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
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
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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