MAASA 2010 Conference

Mid-America American Studies Association Conference- Call for Papers
March 26-27, 2010 - University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

"Studying 'America?' Critical Conjunctures for the 21st Century"
with Special Session in Honor of the Retirement of David Katzman
and a Special Focus on African American Life and History

In 2010, MAASA will mark the 50th anniversary of American Studies with a conference examining generative moments and regenerative possibilities in scholarship about culture and society in the U.S. This milestone arrives at a time of economic upheaval and self-reflection not only for the U.S. as a nation among other nations, but also for educational institutions and individual departments. Thus, this anniversary provides an opportunity to critically examine American Studies and American Studies as sites for producing ideas about what it means to study America: What is "American Studies" eliding or omitting as it constructs "America" as an object of inquiry? What does it privilege? As departments and institutions downsize, expand, and rethink their missions, questions about the purpose and possibilities of interdisciplinary inquiry become critical. Taking the archive represented by fifty years of American Studies as a starting point--but not an endpoint--we hope to thoughtfully investigate the political, cultural, and economic ramifications attending current and past paradigms for studying "America."

In addition, the conference will honor the retirement of David Katzman, longtime editor of the journal American Studies, and author of Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century (1973); Seven Days a Week: Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America (1978); 3 edited collections; and, with Mary Beth Norton and William M. Tuttle, People and a Nation (1982).

We seek panels, workshops, discussions, or other forms of creative expression that may address the conference themes by 1) investigating past, present, and potential paradigms of interdisciplinary work in publications, in the academy, in the media, in public performances, and in the community or 2) modeling the variety of contemporary ways of engaging the study of America."

Proposals are due on or before December 15, 2009. Proposals for complete panels/discussions are preferred over individual submissions. Panel proposals should include 1) session title, 2) session abstract (250 words or less), 3) titles of individual papers, 4) abstracts of individual papers (250 words or less), and 5) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals for discussions or creative presentations should include 1) Session title; 2) session abstract (500 words or less), and 3) information for each participant (name, contact information, affiliation, 1-page CV). Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single Word document to midamerica.asa@gmail.com.

For conference updates and information, please visit our website at http://midamerica-asa.net.

San Francisco State University Assistant Professor Position

The College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University invites
applications for a full-time tenure-track position in the Asian American
Studies Department with specialization in Chinese American Studies, to
commence Fall 2010 semester (Search #2.09).

Qualifications: PhD or equivalent terminal degree by August 1, 2010.
Candidates must demonstrate excellence in curricular development and student
advising, ability to teach general and comparative Asian American Studies
courses (both undergraduate and graduate levels), and commitment to
scholarly/professional activities and community service. Open fields of
specialization in the social sciences and humanities. Consideration will be
given to candidates with bilingual/bicultural competency and expertise in
the areas of Chinese American history, literature, writing/composition,
and/or cultural studies.

Rank and Salary: Assistant Professor. Salary commensurate with rank and
qualifications.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2009. Submit application dossier (cover
letter, official transcripts, samples of published or other related
professional works) and a minimum of three references to:

Asian American Studies Hiring Committee, Search #2.09
College of Ethnic Studies - EP 103
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4100

For further information contact aas@sfsu.edu, 415/338-2698

The 2010 Texas Tech University Comparative Literature Symposium on "American Studies as Transnational Practice"

April 9-10, 2010 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, the United
States of America
Texas Tech University houses the internationally known Southwest Collections
and the Vietnam Archives. Spring in Lubbock is mild and sunny.

Keynote Speakers:

Eva Cherniavsky, Department of English, University of Washington
Colleen Lye, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley
Walter Mignolo, Department of Literature, Duke University
Donald Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College

Art Exhibition:

Margarita Cabrera, Mexican artist in El Paso, "US Immigration Policy and
Maquiladora
Practices"
Joomi Chung, Korean artist resident in Miami, Ohio, "Installation Art about
South Korean-U.S.
Relations"
Scott Townsend, U.S. visual artist in Raleigh, North Carolina, "Interactive
Installation and
Film on 'Border Relations'"
Qingsong Wang, Chinese photographer in Shanghai, "Photography and the
Consumerist
Invasion of China"

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010

American Studies as transnational practice not only raises questions on the
changing roles that the United States has played as a great power in the
global arena since the late nineteenth century, but also calls attention to
its own disciplinary premises, interests, and imaginaries in relation to
area studies and comparative literature. As American Studies has recently
intervened in U.S. exceptionalism and neoliberal capitalism in its critique
of discourses that vary from "manifest destiny" to "market democracy," it
also foregrounds its own formation as a product of the Cold War and its
renewed influence in the post-socialist regimes in China, Russia, and East
Europe. Meanwhile, with new paradigm shifts in transnational and global
studies that encompass transoceanic, hemispheric, and planetary
consciousness, how does American Studies negotiate and reconfigure its own
field imaginaries and boundaries? If Hemispheric Studies highlights the
issue of "the Americas," how would its critical disposition "provincialize"
American Studies? If the westward movement in the nineteenth century was
central to U.S. nation-building and the national imaginary, how do the
generations of Mexican presence in the Southwest as well as more recent
northward migrations of Latinos/as impact the U.S. consciousness as
simultaneously old and new national narratives? If Trans-Atlantic movements
have informed and reshaped U.S. literary, cultural, and historical
experiences, then what new possibilities would Trans-Pacific movements pose
for American Studies in the twenty-first century? What are the new
opportunities and challenges if we reconsider U.S. literature, history, and
culture in planetary terms?

This symposium invites presentations that investigate the theory and praxis
involving American Studies in transnational contexts at various historical
junctures, and seeks projects that explore specific cases in U.S. history,
literature, and culture with global dimensions and implications. We welcome
proposals that examine American Studies from U.S. regional locales and
global sites as well as abstracts that reconsider U.S. historical and
cultural experiences in transnational and planetary frameworks.

Topics may include but are not restricted to the following:
-- Rethinking the Boundaries among American Studies, Area Studies, and
Comparative
Literature
-- Empire, Race, and Trans-Atlantic Studies
-- Race, Gender, and Class in Transnational American Studies
-- The Local and the Global in Trans-Pacific Studies
-- Borderland, Natural Environment, and Planetary Consciousness
-- Border Crossing and Critical Cosmopolitanism
-- Border Literature, Chicano/a Theory, and Hemispheric Studies
-- American Studies and Post-socialism in China, Russia, and Eastern
European Countries
-- The Trans-Pacific Movement of Asians in Diaspora
-- Wall Street and the Future of "Market Democracy"
-- Westward Movement and U.S. Southwestern Literature
-- Colonialism and Neocolonialism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
-- Global and Local Wars: Displacement, Migration, and Expulsion
-- The Vietnam War and Vietnamese in Diaspora
-- Transnational Feminist and Queer Studies
-- Postcolonial Studies and beyond
-- The Role of Spanish in American Studies
-- Transnational Cinema
Please send your one-page proposal and one-page C.V. by January 18, 2010:

Dr. Yuan Shu
Department of English
P.O. Box 43091
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-3091

You may email your inquiry, proposal, and C.V. to Dr. Yuan Shu at
(yuan.shu@ttu.edu). Symposium information will be available on our website:
http://english.ttu.edu/complit/.

PCard Receipt Reminder

See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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GEOG 8230: Reading Marxi(sms)

Geography 8230, Reading Marxi(sms), Professor George Henderson, Spring, 2010, Wednesdays 2-4:30 p.m.

This seminar is an introduction to the study of capitalist formations from various Marxist perspectives. It begins with texts written by Marx and proceeds to a selection of authors who follow but also contest and disrupt him. Some of the key questions we will explore are:

• What does it mean to call a social formation capitalist?
• Is capitalism propelled by an "inner logic"?
• Why does capitalism unfold unevenly in time and space?
• What is meant by the concept of value?
• Does the idea of a beyond-capital inhere in the idea of capital itself?

The seminar pays special attention to the idea that Marx's work can be read openly, in an exploratory fashion; it emphasizes the surprising multiplicity of inferences that have been drawn from Marx's work. A substantial part of our time will be spent reading Marx (including Capital, vol. 1, and works written before and after) and a typically overlooked text by David Harvey, The Limits to Capital.

Other authors we will read: J.K. Gibson-Graham, Christopher Arthur, Gayatri Spivak, Nicholas Thoburn, Louis Althusser, Diane Elson, Antonio Negri, Warren Montag, Bertell Ollman, Timothy Mitchell, and others.

* Come to first class having read Ch. 1 of Capital, vol. 1

Student work: Take turns presenting readings and leading weekly discussions; write one paper of 20-25-pages.

Permission number required for enrollment.

PA 8204

If you are interested in economic development policy and planning at both international and domestic scales, consider taking PA 8204, Creating Good Work: Economic and Workforce Development. The course, a seminar format with an online data analysis lab, will meet from 4:00 to 5:15 P.M., Mondays and Wednesdays, with the Lab at 5:30 - 6:20 P.M. on Wednesdays during the Spring 2010 semester.

The course surveys job-oriented economic development in the US and internationally. It explores how urban and regional economies grow, why industries and employers locate where they do, and how workers decide where to live and work. It reviews the strategies and practices that federal, state/provincial and local economic developers use to create jobs, including tax incentives, technological R&D and entrepreneurship, workforce development and infrastructure, evaluating which ones seem to work and how firms can be held accountable for the outcomes. It includes case study material from Brazil, South Korea, Japan, China, Europe and other countries as well as the US, Canada and Mexico, and incorporates material on race, ethnicity, gender and class. We will also examine recent initiatives to harness the "green economy" toward job creation and the revitalization of regional economies.

PA 8204 counts as a domain course for the Humphrey Institute's Masters of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree, and toward the requirements of the Economic and Community Development concentration for the Master's of Public Policy degree. However, students from all degree programs and concentrations are welcomed to take the course. Non-MURP students are strongly encouraged to take PA 5036 (Regional Economic Analysis, 1.5 credits) concurrently, as that course will introduce analysis techniques discussed in PA 8204.

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program

The Social Science Research Council has just announced six areas for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program. The areas are:

After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity
Discrimination Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Contentious Politics
Spaces of Inquiry
Virtual Worlds, and
Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Identity in Western Europe and the United States

A total of 12 students, covering a wide range of disciplines, are admitted to each area. Admitted students attend workshops in June and September of 2010, designed to aid their engagement with the area to which they are admitted.

They encourage promising second- and third-year Ph.D. students to apply to the program. Discrimination Studies (DS) is not about race; instead, Discrimination Studies treats discrimination as a general social phenomenon even as any DS analysis may focus on discrimination concerning a particular social category. Thus, Discrimination Studies extricates the study of discrimination from a focus on race, or sex, or age, or any of many other social categories. There are many means by which the field accomplishes this aim.

The first link below provides general information:

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/

while the next link is specifically for the 2010 areas:

http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/competitions/dpdf-fellowship/9E56E847-B2D3-DE11-9D32-001CC477EC70/

Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences

The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences
(http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu) is pleased to announce a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students at all UMN campuses. This funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad societal implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences.

The Request for Proposals (RFPs) may be found at http://www.lifesci.consortium.umn.edu/rfps/. Deadline for submission is February 8, 2010.

The Consortium currently links 18 University programs and centers to examine the legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by the life sciences.

If you have questions concerning this RFP, please contact Audrey Boyle at Boyle032@umn.edu or 612.626.5624.

The Future of Minority Studies Summer Institute Seminar

This seminar, jointly taught by a humanist and a social scientist, will draw on recent developments in cultural theory and the social sciences in order to examine how the findings and methodologies of very different disciplines and traditions of social inquiry can be integrated. The primary focus will be on questions of social identity and inequality. Using literary and cultural texts (e.g., novels) and social-scientific data, the seminar will address questions of social causation and discursive and textual analysis, and tackle the practical and theoretical problems involved in the formulation of public policy. One key concern will be the recent debates about affirmative action and reparation programs, both in the U.S. and abroad. In a climate where "post raciality" has become a major theme, we will also examine whether redress for race-based disparities can be accomplished with-out the use of racial--and, more broadly, identity-based--classification.

The seminar incorporates 2-3 workshops taught by visiting scholars.

SEMINAR LEADERS

William Darity, Jr.
Public Policy, African and
African American Studies,
and Economics
DUKE UNIVERSITY

Satya P.Mohanty
English
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
____________________________________________________________________

Seminar members will participate in the two-day FMS colloquium on July 30th and 31st.

Eligibility: Doctoral students who have completed at least two years of their Ph.D. work, recent Ph.D.s, and junior faculty in temporary or tenure-track positions who are working on minority issues, are invited to apply to the 2010 FMS Summer Institute. Minority scholars and those who are at HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions are especially encouragedto apply. For the 12-14 scholars selected to participate in the summer institute, subsidy will be available to cover room, board, and (if needed) travel costs. Application deadline: February 1st 2010; results announced by March 8th 2010.

The 2010 FMS Summer Institute will be held at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Updated information about the summer institute, especially the workshops and the colloquium,
will be available at: www.fmsproject.cornell.edu, or email Alice Cho, Coordinator,
FMS Summer Institute, at: fmsproject@cornell.edu

"The Task of the Curator: Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice" Conference

Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to study the poetics and politics of display. This year we are hosting a number of events related to the 2009-2010 research theme, "Critical Curations." We are pleased to welcome Griselda Pollock, Irit Rogoff, and Carolina Ponce de León for our annual Speaker Series. For more information about our organization and events, please visit: http://macs.ucsc.edu/

On May 14, 2010, our year of collaboration will culminate with a conference open to scholars from around the world. "The Task of the Curator" will explore the roles of curators in relation to how objects are displayed in museums and galleries, considering a variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives. The title, inspired by Walter Benjamin's theories of translation, brings attention to the often overlooked or naturalized labor of curators, which involves subtle but nonetheless transformative acts of framing and poetic interpretation. Presenters are encouraged to "look outside of the white box" toward new and alternative display methods. Proposals are due on February 5th, 2010 (instructions below).

A PDF of our CFP and updated information can be found at: http://macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html

CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Keynote Speaker:
MARY NOOTER ROBERTS
World Arts & Cultures, UCLA

Panel Moderators:
JAMES CLIFFORD
History of Consciousness, UCSC

JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ
History of Art & Visual Culture, UCSC

SHANNON JACKSON
Performance Studies & Rhetoric, UC-Berkeley

BETTI-SUE HERTZ
Visual Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Opening Remarks:
LUCIAN GOMOLL
History of Consciousness, UCSC

Closing Remarks:
LISSETTE OLIVARES
History of Consciousness, UCSC

SUBMISSIONS:
Please send the following documents by Friday, February 5, 2010 via e-mail to: macs@ucsc.edu
• 350-500 word abstract
• Curriculum Vitae

We welcome and encourage early submissions. Papers will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the deadline.
Final Drafts will be due Friday, April 23, 2010 to macs@ucsc.edu

POSSIBLE TOPICS:
* Artist as Curator
* Exhibition as Translation
* Critical Histories of the Curator & Curatorial Practices
* Contemporary Approaches to the Art/artifact Debate
* Feminist/Queer Curating
* Radical Curating, Curatorial Interventions
* Marxist Museology, Archival Anarchy
* Curating Performance and/or Performance Art
* Para-Sites: Exhibiting in Alternative Spaces
* New Media & Display Practices
* Disciplining Objects in Museums & Galleries
* Comparative Studies of Exhibitions
* Strategies for Relaying Trauma in Museums & Galleries
* New Approaches to the Archives
* Collaboration and/or Curatorial Collectives
* Producing Virtual Collections & Displays
* Curating and Authorship
* Reflections on Biennale Projects
* Outsider Exhibition Proposals
* Dramaturgy of Display, Experience-Driven Practices
* Addressing Visitors, Imaginary Publics, Engaging Feedback
* Curatorial Mistakes
* Exhibitions & Pedagogy

This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Cultural Studies and the History of Consciousness Department at UC-Santa Cruz.

University of Southern California Call for Papers

This issue of Spectator seeks papers that engage in current debates about "post-identity" and their significance to academic studies of identity and media within national and global contexts. Questions of post-race, post-gender, and post-human identities have been consistently raised within the disciplines of Critical Race Theory, queer theory, new media theory, and gender studies, and this issue will examine the implications of these claims and their relationship to the field of media studies. Academic essays, interviews, and book reviews that interrogate the idea of "transcending" or moving beyond identity, as well as representations of "post-identity" within film, television and new media, are all encouraged for submission. Deadline for submission is November 29, 2009. Send manuscripts in email format to: Janani Subramanian, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California at jananisu@usc.edu.

Fellowships at NYU's Center for the U.S. and the Cold War

New York University's Center for the United States and the Cold War is pleased to announce that it will be offering a dissertation and post-doctoral fellowship as well as several travel grants for the 2010-2011 academic year. Our mission is to support research on the Cold War at home and the ways in which this ideological and geopolitical conflict with the Soviet Union affected American politics, culture, and society. We are particularly interested in proposals that deal with the impact that the Cold War had on the U.S. political economy, the national security state, civil rights, civil liberties, labor relations, and gender relations. The Center also looks forward to supporting projects that relate foreign policy to domestic politics and those that see the central issue as U.S. response to revolutionary nationalism and decolonization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

The application deadline is February 15, 2010. In order to apply, please send the information listed below to Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu
Copy of curriculum vitae.

1. Short project description (five pages maximum).
2. Statement describing the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project.
3. Two letters of recommendation.
4. Writing samples are also welcome (10 page maximum)

Applicants for dissertation fellowships must have passed their comprehensive examinations and expect to complete their dissertations within two years. The post-doctoral fellowship is designed for junior scholars who have received the Ph.D. within the past five years. Travel grants are open to all.

Dissertation fellows will receive stipends of $20,000 for a nine-month academic year; stipends for post-doctoral fellows will be $40,000; and travel grants are $2,000 per month. One-semester fellowships may be offered at half of the above stipends. Health insurance is also available. Office space will be provided and all fellows will have a formal affiliation with New York University.

For more information applicants are encouraged to contact Zuzanna Kobrzynski at zk3@nyu.edu

Department of French and Italian-Northwestern University Call for Proposals

Cultural Bankruptcy: Bail Out or Bonus?
Rethinking Culture in the 21st Century

April 8-10, 2010

Keynote Speakers: Susan Hegeman and Phillip Wegner
Associate Professors of English, University of Florida

The postmodernisms have, in fact, been fascinated precisely by this whole "degraded" landscape of schlock and kitsch, of TV series and Reader's Digest culture, of advertising and motels, of the late show and the grade-B Hollywood film, of so-called
paraliterature, with its airport paperback categories of the gothic and the romance, the popular biography, the murder mystery, and the science fiction or fantasy novel: materials they no longer simply "quote" as a Joyce or a Mahler might have done, but
incorporate into their very substance. ~ Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

The cultural moment that Jameson describes in his 1991 work calls into question the nature of art--broadly understood as visual arts, cinema, architecture, music and literature--in the postmodern society. Devoid of depth and the ability to "think historically," has cultural production truly become nothing but pastiche, art without affect or referent? If Jameson's evaluation is accurate, then we are faced with several particular concerns: the relationship between art and everyday life, canonicity in an age dominated by ideological pluralism, the reinterpretation of high/low distinctions in previous centuries, and the validity of the intellectual categories that have previously served as cornerstones of our discipline--divisions of genre, historical period, national tradition, and medium, to name a few.

Whether our object of study is contemporary culture or the artistic production of past
centuries, as scholars we share this current historical moment in which we write. How does our current cultural moment affect the way we read the past? How are we to understand
culture? What are the implications of theories that attempt to repudiate culture as an object of inquiry? Can cultural production exist independently of capitalism? What is the current relationship between cultural producers and consumers? How has that relationship changed historically? Do modern and traditional forms of pastiche have similar or divergent functions and objects? Where do the historic, the synchronic and/or the diachronic stand in relation to cultural production? How do art and theory mediate the notions of surface and depth? We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines that address the above questions, in whole or in part, or a related topic.

Please submit your abstract of no more than 350 words to culturalbankruptcy@gmail.com by
January 15, 2010. Include your name, address, e-mail address, school affiliation, and any A/V requirements in your email. Notification will be on or before February 15. Papers must be in English and no more than 20 minutes long. Conference participants will have the opportunity both to formally present their paper and to workshop it the following day with the other presenters, the keynote speakers, and the conference moderators. To facilitate this we will require a final copy of the conference paper to be submitted by April 1. For more information, please visit http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/events/culturalbankruptcy.html.

Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies, appointment to begin August 2010, Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. This position is contingent upon budgetary approval. We seek a candidate who demonstrates a strong record of interdisciplinary research and teaching in the field of Women's & Gender Studies, consistent with a tenure-track appointment at a research university. We are interested in a scholar with a strong background in transnational and intersectional feminist theories and methodologies, and are particularly interested in candidates who specialize in Latina, Chicana, Latin American, and/or Caribbean feminist scholarship. Interdisciplinary doctoral training required; Women's Studies or Interdisciplinary Ph.D. preferred.

The candidate's work should complement the mission, goals, and strengths of the WGS Department at SU. The candidate will be expected to contribute to our core undergraduate curriculum and to expand our offerings at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Our department http://wgs.syr.edu/ is distinguished by its commitment to intersectional, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches, and an emphasis on issues of race, class, disability, sexuality, and ethnicity as an inherent part of our signature focus on transnational feminist analyses of gender and gender justice.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

For full consideration, candidates must complete an online Dean/Senior Executive/Faculty Application http://www.sujobopps.com and attach a letter of application and a CV. In addition, a teaching statement, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation are required and should be forwarded separately to: Dr. Vivian May, Chair, Search Committee, Women's & Gender Studies Department, 208 Bowne Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY 13244-1200. Deadline for RECEIPT of all materials is: December 4, 2009. Syracuse University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Mentoring Graduate Students Workshop

The Graduate School and the Student Conflict Resolution Center cordially invite members of the graduate faculty to participate in a workshop on graduate student mentoring:

"Faculty Member as Mentor: Best Practices in the Successful Mentoring of Graduate Students"

***Thursday, December 3
***3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Rooms A,B&C of the Campus Club (Fourth Floor, Coffman Memorial Union)

Mentoring can be one of the most rewarding aspects of a faculty member's career--and it is a critical element in a graduate student's successful development. Yet, not all mentoring relationships yield the desired benefits. What are effective mentoring practices and characteristics of a successful mentoring relationship? What are the barriers to effective mentoring? What are some of the tools and resources available to mentors? This workshop is intended to help mentors of graduate students--as well as aspiring mentors--learn how they can best support a graduate student's professional development goals and career plans. In an interactive session, participants will explore mentoring issues in several contexts (communication, climate, conflict and networking), and tools will be provided that reflect best mentoring practices.

Space is limited and early registration is encouraged at http://www.grad.umn.edu/dgs/workshops/.

Questions may be directed to field001@umn.edu or 612-625-6532.

New College at Arizona State University Assistant Professor Position

The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) in the New
College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. HArCS is
interdisciplinary and committed to a critical examination of human meanings,
values and experience.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach and develop courses in
relevant areas and to engage in creative/collaborative performance
practices. Scholarly research and/or creative activity and service to ASU
and the profession appropriate to tenure track guidelines are expected. Only
candidates with a Ph.D. or M.F.A. at the time of hire and college teaching
experience will be considered. Desirable qualifications include technical
expertise and potential for interdisciplinary collaboration.

HArCS is one of three divisions that comprise ASU's New College of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. It includes several degree programs:
Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance; Women and Gender Studies; English;
History; Integrative Studies; American Studies; Religion and Applied Ethics;
Philosophy. There are two M.A. programs: Interdisciplinary Studies and
Applied Ethics and the Professions. The Interdisciplinary Arts and
Performance (IAP) degree program is the only one of its kind in the
Southwest. IAP offers courses in: Digital Media, Music and Electronic Sound
Art, Performance Studies, and Theater/Performance.

Performance Studies should be conceived in the broadest sense. A candidate's
areas of expertise may include but are not limited to those above, with
scholarly and/or creative/practice performance specialization in:
documentary, documentary studies, sexuality/gender studies, cross-cultural
performance, performance/cultural theory, community/social performance,
performance and technology, Southwest Studies, and/or other fields and
areas.

Send a letter of application, statements describing your research and/or
creative program and teaching philosophy, curriculum vitae, a sample of two
pieces of scholarship and/or creative activity, and three reference letters
electronically to Jamie.Howell@asu.edu (Performance Studies Search
Committee, Attention: Jamie Howell, Arizona State University at the West
Campus, 4701 W. Thunderbird Road, P.O. Box 37100, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100).
All application materials should be submitted as electronic documents (CDs
or DVDs of single artistic works can be mailed under separate cover).

DEADLINE for applications, including materials, is January 8, 2010.

Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.

Yale University Assistant Dean and Director of Native American Cultural Center Position

http://www.yale.edu/hronline/stars/application/external/index.html

STARS Requisition number 8572BR
Department Undergrad Affairs
Posting Position Title Director, Native American Cultural Center and Asst Dean, Yale College
Job Category Managerial & Professional
Work Week Standard - 37.5 hrs (M-F, 8:30-5:00)

Position General Purpose

While reporting to the Dean of Student Affairs, provide strategic direction for the work of the Native-American Cultural Center, and supervise its daily operation. Serve on committees and lead various student and academic programs.

Anticipated start date: Negotiable, but we anticipate July 1, 2010 or thereafter. Review of applications to begin January 19, 2010. Three-year, renewable term appointment.

Essential Duties

1. Manage and oversee the Native-American Cultural Center in all its aspects.

2. Work collaboratively with members of the administration to define the appropriate identity for the Center and to plan for its support and nurture; with undergraduates in developing services, organizing activities and sponsoring events; and with Deans and faculty in academic and personal advising, counseling and guidance matters.

3. Work with the Dean of Admissions and his staff, and with the Dean of Freshman Affairs in admitting and aiding integration of Native-American students into the larger community.

4. Actively work with the Advisory Board to advise and provide support for the Center and its goals. Develop a long-term strategic plan for the Center.

5. Oversee the physical facilities of the Center. Hire, train and supervise student workers. Manage the budget for the Center and assist in seeking additional sources of support.

6. Work cooperatively with directors of cultural centers and other organizations to foster intergroup dialogue and enhance intercultural interactions.

7. Oversee programs in Yale College including serving on committees, chairing committees, running special projects, and working for the welfare of all Yale students.

8. Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

1. Master's Degree in a related field and four years of experience in academic administration or management.

Additional Education and Experience

1. Proven experience in working with students, faculty, academic administrator and community groups.

2. Preferred: PhD in related field.

Skills & Abilities 1. Excellent oral and written communication and analytical skills.

2. Ability to work a schedule that is flexible and includes evenings and occasional weekends.

3. Ability to work independently as well as a committee member and a member of teams.

4. Strong interpersonal and group facilitation skills.

5. Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with senior administrators, staff and faculty.

6. Ability to supervise a staff of professionals, graduate students and undergraduate students.

7. Strong leadership skills, and the ability to create and lead effective teams.

8. Budgeting and strategic planning skills.

9. General computer knowledge and working knowledge with a variety of software packages including Outlook, Word and Excel.

10. Knowledgeable about issues in the Native American communities and a commitment to translating these into a local academic context.
Background Check Requirements All external candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment screening. All offers are contingent on successful completion of a background check.

"Economies in Motion" Call for Papers and Performances

"Economy" most often conjures thoughts of finances and money, or the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods. Yet the economy
and economies proffer rich terrains of exploration for choreographers,
performers, and dance scholars. Inspired by the global financial
crisis, U.S. recession, and unprecedented budget cuts across the UC
system, this year Dance Under Construction will explore and
interrogate "Economies in Motion."

In response to the times, the conference theme intends to investigate
and unravel economies in dance, the body, performance, and other
embodied sites of critical analysis. The economy as defined by its
financial or monetary meaning greatly impacts dance and the study of
dance in a university setting, but there are so many other economies
at play, in motion. Economy also refers to the organization of
something, a system of exchange and interaction. Choreographers
account for these economies (for example, of space, sexuality, gender,
politics, power...the list goes on and on) when creating work and these
encounters and systems of organization are ripe for the picking by
dance scholars.

"Economies in Motion" will be addressed during panels presenting
choreography and paper. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• choreographing the recession
• embodying economies
• economies of politics, gender, race, class, power, etc.
• intimate economies/economies of intimacy, love, sex, sexuality
• global bodies and transnational bodies
• inverting, protesting, and challenging systems of exchange
• performing institutional culture(s)
• transgressing systems of power
• tactics for creative fundraising
• laboring bodies/bodies as labor
• dance and/or bodies as a commodity
• negotiating citizenships and blurring boundaries
• the poetics of economy in movement practice

We invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme
through papers, projects, and performances. Work that utilizes and/or
analyzes various mediums such as dance, film, text, cultural
production, and other performance genres are encouraged. Proposals for
panels, working groups, professional development workshops, and
roundtable discussions are also welcome.

Applicants should submit an abstract (250-300 words) of your paper,
performance, or project and working bibliography, if applicable.
Please include your full name, contact information, institutional
affiliation, brief biography (2-3 sentences), and indicate all
technological and space requirements. Specify in your application
whether a performance space or classroom setting would best suit your
work, and please plan not to exceed a time limit of 20 minutes. DUC
aspires to foster a community and network of support for dancers and
scholars, so please be prepared to talk about your work and to engage
with the work of others.

Please direct your proposals or inquiries to http://us.mc435.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dance_under_construction@yahoo.com
by January 15, 2010.

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Dance Under Construction (DUC) is an interdisciplinary forum for
presenting graduate student work theorizing dance, performance, and
the body. It originated as an initiative of the graduate students of
UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by
various UC campuses. DUC has grown to an annual student-run event for
dance and performance scholars, as well as those in related
disciplines. Designed for the development of intellectual inquiry in a
supportive and rigorous environment, the conference offers students a
chance to explore through experimental modes of research and
performance. This interdisciplinary event provides a rare and
important discursive space for the stimulation and presentation of
cutting-edge research in topics related to the body as a site of
cultural identification.

COMM 8110

COMM 8110 Advanced Topics Seminar for Spring, 2010:
Ethnopoltical Conflicts Worldwide: Multi-disciplinary Approaches, Prevention, and Policy Recommendations

Prof. Rosita Albert
Tues 2:50-5:30 (some flexibility on the schedule possible)

If you are interested in an ethnic conflict and related issues such as globalization, intercultural relations, intergroup relations, immigration, minority/majority relations, media and conflict, etc., this cutting-edge seminar might intrigue you. It is open to graduate students in any related field who want to engage with current work in this area. The seminar will focus on a variety of ethnopolitcal conflicts, on what we can learn about the amelioration and prevention of such conflicts, as well as on recommendations to policy makers.

An exciting part of the seminar will be the rare opportunity for participants to contribute comments to drafts of extensive chapters being submitted for publication in the Handbook of Ethnopolitical Conflict. The Handbook is being edited by Dan Landis and Rosita Albert and will be published by Springer. The chapters cover a wide variety of conflicts, including those in Israel/Palestine, Spain, France, China, India, Mexico, Sudan (Darfur), the Netherlands, Turkey, the Philippines, Peru, Hawaii, Cyprus, and other locations. A number of the chapters deal with immigrants. Others focus on ethnic groups that have been in a location for a long time. Many deal with minority populations.

The authors come from a variety of disciplines and from countries throughout the world. Most of the authors have expertise in intercultural relations. The Handbook will be the first book sponsored by the International Academy for Intercultural Research, a multidisciplinary association of researchers and senior practitioners. One unique feature of the handbook is that authors are following a common outline and are being asked to make recommendations for policy makers.

The seminar will enable participants to gain a broader and deeper understanding of existing conflicts, to enlarge their understanding of approaches to conflict management by reading state-of-the-art materials, to engage with a number of important of issues such as globalization, immigration, minorities, genocide, intergroup relations and related issues, to explore similarities and differences in conflicts in different contexts, regions and countries, and to consider important policy issues.

In addition to drafts of the Handbook, participants will read, discuss, and critique some articles and book chapters, films, videos and other resources from Communication, Psychology, International Relations, Political Science, History and related fields. Course requirements include class contributions (discussions, suggestions of materials, comments, and presentations) and a seminar paper. For further information and/or to indicate your interest on the seminar, please contact Prof. Albert at alber001@umn.edu.

"Rags to Riches to Rags" Film

Minnesota Film Arts, a non-profits arts organization devoted to the
exhibition of international and independent film in Minneapolis currently
has a 3-week Jewish Film Series playing at the Oak Street Cinema, off
Washington in Stadium Village. The Series is made up of seven films and one
of them is called Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags it will play Thursday
November 19th at 7:15pm, this one showing is free to the public.

A little about the film:
New York City's garment district has been a microcosm of the American
economy for the past century. It was the place for new immigrants to start
climbing the ladder. During the early twentieth century, the industry
absorbed Italians and Eastern European Jews who called it the schmatta
business (Yiddish for "rags"). Later, Latinos and other ethnicities
flowed in. For a period, the clothing industry was the biggest employer in
the United States, producing ninety-five per cent of the country's
garments. Today that figure has plummeted to five per cent. In Schmatta:
Rags to Riches to Rags, director Marc Levin explores this dramatic shift in
statistics by looking at the historical context and human faces behind it.

Is Hip Hop History? Conference

February 19-20, 2010 City College Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10004
Is Hip Hop History? Conference

As the first hip-hop conference hosted by a worker education program, the City College Is Hip-Hop History? Conference aims to provide a forum that features the work of researchers, hip-hop industry practitioners, artists, and working adult students.The conference invites proposals that explore how conflicting standards and values by artists and others, challenge hip-hops viability as one of the U.S.'s most important popular cultural forms. We also invite papers that address hip-hops current and potential function among established academic disciplines (education, psychology, history, communication, the arts and social sciences), as well as the role of gender, class and race in assessing the wide range of meaning invested in its various elements. We expect that these bodies of work will appropriately engage and challenge prior scholarship and most importantly, represent the future direction of hip-hop.

Paper, panel and roundtable proposals should be submitted in the form of 200-500 word abstracts. Interested participants should submit an abstract and bio. Abstracts must be 500 words or less, and they should include the title of the paper, a brief bio and description of your current work and interests, and contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department and e-mail address). All abstracts should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document that includes double-spacing, 12 point Times New Roman font, and a header with your name and page numbers. Conference presentations will be approximately 30 minutes.

Elena Romero
The City College Center for Worker Education
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York 10004
Phone (212) 925-6625 x 258
Email: eromero@ccny.cuny.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe

The Charles Warren Center, Harvard University's research center for North American history, invites applications for "The History of North America in Global Perspective." This workshop will explore a theme much discussed of late, as calls have proliferated for a more globalized history of North America. We will gather scholars whose work goes beyond the manifestos and begin to fill in the outlines of a global approach during the past 500 years. How do important events, themes, and episodes appear if we follow causes and consequences and trace networks of connections wherever they may lead, rather than stopping at the water's edge? We seek a range of projects that locate U.S. history and its colonial antecedents in a broader context, whether they emphasize the impact of the "outside world" on North American history, the influence of the U.S. on "other" histories, or combine both. We also seek a wide range of themes and approaches, including cultural, economic, intellectual, political, and social history. Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Sven Beckert and Erez Manela of Harvard's History Department. Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Fellows have library privileges and receive a private office which they must use for at least the 9-month academic year. The Center encourages applications, otherwise consistent with the Workshop theme, relating to the nation's life during and as a consequence of wars, and from qualified applicants who can contribute, through their research and service, to the diversity and excellence of the Harvard community. Stipends: individually determined according to fellow needs and Center resources. Application (on our website or by mail) due Jan. 15, 2010; decisions in early March.

Arthur Patton-Hock, Associate Director
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
Emerson Hall 400
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617-495-3591
fax: 617-496-2111
Email: apattonh@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture10-11.html

Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute proposes to award two Polonsky Postdoctoral Fellowships, in any field of the Humanities or Social Sciences, for a period of up to five years, beginning October 1, 2010. The Fellowships offer an annual stipend of $40,000. Yearly renewal of the Fellowships will be contingent upon demonstrated progress in research. Fellows will be expected to work on their research at the Institute for consecutive years during the period of the award.
Although these are postdoctoral fellowships, other candidates may be considered in those fields in which a doctoral degree is not a prerequisite for career progress.

Candidates should submit the following documents in English to polonsky@vanleer.org.il: statement of research plans (3-5 pages, with title); summary of your previous research (3 pages); one published article or equivalent unpublished work; curriculum vitae, including list of publications; names and contact information for 3 possible recommendations. Please indicate where you saw this advertisement. The deadline for submission of completed applications is January 31, 2010.

Polonsky Fellowships Committee
Email: polonsky@vanleer.org.il
Visit the website at http://www.vanleer.org.il

Call for Authors: Key Issues in Crime and Punishment Series

Golson Media is inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference series on Crime and Punishment to be published in 2011 by SAGE Publications. This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and academic libraries and includes 5 titles, each with 20 chapters of 5,000 words. The 5 titles are:

Crime and Criminal Behavior
Police and Law Enforcement
Courts, Law and Justice
Corrections
Juvenile Crime and Justice

The chapters in each title are written to offer pro and con examinations of controversial programs, practices, problems, or issues from varied perspectives. A broad range of issues are arranged within each volume, including such hotly debated topics as amnesty for illegal aliens, medical marijuana, police brutality, racial sentencing disparities, and the death penalty for minors.

Chapter assignment deadline is February 1, 2010.

Each chapter of approximately 5,000 words is signed by the contributor. The General Editor for the series is William Chambliss, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at George Washington University, who will review all the chapters for editorial content and academic consistency.

If you are interested in contributing to the series, it can be a notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing credits. Moreover, you can help ensure that accurate information and important points of view are credibly presented to students and library patrons. Compensation for the written chapters is the contributor's choice of 1 free copy of the book contributed to, or a SAGE book credit allowance of $200 per book contributed to.

The list of available chapters, style guidelines, and sample chapter are prepared and will be sent to you in response to your inquiry. Please then select which unassigned chapter may best suit your interests and expertise.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference with the Crime and Punishment series, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide a brief summary of your background in criminal justice-related issues.

Lisbeth Rogers
Golson Media
crime@golsonmedia.com

National Association for Ethnic Studies Call for Abstracts/Proposals

The National Association for Ethnic Studies invites abstracts/proposals for papers, panels, workshops, or media productions from people in all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, business, social sciences, humanities, science and education on politics, community and ethnicity. How do classifications of race and ethnicity define our lives? How are they part of our individual and collective thinking? How do they become statistics? In contrast, how do issues of race and ethnicity defy demarcation? How do race and ethnicity challenge the interests and power struggles implicit in shaping definitions?

The conference will create a lively forum for the discussion of issues related to ethnic communities, including, but not limited to the following: the 2008 presidential election; American Indian federal recognition; sovereignty and recognition in a global economy; counting in the 2010 census; undocumented workers; LGBTQ rights; unincorporated communities; immigration at the local level; census and racial/ethnic identities; human trafficking; negotiating dual citizenships; limited citizenships; redistricting; census data and its impact on resource access; higher education; student loans; citizenship; health care by the numbers; philanthropy and ethnic communities; defining minorities and majorities; affirmative action issues; defining and supporting art; women's resources; economic ramifications of census results.

Two-hundred-fifty-word abstracts/proposals should be submitted by December 1, 2009, which relate to any aspect of the conference theme, with the participant's institutional affiliation and mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The abstract/proposal must indicate whether the presentation is an individual paper or a complete panel presentation and if A/V equipment is needed.

All program participants must pay full conference registration fees and 2010 NAES membership dues.

For questions about submission, please contact the National Office at naes@wwu.edu or 360-650-2349 or Program Chair, Carleen Sanchez at csanchez2@unlnotes.unl.edu or 402-472-3925

Abstracts must be submitted electronically to: http://www.ethnicstudies.org/conference.htm

Select the "Submit Abstract" link to proceed to the online submission form.
NOTE: A separate abstract must be submitted for each presenter (even co-authored papers, roundtable presentations and pre-arranged panels) with complete contact information.

Pre-arranged panels must include at least three presenters/speakers, but no more than five and must provide their own panel chairs. Panels with fewer than three or more than five presenters will not be considered.

Notifications on proposals will be mailed in late fall/early winter 2009.

"Interdisciplinary Public History" - Kevin Murphy Grad Seminar

Topics in US History: Interdisciplinary Public History (HIST8910)
Spring 2010
Professor Kevin P. Murphy (kpmurphy@umn.edu)
Wednesdays, 1:25 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.

This seminar examines the variety of ways that "public history" is produced both within and outside the academy and explores interdisciplinary approaches to the critical analysis of public history projects and historical memory. Students will discuss recent scholarship by historians, communication studies scholars, and cultural studies scholars, among others (below is a partial and tentative list of texts), and will also work collaboratively to develop public history projects based on primary research.

The final syllabus for this course will be developed collaboratively with students. Please notify the instructor (kpmurphy@umn.edu) of your interest in this course so that you might be included in this process.

More information about this seminar can be found in an essay written collaboratively by graduate students who enrolled the last time it was offered: Lisa Blee, et al, "Engaging with Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy," Radical History Review 2008 (102):73-89.

Lisa Maya Knauer and Daniel J. Walkowitz, Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation (Duke, 2009).

Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero (Duke, 2007)

Michael A. Elliott, Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (Chicago, 2007).

Anne Cvetkovich, "In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Public Culture," Camera Obscura 49(2002), Volume 17, Number 1.

Annie E. Coombes, History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa (Duke, 2003).

2010 Graduate Student Symposium-Romance Studies

"Framing the Human: (De)humanization in Language, Literature and Culture"
March 6, 2010 - University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Plenary Speaker: Professor Deborah Jenson, Duke University
14th Annual Symposium
Hosted by the Association of Graduate Students in Romance Studies

Debates around how "the human" is defined, interrogated and regulated often delineate boundaries that separate the human and its others (e.g. the animal, the divine, the monstrous). Far from being abstract exercises in taxonomy, assessments of these boundaries impose ways of knowing, reading and seeing. Political, ideological, scientific, religious and economic regimes participate in framing the human. Determining who or what counts as human under these regimes has profound consequences. For example, one can be biologically but not politically human (e.g. undocumented workers). One's political "human-ness" can be stripped away or called into question after certain violations of the law (e.g. enemy combatants). Recent genealogies of gender, race and ethnicity remind us to what extent our "humanity" is precarious and contingent upon culturally coherent frames that not only produce the (in)human but reflexively legitimate that production. Definitions of the human are not fixed temporally or qualitatively but rather shaped by various lenses, filters and paradigms. This symposium will consider objects of literary, linguistic and/or cultural study, which engage with frames that produce, perform, disqualify, marginalize, or maintain and (re)appropriate conceptions of the human.

We welcome the submission of abstracts on topics such as (but not limited to):

• The inhuman
• Relative or marginal humanities
• The human and the animal
• Nature and the human
• The human and the divine
• Languages of the human
• Discourses of human rights
• Encounters with (in)human others
• Subjectivity
• Figures of the child
• Fantasy and science fiction
• Mental and physical "disorders"
• Humanities and the sciences
• Holocaust studies
• Genocide studies
• Feminisms
• Queer theories and/or gender studies
• Performance studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Agency
• Collectives as human (e.g. the state, the company)

Syracuse University-Assistant Professor New Media Studies

Tenure-track assistant professor in New Media Studies. The Syracuse University English Department is continuing to expand its focus on Film and Visual Culture. Ph.D. must be in hand at time of appointment. Send detailed letter, CV, and names of three references to Erin Mackie, Chair, English Department, 401 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1170. Applications should be postmarked by 16 November 2009. Syracuse University is an EO/AA employer. An offer will be made contingent upon the availability of funds in the 2011 budget.

Contact Info:
Erin Mackie, Chair
English Department
HL 401
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 1324

esmackie@syr.edu

University of Texas-Pan American Assistant Professor Position

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - PAN AMERICAN (UTPA), Department of History & Philosophy is seeking an ASSISTANT TENURE-TRACK PROFESSOR (F09/10-45) commencing Fall 2010. We prefer a scholar whose research and publishing agenda focuses on Mexican American borderlands history prior to 1877 with a focus on gender and who shows potential for future publication in those fields. Both classroom and research excellence are critical. Applicants must have received the PhD by August 30, 2010. The teaching load is a minimum of 3/3 and the typical undergraduate class is capped at thirty-five. Teaching expectations include both courses in fields of specialization and survey courses in United States history. Salary and benefits are competitive, while housing and other living costs rank among the lowest in the nation.

Applicants should submit
• a letter of application
• curriculum vitae
• transcripts
• three letters of recommendation
• a statement of research and teaching philosophy that includes areas of teaching competence
• and sample course syllabi

Send to: UTPA, College of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office COAS 334, Attn: History Search, 1201 W University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539

Initial ranking of completed applications will be on December 1, 2009, but review of files will continue until the position is filled. Foreign transcripts must be converted to U.S. equivalency. To learn more about the university and college, please visit our websites at www.utpa.edu and http://coah.utpa.edu/.

UTPA is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women, minorities, and qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. This position is security-sensitive as defined by the Texas Education Code 51.215(c) and Texas Government Code§411.094(a) (2). Texas law requires faculty members whose primary language is not English to demonstrate proficiency in English as determined by a satisfactory grade of 500 or greater on the International Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).

Contact Info:
UTPA, College of Arts and Humanities, Dean's Office COAS 334,
Attn: History Search,
1201 W University Dr.,
Edinburg, TX 78539

Website: http://coah.utpa.edu/

CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship

The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) at The College of Saint Rose anticipates offering two one-year diversity fellowships for doctoral candidates engaged in completing their dissertations. CREST seeks applicants whose research addresses issues of diversity central to the Center's interdisciplinary mission. Potential fellows' dissertations should be influenced by some of the following research agendas: race, racial identity, race relations, ethnicity, colonialism, state formation, Diaspora societies, borderlands, and citizenship in regional, national, trans-national, littoral, or comparative contexts.

This one-year non-renewable fellowship carries a $20,000 stipend, on-campus housing, $5,000 in research expenses, courtesy access to local libraries, and office space.

Fellows are expected to complete their dissertations by the end of their fellowship year and will teach one course in their respective discipline during either the fall or spring semester. During their residency, Fellows will present their research and be active participants in CREST's intellectual life.

About CREST

The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) serves as a place for scholars at The College of Saint Rose and across the region to exchange ideas and research on issues related to the social construction of race, ethnicity, and citizenship. CREST researchers gain insights and methodologies from a variety of disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, Africana Studies, Latino Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies, women's studies, critical race studies, urban studies, legal studies, and communication studies. The Center seeks to develop new and better ways to recognize, understand, and intervene in critical public policy issues, always grounding this intervention in broad-based interdisciplinary humanities scholarship.

Eligibility Requirements: (1) a record of outstanding academic achievement; (2) enrollment in a full-time academic program leading to a doctoral degree at the time of application and for the duration of the fellowship; (3) admission to degree candidacy before the dissertation fellowship is awarded; (4) approval of the dissertation proposal by the applicant's committee prior to application; (5) commitment to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; (6) U. S. citizen, regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation.

Application Deadline: December 18, 2009 Award Announcement: March 1, 2010

Appointment Term: August 20, 2010-May 30, 2011

Only online applications will be accepted. These must consist of a letter of application no longer than two pages, curriculum vitae no longer than two pages, an abstract no longer than ten pages with a description of the dissertation's contribution to the field, a short indication of where you learned about the CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, and three recent letters of recommendation.

Please find full instructions for submitting an online application at the The College of Saint Rose Human Resources home page:

http://www.strose.edu/officesandresources/employment_opportunities

The fellowship announcement is under "faculty positions."

Contact Info:
Applications for the CREST Diversity Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011, are only accepted online at the following link:
http://www.strose.edu/officesandresources/employment_opportunities

Website: http://www.strose.edu/CREST

Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships in American Indian Studies

Under the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the American Indian Studies Program seeks two Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2010-2011 academic year. This fellowship program provides a stipend, a close working association with AIS faculty, and assistance in
furthering the fellow's development as a productive scholar. Applicants should have an ongoing research project that promises to make a notable contribution to
American Indian and Indigenous Studies. While fellows will concentrate on their research, they may choose to teach one course in American Indian Studies.
Furthermore, fellows are encouraged to participate in the intellectual community of the American Indian Studies Program. The Fellowship stipend for the 2010-
2011 academic year is $42,000, including health benefits. An additional $5,000 will be provided for the fellow's research, travel, and related expenses. Candidates
must have completed all Ph.D. requirements by August 15, 2010. Preference will be given to those applicants who have finished their degrees in the past five years.
The one-year fellowship appointment period is from August 16, 2010, to August 15, 2011. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a thorough description of the research project to be undertaken during the fellowship year, two samples of their scholarly writing, and two letters of recommendation to Robert Warrior, Director, American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1204 West Nevada Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3818. Applications received by January 22, 2010 will receive full consideration. The review process will continue until the fellowships are filled.

For further information, contact Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Chair, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, American Indian Studies: Phone: (217) 265-9870, Email: tewa@illinois.edu, or visit the Program's website at http://www.ais.illinois.edu

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Assistant/Associate Professor Position in School of Social Transformation

The new School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University Tempe Campus invites applications for a full time, tenure track assistant or associate professor to begin August 2010.

The successful candidate will join the faculty of the new School of Social Transformation and will have a joint appointment in two of the school's faculties: African and African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, Justice and Social Inquiry, and Women and Gender Studies. The school's 42 faculty are trained in a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. The school seeks to think in more complex ways about race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, social and economic justice, labor, and especially how these inquiries foreground social transformation on local and/or global levels. These inquiries must also engage in collaborative forms of teaching and knowledge creation that will enhance our ability to make new discoveries, create social innovations, and engage with others in changing the world. Some of the research areas in the school include but are not limited to: Cultural Representations of Social Difference, Diasporas, Human Rights, Immigration and Migration, and Sustainability. We encourage potential candidates to go to the school website and learn more about our faculties' research. http://sst.clas.asu.edu

The school seeks a candidate whose research focuses primarily on processes of social change or social transformation, engages intersectional, transdisciplinary research, and explores global and local interconnections. The candidate will contribute to the development of diverse new degrees and certificates.

Qualified candidates must have a Ph.D. by August 2010 in a relevant field such as: African and African American studies, Asian American/Pacific Islander studies, cultural anthropology, economics,ethnic studies, geography, history, justice studies, literature, political science, sociology, women's studies; ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary and collaborative setting; and a demonstrated record of scholarly achievement, including research and teaching, in the study of social change and transformation. Grant potential and evidence of publication activity desired.

Please email a single pdf file containing letter of application, cv, and writing sample to r2@asu.edu, and have three letters of recommendation sent to: School of Social Transformation Search Committee, c/o Roisan Rubio, Arizona State University, PO Box 874902, Tempe, AZ 85287-4902

Deadline for submission of all materials is January 5, 2010. For more information about SST and this position, please visit http://sst.clas.asu.edu http://sst.clas.asu.edu/ , or contact Dr. Karen J. Leong at karen.leong@asu.edu

Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For more information please see https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/ . Background check is required for employment.

"Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art"

On Thursday, November 19th at 4:30, in Blegen 245, Professor Stephen F. Eisenman, from Northwestern University, will present a lecture entitled "Three Criteria for Inclusion in, or Exclusion from a Possible World History of Art."

There exists a portmanteau of concepts - spectacle, other, rhizomatic, transnational, flows, simultaneity, space, place, sovereignty, hybridity, multivocality, subaltern, mass, multitide, network - which, if sometimes used loosely, at least provide the common jargon necessary for the formation of a World History of Art. But theoretical perspicuity does not necessarily constitute disciplinary rigor. However subtle and sophisticated scholars may be about how to go about the study of world art, they have achieved little consensus about what to study, sometimes reverting to an otherwise discredited cultural relativism. The result is impressionistic chaos. The only alternative, Eisenman argues, is cultural discrimination, recognizing however that judgments concerning the subject matter of the World History of Art will always be contingent. If they ever solidify, art history will be back in the bad old days of ossified canons and ethnocentrism. But in order to discriminate, it is necessary to have criteria. The lecture offers three possible criteria for inclusion in a World History of Art.

Stephen F. Eisenman (Ph.D. 1984, Princeton; Professor) has dedicated his career to the proposition that the best scholarship requires a critical engagement with the present as well as the past. He thus researches, writes and reads across many disciplines, and is active in contemporary social and political movements. He is the author of seven major books and exhibition catalogues, including The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992), Gauguin's Skirt (1997), and The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007). He is also the editor and principle author of the most widely used textbook in its field, Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (1994/third edition 2007). Professor Eisenman has curated many exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and his next one, Impressionism -- The Ecological Landscapes will be held at the Complesso Vittoriano in Rome and open in March 2010. Throughout 2008-2009, Stephen Eisenman has been working with a group of Chicago artists, lawyers, and activists to end torture in a notorious Illinois prison. His article on the subject, "The Resistible Rise and Predictable Fall of the American Supermax," will be published in Monthly Review in 2010. In 2009-2010, Eisenman with serve as Chair of the General Faculty Committee, the leading governance organ of the faculty of Northwestern University.

Berkshire Conference on Women's History-Call for Papers

"GENERATIONS: Exploring Race, Sexuality, and Labor across Time and Space"
June 9-12, 2011, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Proposals due March 1, 2010

The Berkshire Conference of Women's Historians is holding its next conference at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on June 9-12, 2011. 2011 marks the 15th Berkshire Conference on Women's History and the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, which was first
celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland and is now honored by more than sixty countries around the globe. The choice of "Generations" reflects this transnational intellectual, political, and organizational heritage as well as a desire to explore related questions such as:

* How have women's generative experiences - from production and reproduction to creativity and alliance building - varied across time and space? How have these been appropriated and represented by contemporaries and scholars alike?

* What are the politics of "generation"? Who is encouraged? Who is condemned or discouraged? How has this changed over time?

* Is a global perspective compatible with generational (in the genealogical sense) approaches to the past that tend to reinscribe national/regional/racial boundaries?

* What challenges do historians of women, gender, and sexuality face as these fields and their practitioners mature?

To engender further, open-ended engagement with these and other issues, the 2011 conference will include workshops dedicated to discussing precirculated papers on questions and problems
(epistemological, methodological, substantive) provoked by the notion of "Generations."

The process for submitting and vetting papers and panels has changed substantially from previous years, so please read the instructions carefully. To encourage transnational discussions, panels will be principally organized along thematic rather than national lines and
therefore proposals will be vetted by a transnational group of scholars with expertise in a particular thematic, rather than geographic, field. All proposals must be directed to ONE of the
following subcommittees and should be submitted electronically. Please list a second choice for the subcommittee to vet your proposal but do not submit to more than one subcommittee. Instructions for submission will be posted on the Berkshire Conference website (www.berksconference.org) by November 1, 2009.

Preference will be given to discussions of any topic across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods. However, unattached papers and proposals that fall within a single nation/region will also be given full consideration. As a forum dedicated to encouraging innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship and transnational conversation, the Berkshire conference continues to encourage submissions from graduate students, international scholars, independent scholars, filmmakers, and to welcome a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Paper abstracts should be no longer than 250 words; panel (2-3 papers and a comment), roundtable (3 or more short papers) and workshop (1-2 precirculated papers) proposals should also include a summary abstract of no more than 500 words. Each submission must include the cover form and a short cv for each presenter. If you have questions about the most appropriate subcommittee for your proposal or problems with electronic
submission, please direct them to Jennifer Spear (jms25@sfu.ca).

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: March 1, 2010.

*Beauty and the Body, Stephanie Camp

*Migrations : race, gender and activism, Annelise Orleck

*Economies, Labors, and Consumption, Tracey Deutsch

War, Violence, and Terror, Madhavi Kale

Youth and Aging, Jennifer Spear

*Race in Global Perspective, Marilyn Lake

*Health and Medicine, Julie Livingston

*Sexuality, Kathy Brown

Religion: belief, practice, communities, Madhavi Kale

Politics and the State, Margot Canaday

MNFTC Minnesota Week of Action

See flyer below for detailed calendar events:
SeattlePlus10_MNweek of action.pdf

"Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers and the Service Sector"

Please see attachment below for flyer.
eyes on the fries flyer.pdf

"Jazz' and the Revolutionary Imagination: Afro/Asian Identities, New Sounds and a New World"

Author, composer, activist, and musician Fred Ho will be performing Monday, November 9, 2009 at Coffman Memorial Union's The Whole Music Club. Fred Ho is a well-known saxophonist and author of: Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: Collected Political, Cultural and Creative Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and AFRO/ASIA: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African and Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2006)

This event is co-sponsored by the African and African American Studies Department and the Asian American Studies Program.

See attachment below for flyer:
FredHo.pdf

AMST 8920

Course Description: This course examines epistemological, theoretical, and methodological questions related to research using personal narrative sources such as autobiographies, memoirs, oral histories, in-depth interviews, diaries, and letters. As narrative constructions about selves, these sources can provide unique insights into subjectivity, meaning, emotions, and desires that other kinds of social science and historical evidence cannot. The evidence presented in personal narratives is unabashedly subjective and, its narrative logic presents a story of an individual subject changing and developing over time. Their analysis can provide insights into the history of the "self" and its variations at the same time that they have the potential to enrich theories of social action and human agency. We begin by reading theoretical scholarship about personal narratives followed by a focus on different kinds of studies analyzing personal narrative sources in fields such as American studies, history, sociology, and anthropology. In the final section of the course, we address ethics of research drawing from life stories.

*Theoretical and Epistemological Issues*

Paul John Eakin, How Our Lives Become Stories: Making Selves (Cornell University Press, 1999)

Mary Jo Maynes and Jennifer L. Pierce, Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in Social Science and in History(Cornell University Press, 2008)

Alessandro Portelli, The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (Albany: State University of New York, 1991) [selections]

Arthur Frank, The Wounded Storyteller

*Oral history and Autobiographical Life Stories *

Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields, Lemon Swamp and Other Stories: A Carolina Memoir

Hokulani Aikau et al., Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

*Using more than one Life Story: Adolescent Life Stories and Coming out Stories*

Wendy Luttrell, Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race, and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens. (Routledge, 2003)

Martin Duberman, Stonewall

*Composite Life histories*

Marion Goldman, Passionate Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult (Michigan, 2001).

*Histories of Selves: Diaries and Letters as Personal Narrative Sources*

Joan Brumberg, The Body Project

Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life in the Antebellum Slave Market

*Hybrid Forms*

Carolyn Kay Steedman, Landscape for a Good Woman

*Ethics and Life Writing*

Thomas Coules, Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell U Press, 2004)

Call for Submissions - Radical Teaching and the Prison Industrial Complex

The idea that prisons and jails are a standard tool for punishment and the creation of public safety is overwhelmingly familiar from their relentless representations in television, news media, and film. And for many people, especially those in poor, working class, and communities of color, they are experienced as a feature of the contemporary landscape. However, prisons, and the policing and surveillance techniques used in conjunction with confinement are far from natural ways to address social and economic problems. The policies and techniques of caging and controlling people through what activists and scholars have come to call the prison industrial complex (PIC) are socially, politically, and historically contingent.

While prisons and policing are still widely taken for granted and seen as necessary in the US, it is also increasingly common for discussions to focus on the idea that too many people in the US are in prisons and jails. Much of this discussion focuses on the reform of a system articulated as "broken." This cluster of Radical Teacher seeks to explore the complexities of and compelling reasons for shifting focus from reform to the abolition of the PIC and other radical approaches to teaching about and around prisons, policing, surveillance, etc. We seek articles that take some of the following questions into consideration:

*What kinds of arguments are compelling in the classroom about the possibilities for abolishing the PIC?
*What happens when the idea of abolition is raised? What are tools for opening up conversation and debate?
*How do arguments and strategies for reform become a part of-and too often the center of-the conversation?
*What comprise historical antecedents, parallels, connections, and disconnections between the PIC abolition movement and other abolition movements? How can such links be productively deployed in the classroom?
*What are the challenges of engaging abolition as a possibility or a provocation? What other radical perspectives on teaching about the PIC can break with liberal reformism?

*The PIC is a particular capitalist formation which, like the Health-Industrial Complex, turns peoples' problems and suffering into profit. How can one teach about the PIC as a way of teaching about contemporary U.S. capitalism?

We know it is not necessarily always possible to directly address abolition of the PIC in a teaching and learning environment, and so we are interested in articles that take abolition and other radical approaches-as opposed to prison reform or education in prison-as a common point of departure to explore the methodologies, challenges, and possibilities presented in various contexts. As such, articles can address the issue of radical teaching about the PIC in classrooms of all kinds, as well as in workshops, trainings, workplaces, etc.

Send proposals, ideas, and manuscripts to Shana Agid, Kate Drabinski, and Michael Bennett.
Email: drabinsk@tulane.edu

Graduate Student Reception-Religious Studies Program

The religious studies program invites all graduate students working in areas related to the academic study of religion to join them for an informal get-to-know one another.No matter what department you are working in -- American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Education, English, History, Journalism, Public Policy, Sociology, or whatever -- they invite you to help them build a network of students interested in the academic study of religion.

4:00-6:00 pm

Tuesday, November 17

Nolte Lounge (First Floor)

Denison University-Assistant Professor Position

Denison University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in American literature with a specialty in Asian American or Latino/a literature. Ability to engage issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom is desired. The 3/2 teaching assignment typically includes survey-level courses, first-year writing courses, and advanced courses of the candidate's design. Position to begin Fall 2010. Ph.D must be in hand by the start of the academic year. Interviews at MLA. Denison University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. We welcome a diversity of backgrounds and lifestyles. Please submit a letter of application and cv online at employment.denison.edu by 13 November 2009.

"Networking and Intellectual Community Building Beyond the Campus"

Are you interested in learning about how to develop professional networks and collaborate with scholars outside of the university? Mary Jo Maynes, Jean O'Brien, and Carol Hakim will lead a
roundtable discussion exploring a variety of issues related to networking as a graduate student, including how to get involved in professional networks, building new networks, organizational roles,
online networks, job wikis, and more.

Questions? Contact Laura Luepke at luep0007@umn.edu

Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts

Consulting Guest Editors: Jonathan H. X. Lee, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University, and editor of the Asian American Folklore Encyclopedia and Kathleen Nadeau, Professor, California State University, San Bernardino, and co-editor of the Asian American Folklore Encyclopedia and author of the History of the Philippines (2008) and Liberation Theology in the Philippines (2004).
Amerasia Journal Editor: Adjunct Professor Russell C. Leong, English and Asian American Studies, project Director http://www.uschinamediabrief.com

Due date, March 1, 2010: 2-page abstracts
Author Notification on abstracts, May 30, 2010
Due date of final papers: January 10, 2011
Publication date of issue: Fall/Winter 2011
Send copies of abstracts to: Dr. Jonathan H. X. Lee jlee@sfus.edu; Dr. Kathleen Nadeau knadeau@csusb.edu; Professor Russell Leong rleong@ucla.edu. Inquiries and abstracts will be reviewed by the editors, and authors notified. Final papers will undergo peer review.
Amerasia Journal now invites contributions for a new special issue on "Asian Pacific American Folklore: Pluralisms, Passages, and Practices." (For past issues or reference, see 50,000 pages of 40 years of Amerasia Journal , the core journal in Asian American Studies, are also now online through your institution or individual subscription: through MetaPress.)

Back in 1996 Amerasia Journal published the first special issue on Asian American Religions. Thirteen years later, the legacy of that first special issue is incontestable as the field of Asian American religious studies has grown as indicated by the permanent status of the Asian North American Religion and Society Group at the American Academy of Religion, and the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI). Not to mention the growing single authored and edited volumes dealing with Asian American religiosity. We think Amerasia Journal can have as great an impact on the study of Asian American folklore. We therefore are bringing together a collective volume of original readings that offer a contextual approach for the study of the diverse landscapes and dimensions of Asian Pacific American folklore. This special issue will be guided by four themes - prospects, patterns, practices, and problems - which will serve to organize the various essays into thematic areas. These four themes will provide the volume thematic cohesion from the very beginning.
The first section of the special issue will explore some of the prospects for positive contributions and negative consequences that folklore can exert on the various and diverse Asian/and Pacific Islander cultural communities in the United States. Relevant questions in this section are (1) how can the re/generation of (new) Asian/Pacific American performance rituals and practices increase the range of choices for individuals in determining ethnic, cultural, national, and civic identities? (2) How can Asian/Pacific American folkloric and performative expressions aid in the promotion of pluralism and tolerance, and (3) how does the use of folklore in dance and musical performance "rites of passage?" by the college youth contribute to stabilizing ethnic communities and, thus, improve inter-racial relations, generational conflicts, and economic production and consumption?
The second section will examine patterns in the sense that the pieces will look specifically at the interplay between folklore and history. Some of the questions that this section will investigate are (1) what is the relationship between folklore, historical experiences, and history. (2) How is folklore 'localized' and used to uncover and recover, at the individual and inter-generational and familial/community levels, from being displaced by war or, to take another scenario, circumstantially, dislocated between two homelands, and (3) what are some of the historical patterns (told and untold histories) that Asian/Pacific American folklore 'unveils' in the context of local cultural productions and community formations?

The third section will look at practices, and practitioners, by identifying some select situations, scenarios, and agents who employ Asian/Pacific American folklore as a potent resource integral to holistic approaches to health, healing, and recovery. Some of the issues that will be considered are (1) in what ways do those who suffer, and their healers, rely on folklore to fight against, come to terms with, and/or overcome major illnesses and life threatening situations? (2) How have young adults (i.e., cross-cultural adoptees) relied on folklore to aid in discerning their own individual destinies and cultural moorings, and (3) what is the meaning of 'Asia' in its dialectical relationship to Asian/Pacific American folklore?
The fourth section - problems - will narrow its focus onto the heated and contested terrain of gender, sexuality, and love in Asian/and Pacific Islander America. Some of the relevant questions to be interpolated and explored are (1) how does Asian/Pacific American Folklore (e.g., Asian mystic) hinder larger efforts at inter-ethnic and community relations? (2) What are some of issues coming out of the "insider-outsider" versus "insider as scholar" debate over the study of Asian/Pacific American folklore, and (3) what are the limits and parameters of "Asian/Pacific American folklore" as a category for scholarly investigation?

"Asian Pacific American Folklore: Pluralisms, Passages, and Practices" also welcomes international scholars and U.S. scholars who do work on the transnational linkages and connections pertaining to Asian/and Pacific Islander American folklore as a way of life.
We hope that the papers will encourage us not only to contribute to the field of Folklore and Asian American Studies but also open up the conversation across the various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities to new and creatively innovative approaches to the study of culture and social life.
If you have other topics not included in the above please direct your inquiries to the editors.

Scholarship* Activism* Social Justice* - Call for Proposals

Abriendo Brecha VII /Opening a Path

Feb 18 -20, 2010
The University of Texas at Austin

A Conference on
Scholarship * Activism * Social Justice

This is a turning point moment. Across the Americas, economic and
political crisis are leading to profound shifts in the roles and
economies of states and counter-hegemonic formations, and in the
strategies of social justice organizations. This crisis creates new
forms of oppression, but also generates new opportunities for
imagining alternatives to dominant economic, political and social
orders.

Abriendo Brecha is an annual conference at the University of Texas at
Austin dedicated to activist scholarship; i.e. research and creative
intellectual work in alignment with communities, organizations,
movements and networks working for social justice. Abriendo Brecha
VII calls for a renewed discussion on the meanings and practices of
activist scholarship, particularly as it relates to the challenges of
the present moment. Some themes for this year?s conference include:
Race and Inequality throughout the Americas; Environmental Justice
Movements; and The Global Economic Crisis.

Sponsored by: Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE)
Community Engagement Center at The University of Texas at Austin

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
This year?s conference will consist of a mixed format that includes
panels, workshops, poster presentations, performances and film.

The planning committee calls for three types of proposals:

1. Panel proposals: Panels should consist of 3-4 presenters who focus
on a common theme or issue related to the intersection of
scholarship, activism and social justice. Proposals that include both
scholars and activists who work within and outside academia are
strongly encouraged.

2. Workshop proposal: Workshops should consist of two or more
individuals who will discuss a theme or issue related to the
intersection of scholarship, activism and social justice. Workshops
should be designed to create a dialogue between presenters and
conference participants.

3. Poster Presentation Proposals: Poster presentations are visual
displays that represent a movement, organization, media project or
collaborative research project that relates to social justice and/or
activist scholarship. Poster presentations will be displayed in the
main hall throughout the duration of the conference; presenters are
encouraged to periodically host facilitated presentations of the
display.

Complete the Proposal Submission form by visiting:

www.http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/abriendobrecha/

Deadline for proposals: Sunday, November 30, 2009

The 11th Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History

The Executive Committee of the Eleventh Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce this call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department's Women's History month celebration, is scheduled for March 4-6, 2010. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women's and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women's and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year's Symposium.

The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically, temporally, and topically diverse body of papers. This year's theme, "Mysterious Things," speaks to a variety of trends that are currently shaping the field of women's and gender history. This is particularly the case as we march on through a world where things--be they ideas, objects, or some strange mix thereof--continue to delight, baffle, liberate, and ruin individuals, as well as global institutions. Successful proposals could directly explore and build upon the implications of the moment in Marx's thought concerning commodities, wherein what should become inanimate matter actually assumes a mysterious, yet undeniable kind of life. Proposals could begin to chart out this life in a variety of fields--particularly gender and sexuality--and its effects upon those with whom it comes into contact. Indeed, gender and sexuality are, themselves, mysterious things, and proposals could also include any work that seeks to expose and demystify their strange functions in the everyday life of people and institutions. We welcome all proposals that seek to examine and interrogate any of the nebulous, enigmatic areas included under the rubric of gender and women's history. The choice of theme is purposefully broad but provocative, inviting perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives.

For this year, the Eleventh Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work: Kevin Floyd, Associate Professor of English, Kent State University, author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters' proposals and the availability of funds.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com . The subject line of the email must read "Attn: Programming Committee." We cannot be responsible for submissions that do not meet these conditions.

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chair, T.J. Tallie at gendersymp@gmail.com .

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009.

Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program

The Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship program is now accepting applications. The deadline is December 1, 2009. For more information, see: http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsfra/applicant.html

All applications must be submitted through SPA. For assistance with proposal preparation and submission of social science applications, please contact Barbara Scott Murdock (murdo004@umn.edu, 612-624-2745). Arts and humanities faculty can reach Alexandra Brown at akbrown@umn.edu, 612-625-6570.

The Question of Rights-San Francisco State University Call for Papers

San Francisco State University will host a conference September
16-17, 2010 exploring the question and place of rights in history,
politics, and society.

Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in
American society, often seen in conflict with state power. We welcome
papers on assertions of rights by insurgent groups, resistance to
rights claims, and governmental efforts to suppress or promote
rights, in areas including but not limited to: civil liberties;
disability rights; labor and economic rights; feminism and
antiracism; immigration; environmental justice; access to healthcare;
the prison industrial complex; sexual orientation; the stateless; and
human rights.

Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range
of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the
place of rights within the context of American society (as situated
within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome
participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars,
graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. We
invite proposals for individual papers, panels, or roundtables.

The deadline for submission of proposals, consisting of an abstract
of 1000 words for panel and workshop proposals or 300 words for
individual presentations and a one-page CV for each participant, is
March 15, 2010. Send your proposals to Christopher Waldrep,
Department of History, San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California 94132 or via email to cwaldrep@sfsu.edu.

"The Suburban Comanche Way of Knowledge"

Monday November 23, 2009
12:00 - 3:00PM
Nicholson Hall 135 (East Bank)

Paul Chaat Smith (Comanche) is an essayist on American Indian politics, fine arts and culture and a curator at the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with Robert Warrior; The New Press, 1996 ) and Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).

They will have cookies and drinks. Feel free to bring a bag lunch.

Crossings: Spoken Word Performance

Please come to Crossings next Monday, Nov. 2, to hear three fantastic spoken word artists! And spread the word to your friends, students, and colleagues!

BORDERS AND BELONGING
a spoken word performance

Monday, Nov. 2
3:30-5:00pm
Scott Hall, Room 4 (in the basement)
Refreshments will be provided

Featuring:

Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria
Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria is a writer and spoken word poet of Peruvian heritage heavily involved with Palabristas, a local Latin@ poets collective. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and an involved activist in the Latin@ community.

Marisa Carr
Marisa Carr grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but currently resides in Minneapolis. She is, among other things, a writer, performer, musician, artist and organizer. Marisa is Turtle Mountain Ojibwe from the Turtle clan. She is 22 years old.

Charlotte Albrecht
Charlotte Albrecht is a mixed-heritage Arab American queer femme newbie poet originally from Louisville, Kentucky. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Sponsored by the Department of American Studies.

"Gendering Social Inquiry: Critical Feminist Concerns" First Annual Conference

This conference will explore a broad range of humanities and social science topics related to Women, Gender, Race, Sexualities, and Intersectionalities. Panels and presentation topics may originate from such areas as (but not limited to) visual and narrative cultures, gender and social justice, health, science, environment, and technology, and sexualities. The purpose of this conference is to highlight the work of graduate students working in Women and Gender Studies, Justice Studies or other related areas, provide a space to fine-tune research topics, as well as to network with and recognize the work of other upcoming scholars from a variety of disciplines and universities. We highly encourage graduate student submissions; however, this conference is open to all faculty, researchers, and practitioners.

In addition to panel presentations we are pleased to offer a keynote feminist methods workshop with Adele E. Clarke. This workshop will center on situational analysis as a method for feminist research and knowledge production. Adele E. Clarke, author of the recently released Biomedicalization: Technoscience and Transformations of Health and Illness in the U.S. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

Please submit a 250 word abstract, which includes your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information, by December 10th, 2009 to gsgsasu@gmail.com.

Accepted Submissions will be notified by the week of January 5th, 2009. Final conference paper submission must be received two weeks prior to conference date.

Questions or Concerns should be emailed to tiffany.lamoreaux@asu.edu.

"Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime, and Ethics"

After the success of the inaugural conference for this project, we are pleased to announce the Second Annual Conference, to be held in Prague in May 2010. The conference is a keystone of the 'Good Sex, Bad Sex' interdisciplinary.net project that seeks to explore the nature, character and issues around the prohibition, regulation or permission of different and distinct forms of sexuality and debates around their legal, ethical and cultural status in contemporary societies.

The sorts of questions the project wishes to address are: How do we regulate and seek to deter sex crime? How do we support victims, prosecute perpetrators and encourage lawful and discourage unlawful sexual conduct? Should our strategies for perpetrators be rehabilitation, punishment or deterrence and what are the implications of elements of each? What about when the law prosecutes 'victimless crimes' or seems unjust in relation to particular sexualities? Or fails to adequately protect the innocent or regulate the guilty? How does law relate to ethics and our understanding about what good and bad sex are? What ethical grounds do we have for distinguishing good sex and bad sex?

The project seeks to explore the terrain around sex law, sexual ethics and sex crime with a critical edge that moves beyond simple disciplinary attentions to policy, laws, social conventions or values to recognise the complexities and contested questions around the way states and social institutions regulate sexual conduct in contemporary societies and on what basis of principles. The project will explore the role of law and ethics in guiding prohibitions, permissions and regulations of different sexual conduct and sexualities. It will explore the way in which law and other forms of regulation have been used to police and repress desire and pleasure, and the ways in which such prohibitions and regulations have been changed, subverted, challenged or transgressed. This project seeks to generate inter-disciplinary work that has a definite and critical engagement with both sex law and sexual values and conventions in contemporary societies, and collectively represents intellectual work for the betterment of sexual ethics in sexual conduct in society and more informed and just regulation of different sexualities.

The project welcomes papers, panels and presentations from all disciplines, professions and vocations who have an interest in sex law and sex crime and the development of a more ethical sexuality and ethical regulation of sexuality. It welcomes critical engagements that challenge convention and make us think anew about issues of sex and society within a framework of ethical beneficence and just legality.

This year papers are particularly (but by no means exclusively) sought on two oft neglected themes:

Sexual Rights, Sexual Justice?
What do we mean by sexual rights and sexual justice? How are sexual rights and justice understood in contemporary societies and how might they be Does this mean we all have a right to fulfil sexual desires, and if it does, how do we reconcile this with prohibitions/regulations on, for example, some disabled people? Can a sexual right have the same character of political, social or legal rights and how does this reflect on ideas of sexual citizenship and belonging? Has an idea like justice any place in the discussion of sexual desires? How can desire be just or unjust and what do we mean when we say desire is just or unjust?

Prohibiting Perversions or Repressing Desires?: Regulating Diverse Sexualities
How should we make sense of attempts across the Globe to progressively develop specific legal guidelines - prohibiting or defining and regulating - to deal with diverse sexual desires? How far are the legal prohibitions or regulation of a range of activities - from BDSM to fetishism, from adult incest to public sex, from bestiality to necrophilia to other diverse desires - ethically justifiable, aesthetically driven and/or political determined? What are the consequences for the ethical regulation of dangerous desires of notions for acting against public decency within heterosexual cultures? Were these sexualities always and everywhere taboo and under what conditions might they become 'mainstream' in the future? How far are their foundational bases for determining whether desires should regulated, prohibited and permitted and how far are they effective in the face of diverse sexualities.

More broadly, papers, panels and workshops are welcome on any of the following general themes - or just mail and enquire if you have a different option to present!:

1. Sex Crime and the Law

* Rape and the law against sexual coercion and violence
* Sex laws and diversity in sexual identity and conduct
* Sex laws and the regulation of sex and sexuality in comparative societies
* The relationship between sex law and notions of good or ethical sexuality
* Sex laws and sexual pathology and prejudice in contemporary societies
* Sex law and the lessons of historical legal prohibitions or regulations of sex and sexuality

2. Sex Law and Its Agencies

* Sex law and the judicial process
* Sex Law and policing sex and sexualities
* Sex Law and the selectivities of the state
* Sex Law and the role of the state in regulating and prohibiting sex and sexualities
* Sex Law and the discretion within criminal justice systems

3. Ethics and the Principles of Sexual Conduct

* What are the principles and standards of sexual ethics?
* What sex and sexualities should be prohibited, regulated or permitted?
* What forms of sexual orientations, behaviours and relationships are ethical or unethical?
* How should ethics relate to sex law and what other ideas of principles should inform sex law apart from ethics?
* Can we have ethically unsound sex that is legally permissible?
* What are the problems of talking ethically about desire and pleasure?

4. Sex Law and Regulating Desire

* Sex law and Sexual Commerce - pornography and prostitution
* Sex Law and Sex Acts - permissible and impermissible sex
* Desires, pleasures and the conceptual bases for ethical or legal forms of prohibition or regulation
* Regulation through knowledge - sex education and institutional sexual regulation
* Regulation of particular sexual agents - disability, mental illness and other regulatory discourses
* Regulation and culture - representing good and bad sex

5. Sex Crime and Its Agents

* Understanding and treating the perpetrators of sex crime
* Support and services for the victims of sex crime
* Sex crime and the impact on survivors
* Sex crime and its impact upon police and support agencies
* Justice and obligation - the legal system and its impact on sex crime perpetrators and victims

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 27th November 2009. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 19th March 2010.

300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs:

Paul Reynolds
Reader in Sociology and Social Philosophy
Edge Hill University, Lancashire
United Kingdom
E-mail: prr@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: gsbs2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Transformations' research hub at ID.Net. We aim to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume, or for the Global Journal of Sensuality, Sexuality and the Erotic, published by the Inter-Disciplinary Press.

For further details about the project please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/good-sex-bad-sex-sex-law-crime-and-ethics/

For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/transformations/good-sex-bad-sex-sex-law-crime-and-ethics/call-for-papers/

2010 Audre Lorde and Gregory Sprague Prizes

The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History, an affiliate society of the American Historical Association, will award the Audre Lorde and Gregory Sprague Prizes in 2010:

The Audre Lorde Prize for an outstanding article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and/or queer history published in English.

The Gregory Sprague Prize for an outstanding paper or chapter on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, and/or queer history completed in English by a graduate student (the Sprague Prize is underwritten by the Gerber/Hart Library, Chicago, Ill.).

Papers and chapters written and articles published in 2008 or 2009 are eligible. Materials may be submitted by students, faculty, authors, readers, or publishers. Self-nominations are encouraged. Published articles by graduate students may be submitted for both the Lorde and Sprague Prizes. Please label whether the submission is for the Sprague Prize, the Lorde Prize, or both.

Please send one print copy of your submission to each of the following three Prize Committee members:

Marc Stein (Prize Committee Chair)
York University
Founders College 234
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, CANADA

[Please note that mail from the United States to Canada requires additional postage]

Nicholas Syrett
History Department
Campus Box 116
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO 80639

Ellen Zitani
24-21 29th Street, 1R
Astoria, NY 11102

Submissions must be postmarked by 31 December 2009. If you have questions about the prizes, please contact the CLGBTH Chair, Ian Lekus, at lekus@fas.harvard.edu. Do not mail submissions to the CLGBTH Chair.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Fellowships

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. A variety of predoctoral, postdoctoral, and senior fellowships are available. Fellowships are residential and support independent and dissertation research. The stipend for a one-year fellowship is $27,000 for predoctoral fellows or $42,000 for senior and postdoctoral fellows, plus research and travel allowances. The standard term of residency is twelve months, but shorter terms will be considered; stipends are prorated for periods of less than twelve months. Deadline: January 15, 2010. The application is available online at http://www.AmericanArt.si.edu/fellowships

Amelia Goerlitz, Fellowship Program Coordinator
Research and Scholars Center
Smithsonian American Art Museum
PO Box 37012 MRC 970
Washington, DC 20013-7012
(202) 633-8353 Phone
(202) 633-8372 Fax
Email: americanartfellowships@si.edu
Visit the website at http://americanart.si.edu/fellowships

"Citizens, Markets, and Transnational Activism: Can Boycotts Stop Sweatshops?"

Professor Gay Seidman (Sociology, U of Wisconsin, Madison) will be giving a talk titled
"Citizens, Markets and Transnational Activism: Can Boycotts Stop Sweatshops?" and will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, November 2, 2009 in 120 Anderson library.
The talk is sponsored by the Institute for Global Studies

See attachment below for flyer:
Boycotts- Gay Seidman.pdf

Call for 2010-2011 Honors Seminars

Call for HSEM Proposals 2010_2011.pdf

See below for proposal form:
2010 HSEM Proposal Form.doc

"Colorblind, Postracial or Not?: Exploring Race in the Obama Era"

Professor Rose M. Brewer will receive the Ada Comstock Distinguished Women Scholar Award and deliver a lecture entitled, "Colorblind, Postracial or Not? Exploring Race in the Obama Era" at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 5th at the University of Minnesota. The lecture will be held in Cowles Auditorium in the Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, and is free and open to the public.

Brewer will explore the reality of having a black U.S. President whi the Supreme Court essentially sanctioned the idea of reverse racism against whites in its recent decision, and how this topic is complicated by the intersection of race with gender, class, and sexuality. As Brewer shares her research, she also invites us all to become involved or re-involved as progressive social activists.

Brewer is a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor from the Department of African American and African Studies and a nationally recognized scholar in her field. She received her BA degree from Northeastern College and her MA and PhD degrees from Indiana University. Her specialties include African American women's studies, black family life, class, gender, intersection of economy, race and racism, sociology, women's studies, critical theory, and social
transformation. She has been published widely in the areas of black feminism, politics, race and social class, equality, and social transformations. Her publications include Black Radical Theory and Practice: Gender, Race, and Class; A Special Issue on Gender, Color, Class, and Caste; Family Structure, Poverty, and Race in the United States; and most recently, The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide. She has received the Gustavus Myers National Book Award (for The Color of Wealth) and the Josie H. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award.

The Ada Comstock Distinguished Scholars Lecture/Award honors a University of Minnesota woman faculty member's exceptional research, scholarship, teaching and leadership contributions. The Women's Faculty Cabinet serves as the selection committee. The Award consists of a public lecture for a general audience, and a gift of art by a Minnesota woman artist.

The lecture will be held in Cowles Auditorium in the Hubert H. Humphrey Center, 301 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, and is free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to join in the dessert reception to follow in the HHH Atrium. The lecture series is co-sponsored by the
Women's Center in the Office for Equity and Diversity, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The Graduate School, and University of Minnesota Libraries. For more information about the event, please visit http://www.umn.edu/women.

Tulane University - Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities

Location: Louisiana, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Post-doctoral Fellow
Main Category: Humanities
Secondary Categories: None

The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for a two-year contract, renewable annually, as Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities beginning in August 2010. We expect to appoint two or three fellows for AY 2010-2011. Candidates must have received the PhD by June 30, 2010 and not before September 1, 2006. They must demonstrate successful teaching experience and an interesting and exciting research agenda. Fellows will be assigned to one of six departments within the School of Liberal Arts: Communication, English, French and Italian, History, Philosophy, or Spanish and Portuguese. Fellows will teach mid- and upper-level courses in their field of expertise, and these courses will be cross-listed with one or more of four interdisciplinary programs: African and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Asian Studies, and Jewish Studies. Applicants should provide a one-page summary of their dissertation and a few sample titles of courses they would teach. The teaching load will be one course per semester, with the remainder of the fellows' time devoted to strengthening their research profiles. Fellows must be in residence at Tulane during the tenure of their fellowship. Preference may be given to applicants who intend to make use of Tulane's and New Orleans' rich cultural and archival resources, such as the Amistad Research Center, the Hogan Jazz Archive, the Newcomb Center for Research on Women, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library, the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the New Orleans Public Library. The stipend is $45,900 per year, with some funding also available for research and travel.

Tulane University is a privately endowed institution located in New Orleans, one of the world's unique urban centers. The University holds membership in the Association of American Universities and is a Carnegie Extensive Research University. Tulane is composed of nine academic divisions and home to over ten thousand graduate and undergraduate students. The School of Liberal Arts provides undergraduate students with an outstanding education in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts, developing skills of analysis, research, and written and oral expression that will serve them in their chosen profession. Students work closely with faculty who are distinguished research scholars or creative artists and who are eager to engage students in their work. For more information on the School of Liberal Arts please visit the web site: http:// www.liberalarts.tulane.edu/.

Send dossier including cover letter, curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to Dr. Kevin Fox Gotham, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Liberal Arts, 102 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118 by January 20, 2010.

Tulane University is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for position vacancies as appropriate.

Contact Info:
Dr. Kevin Fox Gotham
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
School of Liberal Arts, 102 Newcomb Hall, New Orleans, LA 70118

Website: http://history.tulane.edu

Tulane University Department of Communication-Visiting Professor Position

Tulane University invites applications for a visiting position in the Department of Communication beginning August 2010. Qualified candidates will hold a terminal degree or equivalent work experience in Communication or another humanities/social science/arts discipline. Applicants must have an expertise in critical race and/or postcolonial theory. They are also expected to teach courses about the processes by which cultural identities and relationships are produced, performed, and negotiated between human subjects in a variety of settings, sites, and contexts. We are particularly interested in applicants who utilize ethnographic and/or field methodologies in their research and teaching. This position carries a 2/2 load, and is subject to renewal.

We are an interdisciplinary department specializing in the critical study of media, cultural identities and relationships, and the public sphere. With over 200 majors, our full-time faculty currently offer a range of theoretical, historical, and praxis-oriented courses. We are contributors to a Film Studies major and minor and have strong partnerships with Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Latin American Studies, and the Digital Media Production major. As part of our commitment to the renewal of New Orleans and the University's undergraduate public service graduation requirement, we are also interested in applicants with demonstrated interest or experience in community-engaged pedagogies and research practices.

