Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship

I am pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Scholarship.                                                            

On Sunday 4 July 1999, a bright and promising young Korean graduate student was killed as he was entering his church.  He was the victim of a random act of extremist violence.  Indiana University is united in deploring the hatred and intolerance that caused this senseless tragedy and is committed to the principles and ideals that make this university a place where people from all walks of life and from all nations and religions, can join together in pursuit of knowledge and mutual respect.  As a way of underscoring Mr. Yoon’s legacy, Indiana University established this scholarship. 

The Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship will provide financial support for IU students who have exemplified tolerance and understanding across racial and religious lines through service, personal commitment, academic achievement and future potential.

•  Candidates may be graduate students or undergraduates who have completed at least one academic semester of study at Indiana University at the time of application.
• Candidates may be citizens of any country.
• Candidates must be full-time students pursuing Indiana University degrees in Bloomington.
• Candidates may be self-nominated (apply themselves) or be nominated by Indiana University faculty or staff members.
• Candidates must submit a statement (not to exceed 750 words) describing what the scholarship will enable them to accomplish in their academic programs. The scholarship should be taken up during summer 2011 or the 2011-2012 academic year.
• Candidates must submit a resume or curriculum vitae as well as a transcript.
• Three letters of support are required, at least one of which should be from an Indiana University faculty member.
• Faculty or staff who nominate candidates, should provide a letter of nomination and at least one additional letter of support.  If possible, please also enclose a copy of the student’s resume or curriculum vitae as well as a transcript.

The scholarship has a value of approximately $2,500.

The application deadline is March 15, 2011.

Completed applications/nominations should be sent to the Won-Joon Yoon Scholarship Committee, Bryan Hall 104, Indiana University, 107 S. Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405.

Please direct questions to Edda Callahan, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Bryan Hall 104, phone:  812-855-5021; e-mail egcallah@indiana.edu

MEHAT Conference Follow-Up

 MEHAT CONFERENCE 2011 

— Mutual Perceptions —

CALL FOR PAPERS

26th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference

University of Chicago, May 13–14, 2011

Just a reminder: there are about ten days left to get in your abstracts!

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.

Those wishing to participate should send a 250-word abstract to the conference organizers at mehat2011@gmail.com by February 20, 2011.

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/. Feel free to email us with any questions you have.

Thanks, and we look forward to reading your submissions!

MEHAT 2011 Coordinators

Cam Lindley-Cross

Feryal Salem

Shayna Silverstein

Mohamad Ballan

ICPSR 2011 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

The Inter‑university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is pleased to announce the 2011 Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research.

As many subscribers to this list already know, the main component of the ICPSR Summer Program is held on the campus of the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor. Lectures and workshops on a wide variety of topics in research design, quantitative reasoning, statistical methods, and data processing are presented in two four‑week sessions. The first session runs from June 20, 2011 until July 15, 2011. The second session runs from July 18, 2011 until August 12, 2011. The contents of the two sessions are largely independent of each other, although some second‑session workshops do assume that participants are familiar with material from first‑session courses.

The 2011 ICPSR Summer Program will also offer a number of three‑ to five‑day workshops on both statistical and substantive topics throughout the summer. Most of these shorter workshops take place in Ann Arbor, but there are several that will be held in other locations: Amherst, MA; Bloomington, IN; Chapel Hill, NC; and (for the first time) Berkeley, CA.

We would like to draw your attention to several noteworthy features in the 2011 ICPSR Summer Program:

• Three new four-week workshops: “Network Analysis” during the first session; “Applied Multilevel Models”, and “Causal Inference for the Social Sciences” during the second session.
•   A number of new three- to five-day statistical workshops, including: “Estimating Geometric Models of Choice and Judgment”, “Missing Data: An Introduction to the Analysis of Incomplete Data SetsA (in Bloomington, IN), “Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: An Introduction”, “Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods” (in Chapel Hill, NC), “Item Response Theory”, and “Spatial Econometrics: Statistical Models of Interdependence Among Observations”.
•  A new three-day workshop on “Mixed Methods: Approaches for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies” (in Chapel Hill, NC). 
•  Two five-day workshops on the analysis of panel data: A new course on “Panel Data Analysis Using SAS and SPSS” and another on “Panel Data Analysis Using Stata.”
• Continued emphasis on multilevel modeling. In addition to the new four-week workshop mentioned above, we offer the following short workshops: “Hierarchical Linear Models I: Introduction”, “Applied Multilevel Models Using SAS and SPSS”, “Analyzing Multilevel and Mixed Models Using Stata”, and “Hierarchical Linear Models II: Special Topics”.

In developing the course list for the 2011 ICPSR Summer Program, we are responding to the expressed interests of the social scientific research community, and providing coverage of statistical procedures that are receiving increasing attention within methodological circles. We hope you find something that will be useful for your own work in the 2011 Program. And, we are always interested in feedback: Please let us know if you have any thoughts about our current course offerings or new topics that you would like to see us include in the curriculum.

Registration is now open for all of our statistical courses and for several of the substantive workshops. The application form, registration instructions, fee structure, and further information about the ICPSR Summer Program are all available on our web site:

http://icpsr.umich.edu/sumprog/

Please feel free to e‑mail us with any further questions at: sumprog@icpsr.umich.edu 

Mideast Panorama - Call for Papers

The editors of Middle East Panorama would like to announce a call for papers for the Spring 2011 edition of the student-run journal from the Middle East Center at the University of Utah.We welcome submissions from all disciplines, asking that they pertain theoretically, thematically, or geographically to the Middle East and North Africa.

This edition will focus on the theme of “Identity and Religion.” The issue of identity and religion raises many questions, including: What factors contribute to individual or communal identity? How does religion affect identity in the Middle East and the rest of the world? Has the concept of identity changed in recent years?

While we encourage submissions pertaining to “Identity and Religion,” as usual article selection will not be based solely on relevance to the theme. In addition to original scholarly articles, Middle East Panorama also welcomes submissions of book reviews of works published in or after 2007. If you wish to be added to a list of potential reviewers, please email a short bio with research interests (geographical location, time period etc.) to the email address below.

Call for Papers

Email submissions or queries to: panorama_mec@utah.edu by March 20, 2011

Medieval Studies Institute Fellowship

Dear colleagues,

Once again, the Medieval Studies Institute has been awarded a one-year fellowship to assist departments in recruiting outstanding candidates who have applied to graduate programs in the College and who have expressed an interest in working in Medieval Studies.  (See the attached memo for details.)  MEST provides the fellowship for the student’s first year at IU, and the home department provides the rest of the student’s funding package.  We try to meet with the candidate during the candidate’s campus visit and provide additional information about opportunities at IU.  We do expect that students who receive the MEST fellowship will enroll in at least one MEST course during the fellowship year. 

The MEST Executive Committee will be happy to consider one nomination from each participating department.  If you have identified such a candidate, please send a copy of the student’s complete application to me through the MEST office (BH 650) by February 8, 2011, at 5:00 PM.  We will try to report the rankings to you within seven days. 

Since MEST has been chosen to host the Medieval Academy’s Vagantes conference in spring 2012, we believe that we have yet another reason to attract outstanding graduate students to Indiana University. 

Please email me (rmcgerr@indiana.edu) if you have any questions.

With best wishes,

Rosemarie 

Rosemarie McGerr

Professor of Comparative Literature

Director, Medieval Studies Institute

Ballantine Hall 650

Indiana University

Bloomington, IN 47405

USA

Brown Bag - Peer Review and Digital Projects

Please join us for this exciting Brown Bag on a very relevant topic:

“Peer Review and Digital Projects”

Perspectives from Ruth Stone, Margaret Dolinsky, and Daniel Reed

Thursday, February 10, 2011

12-1pm; IDAH Conference Room E170D

How can digital projects be peer reviewed? Will digital projects count toward tenure and promotion? How do I get my colleagues to take digital projects seriously as research and creative activity? Are departments and colleges changing their views on digital projects?  What are the best kinds of digital projects for peer review? This panel will share their experiences with digital projects and the peer review process.  Using examples from their work they will also describe how they’ve navigated this landscape in the academy.

