American Studies Summer Dissertation Writing Funds (up to $4,000) are available to ABD American Studies students for summer 2012 who are actively writing their dissertation and have not received the funds previously. Deadline for requests: April 25, 2012.
Summer Dissertation Writing Funds are awarded only once in your PhD career. The current award is an amount of up to $4,000. Criteria for requesting available funds are that the student must be ABD, be actively writing their dissertations, and not have received the funds previously.
The request should include:
1) Your name, student ID, Dissertation Title and a statement that you have not received these funds previously.
2) A description (1 page) of your dissertation if you do not have a Graduate School approved thesis proposal on file.
3) A description detailing what you will undertake over the summer (up to 1 page). Be as specific as possible about the use of archives, libraries, interviews, writing schedule, etc.
4) A letter from your adviser confirming that you have completed enough research to be actively writing substantive portions of the dissertation.
Submit your request to Melanie (stein196@umn.edu) by the April 25, 2012 deadline. You may expect a response to your request by early May.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Suarez accepts position at Oberlin College
Harrod Suarez, PhD '10 has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English, with an emphasis on Ethnic American Literatures, at Oberlin College to start in the fall.
Pegues awarded Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellowship
Current graduate student Juliana Hu Pegues received a Consortium for Faculty Diversity fellowship at Macalester College. The CFO is a two-year fellowship, a pre-doctoral fellowship the first year and a post-doctoral the second year.
New DVDs at UMN Libraries
The Libraries have acquired new DVDs for check-out. Continue reading to see Nancy's announcement and list videos.
Message from Nancy:
Hello!
I was fortunate to get over $21,000 for DVDs this fiscal year, and since the fund is almost gone, I now have the time to share some of the wonderful titles with you!
There are incredibly informative, compelling documentaries and other films out there that can enhance teaching, learning or research.
Take a look! I'm sure you will find something of interest. And, remember, that we have thousands more titles in the Libraries as well. You an search for format and keywords to find found everything that we have on some topic!
Lastly, this year there have been a few occasions when faculty or other users have found some DVD or VHS to be unusable. Whenever this happens, please let the good folks in the Walter SMART Commons know about this and we will try to get it replaced.
Thank you for all of your great suggestions!
As Julia Child would say, Bon Appétit!
Nancy
List of New Videos.pdf
Message from Nancy:
Hello!
I was fortunate to get over $21,000 for DVDs this fiscal year, and since the fund is almost gone, I now have the time to share some of the wonderful titles with you!
There are incredibly informative, compelling documentaries and other films out there that can enhance teaching, learning or research.
Take a look! I'm sure you will find something of interest. And, remember, that we have thousands more titles in the Libraries as well. You an search for format and keywords to find found everything that we have on some topic!
Lastly, this year there have been a few occasions when faculty or other users have found some DVD or VHS to be unusable. Whenever this happens, please let the good folks in the Walter SMART Commons know about this and we will try to get it replaced.
Thank you for all of your great suggestions!
As Julia Child would say, Bon Appétit!
Nancy
List of New Videos.pdf
Fall 2012 Book Orders Due
Book orders for fall 2012 courses are due. Please send your order to domin047@umn.edu by Friday, April 13th. Continue reading for the order form, bookstore ordering guidelines, and notes that help process your order and obtain desk copies.
Notes from Laura:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to domin047@umn.edu by April 11, 2012.
-Let me know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. I will be requesting copies for your TAs.
- I submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after I receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier I get the order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
- Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let me know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Spring 2012 Finals Week gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
- If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Notes from Laura:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to domin047@umn.edu by April 11, 2012.
-Let me know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. I will be requesting copies for your TAs.
- I submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after I receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier I get the order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
- Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let me know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Spring 2012 Finals Week gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
- If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Fall 2012 Book Orders Due
Book orders for fall 2012 courses are due. Please send your order to domin047@umn.edu by Friday, April 13th. Continue reading for the order form, bookstore ordering guidelines, and notes that help process your order and obtain desk copies.
Notes from Laura:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to domin047@umn.edu by April 11, 2012.
-Let me know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. I will be requesting copies for your TAs.
- I submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after I receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier I get the order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
- Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let me know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Spring 2012 Finals Week gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
- If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Please use this order form: Book Order Form.doc
Notes from Laura:
-Please complete one book order form for each course, and email your order as an attachment to domin047@umn.edu by April 11, 2012.
-Let me know whether or not you need a personal desk copy. I will be requesting copies for your TAs.
- I submit a request to the publisher for desk copies after I receive your completed order form. It can take weeks to obtain desk copies, so the earlier I get the order, the earlier you and your TAs will have copies of the books. Desk copies cannot be guaranteed for faculty and instructors if the deadline for book orders is not met.
-If your course is cross-listed, include all department names on your order form so that all sections of the course will have books ordered.
- Include the ISBN of the edition you want . If the ISBN is incorrect, you may end up with a different edition of the book.
-If you are NOT ordering books or ordering a packet instead, be sure to let me know.
Bookstore guidelines:
-Submitting book orders before Spring 2012 Finals Week gives the bookstore the opportunity to pay students the best price for their books during buyback.
- If you delete or change books for your course after they have shipped from the publisher, your research account will be charged for return fees.
-If know you will be using a book in the future, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.
- Be sure to specify whether the book is Required (R) or Optional (O).
Please use this order form: Book Order Form.doc
PCard Receipts Due
Please submit receipts for all March PCard purchases to Laura by Monday, April 2nd.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
GIGSS Artist Reading & Talk
The Graduate Interdisciplinary Group in Sexuality Studies presents "Dangerous Beauty and Queer of Color Fight Songs" an Artist Reading and Talk with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Monday, April 9th at 12-1:30pm in room 140 Nolte Center. Her reading of poetry and prose will be followed by an artist discussion with Ananya Chatterjea and Juliana Hu Pegues, and a Q&A with the audience. Click here for more info.
QSCC Spring Pride Celebration
The Queer Student Cultural Center's 2012 Spring Pride Celebration began on Monday, and continues on through Saturday, March 31st. The QSCC and its campus and community allies have been working to provide the campus with boundless opportunities to better engage with the people and work of the local queer community through a series of events.
Monday,March 26th
Kickoff Rally
Spring Pride2012 will be starting off with a Kickoff Rallyin front of the Coffman Memorial Union. The rally will begin Monday,March 26th at12:00 PM, and will becentered on key issues currently facing the Twin Cities and broaderMinnesotan queer community, such as the forthcoming MarriageAmendment and the ongoing controversy surrounding CeCe McDonald, andwill feature speakers such as OutFront MN's lead organizer, SiobhanBrewer, Trans Youth Support Network's director, Katie Burgess, aswell as local performer Heidi Barton Stink!
