The University of California-Davis invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track professor (rank open) in Comparative Race and Ethnicity or African Diaspora Studies Professor, to begin July 1st, 2013. The successful candidate should complement the strengths and goals of the African American and African Studies Program at UC Davis. Applicants must hold the PhD or equivalent degree in a relevant field. Review of applications begins September 30th, 2012. Click here for more info.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
CFP: "Global Queerness" Conference at Wooster
Submissions are invited for the conference "Global Queerness: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Human Rights in the 21st Century" to be held October 4-7, 2012 at the College of Wooster. This is a queer-focused conference designed for scholars, students, creative writers, human rights advocates, and performance artists to present and discuss their work and to exchange and encourage new ways of engaging with LGBTQ issues across disciplines and institutions. Submission deadline: August 15, 2012. Click here for more info.
A Guide to Anthropology Plus
Our librarian Nancy Herther has put together a guide to help with the changes underway with Anthropology Plus. To view the guide, please click here.
AFRO 5625 Fall 2012
AFRO 5625 "Black Women Writers in Diaspora" will be taught by Prof. Njeri Githire this fall 2012 semester Tuesdays from 2:30-5:00pm. For a course flier, please click here.
Tenure Track WGS Studies Assistant Professor Position at Washington University
The Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis seeks to hire an Assistant Professor on the tenure track with a research focus in Sexuality Studies. They strongly encourage applications from scholars developing a strong research profile in any area of sexuality studies, and they are particularly interested in candidates who focus on queer theory, transnational studies, and/or masculinity studies. Candidates must have completed the PhD by summer 2013. Application deadline: October 15, 2012. Click here for more info.
Two Writing & Teaching Consultant Positions U of M
The University of Minnesota has opened a search for two Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing In the Disciplines Teaching Consultants. Responsibilities of these positions include co-leading our popular Teaching with Writing series and serving as key members of the Writing-Enriched Curriculum (WEC) project tem. At the time of application, candidates must have an advanced, terminal degree, and more than two years teaching writing or teaching with writing. Review of applications begins August 7th, 2012. For full qualifications and more info, please click here.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
PCard Receipts Due
Please submit PCard receipts for all July purchases to Laura by Wednesday, August 1st.
For a generic coversheet, click here.
For a generic coversheet, click here.
CFP: 2014 Transgender Studies Quarterly Inaugural Publication
Submissions are invited for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies," to be published by Duke University Press in 2014. The intention is to showcase a wide range of viewpoints on the present state of the field by bringing together fresh thoughts and informed opinion about current concepts, key terms, recurring themes, familiar problems, and hot topics in the field. Inquiries due by Tuesday, September 4th, 2012. Continue reading for complete info.
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Announcement of Publication and First Call for Submissions
Announcement of Publication
General Editors Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker are pleased to announce that TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly will be published by Duke University Press, currently planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Every issue of TSQ will be a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces.
The first four themes have been selected to highlight the scope and diversity of the field:
• TSQ 1:1 will be a collection of short essays on key concepts in transgender studies, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies."
• TSQ 1:2, "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary," will explore cross-cultural analysis of sex/gender variation, and bring transgender studies into critical engagement with ethnography and anthropology.
• TSQ 1:3, "Making Transgender Count," co-edited with the Williams Institute's GENIUSS group (Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance), will tackle such issues as population studies, demography, epidemiology, and quantitative methods.
• TSQ 1:4 "Trans Cultural Production," will be devoted to the arts, film, literature, and performance.
CFPs for TSQ 1:2-4 will be issued in the months ahead. Proposals for issues starting with TSQ 2:1 (2015) are welcome at any time, and will be reviewed on an on-going basis. Please send inquiries to tsqjournal@gmail.com.
Call for Submissions for TSQ 1:1 (2014)
We invite submissions of short pieces (250-1500 words) for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies," to be published by Duke University Press and planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. Our intention is to showcase a wide range of viewpoints on the present state of the field by bringing together fresh thoughts and informed opinion about current concepts, key terms, recurring themes, familiar problems, and hot topics in the field. Each piece should have a title consisting of a single word or short phrase describing its content; the volume will be organized alphabetically by that title.
Articles may be written in the style of a mini-essay, as in Raymond Williams' classic Keywords; as a factual encyclopedia-style article such as might be found on Wikipedia; as a capsule review of transgender-related developments in a particular field (archeology, musicology), geographical location (Iran, Taiwan), or a topic (pornography, psychoanalysis). Creative interpretations of the required form are also welcome. However, each article must address the topic under discussion in relation to some aspect of transgender studies or transgender phenomena.
