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Dalai Lama Fellowship Available, 2012 - 2013

2012-01-30T12:04:00.000-05:00

New York University is one of eight universities to offer the Dalai Lama Fellowship, an international program of the Dalai Lama Center.

One fellow will be chosen from each university to receive up to $10,000 toward a year-long project of his of her design in one of four focus areas:
1. diminishing violence;
2. mitigating income and wealth inequities;
3. encouraging cross-cultural and inter-religious communications and understanding;
4. promoting environmental sustainability.

All full-time students - undergraduate, graduate and professional students - who will be enrolled at NYU in Academic Year 2012 – 2013, are invited to apply. Dalai Lama Fellowship Application

Application Deadline: February 21, 2012

Please direct any inquiries to civic.engagement@nyu.edu or 212 998-2329.

GREEN CARD STORIES - THE FACE OF IMMIGRATION AND REFORM

2012-01-30T10:30:00.001-05:00

Monday, January 30

7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802
Free; Open to public; photo ID required for entry into Kimmel
RSVP: calina@umbragebooks.com

Attend this conversation about the face of immigration and reform in 2012. The event coincides with the release of the book, Green Card Stories. Panelists are Saundra Amrhein (journalist and Green Card Stories author), Stephen Yale-Loehr (immigration lawyer and Cornell professor), and Randolph Sealey (orthopedic surgeon and green card holder). Photo ID is required for the Kimmel Center. For more information, click here. Co-sponsored by Umbrage Editions and the NYU Office for International Students and Scholars.

Call for Objects: Lucrece Project, NYU English

2012-01-30T10:28:00.000-05:00

Call For Objects!

The Object Ethnography Project investigates how objects accumulate stories as they move from one life to another. We are looking for donations of objects—any kind of object—and the stories that come with them. Members of the public are invited to take these objects in exchange for a new story about them starting March 15th, 2012. The final online exhibit will include a photograph of theobject, its original story, and its adoption story. Examples here: http://objectethnography.wordpress.com/

We are now seeking objects! If you have an item with a story, from a sentimental oven mitt to a first generation iPod, and you would like to donate to this project, please mail it and its story to:

Lucrece Project
Att: Object Ethnography Project
NYU English Department
19 University Place, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003

Stories can be handwritten, typed, or emailed (to max.liboron at nyu.edu). They can be any length, format, or language. All objects must include a story.

You can also hand-deliver objects and stories to Max Liboiron, Marisa Solomon, or Vincent Lai within New York City.

We are accepting objects until March 31st, 2012.

If your object is broken, members of the Fixers Collective have generously offered fix-it workshops on February 23^rd, March 8^th and March 22^nd, 2012 at New York University’s Kimmel Center, Room 901, 7-10 pm. If you would like to join a Fixers Collective workshop to fix any item, whether it is donated, adopted, or otherwise, please contact Vincent Lai (Vincent at fixerscollective.org).

Grant in Arts Inclusion: Disability, Design, Curation (Deadline Feb. 15)

2012-01-27T16:07:00.000-05:00

Call for Applications:

Graduate Student Summer School Grant

Theme:

Arts Inclusion: Disability, Design, Curation

Location and Dates:

University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) at UC Irvine

June 12-20, 2012

Program Details:

A one-week residency for 8 artists and 12-14 graduate students. Three NYU graduate students will be selected to attend, funded by the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, the GSAS Dean’s Office, and the Steinhardt Dean’s Office. Leading scholars in disability studies will offer daily workshops on disability and access in the arts. Other events include film screenings, performances, and open studios with artists-in-residence. The summer school will culminate in a final day of informal public presentations, with participants sharing their questions and findings.

Travel, accommodations, and most meals will be provided for graduate student attendees.

Participating scholars include Patrick Anderson, Georgina Kleege, Catherine Kudlick, Heather Love, Mara Mills, Susan Schweik, Joshua Miele, and others still to be announced.

Participating artists include Terry Galloway, Sara Hendren, Jürg Koch, Victoria Ann Lewis, Catherine Lord, Victoria Marks, Darrin Martin, and Alison O’Daniel.

Application Details:

NYU graduate students should submit the following via e-mail to Mara Mills, <mmills@nyu.edu>, by February 15, 2012:

· a 1-page c.v.

· a 1-2 page written statement regarding your interest/experience in disability, access, and the arts

Awards will be announced by mid-March.

Note: The grant recipients will be asked to report on the summer school at a meeting of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability during the 2012-2013 schoolyear.

Recycle Your Old Cell Phones, Glasses, Greeting Cards at NYU in February!

2012-01-27T16:06:00.001-05:00

Dear Members of the NYU Community,

The NYU Administrative Management Council's Community Service Committee is running a recycling items collection drive during the months of January and February for the NYU community.

Drop Off Collection Items being sought include:

old cell phones

eyeglasses

holiday, birthday, and general greeting cards -- only the front of the cards, please -- please rip the back of the card off before donating it.

Collection Item sought for that will be picked up include:

canes, crutches and walkers

Please see the following web location for further information, including drop off locations :

http://www.nyu.edu/amc/committees/RecycleFlyer.pdf

Please circulate this information within your area to others.

Call For Submissions: Anamesa Spring 2012

2012-01-27T12:56:00.000-05:00

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Anamesa, Spring 2012

blur boundaries, re-imagine links, explore the between

Anamesa, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University, is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2011 print issue. Current and recent graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to send in their writing–including but not limited to academic essays, creative non-fiction, reportage, interviews, reviews, short stories, and poetry–and visual art of any sort, keeping in mind that the journal is a printed publication. Anamesa considers material from a variety of subject matters and selects creative, intelligent works that reflect the transdisciplinary nature of the graduate community.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Works of writing should be 6000 words or less. Nonfiction works must include an abstract of 200 words or less. Academic papers must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions are blind-reviewed so there should be no author-identifying information in the text of the written work, although author’s contact information should be included in the cover sheet as detailed below. Although the publication will be in English, we are also interested in texts in translation.

Visual art submissions must be in digital format with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI and minimum size of 5 x 7 inches.

The submission deadline is Friday, February 17.

Send submissions and inquiries to anamesa.journal@gmail.com. Please include a cover page with your name, departmental affiliation, expected degree and date, telephone number, and email address (this can be in the body of your email). We accept multiple submissions, but we ask that you place each submission in a different email message. All submissions should be emailed with the subject heading listing the relevant genre (e.g., “nonfiction,” “fiction,” “poetry,” or “art”).

For further information and to view previous issues of Anamesa, visit www .anamesajournal .org. Printed copies of Anamesa are available at the office for the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought at 14 University Place.

Thought You Might Enjoy This Song

2012-01-27T10:08:00.005-05:00

A sort-of-topical, truly catchy theme for grad students everywhere. "When I Write My Master's Thesis" from John K. Samson.

Stream via http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2011/12/song-premiere-john-k-samson---when-i-write-my-mast.html

Shift - Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, Issue 5 Reminder

2012-01-26T14:54:00.000-05:00

Call for Papers

http://shiftjournal.org

Shift welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, as well as discussions concerning other art-related events from current graduate students. Please see Submission and Style Guidelines for appropriate guidelines.

The committee welcomes submissions dealing with visual and material culture from any discipline. Papers may address a full range of topics and historical periods. Topics may include, but are not limited to, art and propaganda, patronage, gender and identity, spirituality and art, nationalisms and regionalisms, modernism and modernity, performance art, photography and film, perspectives in theory, methodology, and historiography, collection and representation, art and technology.

Submission Deadline for Issue 5

This journal is an online publication. All manuscripts should be sent by email to editors@shiftjournal.org. Papers must be submitted to the editors of Shift by 01 March 2012. The journal launch will take place 01 October 2012.

Selection Process

For each issue, submitted papers will be reviewed by an Editorial Committee composed of current graduate students from The University of Western Ontario. Papers considered the strongest will be sent to the Editorial Board, which is composed of upper-level graduate students and established scholars. Papers judged by the Editorial Board as contributing to existing scholarship will be accepted for publication in the journal.

All papers are selected by blind jury panel, and are therefore considered refereed.

Submission and Style Guidelines

Please read the following points carefully before submitting to Shift. Submissions that do not follow these regulations will not be considered for publication.

Authors must be registered as graduate students at the time they submit their work.
All papers must conform to the style guidelines as outlined in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or newer edition.
All papers must be double spaced with 1-inch margins. Font must be Arial 11. All papers must be paginated, including the first page, with numbers located on the bottom right hand corner.
Images should be placed in-text throughout the paper, not located together at the end. All images and figures should be properly captioned according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th or newer edition. Authors are responsible for securing rights to all images and figures used within their paper. Authors must produce evidence that these rights have been obtained before an image or figure will be published.
In order to ensure blind readings from the Editorial Committee and Editorial Board, authors must remove any identifying information from the content of the submission and from the document's 'properties'.
Please submit a separate document with the authors' names, title of paper, institution, email address, phone number, and an abstract of 250 words or less with a list of 3-5 keywords to enhance the discoverability of your article online.
There are differing length restrictions depending on the type of manuscript submitted to the journal. Academic papers must be 2500 to 6250 words, while reviews for exhibitions, books, and other art-related events must be 1000 to 1500 words.
This journal is online only. All manuscripts should be sent by email to editors@shiftjournal.org. Submissions must be received the editors of Shift by midnight on 01 March 2012 to be considered for publication in issue 5.
Issue 5 will be published online on 01 October 2012.

Call for Proposals, Triple Canopy, Due February 13

2012-01-24T12:20:00.001-05:00

Proposals are due by midnight on Monday, February 13, 2012 for Triple Canopy's third annual call for proposals. Commissions will be considered under six project areas and published in the course of the next year. Artistic, editorial, and technical staff will work closely with contributors as they develop the best approach to realizing their projects on the Web, from the conceptual phase to the design and technological production. Recipients receive:

• Three to six months of artistic, editorial, and technical support
• Honorarium of up to $300 as well as material costs
• Opportunity to present the project to an audience in the form of a reading, workshop, or discussion
• Opportunity for inclusion in our annual print publication, Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, as well as our ongoing broadsheet series
• Archiving and long-term maintenance of the final project by technical staff

Triple Canopy welcomes artist projects that treat the Internet as a medium and seek to develop ideas that engage with—but reach beyond—its specific qualities and attendant modes of readership and viewership; artful reporting, intelligible philosophizing, distinctive fictionalizing and the like. Because of Triple Canopy's unique interface we encourage writers not to be bound by the standard styles of magazine, art, and academic writing.

Applicants will be notified by March 1 whether their proposals have reached the second round of review. Commission recipients will be announced on April 3. Projects will be developed in collaboration with Triple Canopy for publication in the online magazine (or live presentation in New York) between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

View our submission guidelines »

View past commission recipients »

GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: One Week Until Deadline (1/31)

2012-01-24T11:10:00.001-05:00

Draper encourages applications to GSAS' second annual Threesis Academic Challenge for Master's students. Eight of Draper's students participated in last year's challenge and two of our students were semi-finalists. More information about Threesis is below or is available on the GSAS website here. The application is attached, or can be picked up in hard copy in Draper's office.

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Save the date and submit your Application today for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge will be held on March 30th (qualifying rounds) and March 31st (final rounds)

The application for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge is open! This academic competition is for GSAS Master's Students. Students present the work of their thesis or final project (eg. creative project, science experiment or research paper) to a panel of judges in accessible language a non-expert can understand in three minutes or less. Competitors are judged on how well they grasp the subject of their thesis, their ability to discuss the topic to non-experts and presentation skills. Students compete for a grand prize of $1,000 and other prizes while learning to organize ideas and speak about them persuasively in a fun, academic atmosphere.

Look at what one competitor had to say about last year's experience:

The Threesis encourages students to take a step back from their research to see how it sits in a world outside of academia. It is about explaining what you are writing about in a way that grandma and grandpa, mom and dad and the random person that you meet on the street can understand. It is the opposite of what were are trained to do in our masters work and that's what makes it so challenging.

Jailee Rychen 2011 GSAS

Threesis Winner

Have you submitted your 2012 Threesis application? To submit your application, send the application and your abstract to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu. Applications are due by January 31st!

Watch the highlight video from last year's competition here:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

Important News from the Wasserman Center for Career Development

2012-01-24T11:09:00.003-05:00

Be a Wasserblogger: We are launching our blog this semester, and want your career perspectives. For more information please e-mail career.blog@nyu.edu.
Spring Job & Internship Fair: Thursday, Feb. 2, 11:00am to 3:00pm at the Kimmel Center. Meet with employers in all industries to explore part-time and full-time opportunities as well as internships.
Government & Non-Profit Expo: Friday, Feb. 17, 10:00am to 3:00pm at Georgetown University. Travel to Washington, DC to meet employers hiring for full-time employment and internships in the government, non-profit, and public service sectors. To sign up for a bus to DC or learn about other travel options, go to the Wasserman website. Transportation is provided by the Wasserman Center on a first-come/first-served basis. Registration is required in advance. For more information, call 212.998.4730.
Women's Foreign Policy Group Mentor Fair: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 6:30pm at the Kimmel Center. Network informally in round-table discussions with senior-level experts. Co-sponsored by the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. RSVP required.
Class of 2012 Resume Book Collection: Through January 26, the Wasserman Center will collect resumes for the Class of 2012 Resume Books, which are distributed to hundreds of employers. Resume critique is required. Visit http://www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/students/recruitment/resume_book.php for details.
Class of 2013: On-Campus Recruitment for Summer Internships: If you are thinking about finding a summer 2012 internship, the early stages of your job search should begin now -- many industries will start recruiting Class of 2013 graduates for summer internships in January. That means that it is time to register for the On-Campus Recruitment (OCR) program. Visit http://www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/students/stu_on_campus.php for details.
Funded Internship Award Application: The Wasserman Center for Career Development is accepting spring semester applications for the Funded Internship Award. Students pursuing unpaid internships at non-profits, government agencies, arts organizations and other industries that do not traditionally pay their interns may apply for this selective $1,000 award. Details and application instructions available at www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/funded_internship.php; deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 2:00pm.

