Qadri Ismail will lead a discussion titled "Modernity, from Postcoloniality." The seminar will take place Wednesday, April 9th at 5:00pm in the James F Bell Library (4th floor of the Wilson library).

Jack Shaheen Talk

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SERVICES at the University of St. Thomas is hosting a talk by Professor Jack Shaheen. His talk is titled "Reel Bad Arabs: Images of Arabs and Muslims in Popular Culture." The talk will be on Tuesday, April 22nd from 5:00 - 6:30pm in the Woulfe Alumni Hall, Anderson Student Center at the University of St. Thomas. Click here for the full event details.

Sharon Park paper presentation

THE GRADUATE WORKSHOP in MODERN HISTORY will have Sharon Park present her paper "A Marshall Plan at Home: The Discovery of Hungry American Children and Shifting Debates about U.S. Foreign and Domestic Aid, 1950s - 1970s." The presentation will take place on Friday, April 11th at 1:30pm in 1229 Heller Hall. Click here for full event details.

Professor Christopher Roberts of the Law School will offer faculty comment.
Hard copies are available in the history department main office in Heller Hall, and an electronic version is also currently available at the GWMH Moodle site (see below).
Pizza will be served, so wait to have your lunch with us! 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://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 and enter the one-time enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.
Option 2: If you prefer to access the site anonymously, go to http://moodle2.umn.edu and scroll down on the left-hand side to click on "Read-only access." Next, go to https://moodle2.umn.edu/course/view.php?id=13717 (or search for "Graduate Workshop in Modern History") and enter the enrollment key (password: modhist) when prompted.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

William C. Nelson Undergraduate Scholarship

THE WILLIAM C. NELSON UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP is now available for application. The scholarship would provide $2500 over the 2014-2015 academic year. The application is due on Wednesday, April 30th. Click on the link for more information and to apply.

Nelson Undergrad Scholarship application.doc

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

David Noble Lecture

The 20th Annual David Noble Lecture will be featuring Avery Gordon. Her talk is titled "Running Away and Other Forms of Escape: Stories from the Hawthorne Archives." The David Noble Lecture will be held on Thursday, April 10th at 7:00pm in the Cowles Auditorium in the Hubert H. Humphrey School. See the attached flier for full details

DNL 2014 Flier.pdf

South Dakota State University Fellowship

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY announces the Dissertation Fellowship for Underrepresented Scholars. Click SDSU Fellowship for Underrepresented Scholars Ad 2012.doc for more information and to apply

Book orders for Fall 2014 courses are due to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, April 16.

BOOK ORDERS FOR FALL 2014 COURSES are due to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, April 16. Please continue reading for the order form, bookstore ordering guidelines, and notes that help process your order and obtain desk copies.

Notes from staff:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to stien196@umn.edu by April 16, 2014.
-Let us know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. We will be requesting copies for your TAs.
-We submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after we receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier you submit your order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Please only request desk copies of titles for which you have not previously received desk copies. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
-Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let Melanie know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Finals Week of the current semester gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
-If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Please use this order form:Blank Book Order Form.doc