Contributors are free to propose topics of their own, or to choose from the following suggestions of key terms and concepts: ability, abject, activism, administration, aesthetics, agency, aging, affect, anarchy, animal, anti-heteronormativity, architectonic,
archive, asexual, assemblage, authentic, becoming, bureaucracy, binary, biology,
biopolitics, biotechnology, bisexual, body, body part, border, built environment,
burlesque, capital, castration, children, choice, class, clinic, colonization, color, commodity, commons, community, condition, construction, cosmetic, cross-dressing, cut, dance, death drive, decadence, decolonize, deconstruction, degenerate, desire, deterritorialization, diagnosis, diaspora, difference, digital, disability, discipline, discrimination, diversity, drugs, embodiment, empire, employment, epistemology, erotic, error, essence, ethics, ethnology, ethnic, ethology, etiology, eugenics, exception, exotic, experiment, fake, fantasy, fashion, feeling, feminist, fetish, film, forensics, freedom,
fundamentalism, futurity, gay, gender, gender-variant, genderqueer, genetic, genitals, gesture, global, habit, haptic, hate crime, haunting, health, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, homosexuality, hormones, hybrid, hygiene, ICD, identity, indigeneity, information,
incarceration, institutionalization, interdisciplinary, intersex, jouissance, joy, justice, LGBT, labor, lack, language, law, lesbian, liberation, man, Man, marriage, materiality, media, medicine, memory, migration, misogyny, modernity, monster, morphogenesis, movement, murder, mutilate, necropolitics, network, NGO, non-Western, normal, object, objectification, occupy, ontology, open, organ, origin, original, originary, paradigm, pathology, pedagogy, performativity, performance, pharmaceutical, phenomena, phenomenon, posthuman, policy, political economy, popular culture, population, pornography, poverty, power, practice, premodern, progress, privilege, prostitution, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychosis, public, queer, race, racialization, reality, reform, religion, resistance, revolt, revolution, representation, reproduction, reterritorialization, rhizome, rights, riot, ritual, sacrality, science, science fiction, segregation, sense, sensorium, separatism, sex, sexuality, smell, somatechnics, sound, space, state, sterilization, subaltern, subject, surgery, surveillance, swarm, taste, technique, temporality, terror, third, toilet, touch, trafficking, trans-, transgender, translation, transphobia, transnational, transspecies, transsexual, transversal, transvestite, underground, victim, virtual, vitality, visuality, violence, voice, WPATH, whiteness, will, woman, work, X, xenotransplantation, youth, zoontology.
To be considered for publication, please submit a one-paragraph proposal to tsqjournal@gmail.com, stating the term or concept you'd like to write on, the estimated length of the article, a brief indication of your approach or main idea, and a brief identification of yourself and your qualifications for addressing the topic.
Inquiries are due by Tuesday September 4, 2012; submissions will be due by December 3, 2012, and final revisions will be due by March 4, 2013.
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly
Announcement of Publication and First Call for Submissions
Announcement of Publication
General Editors Paisley Currah and Susan Stryker are pleased to announce that TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly will be published by Duke University Press, currently planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. TSQ aims to be the journal of record for the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies, and to promote the widest possible range of perspectives on transgender phenomena broadly defined. Every issue of TSQ will be a specially themed issue that also contains regularly recurring features such as reviews, interviews, and opinion pieces.
The first four themes have been selected to highlight the scope and diversity of the field:
• TSQ 1:1 will be a collection of short essays on key concepts in transgender studies, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies."
• TSQ 1:2, "Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary," will explore cross-cultural analysis of sex/gender variation, and bring transgender studies into critical engagement with ethnography and anthropology.
• TSQ 1:3, "Making Transgender Count," co-edited with the Williams Institute's GENIUSS group (Gender Identity in U.S. Surveillance), will tackle such issues as population studies, demography, epidemiology, and quantitative methods.
• TSQ 1:4 "Trans Cultural Production," will be devoted to the arts, film, literature, and performance.
CFPs for TSQ 1:2-4 will be issued in the months ahead. Proposals for issues starting with TSQ 2:1 (2015) are welcome at any time, and will be reviewed on an on-going basis. Please send inquiries to tsqjournal@gmail.com.
Call for Submissions for TSQ 1:1 (2014)
We invite submissions of short pieces (250-1500 words) for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, "Postposttransexual: Terms for a 21st Century Transgender Studies," to be published by Duke University Press and planned for launch in the first quarter of 2014. Our intention is to showcase a wide range of viewpoints on the present state of the field by bringing together fresh thoughts and informed opinion about current concepts, key terms, recurring themes, familiar problems, and hot topics in the field. Each piece should have a title consisting of a single word or short phrase describing its content; the volume will be organized alphabetically by that title.