Margaret Dolinsky - Associate Professor School of Fine Arts; Research Scientist Pervasive Technology Institute; Fellow Institute of the Digital Arts and Humanities. Professor Dolinsky creates interactive art for high-speed networks and collaborative art experiences for the CAVE Automated Virtual Environment.

Daniel Reed
Associate Professor of  Folklore and Ethnomusicology; Director of Graduate Studies.  Professor Reed is author of the book, Dan Ge Performance, winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize. He has contributed original field data to the EVIA Digital Archive Project, and his recent research involves music of West African immigrants living in the United States.

Ruth Stone

Associate Vice Provost for Research; Laura Boulton Professor of

Folklore and Ethnomusicology;

Director, Media Preservation Initiative. Professor Stone is author of Let the Inside Be Sweet, Dried Millet Breaking, and Theory for Ethnomusicology.

Best,

Maria Kennedy

Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) Graduate Assistant
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library E170

1320 E. 10th St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
(812) 855-0829

IDAH Fax: (812) 856-7107

idah@indiana.edu

www.iub.edu/~idah

2011 Palmer-Brandon Prize in Humanities Competition

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the competition for the 2011Palmer-Brandon Prize, the College’s largest award to undergraduate students majoring in the humanities. This year the selection committee will make up to two awards of $20,000 each to current third year juniors to continue their academic, scholarly or creative pursuits. The prize is based on merit, without regard to financial need. Those selected to receive this prestigious prize are expected to be in the top one percent of undergraduates in their fields in terms of academic achievement and potential.

Attached to this message you will find a flyer and application materials. Please note that the application procedures for this award have changed slightly this year. Departmental nominations are no longer allowed, however, students are still required to submit three letters of recommendation from IU faculty members in the humanities.

This prize remains restricted to certain departments/disciplines. We must not violate the requirements of the initial gift agreement and therefore we cannot open this competition to all departments. Eligible are students majoring in: Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English, Fine Arts (Art History or Studio Art), Folklore and Ethnomusicology, French and Italian, Germanic Studies, India Studies, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese, Theatre and Drama.  Additionally, students majoring in African-American and African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, American Studies, Communication and Culture, Gender Studies, Individualized Major Program, International Studies, and Jewish Studies can be considered eligible, if the humanities form the focus of the student’s coursework, research, career plans, application materials, recommendations, etc. 

Due to the restrictions of the gift agreement, we must treat this as a humanities prize;  if students apply but are ineligible, they cannot be considered but will have spent large amounts of time and effort in vain (as will the faculty recommending them).     

In addition to an extensive application, finalists will be required to meet with the Selection Committee for a personal interview on Thursday, March 24.  The deadline for receipt of all application materials (including faculty letters of recommendation) is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2011.

At this time we ask that you post the attached flyer in your department and circulate the application to those undergraduate majors who meet the following criteria and who, in your estimation, are among the top 1% of students you have taught here. To be eligible for this award, applicants must: 

• be current third-year students with junior standing, planning to graduate in May or Aug 2012
•  be enrolled full-time at IUB both semesters of 2011-2012
•  have high academic merit, including a minimum College GPA of 3.750 (Note: In the past; recipients of this prize have had cumulative College of Arts and Sciences GPAs of 3.9 and higher.)

The application form and additional information is available on the College’s website at:

http://college.indiana.edu/undergrad/scholarships/cri_palmerBrandon.shtml. 

If you have questions about the Palmer-Brandon Prize in the Humanities, please contact Lynn Keller, lykeller@indiana.edu or 856-0827. We look forward to receiving the applications of your students.

Best,   

Stephen Watt

Professor of English and

    Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education