The Earlham College Office of Religious Life has an opening for a ten hour per week Coordinator of Muslim Life beginning September, 2010. Responsibilities will include: coordinating and leading weekly services and holy day observances, providing support and guidance to Muslim students and faculty, participating in interfaith programs of the Office of Religious Life, arranging for Muslim speakers and cultural groups to visit campus, arranging visits to nearby mosques, and other duties as appropriate. Candidates will want to review the documents at www.earlham.edu/policies/principles.html and http://www.earlham.edu/policies/rel-life.html. A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.
Those interested are invited to mail a resume and letter of interest to Kelly Burk, Director of Religious Life, Earlham College Drawer #104, 801 National Road West, Richmond IN 47374 or email burkke@earlham.edu for more information.
Earlham College is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from women and members of minority groups.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Upcoming Workshops for Faculty and Graduate Students
This Fall, the Wells Library is offering a series of workshops designed to help faculty and graduate students learn new skills and find the best resources to aid their research. Upcoming workshops focused on introducing fundamental library tools and services include:
Library Resources on the Web: What’s New? What Should I Use?
Learn about the library services you may not know existed, find out more about tools to focus your research in a specific discipline, and get some tips for making your research more effective and efficient.
IUCAT: Tips and Tricks to Get the Most from Your Catalog Searching
Learn about advanced search techniques that improve search retrieval accuracy, using subject headings, searching for materials in different formats, limiting large search result sets, and creating book lists and permanent links to materials you use often.
Teaching the Research Process: Timing, Outcomes, and Results
Calling all graduate student instructors! This workshop will provide strategies for teaching research skills, including the knowledge to find and evaluate information. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to design a library-related or research-based assignment, ways to use the libraries’ resources to support your students’ learning, and strategies for assessing student’s research skills.
Advanced Googling: Finding Scholarly Information on the Web
This session will introduce you to Google products, including Google Scholar (a popular search engine for scholarly, academic content) and Google Book Search (a collection of digitized books).
And Many More!
To see the complete schedule and sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the large red icon. More workshops will be added throughout September and October; watch for additional email announcements, monitor the website, and check out our online calendar of events for the latest schedule: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866.
Library Resources on the Web: What’s New? What Should I Use?
Learn about the library services you may not know existed, find out more about tools to focus your research in a specific discipline, and get some tips for making your research more effective and efficient.
IUCAT: Tips and Tricks to Get the Most from Your Catalog Searching
Learn about advanced search techniques that improve search retrieval accuracy, using subject headings, searching for materials in different formats, limiting large search result sets, and creating book lists and permanent links to materials you use often.
Teaching the Research Process: Timing, Outcomes, and Results
Calling all graduate student instructors! This workshop will provide strategies for teaching research skills, including the knowledge to find and evaluate information. You’ll leave with an understanding of how to design a library-related or research-based assignment, ways to use the libraries’ resources to support your students’ learning, and strategies for assessing student’s research skills.
Advanced Googling: Finding Scholarly Information on the Web
This session will introduce you to Google products, including Google Scholar (a popular search engine for scholarly, academic content) and Google Book Search (a collection of digitized books).
And Many More!
To see the complete schedule and sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the large red icon. More workshops will be added throughout September and October; watch for additional email announcements, monitor the website, and check out our online calendar of events for the latest schedule: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Iconoclasm Conference LAST CALL
16 DAYS LEFT to submit abstracts to ICONOCLASM.
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images
University of Toronto, March 17–19, 2011
Keynote Address by Carol Mavor (Manchester) and Michael Taussig (Columbia)
The 22nd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto in March 2011 will focus on the idea of Iconoclasm, the breaking of images and the making of icons.
The word “iconoclasm” is weighted with a long history of religious significance, from the Byzantine war on religious icons of the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the Protestant reformation in the 16th century, to the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 21st century. But the idea of destroying or defacing images, especially images that convey aspects of cultural dominance or, conversely, pose a threat to that dominance, is as often political as religious: think of the Chinese Cultural Revolution or graffiti moustaches. Political iconoclasm, unlike religious iconoclasm, does not object to representation as such but rather to certain images that have been granted the status of icons. However, any act of desecrating symbols of authority itself often takes on iconic status: take, for example, photos of the pulling down of statues from Romania to Iraq.
