The Department of American Studies will be closed this Friday from 11:45 - 1:45. The staff will be taking a long lunch in order to celebrate Liz Gau's last day of work in American Studies.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Community Faculty Positions at Metro State
Metropolitan State University is looking to fill two community faculty positions for their Spring 2012 courses, "Chicanos/Latinos in Minnesota" and "Politics of Resistance and Protest Movements". The Ethnic & Religious Studies Department prefers its teaching staff are able to instruct from the standpoint of one or more of the historic racial-ethnic communities in the United States (Asian American, African American, Latino, and/or Native American/North American Indigenous).
Community Faculty Positions at Metro State
ETHS 252 Chicanos/Latinos in Minnesota 2 credits
This course studies the history and experience of Chicanos and Latinos in Minnesota, including the origins of the Chicano/Latino community, social and political histories, and contemporary issues affecting Chicanos and Latinos in Minnesota. Focuses include immigration to the state, agricultural and urban labor and settlement patterns, contemporary immigrations streams, and community organizations developed to assist Latinas/os.
Saturday 9:00 am - 12:20 pm Saint Paul (6 Spring Saturday Meeting Dates in Jan and Feb 2012: Dates TBA)
ETHS 303 Politics of Resistance and Protest Movements 4 credits
There have been various efforts by communities to challenge the effects of discrimination and inequality in society. The creation and development of social resistance movements has been one such effort and is an important part of history. This class explores modern social movements and their relationship to racial and ethnic communities in the United States.
Monday 6:00 - 9:20 pm Midway
The Department prefers that its teaching staff are able to instruct from the standpoint of one or more of the historic racial-ethnic communities in the United States (Asian American, African American, Latino, and/or Native American/North American Indigenous).
Aureliano Maria DeSoto (PhD,Assistant Professor, Ethnic & Religious Studies) is the lead faculty on hiring for these positions. Any interested candidates should email her (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu). They are looking to make hiring decisions first thing in the fall term.
Community Faculty Positions at Metro State
ETHS 252 Chicanos/Latinos in Minnesota 2 credits
This course studies the history and experience of Chicanos and Latinos in Minnesota, including the origins of the Chicano/Latino community, social and political histories, and contemporary issues affecting Chicanos and Latinos in Minnesota. Focuses include immigration to the state, agricultural and urban labor and settlement patterns, contemporary immigrations streams, and community organizations developed to assist Latinas/os.
Saturday 9:00 am - 12:20 pm Saint Paul (6 Spring Saturday Meeting Dates in Jan and Feb 2012: Dates TBA)
ETHS 303 Politics of Resistance and Protest Movements 4 credits
There have been various efforts by communities to challenge the effects of discrimination and inequality in society. The creation and development of social resistance movements has been one such effort and is an important part of history. This class explores modern social movements and their relationship to racial and ethnic communities in the United States.
Monday 6:00 - 9:20 pm Midway
The Department prefers that its teaching staff are able to instruct from the standpoint of one or more of the historic racial-ethnic communities in the United States (Asian American, African American, Latino, and/or Native American/North American Indigenous).
Aureliano Maria DeSoto (PhD,Assistant Professor, Ethnic & Religious Studies) is the lead faculty on hiring for these positions. Any interested candidates should email her (aureliano.desoto@metrostate.edu). They are looking to make hiring decisions first thing in the fall term.
PCard Receipt Reminder
Please submit receipts for all May PCard purchases to Laura by Wednesday, June 1st.
PCard Receipt Reminder
See generic coversheet below:
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PCard Receipt Reminder
See generic coversheet below:
COVERSHEET generic-1.xlsx
"Aesthetics/Class/Worlds" - 2011 CSCL Conference CFP
The 2nd Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is pleased to announce a call for papers. The conference, "Aesthetics / Class / Worlds", will take place October 14-15th, 2011. Keynote speakers are Kristin Ross and Eric Cazdyn. Application deadline: June 15, 2011.
"Aesthetics/Class/Worlds" - 2011 CSCL Conference CFP
The conference seeks to examine the many modes through which aesthetic practices testify to the tensions between the worlds people are determined by, live in, and create. Mediating global tendencies and local realities, these lived and imagined worlds often obscure the social relations in which they are ultimately rooted. Class, as a category that is manifest between economic and political forces, persists in helping us think through these tensions between worlds and "the" world. Broadly, they ask, how do aesthetic practices attempt to imagine the world while always remaining part of it? What is the role of aesthetic practices in the configuration of worldviews and everyday practices? To what extent is class a useful category to conceptualize the relationship between aesthetics and the worlds that people produce, intervene in, and reflect? How has aesthetics, as a constitutive element of history, changed in our digital age? And what does it mean to ask these kinds of questions at this particular juncture when disciplines in the humanities once again face crisis everywhere?
