"What's Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?" a lecture by Professor Dorothy Roberts from Northwestern University will be presented on February 3, 2010 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. in the Coffman Memorial Union Theater. Registration is required.
"What's Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?"
Prof. Dorothy Roberts, JD
Northwestern University
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
11:30am - 1:00pm
Theater, Coffman Memorial Union
Professor Dorothy Roberts, JD (Northwestern University), will discuss how the FDA's approval of the first race-specific drug has generated a heated debate about the scientific and political efficacy of race-based medicine. She will place this debate in the context of health disparities and genetic concepts of race and explain why marketing pharmaceuticals on the basis of race is more likely to worsen racial inequities than cure them. Recognizing that race-based medicine raises both medical and political questions, Roberts rejects the dichotomy often claimed by its promoters that we must put aside social justice concerns in order to improve minority health.
Prof. Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor; Professor, Department of African-American Studies and Sociology; and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University Law School. She has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare.
Commentators:
Prof. Jay Cohn, MD, Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division; Director, Rasmussen Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, University of Minnesota
Prof. Joycelyn Dorscher, MD, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Intended Audience: students, faculty, health care professionals, attorneys, patients, researchers, policymakers, and community members.
Following this lecture, participants should be able to:
* Discuss whether marketing pharmaceuticals based on race may worsen racial inequities in health care.
* Suggest ways to include social justice concerns when considering ways to improve minority health.
This event is free and open to the public.
Continuing legal education credit (CLE) for attorneys (1.5 hours) has been requested. Advance registration is required to receive continuing education credits.
The University of Minnesota is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Application has been submitted for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Determination of credit is pending. It is the policy of the University of Minnesota Office of Continuing Medical Education to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational activities.
All participating faculty, course directors, and planning committee members are required to disclose to the program audience any financial relationships related to the subject matter of this program. Disclosure information is reviewed in advance in order to manage and resolve any possible conflicts of interest.
Registration is required for those requesting continuing education credit. Registration is available online at www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu, by phone at 612-625-0055, or by email at jointdgr@umn.edu. Please provide your name, email address and indicate if continuing education credits are requested.
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The Deinard Memorial Lecture on Law & Medicine is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Joint Degree Program in Law, Health & the Life Sciences and the Center for Bioethics, with major support from the law firm of Leonard Street & Deinard and the Deinard family.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
The Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is pleased to announce their spring 2010 schedule. All meetings will be held in Heller Hall 1210 from 3:30-5:00 p.m. See full blog entry for complete list of dates.
Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
All meetings of WCHWGS will be in the History Department's History Conference Center (Heller Hall 1210) unless otherwise indicated, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. Unless indicated otherwise, papers will be available the Monday before the session in the History Department Mail Room, 11th floor Heller Hall. Most papers can be made available on request by email.
Friday, January 29 David Morton, Department of History, "With the World on Top of Their Heads: African Women and the Histories of an Image."
Friday, February 12 Liz Everton, "The Theory of Vicarious Suffering and the Intersection of Nationalism, Catholicism, and Feminism During the Dreyfus Affair"
Friday, February 26 Johanna Leinonen, Department of History, "Transnational Love and Elite Migration: Marriages between Finns and Americans across the Atlantic."
Friday, March 12 Elizabeth Williams, Department of History, "The Men on the Maiden: British Masculinity and Acts of Instruction in Indian Cricket, 1886-1902."
Friday, April 2 Njeri Githire, African American Studies, "The Return of the Cannibal in Diasporic Fiction."
Friday, April 16 Juliana Barr, University of Florida, "La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): Spanish Saint or Indian Demon of the Southwest?" Sponsored by the Workshop in American Indian History, the Department of History, the Center for Early Modern History and the Institute for Advanced Study.
(to be confirmed) Monday, April 19 Haeri Kim, Political Science Department, "Proving American Fatherhood, (Re)uniting with Asia: On the Legalization of Amerasian Immigration"
Friday, April 30 Kevin Mummey, Department of History, "Women and Chains: Mallorcan Women Slaveholders in the 1380s."
Appetizers and refreshments will be served
For more information, please contact:
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick: pohla001@umn.edu
Barbara Welke: welke004@umn.edu
or
Melissa Kelley: kelle709@umn.edu
Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
All meetings of WCHWGS will be in the History Department's History Conference Center (Heller Hall 1210) unless otherwise indicated, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm. Unless indicated otherwise, papers will be available the Monday before the session in the History Department Mail Room, 11th floor Heller Hall. Most papers can be made available on request by email.
Friday, January 29 David Morton, Department of History, "With the World on Top of Their Heads: African Women and the Histories of an Image."
Friday, February 12 Liz Everton, "The Theory of Vicarious Suffering and the Intersection of Nationalism, Catholicism, and Feminism During the Dreyfus Affair"
Friday, February 26 Johanna Leinonen, Department of History, "Transnational Love and Elite Migration: Marriages between Finns and Americans across the Atlantic."
Friday, March 12 Elizabeth Williams, Department of History, "The Men on the Maiden: British Masculinity and Acts of Instruction in Indian Cricket, 1886-1902."
Friday, April 2 Njeri Githire, African American Studies, "The Return of the Cannibal in Diasporic Fiction."
Friday, April 16 Juliana Barr, University of Florida, "La Dama Azul (The Lady in Blue): Spanish Saint or Indian Demon of the Southwest?" Sponsored by the Workshop in American Indian History, the Department of History, the Center for Early Modern History and the Institute for Advanced Study.
(to be confirmed) Monday, April 19 Haeri Kim, Political Science Department, "Proving American Fatherhood, (Re)uniting with Asia: On the Legalization of Amerasian Immigration"
Friday, April 30 Kevin Mummey, Department of History, "Women and Chains: Mallorcan Women Slaveholders in the 1380s."
Appetizers and refreshments will be served
For more information, please contact:
Helena Pohlandt-McCormick: pohla001@umn.edu
Barbara Welke: welke004@umn.edu
or
Melissa Kelley: kelle709@umn.edu
UCD Clinton Institute Summer School 2010
The UCD Clinton Institute invites scholars and graduate students from around the world to engage in wide-ranging discussion on interdisciplinary study of the United States. The School's format will include daily workshop seminars and plenary lectures. The summer school dates are July 11-17, 2010 at University College Dublin. Applications will be judged on a rolling basis until places are filled.
UCD Clinton Institute Summer School 2010
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 2010 the faculty will include Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (University of Southern California), Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham), Peter Nicholls (New York University), Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), Werner Sollors (Harvard 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
UCD Clinton Institute Summer School 2010
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 2010 the faculty will include Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), Amy Kaplan (University of Pennsylvania), Ruth Wilson Gilmore (University of Southern California), Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin), Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham), Peter Nicholls (New York University), Donald Pease (Dartmouth College), Werner Sollors (Harvard 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
Temple University American Studies & Women's Studies Program Position
The American Studies and Women's Studies Program at Temple University invites applications for a joint non-tenure track, one-year appointment for the 2010-2011 academic year. The position is potentially renewable. Ph.D. required. Applications received before March 1, 2010 will be considered.
Temple University American Studies & Women's Studies Program Position
The American Studies and Women¬πs Studies Program at Temple University invite
applications for a joint non-tenure track, one-year appointment for the
2010-11 academic year. Special consideration will be given to candidates
whose area of specialization is in Sexuality /LGBT Studies, with emphasis on
the arts and American culture and/or cultural geography. The teaching load
is four courses per semester, to include an introductory course in LGBT
Studies, and courses in American Studies in either the Arts in America or
Place in America, as well as electives in the candidate¬πs area of
specialization. This position is potentially renewable. Ph.D. needs to be in
hand by September 1, 2010; and given the nature of the position, significant
teaching experience strongly preferred.
Temple University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications
from qualified minority and women candidates. Applicants should submit a
letter of intent, a curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, and should arrange for
three confidential letters of reference to be sent to Colleen Knapp,
Interdisciplinary Programs, 816 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19122. Applications received before March 1, 2010 will be considered.
Temple University American Studies & Women's Studies Program Position
The American Studies and Women¬πs Studies Program at Temple University invite
applications for a joint non-tenure track, one-year appointment for the
2010-11 academic year. Special consideration will be given to candidates
whose area of specialization is in Sexuality /LGBT Studies, with emphasis on
the arts and American culture and/or cultural geography. The teaching load
is four courses per semester, to include an introductory course in LGBT
Studies, and courses in American Studies in either the Arts in America or
Place in America, as well as electives in the candidate¬πs area of
specialization. This position is potentially renewable. Ph.D. needs to be in
hand by September 1, 2010; and given the nature of the position, significant
teaching experience strongly preferred.
Temple University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications
from qualified minority and women candidates. Applicants should submit a
letter of intent, a curriculum vitae, sample syllabi, and should arrange for
three confidential letters of reference to be sent to Colleen Knapp,
Interdisciplinary Programs, 816 Anderson Hall, 1114 West Berks Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19122. Applications received before March 1, 2010 will be considered.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in African History at Lewis & Clark College
The Lewis & Clark College Department of History invites applications for a one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in sub-Saharan African History, beginning fall semester 2010. Fellows will teach three courses per year. Ph.D. required at time of appointment. Review of applications will begin February 8, 2010.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in African History at Lewis & Clark College
The LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE Department of History invites applications for a one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in sub-Saharan African history, starting in Fall semester 2010. Potential for excellent teaching and research at an undergraduate institution are essential. The Fellow will teach three courses per year, including a survey of African history, a lower division course on modern Africa and a colloquium or seminar determined by scholarly specialty. Excluding North Africa, geographical and topical specialty are open. Preference will be given to candidates with interdisciplinary and/or comparative perspectives. Ph.D. required at time of appointment as Mellon Teaching Fellow. Review of applications will begin on February 8, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. A complete application must include (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a letter of application that includes a statement of educational philosophy, teaching experience, and research interests; (3) evidence of teaching effectiveness (if any); (4) a sample of scholarship; (5) three letters of recommendation sent under separate cover; and (6) graduate transcripts. Send application to Susan Glosser, Chair, Department of History, MSC 41, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, 97219-7899. Inquiries to sglosser@lclark.edu. Lewis & Clark College, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is committed to preparing students for leadership in an increasingly interdependent world, and affirms the educational benefits of diversity. (See http://www.lclark.edu/dept/about/diversity.html) We encourage applicants to explain how their teaching at Lewis & Clark might contribute to a learning community that values diversity.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in African History at Lewis & Clark College
The LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE Department of History invites applications for a one-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in sub-Saharan African history, starting in Fall semester 2010. Potential for excellent teaching and research at an undergraduate institution are essential. The Fellow will teach three courses per year, including a survey of African history, a lower division course on modern Africa and a colloquium or seminar determined by scholarly specialty. Excluding North Africa, geographical and topical specialty are open. Preference will be given to candidates with interdisciplinary and/or comparative perspectives. Ph.D. required at time of appointment as Mellon Teaching Fellow. Review of applications will begin on February 8, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. A complete application must include (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a letter of application that includes a statement of educational philosophy, teaching experience, and research interests; (3) evidence of teaching effectiveness (if any); (4) a sample of scholarship; (5) three letters of recommendation sent under separate cover; and (6) graduate transcripts. Send application to Susan Glosser, Chair, Department of History, MSC 41, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR, 97219-7899. Inquiries to sglosser@lclark.edu. Lewis & Clark College, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is committed to preparing students for leadership in an increasingly interdependent world, and affirms the educational benefits of diversity. (See http://www.lclark.edu/dept/about/diversity.html) We encourage applicants to explain how their teaching at Lewis & Clark might contribute to a learning community that values diversity.