Iconoclasm need not be visual and material and can also take abstract and intellectual forms. Subversive, transgressive, blasphemous writing is also iconoclastic in inspiration and function. Moreover, the power associated with images in general and iconic images in particular has often inspired writers to subdue the power of images or to wrest it for themselves. The ekphrastic contest between literature, or verbal representation, and images, or visual representation, is very often iconoclastic in nature.
Contemporary media culture floods us with images and alters their impact, creating ever more sophisticated organized cults around them, such as celebrity, high art, advertising, the news, etc. Just as the word “icon” has acquired new meanings, ranging from signs for computer applications to logos and celebrity, so, too, iconoclasm, the urge to deface, destroy, or alter images, takes on wholly new meanings.
We wish to examine a wide range of iconoclastic moments in order to understand the political, ethical, and aesthetic stakes involved in challenging the signifying power of the iconic image. Is there a tradition of iconoclasm or is the modern icon and thus modern iconoclasm something new? Is iconoclasm even possible, or does it always participate in the forces of iconicity, creating, in effect, iconoclastic icons? Subjects that are of interest to us include but are in no way limited to:
-Classical/Antiquity (pre-5th century CE)
o Idol Worship and Biblical Images
o Mythology: Symbols, Images of Gods, Heroes, etc.
o Epic Narratives and the Performance of Lyric Poetry
o Ekphrastic imaginings
-Medieval (5th–15th centuries)
o Theories of the Imagination and Images; representations of other worlds
o Sight/Insight
o Iconography; religious iconoclasms and iconoclasts
o Mystery/Miracle plays
- Early Modern (15th–17th centuries)
o The Politics of Appropriation, Assimilation, Domination in Conquest and Colonial documents
o Man and his God: The Vatican; The Reformation; the Council of Trent;
o Staging the World: early modern drama
o Iconic Genres: The “invention” of the Novel; Poetry and the re-telling of myth and religion
- 18th and 19th centuries
o Innovations in Media and Technology
o Ignitions of the Enlightenment
o The rise of Decolonisation and Postcolonialism
o The turn to Revolution, the pull of Evolution
o The Gothic, the Sublime, and Romance
- 20th century to present:
o Iconoclastic genres: The reinvention of the novel (re-imagining the novel-as-icon); Poetry’s Image/Imagination (Dadaism, Futurism, Concrete Poetry, etc.)
o Magical Realism, Surrealism, Realism, the Fantastic
o Iconography, Fetish Images, Pop Culture, Film
o Trauma, Terrorism, Disasters, Ruins
o Icons in the Digital Age
- Theoretical Concerns
o Negative Dialectics; the question of the Negative
o The Epistemology of the Iconic Closet: Queer Icons and the Reinvention of Tradition
o Moving through and beyond Ekphrasis
o Benjaminian Auras
o Unstaging the World: “poor theatre”; “theatre of cruelty”; “holy theatre”; postdramatic performance art; Theatre of the Opressed, etc.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 10, 2010 to iconoclasm.2011@gmail.com. Include full name, email, affiliation, status (student, faculty, independent scholar), a 50-word bio, and AV requirements.
Please check our website for updates: www.chass.utoronto.ca/complitstudents/complitconference
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images
University of Toronto, March 17–19, 2011
Keynote Address by Carol Mavor (Manchester) and Michael Taussig (Columbia)
The 22nd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto in March 2011 will focus on the idea of Iconoclasm, the breaking of images and the making of icons.
The word “iconoclasm” is weighted with a long history of religious significance, from the Byzantine war on religious icons of the 8th- and 9th-centuries and the Protestant reformation in the 16th century, to the Taliban’s destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in the 21st century. But the idea of destroying or defacing images, especially images that convey aspects of cultural dominance or, conversely, pose a threat to that dominance, is as often political as religious: think of the Chinese Cultural Revolution or graffiti moustaches. Political iconoclasm, unlike religious iconoclasm, does not object to representation as such but rather to certain images that have been granted the status of icons. However, any act of desecrating symbols of authority itself often takes on iconic status: take, for example, photos of the pulling down of statues from Romania to Iraq.