From their position in a department committed to radical thought and cultural criticism, they sense the urgency in asking these questions now, as departments confront neoliberal restructuring and impending closure. Programs in the humanities continue to face misrecognition: while they still traffic in traditional forms such as novels and films, they have long been asking representational questions that challenge discrete disciplinary constraints by weaving text and context. To counter this misrecognition, they insist that this approach is, as always, fundamentally political. They thus welcome work that examines conditions at sites of intellectual labor across disciplines, as well as in broader global modes of production and aesthetic practice.
Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:
- politics and aesthetics (including the politics of aesthetics)
- realisms and modernisms
- the global avant-garde(s)
- theory and praxis of art
- the politics of the vernacular
- cinematic worlds
- translation and interpretation
- trauma and testimony
- theories of capital and empire
- new media in the world system
- rethinking mass culture
- revolution and representation
- utopias and the event
- the politics of social space
- modes of intertextuality
- the future of the humanities
Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words to UMCSCLconference@gmail.com by June 15th, 2011. Include your name, e-mail address, brief bio (including school affiliation, position, and research interests), and any audio-visual requirements. Papers should be in English and no more than 20 minutes in length. They are also interested in panel submissions, which should consist of at least three participants and which should include the above information about each participant and a tentative title indicating the theme. The conference fee will be $20 for students and other non-faculty and $40 for faculty.
"Aesthetics/Class/Worlds" - 2011 CSCL Conference CFP
The conference seeks to examine the many modes through which aesthetic practices testify to the tensions between the worlds people are determined by, live in, and create. Mediating global tendencies and local realities, these lived and imagined worlds often obscure the social relations in which they are ultimately rooted. Class, as a category that is manifest between economic and political forces, persists in helping us think through these tensions between worlds and "the" world. Broadly, they ask, how do aesthetic practices attempt to imagine the world while always remaining part of it? What is the role of aesthetic practices in the configuration of worldviews and everyday practices? To what extent is class a useful category to conceptualize the relationship between aesthetics and the worlds that people produce, intervene in, and reflect? How has aesthetics, as a constitutive element of history, changed in our digital age? And what does it mean to ask these kinds of questions at this particular juncture when disciplines in the humanities once again face crisis everywhere?
From their position in a department committed to radical thought and cultural criticism, they sense the urgency in asking these questions now, as departments confront neoliberal restructuring and impending closure. Programs in the humanities continue to face misrecognition: while they still traffic in traditional forms such as novels and films, they have long been asking representational questions that challenge discrete disciplinary constraints by weaving text and context. To counter this misrecognition, they insist that this approach is, as always, fundamentally political. They thus welcome work that examines conditions at sites of intellectual labor across disciplines, as well as in broader global modes of production and aesthetic practice.
Possible paper topics include but are not limited to:
- politics and aesthetics (including the politics of aesthetics)
- realisms and modernisms
- the global avant-garde(s)
- theory and praxis of art
- the politics of the vernacular
- cinematic worlds
- translation and interpretation
- trauma and testimony
- theories of capital and empire
- new media in the world system
- rethinking mass culture
- revolution and representation
- utopias and the event
- the politics of social space
- modes of intertextuality
- the future of the humanities
Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words to UMCSCLconference@gmail.com by June 15th, 2011. Include your name, e-mail address, brief bio (including school affiliation, position, and research interests), and any audio-visual requirements. Papers should be in English and no more than 20 minutes in length. They are also interested in panel submissions, which should consist of at least three participants and which should include the above information about each participant and a tentative title indicating the theme. The conference fee will be $20 for students and other non-faculty and $40 for faculty.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Call for Papers - Special Issue "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory"
Women and Performance invites submissions for a special issue, "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory." They invite critical essays, short texts, book and performance reviews, artwork, and photo essays that examine questions relevant to a critical discussion of the intersection of punk, music, race, gender, and performance. Submission deadline: July 15, 2011.
