Graduate students planning to apply for the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, please notify Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by Wednesday, January 9. Melanie will then be in contact with you directly regarding internal application deadlines. Click here for more information.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Minnesota Colleges and Universities English and Writing Conference
Submissions are invited for the Minnesota Colleges & Universities English and Writing Conference to be held April 4-5, 2013 at Normandale Community College. The conference theme, "Writing Cultures", considers not only identity, ethnicity, and diversity, but also economic and sociological variety. Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013.
2012-13 Call for Proposals (CFP)--Long Version
Call for Proposals: MnWE/MnCUEW Conference (Minn. Writing & English/Minn. Colleges & Universities English & Writing), April 4-5, 2013, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota
Site: Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn. (SW corner of Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area)
2013 Theme: ÔøΩWriting Cultures.ÔøΩ
The conference theme, ÔøΩWriting Cultures,ÔøΩ considers not only identity, ethnicity, and diversity, but also economic and sociological variety. ÔøΩWritingÔøΩ is meant to designate the traditional act of writing, as well as the act of creating, making, teaching, and learning. The word ÔøΩCulturesÔøΩ is pluralized to further underscore the range and diversity of culture. We write cultures in the way we teach them, talk about them, and portray our own and othersÔøΩ cultural abilities and backgrounds. In addition, composition, creative writing, and literature courses create ÔøΩWriting CulturesÔøΩÔøΩenvironments that foster critical thought about and written engagement with texts, ideas, and issues.
About the MnWE Conference: The MnCUEW conference provides a platform for sharing diverse pedagogies and styles in teaching and tutoring, composition, literature, ESL, and creative and professional writing. We also discover how our colleagues are researching, collaborating, and making connections with each other and among disciplines, fields, institutions, and communities. The previous conference attracted almost two hundred registrants. The conference is a place for small groups, discussion-oriented presentations, new ideas whether fully or half formed, and creative suggestions. Please send electronic submissions only to David Beard at "dbeard at d.umn.edu."
Proposal Guidelines: Conference organizers seek individual, panel, and workshop proposals from any faculty member (full-time or adjunct), graduate student, or writing center tutor involved in teaching, tutoring or research addressing any aspect of teaching composition, literature, ESL, and creative/professional writing.
Presenters will be organized into groups of two to three per full hour. However, a proposer may request a longer time slot if appropriate, or for a panel or group (with all speakers named in the proposal). People proposing a panel, group, or pair presentation should ask just one member to send their proposal for all. Each presenter should prepare less than 10 minutes of oral presentation and, for the remaining 10-20 min., plan abundant discussion and/or activities.
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013. Send electronic submissions only to David Beard at "dbeard at d.umn.edu."
Topics: Topics may include but are not limited to
-Creating ÔøΩwriting culturesÔøΩ in Composition and Literature courses
-Reading cultures through Literature
-Challenging and engaging cultures through Creative Writing
-Retaining Writing and Literature students in varied cultures
-Teaching Composition and Literature to nonnative speakers and/or nontraditional students
-Learning to thrive and/or to help others succeed in academic cultures
-Using critical race theory and other pedagogies and methodologies of working for/with the oppressed
-Working within institutional cultures or across institutional boundaries such as disciplines, high schools, for-profit institutions, community colleges, and universities, or communities beyond academe
-Positioning Writing Centers at the crossroads of composition, literary, and cultural practices
-Navigating the cultures of emerging technologies and new media
-Researching in the Internet Age
-Thinking through issues of academic integrity and honesty in a copy and paste era
-Exploring the notion of the ÔøΩculturedÔøΩ individual in an increasingly specialized world
Topics may also include
Composition/Writing Pedagogies
-Topics in composition or basic writing
-Teaching research in first year composition
-Technical and professional writing and communication
-Writing competencies and assessment
-Cultural themes/issues in writing, literature, or teaching
Literacy/Literacies
-Ethnicity, culture, and society in writing, literacy, and pedagogy
-Minnesota urban, suburban, small town, and rural communities and constituencies in literacy practices
-Writing centers as crossroads of literacy practices
Literature
-Culture and context in literature and writing
-The teaching of writing or literature to nonnative speakers
-The teaching of writing or literature to nontraditional students
- Research on writing and literature
Technology/New Media
-New media/new literacies
-Computers and writing/literature (computer-assisted and online instruction)
-Technology and culture
Writing Centers
-Writing centers: connecting with high schools, middle schools, and/or the community at large
-Writing center collaboration with other fields and other entities
-Working with diverse populations in writing centers: research and practice
Creative Writing
-Creative writing (both craft and creative work)
-Approaches to teaching creative writing
-Expressing cultures in creative writing
Research/Diversity/Interdisciplinary, Inter-institutional Connections
-Research and/or approaches to teaching writing to diverse populations
-Undergraduate research in literature and writing
-Cross-institutional discussions/influences among colleges or between high schools and colleges/universities
-Diversity in the literature classrooms
-Writing across the curriculum/writing-intensive courses or programs
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 28, 2013. Please send electronic submissions only to David Beard at dbeard@d.umn.edu.