Iconoclasm need not be visual and material and can also take abstract and intellectual forms. Subversive, transgressive, blasphemous writing is also iconoclastic in inspiration and function. Moreover, the power associated with images in general and iconic images in particular has often inspired writers to subdue the power of images or to wrest it for themselves. The ekphrastic contest between literature, or verbal representation, and images, or visual representation, is very often iconoclastic in nature.
Contemporary media culture floods us with images and alters their impact, creating ever more sophisticated organized cults around them, such as celebrity, high art, advertising, the news, etc. Just as the word “icon” has acquired new meanings, ranging from signs for computer applications to logos and celebrity, so, too, iconoclasm, the urge to deface, destroy, or alter images, takes on wholly new meanings.
We wish to examine a wide range of iconoclastic moments in order to understand the political, ethical, and aesthetic stakes involved in challenging the signifying power of the iconic image. Is there a tradition of iconoclasm or is the modern icon and thus modern iconoclasm something new? Is iconoclasm even possible, or does it always participate in the forces of iconicity, creating, in effect, iconoclastic icons? Subjects that are of interest to us include but are in no way limited to:
-Classical/Antiquity (pre-5th century CE)
o Idol Worship and Biblical Images
o Mythology: Symbols, Images of Gods, Heroes, etc.
o Epic Narratives and the Performance of Lyric Poetry
o Ekphrastic imaginings
-Medieval (5th–15th centuries)
o Theories of the Imagination and Images; representations of other worlds
o Sight/Insight
o Iconography; religious iconoclasms and iconoclasts
o Mystery/Miracle plays
- Early Modern (15th–17th centuries)
o The Politics of Appropriation, Assimilation, Domination in Conquest and Colonial documents
o Man and his God: The Vatican; The Reformation; the Council of Trent;
o Staging the World: early modern drama
o Iconic Genres: The “invention” of the Novel; Poetry and the re-telling of myth and religion
- 18th and 19th centuries
o Innovations in Media and Technology
o Ignitions of the Enlightenment
o The rise of Decolonisation and Postcolonialism
o The turn to Revolution, the pull of Evolution
o The Gothic, the Sublime, and Romance
- 20th century to present:
o Iconoclastic genres: The reinvention of the novel (re-imagining the novel-as-icon); Poetry’s Image/Imagination (Dadaism, Futurism, Concrete Poetry, etc.)
o Magical Realism, Surrealism, Realism, the Fantastic
o Iconography, Fetish Images, Pop Culture, Film
o Trauma, Terrorism, Disasters, Ruins
o Icons in the Digital Age
- Theoretical Concerns
o Negative Dialectics; the question of the Negative
o The Epistemology of the Iconic Closet: Queer Icons and the Reinvention of Tradition
o Moving through and beyond Ekphrasis
o Benjaminian Auras
o Unstaging the World: “poor theatre”; “theatre of cruelty”; “holy theatre”; postdramatic performance art; Theatre of the Opressed, etc.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by September 10, 2010 to iconoclasm.2011@gmail.com. Include full name, email, affiliation, status (student, faculty, independent scholar), a 50-word bio, and AV requirements.
Please check our website for updates: www.chass.utoronto.ca/complitstudents/complitconference
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
25 Celebrities Who Have Graduate Degrees
Interested in finding out which celebrities have a graduate degree?
Find out on: http://www.onlinegraduateprograms.com/blog/2010/08/25-celebs-who-have-graduate-degrees/
Find out on: http://www.onlinegraduateprograms.com/blog/2010/08/25-celebs-who-have-graduate-degrees/
Postdoctoral Appreciation Day 2010
POSTDOCTORAL APPRECIATION DAY 2010
IUB Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
Tuesday, September 21: noon – 2:30pm
- 12:00 - 1:00 PM: Ballantine Hall 144
Dr. Gelhaus is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She will speak on issues addressed by the NPA in support of the postdoctoral community.
Her talk should be of interest to postdoctoral scholars, faculty mentors, and aspiring postdoctoral scholars. Please join us and bring your lunch.