Tongues Untied Presents: BallCulture Presentation
Beingyoung, LGBT, and BLACK has left many marks on people in our society.To many, it marks THREE minority identities. To others, it marksshame, hurt, and disconnect. Yet, when we have been SLAPPED with allof these labels, many of us replace them all with a rainbow stickerthat reads "FAB!" We connect and find a place beneathmainstream, underground, into a world all our own. Where the businessman, thug, and queen or the undercover fem, butch, or trans, can allshed their cloaks that allow them to navigate through an unacceptingworld and be THEMSELVES...if only for one night at a time! Thosecasted out of their homes and families find refuge with their new"parents" and "siblings" as they try to navigatethis thing we call life. Love. Family. Art. Fame. Acceptance.Guidance. Pain. LIFE. The LGBT Ballscene: It's not just an event,it's our COMMUNITY! This event will be taking place inAppleby Room 3 at 5:30 PM
Tuesday,March 27th
(A)SexualDocumentary Screening and Discussion
Come out and learnabout the oft-invisibilized asexual population through AngelaTucker's groundbreaking documentary, (A)Sexual.Following the screening, a panel of asexual-identified students fromthe University of Minnesota will facilitate discussion and fieldquestions regarding the both the contents of the film and their ownexperiences. This event will be taking place in WileyHall, Room 125 at 7:00 PM.Food will be provided!
Wednesday,March 28th
Gender + Religion Discussion
Asa part of the ongoing GLBTQAFaith & Spirituality Series'aim to provide an open and respectful forum to talk about the issuesand intersections of faith, religion, spirituality, culture, andGLBTQA identities, this spring session will focus on:sexism/genderism in the Bible, Torah, and other spiritual texts;binary gender systems; the superiority of "man"; and lackof distinction between sex and gender. All are welcome! This eventwill be taking place in ApplebyHall, Room 319 at 12:00 PM
Trans* Tyme
Tranarchy andthe Transgender commission have joined forces in providing an opendialogue centered on critically engaging with our own experienceswith gender, as well as complicating and exploring the myriad ways inwhich trans* and gender-nonconforming experiences manifestthemselves! This event will be taking place in the Bell MuseumAuditorium at 6:00 PM. Foodwill be provided!
Thursday,March 29th
Call to Action! OutFront MN'sLGBT Lobby Day
As a part of our Spring Pridecelebration, we'll be assisting in transporting interestedqueer-identified and queer-allied students from the University ofMinnesota to the state capitol in order to participate in OutFrontMN's annual LGBT Lobby Day. If you're interested, please send anemail to either qscc@umn.edu, orprock009@umn.edu, and you'll beadded to our growing list of folks interested in lobbying capitol!Those participating will be meeting in the Queer Student CulturalCenter (Coffman 205), and leaving at 9:00 AM. Wewill also be providing transport back from the capitol,so you absolutely do not have to worry about being stranded in St.Paul! Please let us know if there is a specific time you'll need toreturn, but students are encouraged to take advantage of thisopportunity to prioritize participatory democracy over their classesfor one day!
Queer Ice CreamSocial!
Come on up the the QSCC (Coffman205) at 5:00 PM and join us for a fun,relaxing reprieve from the innumerable stresses and pressures of theacademic! Come kick back in the QSCC and enjoy ice cream, soda, andgreat conversation! Food will be provided!
Friday,March 30th
Guessthe Straight Person!
Join Friends & Allies for the latest hit game showcentered on critically interrogating the ways in which culturalconstructions of sexuality are ultimately reductive and limiting!This event will be taking place in Scott Hall, Room 4 at 3:00 PM.Food will be provided!
BulliedDocumentary Screening featuring Jamie Nabozny
In partnershipwith Fraternity Delta Lambda Phi, we will be screening thedocumentary Bullied, acrucial documentary centered on the experiences of Jamie Nabozny, whowas tormented by classmates for years due to his sexuality,eventually fighting back- not with his fists, but in the courtoom.Following the screening, Jamie Nabozny himself will be leading thediscussion and fielding questions about the film and his ownexperiences. This event will take place in BellMuseum Auditorium at 5:00 PM.Food will be provided!
Saturday,March 31st
Kink 1001: TheClass You WISH You Got Credit For!
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT
KinkyU presents a series of workshops and discussions on the 31st of March2012 as part of Spring Pride. The aim of the event is to provide aneducational, safe and sex positive series of classes whereparticipants can gain useful information while exploring theirsexuality. Come to a day of awesome, kinky classes. Includes Lunchand Snack Break! aseries of workshops and discussions on the 31st of March 2012 as partof Spring Pride, beginning at 9:00 AM in the Campus Club inCoffman Memorial Union. The aimof the event is to provide an educational, safe and sex positiveseries of classes where participants can gain useful informationwhile exploring their sexuality. Come to a day of awesome, kinkyclasses. Includes Lunch and Snack Break!
Our WingsStudent Drag Show
Join us in drawing Spring Pride 2012to a close with a bang by attending our student drag show! Thisyear's drag show will be dedicated to honoring the lives of thoselost in the struggle of LGBT equity, as well as the histories thatpersistently inform our continued struggle there toward. Allperformances will be carried out by University of Minnesota students,and admission is completely free! This event will take place inThe Whole at7:00 PM. Food will beprovided!"
Monday,March 26th
Kickoff Rally
Spring Pride2012 will be starting off with a Kickoff Rallyin front of the Coffman Memorial Union. The rally will begin Monday,March 26th at12:00 PM, and will becentered on key issues currently facing the Twin Cities and broaderMinnesotan queer community, such as the forthcoming MarriageAmendment and the ongoing controversy surrounding CeCe McDonald, andwill feature speakers such as OutFront MN's lead organizer, SiobhanBrewer, Trans Youth Support Network's director, Katie Burgess, aswell as local performer Heidi Barton Stink!
Tongues Untied Presents: BallCulture Presentation
Beingyoung, LGBT, and BLACK has left many marks on people in our society.To many, it marks THREE minority identities. To others, it marksshame, hurt, and disconnect. Yet, when we have been SLAPPED with allof these labels, many of us replace them all with a rainbow stickerthat reads "FAB!" We connect and find a place beneathmainstream, underground, into a world all our own. Where the businessman, thug, and queen or the undercover fem, butch, or trans, can allshed their cloaks that allow them to navigate through an unacceptingworld and be THEMSELVES...if only for one night at a time! Thosecasted out of their homes and families find refuge with their new"parents" and "siblings" as they try to navigatethis thing we call life. Love. Family. Art. Fame. Acceptance.Guidance. Pain. LIFE. The LGBT Ballscene: It's not just an event,it's our COMMUNITY! This event will be taking place inAppleby Room 3 at 5:30 PM
Tuesday,March 27th
(A)SexualDocumentary Screening and Discussion
Come out and learnabout the oft-invisibilized asexual population through AngelaTucker's groundbreaking documentary, (A)Sexual.Following the screening, a panel of asexual-identified students fromthe University of Minnesota will facilitate discussion and fieldquestions regarding the both the contents of the film and their ownexperiences. This event will be taking place in WileyHall, Room 125 at 7:00 PM.Food will be provided!
Wednesday,March 28th
Gender + Religion Discussion
Asa part of the ongoing GLBTQAFaith & Spirituality Series'aim to provide an open and respectful forum to talk about the issuesand intersections of faith, religion, spirituality, culture, andGLBTQA identities, this spring session will focus on:sexism/genderism in the Bible, Torah, and other spiritual texts;binary gender systems; the superiority of "man"; and lackof distinction between sex and gender. All are welcome! This eventwill be taking place in ApplebyHall, Room 319 at 12:00 PM
Trans* Tyme
Tranarchy andthe Transgender commission have joined forces in providing an opendialogue centered on critically engaging with our own experienceswith gender, as well as complicating and exploring the myriad ways inwhich trans* and gender-nonconforming experiences manifestthemselves! This event will be taking place in the Bell MuseumAuditorium at 6:00 PM. Foodwill be provided!