NYUAD Lecture Series in NY: Contemporary Photography in the Middle East

2012-01-23T12:35:00.001-05:00

Contemporary Photography in the Middle East

February 8, 2012

Exhibition Opening | 5:30-6:30 PM
Artist Talk | 6:30-8:00 PM

Location: 19 Washington Square North

Yasser Alwan Cairo-based Photographer
Shamoon Zamir Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Arts, NYUAD

In conversation with Shamoon Zamir, Yasser Alwan discusses his first retrospective exhibition of photographs hosted by NYU Abu Dhabi, which features images from Egypt as well as his 25 years of travel throughout the Middle East and North Africa. The photographs focus on the common and the quotidian; ordinary people going about their daily lives in a world that has been steadily decaying around them until they discover their collective strength lies in their individual weakness.

Part of the series on The New Middle East

Space is limited. Please RSVP to 19wsn.rsvp@nyu.edu.

Visit NYUAD Events for more information.

Anamesa Spring Kickoff Party THIS FRIDAY (1/27)

2012-01-23T11:18:00.000-05:00

Hello Draperites!

We hope you've had a fantastic January term and are as excited as we are to get going with the Spring journal. To welcome everyone back, we are holding our Spring 2012 KICKOFF PARTY on Friday following the Draper welcome party.

When: Friday, January 27 8pm-10pm

Where: Peculier Pub

The Deal: Same as last time, Anamesa will provide your first 2 drinks and you will receive a discount beyond that.

Please join your Anamesa editors to toast a successful Spring journal! We hope to see you there, and have a wonderful first week of classes.

All the best,

The Anamesa Editors

CFP: 2012 AGLSP ANNUAL CONFERENCE

2012-01-23T10:28:00.000-05:00

2012 AGLSP annual conference

The Crisis of the Book:
Worlds of Opportunity, Worlds of Change
October 18–20, 2012
Portland, Oregon

Hosted by the Reed College
Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

Call for papers/presentations

In the current electronic age, a few keystrokes will deliver vast amounts of information instantly and allow us to
communicate with a wide audience indiscriminately. In this changing landscape, what is the role of the printed book
as transmitter of knowledge and as material object? Revolutions in technology throughout history have changed the
way we receive and process information, even the way we think about ideas. From scroll to codex, printing press to
computer screen, just as familiar modes of communication disappear, new possibilities and opportunities take their
place. This interdisciplinary conference will place the transformation in print culture in a historical framework, and will
reflect upon the changing nature of text delivery and the experience of reading.

How is knowledge produced? What role does the text play as cultural, material, and sacred object? How do we “read”
historically, culturally, popularly, and what is the future of the practice of reading? What is the place of the modern
library in the electronic age? How does the new field of media studies reflect evolving social contexts? How do we “see”
graphic novels or navigate through hypertext fiction? What questions concerning copyright and intellectual property
does the digital age raise?

The 2012 AGLSP Annual Conference invites papers addressing how knowledge and ideas are produced and
disseminated. In this context, we welcome a broader definition of “text” to include electronic, film, pictorial, etc. Special
consideration will be given to submissions which address the integration of this theme into Liberal Studies curricula
and classes.

Paper presentation should be 20 minutes long with an additional 5 to 10 minutes for questions. Please submit a one
to two page abstract electronically to Barbara Amen (bamen@reed.edu), MALS director at Reed College, by May 1.
(Be sure to write “AGLSP Submission” in the subject line.) Also, please include multi-media requirements, although we
encourage presenters to give judicious consideration to the effective use of PowerPoint.

Additional conference information at aglsp.org

Draper Student Profile: Samuel Belkin

2012-01-23T09:54:00.006-05:00

Samuel Belkin answers the Draper Dozen

1. When did you start at Draper?

Fall 2010

2. Are you a full or part-time student?

Full-time

3. Where are you from?

Born in Durham, NC, raised in Scarsdale, NY, and have lived in Manhattan for the last seven years

4. What are your primary research interests?

I’m all over the place. In Draper I’ve taken two non-fiction writing courses, two philosophy courses, one on Kafka, one on Hitchcock, a fiction-writing course…

For my thesis I focus on three ‘movements’ in popular music of the 20^th century: rock n roll, punk, and hip hop—the ones that really transformed mainstream culture worldwide. While historical circumstances give each of these movements its own identity, a close and analytical look shows that they are all expressions of the same human impulse. I argue that this impulse is a manifestation of a metaphysical idea that Nietzsche explored in his first book The Birth of Tragedy: the co-existence of two artistic forces in nature, which he names the Apolline and Dionysiac.

5. Why did you choose to pursue an interdisciplinary degree at Draper?

I wanted to be a better writer. I did undergrad at Tisch in the recorded music program, but obviously I have a very broad range of interests. I wanted to take the kinds of classes I didn’t have the chance to take before.

6. What do you plan to do after Draper?

Get a job. I'm keeping an open mind. I would ideally like to turn my thesis paper into a book. But I'll have to see how feasible that sounds in a couple months.

7. Do you have any special activities or projects outside of your academic work?

I am a songwriter and recording artist. I used to play in a band called Nobody Can Dance, but now I’m on my own and just released my first solo record. It’s called Seven Songs, and it can be heard and downloaded at www.sambelkin.bandcamp.com. It’s all completely free, not even an email address is required, so I encourage people to go and download it.

This particular project, Seven Songs, I would categorize probably as folk or singer/songwriter or something. This project is definitely more of a mellow, acoustic affair, with very short songs about simple things, like new love, old love, jealousy, etc. Kind of like a more lo-budget Leslie Feist. These particular songs were written at different times, the first track is from 2005, the last from 2009. None are new. I have a catalog of songs I've written, a shoe box full of notebooks and scraps of paper, and I chose ten of them that fit together on an album, and then I only ended up recording seven of them. So that's where Seven Songs comes from.

8. How does living and studying in New York impact your educational experience?

Living in New York has shaped who I am, for better or worse. I may have spent my childhood in Westchester, but my post-high school years were truly my formative years, emotionally and intellectually, and they were all spent in NYC. I don’t know if I’ll be able to define its influence on me until I know what it’s like to live somewhere else.

9. Is there any one place (museum, library, shop, park, etc.) in New York that is your favorite? Why?

I love the 48 cents rack at the Strand, a dive bar in the East Village called B Side, and Amy’s Bread below my apartment in Hell’s Kitchen.

10. Coffee or tea?

Coffee

11. Are you a fan and/or user of social media? Why or why not?

I’m a fan of Facebook. I think it’s amazing to be able to see how your childhood friends have grown up, who they’ve become—people I otherwise would have forgotten. It’s also currently my only means of publicity as a recording artist.

12. What was the last book you read for fun (not for class or research)?

Einstein’s Dreams, by Alan Lightman. Before that, The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy and a novella called The Beach of Falesà by Robert Louis Stevenson.

13. If you were not in academia, what would you be doing?

I’d probably be drooling in an office from nine to five, or working for peanuts in that circus they call the music industry. At least that’s where my resume shows the most experience. I do have career aspirations as a songwriter, but music is so abundant these days that it has no financial value anymore. When you start to rely on your music for a paycheck, there are strict rules you have to follow. It ruins all the fun. But working for other artists doesn’t strike me as an ideal alternative.

I very much enjoy writing about music, as well as film and literature, and I would love to pursue a career path that allows me to do that. I’ve always been an analytical thinker, but school is what has helped me become an analytical writer. So were I not in academia, I’d probably have some day job that I didn’t find very fulfilling.

Happy First Day of Classes

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Hope to see you on Friday for our kick-off-the-semester-and-

celebrate-our-graduates party.
Have a wonderful week!

CFP: Principals of Uncertainty, CUNY Grad Center (Comp Lit): Abstracts Due 3/1

2012-01-19T11:56:00.000-05:00

“Principles of Uncertainty”
A Conference on Critical Theory
Keynote Speaker: Martin Hägglund

The students of the Department of Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center present the first annual interdisciplinary conference on literary and critical theory to be held Friday, May 4, 2012. This conference is being given in support of the CUNY Graduate Center’s proposed certificate for Critical Theory, which is dedicated to the study of literary and critical theory.

We invite papers from all disciplines focusing on works from any period that explore the theme of uncertainty as it pertains to literary and critical theory.
This conference welcomes papers centering upon any individual theorist, period, or school of critical theory, as well as comparisons of various theoretical approaches, including, but not limited to literary theory, psychoanalysis, philosophy, gender studies, and political theory. Some of the questions this conference seeks to answer include, but are not limited to:

• How is the meaning of a text uncertain?
• Is this uncertainty purposefully placed within a text or a by-product of the act of reading?
• How is this uncertainty demonstrated in the relationship between author and reader?
• How can uncertainty be understood not only with respect to literature but in ethical, gendered, political, and/or social terms?
• How is identity shown to be uncertain?
• How does an “undecidable” future impact present ethical and political actions?
• How is history (whether of language, narrative, and/or society) destabilized and called into question?
• How does language contribute to the uncertainty of meaning and interpretation?
• How does the theorist’s own writing present the reader with an example of uncertainty?
• How does uncertainty function in the methodologies of interpretation and the making of meaning?
• Can a text have a stable meaning or is it always uncertain?

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by March 1, 2012 to uncertaintyconference2012@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests. We also welcome panel proposals of three to four papers.

This conference is co-sponsored by:

The Writer’s Institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center: an un-MFA program devoted to bringing together the country’s most talented writers and today’s most celebrated editors.

The Doctoral Students’ Council: the sole policymaking body representing students in doctoral and master’s programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Religion as Media: Spring 2012 Course Open for Enrollment

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The following non-crosslisted course that has opened for enrollment. If interested, please contact Janine Paolucci at janine.paolucci@nyu.edu. Again, please note that this is not a Draper course.

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Religion as Media RELST-GA.3397 ANTH-GA.3393
Spring 2012/ Tues 2:00—4:45

Angela Zito
726 Broadway room 560
phone 992-9656
angela.zito@nyu.edu

This course will introduce you to the longstanding and complex connection between religious practices and various media, based upon the premise that, like all social practice, religion is always mediated in some form or other. Yet, religion does not function simply as unchanging content, while media names the ways that content is formed. Instead shifts in media technique, from ritual innovations to the invention of printing, through TV, to the internet, also shape religious practice which has, in turn, influenced its media. We are interested in gathering theoretical tools for understanding the form and politics of this mutual dialectic.

We will analyze how human hearing, vision and the performing body have been used historically to express and maintain religious life through music, voice, images, words and rituals. Then we will spend time on more recent electronic media such as cassette, film, television, video, and the internet. We will consider, among other things: religious memory, both embodied and out-sourced in other media; the role of print and reading; the role of TV in the rise of the Hindu Right; the material culture of Buddhism (icons, relics, sutras); religion and commodification; film as religious experience; Christian Evangelical media; indigenous and digital media.

Books for the course:
The following *books are required in their entirety—find them at Shakespeare’s, Broadway at Washington Place:

*Berger, Peter. The Sacred Canopy: elements of a sociological theory of religion (well, 100 pages)
*Connerton, Paul. How Societies remember
*Dorsky, Nathaniel. Devotional Cinema
*Graham, William A. Beyond the written word: oral aspects of scripture in the history of religion
*Hendershot, Heather. Shaking the world for Jesus: Media and conservative evangelical culture
*Hirschkind, Charles. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons And Islamic Counterpublics
*Lyden, John. Film as religion: myths, morals and rituals
*Morgan, David. Visual Piety: a history and theory of popular religious images
*Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: the technologizing of the word
*Rachel Wagner. Godwired: Religion, Ritual and Virtuality

Two recommended collections (we’ll read at least 3 pieces from each):
DeVries, Hent and Samuel Weber, eds. Religion and Media. Stanford University Press, 2001.
Hoover, Stewart and Knut Lundby, eds. Rethinking media, religion and culture. Sage

Publications, 1997

Xeroxed readings will be placed on: Blackboard. The books will be on reserve at Bobst.

Evaluation: Discussion: 25% : Students will be expected to read everything for each week and be prepared for discussion: students will sign up to facilitate one week’s discussion
Responses: 25%: Students will post a response to the reading on our online forum each week—and please attend as many of the events mentioned below, posting a short-short response: 50%
Final conference paper/presentation: Depending upon how many we are, the last day of class (and one other scheduled meeting) will be devoted to a “Show&Tell” paper presentation that should read aloud in 20 minutes, including your media. We’ll group them into “conference panels”. We’ll time them! (To be handed in to me at that time.)

