Thursday, February 4, 2010

Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship

GSAS has announced its Summer Fellowships and Awards, which includes the Robert Holmes Travel/Research Award for African Scholarship. More information on the terms of the award is below.

Draper can nominate one student for this award. If you are interested in applying, you must submit your application to Draper no later than Tuesday, February 16th. Draper will then consider all applications and select a candidate to nominate in time for the March 1st deadline. Further information on submission guidelines can be found below and on the GSAS website, here: http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.acadlife.springawards

Please feel free to contact Larissa Kyzer at larissa.kyzer@nyu.edu with questions you have about this process.


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ROBERT HOLMES TRAVEL/RESEARCH AWARD FOR AFRICAN SCHOLARSHIP

Two awards of $2,500 for summer 2010 are available for outstanding graduate students to support study and research in Africa. Doctoral student applicants should, within one year of the award, expect to complete remaining coursework and other requirements (qualifying, comprehensive and language exams). Exceptional Master’s students, proposing research contributing to their theses, are eligible to apply for departmental nomination. The awards support the research and study abroad of scholars in the humanities and social sciences and may be used for visits to research sites, such as archival resource facilities, libraries, and fieldwork locations that will be necessary for later sustained dissertation research. Award recipients are expected to make a presentation of the research as part of the Africa House programming, if possible in fall 2010. Doctoral students nominated but not selected for the Holmes Award will automatically be considered for the GSAS Predoctoral Summer Fellowship, which is in the amount of $2,000. Each department in which eligible work is being conducted may nominate one student.

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Submission Instructions and Deadlines

Students are nominated for these awards through their department. Students should check with their departments for internal application deadlines.

Departments must submit ALL original paper documents for nominated applicants no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 1, 2010. It is recommended that student and department submitted material be double-spaced, Times New Roman, font size 12 point, for text and Times New Roman, font size 10 point, for headers and footers. Furthermore, a single scanned PDF of the entire application should be emailed to Kristofor Larsen at kristofor.larsen@nyu.edu by the Department Administrator no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, March 1, 2010.

Application forms for students and departmental administrators

Note: The submission guidelines have changed since the last academic year. The Office of Academic and Student Life is no longer accepting the various documents included in the application separately from the application itself. If you have questions concerning this process please feel free to contact Kristofor Larsen at kristofor.larsen@nyu.edu.

GSAS Office of Academic and Student Life
6 Washington Square North, 2nd Floor
(212) 998-8060
gsas.studentlife@nyu.edu


Summer Sessions Registration Information

Dear students,

As you may know, registration for both NYU summer sessions begins on Monday, February 8th. Here's a breakdown of the important dates:

Session I
Class period: May 17 - June 25
Registration period: Feb 8 - May 16

Session II
Class period: June 28 - August 6.
Registration period: Feb 8 - May 16
Additional registration period: June 4-27

Course information is available here -- http://bit.ly/cm6KYi -- and will be posted on the Draper website later today. If you wish to enroll in a summer course, please send a brief email to Rober Dimit (robert.dimi[at]nyu.edu) and cc: me (georgia[at]nyu.edu) with your intended schedule. One of us will get back to you with access codes. We will not be setting up advisement appointments for summer sessions.

Students are also welcome to look at summer courses in other departments and contact those departments regarding enrollment.

Finally, a couple notes about the writing workshops. These courses may be taken for credit or not for credit (not taking credits will still incur a fee -- http://bit.ly/dlUGI2). They also do not require an access code, but if you intend to enroll in one of these courses, an email to myself and Dr. Dimit is still much appreciated.