Thursday,March 29th
Call to Action! OutFront MN'sLGBT Lobby Day
As a part of our Spring Pridecelebration, we'll be assisting in transporting interestedqueer-identified and queer-allied students from the University ofMinnesota to the state capitol in order to participate in OutFrontMN's annual LGBT Lobby Day. If you're interested, please send anemail to either qscc@umn.edu, orprock009@umn.edu, and you'll beadded to our growing list of folks interested in lobbying capitol!Those participating will be meeting in the Queer Student CulturalCenter (Coffman 205), and leaving at 9:00 AM. Wewill also be providing transport back from the capitol,so you absolutely do not have to worry about being stranded in St.Paul! Please let us know if there is a specific time you'll need toreturn, but students are encouraged to take advantage of thisopportunity to prioritize participatory democracy over their classesfor one day!
Queer Ice CreamSocial!
Come on up the the QSCC (Coffman205) at 5:00 PM and join us for a fun,relaxing reprieve from the innumerable stresses and pressures of theacademic! Come kick back in the QSCC and enjoy ice cream, soda, andgreat conversation! Food will be provided!
Friday,March 30th
Guessthe Straight Person!
Join Friends & Allies for the latest hit game showcentered on critically interrogating the ways in which culturalconstructions of sexuality are ultimately reductive and limiting!This event will be taking place in Scott Hall, Room 4 at 3:00 PM.Food will be provided!
BulliedDocumentary Screening featuring Jamie Nabozny
In partnershipwith Fraternity Delta Lambda Phi, we will be screening thedocumentary Bullied, acrucial documentary centered on the experiences of Jamie Nabozny, whowas tormented by classmates for years due to his sexuality,eventually fighting back- not with his fists, but in the courtoom.Following the screening, Jamie Nabozny himself will be leading thediscussion and fielding questions about the film and his ownexperiences. This event will take place in BellMuseum Auditorium at 5:00 PM.Food will be provided!
Saturday,March 31st
Kink 1001: TheClass You WISH You Got Credit For!
UPDATE: THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT
KinkyU presents a series of workshops and discussions on the 31st of March2012 as part of Spring Pride. The aim of the event is to provide aneducational, safe and sex positive series of classes whereparticipants can gain useful information while exploring theirsexuality. Come to a day of awesome, kinky classes. Includes Lunchand Snack Break! aseries of workshops and discussions on the 31st of March 2012 as partof Spring Pride, beginning at 9:00 AM in the Campus Club inCoffman Memorial Union. The aimof the event is to provide an educational, safe and sex positiveseries of classes where participants can gain useful informationwhile exploring their sexuality. Come to a day of awesome, kinkyclasses. Includes Lunch and Snack Break!
Our WingsStudent Drag Show
Join us in drawing Spring Pride 2012to a close with a bang by attending our student drag show! Thisyear's drag show will be dedicated to honoring the lives of thoselost in the struggle of LGBT equity, as well as the histories thatpersistently inform our continued struggle there toward. Allperformances will be carried out by University of Minnesota students,and admission is completely free! This event will take place inThe Whole at7:00 PM. Food will beprovided!"
USC Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship accepting applications
The Center for Feminist Research and the Gender Studies Program at the University of Southern California invite applications for an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship beginning fall 2012. The field of specialization is the Sociology of Gender and Work, with a strong preference for a researcher whose scholarship is in the expanding field of "intimate labor". The Fellow must have a PhD in hand, and should be within the last 5 years by the beginning of the appointment. Application deadline: April 15th, 2012
The fellowship issubject to a renewal process after the first year, for a maximum of two yearsonly. The field of specialization is theSociology of Gender and Work, with a strong preference for a researcher whosescholarship is in the expanding field of "intimate labor." This is deeply gendered labor that pivots onthe forging, sustaining, nurturing, maintaining and managing of interpersonalties--both inside and outside the home. It can encompass home health aides, personal trainers, egg and sperm donors,surrogate mothers, child-care workers, counselors and sex workers, to name afew.
The Fellow will teach one course each semester inthe Gender Studies Program, have research space at CFR, and will be expected toparticipate in CFR research relevant to the fellow's interests. The Fellow must have a Ph.D. in hand, andshould be within 5 years of receiving the Ph.D., by the beginning of theappointment. To apply, please submit thefollowing materials to the USC website: application letter, CV, and a briefdescription of dissertation and current research. In addition, applicants should request that adossier or three letters of recommendation (to be sent directly by the refereesand one of which must speak to teaching abilities) be submitted to the USC website.Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until theposition is filled. More information about specific job duties, andinstructions for applying, can be found at the USC jobs Web site,http://capsnet.usc.edu/ers/. Please reference requisition #012565. The deadline for submission of application is April 15, 2012.
USC strongly valuesdiversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men,and members of all racial and ethnic groups, are encouraged to apply.
The fellowship issubject to a renewal process after the first year, for a maximum of two yearsonly. The field of specialization is theSociology of Gender and Work, with a strong preference for a researcher whosescholarship is in the expanding field of "intimate labor." This is deeply gendered labor that pivots onthe forging, sustaining, nurturing, maintaining and managing of interpersonalties--both inside and outside the home. It can encompass home health aides, personal trainers, egg and sperm donors,surrogate mothers, child-care workers, counselors and sex workers, to name afew.
The Fellow will teach one course each semester inthe Gender Studies Program, have research space at CFR, and will be expected toparticipate in CFR research relevant to the fellow's interests. The Fellow must have a Ph.D. in hand, andshould be within 5 years of receiving the Ph.D., by the beginning of theappointment. To apply, please submit thefollowing materials to the USC website: application letter, CV, and a briefdescription of dissertation and current research. In addition, applicants should request that adossier or three letters of recommendation (to be sent directly by the refereesand one of which must speak to teaching abilities) be submitted to the USC website.Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until theposition is filled. More information about specific job duties, andinstructions for applying, can be found at the USC jobs Web site,http://capsnet.usc.edu/ers/. Please reference requisition #012565. The deadline for submission of application is April 15, 2012.
USC strongly valuesdiversity and is committed to equal opportunity in employment. Women and men,and members of all racial and ethnic groups, are encouraged to apply.
CFP: American Indian Seminar Series
The Newberry Library Center for American Indian Studies Programs invites papers for their Seminar Series held throughout the 2012-13 academic year. The seminar provides a forum for works-in progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. They encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2012.
The seminar provides a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. We welcome proposals from scholars working in a wide range of academic fields, and are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches.
The seminar is open to graduate students, faculty members and independent scholars. Graduate students and junior faculty in the early-writing stages who wish to present work are especially encouraged to apply. To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance. Priority is given to individuals who are at a stage of their research at which they can best profit from discussion. The seminar meets during the academic year from September through May, usually on Wednesday afternoons from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, at the Newberry Library.
To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief C.V. via email to: mcnickle@newberry.org. Please send all materials as a PDF attachment.
If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact McNickle Center Director, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens (stevenss@newberry.org).
The Newberry Library is unable to provide funds for travel or lodging, but can assist in locating discounted accommodations. For more information and for past AIS seminar topics visit: www.newberry.org/american-indian-studies-seminar-series
The seminar provides a forum for works-in-progress that explore topics in American Indian Studies. We encourage the submission of proposals for seminar papers that examine a wide variety of subjects relating to American Indian and Indigenous history and culture broadly conceived. We welcome proposals from scholars working in a wide range of academic fields, and are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches.
