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 |  | November 2007 | Visiting Scholar and Senior Visiting Scholar Positions
The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women is pleased to
announce their annual call for Visiting Scholars. Please note we have
added The Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Scholar position. Read below for
the descriptions.
2008-2009
The Muriel Gold
SENIOR VISITING SCHOLAR
McGILL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND
TEACHING ON WOMEN
The McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW) invites
applications for the position of Senior Visiting Scholar with the
Centre. This position is open to feminist scholars who wish to spend a
minimum of one academic term at McGill in order to carry out their
research. The Centre offers office space and support, an ongoing seminar
series, contact with other scholars within McGill and in neighbouring
universities - all this located at the centre of a stimulating,
bilingual, urban environment. The Scholar will be expected to take an
active role in the life of the Centre and to present a paper in the
seminar series while in residence at the MCRTW. The award will be in the
amount of $5,000.00.
If interested, please write and include
* a curriculum vitae,
* a brief outline of the research to be undertaken,
* two recent short publications,
* the names of two referees.
Send to:
Professor Marguerite Deslauriers, Director
McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women,
3487 Peel Street, 2nd floor,
Montreal, Qc H3A 1W7
| |  | | | IAS-STS Fellowship Programme 2008-2009
IAS-STS Fellowship Programme 2008-2009
The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary
investigation of the links and interactions between science,
technology and society as well as technology assessment
and research into the development and implementation of
socially and environmentally sound technologies.
The IAS-STS invites researchers to apply for a stay between
1 October 2008 and 30 June 2009 as
- Research Fellow (up to nine months) or as
- Visiting Scholar (shorter period, e.g. a month).
The IAS-STS offers excellent research infrastructure. Close
co-operation with researchers at the IFZ (Inter-University
Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture;
see: www.ifz.tugraz.at ), guest lectures, workshops and
conferences provide an atmosphere of creativity and
scholarly discussion.
Furthermore we can offer five grants (up to EUR 1,000 per
month) for long-term Research Fellows (up to nine months)
at the IAS-STS.
The Fellowship Programme 2008-2009 is dedicated to
projects investigating the following issues:
1. Gender – Technology – Environment
Women with their various interests, competencies and
potentials play an important part in the process of shaping
socially sound and environmentally friendly sustainable
technologies – as users and consumers or experts.
Applications should focus on research in the field of women
in traditionally male fields of engineering, on ways of
creating cultures of success for women engineers (students,
graduates), and on masculinity and the culture of engineering.
2. New Genetics and Modern Biotechnology
A focus of the Fellowship Programme lies on research
providing a critical analysis either of human genetic research
or of modern biotechnology. Researchers investigating either
ethical, legal and social aspects of genetic testing in the
medical domain or risk policy and wider governance issues
related to agricultural biotechnology are especially
encouraged to apply.
3. Technology Studies and Sustainability
Fellowships will be awarded for research projects contributing
to the issue of sustainable development from the perspective
of social studies or the history and philosophy of science and
technology. Projects should aim at socio-economic aspects of
environmental technologies or at strategies of environmental
technology policy, such as user participation, strategic niche
management or ecological product policy. We encourage both
theoretical analysis as well as empirical case studies and
implementation research. As a special grant within this
thematical focus the Manfred-Heindler-grant for research
projects on the increased use of renewable energies and
on a more efficient use of energy will be awarded.
4. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
A focus of the Fellowship Programme will be put on novel
developments based on ICT from an STS point of view.
Topics like ICT and agency, ubiquitous computing or ICT and
mobility shall be analysed with respect to their wider social and
political implications. Further issues of interest are the social
shaping of ICT developments, innovation policies, risk
management and participatory approaches to the design of
ICT systems and applications.
Applications must be submitted to the IAS-STS
by 31 December 2007.
| | | | October 2007 | Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.
EDUCATION | October 3, 2007
On Education: Exploring Ways to Shorten the Ascent to a Ph.D.