For the complete website, please click here.
2012-13 Call for Proposals (CFP)--Long Version
Call for Proposals: MnWE/MnCUEW Conference (Minn. Writing & English/Minn. Colleges & Universities English & Writing), April 4-5, 2013, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota
Site: Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn. (SW corner of Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area)
2013 Theme: ÔøΩWriting Cultures.ÔøΩ
The conference theme, ÔøΩWriting Cultures,ÔøΩ considers not only identity, ethnicity, and diversity, but also economic and sociological variety. ÔøΩWritingÔøΩ is meant to designate the traditional act of writing, as well as the act of creating, making, teaching, and learning. The word ÔøΩCulturesÔøΩ is pluralized to further underscore the range and diversity of culture. We write cultures in the way we teach them, talk about them, and portray our own and othersÔøΩ cultural abilities and backgrounds. In addition, composition, creative writing, and literature courses create ÔøΩWriting CulturesÔøΩÔøΩenvironments that foster critical thought about and written engagement with texts, ideas, and issues.
About the MnWE Conference: The MnCUEW conference provides a platform for sharing diverse pedagogies and styles in teaching and tutoring, composition, literature, ESL, and creative and professional writing. We also discover how our colleagues are researching, collaborating, and making connections with each other and among disciplines, fields, institutions, and communities. The previous conference attracted almost two hundred registrants. The conference is a place for small groups, discussion-oriented presentations, new ideas whether fully or half formed, and creative suggestions. Please send electronic submissions only to David Beard at "dbeard at d.umn.edu."
Proposal Guidelines: Conference organizers seek individual, panel, and workshop proposals from any faculty member (full-time or adjunct), graduate student, or writing center tutor involved in teaching, tutoring or research addressing any aspect of teaching composition, literature, ESL, and creative/professional writing.
Presenters will be organized into groups of two to three per full hour. However, a proposer may request a longer time slot if appropriate, or for a panel or group (with all speakers named in the proposal). People proposing a panel, group, or pair presentation should ask just one member to send their proposal for all. Each presenter should prepare less than 10 minutes of oral presentation and, for the remaining 10-20 min., plan abundant discussion and/or activities.
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013. Send electronic submissions only to David Beard at "dbeard at d.umn.edu."