The seminar is open to graduate students, faculty members and independent scholars. Graduate students and junior faculty in the early-writing stages who wish to present work are especially encouraged to apply. To maximize time for discussion, papers are circulated electronically in advance. Priority is given to individuals who are at a stage of their research at which they can best profit from discussion. The seminar meets during the academic year from September through May, usually on Wednesday afternoons from 5:30pm to 6:30pm, at the Newberry Library.
To propose a paper, please send a one-page proposal, a statement explaining the relationship of the paper to your other work, and a brief C.V. via email to: mcnickle@newberry.org. Please send all materials as a PDF attachment.
If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact McNickle Center Director, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens (stevenss@newberry.org).
The Newberry Library is unable to provide funds for travel or lodging, but can assist in locating discounted accommodations. For more information and for past AIS seminar topics visit: www.newberry.org/american-indian-studies-seminar-series
American Indian Studies Workshop featuring Michael Witgen
The American Indian Studies Workshop this Friday, March 30th will feature Michael Witgen, a historian at the University of Michigan, who will be discussing his new book "An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America". The workshop will begin at 3:30pm in 445 Heller Hall.
An Evening of Ojibwe History featuring Brenda Child
Birchbark Books is hosting an evening of Ojibwe history with Brenda Child and Michael Witgen in a discussion of their books. The event will be held this Friday, March 30th at 7pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Click here for full event details.
Ojibwe People's Dictionary launch party
Join the Ojibwe People's Dictionary on Monday, April 2nd from 4pm to 6pm for a reception to celebrate the recent launch of their new talking dictionary for the Ojibwe language. The event will be held at the McNamara Alumni Center's Maroon & Gold Room with a program beginning at 4:30pm. Click here to check out the new website.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
RAs needed for CEMH and Center for Medieval Studies
The Center for Early Modern History and the Center for Medieval Studies seek Graduate Research Assistants for the 2012-23 Academic Year. They anticipate hiring two 50%-time RAs (20 hours per week each) to fulfill the tasks specified in the attached announcement. Candidates from any department are eligible but must hold SBD status and qualify for the lower (post thesis credits) tuition rate. Review of applications will begin March 23rd, 2012. Click here for full details.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Keeler receives IDF
Current graduate student Kasey Keeler has received the 2012-2013 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) award. The fellowship will support Keeler's research with the host center, the Minnesota Population Center.
"Envisioning the Future of Chicano Studies" Symposium Thursday March 22nd
The Chicano Studies National Symposium "Envisioning the Future of Chicano Studies", commemorating their 40th anniversary, will be held tomorrow, Thursday, March 22nd. Panels with national scholars along with U of M faculty speaking on current trends in the field will be held in the afternoon at Coffman memorial Union, and there will be a reception and performance in the evening. All events are free and open to the public. Click here for a full schedule for the day.
Juana Maria Rodriguez Community Talk
Juana Maria Rodriguez will be giving a community talk tomorrow, Thursday, March 22nd on her work Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices and ways the topics play out and impact Minnesota. The discussion is sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Department of Chicano Studies and will be held 9:30-10:30am at Café SouthSide. Click here for an event flyer.
Diversity Dialogue Discussion featuring Daniel Topete 3/23 at 12pm
Join the Department of Curriculum and Instruction for a Diversity Dialogue discussion on "Estudiantes MeXicanos at the U Situating "Home" as a Means for Survival" on Friday, March 23rd from 12:00-1:30 in room 40 Peik Hall. Daniel Topete will be one of the featured panelists. Click here for an event flyer.
Hasia Diner Presentation 3/22/12
Hasia Diner's presentation "Roads Taken: Peddlers and the Great Jewish Migration" will be held tomorrow, Thursday, March 22nd from 12-1:30pm in room 308 Andersen Library. Click here for an event flyer.
Welcoming Suggestions for Articles for the EAS
The Encyclopedia of American Studies is updated quarterly, with new articles being added and existing articles updated. They welcome proposals from members for new articles for the online EAS. Proposals for new entries will be reviewed quarterly by Editor and the EAS Board. Contributors will be paid at the normal rate for contributions, which typically ranges from $75 to $250, depending on length. Contact Editor in Chief, Simon Bronner at sbronner@psu.edu.
If you have an idea, please first check the EAS to see whether we have covered this topic in some fashion.
The BROWSE function at the top navigation bar can be used, or select "List of Entries" from the sidebar.
You can also enter keywords with the SEARCH or QUICKSEARCH functions at the top navigation bar.
If you want to suggest topics and biographies for entries, please write a brief description of the proposed title and its significance (less than 100 words).
You can also participate in discussion of the encyclopedia's coverage and uses on the EAS Facebook page.
Proposals for new entries will be reviewed quarterly by the Editor and the EAS Board.
If you have an idea, please first check the EAS to see whether we have covered this topic in some fashion.
The BROWSE function at the top navigation bar can be used, or select "List of Entries" from the sidebar.
You can also enter keywords with the SEARCH or QUICKSEARCH functions at the top navigation bar.
If you want to suggest topics and biographies for entries, please write a brief description of the proposed title and its significance (less than 100 words).
You can also participate in discussion of the encyclopedia's coverage and uses on the EAS Facebook page.
Proposals for new entries will be reviewed quarterly by the Editor and the EAS Board.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Rides to Community Dinner Available
We've received feedback in the past from some current students that the CW Lofts location is a difficult location for some to get to. Any students interested in receiving a ride from campus to the Recruitment Weekend community dinner, please contact amstdy@umn.edu no later than Monday, March 19th, and we will arrange a ride for you.
RSVPs for Community Dinner needed by Thursday, March 15th
Please RSVP for Recruitment Weekend community dinner by to Thursday, March 15th. graduate students and affiliate and core faculty are all invited to the Recruitment Weekend community dinner on Saturday, March 24th at 6pm. The dinner will be held at the CW Lofts Clubroom, located at 730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis. Please RSVP to amstdy@umn.edu by tomorrow as we have to confirm our catering order.
We hope you'll be able to take this opportunity to meet the prospective students. If you would like another copy of their bios please let us know ,and we will send that to you.
CW Lofts address and directions:
730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Directions from the South:
Take 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from North:
Take 35W South
Exit 21A for Stinson Blvd toward County Road 88
Turn Left at County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from 94:
Take 94 E or W
Merge onto 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
We hope you'll be able to take this opportunity to meet the prospective students. If you would like another copy of their bios please let us know ,and we will send that to you.
CW Lofts address and directions:
730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Directions from the South:
Take 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from North:
Take 35W South
Exit 21A for Stinson Blvd toward County Road 88
Turn Left at County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from 94:
Take 94 E or W
Merge onto 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Karla Padron and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson to workshop talks at American Studies Workshop Series Monday March 26th
The next American Studies graduate student workshop of the semester will be held on Monday, March 26, from 3:30 - 5:00pm in the Scott Hall Commons, room 105. All faculty and graduate students are encouraged to attend.
