University Furlough / Winter Closure: During the break between fall and spring semesters, the Department of American Studies main office will be open regular hours (8 a.m. - Noon and 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday) except for University Holidays and furlough days, when the office is closed. Those days are: December 24th - January 2nd, and January 17th. More information on the University Closure / Furlough can be found at: http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/faculty-staff/closure/index.htm
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
American Studies is pleased to announce the launching of a new bimonthly Graduate Student Workshop series
A NOTE FROM THE DGS: American Studies is pleased to announce the launching of a new bimonthly Graduate Student Workshop series this spring semester. Grad Students are encouraged to use this opportunity to share their work with each other and with faculty. The series was created to allow students to receive feedback on their work such as, but not limited to, conference papers, practice job talks, parts of chapters, parts of course research papers. Faculty and graduate students are all encouraged to participate.
The first workshop of the series is scheduled for Monday, January 24th, 3:30-5:00pm in the Scott Hall Commons, room 105. Students interested in presenting work at one of the spring workshops should contact Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Monday, January 10 and indicate, generally, the type of work you would like to present. One of us will be in contact with those of you who express an interest to finalize scheduling. Once the workshops are set, we will announce the schedule in the Digest, inviting graduate students and faculty.
The first workshop of the series is scheduled for Monday, January 24th, 3:30-5:00pm in the Scott Hall Commons, room 105. Students interested in presenting work at one of the spring workshops should contact Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Monday, January 10 and indicate, generally, the type of work you would like to present. One of us will be in contact with those of you who express an interest to finalize scheduling. Once the workshops are set, we will announce the schedule in the Digest, inviting graduate students and faculty.
Two Annual Requirements: Student Activity Reports Due; Annual Meeting with Adviser
The graduate school requires an annual review of student progress for each graduate student. The department process for annual review includes a meeting with your adviser(s). Meetings should be scheduled between February 2 and February 23. Students are also required to submit a Student Activity Report (SAR) each calendar year. Please submit your SAR to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, February 2, 2011. Please continue reading for SAR template and for more information.
Two Annual Requirements: Student Activity Reports Due; Annual Meeting with Adviser
SAR Template 2010.doc
The graduate school requires an annual review of student progress for each graduate student. The department process for annual review includes a meeting with your adviser(s). Please make an appointment with your adviser(s) to discuss your academic progress toward the degree. Goals, problems, research interests, and timelines for completion should be reviewed. Meetings should be scheduled between February 2 and February 23. After the meeting, your adviser will submit a brief written report to the DGS. We will be in contact with each adviser to remind them of the department process and deadlines.
Students are also required to submit a Student Activity Report (SAR) each calendar year. Cumulative information from collected SARs -- which includes information about research, teaching, publication, conference participation, honors, and service activities in the 2010 calendar year-- is important for the department, graduate school, and college in assessing the activities of the graduate program. Please submit your SAR (template attached) to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, February 2, 2011. We encourage you to submit a copy of this report to your adviser at this time as well as advisers have noted that your SAR is a helpful guide to facilitate a broader discussion of your research and professional goals.
For more information on the annual review please check the Graduate
Handbook , available at http://americanstudies.umn.edu/grad/handbook.html
Two Annual Requirements: Student Activity Reports Due; Annual Meeting with Adviser
SAR Template 2010.doc
The graduate school requires an annual review of student progress for each graduate student. The department process for annual review includes a meeting with your adviser(s). Please make an appointment with your adviser(s) to discuss your academic progress toward the degree. Goals, problems, research interests, and timelines for completion should be reviewed. Meetings should be scheduled between February 2 and February 23. After the meeting, your adviser will submit a brief written report to the DGS. We will be in contact with each adviser to remind them of the department process and deadlines.
Students are also required to submit a Student Activity Report (SAR) each calendar year. Cumulative information from collected SARs -- which includes information about research, teaching, publication, conference participation, honors, and service activities in the 2010 calendar year-- is important for the department, graduate school, and college in assessing the activities of the graduate program. Please submit your SAR (template attached) to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, February 2, 2011. We encourage you to submit a copy of this report to your adviser at this time as well as advisers have noted that your SAR is a helpful guide to facilitate a broader discussion of your research and professional goals.
For more information on the annual review please check the Graduate
Handbook , available at http://americanstudies.umn.edu/grad/handbook.html
Tentative: University of Colorado-Denver Assistant Professor in Latin American History
The History Department at the University of Colorado Denver is in the final stages of posting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American history. The full description will be posted on H-net when approved. For the tentative job description please:
Tentative Job Description:
Assistant Professor, Latin American History
University of Colorado Denver
The History Department at the University of Colorado Denver invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American history. The Department seeks a colleague who utilizes transnational approaches; we are particularly interested in research and teaching that engages recent scholarship on the Atlantic World or borderlands. Teaching load is four courses per year. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in his or her area of expertise, the successful applicant will teach Latin American survey courses and contribute to the College's International Studies major. PhD expected by August, 2011.
