Call for Papers: The Indiana University Linguistics Community Working Papers

The IULC Working Papers is currently accepting submissions for Volume 11. We accept submissions from undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members from all departments, and other IU affiliated scholars in linguistics.

The IULC Working Papers is intended to be an outlet for original research in all fields of linguistics and to introduce graduate students to the publication process. Graduate students with outstanding term papers are especially encouraged to consider submitting their work.

For detailed information on the submission process, visit:
http://www.indiana.edu/~iulcwp

Professional Development Fellows Program for Teachers of Arabic

Professional Development Fellows Program for Teachers of Arabic
Sponsored by the Qatar Foundation International

• Are you a current or future teacher of Arabic?
• Are you looking for inspiring professional development?

If so, the Qatar Professional Development Fellows Program may be a perfect opportunity for you to engage in some of the best professional development programs in the country for little to no cost!

Through a generous grant from the Qatar Foundation International, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota in collaboration with Teacher Seminars at Concordia Language Villages (CLV), Minnesota, will bring together K-16 Arabic language teachers from across the United States for an unprecedented program of learning and practice. Selected Fellows will be able to attend a CARLA summer institute of their choice, and will put their new knowledge to work at an internship at the CLV Arabic Language Village.

Two graduate-level credits will be awarded for the successful completion of a CARLA summer institute (http://www.carla.umn.edu/institutes/index.html) and a two-week internship at the Arabic Language Village either during the summer of 2011 or the summer of 2012. CARLA summer institutes focus on key topics such as assessment, culture, and second language acquisition. During their CLV internship, the participants will prepare lesson plans and co-teach activities and language learning groups with master teachers from the Arabic Language Village. The program is relevant to Arabic teachers of all age groups.

Qatar Fellows will be awarded scholarships valued at $5,000.

Details on the Qatar Fellows Program and application information can be found on the CLV website at:
http://tiny.cc/qatarfellow

NeMLA 2012 - Call for Papers

World Literature, Comparative Languages, and Transnational Literatures

This area aims to provide a forum for colleagues working in languages and literatures complementary to longer existing emphases on continental, national or single language literatures often taught in the U.S. We particularly welcome proposals for NeMLA 2012 in fields such as:

Russian and Slavic Literatures, Arabic Literature, Chinese Literature, Comparative Literature, “World Literature” & Terms such as transnational, diaspora, intercultural, globalization, comparative Englishes, postcolonial…

To submit a panel proposal, go to:
http://nemla.org/convention/2012/proposal_form.html
By April 22 2011

For more information, please contact Area Director Christopher Hogarth at christopher.hogarth@wagner.edu

Travel to Australia - PAI Conference

We are pleased to confirm that the Pan Asia Institute will provide funding (airfare, insurance, accommodations, and meals) for up to four IU students to participate in the Australian National University's (ANU) Asia Pacific Week 2011, July 10-14, 2011 in Canberra. This highly-selective, five day conference will bring together 100 graduate and undergraduate students from across Australia and around the world to participate in seminars, panel discussions, and other forums related to the Asia Pacific region. It presents a wonderful opportunity for students to network not only with peers, but with leading scholars and professionals focused on Asia and the Pacific. The attached announcement as well as the APW Overview provide further specifics (please note that the latter refers only to graduate student participation - the organizers have confirmed that this is a typo and accomplished, upper-level undergraduates are also welcome to apply). Information can also be found online at: asiapacificweek.anu.edu.au

Any student interested in participating in the program must have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher and have an academic interest in the region. Undergraduates must also have at least 75 credits completed at the time of application. A brief application form (attached), a resume or cv, and one letter of recommendation are needed to apply. Students should submit their complete application packet by email to panasia@indiana.edu no later than 5:00 p.m. on April 20, 2011. We regret the incredibly short lead time, but only learned of this opportunity recently.

Information Sessions for International Awards

Last two information sessions about international awards such as the Fulbright, Critical Language and Boren being held this Friday and next. The session this Friday focuses on international awards for all graduate students and next Friday will focus on awards for dissertation research such as the Fulbright Hays, IREX and Social Science Research Council.

