The College has further clarified graduate assistantship funding for next year. The pay plans in place for the 2008-09 academic year will remain in place for the upcoming 2009-10 academic year. For American Studies that means teaching assistants will make 17.75 per hour and teaching instructors will make 18.75 per hour. Please contact Colleen with any questions.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Special Issue Submissions
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American Performance". Deadline: January 15, 2010.
Call for Papers
ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE
Special Issue of MELUS
Guest Editor: Tina Chen
Deadline: January 15, 2010
MELUS invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American
Performance".
Asian Americans, to paraphrase Tam Lum from Frank Chin's Chickencoop
Chinaman, are "made, not born." Indeed, such identities have had to be
performed into being, enacted in order to function as a category of
both personhood and political possibility. Although Asian American
studies has always been concerned with the performance of everyday
life, scholars have only recently begun focusing critical attention on
the public production of Asian Americanness via the realm of the
performing arts (broadly conceptualized). This special issue seeks to
encourage a sustained and varied examination of the ways in which
concepts of performance--somatic, literary, visual, artistic,
linguistic--intersect with and inform Asian American subjectivity. In
what ways might performance studies provoke new understandings of the
subjects and objects of Asian American studies? How can performance
help produce critical models for theorizing Asian American cultural
and social action? Can we look to performance as a way of unsettling
the institutionalization of Asian American Studies as a field of
academic inquiry?
Topics might include (but are not limited to): performance art;
musical theater; literary concepts of performance and performativity;
video performances that highlight ethnic subjectivity or contest
historical narratives; comparative approaches to Asian American
performance; art installations that perform Asian American ethnicity;
music videos; dance; the role of the Avante-garde; comedic acts that
revise concepts of Asian American identity and/or physicality; spoken
word performance; historiographical approaches to performing race;
transnational contexts for understanding Asian American performance;
dramatic literature and its transformation into theatrical production;
performance and new media and technology; circuits of pedagogical
performance (either in the classroom or as manifested in the business
of shows that travel to various college campuses); poetics and
performance; art and activism; martial arts and the possibility of a
"kung-fu aesthetic"; conflict and confrontation in the performance
encounter; the relationship between local, national, and global
stages; performance, emotion, and affect; commodification and
performance.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and between
6,000-10,000 words (MLA style). A blind submission policy will be
followed; as such, the author's name should not appear anywhere on the
manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the
author's name and address. Consultation on manuscript ideas is
welcome. Ideas and submissions should be sent via email to
tina.chen@psu.edu. Deadline for receipt of completed papers and
curriculum vitae is January 15, 2010.
Call for Papers
ASIAN AMERICAN PERFORMANCE
Special Issue of MELUS
Guest Editor: Tina Chen
Deadline: January 15, 2010
MELUS invites submissions for a special issue on "Asian American
Performance".
Asian Americans, to paraphrase Tam Lum from Frank Chin's Chickencoop
Chinaman, are "made, not born." Indeed, such identities have had to be
performed into being, enacted in order to function as a category of
both personhood and political possibility. Although Asian American
studies has always been concerned with the performance of everyday
life, scholars have only recently begun focusing critical attention on
the public production of Asian Americanness via the realm of the
performing arts (broadly conceptualized). This special issue seeks to
encourage a sustained and varied examination of the ways in which
concepts of performance--somatic, literary, visual, artistic,
linguistic--intersect with and inform Asian American subjectivity. In
what ways might performance studies provoke new understandings of the
subjects and objects of Asian American studies? How can performance
help produce critical models for theorizing Asian American cultural
and social action? Can we look to performance as a way of unsettling
the institutionalization of Asian American Studies as a field of
academic inquiry?
Topics might include (but are not limited to): performance art;
musical theater; literary concepts of performance and performativity;
video performances that highlight ethnic subjectivity or contest
historical narratives; comparative approaches to Asian American
performance; art installations that perform Asian American ethnicity;
music videos; dance; the role of the Avante-garde; comedic acts that
revise concepts of Asian American identity and/or physicality; spoken
word performance; historiographical approaches to performing race;
transnational contexts for understanding Asian American performance;
dramatic literature and its transformation into theatrical production;
performance and new media and technology; circuits of pedagogical
performance (either in the classroom or as manifested in the business
of shows that travel to various college campuses); poetics and
performance; art and activism; martial arts and the possibility of a
"kung-fu aesthetic"; conflict and confrontation in the performance
encounter; the relationship between local, national, and global
stages; performance, emotion, and affect; commodification and
performance.
TO SUBMIT: Manuscripts should be double spaced and between
6,000-10,000 words (MLA style). A blind submission policy will be
followed; as such, the author's name should not appear anywhere on the
manuscript, but an accompanying cover letter should contain the
author's name and address. Consultation on manuscript ideas is
welcome. Ideas and submissions should be sent via email to
tina.chen@psu.edu. Deadline for receipt of completed papers and
curriculum vitae is January 15, 2010.
Teaching and Teaching Assistantship Offers
The first round of teaching and teaching assistantship offers have been sent out. We hope to be able to make additional offers as enrollments change. For those of you who have received offers, you will note that Colleen used the University base rate for Graduate TA's, because she had not heard that CLA would be able to sustain the increase to the base (1.00/hr over U base) that they provided last year. However, the Chief Financial Officer of CLA just confirmed that they are able to offer the increase to the base.
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide Narrative Submissions
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is looking for narratives to be published in its upcoming 14 volumes. Preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is searching for narratives for its upcoming reference series. It will consist of 14 volumes, with volumes on African American Women. Latino Women, Asian American Women, Native Women, Latin AMerican Women, Middle Eastern Women, European Women, Sub-Saharan African Women, East Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Women. Below are the details of the content.
Length: 70,000 words
The preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Series format:
This should be followed in order (for the final manuscript only) and exact chapter titles.
o Introduction
o Overview/stats (extensive demographics on age, occupation, income, marital and family status, etc.)
o Morning Routines
o Work Day
o Evenings
o Weekends
o Holidays/Vacations
o Dating, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
o Hobbies/Interests/Outside Activities
o Selected Bibliography
Narrative chapters per topic will broadly and specifically characterize what women do, their typical schedules and routines, and how they live. Country, class, and other distinctions, such as age, will be made as necessary. Fun side bars with vignettes, amplification of topics of interest, lists, quotations, etc., will be interspersed.