Articles may be written in the style of a mini-essay, as in Raymond Williams' classic Keywords; as a factual encyclopedia-style article such as might be found on Wikipedia; as a capsule review of transgender-related developments in a particular field (archeology, musicology), geographical location (Iran, Taiwan), or a topic (pornography, psychoanalysis). Creative interpretations of the required form are also welcome. However, each article must address the topic under discussion in relation to some aspect of transgender studies or transgender phenomena.
Contributors are free to propose topics of their own, or to choose from the following suggestions of key terms and concepts: ability, abject, activism, administration, aesthetics, agency, aging, affect, anarchy, animal, anti-heteronormativity, architectonic,
archive, asexual, assemblage, authentic, becoming, bureaucracy, binary, biology,
biopolitics, biotechnology, bisexual, body, body part, border, built environment,
burlesque, capital, castration, children, choice, class, clinic, colonization, color, commodity, commons, community, condition, construction, cosmetic, cross-dressing, cut, dance, death drive, decadence, decolonize, deconstruction, degenerate, desire, deterritorialization, diagnosis, diaspora, difference, digital, disability, discipline, discrimination, diversity, drugs, embodiment, empire, employment, epistemology, erotic, error, essence, ethics, ethnology, ethnic, ethology, etiology, eugenics, exception, exotic, experiment, fake, fantasy, fashion, feeling, feminist, fetish, film, forensics, freedom,
fundamentalism, futurity, gay, gender, gender-variant, genderqueer, genetic, genitals, gesture, global, habit, haptic, hate crime, haunting, health, HIV/AIDS, homophobia, homosexuality, hormones, hybrid, hygiene, ICD, identity, indigeneity, information,
incarceration, institutionalization, interdisciplinary, intersex, jouissance, joy, justice, LGBT, labor, lack, language, law, lesbian, liberation, man, Man, marriage, materiality, media, medicine, memory, migration, misogyny, modernity, monster, morphogenesis, movement, murder, mutilate, necropolitics, network, NGO, non-Western, normal, object, objectification, occupy, ontology, open, organ, origin, original, originary, paradigm, pathology, pedagogy, performativity, performance, pharmaceutical, phenomena, phenomenon, posthuman, policy, political economy, popular culture, population, pornography, poverty, power, practice, premodern, progress, privilege, prostitution, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychosis, public, queer, race, racialization, reality, reform, religion, resistance, revolt, revolution, representation, reproduction, reterritorialization, rhizome, rights, riot, ritual, sacrality, science, science fiction, segregation, sense, sensorium, separatism, sex, sexuality, smell, somatechnics, sound, space, state, sterilization, subaltern, subject, surgery, surveillance, swarm, taste, technique, temporality, terror, third, toilet, touch, trafficking, trans-, transgender, translation, transphobia, transnational, transspecies, transsexual, transversal, transvestite, underground, victim, virtual, vitality, visuality, violence, voice, WPATH, whiteness, will, woman, work, X, xenotransplantation, youth, zoontology.
To be considered for publication, please submit a one-paragraph proposal to tsqjournal@gmail.com, stating the term or concept you'd like to write on, the estimated length of the article, a brief indication of your approach or main idea, and a brief identification of yourself and your qualifications for addressing the topic.
Inquiries are due by Tuesday September 4, 2012; submissions will be due by December 3, 2012, and final revisions will be due by March 4, 2013.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Workshop for TAs:"Commenting On & Grading Student Writing"
The Center for Writing Annual "Commenting On & Grading Student Writing: A Workshop for Teaching Assistants" will be held August 29th & 30th from 1:00-4:00pm in room 275 Nicholson Hall. In this 2-afternoon seminar, new and veteran teaching assistants will have opportunities to become familiar with strategies and resources supporting effective commenting and grading practices. The workshop is free but registration is required. Click here to register or continue reading for more info.
Important information related to registration:
registration is required: http://writing.umn.edu/myC4W. registrants are expected to attend both days, TAs must register themselves, and a letter of participation will be provided for those who complete the seminar.
Brief description: In this 2-afternoon seminar, new and veteran teaching assistants will have opportunities to become familiar with strategies and resources supporting effective commenting and grading practices. More specifically, they will...
• become familiar with the attributes of MINIMAL marking,
• practice commenting on a diverse sampling of student writing,
• discuss methods for identifying and using fair grading criteria and for working with criteria supplied by others,
• practice assigning grades to an array of of student writing from social sciences, sciences, humanities, etc., and
• learn strategies recommended by a panel of experienced TAs.
This workshop has been well received by graduate students in the past; many indicate that it provided them with pragmatic, foundational response practices. Please forward thismessage to any interested graduate student TAs.
