SAVE THE DATE: Connections Meeting

SAVE THE DATE: 1^st, 2^nd, & 3^rd Year Connections Meeting on Monday, May 2^nd from 3:30 – 5:00pm. More details to follow.

SAVE THE DATE Undergrad Senior Celebration

SAVE THE DATE: Undergraduate Senior Celebration is on Friday, May 6^th at 5:00pm. More details to follow.

Waleed Mahdi (PhD '15) Article Publication

Waleed Mahdi (PhD ’15) recently had his article “Post-Oriental Otherness: Hollywood’s Moral Geography of Arab Americans” published in Mahjar & Mashriq: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies. You can find the article here.

Graduate School Fellows Summer Institute

THE GRADUATE SCHOOL FELLOWS SUMMER INSTITUTE applications are open. The Institute on Collaborative Leadership & Grand Challenges Research takes place August 15-19^th and is open to PhD students and postdocs who want their research to make a difference in the world in either an academic or non-academic setting. Click here to learn more and apply.

Fulbright Information Sessions

The Graduate School Fellowship Office is pleased to announce four Fulbright Information Sessions for students who are interested in conducting research abroad during the 2017-18 academic year.  Excellent opportunities are available to over 140 countries.  Applicants must be U.S. citizens.  The UM campus application deadline is Wednesday, September 7, 2016.

You may reserve a place at one of the four meetings by clicking on the links below.

Meetings are scheduled as follows:

• Wednesday, May 4, 2016
  2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
  101 Walter Library
  

• Monday, May 9, 2016
  10:00 am - 11:30 am
  101 Walter Library
  

• Thursday, May 12, 2016
  10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  101 Walter Library
  

• Tuesday, May 17, 2016
  2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
  101 Walter Library
  

UT Austin Race, Gender, & the Built Environment Postdoc

THE UNIVERSITY of TEXAS at AUSTIN is pleased to announce applications are open for a postdoctoral/emerging scholar fellowship in Race & Gender in the Built Environment of the American City. While situated in the School of Architecture the fellowship is open to anyone whose scholarship pursues issues of race gender and the built environment. Click here for more information and to apply.

Leigh Claire La Berge Talk

 

DR. LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE is currently working on a book entitled Wages Against Artwork: The Social Practice of Decommodification, sections of which have been published in South Atlantic Quarterly and Postmodern Culture. Concerned with the economic trend of uncompensated work and the aesthetic trend of artwork that seeks to ameliorate social inequality, Wages Against Artwork asks what kind of claims the aesthetic can make in an expiring welfare state.

Her first book, Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford, 2015) tracked the contest between postmodern and realist fictions about finance in a nascent era of financialization, and her articles have appeared in Radical Philosophy, Studies in American Fiction, Criticism, Journal of Cultural Economy, and the Radical History Review. She is the co-editor, along with Alison Shonkwiler, of Reading Capitalist Realism (Iowa, 2014). She is assistant professor of English at the City University of New York (BMCC).