Humanities Research Skills Clinic

This Clinic consists of a series of hands-on sessions, designed to recharge your research skills.  Learn how to manage citations and bibliographies, survey the existing scholarship on a literary or historical topic, and understand your copyright rights and responsibilities.  Attend the whole series or mix & match!  Sessions include:

• Historiography 101: Starting a Research Project on a Historical Topic
• Do More with Zotero & EndNote
• Copyright Basics for Authors & Instructors
• The Literature of Literature: Starting a Research Project on a Literary Topic

To see the complete schedule, session descriptions, and to sign up, go to http://www.libraries.iub.edu/workshops and click on the red Faculty & Graduate Student Workshops button.  You can also check out our online calendar of events for the most current schedule. 

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please send a message to libwkshp@indiana.edu. 

Final Call for Papers - MEHAT

26th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference

University of Chicago, May 13–14, 2011

Please note that the deadline for the Middle East History and Theory Conference is this Sunday, Feb. 20. You can send us your abstracts with your name, institution, and paper title atmehat2011@gmail.com.

Important: If you have sent us an abstract, but have NOT received a confirmation email from us, please contact us again! Sometimes emails get filtered or bounced, and we would hate for your submission to fall through the cracks! If you are writing a second time, write "MEHAT" in your subject line so we can be sure it does not get misplaced.

  

--About the Conference-- 

We are pleased to invite graduate students and faculty to submit papers for the 26th Annual Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference, to be held May 13–14, 2011, at the University of Chicago. We welcome a broad range of submissions from across the disciplines, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history, cinema and media studies, history, literature, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, development, and religion, and dealing with any topic that involves the Middle East from the 7th century onwards.

We will consider both individual papers and pre-arranged themed panels; the latter is especially encouraged. More information about the conference and the application process can be viewed at our website: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference/.

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!

5th Annual Anthropology Graduate Student Association Symposium

"The Technologies of Culture: Techniques and Theory"

will be held 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.  This year's schedule of papers and panels is composed of a wide range of topics presented by students from multiple disciplines and several universities.  These presentations include traditional paper presentations, featured panels that discuss the role of technology in the classroom and research field, and other debates and discussions that explore the role of technology in culture.

Dr. Mark Schurr of the University of Notre Dame's Anthropology Department will be delivering a keynote address Friday, February 25th at 6:30pm in the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology Lecture Hall.   We would like to cordially invite you to attend this event as well as our other scheduled events for the weekend:

Friday, February 25th
9:30-5 Paper presentations and panel discussions, IMU Sassafras Room
6:30-8:00 Announcement of Paper Prize
Keynote Address by Dr. Mark Schurr, Glenn Black Laboratory Lecture Hall
8:00-10:00 Symposium Reception, GBL Atrium

Saturday, February 26th
9:30-11:30 Panel showcase, GBL Lecture Hall
11:30-1:00 Pizza Lunch with Dr. Schurr, K.D. Vitelli Archaeology Annex
1:00-5:15 Paper presentations and panel discussions, GBL Lecture Hall

Sunday, February 27th
9:30-1:00 Panel discussions, GBL Lecture Hall
1:00-1:15 Closing Remarks, GBL Lecture Hall

For more information, please see our website: http://www.indiana.edu/~anthgrad/HomePage.html 

This year’s list of events looks to be both stimulating and exciting--we hope to see you there!

Flyer

Graduate Student & Faculty Meet & Greet

You are invited to attend:

Meet & Greet

with

Kevin Burnham,

PhD Candidate, University of Texas, Austin

Arabic Pedagogy Asst. Prof. Candidate

Monday, February 21, 2011

2:30-3:15 PM

Goodbody Hall, 216 (NELC Chair’s Office)

Please RSVP to this email or via Facebook

Mr. Burnham is a PhD candidate under Mahmoud Al-Batal, the co-author of the widely used al-kitaab fii ta allum al-arabiyya Arabic language textbook. His dissertation is entitled An Investigation in Speech Learning in Students of Arabic. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt, and consequently has an extensive knowledge of the Egyptian dialect. At the University of Texas he has concentrated on Arabic Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition, as he has long held a desire to instruct students in the Arabic language. His research is focused on the use of knowledge development in the field of second language acquisition to improve language-learning outcomes.