- 1:00 – 2:00 PM: Ballantine Hall 144
Steve Watt, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel comprised of three IU postdoctoral scholars who are currently funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
This roundtable discussion should be of interest to graduate students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
Light refreshments in the Jordan Hall Atrium
- 1:00 - 2:30 PM: Jordan Hall Atrium
Please come share your work and meet other postdocs
Call for Poster Titles: Please send your name, lab affiliation, and poster title to postdoc@indiana.edu by September 10
Questions: contact Dean Maxine Watson, watsonm@indiana.edu, 855-5697
Photography Exhibit and Talk: "Indiana in Afghanistan; Afghanistan in Indiana"
“Indiana in Afghanistan; Afghanistan in Indiana” exhibit will be featured within Indiana University Wells Library lobby, August 23-31, 2010.
Photographs by Douglas Wissing; curated by Jim Canary.
The exhibit merges journalist Douglas Wissing’s contemporary photographs of Afghanistan with Indiana University’s Afghanistan-related archival material, which was curated by Lilly Library conservator Jim Canary. Illustrating Indiana’s long and on-going relationship with this complex central- Asian nation through photographs of Hoosiers in Afghanistan, from Chancellor Herman Wells’s 1966 Kabul trip to the Indiana National Guard Agribusiness Development Team’s 2009 deployment to war-torn Khost Province, the exhibit documents Indiana University's long Afghanistan relationship through Afghan objects, manuscripts, books, audio and ephemera from I.U’s Lilly Library, Mathers Museum, University Archives and Archives of Traditional Music.
An Exhibit Talk with Douglas Wissing and Jim Canary, Indiana University Wells Library lobby, will be given Friday August 27, 2010, 5:30 pm.
Photographs by Douglas Wissing; curated by Jim Canary.
The exhibit merges journalist Douglas Wissing’s contemporary photographs of Afghanistan with Indiana University’s Afghanistan-related archival material, which was curated by Lilly Library conservator Jim Canary. Illustrating Indiana’s long and on-going relationship with this complex central- Asian nation through photographs of Hoosiers in Afghanistan, from Chancellor Herman Wells’s 1966 Kabul trip to the Indiana National Guard Agribusiness Development Team’s 2009 deployment to war-torn Khost Province, the exhibit documents Indiana University's long Afghanistan relationship through Afghan objects, manuscripts, books, audio and ephemera from I.U’s Lilly Library, Mathers Museum, University Archives and Archives of Traditional Music.
An Exhibit Talk with Douglas Wissing and Jim Canary, Indiana University Wells Library lobby, will be given Friday August 27, 2010, 5:30 pm.
Employment Opportunities - devex.com, usajobs.gov
Find new employment opportunities through http://www.devex.com/ and http://www.usajobs.gov/
Devex hosts the most popular job board in the international development industry and provides news, expert advice and more to help individual professionals advance their development career. It is also the main source of business information related to foreign assistance, including tenders, project information, business advice and news from the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, DFID, ADB, and more. Its recruitment services are specially designed for international development positions.
USAjobs offers various employment opportunities within the Federal Government domestically and abroad.
Devex hosts the most popular job board in the international development industry and provides news, expert advice and more to help individual professionals advance their development career. It is also the main source of business information related to foreign assistance, including tenders, project information, business advice and news from the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, DFID, ADB, and more. Its recruitment services are specially designed for international development positions.
USAjobs offers various employment opportunities within the Federal Government domestically and abroad.
Welcome Week Workshops for Faculty and Graduate Students
During Welcome Week, the Wells Library Reference Services Department is offering the following free workshops, designed to introduce incoming faculty and graduate students to the multitude of services and resources the IU Libraries have to offer:
Getting Ready for Research: an Intro to the IUB Libraries for New Faculty and Post-Docs
This workshop is for faculty and post-doctoral fellows who are new to the IUB campus and anticipate using library resources and services. You will be given an overview of essential databases and other online services designed to support your research projects.
Library 101 for New Graduate Students
If you want to get a jump on how to use resources and services in the IU Libraries, this is the workshop for you! We will present an overview of the databases and helpful services that aid in the development of your research papers and projects. Welcome to the vast riches of the IU Library system!
