Octavia Butler's Afrofuturistic Visions: Reframing Identity, Culture, and History

THE NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce its call for papers for the 50^th Anniversary Convention, Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturistic Visions: Reframing Identity, Culture, and History, in Washington, DC, March 21-24, 2019. Submissions are due by Sunday, September 30. For more information and to submit, click here.

Geographies of Gesture: Representing Intercultural Affects in Mexico, India and the Caribbean

THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE ARTS & DANCE present Geographies of Gesture: Representing Intercultural Affects in Mexico, India, and the Caribbean on Friday, September 28 at 3:30 PM in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Room 25.

Critical Conversation Series: Water Protectors Resist Line 3 Teach-In

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES presents Critical Conversation Series: Water Protectors Resist Line 3 Teach-In on Wednesday, October 24 from 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM in Mayo Memorial Building Room C231 (Todd Amphitheatre). For more information, click here.

Social Justice Movie Marathon

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES is hosting a Social Justice Movie Marathon on Monday, October 1 from 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM in Bruininks Hall Room 114. For more information, click here or here.

Princeton University Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship in American Studies

THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ANSCHUTZ DISTINGUISHED FELLOWSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES will be awarded in the 2019-2020 academic year to a distinguished writer, critic, journalist, musician, artist, or other contributor to the arts letters, public service, or commerce. The selection committee will place great weight on the candidate’s teaching ability as well as the rigor, innovation, and interdisciplinary emphasis of the proposed semester course. A fellow who must relocate to Princeton will receive a five-month salary of $90,000, plus benefits, and a fellowship who commutes to campus will receive a five-month salary of $60,000, plus benefits. Applications are due by Tuesday, December 1 at 11:59 PM. For more information, click here.

Community Conversation: The Political Imagery of our Dead

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES is pleased to announce that faulty members Karen Mary Davalos and Gabriela Spears-Rico will be participating in the Twin Cities Latinx Music & Arts Festival Community Conversation: The political Imagery of out Dead on Saturday, October 20 from 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM at the Modus Locus Gallery. For more information, click here.

Center For Educational Innovation Online Seminars

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION is hosting two Developing Effective Online Learning Spaces: Online Seminars: Designing Online Course in fall 2018 and Advancing Engagement & Course Design in spring 2019. For more information, click here.

UVA Joint Tenure-Track Position in Native North American Studies

THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES invite applications for a joint tenure-track position in Native North American Studies at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Applicants must be on track to receive a PhD in American Studies, Anthropology, Religious Studies, or other relevant fields by August 2019 and must how a PhD at the time of appointment. For more information and to apply, click here.

Teaching Assistant and Postdoc Professional Development Program

THE CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION is offering the Teaching Assistant and Postdoc Professional Development Program. This program offers graduate students and postdocs formal recognition for investing in teaching-related professional development. Participants must attend six workshops over a two-year period, submit a reflective essay, and arrange for a midterm student feedback session. For more information, click here.

San Francisco State University tenure-track Assistant Professor

SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Feminist Studies in the Department of Women and Gender Studies beginning August 2019. Candidates will teach courses in the areas of either religion and secularism, diaspora and migration; or environmental racism, indigenous feminisms; and other related areas of specialization, as well as in their core curriculum. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Feminist, Gender, Sexuality or related fields from the social sciences, humanities or law. Applications are due by Tuesday, October 23. For more information, click here.

Forty Years of PTSD: The brain Sciences Center's Drive to Discover its Causes

THE CLA INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE WORKSHOP ON MEMORY, TRAUMA, AND HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE CROSSROADS OF ART AND SCIENCE presents a public lecture, “Forty Years of PTSD: The Brain Sciences Center’s Drive to Discover its Causes” with Brian Engdahl on Tuesday, September 25 from 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM at the Carlson School of Management Room 2-219. For more information, click here.

"Am I Why I Can't Have Nice Things? A Reflection on Personal Trauma, Networked Play, and Ethical Sight

THE CRITICAL SOCIAL MEDIA SPEAKER SERIES presents Dr. Whitney Philips, “Am I Why I Can’t Have Nice Things? A Reflection on Personal Trauma, Networked Play, and Ethical Sight”, on Tuesday, September 25 at 3:00 PM in Nicholson Hall Room 135. For more information, see below.