Dates, times and locations of all remaining information sessions for graduate students:

                        
Fri. Apr. 8, 2011 - 1-2:30pm - Student Building 150 - Juniors, Seniors, Graduate

Fri. Apr. 15, 2011 - 2-4:30pm - Ballantine 310 - Dissertation Research

Students interested in learning more about applying for international awards can go to: www.indiana.edu/~ovpia/ovpia/funding/extGrants.php

STARTALK - NYU

For four years now NYU has been offering a successful teacher training workshop in Arabic and Persian under the auspices of the STARTALK program.  This year we have added Dari and Turkish. 
Click for flier

Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World

For the past year, City Lore and Poets House, two non-profit cultural groups in New York, have been working to put together a series of programs called Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World.  We, along with our cultural partner the Asia Society, are pleased to extend an invitation to you and your constituents to attend these programs, performances, and interpretive panels taking place this spring from April 21st to May 7th.  Illuminated Verses speaks to the variety of poetic forms and styles in the Islamic world, while at the same time demonstrating the central role of poetry in cultures where Islam is practiced.  We explore improvised poetic forms and performances of ancient and venerated work from poets such as Rumi and Hafez, along with contemporary literary poetry in settings ranging from Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, North and West Africa. We explore the central role of poetry in the lives of Muslim men and women who memorize poems, buy and sell poetry on cassettes, sing the work of venerated poets, and utilize poems in social and political negotiations.  Scholars and poets Reza Aslan, Mohammed Bennis, Persis Karim, Khaled Mattawa, and Amir Vahab are among the participants. As cultures clash over religion in our world, Illuminated Verses: Poetries of the Islamic World invites us to see one another anew.

Please click on this link
(http://www.citylore.org/events/illuminated_2011/verses.htm ) for further information on forthcoming events; a copy of the postcard for the May 7th forum is also attached.  In addition, if you are interested, we would be pleased to provide both digital and print materials that you might forward to your members.  We warmly encourage you to pass this information on to your peers and constituents at your discretion, and sincerely look forward to seeing you at these vibrant celebrations of cultural expression!


Sincerely,
Catherine Fletcher

Sofja Kovalevskaja Award for Doctoral Research

Dear Sir or Madam,


With the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is offering promising young researchers from all over the world attractive career prospects in Germany. Junior research talents of all disciplines from abroad are given the opportunity to establish working groups of their own at German research institutions. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is delighted to be able to contribute to the further internationalisation of Germany as a research location with this distinguished award for top level academics.

The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award recognises outstanding talent and creative research approaches with exceptional conditions: With an award amount of up to 1.65 million EUR each winner receives valuable starting capital to spend five years pursuing an innovative research project at a research institute of his or her choice - untroubled by administrative constraints. In addition, the establishment of their own junior research team enables the award winners to lay an important foundation for a promising academic career at a very early stage. Eight awards are expected to be granted. The programme is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Outstandingly qualified junior academics of all disciplines from abroad who completed their doctorate less than six years ago are eligible to apply for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award. It is also possible to submit applications immediately after finishing one's doctoral studies. The programme is also open to German researchers provided that they have been working abroad for more than five years. Applications must be submitted by 1 September 2011.

We should be grateful if you could support us in looking for suitable international research talents by disseminating this announcement at your institution. Attached you will find a brief description of the Sofja
Kovalevskaja Award that you are free to forward or display at your institution. Also, we should very much appreciate if you could request further colleagues to draw the attention of suitably talented junior researchers to this academic award.

Details of the application procedure for the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award can be found on our website at: www.humboldt-foundation.de/skp_en. For individual questions, you are also welcome to contact info@avh.de.

Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Sincerely yours

Dr. Enno Aufderheide
Secretary General,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Islamic Studies Program - Essay Awards

Salman Alani Award For Best Graduate Essay on Topics in Classical Arabic

In recognition of his many contributions to the study of Classical Arabic Grammar and Phonology, as well as his over forty-seven years of service to Indiana University, the Islamic Studies Program is proud to announce the 2011 Salman Alani Award competition for best graduate essay on topics in Classical Arabic

MA and PhD students in any department are eligible for the $500 award. Essays must be carefully researched, formatted, written, and must focus on Classical Arabic-Islamic texts, with priority given to analyses of Classical Arabic works on grammar and phonology. To be eligible, the essay must be at least 5000 words. Students must be currently enrolled at Indiana University at the time the paper is written and at the time the award is granted. Students may only submit one essay per competition and must include an accompanying letter of endorsement from an IU faculty member who can attest to the paper’s strength of research and potential contribution to the study of Classical Arabic-Islamic texts.

