The Consortium for the Study of the Asias (CSA), the Institute for Global Studies (IGS), and the European Studies Consortium (ESC) invite ALL ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS to nominate up to four graduate students for Summer and up to four graduate students for Academic Year FLAS Fellowships in each of the areas of competition. The deadline (in department), is Feb. 11, 2009 at 12:00 P.M. If you plan to apply for this fellowship you must send an email to Colleen at henne020@umn.edu by 12:00 P.M. Jan. 30, 2009.
FLAS Fellowship
For more information and the application form please go to: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/grad/fundflas.html Please note, that although the deadline on the website is listed as Monday, February 9th, you may turn your application in to the American Studies department by noon on Wednesday, February 11th as long as you have informed us that you plan to apply by noon, this Friday, January 30th deadline.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Graduate Degree Completion Workshops
The Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) office staff will be holding degree completion workshops for Graduate School master's and doctoral students February 16th, 17th, and 18th. The workshops on February 16th and 17th will be held on the East Bank campus and our workshops on the 18th will be held on the St. Paul campus.
Graduate Degree Completion Workshops
The Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) office staff will be presenting degree completion workshops for master’s and doctoral students February 16th, 17th, and 18th. Topics discussed will include completion of Graduate School forms, thesis/dissertation submission, special registration categories, and degree completion. The workshops will consist of a short power point presentation followed by a question/answer period.
Although the workshop is designed for Graduate School students at the beginning or middle of their student career, all Graduate School students are welcome to attend. Registration is required. Students may register using the links below. Please note that there are three sessions for each workshop.
Master’s Degree Completion Workshop
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=GS1001&category=GSSP&unit=GS
Doctoral Degree Completion Workshop
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=GS1002&category=GSSP&unit=GS
Graduate Degree Completion Workshops
The Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) office staff will be presenting degree completion workshops for master’s and doctoral students February 16th, 17th, and 18th. Topics discussed will include completion of Graduate School forms, thesis/dissertation submission, special registration categories, and degree completion. The workshops will consist of a short power point presentation followed by a question/answer period.
Although the workshop is designed for Graduate School students at the beginning or middle of their student career, all Graduate School students are welcome to attend. Registration is required. Students may register using the links below. Please note that there are three sessions for each workshop.
Master’s Degree Completion Workshop
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=GS1001&category=GSSP&unit=GS
Doctoral Degree Completion Workshop
https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=GS1002&category=GSSP&unit=GS
Richard Morrison U of M Press Talk
Richard Morrison, Managing Editor of the U of M Press will be presenting his insight and experience in book publishing. The event, open to American Studies graduate students and faculty, takes place in Nicholson Hall 135 at 1:30 P.M., Feb. 13, 2009.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
First Fridays: February
First Fridays invites you to two short programs given by Al Lathrop (Performing Arts, Northwest Architecture and Literary Manuscripts Archives) and Karen Nelson Holyle (Irwin Kerlan, MD and George Hess Jr, two founders of the children’s literature collections) in Anderson Library Room 120. The programs take place 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Feb. 6, 2009.
First Fridays invites you to two short programs given by Al Lathrop (Performing Arts, Northwest Architecture and Literary Manuscripts Archives) and Karen Nelson Holyle (Irwin Kerlan, MD and George Hess Jr, two founders of the children’s literature collections) in Anderson Library Room 120. The programs take place 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Feb. 6, 2009.
First Fridays: February
Feb. 6, 2009 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.
You are invited to First Fridays February 6, 2009 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Andersen Library Room 120 (University of Minnesota west bank) to hear two short programs. First, Al Lathrop talks about the Performing Arts, Northwest Architecture and Literary Manuscripts Archives. Second, Karen Nelson Hoyle talks about Irvin Kerlan, MD and George Hess, Jr, two founders of the children's literature collections. First Fridays is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and tours of the caverns will follow.
First Fridays invites you to two short programs given by Al Lathrop (Performing Arts, Northwest Architecture and Literary Manuscripts Archives) and Karen Nelson Holyle (Irwin Kerlan, MD and George Hess Jr, two founders of the children’s literature collections) in Anderson Library Room 120. The programs take place 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M. on Feb. 6, 2009.
First Fridays: February
Feb. 6, 2009 12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.
You are invited to First Fridays February 6, 2009 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Andersen Library Room 120 (University of Minnesota west bank) to hear two short programs. First, Al Lathrop talks about the Performing Arts, Northwest Architecture and Literary Manuscripts Archives. Second, Karen Nelson Hoyle talks about Irvin Kerlan, MD and George Hess, Jr, two founders of the children's literature collections. First Fridays is free and open to the public. Light refreshments and tours of the caverns will follow.
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youths Summer Positions
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youths summer programs provide intensive course work in the liberal arts to talented pre-collegiate students ages 8 to 16. Both instructor and teaching assistant positions are available.
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youths Summer Positions
Details of our instructor and teaching assistant positions are below. I hope you will take the time to forward the electronic posting below to graduate and undergraduate students in your department. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email at ctysummer@jhu.edu or by calling 410-735-4100.
HUMANITIES TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES
Summer 2009
Who: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seeks outstanding science teachers, professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students to work in our summer programs.
What: CTY offers challenging 3-week academic programs for highly talented elementary, middle, and high school students from across the US and around the world.
Where: Residential sites in California , Hawaii , Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , Pennsylvania , and Rhode Island. International Residential sites in China , Mexico and Spain. Day Site locations in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, Los Angeles , and San Diego areas.
When:
Session 1: June 25 – July 18
Session 2: July 18 – August 8
/ Instructors and teaching assistants may work one or two sessions. /
Why: Teach what you love, work with exceptional students in small classes, and learn from talented colleagues.
Salary:
Instructors: $2100 – $3000 per 3-week session, based on experience.
Teaching assistants: $1100 per 3-week session.
Plus room and board at our residential sites.
Classes: 12 – 18 students
Each class has an instructor and teaching assistant.
Visit: http://www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
· Learn more about the program and courses
· Find full job descriptions and responsibilities
· Download an application
You may also contact us at *410-735-6185* or ctysummer@jhu.edu for more information.
Johns Hopkins is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Courses for 2009 include:
2nd– 5th Grade:Journeys and Explorations
Stories and Poems
The Ancient World
Writing and Reading Workshop
Writing Workshop: Modern Fantasy
Pirates: History and Culture
* *
5th – 6th Grade: Writing and Imagination
Elements of Drama
Heroes and Villains
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Model United Nations and Advanced Geography
* *
7th Grade and Above: Race and Politics
Great Cases: American Legal History
Philosophy
Eastern Philosophy
Introduction to Logic
Bioethics
Etymologies
Foundations of Psychology
Beginning Ancient Greek
Latin I
Logic: Principles of Reasoning
Ethics
Existentialism
Philosophy of Mind
History of Western Art
Twentieth-Century Art
Music Theory
Islam
Russian History
Dissent
Law and Politics in US History
International Politics
Politics of the Middle East
The Asian Pacific Rim
Cognitive Psychology
Youth and Society: Service Learning
China-U.S. Relations
Chinese Philosophy
Medicine: East and West
Contemporary Issues in Chinese Modernization
Andalus: Culture and History of Moorish Spain
The Spanish Civil War
Introduction to Media Studies
Text Box: For full course descriptions and sample syllabi please visit our website: http://www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment e-mail ctysummer@jhu.edu, or call 410-735-6185.
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youths Summer Positions
Details of our instructor and teaching assistant positions are below. I hope you will take the time to forward the electronic posting below to graduate and undergraduate students in your department. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email at ctysummer@jhu.edu or by calling 410-735-4100.
HUMANITIES TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES
Summer 2009
Who: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seeks outstanding science teachers, professors, graduate students, and undergraduate students to work in our summer programs.
What: CTY offers challenging 3-week academic programs for highly talented elementary, middle, and high school students from across the US and around the world.
Where: Residential sites in California , Hawaii , Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , Pennsylvania , and Rhode Island. International Residential sites in China , Mexico and Spain. Day Site locations in the Baltimore-Washington, DC, Los Angeles , and San Diego areas.
When:
Session 1: June 25 – July 18
Session 2: July 18 – August 8
/ Instructors and teaching assistants may work one or two sessions. /
Why: Teach what you love, work with exceptional students in small classes, and learn from talented colleagues.
Salary:
Instructors: $2100 – $3000 per 3-week session, based on experience.
Teaching assistants: $1100 per 3-week session.
Plus room and board at our residential sites.
Classes: 12 – 18 students
Each class has an instructor and teaching assistant.
Visit: http://www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment
· Learn more about the program and courses
· Find full job descriptions and responsibilities
· Download an application
You may also contact us at *410-735-6185* or ctysummer@jhu.edu for more information.
Johns Hopkins is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.
Courses for 2009 include:
2nd– 5th Grade:Journeys and Explorations
Stories and Poems
The Ancient World
Writing and Reading Workshop
Writing Workshop: Modern Fantasy
Pirates: History and Culture
* *
5th – 6th Grade: Writing and Imagination
Elements of Drama
Heroes and Villains
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Model United Nations and Advanced Geography
* *
7th Grade and Above: Race and Politics
Great Cases: American Legal History
Philosophy
Eastern Philosophy
Introduction to Logic
Bioethics
Etymologies
Foundations of Psychology
Beginning Ancient Greek
Latin I
Logic: Principles of Reasoning
Ethics
Existentialism
Philosophy of Mind
History of Western Art
Twentieth-Century Art
Music Theory
Islam
Russian History
Dissent
Law and Politics in US History
International Politics
Politics of the Middle East
The Asian Pacific Rim
Cognitive Psychology
Youth and Society: Service Learning
China-U.S. Relations
Chinese Philosophy
Medicine: East and West
Contemporary Issues in Chinese Modernization
Andalus: Culture and History of Moorish Spain
The Spanish Civil War
Introduction to Media Studies
Text Box: For full course descriptions and sample syllabi please visit our website: http://www.cty.jhu.edu/summer/employment e-mail ctysummer@jhu.edu, or call 410-735-6185.
Wilfrid Laurier University Assistant Professor Tenure Position
The Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2009. The area of specialization is culture and conflict, with particular emphasis on the cultural dynamics and expressions of contemporary peace and conflict. Application due: Feb. 1, 2009
Wilfrid Laurier University Assistant Professor Tenure Position
GLOBAL STUDIES
Culture and Conflict
Tenure-Track
Wilfrid Laurier University -- The Department of Global Studies invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2009, subject to budgetary approval. Preference will be given to candidates with a completed PhD, and, given the department’s current strengths, to disciplinary training outside
Political Science. The area of specialization is culture and conflict, with particular emphasis on the cultural dynamics and expressions of contemporary peace and conflict.