2010 Sexuality and Space Student Paper Competition
The Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers is pleased to invite submissions for the 2010 Sexuality and Space Student Paper Competition. Winners will be notified prior to the 2010 Annual Meeting of the AAG in Washington D.C., and will be honored at the Awards Banquet. Submission deadline: March 1, 2010.
2010 Sexuality and Space Student Paper Competition
Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled in an undergraduate,
masters or doctoral degree program in Geography or a related
discipline may submit a paper. Papers are welcome from students at
institutions outside the United States. Students do not necessarily
have to be presenting a paper at this year's annual meeting of the
Association of American Geographers to be eligible for an award.
Requirements: We are seeking excellent quality student papers that
advance the study of sexuality and space. Papers should be 4000-6000
words in length (including explanatory footnotes/endnotes, but
excluding references), with an additional 100-200 word abstract.
Figures and images should be included as separate pages rather than
embedded within the text. Papers should be properly referenced,
although students may choose the citation method they think
appropriate. Papers should be in English.
Submission Procedure: Ideally, submissions will be made
electronically. Please send email to Dr. Andrew Gorman-Murray
(andrewgm@uow.edu.au) with the paper attached as a PDF, Microsoft
Word, or other standard word processing program file. If electronic
submission is not possible, please send three paper copies (double
sided copies are fine) to Dr. Andrew Gorman-Murray (School of Earth
and Environmental Sciences; University of Wollongong; Northfields
Avenue; Wollongong, NSW, 2522; Australia). Please be sure to include
your name, postal address, telephone, and email address on the front
cover of your paper, so that we can contact you if necessary.
Deadline: Papers must be received by 1 March 2010 to be considered.
Awards: Winners will be notified prior to the 2010 Annual Meeting of
the AAG in Washington D.C., and will be honored at the Awards
Banquet.
2010 Sexuality and Space Student Paper Competition
Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled in an undergraduate,
masters or doctoral degree program in Geography or a related
discipline may submit a paper. Papers are welcome from students at
institutions outside the United States. Students do not necessarily
have to be presenting a paper at this year's annual meeting of the
Association of American Geographers to be eligible for an award.
Requirements: We are seeking excellent quality student papers that
advance the study of sexuality and space. Papers should be 4000-6000
words in length (including explanatory footnotes/endnotes, but
excluding references), with an additional 100-200 word abstract.
Figures and images should be included as separate pages rather than
embedded within the text. Papers should be properly referenced,
although students may choose the citation method they think
appropriate. Papers should be in English.
Submission Procedure: Ideally, submissions will be made
electronically. Please send email to Dr. Andrew Gorman-Murray
(andrewgm@uow.edu.au) with the paper attached as a PDF, Microsoft
Word, or other standard word processing program file. If electronic
submission is not possible, please send three paper copies (double
sided copies are fine) to Dr. Andrew Gorman-Murray (School of Earth
and Environmental Sciences; University of Wollongong; Northfields
Avenue; Wollongong, NSW, 2522; Australia). Please be sure to include
your name, postal address, telephone, and email address on the front
cover of your paper, so that we can contact you if necessary.
Deadline: Papers must be received by 1 March 2010 to be considered.
Awards: Winners will be notified prior to the 2010 Annual Meeting of
the AAG in Washington D.C., and will be honored at the Awards
Banquet.
"Intersectionality: Systems of Oppression and Pedagogical Strategies Across the Curriculum" 2010 Faculty Workshop
Normandale Community College is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the workshop, "Intersectionality: Systems of Oppression and Pedagogical Strategies Across the Curriculum" on March 26, 2010. Proposal deadline: February 12, 2010.
"Intersectionality: Systems of Oppression and Pedagogical Strategies Across the Curriculum" 2010 Faculty Workshop
Friday, March 26, 2010 Normandale Community College
Call for Proposals
Description
This workshop will provide a forum for MnSCU faculty to discuss and share ideas, issues, initiatives, research, and pedagogies related to Women's Studies and Gender studies. Faculty will have the opportunity to dialogue across disciplines with other teachers and scholars interested in gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, social systems, systems of oppression, transnational feminisms, and diverse cultures. The workshop highlights the collaborations between GLBT Studies, Men's Studies, Ethnic
Studies, Family Studies, as well as the contributions of Women's and Gender Studies to career fields within MnSCU.
Proposal Guidelines
Proposals are due February 12, 2010.
Concurrent sessions will engage MnSCU faculty in dialectical exchanges focused on topics related to teaching and learning. Each 60-minute session will include three (approximately 15-minute) presentations plus time for active dialog with participants. We welcome topics related to the conference theme and offer suggestions below, although we welcome a wide range of topics:
• Teaching Intersectionality
• Inviting Difficult Dialogues in Class Discussion
• Sharing stories of teaching/learning practices that demonstrate core feminist values such as collaboration, nonviolence, and linking theory/practice
• Keeping teaching and scholarship current by examining critical intersections between gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, global issues, and other systemic oppressions
• Practicing inter-, trans-, or cross-disciplinary curriculum development
• Teaching Women's Studies online
• Theory and Praxis in Men's Studies
• Strategies for publishing in the field
• Strategies for developing discipline-specific assessment practices
• Establishing egalitarian structures (within classrooms, programs, and between institutions) based on mutual trust and respect
• Issues in Science, Technology and Gender
• Teaching Feminist Literary Analysis
• Environmental Studies from Indigenous Perspectives
• Multicultural Traditional Healing Practices and Gender
• Theory and Praxis in Abuse and Intervention Programs
• Economic Issues, the Recession, Social Inequalities and Gender
• Gender, Rape and Genocide Studies
• Resources for Addressing Black, Native American, Latina and Asian Feminism
• Resources for Teaching LGBTQ Perspectives
• Raising Awareness of Transnational Feminism
• Raising Awareness of Restorative Justice
• Envisioning partnerships for MnSCU faculty across disciplines, across campuses.
Proposal Components
Description: maximum 500 words addressing the following:
• Main purpose of your presentation
• Description of what participants will learn from your presentation
• How your presentation relates to the discipline workshop theme of "INTERSECTIONALITY:
SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM"
• How your presentation will be structured (direct delivery, question and answer, small- and large-group discussion)
Abstract: maximum 100 words (Please note that this abstract will be printed in the program and may be revised.)
Presenters: name(s) and email contact information (Panel and group presentations are encouraged!) Graduate students are welcome to attend and submit proposals.
Review Process
Please send Proposal to Ava.Rosenblum@normandale.edu. Members of the discipline workshop planning committee (including faculty from Inver Hills Community College, Normandale Community College and Metropolitan State University) will review the proposals. Acceptance notification will be sent via email by February 19, 2010.
Questions
Pat Darling, Writing & Religious Studies Faculty at Metropolitan State University Patricia.Darling@metrostate.edu
Vicki Knickerbocker, Sociology Faculty at Inver Hills Community College, vknicke@inverhills.edu
Mary Petrie, English Faculty at Inver Hills Community College, mpetrie@inverhills.edu
Thomas Wortman, Assistant Director, CTL, MnSCU. Thomas.Wortman@so.MnSCU.edu
"Intersectionality: Systems of Oppression and Pedagogical Strategies Across the Curriculum" 2010 Faculty Workshop
Friday, March 26, 2010 Normandale Community College
Call for Proposals
Description
This workshop will provide a forum for MnSCU faculty to discuss and share ideas, issues, initiatives, research, and pedagogies related to Women's Studies and Gender studies. Faculty will have the opportunity to dialogue across disciplines with other teachers and scholars interested in gender, race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, social systems, systems of oppression, transnational feminisms, and diverse cultures. The workshop highlights the collaborations between GLBT Studies, Men's Studies, Ethnic
Studies, Family Studies, as well as the contributions of Women's and Gender Studies to career fields within MnSCU.
Proposal Guidelines
Proposals are due February 12, 2010.
Concurrent sessions will engage MnSCU faculty in dialectical exchanges focused on topics related to teaching and learning. Each 60-minute session will include three (approximately 15-minute) presentations plus time for active dialog with participants. We welcome topics related to the conference theme and offer suggestions below, although we welcome a wide range of topics:
• Teaching Intersectionality
• Inviting Difficult Dialogues in Class Discussion
• Sharing stories of teaching/learning practices that demonstrate core feminist values such as collaboration, nonviolence, and linking theory/practice
• Keeping teaching and scholarship current by examining critical intersections between gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexuality, global issues, and other systemic oppressions
• Practicing inter-, trans-, or cross-disciplinary curriculum development
• Teaching Women's Studies online
• Theory and Praxis in Men's Studies
• Strategies for publishing in the field
• Strategies for developing discipline-specific assessment practices
• Establishing egalitarian structures (within classrooms, programs, and between institutions) based on mutual trust and respect
• Issues in Science, Technology and Gender
• Teaching Feminist Literary Analysis
• Environmental Studies from Indigenous Perspectives
• Multicultural Traditional Healing Practices and Gender
• Theory and Praxis in Abuse and Intervention Programs
• Economic Issues, the Recession, Social Inequalities and Gender
• Gender, Rape and Genocide Studies
• Resources for Addressing Black, Native American, Latina and Asian Feminism
• Resources for Teaching LGBTQ Perspectives
• Raising Awareness of Transnational Feminism
• Raising Awareness of Restorative Justice
• Envisioning partnerships for MnSCU faculty across disciplines, across campuses.
Proposal Components
Description: maximum 500 words addressing the following:
• Main purpose of your presentation
• Description of what participants will learn from your presentation
• How your presentation relates to the discipline workshop theme of "INTERSECTIONALITY:
SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION AND PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM"
• How your presentation will be structured (direct delivery, question and answer, small- and large-group discussion)
Abstract: maximum 100 words (Please note that this abstract will be printed in the program and may be revised.)
Presenters: name(s) and email contact information (Panel and group presentations are encouraged!) Graduate students are welcome to attend and submit proposals.
Review Process
Please send Proposal to Ava.Rosenblum@normandale.edu. Members of the discipline workshop planning committee (including faculty from Inver Hills Community College, Normandale Community College and Metropolitan State University) will review the proposals. Acceptance notification will be sent via email by February 19, 2010.
Questions
Pat Darling, Writing & Religious Studies Faculty at Metropolitan State University Patricia.Darling@metrostate.edu
Vicki Knickerbocker, Sociology Faculty at Inver Hills Community College, vknicke@inverhills.edu
Mary Petrie, English Faculty at Inver Hills Community College, mpetrie@inverhills.edu
Thomas Wortman, Assistant Director, CTL, MnSCU. Thomas.Wortman@so.MnSCU.edu
8th Annual Western Great Lakes Research Conference
The University of Minnesota along with other sponsors is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 8th Annual Western Great Lakes Research Conference on March 16-17, 2010 in Green Hall, Department of Forest Resources, on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. They strongly encourage presentations related to climate change and how it might affect protected areas across the upper Midwest. Abstracts due: January 30, 2010.
8th Annual Western Great Lakes Research Conference
Overview: This conference provides a forum for resource managers, their cooperators, and other interested parties to exchange information about natural and cultural resource research and management activities at parks and protected areas in the western Great Lakes region. Conference abstracts will be published and made available on-line.
We will host one and a half days of presentations and posters on a wide variety of natural and cultural resource issues, however, we strongly encourage presentations related to climate change and how it might affect protected areas across the upper Midwest.
How to submit: We will accept abstracts of research and management activities on natural or cultural resources applicable to parks and protected areas of the western Great Lakes region or in the upper Midwest. Abstracts should be one page or less and must be submitted using the template provided. Include preference for oral or poster presentation. Email your abstract (using the template provided) as an attachment to glnfcesu@umn.edu with the subject line: 2010 WGLRC Abstract Submission - YOUR LAST NAME
Abstracts are due January 30, 2010. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February12, 2010.