Submission Deadline May 16^th, 2011

The Salman Alani Award winner will be announced by June 15^th, 2011 and will be officially awarded at the Islamic Studies Program Fall Reception in September, 2011.

Devin Deweese Award For Best Graduate Essay on Islam in Central Asia

In recognition of his many years of service and contributions to the study of Islam in Central Asia, the Islamic Studies Program is proud to announce a new award in the name of Dr. Devin Deweese for best graduate essay on the Study of Islam in Central Asia. MA and PhD students in any department are eligible for the $500 award. Essays must be carefully researched, formatted, and written. To be eligible, the essay must be at least 6000 words. Students must be currently enrolled at Indiana University at the time the paper is written and at the time the award is granted. Students may only submit one essay per year and submitters must have an accompanying letter of endorsement from an IU faculty member who can attest to the paper’s strength of research and potential contribution to the field of Islamic Studies in Central Asia.

Submission Deadline May 16th, 2011

The Devin Deweese Award winner will be announced by June 15th, 2011 and will be officially awarded at the Islamic Studies Program Fall Reception in September, 2011.

STARTALK 2011 Teacher Training for Arabic and Turkish

M4HUMAN Fellowship

In cooperation with the European Commission, the Gerda Henkel Foundation launches a new fellowship program.  The funding initiative M4HUMAN (Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities including Islamic Studies) gives outstanding researchers the opportunity to spend a longer period of time at a foreign research institution of their choice.

The call for proposals is open to researchers from all over the world.  Main areas of research are the disciplines promoted by the Gerda Henkel Foundation - History, Prehistory and Early History, Archaeology, Art History, Historic Islamic Studies, Legal History as well as the special program "Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements."  The deadline for application is 30 June 2011.

For more detailed information on the fellowship and application process please visit www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/eng

Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Malkastenstrasse 15
40211 Dusseldorf
info@gerda-henkel-stiftung.de

Ninth Annual Danner Memorial Lecture & NELC Spring Reception

Please RSVP via Facebook

Intersections 2011: April 7, 14, 21

Please RSVP via Facebook

Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies

The Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) is pleased to have entered agreements with a number of online electronic databases. Articles and book reviews will now be made available to subscribers of the following services (click the logos to go to the websites). 

                

Forward this e-mail to your librarian or information specialist to check if you will have electronic access to JSIS.

The complete list of online electronic databases which will give access to JSIS content is as follows:

• Academic Search Complete
• ATLASerials
• Humanities International Complete
• International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center
• Omni Full Text Mega
• Omni Full Text Select
• Social Sciences Full Text

(We are still covered by other abstracting and indexing services, but these ones give electronic access to articles and book reviews.)

LINK TO JSIS WEBSITE:
http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/Research/JSIS.html

E-MAIL ENQUIRIES:
editor@islamic-college.ac.uk

INTERNATIONAL WORK: CAREERS WITH NGOs AND IGOs

INTERNATIONAL WORK: CAREERS WITH NGOs AND IGOs 
Friday, April 1, 1-3 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
 
Want to work for an international organization? Interested in human rights, relief, development and public health? Plan to attend IU Bloomington's first career event focused on international non-governmental and governmental organizations. This event will include a panel discussion, networking and resource tables for each organization. 
 
Learn about employment opportunities and network with representatives from the following organizations:
 
* Amnesty International USA, www.amnestyusa.org
* International Rescue Committee, www.rescue.org
* Oxfam America, www.oxfamamerica.org
* Pan American Health Organization (Regional Office of the World Health Organization), www.paho.org
 
This event is sponsored by the IU Area Studies and Title VI Centers and the Indiana University Career Development Center and Arts & Sciences Career Services. 
 
Visit www.iucareers.com and register through your “myIUcareers” account.