Grad Eng Class Open to Outside Students: Enlightenment & Counter-Enlightenment in Britain

2012-01-18T12:15:00.001-05:00

For registration access codes, please contact Lissette.roarabaugh@nyu.edu.

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Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in Britain

Visiting Professor Henry Abelove

Wednesdays, 1-3 pm, beginning Jan. 25, 2012

In this course we will focus on a set of closely related British non-fiction prose works of the middle to late eighteenth century, especially as they treat empire, sexuality, and religiosity. Our approach will include both formal and historical analysis. Several short papers will be required; a research paper will be optional. Principal readings will be drawn from David Hume’s ethical writings, Jonathan Swift’s writings on British imperialism in Ireland, Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, James Boswell’s London Journal, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, John Wesley’s Sermons and Journals, and Edmund Burke’s Letter to a Noble Lord and his parliamentary speeches on British imperialism in India. Class meetings will be discussion-based.

Students will be expected to acquire these four paperback books: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Peter Levi, Penguin English Classics; Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. Womersley, Penguin Classics; James Boswell, Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763, ed. Pottle, Yale University Press; Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Edmund Burke’s Speeches and Letters, ed. Bromwich, Yale University Press.

Henry Abelove is Visiting Professor of English at NYU for the spring term of 2012. He is Wilber Fisk Osborne Professor of English Emeritus at Wesleyan University. He is the author of The Evangelist of Desire: John Wesley and the Methodists (1992), Deep Gossip (2002). A leading scholar of queer studies in the United States, he is coeditor of the path-breaking volume The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (1993). He is currently working on a book called George Berkeley and the American Indians.

The Affect Factory: Conference, Co-Sponsored by Draper (Feb. 10-11)

2012-01-18T12:05:00.001-05:00

Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory is holding a conference on Precarity, Labor, Gender, and Performance in February, which Draper is co-sponsoring. A preliminary schedule is available below or on the conference website here. Please note that all conference events will take place at the Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues).

Friday, February 10, 2012
6 - 7:30 Keynote Speaker: Emma Dowling, Queen Mary, University of London; Respondents: Patricia Clough (CUNY) and Tavia Nyong'o (NYU); Introduction: Barbara Browning (NYU/Women & Performance)
7:30 Opening Reception (Performance: Ivan A. Ramos)

Saturday, February 11, 2012
(Durational Performance: Julie Tolentino)
9:30-10 Brunch and Coffee
10 - 11:45 Panel
12 - 1 Lunch
1 - 2:45 Panel
3 - 4:20 Performances: Kathryn Garcia and Katherine Behar & Marianne M. Kim (Disorientalism)
Q & A Moderated by Karen Shimakawa
4:30 - 6:15 Panel
6:30 - 7:30 Roundtable: Tavia Nyong'o, Rebecca Schneider, Nicholas Ridout, Jasbir Puar, Patricia Clough and more
7:30 Closing Reception (Performances: Aliza Shvarts and Edisa Weeks)

Panel Respondents: Randy Martin (Art & Public Policy), Gayatri Gopinath (SCA-Gender & Sexuality), and Una Chaudhuri (English).

Our panelists include:
Alex Pittman, NYU
Professor T. Nikki Cesare, University of Toronto
Evan Litwack, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Benjamin Gillespie, CUNY
Alice Coleman Nye, Brown
Josh Lubin-Levy, NYU
Johanna Linsley, Queen Mary, University of London
Anna Fisher, Brown
Thea Michailides, Sarah Lawrence College
Gabriella Alberti, Queen Mary, University of London
Professor Jasmine Rault, New School
Karen Gregory, CUNY

Our preliminary posters have been getting the word out about The Affect Factory and your sponsorship. A new poster with more detailed information will be coming out shortly. We greatly appreciate your generosity. Thank you again, and we hope that you will be able to join us.

Sincerely,
The Affect Factory Conference Planning Committee
affectfactory.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/theaffectfactory

CFP Deadline Extended for UVic 2012 CSPT Conference

2012-01-18T12:01:00.001-05:00

Call for Papers Deadline extended to 10 February 2012.

In/coherence: expression, translation, violence

Cultural Social and Political Thought Workshop

University of Victoria: April 21-22, 2012

The Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce a call for papers and projects for our annual graduate conference on April 21-22, 2012. The title of this year’s conference is in/coherence: expression, translation, violence. Thematic workshops will feature keynote speakers and student submissions (papers, performances, art pieces). This interdisciplinary conference seeks to engage in/coherence in social, cultural and political discourses, especially with respect to contemporary events.

Dynamics of expression, translation and violence in current contexts present opportunities for discussing in/coherence. As an interpretive thematic, in/coherence can be explored in ways that destabilize the binary reduction of “coherence versus incoherence”. How does in/coherence function politically, socially and culturally in contemporary arenas? Actions viewed as “incoherent” are frequently disregarded as illegitimate, yet claims of “coherent” actions are equally problematic. In response to recent expressions of dissent, a common insistence for actors to “bear reasonable witness” to their choices has illuminated the hegemonic scope of legitimacy. How do both demands and rejections of coherence complicate notions of incoherence (and vice versa)? Discussing in/coherence in these ways has potential ramifications for discussions around citizenship, postcolonialism, democracy, resistance, identity, liberal normativism, gender, nationalism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aesthetics, multiculturalism, the urban, language, globalization, critical theory, posthumanism, and capitalism, among others. We invite participants to submit original projects and aim to foster dynamic debate of these themes.

The conference will offer four workshop foci through which to approach these issues:

Narratives:

Narratives form horizons of consciousness: while they open up some ways of relating, they simultaneously close off the possibility of others. Proposals around this theme explore how the norms of “good,” i.e. coherent, narrative correspond to the dominant ideologies of our time (capitalism, neoliberalism, colonialism and so on). We also look for contributions that address the possibilities for new genres and narratives to reject the norms of efficiency and coherence.

Materialism/Materialities:

Is the material synonymous with the concrete? Can materiality be understood outside of language? Contributions to this workshop might consider the irreducible number of determinations (linguistic, topographical, concrete, etc.) that come into play in discussions of materiality.

Spatiotemporalities:

We are often told that a coherent notion of space and time, and conceptualizations thereof, are fundamentally imbricated in our ability to identify and make ourselves. Homelands and histories are presupposed as the fundamental conditions under which our being together is made and understood. We invite proposals which seek to describe, interrogate and trouble considerations of spaces and times (or spatiotemporalities) imagined as coherent or incoherent, and to call into question the rationalities that mobilize such discourses.

Technologies:

The clean lines and binary choices presented by contemporary technology give the strong impression of clarity, control, and coherence, but under the surface lurk power failures, code exploits, and unexpected mutations. In this spirit, proposals to this workshop might, among other aims, interrogate the in/coherent character of key technologies – questioning the reasons for their design, the way that they function, and the effects that they have on their users – interrogations that may demonstrate that an in/coherent logic informs the algorithmic operation of technology.

Please submit project proposals between 250-500 words (with expression of interest in one of the four workshop nodes) to in.coherence2012@gmail.com by February 10, 2012.

For more information, contact us at in .coherence 2012@gmail .com or go to CSPTconference2012.wordpress.com.

Graduate Students: Join NYU Libraries for Spring Welcome Week Workshops

2012-01-18T11:14:00.000-05:00

From the NYU Libraries:

As another spring semester kicks off, we're offering a chance to brush up your skills with a series of Graduate Student workshops. These workshops focus on learning how to organize your bibliographies, finding out to how to track down tricky citations, understanding the intricacies of processing and analyzing data, and even simply knowing your way around an American research library. For the complete listing of these sessions, and to sign up, go to:

--> http://library.nyu.edu/grads

Cyber Crime. Discussion w/ SEN Gillibrand, Helen Nissenbaum (1/23)

2012-01-18T10:47:00.001-05:00

The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU and the The Citizens Crime Commission of New York City are hosting a public discussion on Cyber Crime. The event will take place on Jan 23, 2012, from 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM in the Kimmel Center, at 60 Washington Square South, in the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, 4th Floor.

Please RSVP here: http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/214

Cyber crime is a growing concern for law enforcement, corporations, and individuals costing billions per year. Each data breach costs American businesses an average of $6.6 million, and every hour, the FBI processes 35 cases through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The panel will address the policy and law enforcement challenges from a broad perspective, as well as the unique issues facing social media sites and users.

This discussion will feature:

-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
-Associate General Counsel of Facebook, Chris Sonderby
-FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Cyber/Special Operations Division, Mary Galligan
-Senior Faculty Fellow at the Information Law Institute and NYU Media, Culture, and Communication Professor, Helen Nissenbaum

NYU President John Sexton will introduce the speakers, and Crime
Commission Director Richard Aborn will moderate the discussion.

Steinhardt Courses Open to Draper Students

2012-01-18T09:15:00.002-05:00

Steinhardt's Department of Media, Culture and Communication has opened up the following spring 2012 courses to all graduate students.

If you are interested, you must first email draper.program@nyu.edu to obtain approval from Robert Dimit. Please also note that these are non-GSAS credits, of which Draper students are only allowed a total of eight.

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The following courses in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication are now open to all graduate students in Spring 2012 and seats are still available. We encourage you to read through the course details below. Should you need any assistance with registration, please contact Mary Taylor via email at mary.taylor@nyu.edu.

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MCC-GE 2184 Comparative Media Systems
Rodney Benson
Tuesday 7:15 – 9:25 PM
Class#: 3060 (4 credits)

How does journalism differ around the world? And to the extent that it does, why? Beyond the personal idiosyncrasies of individual journalists and media owners, which factors play the greatest role in shaping 'national news cultures': professional values and traditions, level and type of commercialism, government regulations, bureaucratic pressures or organizational dynamics, and/ or audiences? Too much of our media criticism proceeds from hunches and assumptions, rather than real evidence, for the simple reason that it limits itself to a single national context ( and often a single time period). Adequately sorting out the factors that shape our media environment can best be accomplished via comparative research. This course offers a conceptual roadmap to such a project as well as a close empirical look at the news media in a variety of national contexts. After a general consideration of the factors that structure news media systems and the roles that media play in democratic societies, the course incorporates (1) a survey of comparative methodologies: surveys, ethnographies, news content analyses, etc., and (2) national and comparative case studies, representing the major types of Western European journalistic 'models' as well as some important non-European variants.

[MA Area of Study: Global and Transcultural Communication & Persuasion and Politics + MA Research Course]

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MCC-GE 2284 Religion and Media
Arvind Rajagopal
Tuesday 2:00 – 4:10 PM
Class#: 13735 (4 credits)

In this course, we will begin with an overview of some of the problems in thinking about religion in the context of what Derrida has identified as ‘globalatinization.’ We will consider the extent to which many of our ideas about religion are shaped not only by historical legacies, but as well by material cultural practices and conditions, and techiques of mediation that are irreducible accompaniments and constituents of the beliefs in question. We will consider how the narrative arc of the Enlightenment sought to place religion, in ways that shifted over time. An influential self-conception about the European Enlightenment was that it expressed the triumph of secular reason over the ancien regime, and the defeat of inherited privilege of all kinds. the relegation of religion to the private sphere was in effect to declare religion to be free from politics; such a gesture could only be a prelude to a new form of politicization. We will observe the playing out of an interesting set of contradictions: religion is widely present, but understood in terms that fail to grapple with what is properly religious, due variously to Enlightenment conceits, imperial reasoning, nationalist self-fashioning, and the deification of technology. No definitive statement or argument can be attempted on religion as a result, although we will read authors who essay authoritative definitions.

We will consider early modern mobilizations of religious identity, and oppositions between Jewish and Christian, Christian and Islamic, and religious and secular identities, and assess how religious beliefs and practices can be rendered into a historical telos, racialized and/or nationalized. We will also examine how religious identities can be mapped onto language, and onto technology. Last but not least, we will conside how what was recently hailed as the End of History soon led to a theological display of power with Operation Shock and Awe, and a global war against Evil, a.k.a. “Islamic fascism.” We will conclude by examining the sacralization of democracy, and the profane quality of the terror it opposes itself to, and what appears in their wake as a serious challenge to Enlightenment conceits about the separation of church and state, and about the ability of reason to defend itself by purely reasonable means.

[MA Area of Study: Visual Culture and Cultural Studies & Global and Transcultural Communication]

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MCC-GE 2344 The Social Life of Paper
Lisa Gitelman
Monday 4:55 – 7:05 PM
Class#: 13617 (4 credits)

What is the cultural work performed by or with the technology of paper? How can a history of paper supplement and enrich recent histories of printing technology and printed artifacts like "the book"? What would it mean to imagine a paperless future? Organized around discussions of readings in common, this course considers the history, production, circulation and use of paper in the social production of knowledge, the shared imagination of value, and the mutual relations of consumers and commodities.