Looking forward to another lively workshop!
Important information related to registration:
registration is required: http://writing.umn.edu/myC4W. registrants are expected to attend both days, TAs must register themselves, and a letter of participation will be provided for those who complete the seminar.
Brief description: In this 2-afternoon seminar, new and veteran teaching assistants will have opportunities to become familiar with strategies and resources supporting effective commenting and grading practices. More specifically, they will...
• become familiar with the attributes of MINIMAL marking,
• practice commenting on a diverse sampling of student writing,
• discuss methods for identifying and using fair grading criteria and for working with criteria supplied by others,
• practice assigning grades to an array of of student writing from social sciences, sciences, humanities, etc., and
• learn strategies recommended by a panel of experienced TAs.
This workshop has been well received by graduate students in the past; many indicate that it provided them with pragmatic, foundational response practices. Please forward thismessage to any interested graduate student TAs.
Looking forward to another lively workshop!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
SLHS 5900 Fall 2012
SLHS 5900 Foundations of Disability Studies will be taught by Prof. Alex Lubet this fall 2012 semester on Thursdays 9:05am-12:00pm. This course is primarily organized around intersections of disability issues with those women and ethnic/racial and sexual/gender minorities, with additional units on deafness/Deaf Culture and disability in the university.
NEW COURSE
FOUNDATIONS OF DISABILITY STUDIES
Instructor: Alex Lubet
SLHS 5900
FALL 2012
Th 9:05-12:00
Shevlin 110
Disability Studies examines disability in an interdisciplinary, sociocultural context, foregrounding this community's human and civil rights, access to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and education, minority status, and identity, over diagnosis, treatment, and other, often oppressive, forms of medicalization and social pathologization. This course, the first of its kind at the U of M, is primarily organized around intersections of disability issues with those women and ethnic/racial and sexual/gender minorities, with additional units on deafness/Deaf Culture and disability in the university.
The work of the course includes weekly readings, class discussion (led by students whenever possible), short response papers, occasional viewing of films, and (for graduate students) a research prospectus. There are no exams. Teaching is in accordance with the principles of Universal Instructional Design and maximal responsiveness to the need for disability and other accommodations.
Alex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, with additional appointments in American and Jewish Studies, Speech-Language-Hearing-Sciences, and Cognitive Sciences. He is the author of Music, Disability, and Society (2011, Temple University Press) and dozens of articles on disability in the contexts of music, religion, and education. A winner of the 2011 Access Achievement Award for service to the U of M's disability community and past Chair of the University Senate Disability Issues Committee, he is also trained in disability accommodations and Universal Instructional Design, and dedicated to addressing the access concerns of all students.
A draft syllabus may be downloaded at: http://umn.academia.edu/AlexLubet/Papers/1766118/Foundations_of_Disability_Studies
Questions? Contact the instructor at lubet001@umn.edu or 612 624-7840.
Click here for the pdf course flier
NEW COURSE
FOUNDATIONS OF DISABILITY STUDIES
Instructor: Alex Lubet
SLHS 5900
FALL 2012
Th 9:05-12:00
Shevlin 110
Disability Studies examines disability in an interdisciplinary, sociocultural context, foregrounding this community's human and civil rights, access to the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship and education, minority status, and identity, over diagnosis, treatment, and other, often oppressive, forms of medicalization and social pathologization. This course, the first of its kind at the U of M, is primarily organized around intersections of disability issues with those women and ethnic/racial and sexual/gender minorities, with additional units on deafness/Deaf Culture and disability in the university.
The work of the course includes weekly readings, class discussion (led by students whenever possible), short response papers, occasional viewing of films, and (for graduate students) a research prospectus. There are no exams. Teaching is in accordance with the principles of Universal Instructional Design and maximal responsiveness to the need for disability and other accommodations.
Alex Lubet is Morse Alumni/Graduate & Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, with additional appointments in American and Jewish Studies, Speech-Language-Hearing-Sciences, and Cognitive Sciences. He is the author of Music, Disability, and Society (2011, Temple University Press) and dozens of articles on disability in the contexts of music, religion, and education. A winner of the 2011 Access Achievement Award for service to the U of M's disability community and past Chair of the University Senate Disability Issues Committee, he is also trained in disability accommodations and Universal Instructional Design, and dedicated to addressing the access concerns of all students.
A draft syllabus may be downloaded at: http://umn.academia.edu/AlexLubet/Papers/1766118/Foundations_of_Disability_Studies
Questions? Contact the instructor at lubet001@umn.edu or 612 624-7840.
Click here for the pdf course flier
Sunday, July 1, 2012
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