Critical Social Media Speaker Series

Dr. Whitney Phillips, Syracuse University

"Am I Why I Can't Have Nice Things? A Reflection on Personal Trauma, Networked Play, and Ethical Sight"

Tuesday Sept. 25, 135 Nicholson Hall, 3pm

In 2015, Whitney Phillips published her dissertation book This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press). Although readers would have no way of knowing it, this book is a survivor narrative, forged from an experience of sexual trauma and intimate partner abuse that occurred during graduate school. In exploring the personal, political, and even methodological impact of these experiences, Phillips will highlight three broad takeaways. First is the deep interconnection between how people see and experience the world in embodied spaces, and how this embodiment influences what is seen, really what can be seen, on the internet. Second is the ambivalence of connection; the fact that our online networks are as capable of harming as they are of supporting. Third is the reciprocity of care, and the ways empathy directed externally cultivates empathy directed internally, and vice versa. Through these discussions, the talk will explore what can happen when we look beyond our screens, and open ourselves up to the lives of others.

Whitney Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Communication, Culture, and Digital Technologies at Syracuse University. She holds a PhD in English with a folklore structured emphasis (digital culture focus) from the University of Oregon, and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. She is the author of 2015’s This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (MIT Press), co-author of The Ambivalent Internet: Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online (Polity Press), and author of a three-part ethnographic study “The Oxygen of Amplification: Better Practices for Reporting on Far Right Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators” (Data & Society). She is working on a third book titled You Are Here: Networked Manipulation in the Digital Age.

The Critical Social Media Speakers Series is supported through a Provost's Imagine Fund Special Events Grant. For accommodations or access information, contact Caroline Bayne at bayne016@umn.edu. For more information about the Critical Social Media Speakers Series, contact Laurie Ouellette at ouell031@umn.edu.

American Justice: A Discussion about Race and Bias in the Legal System

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY presents American Justice: A Discussion about Race and Bias in the Legal System with Nancy Gertner and Lecia Brooks on Thursday, October 11 from 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM in Mondale Hall Room 25. For more information, click here. There will be a panel discussion following the presentation at 3:30 PM in the Best Buy Theater in Northrop Auditorium. For more information, click here.

Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams: A Kick off Discussion Event

THE CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES COLELCTIVE presents “Dreaming Wild Disability Justice Dreams: A Kick Off Discussion Event” on Thursday, September 27 from 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM in Nolte Room 140. For more information, click here. For more information on the Critical Disability Studies Collective, click hereor here.

Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology

THE PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE presents “Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology” on Friday, September 28 at 3:35 PM in Nicholson Hall Room 275. For more information, see below. 

Topic: "Exploring Hapticity, Slavery and the Emergence of American Gynecology"

Date: Friday, September 28, 2018 - 3:35pm

Location: 275 Nicholson Hall on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.)

Speaker: Deirdre Cooper Owens, Department of History, Queens College, CUNY

In this talk, Cooper Owens explores how enslaved women's perceptions of their senses (sights, sounds, touch, and taste), influenced their behavior and healing while they underwent gynecologic surgeries. She asserts that slavery studies and medical history sits at the center of haptic studies and in order to understand the medical lives of enslaved people, we must understand their responses to their environments and also, the new ethic of being early gynecologists created out of these encounters.

Queering the Resistance: Intersectional Justice

THE FEMINIST STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF GENDER, WOMEN & SEXUALITY STUDIES presents “Queering the Resistance: Intersectional Justice” with Falastine Dwikat on Friday, September 28 from 1:30 PM – 3:00 in Walter Library Room 401/402. For more information, click here.

Chris Wells - "A Fine Art in Danger": Marshall Stearns's Jazz Dance Advocacy in the Age of Forlorism and Scientism

THE MUSIC & SOUND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH GROUP is hosting Chris Wells for his talk, “A Fine Art in Danger”: Marshall Stearns’s Jazz Dance Advocacy in the Age of Folklorism and Scientism on Friday, September 21 at 4:00 PM in Ferguson Hall Room 280. For more information, click here.

The Consolidation of Slave Law in England's Greater Caribbean: Jamaica and South Carolina - Legal History Workshop

THE LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP’S first session will be held on Thursday, September 20 from 4:05 PM- 6:00 PM in Mondale Hall Room N202. Professor Rugemer will be presenting the chapter “The Consolidation of Slave Law in England’s Greater Caribbean: Jamaica and South Carolina” from his forthcoming book, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World. For more information, click hereor here.

The Circle of Indigenous Nations - Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

THE CIRCLE OF INDIGENOUS NATIONS presents September Special Speaker, Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, on Thursday, September 27 at 12:00 PM in Appleby Hall Room 322. For more information, click here.

"Border Checkpoint Assemblages: Interior Checkpoints as Multidimensional Strategic Whiteness"

COMMUNICATION STUDIES faculty member, Dr. Michael Lechuga will present “Border Checkpoint Assemblages: Interior Checkpoints as Multidimensional Strategic Whiteness” on Friday, September 28 from 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM in Ford Hall Room 115. For more information, see below. 