Applicants should forward a hard copy of their cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample publications, teaching dossier (course evaluations and outlines, etc.), and the names, addresses and contact information for three references, to:
Dr. Michel Desjardins Chair of the Search Committee Department of Global Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada
Questions may be directed to mdesjardins@wlu.ca, or 519-884-0710, ext. 3323.
Information about the Department of Global Studies can be found at: http://www.wlu.ca/arts/globalstudies.
The deadline for receipt of materials is February 1, 2009.
Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Further information on the equity policy can be found at http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10541.
Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. David Docherty.
Wilfrid Laurier University Assistant Professor Tenure Position
GLOBAL STUDIES
Culture and Conflict
Tenure-Track
Wilfrid Laurier University -- The Department of Global Studies invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, commencing July 1, 2009, subject to budgetary approval. Preference will be given to candidates with a completed PhD, and, given the department’s current strengths, to disciplinary training outside
Political Science. The area of specialization is culture and conflict, with particular emphasis on the cultural dynamics and expressions of contemporary peace and conflict.
Applicants should forward a hard copy of their cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample publications, teaching dossier (course evaluations and outlines, etc.), and the names, addresses and contact information for three references, to:
Dr. Michel Desjardins Chair of the Search Committee Department of Global Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada
Questions may be directed to mdesjardins@wlu.ca, or 519-884-0710, ext. 3323.
Information about the Department of Global Studies can be found at: http://www.wlu.ca/arts/globalstudies.
The deadline for receipt of materials is February 1, 2009.
Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Further information on the equity policy can be found at http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10541.
Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Dr. David Docherty.
Michigan Feminist Studies Call for Papers
Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2009 issue on the theme of Politics and Performativity. While their empirical and theoretical focus is on women and gender, they also encourage submissions that draw linkages between gender and other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, and nationality. Submission deadline: Feb. 13, 2009.
Michigan Feminist Studies Call for Papers
Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2009 issue on the theme of Politics and Performativity. Women's roles in politics per se, and more generally in the public sphere, often theorized through notions of performativity, are important topics for feminist researchers, academics, and activists. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks to engage with this subject from many different angles and perspectives. While our empirical and theoretical focus is on women and gender, we also encourage submissions that draw linkages between gender and other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, and nationality.
We welcome submissions in the form of empirical/scholarly analysis, literature reviews, theoretical papers, creative writing, and visual art from emerging or established scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, artists, creative writers, and activists. We encourage scholarly works from all disciplines, including (but not limited to): anthropology, sociology, psychology, English/literature, linguistics, women's studies, biology, chemistry, physics, history, public health, public policy, philosophy, art history, business/marketing, information sciences, political science, studio arts, communications/media studies, theater, international studies, law, and education. As feminists, we also support interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research.
In this issue of Michigan Feminist Studies we are interested in considering questions such as: How have women in the public sphere/politics been represented in the media? How are women and/feminism implicated in conservative versus liberal politics? How are feminist issues given attention in policy decisions? What is the role of women in grassroots political organizations? How is gender constructed through political discourse? How are femininity and sexuality of female politicians portrayed by the media and handled by the public? How do gendered discourses frame political campaigns? How has the feminist movement been shaped by its political goals? How do drag and other forms of subversive gendered dress make a political statement?
More specific topics for submissions could include:
* Reproductive rights
* Identity politics
* Presentation of the self in the political arena
* Nationalism
* Women and (dis)enfranchisement
* Women, language, & politics
* Political economy
* Public/private divide
* Femininity and political figures in the ancient world
* Sexism in politics
* Gay marriage
* Power of women in ancient dynasties
Please note that these questions and topics are intended as suggestions and not limitations.
Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Manuscripts should be roughly 4000-6000 words and double-spaced. Please submit three single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, brief biographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Papers may be submitted in the accepted format of your own academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If your paper is selected, you will then be asked to submit an electronic file.
Mail submissions to: Michigan Feminist Studies
1122 Lane Hall
204 South State Street
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
The Deadline for Submissions is February 13, 2009.
Inquiries can be directed to mfs.editors@umich.edu.
Michigan Feminist Studies Call for Papers
Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2009 issue on the theme of Politics and Performativity. Women's roles in politics per se, and more generally in the public sphere, often theorized through notions of performativity, are important topics for feminist researchers, academics, and activists. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks to engage with this subject from many different angles and perspectives. While our empirical and theoretical focus is on women and gender, we also encourage submissions that draw linkages between gender and other social identities, such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, ability, and nationality.
We welcome submissions in the form of empirical/scholarly analysis, literature reviews, theoretical papers, creative writing, and visual art from emerging or established scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, artists, creative writers, and activists. We encourage scholarly works from all disciplines, including (but not limited to): anthropology, sociology, psychology, English/literature, linguistics, women's studies, biology, chemistry, physics, history, public health, public policy, philosophy, art history, business/marketing, information sciences, political science, studio arts, communications/media studies, theater, international studies, law, and education. As feminists, we also support interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research.
In this issue of Michigan Feminist Studies we are interested in considering questions such as: How have women in the public sphere/politics been represented in the media? How are women and/feminism implicated in conservative versus liberal politics? How are feminist issues given attention in policy decisions? What is the role of women in grassroots political organizations? How is gender constructed through political discourse? How are femininity and sexuality of female politicians portrayed by the media and handled by the public? How do gendered discourses frame political campaigns? How has the feminist movement been shaped by its political goals? How do drag and other forms of subversive gendered dress make a political statement?
More specific topics for submissions could include:
* Reproductive rights
* Identity politics
* Presentation of the self in the political arena
* Nationalism
* Women and (dis)enfranchisement
* Women, language, & politics
* Political economy
* Public/private divide
* Femininity and political figures in the ancient world
* Sexism in politics
* Gay marriage
* Power of women in ancient dynasties
Please note that these questions and topics are intended as suggestions and not limitations.
Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan.
Manuscripts should be roughly 4000-6000 words and double-spaced. Please submit three single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, brief biographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Papers may be submitted in the accepted format of your own academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If your paper is selected, you will then be asked to submit an electronic file.
Mail submissions to: Michigan Feminist Studies
1122 Lane Hall
204 South State Street
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
The Deadline for Submissions is February 13, 2009.
Inquiries can be directed to mfs.editors@umich.edu.
Graduate Workshop in Modern History Call for Papers
The University of Minnesota Graduate Workshop in Modern History is currently soliciting papers for its 2009 spring semester schedule. The GWMH is a graduate-run workshop that emphasized practical and constructive feedback in a low-pressure atmosphere.
Graduate Workshop in Modern History Call for Papers
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History (GWMH) is currently soliciting papers for its 2009 spring semester schedule. If you have a seminar paper, MA thesis, or other project you would like to submit to a journal or present at a conference, the GWMH is a perfect place to receive useful and interdisciplinary feedback in a low-pressure atmosphere. The GWMH is a graduate-student run workshop that emphasizes practical and constructive feedback in an informal setting on papers aimed for an audience outside of a typical seminar (e.g. things you would like to publish or present at a conference).
Any papers that use historical methodology and focus on the modern period (very loosely defined as 1840s to the present) are welcome. The GWMH accepts papers from any geographic area and any discipline.
If you are interested in presenting, please email Lizabeth Zanoni (zano0011@umn.edu) and/or Drew Thompson (thom2429@umn.edu) and indicate:
1) a general time during the semester when you would prefer to present your paper (i.e. January, April, anytime, etc.). This semester, the workshop will meet at noon on Fridays,
2) a working title for the paper you wish to present, and,
3) a list of three professors who you would want to potentially serve as the faculty commentator for your paper. Faculty commentators initiate discussion of the paper being discussed that week. The GWMH has also been a
venue where professors and graduate students who have mutual interests yet don't know each other can meet.
We look forward to a semester of interesting papers and conversation. Check out our GWMH blog at
http://assets.cla.umn.edu/manu0014/gwmh/
Graduate Workshop in Modern History Call for Papers
The Graduate Workshop in Modern History (GWMH) is currently soliciting papers for its 2009 spring semester schedule. If you have a seminar paper, MA thesis, or other project you would like to submit to a journal or present at a conference, the GWMH is a perfect place to receive useful and interdisciplinary feedback in a low-pressure atmosphere. The GWMH is a graduate-student run workshop that emphasizes practical and constructive feedback in an informal setting on papers aimed for an audience outside of a typical seminar (e.g. things you would like to publish or present at a conference).
Any papers that use historical methodology and focus on the modern period (very loosely defined as 1840s to the present) are welcome. The GWMH accepts papers from any geographic area and any discipline.
If you are interested in presenting, please email Lizabeth Zanoni (zano0011@umn.edu) and/or Drew Thompson (thom2429@umn.edu) and indicate:
1) a general time during the semester when you would prefer to present your paper (i.e. January, April, anytime, etc.). This semester, the workshop will meet at noon on Fridays,
2) a working title for the paper you wish to present, and,
3) a list of three professors who you would want to potentially serve as the faculty commentator for your paper. Faculty commentators initiate discussion of the paper being discussed that week. The GWMH has also been a
venue where professors and graduate students who have mutual interests yet don't know each other can meet.
We look forward to a semester of interesting papers and conversation. Check out our GWMH blog at
http://assets.cla.umn.edu/manu0014/gwmh/
Women's and Gender Studies Discipline Conference
2009 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities present the Women’s and Gender Studies Discipline Conference. The conference will take place at Metro State University on the Saint Paul Campus, March 5-6, 2009.
Women's and Gender Studies Discipline Conference
This is another call for your participation as a presenter at the 2009 MN State Colleges and Universities WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES Discipline Conference. The dates for the gathering are March 5 & 6. The place is Metro State U on the Saint Paul Campus.
We need your input for panel discussions, papers and presentations, films you would like to recommend, teaching topics that you would like to hear about. Please see the attachment for suggestions on the discipline topics that are appropriate for this gathering.
You may have graduate students who would be interested in participating in this conference. Please pass this information along to them.
The due date for presentation proposals is fast approaching: This coming Monday, February 2nd is the stated deadline. But any proposal that you can get to the Program Committe by Monday, February 9th will be considered.