Listening from the Bottom Up:
a new technique for improving listening comprehension in learners of Arabic

Lecture in English

Monday, February 21, 5:30pm

Ballantine Hall, 004

أصوات اللغة العربية في الماضي والحاضر

The Sounds of the Arabic Language in the Past and Present

A Lecture in Arabic

Tuesday, February 22, 10:00am

Ballantine Hall, 004

*Note date change for the Arabic lecture

For more information and to RSVP please visit NELC’s facebook group

International Conference on Social Sciences

Submission/Proposal Deadline: February 19th, 2011

The 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held from June 1st (Wednesday) to June 4th (Saturday), 2011 at the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu is located on the island of Oahu. "Oahu" is often nicknamed "the gathering place". The 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from social sciences related fields from all over the world.

Submitting a Proposal/Paper: 

You may submit your paper/proposal by using our online submission system! To use the system, and for detailed information about submitting see: here

More info:

   

social@hicsocial.org

http://www.hicsocial.org

Message from NELC

Dear NELC Graduate Students,

I hope you all are doing well and enjoying your semester!

Two candidates are being considered for the Arabic Pedagogy position in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture.  The candidates are Dr. Giselle Khoury, Senior Lecturer, Boston University and Kevin Burnham, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin.  

Dr. Giselle Khoury of Boston University was on campus this week; she presented two lectures - one in English and one in Arabic.  On Tuesday, February 08, she presented 'Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Acquisition in Arabic as a Foreign Language' in English as well as 'Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic: What do Students Think?' in Arabic.

Kevin Burnham will be presenting 'Listening from the Bottom Up: a new technique for improving listening comprehension in learners of Arabic' in English on Monday, February 21, 5:30pm in Ballantine Hall, 004, and  ‘The Sounds of the Arabic Language in the Past and Present’ in Arabic on Monday, February 22, 10am in Ballantine Hall, 004

If you would like to submit comments about the Arabic Pedagogy candidates, please email the Graduate Student Faculty Representative, Katie Peoples, at kepeople@umail.iu.edu.  Your comments will be complied with your names removed and then submitted to the NELC Faculty.  All comments will be kept confidential and anonymous.  Comments must be submitted for Dr. Giselle Khoury no later than Friday, February 18 and Kevin Burnham by Friday, February 25.  
Have a lovely day!

Sincerely,
Katie Peoples

Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online Vol. 10 & Call

Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online is pleased to announce the release of Volume 10. IULC working Papers Online is a peer reviewed publication with the primary goal of providing an outlet for outstanding work carried out by IU graduate and undergraduate students as well as other IU-affiliated researchers. Volume 10 contains the following contributions accessible at the link below:

https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/contents.cgi?which=10

"Perceptual similarity across multiple sociolinguistic variables"
-- Elizabeth Casserly

"The acquisition of a morphosyntactic variable in Spanish: The analytic
and synthetic forms of present progress aspect"
-- Stephen Fafulas

"The perception of geminate stops by L1 English learners of Japanese"
-- Miyuki Takeuchi

"Central Eurasian Studies at IU (the pre-department years)"
-- Blake Puckett

"Cross-language identification of Spanish consonants in English"
-- Marda Rose

If you have an outstanding term paper or a report on your on-going
research, consider submitting it for publication in Volume 11 of the
IULC Working Papers Online. Visit our website for submission
guidelines: https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/

Kris Ebarb
Associate Editor
IULC Working Papers Online
Department of Linguistics
Indiana University
https://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp/