Draper's own Chuck Wachtel (who teaches The Human Fact each fall) will be reading from his new novel 3/03 at the NYU Bookstore on Thursday, November 4th at 7:00 PM. He will be joined by South African poet and and activist Breyten Breytenbach, who will read from his recent poetry collection Voice Over: A Nomadic Conversation with Mahmoud Darwish.North American Archaeology Lab
ANNOUNCEMENT
The North American Archaeology Department of the American Museum of Natural History is now accepting applications for our spring Lab Intern Researcher positions. Our spring Intern Researchers will staff the North American Archaeology (NAARCH) Lab. The NAARCH Lab handles, stores, and analyzes a wide variety of artifacts from an extensive temporal and spatial range. Past Lab Researchers have had the opportunity to work with lithics, Native American ceramics, historic European pottery, Spanish colonial material culture, and a large number of other material culture types. Analysis techniques include basic lab organization, cataloging, artifact analysis, and artifact labeling. In addition to lab work, interns will also be considered to take part in our ongoing fieldwork program on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, USA. Our fieldwork package supports room and board, transportation, and a stipend of $12.00 per hour for three weeks.
Individuals interested in joining the NAARCH Lab internship should be highly motivated, patient, and detail-oriented. We will be accepting applications from both upper level undergraduates as well as graduate students. Individuals who have not yet completed their sophomore year need not apply unless they have extensive experience that off-sets their lack of academic training. Prior archaeological experience in either the field or in the lab is not necessary, but will be a factor in our selection.
Lab Researcher positions are unpaid volunteer positions with museum perks while working in the lab in New York. However, if accepted to the fieldwork component, interns are compensated according to the above stated rates. Course credit will be offered to those individuals currently enrolled in an accredited school of higher learning. The term of the internship will be from mid January through the end of May. The museum asks 18 hours a week (3 days) from its Lab Staff.
Applications will be accepted until December 1, 2010 and few positions exist Interested applicants should submit a resume or CV, three references with contact information, and a 1-page statement of purpose. The statement of purpose should briefly outline the applicant’s prior experience in archaeology as well as their future plans within the discipline. Individuals with questions should feel free to email rcajigas@amnh.org at the NAARCH Lab. Additionally, applicants may also apply by filing out and submitting the Internship Application from the Anthropology Internship webpage and specifying their interest in North American Archaeology.
Applications may be sent to rcajigas@amnh.org or mailed to:
Rachel Cajigas
Anthropology Department
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West @ 79th Street
New York, New York 10024-5192
19th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
Feb 25th – 26th, 2011
Deadline for submission: November 19, 2010
Website: http://www.coloquiout.org/
Facebook group: UT Spanish and Portuguese 19th Colloquium
Our Graduate Student Organization proudly organizes and hosts this event providing graduate students working in the areas of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature and linguistics with an opportunity to share their current research and further their professional development. This year’s theme is “Reversing the Fall of Babel: Fragmented Unities”. The myth of the Tower of Babel reminds us of a time in which a common language peacefully united humanity. However, a desire to surpass human limitations brought about divine wrath leading to the destruction of the tower. Chaos, discord and confusion emerged from the rupture of humanity into disparate nations each with its own unique language. This myth has been perpetuated throughout history, from the projects of imperial and colonial expansion and their epic encounters with the Other, to the modern conception of the nation founded on unity, which ironically, continues to emphasize that nations are fundamentally fragmented.
We would like to offer literature students a space to think about the discourses, projects, theories and movements that have emerged, diverged or converged, as well as the processes of dispersion, deconstruction or construction inspired by the myth of the Tower of Babel. Likewise, we invite students of linguistics to explore present-day manifestations of this symbolic division as it relates to the outcomes of linguistic and cultural contact, variation and change.
Our keynotes speakers are:
Nicolau Sevcenko (Harvard)
Ana C. Zentella (UC San Diego)
José Quiroga (Emory).
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Linguistics:
Language Contact • Diachronic Variation & Change • Synchronic Variation & Change • Bilingualism • Language Policy • Language Typology • Language Attitudes & Ideology • Code-switching • Spanish- & Portuguese-based Creoles • Language Maintenance & Language Shift
Literature and Cultural Studies:
Myths of Primordial Unity and Ruptures • Foundational Literature and Forgotten Nations • Cultural Representations of Hybrid Identities • Diaspora, Migration and Exile • Utopias or Dystopias • Epic Encounters, Travel Narratives and Alternative Cartographies • Emergence of Scientific Discourse in the Humanities • Violence, Chaos and Fragmented Urban Spaces • Hygiene and Medical Discourse • Globalization, Displacement and Deterritorialization • Biopolitics, Gender and Race • Visual and Ethnomusicological Approaches • Discourse of New Media and Digital Technologies • Natural Disasters and Eco-Criticism • Postwar literature • Literature and Religion
Workshop
There will bee some workshops on linguistics and academic journal production.
A SANCTUARY FOR THE ARTS
JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH AND THE AVANT-GARDE 1954-1977
EXHIBITION AT FALES LIBRARY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY *
OCTOBER 28, 2010 TO JANUARY 7, 2011
DO NOT MISS THE OPENING OF THIS EXCITING EXHIBITION THAT WILL EXPLORE THE SYNERGIES BETWEEN THE ARTISTS WHO PERFORMED AT JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH IN THE 1960S AND 70S AND THE CHURCH MINISTRY AND CONGREGATION.
O P E N I N G N I G H T :
THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 2010 (Free Admission)
Roundtable Discussion: 6:30 pm at Judson moderated by Deborah Jowitt.
Participants will include Essie Borden, Malcolm Goldstein, Carolee Schneemann, and Yvonne Rainer.
Reception Immediately Following At Fales Library (around 7:45 pm, 2 blocks east of Judson at the NYU Library)
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29 & 30, 2010 **
Two Performances IN HONOR OF JUDSON with work by Toby ARMOUR, Arthur AVILES, Remy CHARLIP, Malcolm GOLDSTEIN, Aileen PASSLOFF, Yvonne RAINER, Carolee SCHNEEMANN, EmmaGrace SKOVE-EPES, and Elaine SUMMERS
8:00 PM AT JUDSON, TICKETS $20 (students/seniors $10)
RESERVE TICKETS: www.judson.org or (917) 727-0431
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square S.
New York City
www.judson.orgFales Library and Special Collections
Bobst Library, 3rd Floor
Tracey/Barry GalleryNew York University
70 Washington Square South
New York CityExhibition hours at Fales Library are:
Monday - Thursday: 10:00 - 5:45
Friday: 10:00 - 4:45
Closed on weekendsThe exhibition at Fales will remain open until 8:00 pm on Friday evening before the performance.
Yvonne Rainer’s Terrain. William Davis, Albert Reid, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton (missing Judith Dunn). Lighting by Robert Rauschenberg. Performed in An Evening of Dance. Photograph by Al Giese, 1963. *Curator, Joanna Steinberg. **Artistic Director, Aileen Passloff; produced by Nicole and Michael Bloom.
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