I hope the spring semester is starting well for all of you! Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Best,
Georgia

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Call for Papers: Osa Mayor (Due 3/18)

MEMORY AND TRANSGRESSION IN LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN CULTURAL PROCESSES

Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Osa Mayor
No. 21, 2010


The Graduate Students of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures of the University of Pittsburgh invite all graduate students, researchers and scholars to participate in our journal’s 21st issue. We welcome articles related to issues of memory and transgression in Latin American and Caribbean Cultural processes, from a wide variety of perspectives – visual arts and film, literatures, social and human sciences, among others. We propose the following list as suggested but not mandatory topics:

o Self-writing / Autobiography
o Migrations, exiles, displacements
o Transatlantic studies
o Maps, cartography, geography
o Nation, community, citizenship
o Multiculturalism and globalization
o Margins and contested spaces
o Race, internal colonization, (de)whitening
o Identity/body: sexuality, gender, masculinities
o Biopolitics and marginalization
o Religion/spirituality, rituals/performance
o Trauma and healing

The Editorial Board designates readers to grant acceptance for publication, thus following the general format of anonymous “peer review.” Only articles written in Spanish, English or Portuguese, following the MLA guidelines, and with an extension of 15 to 20 pages (notes and bibliography included) will be considered. Send an email to osamayor@pitt.edu with your article as an attached file and please include your personal information (complete name, institutional affiliation and email address only) in the message. Do not include any personal information in the attached manuscript.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: March 18th, 2010

Osa Mayor - Editorial Board
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
1309 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
osamayor@pitt.edu

Call for Papers: Strategies of Critique conference at York Uninversity

Strategies of Critique XXIV: The Future (TBD)
Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought
York University, Toronto
April 9-10, 2010

“Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing, nothing you can measure any more...”
– Leonard Cohen, “The Future”

To be determined, decided, divined, denied, decried, delighted – however we anticipate the future, we’re heading toward it, shaping and being shaped by whatever’s coming. The future is nothing if not uncertain: if we turn to face it, we run the risk of losing our bearings. Visions of catastrophe are shot through with glimmers of hope; old injustices and present-day suffering seem endless; social movements demand an alternative future. Meanwhile, back in the political-economic casino, “late” capitalism just keeps getting later, its managers glued to the slots while the floodwaters rise. How might critical thought engage with – or disengage from – the political, social, libidinal, economic and cultural order that claims a monopoly on the future? Are we still able to place a collective wager on the future of theory, the future of political action, and the future of the university as a space of critique?

In these murky waters, Strategies of Critique XXIV hopes to chart a course toward a future that remains to be defined. Of course, no course runs true. Thinking about the future makes thought itself slide in all directions, toward the multiple futures of race, labour, gender, art, sexuality, ecology, philosophy, and technology. The future zigzags through past and present: any effort to think “the future” intertwines with questions of history, temporality, desire, failure, prediction, memory, crisis and hope. “The Future (TBD)” offers a space in which to think these and other relationships, and to link that thought to specific activist projects, each aiming for a future different from the infinite repetition of the present.

The slipperiness of the future (or futures) suggests the need for a gathering that is also in some way “to be determined.” Strategies of Critique welcomes and encourages you to submit one or more of the following:
a) an abstract for a traditional (or untraditional) 15-minute presentation;
b) a proposal for a joint presentation or dialogue;
c) a statement (where are you coming from, what are you interested in?) that outlines your participation in a facilitated roundtable discussion (4-8 participants).

Possible panel/roundtable topics include but are not limited to:
  • Changing Everything: Sex, Sexuality and Gender
  • Future Tense and Tense Futures: Nationalisms and Securities
  • Race to the future and the future of Race
  • Progress Without Future/Future Without Progress
  • The Day After Tomorrow: Ecology and Economy
  • Working Toward What? The Future of Labour and Labour Movements
  • After-Parties: Catastrophes and Utopias
  • The Next Big Thing: Art and Consumer Culture
  • Continuity and Disruption (How Soon is Now?)
  • Technological Reason 2.0: Social Networking, Online Gaming, and other Avatars
  • Future Community and Communities
  • Final Essays: Education and the University in the Twenty-First Century
  • Back to the Future: Remembering, Repeating, Working-Through
  • Future Bodies, Future Desires, Future Identities
  • Geopolitics/Micropolitics of the Future
  • What Is (Still) To Be Done?
  • Wheels of Fortune: Bubbles, Banks and Bad Bets
  • Forecasting, Linearity, Determinism, Eschatology
  • Past the Post: After Theory?
  • The Angel of History
Abstracts (max 250 words), proposals and all queries should be sent to spt_conf@yorku.caspt_conf@yorku.ca>. The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2010.