Find more information at: http://www.cesu.umn.edu/conferences/WGLC/wglc2010/Index_2010.html
Logistics: The conference will be held in Green Hall, Department of Forest Resources, on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. We will begin at 1:00pm, Tuesday, March 16 and end at 5:00pm, Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Contact Information: For more information contact Nancy Duncan at 651-290-3030 x237, Robin Maercklein at 715-483-2282, or Jerrilyn Thompson at 612-624-3699.
This conference is sponsored by the National Park Service's (NPS) Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, the Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network, the Great Lakes Research and Education Center, the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, and the University of Minnesota.
See attachment below for abstract template.
WGLC_Abstract template.doc
8th Annual Western Great Lakes Research Conference
Overview: This conference provides a forum for resource managers, their cooperators, and other interested parties to exchange information about natural and cultural resource research and management activities at parks and protected areas in the western Great Lakes region. Conference abstracts will be published and made available on-line.
We will host one and a half days of presentations and posters on a wide variety of natural and cultural resource issues, however, we strongly encourage presentations related to climate change and how it might affect protected areas across the upper Midwest.
How to submit: We will accept abstracts of research and management activities on natural or cultural resources applicable to parks and protected areas of the western Great Lakes region or in the upper Midwest. Abstracts should be one page or less and must be submitted using the template provided. Include preference for oral or poster presentation. Email your abstract (using the template provided) as an attachment to glnfcesu@umn.edu with the subject line: 2010 WGLRC Abstract Submission - YOUR LAST NAME
Abstracts are due January 30, 2010. Authors will be notified of acceptance by February12, 2010.
Find more information at: http://www.cesu.umn.edu/conferences/WGLC/wglc2010/Index_2010.html
Logistics: The conference will be held in Green Hall, Department of Forest Resources, on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. We will begin at 1:00pm, Tuesday, March 16 and end at 5:00pm, Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Contact Information: For more information contact Nancy Duncan at 651-290-3030 x237, Robin Maercklein at 715-483-2282, or Jerrilyn Thompson at 612-624-3699.
This conference is sponsored by the National Park Service's (NPS) Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, the Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network, the Great Lakes Research and Education Center, the Great Lakes-Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, and the University of Minnesota.
See attachment below for abstract template.
WGLC_Abstract template.doc
Greil Marcus: "1507 to 2008: Making A New Literary History of America"
"1507 to 2008: Making A New Literary History of America", a talk given by Greil Marcus, co-editor of the popular 2009 anthology, A New Literary History of America, will talk about the project with contributors and University of Minnesota professors David Treuer (also on the book's editorial board), Michael Gaudio, and Paula Rabinowitz on February 8, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the Weisman Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public.
Greil Marcus: "1507 to 2008: Making A New Literary History of America"
6:30 pm, February 8, 2010
Weisman Art Museum
Greil Marcus, co-editor of the popular 2009 anthology, /A New Literary History of America/, talks about the project with contributors and University of Minnesota professors David Treuer (also on the book's editorial board), Michael Gaudio, and Paula Rabinowitz. This event is free and open to the public.
Marcus and Werner Sollors' anthology (Harvard University Press) has been inciting arguments and landing on "best of" lists across the country. The book shows America as "a nation making itself up as it goes along" by focusing on the country's speeches and images, letters and poetry, fiction, movies, technological inventions, and popular music, from the extraordinary (Moby-Dick, Lincoln's second inaugural address) to the mundane (pornography, the telephone). What is the story behind this inclusiveness? Why Dr. Seuss but not Updike? Which of the critical essays featured resonate most for the editors and other contributors? Find out at this special event sponsored by the Department of English and the Weisman Museum, part of the Weisman exhibit /Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian/ (free gallery tours before and after the panel discussion). Free and open to the public.
Marcus is also the author of Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come, /Mystery Train/, and other books.
https://events.umn.edu/002293
Greil Marcus: "1507 to 2008: Making A New Literary History of America"
6:30 pm, February 8, 2010
Weisman Art Museum
Greil Marcus, co-editor of the popular 2009 anthology, /A New Literary History of America/, talks about the project with contributors and University of Minnesota professors David Treuer (also on the book's editorial board), Michael Gaudio, and Paula Rabinowitz. This event is free and open to the public.
Marcus and Werner Sollors' anthology (Harvard University Press) has been inciting arguments and landing on "best of" lists across the country. The book shows America as "a nation making itself up as it goes along" by focusing on the country's speeches and images, letters and poetry, fiction, movies, technological inventions, and popular music, from the extraordinary (Moby-Dick, Lincoln's second inaugural address) to the mundane (pornography, the telephone). What is the story behind this inclusiveness? Why Dr. Seuss but not Updike? Which of the critical essays featured resonate most for the editors and other contributors? Find out at this special event sponsored by the Department of English and the Weisman Museum, part of the Weisman exhibit /Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian/ (free gallery tours before and after the panel discussion). Free and open to the public.
Marcus is also the author of Lipstick Traces, The Shape of Things to Come, /Mystery Train/, and other books.
https://events.umn.edu/002293
Balch Fellowships in Ethnic and Immigrant and/or 20th-Century History
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is pleased to invite applications for two, one-month Balch Institute Fellowships to enable research on topics related to the ethnic and immigrant experience in the U.S. and/or American cultural, social, or economic history post-1875. Fellows will receive a $2,000 stipend. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June 2010 and May 2011. Application deadline: March 1, 2010.
Balch Fellowships in Ethnic and Immigrant and/or 20th-Century History
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will award two one-month Balch Institute fellowships to enable research on topics related to the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. The fellowships support one month of residency in Philadelphia during the 2010-2011 academic year. Past Balch fellows have done research on immigrant children, Italian American fascism, German Americans in the Civil War, Pan-Americanism, African American women's political activism, and much more.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, holds more than 19 million personal, organizational, and business manuscripts, as well 560,000 printed items and 312,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and family history. The Balch collections have added rich documentation of the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States.
Next door, The Library Company, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, was the largest public library in America until the latter part of the 19th century, and contains printed materials relating to every aspect of American culture and society in that period. It holds over half a million rare books and graphics, including the nation's second largest collection of pre-1801 American imprints and one of the largest collections of 18th-century British books in America.
Together the two institutions form one of the most comprehensive sources in the nation for the study of colonial and U.S. history and culture. The Historical Society's strength in manuscripts complements the Library Company's strength in printed materials. The Library Company's collections reflect the whole range of early American print culture, including books, pamphlets, and magazines from all parts of the country, as well as books imported from Britain and the Continent. The Historical Society's archives richly document the social, cultural, and economic history of a region central to many aspects of the nation's development. The Balch Institute collections bring the HSP strength in documenting ethnic and immigrant history, with significant holdings of ethnic newspapers, records of benevolent societies and other local and national ethnic organizations, and personal papers of prominent leaders in ethnic and immigrant communities. Both collections are strong in local newspapers and printed ephemera; the print and photograph collections of both libraries are rich in images of the Philadelphia region and graphics by local artists.
The Stipend is $2,000. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June 2010 and May 2011. They support advanced, postdoctoral, and dissertation research. Deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2010, with a decision to be made by April 15. Before mailing an application, visit http://www.lcpimages.org/forms/coversheet.htm to fill out an electronic cover sheet.
To apply, send seven copies each of a brief résumé, a two- to four-page description of the proposed research, and a letter of reference to: James Green, Library Company, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For more information on applying and the joint fellowship program, telephone (215) 546-3181, fax (215) 546-5167, e-mail jgreen@librarycompany.org. For specific information on the Balch fellowships, contact Tamara Gaskell, (215) 732-6200 x208, e-mail tgaskell@hsp.org.
Balch Fellowships in Ethnic and Immigrant and/or 20th-Century History
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania will award two one-month Balch Institute fellowships to enable research on topics related to the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. The fellowships support one month of residency in Philadelphia during the 2010-2011 academic year. Past Balch fellows have done research on immigrant children, Italian American fascism, German Americans in the Civil War, Pan-Americanism, African American women's political activism, and much more.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, enriched by the holdings of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, holds more than 19 million personal, organizational, and business manuscripts, as well 560,000 printed items and 312,000 graphic images concerning national and regional political, social, and family history. The Balch collections have added rich documentation of the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States.
Next door, The Library Company, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, was the largest public library in America until the latter part of the 19th century, and contains printed materials relating to every aspect of American culture and society in that period. It holds over half a million rare books and graphics, including the nation's second largest collection of pre-1801 American imprints and one of the largest collections of 18th-century British books in America.
Together the two institutions form one of the most comprehensive sources in the nation for the study of colonial and U.S. history and culture. The Historical Society's strength in manuscripts complements the Library Company's strength in printed materials. The Library Company's collections reflect the whole range of early American print culture, including books, pamphlets, and magazines from all parts of the country, as well as books imported from Britain and the Continent. The Historical Society's archives richly document the social, cultural, and economic history of a region central to many aspects of the nation's development. The Balch Institute collections bring the HSP strength in documenting ethnic and immigrant history, with significant holdings of ethnic newspapers, records of benevolent societies and other local and national ethnic organizations, and personal papers of prominent leaders in ethnic and immigrant communities. Both collections are strong in local newspapers and printed ephemera; the print and photograph collections of both libraries are rich in images of the Philadelphia region and graphics by local artists.
The Stipend is $2,000. Fellowships are tenable for any one-month period between June 2010 and May 2011. They support advanced, postdoctoral, and dissertation research. Deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2010, with a decision to be made by April 15. Before mailing an application, visit http://www.lcpimages.org/forms/coversheet.htm to fill out an electronic cover sheet.
To apply, send seven copies each of a brief résumé, a two- to four-page description of the proposed research, and a letter of reference to: James Green, Library Company, 1314 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107. For more information on applying and the joint fellowship program, telephone (215) 546-3181, fax (215) 546-5167, e-mail jgreen@librarycompany.org. For specific information on the Balch fellowships, contact Tamara Gaskell, (215) 732-6200 x208, e-mail tgaskell@hsp.org.
"Queer Again? Power, Politics, and Ethics" International Conference
The Department of English and American Studies and the Research Training Group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge" at Humboldt University in Berlin is pleased to announce an international conference, "Queer Again? Power, Politics and Ethics" on September 23-25, 2010. Abstract deadline: March 31, 2010.
"Queer Again? Power, Politics, and Ethics" International Conference
23.-25. September 2010
International Conference of the Department of English and American Studies and the
Research Training Group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge"
The concept of queer is volatile and, at times, difficult to grasp. As a result, we need
a continuous review of the fields and debates within Queer Theory. In his 2004 study
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Lee Edelman manoeuvred queer
theory into a kind of aporia and thus deep crisis that persists to this day. Subscription
to an "ethics of futility", as Edelman suggests, signals that the borders of ethical
thinking have been reached. However, in debates following the publication of
Edelman's book (as for instance, in the Social Text issue of 2005 with the
programmatic title What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?) the ethical impetus of
queer criticism confronted and challenged the dominance of the so-called antisocial
thesis. This ongoing debate and the regular recurrence of the antisocial thesis in its
different manifestations reveals a pressing need to reflect anew the relationship
between queer and theory, art, ethics, and politics.
Taking this as a starting point for the conference, we want to take up the
iterative moment that seems inherent in the concept of queer: queer is regularly in a
state of crisis that needs to be made productive, and in this way it can be
continuously reworked and reshaped. We want to provide a space to further the
debate about sexuality and gender and their multiple interconnections in fields of
power.
The panels will be organised along two thematic strands. The first, Affect,
Space and Temporality, is concerned with the ethical and political potential of queer
and the different political conceptions of queer that arise as a result.