Karla Padron will workshop her talk entitled, "Traveling in Times of Restriction: Conundrums and Critiques of Interdisciplinarity as Border Crossing"
Border-crossing is often used as a metaphor when speaking about interdisciplinarity. Yet, as traveling through and across traditional academic fields gains momentum, so does the massive incarceration of immigrants and those perceived as such. The irony is that while certain academics enjoy an "open-border" approach to research, immigrants are enduring higher incarceration rates and other confining policies. This paper asks, what are the implications of adopting an open-border framework in the academy at a time so heavily marked by the detention and incarceration of people of color? Expanding on this conundrum, this paper analyzes the problem of praxis in the social sciences and the humanities while arguing for a social justice model within interdisciplinary practice.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson will workshop his talk entitled, "The Libertarian Shift in American Political Culture: A Case Study"
Since the 1970s, as commentators and scholars have focused on social issues and "culture wars" that divide Republicans and Democrats, American political culture has undergone a tectonic shift towards a libertarian vision of the individual, the state, and politics. While part of this shift was the result of conservative activism, it has also been connected to another major development in American life: the rise of personal computing and the Internet. While the media has focused on "Twitter revolutions," I argue that new technologies have accelerated the rise of libertarianism and "networked individualism,"
and present a case study of the "peak oil" movement, a contemporary social movement of self-identified liberals and leftists who have created a virtual movement organized along conservative individualistic lines, with a libertarian vision of the "post-carbon" future.
Karla Padron will workshop her talk entitled, "Traveling in Times of Restriction: Conundrums and Critiques of Interdisciplinarity as Border Crossing"
Border-crossing is often used as a metaphor when speaking about interdisciplinarity. Yet, as traveling through and across traditional academic fields gains momentum, so does the massive incarceration of immigrants and those perceived as such. The irony is that while certain academics enjoy an "open-border" approach to research, immigrants are enduring higher incarceration rates and other confining policies. This paper asks, what are the implications of adopting an open-border framework in the academy at a time so heavily marked by the detention and incarceration of people of color? Expanding on this conundrum, this paper analyzes the problem of praxis in the social sciences and the humanities while arguing for a social justice model within interdisciplinary practice.
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson will workshop his talk entitled, "The Libertarian Shift in American Political Culture: A Case Study"
Since the 1970s, as commentators and scholars have focused on social issues and "culture wars" that divide Republicans and Democrats, American political culture has undergone a tectonic shift towards a libertarian vision of the individual, the state, and politics. While part of this shift was the result of conservative activism, it has also been connected to another major development in American life: the rise of personal computing and the Internet. While the media has focused on "Twitter revolutions," I argue that new technologies have accelerated the rise of libertarianism and "networked individualism,"
and present a case study of the "peak oil" movement, a contemporary social movement of self-identified liberals and leftists who have created a virtual movement organized along conservative individualistic lines, with a libertarian vision of the "post-carbon" future.
Child Interviewed on MPR
Professor Brenda Child interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio about the role of women in Ojibwe life, the subject of her book Holding our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community. Click here for an audio recording.
IAS University Seminar
A conversation with Provost Karen Hanson and Naomi Cheman about what a twenty first-century university might be. The event will take place at 4:00pm on Monday, March 26th in room 230 in the Science Teaching Student Services building.
Join us for a conversation between Provost Karen Hanson and Professor Naomi Scheman on what a twenty-first-century university might be. What exactly do we mean by excellence in higher education? How might we reweave the relationship between the public research university and the public in ways that are specifically responsive to the distinctive challenges of the twenty-first century?
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Hanson is the University of Minnesota's chief academic officer, with responsibility for managing the colleges and academic units, and the policies and practices that affect the academic life of the university.
Naomi Scheman is a professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Free and open to the public. Click here for an event flyer.
Join us for a conversation between Provost Karen Hanson and Professor Naomi Scheman on what a twenty-first-century university might be. What exactly do we mean by excellence in higher education? How might we reweave the relationship between the public research university and the public in ways that are specifically responsive to the distinctive challenges of the twenty-first century?
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Karen Hanson is the University of Minnesota's chief academic officer, with responsibility for managing the colleges and academic units, and the policies and practices that affect the academic life of the university.
Naomi Scheman is a professor of Philosophy and of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Free and open to the public. Click here for an event flyer.
Prof Faber Presentation on Spanish Historiography and Cultural Memory
"History, Memory, Truth: Cultural Capital in Spain's Memory Wars", a lecture with Sebastiaan Faber from Oberlin College will begin at 2:00pm on Friday, March 23rd in room 112 Folwell Hall.
Lecture with Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College & Conservatory, Director of the Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures, and Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
The talk will explore the polemics in Spain regarding cultural memory and historiography, the Mexican Suitcase Exhibit, as well as the Robert Capa and Centelles Archive controversies in terms of value, commodity, and cultural capital/legitimacy.
This lecture is sponsored by the following: Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, The Institute for Global Studies, and the European Studies Consortium.
Click here for an event flyer.
Lecture with Sebastiaan Faber, Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College & Conservatory, Director of the Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures, and Chair of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
The talk will explore the polemics in Spain regarding cultural memory and historiography, the Mexican Suitcase Exhibit, as well as the Robert Capa and Centelles Archive controversies in terms of value, commodity, and cultural capital/legitimacy.
This lecture is sponsored by the following: Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, The Institute for Global Studies, and the European Studies Consortium.
Click here for an event flyer.
Wing Young Huie Presentation
"Identity and the American Landscape: Photography of Wing Young Huie" a presentation by Wing Young Huie will be held on Monday, March 19th at 6pm in room 100 Rapson Hall.
In this dynamic slide show presentation, Wing addresses the ethical, aesthetic, and cultural issues of intimately interacting with thousands of strangers, while sharing the anecdotes and insights behind the images. He fosters dialogue by showing photographs from many projects that are open to cultural interpretations, inviting participants to offer their own points of view and to consider not only how their perceptions may differ from those around them, but also how our perceptions are formed by the overwhelming media and marketing photographs we consume on a daily basis.
McFarland New Horizons Fund Lecture presented by the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel, University of Minnesota College of Design
About the presenter:
Wing Young Huie's many photographic projects document the dizzying socioeconomic and cultural realities of American society, much of it centered on the urban cores of his home state, Minnesota. His public installations-- Frogtown (1995), Lake Street USA (2000) and The University Avenue Project (2010)--transformed major Twin Cities thoroughfares into epic photo galleries, reflecting the everyday lives of thousands of its citizens in the midst of some of the most diverse concentrations of international immigrants in the country. Whether in public installations or international museum exhibitions, he creates up-to-the-minute societal mirrors of who we are, seeking to reveal not only what is hidden, but also what is plainly visible and seldom noticed. For more information about his work go to http://www.wingyounghuie.com/
Click here for an event flyer.
In this dynamic slide show presentation, Wing addresses the ethical, aesthetic, and cultural issues of intimately interacting with thousands of strangers, while sharing the anecdotes and insights behind the images. He fosters dialogue by showing photographs from many projects that are open to cultural interpretations, inviting participants to offer their own points of view and to consider not only how their perceptions may differ from those around them, but also how our perceptions are formed by the overwhelming media and marketing photographs we consume on a daily basis.
McFarland New Horizons Fund Lecture presented by the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel, University of Minnesota College of Design
About the presenter:
Wing Young Huie's many photographic projects document the dizzying socioeconomic and cultural realities of American society, much of it centered on the urban cores of his home state, Minnesota. His public installations-- Frogtown (1995), Lake Street USA (2000) and The University Avenue Project (2010)--transformed major Twin Cities thoroughfares into epic photo galleries, reflecting the everyday lives of thousands of its citizens in the midst of some of the most diverse concentrations of international immigrants in the country. Whether in public installations or international museum exhibitions, he creates up-to-the-minute societal mirrors of who we are, seeking to reveal not only what is hidden, but also what is plainly visible and seldom noticed. For more information about his work go to http://www.wingyounghuie.com/
Click here for an event flyer.