Strategies of Critique is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Short Play festival featuring work by Draper alum Derek Lee McPhatter - 2/4-2/7

The Fire This Time Festival of Short Plays features a new show co-produced by Under the Spell Productions, Inc.

CITIZEN JANE
by Derek Lee McPhatter (Draper Alum)

directed by Rhonney Greene

starring tygerlily as Citizen Jane

with
LaJune
Dylan Kammerer
Darren Mallett
and
Sheree Renée Thomas
Thursday, February 04 8 PM
Friday, February 05 8 PM
Saturday, February 06 2 PM and 8 PM
Sunday February 07 2 PM

$15 ($12 students/seniors)

Part of the Horse Trade Theater Group’s Fire This Time Short Play Festival

All performances will be held at the Red Room Theater, located at 85 East 4th Street NYC (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues) on the third floor. (sorry no elevator)

About Citizen Jane

Welcome to the Future. Welcome to the Super-Network. The Universe’s most talented Archival-Architect brings our favorite super-hero, Citizen Jane, to vivid life tonight! Don’t worry if she seems fed-up or tired of saving the world. She had better give us another Happy Ending or else!

About The Fire this Time Festival

The Fire This Time Festival showcases new short plays as a special Black History Month offering by the Horse Trade Theater Group. Performances feature Citizen Jane alongside new works by Deborah Asiimwe, Rhada Blank, Kelley Girod, Katori Hall, Germono Toussaint and Pia Wilson. The Festival explores the diverse possibilities of contemporary American drama and challenging new directions for 21st century black theatre.

www.horsetrade.info

Ticket Link

Participating in The Fire This Time Festival is an exciting new addition to Under the Spell Productions’ plans for 2010 and beyond. Building on our ongoing success, we are preparing for a number of upcoming theater and cultural projects, and are actively expanding our network of supporters, collaborators, and mentors. Charitable donations help make all of this possible. Please contact Derek McPhatter at derek.mcphatter@gmail.com or 718-687-8588 for additional information or to make a contribution.

www.underthespell.org

Monday, February 1, 2010

Anamesa party this Thursday!

Anamesa and the DSO invite you to
the Intersections Issue Launch Party

Thursday, Feb. 4th
7-9pm

The Stoned Crow
85 Washington Place (b/t 6th ave & Wash Sq West)

first round & pub fare on us!

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http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/anamesa/index.htm
http://dsoforum.wordpress.com/

Call for Papers: Transformation of the 21st Century City (Abstracts Due May 1)

Call for Papers
The Transformation of the 21st Century City through the Arts and Technology
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Program Annual Conference (AGLSP) / www.aglsp.org
October 7-9, 2010
Dallas, Texas
Host: Graduate Liberal Studies Program, Southern Methodist University

What makes a vital city in the 21st Century? What is the impact of the arts and technology on a city’s prosperity and sense of community? How do we tell our stories while giving new and fresh value to our traditions showcasing our beauty and power in a modern way?

Founded near the banks of the Trinity River, Dallas became a center of commerce and transportation, challenged in its development by flood waters from the river.After decades of wrestling over what to do about the Trinity, civic planners now look to the river as a unifying environment – a place where the city can be sustainable and welcoming. The ongoing Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas is at-tempting to convert flood protection into major urban redevelopment.As Dallas plans for the 21st century, it embraces a new quality of life. With this comes a watershed moment, in which the arts and technology are encouraged to flourish. With its dramatic history of social, economic, political and cultural change, Dallas is the perfect setting to explore the transformation of the 21st Century City.

The 2010 AGLSP Annual Conference invites papers exploring the transformation of the “21st Century City” through the arts and technology. Special consideration will be given to submissions addressing the integration of this theme into Liberal Studies curricula and classes. Please include multi-media requirements.

Topics to consider...