Possible topics to be addressed include:
· queer strategies and practices in art/visual culture and literature
· conditions and possibilities of political activism
· normativity, citizenship and recognition
· queer utopias/imagination
· political and ethical implications of sexual dissidence
· rethinking concepts of temporality and space, generation or community
· varying meanings of queer in different geographical and temporal contexts
The second strand, Limits and Boundary Crossings, takes up current theoretical
debates with regard to disciplinary and other boundaries and crossings of these
boundaries.
Possible questions to be discussed include:
· Which limits and/or transgressions of these limits occur when different
theoretical fields interact (e.g. queer theory and transgender theory or
postcolonial theory or crip theory/disability studies)?
· What are the limitations of queer? What are the inclusions and queer produces
in specific contexts that demand new critical/queer interventions?
· How can queer theory be situated in current academic and activist spheres?
· What does the focus on interdependent relationships (of sexuality, gender,
race, ethnicity, class, age, (dis)ability etc.) mean for the formation of a queer
ethics?
Keynote speakers include Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Roderick Ferguson, Judith
Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz and Susan Stryker.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Abstracts should be in English and not
exceed 500 words. They should be accompanied by a short biographical sketch of
about 250 words and sent to queer.conference@hu-berlin.de by March 31st 2010.
The conference language will be English. The conference location is wheelchair
accessible. We will try to provide sign language interpreters as well as child care in
case of need. We kindly ask participants to let us know about applicable
requirements or other special needs by April 30th 2010.
Please note that travel funds can only be granted in exceptional cases and we ask
participants to apply in time for travel funding at their home institutions.
For more information please look at our website:
http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/confslecs/queeragain
"Queer Again? Power, Politics, and Ethics" International Conference
23.-25. September 2010
International Conference of the Department of English and American Studies and the
Research Training Group "Gender as a Category of Knowledge"
The concept of queer is volatile and, at times, difficult to grasp. As a result, we need
a continuous review of the fields and debates within Queer Theory. In his 2004 study
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, Lee Edelman manoeuvred queer
theory into a kind of aporia and thus deep crisis that persists to this day. Subscription
to an "ethics of futility", as Edelman suggests, signals that the borders of ethical
thinking have been reached. However, in debates following the publication of
Edelman's book (as for instance, in the Social Text issue of 2005 with the
programmatic title What's Queer About Queer Studies Now?) the ethical impetus of
queer criticism confronted and challenged the dominance of the so-called antisocial
thesis. This ongoing debate and the regular recurrence of the antisocial thesis in its
different manifestations reveals a pressing need to reflect anew the relationship
between queer and theory, art, ethics, and politics.
Taking this as a starting point for the conference, we want to take up the
iterative moment that seems inherent in the concept of queer: queer is regularly in a
state of crisis that needs to be made productive, and in this way it can be
continuously reworked and reshaped. We want to provide a space to further the
debate about sexuality and gender and their multiple interconnections in fields of
power.
The panels will be organised along two thematic strands. The first, Affect,
Space and Temporality, is concerned with the ethical and political potential of queer
and the different political conceptions of queer that arise as a result.
Possible topics to be addressed include:
· queer strategies and practices in art/visual culture and literature
· conditions and possibilities of political activism
· normativity, citizenship and recognition
· queer utopias/imagination
· political and ethical implications of sexual dissidence
· rethinking concepts of temporality and space, generation or community
· varying meanings of queer in different geographical and temporal contexts
The second strand, Limits and Boundary Crossings, takes up current theoretical
debates with regard to disciplinary and other boundaries and crossings of these
boundaries.
Possible questions to be discussed include:
· Which limits and/or transgressions of these limits occur when different
theoretical fields interact (e.g. queer theory and transgender theory or
postcolonial theory or crip theory/disability studies)?
· What are the limitations of queer? What are the inclusions and queer produces
in specific contexts that demand new critical/queer interventions?
· How can queer theory be situated in current academic and activist spheres?
· What does the focus on interdependent relationships (of sexuality, gender,
race, ethnicity, class, age, (dis)ability etc.) mean for the formation of a queer
ethics?
Keynote speakers include Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Roderick Ferguson, Judith
Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz and Susan Stryker.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers. Abstracts should be in English and not
exceed 500 words. They should be accompanied by a short biographical sketch of
about 250 words and sent to queer.conference@hu-berlin.de by March 31st 2010.
The conference language will be English. The conference location is wheelchair
accessible. We will try to provide sign language interpreters as well as child care in
case of need. We kindly ask participants to let us know about applicable
requirements or other special needs by April 30th 2010.
Please note that travel funds can only be granted in exceptional cases and we ask
participants to apply in time for travel funding at their home institutions.
For more information please look at our website:
http://www.angl.hu-berlin.de/confslecs/queeragain
UCLA Social Science in Practice Postdoctoral Fellowships
UCLA and the Dean of the Division of Social Sciences is pleased to invite applications for their 2010 postdoctoral fellowship program. The Dean will offer up to six, two-year postdoctoral fellowships. Candidates must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degree before the program begins July 2010. Applicants also must have received their doctoral degree no earlier than November 1, 2007. Submission deadline: February 19, 2010.
UCLA Social Science in Practice Postdoctoral Fellowships
As part of a new initiative that will affect how social science is taught and practiced at UCLA, the Dean of the Division of Social Sciences has created a postdoctoral fellowship program. The ideal postdoctoral candidates will be scholars who have demonstrated through their research that they can draw on social science theory and methods to examine the origins and effects of societal problems and to search for their solutions. Postdoctoral fellows will work closely with faculty and students who bridge fields and transform disciplinary boundaries to address an important societal problem (e.g., poverty, discrimination, racism, gender inequity, corruption, lack of access to education and health care, and environmental injustice). The Dean will offer up to six, two-year postdoctoral fellowships. Candidates must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degree before the program begins, July 1, 2010, and must have received their doctoral degree no earlier than November 1, 2007.
Successful candidates will be selected on the basis of their academic achievements and demonstrated involvement in problem-driven research grounded in one or more of the social sciences, broadly defined. See complete list of the departments and programs http://ssip-postdoc.sscnet.ucla.edu/departments-and-programs.aspx in the division of the social sciences at UCLA.
To apply, candidates must submit (a) a two to three page research proposal, (b) the names of two UCLA faculty sponsors/mentors at least one of whom is in the division of social sciences, (c) a CV, (d) a writing sample such as an article or thesis chapter and (e) three letters of recommendation by February 19, 2010.
In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will be required to teach two courses per year: one from among the existing courses in one of the departments in the division of social sciences and one of their own design. During the fellowship period, Fellows are expected to be in residence during the academic year of the fellowship and will be expected to participate actively in the running of a new Workshop on Social Science in Practice and collectively plan a conference in collaboration with a senior member of the faculty.
The SSIP Fellowship provides a stipend of up to $55,000, standard fringe benefits, a modest research budget, office space, and library privileges. The application is available at:
http://ssip-postdoc.sscnet.ucla.edu/
UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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UCLA Social Science in Practice Postdoctoral Fellowships
As part of a new initiative that will affect how social science is taught and practiced at UCLA, the Dean of the Division of Social Sciences has created a postdoctoral fellowship program. The ideal postdoctoral candidates will be scholars who have demonstrated through their research that they can draw on social science theory and methods to examine the origins and effects of societal problems and to search for their solutions. Postdoctoral fellows will work closely with faculty and students who bridge fields and transform disciplinary boundaries to address an important societal problem (e.g., poverty, discrimination, racism, gender inequity, corruption, lack of access to education and health care, and environmental injustice). The Dean will offer up to six, two-year postdoctoral fellowships. Candidates must have completed all requirements for their doctoral degree before the program begins, July 1, 2010, and must have received their doctoral degree no earlier than November 1, 2007.
Successful candidates will be selected on the basis of their academic achievements and demonstrated involvement in problem-driven research grounded in one or more of the social sciences, broadly defined. See complete list of the departments and programs http://ssip-postdoc.sscnet.ucla.edu/departments-and-programs.aspx in the division of the social sciences at UCLA.
To apply, candidates must submit (a) a two to three page research proposal, (b) the names of two UCLA faculty sponsors/mentors at least one of whom is in the division of social sciences, (c) a CV, (d) a writing sample such as an article or thesis chapter and (e) three letters of recommendation by February 19, 2010.
In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will be required to teach two courses per year: one from among the existing courses in one of the departments in the division of social sciences and one of their own design. During the fellowship period, Fellows are expected to be in residence during the academic year of the fellowship and will be expected to participate actively in the running of a new Workshop on Social Science in Practice and collectively plan a conference in collaboration with a senior member of the faculty.
The SSIP Fellowship provides a stipend of up to $55,000, standard fringe benefits, a modest research budget, office space, and library privileges. The application is available at:
http://ssip-postdoc.sscnet.ucla.edu/
UCLA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
3rd International Conference - "States of Emergency - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis"
The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 3rd international conference, "States of Emergency - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis", on June 11-12, 2010 at John F. Kennedy Institute of the Freie Universitat Berlin. Submission deadline: February 28, 2010.
3rd International Conference - "States of Emergency - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis"
International Conference June 11 - 12, 2010, at John F. Kennedy Institute of
the Freie Universität Berlin, organized by the Graduate School of North
American Studies (GSNAS).
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the ensuing War on Terror stand as
images that mark the 21st century's fall into a permanent state of
emergency, manifest in the suspension of civil liberties, preemptive and
irregular warfare, and a disregard for international law. As we now
recognize, other precarious potentials such as financial speculation and
climate change have long been gaining momentum, erupting into acute states
of crisis in the recent past. The tumultuous beginning of the new century
has heightened our sensitivity to exceptional states and emerging
instabilities, questioning the applicability of established modes of control.
States of emergency magnify pre-existing lines of conflict, shaping
clear-cut enemy images. These may vary from Al-Qaeda to brokers on Wall
Street or multinational enterprises, to name but a few. But times of crisis
also demand new forms of agency for the emergence of new orders. If the US
is indeed part of a world community, does a permanent state of emergenc(e)y
become the new basis of governance and politics?
The annual conference at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy
Institute for North American Studies (GSNAS) of the Freie Universität Berlin
is hosted by the graduate students. The third in a series of international
conferences is designed to bring together leading scholars and top graduate
students from around the world to discuss current issues in American Studies.
Panels may include, but are not restricted to:
- The crisis of representation and the representation of crisis
- The 2008 economic crisis and the crisis of neoliberalism
- Crisis as an organizational principle in international politics
- Terror and responses to terror/ irregular warfare
- Governmentality and Governance
- Responses to mass migration
- Climate change and natural disasters
- Pandemics and transnational biopolitics
- Crisis of Empire: The end of the American Century?
- The history of crisis and the "end of history"
- Transnational American Studies: another crisis in American Studies?
We invite scholars to submit abstracts of max. 500 words. Papers should
include name, contact details, institutional affiliation and research
interests. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2010. Please refer
to our website for recent updates and further information:
http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/graduateschool/en/conference/2010/index.html .
Proposals should be submitted by email to
gsnas.conference2010@gsnas.fu-berlin.de
3rd International Conference - "States of Emergency - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Dynamics of Crisis"
International Conference June 11 - 12, 2010, at John F. Kennedy Institute of
the Freie Universität Berlin, organized by the Graduate School of North
American Studies (GSNAS).
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the ensuing War on Terror stand as
images that mark the 21st century's fall into a permanent state of
emergency, manifest in the suspension of civil liberties, preemptive and
irregular warfare, and a disregard for international law. As we now
recognize, other precarious potentials such as financial speculation and
climate change have long been gaining momentum, erupting into acute states
of crisis in the recent past. The tumultuous beginning of the new century
has heightened our sensitivity to exceptional states and emerging
instabilities, questioning the applicability of established modes of control.
