The spring semester date on which Written Preliminary Portfolio Exam materials are accepted by the department is April 2 at 12:00 Noon. If you are planning to submit your Portfolio Exam materials for this semester, contact Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) regarding your intent to submit on April 2 and to confirm the members of your examination committee.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
2012 May Term Dissertation Writing Retreat
The Center for Writing and the Graduate School's annual 3-week on-campus Dissertation Writing Retreat will be held this year from May 21st-June 7th, 2012. All dissertation-writing graduate students are invited to apply for one of the 15 open seats, which is a free opportunity for concentrated writing time in a supportive group setting. Applications due: April 9th by 5 p.m.
Dear Dissertator,
As you know, summer offers a unique opportunity for graduate students to work on their dissertations without having to divide their time between teaching and writing. Thanks to generous support from the Graduate School, the Center for Writing's Student Writing Support (SWS) program offers a free annual Dissertation Writing Retreat each summer. In the retreat, fifteen dissertation writers from across the University gather in 15 Nicholson Hall for three weeks of concentrated dissertation-writing time in a supportive group setting. This year's retreat will be held Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day). The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 9. Please see application details later in this letter, or at writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat.
Retreat Expectations and Activities
Participants in the retreat...
do focused, sustained work on their dissertations in scheduled blocks of writing time participate in optional meetings with experienced SWS consultants participate in brief warm-up activities designed to facilitate writing pledge not to use the internet or email during the hours of the retreat participate in three Tuesday lunch discussions on issues and strategies related to dissertation writing participate in two 15-minute assessments of the program during the course of the retreat (to help make the retreat as useful as possible for current and future participants) have no other teaching or research responsibilities during May Term
Writing Retreat Location and Schedule
If you are selected, you will gather with other retreat participants Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day), from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in 15 Nicholson Hall, which also houses a computer lab. Coffee, tea, and healthy snacks will be available. We will break for lunch from 12:15-1:15 each day. On Tuesdays, participants will be provided with lunch during a discussion of dissertation writing issues and strategies. Participants must commit to the full 11-day retreat schedule.
How to apply
Applications must be emailed to Katie Levin at kslevin@umn.edu no earlier than Monday, March 26, and no later than Monday, April 9, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. The application consists of the following three parts:
From your advisor
a brief email endorsing your participation in the retreat. This email should be sent directly from your advisor to Katie Levin atkslevin@umn.edu.
From you
· a statement (no longer than one single-spaced page) describing how participating in this retreat will help you make progress on your dissertation. In other words, what would you gain from this dissertation retreat that you couldn't do on your own?
· an abstract of your dissertation (no longer than two single-spaced pages). Because so much of the retreat is devoted to sustained writing (rather than research) time, writers whose prospectuses have not yet been approved by their departments or who still need to complete fieldwork should wait until next year to apply.
Selection criteria
Our goal is to accept fifteen participants from a wide variety of disciplines. Our first consideration will be the quality of each application; ultimately, in the event of numerous highly competitive applications, we will favor applications representing candidates from a diversity of disciplines to enrich the retreat.
Applications from writers who have not won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in previous years will be favored over applications from those who have previously won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.
Interested? Questions?
To learn more and to hear from past participants, please visit writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat. And, if you have further questions, please feel free to get in touch with me (kslevin@umn.edu; 612.624.7720).
Dear Dissertator,
As you know, summer offers a unique opportunity for graduate students to work on their dissertations without having to divide their time between teaching and writing. Thanks to generous support from the Graduate School, the Center for Writing's Student Writing Support (SWS) program offers a free annual Dissertation Writing Retreat each summer. In the retreat, fifteen dissertation writers from across the University gather in 15 Nicholson Hall for three weeks of concentrated dissertation-writing time in a supportive group setting. This year's retreat will be held Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day). The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 9. Please see application details later in this letter, or at writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat.