Applications should include a letter that describes your areas of expertise and specializations, a c.v., a writing sample, 3 reference letters, and 2 syllabi relevant to the courses you would offer at Tulane. These may be submitted electronically to vmayer@tulane.edu or by post to:
Communication Department
219 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
Questions can be directed to: vmayer@tulane.edu. Review of applications will begin January 1 and will continue until position is filled. Tulane University is an equal opportunity/ADA/ affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for position vacancies as appropriate.

Contact Info:
Visitor Search
Communication Department
219 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118

Website: http://www.tulane.edu/~communic/

The Sam Houston State University-Assistant/Associate Professor Position

Location: Texas, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant or Associate Professor
Main Category: U.S. History
Secondary Categories: Social and Cultural History
Diplomatic/Military History

The SHSU History Department seeks an Assistant/Associate Professor with strong research and teaching skills in War and Society in 20th Century America. Candidates will be expected to offer upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in their areas of expertise. Candidates must be ready to teach American survey sections. Salary negotiable. Applications should include a letter of interest, a statement of research accomplishments and aspirations, a statement of teaching philosophy, current vita and transcripts. Finalists will also be asked to supply three letters of support. SHSU will conduct initial interviews at the AHA in San Diego. Application materials must be postmarked by Dec. 1, 2009. Send to: Dr. David Mayes, Ph.D., Search Committee - War & Society, Department of History, Sam Houston State University, Box 2239, Huntsville, TX 77341-2239.

Contact Info:
Dr. David Mayes, Ph.D.
Search Committee - War & Society
Department of History
Sam Houston State University
Box 2239
Huntsville, TX 77341-2239

Website: http://www.shsu.edu/~his_www/

Cambridge University-Mellon Research Fellowship in American History

Location: United Kingdom
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Research Professional
Main Category: American Studies
Secondary Categories: None

MELLON RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Applications are invited for a Mellon Research Fellowship in American History. The position is renewable annually and is tenable for a maximum of two years, starting on 1 October 2010. It is expected that candidates will either have completed a PhD dissertation or be able to submit substantial written work. Appointments will be made on the Research Assistant or Research Associate salary scales.

Applications should include a statement of proposed research and curriculum vitae, together with the names of three referees who have knowledge of the candidate's work. In addition, candidates will need to complete a cover sheet, form PD18, which can be found at www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/pd18.doc.

Applications and references should be sent by email to Sophie King, the Secretary of the Mellon Fellowship Fund, srk35@cam.ac.uk to arrive no later than 15 January 2010.

Further particulars about the position can be obtained from Sophie King, Faculty of History, West Road, Cambridge CB9 3EF. Informal enquiries regarding the position may also be made to Professor A J Badger at: ajb1001@cam.ac.uk. The Appointments Committee will make the appointment by the end of March 2010. It will not ask candidates for interview.

PLEASE QUOTE JOB REFERENCE: JJ05724

Contact Info:
Sophie King
Faculty of History
University of Cambridge
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9EF
UK

Website: http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/index.html

The Interdisciplinary Assocation for Asian American Studies Call for Papers

To review paper submission guidelines and to submit paper please go here: http://www.aaastudies.org/2010/proposal/index.php

"Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century"

The interdisciplinary Association for Asian American Studies invites presentation proposals from the fields of literature, geography, sociology, political science, history, cultural studies, the applied social sciences, education, anthropology, media and film, and communications.

The 2010 conference site is lodged squarely between the east and west coasts and abutting Mexico. How might this location inspire us to reinscribe the terrain of Asian American Studies to capture twenty-first century realities and subjectivities? For example, to the surprise of most, Texas now holds the third highest population of Asian Americans, surpassing even Hawai'i,
Illinois, and New Jersey. Journeying away from the traditional AAS strongholds on the coasts and Hawai'i suggests the urgency of regional perspectives reflecting newer, post 1965 populations and communities that may fragment the field between its oldest and newest parts. We argue that a process of dismantling is necessary so that a twenty-first century vision of
Asian American Studies might be reassembled from its many messy and morphing parts.

From its origins in the civil rights era, Asian American Studies has been an emergent project intellectually and institutionally. It tracks the growth and evolution of a highly heterogeneous population constantly shifting in location, arrival narratives, socioeconomic class, cultural formations, political identifications, and demography. UT Austin presents opportunities
to highlight these transformations, as well as continuities, in student activism and program building, intersections with gender and sexuality studies, hemispheric conceptions of migration, transnational and diasporic practices, transformative communications technologies, economic crises, new sites of labor and employment, communities emerging from war and refugee
flight, and teaching for non-Asian populations.

To encompass the full range of research on Asian Pacific Americans, we encourage contributions from scholars at every level of seniority and papers ranging from community studies, pedagogical strategies, and programmatic models to the most experimental, and integrative, of theoretical ponderings.

Please join us in Austin in 2010 as we address the above and other significant questions and issues for a twenty-first century vision of Asian American Studies. Complete panel submissions (with a minimum of three papers and a maximum of four) will be given priority, but individual paper
submissions will also be considered. We invite submissions for workshops and roundtables as well.

Please note that all paper and panel applicants must be members of the Association for Asian American Studies. Panelists do not have to be members but they must register for the conference at the non-member registration rates. To become an association member send your payment and completed annual membership form to The John Hopkins University Press, the publisher of the association's journal. The membership form is available on the AAAS website at http://www.aaastudies.org/forms. Note also that paper presenters and discussants must pay the conference registration fee prior to the
conference in order to be included in the printed conference program.

All applicants will be notified of proposal acceptance or rejection by January 4, 2010.

The University of Alabama Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Gender and Race Studies at The University of Alabama invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. We are interested in applicants from a variety of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches with an expertise in an area of transnational feminisms (e.g., postcolonial, third-world, diasporic), with a secondary interest in eco-feminism, women's health, or women and technology. Applicants in social science areas are particularly attractive. We are looking for candidates with a commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching in Women's Studies in our graduate and undergraduate programs. Responsibilities for transnational feminisms position include graduate and undergraduate teaching of Women's Studies courses, including Introduction to Women's Studies. Pursuit of an active research agenda leading to the publication of a number of articles or a book is required as well as service to the University community and professional organizations. The successful candidate will present a record of scholarship and teaching that is consistent with tenure-track work at a research university. Preferred applicants will have teaching experience in Women's/Gender Studies.

Women's Studies at The University of Alabama is one of the oldest programs in the southeastern United States. We are in the process of blending African American Studies with Women's Studies to form the Department of Gender and Race Studies. The new Gender and Race Studies Department will offer an undergraduate major and minor in African American Studies and an undergraduate minor and M.A in Women's Studies. The department is committed to providing a forum interdisciplinary teaching, research, and service in order to facilitate the critical investigation of the status and roles of women in society and to promote research by and about women.

This appointment will begin in August 16, 2010.

To apply, go to https://facultyjobs.ua.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1256050093625 and complete the required online application. Attach a letter of application, and curriculum vitae. Send three letters of recommendation and a transcript of graduate work directly to Transnational Feminisms Search Committee, Department of Gender and Race Studies, Box 870272, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487-0272. For more information, contact Dr. Jennifer Purvis, Search Committee Chair, atjpurvis@ua.edu. Review of applications will begin November 16, 2009, and will continue until the position is filled. Members of the Department of Women's Studies may be available for in-person inquiries at the 2009 National Women's Studies Association Convention in Atlanta, GA.

The University of Alabama is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We welcome applications from women, members of historically underrepresented minority groups, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

"Democracy and Identity in Asia" Dissertation Workshop

The Asian Institute of University of Toronto invites applications from graduate students for a dissertation workshop to be held May 13-15, 2010. The workshop will focus on the themes of democracy and identity in any part of Asia. Applicants should be researching some aspect of the politics of identity recognition in Asia in recent decades, and the challenges it has posed to practices and understandings of democracy. Questions to be considered include: How do emerging democracies accommodate group demands? How do historically defined notions of state and nation clash with emerging claims for ethnic, gender, and sexual identity recognition? How is the very meaning of democracy in Asia being reformulated to account for these claims? What kinds of political spaces have allowed the mobilization of identity-based movements to develop in Asia?

The workshop will take place over two or three days on the campus of the University of Toronto. It will include a small group of students and a few faculty members representing different disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. The costs of the workshop, meals, and accommodations will be covered by the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. Travel will be subsidized up to a maximum of CDN$500 per participant. Applicants should seek additional travel grants from their home institutions, and consult with the Asian Institute if travel costs prove problematic.

APPLICATION DEADLINE is JANUARY 15, 2010:

Applications consist of two items: 1) A current curriculum vitae. 2). An 8 to 10 page double spaced dissertation proposal. Alternatively, if the work is well underway, an 8 to 10 page double spaced description of the specific issues being addressed, the intellectual approach, and the materials being studied. Workshop participants will be selected on the content of the submitted projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the benefits of including a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and intellectual traditions. Applications should be sent by email attachment to asian.institute@utoronto.ca. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the workshop by January 31st. For further information about the workshop or eligibility, please contact asian.institute@utoronto.ca.

See attachment below for further detail.

Democracy and Identity in Asia dissertation workshop - CALL FOR PAPERS.pdf

PCard Receipt Reminder

See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'

COVERSHEET generic-1.xlsx

Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Program seeks to increase the number of
scholars who will contribute to the intellectual vibrancy and research excellence of The
University of Notre Dame by providing a two-year research, teaching, and mentoring
experience. Promising candidates in any discipline who meet one or more of the following
criteria are eligible to apply:

1. Scholars in any discipline from one of the populations underrepresented historically in
American higher education (e.g., Women, Native American, African American, Asian
American, or Latino/a)
2. Scholars whose research focuses on Gender, First Nations/Native American,
Africa/Africana, Asian/Asian American, Ethnic, Latino/a, or Latin American Studies
3. Scholars with interdisciplinary research projects that promise to enhance cultural
competency and diversity within the American educational landscape and who are
interested in exploring the implications of such work for liberal education in the Catholic
tradition
4. Scholars with a track record of involvement in initiatives aimed at promoting diversity in
higher education through teaching

Fellows will devote their time to research and will teach two courses each year during their tenure. The first will be in the area of their specialization. The second will be a core undergraduate offering for the department serving as their home. Fellows will also be part of mentoring initiatives sponsored by their host department and the Office of the Provost. These will be geared toward long-term professional development and the evaluation of each fellow for possible appointment to a teaching-and-research position at the University.

These two-year postdoctoral appointments will carry a starting annual salary of $50,000. Health
insurance and $5,000 for relocation/research expenses will also be part of the fellowship package. Applicants must have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree by August 2010 or have received the terminal degree in their discipline within the past five years.

Applications should email the following materials as either Word or pdf files: a cover letter detailing the applicant's specific qualifications for the fellowship, primary field of expertise, and description of how she/he will contribute to the perspective and intellectual diversity of the university; a proposed plan for research to be undertaken during the tenure of the fellowship, not to exceed five pages; and a curriculum vitae. The candidate should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be emailed to the address below under separate cover. For those having received their terminal degree within the last year, one reference letter must be from the dissertation advisor.

Deadline for the receipt of application materials is December 10, 2009. Application materials
should be sent to: moreauscholars@nd.edu

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Don Pope-Davis, Ph.D. (574-631-5716)
Susan Ohmer, Ph.D. (574-631-1626)
Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Office of the Provost • 300 Main Building
University of Notre Dame • Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602

"Race, the State, and Queer Politics: 1970s to the Present"

Monday, Oct. 19
3:30-5:30pm
Scott Hall, Room 4 (in the basement)
Refreshments will be provided

Featuring:

Abram J. Lewis:
"'Within the Ashes of Our Survival:'
Lesbian and Gay Antiracist Organizing in New York City, 1980-1984"

Eli Vitulli:
"The Legitimate Trans Legal Subject:
Heteronormativity and Whiteness in Trans Marriage Legal Decisions"

Steve Dillon:
"'Our Grief is Not Enough':
Queer Revolutionary Violence, Prisons, and the Production of White Life"

Sponsored by the Department of American Studies.

Please see flyer below for more detail:
crossings-racethestate.pdf

Boise State University - Assistant Professor Position, US Gender/Public History

Location: Idaho, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Main Category: U.S. History
Secondary Categories: Public History
Women/Gender

The History Department at Boise State University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professorship in US History (with both gender and public history emphases) to start August 2010. Responsibilities include teaching introductory surveys, upper division courses in the candidate's fields, and working with graduate students in our Master of Arts and Master of Applied Historical Research programs. Preference will be given to those who can teach interdisciplinary courses. Candidates should have a Ph.D. by the beginning of the appointment, evidence of scholarly potential and a strong commitment to teaching. Please send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of reference to Assoc. Prof. Jill Gill, Chair, US Search Committee, Department of History, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725. Deadline: Applications should be postmarked by November 1, 2009. Boise State University is an EEO/AA Institution, Veterans preference.

Contact Info:
Dr. Jill Gill
Department of History
Boise State University
1910 University Drive
Boise, Idaho 83725

Website: http://www.boisestate.edu

Carnegie Mellon University Residential Fellowships in the Humanities 2010-2011

Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Instructor
Main Category: Humanities
Secondary Categories: None

The Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University is offering a residential fellowship, junior or senior, as part of its yearlong program entitled " Identities in Conflict: Recognition of Migrants in Europe and the U.S."

Candidates for the junior fellowship must have the Ph.D. in hand at the time of application. Candidates for the senior fellowship must have a record of scholarship in an area relevant to the themes. The fellowships include stipends of $35,000-$40,000 and an office with a computer. Please go to http://www.hss.cmu.edu/humanitiescenter/Fellowship.html for further information and application instructions.

Deadline for applications: Must be received by December 1, 2009.

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY IS AN EOE/AA EMPLOYER COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY.

Contact Info:
Please go to http://www.hss.cmu.edu/humanitiescenter/Fellowship.html for further information and application instructions.

Website: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/humanitiescenter/Fellowship.html

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Postdoc Fellowships

Location: Germany
Institution Type: Other
Position Type: Post-doctoral Fellow
Main Category: History of Science/Medicine/Technology
Secondary Categories: Humanities

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Department II (Lorraine Daston), announces four Postdoctoral Fellowships for up to two years, starting date September 1, 2010. Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply.

The fellowship is awarded in conjunction with the research project The Sciences of the Archive (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/projects/DeptII_Daston-SciencesOfTheArchives/index_html). Candidates should hold a doctorate in the history of science or related field at the time the fellowship begins; the Ph.D. degree should have been awarded in 2007 or later.

Research projects may concern any culture or historical period (including the present). Although projects must have a history of science component, both the human and natural sciences are included under that rubric and additional relevant disciplinary perspectives are welcome. Possible topics include:

- The material culture of selecting, collecting, preserving, classifying, and transmitting knowledge (e.g. libraries, museums, and data bases but also collections of astronomical observations, botanical herbaria, documentary films, biomedical banks)

- The history of key ideas associated with the Sciences of the Archive (e.g. "data", "information", "tradition", "cultural heritage")

- The practices of turning data from the archives selectively into knowledge (e.g. classifications, search techniques, catalogues, synopses, atlases)

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is an international and interdisciplinary research institute . The colloquium language is English; it is expected that candidates will be able to present their own work and discuss that of others fluently in that language. Applications may however be submitted in German, English, or French.

Fellowships are endowed with a monthly stipend between 1.900 € and 2.300 € (fellows from abroad) or between 1.468 € and 1.621 € (fellows from Germany). Candidates of all nationalities are welcome to apply; applications from women are especially welcomed. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more handicapped individuals and encourages them to apply. Postdoctoral fellows are expected to participate in the research activities at the Institute.

Candidates are requested to send a curriculum vitae, publication list, copies of certificates (PhD), research prospectus (maximum 750 words), a sample text, and two reference letters no later than December 15, 2009.

(Electronic submission is also possible: paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)

For questions concerning the research project and Department II, please contact Dr. Fernando Vidal (vidal@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de); for administrative questions concerning the position and the Institute, please contact Ms. Claudia Paaß, Head of Administration(paass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) or Jochen Schneider, Research Coordinator (jsr@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

Contact Info:
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Administration, Postdoc Dept. II
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Germany

Website: http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

Loyola Marymount University - Assistant Professor Position

The Department of Chicana/o Studies in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University announces a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor, beginning Fall, 2010. The Department of Chicana/o Studies promotes innovative and critical pedagogy and seeks humanities candidates with interests in cultural production, media and representation, critical race theory, or post-colonial theory. Candidates must have a Ph.D. and show promise in research and teaching. Interested applicants should send: 1) letter of application, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, 4) three letters of reference, and 5) writing sample by November 13, 2009 to Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, Chair of the Chicana/o Studies Department, Loyola Marymount University, One LMU Drive, Suite 4400, Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659. Review of applications will begin immediately. A recruiting team will also be available at national conferences including the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. For additional information, please contact Dr. Karen Mary Davalos: kdavalos@lmu.edu.

About Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount, a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks professionally outstanding applicants who value its mission and share its commitment to academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU is an equal opportunity institution actively working to promote an intercultural learning community. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. (Visit )

GVSU Women and Gender Studies Program Position

The Women and Gender Studies Program at Grand Valley State University invites applications for a new tenure track position beginning fall 2010. Ph.D in Women/Gender Studies or related field preferred; ABD candidates with completion date of December 2010 may be hired at the instructor level. A strong potential for excellence in teaching and a productive research program are essential. Area of specialization is open but we are especially interested in candidates who can analyze the intersection of gender and/or race as it relates to multiracial/ multicultural feminisms and/or sexuality studies.

Teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Gender and advanced courses reflecting both the candidate's expertise and the needs of the Program. Teaching load is nine hours per semester.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. We will conduct preliminary interviews at the NWSA meetings in Atlanta and by telephone.

Grand Valley State University is a comprehensive masters university (24,000 students), committed to attracting and supporting an academically and culturally diverse faculty, located in western Michigan with campuses in Grand Rapids and Allendale. The Women and Gender

Studies Program, which is an interdisciplinary academic program housed in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, has three faculty members, one joint appointment and two tenure lines. More than 30 faculty teach cross listed courses or courses that fulfill the requirements for the

Program. The Program offers a major and minor and general education and has close relationships with GVSU's Women's Center, Liberal Studies, African/African American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Latin American Studies, and East Asian Studies. See our website: www.gvsu.edu/wgs for more detailed descriptions of the program.

Applicants should submit electronic application materials online at www.gvsujobs.org and include a cover letter addressing their motivations for teaching at university committed to liberal arts education and in a program that values student activism; a curriculum vitae; separate

statements about 1) teaching philosophy, 2) research interests and future plans, and 3) potential to foster and support diversity among our students, faculty, and community. Three letters of reference should be sent directly to Dr. Kathleen Underwood, Search Committee Chair, WGS

Program, 229 Lake Ontario Hall, GVSU, Allendale, MI 49401. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. We will conduct preliminary interviews at the NWSA meetings in Atlanta and by telephone.

In a continuing effort to diversity our campus community, we actively encourage applications from people of color, women, veterans, people of diverse sexual identities/orientations, and others who may contribute positively to the diversification of ideas and perspectives. For additional information and resources about diversity at Grand Valley State University, see the website of our VP for Inclusion and Equity at www.gvsu.edu/inclusion. GVSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Bowdoin College - Assistant/Associate Professor Position

The Africana Studies Program seeks candidates with research and teaching experience in post-World War II African American urban life for a tenure-track appointment beginning fall 2010. They are interested in candidates at the assistant or associate level with interdisciplinary research interests whose work intersects the themes of race, gender, and class in major American metropolitan areas. Scholars whose work links local transformations with national and global processes, especially in the context of deindustrialization and globalization, are particularly desirable candidates for this position. Candidates with a variety of methodological approaches will be considered. Relevant topics of scholarly works may include spatial and social relations, the new global economy, social welfare policies, and culture and consumption. In the field of Africana Studies, the relevant academic specializations of interest for this position include political sociology, political economy, and urban studies.

Bowdoin values a strong commitment to research, a promise of successful scholarly engagement and dedication to teaching excellence in a liberal arts environment. The college provides excellent research support; the regular teaching load is two courses per semester. Ph.D. in hand by date of appointment is preferred; advanced ABDs will be considered.

Bowdoin College is now accepting electronic submissions. Please visit
https://careers.bowdoin.edu to submit a letter of application, vita, sample of written work, evidence of teaching effectiveness and contact information for 3 references.

Review of applications will begin November 30, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
A highly selective liberal arts college on the Maine coast with a diverse student body made up of 29% students of color, 3% International students and approximately 15% first generation college students, Bowdoin College is committed to equality and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural, socio-economic, and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs. Bowdoin College offers strong support for faculty research and teaching. We recognize that recruiting and retaining faculty may involve considerations of spouses and domestic partners. To that end, where possible, the College will attempt to accommodate and respond creatively to the needs of spouses and partners of members of the faculty. For further information about the college and the department, see our website at www.bowdoin.edu.

University of South Florida - Assistant Professor Position

Location: Florida, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Main Category: Film
Secondary Categories: American Studies

Film Studies/American Studies. Tenure-track Assistant Professor. The Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of film studies with an emphasis on American film, or of American Studies with a specialty in film. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work explores the relation between film's formal features and its social and cultural contexts. Teaching assignment is 2/3 with two preps per semester, and includes teaching General Education courses in film as well as upper-level courses and graduate seminars in area of specialization. PhD in English, Communication or equivalent discipline with demonstrable interdisciplinary qualifications required (ABDs will be considered, but PhD in hand by start date, or appointment at instructor rank with reduced salary). Salary starts at $58k commensurate with qualifications. 9-month contract begins August 2010.

Send application letter, vita, and three letters of recommendation by Dec. 1, 2009, to Dr. Andrew Berish, Search Committee Chair, Humanities and Cultural Studies Dept., CPR 107, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620. According to Florida Law, applications and meetings regarding them are open to the public. For ADA accommodations, please contact Sheela Fernandez at 813-974-9380 at least five working days prior to need. USF is an AA/EEO institution.

Contact Info:
Dr. Andrew Berish, Search Committee Chair Humanities and Cultural Studies, CPR 107 University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL 33620

Smithsonian Lemelson Center 2010 Fellows Program

The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center is seeking proposals for its 2010 Fellows Program, which supports projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society. These include, but are not limited to, historical research and documentation projects resulting in publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, and multimedia products. The fellowship program provides access to the Smithsonian's vast artifact and archival collections, as well as the expertise of the Institution's research staff.

The Center offers fellowships to scholars and professionals who are pre- or postdoctoral candidates or who have completed advanced professional training.

Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of ten weeks and carry a prorated stipend. Fellows are expected to reside in the Washington, D.C. area, to participate in the Center's activities, and to make presentations on their work to colleagues at the museum.

Applicants are required to consult with the fellowship coordinator prior to submitting a proposal.

The Lemelson Center was established at the National Museum of American History in 1995 through a gift from The Lemelson Foundation. Jerome Lemelson (1923-1997) was an independent inventor who earned more than 600 patents, representing one of the largest patent portfolios in the nation's history.

The Center's mission is to document, interpret, and disseminate information about invention and innovation, to encourage inventive creativity in young people, and to foster an appreciation for the central role invention and innovation play in the history of the United States.

The deadline for applications is January 15, 2010. Application materials are available on the web at http://invention.smithsonian.org/fellowships.

Nota Bene:
For researchers seeking a shorter stay at the Smithsonian, the Lemelson Center also offers a Travel to Collections Award, which covers transportation costs and daily expenses up to $100 a day for a maximum of 21 business days. Proposals are accepted throughout the year. Scholars, graduate students, and independent researchers not residing or attending school within commuting distance of the National Museum of American History may apply for the Travel to Collections Award.

Contact Info:
Maggie Dennis, Historian
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
dennism@si.edu

Website: http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/

Luther College - Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History

Location: Iowa, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Submitted: Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Main Category: African American History or Studies
Secondary Categories: U.S. History
Black Studies
Black History
American Studies

AFRICANA STUDIES/HISTORY FACULTY POSITION

The Africana Studies and History Departments at Luther College invite applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship. Specialization is open, but teaching responsibilities will include a survey course in African-American history, a course in the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and other courses in the instructor's area of interest. These courses are cross-listed between the Africana Studies and History departments. In addition, the candidate will participate in an all-college interdisciplinary course for first-year students. The teaching load at Luther College is six courses per year (spread over spring and fall semesters and a January term). Additional duties include advising and committee work. The successful candidate should demonstrate a commitment to teaching excellence and to maintaining an active scholarly agenda. For further information see http://www.luther.edu/academics/dean/openings/index.html.

Applicants' dossiers should include curriculum vitae, official graduate transcripts, a statement concerning teaching philosophy, a writing sample, course syllabi, teaching evaluations, and three letters of recommendation. Successful candidates should have the Ph.D. in hand or completed by the date of appointment. Review of applications begins October 30, 2009 and continues until the position is filled. Please send applications to Novian Whitsitt, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Luther College, 700 College Drive, Decorah, Iowa 52101. E-mail: whitsino@luther.edu; Telephone: 563-387-2142; FAX 563-387-1107. Additional information concerning the college and its programs is available on the college website at www.luther.edu. An AA/EEO employer; women and persons of diverse ethnic backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply.

Contact Info:
Novian Whitsitt
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Luther College
700 College Drive
Decorah, Iowa 52101
Email: whitsino@luther.edu

Website: http://www.luther.edu/

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Assistant Professor Position

Location: Wisconsin, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Main Category: Area Studies/Ethnic Studies
Secondary Categories: Geography
Asian History or Studies
Anthropology/Archaeology

The University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks candidates for an assistant professor (tenure-track) position with a specialization in Hmong studies or highland societies in Southeast Asia and/or adjacent regions. Appointment to begin August 2010. Ph.D. required. Previous teaching experience at the college/university level desirable but not required. Duties include teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, conduct scholarly research in area of expertise, and perform university and professional service as appropriate. The successful candidate will be expected to do collaborative work in the Center for Southeast Studies and participate in program activities. The tenure home for the appointment will reside in a department appropriate to the candidate's discipline, i.e., social sciences or arts and humanities.

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 1, 2009. Applications and three letters of reference, in PDF format, should be sent via email to mmcullin@wisc.edu and kolds@wisc.edu. For additional information, see http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_062881.html and http://hmongstudiesmadison.wordpress.com/. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and minorities to apply. A criminal background check may be required prior to employment.

Contact Info:
Prof. Kris Olds, Chair, Hmong Studies Search Committee
Dr. Michael Cullinane, Assoc. Director
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
207 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53706
phone: 608-263-1755
fax: 608-263-3735
email: mmcullin@wisc.edu and kolds@wisc.edu

Website: http://seasia.wisc.edu

George Washington University-Assistant Professor Position

Location: Washington, DC, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Main Category: American Studies
Secondary Categories: Black Studies
Black History
African American History or Studies

Fall 2010 appointment: The George Washington University American Studies Department seeks a tenure-track, Assistant Professor in 18th, 19th, or 20th C. African American culture. Basic Qualifications: PhD in American Studies or related discipline by 8/1/10 and demonstrated successful teaching experience. Preferred Qualifications: Research & teaching interests in one or more of the following areas: cultural, spiritual or artistic expressions of African Americans; diasporic movements of Africans to the New World; social organization of African Americans; trans-hemispheric and trans-national exchanges; or related scholarship which complements current African American cultural studies among core or affiliated faculty. We welcome applications from scholars interested in developing relationships with public culture institutions of in the DC area. Please send cover letter, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and 30-page writing sample. Review of applications will begin 12/1/09 and continue until the position is filled. Only complete applications will be considered. GWU is an EO/AA Employer.

Contact Info:
American Studies
AMS 09-01 Search Committee
The George Washington University
2108 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052

Website: http://www.gwu.edu/~amst

"A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945"

Next Friday, October 16th, the Legal History Workshop will be hosting Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will be presenting a paper from his current research titled "A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945." The paper examines the trial of Japanese General Yamashita Tomoyuke-and the unsuccessful Supreme Court appeal in Yamashita v. United States that preceded his August 1945 execution-in the local context of postwar Manila. Based on U.S., Philippine, and Japanese public records, his paper explores the conflicts, both local and geopolitical, that shaped America's approach to transitional justice in postwar Asia. Considering Yamashita's trial together with the indictments of thousands of Philippine collaborators before the Filipino People's Court demonstrates the limits of transitional justice and the endurance of colonial legal practices on the eve of decolonization in Asia.

The workshop is Friday, October 16, 10:10-12:10, Mondale Hall 55.

Attached below is a copy of his paper for your convenience.

CapozzolaLHWpaper.doc

PCA/ACA Caribbean & Latin American 2010 Call for Papers

Please see attachment below for further details:

Call_for_Papers_(PCA-ACA)_2010Revised.doc

University of Washington, Seattle Call for Papers

"BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE
DIASPORA."
University of Washington, Seattle

March 4th-7th, 2010
Deadline: Monday November 2, 2009

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, in conjunction with the Walter
Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington,
Seattle (USA), invites academics, advanced graduate students, and
independent scholars to submit paper proposals for the conference-workshop
"BEYOND BORDERS: ALTERNATIVE VOICES AND HISTORIES OF THE VIETNAMESE
DIASPORA," to be held on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington
from Thursday, March 4th, to Sunday, March 7th, 2010.