This presentation focuses on the dozens of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) interior border checkpoints (IBCs) that are scattered throughout the US American Southwest. I argue that these assemblages of state control distribute nationalist state power discursively and materially near the México/US border, territorializing the region as an anti-migrant space of white US citizenship. I layer Latina/o/x Rhetorical Studies scholarship on bordering and exclusion over a materialist theory of assemblages to make sense of how interior checkpoints utilize multidimensional expressions of statehood to control the movements of Latina/o/x migrants and citizen communities inside the boundaries of the US. I describe the legal apparatuses that justify the use of IBCs and how CBP enforcement protocol is materialized at IBCs, including a brief discussion of border security technology and personnel. I focus specifically on the role the IBCs play in enforcing the US’s anti-migration laws that target Latina/o/x migrants, residents, and US citizens moving through and around the checkpoints. This talk ends with a discussion of the importance of adopting critical and complex rhetorical frameworks to study the multidimensional expressions of nationalist power over communities of color. 

Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood Symposium

THE IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER is hosting "Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood Symposium" on Friday, September 21 at 9:00 AM in the Elmer L. Andersen Library Room 120. This one-day symposium explores the history and contemporary politics of child migration, as well as the fundamental discourses of governances – the global "regimes of childhood" – that have worked to regulate the movement of children, across time and space. For more information, click here.

Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World Fellowship Spring 2019

THE CONSORTIUM FOR THE STUDY OF THE PREMODERN WORLD FELLOWSHIP is now accepting applications for spring 2019. This fellowship will provide funding for five to six graduate students beginning their dissertation research to participate in the CSPW Dissertation Fellowship Program. The goal of the weekly workshop is to help doctoral students early in their dissertation projects think about their work in comparative, premodern, global, and interdisciplinary ways. Applications are due by Friday, September 28 at 11:59 PM. For more information, click here.

Poet, Patricia Smith Reading

THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM is presenting poet Patricia Smith on Wednesday, September 26 at 7:00 PM in the Weisman Art Museum. For more information, click here.

People of Color Career Fair

THE PEOPLE OF COLOR CAREER FAIR is on Wednesday, October 10 from 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM in the Minneapolis Convention Center Room 200. For more information, click here. 

Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop

THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY is now accepting applications for the 2019 Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop. Participants will learn how to leverage their skills and training towards careers in the private sector, the non-profit world, arts administration, public media, and other fields. The IAS will nominate one doctoral student for the Summer 2019 workshop. The deadline for applications is Friday, October 12. For more information, click here. 

Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence Conference

THE MOVING IMAGE & MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE GROUP WITH CULTURAL STUDIES & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE are pleased to announce their Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence conference on October 12 – 13. For more information, click here.

Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference

THE 2019 AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE is pleased to announce its call for proposals for its conference Community, Conflict, and “the Meaning of America”on July 14 – 16, 2019. They welcome proposals for individual papers or panel sessions on the conference theme. The deadline for proposals is Tuesday, January 15, 2019. For more information, click here.

Mouloud Boukala Lecture: "Bandes dessinées et handicap"

THE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN is pleased to present Mouloud Boukala’s Lecture: “Bandes dessinées et handicap” on Tuesday, September 18 at 4:30 in Folwell Hall Room 108. For more information click here. 

Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

THE INTERDISCIPLINARY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP is pleased to announce that it is now accepting applications. Students applying for the IDF for the 2019 – 2020 academic year should have an intended graduation term of no earlier than spring 2021. Students who are seeking funding for their final year are encouraged to apply for the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. This fellowship provides a unique opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research to study with faculty at one of the University’s interdisciplinary research centers or institutes during their fellowship year. Applications are due by Monday, October 22. For more information, see below. 

View this email in your web browser Directors of Graduate Studies: As we come closer to the start of the academic year, we are once again preparing for some of our major University fellowships to open for new applications. This year, we are making a change to the eligibility requirements on one such award, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF). The Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship (IDF) provides a unique opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research to study with faculty at one of the University’s interdisciplinary research centers or institutes during their fellowship year. Applicants designate the host center or institute they believe is the best match with their planned dissertation topic, contingent upon endorsement by the host center or institute. One of the major goals for the IDF is that students who are selected for this fellowship are able to incorporate the interdisciplinary work of their host center into some aspect of their eventual dissertation. However, over the past several years, many of our IDF fellows have been entering their final year of study, and the impact of their time at their host institute has been far more minimal than what we would expect for a student receiving this unique opportunity. Therefore, we have decided to update our eligibility requirements to specify that students applying for the IDF for the 2019-20 academic year should have an intended graduation term of no earlier than spring 2021. Students who are seeking funding for their final year of study are encouraged to apply for the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF). Thank you for your continued support of the IDF fellowship. The official announcement calling for new applications will be sent to your program in early September. Please let us know if you have questions regarding this fellowship in the meantime. Thank you, Scott Lanyon Vice Provost & Dean of Graduate Education This email is being sent to Directors of Graduate Studies and Graduate Program Coordinators. This email was sent by: The Graduate School 321 Johnston Hall, 101 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

