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.
Monday, November 9, 2009
"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.
"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
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
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
"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
"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)
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)
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