Retreat Expectations and Activities
Participants in the retreat...
do focused, sustained work on their dissertations in scheduled blocks of writing time participate in optional meetings with experienced SWS consultants participate in brief warm-up activities designed to facilitate writing pledge not to use the internet or email during the hours of the retreat participate in three Tuesday lunch discussions on issues and strategies related to dissertation writing participate in two 15-minute assessments of the program during the course of the retreat (to help make the retreat as useful as possible for current and future participants) have no other teaching or research responsibilities during May Term
Writing Retreat Location and Schedule
If you are selected, you will gather with other retreat participants Mondays through Thursdays, May 21-June 7 (except May 28, Memorial Day), from 9:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in 15 Nicholson Hall, which also houses a computer lab. Coffee, tea, and healthy snacks will be available. We will break for lunch from 12:15-1:15 each day. On Tuesdays, participants will be provided with lunch during a discussion of dissertation writing issues and strategies. Participants must commit to the full 11-day retreat schedule.
How to apply
Applications must be emailed to Katie Levin at kslevin@umn.edu no earlier than Monday, March 26, and no later than Monday, April 9, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. The application consists of the following three parts:
From your advisor
a brief email endorsing your participation in the retreat. This email should be sent directly from your advisor to Katie Levin atkslevin@umn.edu.
From you
· a statement (no longer than one single-spaced page) describing how participating in this retreat will help you make progress on your dissertation. In other words, what would you gain from this dissertation retreat that you couldn't do on your own?
· an abstract of your dissertation (no longer than two single-spaced pages). Because so much of the retreat is devoted to sustained writing (rather than research) time, writers whose prospectuses have not yet been approved by their departments or who still need to complete fieldwork should wait until next year to apply.
Selection criteria
Our goal is to accept fifteen participants from a wide variety of disciplines. Our first consideration will be the quality of each application; ultimately, in the event of numerous highly competitive applications, we will favor applications representing candidates from a diversity of disciplines to enrich the retreat.
Applications from writers who have not won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in previous years will be favored over applications from those who have previously won Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.
Interested? Questions?
To learn more and to hear from past participants, please visit writing.umn.edu/sws/dissretreat. And, if you have further questions, please feel free to get in touch with me (kslevin@umn.edu; 612.624.7720).
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Ford Foundation Research Travel Grants Program
Each spring and fall, the Gerald R. Ford Foundation awards a number of grants of up to $2,000 each in support of research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Grants defray North American travel, living, and photocopy expenses for a research trip to the Ford Library. Postmark deadlines for applications are March 15th, 2012 and September 15th, 2012. Click here for more details.
2012 Ford Scholar Award
The Gerald R. Ford Scholar Award in Honor of Robert M. Teeter is an annual award of $5,000 given to a doctoral student to support dissertation research and writing on an aspect of the United States political process and public policy, broadly defined. Applicants must have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. program (coursework and examinations) by the application deadline, except for the dissertation. The postmark deadline to apply: May 1, 2012. Click here for more info.
CFP: Anthology on Queer Utopias
Palgrave MacMillian seeks submissions for their anthology on queer utopias titled "Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias". The anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias and contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. Submission deadline: ASAP
Call for Papers
Title: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias
Editor: Angela Jones, PhD, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York
This is a second call for papers for an important anthology on queer utopias. The project is under review with Palgrave McMillan. Editor, Burke Gerstenschlager is excited about the project. The series editors for their Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Series have sent the project out for review. In the interim, this time has allowed us to reissue the call for papers because the publisher has indicated that there is space to add additional chapters. We are excited to issue this second call for papers for additional submissions.
http://us.macmillan.com/series/CriticalStudiesinGenderSexualityandCulture
This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. This book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and will interrogate how homonormativity conditions many queer scholars' visions of the future and queer spaces. This book will answer the following questions: how do we define queer space? Are there queer utopias? Are people creating queer spaces? How? Where? Moreover, this work will not only focus on gay, lesbian, and transgendered spaces. It aims to explore other, less well known queer spaces. Queer individuals are becoming more visible and are building both tangible and imagined social spaces; this powerful transition is occurring before our eyes and needs to be documented.
Contributors are encouraged to consider:
1) What is queer space?
2) Are there queer utopias? How do you understand this term?
3) Are there spaces real or imagined where hegemonic heterosexist discourses cease to regulate bodies?
Please forward a letter of interest, updated CV, and a detailed abstract (250-400 words)
Please forward submissions and or any questions to: jonesa@farmingdale.edu as soon as possible.