States of emergency magnify pre-existing lines of conflict, shaping
clear-cut enemy images. These may vary from Al-Qaeda to brokers on Wall
Street or multinational enterprises, to name but a few. But times of crisis
also demand new forms of agency for the emergence of new orders. If the US
is indeed part of a world community, does a permanent state of emergenc(e)y
become the new basis of governance and politics?
The annual conference at the Graduate School of the John F. Kennedy
Institute for North American Studies (GSNAS) of the Freie Universität Berlin
is hosted by the graduate students. The third in a series of international
conferences is designed to bring together leading scholars and top graduate
students from around the world to discuss current issues in American Studies.
Panels may include, but are not restricted to:
- The crisis of representation and the representation of crisis
- The 2008 economic crisis and the crisis of neoliberalism
- Crisis as an organizational principle in international politics
- Terror and responses to terror/ irregular warfare
- Governmentality and Governance
- Responses to mass migration
- Climate change and natural disasters
- Pandemics and transnational biopolitics
- Crisis of Empire: The end of the American Century?
- The history of crisis and the "end of history"
- Transnational American Studies: another crisis in American Studies?
We invite scholars to submit abstracts of max. 500 words. Papers should
include name, contact details, institutional affiliation and research
interests. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2010. Please refer
to our website for recent updates and further information:
http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/graduateschool/en/conference/2010/index.html .
Proposals should be submitted by email to
gsnas.conference2010@gsnas.fu-berlin.de
DGS Office Hours for Spring Semester
The Director of Graduate Studies, Kevin Murphy, will be holding his spring semester office hours on Fridays 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in his Scott Hall office, room 311. Please contact the department directly to schedule a DGS appointment and provide your name and a topic/description for the appointment.
Degree-completion Workshop for Doctoral Students on Monday, February 8
Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) will present a degree-completion workshop for doctoral students on Monday, February 8, 2010 from 2pm-3pm in 402 Walter Library.
Degree-completion Workshop for Doctoral Students on Monday, February 8
Doctoral Degree Completion Workshop
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010
Time: 2pm-3pm
Location: 402 Walter Library
No reservation required
The Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) will present a degree-completion workshop for doctoral students on February 8. Topics will include tips for completing Graduate School forms, dissertation submission, special registration categories, and graduation information. The workshop will consist of a Powerpoint presentation followed by a question-and-answer period.
The workshop is designed for Graduate School students midway through their student career, but all Graduate School students are welcome.
No reservations required.
If you have questions, please contact: Stacia Madsen, gsdoc@umn.edu or 612-625-0168.
Degree-completion Workshop for Doctoral Students on Monday, February 8
Doctoral Degree Completion Workshop
Date: Monday, February 8, 2010
Time: 2pm-3pm
Location: 402 Walter Library
No reservation required
The Graduate Student Services and Progress (GSSP) will present a degree-completion workshop for doctoral students on February 8. Topics will include tips for completing Graduate School forms, dissertation submission, special registration categories, and graduation information. The workshop will consist of a Powerpoint presentation followed by a question-and-answer period.
The workshop is designed for Graduate School students midway through their student career, but all Graduate School students are welcome.
No reservations required.
If you have questions, please contact: Stacia Madsen, gsdoc@umn.edu or 612-625-0168.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) Application Deadline February 22, 2010
Grad School's Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF), which includes a $22,500 stipend, is awarded to outstanding final-year PhD candidates, typically those entering their 5th or 6th year of study, as an opportunity to complete their dissertation writing the 2010-11 academic year. To be considered for nomination by the department, submit your application materials to Melanie by the department's internal deadline of February 22, 2010. Click here for more info.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) Application Deadline February 22, 2010
2010-2011 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) program is to give outstanding final-year Ph.D. candidates who are making timely progress toward the degree--typically those who will be entering their final year of graduate study--an opportunity to complete the dissertation within the upcoming academic year by devoting full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation. Candidates must be nominated by their graduate program's Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) to an all-University competition. At least 75 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are awarded annually.
Recipients of the fellowship, in 2010-11, will receive a stipend of $22,500 for the academic year, plus full tuition for thesis credits. Eligible recipients are also covered by comprehensive health insurance, including subsidized dependent and dental care.
To be considered for nomination by the department, submit your application materials to Melanie by the American Studies department's internal deadline of February 22, 2010. Please note: If you are submitting an application but are outside of the guidelines of eligibility, please provide the department with a statement of explanation.
See attachment for application form.
DDFNomineeApplication2010.doc
Click here for the Grad School's instructions to nominees:
http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/DDF/DDFNomineeInstructions2010.html
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) Application Deadline February 22, 2010
2010-2011 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The purpose of the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) program is to give outstanding final-year Ph.D. candidates who are making timely progress toward the degree--typically those who will be entering their final year of graduate study--an opportunity to complete the dissertation within the upcoming academic year by devoting full-time effort to the research and writing of the dissertation. Candidates must be nominated by their graduate program's Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) to an all-University competition. At least 75 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are awarded annually.
Recipients of the fellowship, in 2010-11, will receive a stipend of $22,500 for the academic year, plus full tuition for thesis credits. Eligible recipients are also covered by comprehensive health insurance, including subsidized dependent and dental care.
To be considered for nomination by the department, submit your application materials to Melanie by the American Studies department's internal deadline of February 22, 2010. Please note: If you are submitting an application but are outside of the guidelines of eligibility, please provide the department with a statement of explanation.
See attachment for application form.
DDFNomineeApplication2010.doc
Click here for the Grad School's instructions to nominees:
http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/DDF/DDFNomineeInstructions2010.html
Two Teaching Appointments Available in American Studies
We are looking for both a 50% TA and a 25% TA in American Studies. If you are interested in either 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: January 16, 2010.
2010 Texas State University 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program
Texas State Univeristy's Graduate College is pleased to announce their 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program. The predoctoral fellowship program brings doctoral candidates from other institutions that have completed their course work and are in the process of writing their dissertations. Fellows receive an $11,000 summer stipend. Application deadline: March 1, 2010.
2010 Texas State University 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program
The Graduate College is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program. This will be the fifth year Texas State has offered the program. But if you are not familiar with the program, an overview is provided below and the complete announcement and application may be viewed at http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Predoc_Fellow.html.
The predoctoral fellowship program brings doctoral candidates from other institutions that have completed their course work and are in the process of writing their dissertations (ABD), to spend June and July on the Texas State campus working with faculty and students in their field. Participants may also be considered as potential candidates for future faculty positions as appropriate. The program is only available to doctoral students who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The Graduate College will make the final selection of Fellows based on the information provided by the applicant and after consultation with the proposed faculty mentor, department chair/school director and academic dean. Please contact Paula Williamson at 5-6292 or pw04@txstae.edu if you have any questions about the program.
2010 Texas State University 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program
The Graduate College is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for the 2010 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program. This will be the fifth year Texas State has offered the program. But if you are not familiar with the program, an overview is provided below and the complete announcement and application may be viewed at http://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/Predoc_Fellow.html.
The predoctoral fellowship program brings doctoral candidates from other institutions that have completed their course work and are in the process of writing their dissertations (ABD), to spend June and July on the Texas State campus working with faculty and students in their field. Participants may also be considered as potential candidates for future faculty positions as appropriate. The program is only available to doctoral students who are U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The Graduate College will make the final selection of Fellows based on the information provided by the applicant and after consultation with the proposed faculty mentor, department chair/school director and academic dean. Please contact Paula Williamson at 5-6292 or pw04@txstae.edu if you have any questions about the program.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Interdisciplinary Journal *Kalfou* Special Issue- Call for Papers
The new, interdisciplinary journal Kalfou is pleased to announce a call for papers for the special issue, "Banking without Borders? Culture and Credit in the New Financial World". This special edition of Kalfou seeks to unpack the way the new financial world was created and how and why its borders were shaped as well as the cultural and economic legacies of these decisions for different communities. Manuscript deadline: May 11, 2010.
Interdisciplinary Journal *Kalfou* Special Issue- Call for Papers
In 1980, Jimmy Carter's U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller greeted the passage of the Depository Institution Deregulatory and Monetary Control Act (DIDMCA) with the promise that it would create a "new world" for American finance. DIDMCA was one of the key pieces of legislation that overturned the regulatory framework for American banking created by the New Deal. Miller and other neo-liberal advocates of deregulation argued that a "new world" of fewer constraints on financial institutions would create new opportunities not just for banks, but also for individuals, communities and the nation as a whole.
Much of the pro-deregulation rhetoric was focused on removing or breaking down what can be seen as two kinds of "borders." The first kind were structural borders within the system that regulated what different financial institutions could and could not do. The second kind were borders between individuals and the financial system that - in the eyes of deregulation's supporters - prevented ordinary citizens from gaining access to mortgages, credit and financial services in general. By eliminating these borders, deregulation would create not just a new set of rules for American banks, but a whole new culture of credit in American society.
Now, in 2009, it is clear that deregulation did produce lasting economic and cultural changes in the United States. However, these changes were not as universally beneficial as supporters of deregulation had claimed or hoped. Furthermore, borders, physical and metaphorical, still existed in the "new world." These borders determined who would be included and excluded from the wealth created by the expansion of the financial sector. Overall, the redefined borders of the new financial world resulted in noticeably uneven outcomes and experiences for Americans of different racial, social and economic backgrounds.
This special edition of *Kalfou* seeks to unpack the way the new financial world was created and how and why its borders were shaped as well as the cultural and economic legacies of these decisions for different communities. Articles are therefore invited that address these issues by considering some of the following questions: How was this new world created and who was it intended to benefit? Which groups and individuals have and have not been able to exercise influence over the new world and why? What roles in particular have NGOs - the AARP, immigrant groups, trade associations, consumer advocates, religious organizations, feminist and gay rights groups - played in either creating or challenging the borders of the new financial world? What has been the cultural and economic impact of the new financial world across different races, classes and genders?
Possible topics of interest include: race and access to credit; consumer movements/consumer culture since the 1970s; neo-liberalism as an economic and cultural phenomenon; civil rights groups and financial reform; and the origins, culture and impact of subprime lending.
Guest editors are accepting manuscripts now through May 11, 2010. Manuscripts should be sent as attached documents in Word format. Authors' names should appear on a separate title page so that manuscripts can be evaluated anonymously. Submissions should be in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 words, including notes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please include a short biography with organizational affiliation and contact information.
Accepted papers will be published in an upcoming special issue of *Kalfou*.
Authors should submit the manuscripts via e-mail to banking.kalfou@gmail.com.
*Guest Editors*
Tim Boyd, PhD
American Studies Department
Vanderbilt University
2201 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240
and
Devin Fergus, PhD
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
*Kalfou* is a new, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing articles examining the distribution of opportunities and life chances of aggrieved communities of color in the past, present, and future and about the roles played by the state, capital, and social structures in promoting and suppressing social justice.
Senior Editor: George Lipsitz. Founding Editors: Melvin Oliver and Claudine Michel.
For more on *Kalfou*, please visit research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/kalfou/
Interdisciplinary Journal *Kalfou* Special Issue- Call for Papers
In 1980, Jimmy Carter's U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller greeted the passage of the Depository Institution Deregulatory and Monetary Control Act (DIDMCA) with the promise that it would create a "new world" for American finance. DIDMCA was one of the key pieces of legislation that overturned the regulatory framework for American banking created by the New Deal. Miller and other neo-liberal advocates of deregulation argued that a "new world" of fewer constraints on financial institutions would create new opportunities not just for banks, but also for individuals, communities and the nation as a whole.