To see the complete schedule and sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the large red icon. More workshops will be offered throughout September and October; watch for additional email announcements, monitor the website, and check out our online calendar of events: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866
Getting Ready for Research: an Intro to the IUB Libraries for New Faculty and Post-Docs
This workshop is for faculty and post-doctoral fellows who are new to the IUB campus and anticipate using library resources and services. You will be given an overview of essential databases and other online services designed to support your research projects.
Library 101 for New Graduate Students
If you want to get a jump on how to use resources and services in the IU Libraries, this is the workshop for you! We will present an overview of the databases and helpful services that aid in the development of your research papers and projects. Welcome to the vast riches of the IU Library system!
To see the complete schedule and sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the large red icon. More workshops will be offered throughout September and October; watch for additional email announcements, monitor the website, and check out our online calendar of events: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866
Fall Semester 2010 – Multidisciplinary Seminar on Issues and Approaches in Global Studies
Graduate students can still join this multidisciplinary conversation about global research!
Fall Semester 2010 – Multidisciplinary Seminar on Issues and Approaches in Global Studies
Course GRAD-I701 Multidisciplinary Seminar on Issues and Approaches in Global Studies*
Fall Semester 2010 — Section 19161
Seminar Room, 201 N. Indiana Ave.
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
*NOTE: This course will fulfill a requirement for the Global Studies Ph.D. Minor.
The overall goal of this seminar is to help graduate students generate a global research framework that incorporates various disciplinary perspectives and complements and strengthens their own disciplinary and regionally specific academic interests. It is designed to stimulate students to think critically about a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues involved in transnational research, including research ethics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, the intersections of global and local, research design from different disciplinary perspectives, as well as the exploration and unpacking of definitions and assumptions that impact global scholarship. A number of presentations will be made by guest lecturers familiar with international/global research. One of the goals of the seminar is to create a “community of young scholars” and as such there is a strong emphasis on attending regularly, participating actively, and presenting critical evaluations in a scholarly manner.
Graduate students from a wide range of disciplines and professional schools, including those who are working on preliminary dissertation research designs, will benefit from this seminar. Students will be required to present a critical evaluation of a Ph.D. dissertation of their choice (presumably on a topic relevant to their own research interests), compile an annotated bibliography on a global issue, and develop, as well assess, a preliminary research design.
We are also pleased to announce that all research designs submitted by students enrolled in this seminar are automatically entered into a competition for roundtrip airfare to your research site and a $1000.00 travel stipend to conduct international preliminary research. This competition is specifically reserved for students in this seminar and is not open to other students.
If you are interested in learning more about this seminar, contact:
Hilary E. Kahn, Associate Director
Center for the Study of Global Change
201 N. Indiana Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001
Phone: 855- 5545
E-mail: hkahn@indiana.edu
For more information about the Global Studies Ph.D. Minor program: www.indiana.edu/~global/academic/minor.php
Fall Semester 2010 – Multidisciplinary Seminar on Issues and Approaches in Global Studies
Course GRAD-I701 Multidisciplinary Seminar on Issues and Approaches in Global Studies*
Fall Semester 2010 — Section 19161
Seminar Room, 201 N. Indiana Ave.
Friday 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
*NOTE: This course will fulfill a requirement for the Global Studies Ph.D. Minor.
The overall goal of this seminar is to help graduate students generate a global research framework that incorporates various disciplinary perspectives and complements and strengthens their own disciplinary and regionally specific academic interests. It is designed to stimulate students to think critically about a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues involved in transnational research, including research ethics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, the intersections of global and local, research design from different disciplinary perspectives, as well as the exploration and unpacking of definitions and assumptions that impact global scholarship. A number of presentations will be made by guest lecturers familiar with international/global research. One of the goals of the seminar is to create a “community of young scholars” and as such there is a strong emphasis on attending regularly, participating actively, and presenting critical evaluations in a scholarly manner.
Graduate students from a wide range of disciplines and professional schools, including those who are working on preliminary dissertation research designs, will benefit from this seminar. Students will be required to present a critical evaluation of a Ph.D. dissertation of their choice (presumably on a topic relevant to their own research interests), compile an annotated bibliography on a global issue, and develop, as well assess, a preliminary research design.