Questions or comments please contact:
Manisha Desai
Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Rd, Unit 2181
Storrs, CT 06269
phone: 860-486-1131
fax: 860-486-4789
email: manisha.desai@uconn.edu
http://www.womens.studies.uconn.edu/faculty/Manisha.html
Women's Everyday Lives Worldwide is searching for narratives for its upcoming reference series. It will consist of 14 volumes, with volumes on African American Women. Latino Women, Asian American Women, Native Women, Latin AMerican Women, Middle Eastern Women, European Women, Sub-Saharan African Women, East Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Women. Below are the details of the content.
Length: 70,000 words
The preferred deadline is 14-16 months maximum.
Series format:
This should be followed in order (for the final manuscript only) and exact chapter titles.
o Introduction
o Overview/stats (extensive demographics on age, occupation, income, marital and family status, etc.)
o Morning Routines
o Work Day
o Evenings
o Weekends
o Holidays/Vacations
o Dating, Marriage, Family, and Friendship
o Hobbies/Interests/Outside Activities
o Selected Bibliography
Narrative chapters per topic will broadly and specifically characterize what women do, their typical schedules and routines, and how they live. Country, class, and other distinctions, such as age, will be made as necessary. Fun side bars with vignettes, amplification of topics of interest, lists, quotations, etc., will be interspersed.
Questions or comments please contact:
Manisha Desai
Director, Women's Studies Program
University of Connecticut
354 Mansfield Rd, Unit 2181
Storrs, CT 06269
phone: 860-486-1131
fax: 860-486-4789
email: manisha.desai@uconn.edu
http://www.womens.studies.uconn.edu/faculty/Manisha.html
Hot Water Outage-Scott Hall
Facilities Management informed us today that there will be a hot water outage in Scott Hall and some of the other Knoll area buildings beginning this Friday and going until July 20th. There will still be running cold water.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for its 2009 Interdisciplinary Conference at York University in Toronto, Canada, November 21, 2009.
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) presents:
Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2009
Playing the Field
playingthefield2009@gmail.com
http://www.playingthefield2009.wordpress.com
Throughout much of the history of socio-cultural anthropology, fieldwork, particularly that involving extended periods of participant observation, has been touted as the discipline's methodological hallmark. However, the established tendency to conceptualize 'the field' as the site where 'fieldwork' is conducted, and 'the fieldworker' as the actor who conducts it, obscures the complex and multiple milieux informing their mutual constitution. This conference encourages participants to interrogate, complicate, demystify, and possibly re-enchant the concepts and practices of field/work/er, with
special focus on their privileged, albeit shifting, contributions to the domains of knowledge making within anthropology and other disciplines. Alongside theoretical interrogations, we welcome submissions that speak to participants' ongoing experiences, obstacles and successes as workers in the field.
The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites fellow graduate students, activists and applied scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary and interactive forum on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at York University in Toronto, Canada.
We invite conference contributions in the following formats:
- Academic papers (presentation time: 15 minutes) and panels (presentation time: 75 Minutes)
- Alternative media presentations (posters, video, poetry, other creative works)
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
What and where is the field?
How is it constituted, entered, and exited by fieldworkers?
Who is a fieldworker? How is she or he constituted by the practice of fieldwork?
Where is the 'work' in fieldwork?
How is fieldwork arranged and conducted?
What are the experiences of fieldworkers?
How does the experience of the 'field' sometimes surprise fieldworkers?
What kinds of interesting stories come out of fieldwork? Do these
stories make it to the final draft?
What is the relationship between disciplinary, regional, and
performative fields?
How is the face and place of fieldwork changing in academia?
To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and a 250 word abstract of the paper. Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes.
Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome. To propose a panel, please submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s),
the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be limited to one hour and fifteen minutes, including discussion periods.
Keynote address by Trent University Professor Anne Meneley:
http://www.trentu.ca/anthropology/meneley.php
Submission deadline for abstracts, proposed panels, and media presentations is September 25, 2009. Please send abstracts and all other inquiries to playingthefield2009@gmail.com. Successful submissions may be assembled for later publication. Note: travel bursaries are NOT available.
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association Call for Papers
YU Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) presents:
Interdisciplinary Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2009
Playing the Field
playingthefield2009@gmail.com
http://www.playingthefield2009.wordpress.com
Throughout much of the history of socio-cultural anthropology, fieldwork, particularly that involving extended periods of participant observation, has been touted as the discipline's methodological hallmark. However, the established tendency to conceptualize 'the field' as the site where 'fieldwork' is conducted, and 'the fieldworker' as the actor who conducts it, obscures the complex and multiple milieux informing their mutual constitution. This conference encourages participants to interrogate, complicate, demystify, and possibly re-enchant the concepts and practices of field/work/er, with
special focus on their privileged, albeit shifting, contributions to the domains of knowledge making within anthropology and other disciplines. Alongside theoretical interrogations, we welcome submissions that speak to participants' ongoing experiences, obstacles and successes as workers in the field.
The Social Anthropology Graduates' Association (SAGA) cordially invites fellow graduate students, activists and applied scholars to participate in an interdisciplinary and interactive forum on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at York University in Toronto, Canada.
We invite conference contributions in the following formats:
- Academic papers (presentation time: 15 minutes) and panels (presentation time: 75 Minutes)
- Alternative media presentations (posters, video, poetry, other creative works)
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
What and where is the field?
How is it constituted, entered, and exited by fieldworkers?
Who is a fieldworker? How is she or he constituted by the practice of fieldwork?
Where is the 'work' in fieldwork?
How is fieldwork arranged and conducted?
What are the experiences of fieldworkers?
How does the experience of the 'field' sometimes surprise fieldworkers?
What kinds of interesting stories come out of fieldwork? Do these
stories make it to the final draft?
What is the relationship between disciplinary, regional, and
performative fields?
How is the face and place of fieldwork changing in academia?
To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and a 250 word abstract of the paper. Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes.
Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome. To propose a panel, please submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s),
the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be limited to one hour and fifteen minutes, including discussion periods.
Keynote address by Trent University Professor Anne Meneley:
http://www.trentu.ca/anthropology/meneley.php
Submission deadline for abstracts, proposed panels, and media presentations is September 25, 2009. Please send abstracts and all other inquiries to playingthefield2009@gmail.com. Successful submissions may be assembled for later publication. Note: travel bursaries are NOT available.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies is pleased to announce a call for proposals for next year's JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives," held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies, with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), are pleased to announce a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). We plan to select two ASA delegates for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
We invite proposals for workshops at the 2010 conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with the participation of ASA delegates, and for two post-conference pro-seminars: I. "Change and Reconciliation" and II. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations." The two workshops will include an ASA delegate and two or three members of the JAAS or other international delegations and will be conducted in English.