About the Editor:
Angela Jones is currently assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. Her research interests include African American historiography, social movements, gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Jones is the author of numerous scholarly publications. Her forthcoming book, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama is being published by Routledge and will be released in the fall of 2012. Jones is the author of African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. She is also the author of numerous journal articles.
Call for Papers
Title: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias
Editor: Angela Jones, PhD, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York
This is a second call for papers for an important anthology on queer utopias. The project is under review with Palgrave McMillan. Editor, Burke Gerstenschlager is excited about the project. The series editors for their Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Series have sent the project out for review. In the interim, this time has allowed us to reissue the call for papers because the publisher has indicated that there is space to add additional chapters. We are excited to issue this second call for papers for additional submissions.
http://us.macmillan.com/series/CriticalStudiesinGenderSexualityandCulture
This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Contributors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and empirical work. This book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and will interrogate how homonormativity conditions many queer scholars' visions of the future and queer spaces. This book will answer the following questions: how do we define queer space? Are there queer utopias? Are people creating queer spaces? How? Where? Moreover, this work will not only focus on gay, lesbian, and transgendered spaces. It aims to explore other, less well known queer spaces. Queer individuals are becoming more visible and are building both tangible and imagined social spaces; this powerful transition is occurring before our eyes and needs to be documented.
Contributors are encouraged to consider:
1) What is queer space?
2) Are there queer utopias? How do you understand this term?
3) Are there spaces real or imagined where hegemonic heterosexist discourses cease to regulate bodies?
Please forward a letter of interest, updated CV, and a detailed abstract (250-400 words)
Please forward submissions and or any questions to: jonesa@farmingdale.edu as soon as possible.
About the Editor:
Angela Jones is currently assistant professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. Her research interests include African American historiography, social movements, gender, sexuality, and queer theory. Jones is the author of numerous scholarly publications. Her forthcoming book, The Modern African American Political Thought Reader: From David Walker to Barack Obama is being published by Routledge and will be released in the fall of 2012. Jones is the author of African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement. She is also the author of numerous journal articles.
Two Upcoming Presentations on Critical Theory
The Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium Series "Capital and Crisis" invites you to two upcoming presentations from outstanding scholars in critical theory: Professor Robert Hullot-Kentor will present on Friday, March 2nd at 1:30pm and Professor Alex Demirovic will present on Tuesday, March 6th at 5:00pm. Both events will be held in room 1314 Social Science Tower.
1. Professor Hullot-Kentor is chair of the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford universities and written widely on Adorno. He has published among other works Things Beyond Resemblance, a collection of essays on critical theory. Professor Hullot-Kentor has translated various of Adorno's works such as Philosophy of Modern Music, and was given the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for his translation of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, published by the University of Minnesota Press. (The Department of Political Science thanks University of Minnesota Regents Professor Dr. Richard Leppert for making Hullot-Kentor's visit possible to the Colloquium.)
Professor Hullot- Kentor will present on Friday 2 March 2012, 1:30 p.m. his paper: "Severe Clear: Sacrifice and Right Wishing"
Abstract: In the context of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a sudden deepening of the economic crisis partly or entirely overshadowing the occasion, we hear raised from every corner primordial demands for the necessity of sacrifice and self-inflicted wounds as the only adequate response to the gravity of the situation. The intensification of the economic calamity itself has by any measure been intentional, while nationwide the only audible voices seem to be those calling for austerity and for every budget to be 'cut.' The moment thus urgently prompts the question of whether the seminal insight that has lapsed­-the insight from which the whole of radical modernism developed­-can be recovered: the insight into the primitive in ourselves and in the world around us.`Severe Clear,' the weather alert issued to pilots on September 11th, 2001, is an excursus on this question that examines in detail the sacral edifice now being constructed in lower Manhattan.
2. In collaboration with The European Studies Consortium, The German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Department, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Institute for Global Studies, The Center for Austrian Studies, and Carleton College, the Colloquium is glad to have Dr. Alex Demirovic, Professor of Political Theory, Political Sociology, and Political Science at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB).
