The Asian American Studies Program, in collaboration with the programs in American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Latino Studies, and The Committee on Native American and Indigenous Studies, announces the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies Research Workshop for graduate students, which will take place on February 18 and 19, 2011.
This two-day workshop will feature graduate students from a variety of disciplines and departments sharing their work-in-progress with one another and receiving feedback and input from workshop participants, including graduate students and faculty. Selected participants will pre-circulate their essays two weeks prior to the workshop. Panelists will give a 10-minute presentation summarizing the main points of their essays, which will be followed by comments by a faculty respondent. Audience members in attendance will have ample time to ask questions and engage in discussion about the topics raised by the presenters.
The organizers invite submissions of 250-word abstracts from graduate students working on topics that fall under the category of “ethnic studies,” broadly defined in either a global or an American context. Submissions may contrast or connect the process of race-making or the experiences of ethnic communities with similar processes or experiences inside or outside the United States. Submissions may also focus on the experiences of a specific community; such papers could consider the internal dynamics of the community and the ways in which social hierarchies can challenge group solidarities or the processes through which the ethnic community defines itself in relation to majority cultures. We welcome essays on other topics as well, and only require that they consider the power of race/ethnicity to shape the lives of diverse groups of people.
Abstracts should be sent electronically via e-mail by November 12, 2010 to aasp@indiana.edu.
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, November 12, 2010
Paper Submission Deadline for Selected Participants: Friday, February 4, 2011
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Brown Borderlands and Meeting Points Conference
The History Graduate Student Association of Brown University is pleased to announce its 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference, “Borderlands and Meeting Points,” which will be held on April 8-9, 2011.
The deadline to submit abstracts is November 15, 2010.
Submission Guidelines: Interested graduate students should submit a 250-word abstract by November 15, 2010. Each proposal should clearly state its relevancy to the conference theme. Candidates proposing full panels should also include a 150-word abstract on the organizing theme of the proposed panel. Successful candidates will be notified by early January and should submit final papers by March 14, 2010.
Email proposals to: BrownHGSAConference@gmail.com.
Questions should be directed toward Laura Perille (Laura_Perille@Brown.edu) or Ania Borejsza-Wysocka (Anna_Borejsza-Wysocka@Brown.edu).
This conference seeks to generate new interdisciplinary perspectives about borderlands and meeting points, putting into conversation fields such as history, literature, anthropology, political science, geography, law, and art. Through these conversations, we will consider the strategies – particularly cultural ones – that are employed at such sites both to pursue particular interests and to engender or resist change. The study of borderlands and meeting points presents us with a methodological and theoretical challenge: to find creative means of giving expression to people and interactions often shaped by charged political and ethnic concerns.
Potential paper topics include, but are not limited to, historical and/or theoretical explorations of the following:
-Urban, regional, and national space and identity
-Ethnic conflict or concord
-Cross-cultural interactions
-Circulation of ideas and materials
-Translation and interpreters
-Trade and commerce
-Religion, missionaries, and conversion
-Gender and sexuality
-Movement, migration and diaspora
Jil Jadid Conference, University of Texas-Austing, February 18-20
The University of Texas’ Department of and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is pleased to announce that they will host the Jīl Jadīd Conference, a graduate student conference in Arabic Literature and Linguistics, to be held at the University of Texas – Austin, February 18-20, 2011.
This current generation of graduate students represents one of the largest groups of scholars all working together on Arabic in over a century. The purpose of this conference is to bring together students scattered across areas studies, linguistics, comparative literature and other departments in order to facilitate an open and productive exchange of new ideas, and to build collaborative networks that will last well after we finish our graduate education. By coming together to compare our approaches and methods, as well as our innovative research, we can help set the tone for Arabic studies as we move further into the twenty-first century.
In order to foster productive and fruitful dialogue, this conference will take an innovative approach to presentations. Papers will be grouped into panels of three to four presenters which will combine short presentations with in-depth discussions. Each panel will be led by a moderator tasked with facilitating and directing discussion.
Submitters who are accepted will be asked to provide a 2-3 page summary of their papers at least two weeks prior to the conference, so that attendees may read these summaries and more time can be devoted to discussion than presentation. Presenters will be given fifteen (15) minutes of presentation time, followed by another fifteen (15) minutes of time for discussion. Presenters will be encouraged to use the presentation time to expand on their summaries and then to suggest topics or questions for discussion.
We are pleased to announce that Professors Devin Stewart and Wail Hassan have agreed to give keynote speeches in the area of linguistics and literature respectively, and UT faculty have agreed to offer career development workshops during the conference as well.
Topics:
All papers on Arabic literature and linguistics will gladly be considered, but we especially encourage submissions on the following topics:
* Beyond diglossia: New approaches to variation in Arabic
* Bringing data to bear: Empirical approaches to Arabic pedagogy and SLA
* Socio-cultural approaches to the acquisition of Arabic
* Asking new questions about old literature
* Literature across Arabic Registers
* Arabic literature in new diasporas
* Arabic Literature, Linguistics and Pedagogy in the Internet Age
Papers which will be also presented at other conferences such as ALS and ACLA are welcome, as we hope to provide a forum for students to further develop and refine their research.