The proposal process is really quite simple. Send us your presentation description, your topic, contact information for the presenters, your 100 word description. Email it to Kathryn.Kelley@metrostate.edu
and the Program Committee will put together the program.
See attachment for further detail.
Download file
Women's and Gender Studies Discipline Conference
This is another call for your participation as a presenter at the 2009 MN State Colleges and Universities WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES Discipline Conference. The dates for the gathering are March 5 & 6. The place is Metro State U on the Saint Paul Campus.
We need your input for panel discussions, papers and presentations, films you would like to recommend, teaching topics that you would like to hear about. Please see the attachment for suggestions on the discipline topics that are appropriate for this gathering.
You may have graduate students who would be interested in participating in this conference. Please pass this information along to them.
The due date for presentation proposals is fast approaching: This coming Monday, February 2nd is the stated deadline. But any proposal that you can get to the Program Committe by Monday, February 9th will be considered.
The proposal process is really quite simple. Send us your presentation description, your topic, contact information for the presenters, your 100 word description. Email it to Kathryn.Kelley@metrostate.edu
and the Program Committee will put together the program.
See attachment for further detail.
Download file
Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar
The Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar is happy to announce its spring 2009 schedule. All are welcome; readings are optional.
Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar
The Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar is happy to announce its spring 2009 meetings and topics below. All sessions will meet in Wulling Hall 220 on the following Wednesdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m. All are welcome; readings are optional.
To download readings, visit our Moodle site at https://moodle.umn.edu/course/edit.php?id=3301 UM-affiliated users can access the site using the enrollment key: AADSgrad
Jan. 28: Asian American Studies: Disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.Led by Richard Lee, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Josephine Lee. Readings: Okazaki, Lee, Sue, "Theoretical and Conceptual Models: Toward Asian Americanist Psychology" in F.T.L. Leong, et al Handbook of Asian Americans Psychology (Sage 2007); Colleen Lye, ³Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies,² Representations (Summer 2007): 40-73; Min Zhou, ³Are Asian Americans Becoming ³White?² Context 3.1 (2004): 29-37. Supplemental reading: Karen Pyke and Tran Dang, ³FOB² and ³Whitewashed²: Identity and Internalized Racism Among Second Generation Asian Americans, Qualitative
Sociology 26.2 (Summer 2003)
Feb. 11: Asian American Studies East of California. Led by Lisa Park and Erika Lee. Readings TBA
Feb. 25: Talk by David Takeuchi, University of Washington. Readings: Alegria et al., "Considering Context, Place, and Culture: The National Latino and Asian American Study" International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Volume 13, Number 4; Gee et al., "The Association Between Self-Reported Racial Discrimination and 12-Month DSM-IV Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans Nationwide"; Takeuchi, "Immigration-Related Factors and Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans,² American Journal of Public Health| January 2007,Vol 97, No. 1.
Mar. 11: Topics and readings TBA
Mar. 25: Topics and readings TBA
Apr. 8: Professional identities and Asian American Studies: The experiences of new faculty. Faculty leaders and readings TBA.
If you have any questions, please contact Jo Lee jolee@umn.edu or Rich Lee richlee@umn.edu
Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar
The Asian American/Diaspora Studies Proseminar is happy to announce its spring 2009 meetings and topics below. All sessions will meet in Wulling Hall 220 on the following Wednesdays from 3:30-5:30 p.m. All are welcome; readings are optional.
To download readings, visit our Moodle site at https://moodle.umn.edu/course/edit.php?id=3301 UM-affiliated users can access the site using the enrollment key: AADSgrad
Jan. 28: Asian American Studies: Disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity.Led by Richard Lee, Teresa Toguchi Swartz, and Josephine Lee. Readings: Okazaki, Lee, Sue, "Theoretical and Conceptual Models: Toward Asian Americanist Psychology" in F.T.L. Leong, et al Handbook of Asian Americans Psychology (Sage 2007); Colleen Lye, ³Introduction: In Dialogue with Asian American Studies,² Representations (Summer 2007): 40-73; Min Zhou, ³Are Asian Americans Becoming ³White?² Context 3.1 (2004): 29-37. Supplemental reading: Karen Pyke and Tran Dang, ³FOB² and ³Whitewashed²: Identity and Internalized Racism Among Second Generation Asian Americans, Qualitative
Sociology 26.2 (Summer 2003)
Feb. 11: Asian American Studies East of California. Led by Lisa Park and Erika Lee. Readings TBA
Feb. 25: Talk by David Takeuchi, University of Washington. Readings: Alegria et al., "Considering Context, Place, and Culture: The National Latino and Asian American Study" International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Volume 13, Number 4; Gee et al., "The Association Between Self-Reported Racial Discrimination and 12-Month DSM-IV Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans Nationwide"; Takeuchi, "Immigration-Related Factors and Mental Disorders Among Asian Americans,² American Journal of Public Health| January 2007,Vol 97, No. 1.
Mar. 11: Topics and readings TBA
Mar. 25: Topics and readings TBA
Apr. 8: Professional identities and Asian American Studies: The experiences of new faculty. Faculty leaders and readings TBA.
If you have any questions, please contact Jo Lee jolee@umn.edu or Rich Lee richlee@umn.edu
Mediascape Call for Papers
Mediascape, UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, invites submissions for the upcoming Spring 2009 Issue. Submissions are sought for the following sections: Features; Reviews; Columns; Meta. Multiple submissions processes, all DUE: March 20, 2009.
Mediascape Call for Papers
MEDIASCAPE SPRING 2009 Call for Papers
Mediascape, UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, invites submissions for the upcoming Spring 2009 Issue. You can learn more about the journal here:
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/
Features
As a theoretical paradigm, genre studies have longstanding roots in film and media scholarship. In light of the increasingly diverse range of texts available for study, ‚ÄúFeatures‚Ä? is seeking articles that consider genre from our contemporary and multi-media point of view.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The evolution of genres (in the case of specific genres or as a more broad category)
- Emerging standards for the study of genre
- The relationship between national cinemas and genre conventions
- The effects of globalization on the study of genre
- Contemporary reconsiderations of classical genres
- Industrial viewpoints, concerns and practices of genre construction
- Effects of emerging technologies on traditional film genres
- Transmedia properties and their impact on genres
- Genres in television, video games, film, web, mobile and other screen-based media
- Genre as a valid historiographic organization in light of any of the above concerns
Feature submissions should offer a unique perspective on film, television, and digital media and are encouraged to address more than one area of moving image culture. To submit a feature article, please email two copies of a short bio and a copy of your manuscript in Word format to Mila Zuo at mzuo@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
For the purposes of confidentiality during the double blind peer review, please include both your bio and your personal contact information in the accompanying emails only, rather than in the Word document. Feature submissions should range from between 15 to 25 manuscript pages.
Reviews
‚ÄúReviews‚Ä? is seeking work that interrogates genre either as object of review or as critical framework. The object of review can be a film, a TV program, a website, an advertisement, a piece of hardware, a movie review, an academic conference, a business practice, a work of media policy -- anything. Questions that may arise include:
- How do genres create pleasure across media?
- How do media create pleasure across genres?
- What strategies does one take to review works of a genre or cycle?
- How can one conceptualize media criticism as a genre of writing? Is online criticism a distinct genre?
- What are the advantages of reviewing works based on genre (versus other criteria)?
- How does the industry "create" genres, and how can criticism review the process of "creation"?
Reviews must be original, and creativity (in argumentation and/or style) is encouraged. Please direct reviews section questions, proposals, and submissions to brianhu@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
Columns
Sports media are a major force in terms of their dominance across many media forms: television, films, video games, the Internet, radio, etc. Even though sports media is lucrative enough to allow for entire networks and film production companies that are dedicated to sports media, the study of sports media remains an oft-ignored field of analysis with regards to Cinema and Media Studies. ‚ÄúColumns‚Ä? is seeking lean and muscular short papers (800-1500 words) that consider ways of analyzing and addressing the genre of sports media in its various forms. Topics may or may not address:
- The construction of narrative in sports films, television, and other media
- Production cultures and industry practices for sports media (Production, marketing, advertising, publicity, revenue, etc.)
- The aesthetics of sports networks (ESPN, NFL TV, FSC, etc.) and sports media
- Sports media as transmedia properties
- The coverage of sports in the press, magazines, radio, Internet, blogs, etc.
- Effects of the digital on the consumption of sports media (Tivo classics, podcasts, YouTube highlights, etc.)
- Effects of high-definition and 3-D technologies on sports media
- Cultures of consumption for sports media (Fantasy sports leagues, video games, trading cards, etc.)
Please submit "Columns" questions, proposals, and submissions to Bryan Hartzheim at bhartz@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
Meta
The pursuit of cinema and media scholarship often leaves unexamined questions about the practice of scholarship itself: how we formulate analysis and argument, why certain issues emerge to the fore, what new forms and expressions of media and cultural analysis enhance our understanding. The ‚ÄúMeta‚Ä? section presents students and scholars of cinema and other media the opportunity to publish work that exemplifies scholastic self-awareness‚Äîpapers and projects that contemplate academic methods, critique their implications and limitations, and propagate new approaches to media scholarship.
Mediascape‚Äôs examination of genre prompts many intriguing questions about the longevity and malleability of an approach to media scholarship that remains as durable as it is divisive. What is genre today, and why do genre studies remain relevant in a postmodern context? How does the inclusion of television and new media alter our understanding of genre? Does genre unify expectations of industrial production, public reception, and critical analysis‚Äîor does it seek to limit variation and suppress new genre development? These and many other questions are of particular interest to ‚ÄúMeta‚Ä? for the next issue.
If you have questions about META submissions, or wish to submit a paper or project for consideration, please contact David O’Grady at david@davidogrady.com by March 20, 2009.