Much of the pro-deregulation rhetoric was focused on removing or breaking down what can be seen as two kinds of "borders." The first kind were structural borders within the system that regulated what different financial institutions could and could not do. The second kind were borders between individuals and the financial system that - in the eyes of deregulation's supporters - prevented ordinary citizens from gaining access to mortgages, credit and financial services in general. By eliminating these borders, deregulation would create not just a new set of rules for American banks, but a whole new culture of credit in American society.
Now, in 2009, it is clear that deregulation did produce lasting economic and cultural changes in the United States. However, these changes were not as universally beneficial as supporters of deregulation had claimed or hoped. Furthermore, borders, physical and metaphorical, still existed in the "new world." These borders determined who would be included and excluded from the wealth created by the expansion of the financial sector. Overall, the redefined borders of the new financial world resulted in noticeably uneven outcomes and experiences for Americans of different racial, social and economic backgrounds.
This special edition of *Kalfou* seeks to unpack the way the new financial world was created and how and why its borders were shaped as well as the cultural and economic legacies of these decisions for different communities. Articles are therefore invited that address these issues by considering some of the following questions: How was this new world created and who was it intended to benefit? Which groups and individuals have and have not been able to exercise influence over the new world and why? What roles in particular have NGOs - the AARP, immigrant groups, trade associations, consumer advocates, religious organizations, feminist and gay rights groups - played in either creating or challenging the borders of the new financial world? What has been the cultural and economic impact of the new financial world across different races, classes and genders?
Possible topics of interest include: race and access to credit; consumer movements/consumer culture since the 1970s; neo-liberalism as an economic and cultural phenomenon; civil rights groups and financial reform; and the origins, culture and impact of subprime lending.
Guest editors are accepting manuscripts now through May 11, 2010. Manuscripts should be sent as attached documents in Word format. Authors' names should appear on a separate title page so that manuscripts can be evaluated anonymously. Submissions should be in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 words, including notes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please include a short biography with organizational affiliation and contact information.
Accepted papers will be published in an upcoming special issue of *Kalfou*.
Authors should submit the manuscripts via e-mail to banking.kalfou@gmail.com.
*Guest Editors*
Tim Boyd, PhD
American Studies Department
Vanderbilt University
2201 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37240
and
Devin Fergus, PhD
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20004-3027
*Kalfou* is a new, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing articles examining the distribution of opportunities and life chances of aggrieved communities of color in the past, present, and future and about the roles played by the state, capital, and social structures in promoting and suppressing social justice.
Senior Editor: George Lipsitz. Founding Editors: Melvin Oliver and Claudine Michel.
For more on *Kalfou*, please visit research.ucsb.edu/cbs/publications/kalfou/
Chicana/o Studies Assistant Professor Position-St. Cloud State
The Department of Chicana/o Studies at St. Cloud State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position beginning August 2010. PhD required. Position requires teaching courses in Chicana/o Studies (introductory, upper level, contemporary issues, cultural expressions) and introductory course on major U.S. communities of color. Expertise in Chicana/o Mexican-American Studies is preferred. Application deadline: January 20, 2010.
Chicana/o Studies Assistant Professor Position-St. Cloud State
Position Available:
Assistant Professor in Chicana/o Studies, probationary nine-month position* (contingent on funding) (Vacancy Number 793614)
Salary: Dependent on educational background and experience
Date of Appointment: August 17, 2010
Responsibilities: Teach courses in Chicana/o Studies (introductory, upper level, contemporary issues, cultural expressions) and introductory course on major U.S. communities of color. Advise students interested in a Chicana/o Studies minor, engage in community outreach, work with students both formally and informally. Conduct study abroad opportunities for students in Mexico and/or other Latin American countries. In order to be considered for tenure, the successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to: 1) teach and/or perform assignment effectively; 2) conduct scholarly achievement or research; 3) continue preparation and study in discipline; 4) contribute to student growth and development; and 5) provide service to the university and community.
Qualifications and Experience: Required: PhD or other terminal degree; ABD considered if record shows the desired qualifications below, and degree completed by 8/17/10. Highly Desired: expertise in Chicana/o Mexican-American Studies; experience in study abroad in Mexico, border areas and/or indigenous Latin America; ability to act as role model for Chicana/o students; experience in Chicana/o communities; commitment to teaching excellence and scholarly activity. Desired: knowledge of and/or experience in Chicana/o life in U.S. Midwest; knowledge of Spanish language.
Apply to:
St. Cloud State University
Ethnic Studies Department; 51B-Room 227
Search Committee Chair
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud , MN 56301-4498
Phone: 320.308.4928
Fax: 320.308.5660
Application Information: Application must include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 3 recent letters of profession recommendation, undergraduate and graduate transcripts (copies accepted for initial screening), and other evidence of qualifications as outlined above. Application must be postmarked no later than January 20, 2010 to be considered. *Employment for this position is covered by the collective bargaining agreement for the Inter Faculty Organization http://www.stcloudstate.edu/humanresources/documents/IFO07-09Contract-complete.pdf.
Application Deadline: January 20, 2010
Department Information: www.stcloudstate.edu/ethnicstudies
The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to teach and work with persons from culturally diverse backgrounds. SCSU is committed to excellence and actively supports cultural diversity. To promote this endeavor, we invite individuals who contribute to such diversity to apply, including minorities, women, GLBT, persons with disabilities and veterans. SCSU is a member of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.
SCSU is an affirmative action/equal opportunity educator and employer.
In accordance with federal regulations, successful applicants must be legally able to accept work in the United States. This material can be given to you in an alternative format such as large print, Braille, etc., by contacting the department listing this vacancy. TTY: 1-800-627-3529
Chicana/o Studies Assistant Professor Position-St. Cloud State
Position Available:
Assistant Professor in Chicana/o Studies, probationary nine-month position* (contingent on funding) (Vacancy Number 793614)
Salary: Dependent on educational background and experience
Date of Appointment: August 17, 2010
Responsibilities: Teach courses in Chicana/o Studies (introductory, upper level, contemporary issues, cultural expressions) and introductory course on major U.S. communities of color. Advise students interested in a Chicana/o Studies minor, engage in community outreach, work with students both formally and informally. Conduct study abroad opportunities for students in Mexico and/or other Latin American countries. In order to be considered for tenure, the successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to: 1) teach and/or perform assignment effectively; 2) conduct scholarly achievement or research; 3) continue preparation and study in discipline; 4) contribute to student growth and development; and 5) provide service to the university and community.
Qualifications and Experience: Required: PhD or other terminal degree; ABD considered if record shows the desired qualifications below, and degree completed by 8/17/10. Highly Desired: expertise in Chicana/o Mexican-American Studies; experience in study abroad in Mexico, border areas and/or indigenous Latin America; ability to act as role model for Chicana/o students; experience in Chicana/o communities; commitment to teaching excellence and scholarly activity. Desired: knowledge of and/or experience in Chicana/o life in U.S. Midwest; knowledge of Spanish language.
Apply to:
St. Cloud State University
Ethnic Studies Department; 51B-Room 227
Search Committee Chair
720 Fourth Avenue South
St. Cloud , MN 56301-4498
Phone: 320.308.4928
Fax: 320.308.5660
Application Information: Application must include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 3 recent letters of profession recommendation, undergraduate and graduate transcripts (copies accepted for initial screening), and other evidence of qualifications as outlined above. Application must be postmarked no later than January 20, 2010 to be considered. *Employment for this position is covered by the collective bargaining agreement for the Inter Faculty Organization http://www.stcloudstate.edu/humanresources/documents/IFO07-09Contract-complete.pdf.
Application Deadline: January 20, 2010
Department Information: www.stcloudstate.edu/ethnicstudies
The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability to teach and work with persons from culturally diverse backgrounds. SCSU is committed to excellence and actively supports cultural diversity. To promote this endeavor, we invite individuals who contribute to such diversity to apply, including minorities, women, GLBT, persons with disabilities and veterans. SCSU is a member of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.
SCSU is an affirmative action/equal opportunity educator and employer.
In accordance with federal regulations, successful applicants must be legally able to accept work in the United States. This material can be given to you in an alternative format such as large print, Braille, etc., by contacting the department listing this vacancy. TTY: 1-800-627-3529
'Life in Marvelous Times' : Cultural Work in the Racial Present Conference
'Life in Marvelous Times' : Cultural Work in the Racial Present, A Race/Knowledge Project Conference will take place Friday, May 14, 2010 at the University of Washington, Seattle. Graduate students and university faculty are encouraged to apply. Proposal deadline: February 8, 2010.
'Life in Marvelous Times' : Cultural Work in the Racial Present Conference
In the 2009 single "Life in Marvelous Times," Mos Def declares that "we are
alive in amazing times." The lyrical images that follow those opening
lines, the sleeve artwork, and the fan-made video Mos Def chose to represent
the song suggest that the meaning of "marvelous" and "amazing" must be read
as multiple; they must be read to mean both "excellent" and "great" but also
"to cause wonder," "to astonish," and "to bewilder." According to Mos Def,
we must be amazed and marvel at how "basic survival requires super heroics";
we must be amazed and marvel at the "delicate hearts" and "diabolical
minds," at the "revelations, hatred, love and war." Taking a cue from Mos
Def, The Race/Knowledge Project understands the racial present as one of
these marvelous times. This is a moment marked both by seemingly intractable
political stalemates and by possibilities for large-scale transformation; by
dispossession, displacement and unchecked accumulation and by new
mobilities, movements and coalitions which seek to counter those formations;
and by the incivility of political discourse and by the widespread
acknowledgment of the fraudulent nature of those discourses and their claim
to represent "public" good. We marvel at the horror; we marvel at the
possibility. We marvel at the crisis, the beauty, the apathy, and the
critical potential.
This conference is premised on the understanding that cultural workers like
Mos Def help us to comprehend and re-think these "amazing" and "marvelous
times." We especially marvel at how literature, music, performance, film,
television, visual art, and all cultural production work to theorize,
actively (re)produce, and shape this racial present. Though much cultural
knowledge is assumed to be theorized and disseminated through the academy,
cultural workers occupy multiple locations that generate insightful and
invaluable criticism of these "marvelous times." Cultural work, then, allows
us to ask different questions about political identities, radical
coalitions, cultural/social critique, and political emancipation across
disciplines, institutional boundaries, and the divisions constructed between
"activist," "academic," and "community" work. The broad questions driving
this conference include: How does the marvelous erupt in culture and become
politically meaningful? What counts as cultural work? What are the
different ways cultural work addresses race, social justice, gender,
sexuality in an era of global capitalism? What is the relationship between
cultural production and social mobilization?
The Race/Knowledge Project situates the concerns of this conference within
global histories of decolonial struggle. In doing so, we position our
inquiries within the legacies of social struggles that considered culture
and cultural politics to be key vehicles of institutional and political
contestation. In these terms, we recognize the university as a site of
racial dominance and systemic inequality, as well as a terrain of social
struggle. As such, we understand that a critical focus on culture asks us to
not only challenge the content of academic knowledge production, but also
its institutional rituals and forms. Understanding the conference format as
one such ritual of knowledge production, we seek submissions that disrupt
the line between the study and production of culture, and put into question
both the forms and contents with which we know our "marvelous times."