CLA-OIT Digital Content Library Fellow 2012-2013
CLA-OIT Academic Technologies is pleased to announce the open call to all CLA departments for enterprising, technologically savvy graduate students for the position of Digital Content Library Fellow for a nine-month appointment. The 50% appointment includes tuition remission for fall and spring semesters. Applicants must be enrolled in CLA and be within their first six years of funding. Applications due: Friday, April 6th, 2012. Click here for more info.
Classroom for Finals Info Needed
SPRING 2012 FACULTY & INSTRUCTORS: Please e-mail amstdy@umn.edu to let us know if you will or will not be using your classroom during finals week by Wednesday, March 21st. We notify Office of Classroom Management for all course levels, so please be sure to include both your graduate and undergraduate level courses. If you are unsure of when your final is to be held, click here to check the schedule.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Pierce Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Jennifer Pierce has received the 2011-12 Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education Award. Please save the date for the awards ceremony and reception on Monday, April 23rd at the McNamara Alumni Center. Click here for more info.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Josie Fowler Peace and Justice Prize Applications due March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON
The Josie Fowler Peace and Justice Prize is a $250 book prize awarded to a student whose research is in the areas of: labor history, Asian immigration, the history of the American Left, the pursuit of peace, or other topics that are related to work on social justice and change. Applications are due March 29, 2012 at 12:00pm NOON.
Josephine Fowler, known as Josie to her friends, died of breast cancer in 2006, just three years after completing her Ph.D. in American studies. Her life spanned just 49 years, but was by any measure remarkably rich, impassioned, and accomplished. In tribute to Josie's amazing spirit, friends and colleagues have established a fund to provide an annual $250 award for the purchase of books to a U of M American studies graduate student doing research in the areas Josie valued and changed with her life and labor--work that documents and fights for positive change in the world. The prize, established in Fall 2007, is intended to facilitate the purchase of books helpful to the recipient's dissertation. Through this prize Josie will continue to serve as a model of how to meld committed activism and principled scholarship.
Eligible applicants are students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies whose research is in the areas of: labor history, Asian immigration, the history of the American Left, the pursuit of peace, or other topics that are related to work on social justice and change. Along with $250.00 to cover the cost of books, the recipient will also receive a copy of Josie's book, Japanese & Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American & International Communist Movements, 1919 - 1933.
Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who best does the following:
1) Demonstrates how their dissertation contributes to the study of peace and justice
2) Explains how the books purchased with this grant will aid their dissertation.
How to Apply:
In a 1 page essay, describe your dissertation topic and its relationship to the areas listed above. Please list what books you want to buy and how they will aid your dissertation research.
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
Josephine Fowler, known as Josie to her friends, died of breast cancer in 2006, just three years after completing her Ph.D. in American studies. Her life spanned just 49 years, but was by any measure remarkably rich, impassioned, and accomplished. In tribute to Josie's amazing spirit, friends and colleagues have established a fund to provide an annual $250 award for the purchase of books to a U of M American studies graduate student doing research in the areas Josie valued and changed with her life and labor--work that documents and fights for positive change in the world. The prize, established in Fall 2007, is intended to facilitate the purchase of books helpful to the recipient's dissertation. Through this prize Josie will continue to serve as a model of how to meld committed activism and principled scholarship.
Eligible applicants are students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies whose research is in the areas of: labor history, Asian immigration, the history of the American Left, the pursuit of peace, or other topics that are related to work on social justice and change. Along with $250.00 to cover the cost of books, the recipient will also receive a copy of Josie's book, Japanese & Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American & International Communist Movements, 1919 - 1933.
Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who best does the following:
1) Demonstrates how their dissertation contributes to the study of peace and justice
2) Explains how the books purchased with this grant will aid their dissertation.
How to Apply:
In a 1 page essay, describe your dissertation topic and its relationship to the areas listed above. Please list what books you want to buy and how they will aid your dissertation research.
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
Audrey Christensen Award Applications due March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON
The American Studies Department announces the Audrey Christensen Award. All American Studies graduate students in good standing may apply for this $500.00 award for the purchase of books for use in research and study. Applications are due March 29, 2012 at 12:00pm NOON.
The American Studies department announces the Audrey Christensen Award. Up to two recipients will be awarded $500.00 each for the purchase of books for use in research and study. All students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies may apply. American Studies was given a small endowed fund to allow graduate students to create a library for their research and study.
NOTE: The conditions of the award require that funds be used only for books and no other media. In addition, given the nature of the award, the cost of the books can only be reimbursed. We are unable to provide an outright grant of funds. This is an award for fiscal year 2013; all funds must be expended between July 1, 2012 and June 1, 2013 and any unused monies will remain in the department. If you receive the award, you will be expected to report on the books you purchase with the donor.
Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who best does the following:
1) Clearly describe the connection between books requested and their research
2) Explain how receipt of this grant will aid their education.
How to Apply:
In a 1 page essay, describe what books you want to buy and how they will aid your education and dissertation research.
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
The American Studies department announces the Audrey Christensen Award. Up to two recipients will be awarded $500.00 each for the purchase of books for use in research and study. All students in good standing pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies may apply. American Studies was given a small endowed fund to allow graduate students to create a library for their research and study.
NOTE: The conditions of the award require that funds be used only for books and no other media. In addition, given the nature of the award, the cost of the books can only be reimbursed. We are unable to provide an outright grant of funds. This is an award for fiscal year 2013; all funds must be expended between July 1, 2012 and June 1, 2013 and any unused monies will remain in the department. If you receive the award, you will be expected to report on the books you purchase with the donor.
Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who best does the following:
1) Clearly describe the connection between books requested and their research
2) Explain how receipt of this grant will aid their education.
How to Apply:
In a 1 page essay, describe what books you want to buy and how they will aid your education and dissertation research.
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
Mulford Q. Sibley Graduate Fellowship for Summer Research Support Applications due March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON
The American Studies Department announces the Mulford Q. Sibley Graduate Fellowship for Summer Research Support open to pre-ABD students in their first and second year. $2,000 per fellowship for up to three fellowships may be awarded. Applications are due March 29th, 2012 at 12:00 pm NOON.
The American Studies department announces the Mulford Q. Sibley Graduate Fellowship for Summer Research Support. This is a $2,000.00 fellowship and up to three (3) fellowships may be awarded. Eligible applicants are pre-ABD students who are in their first or second year who are in good standing and pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies. Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who does not have other
summer fellowship support and who best does the following:
How to Apply:
Submit a 1-2 page essay describing the research project you will be pursuing this summer. In the description, also answer the following questions:
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
The American Studies department announces the Mulford Q. Sibley Graduate Fellowship for Summer Research Support. This is a $2,000.00 fellowship and up to three (3) fellowships may be awarded. Eligible applicants are pre-ABD students who are in their first or second year who are in good standing and pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies. Applicants will be notified of results in early May.
Criteria:
Funds will be awarded to the graduate student who does not have other
summer fellowship support and who best does the following:
1) Clearly establish significance of the research (e.g. archive to investigate materials; explore an important historical or cultural site; develop preliminary interviews)
2) Submit a sensible schedule for project work
How to Apply:
Submit a 1-2 page essay describing the research project you will be pursuing this summer. In the description, also answer the following questions:
What is your research topic and what is its significance?
