PA 8204, "Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development" will be taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Greg Schrock on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00-5:15 p.m., spring 2010.
PA 8204
If you are interested in economic development policy and planning at both international and domestic scales, consider taking PA 8204, Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development. The course, a seminar format with an online data analysis lab, will meet from 4:00 to 5:15 P.M., Mondays and Wednesdays, with the Lab at 5:30 - 6:20 P.M. on Wednesdays during the Spring 2010 semester.
The course surveys job-oriented economic development in the US and internationally. It explores how urban and regional economies grow, why industries and employers locate where they do, and how workers decide where to live and work. It reviews the strategies and practices that federal, state/provincial and local economic developers use to create jobs, including tax incentives, technological R&D and entrepreneurship, workforce development and infrastructure, evaluating which ones seem to work and how firms can be held accountable for the outcomes. It includes case study material from Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China, Europe and other countries as well as the US, Canada and Mexico, and incorporates material on race, ethnicity, gender and class. We will also examine recent initiatives to harness the "green economy" toward job creation and the revitalization of regional economies.
PA 8204 counts as a domain course for the Humphrey Institute's Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree, and toward the requirements of the Economic and Community Development concentration for the Master's of Public Policy degree. However, students from all degree programs and concentrations are welcomed to take the course. Non-MURP students are strongly encouraged to take PA 5036 (Regional Economic Analysis, 1.5 credits) concurrently, as that course will introduce analysis techniques discussed in PA 8204.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite applications for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program. Second and third-year Ph.D. students are encouraged to apply. Application deadline: January 29, 2010.To view the six areas and further detail please see entire entry.
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program
The Social Science Research Council has just announced six areas for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program. The areas are:
After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Discrimination Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Spaces of Inquiry
Virtual Worlds, and
Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
A total of 12 students, covering a wide range of disciplines, are admitted to each area. Admitted students attend workshops in June and September of 2010, designed to aid their engagement with the area to which they are admitted.
They encourage promising second- and third-year Ph.D. students to apply to the program. Discrimination Studies (DS) is not about race; instead, Discrimination Studies treats discrimination as a general social phenomenon even as any DS analysis may focus on discrimination concerning a particular social category. Thus, Discrimination Studies extricates the study of discrimination from a focus on race, or sex, or age, or any of many other social categories. There are many means by which the field accomplishes this aim.
The first link below provides general information:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
while the next link is specifically for the 2010 areas:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/competitions/dpdf-fellowship/9E56E847-B2D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program
The Social Science Research Council has just announced six areas for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program. The areas are:
After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Discrimination Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Spaces of Inquiry
Virtual Worlds, and
Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States
A total of 12 students, covering a wide range of disciplines, are admitted to each area. Admitted students attend workshops in June and September of 2010, designed to aid their engagement with the area to which they are admitted.
They encourage promising second- and third-year Ph.D. students to apply to the program. Discrimination Studies (DS) is not about race; instead, Discrimination Studies treats discrimination as a general social phenomenon even as any DS analysis may focus on discrimination concerning a particular social category. Thus, Discrimination Studies extricates the study of discrimination from a focus on race, or sex, or age, or any of many other social categories. There are many means by which the field accomplishes this aim.
The first link below provides general information:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
while the next link is specifically for the 2010 areas:
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/competitions/dpdf-fellowship/9E56E847-B2D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences
The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students on all UMN campuses. The funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences. Proposal deadline: February 8, 2010.
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences
The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
(http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students at all UMN campuses. This funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad societal implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences.
The Request for Proposals (RFPs) may be found at http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/rfps/. Deadline for submission is February 8, 2010.
The Consortium currently links 18 University programs and centers to examine the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by the life sciences.
If you have questions concerning this RFP, please contact Audrey Boyle at Boyle032@umn.edu or 612.626.5624.
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences
The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
(http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students at all UMN campuses. This funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad societal implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences.
The Request for Proposals (RFPs) may be found at http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/rfps/. Deadline for submission is February 8, 2010.
The Consortium currently links 18 University programs and centers to examine the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by the life sciences.