By JOSEPH BERGER
For those who attempt it, the doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon like Everest, gleaming invitingly as a challenge but often turning into a masochistic exercise once the ascent is begun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/education/03education.html?ex=1192420800&en=f64d33b92f67a6f0&ei=5070&emc=eta1
NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018
Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
| | | | | Family & Productivity - Flourish Newsletter
Editor: Wendy Belcher
Web: www.wendybelcher.com
A Free Electronic Newsletter for Scholarly Writers
October 2007, vol. 3, no. 9
Family and Productivity
If you wondered whether your family was helping or hindering your scholarship, new research suggests that academics who are married or have children do fine in terms of productivity (J. Price 2006). A couple of years ago, some scary studies were published about how women with young children were less likely to get tenure or be promoted than anyone else, while men with children were more likely to get tenure and be promoted (National Science Foundation 2004). But another large study found that having a family has very little effect on the actual productivity of either female or male faculty ( Sax, Hagedorn, Arredondo, Dicrisi 2002). Women with families are just as productive as women without families.
In other words, the gender gap in publication rates, which has steadily been closing, is not explained by the weight of domestic responsibilities. Rather, this slightly lower rate seems to have more to do with women’s not prioritizing advancement and field recognition at this time in their lives (Sax, Hagedorn, Arredondo, Dicrisi 2002).
This isn’t to imply that male and female faculty experience family responsibilities in the same way. Among men and women with the same publication rates, female faculty did more work around the home and spent fewer hours per week on writing and research than male faculty. This is really interesting to me. Women seemed to be more efficient, producing the same amount of writing in less time. This reflects another finding about women, that women faculty at research universities seemed to do better at publishing steadily, rather than falling into the extremes of no publications or a very high number of publications (Sax, Hagedorn, Arredondo, Dicrisi 2002).
Another useful article on this topic is one by Mary Frank Fox, who is a reader of Flourish. She looks at the relationships among marriage, parental status, and publication productivity for tenured men and women in academic science. She does an excellent job of teasing out the way that these factors affect academics in different ways at different points in their lives. For instance, for women, being married to another academic often correlates with less productivity on a first marriage but more productivity on a second marriage ( Fox 2005).
| | | | September 2007 | Please join us -- Reception-Sept 19
Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST)
The Women’s Resource Center (WRC)
and the Georgia Tech ADVANCE Professors
Cordially invite you to join us in a reception welcoming new women faculty
and thanking WST mentors, WRC student leaders, and the WST
Learning Community for their contributions to campus life
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
2-3:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech Library East Commons
| | | | | Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women
The ADVANCE Program at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce that Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women will be available in early October 2007. Published by the University of Michigan Press, Transforming Science and Engineering contains information about specific initiatives that have been successful in meeting the goals of improving the work environment for academic women scientists and engineers. These initiatives were developed in the context of NSF's ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program, but can be applied by institutions without special external funding. Chapters include discussion of both theoretical and empirical research undergirding the initiatives; the emphasis is on the practical issues involved in creating the initiatives, and evidence that they have desired effects. The book, which includes materials from other ADVANCE institutions, was co-edited by Abigail Stewart, Janet Malley, and Danielle Lavaque-Manty at the University of Michigan. More information is available by visiting http://sitemaker.umich.edu/advance/transforming.
| | | | April 2007 | IAC Faculty luncheon - Please Hold the Date
Dear Colleagues,
Please join us for the Ivan Allen College-wide Faculty luncheon Monday, April 23rd, 2007, from Noon to 1:30pm in the Student Center Ballroom. RSVP
with your choice of lunch to Carol Silvers,
carol.silvers@iac.gatech.edu, by noon on April 17th.
In addition to the opportunity to see your colleagues from across the College, the luncheon will feature a panel and discussion on Building Interdisciplinary Research Teams with four distinguished panelists from across Georgia Tech:
Marilyn Brown - Professor of Public Policy
http://www.spp.gatech.edu/faculty/faculty/mbrown.php
Judith Curry - Professor and Chair of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
http://www.eas.gatech.edu/people/faculty/curry.htm
Glenn Rix - Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/fac_staff/research_bio.php?active_id=gr16
Craig Zimring - Professor of Architecture
http://www.coa.gatech.edu/phd/faculty/zimring/zimring.htm
| | | | | Further on: Language, gender, & power in the workplace.