Call for Papers - Special Issue "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory"
Revisions to the phenomenon of punk have been circulating since its
inception. This issue seeks to capture the performance of those revisions,
conducting a genealogical mapping of the punk movement, scenes, music,
ethics, and aesthetics utilizing queer and feminist punk analytics. While some
valuable feminist critiques of punk have surfaced - mainly to lionize the riot
grrrl movement - many uneasy questions around race, nation, and sexuality
remain unarticulated in feminist and gender performance scholarship. The
interdisciplinary articles in this issue will address the performances and
politics of these exclusions.
We are interested in the temporality and spatiality of punk performances
through a collective and archival process. We use the word "anteriors" in the
title of this issue to frame the articles that address these punk spaces and
remnants, plotting what comes before, anterior to, the telling of punk's
narratives in two senses: first, in the temporal sense which interrogates
punk's resistant genealogy; and, second, in the material and spatial sense of
place, bodies, and archives. What can be situated in front of the generic
narratives of punk's beginnings and mainstays as a form of resistance? Where
do articulations of racial formation, gender, nation, and sexuality fit into
generic notions of punk origins, temporalities, and classisms? Can punk
epistemologies be used to critique punk's exclusions?
Possible topics include:
• Race, imperialism, and punk
• Women of color feminism and punk
• Diaspora and punk
• Transnational movements and festivals
• Zines and feminist interventions
• Riot grrrl
• Underground sound and gender
• Punk, history, and ethnic studies
• Aesthetic, performance, and music
• Queer punk and other questions of sexuality in performance
• Disidentifications, performance, and punk outlaws
• Subjugated histories and punk feminism
• Art and new media performance
• Punk responses to theory and punk theories
• Supplemental spaces of punk
Women and Performance invites critical essays, short texts, book and
performance reviews, artwork, and photo essays that examine these or other
questions relevant to a critical discussion of the intersection of punk, music,
race, gender, and performance. Submissions should be 10,000 words or less
in length and adhere to the current Chicago Manual of Style, author-date
format. Questions and abstracts for review are welcome before the final
deadline. Complete essays and texts for consideration must be submitted by
July 15th, 2011. Please send all work to Fiona Ngô and Elizabeth Stinson via
email (MSWord attachment): ngo@illinois.edu and stinson@nyu.edu. Further
submission guidelines may be found at:
http://www.womenandperformance.org/submission.html. Women and
Performance is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor &
Francis.
Call for Papers - Special Issue "Punk Anteriors: Genealogy, Performance, Theory"
Revisions to the phenomenon of punk have been circulating since its
inception. This issue seeks to capture the performance of those revisions,
conducting a genealogical mapping of the punk movement, scenes, music,
ethics, and aesthetics utilizing queer and feminist punk analytics. While some
valuable feminist critiques of punk have surfaced - mainly to lionize the riot
grrrl movement - many uneasy questions around race, nation, and sexuality
remain unarticulated in feminist and gender performance scholarship. The
interdisciplinary articles in this issue will address the performances and
politics of these exclusions.
We are interested in the temporality and spatiality of punk performances
through a collective and archival process. We use the word "anteriors" in the
title of this issue to frame the articles that address these punk spaces and
remnants, plotting what comes before, anterior to, the telling of punk's
narratives in two senses: first, in the temporal sense which interrogates
punk's resistant genealogy; and, second, in the material and spatial sense of
place, bodies, and archives. What can be situated in front of the generic
narratives of punk's beginnings and mainstays as a form of resistance? Where
do articulations of racial formation, gender, nation, and sexuality fit into
generic notions of punk origins, temporalities, and classisms? Can punk
epistemologies be used to critique punk's exclusions?
Possible topics include:
• Race, imperialism, and punk
• Women of color feminism and punk
• Diaspora and punk
• Transnational movements and festivals
• Zines and feminist interventions
• Riot grrrl
• Underground sound and gender
• Punk, history, and ethnic studies
• Aesthetic, performance, and music
• Queer punk and other questions of sexuality in performance
• Disidentifications, performance, and punk outlaws
• Subjugated histories and punk feminism
• Art and new media performance
• Punk responses to theory and punk theories
• Supplemental spaces of punk
Women and Performance invites critical essays, short texts, book and
performance reviews, artwork, and photo essays that examine these or other
questions relevant to a critical discussion of the intersection of punk, music,
race, gender, and performance. Submissions should be 10,000 words or less
in length and adhere to the current Chicago Manual of Style, author-date
format. Questions and abstracts for review are welcome before the final
deadline. Complete essays and texts for consideration must be submitted by
July 15th, 2011. Please send all work to Fiona Ngô and Elizabeth Stinson via
email (MSWord attachment): ngo@illinois.edu and stinson@nyu.edu. Further
submission guidelines may be found at:
http://www.womenandperformance.org/submission.html. Women and
Performance is a peer reviewed journal published by Routledge, Taylor &
Francis.