Please contact Professor Carl Pletsch (carl.pletsch@ucdenver.edu, 720-940-1691), chair of the search committee, with any questions.
Tentative Job Description:
Assistant Professor, Latin American History
University of Colorado Denver
The History Department at the University of Colorado Denver invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American history. The Department seeks a colleague who utilizes transnational approaches; we are particularly interested in research and teaching that engages recent scholarship on the Atlantic World or borderlands. Teaching load is four courses per year. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in his or her area of expertise, the successful applicant will teach Latin American survey courses and contribute to the College's International Studies major. PhD expected by August, 2011.
Please contact Professor Carl Pletsch (carl.pletsch@ucdenver.edu, 720-940-1691), chair of the search committee, with any questions.
Leipzig University 2011 Graduate Conference - Call for Papers
The American Studies Department at Leipzig University invites paper submissions for the 2011 Graduate Conference "American Pornographies: Consumerism, Sensationalism, and Voyeurism in a Global Context" scheduled for April 1-2, 2011. Calling for an interdisciplinary angle, and welcome contributions by MA-level students from all fields related to American Studies. Proposals due by January 6, 2011.
Call for Papers: Leipzig University "American Pornographies: Consumerism, Sensationalism, and Voyeurism in a Global Context"
The previously understudied and often silenced subject of pornography thus brings new impulses to the study of consumerism, particularly in light of the rising influence of globalization and the Internet. We therefore invite proposals that investigate the intricacies of pornography as well as those that frame 'pornography' in the broader context of consumerism and related notions like sensationalism, voyeurism, materialism, or exhibitionism. Accordingly, contributions could address questions such as: Which new challenges to the concept of pornography have arisen since feminism has complicated simplistic notions of pornography as always being oppressive? How has consumerism, in turn, reconfigured notions of gender, 'race,' and sexuality? How do shifting understandings of consumption create transnational and individual narratives or turn previously unidirectional phenomena like Americanization into reciprocal processes? In what ways is consumerism both vilified and cherished--in terms of individualism, modernization, social mobility, power dynamics, or materialist re-readings of the American Dream? In how far do terms like 'food porn,' 'torture porn,' and the 'pornography of violence' complicate understandings of 'consuming,' e.g., information, religion, and war through sensationalist depictions in the media and pop culture?
As a platform to discuss the complexities of 'pornography' and consumerism within the wide spectrum of academic contexts, our conference invites all interested MA-level students. Please note that there will be no conference fee. Also, to encourage nationwide and international participation in our conference, we will be able to award several travel and accommodation grants to students in Europe, ranging from about 100€ to 250€.
Please submit your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute presentation with your name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to asl-gradconference@uni-leipzig.de by January 6, 2011. We will notify all authors by January 17, 2011.
For further information, please refer to http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/asl-gradconference2011 or contact us via email.
Call for Papers: Leipzig University "American Pornographies: Consumerism, Sensationalism, and Voyeurism in a Global Context"
The previously understudied and often silenced subject of pornography thus brings new impulses to the study of consumerism, particularly in light of the rising influence of globalization and the Internet. We therefore invite proposals that investigate the intricacies of pornography as well as those that frame 'pornography' in the broader context of consumerism and related notions like sensationalism, voyeurism, materialism, or exhibitionism. Accordingly, contributions could address questions such as: Which new challenges to the concept of pornography have arisen since feminism has complicated simplistic notions of pornography as always being oppressive? How has consumerism, in turn, reconfigured notions of gender, 'race,' and sexuality? How do shifting understandings of consumption create transnational and individual narratives or turn previously unidirectional phenomena like Americanization into reciprocal processes? In what ways is consumerism both vilified and cherished--in terms of individualism, modernization, social mobility, power dynamics, or materialist re-readings of the American Dream? In how far do terms like 'food porn,' 'torture porn,' and the 'pornography of violence' complicate understandings of 'consuming,' e.g., information, religion, and war through sensationalist depictions in the media and pop culture?
As a platform to discuss the complexities of 'pornography' and consumerism within the wide spectrum of academic contexts, our conference invites all interested MA-level students. Please note that there will be no conference fee. Also, to encourage nationwide and international participation in our conference, we will be able to award several travel and accommodation grants to students in Europe, ranging from about 100€ to 250€.
Please submit your proposal (max. 300 words) for a 20-minute presentation with your name, current level of graduate study, affiliated university, and email address to asl-gradconference@uni-leipzig.de by January 6, 2011. We will notify all authors by January 17, 2011.
For further information, please refer to http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/asl-gradconference2011 or contact us via email.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
PCard Reminder
Please submit receipts for all December PCard purchases to Laura by Monday, January 3rd.
