Jumpstart Your Research at the IUB Libraries

Next week, the IUB Libraries Reference Services Department will be offering several workshops to help you develop and hone your research skills.  Sessions include:

Research Jump Start

Explore the best methods for finding your field’s important literature and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using certain search tools, such as Google Scholar.

Researching the 18^th and 19^th Centuries

Explore the essential library resources for historical and literary research on 18^th and 19^th century topics, including new digital resources that give researchers enhanced access to books, journals, newspapers, and other primary source materials.

Citation Indexes on the Web

Citation indexes make it possible to trace patterns of influence among scholars and scientists.   Learn how to set up citation alerts and use search analysis tools to enhance your research in all fields.

Copyright 101 for Authors

Explore the basics of copyright law for authors and learn how to protect and manage your rights. 

To see the complete schedule, workshop descriptions, and to sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the Faculty & Graduate Student Workshops button.  Also, check out our online calendar of events here: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866

Jumpstart Your Research at the IUB Libraries

Next week, the IUB Libraries Reference Services Department will be offering several workshops to help you develop and hone your research skills.  Sessions include:

Research Jump Start

Explore the best methods for finding your field’s important literature and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using certain search tools, such as Google Scholar.

Researching the 18^th and 19^th Centuries

Explore the essential library resources for historical and literary research on 18^th and 19^th century topics, including new digital resources that give researchers enhanced access to books, journals, newspapers, and other primary source materials.

Citation Indexes on the Web

Citation indexes make it possible to trace patterns of influence among scholars and scientists.   Learn how to set up citation alerts and use search analysis tools to enhance your research in all fields.

Copyright 101 for Authors

Explore the basics of copyright law for authors and learn how to protect and manage your rights. 

To see the complete schedule, workshop descriptions, and to sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the Faculty & Graduate Student Workshops button.  Also, check out our online calendar of events here: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=5866.

Jewish Studies Fall Graduate-Faculty Workshop Series

"Jews and their Neighbors: Law and Interethnic Relations in the Russian Empire"

Professor Eugene Avrutin 

Professor of Modern European Jewish History and Tobor Family Scholar,

Program of Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois

Friday, October 15

12:00 noon

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

This talk analyzes the role that the law played in the mediation of interethnic relations in the Russian Empire. Historians have argued that Jews lived side-by-side with other ethnic communities for hundreds of years before their mass destruction in the twentieth century. Yet they have failed to explain just how these populations managed to coexist with one another on an everyday level. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, relations between Jews and their ethnically diverse neighbors were not devoid of social conflict, but these disagreements were usually the product of daily economic exchanges rather than a disdain for one another based on either religious or ethnic differences. Drawing on court records and other unexplored archival materials, this talk analyzes how Jews and their neighbors utilized the law to mediate everyday disagreements, which took place in three contact zones in nineteenth century Russia: the neighborhood, the noble estate, and the marketplace.

Participants are asked to read a copy of Professor Avrutin’s paper prior to the workshop. To obtain a copy the paper, please email Melissa Deckard.



Spring 2011 Class: The Judeo-Spanish Diaspora and the Jews of the Middle East

Professor Matthias Lehmann

From the medieval to the modern periods, Sephardic Jews inhabited the frontier between the Christian and Islamic worlds, between Europe and the Middle East, between “West” and “East.”

This course will explore the history of the Mediterranean Diaspora of Judeo-Spanish communities that emerged in the wake of the Spanish expulsion in 1492, with a special focus on the Judeo-Spanish (Sephardic) communities in the Middle East and in North Africa.

The course will span the period from 1492 to the twentieth century, with a focus on the modern era. Topics explored will include Sephardic responses to the trauma of expulsion, the fate of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews converted to Christianity (the “Conversos” or “Marranos”), the rise of Ottoman Jewry, the transformation of Sephardic communities in the age of nationalism and European colonialism, the destruction of the Sephardic heartland in World War II, and the encounter of Sephardic Jews with Zionism and the State of Israel. Students will write short book reviews, give in-class presentations, and will write a final paper.

18th Annual ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana University, Saturday, 5 March 2011

The Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) at Indiana University invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Eighteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held Saturday, March 5, 2011 on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University.

Graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers addressing all topics pertaining to Central Eurasian Studies. Central Eurasian Studies is defined for the purposes of this conference as the study of the historical and contemporary Afghan, Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Mongolic, Persian, Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.