How will you spend your time on the project over the summer?
Submit your application to Melanie at stein196@umn.edu by the March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON deadline.
CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) Fellowship Applications due March 29, 2012 at 12pm NOON
American Studies is able to award CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) fellowships to two students in good standing, currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program. The fellowship includes a summer stipend of $4,000, and the possibility of research funds up to $500. The deadline for application is March 29, 2012 at 12:00pm NOON.
The CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) encourages graduate students enrolled in graduate programs housed within the college to partner with a College of Liberal Arts (CLA) faculty project advisor on projects of shared interest. The program provides GRPP Fellows with a summer research stipend of $4000 for summer 2012.
Eligibility:
The competition is open to graduate students in CLA. Students are ineligible if they have incompletes in official program coursework from a prior term on their transcript. Previous recipients of this award are also not eligible to apply in 2012. As a condition of the award, CLA GRPP Fellows may not hold summer appointments in excess of .25 FTE. Students receiving other University of Minnesota fellowships, including department fellowships, during the period are ineligible for the CLA GRPP Fellowship. Students may hold external fellowships if the request is approved by their department's CLA GRPP selection committee. Students may not register for courses, except during May term, while they hold a CLA GRPP Fellowship.
Review and selection:
The review will be conducted by individual programs. Each application will be reviewed by faculty members in the department in which the student's graduate program resides. Programs develop their own selection criteria in addition to those stipulated in this document.
Application procedure:
• Applications must be submitted by a graduate student currently enrolled in a graduate program in the College of Liberal Arts with the endorsement of a tenured or tenure-track CLA faculty member.
• A graduate student may not participate in more than one application for each round of funding.
• The application materials should include the application form (attached form), the project proposal, a budget proposal (attached form), a two-page curriculum vitae and a U of M graduate transcript for the student.
Selection criteria:
Department criteria should emphasize:
- the quality and significance of the scholarship or creative work proposed;
- value of the experience to the graduate student's academic development;
- the value of the fellowship for the scholarly/creative achievement
of the project;
- evidence that the student is making timely progress toward degree;
Deadline:
Submit your application materials to Melanie ( stein196@umn.edu ) by March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON.
http://cla.umn.edu/intranet/grad/grpp.php
Attachment: Application and Budget Proposal form
The CLA Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) encourages graduate students enrolled in graduate programs housed within the college to partner with a College of Liberal Arts (CLA) faculty project advisor on projects of shared interest. The program provides GRPP Fellows with a summer research stipend of $4000 for summer 2012.
Eligibility:
The competition is open to graduate students in CLA. Students are ineligible if they have incompletes in official program coursework from a prior term on their transcript. Previous recipients of this award are also not eligible to apply in 2012. As a condition of the award, CLA GRPP Fellows may not hold summer appointments in excess of .25 FTE. Students receiving other University of Minnesota fellowships, including department fellowships, during the period are ineligible for the CLA GRPP Fellowship. Students may hold external fellowships if the request is approved by their department's CLA GRPP selection committee. Students may not register for courses, except during May term, while they hold a CLA GRPP Fellowship.
Review and selection:
The review will be conducted by individual programs. Each application will be reviewed by faculty members in the department in which the student's graduate program resides. Programs develop their own selection criteria in addition to those stipulated in this document.
Application procedure:
• Applications must be submitted by a graduate student currently enrolled in a graduate program in the College of Liberal Arts with the endorsement of a tenured or tenure-track CLA faculty member.
• A graduate student may not participate in more than one application for each round of funding.
• The application materials should include the application form (attached form), the project proposal, a budget proposal (attached form), a two-page curriculum vitae and a U of M graduate transcript for the student.
Selection criteria:
Department criteria should emphasize:
- the quality and significance of the scholarship or creative work proposed;
- value of the experience to the graduate student's academic development;
- the value of the fellowship for the scholarly/creative achievement
of the project;
- evidence that the student is making timely progress toward degree;
Deadline:
Submit your application materials to Melanie ( stein196@umn.edu ) by March 29, 2012 at 12:00 p.m. NOON.
http://cla.umn.edu/intranet/grad/grpp.php
Attachment: Application and Budget Proposal form
Recruitment Weekend Community Dinner - Please RSVP
Graduate Students and Affiliate and Core Faculty are all invited to the Recruitment Weekend community dinner on Saturday, March 24th at 6pm. The dinner will be held at the CW Lofts Clubroom, located at 730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis. Please RSVP to amstdy@umn.edu as soon as possible so we may ensure an adequate amount of food for all.
We hope you'll be able to take this opportunity to meet the prospective students. If you would like another copy of their bios please let us know ,and we will send that to you.
CW Lofts address and directions:
730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Directions from the South:
Take 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from North:
Take 35W South
Exit 21A for Stinson Blvd toward County Road 88
Turn Left at County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from 94:
Take 94 E or W
Merge onto 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
We hope you'll be able to take this opportunity to meet the prospective students. If you would like another copy of their bios please let us know ,and we will send that to you.
CW Lofts address and directions:
730 Stinson Blvd NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Directions from the South:
Take 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from North:
Take 35W South
Exit 21A for Stinson Blvd toward County Road 88
Turn Left at County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
Directions from 94:
Take 94 E or W
Merge onto 35W North
Exit 21A for New Brighton Blvd
Turn Right onto County Rd 27/Stinson Blvd
Turn Right into 730 Stinson Blvd NE (CW Lofts)
CFP: 2012 Visual Culture Conference for Grad Students
The American Studies Department at Saint Louis University will host a graduate student conference entitled, "Politics of the Eye: Imagery of the American Political Landscape", held October 5th-6th, 2012. They are now accepting paper proposals that expand upon a wide variety of visual media to explore critical perspectives in the production, interpretation, and consumption of the American political landscape, past and present. Submission deadline: May 1st, 2012.
As the nation faces unprecedented challenges to fulfill a vision of fairness and opportunity for everyone--expressed most vocally in popular political culture in the Occupy Wall Street Movement--historians too are beset by new questions of representational fairness. Cultural historian Matthew Frye Jacobson claims that historians are crafting new relationships to history itself, a process he describes as "a mental habit of apprehending the past in the present and history-in-the-making."
The biennial Visual Culture Conference organized by graduate students in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University seeks graduate student papers from all disciplines that engage the theme, "Politics of the Eye: Imagery of the American Political Landscape." Recognizing that the American political landscape expands beyond Wall Street reform, right-wing opposition to Obama, and street protests, the conference seeks to explore how visual aspects of the political landscape force us to examine how diverse and competing political narratives, past and present, are created and refined through visual media. Mindful of Jacobson's urging to apprehend "the past in the present," we are also interested in papers that question the current model of the visual archive and explore how we might expand both the means of archiving information and the criteria for what deserves archiving.
We seek papers that expand upon a wide variety of visual media, including photography, television, film, art and digital media, to explore critical perspectives in the production, interpretation, and consumption of the American political landscape, past and present. Some areas of inquiry might include, but are not limited to:
The Keynote speaker for this year's conference will be Matthew Frye Jacobson of Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/amstud/faculty/jacobson.html). Jacobson, a professor of American Studies, History, and African American Studies at Yale and author of five books in the areas of immigration, race, empire, and US political culture, launched his online visual history project, Historian's Eye, (http://historianseye.commons.yale.edu/) in 2009 to answer a central question: "What does the current historical moment look like where you live?" This conference maintains that the current events that take place in the streets are of historical significance and that, when given an diverse range of study, captures in rich detail the wide-ranging historical forces sweeping through American Main Streets.