Mediascape Call for Papers
MEDIASCAPE SPRING 2009 Call for Papers
Mediascape, UCLA’s Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, invites submissions for the upcoming Spring 2009 Issue. You can learn more about the journal here:
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/
Features
As a theoretical paradigm, genre studies have longstanding roots in film and media scholarship. In light of the increasingly diverse range of texts available for study, ‚ÄúFeatures‚Ä? is seeking articles that consider genre from our contemporary and multi-media point of view.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The evolution of genres (in the case of specific genres or as a more broad category)
- Emerging standards for the study of genre
- The relationship between national cinemas and genre conventions
- The effects of globalization on the study of genre
- Contemporary reconsiderations of classical genres
- Industrial viewpoints, concerns and practices of genre construction
- Effects of emerging technologies on traditional film genres
- Transmedia properties and their impact on genres
- Genres in television, video games, film, web, mobile and other screen-based media
- Genre as a valid historiographic organization in light of any of the above concerns
Feature submissions should offer a unique perspective on film, television, and digital media and are encouraged to address more than one area of moving image culture. To submit a feature article, please email two copies of a short bio and a copy of your manuscript in Word format to Mila Zuo at mzuo@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
For the purposes of confidentiality during the double blind peer review, please include both your bio and your personal contact information in the accompanying emails only, rather than in the Word document. Feature submissions should range from between 15 to 25 manuscript pages.
Reviews
‚ÄúReviews‚Ä? is seeking work that interrogates genre either as object of review or as critical framework. The object of review can be a film, a TV program, a website, an advertisement, a piece of hardware, a movie review, an academic conference, a business practice, a work of media policy -- anything. Questions that may arise include:
- How do genres create pleasure across media?
- How do media create pleasure across genres?
- What strategies does one take to review works of a genre or cycle?
- How can one conceptualize media criticism as a genre of writing? Is online criticism a distinct genre?
- What are the advantages of reviewing works based on genre (versus other criteria)?
- How does the industry "create" genres, and how can criticism review the process of "creation"?
Reviews must be original, and creativity (in argumentation and/or style) is encouraged. Please direct reviews section questions, proposals, and submissions to brianhu@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
Columns
Sports media are a major force in terms of their dominance across many media forms: television, films, video games, the Internet, radio, etc. Even though sports media is lucrative enough to allow for entire networks and film production companies that are dedicated to sports media, the study of sports media remains an oft-ignored field of analysis with regards to Cinema and Media Studies. ‚ÄúColumns‚Ä? is seeking lean and muscular short papers (800-1500 words) that consider ways of analyzing and addressing the genre of sports media in its various forms. Topics may or may not address:
- The construction of narrative in sports films, television, and other media
- Production cultures and industry practices for sports media (Production, marketing, advertising, publicity, revenue, etc.)
- The aesthetics of sports networks (ESPN, NFL TV, FSC, etc.) and sports media
- Sports media as transmedia properties
- The coverage of sports in the press, magazines, radio, Internet, blogs, etc.
- Effects of the digital on the consumption of sports media (Tivo classics, podcasts, YouTube highlights, etc.)
- Effects of high-definition and 3-D technologies on sports media
- Cultures of consumption for sports media (Fantasy sports leagues, video games, trading cards, etc.)
Please submit "Columns" questions, proposals, and submissions to Bryan Hartzheim at bhartz@ucla.edu by March 20, 2009.
Meta
The pursuit of cinema and media scholarship often leaves unexamined questions about the practice of scholarship itself: how we formulate analysis and argument, why certain issues emerge to the fore, what new forms and expressions of media and cultural analysis enhance our understanding. The ‚ÄúMeta‚Ä? section presents students and scholars of cinema and other media the opportunity to publish work that exemplifies scholastic self-awareness‚Äîpapers and projects that contemplate academic methods, critique their implications and limitations, and propagate new approaches to media scholarship.
Mediascape‚Äôs examination of genre prompts many intriguing questions about the longevity and malleability of an approach to media scholarship that remains as durable as it is divisive. What is genre today, and why do genre studies remain relevant in a postmodern context? How does the inclusion of television and new media alter our understanding of genre? Does genre unify expectations of industrial production, public reception, and critical analysis‚Äîor does it seek to limit variation and suppress new genre development? These and many other questions are of particular interest to ‚ÄúMeta‚Ä? for the next issue.
If you have questions about META submissions, or wish to submit a paper or project for consideration, please contact David O’Grady at david@davidogrady.com by March 20, 2009.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
PA 5601
PA 5601, “Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the United States" taught by Dr. Kathleen Laughlin, professor of History, Metropolitan State University, will meet Wednesdays 6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.
PA 5601
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PA 5601
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Call for Papers
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of West Georgia invites abstracts and panel proposals from scholars in a variety of humanities fields for its 2009 Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction at the Cultural Arts Center in Carrollton, GA Nov. 12-14, 2009. Due: May 1, 2009.
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Call for Papers
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of West Georgia invites abstracts and panel proposals from scholars in a variety of humanities fields for its 2009
Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction
Cultural Arts Center in Carrollton, GA November 12-14, 2009.
Keynote address by Dr. Ed Friedman, Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.
Papers may be read in English, Spanish, French, or German.
Conference participants will be encouraged to expand and revise their papers for submission to JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
Please submit one-page abstracts or panel proposals to Dr. Julia Farmer (jfarmer@westga.edu) by May 1, 2009. For panel proposals please submit abstracts and contact information for all speakers, name and contact information for panel moderator, and panel title.
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Call for Papers
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of West Georgia invites abstracts and panel proposals from scholars in a variety of humanities fields for its 2009
Interdisciplinary Conference on History and Fiction
Cultural Arts Center in Carrollton, GA November 12-14, 2009.
Keynote address by Dr. Ed Friedman, Chancellor’s Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature and Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University.
Papers may be read in English, Spanish, French, or German.
Conference participants will be encouraged to expand and revise their papers for submission to JAISA: The Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts.
Please submit one-page abstracts or panel proposals to Dr. Julia Farmer (jfarmer@westga.edu) by May 1, 2009. For panel proposals please submit abstracts and contact information for all speakers, name and contact information for panel moderator, and panel title.
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Program in Law and History Spring 2009 Workshop Series
The Program in Law and History is pleased to announce the Spring 2009 workshop series. This semester, sessions held over lunch on Fridays, from 12:15 P.M.-1:15 P.M. in Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the Law School.
Program in Law and History Spring 2009 Workshop Series
The Program in Law and History is pleased to announce the Spring 2009 workshop series. This semester, sessions held over lunch on Fridays, from 12:15-1:15 in Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the Law School (unless otherwise noted). The list of presenters is immediately below and papers will be posted a week in advance on the Program website: http://www.law.umn.edu/law_history/index.html
Spring 2009 Workshop Schedule
January 30: Kirsten Nussbaumer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, “‘A Fundamental Article of Republican Government’: Fixity of Suffrage Law in the U.S. Constitution of 1787-88.��?
February 20: Danny LaChance, 2008 Erickson Graduate Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, American Studies, University of Minnesota, “State of Confusion: Social Engineering, Vigilante Distrust, and Capital Punishment in the Contemporary United States.��?
February 27: Xiangyu Hu, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, “The Emperor’s Men or the Manchu Lords’ Slaves? The Bannerman, the Emperor, and the Manchu Banner Lord.��?
March 6: Eva Van Dassow, Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, TBA.
March 13: Mary Lou Fellows, Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, “Æthelgifu's Will as Hagiography.��? NOTE: to be held in Room 475 of the Law School
April 3: Andy Urban, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, “"Thieves in the Home: Criminal Law, Domestic Servants, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries."
April 17: Masako Nakamura, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, TBA. NOTE: to be held in Room 475 of the Law School
April 24: Jeff Manuel, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, "Taconite's Life in the Law: A Non-Modern History."
May 1: Erika Lee, Fesler-Lampert Professor in the Public Humanities Associate, Professor Department of History and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota, TBA.
Program in Law and History Spring 2009 Workshop Series
The Program in Law and History is pleased to announce the Spring 2009 workshop series. This semester, sessions held over lunch on Fridays, from 12:15-1:15 in Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room on the 3rd floor of the Law School (unless otherwise noted). The list of presenters is immediately below and papers will be posted a week in advance on the Program website: http://www.law.umn.edu/law_history/index.html
Spring 2009 Workshop Schedule
January 30: Kirsten Nussbaumer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, “‘A Fundamental Article of Republican Government’: Fixity of Suffrage Law in the U.S. Constitution of 1787-88.��?
February 20: Danny LaChance, 2008 Erickson Graduate Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, American Studies, University of Minnesota, “State of Confusion: Social Engineering, Vigilante Distrust, and Capital Punishment in the Contemporary United States.��?
February 27: Xiangyu Hu, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, “The Emperor’s Men or the Manchu Lords’ Slaves? The Bannerman, the Emperor, and the Manchu Banner Lord.��?
March 6: Eva Van Dassow, Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, TBA.
March 13: Mary Lou Fellows, Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, “Æthelgifu's Will as Hagiography.��? NOTE: to be held in Room 475 of the Law School
April 3: Andy Urban, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, “"Thieves in the Home: Criminal Law, Domestic Servants, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries."
April 17: Masako Nakamura, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, TBA. NOTE: to be held in Room 475 of the Law School
April 24: Jeff Manuel, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota, "Taconite's Life in the Law: A Non-Modern History."
May 1: Erika Lee, Fesler-Lampert Professor in the Public Humanities Associate, Professor Department of History and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota, TBA.
The Dirksen Congressional Center Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500. The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than February 1, 2009.
The Dirksen Congressional Center Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2009. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Award. There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any time. Applications which exceed the page limit and incomplete applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration. All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2009. Awards will be announced in March 2009. Complete information about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center's Web site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer -- ckoeppel@dirksencenter.org .
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $747,465 to support 369 projects.
The Dirksen Congressional Center Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. A total of up to $30,000 will be available in 2009. Awards range from a few hundred dollars to $3,500.
The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies, and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who reside in the United States.
The awards program does not fund undergraduate or pre-Ph.D. study. Organizations are not eligible. Research teams of two or more individuals are eligible. No institutional overhead or indirect costs may be claimed against a Congressional Research Award. There is no standard application form. Applicants are responsible for showing the relationship between their work and the awards program guidelines. Applications are accepted at any time. Applications which exceed the page limit and incomplete applications will NOT be forwarded to the screening committee for consideration. All application materials must be received on or before February 1, 2009. Awards will be announced in March 2009. Complete information about eligibility and application procedures may be found at The Center's Web site: http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm. PLEASE READ THOROUGHLY. Frank Mackaman is the program officer -- ckoeppel@dirksencenter.org .
The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress and its leaders. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Awards (formerly the Congressional Research Grants) program has paid out $747,465 to support 369 projects.
CL/CSDS 8910
CL/CSDS 8910, section 004, meeting Wednesday evenings, “ We are All Americans: Re-Imagining America in a Post-9/11 World" taught by Visiting Professor Jaap Kooijman from the University of Amsterdam.
