Assistant Professor of Arabic - University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Department of African Languages & Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Arabic beginning August 2011 at the rank of assistant professor.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. the appropriate area with a specialization in Arabic. Candidates must be able to teach Modern Standard/Classical Arabic at all levels; have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and familiarity with at least one spoken dialect; have knowledge of the historical development of Arabic, of Islamic civilization, and of Arabic-based cultures of Africa; and be competent in linguistic approaches to literature.

The department would value additional competencies in the development of innovative teaching materials, particularly materials that incorporate various technologies to best effect; familiarity with current theories; and an ability to teach in the areas of Arabic literature in translation, literary criticism, classical approaches to Arabic grammar, and/or the linguistic structure of Arabic.

Applications

Submit a letter of application and curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference submitted directly by referees to:

Professor Aliko Songolo
Department of African Lang & Lit
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1466 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison,WI 53706

To ensure full consideration application materials must be received by November 24, 2010. Finalists will be required to submit a sample of scholarly writing. Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. A criminal background check may be required prior to employment.

Please contact the Department of African Languages & Literature with any questions: Phone (608) 262.2487 - Fax (608) 265-4151 - Email: africanlang@mailplus.wisc.edu

Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities

The Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities has recently been expanded upon its core reading group to activities including colloquia and speaker’s series and linked or otherwise associated graduate courses on fundamental theoretical issues concerning interpretation in the humanities. In the future, the Center hopes to fashion relevant undergraduate courses as well. Students are invited to peruse its website, and if you find the mission of the center to your liking, please join its listserv (instructions on joining are on the homepage), and participate in our reading groups and events.

To promote inter-departmental and interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching, students are invited to send us the number and topic of graduate courses you plan on teaching in the future that you feel embody the goals of the mission statement, which you can find on our homepage.  The Center is especially interested in courses that match its theme for academic year 2011/12: Technology. 

Again, if you wish to be made aware of Center and Reading Group events and schedules, please place yourself on our listserv and come participate when the theme and time is right.

For further information, please feel free to contact Mr. Bill Rasch at (wrasch@indiana.edu).

Call for Papers--AGSA Symposium

The 5th Annual AGSA Symposium,

"The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory"

February 25-27, 2010.

In its fifth year, the annual AGSA Symposium has proven to be a valuable opportunity for students to share their work on campus. It is a chance to present your research to your peers in a friendly environment, prep a paper for a bigger conference, find out what mysterious project your friend's are working on in the department and learn about similar studies that are going on across campus.

This year's theme is "The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory". The committee invites graduate and undergraduate students in all anthropological sub-fields and related disciplines to submit papers relating to this topic. This theme can be interpreted broadly to include topics such as: the ways humans interact with technology, historical use of technology, technologies of power and knowledge and methodological and pedagogical uses of technology. IU alumnus, Dr. Mark Schurr of Notre Dame University's Anthropology department will be joining us as our key note speaker for this topic.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Paper, poster, and panels submissions for the symposium are due DECEMBER 17, 2010

Call for Papers -- Paul Lucas Conference in History

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Paul Lucas Conference in History at Indiana University presents

Making a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change

Hosted by IU History Graduate Student Association

Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5, 2011

The History Graduate Student Association at Indiana University invites paper submissions from graduate students for its 2010 conference entitled Making a Choice: Conflict, Consensus and Compromise in Cultural Change.

This year’s conference seeks to utilize the idea of agency and choice as a lens through which to encourage a more interdisciplinary discussion that reaches into the local community and engages with a variety of sources and perspectives about the role of the individual, the community and the memories created in the processes of conflict and conflict resolution. The conference aims to highlight intersections of both historical and interdisciplinary value and to engage with multifaceted themes that are particularly relevant to numerous contemporary fields of historical inquiry, both inside and outside the academy. Our hope is to engage with historical topics that not only cross disciplinary boundaries, but that reach within and beyond the social and academic borders that influence our understandings how choices affect cultural change.