Applicants should describe their interest in and availability for a two-week period in June 2010. The award covers round trip airfare to Japan, housing, and modest daily expenses.
The ASA delegates will speak in one of the workshops named above. The delegates will be chosen by collaborative assessment and selection by the members of the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee and the International Committee of the JAAS. Following the conference, pro-seminars will be held either at the site of the conference or in an appropriate venue that will enable JAAS scholars to participate. The pro-seminars will run for two days. Themes of the pro-seminars will follow from but not necessarily repeat the workshop themes, and the ASA workshop speakers, now leading the pro-seminars, will construct the syllabi and assign readings for the pro-seminars. The pro-seminars will be open to the entire range of JAAS members, from graduate students to senior scholars. Under the proposed project, the ASA delegates will spend two days at the JAAS conference, two days in their pro-seminars, plus travel time, for a total of about a week.
The ASA scholars will contribute to an intensive dialogue and interaction with a fixed group of JAAS scholars. This group will include junior members of the JAAS and academia, put into a special relationship not only with the ASA delegates but also with mid-career and senior Japanese scholars of American Studies. These benefits are expected to flow in all directions, with the ASA delegates learning from the JAAS scholars, and with senior and junior scholars alike learning about directions the field may be taking and how they each may participate in renewals of American Studies in Japan. The "Comparative US-Japan Perspectives" named in the title of the proposed three-year theme speak directly of current directions in the field of American Studies, in regard to internationalism, transnationalism, and globalism. It is expected that JAAS scholars will speak of Japanese perspectives, in comparative connection with American Studies. These talks will put the JAAS scholars on th
e same footing as the ASA delegates in the workshops, each participant with a certain expertise to offer.
Accordingly, the theme statements for the proposed project are broad, conceptual, and inclined toward the theoretical, though the language is simple and the statements invite applicants to provide the historical examples and theoretical bases that they feel best fulfill the broad themes.
Theme Statements:
1. "Change and Reconciliation": JAAS framers of this theme are interested in having a dialogue on how the United States reunifies itself (if it does) following significant political changes, which necessarily involve friction and conflict. While proposed by a political scientist (a significant discipline in American Studies in Japan), the theme calls for proposals from ASA scholars in the array of fields and emphases that constitute interdisciplinary American Studies.
2. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations": The theme calls for examinations of so-called "identity politics" and possibly new directions in minority-majority relations of power and culture in the United States in view of the US elections of 2008 and their outcomes. To address this theme, proposals that involve studies of cultural change are welcome, with the understanding that a study of "culture" may include but need not be confined to the study of arts and the humanities. Has the election of President Barack Obama affected American culture? What cultural strategies and productions are signs and interpretations of current changes in minority-majority relations? How? Why?
Here again applicants need not propose comparative US-Japan studies, but contributions to a comparative method will be encouraged by the dialogue between ASA and JAAS scholars within the workshop and in the pro-seminar to follow.
Application Procedures:
Each application letter will include a summary in 300 words of the proposed paper to be presented at the JAAS annual meeting. Participants will specify the workshop to which they are applying. They will explain how the proposed paper contributes to discussion of that topic. They will include two-page curriculum vitae, emphasizing teaching experience and publications. They will also include the names and addresses of three references and a personal statement, no longer than two pages, describing their interest in this project and the issues that their own scholarship and teaching have addressed. They will devote one or two paragraphs to why they understand this scholarly visit to be central to their own development as a scholar in the world community. They may include comments on previous collaboration or work with non-U.S. academics or students. If they wish, they may comment on their particular interest in, or connections to, Japan. Prior experience of work or travel in Japan, however, is not a requirement for selection. The grant requires that applicants must be current members of the ASA and U.S. citizens. Application materials should be addressed to the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee, and sent via electronic mail message, as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment before midnight (US DST) October 1, 2009, to asa-jaas@theasa.net.
2010 JAAS Conference, "Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives"
The American Studies Association and the Japanese Association for American Studies, with support from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUFSC), are pleased to announce a competition open to ASA members (U.S. citizens). We plan to select two ASA delegates for participation in the annual JAAS conference to be held June 5-6, 2010, at Osaka University, Japan.
We invite proposals for workshops at the 2010 conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies (JAAS), with the participation of ASA delegates, and for two post-conference pro-seminars: I. "Change and Reconciliation" and II. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations." The two workshops will include an ASA delegate and two or three members of the JAAS or other international delegations and will be conducted in English.
Applicants should describe their interest in and availability for a two-week period in June 2010. The award covers round trip airfare to Japan, housing, and modest daily expenses.
The ASA delegates will speak in one of the workshops named above. The delegates will be chosen by collaborative assessment and selection by the members of the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee and the International Committee of the JAAS. Following the conference, pro-seminars will be held either at the site of the conference or in an appropriate venue that will enable JAAS scholars to participate. The pro-seminars will run for two days. Themes of the pro-seminars will follow from but not necessarily repeat the workshop themes, and the ASA workshop speakers, now leading the pro-seminars, will construct the syllabi and assign readings for the pro-seminars. The pro-seminars will be open to the entire range of JAAS members, from graduate students to senior scholars. Under the proposed project, the ASA delegates will spend two days at the JAAS conference, two days in their pro-seminars, plus travel time, for a total of about a week.
The ASA scholars will contribute to an intensive dialogue and interaction with a fixed group of JAAS scholars. This group will include junior members of the JAAS and academia, put into a special relationship not only with the ASA delegates but also with mid-career and senior Japanese scholars of American Studies. These benefits are expected to flow in all directions, with the ASA delegates learning from the JAAS scholars, and with senior and junior scholars alike learning about directions the field may be taking and how they each may participate in renewals of American Studies in Japan. The "Comparative US-Japan Perspectives" named in the title of the proposed three-year theme speak directly of current directions in the field of American Studies, in regard to internationalism, transnationalism, and globalism. It is expected that JAAS scholars will speak of Japanese perspectives, in comparative connection with American Studies. These talks will put the JAAS scholars on th
e same footing as the ASA delegates in the workshops, each participant with a certain expertise to offer.
Accordingly, the theme statements for the proposed project are broad, conceptual, and inclined toward the theoretical, though the language is simple and the statements invite applicants to provide the historical examples and theoretical bases that they feel best fulfill the broad themes.