Demystifying the Preliminary Process

PROFESSORS LORENA MUNOZ AND JENNIFER PIERCE will be hosting Demystifying the Preliminary Process for graduate students in AMST and GWSS on Friday, November 30 from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in Ford Hall Room 400. 

Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop

PROFESSORS LORENA MUNOZ AND JENNIFER PIERCE will be hosting the grant writing workshop this year. It is open to first and second-year graduate students in AMST and GWSS. (First year students are required to attend.) The workshop will pay special attention to the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship application. The first workshop is on Friday, October 19 from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in Ford Hall Room 400 and will discuss various funding sources and criteria for a successful application. The second workshop is on Friday, November 16 from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in Ford Hall Room 400 and will give students the opportunity to receive feedback on the proposals they have written. 

7th Annual Twin Cities Social Justice Education Fair

THE SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION MOVEMENT is now accepting workshop proposals for the 7^thAnnual Twin Cities Social Justice Education Fair on Thursday, October 18 at Johnson High School in St. Paul. Workshop proposals are due by Sunday, September 16. For more information and to submit your proposal, click here.

Graduate Student Parent Group

JOIN THE GRADUATE STUDENT PARENT GROUP, hosted by the Student Parent Help Center, for conversation and connection with other student parents around campus over a light lunch on Fridays, beginning September 14 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM in Appleby Hall Room 41. For more information, click here.

Mid-America American Studies PhD Student Representative

The department is currently up for a new Mid-America American Studies PhD student representative. The term commitment is two calendar years. The position requires participating in two board meetings a year and general volunteer work on behalf of the organization. The representative must be a current PhD student in AMST for the term. For more information, please contact Sarah Atwood (atwoo049@umn.edu).

Fall Environmental Justice Symposium

THE DEPARTMENT OF CHICANO AND LATINO STUDIES is cosponsoring the Fall Environmental Justice Symposium with Voices for Environmental Justice on Wednesday, October 17 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM at the student union. This symposium will bring students and faculty together with community leaders to discuss the importance of environmental justice as well as how UMN can become a cutting-edge site for environmental justice scholarship and meaningful community partnerships in the future. Indigenous Environmental Network Director, Tom Goldtooth, will be the keynote speaker at this event.

Teach-In

THE RACE, INDIGENEITY, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES INITIATIVE is cohosting Teach-in on Friday, September 14 from 11:30 Am – 3:30 PM in Walter Library Room 402. Faculty and scholars will make short presentations throughout the time-period. Attendees are invited to stay for the entirety of the event or just listen in on a few sessions. There will be time for discussion, as well as Q&A. For more information, click here.

Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

THE WORKSHOP ON THE COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY is currently seeking faculty and graduate student work for the Fall 2018 schedule. Submitted work could include conference papers, dissertation chapters, syllabi, article drafts, prospectuses, or any other kind of work in progress that addresses the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. If you would like to share a paper or other work, or serve as a faculty commentator this fall, please contact wchwgs1@umn.edu. For more information, see below.

The Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WCHWGS, or "witch-y wigs,") is currently seeking faculty and graduate student work for the Fall 2018 schedule. Submitted work could include conference papers, dissertation chapters, syllabi, article drafts, prospectuses, or any other kind of work in progress that addresses the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality in some fashion, and we welcome work at all stages of the writing process. 

Once you are on the schedule, we will ask you for a copy of your work a week before the date you are set to present so we may distribute it to our list-serv. At the workshop itself, which is normally held on Fridays from 3:30-5:00pm, a faculty member will open the discussion on your paper with a comment. After the comment, you will have room to respond, and then discussion will open up to workshop members. 

If you are interested in sharing a paper or other work, or serving as a faculty commentator this fall, please contact Ai Miller (mill7176@umn.edu), Emma Snowden (snowd030@umn.edu), or Sarah Chambers (chambers@umn.edu), this year's coordinators of WCHWGS, or through this account (wchwgs1@umn.edu). If you'd like to be added to the list-serv and attend the workshop, please also feel free to reach out.