In addition to university faculty and graduate students, we strongly
encourage submissions from undergraduate students, artists, performers and
other cultural workers, activists, and organizers, both in and outside of
the university, as well as from K-12 teachers.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
. cultural workers, cultural work and cultural politics in "marvelous times"
. race/racialization in its shifting articulations with gender, sexuality,
class, ethnicity, nationality and transnationality
. racism and anti-racist praxis in the context of "neoliberal
multiculturalism" and the ="colorblind present"
. Women of Color and materialist feminisms and the work of culture
. racial nationalisms and the state
. migrations, the violence of borders, and border thinking
. links between university sites, local/global activisms and performance
. anticapitalist struggles in the racial present
. racialized and gendered labor in regimes of "globalized" capital
. Queer of Color critique and cultural production
. the prison-industrial complex, immiseration, and the "new abolitionism"
. neocolonialism and decolonial struggle at "home" and "abroad"
. intellectual and activist labor with/against academic work
. racial democracy and fascism
. state violences and social movements
. whiteness, property, and (new) racial histories
Possible session formats may include but are not limited to:
. critical dialogues/roundtables between cultural workers, activists,
academics, and educators
. performances and performance-based workshops
. collaborative, multi-format presentations
. facilitated workshops or dialogues on topics related to the above
. readings followed by discussion
. visual presentations, art installations or film screenings
. short-format film plus interactive dialogue
. paper presentations
. workshops on anti-racist/anti-oppression pedagogy (community-based, K-12
and university level)
. planned collaborative reading and discussion of particular texts or
traditions
Please email proposals (of no more than 250 words) and equipment needs to
rkp9@uw.edu by February 8, 2010.
'Life in Marvelous Times' : Cultural Work in the Racial Present Conference
In the 2009 single "Life in Marvelous Times," Mos Def declares that "we are
alive in amazing times." The lyrical images that follow those opening
lines, the sleeve artwork, and the fan-made video Mos Def chose to represent
the song suggest that the meaning of "marvelous" and "amazing" must be read
as multiple; they must be read to mean both "excellent" and "great" but also
"to cause wonder," "to astonish," and "to bewilder." According to Mos Def,
we must be amazed and marvel at how "basic survival requires super heroics";
we must be amazed and marvel at the "delicate hearts" and "diabolical
minds," at the "revelations, hatred, love and war." Taking a cue from Mos
Def, The Race/Knowledge Project understands the racial present as one of
these marvelous times. This is a moment marked both by seemingly intractable
political stalemates and by possibilities for large-scale transformation; by
dispossession, displacement and unchecked accumulation and by new
mobilities, movements and coalitions which seek to counter those formations;
and by the incivility of political discourse and by the widespread
acknowledgment of the fraudulent nature of those discourses and their claim
to represent "public" good. We marvel at the horror; we marvel at the
possibility. We marvel at the crisis, the beauty, the apathy, and the
critical potential.
This conference is premised on the understanding that cultural workers like
Mos Def help us to comprehend and re-think these "amazing" and "marvelous
times." We especially marvel at how literature, music, performance, film,
television, visual art, and all cultural production work to theorize,
actively (re)produce, and shape this racial present. Though much cultural
knowledge is assumed to be theorized and disseminated through the academy,
cultural workers occupy multiple locations that generate insightful and
invaluable criticism of these "marvelous times." Cultural work, then, allows
us to ask different questions about political identities, radical
coalitions, cultural/social critique, and political emancipation across
disciplines, institutional boundaries, and the divisions constructed between
"activist," "academic," and "community" work. The broad questions driving
this conference include: How does the marvelous erupt in culture and become
politically meaningful? What counts as cultural work? What are the
different ways cultural work addresses race, social justice, gender,
sexuality in an era of global capitalism? What is the relationship between
cultural production and social mobilization?
The Race/Knowledge Project situates the concerns of this conference within
global histories of decolonial struggle. In doing so, we position our
inquiries within the legacies of social struggles that considered culture
and cultural politics to be key vehicles of institutional and political
contestation. In these terms, we recognize the university as a site of
racial dominance and systemic inequality, as well as a terrain of social
struggle. As such, we understand that a critical focus on culture asks us to
not only challenge the content of academic knowledge production, but also
its institutional rituals and forms. Understanding the conference format as
one such ritual of knowledge production, we seek submissions that disrupt
the line between the study and production of culture, and put into question
both the forms and contents with which we know our "marvelous times."
In addition to university faculty and graduate students, we strongly
encourage submissions from undergraduate students, artists, performers and
other cultural workers, activists, and organizers, both in and outside of
the university, as well as from K-12 teachers.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
. cultural workers, cultural work and cultural politics in "marvelous times"
. race/racialization in its shifting articulations with gender, sexuality,
class, ethnicity, nationality and transnationality
. racism and anti-racist praxis in the context of "neoliberal
multiculturalism" and the ="colorblind present"
. Women of Color and materialist feminisms and the work of culture
. racial nationalisms and the state
. migrations, the violence of borders, and border thinking
. links between university sites, local/global activisms and performance
. anticapitalist struggles in the racial present
. racialized and gendered labor in regimes of "globalized" capital
. Queer of Color critique and cultural production
. the prison-industrial complex, immiseration, and the "new abolitionism"
. neocolonialism and decolonial struggle at "home" and "abroad"
. intellectual and activist labor with/against academic work
. racial democracy and fascism
. state violences and social movements
. whiteness, property, and (new) racial histories
Possible session formats may include but are not limited to:
. critical dialogues/roundtables between cultural workers, activists,
academics, and educators
. performances and performance-based workshops
. collaborative, multi-format presentations
. facilitated workshops or dialogues on topics related to the above
. readings followed by discussion
. visual presentations, art installations or film screenings
. short-format film plus interactive dialogue
. paper presentations
. workshops on anti-racist/anti-oppression pedagogy (community-based, K-12
and university level)
. planned collaborative reading and discussion of particular texts or
traditions
Please email proposals (of no more than 250 words) and equipment needs to
rkp9@uw.edu by February 8, 2010.
The Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Forum Submissions
The Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) invites submissions for the special forum on Asian American Studies, "Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Representation." Submissions due: September 1, 2010.
The Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Forum Submissions
Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)
Special Forum on Asian American Studies
Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism,
Diaspora and Representation
Guest edited by Tanfer Emin Tunc (Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey); Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome, Italy); Daniel Y. Kim
(Brown University, USA); Te-hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Deadline for complete submissions: September 1, 2010
In her seminal work Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity
to Extravagance (1993), Sau-ling Wong established the intertextuality
of Asian American literature by focusing on four motifs‹food and
eating; the Doppelganger figure; mobility; and play‹illustrating that
these motifs transcend ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational,
and historical boundaries. In doing so, Wong conveyed the primacy of
Asian patterns in Asian American literature, as well as the rich
interactions that occur within Asian subcultures, and with American
culture at large. As Elaine Kim, author of Asian American Literature
(1982) has noted, Wong¬πs analysis of Asian American literature in this
work is not only ³informed by her intimate knowledge of Asian American
culture, minority discourses, feminist thought, and contemporary
literary theoryŠ[but is also full of] insightful interpretations and
careful [sociopolitical] contextualizations.²
Wong¬πs crucial vantage point as a woman of both Asian and American
heritage has, over the years, rendered her an important figure in
critiques of bilingualism and biculturalism (in both print and media
sources), and in discourses involving transnationalism, globalization,
citizenship, mobility and diasporic identities. She has called for a
³denationalization² of Asian and Asian American subjects in order to
expose deeper layers of analysis, and has challenged the benefits of
limiting Asian American Studies to the borders of the United States.
She has also proposed a transnational investigation of the Asian
diaspora that takes ethnicity as a common factor, while simultaneously
prioritizing class (a category of analysis that, as Wong notes, is
often elided in discussions of transnationality). Wong¬πs works have
illustrated the irrelevancy of borders in constructing identities and
cultures, thus reinforcing the ³transnational turn² in Asian American
Studies. She has warned, however, against overusing concepts such as
³global² or ³diaspora,² since they too can result in the
marginalization (or sometimes the complete exclusion) of local,
regional and national ethnic organization. A more appropriate balance,
she maintains, includes a cultural nationalism which considers
nation-based identities (such as Asian American), as well as coalition
building within/among Asian groups.
The co-editors of this special forum of the Journal of Transnational
American Studies (JTAS), which is dedicated to Professor Sau-ling Wong
as she gains Emeritus status from the University of California,
Berkeley, seek submissions (full-length manuscripts of between 6,000
and 8,000 words, following the Chicago Manual of Style, as well as
shorter book reviews, essays, and commentaries) that take Wong¬πs
writings, and/or the ³transnational turn² in Asian American Studies,
as their point of departure (submissions can also include those which
consider Professor Wong¬πs contributions to other fields, such as the
study of mestizaje and Chicano culture). We also seek submissions on
topics related to Asian American Studies, including, but not limited
to:
€ Asian American Studies beyond the United States
€ New trends and developments in transnational Asian American history
€ The politics of Asian American Studies
€ Asian American literature/the ³canon²
€ The pedagogy of Asian American Studies
€ Asian American digital culture and the Internet
€ Bilingualism and biculturalism in the Asian American context
€ The Asian American immigrant experience
€ (Re)defining the Asian American family
€ Women, sexuality and reproduction in the transnational Asian
American
context
€ Hybridity, diaspora and borders
€ Intertextuality/Signification/Bricolage
€ Fusion/Fragmentation
€ Asian American Arts (visual, theatrical, cultural, oral traditions,
etc)
€ Asian American self-writing (incl. travel writing, journals,
diaries, and memoirs)
€ Translation/interpretation/adaptation and the Asian American
experience
€ Asian American resistance/subversion
€ Americanization, assimilation, acculturation
€ Identity, representation, race, class and gender
€ Globalization, citizenship, mobility
€ Asian Americans and popular/consumer culture
Complete submissions (no abstracts please) and one-paragraph bios
should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to Drs. Tanfer Emin
Tunc, Elisabetta Marino, Daniel Y. Kim, and Te-hsing Shan
(JTAS2010@gmail.com) by September 1, 2010. Please convey your
interest by e-mailing us your topic by July 1, 2010, with full text to
follow on September 1, 2010.
The Journal of Transnational American Studies Special Forum Submissions
Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)
Special Forum on Asian American Studies
Redefining the American in Asian American Studies: Transnationalism,
Diaspora and Representation
Guest edited by Tanfer Emin Tunc (Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey); Elisabetta Marino (University of Rome, Italy); Daniel Y. Kim
(Brown University, USA); Te-hsing Shan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Deadline for complete submissions: September 1, 2010
In her seminal work Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity
to Extravagance (1993), Sau-ling Wong established the intertextuality
of Asian American literature by focusing on four motifs‹food and
eating; the Doppelganger figure; mobility; and play‹illustrating that
these motifs transcend ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational,
and historical boundaries. In doing so, Wong conveyed the primacy of
Asian patterns in Asian American literature, as well as the rich
interactions that occur within Asian subcultures, and with American
culture at large. As Elaine Kim, author of Asian American Literature
(1982) has noted, Wong¬πs analysis of Asian American literature in this
work is not only ³informed by her intimate knowledge of Asian American
culture, minority discourses, feminist thought, and contemporary
literary theoryŠ[but is also full of] insightful interpretations and
careful [sociopolitical] contextualizations.²
Wong¬πs crucial vantage point as a woman of both Asian and American
heritage has, over the years, rendered her an important figure in
critiques of bilingualism and biculturalism (in both print and media
sources), and in discourses involving transnationalism, globalization,
citizenship, mobility and diasporic identities. She has called for a
³denationalization² of Asian and Asian American subjects in order to
expose deeper layers of analysis, and has challenged the benefits of
limiting Asian American Studies to the borders of the United States.
She has also proposed a transnational investigation of the Asian
diaspora that takes ethnicity as a common factor, while simultaneously
prioritizing class (a category of analysis that, as Wong notes, is
often elided in discussions of transnationality). Wong¬πs works have
illustrated the irrelevancy of borders in constructing identities and
cultures, thus reinforcing the ³transnational turn² in Asian American
Studies. She has warned, however, against overusing concepts such as
³global² or ³diaspora,² since they too can result in the
marginalization (or sometimes the complete exclusion) of local,
regional and national ethnic organization. A more appropriate balance,
she maintains, includes a cultural nationalism which considers
nation-based identities (such as Asian American), as well as coalition
building within/among Asian groups.