Organizers and co-coordinators:
Christoph Giebel and Judith Henchy (Univ. of Washington - Seattle)

Co-coordinators and "keynote speakers in dialog":
Mariam B. Lam (Univ. of California - Riverside)
Jack Yeager (Louisiana State University).
These two scholars of the Vietnamese diaspora will help frame the
conference-workshop with distinct Francophone and American perspectives.

GENERAL CONCEPT: This March 2010 conference-workshop on the Vietnamese
diaspora is the third in a three-part series, constituting a multi-year
research initiative in Viet Nam Studies, "Alternative Voices and Histories
in Viet Nam: Colonial Modernities and Post-colonial Narratives."

The initiative's aims are:

* to bring together scholars from around the world who focus on new
interpretations of Vietnamese history and historiography;
* to provide a forum for recent, disparate work on new sources and under
researched topics to critically engage with one another;
* and to make the results available to the wider academic community.

Our first and second conference-workshops, "Beyond Teleologies: alternative
voices and histories in colonial Viet Nam" and "Beyond Dichotomies:
alternative voices and histories in post-colonial Viet Nam" were held in
Seattle in March 2007 and May 2008.

The trilogy of conference-workshops is based on the understanding that
modern Vietnamese historiography has been unduly dominated by several
particular and at times overlapping discourses reflective of the prevalent
ideological presumptions of the 20th century, such as those that:
* privilege the perspectives, interests, and actions of a central state or
states;
* impose nationalist and traditionalist notions on Vietnamese history and
culture;
* subsume Vietnamese revolutionary visions and movements solely under
communist teleologies;
* and enforce Cold War rhetorical postures by excluding, externalizing and
de-legitimizing those that do not fit simplistic binaries.

By contrast, the workshops will highlight academic work that complicates,
challenges and counters these paradigms, thereby enriching and expanding our
understanding of the variety of modern Vietnamese historical actors,
factors, and epistemologies, and suggesting the contours of alternative
models.

CALL FOR PAPERS: For this workshop on the Vietnamese diaspora, "Beyond
Borders," we are seeking papers that focus on the disparate margins of
Vietnamese identities. Papers should explore the particular and multiple
histories of Vietnamese overseas sojourn, migration and exile in early
modern, colonial, war time, post-1975, and socialist contexts. At the same
time, contributors can help articulate the initiative's interest in marginal
voices in Vietnamese historiography with the disciplinary concerns of ethnic
and global cultural studies.
Papers might illuminate, among many other possible themes:
* colonial politics of exile and punishment throughout the global French
empire;
* inter-colonial and transnational connections in exile, for example, by
Vietnamese soldiers, workers, students, political activists, prisoners,
travelers, or those subjected to colonial display;
* literary representations of diaspora, from colonialism and the anomie of
"foreigners at home" to the contemporary Vietnamese imaginary of exile and
return;
* diasporic community formations, acculturations, as well as ethnic enclave
politics and economics;
* politically diverse exile groups during the war years and their relations
with post-war refugee communities;
* comparative diasporic work, or multi-sited anthropological research on,
for example, overseas Vietnamese student and migrant/contract labor
populations, adoptees, or transnational out-marriages;
* exposure/isolation of particular demographics: e.g., Israeli-Vietnamese,
Versailles-New Orleans, or non-identifying diasporic communities from Viet
Nam;
* overseas Vietnamese linkages to Viet Nam, remittances, anti-communist
rhetoric, generational concerns, and educational differences.

In general, the organizers welcome papers on the Vietnamese diaspora,
broadly defined in time and space, that engage a wide range of sources and
literatures, in particular new and under-researched ones.

Please submit, preferably electronically,
(1) a paper abstract,
(2) a brief statement how the paper will engage the larger themes and
concerns of the workshop, and
(3) a short C.V.

BY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009

to the organizers of the conference series:

Christoph Giebel, Assoc. Prof. of History and International Studies,
giebel@u.washington.edu
and
Judith Henchy, Head, Southeast Asia Section,
University of Washington Libraries, and Lecturer in International Studies,
judithh@u.washington.edu
c/o Center for Southeast Asian Studies
University of Washington, box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195-3650, USA

Participants should agree to submit their draft papers no later than three
weeks prior to the workshop, be willing to provide detailed comments on
other select papers, engage in group deliberations during the entire
workshop, and, if feasible, commit to actively participate in periodic
follow-up discussions and commentary for possible publications. While
graduate students will receive a modest travel subvention from the
organizers, all other participants will be expected to cover their expenses
through other institutional funds. Please address all inquiries to the email
address shown above.

Deadline: November 2 2009

Claremont McKenna College - Assistant Professor Position

Location: California, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Submitted: Friday, September 25th, 2009
Main Category: U.S. History
Secondary Categories: None

United States Since 1945. Claremont McKenna College invites applicants for a position in U.S. history since 1945. This is a tenure-track appointment at the level of assistant professor. The department seeks an outstanding scholar and dedicated teacher. The subfield is open, but the department is particularly interested in candidates whose work emphasizes American politics broadly construed. We also are interested in candidates whose research focuses on the larger economic, environmental, demographic, and social issues that are central to the political discourse of the past decades. The candidate will be expected to teach widely, with courses that include the second half of the survey course (in rotation), introductory level courses on this period, and upper division courses in his or her area of expertise. The successful candidate should have completed the PhD by the time of appointment.

Please send cover letter, c.v., brief description of possible courses, and three letters of reference to Professor Diana Selig, Chair of the U.S. since 1945 Search Committee, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, 850 Columbia Avenue, Claremont, California, 91711. Review of applicants will begin on November 16.

Claremont McKenna College is an equal opportunity employer. Claremont McKenna College hires and promotes individuals on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, or sexual orientation. Inquiries may be directed to the Director for Human Resources, 400 N. Claremont Blvd., Claremont, California 91711-4015, (909) 621-8490.

Employment is contingent upon new employees providing documents verifying U.S. citizenship or, for aliens, documents verifying legal permission to work in the United States.

Contact Info:
Professor Diana Selig
Chair of the U.S. since 1945 Search Committee
Department of History
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California, 91711

Website: http://www.cmc.edu/

Dartmouth College-Short-Term Visiting Fellowship

Location: New Hampshire, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Visiting Scholar
Submitted: Monday, September 28th, 2009
Main Category: Native American Studies
Secondary Categories: Art and Architectural History

The Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College
Humanities Institute, Fall 2010
Multiple Narratives in Plains Indian ledger Art: The Mark Lansburgh Collection

Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
The Leslie Center is offering five, short-term visiting fellowships to participate in an Institute devoted to the study of the Mark Lansburgh collection of Plains Indian art, which was acquired by Dartmouth College in 2007. Comprising more than one hundred nineteenth-century drawings and including works by leading artists such as Howling Wolf, Chief Killer, and Frank Henderson, the Lansburgh collection is one of the most important ledger art collections in existence. The core of the Institute will be a weekly seminar, held on Friday afternoons and directed by Joyce M. Szabo of the University of New Mexico. The Institute will run concurrently with a major exhibition of the collection at Dartmouth's Hood Museum of Art. Joe D. Horse Capture, Associate Curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will serve as guest curator of the exhibition.

Short-term fellows will have on-line access to the drawings, will have the opportunity to study the drawings first-hand, and will make a presentation of their research at one of the seminars. The Leslie Center will provide an honorarium of $2,000, round trip travel to Dartmouth, and lodging from Wednesday to Friday evening inclusive. In addition, fellows are expected to submit an essay on their seminar topic, which will be considered for publication in a book to be published by the University of Oklahoma Press. An additional stipend of $1,500 will be paid for finished essays submitted and accepted by June 1, 2011.

Preference will be given to scholars in early stages of their careers.

Please send letters application, accompanied by a CV and a two-page description of a research project to be pursued during the Institute, to the Institute director: COLIN.CALLOWAY@DARTMOUTH.EDU by December 1, 2009.

For more information please visit the Leslie Humanities Center website http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/events/2010/institute2010.html

Contact Info:
Professor Colin Calloway
COLIN.CALLOWAY@DARTMOUTH.EDU

Website: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/

Harvard University-Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities and Allied Sciences

Location: Massachusetts, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Post-doctoral Fellow
Submitted: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Main Category: Humanities
Secondary Categories: None

The Humanities Center at Harvard University is accepting applications for its 2010-11 postdoctoral fellowship program. Applicants must have received the Ph.D. after May 2007. Applicants without the Ph.D must demonstrate that they will receive the Ph.D in or before June 2010.

Fellowships will be awarded to support projects that share the Center's commitment to interdisciplinarity and internationalism. The Center welcomes applications from all fields within the humanities and the allied social sciences. In addition to participating in seminars and other Humanities Center programs, fellows will teach one course in a Harvard department.

Applications are due by December 1, 2009. Please visit our website for further information and instructions, www.fas.harvard.edu/humcentr.

Contact Info:
Shannon Greaney
Humanities Center at Harvard
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/humcentr

Classroom Assignments for Fall Semester Finals

It is important to notify the department if you will NOT be using your classroom during finals week to help central scheduling meet the space demand. If you are unsure of when your final is to be held, see link below to see the Spring Final Exam Schedule. Please respond to the department by Monday, October 26.

http://onestop.umn.edu/calendars/final_exams/index.html

Graduate School Endowed Fellowships for 2010-11

Harold Leonard Memorial Fellowship in Film Study: Open to graduate students proposing a year of well-defined research or study in film history, criticism, theory, or aesthetics. Up to three awards. Stipend: $22,000, plus tuition. http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/Instructions/Leonard.html

Mark and Judy Yudof Fellowship in Science Policy & Ethics: Open to graduate students (master's or Ph.D.) pursuing interdisciplinary work whose content is focused in the areas of science policy and ethics. One award. Stipend: $22,000, plus tuition. http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/Instructions/Yudof.html

Additional Fellowships for which American Studies graduate students may be eligible, including the Thesis Research Grant, can be found at the Graduate Fellowship website: http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/

Community Fund Drive

The Community Fund Drive is a yearly campaign sponsored by the University of Minnesota to solicit donations for local charitable organizations. The drive started on October 1st and goes until October 31st this year, so get your pledges in at http://www.umn.edu/cfd

Reasons to pledge:

· MN Charities Count on U! (The federations and charities/agencies count on us at the University. For most of them, we are their biggest donor. Without our pledge drive every year, they wouldn't be able to continue helping all the people and causes they do.)

· Every gift matters, a little or a lot. We want 100% participation. Everyone has something to give, if not monetary then of their time. We welcome additional volunteers to help raise Community Fund Drive awareness. The organizations supported by the federations also welcome all the helping hands they can get.

· You can give to your favorite charity, even if it is not listed under a federation. As long as it is a 501(c)3 (it has a U.S. tax-exempt status as a charity) it qualifies.

· It's easy! Choose the method best for you:

1. Payroll deduction each pay period in 2010 (begins January 13, 2010). Remember if someone pledged last year, their payroll deductions end when 2009 ends. They need to "re-pledge" if they want to continue to give.

2. One-time gift through Payroll deduction (February 10, 2010)

3. One-time gift by check - Payable to one of the charities; not to the University

For additional questions, contact the Community Fund Drive volunteer in your department, Laura Domine, at domin047@umn.edu.

President's Interdisciplinary Conference

The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations
President's Interdisciplinary Conference

June 4-5, 2010
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

Conference Chairs
Bic Ngo, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota
Martha Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota Stacey J. Lee, Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Plenarists
Jorge A. Bustamante, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
Nancy H. Hornberger, Professor of Education and Director of Educational Linguistics, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Awad Ibrahim, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education of the University of Ottawa, Canada

Overview
The University of Minnesota's President's Interdisciplinary Conference Initiative supports inquiry that fosters collaboration between scholars in divergent fields and across institutions. This interdisciplinary conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? The purpose of this conference is to engage university and community
colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines and interests in consideration of this and other questions about ethics and epistemology in their research practices.

Participants in this conference will include individuals from diverse methodological and disciplinary areas, such as education, social work, anthropology, urban studies, the humanities, and the health professions. The conference will emphasize the implications of practices in research design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves immigrant populations. These conversations will include concerns related to Institutional Review Boards, as well as those that move beyond IRB, including presentation and dissemination of findings, sharing of research design, and advocacy issues.

We invite proposals that address researchers' dilemmas as they move into, through, and beyond their work with immigrant communities.

To sustain and extend the work and conversations of this conference, we will select a small
number of conference presentations for revision and publication in a peer-reviewed edited book.

Submissions
We encourage the following types of submissions:

Individual Presentations, such as research reports or academic papers, artistic expressions or
performances, and structured dialogs between researchers and community partners about negotiating research dilemmas and processes.

Symposia of three or four related research reports or academic papers.

For more information about themes addressed by the conference and to submit a proposal, please visit www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research.

Ford Foundation Fellowship Meeting

An informal question and answer session with Karrisa White, a past recipient of the Ford Foundation Fellowship, will be held Monday, Oct. 12 at 3:30pm in the Scott Hall Commons. This info session is open to all students interested in learning more about and applying for the Ford Fellowship.

Dear Graduate Students,

All students are provided up to $1500 in American Studies Research and Conference Travel funding over the course of your graduate career. Requests are limited to $500 per instance. Because the funds are limited, you are encouraged to apply for outside sources and to rely on this department funding only when you are unable to secure outside funding. Good sources include conference organizations and "best paper" competitions. The following is a list of several University web sites with information about additional funding opportunities:

http://www.gapsa.umn.edu/grants/travel.htm
http://www.cogs.umn.edu/awards.html
http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/funding/
http://www.international.umn.edu/funding/gradstudents.php

You may request funding as soon as the criteria for each allocation are met. The typical response time in which you will receive a reply indicating whether or not your request has been approved is two weeks.
Note: Funds are distributed after the travel takes place in the form of a reimbursement for specific expenses incurred.

Please review the specific processes below and contact Melanie Steinman if you have any questions.

Sincerely,
Kevin Murphy
Director of Graduate Studies

Requesting Funds for Conference Travel
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You may request funding to travel to scholarly conferences to present a research paper. We will not provide funds for presenting the same paper at more than one conference.

Criteria for conference travel funding:
• You have been accepted to present research at a conference
• You are in good standing
• Your total claim from the research and conference travel funds has not exceeded $1500

To request conference travel funds, email Melanie Steinman, stein196@umn.edu, with the following information:

• Student ID# and name of adviser(s)
• Proof of acceptance to present at conference
• Paper title and conference name, date, and location (if not indicated on proof of acceptance)
• Amount requested (not to exceed $500) with detailed budget proposal

Please note, we prefer, as proof of acceptance, a PDF of the conference program page showing the session in which you will participating. However, a forwarded email from the conference organizers or hard copy acceptance letter will also suffice.

*****************Requesting Funds for Research Travel*****************
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Students may request funds to cover expenses related to dissertation research. Covered expenses include travel costs and reproduction of essential documents and images.

Criteria for research funding:
• You have successfully completed the preliminary portfolio exam
• Proposed research is clearly connected to dissertation
• Proposal clearly established a justification for research (i.e. travel to an archive to investigate materials not otherwise available)
• Proposals sets out a sound research design
• Your total claim from the research and conference travel funds has not exceeded $1500

To request research travel funds, email Melanie Steinman, stein196@umn.edu, with the following information:

• ID# and name of adviser(s)
• One page description of your project, including title
• Up to a one page research proposal clearly describing in detail the research you will undertake (be as specific as possible about the use of archives, libraries, interviews, etc)
• Amount requested (not to exceed $500) with detailed budget proposal

Spring 2010 Book Orders

Please complete the attached, blank order form, one for each of your fall semester classes, and email your order as an attachment to domin047@umn.edu by Wednesday, October 21, 2009.
Please note the following:

*Indicate if you DO NOT need a personal desk copy for any of your ordered books. For courses with TA's, desk copies will be ordered for them.
*For seminars or other low enrolling courses, desk copies may not be available.
*If a book you are using is out of print, we are unable to obtain desk copies.
*If ordering from any publisher and/or edition is okay, please specifically indicate that.
*Order early. Delayed book orders mean delayed desk copies and increased costs to students due to the bookstore not being able anticipate accurate buy-back quantities.
*Avoid using abbreviations and initials to ensure accuracy and minimize unnecessary delays.
*If you intend to use the same book in a future semester, please indicate when that is. This allows the bookstore to plan to purchase used copies, saving students money.

See attachment below for a blank book order form:

Blank Book Order Form.xls

University of Illinois at Chicago-Two Job Announcement

The University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for two
positions in Asian American Studies, one senior or advanced assistant, and
one beginning assistant, tenure track. For both positions, we seek
scholars in the social sciences and/or historical studies, although the
ideal candidate's work would connect to at least one of the core emphases
of our program, namely, transnational/diasporic studies, intersectional
race/gender studies, and community engagement. Both appointments can be
either 100% in Asian American Studies, or split with another unit.

(1) Senior or Advanced Assistant Professor: We seek a nationally
recognized senior/advanced assistant professor with a strong publication
record and experience in program and curriculum development. To apply,
please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, sample publication,
and the names of three references to the address below.

(2) Assistant Professor: A beginning tenure-track appointment. Candidates
must have received the Ph.D. before the date of appointment. To apply,
please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, and a brief writing
sample, and arrange to have three confidential letters of reference sent
to the address below.

Located in the heart of Chicago, UIC serves a racially, ethnically, and
culturally diverse student population with over 16,000 undergraduates and
8,200 graduate and professional students. UIC also offers a vibrant
community of scholars working in a number of interdisciplinary units,
including the Department of African-American Studies, the Latin American
and Latino Studies Program, the Program in Gender and Women's Studies, and
the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. UIC is currently
building on this rich tradition of interdisciplinarity by creating a new
PhD program in comparative race and gender studies and by offering a
growing number of Asian American Studies courses for both undergraduate
and graduate students. More information on Asian American Studies at UIC
is available on our website at www.uic.edu/las/asam.

Review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2009. The appointment will
begin in Fall 2010. Teaching load is 2/2. Salary is commensurate with
experience and qualifications. Please send the materials requested to:
Prof. Mark Chiang, Chair, Asian American Studies Search Committee, 601
South Morgan Street (M/C 231), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago,
IL 60607. UIC is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Final
authorization of these positions is subject to the availability of state
funding.

"Queer Chicana/o Studies: A Personal Itinerary"

For more information, please see flyer attachment below:
speakerseries1.pdf

"Sexual Coercion and Forced In-Pair Copulation as Sperm Competition Tactics in Humans"

See attachment below for flyer:
SexualCoercion.pdf

Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College- Assistant Professor Position

The Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor (at either entry or advanced level) to begin July 2010. The successful candidate will have the Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment and will complement the Program's existing research strengths and course offerings.

They invite candidates whose principal area of research and scholarship is in Native American Studies (or comparable concentration), with particular expertise in environmental studies and sustainability.

Candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and an active program of research and publication.

Application materials must include a letter of application, CV, three letters of reference and a writing sample. Applications should be directed to:

N. Bruce Duthu, Search Committee Chair

Native American Studies

Dartmouth College

37 North Main Street

Hanover, NH 03755

Review of applications will begin Monday, November 23, 2009, and will continue until the position is filled. Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and encourages applications from women and minorities.

Graduate Workshop in Modern History Call for Papers Fall 2009

The Graduate Workshop in Modern History (GWMH) is currently soliciting papers for its 2009 fall semester schedule. If you have a seminar paper, MA thesis, or other project you would like to submit to a journal or present at a conference, the GWMH is a perfect place to receive useful and interdisciplinary feedback in an informal atmosphere.

Any papers that use historical methodology and focus on the modern period (very loosely defined as the early nineteenth century to the present) are welcome. The GWMH accepts papers from any geographic area and any discipline, and we value comparative and interdisciplinary work.

If you are interested in presenting, please email Emily Bruce (bruce088@umn.edu) and/or Alan Fujishin (fuji0070@umn.edu) and indicate:

1) a general time during the semester when you would prefer to present your paper (i.e. October, December, anytime, etc.). This semester, the workshop will meet at 12:30 PM on Fridays.

2) a working title for the paper you wish to present.

3) a list of three professors who might serve as the faculty commentator for your paper. Faculty commentators initiate discussion of the paper being discussed that week. The GWMH has been a venue where professors and graduate students who have mutual interests yet do not know each other can meet.

Global Thought at Columbia University Post-doctoral Research Fellowships

The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University has
opened its 2010 search for Post-doctoral Research Fellows. There are up to
four positions available and we hope you will encourage your students to
apply.

More information on the Committee on Global Thought may be found at
http://cgt.columbia.edu/

The post-doctoral fellowship of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University brings
together an innovative group of interdisciplinary researchers from around the world. The Fellowship gives emerging scholars the opportunity to work with distinguished faculty and provides a space for collaborative research and publication. Global Thought encourages interdisciplinary, transnational research under three broad themes: Secularism and Diversity, Global Governance, and Poverty and Inequality.

Past fellows have researched topics including the local socio-economic consequences of global policy, the historical roots of identity, and the evolution of transnational and international political structures. Scholars from any discipline may apply, provided that they successfully indicate how their work will contribute to Global Thought's research themes.

Up to four fellowship spots are available for the academic year beginning August 1, 2010. The term of the fellowship is two calendar years, beginning August 1, 2010 and ending July 31, 2012. To apply please visit: CGT Post-doc fellowship Application Requirements Fellows are expected to: - Teach or assist with one undergraduate or graduate course, either of their own design or as specified by the Committee. When teaching, fellows are required to hold weekly office hours. - Participate in planning and execution of research workshops and symposia. - Present their
individual research projects. Eligibility International applicants are encouraged to apply. If selected, Columbia University will sponsor the appropriate visa. Candidates will be considered only if: - They received their first doctorate from a recognized university no earlier than August 1,
2005 (Those who have not completed their degree at the time of application must provide a statement from an adviser citing the expected date of completion.) - They do not hold or have not held a tenure or tenure-track position. -They can fluently speak, publish, and teach in English. -They submit an original research proposal.

Benefits - An annual salary of $55,000, which includes health insurance and other standard benefits. - Access to Columbia University libraries and computer resources. - Shared office space. - Eligibility for additional funding for special research projects. - Eligibility to apply for campus housing.

Application Deadlines:
Priority Deadline: November 1, 2009 ($30 application fee) General Deadline: November 15, 2009 ($50 application fee) The application fee may be waived at the discretion of the selection committee.

To apply: 1. Complete the
Application online at http://cgt.columbia.edu/form/ Upload the following documents: 1. Curriculum Vitae 2. Cover Letter 3. Research proposal -not to
exceed 1500 words; -The description should include the background, nature, importance, specific objectives, and methodology of the proposed research project 4. Writing Sample - not to exceed 20 double spaced pages - preferably an article or research paper published in a scholarly journal - topic should be pertinent to the proposed research project - no books will
be accepted By Postal Mail or Email 5. Three letters of reference. 6. Application fee ($30 by November 1 or $50 by November 15) a) Payment by credit card: Download payment form at cgt.columbia.edu. Scan form and email
to cgt.postdoc@columbia.edu or send to our office via postal mail. b)Payment
by Check or money order made payable to Columbia University, send via postal
mail. All postal mail may be sent to Committee on Global Thought Columbia
University 440 Riverside Dr. New York, NY 10027 attn: post-doc search All
questions may be directed to: cgt.postdoc@gmail.com For more information
please visit our website:
http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/opportunities/post_doctoral_fellowship1/

Third Annual IDIS Workshop

Identity in the Information Society Workshop (IDIS10)

May 26-28, 2010, Rome, Italy

The third IDIS annual workshop provides an opportunity to present leading edge research, exchange ideas, encourage collaboration, and build communities across the various research groups working on contemporary identity topics and in the related fields of privacy and
security. Check previous workshops at http://is2.lse.ac.uk/idis/2009/.

Scope

IDIS10 explores the relationship between "Identity and Organizations", whether public or private sector, local or global, formal or informal, for-profit or not. We welcome contributions ranging across different disciplinary areas, reflecting the broad nature of the study area with its interwoven concerns of law, technology, and information systems alongside other social, political and management issues.

Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
• New identity technologies
• Emerging practices and behaviours enabled with identification
processes
• Changing notions of identity: customers, citizens, and audiences
• Information and identity risks and how they are managed
• Surveillance and privacy issues
• Regulatory and legal issues

Important dates:
Submission of papers to Workshop (4-6000 words): 10 December 2009
Decision and Screening Feedback to authors: 19 February 2010
Presentation of selected papers at IDIS10 Workshop: 26-28 May 2010
Submission to IDIS Journal of revised selected papers: 25 June 2010
Feedback from reviewers to authors: 3 September 2010
Submission of final version papers: 5 November 2010
Publication in IDIS Journal from January 2011

Submit papers to IDIS Journal: http://www.editorialmanager.com/idis/
selecting "IDIS10 Workshop" article type.

Programme Committee members

David Barnard-Wills, University of Birmingham, UK; Kevin Bowyer,
University of Notre Dame, USA; Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA;
Claudia Diaz, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Riad Fawzi,
Central Bank, Egypt; Chiara Fonio, Università Cattolica, Italy; Seda
Gurses, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Edward Higgs,
University of Essex, UK; Krisana Kitiyadisai, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand; Ann Light, Sheffield Hallam University, UK;
Yidong Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; Wainer Lusoli, ISPT,
JRC, Spain; Vashek Matyas, Masaryk University, Czech Republic; Katina
Michael, University of Wollongong, Australia; D.-O. Jaquet-Chiffelle,
Universities of Berne(BFH-TI) and Lausanne, Switzerland; Andreas
Pfitzmann, Technical University of Dresden, Germany; Irma van der
Ploeg, Zuyd University, Netherlands; Nancy Pouloudi, AUEB, Greece,
Charles Raab, University of Edinburgh, UK; Kenji Takahashi, NTT Labs,
Japan;

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Privacy Commissioner for Ontario, Canada;
Prof. Luciano Floridi, UNESCO Chair in Information Ethics, University
of Hertfordshire, and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford;
Dr. George Tomko, Expert-in-Residence in IPSI at the University of
Toronto.

University of Massachusetts Boston-Research Associate

Job Description:

The Research Associate for the Institute for Asian American Studies will participate in conceptualizing projects, developing grant proposals, data gathering and field work, assuring compliance with IRB requirements, analyzing results, and writing. Current and recent projects include analysis of census data, survey of Asian American attitudes towards immigration, status of children of immigrants, Asian-owned businesses, and low-income Asian Americans. Future projects may emphasize health and education issues. Activities may be performed in collaboration with other research staff.

Requirements:

Doctoral degree or ABD status in social or behavioral sciences, health, or education, or master's degree with equivalent experience. Familiarity with a range of research methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative approaches. Experience conducting research on topics related to Asian Americans including in the areas of health and education. Excellent writing skills and strong oral communication skills. Knowledge of and experience working with Asian American communities, particularly in
the Massachusetts area desirable.

Specifications and Compensation:

This is a temporary, full-time, benefitted position, funded through 8/31/2010, with possibility of renewal. Hiring Range: $50,545-$55,600 (annually).

Application Instructions:

Online application through the Human Resources Department at UMass Boston. http://www.umb.edu/administration_finance/hr/ Click on "Search Current Employee Opportunities" at left.

For more information, contact Shauna Lo, Assistant Director at the Institute for Asian American Studies at 617-287-5650 or asianaminst@umb.edu.

WITS University School of Architecture & Planning Headship

The University is seeking a suitably qualified person to head the School of Architecture and Planning. The School combines the professional disciplines of Architecture and Urban & Regional Planning as well as the postgraduate disciplines of Development Planning, Housing and Urban Design. Located in the heart of Johannesburg, one of Africa's multicultural cities, the University and the School are exciting environments for learning, teaching and research.

Qualifications: Applicants should have completed a PhD; alternatively, they should provide evidence of significant professional and/or scholarly achievements. The successful appointee will be of a high national and international standing and possess high managerial skills. S/he must demonstrate ability to co-ordinate the academic and professional vision of the constituent disciplines; provide the leadership required to enable the School to function as an integrated unit; and maintain a position of excellence by offering nationally and internationally accredited programmes.

The successful appointee would be expected to: Provide the academic vision and leadership required to enable the School to establish and maintain a position of excellence within the University and in the wider educational context; lead and manage the School in meeting its and the Faculty's strategic goals; participate in University-wide decision-making processes towards achieving the University's strategic goals; and raise external funding and support for special projects within the School.

The appointment will commence on 1 August 2010. The standard period of employment is 5 years after which the candidate may seek another term or be integrated into a senior teaching and research position in the School. If the appointee is an existing member of the permanent staff s/he will revert to her/his previous academic position.