CL/CSDS 8910
CL/CSDS 8910, section 004, meeting Wednesday evenings, “ We are All Americans: Re-Imagining America in a Post-9/11 World" taught by Visiting Professor Jaap Kooijman from the University of Amsterdam:
‚ÄúNous sommes tous am√©ricains‚Ä? declared the French newspaper Le Monde after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For a short moment, we were all Americans. This seminar examines how ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? has been depicted in global popular culture, both produced in the USA as well as in other parts of the world, including film, television, art, and pop music. A clear distinction will be made between an imagined ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? and the nation-state USA. In the USA, 9/11 has been used as a critical point in time to rethink American national identity, often based on a rigid ‚Äúus‚Ä? versus ‚Äúthem‚Ä? paradigm. Using recent texts written by, among others, Jean Baudrillard, J√ºrgen Habermas, W.J.T. Mitchell, Lynn Spigel, and Slavoj ¬Æi¬æek, we will discuss how 9/11 functions in the re-imagining of ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? both within and outside of the USA.
Literature:
- Reader
- Jean Baudrillard, America, translated by Chris Turner, London and New York: Verso, 1988.
- Jaap Kooijman, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
For more information, see Professor Kooijman’s homepage:
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.w.kooijman/page3.html
CL/CSDS 8910
CL/CSDS 8910, section 004, meeting Wednesday evenings, “ We are All Americans: Re-Imagining America in a Post-9/11 World" taught by Visiting Professor Jaap Kooijman from the University of Amsterdam:
‚ÄúNous sommes tous am√©ricains‚Ä? declared the French newspaper Le Monde after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. For a short moment, we were all Americans. This seminar examines how ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? has been depicted in global popular culture, both produced in the USA as well as in other parts of the world, including film, television, art, and pop music. A clear distinction will be made between an imagined ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? and the nation-state USA. In the USA, 9/11 has been used as a critical point in time to rethink American national identity, often based on a rigid ‚Äúus‚Ä? versus ‚Äúthem‚Ä? paradigm. Using recent texts written by, among others, Jean Baudrillard, J√ºrgen Habermas, W.J.T. Mitchell, Lynn Spigel, and Slavoj ¬Æi¬æek, we will discuss how 9/11 functions in the re-imagining of ‚ÄúAmerica‚Ä? both within and outside of the USA.
Literature:
- Reader
- Jean Baudrillard, America, translated by Chris Turner, London and New York: Verso, 1988.
- Jaap Kooijman, Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
For more information, see Professor Kooijman’s homepage:
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.w.kooijman/page3.html
EPSY 5401
EPSY 5401, "Counseling Procedures" is taught by Dr. John Romano will meet Mondays 4:40 P.M. – 7:20 P.M.
EPSY 5401
EPSY 5401-001 Counseling Procedures
Course Number 47066, 3 credits
04:40 P.M. - 07:20 P.M. , Mondays
Instructor, John Romano, Ph.D..
This course is designed as an introduction to the practice of counseling. Emphasis on the counseling relationship and principles of interviewing. Case studies, role playing, and demonstration. For individuals whose professional work includes counseling and interviewing. Both graduate and undergraduate students are invited to enroll.
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EPSY 5401
EPSY 5401-001 Counseling Procedures
Course Number 47066, 3 credits
04:40 P.M. - 07:20 P.M. , Mondays
Instructor, John Romano, Ph.D..
This course is designed as an introduction to the practice of counseling. Emphasis on the counseling relationship and principles of interviewing. Case studies, role playing, and demonstration. For individuals whose professional work includes counseling and interviewing. Both graduate and undergraduate students are invited to enroll.
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The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School
The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School will bring together scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion on interdisciplinary study of the United States on July 5-11, 2009. The School is aimed at advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the fields of American Studies, History, Political Sciences and Literary and Cultural Studies.
The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School
The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School will bring together scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion on interdisciplinary study of the United States. The School is aimed at advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the fields of American Studies, History, Political Sciences and Literary and Cultural Studies.
The programme will offer participants the opportunity to work with distinguished figures in these fields and to investigate current developments in study of the United States and its global relations. The School’s format will include daily workshop seminars and plenary lectures. Participants work with the School’s core faculty in one of four week-long seminars.
In 2009 the faculty will include Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen), Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Jane Desmond (University of Illinois), Thomas Keenan (Bard College), Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham), Diane Negra (University College Dublin), Sabine Sielke (University of Bonn), Werner Sollors (Harvard University) and Robyn Wiegman (Duke University).
A limited number of bursaries are available.
For further details, visit http://www.ucdclinton.ie, or contact Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie
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The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School
The UCD Clinton Institute Summer School will bring together scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion on interdisciplinary study of the United States. The School is aimed at advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the fields of American Studies, History, Political Sciences and Literary and Cultural Studies.
The programme will offer participants the opportunity to work with distinguished figures in these fields and to investigate current developments in study of the United States and its global relations. The School’s format will include daily workshop seminars and plenary lectures. Participants work with the School’s core faculty in one of four week-long seminars.
In 2009 the faculty will include Sabine Broeck (University of Bremen), Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Jane Desmond (University of Illinois), Thomas Keenan (Bard College), Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham), Diane Negra (University College Dublin), Sabine Sielke (University of Bonn), Werner Sollors (Harvard University) and Robyn Wiegman (Duke University).
A limited number of bursaries are available.
For further details, visit http://www.ucdclinton.ie, or contact Catherine Carey at Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
David Karjanen Spring Graduate Seminar
David Karjanen is teaching a graduate seminar this spring semester, AmSt 8920, section 001 on Wednesdays, from 3:35 - 5:30. The seminar examines theories of racial formation in the United States, regionally in the Americas, from historical, cultural and political perspectives.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
"Jesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters"
‚ÄúJesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters‚Ä?, presented by Amy Jill Levine, sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies at Sabes Jewish Community Center, Jan. 29, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.
"Jesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters"
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
Jesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters
Amy Jill Levine
Jan. 29, 2009 7:00 P.M.
Sabes Jewish Community Center
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
St Louis Park, MN
952-381-3400
Jesus of Nazareth followed the Torah of Moses, found inspiration in the Prophets of Israel, and offered a teaching that some Jewish men and women found compelling. Yet too often Christians and Jews incorrectly regard Jesus as rejecting Judaism. Understanding Jesus in his Jewish context brings new meaning to his parables, his politics, and his piety, and it offers as well a new path for Jewish-Christian relations
Amy Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, the edited collection The Historical Jesus in Context, and the 14-volumn series Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writing. Her New Testament courses are featured on DVD/CD by the Teaching Company. A self-described ‚ÄòYankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,‚Ä? Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.
This Event is Open to the Public
Lecture Series made possible by ROBERT AND JANET SABES, SABES
FAMILY FOUNDATION
This Event is Co-Sponsored by Sabes JCC, Jewish Community Relations of Minnesota & the Dakotas, Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning
There is a nominal charge for this lecture of $3 members of the JCC, $5 non-members
See flyer for more info.
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"Jesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters"
THE CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES
Jesus and Judaism: The Connection Still Matters
Amy Jill Levine
Jan. 29, 2009 7:00 P.M.
Sabes Jewish Community Center
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
St Louis Park, MN
952-381-3400
Jesus of Nazareth followed the Torah of Moses, found inspiration in the Prophets of Israel, and offered a teaching that some Jewish men and women found compelling. Yet too often Christians and Jews incorrectly regard Jesus as rejecting Judaism. Understanding Jesus in his Jewish context brings new meaning to his parables, his politics, and his piety, and it offers as well a new path for Jewish-Christian relations
Amy Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus, the edited collection The Historical Jesus in Context, and the 14-volumn series Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writing. Her New Testament courses are featured on DVD/CD by the Teaching Company. A self-described ‚ÄòYankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,‚Ä? Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.
This Event is Open to the Public
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Part-Time Research Position
SmartRevenue, a national leader in ethnographic market research, is looking for qualified and highly motivated social scientists and marketing professionals to join our team of ethnographers. Researchers will conduct observations and interviews of shoppers at various retailers. Researchers will be paid $22/hour for this part-time contract position. Qualified candidates are advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Part-Time Research Position
SmartRevenue, a national leader in ethnographic market research, is looking for qualified and highly motivated social scientists and marketing professionals to join our team of ethnographers.
Smart Revenue (http://www.smartrevenue.com) was founded by cultural anthropologists and is a pioneer in the use of fieldwork methods of observation and interviews to generate insight on consumer preferences and habits. We are currently recruiting people with social science backgrounds, especially those with ethnographic research experience, for multiple projects. This is a great opportunity for people with social science backgrounds to practice their research and analytical skills by applying them to a specific task, and to make good money at the same time. Researchers will be paid $22/hour. SmartRevenue always has a variety of projects planned nationwide, so this could be a helpful future source of supplemental income. This is a part-time contract position.
Qualifications:
We are seeking advanced undergraduates and graduate students with a background in the social sciences, humanities, journalism, or business. Academic or nonacademic interviewing experience is strongly preferred. Applicants should be available to work weekdays and weekends and have a car or reliable transportation.
Project Description:
Researchers will conduct observations and interviews of shoppers at various retailers.
To apply:
Please include cover letter in the body of a reply email with resume attached to: Kim Waack, Hiring Manager- kim.waack@smartrevenue.com
Part-Time Research Position
SmartRevenue, a national leader in ethnographic market research, is looking for qualified and highly motivated social scientists and marketing professionals to join our team of ethnographers.
Smart Revenue (http://www.smartrevenue.com) was founded by cultural anthropologists and is a pioneer in the use of fieldwork methods of observation and interviews to generate insight on consumer preferences and habits. We are currently recruiting people with social science backgrounds, especially those with ethnographic research experience, for multiple projects. This is a great opportunity for people with social science backgrounds to practice their research and analytical skills by applying them to a specific task, and to make good money at the same time. Researchers will be paid $22/hour. SmartRevenue always has a variety of projects planned nationwide, so this could be a helpful future source of supplemental income. This is a part-time contract position.
Qualifications:
We are seeking advanced undergraduates and graduate students with a background in the social sciences, humanities, journalism, or business. Academic or nonacademic interviewing experience is strongly preferred. Applicants should be available to work weekdays and weekends and have a car or reliable transportation.
Project Description:
Researchers will conduct observations and interviews of shoppers at various retailers.
