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.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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
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.
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