Creating Community in the 21st Century City
Communication, Media and the Digital City
Economics of a City in a Global Economy/Underground Economies
The Role of Higher Education and Research
Arts and Cultural Influence
The Greening/Sustainability and Energy Solutions of the modern city
Urban Spaces and Renewal
Health
Ethics, Race, Culture and Rights
Immigration Reform/Human Trafficking

Papers should be 20-25 minutes long and presented, rather than read, to conference attendees. To submit, please send a 1-2 page abstract to Michele Mrak at SMU, mmrak@smu.edu by May 1st. Be sure to write “AGLSP Submission” in the subject line.


AGLSP Keynote Speakers (October 9, 2010):

Peter E. Raad, Ph.D., P.E.

Peter E. Raad received the BSME (with Honors), MS in mechanical engineering, and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In 1986, he joined the mechanical engineering department at SMU. He currently holds the rank of Professor and is the Linda Wertheimer Hart Director of the Hart eCenter at SMU. The eCenter was established in 2000 to stimulate, facilitate, and support innovative interdisci-plinary activities that enable the creative and responsible development and use of interac-tive network technologies. Under his leadership, the Guildhall at SMU was established in 2002 as a major program of the Hart eCenter to train and educate digital game develop-ers. Dr. Raad serves as the Executive Director of the Guildhall, overseeing this unique program that crosses traditional disciplinary lines to combine art, design, software devel-opment, business, physical sciences, and humanities to create the 21st century's first new academic discipline.


Dr. Gail Thomas

Dr. Gail Thomas serves as President and CEO of The Trinity Trust Foundation in Dal-las to remake the Trinity River Corridor. She is the founder and CEO of Cities Alive. In 1980, she founded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture and served as its Di-rector for seventeen years and continues as the Director of their Center for the City where she teaches and conducts seminars and conferences.
Dr. Thomas represented one of the three organizations that led the creation of the “Balanced Vision Plan” for The Trinity. After the plan’s unanimous adoption by City Council, the Mayor of Dallas asked Dr. Thomas to lead The Trinity’s fundraising cam-paign. She works with The Trinity Trust Board of Directors to introduce the project to the entire community and to raise $100 million in private funds to ensure that the Trinity River is the centerpiece of the city.

Dr. Thomas’ life work has been the study and transformation of cities. Through her teaching and lecturing, she has been a catalyst for change in the inner city. For over twenty years she has conducted seminars and conferences on cities and city life not only in Dallas but also in cities as diverse as Montreal, Portland, New Orleans, Santa Fe, Denver, and Devon, England. She began in 1982 a series of conferences called, What Makes a City?, attended by city planners, artists, scientists, poets, teachers, busi-ness and civic leaders, the effect of these conferences has been profound.
She was instrumental in the creation of Pegasus Plaza in downtown Dallas; she was Chair of the Dallas Millennium Project to restore Dallas' icon, Pegasus, the Flying Red Horse. She hosted a five year urban design for Dallas called Dallas Visions.

Dr. Thomas has received numerous awards including the coveted Kessler Award for improving the quality of life in Dallas. She has been named Distinguished Alumna of two universities – SMU and The University of Dallas. She has been a national awards panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Institute of Architects.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON
JOURNEY INTO TEXAS HISTORY:

Historical Dallas Bus Tour—led by Dallas Historian and SMU faculty member, Darwin Payne, author of the “Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century” The Texas State Fair—offering the broadest range of exhibits, entertainment and services unmatched by any exposition in North America.

Dealey Plaza—The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy; interprets and supports the Dealey Plaza National Historical Landmark District and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza; and presents contemporary culture within the context of presidential history.

Ft. Worth Stockyards—get a taste for the old west and the cattle industry with a trip to the Ft. Worth Stockyards. The Ft. Worth Stockyards is the only place in the United States that has a daily cattle drive.
Texas Longhorn cattle are driven down East Exchange Avenue twice daily right through the heart of the stockyards. From museums to rodeos and cowboys to cattle, you won’t want to miss this opportunity.