Topics: Topics may include but are not limited to
-Creating ÔøΩwriting culturesÔøΩ in Composition and Literature courses
-Reading cultures through Literature
-Challenging and engaging cultures through Creative Writing
-Retaining Writing and Literature students in varied cultures
-Teaching Composition and Literature to nonnative speakers and/or nontraditional students
-Learning to thrive and/or to help others succeed in academic cultures
-Using critical race theory and other pedagogies and methodologies of working for/with the oppressed
-Working within institutional cultures or across institutional boundaries such as disciplines, high schools, for-profit institutions, community colleges, and universities, or communities beyond academe
-Positioning Writing Centers at the crossroads of composition, literary, and cultural practices
-Navigating the cultures of emerging technologies and new media
-Researching in the Internet Age
-Thinking through issues of academic integrity and honesty in a copy and paste era
-Exploring the notion of the ÔøΩculturedÔøΩ individual in an increasingly specialized world
Topics may also include
Composition/Writing Pedagogies
-Topics in composition or basic writing
-Teaching research in first year composition
-Technical and professional writing and communication
-Writing competencies and assessment
-Cultural themes/issues in writing, literature, or teaching
Literacy/Literacies
-Ethnicity, culture, and society in writing, literacy, and pedagogy
-Minnesota urban, suburban, small town, and rural communities and constituencies in literacy practices
-Writing centers as crossroads of literacy practices
Literature
-Culture and context in literature and writing
-The teaching of writing or literature to nonnative speakers
-The teaching of writing or literature to nontraditional students
- Research on writing and literature
Technology/New Media
-New media/new literacies
-Computers and writing/literature (computer-assisted and online instruction)
-Technology and culture
Writing Centers
-Writing centers: connecting with high schools, middle schools, and/or the community at large
-Writing center collaboration with other fields and other entities
-Working with diverse populations in writing centers: research and practice
Creative Writing
-Creative writing (both craft and creative work)
-Approaches to teaching creative writing
-Expressing cultures in creative writing
Research/Diversity/Interdisciplinary, Inter-institutional Connections
-Research and/or approaches to teaching writing to diverse populations
-Undergraduate research in literature and writing
-Cross-institutional discussions/influences among colleges or between high schools and colleges/universities
-Diversity in the literature classrooms
-Writing across the curriculum/writing-intensive courses or programs
Submission Deadline: February 28, 2013. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 28, 2013. Please send electronic submissions only to David Beard at dbeard@d.umn.edu.
For the complete website, please click here.
New Course Spring 2013: CI 3151 Culture, Power, & Education
Undergraduate course CI 3151W: Culture, Power, & Education will be offered Spring 2013 with Brian Lozenski. The course provides students with an intensive investigation of the ways in which culture plays a critical role in education and student achievement.
CI 3151W - Culture, Power, & Education
Culture, Power, and Education (CI 3151W, 1:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M. , M,W
- Peik 46) provides students with an intensive investigation of the ways in which culture plays a critical role in education and student achievement. The course is meant for those
considering education as a vocation, working with youth, or those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how culture operates in our daily lives. Students will reflect upon how cultural practices impact learning, with an eye toward developing a more just classroom and educational environment. It is a liberal education course, which fulfills the liberal education requirements for the Diversity and Social Justice theme. It is also a Writing Intensive Course.
In this course we will investigate how culturally relevant pedagogy can and must be implemented as a critical part of any teacher's pedagogy. We will examine the research that explicates why it is vital to incorporate students' interests and lived experiences into our classrooms. We will discuss ways to begin to foster sociopolitical consciousness in ourselves and our students so that they are positioned to become agents of change in our society. Students will be required to spend time in educational settings looking critically at how they are and are not culturally relevant. Finally students will work in teams to develop models of culturally relevant instruction with a focus on social justice.
If you have any questions please contact Brian Lozenski - lozen002@umn.edu
CI 3151W - Culture, Power, & Education
Culture, Power, and Education (CI 3151W, 1:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M. , M,W
- Peik 46) provides students with an intensive investigation of the ways in which culture plays a critical role in education and student achievement. The course is meant for those
considering education as a vocation, working with youth, or those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of how culture operates in our daily lives. Students will reflect upon how cultural practices impact learning, with an eye toward developing a more just classroom and educational environment. It is a liberal education course, which fulfills the liberal education requirements for the Diversity and Social Justice theme. It is also a Writing Intensive Course.
In this course we will investigate how culturally relevant pedagogy can and must be implemented as a critical part of any teacher's pedagogy. We will examine the research that explicates why it is vital to incorporate students' interests and lived experiences into our classrooms. We will discuss ways to begin to foster sociopolitical consciousness in ourselves and our students so that they are positioned to become agents of change in our society. Students will be required to spend time in educational settings looking critically at how they are and are not culturally relevant. Finally students will work in teams to develop models of culturally relevant instruction with a focus on social justice.