To apply:
Please include cover letter in the body of a reply email with resume attached to: Kim Waack, Hiring Manager- kim.waack@smartrevenue.com
Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois-Springfield Position
Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Springfield. This is a tenure-track position for an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/sexuality/queer studies. Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. (completed by time of appointment). Review of applications will begin on Jan. 19, 2009.
Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois-Springfield Position
The Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield seeks to fill a tenure-track position for an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/sexuality/queer studies and whose teaching and scholarship is firmly grounded in feminist scholarship that focuses on the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class and sexuality. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and teach courses which address the histories, politics, and cultures of LGBTQ peoples and the diverse scholarship on gender/sexuality.
In addition, the successful candidate will fully participate in department and curricular matters, and will advise and mentor students. We will prefer candidates who can teach other WGS core courses; who are able or willing to teach some courses on-line; and who can fit their courses into the general education curriculum. .
Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching, to working with diverse students, and must have a Ph.D. (completed by time of appointment) in women's studies, gender/queer/sexuality studies, or any discipline appropriate for appointment in the Department.
To apply please send vita, letter describing teaching and research interests, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Heather Dell, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Illinois at Springfield, 1 University Plaza MS UHB 3038, Springfield, IL 62703. The cover letter should describe a course unit on some aspect of LGBTQ studies, including content, pedagogy and goals for student learning. Review of applications will begin on January 19, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
For more information see our web page at http://www.uis.edu/ . The University of Illinois at Springfield is located in the state capital and is the third campus of the University of Illinois. UIS serves approximately 4500 students in 20 undergraduate and 19 graduate programs. The curriculum stresses a strong liberal arts core with outstanding professional programs. UIS is an Affirmative Action / EOE employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois-Springfield Position
The Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of Illinois at Springfield seeks to fill a tenure-track position for an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/sexuality/queer studies and whose teaching and scholarship is firmly grounded in feminist scholarship that focuses on the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, class and sexuality. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and teach courses which address the histories, politics, and cultures of LGBTQ peoples and the diverse scholarship on gender/sexuality.
In addition, the successful candidate will fully participate in department and curricular matters, and will advise and mentor students. We will prefer candidates who can teach other WGS core courses; who are able or willing to teach some courses on-line; and who can fit their courses into the general education curriculum. .
Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching, to working with diverse students, and must have a Ph.D. (completed by time of appointment) in women's studies, gender/queer/sexuality studies, or any discipline appropriate for appointment in the Department.
To apply please send vita, letter describing teaching and research interests, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor Heather Dell, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of Illinois at Springfield, 1 University Plaza MS UHB 3038, Springfield, IL 62703. The cover letter should describe a course unit on some aspect of LGBTQ studies, including content, pedagogy and goals for student learning. Review of applications will begin on January 19, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
For more information see our web page at http://www.uis.edu/
"Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre"
‚ÄúUneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre‚Ä?. Prof. Patricia Tbarra (Brown University) will present her talk March 27, 2009 in Rarig 275 at 4:30 P.M.
"Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre" Lecture by Prof. Patricia Tbarra
FRIDAY MARCH 27th Rarig 275 4:30pm
Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre: Prof. Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)
During and after the passage of NAFTA, many US Latino playwrights began to travel to and write about Latin America in their work. Many of these writers chose explicit political topics which fomented their investment in indigenous identity, advocated for US awareness of indigenous issues in the Americas or represented indigenous practices as a way to deal with globalism. I will explore the possibilities of Latino-Indigenous solidarity in a select number of Latino works, by Cherrie Moraga, Luis Valdez, and playwright- director Michael John Garcés, suggesting the limits and possibilities of these strategies as they were articulated pre and post NAFTA. I theorize this solidarity as an uneasy crossing which interrogates how indigenous identity is represented on stage, but also how to theorize Latino interest in indigenous identity as a consequence of globalization in the Americas.
Patricia Ybarra (PHD, Minnesota) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. Her first manuscript Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico is forthcoming in Spring 2009 from University of Michigan Press. She has also published articles in Modern Language Quarterly, Theatre Journal, TDR, Aztlan, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her area of specialization is theatre historiography of the Americas, with emphasis on the relationship between theatre, nationalism, and American identities in North America. Her second book project is on Latino Theatre under Neoliberalism. She is also a director and dramaturg who has most recently directed Cherrie Moraga's Hungry Woman and Marcus Gardley's ...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi.
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"Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre" Lecture by Prof. Patricia Tbarra
FRIDAY MARCH 27th Rarig 275 4:30pm
Uneasy Crossings: Performing Indigeneity in Post NAFTA Latino Theatre: Prof. Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)
During and after the passage of NAFTA, many US Latino playwrights began to travel to and write about Latin America in their work. Many of these writers chose explicit political topics which fomented their investment in indigenous identity, advocated for US awareness of indigenous issues in the Americas or represented indigenous practices as a way to deal with globalism. I will explore the possibilities of Latino-Indigenous solidarity in a select number of Latino works, by Cherrie Moraga, Luis Valdez, and playwright- director Michael John Garcés, suggesting the limits and possibilities of these strategies as they were articulated pre and post NAFTA. I theorize this solidarity as an uneasy crossing which interrogates how indigenous identity is represented on stage, but also how to theorize Latino interest in indigenous identity as a consequence of globalization in the Americas.
Patricia Ybarra (PHD, Minnesota) is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Brown University. Her first manuscript Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico is forthcoming in Spring 2009 from University of Michigan Press. She has also published articles in Modern Language Quarterly, Theatre Journal, TDR, Aztlan, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Her area of specialization is theatre historiography of the Americas, with emphasis on the relationship between theatre, nationalism, and American identities in North America. Her second book project is on Latino Theatre under Neoliberalism. She is also a director and dramaturg who has most recently directed Cherrie Moraga's Hungry Woman and Marcus Gardley's ...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi.
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"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously."
“Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.��? Prof. Tamara Underiner (Arizona State University) will lecture on El Parque Alberto’s simulated border-crossing experience and how this community performance engages the complexities of indigeniety, sovereignty, and citizenship. The lecture will take place March 12, 2009 in Nolte 125 at 4:00 P.M.
"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously." Lecture by Professor Tamara Underiner
THURS. March 12th Nolte Center 125 4pm
“Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.��? Prof. Tamara Underiner (Arizona State University)
This presentation describes El Parque Eco-Alberto's Caminata Nocturna -- a live simulation in which tourists simulate an illegal crossing of the Mexico/U.S border. Taking place in Hidalgo, Mexico, some thousand miles from the "real" border, the Caminata Nocturna has been criticized as a "training camp" for illegal migration to the United States. Underiner argues instead that it functions as a highly politicized, indigenous community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration. Part role-reversing representation, part embodied participation, part ritual of solidarity, the Caminata produces communitas in the liminal space of a simulated border in the dead of night. It offers community members and tourists alike a temporary escape from our identity positions, and from the power differentials that help to define them. For this community of Hñahñu speakers, the majority of whom have crossed the border to the U.S. and back, the Caminata's dramaturgy both symbolically and materially refigures the relationship between Mexican indigeneity and Mexican citizenship offering new perspectives on social affiliation and belonging in a bi-national, tri-cultural key.
Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University’s School of Theatre and Film, where she also directs the Ph.D. concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas, and teaches in the general areas of theatre history and culture studies. Her most recent work is Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts (University of Texas Press, 2004), and she has also published on indigenous and Latina/o theatre and critical pedagogy in Theatre Journal, Signs, and critical anthologies from the University of Arizona and Routledge Presses. She is active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Latin American Studies Association, and the American Society for Theatre Research, where she co-convenes the Research Focus Group in Theatre and Performance of the Americas. She serves on the Board of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (based at NYU). She earned her M.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Drama from the University of Washington in 1997. She joined the ASU faculty in 2001. In 2003 she was named a Faculty Exemplar by ASU President Michael Crow. She is currently at work on a project exploring performances of nativism on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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"Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously." Lecture by Professor Tamara Underiner
THURS. March 12th Nolte Center 125 4pm
“Playing at Border-Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community. Seriously.��? Prof. Tamara Underiner (Arizona State University)
This presentation describes El Parque Eco-Alberto's Caminata Nocturna -- a live simulation in which tourists simulate an illegal crossing of the Mexico/U.S border. Taking place in Hidalgo, Mexico, some thousand miles from the "real" border, the Caminata Nocturna has been criticized as a "training camp" for illegal migration to the United States. Underiner argues instead that it functions as a highly politicized, indigenous community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration. Part role-reversing representation, part embodied participation, part ritual of solidarity, the Caminata produces communitas in the liminal space of a simulated border in the dead of night. It offers community members and tourists alike a temporary escape from our identity positions, and from the power differentials that help to define them. For this community of Hñahñu speakers, the majority of whom have crossed the border to the U.S. and back, the Caminata's dramaturgy both symbolically and materially refigures the relationship between Mexican indigeneity and Mexican citizenship offering new perspectives on social affiliation and belonging in a bi-national, tri-cultural key.
Tamara Underiner is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Arizona State University’s School of Theatre and Film, where she also directs the Ph.D. concentration in Theatre and Performance of the Americas, and teaches in the general areas of theatre history and culture studies. Her most recent work is Contemporary Theatre in Mayan Mexico: Death-Defying Acts (University of Texas Press, 2004), and she has also published on indigenous and Latina/o theatre and critical pedagogy in Theatre Journal, Signs, and critical anthologies from the University of Arizona and Routledge Presses. She is active in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Latin American Studies Association, and the American Society for Theatre Research, where she co-convenes the Research Focus Group in Theatre and Performance of the Americas. She serves on the Board of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (based at NYU). She earned her M.A. in Theatre from Arizona State University in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Drama from the University of Washington in 1997. She joined the ASU faculty in 2001. In 2003 she was named a Faculty Exemplar by ASU President Michael Crow. She is currently at work on a project exploring performances of nativism on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
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PUBH 6801
PUBH 6801, ‚ÄúGlobal Health, Relief, Development and Religious & Non-Religious NGOs‚Ä?, taught by Kirk Allison, PhD, will meet Wednesdays 5:40 P.M. ‚Äì 7:30 P.M.