Startalk 2011: Teacher Training for Arabic & Turkish

TEACHER TRAINING FOR ARABIC AND TURKISH

                       Online:         May 16 - June 3
                       Onsite:         June 10 - July 1
                       Follow Up:      July 1 – August 20
WHY:  

• To train teachers of the critical languages Arabic and Turkish in community settings

WHAT:

• Participate in an intense residential, professional development institute with pre- and post-work at home
• Learn how to teach Arabic or Turkish to Pre-K to grade 6 youngsters using appropriate teaching methods for young learners. 
• Design lessons, materials, & developmentally appropriate assessment
• Gain strong skills in community language advocacy & twice weekly afternoon practicum experiences at different community-based sites such as preschools & Girls Inc.
• Receive credit for two courses - language teaching methods & practicum

WHO:

• Current and prospective teachers of Arabic or Turkish who wish to learn appropriate teaching methods for young learners in a community setting
• University graduate or undergraduate students of Arabic or Turkish who wish to add a teaching credential to their portfolio
• Enrollment is limited to 10 graduate & 5 undergraduate students

WHEN:
May 16 -June 3          3-week online preparation and class
June 10 -July 1                 3-week residential program
July 1 –August 20               follow up portion- finalization of projects
One-year commitment to create a community-based program

WHERE:          
Residential program - School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

PROVIDED:
Tuition, housing, program materials, Certificate of Completion, & $100 upon completion

IU PARTNERS:    Department of Literacy, Culture & Language Education of the School of Education,
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Center for the Study of Global Change & Center for Social Studies and International Education

FUNDED BY:   STARTALK & the National Foreign Language Center
Details & application forms please e-mail jonesc@indiana.edu or call (812) 855-0447

**Course Questions contact:  Martha Nyikos, Nyikos@indiana.edu or (812) 856-8272**

Humanities Research Skills Clinic

The Humanities Research Skills Clinic continues over the next two weeks with its series of hands-on sessions designed to recharge your research skills.  Remaining sessions include:

• Copyright Basics for Authors & Instructors 
• The Literature of Literature: Starting a Research Project on a Literary Topics 
• Locating and Using Film Stills for Teaching and Research

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.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Middle East & North Africa Uprisings

As the premier English-language Shi‘a journal, the Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) is continuously in search of the latest and best research into Shi‘a Islam. Now in its fourth volume, JSIS
covers all areas of Shi‘a studies, from the historical to the contemporary and from the theological to the philosophical. JSIS has a prestigious advisory board and is covered by the leading relevant indexing services.

Following the ever unfolding political events in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) we would like to welcome submissions which relate these events to Shi‘ism. Contributions may, for example, be on the following areas:

• The MENA uprisings and the expected return of the Mahdi
• Quietism and political activism in contemporary Shi‘is
• The role of Shi‘a ulema in the uprisings
• The socio-political importance of Shi‘a-Sunni divisions in Bahrain
• Shi‘a involvement in contemporary political movements
• The MENA uprisings and analogies to the Iranian revolution
• The influence of the MENA uprisings in post-Saddam Iraq
• The influence of the MENA uprisings in Lebanon

Interested scholars are invited to submit their research articles for the consideration of the Editor. Essays undergo a process of blind peer review and should therefore not indicate the identity of the author(s).

LINK TO JOURNAL WEBSITE:
http://islamic-college.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=756eb6384d3293b63760b3854&id=287146b09a&e=b4e99c2462

CONTRIBUTIONS:
E-mail: editor@islamic-college.ac.uk

Critical Languages Research Analyst Program

Paid Internships for
Summer 2011

The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has several unclassified open source analysis unites in the Washington, DC area to conduct research related to national security issues. We are looking for undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students who can conduct native language research on the internet, apply social science research methods to identify social political trends, and critically analyze and present information.

Students majoring in the following areas are encouraged to apply: Middle Eastern Studies, Persian Studies, South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, African Studies, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Intelligence Studies, National Security Studies, Economics, Political Economy, Cultural Anthropology, Comparative Sociology, Demography, Defense Studies, Social Psychology, Public Policy, History, Political Islam, Nuclear Engineering/Physics, Computer Science/Engineering,
Political Geography, Library Science, Geographic Information Systems and other science and technology fields.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Fluency
       in written Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, Dari, Georgian, Hausa, Hindi, Kurdish,
       Pashto, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu or Uzbek
       required.  Advanced listening
       comprehension required. 

• Excellent research and oral and written communication skills
• Excellent analytic/critical thinking skills
• Advanced internet proficiency
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a close team environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced environment
• Strong academic background (3.0 GPA or higher)
• Completion of at least the sophomore year of college by the beginning of summer 2011
• U.S. citizenship required*

*The work performed will involve unclassified research and will not require full security clearance processing.  However, each selected individual will undergo some security processing.  Final selection for the program is contingent upon the successful completion of the security vetting process.  The  security vetting process will not equate to eligibility for access to classified information and only allows participation in the Critical Languages Summer Research Analyst Program. 