[MA Area of Study: Technology and Society & Visual Culture and Cultural Studies]

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MCC-GE 3100 Special Topics in Visual Culture and Cultural Studies: Fundamentals of Moving Images
Susan Murray
Wednesday 2:00 - 4:10 PM
Class#: 13736 (4 credits)

This course will examine the history of moving images, focusing primarily on the ways that institutional, technological, and social/cultural factors contributed to the aesthetics and form of film and television during the 20th century in the U.S.. Moving from early silent cinema to the early days of digital cinema, students will read key texts in film/media theory and history, view a selection of films and programs in out-of-class screenings, and consider both in relation to specific historical movements and developments. Reading will likely include works by: Tom Gunning, Jonathan Crary, Phillip Rosen, Mary Ann Doane, Raymond Williams, Samuel Weber, John T. Caldwell, Lisa Parks, Anna McCarthy, D.N Rodowick, Brian Winston, Vivian Sobchack, Lev Manovich and more.

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MCC-GE 2400 Topics in Visual Culture: Politics of Visual Display
Olga Kopenkina
Wednesday 2:00 – 4:10 PM
Class#: 13622 (4 credits)

Taking the exhibition and museum site as an object of study, this course examines the modern history of visual display. The artistic avant-garde radically altered the way we look at visual display by eliminating the separation between image and audience. Nevertheless, this visual “rupture” has been echoed in the contemporary discussion about public art and the role of cultural institutions. Since the 1920s, political regimes in Russia and Europe intervened in exhibition techniques connecting avant-garde with totalitarian art – a fact that reinforced the ideological function of the museum. How do museums and contemporary art institutions use the ideological function of the museum display now? How do they create the ideology, which as Guy Debord, theorist of the spectacle noted, conceals the truth of the society that produces it? Does the notion “public art” adequately express the avant-garde desire for the full integration of viewers in the process of exhibiting the artwork? Is there a space for resistance to the ideology of “spectacle,” and corporate economy around art inside the modern museum?

[MA Area of Study: Visual Culture and Cultural Studies]

Graduate Student Workshops at Bobst

2012-01-17T12:59:00.000-05:00

A Message from the NYU Libraries:

As another spring semester kicks off, we're offering a chance to brush up your skills with a series of Graduate Student workshops. These workshops focus on learning how to organize your bibliographies, finding out to how to track down tricky citations, understanding the intricacies of processing and analyzing data, and even simply knowing your way around an American research library. For the complete listing of these sessions, and to sign up, go to:

--> http://library.nyu.edu/grads

We look forward to meeting you and wish you the best of luck this semester!

-- The NYU Libraries Graduate Student Working Group

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

2012-01-17T09:50:00.002-05:00

Two weeks until the Threesis Challenge deadline!

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Save the date and submit your Application today for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge will be held on March 30th (qualifying rounds) and March 31st (final rounds)

Look at what one competitor had to say about last year's experience:

The Threesis encourages students to take a step back from their research to see how it sits in a world outside of academia. It is about explaining what you are writing about in a way that grandma and grandpa, mom and dad and the random person that you meet on the street can understand. It is the opposite of what were are trained to do in our masters work and that's what makes it so challenging.

Jailee Rychen 2011 GSAS

Threesis Winner

Have you submitted your 2012 Threesis application? To submit your application, send the application and your abstract to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu. Applications are due by January 31st!

Watch the highlight video from last year's competition here:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

GSAS New Student Spring 2012 Orientation

2012-01-13T14:41:00.001-05:00

The Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) is pleased to invite you to the Spring 2012 New Student Orientation and let you know about the variety of electronic resources that will help ease your transition to graduate school.

We will hold the 2012 GSAS Spring Orientation on Friday, January 27, 2012, from 5:30pm to 7:30 pm on campus. The New Student Orientation is designed to introduce you to the Graduate School of Arts and Science and offer information on University based resources and services. Registration will open at 5 pm so we will be able to begin our program at 5:30 sharp. The orientation provides an opportunity to meet other newly admitted students as well as current graduate students. A wine and cheese reception will immediately follow.

SAVE THE DATE!

To register for this event, respond to this message with your name and academic department.

We know you have many questions about the GSAS graduate offices, registration, tuition, the NYU Wellness Center, Health Services and health insurance, as well as other aspects of NYU. To help you keep organized about joining the student body, please follow our New Student Checklist <gsas.nyu.edu/page/new.student.checklist> and read the Guide to University Resources <http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/nyu.grad.resources> page that contains important reminders, dates and deadlines.

To learn more about the Master's College, please view our videos on-line:

http://gsas.nyu.edu/page/grad.masterscollege;

http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.students.profiles;

http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge.

If you are an international student, please carefully read our International

Student Reference Guide <http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.ne.intlnews>.

For University Life Events use this link: http://www.nyu.edu/life/resources-and-services/student-resourcecenter.html

We look forward to welcoming you to GSAS in the New Year!

Sincerely,

Graduate Enrollment Services,

The Master’s College &

The Office of Academic and Student Life

Spring Course: From Third World to Global South

2012-01-13T09:52:00.001-05:00

We'd like to highlight another of our spring Topics classes--Topics in Global Histories: From Third World to Global South--taught by Prof. Maia Ramnath. Prof. Ramnath was Draper's previous faculty fellow in Global Histories and has recently published two books: Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (University of California Press, 2011) and Decolonizing Anarchism (AK Press, 2011).

The course description is below; please contact Larissa Kyzer at larissa.kyzer@nyu.edu if interested in enrolling.

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Topics in Global Histories: From Third World to Global South

DRAP-GA.3005

Prof. Maia Ramnath

Course Overview

The aim of this class is to explore the political and intellectual legacy of anti-colonialism. In it we will trace the development of ideologies and practices of decolonization through transnational solidarities and internationalist movements from the late 19th century to the present.

Paying attention to the continuities as well as the turning points in the structures that have defined a global field of power and action, we confront systems of political, military, economic and cultural dominance and their legitimating ideologies of race and civilization: "high" imperialism, capital expansion, Cold War geopolitical blocs, developmentalism, neoliberal globalization, and the "new" imperialism.

On the other side we see the precursors of today's call to "globalize resistance" through cultural/civilizational or class categories of allegiance and identity, as Pan-African, Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic movements fed into interwar congresses of Oppressed Peoples and the Comintern-backed League Against Imperialism, succeeded by the post-war/Cold War era of the Non-Aligned Movement, Afro-Asian and Tricontinental collaborations and Third Worldist liberation struggles, and finally into the contemporary notion of the Global South and "globalization from below."

Since the cultural dimension has been so crucial to questions and practices of anti-colonial resistance and so interconnected with political, social and economic conditions, we will supplement each discussion with student-presented modules on some of the many writers whose literary contributions were intrinsic to the experience of Third Worldist politics and the later development of postcolonial criticism.

Students will be expected to produce a substantive research paper, an oral presentation and brief weekly critical reading responses.

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Literature

(possibilities; focus to be determined by students in collaboration with instructor)

George Lamming, Patrick Chamoiseau, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Naguib Mahfouz,Mahmoud Darwish, Chinua Achebe, Pablo Neruda, Jose Marti, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Agha Shahid Ali, Sajjad Zaheer, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Saadat Hasan Manto, Ismet Chughtai, Buchi Emecheta, Forugh Farrokhzad, Mulk Raj Anand, Lu Xun, Sam Selvon, V.S. Naipaul, Assia Djebar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Zadie Smith, Ama Ata Aidoo, Shani Mootoo, Jessica Hagedorn, Ahdaf Soueif, Hanan Ashrawi, Jean Rhys, E. M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling,Joseph Conrad, Albert Camus...the sky's the limit.

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

2012-01-10T09:24:00.002-05:00

Three weeks until the Threesis Challenge deadline!

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Save the date and submit your Application today for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge will be held on March 30th (qualifying rounds) and March 31st (final rounds)

Look at what one competitor had to say about last year's experience:

The Threesis encourages students to take a step back from their research to see how it sits in a world outside of academia. It is about explaining what you are writing about in a way that grandma and grandpa, mom and dad and the random person that you meet on the street can understand. It is the opposite of what were are trained to do in our masters work and that's what makes it so challenging.

Jailee Rychen 2011 GSAS

Threesis Winner

Have you submitted your 2012 Threesis application? To submit your application, send the application and your abstract to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu. Applications are due by January 31st!

Watch the highlight video from last year's competition here:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

CFP: How to End a Revolution? Interdisciplinary Humanities Grad Conference, Harvard (Due 1/31)

2012-01-10T09:20:00.000-05:00

"How to End a Revolution?" - CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: JANUARY 31st, 2012)

 The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference

 Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States 

April 13-14, 2012  

How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask: How to end a revolution?

  The end of a revolution is not something inherently given, but a process in the making that serves different perspectives and interests. At the same time, the phase of transition characterized by chaos and instability very often opposes and challenges the attempts of making an end - from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Is an end of a revolution even possible if history is understood as a constant process based on a linear definition of time and temporality? What challenges does the idea of a leaderless movement pose towards traditional views of political authority and authorship? What happens when unity and cohesion break apart and many different individual interests and powers evolve? What comes after the revolution?

  The ongoing revolutions and uprisings in the Arab world highlight both the challenges of making a (constructive and collective) end, as well as the significance and timeliness of these questions to be addressed at the conference. Drawing upon contemporary and historical examples like the Arab Spring and the French Revolution, we invite you to examine the complex, multifaceted and mutable discourse that is shaped by historians who define, politicians who declare, writers who narrate and lawyers who legitimate the end of a revolution. In what violent and non-violent ways have people tried to stop, use or influence a revolution? Which strategies, tools and techniques are employed to end a revolution and how are they determined by underlying concepts of time, history and change? Through our collective inquiry - by analysing how people deal and dealt with moments of transition and by comparing their strategies, interests and narratives - our goal is to better understand the phenomenon of social and political change. With this approach we hope not only to expand the knowledge of revolutions but also to develop new ideas and strategies that will potentially prove to be practically important and relevant.  

We seek rich, rigorous graduate student contributions from the humanities, social and political sciences (in particular from the following disciplines: law, literature, history, philosophy, political sciences, sociology), and even natural sciences if relevant.

Discussion themes may include, but are not restricted to: 

* What is an End? Thinking About and Representing the End

 * The End Versus Ending - Revolution as Process or Given? 

* Controlling the End - Controlling the Power. Attempts of Overtaking the Protest

 * Temporality, Change - and Order? How to Transform Chaos into Stability

 * New Beginnings. Manifestos and Literary Narratives 

* The People, the Media or the Military? Authorship of Revolution

 * Continuity of Power. How to Deal with the Old Structures?

 * Circular Revolution, Linear Progress and Permanent Evolution? 

* Arts, Religion and Empathy. Lessons to Unite the People 

* Trials, Constitutions and Elections. The Role of Law in Transitional Periods

  We ask prospective participants to submit a short curriculum vitae and a 500 word abstract that outlines the paper's topic, methodology and argument, as well as how the prospective participant's research interests relate to the theme of the conference more generally. Participants will be notified by mid-February whether their paper has been accepted into the conference. Please note that participants can apply for a limited number of travel grants.  

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: TUESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 2012  

For more information and submission details, please visit:

 http://isites.harvard.edu/revolution2012  

For further questions, please contact the coordinators by e-mail: 

hcconfer@fas.harvard.edu  

Conference coordinators:

 Eike Hosemann, Harvard Law School 

Scott Liddle, Center for Middle Eastern Studies 

Matthias Meyer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures

 Ani Nguyen, Chemical Biology Graduate Program, Department of Systems Biology

Call for Papers: EQUINOXES Conference

2012-01-10T09:16:00.000-05:00

EQUINOXES 2012

Call For Conference Papers

Transgression(s)

April 20-21, 2012 | Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island

Keynote speaker: Sylvaine Guyot

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

Harvard University

The notion of transgression is a ubiquitous theme of humankind’s history. The word in itself evokes the act of overstepping a defining boundary between what is lawful from criminal; what is permitted from forbidden; what is good from evil. To transgress is to bend a norm, to infringe upon a law, to violate a proscription, to go beyond what society deems a prescribed limit. Transgression, therefore, raises the question of the norms and values on which a group or community is founded, along with the question of the conditions under which one will or will not be considered as a member of the group. The various effects that are expected from the transgressive act or behaviour - effects of emancipation, salvation, or inversely of destruction, regression - and the various modes of social regulation of transgression - punishment, absolution - are some other aspects of the question from which it is possible to deeply explore the representations of the norm and anti-norm in French and Francophone

literature.

In the aim of investigating the various stakes pertaining to the notion of transgression, we invite submissions in literary, cultural, and media studies dealing with all periods and genres of cultural production from all areas of the French-speaking world. Potential avenues of exploration may include but are not limited to:

aesthetics of transgression

logics and/or aesthetics of the scandal, the shock

sacrality, aura

passion, excess, violence, irrationality

representations of the body, erotics, pleasures

notion of the Other

power, domination, emancipation

breaking knowledge barriers

temporality, spatiality, universality of transgression

taboos, prohibitions

judgement, punishment, redemption, catharsis

activism, radicalism

performance, "actionism"

knowledge, initiation, truth

Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an abstract of roughly 250 words. The presentations, in French or English, should not exceed

20 minutes. Please send abstracts with name, institutional affiliation and address to brown.equinoxes@gmail.com before January 15, 2012. The conference proceedings will be published in the Equinoxes electronic journal (http://www.brown.edu/Research/Equinoxes).

2012-01-09T13:16:00.004-05:00

Join us to start off the spring semester right and honor the achievements of our September 2011 and January 2012 graduates!