Enquiries: Further information can be obtained from Professor Beatrys Lacquet, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment
Tel: +27 11 717-7011/2
E-mail: beatrys.lacquet@wits.ac.za
Website address: http://web.wits.ac.za/Academic/EBE/ArchPlan/ArchitecturePlanning.htm

To Apply: and for further information regarding selection procedures and conditions of employment, please send a letter of motivation, a CV with the names and contact details (telephone numbers and e-mail addresses) of three referees, a copy the applicant's Identity Document or Passport if not South African to:

Maxine Lewin, Human Resources Office, Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, South Africa.
E-mail maxine.lewin@wits.ac.za

CLOSING DATE:
31 October 2009

University of Michigan Assistant Professor Position

An open position at the University of Michigan with field specialization and demonstrated expertise in the area they have termed "digital environments." Scholars examining all aspects of digital media are encouraged to apply. AC is interested in how new technologies and information cultures intersect with questions of migration, immigration, class, community, identity, political democracy, social networking, race, gender, projections of American power, and/or citizenship. Applicants whose research foregrounds the cultural impact and dimensions of digital media are particularly encouraged to apply, as are those whose work intersects with American Studies, Ethnic Studies, or Cultural Studies.

This is strictly an assistant professor, tenure-track position. This is part of a cluster hire in Digital Environments with parallel searches occurring in our Department of Communications Studies, Department of English Language and Literature, and the School of Information Technology.
For additional info:http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ac/facstaff/jobopenings

Critical Dialogues: Crossings in American Studies October 5, 2009

Please join "Critical Dialogues: Crossings in American Studies" for
our second meeting of the semester, a panel on:

RACE IN THE MIDWEST

Monday, Oct. 5
3:30-5:30pm
Scott Hall, Room 4 (in the basement)
Refreshments will be provided

Featuring:

Tom Sarmiento, presenting a paper entitled "Imagining Filipin@s in
Minnesota: The Politics of Nationalism in the Diaspora"

Alex Brickler, reading a short story entitled "The Fever"

Kate Beane, "Ohiyesa: The Soul of An Indian," a short screening and
talk about a film in the making

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Tom Sarmiento is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of
American Studies. Alex Brickler is a third-year Ph.D. student in the
Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, where his area of
specialization is Japanese. Kate Beane is a third-year Ph.D. student
in the Department of American Studies.

See flyer below for more info:
raceinthemidwest.pdf

Graduate Fall Commencement Ceremony Deadline

See link for Commencement Attendance Approval Form: http://www.grad.umn.edu/current_students/forms/gs54.pdf

Amherst College - Open-Rank Position: Gender, Images, and Textualities in the Global South

Location: Massachusetts, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor
Submitted: Monday, September 14th, 2009
Main Category: Humanities
Secondary Categories: Area Studies/Ethnic Studies

The Amherst College Department of Women's and Gender Studies seeks to appoint a full-time Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (tenure-track or tenured) to begin in the fall of 2010. "Images and Textualities" suggests a focus on interactive media, such as written or printed texts, pictures (including art) or film; the Global South is defined as Africa, the Middle East, Asia or Latin America. The person hired must have completed her/his PhD, in a humanities discipline, by the time of appointment. A degree from an interdisciplinary program such as Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Cultural Studies, Film/Media Studies or the various Area Studies would be acceptable provided the person's main expertise is in the humanities. We would also entertain applications from social scientists with a strong humanities focus, though our already existing strengths in history and political science preclude hiring in those two fields.

The teaching load is two courses per semester. All members of the Women's and Gender Studies department participate in teaching required departmental courses, offer both lower and upper division courses in their area of expertise, and oversee honors theses. College-wide emphasis on writing encourages us to favor applicants with an interest, if not actual experience, in teaching writing. Strong commitments to scholarship and to undergraduate teaching, especially to working with a diverse student body, are essential.

Applicants should submit the following materials electronically to wags@amherst.edu: a letter of application that outlines the candidate's scholarly and teaching interests; a curriculum vitae; and a one-page description of an interdisciplinary course (either upper or lower division) that the candidate would like to teach that fits broadly into the topic-area of Gender, Images and Textualities in the Global South (writing samples should not be sent at this time). Candidates should also arrange for three (3) letters of recommendation to be sent either electronically to wags@amherst.edu or in hard copy to: Media Search, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Box 2257, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002-5000. Candidates whose application file is complete (including the three outside letters of recommendation) on or before November 15, 2009, will be assured full consideration. We expect to interview our shortlist at the MLA convention in Philadelphia, PA (Dec. 27-30, 2009). Inquiries may be directed to Amy Ford, Academic Coordinator, Women's and Gender Studies Department, wags@amherst.edu.

The Amherst College Women's and Gender Studies Department, founded in 1987, is committed to inclusion, diversity and a high standard of interdisciplinary scholarship and instruction. Our area boasts one of the largest concentrations of women's studies scholars in the world, and we also maintain linkages with the Five College Women's Studies Research Center and the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement.

Amherst is a private undergraduate liberal arts college for women and men, with 1,650 students and a teaching faculty of 200. Located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts, Amherst participates with Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts in the Five College Consortium. More information about the College can be found at http://www.amherst.edu.

Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities to apply. The College is committed to enriching the diversity of its faculty, administration, and staff to ensure that full participation and inclusion are an integral part of the culture of the institution.

Contact Info:
Media Search
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
PO Box 5000/Campus Box 2257
Amherst College
Amherst, MA 01002-5000
Email:wags@amherst.edu

Website: http://www.amherst.edu

Cornell University Visiting Professor Position

Location: New York, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Visiting Professor
Submitted: Friday, September 11th, 2009
Main Category: Labor History or Studies
Secondary Categories: Women/Gender
U.S. History
Social and Cultural History
Chicana/o History
African American History or Studies

The ILR School at Cornell University seeks applications for a non-tenure track, open rank, Visiting Professor, for a two-year appointment in the history of U.S. workers, labor or related social, political, comparative or transnational history.

Historians who currently possess a Ph.D. are strongly preferred. Teaching requirements include an undergraduate survey of U.S. labor and working-class history as well as electives in the candidate's area of expertise. The standard teaching load is two courses per semester. The position will normally begin in August 2010, however an earlier start date may be possible. For additional information, please contact Professor Ileen A. DeVault at iad1@cornell.edu.

The ILR School is the world's leading college focused on work, employment, and labor issues. Information about the ILR School is available at www.ilr.cornell.edu. Faculty in its Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History (formerly Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History) include leading scholars from a number of disciplinary backgrounds who study a broad range of issues related to labor and employment. Information about the department is available at www.ilr.cornell.edu/academics/cb.html.

Applications from women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged.

Review of materials will begin October 15, 2009.

Candidates should send a letter of application, vita, and three letters of recommendation to:

ilracademicrecruiting@cornell.edu(Please specify "Labor History position" in the subject line)

or

Search Committee
Visiting Professor - Labor History
ILR Human Resources
103 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Located in Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University is a bold, innovative and inclusive teaching and research university of academic distinction and public service where staff, faculty, and students alike are challenged to be active citizens of the world.

Cornell University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.

Contact Info:
Search Committee
Visiting Professor - Labor History
ILR Human Resources
103 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Website: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/academics/cb.html

New York University-Tiro a Segno Fellowship in Italian American Studies

Location: New York, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Associate or Full Professor
Submitted: Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Main Category: Area Studies/Ethnic Studies
Secondary Categories: Urban Studies
U.S. History
Sociology
Religious Studies
Media Studies
Labor History or Studies
Immigration Issues
Global Studies
Geography
General Social Sciences
Film
Atlantic Studies
Anthropology/Archaeology
American Studies

The Department of Italian Studies and the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University invite applications for the Tiro a Segno Fellowship in Italian American Studies.

This visiting fellowship is open to academics of any rank with demonstrated expertise and publishing record in the field of Italian American studies. Preference will be given to the areas of history, film, anthropology, religious studies, and cultural studies.

The successful candidate will be appointed for one semester and will be responsible for two courses (normally one undergraduate and one graduate course) and will be required to offer two public lectures under the auspices of the Tiro a Segno Foundation. We will be selecting professors for fall 2010 and fall 2012.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, c.v. with bibliography of published works, and descriptions of proposed courses by November 1, 2009 to the Tiro a Segno Fellowship Selection Committee, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011.

Contact Info:
Chair, Search Committee, Department of Italian Studies, New York University, 24 West 12th Street, NY NY 10011.

Iowa State University Assistant/Associate Professor Position

Location: Iowa, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant or Associate Professor
Submitted: Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Main Category: American Indian History
Secondary Categories: U.S. History

The American Indian Studies Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) at Iowa State University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor or associate professor. The appointment will be in both the American Indian Studies (AIS) program and in an academic department which will serve as the tenure home. Potential departments include Anthropology, Economics, English, History, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology.

Job Description: The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in an appropriate academic discipline with a specialty in the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas who has demonstrated ability to accomplish research-intensive publication.

The new faculty member will sustain an active program of scholarship in his/her area of specialization, teach courses in the program and in the tenure-home department, and function as a mentor and role model to students.

The American Indian Studies Program is one of four ethnic studies programs in the College's Center for American Intercultural Studies (with African & African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and U.S. Latino/a Studies). Information about AIS is found at http://www.las.iastate.edu/ais/, about History is found at http://www.history.iastate.edu, and about LAS is found at http://www.las.iastate.edu/.

Required Qualifications: Applicants must have demonstrated expertise in American Indian Studies/Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, demonstrate a potential for instructing and mentoring students, and have a Ph.D. in hand by August 15, 2010 in a discipline appropriate for one of the following academic departments: Anthropology, Economics, English, History, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Candidates for an assistant professor position must demonstrate potential for excellence in research and teaching, and candidates for an associate professor position must have a record of excellence in research and teaching.

Preferred Qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated connection to an existing tribal community and with expertise that complements the current faculty in the program.

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications

Special Conditions: All offers of employment, oral and written, are contingent upon the university's verification of credentials and other information required by federal and state law, ISU policies/procedures, and may include the completion of a background check.

To apply for this position, please click on "Apply for this Vacancy" and complete the Employment Application. Please be prepared to enter to attach the following:
1) a letter of application that identifies the applicant's area of disciplinary expertise and includes statements of teaching philosophy and research interests
2) a curriculum vitae
3) samples of recent publications and/or creative work
4) a summary of graduate courses completed that are relevant to American Indian Studies
5) the name, address, phone number and email address of three references.

Three letters of recommendation should be sent separately to:

Cindy Bartleson
Attn: American Indian Studies Search
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
202 Catt Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1301

Questions may be directed to:
David Oliver (doliver@iastate.edu), Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, to
Sidner Larson (sidner@iastate.edu) Director, American Indian Studies Program, or to
Charles M. Dobbs (cdobbs@iastate.edu), Chair, Department of History.

Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.

To ensure consideration, submit application by: October 31, 2009

Website: http://www.history.iastate.edu

Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies California State
University, Northridge Asian American Studies Department, Northridge, CA
91330-8251
Salary: $51,024-$62,000 (subject to budgetary approval)

PhD in Ethnic Studies, American Studies, English, or closely related fields,
with an emphasis or a demonstrated interest in Asian American and Pacific
Islander Literatures and Cultural Studies. Tenure Track. Degree expected
prior to August 17, 2010. Desirable secondary interest may include media
studies, composition theory, creative writing, performance studies, popular
culture and postcolonial theory. Evidence of teaching and research
excellence, an understanding of Asian American Studies as a disciplinary
field and a commitment to providing service to the Asian American community
required. CSUN is a Learning Centered University with a diverse student
population drawn largely from the Los Angeles area.

Send letter of application, C.V., at least three letters of recommendation,
evidence of teaching effectiveness, publications or recent writing sample,
and representative syllabi of Asian American Studies courses taught or in
planning to Asian American Studies, CSUN, Northridge, CA 91330-8251. CSUN is
an EO/AA, Title IX, Section 504 Employer. Primary consideration given to
applications postmarked by December 14, 2009. Review full announcement on
our website: http://www.csun.edu/aas/

For further detailed information see flyer below:
CSUN_AAPI_Literature_and_Cultural_Studies.doc

Flu Clinic Postponed

Seasonal influenza vaccine manufacturers are unable to provide a delivery date for our next shipment. Many clinics are facing the same delays.

Seasonal influenza vaccine is expected to arrive in October, which will allow time for walk-in flu clinics before the start of influenza season.

The full walk-in flu clinic schedule is available online ( http://www.bhs.umn.edu/services/fluclinics/index.htm), and will be updated as clinics are scheduled.

Remember, seasonal flu vaccine will not protect against 2009 H1N1 Flu.

BGAPSA Welcome Back Kick-Off BBQ

Black Graduate and Professional Students Association (BGAPSA) presents...
The BGAPSA Welcome Back Kick-Off BBQ *

Join us for a chance to meet the members of the 2009-2010 Black Graduate and
Professional Students Association board, students across the university,
faculty, as well as folks from community organizations.

Come meet new people, reconnect with old friends, and enjoy FREE FOOD! DJ
Mixwell will also be spinning hip-hop, funk, and soul at the event.
Friends, family, and allies are welcome as well.

DATE: Friday, September 25, 2009
TIME: 4p-6p
LOCATION: Riverbend Plaza, behind Coffman

Fall Deadline for Thesis Research Grants

The Graduate School's fall deadline for thesis research grants is October 1 (the application deadline for summer or fall research is March 1). The competition is open to students at the beginning phases of graduate work as well as to ABDs. Grants of up to $2,500 are available to support thesis research, such as domestic travel and expenses for fieldwork, postage, and photocopying. Grants of up to $5,000 are available to conduct thesis research abroad for six weeks to six months. (Grant requests for shorter trips may be considered, by exception, if well justified). Applications do not need to be approved by the department (although we would appreciate a copy of the application) but do require two letters of recommendation.

For more information and applications, go to: http://www.grad.umn.edu/fellowships/Instructions/ThesisResearchGrant.html

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics Call for Articles

Nearly fifty years ago, Michael Harrington's The Other America brought much-needed attention to poverty in the United States. Borrowing its title from Harrington's now-classic study, this issue of Alif similarly expands critical understandings of America beyond its frequent equation with the USA and its official state. This issue explores the less visible "Americas" in the hemispheric sense, considering less well known--but no less central--social, political, artistic, and literary dimensions of the United States, while seeing Canada, Central and South America, and the Caribbean as vital to the conversation. The concepts of pluralism and ethnic literature in the Americas are highlighted and the cross-fertilization of cultures (African, Asian, European, and Native American) explored, all with the aim of providing a more expansive vision of the Americas that includes internal and external cultures of opposition. The issue presents versions and visions and variations of America that seek to interrogate national identity and broaden established definitions while suggesting new modes of inquiry into the United States as a place in conversation with others in the world.

This issue of Alif welcomes articles in the field of American area studies illuminating new trends in historiography, anthropology, arts, sociology, and literatures. Alif invites original contributions on cinema, visual culture, literature, music as well as critical and social theory.

Alif is a refereed, annual, multi-lingual, and multi-disciplinary journal published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Each issue revolves around a theme or a problematic, bringing together the views and approaches of scholars from all over the world.

Alif has been selected by MLA as a distinguished journal and has been made available electronically through JSTOR academic service (www.jstor.org).

Submission instructions: Articles should be between 15 and 30 double-spaced pages (5000-10000 words) and may be submitted in Arabic, English, or French by electronic mail or on a CD together with a hard copy (on Microsoft Word, saved as "rich text format"), together with an abstract of 100 words and a biographical note on the contributor. If the article is in Arabic, the article must be typed on Nashir Sahafi (version 6 or less) or QuarkXpress (version 4 or less) and submitted on a Macintosh diskette, saved as text only (for further clarification contact Alif's office). Articles should be furnished with manual endnotes (not electronic footnotes) or with parenthetical notes.

Alif will appreciate hearing in advance of the projected title of the contributor's article and receiving a short abstract (300 words) as soon as convenient--and no later than October 1, 2009, in order to plan for a balanced issue. Please include your mailing address, fax and telephone number, and your electronic mail address whenever possible.

Correspondence:
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
American University in Cairo
113, Kasr Al Aini Street
PO Box 2511, Cairo 11511, Egypt
Fax: (+ 202) 2795-7565
Tel.: (+ 202) 2797-5107
E-mail: alifecl@aucegypt.edu
Guest editor (English): Ira Dworkin idworkin@aucegypt.edu
http://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/dept/eclt/alif

PCard Receipt Reminder

See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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"Negotiating Dignity: Flight Attendant Labor and the Age of Neoliberalism"

Monday, Sept. 21
3:30-5:00pm
Scott Hall Commons

Refreshments will be provided.

NEGOTIATING DIGNITY:
Flight Attendant Labor and the Age of Neoliberalism

Dissertation Abstract:

This project analyzes the working lives and activism of flight
attendants since 1970. I argue that flight attendants demonstrate why
the corporation has been a central but deeply troubled focus for mid-
and late-20th century social movements. Flight attendant organizations
capture the labor movement at its most vigorous, innovative, and
effective, leveraging queer and feminist mobilization to garner
material gains from employers in the 1970s. Such advances allowed the
union contract - and the robust wages and generous benefits it
guaranteed - the principle conduit of feminist agency and advocacy.
But as flight attendants re-valued feminized labor, the airline
industry became a crucible for neoliberal reforms. By 1985,
comprehensive deregulation undermined established carriers and
unionized workforces. As the industry's changing economic circuitry
ruptured labor contracts, flight attendants were forced to decouple
labor activism from its longstanding investment in collective
bargaining and private employment. The project traces how flight
attendants' increasingly direct challenge to free market governance is
a horizon of labor, queer, and feminist politics in a globalizing
economy.

See attachments below for flyer and dissertation intro.

crossings-murphy.pdf

RMurphyDissIntroSep09.pdf

Critical Dialogues: Crossings in American Studies

September 21st , 2009 "Negotiating Dignity: Flight Attendant Labor and the Age of Neoliberalism", a paper workshop with Ryan Murphy, 3:30-5:00pm
October 5th, 2009 "Race in the Midwest", papers by Tom Sarmiento, Alex Brickler, and Kate Beane 3:30-5:30pm
October 19th, 2009 "Race, the State, and Queer Politics: 1970s to the Present", papers by Eli Vitulli, AJ Lewis, and Stephen Dillon, 3:30-5:30pm
November 2nd, 2009: Spoken Word Performance, Rodrigo Sanchez, Charlotte Albrecht, and Marisa Carr. 3:30-5:00pm
November 16th, 2009: A discussion with Professor Lori Rodriguez, 3:30-5:00pm
November 30th, 2009: A discussion with Professor Lisa Park, 3:00-5:00pm

Please see flyer below for more information:
Crossings Calendar2.pdf

Transgender Health and HIV Prevention Study-Graduate Research Assistant Position

The University of Minnesota is recruiting a graduate research assistant to support a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Transgender Health and HIV prevention. The position is for 20 hours a week and it is suitable for someone with experience in and knowledge of the transgender community, as well as an understanding of public health / HIV prevention issues. Students can apply for the assistantship by going to: https://employment.umn.edu/ and looking for requisition number 162963.

Please contact Alex Lantaffi with any further questions:

Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MFT
All Gender Health Online Research Coordinator
www.allgenderhealth.org
Program in Human Sexuality
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Minnesota Medical School
1300 South Second Street, Suite 180
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Phone: (612) 624-7984

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

About the Newcombe Fellowships
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. Proposals should have ethical or religious values as a central concern, particularly scholarly work with contemporary relevance. Dissertations may consider any historical period, but should be concerned with continuing human problems. For instance, previous awardees have addressed issues such as religious tolerance, human rights, spiritual beliefs in comparative perspective, justice, racial and gender equity issues as these are expressed through ethical or religious concerns.

Since the first round of competition in 1981, more than 1,000 Newcombe Fellows have been named. Fellows from early years of the program are now senior faculty at major research universities and selective liberal arts colleges, curators and directors at significant scholarly archives, and leaders and policymakers at nonprofit organizations and in cabinet-level government agencies. In the past decade, Newcombe Fellows have received national honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Newcombe Awards for 2010
The 2010 Newcombe Fellows will receive $25,000 for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing. (No half-year or partial awards are allowed.) At least 20 non-renewable fellowships will be awarded to candidates selected from among more than 500 applicants. Graduate schools will be asked to waive tuition for Newcombe Fellows.

Eligible Candidates
These awards are made to Ph.D. candidates who are in the writing stage of the dissertation. Applicants for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships must be candidates for Ph.D. or Th.D. degrees in doctoral programs at graduate schools in the United States. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal. Fieldwork or other research must be complete and writing begun by the time of the award. Applicants with D.Min., law, Psy.D. and other professional degrees are not eligible. Applicants who have held a similar national award for dissertation writing, such as an ACLS, Ford, Pew, Spencer, MacArthur, Whiting, Mellon, or AAUW fellowship, are not eligible. Applicants who have applied to the Newcombe Fellowship in previous years are not eligible.

Eligible Proposals
Students in doctoral programs in any field of study at graduate schools in the United States are eligible to apply. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal. Candidates should expect to complete their dissertation between April and August 2011. Candidates who are within a few months of completing their work, or those who have previously applied to this fellowship should not apply.

Application Procedures
Applications must be filed electronically and are available online at www.woodrow.org/newcombe. Components of the online application include an abstract (maximum of 200 words); a dissertation proposal no longer than six pages, double-spaced (approximately 2,000 words) that outlines the project and discusses its relevance to religious and ethical inquiry; a two-page selected bibliography; and a timetable for completion. In addition to the online application, a graduate transcript from the applicant's Ph.D. institution and three letters of recommendation--one from the dissertation director and two from other faculty members--must be separately submitted. As reapplications are not permitted, it is wise not to apply prematurely. Applications will be judged on originality, significance to questions of religious and ethical values, scholarly validity, the applicant's academic preparation and ability to accomplish the work, and whether the dissertation will be completed within a reasonable time period.

Conditions
Newcombe Fellows may not accept other awards which provide similar benefits, including fellowships such as the ACLS, Ford, Pew, Spencer, MacArthur, Whiting, Mellon, or AAUW fellowship. In rare cases, with the written permission of the director of the Newcombe Fellowship program, the Newcombe award may be combined with another award that offers some benefit uniquely significant to the Fellow's project (for instance, access to international archives), provided that the funding associated with the award in question does not exceed a set increment of Newcombe Fellowship funding. Fellows may undertake no more than six hours of paid work a week during the tenure of the Fellowship and only with the written permission of the director of the program.

Dates and Deadlines
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The online application opens the first week in September.
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All applications and supporting documents must be received by November 15, 2009.
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Notification of awards will be made in April 2010.
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Award tenure begins in September 2010.

Selection Committees
Newcombe Fellows are selected in two stages. The Preliminary Selection Committee is comprised of noted scholars from a wide range of fields who review applications and choose the finalists in the competition. The Final Selection Committee is an interdisciplinary committee comprised of scholars in fields such as Religion/Divinity, Anthropology, History, and Philosophy. These committee members make final determinations based on the overall quality of the proposal, originality, significance to questions of religious and ethical values, scholarly validity, the applicant's academic preparation and ability to accomplish the work, and whether the dissertation will be completed within a reasonable time period.

The Newcombe Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation administers the Newcombe Fellowship competition at the request of and in consultation with the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, a private foundation created under the will of Philadelphia philanthropist Mrs. Newcombe, who died in 1979. In addition to the Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships, the Newcombe Foundation funds three college scholarship programs: for physically disabled students, for returning women students, and for minority or economically disadvantaged students attending a small number of colleges related to the Presbyterian Church.

For more than sixty years, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has sought to identify and develop America's best minds for its most essential professions. Particularly concerned with historically disadvantaged populations, the Foundation seeks to address the nation's most urgent educational problems, champion academic excellence, and expand educational opportunity.

If You're Interested
Please go to www.woodrow.org/newcombe and review the information provided, including FAQ and Eligibility/Application Information. If, after reviewing these pages, you have further questions, please contact Susan Billmaier, Assistant Program Director, by email at Billmaier@woodrow.org.

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies

APPLICATIONS
Applications must be filed electronically and are available online at
www.woodrow.org/womens-studies. Components of the application to be filed online include an abstract (maximum of 200 words); a dissertation proposal no longer than six pages, double-spaced (approximately 2,000 words), outlining the dissertation and discussing its relevance to women and gender studies; a two-page selected bibliography; a one-page timetable for completion; and a statement of commitment to women and gender studies. In addition to the online application, a graduate transcript from the applicant's Ph.D. institution and two letters of recommendation--one from the dissertation director and one from another faculty member--must be separately submitted. Applications will be judged on originality and significance to women and gender studies, scholarly validity, the applicant's academic preparation/ability to accomplish the work, and whether the dissertation will be completed within a reasonable time period.

THE WW WOMEN'S STUDIES FELLOWS FOR 2010
The 2010 recipients of Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women's Studies will receive up to $3,000 to be used for expenses connected with the dissertation. These may include, but are not limited to, travel, books, microfilming, taping, and computer services. Recipients will be announced in late January 2010.

ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES
Students in doctoral programs in any field of study at graduate schools in the United States are eligible to apply. Candidates must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal. Candidates should expect to complete their dissertation between January and August 2011. Candidates who are within a few months of completing their work should not apply.

SELECTION COMMITTEES
Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellows are selected in two stages. Committees of noted scholars review applications for excellence in their fields and choose the finalists in the competition. A final interdisciplinary committee makes choices based on the overall quality of the proposal, its originality, scholarly validity, the applicant's academic preparation and ability to accomplish the work within a reasonable time period. In addition, the committee considers the contribution of the dissertation to understanding of women and gender issues, as well as the candidate's commitment to scholarship on women and gender. Notably, a number of the Fellows volunteer their time as reviewers to help select new Women's Studies Fellows and enthusiastically support the next generation of scholars.

The 2010 Final Selection Committee
Janet Golden • History, Rutgers University, Camden
Regina Smith Oboler, WS 1975 • Anthropology, Ursinus College
Martha Nell Smith, WS 1984 • English, University of Maryland

If you are interested
Please go to www.woodrow.org/womens-studies and review the information provided, including FAQ and Eligibility/Application Information. If, after reviewing these pages, you have further questions, please contact Susan Billmaier, Assistant Program Director, by email at Billmaier@woodrow.org.

"Soul of a People: the Federal Writers' Project"

September 19 - October 22
These events are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 651-222-3242 or friends@thefriends.org

August 15, 2009, SAINT PAUL, MN - The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library presents a month of lectures, readings, discussions and activities honoring the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, and the Works Progress Administration Federal Writers' Project (FWP).

In the oral history tradition of the FWP, watch stories come to life with a new play by Al Justiniano, The West Side on the South Side. Created for and with the people in and around the West Side's Neighborhood House, Dunedin Homes and El Burrito Mercado, the story takes an unusual and hopeful ride from Downtown St. Paul to the West Side on bus 68. Watch a run-through of this production on Saturday, September 19, 2 p.m., at the Riverview Branch Library, 1 E. George St., Saint Paul.

On Tuesday, September 22 at 7 p.m., Brian Szott, Art Curator at the Minnesota Historical Society, will talk about the impact of the Federal Art Project on the Minnesota cultural scene through a closer look at the Ah-Gwah-Ching collection, comprised of art and objects created between 1935 and 1943 as part of the Federal Project. This program is held at the Minnesota History Center, in the Minnesota Historical Society Library, at 75 W. Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul.

Join Professor John Edgar Tidwell, who presents a lecture on Sterling Brown and the Slave Narratives on Wednesday, September 23 at 7 p.m., at Macalester College's Weyerhaeuser Chapel, 1600 Grand Ave., Saint Paul. Professor Tidwell, editor of Sterling A. Brown's A Negro Looks at the South, discusses Brown's work on the Slave Narratives as an integral part of the FWP.

On Thursday, September 24, 7 p.m., at the Rondo Community Outreach Library, 461 N. Dale St., Saint Paul, watch Soul of a People: Writing America's Story, a major documentary about the FWP produced by Spark Media and broadcast by Smithsonian Channel HD. Professor Peter Rachleff, of Macalester College, leads a discussion on the film and the broader aspects of the New Deal's WPA programs following the film.

On Saturday, September 26 at 2 p.m., also at the Rondo Community Outreach Library, Nothando Zulu, of the Black Storytellers' Alliance, will share selections from the FWP Slave Narratives and excerpts of work by Zora Neale Hurston. Black Storytellers Alliance has entertained and educated audiences for the past two decades with the philosophy that art is a direct reflection of culture, and each performance draws from the richness of the African and African American experience.

Host of Minnesota Public Radio's "Morning Show" and Twin Cities Public Television's "Almanac," Cathy Wurzer is also the author of Tales of the Road: Highway 61. She'll discuss her new book, a modern variation on the original WPA state guides, and some of the WPA projects in Minnesota on Sunday, September 27 at 2 p.m., at the Highland Park Branch Library, Hillcrest auditorium, 1974 Ford Parkway, Saint Paul.

On Monday, September 28, 7 p.m., acclaimed actress Regina Marie Williams presents Jump at the Sun a one-woman show based on the life and times of Zora Neale Hurston, at the Central High School Black Box Theater, 275 Lexington Parkway N., Saint Paul. This is a collaborative event with the Central Touring Theater, who will present a brief introductory program.

Get a larger picture of the FWP era with a tour of the 1930s art and architecture of Saint Paul's City Hall, 15 W. Kellogg Blvd., Saint Paul, on Wednesday, September 30, 4 p.m. Please call The Friends at 651-222-3242 to register.

On Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m., at the Rondo Community Outreach Library, Neala Schleuning, author of America, Song We Sang without Knowing: The Life and Ideas of Meridel Le Sueur, introduces the film The People Are My Home, about Minnesotan FWP writer Meridel LeSueur, and leads a post-film discussion.