Call for Essays: Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace: The Cambodian Experience
The Peace Review is pleased to announce a call for essays on "Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace: The Cambodian Experience." The Peace Review is an international journal distributed in more than 50 nations. Essays are welcome on any aspect of this issue's theme, broadly conceived. Submissions that address global/diasporic issues and perspectives are especially encouraged. Submission deadline: July 15, 2011.
Call for Essays: Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace: The Cambodian Experience
For three years, eight months, and twenty days, between 1975 and 1979,
the Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia. It has been described as one
of the most radical and brutal periods in world history. It was a time
of mass starvation, torture, slavery, and killing. The number of
Cambodians who died under the Khmer Rouge remains a topic of debate:
Vietnamese sources say three million, while others estimate 1-2
million deaths. Historians have called it the Cambodian Holocaust, a
pogrom of ethnic cleansing and societal reform that still haunts many
survivors and their descendants.
Among Cambodians, those living in Cambodia, and the Diaspora (i.e. the
United States), peace is elusive, since justice may never be achieved.
"How is justice possible if Pol Pot is already dead?" many survivors
asked after 1998. In 2003, The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia was established through an agreement between the government
of Cambodia and the United Nations, with a mandate to prosecute senior
members of the Khmer Rouge for war crimes and crimes against humanity,
during the time the Khmer Rouge held power. Today, many of the
surviving victims and their descendants fear that the majority of the
Khmer Rouge leaders will go unpunished because the judicial process is
being manipulated by the current Prime Minister, Hun Sen, himself a
known former Khmer Rouge leader. The legacies of this period and the
taste of injustice are powerful and affect the lives of Cambodians at
home and in diasporic communities abroad.
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice is dedicating issue 23.4 to
examining the interplay among Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace:
The Cambodian Experience. What are peace-makers pursuing on the
ground, in Cambodia and in diasporic Cambodian communities? What will
it take to bring about peace: physical peace, geographic peace,
imagined peace, emotional peace, spiritual peace, social peace,
familial peace, individual peace, and so on? Are Cambodians as
journalist Joel Brinkley declares "cursed" by history to live under
abusive tyrants? What will it take to bring about justice? What is the
interplay between justice and peace for Cambodian survivors who
continue to live and struggle with the phantom of the genocide? How is
genocide and injustice transmitted, culturally, temporally, and
generationally? Where can Cambodians find hope, or rather, expressions
of hope, and by extension, healing? How are Cambodian youths
negotiating history, identity and community? How have the genocide
and the experience of surviving post-genocide been reflected in the
arts of Cambodia? How are the arts used for peacemaking? What are
leaders, activists, and everyday Cambodian subjects doing to pave a
path for peace and justice? How are peace and justice somatically
experienced and expressed? Is the Tribunal a move towards justice, and
by extension peace, or does it deepen old wounds and open up painful
scars? What can we learn about justice, peace, and healing? Can there
be peace without justice, or justice without peace? We seek essays
written by scholars, activists, refugee workers, religious leaders,
artists (e.g. musicians, poets), community members, social workers,
journalists, and survivors that relate to the Cambodian genocide,
justice, and peacemaking within and among Cambodian communities
worldwide.
Essays are welcome on any aspect of this issue's theme, broadly
conceived. Submissions that address global/diasporic issues and
perspectives are especially encouraged.
Interested writers should submit essays (2,500-3,500 words) and 2-3 line
bios to Peace Review no later than July 15, 2011. Essays should be
jargon- and footnote-free.
See Submission Guidelines at:
http://usf.usfca.edu/peacereview/guidelines.htm
Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary transnational journal of
research and analysis focusing on the current issues and controversies that
underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world. We publish essays on
ideas and research in peace studies, broadly defined. Essays are
relatively short (2,500-3,500 words), contain no footnotes or
exhaustive bibliography, and are intended for a wide readership. The
journal is most interested in the cultural and political issues
surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and peoples.