We welcome submissions from various disciplines, time periods, and geographic focus. The conference is intentionally broad and invites multiple interpretations of complex issues such as the construction of identity in cultural change, resistance, ideas of agency and power, colonial relationship, identity politics, foreign relations, material culture, community, and contested notions of tradition. In addition to graduate student panels, the conference will also include an undergraduate panel and keynote speeches incorporating the conference theme.

Please submit the items and information below no later than Friday, December 31st. The HGSA Conference Committee will evaluate abstracts and inform participants by January 24, 2011 of their acceptance and panel assignment. Full papers are expected by February 18th, 2011. For visiting graduate students, we will organize accommodations with IU graduate students participating in the conference. The conference is free to IU graduate students in any field. Non‐IU students must submit a registration fee of $30. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~hgsaconf/

Please submit the following information via e‐mail as an attachment to hgsaconf@indiana.edu:

1. Paper abstract and title (no more than 250 words)

2. Institutional affiliation and title/position

3. Contact information: name, e‐mail address, postal address, telephone/fax numbers

The Paul Lucas Conference in History
History Department
Indiana University
742 Ballantine Hall
Bloomington, IN 474057103

Seeking a Spring Sublet?

A Turkish PhD student from Paris is looking to share lodgings from January to May-June. She will be here to use the library and practice her English (she already speaks good English).

If interested, please email her at, and make the email for the attention of NILUFER.

GradGrants Center Position Opening

The GradGrants Center is seeking a graduate student who holds (or is eligible for) graduate work-study funding for an assistantship beginning the spring semester.



THE PROPOSAL-WRITING CONSULTANT/TRAINER is one of two graduate assistant positions which works directly with fellow graduate students in the GradGrants Center, a graduate student service located in the Wells Library-BL, sponsored by The University Graduate School and available to graduate students of all IU campuses. The two consultants handle the day-to-day operation of the GradGrants Center and share training responsibilities (i.e., presenting or enlisting speakers, scheduling rooms, preparing visual aids). Our consultants assist students in their search for external funding sources and are available to work one-on-one with graduate students in discussing and critiquing their grant proposals.


QUALIFICATIONS: Successful proposal-writing experience, editing skills, teaching experience or experience in planning and presenting special-interest training programs, the ability and personality to interact well with the public. A one-year commitment to the position is strongly preferred.

This position provides invaluable opportunity to learn of various funding sources and to improve one's own proposal-writing skills. The experience is extremely valuable to future faculty. The position is a .375% FTE during the academic year (i.e., 15 hours per week) and is eligible for student health insurance. The salary is $9,121 for the academic year (with fee remission) and $2,129 for the summer. The person hired will work half or all of the summer as arranged.

The deadline for applications is Monday, November 29, 2010.


If you are interested (or if you know a student who might qualify), please ask him/her to send a cover letter and vita to Jody Smith, University Graduate School, Kirkwood Hall 114, 130 S. Woodlawn Ave., Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7104, josmith@indiana.edu, or fax 812-855-4266. To qualify for graduate work-study, a student would have to complete a FAFSA and talk with Jordan Bissell of the Student Financial Aids Office (812-855-6854 or fws@indiana.edui).

NELC Student Organization Movie Night: Caramel

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	Indiana University Student Building 150 Thursday, November 11 · 8:45pm - 10:30pm
Caramel
	95 minutes Synopsis: Six women in Beirut seek love, marriage, and companionship and find duty, friendship, and possibility. Four work at a salon: Nisrine, engaged to Bassam, with a secret she shares with her co-workers; Jamale, a divorced mother of teens, a part-time model, fearing the encroachment of time; Rima, always in pants, attracted to Siham, a client who smiles back; Layale, in love with a married man, willing to drop everything at a honk of his horn. There's also Rose, a middle-aged seamstress, who cares for Lili, old and facing dementia. Rose has a suitor; Layale has an admirer on the police force. Is delight a possibility? Is caramel a sweet or an instrument of pain? For more information on Caramel, please visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0825236/  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqt6nP3_fC0 To view the trailer please visit:

See who's attending the event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104167812986360&num_event_invites=0

Practice Tests Available for GMAT

Interested in taking the GMAT this year?

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