If you have questions concerning this RFP, please contact Audrey Boyle at Boyle032@umn.edu or 612.626.5624.
The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar
The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute invites graduate students to join them for their 6th Annual Seminar, "Identity, Inequality, and Public Policy: Integrating the Humanities and the Social Sciences", on July 26 - August 6, 2010. Application deadline: February 1, 2010.
The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar
This seminar, jointly taught by a humanist and a social scientist, will draw on recent developments in cultural theory and the social sciences in order to examine how the findings and methodologies of very different disciplines and traditions of social inquiry can be integrated. The primary focus will be on questions of social identity and inequality. Using literary and cultural texts (e.g., novels) and social-scientific data, the seminar will address questions of social causation and discursive and textual analysis, and tackle the practical and theoretical problems involved in the formulation of public policy. One key concern will be the recent debates about affirmative action and reparation programs, both in the U.S. and abroad. In a climate where "post raciality" has become a major theme, we will also examine whether redress for race-based disparities can be accomplished with-out the use of racial--and, more broadly, identity-based--classification.
The seminar incorporates 2-3 workshops taught by visiting scholars.
SEMINAR LEADERS
William Darity, Jr.
Public Policy, African and
African American Studies,
and Economics
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Satya P.Mohanty
English
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
____________________________________________________________________
Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on July 30th and 31st.
Eligibility: Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their Ph.D. work, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions who are working on minority issues, are invited to apply to the 2010 FMS Summer Institute. Minority scholars and those who are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouragedto apply. For the 12-14 scholars selected to participate in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, board, and (if needed) travel costs. Application deadline: February 1st 2010; results announced by March 8th 2010.
The 2010 FMS Summer Institute will be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Updated information about the summer institute, especially the workshops and the colloquium,
will be available at: www.fmsproject.cornell.edu, or email Alice Cho, Coordinator,
FMS Summer Institute, at: fmsproject@cornell.edu
The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar
This seminar, jointly taught by a humanist and a social scientist, will draw on recent developments in cultural theory and the social sciences in order to examine how the findings and methodologies of very different disciplines and traditions of social inquiry can be integrated. The primary focus will be on questions of social identity and inequality. Using literary and cultural texts (e.g., novels) and social-scientific data, the seminar will address questions of social causation and discursive and textual analysis, and tackle the practical and theoretical problems involved in the formulation of public policy. One key concern will be the recent debates about affirmative action and reparation programs, both in the U.S. and abroad. In a climate where "post raciality" has become a major theme, we will also examine whether redress for race-based disparities can be accomplished with-out the use of racial--and, more broadly, identity-based--classification.
The seminar incorporates 2-3 workshops taught by visiting scholars.
SEMINAR LEADERS
William Darity, Jr.
Public Policy, African and
African American Studies,
and Economics
DUKE UNIVERSITY
Satya P.Mohanty
English
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
____________________________________________________________________
Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on July 30th and 31st.
Eligibility: Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their Ph.D. work, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions who are working on minority issues, are invited to apply to the 2010 FMS Summer Institute. Minority scholars and those who are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouragedto apply. For the 12-14 scholars selected to participate in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, board, and (if needed) travel costs. Application deadline: February 1st 2010; results announced by March 8th 2010.
The 2010 FMS Summer Institute will be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Updated information about the summer institute, especially the workshops and the colloquium,
will be available at: www.fmsproject.cornell.edu, or email Alice Cho, Coordinator,
FMS Summer Institute, at: fmsproject@cornell.edu
Monday, November 23, 2009
"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference
Museum and Curatorial Studies at UC-Santa Cruz invites professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display with their conference, "The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention, and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice", on May 14, 2010. Proposal deadline: February 5, 2010.