PUBH 6801
New Course, Spring 2009, PubH 6801 (Sect. 1), 2 Cr., Topics in Health Services Research & Policy
Topic: Global Health, Relief, Development and Religious & Non-Religious NGOs
Weds. 5:40-7:30 pm, 1/21-5/13
Instructor: Kirk Allison, PhD, MS
For: Academic Health Center, Graduate, Professional Students (interested others including advanced undergraduates and community members contact instructor alli0001@umn.edu, 612-626-6559)
This course explores the intersection of global health, relief, and development; roles and relationships of intergovernmental & governmental agencies and NGOs in humanitarian response, development and social welfare generation; UN bodies and a variety of NGOs with diverse philosophical groundings with a view toward understanding conceptual frameworks and models of operation. Intersections of culture, philosophic/confessional content, convergences and conflicts, and interagency relationships are also critically explored. Guest speakers illuminate specific contexts. Dimensions include:
Global health & development - Emergence of humanitarianism - Human rights and humanitarianism - Response contexts: disasters, conflicts, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria - Local/non-local actors and culture(s) - Relief & development via Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Secularism...
For additional information contact the instructor at alli0001@umn.edu or 612-626-6559. Enroll via http://www.onestop.umn; course line also at: http://www.phrh.umn.edu
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PUBH 6801
New Course, Spring 2009, PubH 6801 (Sect. 1), 2 Cr., Topics in Health Services Research & Policy
Topic: Global Health, Relief, Development and Religious & Non-Religious NGOs
Weds. 5:40-7:30 pm, 1/21-5/13
Instructor: Kirk Allison, PhD, MS
For: Academic Health Center, Graduate, Professional Students (interested others including advanced undergraduates and community members contact instructor alli0001@umn.edu, 612-626-6559)
This course explores the intersection of global health, relief, and development; roles and relationships of intergovernmental & governmental agencies and NGOs in humanitarian response, development and social welfare generation; UN bodies and a variety of NGOs with diverse philosophical groundings with a view toward understanding conceptual frameworks and models of operation. Intersections of culture, philosophic/confessional content, convergences and conflicts, and interagency relationships are also critically explored. Guest speakers illuminate specific contexts. Dimensions include:
Global health & development - Emergence of humanitarianism - Human rights and humanitarianism - Response contexts: disasters, conflicts, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria - Local/non-local actors and culture(s) - Relief & development via Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Secularism...
For additional information contact the instructor at alli0001@umn.edu or 612-626-6559. Enroll via http://www.onestop.umn; course line also at: http://www.phrh.umn.edu
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GWSS 8190
GWSS 8190, ‚Äú Gynomania: Theorizing the Pleasures of Violence‚Ä?, taught by Pashmina Murthy, will meet Thursdays 2:00 P.M. ‚Äì 4:30 P.M.
GWSS 8190
Gynomania: Theorizing the Pleasures of Violence
Instructor: Pashmina Murthy
Thursdays 2:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
400 Ford Hall
In the summer of 2008, a suspected witch in a village in India was beaten with sticks, burned with a hot iron, and finally pushed onto a burning pyre. The accused was a second woman, who claimed that a divine power instructed her to punish the witch…
How feminine is violence? In this course, we will examine the flip side of gendered brutality by theorizing violence perpetrated by women, often - though not exclusively - against other women. We will begin by looking at the violence encapsulated by social and psychic forces of normalization. From there, we will move to exploring the shifting divisions between asexual and the erotic. Some of the specific forms we might consider would include witch-hunts, sexual contracts, fantasy, horror, and asceticism. To aid us in our attempt at theorization, we will consider a variety of texts, including 18th century medical treatises, anthropological accounts, gothic Romantic fiction, and folklore. A study of the development of a naming and performance of violence - and particularly the construction of the monstrous feminine in cinema - would be incomplete without engaging with the contributions of psychoanalytic theory to such a project. In the course of this semester, we will grapple with a spectrum of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze, Karen Horney, Georges Bataille, and Kaja Silverman.
GWSS 8190
Gynomania: Theorizing the Pleasures of Violence
Instructor: Pashmina Murthy
Thursdays 2:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M.
400 Ford Hall
In the summer of 2008, a suspected witch in a village in India was beaten with sticks, burned with a hot iron, and finally pushed onto a burning pyre. The accused was a second woman, who claimed that a divine power instructed her to punish the witch…
How feminine is violence? In this course, we will examine the flip side of gendered brutality by theorizing violence perpetrated by women, often - though not exclusively - against other women. We will begin by looking at the violence encapsulated by social and psychic forces of normalization. From there, we will move to exploring the shifting divisions between asexual and the erotic. Some of the specific forms we might consider would include witch-hunts, sexual contracts, fantasy, horror, and asceticism. To aid us in our attempt at theorization, we will consider a variety of texts, including 18th century medical treatises, anthropological accounts, gothic Romantic fiction, and folklore. A study of the development of a naming and performance of violence - and particularly the construction of the monstrous feminine in cinema - would be incomplete without engaging with the contributions of psychoanalytic theory to such a project. In the course of this semester, we will grapple with a spectrum of thinkers, including Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Gilles Deleuze, Karen Horney, Georges Bataille, and Kaja Silverman.
GLOS 3900/5900
GLOS 3900/5900, ‚ÄúThe Political Economy of Financial Crisis: From Nicollett Mall to Wall Street‚Ä? taught by Dara Strolovitch and Rachel Schurman, will meet Mondays 4:00 P.M. ‚Äì 6:00 P.M.
GLOS 3900/5900
GLOS 3900, section 101 "The Political Economy of Financial Crisis: From Nicollett Mall to Wall Street."
93714 -101 LEC , 04:00 P.M. - 06:00 P.M., M (01/20/2009 - 05/08/2009), NichH 275 , 1 credit
Meets with: GLOS 5900 section 101
Taught by Dara Strolovitch, Political Science, and Rachel Schurman, Sociology
This one-credit course examines the history of and interplay between politics and economics in the current financial
crisis. To those ends, we will host a series of speakers who will address historical antecedents to the current financial crisis; the political-institutional roots of the financial crisis and its implications for social inequality; the changing culture of Wall Street; and the effect of the mortgage crisis at the local level. In addition, we will screen a film about the rise and demise of Enron, drawing connections between the current crisis and previous ones. There will be
two additional course meetings at the beginning and end of the semester.
GLOS 3900/5900
GLOS 3900, section 101 "The Political Economy of Financial Crisis: From Nicollett Mall to Wall Street."
93714 -101 LEC , 04:00 P.M. - 06:00 P.M., M (01/20/2009 - 05/08/2009), NichH 275 , 1 credit
Meets with: GLOS 5900 section 101
Taught by Dara Strolovitch, Political Science, and Rachel Schurman, Sociology
This one-credit course examines the history of and interplay between politics and economics in the current financial
crisis. To those ends, we will host a series of speakers who will address historical antecedents to the current financial crisis; the political-institutional roots of the financial crisis and its implications for social inequality; the changing culture of Wall Street; and the effect of the mortgage crisis at the local level. In addition, we will screen a film about the rise and demise of Enron, drawing connections between the current crisis and previous ones. There will be
two additional course meetings at the beginning and end of the semester.
GWSS 4690/5690
GWSS 4690/5690: Women, Society, and Race in the United States, taught by Zenzele Isoke, PhD, will meet Wednesdays 12:45 P.M. – 3:15 P.M.
GWSS 4690/5690
GWSS 4690/5690: Women, Society, and Race in the United States
Space, Identity and Agency in the Black Diaspora
Instructor: Zenzele Isoke, PhD
Wednesdays, 12:45 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
158 Amundson Hall
This interdisciplinary course critically examines the spatiality of women of color in the United States, and in the Black Diaspora. This course is comprised of writings that have emerged from urban anthropology, human geographies, and contemporary social movements. We will devote special attention to recent black feminist theorizing on the interplay between black female subjectivity and spatiality. The spatial dimensions of political agency are explored, as well as the discursive strategies that make the activisms of people of color compelling and possible. This course aims to stimulate new theorizing on space and identity, as well as foster policy-oriented solutions to contemporary urban problems from a social justice perspective.
GWSS 4690/5690
GWSS 4690/5690: Women, Society, and Race in the United States
Space, Identity and Agency in the Black Diaspora
Instructor: Zenzele Isoke, PhD
Wednesdays, 12:45 P.M. - 3:15 P.M.
158 Amundson Hall
This interdisciplinary course critically examines the spatiality of women of color in the United States, and in the Black Diaspora. This course is comprised of writings that have emerged from urban anthropology, human geographies, and contemporary social movements. We will devote special attention to recent black feminist theorizing on the interplay between black female subjectivity and spatiality. The spatial dimensions of political agency are explored, as well as the discursive strategies that make the activisms of people of color compelling and possible. This course aims to stimulate new theorizing on space and identity, as well as foster policy-oriented solutions to contemporary urban problems from a social justice perspective.
OAH Women's Committee Graduate Luncheon
The OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession is making available free luncheon tickets for graduate students who would like to attend the Women’s Committee luncheon that will be held on March 28, 2009.
OAH Committee Graudate Luncheon
The OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession is making available free luncheon tickets for graduate students who would like to attend of Women's Committee luncheon that will be held on Saturday, March 28. Details are found in the attached memo.
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OAH Committee Graudate Luncheon
The OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession is making available free luncheon tickets for graduate students who would like to attend of Women's Committee luncheon that will be held on Saturday, March 28. Details are found in the attached memo.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
AMST 3114 TA Appointment
We are looking for a 25% TA for AmSt 3114: America in International Perspective. If you are interested in this position please email Colleen at henne020@umn.edu. Please let her know what other appointments (TA, RA or fellowship) you are holding and the percentage time of that appointment. Deadline: Jan. 12, 2009.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference
The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University’s graduate student history organization is pleased to announce the 13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference held March 21, 2009 in Philadelphia. Proposal deadline: Jan. 31, 2009.
13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference
The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University’s graduate student history organization is pleased to announce the 13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference held March 21, 2009 in downtown Philadelphia. Proposal deadline: Jan. 31, 2009.
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13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference
The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University’s graduate student history organization is pleased to announce the 13th Annual Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference held March 21, 2009 in downtown Philadelphia. Proposal deadline: Jan. 31, 2009.
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51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association
51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association will be held Nov. 12-15, 2009 at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott in St. Louis, MO. Suggested Deadline: April 15, 2009.
51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association
51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association will be held Nov. 12-15, 2009 at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott in St. Louis, MO. Suggested Deadline: April 15, 2009.
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/
51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association
51st Annual Midwest Modern Language Association will be held Nov. 12-15, 2009 at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott in St. Louis, MO. Suggested Deadline: April 15, 2009.