PCard Reminder
See attachment below for generic coversheet:
COVERSHEET generic-1.xlsx
PCard Reminder
See attachment below for generic coversheet:
COVERSHEET generic-1.xlsx
Call for Papers: UC Berkeley Race, Space, Nature Symposium
The University of California, Berkeley's Center for Race & Gender is thrilled to announce that they are now accepting proposals for the Race, Space, Nature Symposium planned for April 27, 2011. This conference aims to open up dialogue among graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, and independent scholars who critically engage with analytics of race/racialization and 'the environment', broadly conceived. Proposals are due January 15, 2011.
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*Call For Papers**
Race, Space and Nature: A One-day Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley April 27, 2011
This conference aims to open up dialogue among graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, and independent scholars who critically engage with analytics of race/racialization and 'the environment', broadly conceived. We are interested in understanding how scholars understand the experiences, practices, creativities, political
economies and subjectivities of racialized groups in relationship to the spaces that they move through and create: the environment, nature and cities. In what ways do racialized experiences and identities come to structure narratives, practices, and politics in relationship to built and "natural" environments? If racialization occurs in and through places, how are these processes sedimented or resisted by people? How do racial
constructs connect to spatial/environmental ones and vice versa - and why does it matter?
Interdisciplinary scholars have developed a large body of literature that considers the role of race/racialization in the context of spatial inequality, marginalization and oppression. Increasingly, scholars have interrogated the roles of agency and innovation in environmental practice among various racial groups, including the forms through which racial analytics help to shape those interactions. This one-day conference will critically engage these questions in order to ask: How do issues of race and racialization intersect with spatial/environmental/territorializing practices, discourses, and politics in the contemporary moment? We seek papers from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary, and methodological perspectives. This includes but is not limited to topics such as:
· racialized access to resources;
· the role of race in global environmental discourses and politics;
· activist practice;
· social movements;
· international development;
· intersectional engagements with race, gender, sexuality and class;
· political ecolog(ies) of race, space, and urban environmental
practice;
· the rise and fall of cities;
· environmental and climate justice;
· critical food studies.
The symposium will include a working lunch where we will match scholars with others in their fields. The event is open to the public, free, and includes lunch with registration, as funds allow. We will conclude with a keynote from UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Carolyn Finney (ESPM).
To participate, please submit a 250 word abstract *by January 15* to conference organizers Rachel Brahinsky, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, and Jade Sasser at race.conference.berkeley@gmail.com. Please include, in the body of the email: your name, affiliation, contact information, and abstract.
We will respond to submissions in early February. Once accepted, final papers must be submitted two weeks before the symposium.
________________________________________________________________
*Call For Papers**
Race, Space and Nature: A One-day Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley April 27, 2011
This conference aims to open up dialogue among graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, and independent scholars who critically engage with analytics of race/racialization and 'the environment', broadly conceived. We are interested in understanding how scholars understand the experiences, practices, creativities, political
economies and subjectivities of racialized groups in relationship to the spaces that they move through and create: the environment, nature and cities. In what ways do racialized experiences and identities come to structure narratives, practices, and politics in relationship to built and "natural" environments? If racialization occurs in and through places, how are these processes sedimented or resisted by people? How do racial
constructs connect to spatial/environmental ones and vice versa - and why does it matter?
Interdisciplinary scholars have developed a large body of literature that considers the role of race/racialization in the context of spatial inequality, marginalization and oppression. Increasingly, scholars have interrogated the roles of agency and innovation in environmental practice among various racial groups, including the forms through which racial analytics help to shape those interactions. This one-day conference will critically engage these questions in order to ask: How do issues of race and racialization intersect with spatial/environmental/territorializing practices, discourses, and politics in the contemporary moment? We seek papers from a variety of theoretical, disciplinary, and methodological perspectives. This includes but is not limited to topics such as:
· racialized access to resources;
· the role of race in global environmental discourses and politics;
· activist practice;
· social movements;
· international development;
· intersectional engagements with race, gender, sexuality and class;
· political ecolog(ies) of race, space, and urban environmental
practice;
· the rise and fall of cities;
· environmental and climate justice;
· critical food studies.
The symposium will include a working lunch where we will match scholars with others in their fields. The event is open to the public, free, and includes lunch with registration, as funds allow. We will conclude with a keynote from UC Berkeley Assistant Professor Carolyn Finney (ESPM).
To participate, please submit a 250 word abstract *by January 15* to conference organizers Rachel Brahinsky, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, and Jade Sasser at race.conference.berkeley@gmail.com. Please include, in the body of the email: your name, affiliation, contact information, and abstract.
We will respond to submissions in early February. Once accepted, final papers must be submitted two weeks before the symposium.
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