Call for Essays: Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace: The Cambodian Experience
For three years, eight months, and twenty days, between 1975 and 1979,
the Khmer Rouge held power in Cambodia. It has been described as one
of the most radical and brutal periods in world history. It was a time
of mass starvation, torture, slavery, and killing. The number of
Cambodians who died under the Khmer Rouge remains a topic of debate:
Vietnamese sources say three million, while others estimate 1-2
million deaths. Historians have called it the Cambodian Holocaust, a
pogrom of ethnic cleansing and societal reform that still haunts many
survivors and their descendants.
Among Cambodians, those living in Cambodia, and the Diaspora (i.e. the
United States), peace is elusive, since justice may never be achieved.
"How is justice possible if Pol Pot is already dead?" many survivors
asked after 1998. In 2003, The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of
Cambodia was established through an agreement between the government
of Cambodia and the United Nations, with a mandate to prosecute senior
members of the Khmer Rouge for war crimes and crimes against humanity,
during the time the Khmer Rouge held power. Today, many of the
surviving victims and their descendants fear that the majority of the
Khmer Rouge leaders will go unpunished because the judicial process is
being manipulated by the current Prime Minister, Hun Sen, himself a
known former Khmer Rouge leader. The legacies of this period and the
taste of injustice are powerful and affect the lives of Cambodians at
home and in diasporic communities abroad.
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice is dedicating issue 23.4 to
examining the interplay among Genocide, Healing, Justice, and Peace:
The Cambodian Experience. What are peace-makers pursuing on the
ground, in Cambodia and in diasporic Cambodian communities? What will
it take to bring about peace: physical peace, geographic peace,
imagined peace, emotional peace, spiritual peace, social peace,
familial peace, individual peace, and so on? Are Cambodians as
journalist Joel Brinkley declares "cursed" by history to live under
abusive tyrants? What will it take to bring about justice? What is the
interplay between justice and peace for Cambodian survivors who
continue to live and struggle with the phantom of the genocide? How is
genocide and injustice transmitted, culturally, temporally, and
generationally? Where can Cambodians find hope, or rather, expressions
of hope, and by extension, healing? How are Cambodian youths
negotiating history, identity and community? How have the genocide
and the experience of surviving post-genocide been reflected in the
arts of Cambodia? How are the arts used for peacemaking? What are
leaders, activists, and everyday Cambodian subjects doing to pave a
path for peace and justice? How are peace and justice somatically
experienced and expressed? Is the Tribunal a move towards justice, and
by extension peace, or does it deepen old wounds and open up painful
scars? What can we learn about justice, peace, and healing? Can there
be peace without justice, or justice without peace? We seek essays
written by scholars, activists, refugee workers, religious leaders,
artists (e.g. musicians, poets), community members, social workers,
journalists, and survivors that relate to the Cambodian genocide,
justice, and peacemaking within and among Cambodian communities
worldwide.
Essays are welcome on any aspect of this issue's theme, broadly
conceived. Submissions that address global/diasporic issues and
perspectives are especially encouraged.
Interested writers should submit essays (2,500-3,500 words) and 2-3 line
bios to Peace Review no later than July 15, 2011. Essays should be
jargon- and footnote-free.
See Submission Guidelines at:
http://usf.usfca.edu/peacereview/guidelines.htm
Peace Review is a quarterly, multidisciplinary transnational journal of
research and analysis focusing on the current issues and controversies that
underlie the promotion of a more peaceful world. We publish essays on
ideas and research in peace studies, broadly defined. Essays are
relatively short (2,500-3,500 words), contain no footnotes or
exhaustive bibliography, and are intended for a wide readership. The
journal is most interested in the cultural and political issues
surrounding conflicts occurring between nations and peoples.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
AmSt 3113W Online Course Development Opportunity
Online and Distance Learning in the College of Continuing Education will offer a stipend of $4972.50 to a graduate student designated by American Studies to develop the content for an online version of AmSt 3113W, America's Diverse Cultures. Applications are due at noon on Thursday, May 26th.
AmSt 3113W Online Course Development Opportunity
See attachment below for more detail:
AmSt3113W_development_descrip_2011.pdf
AmSt 3113W Online Course Development Opportunity
See attachment below for more detail:
AmSt3113W_development_descrip_2011.pdf
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