ACCOMMODATIONS:
Stay at the Historic Adolphus Hotel - Downtown Dallas

The Adolphus made its debut on the dusty streets of Dallas, TX on October 5, 1912. From that day forward, this grand historic hotel in Dallas,ushered in a new era for the city, helping to transform a once quiet cattle town into the world-class destination it is today. Envisioned by beer baron Adolphus Busch as an icon of Edwardian opulence, The Adolphus is a baroque masterpiece infused with classic European charm. A museum collection of artwork, including Flemish tapestries, Louis XV chairs and a Victorian Steinway once owned by the Guggenheims, gives the hotel a regal ambiance. Fittingly, The Adolphus has played host to royalty - Queen Elizabeth II and King Olaf V of Norway, as well as other famous names including the Vanderbilts, U2, and Oscar de la Renta. We feel the Adolphus Hotel is the perfect setting from which to explore the transformation of the city. http://www.hoteladolphus.com/adolphus_hotelinfo.aspx

The conference web site with conference and registration details will be available shortly.

See you in Dallas!

Ellen Levine
Administrative Manager
AGLSP Home Office
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
c/o Duke University
Box 90095
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-1987
919-681-8905 (fax)
www.aglsp.org


Call for Papers: York University Graduate Conference on 'The Future' (Abstracts due 2/12)

Strategies of Critique XXIV: The Future (TBD)
Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought
York University, Toronto
April 9-10, 2010

“Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing, nothing you can measure any more...”
– Leonard Cohen, “The Future”

To be determined, decided, divined, denied, decried, delighted – however we anticipate the future, we’re heading toward it, shaping and being shaped by whatever’s coming. The future is nothing if not uncertain: if we turn to face it, we run the risk of losing our bearings. Visions of catastrophe are shot through with glimmers of hope; old injustices and present-day suffering seem endless; social movements demand an alternative future. Meanwhile, back in the political-economic casino, “late” capitalism just keeps getting later, its managers glued to the slots while the floodwaters rise. How might critical thought engage with – or disengage from – the political, social, libidinal, economic and cultural order that claims a monopoly on the future? Are we still able to place a collective wager on the future of theory, the future of political action, and the future of the university as a space of critique?

In these murky waters, Strategies of Critique XXIV hopes to chart a course toward a future that remains to be defined. Of course, no course runs true. Thinking about the future makes thought itself slide in all directions, toward the multiple futures of race, labour, gender, art, sexuality, ecology, philosophy, and technology. The future zigzags through past and present: any effort to think “the future” intertwines with questions of history, temporality, desire, failure, prediction, memory, crisis and hope. “The Future (TBD)” offers a space in which to think these and other relationships, and to link that thought to specific activist projects, each aiming for a future different from the infinite repetition of the present.

The slipperiness of the future (or futures) suggests the need for a gathering that is also in some way “to be determined.” Strategies of Critique welcomes and encourages you to submit one or more of the following:

a) an abstract for a traditional (or untraditional) 15-minute presentation;
b) a proposal for a joint presentation or dialogue;
c) a statement (where are you coming from, what are you interested in?) that outlines your participation in a facilitated roundtable discussion (4-8 participants).

Possible panel/roundtable topics include but are not limited to:

Changing Everything: Sex, Sexuality and Gender
Future Tense and Tense Futures: Nationalisms and Securities
Race to the future and the future of Race
Progress Without Future/Future Without Progress
The Day After Tomorrow: Ecology and Economy
Working Toward What? The Future of Labour and Labour Movements
After-Parties: Catastrophes and Utopias
The Next Big Thing: Art and Consumer Culture
Continuity and Disruption (How Soon is Now?)
Technological Reason 2.0: Social Networking, Online Gaming, and other Avatars
Future Community and Communities
Final Essays: Education and the University in the Twenty-First Century
Back to the Future: Remembering, Repeating, Working-Through
Future Bodies, Future Desires, Future Identities
Geopolitics/Micropolitics of the Future
What Is (Still) To Be Done?
Wheels of Fortune: Bubbles, Banks and Bad Bets
Forecasting, Linearity, Determinism, Eschatology
Past the Post: After Theory?
The Angel of History

Abstracts (max 250 words), proposals and all queries should be sent to spt_conf@yorku.ca. The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2010.

Strategies of Critique is an annual interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought at York University, Toronto, Canada.