If you have any questions please contact Brian Lozenski - lozen002@umn.edu
New Library Materials for Students and Staff
New Books at University Libraries: Nancy Herther has created a list of new materials including: ebooks, print books, reference titles, and research.
For a complete list of new materials, NewBooksList.o12-1.pdf
For a complete list of new materials, NewBooksList.o12-1.pdf
Professor Kale Bantigue Fajardo "Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization"
Professor Kale Bantigue Fajardo's book, Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization was recently reprinted and re-released in Metro Manila (Philippines). His book was one of two books from the U.S. chosen to be reprinted.
Copies of his book are now available at National Bookstores throughout Metro Manila, as well as the University of the Philippines Press Bookstore at UP, Diliman in Quezon City (part of Metro Manila). The book was originally published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
For more information, please click here.
Copies of his book are now available at National Bookstores throughout Metro Manila, as well as the University of the Philippines Press Bookstore at UP, Diliman in Quezon City (part of Metro Manila). The book was originally published by the University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
For more information, please click here.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Librarian Nancy Herther Think: Protest Music
Our librarian Nancy Herther is requesting input for a February exhibit at Wilson Library that will feature songs focusing on the role of music in protest movements and political persuasion. She is looking for song suggestions.
Songs will be featured from long-ago or today, that you feel are most important or that have influenced you.
If you'd want to include a notation/quote on why you feel this is important, let me know if it would be OK to include your thoughts in the posters.
Protest music has been important as an expression and motivator for social change for a long time - it's about time we celebrated that!
Songs will be featured from long-ago or today, that you feel are most important or that have influenced you.
If you'd want to include a notation/quote on why you feel this is important, let me know if it would be OK to include your thoughts in the posters.
Protest music has been important as an expression and motivator for social change for a long time - it's about time we celebrated that!
CFP: University of California, Irvine Graduate Students Conference "The Laboring Body"
The Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, graduate students seek submissions for their annual conference: "The Laboring Body" being held Friday March 15, 2013 at University of California, Irvine. Submissions are welcomed from those who are engaged with questions of labor embodied work. Submission deadline: January 13, 2013.
The Laboring Body
University of California, Irvine
Friday, March 15, 2013
Humanities Gateway 1030
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ucicomplitgradconference/
Keynote Speaker: Nathan Brown, University of California, Davis
The last several years of global economic meltdown have reinvigorated public debate around the mechanisms of capitalism, particularly as people recognize their role in sustaining the system that exploits them. Organized labor, as well as those outside of the workforce (whether unemployed, homeless, or laboring in shadow economies), have played an important role in the Occupy movement and in uprisings in the Arab world, Europe, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, budget cuts and other austerity measures, as well as the general climate of crisis within the humanities and within public education as a whole, has produced a critical moment for student movements and academic workers throughout the world. While heterogeneous in their practices and conditions, these movements nonetheless share in common that they each have begun to organize the laboring body as a political force at the same time as it organizes itself. Recent theoretical work by thinkers such as David Harvey, Paolo Virno and Antonio Negri, to name just a few, has re- examined the role of labor, particularly as understood in the context of biopolitics.
This conference would like to address the ways in which politics is manifest at the level of labor embodied. In other words, how are bodies organized and self-organized within the system of labor at this most recent (neoliberal) stage of capitalism and the crises it currently faces? In what ways is the notion of labor being transformed when the body is no longer put to the service of capital but instead actively works against it? How do living relationships between knowledge and labor disrupt systems which create liberal conceptualizations of responsibility modeled on notions of labor, indebtedness and contractual obligation? How is labor aestheticized, and in what ways do myths or allegories of labor construct theories or reinforce ideologies of how bodies work (or are worked)? We invite papers from all who are engaged with questions of labor embodied, whether through politics, philosophy, critical theory, art, literature, film, science studies, culture or pedagogy, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary work.
More specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Labor and bodies at work in philosophy
-Migration of labor (across space, discipline, time...)
-Im/materiality of labor and the laboring body
-Slave, multitude, collectivity, peoples, commune, individual
-Gendering and racializing of laboring bodies
-Reproduction (by bodies, of bodies, through bodies...)