In addition to these programs, the Saint Paul Public Library is hosting book discussions of work by several FWP writers:

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck - September 22, 7 p.m., Merriam Park Branch Library, 1831 Marshall Ave., Saint Paul

The Actual by Saul Bellow - September 23, 7 p.m., Merriam Park Branch Library

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel - September 24, Noon, Central Library, 90 W. Fourth St., Saint Paul

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren - October 1, 7 p.m., Highland Park Branch Library

Native Son by Richard Wright - October 7, 7 p.m., St. Anthony Park Branch Library, 2245 Como Ave., Saint Paul

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston - October 8, 10:30 a.m., Central Library

North Star Country by Meridel LeSueur - October 22, Noon, Central Library

These programs are free and open to the public. For more information, please call The Friends at 651/222-3242 or go online at www.thefriends.org. Soul of a People: Writing America's Story is a major documentary television program about the Federal Writers' Project produced by Spark Media, Washington, D.C., and broadcast on the Smithsonian Channel HD. Soul of a People programs in libraries are sponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities: great ideas brought to life. Locally, the Soul of a People series is sponsored by: The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library with support from Central High School Theater Department; Macalester College; Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Agnes Baking Company; and the Saint Paul Public Library.

University of Missouri-Columbia Assistant/Associate Professor Position

The Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of Missouri seeks a scholar whose primary research and teaching interests focus on African American and gender topics. This is a tenure-track position beginning in August, 2010. Requirements include an advanced A.B.D. or Ph.D., evidence of ability to conduct a program of research on African American gender issues, and commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Applicants should have research and teaching interests in one or more of the various intersections of race, ethnicity, region, culture, class, gender, age, sexuality, disabilities. The teaching load in the department is four courses per year. The department provides excellent research support, mentoring and offers an exciting intellectual environment.

The University of Missouri is committed to increasing the diversity of the college community and curriculum. In relation to this, candidates who support those goals are encouraged to apply and to identify their relevant strengths and experiences, indicating these in the cover letter. We are interested in candidates who work in the intersections of African American Studies and Women's & Gender Studies.

To apply, submit a cover letter that includes a statement of your research, future research program and teaching interests or experience, a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and publication(s) or writing sample(s). Please submit your application to: Search Committee, Women's and Gender Studies Department, 325 Strickland Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. 65211. This search has been reopened after being suspended last year; previous applicants need only update previously submitted materials.

The review of applicants will begin on October 1, 2009 and continue until the position is filled. Please direct questions to Dr. Tola Pearce
(pearcei@missouri.edu), Chair of the Search Committee, Dr. Jacquelyn Litt (Littj@missouri.edu), Chair of the Department, or
Administrative Assistant Shelda Eggers at (573) 882-2703 or EggersS@missouri.edu. Further information about the WGST program can be found on the website: http://wgst.missouri.edu

University Walk-in Flu Clinics

The first three Walk-in Flu Clinics will be held September 16, 23, and 30.
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Boynton Health Service
SEASONAL FLU VACCINE ONLY

Season flu vaccine will not protect against 2009 H1N1 Flu.

2009 H1N1 Flu vaccination will take place on campus, but there are still many unanswered questions about the release of the vaccine. Boynton Health Service has clinics planned for the fall. As 2009 H1N1 Flu vaccine becomes available, more Walk-in Flu Clinics will be added and some scheduled clinics will also offer 2009 H1N1 Flu vaccine for eligible students, staff, and faculty. Updates regarding H1N1 vaccination on campus will be posted to the flu clinics web page ( http://www.bhs.umn.edu/services/fluclinics/index.htm )

University of Minnesota Walk-in Flu Clinics are open to University of Minnesota students, employees, and dependents of employees (who are covered by the employee's University-sponsored medical plan). Must be 18 years of age or older to participate. Seasonal Flu vaccinations and 2009 H1N1 Flu vaccinations will be provided at no out-of-pocket cost to students, staff, and faculty.

Walk-in Flu Clinics are sponsored by Employee Benefits, School of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, and Boynton Health Service.

University-wide updates regarding 2009 H1N1 Flu can be found on the University's Emergency Preparedness website (http://www1.umn.edu/prepared/ahc_prepared/flu/swine.html )-- including information on prevention and what to do if you become sick.

Roger Williams University Assistant Professor Position

Location: Rhode Island, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant Professor
Submitted: Friday, September 11th, 2009
Main Category: American Studies
Secondary Categories: U.S. History

Assistant Professor of American Studies/United States History
Tenure-Track
Ref # FAC10-003
Feinstein College of Arts & Sciences

Review of applications will begin November 15, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.

Description and Responsibilities:
The Department of History and American Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position in American Studies and/or United States social/cultural history. Primary responsibilities include teaching introductory and upper level courses in American Studies and United States history as well as sections of the University's interdisciplinary core history.

In general, all tenure-track RWU faculty must demonstrate effectiveness in the following four categories: 1) teaching; 2) academic advising and program development; 3) scholarly, professional and/or creative activities; and 4) institutional and/or community service.

Qualifications:
A Ph.D. by September, 2010, in American Studies or United States social and/or cultural history is required. Possible areas of specialization include transnational and/or global perspectives on American life and culture; American religious history and culture; and/or maritime history and culture.

Evidence of teaching excellence and experience with academic advising is highly desirable. Candidates must also present evidence of an on-going program of scholarly/creative activity.

Contact Person:
Please contact the search committee chair, Dr. Joshua Stein at jstein@rwu.edu for further information.

To Apply:
Qualified applicants should submit materials electronically, including: 1) a letter of intent along with statements of teaching philosophy and research interests; 2) a current vita; 3) names and contact information of at least three references. Electronic applications should be submitted via email to:
jstein@rwu.edu
Joshua Stein (indicate position reference #FAC10-003)
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, Rhode Island 02809-2921

About Roger Williams University:
Roger Williams University offers an outstanding benefits package and salary commensurate with qualifications, as well as a superb quality of life in a scenic setting. Please visit http://www.rwu.edu/ for more information.

Roger Williams University is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusive excellence and encourages applications from underrepresented populations.

Contact Info:
To Apply:
Qualified applicants should submit materials electronically, including: 1) a letter of intent along with statements of teaching philosophy and research interests; 2) a current vita; 3) names and contact information of at least three references. Electronic applications should be submitted via email to:
jstein@rwu.edu
Joshua Stein (indicate position reference #FAC10-003)
Roger Williams University
One Old Ferry Road
Bristol, Rhode Island 02809-2921

Website: http://www.rwu.edu/

Wesleyan University Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships

Wesleyan University invites applications for two fellowships.

(1) Native American Studies. We seek a cultural anthropologist or historian whose research focuses on indigenous peoples of the Americas.

(2) Latin American Studies. We seek a postdoctoral fellow whose research focuses on literary and/or cultural production in the borderland zone of the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States.

These fellowships carry limited teaching duties, and opportunities for scholarly research and professional development. Ph.D. must have been received before July 2010 and preferably since 2006. Annual stipend of $45,000, research/travel funds and health insurance. Renewable for a second year. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States, or expect to pursue a teaching career in the United States. Deadline: December 4, 2009. Electronic applications accepted only, in pdf or Word format--Submit letter of interest, CV, 3 letters of reference, and brief writing sample to: Robert T. Conn, rconn@wesleyan.edu , Director, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. Wesleyan University is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and welcomes applications from women and members of historically under-represented minority groups.

Contact Info:
rconn@wesleyan.edu
Professor Robert Conn
Director, Center for the Americas
Wesleyan University

Website: http://www.wesleyan.edu

"Indigenous Sexualities: A Symposium"

Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:30AM-5 PM
Asian American Cultural Center
1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL

Sex in Native Literature
9:30-11:30 AM

Chair:
LeAnne Howe, AIS and English

Presenters:
Leilani Basham, University of Hawai'i-West Oahu
Awaiāulu Ke Aloha:The Ties that Bind Hawaiian Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage

Daniel Heath Justice, University of Toronto
Seeking Fantastic Sex: Contesting the Savagist Erotic in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction

Comment:
Janice Gould, University of Colorado
at Colorado Springs
Siobhan Somerville, English and Gender and Women's Studies

Theories and Terms
1-2:45 PM

Chair:
Jodi Byrd, AIS and English

Presenters:
David Delgado Shorter, UCLA
Theoretical Postulates for the Study of Indigenous Sexualities

Brendan Hokowhitu, University of Otago, Aoteoroa New Zealand
The Taxonomy of Indigenous Masculinities

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
Queering Decolonization: Indigenous Sovereignties and Sexualities

Comment:
Sharon Holland, Duke University

Fighting Homophobia in the Indigenous World
3-5 PM

Chair:
John Low, AIS

Presenters:
Keith Camacho, UCLA
"No offense had been established": Criminality, Homosexuality and Indigeneity in America's Pacific Empire

David Cornsilk, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
"There Once Were Among Them..."

Comment:
Noenoe Silva, University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Jessica Yee, Native Youth Sexual Health Network (Toronto)

Free and Open to the Public

See website for more detail: http://www.ais.illinois.edu/news/features/sexualities/index.html

Quadrant Fellows and Visiting Scholars Fall Presentations

"Shame and the Naked Cage: Zoo Revitalization in Postwar America"
A lecture by Lisa Uddin, Fall 2009 Quadrant Fellow
Wednesday, September 30, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Nolte 125

"Beyond Geopolitics: Fossil Fuels and the Social Reproduction of Capitalism"
A lecture by Matt Huber, Fall 2009 Quadrant Fellow
Wednesday, October 7, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Nolte 125

"Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self"
A lecture by Stacy Alaimo, Quadrant Visiting Scholar
Tuesday, November 3, 4:00-5:30 p.m., Nolte 125

"Deviant Agents: The
Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity"
A workshop with Stacy Alaimo, Quadrant
Visiting Scholar
Thursday, November 5, 12-1:30 p.m.,
Nolte
125

Please find full descriptions and the complete Quadrant calendar here:

http://ias.umn.edu/quadrantcal.php

About Lisa Uddin
Lisa Uddin will be in residence fall semester with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant, working on the project "Breeding Grounds: Race and Renewal in American Zoos." She examines the turn to environmentalist animal displays in American zoos of the 1960s and '70s as channels for the revitalization of white public culture in U.S. urban regions. In these decades, amidst a maturing discourse of urban decay that pathologized a black underclass, middle-class Americans of myriad ethnic backgrounds made use of imagined and built environments to help fashion themselves as racially white. Dr. Uddin received her Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester.

About Matt Huber:
Matt Huber will be in residence fall semester with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability group of Quadrant, working on the project "Energizing Neoliberalism: Oil and the Cultural Politics of Price." Building on his doctoral work on the period from 1930 to 1972, he examines the oil price "shocks" of the 1970s and the shifting cultural politics of oil prices over the last three decades. Specifically, he is interested in understanding the relationship between neoliberalization and the increasing role of financial markets in oil price formation. Dr. Huber received his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 2009.

About Stacy Alaimo
Stacy Alaimo is a professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has published essays on feminist theory, eco-theory, green cultural studies, American literature, and film, as well as a book entitled Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (2000). Her interest in formulating new theories of materiality has also led her to co-edit a volume of feminist theory, Material Feminisms (2008), which brings together innovative theories of nature, human bodies, and science.

The Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship at Princeton University

The Princeton Program in American Studies, founded in 1943, sponsors teaching, research, and public discussion about the history, literature, art, and culture of the United States, in ways that span the traditional disciplines.
The Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship, created through an endowment by the Anschutz family, will be awarded in the academic year 2010-11 to a writer, critic, journalist, musician, artist, or other contributor to the arts, letters, public service, or commerce. The fellowship holder need not be an academic scholar. However, the selection committee will place great weight on indicia of the candidate's teaching ability as well as the rigor, innovation, and interdisciplinary emphasis of the proposed seminar course. The Anschutz Fellow is expected to teach one interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar course for the American Studies Program either in the fall or the spring semester. The seminar will be composed of no more than 15 students, and it will meet for three hours weekly over a 12 week teaching semester. The Fellow will also deliver one public lecture to the University. The Fellow will enjoy full access to Firestone Library and to a wide range of activities throughout the University. A computer-equipped office on campus will be provided for the semester.
A Fellow who elects to reside on campus will receive a salary of $50,000, plus benefits. A Fellow who elects to commute from elsewhere will receive $32,000, plus benefits.

To apply: An applicant should submit a curriculum vita, a preliminary syllabus, and a short statement describing her or his proposed seminar and public lecture by November 13, 2009. A short list of finalists will be asked to submit further materials.
Please apply on line at http://jobs.princeton.edu. Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations.

Contact Info:
Please apply on line at http://jobs.princeton.edu

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/ams/anschutz/current_search/

Task Box Moved

The Task Box is used to initiate assistance from the office staff with photocopying, letters/packages to be sent, check-out slips & returned materials from our library, and other misc. work requests. Pink instruction sheets should be submitted to the Task Box located on the reception counter. We request a two day turnaround time for tasks, but ask that you allow more time for bigger projects, or when requesting at peak times (the beginning and end of the semesters).

"De-Centering the Cultural Cold War: The U.S. and Asia"

Yuka Tsuchiya is co-editor of the publication and associate professor of law and letters at Ehime University in Japan. Chia Youyee Vang is a contributor and assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Both professors are alumnae of the University of Minnesota's American Studies program.

Please see attached flyer below for more detail.
De-Centering The Cultural Cold War2.pdf

Doctoral Final Examinations Online Scheduling

The Graduate School is pleased to announce that effective fall semester (September 8, 2009) doctoral students will schedule their doctoral final examinations with the Graduate School online. Electronic scheduling of doctoral final oral exams is part of the GSSP office's continuing efforts to improve our services for graduate students, faculty, and staff. Benefits of electronic scheduling include the elimination of the hard-copy Final Oral Examination Scheduling form, and improved communications among the GSSP office, the doctoral student, and the student's graduate program office throughout the final doctoral exam scheduling and authorization process.

We wish to thank the graduate students and DGS assistants who participated in the development of the new scheduling process. Their feedback was instrumental in creating the most convenient, user-friendly, and transparent process possible. We are also very interested in your comments, questions, and concerns regarding the effectiveness of electronic doctoral final oral exam scheduling. Your reactions not only will help us to identify any future modifications that may be needed, but will also inform our decisions as we create other electronic processes.

How the electronic exam scheduling process works:

1. Doctoral students are expected to schedule their final oral exams with the GSSP office at least one week in advance. This continues current practice.
2. The electronic scheduling process must be initiated by the student. To do so, the student clicks on the Final Oral Examination Scheduling link listed on GSSP's doctoral forms web page.
3. From the Final Oral Examination Scheduling page, the student clicks on the link to schedule the exam, and then logs in using their Internet ID and password.
4. The student enters the final oral examination date and clicks "submit." (Note that all other required student information fields are automatically populated via PeopleSoft.)
5. The GSSP office will notify the student by email regarding any outstanding final oral exam requirements, and how to fulfill those requirements. The student will also receive confirmation from the GSSP office upon the Graduate School's authorization of the final oral examination. This continues current practice.
6. The DGS assistant will now automatically be copied on all of the above-mentioned emails so that the graduate program office is informed of the Graduate School's review and authorization of their student's final oral exam.

For More Information
If you have questions about the new final oral examination scheduling process, please contact Stacia Madsen at gsdoc@umn.edu. Detailed doctoral degree completion procedures are available on GSSP's web site.

Science & Public Policy Seeks Book Reviewers

Science & Public Policy is currently seeking reviewers for the following books:

1. Beyond Sputnik: US Science Policy in the 21st Century, by Homer A.
Neal, Tobin L. Smith, and Jennifer B. McCormick, 2008, University of
Michigan Press

2. North American Freight Transportation: The Road to Security and
Prosperity by Mary R. Brooks, William A. Black, 2008, Edward Elgar

3. New Global Frontiers In Regulation: The Age of Nanotechnology
Edited by Graeme Hodge, Director, Diana Bowman and Karinne
Ludlow,Monash 2008, Edward Elgar

4. Governance, Globalization And Public Policy, Edited by Patricia
Kennett, 2008, Edward Elgar

5. Cluster Policies In Europe: Firms, Institutions, and Governance,
by Susana Borrás, 2009, Edward Elgar

6. Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations, by
Hayagreeva Rao, 2008, Princeton University Press

7. Science, Policy and the value-Free Ideal by Heather Douglas, 2009,
University of Pittsburg Press

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books and can complete
the review within a four-month period from receiving the book please
contact Dan Meeking as soon as possible. If you have not reviewed for
us in the last two years, include a brief (one paragraph) indication
of you background and interest.

"Ashesh Barsha, Unending Monsoon"

Ananya Dance Theatre's "Ashesh Barsha, Unending Monsoon" Southern Theater, September 10-13, 2009. Thursday, Sept 10, pay as able.
http://www.southerntheater.org/2009_09-10_ananya_dance_theatre.htm

Ashesh Barsha, Unending Monsoon, is a danced response to a world gone mad through the overconsumption of electricity, energy and natural resources. A world premiere, Ashesh Barsha completes Ananya Dance Theatre's trilogy on environmental justice and explores unanswered questions of reparation, the mismanagement of hurricanes and tsunamis, and a world where human connectivity is lost and indigenous knowledge
eroded. The women of Ananya Dance Theatre tell their collective story through a unique combination of Odissi dance, yoga, martial arts, ritualistic movement and street theater.

Carleton College Postdoctoral Fellowship

The American Studies Program at Carleton College invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship, to begin September 1, 2010. Ph.D. required by date of appointment. We are seeking recent Ph.D.s with demonstrated strong teaching abilities, a clear research agenda, and a commitment to teaching a diverse student body in a liberal arts environment. Areas of research and teaching are open, but preference given to candidates with expertise in Latino/a Studies and/or Native American Studies. The successful candidate will teach three courses, give one research colloquium, and participate in program events for faculty and students.

Send letter of application outlining research and teaching experience and interests, c.v., three reference letters, two syllabi, and a brief sample of scholarly writing, by October 9, 2009 to:

Professor Nancy Cho, Director
American Studies Program
Carleton College
One North College Street
Northfield, MN 55057

To apply electronically, submit materials to ncho@carleton.edu

Applications will be reviewed with the intention of meeting potential candidates at the American Studies Association conference in Washington, D.C., November 5-8, 2009.

Carleton is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. We are committed to developing our faculty to better reflect the diversity of our student body and American society. Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

http://h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=39163

Rutgers University-Assistant Professor Position

The Federated Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark, and New Jersey Institute of Technology, invites applications for a tenure-track appointment based at Rutgers, Newark, effective September 2010. Ph.D. in hand by September 2010 preferred, but ABD considered. Preference will be given to candidates whose teaching and writing will contribute to Rutgers' new Ph.D. program in American Studies. Of particular interest are critical sexuality studies/ queer history, legal history, or U.S. Latino history. Deadline for submitting applications is October 10; search will be completed by December 15th. Send letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation by Oct. 10, 2009 to Professor Beryl Satter, Chair, U.S. History Search, Department of History, 323 Conklin Hall, 175 University Ave., Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1814. Rutgers University is an AA/EOE and especially encourages applications from women and members of minority groups.

Website: http://history.newark.rutgers.edu

Reminder: American Studies Annual Potluck Gathering

The annual department potluck gathering of students, faculty, and staff to celebrate the beginning of the academic year is this Thursday, September 3, 5:30 - 8:00pm at the home of Kale Fajardo. Please bring a dish to share (with serving spoon) -we are looking forward to a variety of creative contributions. Kale's address is 2806 14th Ave. S., Minneapolis, ­located in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood, blocks from the Global Market. Attendees arriving on bikes should use the 13th Ave. exit from the Greenway. Car parking on nearby streets is available, though may be limited.

"De-Centering the Cultural Cold War: the U.S. and Asia"

Yuka Tsuchiya is co-editor of the publication and associate professor of law and letters at Ehime University in Japan. Chia Youyee Vang is a contributor and assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Both professors are alumnae of the University of Minnesota's American Studies program.

See the attached flyer below for more info.
De-Centering The Cultural Cold War2.pdf

The Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies

Symposium Date: August 3, 2010
Planned location: IKAA Korean Adoptee Gathering, Seoul, Korea. For more information about the Gathering, see http://gathering.ikaa.info/en .
Symposium Sponsor: IKAA (International Korean Adoptee Associations). For more information about IKAA, see http://ikaa.org/en .
Submissions Due by: September 15, 2009
Submit to: SISKAS2010@gmail.com
Questions? Contact Kim Park Nelson, greg0051@umn.edu

If selected, your complete, full-length paper (up to 15 single-spaced pages) will be due January 1, 2010. Submission of a full-length paper by the due date is a requirement for participation in the Symposium. You may also be invited to participate in a research panel at the Gathering the week following the Symposium.

Submission Deadline and Instructions
Complete submissions (cover sheet, paper proposal and CV) must be received by September 15, 2009 by 5:00 PM (U.S.A. Central Time). No late proposals will be accepted. They will accept proposals via email only. A cover page submitted without attached proposal or CV is NOT considered complete. They will not accept or consider submissions that are lacking information. Selection notifications will be made by e-mail by the end of November.

Criteria for selection
While they encourage submissions from everyone, they will prioritize papers from academics who have completed a terminal degree or who are currently enrolled in terminal master's or Ph.D. programs. They also seek presentations/papers on a range of topics (some of which are outlined below) that represent as many of the current research approaches on Korean adoption as possible.

Introduction and presentation
The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) plans to convene the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies as part of the 2010 Korean Adoptee Gathering 2010.

The aim of the symposium is to establish and explore this new and rapidly expanding academic field. The field of Korean adoption studies is specifically concerned with international adoption from Korea, as well as with overseas adopted Koreans. It has recently emerged as an area of study both in Korea, the country of origin, and in the Western receiving countries to which Korean children have been sent for adoption. This symposium will bring together scholars from around the world who are conducting research in the field of Korean adoption studies. These scholars are working at the multidisciplinary intersections of Asian and Korean studies, postcolonial and cultural studies, and social and behavioural sciences. Their work is also engaged with issues of ethnicity, migration and diaspora, and globalization and transnationalism.

This day long and multidisciplinary symposium will take place in Seoul, South Korea, and will be comprised of paper presentations and open discussions. The papers will be published as a volume of collected proceedings, which will be distributed at the Symposium and also made available to university libraries. The First Symposium in 2007 laid the foundation for the growing network of Korean Adoption Studies scholars, and the 2010 Symposium will be an opportunity to continue expanding the network, to include a wider range of scholarship and to incorporate work being done by scholars in Korea.

Background and purpose
South Korea's history of over half a century of continuous and uninterrupted international adoption provides the background for this symposium. Since the 1953 armistice that suspended the Korean War, almost 200,000 Korean children have been sent for adoption to 15 principal host countries in the Western world. Of those children, over 120,000 were sent to the United States, 60,000 to Europe (with half in Scandinavia of which 10,000 arrived in Sweden alone), and the remaining 10,000 were sent to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In its significant demographic scope, its lengthy time span, and its wide-ranging geographic spread, international adoption from Korea is unprecedented in modern history as the largest global transfer of children in the world. Today, still around 1,500 children leave Korea every year for adoption to eight different Western countries. The child welfare practice commonly known as international adoption, i.e., the transnational/ transcontinental, and, often, transracial/transcultural adoption, of predominantly non-Western children to primarily Western parents, was carried out in Korea directly following the war. As such, Korean adoption has become a model for understanding subsequent waves of international adoption. Furthermore, adopted Koreans are not only the most numerous, diverse and widespread of the world's child migrants, but also constitute the first generation and population of transnational and transracial adoptees. The field of Korean adoption studies thus provides a foundation for understanding international adoption and internationally adopted people as a whole.

Past and Current Research
For many years, the subject of international adoption from Korea and adopted Koreans was an under-researched area in academia. The field, as it existed then, was dominated by professionals in social work, psychology, and medicine. The first academic studies on Korean adoption started to come out in the mid-1970s, both in Korea and in the West, but it was not until the mid-1990s that one could begin to talk about a full-fledged field of Korean adoption studies.

In Korean academia, the majority of adoption studies discuss international adoption in terms of social welfare or legislation, and primarily from the perspectives of social work and family law. But Korean research interest in adult adopted Koreans has grown in recent years, with studies focusing on the life consequences for adoptees who have revisited Korea and/or reunited with their Korean family members, as well as cultural studies oriented textual analyses of adopted Korean self-narratives.

On the other side of the world, adoption scholarship in the leading adopting regions of North America, Scandinavia and Western Europe mainly focus on the behavioral and emotional adjustment of adoptees, including their attachment and adjustment to the adoptive family and assimilation and acculturation to the host culture. In addition, a growing number of studies have started to look at Korean international adoption from a comparative historical perspective and others have conceptualized it as a migratory practice linked to globalization and transnational processes. There is also a growing body of research on adoptees' language detrition and attrition and their cultural output of art, film, and literature.

Finally, a new research trend that has emerged both in Korea and in the West deals with the question of an identity and community specific to adopted Koreans, in the context of existing theories of ethnicity, migration, and diaspora.

This symposium aims to bring together researchers who focus either on international adoption from Korea or on overseas adopted Koreans from these different perspectives and approaches.

Themes and Topics
They welcome submissions from any academic background or perspective, and especially welcome work with multi-or interdisciplinary perspectives. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• The Korean state and international adoption policy /adoption and Korea's image in the world. We especially encourage the submission of papers that focus on Korean adoption as a social, cultural or political phenomenon within the nation of South Korea including research that originates from within South Korea.

• Korean adoptees as part of Korean diaspora and/or Korean adoption as a part of Asian North American, Asian European, or Asian Australian experience.

• Comparative projects that examine Korean adoption and adoption from other countries.

• In-between identities and familial relations and the impact of Korean adoption on the adoption triad members.

• Empirical research that examines a specific question or salient issue within the Korean adoptee community, including the behavioural adjustment and emotional development of Korean adoptees from normative standpoints as opposed to pathologized approaches. We also encourage work that can detail the logic of inquiry or research methods, and that provides sufficient evidence to support and interpret results.

• Projects that explore the social phenomenon of multiple group status held by Korean adoptees and their relative experiences in North America, Australia, and Europe.

• Korean adoptees as subjects of cultural production including literature, fine arts, or blogs. We especially encourage work that examines Korean adoption in documentary or cinema.

See attachment below for required coversheet.
The Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies.doc

The Newberry Library Seminar in American Indian Studies

This 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. They 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 several
times during the academic year, usually on a Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 5pm, at
the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

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. to Jade Cabagnot, Program
Assistant, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, The Newberry Library.
Please send all materials as electronic attachments via email to:
mcnickle@newberry.org.

If you are interested in proposing a paper and have questions, please contact seminar
coordinator and Director of the McNickle Center, Dr. Scott Manning Stevens

Association for Asian American Studies 2010 Annual Conference

The interdisciplinary Association for Asian American Studies invites
presentation proposals from the fields of literature, geography,
sociology, political science, history, cultural studies, the applied
social sciences, education, anthropology, media and film, ethnic
studies, public policy, psychology, and communications.

The 2010 conference site is lodged squarely between the east and west
coasts and abutting Mexico. How might this location inspire us to
reinscribe the terrain of Asian American Studies to capture
twenty-first century realities and subjectivities? For example, to
the surprise of most, Texas now holds the third highest population of
Asian Americans, surpassing even Hawai'i, Illinois, and New Jersey.
Journeying away from the traditional AAS strongholds on the coasts and
Hawai'i suggests the urgency of regional perspectives reflecting
newer, post 1965 populations and communities that may fragment the
field between its oldest and newest parts. We argue that a process of
dismantling is necessary so that a twenty-first century vision of
Asian American Studies might be reassembled from its many messy and
morphing parts.

From its origins in the civil rights era, Asian American Studies has
been an emergent project intellectually and institutionally. It tracks
the growth and evolution of a highly heterogeneous population
constantly shifting in location, arrival narratives, socioeconomic
class, cultural formations, political identifications, and demography.
UT Austin presents opportunities to highlight these transformations,
as well as continuities, in student activism and program building,
intersections with gender and sexuality studies, hemispheric
conceptions of migration, transnational and diasporic practices,
transformative communications technologies, economic crises, new sites
of labor and employment, communities emerging from war and refugee
flight, and teaching for non-Asian populations.

To encompass the full range of research on Asian Pacific Americans, we
encourage contributions from scholars at every level of seniority and
papers ranging from community studies, pedagogical strategies, and
programmatic models to the most experimental, and integrative, of
theoretical ponderings.

All proposals must be submitted on-line by Oct. 23, 2009. For
instructions on submitting proposals and other conference information,
visit www.aaastudies.org/index.html
For more information, you may contact the AAAS Secretariat at
piaseng@illinois.edu or the Center for Asian American Studies at UT
Austin at kydawson@mail.utexas.edu

*AV equipment will be available on a limited basis by request. Please
make your requests when sending in your proposals although the
Association cannot guarantee that equipment will be provided.
*To be included in the conference program, participants must be AAAS
members who have paid registration fees.

The Asian American Law Journal Call for Submissions

The Asian American Law Journal (AALJ) at the UC Berkeley School of Law is pleased to invite article submissions for publication in our seventeenth volume.