We are also pleased to announce that all research designs submitted by students enrolled in this seminar are automatically entered into a competition for roundtrip airfare to your research site and a $1000.00 travel stipend to conduct international preliminary research. This competition is specifically reserved for students in this seminar and is not open to other students.
If you are interested in learning more about this seminar, contact:
Hilary E. Kahn, Associate Director
Center for the Study of Global Change
201 N. Indiana Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47408-4001
Phone: 855- 5545
E-mail: hkahn@indiana.edu
For more information about the Global Studies Ph.D. Minor program: www.indiana.edu/~global/academic/minor.php
Monday, August 9, 2010
More Job Postings from Shee Atika Languages
Shee Atika Languages, LLC, is currently actively recruiting for Persian Farsi Linguists (approximately 20), Kurdish Linguists (2), Pashto Linguists (15), Dari Linguists (4), Dari-Pashto Linguists (3), and Arabic Linguists (27) to work either overseas or in the D.C. area. This position comes with excellent benefits and competitive compensation.
Benefits for this position include: medical, dental, life insurance, 401 (k) contributions, as well as 10 holidays and 10 vacation days.
Description of Work:
- Provide foreign language interpretation, transcription, reporting, and translation services.
- Provide various designated on-site translation services to include voice-over and subtitled translation capability for the required language.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Have an academic degree or professional certifications in the translation and interpretation field.
- Must have a 3 or higher level (depending on position) in the target language proficiency as measured by examination procedures equivalent to the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT)
- Must pass an English Language test with a 3 or higher level (depending on position) in the language proficiency as measured by examination procedures equivalent to the Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT)
- Ability to write and speak in clear and concise grammar and pronunciation in the required foreign language and English.
- Ability to conduct consecutive and accurate translations and interpretations of on-going conversations and activities.
- Ability to function effectively and efficiently during extended periods of high pressure and stress.
- Ability to function as an integral member of a team of highly trained professionals.
- Overseas deployment requires valid medical exam.
- Once selected be available to start immediately.
If you are interested, or know of anybody else that may qualify for this position, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at the numbers listed below.
Very Respectfully,
Dana Forsbach Recruiter
Shee Atika Languages, LLC
910.323.3436 – Office
910.323.2979 – Fax
910.922.3484 - Cell
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Shee Atika Languages, LLC
is looking for a candidate who would be interested to work as a cultural advisor located in Tampa, FL with excellent benefits and competitive compensation. The annual salary for this position is $110,000.00.
Benefits include medical, dental and life insurance (short term deployed), 401 (k) contributions, as well as 10 holidays and 10 vacation days.
A $5000.00 relocation allowance is provided.
The Cultural Subject/Subject Matter Expert on the Country of Iran shall have the following requirements:
Interested candidates should submit their resume and cover letter to dforsbach@sal-llc.com, Subject line: Cultural Advisor/Subject Matter Expert on Iran.
Please visit Shee Atika Languages' website for more information on the company, and careers in other languages.
- Possess an advanced degree; Preferably in either Political Science, Sociology, or the Arts.
- Must be U.S. Citizen.
- Have or be able to obtain a SECRET-level security clearance.
- Have lived in the country/region of Iran for at least 16 years (preferably having left the country at the age of 16 or older).
- Have fresh contacts in the region.
- Be able to travel in the country of Iran for 30 to 45 days.
- Have native-quality linguistic skills (oral and written) for the designated country/region.
- Have college-level English language writing and speaking skills.
- Have the ability to function during a level of heightened state of threat.
- Have the ability to function effectively and efficiently during extended periods of high pressure and stress.
- Have the ability to function as an integral member of a team of highly trained professionals.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
!!Important Announcement:
For the 2010–11 Academic year
for study of Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Kurmanji Kurdish,
Sorani Kurdish, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Bengali,
Dari, & Pashto
**Deadline August 18, 2010**
The Center for the Study of the Middle East and the Islamic Studies Program, Indiana University, are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Fellowships for academic year 2010-2011.
Each year the United States Department of Education awards Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to universities in order to promote the training of students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign cultures is a prerequisite for success.
Each fellowship is tenable for the academic year and carries an estimated fixed stipend of $10,000 (undergraduate students) or $15,000 (graduate students). The fellowship also exempts graduate students from paying academic fees, and undergraduate students receive a partial tuition award.