"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference
Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display. This year we are hosting a number of events related to the 2009-2010 research theme, "Critical Curations." We are pleased to welcome Griselda Pollock, Irit Rogoff, and Carolina Ponce de León for our annual Speaker Series. For more information about our organization and events, please visit: http://macs.ucsc.edu/
On May 14, 2010, our year of collaboration will culminate with a conference open to scholars from around the world. "The Task of the Curator" will explore the roles of curators in relation to how objects are displayed in museums and galleries, considering a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's theories of translation, brings attention to the often overlooked or naturalized labor of curators, which involves subtle but nonetheless transformative acts of framing and poetic interpretation. Presenters are encouraged to "look outside of the white box" toward new and alternative display methods. Proposals are due on February 5th, 2010 (instructions below).
A PDF of our CFP and updated information can be found at: http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Keynote Speaker:
MARY NOOTER ROBERTS
World Arts & Cultures, UCLA
Panel Moderators:
JAMES CLIFFORD
History of Consciousness, UCSC
JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ
History of Art & Visual Culture, UCSC
SHANNON JACKSON
Performance Studies & Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley
BETTI-SUE HERTZ
Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Opening Remarks:
LUCIAN GOMOLL
History of Consciousness, UCSC
Closing Remarks:
LISSETTE OLIVARES
History of Consciousness, UCSC
SUBMISSIONS:
Please send the following documents by Friday, February 5, 2010 via e-mail to: macs@ucsc.edu
• 350-500 word abstract
• Curriculum Vitae
We welcome and encourage early submissions. Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the deadline.
Final Drafts will be due Friday, April 23, 2010 to macs@ucsc.edu
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
* Artist as Curator
* Exhibition as Translation
* Critical Histories of the Curator & Curatorial Practices
* Contemporary Approaches to the Art/artifact Debate
* Feminist/Queer Curating
* Radical Curating, Curatorial Interventions
* Marxist Museology, Archival Anarchy
* Curating Performance and/or Performance Art
* Para-Sites: Exhibiting in Alternative Spaces
* New Media & Display Practices
* Disciplining Objects in Museums & Galleries
* Comparative Studies of Exhibitions
* Strategies for Relaying Trauma in Museums & Galleries
* New Approaches to the Archives
* Collaboration and/or Curatorial Collectives
* Producing Virtual Collections & Displays
* Curating and Authorship
* Reflections on Biennale Projects
* Outsider Exhibition Proposals
* Dramaturgy of Display, Experience-Driven Practices
* Addressing Visitors, Imaginary Publics, Engaging Feedback
* Curatorial Mistakes
* Exhibitions & Pedagogy
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department at UC-Santa Cruz.
"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference
Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display. This year we are hosting a number of events related to the 2009-2010 research theme, "Critical Curations." We are pleased to welcome Griselda Pollock, Irit Rogoff, and Carolina Ponce de León for our annual Speaker Series. For more information about our organization and events, please visit: http://macs.ucsc.edu/
On May 14, 2010, our year of collaboration will culminate with a conference open to scholars from around the world. "The Task of the Curator" will explore the roles of curators in relation to how objects are displayed in museums and galleries, considering a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's theories of translation, brings attention to the often overlooked or naturalized labor of curators, which involves subtle but nonetheless transformative acts of framing and poetic interpretation. Presenters are encouraged to "look outside of the white box" toward new and alternative display methods. Proposals are due on February 5th, 2010 (instructions below).
A PDF of our CFP and updated information can be found at: http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
Keynote Speaker:
MARY NOOTER ROBERTS
World Arts & Cultures, UCLA
Panel Moderators:
JAMES CLIFFORD
History of Consciousness, UCSC
JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ
History of Art & Visual Culture, UCSC
SHANNON JACKSON
Performance Studies & Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley
BETTI-SUE HERTZ
Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Opening Remarks:
LUCIAN GOMOLL
History of Consciousness, UCSC
Closing Remarks:
LISSETTE OLIVARES
History of Consciousness, UCSC
SUBMISSIONS:
Please send the following documents by Friday, February 5, 2010 via e-mail to: macs@ucsc.edu
• 350-500 word abstract
• Curriculum Vitae
We welcome and encourage early submissions. Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the deadline.