COMPENSATION:

This will be a paid position for a 40 hour work week for a maximum of 10 weeks.  The hourly rate will be commensurate with education and experience.  There are no benefits other than free parking.  Work location is not easily accessible by public transportation.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Email cover letter detailing your interest in the position and your qualifications to dorisbj@dni.gov.  Attach your resume, a writing sample in English (maximum of 5 pages),

and the names, telephone numbers and email addresses for two academic
references, one of whom must be able to verify your language skills.  The successful candidate must pass a written translation test in his or her critical language.  Please also provide an unofficial copy of
your transcript – a download from your institution’s website is acceptable for
initial consideration.  Application deadline: March 21, 2011.

NOTE:  The U.S. Intelligence Community is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a drug-free workplace.

The 2011 conference, “Marxism and Cultural Studies,”

Many accounts of the emergence and development of Cultural Studies accord a central place to Marxism, both as a body of knowledge and as an important ideological component of the New Left. The rediscovery of  the writings of Antonio Gramsci, George Luckacs, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno, among others, along with the formation of the 
Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies, led to a general renaissance of Marxist theory and cultural analysis, which in turn resulted in ground-breaking studies of working class culture, the political role of new social movements that were not class based, the power of ideology and mass culture in sustaining existing social relations, and critical analyses of state-authoritarianism. As Cultural Studies crossed the Atlantic and gained an institutional foothold in the United States,
some have feared that its engagement with Marxism has been diluted through an over emphasis on the subversive potentialities of mass media and consumer capitalism.

The 2011 conference, “Marxism and Cultural Studies,” will explore the role of Marxism in the field. Some questions that motivate this year’s conference are: How do we understand the relationship between the base and superstructure today? Does ideology critique still have an ongoing usefulness? Do globalization and the world recession require new
objects of study? To what extent does Marxism provide a utopian impulse for existing social movements? Do iterations of Cultural Studies in South Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe retain a
commitment to Marxism and how is this work revitalizing the field more broadly? Does the Marxist imperative to
historicize challenge current paradigms of cultural analysis such as the “New Formalism”? What exactly does a historical materialist methodology enable? How do we articulate media analyses with questions of political economy, geo-politics, and activism? What is the role of the intellectual and Cultural Studies more generally?

Panelists will address some of these issues during three sessions:

“Marxism and Cultural Analysis,” “Marxism and Social Movements,” and “Marxism and History.” Invited speakers include:  Dianne Feeley (UAW and Against the Current) Laura E. Lyons (University of Hawai’i), Ursula McTaggart (Wilmington College), and Janet Sorensen (University of California, Berkeley). S. Charusheela (University of Nevada) will deliver the keynote address which will consider the “return” to Marx and the political limitations of a too-easy embrace of economic determinism for cultural analyses.
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FRIDAY,
April 1 (Ernie Pyle Auditorium, Room 220)
4:00-6:00 pm; Opening
Keynote:
Delivered by S. Charusheela “Rethinking Marxism in Times of
Turmoil”

SATURDAY, April 2 in the Faculty Club on the Second Floor of
IMU
10:00 am-12:00pm; Panel I: Marxism and Cultural Analysis
1. Laura E.
Lyons "'I'd Like My Life Back': BP, Corporate Personhood
and the Intimate
Public Sphere"
2. Patrick Dove  "Muddying the Waters: The Politics of
Populism in
Peronist Argentina"
3. Lessie Frazier:"(Counter)Revolutionary
Cultures"
Moderator: Nick Williams

1:00 pm-3:00 pm; Panel II: Marxism
and Social Movements
(Faculty Club on the Second Floor of IMU)
1. Gardner
Bovington "What's class struggle got to do with it?  Social
mobilization and
framing"
2. Dianne Feeley "Building Feminist Consciousness in a Male
Workplace."
3. Jeff Gould "Marxism and Christian Base Communities: Notes from

Morazan, El Salvador”
Moderator: Micol Siegel

3:15 pm--5:15 pm;
Panel III: Marxism and History
(Faculty Club on the Second Floor of
IMU)
1. Janet Sorenson TBA
2. Ursula McTaggart “Change as Code for Black
Radicalism: Barack Obama
and Right-Wing Charges of Socialism”
3. Matt
Guterl "Class Passing and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of
Globalization"
Moderator: Patrick Brantlinger