See link below for more detail.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/
University of Minnesota Graduate School Dissertation
Each year the Graduate School recognizes the University's top recent Ph.D. graduates by presenting best dissertation awards. The department may nominate one person for the Best Dissertation Award. Faculty should submit their nomination to DGS Assistant Marie Milsten Fiedler at m-fied@umn.edu or 104 Scott Hall. Deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
University of Minnesota Graduate School Dissertation
Each year the Graduate School recognizes the University's top recent Ph.D. graduates by presenting best dissertation awards. The recipients receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a special certificate. The department may nominate one person for the Best Dissertation Award. Faculty should submit their nomination to DGS Assistant Marie Milsten Fiedler at m-fied@umn.edu or 104 Scott Hall. Deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
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University of Minnesota Graduate School Dissertation
Each year the Graduate School recognizes the University's top recent Ph.D. graduates by presenting best dissertation awards. The recipients receive an honorarium of $1,000 and a special certificate. The department may nominate one person for the Best Dissertation Award. Faculty should submit their nomination to DGS Assistant Marie Milsten Fiedler at m-fied@umn.edu or 104 Scott Hall. Deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
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Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture Submissions
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture invites submissions for the spring 2009 edition of its peer-reviewed publication Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present. Attach and email submissions to editor@americanpopularculture.com. Deadline: March 15, 2009.
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture Submissions
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture invites submissions for the spring 2009 edition of its peer-reviewed publication Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present, published at http://www.americanpopularculture.com.
MLA formatted papers on any aspect of American Studies are welcome. Please visit the journal to see the kinds of articles we are interested in publishing and submission guidelines. Attach and email submissions to editor@americanpopularculture.com. Deadline: March 15, 2009.
Cross-listings are also welcome.
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture Submissions
Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture invites submissions for the spring 2009 edition of its peer-reviewed publication Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present, published at http://www.americanpopularculture.com.
MLA formatted papers on any aspect of American Studies are welcome. Please visit the journal to see the kinds of articles we are interested in publishing and submission guidelines. Attach and email submissions to editor@americanpopularculture.com. Deadline: March 15, 2009.
Cross-listings are also welcome.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
American Studies is allowed to nominate students for the Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($22,500 stipend). The ideal candidate is entering their 5th or 6th year of study. For the department nomination, a complete Graduate School application should be submitted. Internal deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
American Studies is allowed to nominate students for the Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($22,500 stipend). The ideal candidate is entering their 5th or 6th year of study. For the department nomination, a complete Graduate School application should be submitted. Internal deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
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Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
American Studies is allowed to nominate students for the Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship ($22,500 stipend). The ideal candidate is entering their 5th or 6th year of study. For the department nomination, a complete Graduate School application should be submitted. Internal deadline: Feb. 18, 2009.
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Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands. The University of Minnesota "Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference. Send your submissions to comradmn@gmail.com. Submission deadline: Feb. 10, 2009.
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands. The University of Minnesota "Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference. To this end, we hope to produce spaces for individuals and groups from different backgrounds and across a variety of institutional boundaries to converge. While the conference will include the presentation of papers on the topic of "Reworking the University," the committee's selection process will prioritize workshops, roundtables, trainings, art installations, film screenings, performances, and other forms of creative engagement. The conference organizing collective has selected several questions and themes that emerged out of the 2008 conference that we will address in various formats. If you have interest in participating, please provide us with a description of your proposed contribution. We encourage you to self-organize a session (i.e. a performance, workshop, roundtable, training, etc.) and submit it as a whole. Feel free to use the blog (http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com) to help facilitate session organizing.
The current "financial meltdown" has exacerbated the ongoing crises within the university, resulting in even greater budget cuts, tuition hikes, hiring freezes and layoffs. Responses from university administrations have been predominantly reactive and have served to fortify the university as an institution of neoliberal capitalism. The administration and others have narrated this crisis as an external force that, while dramatic in the short run, can nonetheless be managed properly. It is clear to many, however, that the neoliberal logic that has been used to transform the university over the past few decades has failed at a systemic level; the neoliberal death spiral has come home to the university.
In contrast to these reactionary responses, we seek to create a space for collective re-evaluation of the university in crisis as an opportunity for real transformation. Last year's conference, "Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value" (April 2008), sought to challenge the supposed inevitability of the neoliberal university. As a continuation of this project, "Reworking the University" seeks to draw together academics, artists, and activists, to share and produce political visions, strategies and demands for building an alternative university in common.
"Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference. To this end, we hope to produce spaces for individuals and groups from different backgrounds and across a variety of institutional boundaries to converge. While the conference will include the presentation of papers on the topic of "Reworking the University," the committee's selection process will prioritize workshops, roundtables, trainings, art installations, film screenings, performances, and other forms of creative engagement.
The conference organizing collective has selected several questions and themes that emerged out of the 2008 conference that we will address in various formats. If you have interest in participating, please provide us with a description of your proposed contribution. We encourage you to self-organize a session (i.e. a performance, workshop, roundtable, training, etc.) and submit it as a whole. Feel free to use the blog (http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com) to help facilitate session organizing.
Below is a list of possible topics and we, of course, welcome additional suggestions. In submitting your ideas for sessions, please give us as much information as possible­ suggestions for themes, other participants and the session format.
The Reworking the University conference coincides with "Reclaim Your Education – Global Week of Action 2009" (April 20-27: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/). Organizers also encourage suggestions for additional actions as part of this event.
Send your submissions (of up to 500 words) to comradmn@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2009.
- Confronting American Apartheid: Access to education
- The financial crisis and the university
- Counter/Radical Cartographies and Disorientation Guides
- Corporate funding and the university
- Autonomous/Open/Free Universities
- The Poverty of Student Life
- Post-Enlightenment Visions: Beyond the Liberal Model
- Anarchism and Education
- Adjunct Unionization
- Organizing Across Campuses, Cities, and Regions
- Post-Antioch Universities/the Antioch Legacy
- Anti-militarization Movements in the University
- Prisons and Education
- Undergrad Education Beyond Commodification
- Historical Struggles in the University: May '68 and beyond
- Autoreduction and Tactics for Direct Action in the Workplace
- Contemporary Struggles in the University: The Anomalous Wave & Movements in
Italy, Greece and elsewhere
- Expropriating Institutional Space
- Graduate student unionization and Radicalizing the Academy
- Anti-professionalization; Anti-disciplinarity
- Student Debt
- Pedagogy of the crisis
- Creating Radical/Open Access Publications and the Politics of Citation
The schedule and proceedings from last year's conference can be found at:
http://www.makeumnpublic.org/conference.htm
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands
Reworking the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands. The University of Minnesota "Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference. To this end, we hope to produce spaces for individuals and groups from different backgrounds and across a variety of institutional boundaries to converge. While the conference will include the presentation of papers on the topic of "Reworking the University," the committee's selection process will prioritize workshops, roundtables, trainings, art installations, film screenings, performances, and other forms of creative engagement. The conference organizing collective has selected several questions and themes that emerged out of the 2008 conference that we will address in various formats. If you have interest in participating, please provide us with a description of your proposed contribution. We encourage you to self-organize a session (i.e. a performance, workshop, roundtable, training, etc.) and submit it as a whole. Feel free to use the blog (http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com) to help facilitate session organizing.
The current "financial meltdown" has exacerbated the ongoing crises within the university, resulting in even greater budget cuts, tuition hikes, hiring freezes and layoffs. Responses from university administrations have been predominantly reactive and have served to fortify the university as an institution of neoliberal capitalism. The administration and others have narrated this crisis as an external force that, while dramatic in the short run, can nonetheless be managed properly. It is clear to many, however, that the neoliberal logic that has been used to transform the university over the past few decades has failed at a systemic level; the neoliberal death spiral has come home to the university.
In contrast to these reactionary responses, we seek to create a space for collective re-evaluation of the university in crisis as an opportunity for real transformation. Last year's conference, "Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value" (April 2008), sought to challenge the supposed inevitability of the neoliberal university. As a continuation of this project, "Reworking the University" seeks to draw together academics, artists, and activists, to share and produce political visions, strategies and demands for building an alternative university in common.
"Reworking the University" seeks to generate a vibrant, political exchange by troubling the traditional format of the academic conference. To this end, we hope to produce spaces for individuals and groups from different backgrounds and across a variety of institutional boundaries to converge. While the conference will include the presentation of papers on the topic of "Reworking the University," the committee's selection process will prioritize workshops, roundtables, trainings, art installations, film screenings, performances, and other forms of creative engagement.
The conference organizing collective has selected several questions and themes that emerged out of the 2008 conference that we will address in various formats. If you have interest in participating, please provide us with a description of your proposed contribution. We encourage you to self-organize a session (i.e. a performance, workshop, roundtable, training, etc.) and submit it as a whole. Feel free to use the blog (http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com) to help facilitate session organizing.
Below is a list of possible topics and we, of course, welcome additional suggestions. In submitting your ideas for sessions, please give us as much information as possible­ suggestions for themes, other participants and the session format.
The Reworking the University conference coincides with "Reclaim Your Education – Global Week of Action 2009" (April 20-27: http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/). Organizers also encourage suggestions for additional actions as part of this event.
Send your submissions (of up to 500 words) to comradmn@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is February 10, 2009.
- Confronting American Apartheid: Access to education
- The financial crisis and the university
- Counter/Radical Cartographies and Disorientation Guides
- Corporate funding and the university
- Autonomous/Open/Free Universities
- The Poverty of Student Life
- Post-Enlightenment Visions: Beyond the Liberal Model
- Anarchism and Education
- Adjunct Unionization
- Organizing Across Campuses, Cities, and Regions
- Post-Antioch Universities/the Antioch Legacy
- Anti-militarization Movements in the University
- Prisons and Education
- Undergrad Education Beyond Commodification
- Historical Struggles in the University: May '68 and beyond
- Autoreduction and Tactics for Direct Action in the Workplace
- Contemporary Struggles in the University: The Anomalous Wave & Movements in
Italy, Greece and elsewhere
- Expropriating Institutional Space
- Graduate student unionization and Radicalizing the Academy
- Anti-professionalization; Anti-disciplinarity
- Student Debt
- Pedagogy of the crisis
- Creating Radical/Open Access Publications and the Politics of Citation
The schedule and proceedings from last year's conference can be found at:
http://www.makeumnpublic.org/conference.htm
Friday, January 2, 2009
New Department Chair
Riv-Ellen Prell has finished her service as the department chair. Rod Ferguson is now the chair.
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