Final Drafts will be due Friday, April 23, 2010 to macs@ucsc.edu
POSSIBLE TOPICS:
* Artist as Curator
* Exhibition as Translation
* Critical Histories of the Curator & Curatorial Practices
* Contemporary Approaches to the Art/artifact Debate
* Feminist/Queer Curating
* Radical Curating, Curatorial Interventions
* Marxist Museology, Archival Anarchy
* Curating Performance and/or Performance Art
* Para-Sites: Exhibiting in Alternative Spaces
* New Media & Display Practices
* Disciplining Objects in Museums & Galleries
* Comparative Studies of Exhibitions
* Strategies for Relaying Trauma in Museums & Galleries
* New Approaches to the Archives
* Collaboration and/or Curatorial Collectives
* Producing Virtual Collections & Displays
* Curating and Authorship
* Reflections on Biennale Projects
* Outsider Exhibition Proposals
* Dramaturgy of Display, Experience-Driven Practices
* Addressing Visitors, Imaginary Publics, Engaging Feedback
* Curatorial Mistakes
* Exhibitions & Pedagogy
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department at UC-Santa Cruz.
University of Southern California Call for Papers
The University of Southern California seeks papers for an issue of Spectator that engages in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Submission deadline: November 29, 2009.
University of Southern California Call for Papers
This issue of Spectator seeks papers that engage in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Questions of post-race, post-gender, and post-human identities have been consistently raised within the disciplines of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new media theory, and gender studies, and this issue will examine the implications of these claims and their relationship to the field of media studies. Academic essays, interviews, and book reviews that interrogate the idea of "transcending" or moving beyond identity, as well as representations of "post-identity" within film, television and new media, are all encouraged for submission. Deadline for submission is November 29, 2009. Send manuscripts in email format to: Janani Subramanian, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California at jananisu@usc.edu.
University of Southern California Call for Papers
This issue of Spectator seeks papers that engage in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Questions of post-race, post-gender, and post-human identities have been consistently raised within the disciplines of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new media theory, and gender studies, and this issue will examine the implications of these claims and their relationship to the field of media studies. Academic essays, interviews, and book reviews that interrogate the idea of "transcending" or moving beyond identity, as well as representations of "post-identity" within film, television and new media, are all encouraged for submission. Deadline for submission is November 29, 2009. Send manuscripts in email format to: Janani Subramanian, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California at jananisu@usc.edu.
Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War
New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. Application deadline: February 15, 2010.
Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War
New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce that it will be offering a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Our mission is to support research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society. We are particularly interested in proposals that deal with the impact that the Cold War had on the U.S. political economy, the national security state, civil rights, civil liberties, labor relations, and gender relations. The Center also looks forward to supporting projects that relate foreign policy to domestic politics and those that see the central issue as U.S. response to revolutionary nationalism and decolonization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
The application deadline is February 15, 2010. In order to apply, please send the information listed below to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
Copy of curriculum vitae.
1. Short project description (five pages maximum).
2. Statement describing the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project.
3. Two letters of recommendation.
4. Writing samples are also welcome (10 page maximum)
Applicants for dissertation fellowships must have passed their comprehensive examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have received the Ph.D. within the past five years. Travel grants are open to all.
Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. One-semester fellowships may be offered at half of the above stipends. Health insurance is also available. Office space will be provided and all fellows will have a formal affiliation with New York University.
For more information applicants are encouraged to contact Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War
New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce that it will be offering a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Our mission is to support research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society. We are particularly interested in proposals that deal with the impact that the Cold War had on the U.S. political economy, the national security state, civil rights, civil liberties, labor relations, and gender relations. The Center also looks forward to supporting projects that relate foreign policy to domestic politics and those that see the central issue as U.S. response to revolutionary nationalism and decolonization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
The application deadline is February 15, 2010. In order to apply, please send the information listed below to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
Copy of curriculum vitae.
1. Short project description (five pages maximum).
2. Statement describing the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project.
3. Two letters of recommendation.
4. Writing samples are also welcome (10 page maximum)
Applicants for dissertation fellowships must have passed their comprehensive examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have received the Ph.D. within the past five years. Travel grants are open to all.
Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. One-semester fellowships may be offered at half of the above stipends. Health insurance is also available. Office space will be provided and all fellows will have a formal affiliation with New York University.
For more information applicants are encouraged to contact Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
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