Theme Statements:
1. "Change and Reconciliation": JAAS framers of this theme are interested in having a dialogue on how the United States reunifies itself (if it does) following significant political changes, which necessarily involve friction and conflict. While proposed by a political scientist (a significant discipline in American Studies in Japan), the theme calls for proposals from ASA scholars in the array of fields and emphases that constitute interdisciplinary American Studies.
2. "Cultural Strategies in Time of Change: Minority-Majority Relations": The theme calls for examinations of so-called "identity politics" and possibly new directions in minority-majority relations of power and culture in the United States in view of the US elections of 2008 and their outcomes. To address this theme, proposals that involve studies of cultural change are welcome, with the understanding that a study of "culture" may include but need not be confined to the study of arts and the humanities. Has the election of President Barack Obama affected American culture? What cultural strategies and productions are signs and interpretations of current changes in minority-majority relations? How? Why?
Here again applicants need not propose comparative US-Japan studies, but contributions to a comparative method will be encouraged by the dialogue between ASA and JAAS scholars within the workshop and in the pro-seminar to follow.
Application Procedures:
Each application letter will include a summary in 300 words of the proposed paper to be presented at the JAAS annual meeting. Participants will specify the workshop to which they are applying. They will explain how the proposed paper contributes to discussion of that topic. They will include two-page curriculum vitae, emphasizing teaching experience and publications. They will also include the names and addresses of three references and a personal statement, no longer than two pages, describing their interest in this project and the issues that their own scholarship and teaching have addressed. They will devote one or two paragraphs to why they understand this scholarly visit to be central to their own development as a scholar in the world community. They may include comments on previous collaboration or work with non-U.S. academics or students. If they wish, they may comment on their particular interest in, or connections to, Japan. Prior experience of work or travel in Japan, however, is not a requirement for selection. The grant requires that applicants must be current members of the ASA and U.S. citizens. Application materials should be addressed to the ASA-JAAS Project Advisory Committee, and sent via electronic mail message, as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment before midnight (US DST) October 1, 2009, to asa-jaas@theasa.net.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Conference
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech invites proposals for their Interdisciplinary Conference in Roanoke, Virginia, April 22-24, 2010. Proposals due: September 15, 2009.
Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Conference
Proposals are invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference
April 22-24, 2010
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of
technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing, books and the built environment.
Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced through technologies
-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and gender
-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
-New media art and feminist aesthetics
-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship
As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations.
Using the online form (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html), please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for technology or space that you
anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia Tech Women’s and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October 15, 2009.
Proposals should be submitted via our website at
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/. If that is not possible, or if you have
questions, please contact:
Sharon Elber
GBT Conference Co-Planner
STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
selber@vt.edu
Virginia Tech Interdisciplinary Conference
Proposals are invited for an Interdisciplinary Conference
April 22-24, 2010
Roanoke, Virginia
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Tech
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2009
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore: the technological production of gendered and racialized bodies, historical and contemporary feminist appropriations of technology in aesthetics and representations of embodiment, and the gendered implications of
technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the Internet. We construe technology broadly to include material culture and the apparatus of daily life, such as writing, books and the built environment.
Specific topics might include, but are not limited to:
-Technological production and control of classed, racialized, aged and gendered bodies
-Work, healthcare, education and activities of daily life as produced through technologies
-Performance, new media and other creative expressions as sites for engaging/enacting/destabilizing conventions of embodiment and technology
-Biopolitics and medical engineering of reproduction, sexual identity and gender
-Personal narrative and oral history as sources of embodied theorizing
-Surveillance, containment, in/security and militarization
-Identity and technological design, production and use; gender, race, age, class and sexuality in SET (sciences, engineering and technology) fields
-New media art and feminist aesthetics
-Technologies of development and sustainability; eco-feminism
-Activism, participatory decision-making and issues of technological citizenship
As an assemblage of people and technologies we see the conference itself as enacting the conference theme. We welcome innovative uses of technology and creative session formats, including performance and interactive presentations, as well as traditional paper presentations.
Using the online form (http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/proposals.html), please submit a proposal of up to 300 words for each individual presentation, including not only the scholarship you will engage but also the format that you wish to use. For panels, include an abstract for each presentation. Please specify in your proposal any special requirements for technology or space that you
anticipate. Proposals will be reviewed by Virginia Tech Women’s and Gender Studies faculty/affiliates with appropriate expertise and notification of the outcome will be made no later than October 15, 2009.
Proposals should be submitted via our website at
http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gbt/. If that is not possible, or if you have
questions, please contact:
Sharon Elber
GBT Conference Co-Planner
STS/Women’s and Gender Studies (0227)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
selber@vt.edu
International Korean Adoptee Associations Call for Papers
International Korean Adoptee Associations is pleased to announce a call for papers for The 2nd International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies in Seoul, Korea, August 3, 2010. Submissions due: September 15, 2009.
International Korean Adoptee Associations Call for Papers
Symposium Date: August 3, 2010
Planned location: IKAA Korean Adoptee Gathering, Seoul, Korea. For more information about the Gathering, see http://gathering.ikaa.info/en .
Symposium Sponsor: IKAA (International Korean Adoptee Associations). For more information about IKAA, see http://ikaa.org/en .
Submissions Due by: September 15, 2009
Submit to: SISKAS2010@gmail.com
Questions? Contact Kim Park Nelson, greg0051@umn.edu
If selected, your complete, full-length paper (up to 15 single-spaced pages) will be due January 1, 2010. Submission of a full-length paper by the due date is a requirement for participation in the Symposium. You may also be invited to participate in a research panel at the Gathering the week following the Symposium.
Submission Deadline and Instructions
Complete submissions (cover sheet, paper proposal and CV) must be received by September 15, 2009 by 5:00 PM (U.S.A. Central Time). No late proposals will be accepted. We will accept proposals via email only. A cover page submitted without attached proposal or CV is NOT considered complete. We will not accept or consider submissions that are lacking information. Selection notifications will be made by e-mail by the end of November.
Criteria for selection
While we encourage submissions from everyone, we will prioritize papers from academics who have completed a terminal degree or who are currently enrolled in terminal master’s or Ph.D. programs. We also seek presentations/papers on a range of topics (some of which are outlined below) that represent as many of the current research approaches on Korean adoption as possible.
Introduction and presentation
The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) plans to convene the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies as part of the 2010 Korean Adoptee Gathering 2010.