Abstracts:
Applicants may submit abstracts of no more than 400 words, not including references, in PDF format. Abstracts can be submitted via the following website:
The deadline for abstracts is November 1, 2010. Abstracts should not include identifying information, *however you must indicate the highest degree you have obtained and your current position (e.g. "M.A, Graduate Student" "Ph.D., Assistant Professor", etc.)* Travel Funding:
We are well aware of the financial restrictions facing graduate students, and therefore a large part of the conference budget will be devoted to providing financial assistance for travel expenses for those who are unable to obtain sufficient funding from their departments.
Priority will be given to attendees with accepted papers, but others are encouraged to apply. Details of the application procedure will be made available following the application deadline. Applicants who will be outside of the US at the time of the conference are encouraged to submit, and will be able to present their papers and participate in discussions in person or via internet video-chat.
Conference fees:
A fee of $30US will be required of all attendees. Checks can be submitted to the following address, and should be made out to the University of Texas, with “Jil Jadid” in the memo section:
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
1 University Station, F9400
Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online (vol. 10)
The IULC is now accepting submissions for Volume 10 of its Working Papers Online.
The target date for submissions for Volume 10 is 15 October 2010.
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members from all departments are encouraged to submit original papers in linguistics.
Submissions resulting from term papers written for classes or as a result of independent studies are welcome.
Students are particularly encouraged to submit manuscripts that they intend to publish in a journal in the future and to use the IULC Working Papers Online as a stepping stone to a full-fledged journal submission through the review and revision process.
We accept both paper submission and electronic submission. For detailed instructions on submission, please see our website at https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/
Bodies in Flux: Between Articulation and Inscription
Seminar Organizers: Sheila Sheereen Akbar, Margot B. Valles, and Holly Schreiber, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University
This panel welcomes papers that theorize the body as a point of articulation for considering world literatures in comparison and/or the concept of World Literature writ large.
In this manner the body, as a universal particular, can be seen as the wellspring of artistic expression without being confined to national, cultural, or linguistic boundaries. Yet, among other ways that it is in flux, the body is host to a tension arising from its dual role as a marker of individual and community identity. As such, the body also serves as a site where national, cultural, and linguistic violence is meted out.
Thus, a central focus of this panel will be a consideration of the myriad and often contradictory ways that the body both engenders the power to represent and also bears the scars of representation. We hope to more broadly discuss this intersection of articulation and inscription in the context of world/comparative literature.
Topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:
- dominant metaphors and narratives of the body in Western and non-Western thought
- the evolution of privacy and its impact on attitudes toward the body
- the impact of photography and film on the body
- trauma, memory, and pain
- the limits of language and communication
- violence, wounds, and healing
- revolution and war
- diasporic and post-colonial expressions
- the monstrous body, voluntary and involuntary bodily mutilations
- feminist texts and practices
- gender studies and the body
Abstracts are due by Nov. 12, 2010 and must be submitted through the ACLA website.
National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Competition
The National Society of Arts and Letters
Bloomington, Indiana Chapter
Competition & Showcase of the Arts, 2011
LITERATURE COMPETITION
The National Society of Arts and Letters of Bloomington invites aspiring young writers to participate in its 2011 Literature Competition.
Eligibility Requirements
Contestants;
• Must be between 18-29 years of age*
• Cannot be under exclusive professional management/representation.
• Must be Indiana resident or enrolled as student in state of Indiana.
Manuscript Requirements
Submit only entry in of the following areas;
• Essay of Literary Merit (non-fiction)
• Poetry (10 pages)
• Novel (1 chapter)
• Short Fiction (complete work)
• Play (complete 1-act or 1 act of play)
• TV Script
*Contestants must have reached the age of 18 by April 17, 2011.
Top winners are expected to read from their work at the NSAL Showcase on April 17, 2011. The deadline for the submission of work is January 31st, 2011.
For more information and to apply contact:
Dr Cigdem Balim Harding
NELC, Goodbody Hall 208, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405
(812) 361-9010 or (812) 287-8202
cbalim@indiana.edu
Graduate Program at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
The graduate program at the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada is now accepting applications from talented and motivated students. The Institute of Islamic Studies has two full-time professors, Robert Wisnovsky and Jamil Ragep, who deal with Islamic philosophy/theology and science, respectively, as well as a large team working on our Rational Sciences in Islam (RaSI) project. This team includes Ihsan Fazlioglu, Adam Gacek, Taro Mimura, Reza Pourjavady, Sally Ragep, and Sergei Tourkin.
In addition, we also have a postdoctoral fellow, Keren Abbou Hershkovits, who is associated with our Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures project and our Ghafiqi herbal project:
http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/subjects/health/ghafiqiproject/
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2011. For further information, please check out: http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/programmes/phd/
In addition, we also have a postdoctoral fellow, Keren Abbou Hershkovits, who is associated with our Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures project and our Ghafiqi herbal project:
http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/subjects/health/ghafiqiproject/
The deadline for applications is January 15, 2011. For further information, please check out: http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/programmes/phd/
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