Professor Demirovic has also taught at the universities of Frankfurt, Leipzig, Vienna, Wuppertal, and Toronto. He is also at the Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie. Professor Demirovic's research interests are on the first generation of Critical Theory of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, state theory, critical economics, post-structuralist analysis of power and discourse, and critical research on culture. His books include Beyond Aesthetics: The discursive order of Marxist aesthetics; Nicos Poulantzas: Actuality and Problems of Materialist State Theory; Democracy and Domination: Aspects of Critical Social Theory; The Non-conformist Intellectual: From Critical Theory to Frankfurt School; Economic Democracy: Positions, Problems, and Perspectives; Active Intolerance, etc.
Professor Demirovic will present on Tuesday 6 March 2012, 5:00 p.m. his paper: "Reform, Revolution, Transformation"
Abstract: "Our societies are confronted with a myriad of serious problems: global warming and climate change, desertification or the loss of rain forests, worldwide migration, unemployment and increase of precarious work, social polarisation and the hollowing out of democracy, economic and finance crisis or public household debt, disturbance of individual psychic and somatic as well as familial reproduction. We can summarize all these and other phenomena as multiple crises that urge for a quick and deep social change. How can conceive of this change? In the tradition of polical action and theory there are three different ways to conceptualize such a pressing and challenging reality: revolution, reform or transformation. These concepts will be examined on the background of historical experiences and shortcomings."
Please find attached the papers for both presentations:
The Colloquium meets in the Benjamin Lippincott Room, 1314 Social Sciences Building.
Please visit http://www.polisci.umn.edu/deptcolloquium/ for more information on the 2011-2012 Colloquium's description and current schedule.
1. Professor Hullot-Kentor is chair of the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has taught at Harvard and Stanford universities and written widely on Adorno. He has published among other works Things Beyond Resemblance, a collection of essays on critical theory. Professor Hullot-Kentor has translated various of Adorno's works such as Philosophy of Modern Music, and was given the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award for his translation of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory, published by the University of Minnesota Press. (The Department of Political Science thanks University of Minnesota Regents Professor Dr. Richard Leppert for making Hullot-Kentor's visit possible to the Colloquium.)
Professor Hullot- Kentor will present on Friday 2 March 2012, 1:30 p.m. his paper: "Severe Clear: Sacrifice and Right Wishing"
Abstract: In the context of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, in the midst of a sudden deepening of the economic crisis partly or entirely overshadowing the occasion, we hear raised from every corner primordial demands for the necessity of sacrifice and self-inflicted wounds as the only adequate response to the gravity of the situation. The intensification of the economic calamity itself has by any measure been intentional, while nationwide the only audible voices seem to be those calling for austerity and for every budget to be 'cut.' The moment thus urgently prompts the question of whether the seminal insight that has lapsed­-the insight from which the whole of radical modernism developed­-can be recovered: the insight into the primitive in ourselves and in the world around us.`Severe Clear,' the weather alert issued to pilots on September 11th, 2001, is an excursus on this question that examines in detail the sacral edifice now being constructed in lower Manhattan.
2. In collaboration with The European Studies Consortium, The German, Scandinavian, and Dutch Department, The Institute for Advanced Studies, The Institute for Global Studies, The Center for Austrian Studies, and Carleton College, the Colloquium is glad to have Dr. Alex Demirovic, Professor of Political Theory, Political Sociology, and Political Science at the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB).
Professor Demirovic has also taught at the universities of Frankfurt, Leipzig, Vienna, Wuppertal, and Toronto. He is also at the Berliner Institut für kritische Theorie. Professor Demirovic's research interests are on the first generation of Critical Theory of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, state theory, critical economics, post-structuralist analysis of power and discourse, and critical research on culture. His books include Beyond Aesthetics: The discursive order of Marxist aesthetics; Nicos Poulantzas: Actuality and Problems of Materialist State Theory; Democracy and Domination: Aspects of Critical Social Theory; The Non-conformist Intellectual: From Critical Theory to Frankfurt School; Economic Democracy: Positions, Problems, and Perspectives; Active Intolerance, etc.