The aim of the symposium is to establish and explore this new and rapidly expanding academic field. The field of Korean adoption studies is specifically concerned with international adoption from Korea, as well as with overseas adopted Koreans. It has recently emerged as an area of study both in Korea, the country of origin, and in the Western receiving countries to which Korean children have been sent for adoption. This symposium will bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research in the field of Korean adoption studies. These scholars are working at the multidisciplinary intersections of Asian and Korean studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and social and behavioural sciences. Their work is also engaged with issues of ethnicity, migration and diaspora, and globalization and transnationalism.
This day long and multidisciplinary symposium will take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will be comprised of paper presentations and open discussions. The papers will be published as a volume of collected proceedings, which will be distributed at the Symposium and also made available to university libraries. The First Symposium in 2007 laid the foundation for the growing network of Korean Adoption Studies scholars, and the 2010 Symposium will be an opportunity to continue expanding the network, to include a wider range of scholarship and to incorporate work being done by scholars in Korea.
Background and purpose
South Korea’s history of over half a century of continuous and uninterrupted international adoption provides the background for this symposium. Since the 1953 armistice that suspended the Korean War, almost 200,000 Korean children have been sent for adoption to 15 principal host countries in the Western world. Of those children, over 120,000 were sent to the United States, 60,000 to Europe (with half in Scandinavia of which 10,000 arrived in Sweden alone), and the remaining 10,000 were sent to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In its significant demographic scope, its lengthy time span, and its wide-ranging geographic spread, international adoption from Korea is unprecedented in modern history as the largest global transfer of children in the world. Today, still around 1,500 children leave Korea every year for adoption to eight different Western countries. The child welfare practice commonly known as international adoption, i.e., the transnational/ transcontinental, and, often, transracial/transcultural adoption, of predominantly non-Western children to primarily Western parents, was carried out in Korea directly following the war. As such, Korean adoption has become a model for understanding subsequent waves of international adoption. Furthermore, adopted Koreans are not only the most numerous, diverse and widespread of the world’s child migrants, but also constitute the first generation and population of transnational and transracial adoptees. The field of Korean adoption studies thus provides a foundation for understanding international adoption and internationally adopted people as a whole.
Past and Current Research
For many years, the subject of international adoption from Korea and adopted Koreans was an under-researched area in academia. The field, as it existed then, was dominated by professionals in social work, psychology, and medicine. The first academic studies on Korean adoption started to come out in the mid-1970s, both in Korea and in the West, but it was not until the mid-1990s that one could begin to talk about a full-fledged field of Korean adoption studies.
In Korean academia, the majority of adoption studies discuss international adoption in terms of social welfare or legislation, and primarily from the perspectives of social work and family law. But Korean research interest in adult adopted Koreans has grown in recent years, with studies focusing on the life consequences for adoptees who have revisited Korea and/or reunited with their Korean family members, as well as cultural studies oriented textual analyses of adopted Korean self-narratives.
On the other side of the world, adoption scholarship in the leading adopting regions of North America, Scandinavia and Western Europe mainly focus on the behavioral and emotional adjustment of adoptees, including their attachment and adjustment to the adoptive family and assimilation and acculturation to the host culture. In addition, a growing number of studies have started to look at Korean international adoption from a comparative historical perspective and others have conceptualized it as a migratory practice linked to globalization and transnational processes. There is also a growing body of research on adoptees’ language detrition and attrition and their cultural output of art, film, and literature.
Finally, a new research trend that has emerged both in Korea and in the West deals with the question of an identity and community specific to adopted Koreans, in the context of existing theories of ethnicity, migration, and diaspora.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers who focus either on international adoption from Korea or on overseas adopted Koreans from these different perspectives and approaches.
Themes and Topics
We welcome submissions from any academic background or perspective, and especially welcome work with multi-or interdisciplinary perspectives. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
• The Korean state and international adoption policy /adoption and Korea’s image in the world. We especially encourage the submission of papers that focus on Korean adoption as a social, cultural or political phenomenon within the nation of South Korea including research that originates from within South Korea.
• Korean adoptees as part of Korean diaspora and/or Korean adoption as a part of Asian North American, Asian European, or Asian Australian experience.
• Comparative projects that examine Korean adoption and adoption from other countries.
• In-between identities and familial relations and the impact of Korean adoption on the adoption triad members.
• Empirical research that examines a specific question or salient issue within the Korean adoptee community, including the behavioural adjustment and emotional development of Korean adoptees from normative standpoints as opposed to pathologized approaches. We also encourage work that can detail the logic of inquiry or research methods, and that provides sufficient evidence to support and interpret results.
• Projects that explore the social phenomenon of multiple group status held by Korean adoptees and their relative experiences in North America, Australia, and Europe.
• Korean adoptees as subjects of cultural production including literature, fine arts, or blogs. We especially encourage work that examines Korean adoption in documentary or cinema.
Click below for required cover sheet.
Download file
International Korean Adoptee Associations Call for Papers
Symposium Date: August 3, 2010
Planned location: IKAA Korean Adoptee Gathering, Seoul, Korea. For more information about the Gathering, see http://gathering.ikaa.info/en .
Symposium Sponsor: IKAA (International Korean Adoptee Associations). For more information about IKAA, see http://ikaa.org/en .
Submissions Due by: September 15, 2009
Submit to: SISKAS2010@gmail.com
Questions? Contact Kim Park Nelson, greg0051@umn.edu
If selected, your complete, full-length paper (up to 15 single-spaced pages) will be due January 1, 2010. Submission of a full-length paper by the due date is a requirement for participation in the Symposium. You may also be invited to participate in a research panel at the Gathering the week following the Symposium.
Submission Deadline and Instructions
Complete submissions (cover sheet, paper proposal and CV) must be received by September 15, 2009 by 5:00 PM (U.S.A. Central Time). No late proposals will be accepted. We will accept proposals via email only. A cover page submitted without attached proposal or CV is NOT considered complete. We will not accept or consider submissions that are lacking information. Selection notifications will be made by e-mail by the end of November.
Criteria for selection
While we encourage submissions from everyone, we will prioritize papers from academics who have completed a terminal degree or who are currently enrolled in terminal master’s or Ph.D. programs. We also seek presentations/papers on a range of topics (some of which are outlined below) that represent as many of the current research approaches on Korean adoption as possible.
Introduction and presentation
The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) plans to convene the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies as part of the 2010 Korean Adoptee Gathering 2010.