As one of only two law journals dedicated to Asian American jurisprudence, we are committed to providing a forum for scholars, practitioners, and students to address legal and policy issues
relevant to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Our mission is to promote excellent scholarship that fosters awareness and dialogue within and beyond the legal community.

Past volumes have addressed such issues as immigration policy, civil liberties, community development, and political engagement. For more information and for further examples of submissions, please visit our website at http://www.boalt.org/aalj/.

Submissions should be sent to aalj.submissions@gmail.com and will be
reviewed on a rolling basis until October 15, 2009 for publication in Summer 2010. All submissions must meet the following requirements:
- Documents must be sent as a Microsoft Word attachment (.doc format).
- Documents must be double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font and one-inch margins.
- Submissions should be approximately 30 pages minimum.
- Footnotes must be within text (i.e., incorporated at end of each page) and must conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.).

The mandate of the Asian American Law Journal is to publish commentary, analyses, and research on the experiences and concerns of Asian Americans. We believe that to advance the Asian American movement, we must recognize the diversity among Asian American
communities and cultivate scholarship that promotes understanding and empowerment in order to foster resistance to oppression and the achievement of justice. The movement includes, but is not limited to, the intersections of gender, class, sexual orientation, religion and
race. We recognize the histories of Pacific Islanders and support those who choose to maintain distinct community identities. In solidarity with all peoples who have been subordinated, we embrace the opportunity to publish works that address issues relating to all marginalized communities. The mission of our journal is to speak truth to power; to borrow from poet Janice Mirikitani, "We give testimony. Our noise is dangerous."

Climate Justice Conference Retreat

The Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy is pleased to offer a two-day event on Climate Justice. The events include an afternoon Pre- Retreat Energy Basics Workshop and a full-day Climate Justice Conference Retreat.

REGISTER TODAY: www.iatp.org/ceed

Headwaters Foundation Past and Present grantees qualify to attend the Climate Justice Retreat for FREE!

PRE-RETREAT ENERGY BASICS WORKSHOP

A fun and informational session on what you can do in your home and in your community to REDUCE pollution, REDUCE your energy bills, and REDUCE the threats of climate change in your community. This is a hands-on, interactive training that you can take back to your
communities. Learn about programs that are available to support your energy needs and how Minnesota policies are going to affect you and your family. This enjoyable session includes an energy toolkit developed by the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy for training community members on these important issues. Please join us at this fun workshop and take home an ENERGY SAVINGS WORKBOOK to share with friends, family and fellow colleagues.

$10 if registered by September 1, 2009.

Workshop Leaders:
Amy Roe, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware

Manu Mathai, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy University of Delaware

DATE: Friday, September 11, 2009
TIME: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: IATP, Stevens Ave Building (Map)
2104 Stevens Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Click here to download a registration form to mail.

For online registration: www.iatp.org/ceed

CLIMATE JUSTICE CONFERENCE RETREAT

The CLIMATE JUSTICE RETREAT will bring together policy analysts and activists to link a social justice discussion about approaches for solving the climate crisis. Special guest Bill Gallegos, long time environmental justice advocate and Executive Director of Communities
for A Better Environment will help us frame how we can make our voices heard. This is for grassroots and community leaders who want to learn more about the equity and social justice issues of climate change. We will discuss how families and communities are being impacted by
current climate change polices and look at what type of solutions can benefit grassroots and environmental justice communities. We will strategize for solutions that work for our communities and are based on a principle of social justice. The retreat is being held at Wilder
Forest which is a short 40 minutes from Minneapolis, and 30 minutes from St. Paul. Lunch and snacks are included in the registration fee.

Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association 2010 Joint National Conference

GAY, LESBIAN, AND QUEER STUDIES
Call For Proposals: Sessions, Panels, Papers
POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
2010 JOINT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Renaissance Grand Hotel St. Louis
Wednesday, March 31, through Saturday, April 3
For information on PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.pcaaca.org

For information on the conference, please go to
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15, 2009

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in ½ hour slots, typically with four papers or speakers per standard session.

Among the topics/themes we may highlight: representations of queers on TV; queer cinema; indicators of a gay/post-gay culture; queers in emerging media; queer youth culture; literary themes/genres; and critique of queer-centered media (e.g., Logo, Curve). Please note the
special call for proposals addressing HIV/AIDS in Popular Culture on the following page. As always, proposals addressing any topic at the intersection of popular culture and queerness are welcome.

Should you or any of your colleagues be interested in submitting a proposal or have any questions, please contact:

Bruce E. Drushel, Ph.D.
Mass Communication Area
Department of Communication
Miami University
Oxford OH 45056
(513) 529-3526
drushebe@muohio.edu

For individual papers, please submit a title and 100-word abstract. For sessions and panels, please submit paper/presentation titles and abstracts, along with a paragraph describing the central theme, and the names of chairs and respondents (if any).

For each participant, please provide a mailing address, institution name, and e-mail address.

SPECIAL FOCUS: HIV/AIDS IN POPULAR CULTURE

Nearly fifteen years after the release of Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor to receive FDA approval, the depiction of HIV/AIDS in popular culture has greatly changed, but it has not disappeared. The GL&Q Studies Area this year especially is interested in papers and panels that will explore the changing nature of HIV/AIDS in popular culture to tease out the contemporary contradiction of the AIDS epidemic as it has receded from mainstream consciousness yet continues to appear in popular culture. Although this is not an exhaustive
list, proposals might explore the visibility/viability of (RED) Products, the persistence of Keith Haring's art via the recent retrospective of his work or its use in Madonna's Sticky and Sweet
tour, the changing visual representation of the HIV positive body from Benetton advertisements to more recent pharmaceutical ads for HIV medications, the appearance of HIV in South Park and other television programming, the continued use of music to raise AIDS awareness and funding from Annie Lennox's collaborative "Sing" to dance4life, or MTV's recent movie on the life of Real World star Pedro Zamora.

Selected papers may be considered for inclusion in a planned edited collection to be published in 2011.

American Studies Annual Potluck Gathering

The department potluck gathering of students, faculty and staff to celebrate the beginning of the academic year is Thursday, September 3, 5:30 ­- 8:00pm at the home of Kale Fajardo. Please bring a dish to share along with a serving spoon. Kale's address is 2806 14^th Ave. S., Minneapolis ­located in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood, blocks from the Global Market. Attendees arriving on bikes should use the 13^th Ave. exit from the Greenway. Car parking on nearby streets is available, though may be limited.

Organizational Meeting in Researching History of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in Minnesota

The immediate goal of the project is to enter the "Since Stonewall" contest organized by the innovative OUTHISTORY.ORG Project (http://www.outhistory.org/wiki/Since_Stonewall_Contest).

All are welcome! No particular experience is necessary (although individuals with experience in web page building and design are especially welcome).
For more information: schochet@umn.edu, Phone: 612-626-2562, Fax 612-625-9682

PCard Receipt Reminder

See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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GEOG 8230: Race, Space, and Biopolitics: Feminist Elaborations

Few students of the city, colonialism, or violence can escape at some point addressing the question of race. As a system of classifying and segregating bodies, race pops up even when we think we are studying something else. Obviously there is biological variation within the human species, but exactly why this variation has become so insidiously political is a difficult problematic, shaking up any attempt at disciplining academic boundaries. This graduate seminar seeks to investigate the conceptual intricacies of the becoming-political of human life, of "biopolitics." This fall, emphasis will be given to the intersections of theorizations of biopolitics and race with feminist theory, since the latter has for decades been at the forefront of conceiving the politicization of biology. What can feminist theory - itself diverse and dynamic
- teach us for thinking race as a material process of sexual, laboring, violent, migrating bodies? The course understands the politicization of phenotypic differences to be a planetary process, to a large extent determined by European colonization involving bodies and desires positioned in particular places and inequalities. It is however also entirely contingent, and thus changeable by antiracist politics and research.

Meets Thursdays, 12.20-3.00

Email instructor Arun Saldanha (saldanha@umn.edu) for the syllabus.

Interdisciplinary Graduate Study Group in Childhood Studies

In short, the initial stages of an interdisciplinary graduate group are to help coalesce the group and attract others to the initiative who share the group's intellectual interests and can help develop the group's agenda and goals.

As there is no requirement for a teaching component in the early stages of an ID graduate group, the Director of the Graduate School's Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Vicki Field, suggested that we might want to propose that funding be used to sponsor a lecture or symposium to draw others (faculty, grad students, postdocs) from across the campus to an event focused on childhood studies and on the possibility of building such a program at the U of MN (see attached Childhood Studies Major and Minor Description and Core Requirements and Childhood Studies v. Sociology, Family Social Science, and Child Development). We took her suggestion (more details can be found in the attached proposal) and were ultimately successful, however, in addition to adding graduate students to our roster, they would like for us to add faculty members from the following places:

Adolescent Health
Family Policy
Social Work
Mass Communications
Public Policy

For more information contact Kysa Hubbard at 612-624-6858 or email khubbard@umn.edu

Santa Clara University Women's and Gender Studies Position

The Women's and Gender Studies Program of Santa Clara University invites applications for a tenure-track position commencing in September 2010 in the area of transnational feminisms. Ph.D. in Women's Studies preferred, with a minimum requirement of a graduate certificate or equivalent in Women's Studies with Ph.D. in a related field; candidate will demonstrate an ongoing professional commitment to the interdisciplinary field of women's and gender studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses including but not limited to Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, and Transnational Feminisms. Ability to teach interdisciplinary courses and courses outside the Humanities is required. Position includes service responsibilities on the Program's governing council and, pending a successful tenure petition, service as director of the Program. This position is contingent on available funding. Santa Clara University, located in California's "Silicon Valley," is a Jesuit, Catholic institution, emphasizing education in the liberal arts and sciences and an AA/EEO employer. Application deadline is September 15, 2009. Search committee members will conduct preliminary interviews with candidates at the November 2009 National Women's Studies Association Conference in Atlanta. For more information regarding application submissions, see www.scu.edu/hr/careers/faculty.cfm or contact lgarber@scu.edu.

American University of Paris Call for Chapters

Call for Chapters
Women and the Media in Asia

To what extent do women have control over their lives? How do the media intersect with imagining different lives for women? This book is concerned with the changing lives of women; the troubling signs of female individualization as intersected with everyday media culture - a new arena of anxiety for women in contemporary Asia.

From the 1980s onward, women in Asia have gained higher levels of education and the commensurate expectations have become a driving motor in the women's aspirations for work, economic power, independence, freedom and self-fulfilment. However, women often experience gendered labour market inequity setting limits on patterns of participation, women's socio-economic position on the margins of work systems, and thus the illusion of the language of choice that the new capacities of education appear to promise. The enlargement of choice can be particularly illusory for women in contemporary Asia where gendered socio-economic and cultural conditions continue to persist and structure labour market outcomes and lifestyles.

Yet signs of female individualization have been proliferating as a defining feature of contemporary modes of identity, albeit untenable and ambivalent, within the discursive regime of self - embodied in regulatory practices in society where individualism is not placed at the heart of its culture. Arguably, the media are central to the signs of emergent cultures of female individualization producing the alternative social, cultural and symbolic relations women wish to live within and define the kind of self they wish to become. Seeming suggestions of individualization are encountered, mediated through popular media imaginaries that are present and often intentionally used as resources for reflexivity and self-imagining. This also provides a condition for an increased awareness of cultural differences and of women's own positions in relation to global Others, new symbolic objects of identification and contestation.

At a time of significant changes in women's lives entering a much larger but precarious world, this book explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics and politics of everyday life.

I invite contributions that explore everyday media culture and the issues of women as `consumers', women as `representations' and women as `creators', to offer an understanding of changing lives and frustrated desires, contradictions and dispersed sites of female individualization that are refracted into various degrees and forms.

Deadline: 30 December 2009. 300 word abstract, biographical note: please send electronic submissions to Professor Youna Kim, ykim@aup.fr

Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia (Routledge, 2008)

Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope (Routledge, 2005/2009)

Department of Global Communications, American University of Paris

6, rue du Colonel Combes, 75007 Paris, France

Philadelphia PA Library Resident Research Fellowships

Scope
The Library Resident Research fellowships support research in the Society's collections. We are a leading international center for research in the history of American science and technology and its European roots, as well as early American history and culture.

Eligibility
Applicants must demonstrate a need to work in the Society's collections for a minimum of one month and a maximum of three months. Applicants in any relevant field of scholarship may apply. Candidates whose normal place of residence is farther away than a 75-mile radius of Philadelphia will be given some preference. Applicants do not need to hold the doctorate, although Ph.D. candidates must have passed their preliminary examinations.

Stipend
$2,000 per month.

Deadline
The deadline for submission of all materials, including letters of support, is March 1, 2010.

Library Resident Research Fellowships
American Philosophical Society Library
105 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386
Phone: (215) 440.3443
Fax: (215) 440.3423
Email: libfellows@amphilsoc.org libfellows@amphilsoc.org

Visit the website at http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/resident.htm

Sex and Hip-Hop Beyond Misogyny: Call for Submissions

Many have stated that sex sells with regards to commodities, hip hop culture in particular. However, in recent years the industries surrounding sex and hip hop have developed a symbiotic relationship. For example, rappers often use strip clubs to premiere records and circumvent mainstream radio payola. In turn, the porn industry employs rappers to promote its DVDs and websites. This connection not only allows the two industries to benefit financially, but also results in their mutual exploitation.

Traditionally, hip hop scholarship and commentary has focused on the misogynist and sexist nature of cultural products. That is, until now, academic debates about how sex is addressed by the hip hop community have centered primarily on topics such as the treatment of the video girl, Nelly's "Tip Drill," depictions of rappers as violent, sexual predators, etc.
For the forthcoming issue, "Sex and Hip hop Beyond Misogyny", Words. Beats. Life: The Global Journal of Hip Hop Culture invites scholars, students, and practitioners to submit nuanced takes on gender and sexuality within hip hop culture. Topics may include sex trafficking, sexual education, hip hop and sex in film and literature, queer hip hop, boyhood and girlhood, and representations of the body. We hope to push ideas about sex and hip hop beyond simple investigations of misogyny in this issue.

Submissions Process
All submissions are accepted on a continuous basis and need not be limited to the themes outlined.

All submissions designated as scholarly require an abstract of 150 words or less and up to five key words to accompany each submission.

All scholarly submissions should follow the APA style guide.

Submission Formats

Research Papers 3,000 words
Essays 1,500 words
Editorials 1,500 words
Short Stories 3,500 words
Lyrics 150-300 words
Featured Poet 150-300 words (4 poems, bio, and photo)
Featured Artist PDF or JPEG (5-7 pieces, bio, and photo)
Scholarly Reviews 2,000 words (albums, books, and films)
Interviews 1,500 words

Submissions and Inquiries:
E-mail:submissions@wblinc.org

Mailing address:
Words Beats & Life
Attn: Journal Staff
1525 Newton Street NW
Washington, D.C. 2001

"American History and Culture" Call for Papers

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations
31st Annual Conference, February 10-13, 2010

Priority registration deadline: November 1, 2009
Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2009
Conference hotel: Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
330 Tijeras Avenue NW , Albuquerque , NM 87102 , (505) 842-1234

The annual SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference is one of the nation's largest gatherings of interdisciplinary scholars. The 31st annual conference will take place February 10-13, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency in vibrant downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, just steps from historic Route 66. Further conference details are available at http://www.swtxpca.org .

Panels are now forming for all of the conference's 80+ individual subject areas, including the "American History and Culture" area. Below are some suggestions for presentation / panel topics related to the area of "American History and Culture." Topics not mentioned here are also welcome for consideration. However, all proposals for the "American History and Culture" area must have a historical focus and should also emphasize culture.

* American cultural history in general

* Specific eras / periods in American history

* Regional and local history (especially in the Southwest)

* Public history, collective memory, representation, nostalgia, memorials / monuments

* Historic preservation and historical sites

* Consumer culture and advertising

* Leisure, public amusements, travel, and tourism

* Urban studies, architecture, city planning, cultural geography, cultural landscapes

* Local image / identity creation, boosterism, and the marketing of place

* Radio

* Sports

* Youth culture/subcultures, children's culture, senior culture, etc.

* Visual culture, art, and design

The submission deadline for the SW/TX PCA/ACA is December 15, 2009, although the priority registration deadline (for discounted rates) is November 1, 2009. For the "American History and Culture" area, please email queries and proposals for either individual presentations or full panels to "American History and Culture" Area Chair Kelli Shapiro (Department of American Civilization, Brown University) at Kelli_Shapiro@brown.edu . (Full panel submissions need to include 3 or 4 papers.) Include a 200-word abstract with a two-part working title (as well as a CV and contact information) for each potential presenter. Please convert any Word 2007 .docx files into the older .doc file format before sending them. Mention the conference or the "American History and Culture" area in the email's subject line.

Professors, independent scholars, teachers, and professionals are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are particularly welcome at the conference, which offers awards for the best graduate papers. Please note that the SW/TX PCA/ACA does not generally accept previously presented (or published) papers. Further, it permits only one presentation per person per year. The conference features numerous individual subject areas - each with its own Area Chair, and each typically including multiple conference panels. Therefore, please consult the area list at
http://www.swtxpca.org/documents/123.html to determine whether the "American History and Culture" area is the appropriate area to receive your proposal.

For more information http://www.swtxpca.org

State University of New York at Buffalo Call for Papers

The American Studies Graduate Student Association of the State University of New York at Buffalo is currently accepting submissions that address interdisciplinary work in all fields.

Articles that include Native American perspectives and philosophies on environmental restoration, sustainable farming practices, community development and planning, health care and preventative medicine, and literature and oral traditions are particular interest.

All papers, conversations, and projects are welcome.

Please send submissions and inquiries to: journal.ams.ub@gmail.com

Deadline: November 20, 2009

Teaching Assistant AFRO 3592W

A Teaching Assistant is sought for AFRO 3592W: "Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States" (either 25% = 10 hours a week or 50% = 20 hours a week).

The TA should preferably be:

(i) A graduate major or minor in African American and African Studies with a concentration in African diasporic Literatures; (ii) A graduate major or minor in ethnic studies, post-colonial studies, diaspora studies, world literatures, gender studies . . . (iii) A graduate student majoring in literatures and/or languages with a strong background in literary and critical approaches and theories;

TA duties will ordinarily include all of the following: • attending lectures • holding office hours • keeping records of attendance and absence • coordinating the list serve and students' inquiries • attending meetings with the course instructor • grading homework and exams (mainly essays) in a confident, skillful, and competent manner

Please contact Professor Njeri Githire (ngithire@umn.edu)

2010 University of Tornoto International Colloquium
Explosive Past, Radiant Future

an international colloquium, March 19-20, 2010
Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA)
Thomas Moylan (University of Limerick, Ireland)

The lingering spectre of the past and the beckoning formlessness of the future are the two highly charged images that act as the starting points for the 21st annual international colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Negotiating the troubled terrain between them has been the work of cultural texts and an ongoing problem for cultural and literary criticism. The struggle to establish a meaningful present, which incorporates the triumphs and horrors of historical memory and enables comprehensible directions toward the future, is a shared task of art, philosophy, religion and political thought, among other activities. We suggest that narration - in its various poetic modes - is nothing more than this struggle for meaning, occurring over a multiplicity of social and cultural spaces. Likewise, we suggest that art, philosophy, political thought and religion, to the extent that they are concerned with the problems of meaning and temporality, may also be understood as narrative endeavours. We seek papers from diverse disciplines that bring the problems of narration, thus defined, to the fore and offer innovative solutions to them.

The arts have offered us rich and enduring images embodying the complex antinomies of this struggle, from the time bomb ticking in a sardine can in Petersburg to the ghost of Sethe's murdered baby in Beloved to Paul Klee's painting Angelus Novus. This painting is so eloquently described by Walter Benjamin as having its face turned to the past, wishing "to piece together what has been smashed," but blown by a wind from Paradise "irresistibly into the future." We take seriously Benjamin's subsequent suggestion that the dialectical object - the historical ruin, the aesthetic text, the political moment - contains the latent potential to "explode the continuum of history." We seek papers that interrogate the status of such objects and their relations to the problems of temporality in general, to current cultural and political situations, and to the ways we understand cultural and political situations of the past.

We also invite papers that consider the phenomenological and/or existential nature of time, its relation to the experiences of consciousness and the limitations (or impossibilities) of translating it into public language. Such papers may follow Heidegger in the contention that the subjective experience of time - "the horizon of being" - shapes the contours of social and cultural "historical" realities; on the other hand, they may follow Freud in the counter-contention that the temporal imperatives of organized domination are introverted against the living memory of primordial, liberated time (situated in the unconscious). It was perhaps Augustine who most clearly illuminated the phenomenological problem: "What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know." We seek re-evaluations of the relationship of subjectivity to culture, mediated by the experience of time.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

• the study of texts from various historical periods; the political and intellectual goals of revisiting older texts; the selection of historical texts and critical modes of approaching them from the present;
• canonization/re-canonization/de-canonization and their relationship to temporality in general and their own historical moment (the problem of cultural history);
• the emergence of "historical thought" within history itself, and related artistic, political and philosophical movements (i.e. "the rise of the novel"; "enlightenment" thought; new teleologies; the explosion of imperialism); alternative modes of temporality and historical thought within modernity;
• revisionist approaches to history and historical thought based on subjective experience (i.e. women's history, queer history, indigenous people's history); the political projects and philosophical stakes of such revisions, and new directions for revisionism (i.e. moving beyond "herstory"; moving beyond the "outing" of history; moving beyond the postcolonial and "new" historicism);
• the role of capitalism and its social/cultural logic in the narration of history and the possibilities of the present; the limits within capitalism of imagining alternative futures, and literary, philosophical, or political challenges to those limits;
• the challenges of globalization and the crossing of political, social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries; the clashes and hybrids of opposing temporalities;
• the role of technology and science in articulations of modernity, and the relationship of these spheres to literary forms, political agendas, and philosophical discourses;
• science fictions, possible worlds, and literary utopias/dystopias; utopian planning in art and politics; utopian philosophy; lived utopias/dystopias;
• the status and temporality of memory, trauma and nostalgia, rooted in the present and directed toward both past and future.

Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes and should touch on the major theoretical, literary, or philosophical concerns of the colloquium. We invite scholars from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. We welcome graduate students, university faculty members and independent scholars alike as presenters (typically, we strive for a balance of graduate students and faculty/independent scholars).

Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper (no more than 350 words) to colloquium2010@gmail.com by September 30, 2009. We also welcome the proposal of panels consisting of 3 papers that address a common set of concerns. If proposing a panel, please submit a 250-word abstract describing the theme of the panel in addition to the standard abstract for each of the papers on the panel. All abstracts will undergo a blind-review selection process. Selected participants will be notified by email by October 15, 2009.

CUNY Asian American Literature Associate/Full Professor Position

Title: Associate, Full or Distinguished Professor - Asian American Literature

Location/Department: Ph.D. Program in English

Position Detail: Faculty - The appointment will begin in Fall 2010

FLSA Status: Exempt

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

Web Site: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/English/

Notice Number: FY16374

Midwest Filipino American National Historical Society Conference
2009 Biennial Regional Conference

• Conference Theme •
"The Filipino American Experience In Ohio and Other Midwestern States"
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October 16-18, 2009
University Plaza Hotel & Conference Center
3110 Olentangy River Road, Columbus, OH 43202
Tel: 614-267-7461; (Toll-Free: 877-677-5292)FAX: 614-456-1157

See attachment below for application and further detail.
Midwest FANHS Conference.doc

See attachment below for the 'Generic Justification Worksheet'
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Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making
October 31 - November 1, 2009
UC Santa Cruz

For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis's scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social transformation. Few professors have had such a broad impact in their fields of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. This gathering of her former students, in conversation with scholars nationally, maps the impact of her vision on issues such as democratic theory, philosophy, Marxism, cultural studies/popular culture, social policy, race, class, and feminisms. Professor Davis has also trained students as activist scholars for almost four decades in both university systems in California. We thus convene this conference to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Davis's pedagogy in California over the past forty years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an activist scholar/teacher bridges the academy/community divide and dismantles the false dichotomy of theory/praxis.

Interested scholars and activists are invited to submit abstracts for fifteen to twenty-minute presentations addressing the work of Angela Y. Davis for the following four panels (please indicate which panel you wish to participate in). A fifth panel, Legacies in the Making, facilitated by Professor Bettina Aptheker, is by invitation. Questions and inquiries may be directed to: davissymposium2009@gmail.com

Abstracts must include your name, professional title and affiliation, e-mail address and telephone, a presentation title, and should be 500-700 words in length. Please mail your submission, subject heading "AYD abstract," to: ihr@ucsc.edu as a pdf file by August 15, 2009. For more information, please see http://ihr.ucsc.edu/

Panel 1: Voices of Resistance
Facilitator: Rashad Shabazz, George Washington Henderson Post Doctoral Fellow, Geography, University of Vermont.
This panel addresses themes of institutional persecution and individual and collective resistances. Institutions can include, but are not limited to, the prison industrial complex, the state, schools, the workplace, and the home, and resistances might be anything from direct action to cultural production and pedagogy.

Crossroads: An Asian American Studies Graduate Student Conference

September 25-26, 2009 in Bloomington, Indiana

Submission Deadline: Extended to July 31st

There's still time left! The submission deadline has been extended to Friday, July 31, 2009. They invite all graduate students to submit short proposals (250-300 words) to the 2009 Asian American Studies conference entitled "Crossroads: Asian America/Asian Diaspora Across Disciplines." Proposals may address research topics, papers, or pedagogical issues pertinent to the field of Asian American Studies.

Graduate students with accepted proposals will be eligible for travel grants. All proposals should be submitted online by July 31th at http://aastudies.org/submissions. For more information about submissions, please visit http://aastudies.org.

Conference highlights include:

· Keynote address by Dr. Josephine Lee, President-Elect of the Association for Asian American Studies and the Director of the Asian American Studies Consortium of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation

· A featured workshop entitled "Professional Development and Mentoring" for graduate students who wish to pursue careers in Asian American Studies

· An interactive workshop focused on strengthening strategies for teaching Asian American Studies in the classroom, including the sharing of creative teaching activities and opportunities to discuss pedagogical issues

· Readings by creative writers in the field of Asian American Studies

· A banquet on Saturday night

· The annual Lotus Festival will be held in downtown Bloomington during the conference. Participants will be able to enjoy the flavors and music from all of the world.

· Opportunities to network with other graduate students, faculty, staff, and community leaders

The Expo will be held at the new TCF Bank Stadium during Homecoming Week on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 7. The University's goal is to showcase student work and connect with the broader community.

Current students and 2009 graduates are invited to present at the "poster exhibition." Other formats for conveying scholarly and creative work are included, such as sculptures, models, paintings, videos, etc. Full information is at http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/osa/expo2009.html The deadline to apply for the exhibition is September 1, 2009.

DePaul University professors have announced a call for papers for a book in development that explores the Black imagination, science fiction and futurism in literature, film and the visual arts. Works included will explore speculative, fantasy as well as hybrid genres - of black writers, film-makers and visual artists -- their visions of the future, alternative pasts, critiques of the
present as well as other possibilities.

While the genre of science fiction has a long history of social commentary, it has not given much attention to issues of race and ethnicity let alone their intersections with sex and gender in the context of imagined futures. Historically, the focus has been on social and political commentary, as well as fantasy, growing out of Western experiences -- geo-politics, and conflicts between and among nation-states as well as those between governments and their citizens, and responses to social, cultural and technological changes. It was not until the mid-20th century that science fiction by Black writers emerged. At times, many of these works were not explicitly defined as science fiction; yet, the conventions of the genre, often embedded in a multiplicity of narrative forms, using a variety of tropes, indicate clearly that social commentary - initially regarding the state of the race -- as well as speculation about the future have been at the heart of works produced by Black writers since the early 20th century.
Contemporary works by writers and film-makers in the Black and African Diaspora have extended the boundaries of discourse, explicitly embracing the genre, envisioning different times, places, and social arrangements - addressing not only issues of race, ethnicity, gender and color, the presence of Black individuals or beings coded as black, and also examining issues related to politics and technology. Science and speculative fiction by Black writers is a genre that is growing, expanding the boundaries, presenting perspectives and posing questions
not addressed in canonical works. These issues we seek to explore in the book.

They are seeking papers that critically examine works of contemporary voices of the Black and African Diaspora that engage us in thinking about imagined futures related to race, gender, identity, power, space, time, and technology. The following topics are of particular
interest: the recent works of Octavia Butler, the work of Samuel Delaney and Steve Barnes; as well as topics related to Afro-Futurism and speculative fiction by Black writers, film-makers and visual artists.

Deadlines

• Abstracts of approximately 400-500 words should be submitted via e-mail by August 30th, 2009. They should be sent in a Word document as an attachment, accompanied by the following information: full name of the author, university affiliation, and title of the abstract.

•Notification regarding acceptance will be sent to authors by September 30, 2009.

• Final papers will be due by May 30, 2010.

For more information please contact:

Sandra Jackson, PhD
Women's and Gender Studies
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave. SAC 551
Chicago, Il 60614

Julie Moody-Freeman
African and Black Diaspora Studies
DePaul University
2320 N. Kenmore Ave. SAC 554
Chicago, IL 60614