The Conference Committee invites all those interested to submit abstracts of up to 500 words for individual papers, or up to 750 words for panel submissions, no later than May 1, 2012. Please also submit a current one-page CV with contact information (especially your email address) for each presenter, and a list of any audio and/or visual equipment necessary for your presentation. Email submissions to SLUVCC2012@gmail.com.
Please visit the conference's website at http://www.sluvcc2012.blogspot.com and
follow us on Twitter @SLU_VCC_2012. For further information about the
conference, please contact Conference Chair Mike McCollum at Atl2boulder@gmail.com.
As the nation faces unprecedented challenges to fulfill a vision of fairness and opportunity for everyone--expressed most vocally in popular political culture in the Occupy Wall Street Movement--historians too are beset by new questions of representational fairness. Cultural historian Matthew Frye Jacobson claims that historians are crafting new relationships to history itself, a process he describes as "a mental habit of apprehending the past in the present and history-in-the-making."
The biennial Visual Culture Conference organized by graduate students in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University seeks graduate student papers from all disciplines that engage the theme, "Politics of the Eye: Imagery of the American Political Landscape." Recognizing that the American political landscape expands beyond Wall Street reform, right-wing opposition to Obama, and street protests, the conference seeks to explore how visual aspects of the political landscape force us to examine how diverse and competing political narratives, past and present, are created and refined through visual media. Mindful of Jacobson's urging to apprehend "the past in the present," we are also interested in papers that question the current model of the visual archive and explore how we might expand both the means of archiving information and the criteria for what deserves archiving.
We seek papers that expand upon a wide variety of visual media, including photography, television, film, art and digital media, to explore critical perspectives in the production, interpretation, and consumption of the American political landscape, past and present. Some areas of inquiry might include, but are not limited to:
• Discourses on the politics of representation
• Visuality and spectatorship
• Creation of meaning in competing cultural and political arenas
• Theories on political, visual documents
• Documenting the political process
• Alternative visual histories
• Visual, political texts involving memory
• How visual media create and sustain political dichotomies
The Keynote speaker for this year's conference will be Matthew Frye Jacobson of Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/amstud/faculty/jacobson.html). Jacobson, a professor of American Studies, History, and African American Studies at Yale and author of five books in the areas of immigration, race, empire, and US political culture, launched his online visual history project, Historian's Eye, (http://historianseye.commons.yale.edu/) in 2009 to answer a central question: "What does the current historical moment look like where you live?" This conference maintains that the current events that take place in the streets are of historical significance and that, when given an diverse range of study, captures in rich detail the wide-ranging historical forces sweeping through American Main Streets.
The Conference Committee invites all those interested to submit abstracts of up to 500 words for individual papers, or up to 750 words for panel submissions, no later than May 1, 2012. Please also submit a current one-page CV with contact information (especially your email address) for each presenter, and a list of any audio and/or visual equipment necessary for your presentation. Email submissions to SLUVCC2012@gmail.com.
Please visit the conference's website at http://www.sluvcc2012.blogspot.com and
follow us on Twitter @SLU_VCC_2012. For further information about the
conference, please contact Conference Chair Mike McCollum at Atl2boulder@gmail.com.
2012 Frederick Catherine Lauritsen Lecture featuring Prof. Edward Champlin
The 2012 Frederick and Catherine Lauritsen Lecture featuring Professor Edward Champlin from Princeton University will be held on Thursday, April 5th. The presentation titled "Sejanus: The Emperor Who Almost Was" will be from 4:00-5:30 pm in room 1210 Heller Hall.
For several years, Lucius Aelius Seianus--Sejanus, as he is known in English--was the effective ruler of the Roman Empire, while the elderly Tiberius (reigned 14-37 CE)--proud, bitter, duplicitous--lived in retirement on Capri. As the second man in Rome, Sejanus accumulated unprecedented honors and powers; he was even worshipped as a god, and he ruthlessly removed all rivals on his bloody ascent.
On October 18, 31 CE, Sejanus sat in a meeting of the senate to listen as a letter from Capri was read out which, he was assured, would grant him the one power he lacked to make him the equal of Tiberius. To his utter astonishment, Tiberius' letter attacked him before the stunned senators. He was arrested, condemned and executed later that day, and for three days a mob abused his corpse before tossing it into the Tiber.
Sejanus is commonly portrayed as a two-dimensional monster, devoid of personality: lust for power is his only personal trait and the driving force behind his perpetual machinations. Surely there is more to say than this.
Edward Champlin is the Cotsen Professor of Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Classics Department at Princeton University. Professor Champlin's publications include Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980), Final Judgments: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C. to A.D. 250 (1991), and Nero (2003). His teaching focuses on Roman social and cultural history of the Late Republic and Early Empire, a mélange of literary, legal, material, topographical, anosmatic, and most recently mythological and folkloric elements.
A reception follows Professor Champlin's talk. To RSVP and request disability accommodations: history@umn.edu or 612-624-2800
For several years, Lucius Aelius Seianus--Sejanus, as he is known in English--was the effective ruler of the Roman Empire, while the elderly Tiberius (reigned 14-37 CE)--proud, bitter, duplicitous--lived in retirement on Capri. As the second man in Rome, Sejanus accumulated unprecedented honors and powers; he was even worshipped as a god, and he ruthlessly removed all rivals on his bloody ascent.
On October 18, 31 CE, Sejanus sat in a meeting of the senate to listen as a letter from Capri was read out which, he was assured, would grant him the one power he lacked to make him the equal of Tiberius. To his utter astonishment, Tiberius' letter attacked him before the stunned senators. He was arrested, condemned and executed later that day, and for three days a mob abused his corpse before tossing it into the Tiber.
Sejanus is commonly portrayed as a two-dimensional monster, devoid of personality: lust for power is his only personal trait and the driving force behind his perpetual machinations. Surely there is more to say than this.
Edward Champlin is the Cotsen Professor of Humanities and Professor and Chair of the Classics Department at Princeton University. Professor Champlin's publications include Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980), Final Judgments: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C. to A.D. 250 (1991), and Nero (2003). His teaching focuses on Roman social and cultural history of the Late Republic and Early Empire, a mélange of literary, legal, material, topographical, anosmatic, and most recently mythological and folkloric elements.
A reception follows Professor Champlin's talk. To RSVP and request disability accommodations: history@umn.edu or 612-624-2800
Seeking Nominations: COGS Outstanding Faculty Award
The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) is currently accepting nominations for the third annual outstanding faculty awards. The awards are chosen by graduate students to recognize those faculty members that went above and beyond to help graduate students succeed. The deadline for submitting nominations has been extended to Friday, March 9th. Click here for more info.
Wiggins review in World Film Locations: Las Vegas
Current Graduate Student, Ben Wiggin's review of the film Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was published in World Film Locations: Las Vegas (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Click here for more info.
Schneider-Mayerson review in World Film Locations: Las Vegas
Current Graduate Student, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson's review of the film Rocky IV was published in the World Film Locations: Las Vegas (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Click here for more info.
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