The aim of the symposium is to establish and explore this new and rapidly expanding academic field. The field of Korean adoption studies is specifically concerned with international adoption from Korea, as well as with overseas adopted Koreans. It has recently emerged as an area of study both in Korea, the country of origin, and in the Western receiving countries to which Korean children have been sent for adoption. This symposium will bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research in the field of Korean adoption studies. These scholars are working at the multidisciplinary intersections of Asian and Korean studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and social and behavioural sciences. Their work is also engaged with issues of ethnicity, migration and diaspora, and globalization and transnationalism.
This day long and multidisciplinary symposium will take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will be comprised of paper presentations and open discussions. The papers will be published as a volume of collected proceedings, which will be distributed at the Symposium and also made available to university libraries. The First Symposium in 2007 laid the foundation for the growing network of Korean Adoption Studies scholars, and the 2010 Symposium will be an opportunity to continue expanding the network, to include a wider range of scholarship and to incorporate work being done by scholars in Korea.
Background and purpose
South Korea’s history of over half a century of continuous and uninterrupted international adoption provides the background for this symposium. Since the 1953 armistice that suspended the Korean War, almost 200,000 Korean children have been sent for adoption to 15 principal host countries in the Western world. Of those children, over 120,000 were sent to the United States, 60,000 to Europe (with half in Scandinavia of which 10,000 arrived in Sweden alone), and the remaining 10,000 were sent to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In its significant demographic scope, its lengthy time span, and its wide-ranging geographic spread, international adoption from Korea is unprecedented in modern history as the largest global transfer of children in the world. Today, still around 1,500 children leave Korea every year for adoption to eight different Western countries. The child welfare practice commonly known as international adoption, i.e., the transnational/ transcontinental, and, often, transracial/transcultural adoption, of predominantly non-Western children to primarily Western parents, was carried out in Korea directly following the war. As such, Korean adoption has become a model for understanding subsequent waves of international adoption. Furthermore, adopted Koreans are not only the most numerous, diverse and widespread of the world’s child migrants, but also constitute the first generation and population of transnational and transracial adoptees. The field of Korean adoption studies thus provides a foundation for understanding international adoption and internationally adopted people as a whole.
Past and Current Research
For many years, the subject of international adoption from Korea and adopted Koreans was an under-researched area in academia. The field, as it existed then, was dominated by professionals in social work, psychology, and medicine. The first academic studies on Korean adoption started to come out in the mid-1970s, both in Korea and in the West, but it was not until the mid-1990s that one could begin to talk about a full-fledged field of Korean adoption studies.
In Korean academia, the majority of adoption studies discuss international adoption in terms of social welfare or legislation, and primarily from the perspectives of social work and family law. But Korean research interest in adult adopted Koreans has grown in recent years, with studies focusing on the life consequences for adoptees who have revisited Korea and/or reunited with their Korean family members, as well as cultural studies oriented textual analyses of adopted Korean self-narratives.
On the other side of the world, adoption scholarship in the leading adopting regions of North America, Scandinavia and Western Europe mainly focus on the behavioral and emotional adjustment of adoptees, including their attachment and adjustment to the adoptive family and assimilation and acculturation to the host culture. In addition, a growing number of studies have started to look at Korean international adoption from a comparative historical perspective and others have conceptualized it as a migratory practice linked to globalization and transnational processes. There is also a growing body of research on adoptees’ language detrition and attrition and their cultural output of art, film, and literature.
Finally, a new research trend that has emerged both in Korea and in the West deals with the question of an identity and community specific to adopted Koreans, in the context of existing theories of ethnicity, migration, and diaspora.
This symposium aims to bring together researchers who focus either on international adoption from Korea or on overseas adopted Koreans from these different perspectives and approaches.
Themes and Topics
We welcome submissions from any academic background or perspective, and especially welcome work with multi-or interdisciplinary perspectives. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
• The Korean state and international adoption policy /adoption and Korea’s image in the world. We especially encourage the submission of papers that focus on Korean adoption as a social, cultural or political phenomenon within the nation of South Korea including research that originates from within South Korea.
• Korean adoptees as part of Korean diaspora and/or Korean adoption as a part of Asian North American, Asian European, or Asian Australian experience.
• Comparative projects that examine Korean adoption and adoption from other countries.
• In-between identities and familial relations and the impact of Korean adoption on the adoption triad members.
• Empirical research that examines a specific question or salient issue within the Korean adoptee community, including the behavioural adjustment and emotional development of Korean adoptees from normative standpoints as opposed to pathologized approaches. We also encourage work that can detail the logic of inquiry or research methods, and that provides sufficient evidence to support and interpret results.
• Projects that explore the social phenomenon of multiple group status held by Korean adoptees and their relative experiences in North America, Australia, and Europe.
• Korean adoptees as subjects of cultural production including literature, fine arts, or blogs. We especially encourage work that examines Korean adoption in documentary or cinema.
Click below for required cover sheet.
Download file
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
ANTHRO 8810
ANTHRO 8810, “Reading Contemporary Ethnography,” will be taught by Professor Karen-Sue Taussig Tuesdays 2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
ANTHRO 8810
Reading Contemporary Ethnography
Professor Karen-Sue Taussig
Tuesdays 2:30-4:25
In this seminar we will explore contemporary issues in ethnographic work through reading a set of recent award-winning and/or theoretically/methodologically innovative texts.
Writing for the course will involve reviews of two of the assigned texts and a review essay of 3-5 texts selected by the student for their relevance to the student’s regional or topical interests.
ANTHRO 8810
Reading Contemporary Ethnography
Professor Karen-Sue Taussig
Tuesdays 2:30-4:25
In this seminar we will explore contemporary issues in ethnographic work through reading a set of recent award-winning and/or theoretically/methodologically innovative texts.
Writing for the course will involve reviews of two of the assigned texts and a review essay of 3-5 texts selected by the student for their relevance to the student’s regional or topical interests.
"Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later: Race, Resistance and Relevance" Conference
The College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University invites proposals for the conference, “Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later: Race, Resistance and Relevance,” October 7-9, 2009. Submission deadline: June 15, 2009.
"Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later: Race, Resistance and Relevance" Conference
The College of Ethnic Studies (CoES) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtable discussions, workshops and performances for a conference that marks the founding of The College and the emergence of the field of Ethnic Studies. The first College of Ethnic Studies, inaugurated in 1969, was accompanied by ethnic studies initiatives, programs, centers and departments at universities and colleges around the world.