Draper's Spring Party and Graduate Celebration
Friday, January 27
Starts at 5:00 PM
Draper Map Room: 14 University Place, 1st Floor
Food and drink will be served
RSVPs to draper.program@nyu.edu

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

2012-01-05T13:25:00.000-05:00

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Save the date and submit your Application today for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge will be held on March 30th (qualifying rounds) and March 31st (final rounds)
The application for the 2012 GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge is open! This academic competition is for GSAS Master's Students. Students present the work of their thesis or final project (eg. creative project, science experiment or research paper) to a panel of judges in accessible language a non-expert can understand in three minutes or less. Competitors are judged on how well they grasp the subject of their thesis, their ability to discuss the topic to non-experts and presentation skills. Students compete for a grand prize of $1,000 and other prizes while learning to organize ideas and speak about them persuasively in a fun, academic atmosphere.

Look at what one competitor had to say about last year's experience:

The Threesis encourages students to take a step back from their research to see how it sits in a world outside of academia. It is about explaining what you are writing about in a way that grandma and grandpa, mom and dad and the random person that you meet on the street can understand. It is the opposite of what were are trained to do in our masters work and that's what makes it so challenging.

Jailee Rychen 2011 GSAS

Threesis Winner

Have you submitted your 2012 Threesis application? To submit your application, send the application and your abstract to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu. Applications are due by January 31st!

Watch the highlight video from last year's competition here:
http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

Deadline: Delores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship Apps Due 1/6

2012-01-05T12:59:00.000-05:00

Reminder: The application deadline for the Delores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship is Friday, January 6, 2012.

GSAS has announced a funding opportunity for GSAS graduate students, which you are encouraged to apply for. The Delores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship competition for grant year 2012-2013 is now open. This scholarship was established to “support students with outstanding character and ability who hold promise for achievement and distinction in their chosen fields of study.”

More information on the fellowship--including the application--is available on the GSAS website, here: http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/grad.acadlife.zohrab. Contact the office of Academic and Student Life with questions by phone at 212.998.8060 or by e-mail at gsas.studentlife@nyu.edu.

Elective Options

2012-01-05T09:03:00.001-05:00

Happy New Year, Draperites!

The classes detailed below have open spaces for Draper students. Please note that these classes are not cross listed. Interested students can enroll in them via Albert. If you encounter any registration issues or have questions regarding these courses, please contact Amanda at asa4@nyu.edu.

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BIOE-GA 2222.001 Cross-listed with PHIL-GA 2222.001 Clinical Ethics
Professor S. Matthew Liao
Spring 2012- M 6:00-8:30 pm

4 points

Physicians and nurses will present for discussion and theoretical analysis the ethical issues that they encounter in their Medical Center work. Topics to be discussed include the ethics of using placebos, conflicts of interest and clinical trials, ethics consultations in health care, pain management and end of life, conscientious objection, giving hope, and doctors as torture consultants. Reading will be drawn from medical and philosophy literature.

BIOE-GA 1008.001 Topics in Bioethics: Research Ethics

Professor Collin O’Neil
Spring 2012-T 6:45-9:15 pm

4 points

The course will begin by examining the historical scandals that launched the field of research ethics and ask whether the principles and regulations that have emerged in reaction are on the whole appropriate, or whether they are in some cases overly protective of human subjects and unduly burdensome on research. Among the questions that will be addressed: is it permissible to deceive subjects when necessary to obtain valid results; is it permissible to use a placebo control when proven effective care for the condition exists; should we be more liberal about enrolling children, the cognitively impaired, and pregnant women in risky research; are there any reasons to limit payment for participation in risky research; is there an obligation to participate in research? Thinking through these issues will require thinking about the nature of role obligations; the validity conditions for consent; the nature of manipulation, coercion, and wrongful exploitation. The course will also examine whether animals may be used in harmful research, whether certain lines of inquiry, such as into racial differences, should not be pursued at all, whether patents on research discoveries are justifiable, and whether some kinds of regulations on research may be inconsistent with academic freedom or freedom of expression.

Happy New Year from NYU Libraries!

2012-01-04T12:17:00.002-05:00

Be on the lookout this upcoming Spring semester for Library classes specifically for graduate students. These short sessions cover topics like developing your research skills, managing your citations, and introducing you to statistical software (if you want to sign up now, see http://webapps.library.nyu.edu/classes).

UVic Cultural, Social and Political Thought CFP

2011-12-20T10:53:00.000-05:00

n/coherence: expression, translation, violence
Cultural Social and Political Thought Conference
University of Victoria: April 21-22, 2012

The Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce a call for papers and projects for our annual graduate conference on April 21-22, 2012. The title of this year’s conference is in/coherence: expression, translation, violence. Thematic workshops will feature keynote speakers and student submissions (papers, performances, art pieces). This interdisciplinary conference seeks to engage in/coherence in social, cultural and political discourses, especially with respect to contemporary events.

Dynamics of expression, translation and violence in current contexts present opportunities for discussing in/coherence. As an interpretive thematic, in/coherence can be explored in ways that destabilize the binary reduction of “coherence versus incoherence”. How does in/coherence function politically, socially and culturally in contemporary arenas? Actions viewed as “incoherent” are frequently disregarded as illegitimate, yet claims of “coherent” actions are equally problematic. In response to recent expressions of dissent, a common insistence for actors to “bear reasonable witness” to their choices has illuminated the hegemonic scope of legitimacy. How do both demands and rejections of coherence complicate notions of incoherence (and vice versa)? Discussing in/coherence in these ways has potential ramifications for discussions around citizenship, postcolonialism, democracy, resistance, identity, liberal normativism, gender, nationalism, biopolitics, indigeneity, aesthetics, multiculturalism, the urban, language, globalization, critical theory, posthumanism, and capitalism, among others. We invite participants to submit original projects and aim to foster dynamic debate of these themes.
The conference will offer four workshops through which to approach these issues:

Narratives:
Narratives form horizons of consciousness: while they open up some ways of relating, they simultaneously close off the possibility of others. Proposals around this theme explore how the norms of “good,” i.e. coherent, narrative correspond to the dominant ideologies of our time (capitalism, neoliberalism, colonialism and so on). We also look for contributions that address the possibilities for new genres and narratives to reject the norms of efficiency and coherence.

Materialism/Materialities:
Is the material synonymous with the concrete? Can materiality be understood outside of language? Contributions to this workshop might consider the irreducible number of determinations (linguistic, topographical, concrete, etc.) that come into play in discussions of materiality.

Spatiotemporalities:
We are often told that a coherent notion of space and time, and conceptualizations thereof, are fundamentally imbricated in our ability to identify and make ourselves. Homelands and histories are presupposed as the fundamental conditions under which our being together is made and understood. We invite proposals which seek to describe, interrogate and trouble considerations of spaces and times (or spatiotemporalities) imagined as coherent or incoherent, and to call into question the rationalities that mobilize such discourses.

Technologies:
The clean lines and binary choices presented by contemporary technology give the strong impression of clarity, control, and coherence, but under the surface lurk power failures, code exploits, and unexpected mutations. In this spirit, proposals to this workshop might, among other aims, interrogate the in/coherent character of key technologies – questioning the reasons for their design, the way that they function, and the effects that they have on their users – interrogations that may demonstrate that an in/coherent logic informs the algorithmic operation of technology.

Please submit project proposals between 250-500 words (with expression of interest in one of the four workshops) to in.coherence2012@gmail.com by January 30th, 2012.

Extended Deadline: NYU CALC "Networked New York," Mar. 9, 2012 (deadline Jan. 5)

2011-12-16T13:30:00.000-05:00

"Networked New York" - call for papers

The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture at New York University invites proposals for our 2012 spring conference, "Networked New York." This symposium will take place on Friday, March 9, 2012, and will feature a keynote address by Marvin Taylor, Director of Fales Library & Special Collections and founder of the Downtown New York Collection.

We envision this conference as a forum for examining systems of interrelation among writers and artists who live, work, commune, and clash in New York City, whether physical New York (the city's buildings, streetscapes, neighborhoods), digitized New York (its blogs, websites, tweets), or institutional New York (its libraries, archives, museums). We aim to enable discussion about literary, artistic, and intellectual coteries in New York – past and present – and to consider the influence of such communities on the cultural production the city generates as well as on the city itself. To these ends, we hope to include papers from a range of historical and disciplinary contexts.

Our keynote panel will probe the specific concerns that the geographies and institutional landscapes of New York City bring to bear on archives and collecting in both contemporary and historical contexts. To this end, we also seek papers that may address similar subjects, particularly radical archives in New York and/or key strategies for making and using contemporary archives in the city. How does one address the archival presence or absence of certain communities or spaces in New York City?

Other potential paper topics include but are not limited to explorations of the following:

- Neighborhood dynamics and artistic communities 

- Collaborations among artists, writers, readers, viewers

 - Circulation of ideas and materials 

- New York street life and material culture 

- Urban space and identity

 - Sites, scenes, and modes of interaction 

- Digital media and the city

Please send a brief CV and abstract, 300-500 words in length, to Annie Abrams and Blevin Shelnutt atnyucalc@gmail.com by January 5, 2012. Please direct any questions about the conference to this address.

Draper and Anamesa parties this Friday, 12/16!

2011-12-16T13:29:00.001-05:00

Once more, with feeling!

Please Join the Draper Master's Program for our Year-End Celebration

Friday, December 16

Starting at 5:00 PM

14 University Place, 1st Floor

There will be food, drink, and good cheer. We hope to see you there!

If you know your plans, RSVPs are much appreciated: draper.program@nyu.edu

Afterwards...

Don't forget about the Anamesa Launch Party!

Friday, December 16, 8pm-10pm

Peculier Pub, 145 Bleeker St.

Anamesa will cover your first 2 drinks

The editors look forward to celebrating the new issue with you!

Thesis Submission & Thesis Topic Approval Due Today, 12/16

2011-12-16T13:21:00.003-05:00

A friendly reminder to Draperites!

If you're planning on graduating in January, you must turn in your thesis (and corresponding paperwork) by 5pm today, 12/16. When you come in, please deliver it directly to the front-desk.

If you're planning on graduating in May, you'll want to hand in your thesis topic approval form this Friday as well. Simply leave it in Robert's box (bottom left hand corner of the wooden mailboxes behind my desk). We will email you when it's been approved.

Contact our offices if you have any questions.

Museum Studies Course, Spring '12

2011-12-14T09:17:00.001-05:00

As with the recently posted English courses, below is a Museum Studies course that still has space and is welcoming Draper students. The course is NOT crosslisted.

To register, please email Museum Studies at museum.studies@nyu.edu.

MSMS-GA 3330.002 - TOPICS IN MUSEUM STUDIES: ANTHROPOLOGY IN AND OF MUSEUMS

(Class # 1858)

4 points

Instructor – Dr. Haidy Geismar

Wednesday, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

240 Greene Street, Room 410

This course takes as its starting point the importance of museums and collecting in the foundational period of the discipline of anthropology and traces the role that ‘cultural objects’ have had in thinking about cultural difference, and within cultural analysis before analyzing what tropes and styles are entailed within cultural representation and the representation of culture. We will also examine the role of museums as sites of fieldwork and as generators of research methodologies focused on material culture. We will investigate the history and nature of the anthropology collections, as well as thinking through the forms of knowledge engendered by artifacts and the kinds of collaborative practices that emerge in contemporary ethnographic museums. Other topics will include global trends in the emergence of new museums of culture, cultures of dealing and collection, the place of anthropological collections in art museums (and vice versa), the diverse relationships between museums and “source” communities, and the multiple contemporary forms of repatriation.

Foucault Society Colloquium: Wednesday, 12/14

2011-12-13T10:46:00.000-05:00

The Foucault Society, NYC
2011 Colloquium Series: New Research in Foucault Studies

Our popular Colloquium Series continues next week! We are delighted to invite you to another evening of critical dialogue and light refreshment. Join the discussion, celebrate the end of the semester and find out how you can help shape the Foucault Society's agenda for 2012. All are welcome.

Dominique E. Johnson, Ph.D.

"Critical Dilemmas and Methodological Regimes: Toward a Genealogy of an Empirical Borderland"

Wednesday, December 14, 2011
7:30-9:30pm

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409
New York, NY

Abstract:
This paper engages in a Foucaultian critique of quantitative methodologies. Situating Foucault's discussions of the carceral society and regimes of verification in the context of work by Patricia Hill Collins and Sandra Harding, I examine the dilemmas that emerge when using critical theory to frame quantitative social research. The paper looks carefully at the silencing of intersectional identities that often occurs when quantitative data is used for the construction, maintenance and representation of social identities, and argues that these dilemmas challenge us to expand our conceptualizations of what it is to do quantitative research, particularly for intersectional analysis. Engaging both the risks and opportunities that arise from seeking to enter the quantitative matrix, the paper concludes by considering the various implications of living and working in the empirical borderlands while making a critical intervention into existing methodological regimes.

Speaker bio:
Dominique Johnson (Ph.D., Urban Education, Temple University) is Assistant Professor of Law and Society and a member of the Women and Gender Studies convening group in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Dr. Johnson is currently the Chair of the American Democracy Project at Ramapo College.