Professor Demirovic will present on Tuesday 6 March 2012, 5:00 p.m. his paper: "Reform, Revolution, Transformation"
Abstract: "Our societies are confronted with a myriad of serious problems: global warming and climate change, desertification or the loss of rain forests, worldwide migration, unemployment and increase of precarious work, social polarisation and the hollowing out of democracy, economic and finance crisis or public household debt, disturbance of individual psychic and somatic as well as familial reproduction. We can summarize all these and other phenomena as multiple crises that urge for a quick and deep social change. How can conceive of this change? In the tradition of polical action and theory there are three different ways to conceptualize such a pressing and challenging reality: revolution, reform or transformation. These concepts will be examined on the background of historical experiences and shortcomings."
Please find attached the papers for both presentations:
The Colloquium meets in the Benjamin Lippincott Room, 1314 Social Sciences Building.
Please visit http://www.polisci.umn.edu/deptcolloquium/ for more information on the 2011-2012 Colloquium's description and current schedule.
Mural presentation by artist Miguel Rep
"Mural Por Los Derechos Humanos", a mural depicting the struggles for Human Rights in Argentina in the last decades, will be presented by artist and cartoonist Miguel Rep on Saturday, March 3rd at 11:00am in room 416 Folwell Hall. The event is in conjunction with the XVII the State of Iberoamerican Studies Series "Human Rights Across the Disciplines".
Miguel Rep is an artist and cartoonist. He has had many individual exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, France and Spain. He has received several awards in Argentina, Spain, Japan, and Cuba.
He has published more tan twenty books, among them: Bellas Artes, Y Rep hizo los barrios, Postales, Platinum Plus, La grandeza y la CHIQUEZA,Contratapas, Auxilio, vamos a nacer, and Rep para todos. Rep is known for having created nearly sixty popular characters and series, such as El niño azul, Postales, Bellas Artes, Barrios de Buenos Aires, Gaspar, el Revolú y Lukas. He has been publishing in the newspaper Página/12 since the first issue, and in the magazine Veintitrés and Fierro.
Since 2003 he has painted some forty murals in hospitals, book fairs, universitites, parks, cultural centers, and museums in Argentina, Spain, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and German, including Mural Treinta (2006), Mural sobre la Transicion española (2008), Desoncierto sinfónico (2008), with Luis Felipe Noé, León Ferrari and Adolfo Nigro, Mural del Bicentenario (2010), and a mural in the Argentine Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2010). More recently, following his illustration of a new edition of Don Quijote, with 260 drawings , he painted Murales de Hermanamiento (2011) as a tribute to Miguel de Cervantes when Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Azul (Argentina) became sister cities.
This event is sponsored by
The University of Minnesota Imagine Fund, supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation; The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; The College of Liberal Arts; The Institute for Global Studies; And the Global Program, the Strategy Alliance's Global Spotlight Initiative and and Gustavus Adolphus College
(Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies).
Miguel Rep is an artist and cartoonist. He has had many individual exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, France and Spain. He has received several awards in Argentina, Spain, Japan, and Cuba.
He has published more tan twenty books, among them: Bellas Artes, Y Rep hizo los barrios, Postales, Platinum Plus, La grandeza y la CHIQUEZA,Contratapas, Auxilio, vamos a nacer, and Rep para todos. Rep is known for having created nearly sixty popular characters and series, such as El niño azul, Postales, Bellas Artes, Barrios de Buenos Aires, Gaspar, el Revolú y Lukas. He has been publishing in the newspaper Página/12 since the first issue, and in the magazine Veintitrés and Fierro.
Since 2003 he has painted some forty murals in hospitals, book fairs, universitites, parks, cultural centers, and museums in Argentina, Spain, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and German, including Mural Treinta (2006), Mural sobre la Transicion española (2008), Desoncierto sinfónico (2008), with Luis Felipe Noé, León Ferrari and Adolfo Nigro, Mural del Bicentenario (2010), and a mural in the Argentine Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2010). More recently, following his illustration of a new edition of Don Quijote, with 260 drawings , he painted Murales de Hermanamiento (2011) as a tribute to Miguel de Cervantes when Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Azul (Argentina) became sister cities.
This event is sponsored by
The University of Minnesota Imagine Fund, supported by a generous donation from the McKnight Foundation; The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies; The College of Liberal Arts; The Institute for Global Studies; And the Global Program, the Strategy Alliance's Global Spotlight Initiative and and Gustavus Adolphus College
(Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies).
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