This 40th anniversary of CoES presents an opportunity to examine contributions, developments, and challenges within the field of Ethnic Studies. We welcome the exploration of themes that include but are not limited to the following:
1. Where is Ethnic Studies in the world today, and what are the similarities and differences between our contemporary goals and those of decades past that led to the creation of the field?
2. What fruitful relationships are possible-and what obstacles exist-between Ethnic Studies programs, local communities of color, and related diasporas?
3. How are social justice pedagogies relevant to the field of Ethnic Studies?
4. In what ways have our conceptual tools for discussions about race, racialization, racial formation, and power changed since the founding of Ethnic studies? How are we addressing class, gender, sexuality, religion, and citizenship within Ethnic Studies?
5. What strategies allow for inclusion of a full range of ethnic experiences, philosophical perspectives, and methods, analytical frameworks within the field?
6. How might recent events such as restrictions of civil liberties domestically and internationally, the election of Barack Obama, ongoing wars, and the international economic crisis affect the field of Ethnic Studies and the centering of race relations?
Your hosts: The College of Ethnic Studies; the departments of Africana, American Indian, Asian American and Raza Studies; Race and Resistance Studies Initiative (RRS) and Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Initiative (AMED); and the Cesar Chavez Institute
For more information and directions for proposal submissions please visit: http://www.sfsu.edu/~ethnicst/fortieth.html
Priority will be assigned to proposals in the order of submission deadlines:
FINAL submission deadline: 5PM PST June 15, 2009
Contact information : call 415 338-1859 or email fortieth@sfsu.edu
You will receive a response within 48 hours or two business days
"Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later: Race, Resistance and Relevance" Conference
The College of Ethnic Studies (CoES) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtable discussions, workshops and performances for a conference that marks the founding of The College and the emergence of the field of Ethnic Studies. The first College of Ethnic Studies, inaugurated in 1969, was accompanied by ethnic studies initiatives, programs, centers and departments at universities and colleges around the world.
This 40th anniversary of CoES presents an opportunity to examine contributions, developments, and challenges within the field of Ethnic Studies. We welcome the exploration of themes that include but are not limited to the following:
1. Where is Ethnic Studies in the world today, and what are the similarities and differences between our contemporary goals and those of decades past that led to the creation of the field?
2. What fruitful relationships are possible-and what obstacles exist-between Ethnic Studies programs, local communities of color, and related diasporas?
3. How are social justice pedagogies relevant to the field of Ethnic Studies?
4. In what ways have our conceptual tools for discussions about race, racialization, racial formation, and power changed since the founding of Ethnic studies? How are we addressing class, gender, sexuality, religion, and citizenship within Ethnic Studies?
5. What strategies allow for inclusion of a full range of ethnic experiences, philosophical perspectives, and methods, analytical frameworks within the field?
6. How might recent events such as restrictions of civil liberties domestically and internationally, the election of Barack Obama, ongoing wars, and the international economic crisis affect the field of Ethnic Studies and the centering of race relations?
Your hosts: The College of Ethnic Studies; the departments of Africana, American Indian, Asian American and Raza Studies; Race and Resistance Studies Initiative (RRS) and Arab Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Initiative (AMED); and the Cesar Chavez Institute
For more information and directions for proposal submissions please visit: http://www.sfsu.edu/~ethnicst/fortieth.html
Priority will be assigned to proposals in the order of submission deadlines:
FINAL submission deadline: 5PM PST June 15, 2009
Contact information : call 415 338-1859 or email fortieth@sfsu.edu
You will receive a response within 48 hours or two business days
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
University of CA-Los Angeles Assistant Professor Position
University of CA-Los Angeles, The Bunche Center for African American Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin fall 2010. Both new and recent PhDs are invited to apply. Deadline: July 15, 2009.
University of CA-Los Angeles Assistant Professor Position
The Bunche Center for African American Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2010. This is a joint appointment in which the successful candidate will be housed in a disciplinary department and split his or her time equally between the department and African American Studies. We are especially interested in outstanding recent Ph.D.s focusing their research and teaching on these aspects of African American communities: family and community, inequality, gender, health or culture broadly defined. Scholars in all humanities fields (e.g., English, History, Theatre, Linguistics, and Philosophy) are encouraged to apply as well.
We have no preference with regard to methodology, but are especially interested in candidates employing innovative and/or mixed methods. Both new and recent Ph.D.s are invited to apply; candidates with Ph.D. pending must complete the requirements for their doctoral degree in advance of the appointment, July 1, 2010.
Applicants should send a dossier including: (1) a vita listing published and unpublished papers, (2) a letter of application describing current and projected research activities as well as teaching experience and interests, and (3) two or three pieces of written work. Applicants who have not yet completed the Ph.D. must include at least two dissertation chapters, and one of their references must be a letter from their dissertation advisor that includes a timeline for completion. Please arrange for at least three references to send letters under separate cover. All materials should be addressed to:
Director, Bunche Center Search Committee, UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies, 160 Haines Hall, Box 951545, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1545, by July 15, 2009. We cannot accept electronic applications; please use traditional mail.
Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
University of CA-Los Angeles Assistant Professor Position
The Bunche Center for African American Studies invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2010. This is a joint appointment in which the successful candidate will be housed in a disciplinary department and split his or her time equally between the department and African American Studies. We are especially interested in outstanding recent Ph.D.s focusing their research and teaching on these aspects of African American communities: family and community, inequality, gender, health or culture broadly defined. Scholars in all humanities fields (e.g., English, History, Theatre, Linguistics, and Philosophy) are encouraged to apply as well.
We have no preference with regard to methodology, but are especially interested in candidates employing innovative and/or mixed methods. Both new and recent Ph.D.s are invited to apply; candidates with Ph.D. pending must complete the requirements for their doctoral degree in advance of the appointment, July 1, 2010.
Applicants should send a dossier including: (1) a vita listing published and unpublished papers, (2) a letter of application describing current and projected research activities as well as teaching experience and interests, and (3) two or three pieces of written work. Applicants who have not yet completed the Ph.D. must include at least two dissertation chapters, and one of their references must be a letter from their dissertation advisor that includes a timeline for completion. Please arrange for at least three references to send letters under separate cover. All materials should be addressed to:
Director, Bunche Center Search Committee, UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies, 160 Haines Hall, Box 951545, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1545, by July 15, 2009. We cannot accept electronic applications; please use traditional mail.
Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Penn State Harrisburg Two Positions
Penn State Harrisburg, School of Humanities invites applications and nominations for two positions: Open Rank Position in American Studies/Heritage Studies and Associate or Full Professor of American Studies. Review of applications begins: Sept. 28, 2009.
Penn State Harrisburg Two Positions
A: OPEN RANK POSITION in AMERICAN STUDIES/HERITAGE STUDIES
PENN STATE HARRISBURG, School of Humanities invites applications and nominations for a newly created tenured or tenure-track position in the American Studies program with a specialization in Heritage Studies. The program offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in American Studies, and houses the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies and a regional chapter of the American Studies Association. The program has designated subfields of culture, arts, and communication; interdisciplinary history and politics; ethnography and society; public heritage; and regional, environmental, and urban studies. With its location in a state capital and a prominent heritage region, the program maintains strong ties with state and regional governmental, historical, and cultural agencies. For additional details, please visit our website at http://www.hbg.psu.edu.
The successful candidate will join colleagues in leading core courses in American Studies theory and methods, issues in American Studies, and a capstone research seminar. Areas of research and teaching in the Heritage Studies field may include museum and material culture studies; historic preservation and cultural conservation; public history, folk-life, and culture; oral history; and digital humanities. Additional desirable fields are open, but areas of interest to the Heritage Studies program include history of technology and media; visual culture; popular music and culture studies; and religious and ethnic cultures. Service expectations include involvement in the program's development activities and outreach initiatives, including its internship program and Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies.
Ph.D. in American Studies is preferred but related degrees will be considered for candidates showing involvement in American Studies education. Candidates must have a conferred doctorate at time of application and demonstrated experience in collegiate teaching and heritage work.
Review of applications will begin on September 28, 2009 and continue until the position is filled. To be considered, please submit a cover letter detailing qualifications, a current CV and three letters of reference to: Mrs. Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources, Box: H-NET-30207, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
B: ASSOCIATE or FULL PROFESSOR of AMERICAN STUDIES
PENN STATE HARRISBURG, School of Humanities invites applications and nominations for a newly created tenured position in the American Studies program. The program offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in American Studies, and houses the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies and a regional chapter of the American Studies Association. The program has designated subfields of culture, arts, and communication; interdisciplinary history and politics; ethnography and society; public heritage; and regional, environmental, and urban studies. With its location in a state capital and a prominent heritage region, the program maintains strong ties with state and regional governmental, historical, and cultural agencies. For additional details, visit our website at: http://www.hbg.psu.edu.
The successful candidate will join colleagues in leading core courses in American Studies theory and methods, issues in American studies, and a capstone research seminar. Areas of research and teaching are open, but the program is particularly interested in candidates with expertise in environmental and urban studies; religion and culture; technological and economic history; international perspectives in American Studies; and social science approaches to American Studies. Service expectations include assisting the management of different degree programs, involvement in program development and outreach initiatives, and representation of the program in American Studies organizations.
Ph.D. in American Studies or equivalent is required; and established and significant record of scholarly achievement in research and teaching meritorious of tenure. Candidates of senior rank with experience in American Studies graduate programs and an active research agenda will be given preference.
Review of applications will begin on September 28, 2009 and continue until the positions are filled. To be considered, please submit a cover letter detailing qualifications, a current CV and three letters of reference to: Mrs. Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources, Box H-NET-30216, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
Penn State Harrisburg Two Positions
A: OPEN RANK POSITION in AMERICAN STUDIES/HERITAGE STUDIES
PENN STATE HARRISBURG, School of Humanities invites applications and nominations for a newly created tenured or tenure-track position in the American Studies program with a specialization in Heritage Studies. The program offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in American Studies, and houses the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies and a regional chapter of the American Studies Association. The program has designated subfields of culture, arts, and communication; interdisciplinary history and politics; ethnography and society; public heritage; and regional, environmental, and urban studies. With its location in a state capital and a prominent heritage region, the program maintains strong ties with state and regional governmental, historical, and cultural agencies. For additional details, please visit our website at http://www.hbg.psu.edu.
The successful candidate will join colleagues in leading core courses in American Studies theory and methods, issues in American Studies, and a capstone research seminar. Areas of research and teaching in the Heritage Studies field may include museum and material culture studies; historic preservation and cultural conservation; public history, folk-life, and culture; oral history; and digital humanities. Additional desirable fields are open, but areas of interest to the Heritage Studies program include history of technology and media; visual culture; popular music and culture studies; and religious and ethnic cultures. Service expectations include involvement in the program's development activities and outreach initiatives, including its internship program and Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies.
Ph.D. in American Studies is preferred but related degrees will be considered for candidates showing involvement in American Studies education. Candidates must have a conferred doctorate at time of application and demonstrated experience in collegiate teaching and heritage work.
Review of applications will begin on September 28, 2009 and continue until the position is filled. To be considered, please submit a cover letter detailing qualifications, a current CV and three letters of reference to: Mrs. Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources, Box: H-NET-30207, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
B: ASSOCIATE or FULL PROFESSOR of AMERICAN STUDIES
PENN STATE HARRISBURG, School of Humanities invites applications and nominations for a newly created tenured position in the American Studies program. The program offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in American Studies, and houses the Center for Pennsylvania Culture Studies and a regional chapter of the American Studies Association. The program has designated subfields of culture, arts, and communication; interdisciplinary history and politics; ethnography and society; public heritage; and regional, environmental, and urban studies. With its location in a state capital and a prominent heritage region, the program maintains strong ties with state and regional governmental, historical, and cultural agencies. For additional details, visit our website at: http://www.hbg.psu.edu.
The successful candidate will join colleagues in leading core courses in American Studies theory and methods, issues in American studies, and a capstone research seminar. Areas of research and teaching are open, but the program is particularly interested in candidates with expertise in environmental and urban studies; religion and culture; technological and economic history; international perspectives in American Studies; and social science approaches to American Studies. Service expectations include assisting the management of different degree programs, involvement in program development and outreach initiatives, and representation of the program in American Studies organizations.
Ph.D. in American Studies or equivalent is required; and established and significant record of scholarly achievement in research and teaching meritorious of tenure. Candidates of senior rank with experience in American Studies graduate programs and an active research agenda will be given preference.
Review of applications will begin on September 28, 2009 and continue until the positions are filled. To be considered, please submit a cover letter detailing qualifications, a current CV and three letters of reference to: Mrs. Dorothy J. Guy, Director of Human Resources, Box H-NET-30216, Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA 17057-4898. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce.
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