U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible for FLAS fellowships. Holders of FLAS fellowships must undertake full-time study during the tenure of the award and be enrolled in formal language instruction (in the language of the award) and area or international studies courses. Applications are especially encouraged from professional school students.
Students who are already enrolled, or who have been admitted and intend to enroll, for undergraduate or graduate study at Indiana University are required to send the following materials:
1. One copy of the application for Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships;
2. One complete set of transcripts of college and university credits;
3. Two letters of recommendation (printable FLAS Reference Form); and
4. A completed Statement on Language Training and Proposed Program of Study.
Note: If you applied to another IU Center for FLAS in one of the above languages during the February 2010 competition (Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center or Center for the Study of Global Change), it is possible that we can reactivate your existing application without your having to complete a new one. Please let us know by e-mail if you would like us to do this.
The deadline for receipt of materials concerning the application for FLAS Fellowships is August 18, 2010. Because of the short time frame involved for this year’s awards, the committee will temporarily accept unofficial copies of transcripts and recommendations, including recommendations sent by email, for preliminary review purposes. Before any awards are finalized, however, we must receive official transcripts and recommendations (received directly from institutions and recommenders, or delivered in signed/sealed envelopes from the student’s IU home department graduate secretary).
All paper materials should be sent to FLAS Administration c/o NELC, Attn: Zaineb Istrabadi, Goodbody Hall 102, 1011 E Third St., Bloomington, IN 47401. Recommenders may email their letters to zistraba@indiana.edu.
Please visit the NELC Website to download the application and recommendation forms.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Graduate Roommate Needed!
Hello,
My name is Josh Berer, I'm starting grad school at IU this fall in the
Central Eurasian Studies department. I'm looking for a roommate for
the year. I'm in a nice house on the north side, 3 bedrooms, one of
which I use as an office, so I just have the one room available. The
house is all hardwood floors, has a huge backyard and a porch. There's
a raised bed in the front yard with herbs, tomatoes, peppers,
zucchini, onions and the like. There's a massive (carpeted and
finished) basement with a second bathroom, and a 2-car garage which
I'm using right now as a woodshop. It's a really great house. The room
comes with a queen-size mattress and boxspring. I have a yellow lab
puppy, he's 6 months old now, and very calm, well-behaved, and
friendly.
I have pictures of the house here:
http://joshberer.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/settled-in/
The rent is 400 a month for the room, plus utilities. The house has
wireless, which moves pretty fast. The utilities haven't been
outrageous at all, usually not over 100 a month, all told. The house
is available for move-in in the fourth week of August. My girlfriend
has been here for the summer taking Dari, she's moving to Ann Arbor
for grad school and I'm going to be there moving her in the third
week.
I don't smoke, don't really drink, don't party (at home) and I'm going
to be nutso busy with work during the year, so I'm looking for someone
in a similar position. My undergrad degree is in Arabic.
Thanks! Look forward to hearing back from you!
Cheers,
Josh Berer
My name is Josh Berer, I'm starting grad school at IU this fall in the
Central Eurasian Studies department. I'm looking for a roommate for
which I use as an office, so I just have the one room available. The
house is all hardwood floors, has a huge backyard and a porch. There's
a raised bed in the front yard with herbs, tomatoes, peppers,
zucchini, onions and the like. There's a massive (carpeted and
I'm using right now as a woodshop. It's a really great house. The room
comes with a queen-size mattress and boxspring. I have a yellow lab
puppy, he's 6 months old now, and very calm, well-behaved, and
friendly.
I have pictures of the house here:
http://joshberer.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/settled-in/
The rent is 400 a month for the room, plus utilities. The house has
wireless, which moves pretty fast. The utilities haven't been
outrageous at all, usually not over 100 a month, all told. The house
is available for move-in in the fourth week of August. My girlfriend
has been here for the summer taking Dari, she's moving to Ann Arbor
week.
I don't smoke, don't really drink, don't party (at home) and I'm going
to be nutso busy with work during the year, so I'm looking for someone
in a similar position. My undergrad degree is in Arabic.
Thanks! Look forward to hearing back from you!
Cheers,
Josh Berer
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