About the Colloquium Series:
The Foucault Society's Colloquium Series provides a forum for new research and works-in-progress, and offers an opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share new work with a friendly and supportive audience of colleagues.

Open to the public. All are welcome. We will have wine and snacks. Suggested donation: $5.

RSVPs are appreciated. E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com.

**As part of our ongoing fundraiser, we will have hardcover copies of Foucault's book, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the College de France, 1982-1983 (Palgrave, 2010), available for purchase.**

About the Foucault Society:
The Foucault Society is an independent, nonprofit educational organization offering a variety of forums dedicated to the critical study of the ideas of Michel Foucault (1926-1984). All of our events are open to the public. We welcome new participants who have an interest in Foucault's work and its impact on diverse areas of inquiry, including critical social theory, philosophy, politics, history, culture, gender/sexuality studies, and the arts.

Website: www.foucaultsociety.org

Twitter: @foucaultsociety

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/foucaultsociety/

E-mail: foucaultsocietyorg@gmail.com

For directions to the CUNY Graduate Center, please see: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Building-Particulars/Building-Access.

Open English Courses of Potential Interest

2011-12-13T09:34:00.002-05:00

The following English classes have room and are open/welcoming to Draper students. Please contact the department if you're interested in registering.

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Engl-2270.001
ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Professor Carolyn Dinshaw

This course has twin objectives, one building on the other:
First, it will explore the emerging field of ecocriticism by reading works of philosophy, history, political theory, environmental studies, cultural studies, and literary criticism and theory. Readings will include works by Martin Heidegger, Raymond Williams, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Timothy Morton, Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Arne Naess, Cary Wolfe, and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson.
Second, it will consider some (mostly late) medieval English texts with an eye focused by this ecocritical reading. In the medieval texts we will necessarily engage some conventional topoi (the goddess Natura, the Former Age, earthly paradise, New Jerusalem, etc.), discover modes of interdependence between the human and the non-human, and consider hybrid forms of life. Readings will include De Planctu Natura (The Complaint of Nature), The Book of John Mandeville, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Parliament of Fowls.

Engl-2540.001
Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in Britain
Visiting Professor Henry Abelove

In this course we will focus on a set of closely related British non-fiction prose works of the middle to late eighteenth century, especially as they treat empire, sexuality, and religiosity. Our approach will include both formal and historical analysis. Several short papers will be required; a research paper will be optional. Principal readings will be drawn from David Hume’s ethical writings, Jonathan Swift’s writings on British imperialism in Ireland, Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, James Boswell’s London Journal, Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, John Wesley’s Sermons and Journals, and Edmund Burke’s Letter to a Noble Lord and his parliamentary speeches on British imperialism in India. Class meetings will be discussion-based.
Students will be expected to acquire these four paperback books: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides, ed. Peter Levi, Penguin English Classics; Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. Womersley, Penguin Classics; James Boswell, Boswell’s London Journal, 1762-1763, ed. Pottle, Yale University Press; Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Edmund Burke’s Speeches and Letters, ed. Bromwich, Yale University Press.

Draper Student Profile: Angela Leroux-Lindsey

2011-12-09T15:37:00.003-05:00

Angela Leroux-Lindsey, an alumna of Ithaca College’s undergraduate communications program, is now a part-time, second year student in Draper. Her primary research interests are Science Studies and literary theory. Through her studies and writing, Angela is eager to explore the intellectual divide between the sciences and the humanities--to analyze and articulate how the two disciplines differ and compare. On top of coursework, Angela also works full time as the administrative aide in NYU’s Comparative Literature department.

A self-described “literary type” and avid reader, Angela became interested in particle physics through extracurricular reading. She’s been a fan of The New Yorker for some time now and credits a 2007 feature on particle physics by Elizabeth Kolbert with initiating her into the world of science writing. From sampling magazine articles, Angela’s independent studies of the scientific community and its advances progressed to eventually become a focal point in her academic work and pursuits. This semester, she is taking her first Science Studies class at Draper.

Although Angela is engrossed in her studies of scientific theory and technology—she finds particle accelerators fascinating and excitedly refers to them as “particle smasheries”—she still is unsure of what her postgraduate endeavors will be. Currently, becoming a science reporter is one of her dream jobs, but Angela is “prepping… to be qualified for any number of things. Hopefully,” she says, “it’ll have something to do with books or words.”

Books and words are unquestionably already part of Angela’s wide-ranging expertise. She edits an online literary magazine, The Adirondack Review, (the winter issue is available now) and also serves as senior editor for Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of the independent publishing company Dzanc. Her role in this ambitious and growing operation – the small team at Black Lawrence published 20 books this past year, doubling the record of years previous – allows her to take on a number of tasks apart from the requisite reading of manuscripts: she organizes literary events throughout the city, updates the press’ social media outlets, and works closely with authors throughout the editing process, which she says “feels very meaningful.”

Angela is also a freelance writer, and a regular reviewer of science books for Kirkus. She decided to critique non-fiction specifically because, she says, plot devices and engaging narrative voices frustrate her attempts at fiction analysis. They entertain her to the point of distraction: “I’m unabashedly, very easily enthused.”

Angela Answers the Draper Dozen

1. When did you start at Draper?

Fall 2010.

2. Are you a full or part-time student?

Part-time; I work full-time at NYU to subsidize my MA tuition.

3. Where are you from?

I grew up just outside of Boston.

4. What are your primary research interests?

Science studies and its intersections with lit theory.

5. Why did you choose to pursue an interdisciplinary degree at Draper?

My interests are sort of widespread, and I wanted a program that would allow me to explore the connecting threads of what could be considered disparate fields.

6. What do you plan to do after Draper?

I’m not sure yet.

7. Do you have any special activities or projects outside of your academic work?

I’m the editor of a literary magazine, as well as for an independent publishing company; I’m also a freelance writer.

8. How does living and studying in New York impact your educational experience?

The access to so many intellectual and artistic outlets—from the NYPL to the Bowery Poetry Club to the World Science Festival—is intoxicating, and really inspires me to participate in events and projects outside of NYU, which in turn inform my academic work.

9. Is there any one place (museum, library, shop, park, etc.) in New York that is your favorite? Why?

That’s an impossible question, ha! I love Central Park, and the Frick, and the Strand, but would have to say that listening to live music or a poetry reading in the East Village is my favorite “place” in the city. Working full-time and being in school can be a hectic schedule, and occasionally it’s a relief to sit, have a drink, and let my mind do nothing but enjoy what’s happening around me.

10. Coffee or tea?

Tea.

11. Are you a fan and/or user of social media? Why or why not?

Sure, I think social media is an easy, effective, and fun way to connect. I use Facebook, I blog.

12. What was the last book you read for fun (not for class or research)?

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also—if I can plug—Instructions for Killing the Jackal by Erica Wright is phenomenal.

13. If you were not in academia, what would you be doing?

I think being a nature photographer would be pretty awesome.

Submit Your Resume for Wasserman's Class of 2012 Resume Book

2011-12-09T12:42:00.000-05:00

Class of 2012 Resume Book Collection
December 12 - January 26, 2012
Graduation will be here before you know it! The early stages of your job search should begin now. Beginning Monday, December 12 - Thursday, January 26 at 3pm, the Wasserman Center for Career Development will collect resumes for theClass of 2012 Resume Books. These books will be distributed to hundreds of employers in industries such as finance, marketing, engineering and technology, advertising, public relations, entertainment, health care, consulting, non-profit, government, education, real estate and many more. and serve as one source for recruiting Class of 2012 graduates.
To be eligible to participate:
- Be officially recognized by the University as receiving an academic degree (Bachelor, Master or PhD) in January, May or September 2012 (certificate candidates, MBAs and Law students are NOT eligible).
- Get your resume critiqued and signed off on by the Wasserman Center of NYU-Poly Career Center staff before the deadline. Click here for the Wasserman walk in hours schedule. Click here for the NYU-Poly walk in hours schedule. This must take place even if a counselor has looked at your resume in the past.

Click here for INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO SUBMIT

The John Brademas Center’s Congressional Internship Program

2011-12-09T12:37:00.000-05:00

Per the NYU Minute newsletter:

John Brademas Center’s Congressional Internship Program

The John Brademas Center Congressional Internship Program provides undergraduate and graduate students with an in-depth look at the U.S. Congress, and gives them an outstanding opportunity to gain knowledge and skills in the field of politics and policymaking at the federal level. The program is an eight- to 10-week paid internship that runs during the summer, and students are placed in the office of a Member of Congress in Washington, D.C., to work on research projects under the supervision of faculty. For more information and the application, visit this website.

Asian American Comics in a "Post-Race" Era, 12/20

2011-12-09T12:29:00.002-05:00

NYPL librarian Raymond Pun invites all Draperites to the following event!

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Program: Asian American Comics in a "Post-Race" Era

Tuesday, December 20th, 1:15-3 pm
in the South Court Auditorium in the NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
42nd St and 5th Ave

More info here:
http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/124820

Teach-In on Immigrant Rights, 12/11

2011-12-09T12:27:00.000-05:00

December 11

Noon - 4:00 PM

61 Broadway at Wall Street (PSC-CUNY Building)

Lunch Provided / Spanish Translation

http://www.facebook.com/events/197525226999799/

The IWJC [http://www.nycga.net/groups/immigrant-worker-justice] is hosting a teach-in on Sunday, Dec 11 that is open to the public. Although immigrants’ and immigrant workers’ rights have been emphasized in protests on the West Coast, these issues and populations have been less attended to in this area. The teach-ins will present an opportunity for people interested in these issues to hear from members of workers' centers, immigrant community groups, and non-traditional labor organizations. Students interested in popular education styles would particularly enjoy themselves.

Internship at Scenarios USA

2011-12-09T11:41:00.001-05:00

Event Planning and Development Intern

Summary:

The Event Planning and Development Intern will work under the supervision of and in close partnership with the Director of Development and the Database Manager. The Event Planning and Development Intern will assist in achieving major development department goals: assist in the management of 2011 REAL DEAL Awards and Gala logistics and work with the Database Manager to develop the resources in Convio Common Ground including input and tracking for the event and foundations/corporations cultivation as well as other database tasks.

The Event Planning and Development Intern is a leading contributor to Scenarios USA program development and Scenarios USA seeks a passionate and persuasive representative of the organization and its mission. Scenarios USA is a small but very accomplished organization. This position will provide a great deal of experience in event planning and development to a responsible and ambitious candidate.

Responsibilities:

Event Planning (75%)

· Assist with production of event journal

· Prepare correspondence: edits, proofreads, and formats reports, documents, etc.

· Research topics as needed for gala

· Assist in the planning and execution of logistics surrounding our annual gala

· Create, organize and maintain program and event files as needed

· Field telephone calls and emails about gala as needed

· Ensure that internal follow-up is completed; assist with follow-up to donors and volunteers

· Enter information into and help manage database

General Development/Database Maintenance (25%)

Assist in the tracking and entering of event donor information
Keep track of event donations
Make copies, collate, and distribute materials
Organize information in electronic and hard copy files

Reports to: Director of Development

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Start Date: ASAP

Hours: 3 days per week – hours flexible

Compensation: lunch and transportation reimbursed

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree

· Superior organizational skills, attention to detail

· Excellent interpersonal and communications skills; ability to interact effectively with a range of stakeholders.

· Fluent English

· Experience in a professional environment

· Experience in supporting program, conference, and/or event planning preferred

· Demonstrated proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, internet research, email, and file management (prefer Microsoft Office Suite); experience with Constant Contact and/or fundraising software preferred

· Commitment to the mission of Scenarios USA

To apply:

Send cover letter and resume by December 18^th, no calls please.

By email: denise@scenariosusa.org

Subject line: Event Planning and Development Intern

By mail: Event Planning and Development Intern Search

Scenarios USA

80 Hanson Place, Suite 305

Brooklyn, New York 11217

Scenarios USA seeks to hire staff who reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.

Equal Opportunity Employer: This position will be filled without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Scenarios USA:

Scenarios USA believes that by valuing youth and investing in their stories, we can strengthen academic achievement, promote civic engagement, and support young people in becoming responsible and healthy individuals. Every aspect of the Scenarios USA program – from the classroom discussion and reflection to the script-writing contest, to the film production, to the public speaking engagements – is a two-way street that gives young people the power to work as full partners with teachers, professional filmmakers, and community and youth advocates. This formula has been proven effective in our program evaluation, and we are proud that The Ford Foundation, our top funder, continues to cite Scenarios USA as a model in the fields of education, youth development and adolescent health. For more information: http://www.scenariosusa.org

NETWORKED NY CONFERENCE- Abstracts due 12/15

2011-12-07T10:16:00.001-05:00

The Colloquium in American Literature and Culture at New York University invites paper proposals for our 2012 spring conference, "Networked New York." This symposium will take place on Friday, March 9, 2012.

We envision this conference as a forum for examining systems of interrelation among writers and artists who live, work, commune, and clash in New York City, whether physical New York (the city's buildings, streetscapes, neighborhoods), digitized New York (its blogs, websites, tweets), or institutional New York (its libraries, archives, museums). We aim to enable discussion about literary, artistic, and intellectual coteries in New York - both historic and contemporary - and to consider the influence of such communities on the cultural production the city generates as well as on the city itself. To these ends, we hope to include papers from a range of historical and disciplinary contexts. Potential paper topics include but are not limited to explorations of the following:

- Neighborhood dynamics and artistic communities
- Collaborations among artists, writers, readers, viewers
- Circulation of ideas and materials
- New York street life and material culture
- Urban space and identity
- Sites, scenes, and modes of interaction
- Digital media and the city

Please send a brief CV and abstract, 300-500 words in length, to Annie Abrams and Blevin Shelnutt at nyucalc@gmail.com by December 15, 2011. Please direct any questions about the conference to this address.