-Myths and allegories of labor and the body at work
-Employment and unemployment
-Free time, leisure, the labored/laboring body at rest
-Resistance, occupation, the body politic, the masses
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words, to be submitted to thelaboringbody@gmail.com no later than January 13, 2013. Submissions are especially welcome from those positioned outside the university (community organizers, independent scholars, recent or not-so-recent graduates, artists, and others). Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length. Please include your name, email address, departmental affiliation, institution, and phone number with your abstract. A limited amount of travel funds may be made available to out-of-town participants.
Keynote Bio: Nathan Brown's research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, continental philosophy, science/technology studies, and recent communist theory. He has completed a book manuscript titled The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics and is now at work on a second book project titled Absent Blue Wax: Rationalist Empiricism in Contemporary French Philosophy. Nathan's recent writing and teaching focus on communist theory and on realigning cultural and political-economic periodization during late modernity. He has also been actively engaged in the UC struggle against the privatization of the university.
The Laboring Body
University of California, Irvine
Friday, March 15, 2013
Humanities Gateway 1030
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/ucicomplitgradconference/
Keynote Speaker: Nathan Brown, University of California, Davis
The last several years of global economic meltdown have reinvigorated public debate around the mechanisms of capitalism, particularly as people recognize their role in sustaining the system that exploits them. Organized labor, as well as those outside of the workforce (whether unemployed, homeless, or laboring in shadow economies), have played an important role in the Occupy movement and in uprisings in the Arab world, Europe, and elsewhere. Meanwhile, budget cuts and other austerity measures, as well as the general climate of crisis within the humanities and within public education as a whole, has produced a critical moment for student movements and academic workers throughout the world. While heterogeneous in their practices and conditions, these movements nonetheless share in common that they each have begun to organize the laboring body as a political force at the same time as it organizes itself. Recent theoretical work by thinkers such as David Harvey, Paolo Virno and Antonio Negri, to name just a few, has re- examined the role of labor, particularly as understood in the context of biopolitics.
This conference would like to address the ways in which politics is manifest at the level of labor embodied. In other words, how are bodies organized and self-organized within the system of labor at this most recent (neoliberal) stage of capitalism and the crises it currently faces? In what ways is the notion of labor being transformed when the body is no longer put to the service of capital but instead actively works against it? How do living relationships between knowledge and labor disrupt systems which create liberal conceptualizations of responsibility modeled on notions of labor, indebtedness and contractual obligation? How is labor aestheticized, and in what ways do myths or allegories of labor construct theories or reinforce ideologies of how bodies work (or are worked)? We invite papers from all who are engaged with questions of labor embodied, whether through politics, philosophy, critical theory, art, literature, film, science studies, culture or pedagogy, with a special emphasis on interdisciplinary work.
More specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Labor and bodies at work in philosophy
-Migration of labor (across space, discipline, time...)
-Im/materiality of labor and the laboring body
-Slave, multitude, collectivity, peoples, commune, individual
-Gendering and racializing of laboring bodies
-Reproduction (by bodies, of bodies, through bodies...)
-Myths and allegories of labor and the body at work
-Employment and unemployment
-Free time, leisure, the labored/laboring body at rest
-Resistance, occupation, the body politic, the masses
We welcome abstracts of 250-300 words, to be submitted to thelaboringbody@gmail.com no later than January 13, 2013. Submissions are especially welcome from those positioned outside the university (community organizers, independent scholars, recent or not-so-recent graduates, artists, and others). Presentations are to be 20 minutes in length. Please include your name, email address, departmental affiliation, institution, and phone number with your abstract. A limited amount of travel funds may be made available to out-of-town participants.
Keynote Bio: Nathan Brown's research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, continental philosophy, science/technology studies, and recent communist theory. He has completed a book manuscript titled The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics and is now at work on a second book project titled Absent Blue Wax: Rationalist Empiricism in Contemporary French Philosophy. Nathan's recent writing and teaching focus on communist theory and on realigning cultural and political-economic periodization during late modernity. He has also been actively engaged in the UC struggle against the privatization of the university.
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