Submission of pre-organized panels is strongly encouraged. Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference Committee to a suitable panel. All proposals will be subject to a highly selective review procedure. Past panel themes have included:


- Representation and Nationalism in Kazakhstan: Past, Present and Future
- Societies and Cultures of Xinjiang
- Turkic Folklore and Literature
- Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian Literature, Culture, and the Arts
- Tibetan Studies
- Aspects of Imperial and Soviet Rule in Central Asia
- Nodes of Identity
- Explorations in Central Asian Historiography

Submission Instructions:

Proposals may be submitted via the online form accessible at: http://www.indiana.edu/~aces n.b.

All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract. ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

Submission Deadline: 14 November 2010

Applicants will be notified of their status before 1 December 2010.

 Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference.

 Any queries may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at aces@indiana.edu.

Islam & Peacebuilding

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures,

Voices & Visions: Islam & Muslims from a Global Perspective, &

the Center for the Study of the Middle East

Presents;

Dr. Qamar-ul Huda,

Senior Program Officer,

United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C.

Islam &

Peacebuilding:

Theory and Practice

Monday, October 11, 7:30pm

The Neal-Marshall Center, A201

Copies of Dr. Huda’s book will be available for purchase and

signature by the author at the end of lecture.

Dr. Huda is Senior Program Officer in the Religion and Peacemaking Program at the US Institute of Peace Studies and scholar of Islam. His area of expertise is Islamic theology, intellectual history, ethics, comparative ethics, the language of violence, conflict resolution and non-violence in contemporary Islam. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic Intellectual History from UCLA and is the editor of the recently published The Crescent and Dove: Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam (USIP Press, 2010), which provides a critical analysis of models of nonviolent strategies, peace building efforts, conflict resolution methods in Muslim communities.

Please visit Dr. Huda’s webpage for more information;

http://www.usip.org/specialists/qamar-ul-huda

Graduate students & faculty, please RSVP at nelc@indiana.edu for the opportunity to meet with Dr. Huda informally over lunch* on
Tuesday, October 12, 11.30-1pm

Ballantine Hall, 004**

*Pizza and beverages will be provided for this event.

** Please note room change!

Fall Deadlines for International Fellowships

A reminder from the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs about upcoming fall deadlines fall for a number of international scholarships for language training, research and internships for graduate students in many disciplines and world regions. Click on link below or see the list of External Grants for International Study and Research for additional detail. This list is arranged by country/region from earliest to latest deadline for opportunities for graduate students. And earliest to latest deadline for all doctoral research grants.

Germany - Graduate                                                                                                  

The Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), supports graduating seniors and graduate students for study or research in Germany in a broad range of academic disciplines. Campus deadlines are October 13, 2010 for Fine Arts and Oct. 28, for all other Fields. Contact: Shawn Reynolds, OVPIA, 812-856-9024;E-mail: shreynol@indiana.edu. General guidelines for applying available here: DAAD Information Sheet for 2011-2012 Grants.

Asia - Graduate                                                                                                          

The Luce Scholars Program funds graduate students in a variety of professional fields. It is intended for young leaders who have had limited experience of Asia and who might not otherwise have an opportunity in the normal course of their careers to come to know Asia. The program provides stipends, language training and individualized professional placement in Asia. Campus deadline is October 15, 2010. Contact: Paul Fogleman (pfoglema@indiana.edu) regarding competition nominations.

United Kingdom - Graduate                                                                                      

The Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded to graduate students from outside the UK to study at the University of Cambridge. Deadline to apply is Oct. 15; but please note some Cambridge University disciplines have earlier deadlines for admission to their programs.  More information at: http://www.gatesscholar.org/apply/

Scandinavia - Graduate                                                                                          

The American Scandinavian Foundation offers grants for graduate students to conduct research projects in 2011 in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Deadline to apply for a 2011 grant is November 1, 2010. Additional detail at: http://www.amscan.org/fellowships_grants.html

Multiple World Regions - Graduate                                                                                                   

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for graduate students for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages. Scholarship funds intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks for U.S. citizen undergraduate and graduate students. Eligibility and application information at www.clscholarship.org/applicants. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2010.

Multiple World Regions  -Doctoral

The Spencer Foundation provides fellowships to support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Deadline is Oct. 27, 2010. More info at: http://www.spencer.org/content.cfm/dissertation-fellowships-in-education-program

Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research grant provides funding for social science research that focus on countries outside of Western Europe. National deadline to apply is Nov. 2, 2010. Contact campus representative, Paul Fogleman (pfoglema@indiana.edu) regarding campus deadline. For more information go to http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/index.html

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) sponsors international dissertation research fellowships for research outside the US. Deadline is Nov. 3, 2010. Detail at:   http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/idrf-fellowship/

The International Research Exchange (IREX) provides individual advanced research grants for research in developing countries. Deadline is Nov. 17, 2010 See www.irex.org/apply for more information.