Triple Canopy: Annual Call for Proposals from Artists & Writers

2011-12-07T10:06:00.003-05:00

Triple Canopy is pleased to announce its third annual call for proposals. Commissions will be considered under six project areas and published in the course of the next year. Artistic, editorial, and technical staff will work closely with contributors as they develop the best approach to realizing their projects on the Web, from the conceptual phase to the design and technological production.

Recipients receive:

  • Three to six months of artistic, editorial, and technical support  

• Honorarium of up to $300 as well as material costs  

• Opportunity to present the project to an audience in the form of a reading, workshop, or discussion  

• Opportunity for inclusion in our annual print publication, Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, as well as our ongoing broadsheet series  

• Archiving and long-term maintenance of the final project by technical staff

Applications are due by midnight on Monday, February 13, 2012. Applicants will be notified by March 1 whether their proposals have reached the second round of review. Commission recipients will be announced on April 3. Projects will be developed in collaboration with Triple Canopy for publication in the online magazine (or live presentation in New York) between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013.

View our submission guidelines »

View past commission recipients »

Triple Canopy is an online magazine, workspace, and platform for editorial and curatorial activities. Working collaboratively with writers, artists, and researchers, Triple Canopy facilitates projects that engage the Internet's specific characteristics as a public forum and as a medium, one with its own evolving practices of reading and viewing, economies of attention, and modes of interaction. In doing so, Triple Canopy is charting an expanded field of publication, drawing on the history of print culture while acting as a hub for the exploration of emerging forms and the public spaces constituted around them. Triple Canopy is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.

Triple Canopy gratefully acknowledges The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, The Buddy Taub Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, Chamber Music America, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Experimental TV Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York Council for the Humanities, New York State Council on the Arts, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and the Orphiflamme Foundation, as well as the many individuals and in-kind contributors who have generously given their support.

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2 - 12/9, 7pm

2011-12-07T10:02:00.001-05:00

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2

Friday 7pm | December 09, 2011
NYU Kimmel Center (Room 905/907) | 60 Washington Square S., NYC

Speakers: Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Brian Dominick (Z Media Institute), David Graeber (Author, Debt: The First 5000 Years), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan Schneider (Waging Nonviolence)

The recent #Occupy protests are driven by discontent with the present state of affairs: glaring economic inequality, dead-end Democratic Party politics, and, for some, the suspicion that capitalism could never produce an equitable society. These concerns are coupled with aspirations for social transformation at an international level. For many, the protests at Wall St. and elsewhere provide an avenue to raise questions the Left has long fallen silent on:

What would it mean to challenge capitalism on a global scale?
How could we begin to overcome social conditions that adversely affect every part of life?
And, how could a new international radical movement address these concerns in practice?

Although participants at Occupy Wall St. have managed thus far to organize resources for their own daily needs, legal services, health services, sleeping arrangements, food supplies, defense against police brutality, and a consistent media presence, these pragmatic concerns have taken precedent over long-term goals of the movement. Where can participants of this protest engage in formulating, debating, and questioning the ends of this movement? How can it affect the greater society beyond the occupied spaces?

We in the Platypus Affiliated Society ask participants and interested observers of the #Occupy movement to consider the possibility that political disagreement could lead to clarification, further development and direction. Only when we are able create an active culture of thinking and debating on the Left without it proving prematurely divisive can we begin to imagine a Leftist politics adequate to the historical possibilities of our moment. We may not know what these possibilities for transformation are. This is why we think it is imperative to create avenues of engagement that will support these efforts.

Towards this goal, Platypus will be hosting a series of roundtable discussions with organizers and participants of the #Occupy movement. These will start at campuses in New York and Chicago but will be moving to other North American cities, and to London, Germany, and Greece in the months to come. We welcome any and all who would like to be a part of this project of self-education and potential rebuilding of the Left to join us in advancing this critical moment.

The Platypus Affiliated Society
October 2011

The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.

newyork.platypus1917.org | www.platypus1917.org

Call for Papers: Thinking Through Collapse (Due this Wednesday, Dec. 7)

2011-12-05T11:31:00.000-05:00

Please note the deadline for submission is this Wednesday: December 7th.

Thinking Through Collapse
Friday, March 23, 2012

In the past year we have been confronted with many sites of present and impending collapse: the collapse of oppressive regimes in the Arab world, a global economy pushed to its limits, our own political system in paralysis, the teetering of the fourth estate, continuing environmental collapse and so on. In each of these sites, visions of apocalypse exist alongside those of renewal, inviting the imagination of new forms of organization and sustainability. In the academy, they are prompting new interdisciplinary assessments of the conditions – historical, social, political, economic, cultural, technological – that have brought us to these limits, and are forcing the question: where might we go from here?

In light of the above, the 2012 Neil Postman Graduate Conference takes Thinking Through Collapse as its theme. We hereby invite faculty, masters students and doctoral candidates whose work touches on questions of limits, collapse and renewal across disciplines to submit proposals for our spring conference.

Email mcc.events@nyu.edu ("call for papers" in the subject line) with a 300 word abstract of scholarly or artistic work widely related to the conference theme.

For more details visit: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/about/graduate_conference

Two Weeks from Today...

2011-12-02T16:40:00.002-05:00

Two Important Reminders for Friday, December 16!

Thesis Submission for January Graduates

Please be reminded that those of you who intend to graduate this coming January will need to submit your completed and approved Master's thesis to Draper no later than one month from today: Friday, December 16. Any theses received after 6:00 PM on December 16 will be held over for May graduation. There will be no exceptions.

For more information on thesis guidelines, please see Draper's Web site, here: http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.program.thesisguidelines

All thesis related forms--including a sample cover page and second reader sheets--can also be downloaded from the Draper website, here:http://www.draper.fas.nyu.edu/object/draper.forms

If you have any questions or concerns about the thesis submission or graduation processes, please feel free to email us at draper.program@nyu.edu.

Draper's Year-End Celebration Party

After you've turned in your thesis and/or had your last class for the semester, stop by Draper to celebrate the end of another busy year with food, wine, and general merriment. Feel free to bring your loved ones!

Let us know if you're coming: RSVP to draper.program@nyu.edu.

End of Semester DSO Volunteer Opportunity

2011-12-02T11:32:00.005-05:00

Holiday Volunteer Opportunity!

December 10th

9am-3pm

Variety Boys and Girls Club of Queens

Come out and volunteer at Variety the Children's Charity's annual holiday party, organized by Draper's own Valentine Lysikatos! Variety invites over 1,000 children from all over New York City to enjoy a day filled with crafts, dancing and delicious treats. Volunteers help serve food, face paint, help with craft making and share the merriment of the holidays with children from some of NYC's most underserved communities. For more information and to sign up visit: https://www.facebook.com/varietyny#!/varietyny?sk=app_4949752878 or email dsonyu@gmail.com and we'll send you the form.

Threesis Challenge: Win $1K

2011-12-02T11:15:00.005-05:00

The Graduate School of Arts and Science announces the second annual GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge!

Qualifying rounds take place March 30, 2012 and finalists compete on March 31, 2012.

The Threesis Challenge is an academic competition where GSAS master's students present the work of their thesis/final project (e.g., creative project, science experiment and/or research paper) to a panel of three faculty judges in accessible language that a non-expert can understand in three minutes or less. Competitors are judged on how well they grasp the subject of their thesis, their ability to discuss the topic to non-experts and presentation skills.

Students compete for grand prize of a $1,000 and other prizes while learning to organize ideas and speak about them persuasively in a fun academic atmosphere. This competition is adopted from the Three Minute Thesis Challenge currently taking place in Australia and New Zealand. The Master's College is proud to bring this "American Idol" style academic competition to this hemisphere.

You can watch a video highlighting last year’s Threesis Academic Challenge for an inside view of how it works. Just click this link: http://gsas.nyu.edu/object/gsas.masterscollege.thethreesischallenge

Applications are available in the Draper office. Completed submissions are due to gsas.threesis@nyu.edu by January 31, 2012.

Poe Showcase - Thursday, 12/1

2011-11-30T11:41:00.000-05:00

Community members and NYU students will come together to showcase an array of artistic mediums in celebration of Edgar Allan Poe. Drama, readings, animation and artwork are just a few of the creative expressions that will highlight the life and work of this mysterious story-teller.

Reception to follow in the Poe Room. This event is free and open to the public. Please bring photo ID for entry. Click here to print a flyer for this event.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

6:00 - 8:00 PM

NYU's School of Law

Furman Hall, Room 216

245 Sullivan Street

New York, NY 10012

(between West 3rd Street and Washington Square South)

RSVP to NYU's Office of Government and Community Affairs at 212.998.2400 or community.affairs@nyu.edu.

Sponsored by: NYU's Office of Government and Community Affairs and Lois Rakoff, Community Director of the Poe Room

Conference on "Commodities and Migration," December 8 & 9, 2011

2011-11-30T11:32:00.001-05:00

Commodities and Migration: Things out of Place

Conference: December 8-10, 2011

Department of English, New York University

Migrations move not only people but also things. This conference will consider the ways in which movements of people have changed the meanings, uses and exchanges of the things they carried, the things they left behind, the things they came to sell, to plant, to propagate or to re-function. Reading commodities in their travel, circulation and translation into new forms allows us new means to study material cultures, migration histories and diasporas. What are the changes in meaning, use, or value of a commodity when it migrates or when it is transformed by a migrating person or population? What happens to commodities across time and space? Translation? Profanation? Vernacularization? Authentification?

This is the third and final conference of the Leverhulme-funded international research network ‘Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World, 1851-1914’ (www.commoditiesandculture.org).

The conference will feature a two-day public conference open to all on December 8^th and 9th, followed by a one-day workshop limited to the network participants and invitees on December 10th.

Program

December 8

Great Room, 19 University Place

9.30-9.45: Welcome and Introduction

9.45-11.00: Session 1

Elaine Freedgood (English, NYU)

"Ghostly Migrations"

Priyanka Anne Jacob (Ph.d. student, Princeton)

"A Taste for Catholic Spoils: Fashion, Dispossession, and Equivocal Objects in Daniel Deronda."

Mia Chen (Ph.d. student, CUNY)

"Money/Commodity/Fetish: Hard Cash and Paranoid Capitalism."

Chair: Tanya Agathocleous (English, Hunter College, CUNY)

11.00-11.15: Coffee

11.15-1.15: Session 2

Zeynep Celik (Distinguished Professor of Architecture, New Jersey School of Architecture, NJIT)

"In Algiers: Persistent Memories, Mobile Memorials."

Adam McKeown (History, Columbia University)

"Rethinking the 'Coolie': Chinese Labor as Commodity"

Isobel Armstrong (Emeritus Professor of English, Birkbeck, University of London)

“The Traffic in Representations”

Chair: Jini Watson (English, NYU)

1.15-2.15: Lunch

2.15-3.30: Session 3

Arjun Appadurai (Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU)

“Objects and Persons in the Age of Financialization”

Hasia Diner (Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, NYU)

"Roads Taken: Jewish Peddlers and the Discovery of Their New World."

Chair: Brian Murray (English, King’s College, London)

3.30-3.45: Coffee

3.45-5.00: Session 4

Martin Harries (English, NYU)

“Dog Food, Ending in Beckett”

Elizabeth DeLoughrey (English, UCLA)

“Natural Modernities: Shells of War”

Chair: Patrick Deer (English, NYU)

5.00-6.15: Session 5

Josephine McDonagh (English, King’s College, London)

“Village Peoples”

Supriya Chaudhuri (English, Jadavpur University)

“Migrated Objects: Between Commodity and Fetish”

Chair: Judith Plotz (English, The George Washington University)

6.30-8.00: Reception

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Friday, December 9^th.

Great Room, 19 University Place

9.30-11.00: Session 6

Regenia Gagnier (English, University of Exeter)

‘Dream of a Red Language: on the Global Circulation of Critical Literatures.’

Ian Henderson (English, King’s College, London)

‘Victoria's Planet: commodities, culture and 'her subjects at the antipodes'.’

Respondent: Paul Young (English, University of Exeter)

11.00-11.15: Coffee

11.15-12.45: Session 7

Stephen Muecke (University of New South Wales)

'The Composition and Decomposition of the Commodity'

Marget Long (Cooper Union)

‘The Jenny Lind Head Rest and Notes on Feeling Photography Less’

Respondent: Toral Gajarawala (English, NYU)

12.45-1.30: Session 8

Elizabeth Gunner (WISER, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)

'Soundwaves - Radio as Commodity and Object of Dispute: South Africa in 1960'.

Respondent: Joseph Napolitano (Ph.d. student, English, NYU)

1.30-2.15: lunch

2.15-3.30: Session 8

Alison Wood (Post-doctoral fellow, Cambridge University)

‘Zoological Things, Global Traffic and the Idea of a Secular Clerisy.’