The co-editors of this special forum of the Journal of Transnational
American Studies (JTAS), which is dedicated to Professor Sau-ling Wong
as she gains Emeritus status from the University of California,
Berkeley, seek submissions (full-length manuscripts of between 6,000
and 8,000 words, following the Chicago Manual of Style, as well as
shorter book reviews, essays, and commentaries) that take Wong¬πs
writings, and/or the ³transnational turn² in Asian American Studies,
as their point of departure (submissions can also include those which
consider Professor Wong¬πs contributions to other fields, such as the
study of mestizaje and Chicano culture). We also seek submissions on
topics related to Asian American Studies, including, but not limited
to:
€ Asian American Studies beyond the United States
€ New trends and developments in transnational Asian American history
€ The politics of Asian American Studies
€ Asian American literature/the ³canon²
€ The pedagogy of Asian American Studies
€ Asian American digital culture and the Internet
€ Bilingualism and biculturalism in the Asian American context
€ The Asian American immigrant experience
€ (Re)defining the Asian American family
€ Women, sexuality and reproduction in the transnational Asian
American
context
€ Hybridity, diaspora and borders
€ Intertextuality/Signification/Bricolage
€ Fusion/Fragmentation
€ Asian American Arts (visual, theatrical, cultural, oral traditions,
etc)
€ Asian American self-writing (incl. travel writing, journals,
diaries, and memoirs)
€ Translation/interpretation/adaptation and the Asian American
experience
€ Asian American resistance/subversion
€ Americanization, assimilation, acculturation
€ Identity, representation, race, class and gender
€ Globalization, citizenship, mobility
€ Asian Americans and popular/consumer culture
Complete submissions (no abstracts please) and one-paragraph bios
should be emailed as Microsoft Word attachments to Drs. Tanfer Emin
Tunc, Elisabetta Marino, Daniel Y. Kim, and Te-hsing Shan
(JTAS2010@gmail.com) by September 1, 2010. Please convey your
interest by e-mailing us your topic by July 1, 2010, with full text to
follow on September 1, 2010.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Spring 2010 Syllabi
Spring 2010 Instructors: Please submit a copy of your course syllabus electronically to Laura at domin047@umn.edu by Friday, January 15, 2010. Please also include the time(s) and day(s) you will be holding office hours for the upcoming semester.
BTHX 8610-"Medical Consumerism"
BTHX 8610, "Medical Consumerism", will be instructed by Carl Elliot MD PhD, spring 2010 on Wednesdays from 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the Boynton 5th floor conference room. The purpose of this seminar is to explore the roots and implications of medical consumerism.
BTHX 8610-"Medical Consumerism"
Instructor: Carl Elliott MD PhD
Wednesdays, 10 am -12:30 pm, Boynton 5th floor conference room
The past several decades have seen the emergence of two related movements in American health care. The first is a growing emphasis on medical enhancement. A growing number of medical technologies are being deployed not merely to treat patients who are sick or disabled, but to improve the looks, performance and psychological well-being of people who are healthy. A second, related movement is the submission of the American health care system to the machinery of consumer capitalism. This is not just a matter of the rise of managed care corporations, Contract Research Organizations and direct-to-consumer drug advertising. It is also a change in the ethos of medicine. American doctors and patients are arguably coming to see medical care as a market commodity provided to consumers who are able and willing to pay for it.
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the roots and implications of medical consumerism. How is the consumerist model of medicine shaping our concepts of disease and disability? What larger historical developments have led to our current situation? How are the tools of medical enhancement shaping the way we think about our identities and the way we live our lives? This seminar will draw on an interdisciplinary set of texts from philosophy, history, literature, law, and the social sciences as a way of exploring these larger questions.
BTHX 8610-"Medical Consumerism"
Instructor: Carl Elliott MD PhD
Wednesdays, 10 am -12:30 pm, Boynton 5th floor conference room
The past several decades have seen the emergence of two related movements in American health care. The first is a growing emphasis on medical enhancement. A growing number of medical technologies are being deployed not merely to treat patients who are sick or disabled, but to improve the looks, performance and psychological well-being of people who are healthy. A second, related movement is the submission of the American health care system to the machinery of consumer capitalism. This is not just a matter of the rise of managed care corporations, Contract Research Organizations and direct-to-consumer drug advertising. It is also a change in the ethos of medicine. American doctors and patients are arguably coming to see medical care as a market commodity provided to consumers who are able and willing to pay for it.
The purpose of this seminar is to explore the roots and implications of medical consumerism. How is the consumerist model of medicine shaping our concepts of disease and disability? What larger historical developments have led to our current situation? How are the tools of medical enhancement shaping the way we think about our identities and the way we live our lives? This seminar will draw on an interdisciplinary set of texts from philosophy, history, literature, law, and the social sciences as a way of exploring these larger questions.
American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship Yale University, 2010-2011
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders invite applications for the inaugural Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the academic year, beginning September 2010 and ending August 2011. Fellows are provided an annual stipend of $26,000. Application deadline: March 5, 2010.
American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship Yale University, 2010-2011
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard R.
Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders invite applications for the
inaugural Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian
and Indigenous Studies. The Roe Cloud Fellowship is intended to develop American
Indian Studies at Yale and by extension throughout the academy by facilitating the
completion of the doctorate by scholars working on pressing issues related to the
American Indian experience. Scholars working on topics in Indigenous Studies that
relate to the study of North American Indians are also encouraged to apply.
The Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship honors the legacy of Henry Roe Cloud, a member of the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska and graduate of Yale College, 1910. A tireless critic of federal Indian assimilation programs and a proponent of increased educational opportunities for American Indians, Roe Cloud transformed American Indian
higher education through his leadership of the Society of American Indians, his founding of the American Indian Institute, and as co-author of "The Problem of Indian Administration," commonly known as "The Meriam Report," an extensive survey made at the request of Secretary of the Interior that detailed the appalling failures of federal Indian policy in the early twentieth century. This survey, presented to Congress in 1928, helped to set in motion many of the subsequent reforms of the Indian New Deal.
The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the
academic year, beginning September 2010 and ending August 2011. Graduate
students working towards careers in higher education who have completed all
doctoral requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply. The expectation is
that the dissertation will be completed during the fellowship year. The criteria for
selection will be based solely on an assessment of the quality of the candidate's
work and the project's overall significance for the study of American Indian and/or
Indigenous Studies.
The Roe Cloud Fellowship will provide support comparable to that for Yale
University graduate students, including an annual stipend of $26,000, full access to
Yale facilities and services, and health care coverage. The fellow will have office
space in the Lamar Center and access to Yale's exceptional research libraries. The
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in addition to its premier collection of
Western Americana, also holds the papers of many important American Indian
writers, including Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and
James Welch, as well as those of important policy makers such as Felix Cohen and
Richard Henry Pratt. Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library holds
the papers of John Collier and Henry Roe Cloud. The Lewis Walpole Library hosts
the New England Indian Papers Project, which is in the process of collecting,
digitizing, and placing on the World Wide Web a comprehensive database of
primary sources written for, by, and about New England Indians.
The Roe Cloud Fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in the activities
of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the Native
American Cultural Center, and the Association of Native Americans at Yale
(ANAAY). Yale student and faculty members are also increasingly active in
regional and national Indian Studies networks, and the Roe Cloud Fellow may
choose to participate in the gatherings of the Native Studies community in New
England, which generally holds bi-semester and other informal gatherings in the
Northeast. Additionally, the state and federally-recognized Indian Nations of
Connecticut maintain museums, archives, and research centers, and host community
events that draw regional, national, as well as international visitors.
Each fellow will be mentored by a professor in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The fellow will be responsible for making a formal presentation of the project near
the conclusion of the academic year, an event open to all interested members of the
campus community.
Applications must include a c.v. the dissertation prospectus, a writing sample of
approximately 25 pages, a letter describing plans to complete the dissertation during
the fellowship period, as well as three letters of recommendation, sent under
separate cover, including one from the candidate's dissertation advisor. The
application deadline is March 5, 2010. All materials must be sent to:
Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship Committee
Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
Yale University
PO Box 208201
New Haven, CT 06520-8201
For further information write to: RoeCloud.Fellowship@yale.edu.
American Indian Studies Dissertation Writing Fellowship Yale University, 2010-2011
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Howard R.
Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders invite applications for the
inaugural Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Writing Fellowship in American Indian
and Indigenous Studies. The Roe Cloud Fellowship is intended to develop American
Indian Studies at Yale and by extension throughout the academy by facilitating the
completion of the doctorate by scholars working on pressing issues related to the
American Indian experience. Scholars working on topics in Indigenous Studies that
relate to the study of North American Indians are also encouraged to apply.
The Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship honors the legacy of Henry Roe Cloud, a member of the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska and graduate of Yale College, 1910. A tireless critic of federal Indian assimilation programs and a proponent of increased educational opportunities for American Indians, Roe Cloud transformed American Indian
higher education through his leadership of the Society of American Indians, his founding of the American Indian Institute, and as co-author of "The Problem of Indian Administration," commonly known as "The Meriam Report," an extensive survey made at the request of Secretary of the Interior that detailed the appalling failures of federal Indian policy in the early twentieth century. This survey, presented to Congress in 1928, helped to set in motion many of the subsequent reforms of the Indian New Deal.
The Fellowship will support a graduate scholar in any doctoral field for the
academic year, beginning September 2010 and ending August 2011. Graduate
students working towards careers in higher education who have completed all
doctoral requirements but the dissertation are invited to apply. The expectation is
that the dissertation will be completed during the fellowship year. The criteria for
selection will be based solely on an assessment of the quality of the candidate's
work and the project's overall significance for the study of American Indian and/or
Indigenous Studies.
The Roe Cloud Fellowship will provide support comparable to that for Yale
University graduate students, including an annual stipend of $26,000, full access to
Yale facilities and services, and health care coverage. The fellow will have office
space in the Lamar Center and access to Yale's exceptional research libraries. The
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, in addition to its premier collection of
Western Americana, also holds the papers of many important American Indian
writers, including Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and
James Welch, as well as those of important policy makers such as Felix Cohen and
Richard Henry Pratt. Manuscripts and Archives at Sterling Memorial Library holds
the papers of John Collier and Henry Roe Cloud. The Lewis Walpole Library hosts
the New England Indian Papers Project, which is in the process of collecting,
digitizing, and placing on the World Wide Web a comprehensive database of
primary sources written for, by, and about New England Indians.
The Roe Cloud Fellow will also have the opportunity to participate in the activities
of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, the Native
American Cultural Center, and the Association of Native Americans at Yale
(ANAAY). Yale student and faculty members are also increasingly active in
regional and national Indian Studies networks, and the Roe Cloud Fellow may
choose to participate in the gatherings of the Native Studies community in New
England, which generally holds bi-semester and other informal gatherings in the
Northeast. Additionally, the state and federally-recognized Indian Nations of
Connecticut maintain museums, archives, and research centers, and host community
events that draw regional, national, as well as international visitors.
Each fellow will be mentored by a professor in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The fellow will be responsible for making a formal presentation of the project near
the conclusion of the academic year, an event open to all interested members of the
campus community.
Applications must include a c.v. the dissertation prospectus, a writing sample of
approximately 25 pages, a letter describing plans to complete the dissertation during
the fellowship period, as well as three letters of recommendation, sent under
separate cover, including one from the candidate's dissertation advisor. The
application deadline is March 5, 2010. All materials must be sent to:
Henry Roe Cloud Fellowship Committee
Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders
Yale University
PO Box 208201
New Haven, CT 06520-8201
For further information write to: RoeCloud.Fellowship@yale.edu.
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