Rabia Shahzad (Ph.d. student, English, NYU)

‘From Deception to Dexterity: The Indian Juggler and the English Fakir’

Fariha Shaikh (Ph.d. student, English, King’s College, London)

‘‘Mystical Holes' and 'Crooked Pins': The Production of Authenticity in Printed Emigrants' Letters’

Respondent: John Maynard (English, NYU)

3.30: 3.45: Coffee

The conference is generously supported by: the Leverhulme Trust, UK; the Humanities Initiative, NYU; Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU; the Anglophone Project, NYU; Department of English, NYU; the Fales Library and special Collections, NYU; Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, NYU; and RH Gallery, New York.

Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference: This Thursday and Friday (12/1; 12/2) at Gallatin

2011-11-30T11:05:00.001-05:00

To the NYU and NYC Community:

Please join the Gallatin Writing Program at: VISIONS COINCIDING: An ELIZABETH BISHOP CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE, THIS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1ST and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2ND.

Co-organized by the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study and the Poetry Society of America, with the support of the NYU Humanities Initiative.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 1 Washington Place

THURSDAY, 12/1

6-6:45 pm: Seeing Elizabeth Bishop, by Eric Karpeles

7-8:30 pm: Bishop in Brazil Screening & Discussion, by Helena Blaker, Brett Millier, Barbara Page, and Lloyd Schwartz, with Alice Quinn

FRIDAY, 12/1

1-2:30 pm: Elizabeth Bishop and Modern Art, by William Benton and Peggy Samuels, with Lisa Goldfarb

3-4:30 pm: Editors' Roundtable, by Joelle Biele, Saskia Hamilton, Lloyd Schwartz and Thomas Travisono, with Jonathan Galassi

5-6pm: Gallatin Poet/Poetry Teacher and Student Poetry Reading, by Emily Fragos, Scott Hightower, and students Jacqueline Allen, Emma Behnke, Stephanie Rodas and Luke Vargas

6:30-8 pm: Celebratory Poetry Reading, by Frank Bidart, John L. Koethe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maureen McLane, Mark Strand and Jean Valentine

RSVP & questions: WP Coordinator Molly Kleiman, mollykleiman@nyu.edu

In new window Print all NYU International Education Grad Student Conference, 2012 - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

2011-11-30T11:01:00.000-05:00

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - 2012 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE

*** Submission Deadline: Monday, January 16, 2012***

The International Education program at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development is pleased to host its Seventh Annual International Education conference. We invite abstracts for presentations at the conference, to be held at New York University’s Washington Square campus, March 29 and 30, 2012.

This year’s conference, "Advancing Global Education in Austere Times" seeks to bring together academics and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to discuss the impact of a global climate of austerity on the provision of education. Improving quality and extending access remain aspirations at all levels of education globally, but cuts to public spending and international development assistance will undoubtedly affect these objectives. Specifically, we seek to explore:

• How does austerity affect the development, implementation and evaluation of education in different contexts? Who are the main actors in these processes and what are their roles?

• How does the impact of austerity vary globally? Does austerity hinder the provision of education or can it be beneficial?

• Are there constructive responses to austerity measures for academics and practitioners to undertake? Where and to whom can we look for these ideas?

Proposals not directly related to these themes are also welcome.

The interdisciplinary field of international education provides a unique opportunity to address these topics from a variety of academic and practical perspectives. Participants from any discipline are encouraged to apply. By bringing together scholars, researchers, and practitioners, we hope to come to new understandings of the nature of our work in the field and in the classroom. Both doctoral and masters' students are encouraged to submit proposals, as this is a graduate student conference.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

We seek individual and/or group proposals for paper presentations. We will primarily use panel format for our sessions, although proposals for other kinds of presentations may be submitted. Individual papers will be grouped in topical panels, arranged after proposals have been accepted and confirmed. LCD projectors and Power-point equipped PC laptops will be available for all sessions.

Individual Paper Proposals:

* Title of paper

* Presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, and title

* Mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers

* An abstract of 150-200 words

* Three keyword descriptors

Group Paper Proposals:

* Title of the panel session

* All names, institutional affiliations and titles

* All mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, telephones and fax numbers

* An abstract of 150-200 words for the panel

* An abstract of 150-200 words for each individual paper

* Keyword descriptors for panel

Please e-mail your submissions to nyu.inted@gmail.com by Monday, January 16, 2012.

LOCATION AND LODGING

The 2012 Conference will be hosted at New York University’s Washington Square campus, primarily in buildings associated with the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Information about travel to and from New York, accommodation options, fees, and procedures will be provided in a few weeks. Please visit our website, http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/conference/ieconf2012 for further information.

Free NYU Chorale Concert Tomorrow, 12/1

2011-11-30T10:57:00.002-05:00

Draper student Sonia Nayak is part of the NYU Chorale, which will be performing in concert tomorrow night: Vivaldi Magnificat, Mozart Ave Verum, and Schubert Mass in G, under the direction of Maestro David Rosenmeyer.

Thursday, December 1

Frederick Loewe Theater -- 35 W. 4th St.

8:00pm

Admission is free!

Internship Opportunity Through Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Spring 2012

2011-11-30T10:46:00.001-05:00

Guantánamo Public Memory Project
Research Internship Spring 2012

About the Guantánamo Public Memory Project
“Guantánamo” has become an international symbol of torture, detention, national security, and conflict over America’s “War on Terror.” After more than a decade of bitter struggle over whether and how to “close Guantánamo,” in 2011, nearly 200 prisoners remain at the US naval station, or GTMO. The unique qualities of the site – its legal ambiguity, political isolation and geographic proximity, and architectures of confinement – have been used and reused for a wide range of people and purposes. These include Cuban workers in exile after the Revolution; Haitian refugees with HIV, first welcomed as asylum seekers but then confined in tent cities as threats to public health; and the War on Terror’s “enemy combatants.” GTMO and its residents have been inextricable, if often invisible, parts of America’s deepest policy conflicts: immigration, public health, human rights, and national security.

The Guantánamo Public Memory Project seeks to build public awareness of the century-long history of the US naval station at Guantánamo, Bay, Cuba, and foster dialogue on the future of this place and the policies it shapes. The Project will collect stories, documents, photos, videos artwork, and oral testimonies from different perspectives and time periods throughout GTMO’s 100 year history. It will bring that material to the public through a website, traveling exhibit, curriculum, public programs, and other media. The Project will also invite diverse people to share their own stories of GTMO and engage in debate about the larger issues this site and others like it across the world raise. It originated as a project of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, which currently serves on the Steering Committee for the Project. The Project is now being developed by a growing collaboration of universities and organizations, coordinated from Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights as part of its Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability.

About the Position
Researchers will identify and compile primary and secondary source material on GTMO’s history in a variety of media to serve as the foundation for an exhibit opening December 2012 and a curriculum to be used starting September 2012. The exhibit and curriculum have been divided into themes/subject areas. For each, researchers will:

Compile a packet of material, including secondary sources that provide background on the subject, articles, websites, images, video footage, oral histories and candidates for interviews.
Research, price, and secure permissions for images and any other material that requires it.

In addition, researchers will:

Conduct research for rapid response to events in the media (anniversaries; histories of particular camps; historical perspective on new decisions) as necessary.
Report regularly to other members of the Project team (other historical researchers, oral historians, bibliography developers), coordinating searches and sharing material as necessary.

Qualifications

Ability to commit at least 10 hours/week for at least one full semester
Graduate student in history, public history, museum studies, education, American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, or related field
Background and research experience in one or more subject areas related to GTMO’s history, such as 19th/early 20th century American imperialism, Caribbean studies, refugee policy, military history, Cold War
Knowledge of Spanish or Haitian Creole a plus
Excellent organization skills and ability to work independently and creatively

How to Apply
Please send resume and cover letter to guantanamo@columbia.edu

The deadline for applications is December 16, 2011.

Two American Lit and Culture Talks at NYU Tomorrow

2011-11-28T13:57:00.001-05:00

The New York University

Colloquium in American Literature and Culture

presents

Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870-1893

A talk by Professor Mark Noonan of New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

and

The New York World, The Cosmopolitan, and the Race to Write the World American

A talk by Professor Kevin Riordan of NYU Abu Dhabi

Tuesday, November 29

13-19 University Place, Great Room

New York University

6:00 p.m.

All are welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2011-11-23T13:00:00.003-05:00

NYU offices (including Draper) will close at 4:00 PM today in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The office will remain closed on Thursday and Friday, but we'll be back open during regular business hours on Monday, November 28.

Have a great holiday!

For some holiday-inspired laughs, check out the "Literary Turducken" fest on Twitter. "The Literary Turducken combines not one, not two, but three classic works into one, in the spirit of the turkey+duck+chicken creole classic."

GSAS Funding Opportunity Open to MA Students

2011-11-23T12:52:00.001-05:00

Dear Students:

The application deadline for the Delores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship is Friday, January 6, 2012.

in.ter.reg.num

Dalai Lama Fellowship Available, 2012 - 2013

GREEN CARD STORIES - THE FACE OF IMMIGRATION AND REFORM

Monday, January 30

Call for Objects: Lucrece Project, NYU English

Grant in Arts Inclusion: Disability, Design, Curation (Deadline Feb. 15)

Recycle Your Old Cell Phones, Glasses, Greeting Cards at NYU in February!

Call For Submissions: Anamesa Spring 2012

Thought You Might Enjoy This Song

Shift - Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, Issue 5 Reminder

Call for Proposals, Triple Canopy, Due February 13

View our submission guidelines »

View past commission recipients »

GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: One Week Until Deadline (1/31)

Important News from the Wasserman Center for Career Development

NYUAD Lecture Series in NY: Contemporary Photography in the Middle East

Anamesa Spring Kickoff Party THIS FRIDAY (1/27)

CFP: 2012 AGLSP ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Draper Student Profile: Samuel Belkin

Happy First Day of Classes

CFP: Principals of Uncertainty, CUNY Grad Center (Comp Lit): Abstracts Due 3/1

Religion as Media: Spring 2012 Course Open for Enrollment

Grad Eng Class Open to Outside Students: Enlightenment & Counter-Enlightenment in Britain

The Affect Factory: Conference, Co-Sponsored by Draper (Feb. 10-11)

CFP Deadline Extended for UVic 2012 CSPT Conference

Graduate Students: Join NYU Libraries for Spring Welcome Week Workshops

Cyber Crime. Discussion w/ SEN Gillibrand, Helen Nissenbaum (1/23)

Steinhardt Courses Open to Draper Students

Graduate Student Workshops at Bobst

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

GSAS New Student Spring 2012 Orientation

Spring Course: From Third World to Global South

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

CFP: How to End a Revolution? Interdisciplinary Humanities Grad Conference, Harvard (Due 1/31)

Call for Papers: EQUINOXES Conference

Apply for GSAS' Second Annual Threesis Challenge for MA Students: Applications Due 1/31

Deadline: Delores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship Apps Due 1/6

Elective Options

Happy New Year from NYU Libraries!

UVic Cultural, Social and Political Thought CFP

Extended Deadline: NYU CALC "Networked New York," Mar. 9, 2012 (deadline Jan. 5)

Draper and Anamesa parties this Friday, 12/16!

Thesis Submission & Thesis Topic Approval Due Today, 12/16

Museum Studies Course, Spring '12

Foucault Society Colloquium: Wednesday, 12/14

Open English Courses of Potential Interest

Draper Student Profile: Angela Leroux-Lindsey

Submit Your Resume for Wasserman's Class of 2012 Resume Book

Class of 2012 Resume Book CollectionDecember 12 - January 26, 2012

The John Brademas Center’s Congressional Internship Program

Asian American Comics in a "Post-Race" Era, 12/20

Teach-In on Immigrant Rights, 12/11

Internship at Scenarios USA

NETWORKED NY CONFERENCE- Abstracts due 12/15

Triple Canopy: Annual Call for Proposals from Artists & Writers

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2 - 12/9, 7pm

What is the Occupy Movement? pt. 2

Friday 7pm | December 09, 2011NYU Kimmel Center (Room 905/907) | 60 Washington Square S., NYC

Speakers: Hannah Appel (OWS Think Tank Working Group), Brian Dominick (Z Media Institute), David Graeber (Author, Debt: The First 5000 Years), Erik Van Deventer (NYU), Nathan Schneider (Waging Nonviolence)

Call for Papers: Thinking Through Collapse (Due this Wednesday, Dec. 7)

Two Weeks from Today...

End of Semester DSO Volunteer Opportunity

Threesis Challenge: Win $1K

Poe Showcase - Thursday, 12/1

Conference on "Commodities and Migration," December 8 & 9, 2011

Elizabeth Bishop Centennial Conference: This Thursday and Friday (12/1; 12/2) at Gallatin

In new window Print all NYU International Education Grad Student Conference, 2012 - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Free NYU Chorale Concert Tomorrow, 12/1

Internship Opportunity Through Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Spring 2012

Two American Lit and Culture Talks at NYU Tomorrow

Happy Thanksgiving!

GSAS Funding Opportunity Open to MA Students

Class of 2012 Resume Book Collection
December 12 - January 26, 2012

Friday 7pm | December 09, 2011
NYU Kimmel Center (Room 905/907) | 60 Washington Square S., NYC