Lunch/discussion on "Language, Gender, and Power in the Workplace"
Sponsored by GT Faculty Career Development Services (FCDS - directed by Monique Tavares)
Tuesday, April 10, 11 am - 12:30 pm
Crescent Room in the Student Commons
RSVP:
Mary Frank Fox
| | | | March 2007 | Five post doc positions in gender and science
Five post doc positions in gender and science
Last day of application: 30 March
Centre for Gender Research is currently engaged upon expanding its
resources for research within the newly started programme of gender
excellence, Nature/culture Boundaries and Transgressive Encounters. Uppsala
Centre for Gender Research has quickly developed into a unique place of
meeting for scientists and students with a range of disciplinary
backgrounds unprecedented in Sweden. From the beginning concrete and
focused efforts have rendered organisational and scientific boundary
transgressions possible. These interdisciplinary research and teaching
efforts has rendered quick results and produced networks between the
cultural and natural sciences that we now will explore further. The
objectives for the five-year programme is thus to uphold a research
environment that boosts empirical investigations and theoretical
reflections on how gender and gendered knowledge is produced in the
borderland between the cultural and the natural sciences in empirical
research, theory development and teaching.
The Centre for Gender Research is a research intense unit, consisting of
about 20 researchers from different disciplines. We are now recruiting
additional post-docs for full-time, one-year positions. Successful
applicants have some kind of "double" competence - gender research and
science - in one of the following research areas:
1) Gender and physics. The interface between gender research and physics
has mostly been restricted to understand "women in science"; conditions,
power-relations, mechanisms of exclusion and the like. We encourage
applicants to focus on questions about gendered knowledge and materiality.
2) Gender and animal research. Animal research has traditionally, with some
very important exceptions, been viewed as "outside" of gender and feminist
concerns. Applicants in this area are welcomed to focus on issues
concerning the gendering of animals, and the animaling of gender, in
biological and other research.
3) Trans-disciplinary feminist didactics. Gender didactics is an
undeveloped field, mainly in Sweden but also internationally. At the same
time it is pivotal in all gender research to understand how gender is
communicated. Hence teaching is the key to transdisciplinary encounters,
which is why a national knowledge base in gender didactics is expected to
contribute to deepen the planned trans-disciplinary research and theory
development. To meet this requirement, we invite a visiting scientist
position in feminist didactics who will start the building of such a
knowledge base.
The persons we are looking for have different disciplinary backgrounds, and
may therefore be researchers in for example pedagogy, history of science,
sociology, biology or physics. The anticipated starting date is 1 August 2007.
Applicants should have a doctorate or equivalent, a strong record of
research achievement at an international level in the study of gender and
science, and the demonstrated capacity to publish in top-rated journals and
to present at international conferences. The successful candidate is
expected to contribute imaginatively to the design and delivery of the
excellence programme. Further details, including how to apply, is available
at www.uu.gender.se/node6. Questions may be posed to Professor Margaretha
Fahlgren, Margaretha.Fahlgren@gender.uu.se or PhD Tora Holmberg,
Tora.Holmberg@gender.uu.se. Since this programme will develop further over
a five-year period, we encourage researchers with interest in this area to
contact us for future exchange.
The closing date for applications is 30 March 2007.
Sara Goodman
Centrum för genusvetenskap
Lunds universitet
www.genus.lu.se
Tel 046-222 44 02, 046-222 9778
Fax 046-222 40 04
Besöksadress: Magle Stora Kyrkogata 12 B, Lund
Postadress: Box 117, 221 00 Lund
| | | | | REMINDER ABOUT MARCH 29 NSF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS
EMINDER ABOUT MARCH 29 NSF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP WORKSHOPS
Please plan to attend the NSF Graduate Fellowship Workshops on March 29--there is no need to preregister.
Dr. Earnestine Psalmonds from NSF will be on campus that day to present a workshop for students and another for faculty.
STUDENTS:
11:10 NSF Graduate Fellowship Workshop at Management Auditorium 200
Application deadline is in November. You will learn about plans for the 2007 application process, any changes that are planned, and how to produce an effective application.
There will be pizza slices available after the presentation.
FACULTY:
4:00 NSF Graduate Fellowship Workshop at Management Auditorium 300
Dr. Psalmonds will present information to faculty about mentoring students who are applying for NSF fellowships and about their involvement in the review process if they are interested. There will be a Q&A period.
Cheese and fruit will be available after the presentation.
TRANSPORTATION and PARKING:
The GT trolley stops at the Management Building, and there is parking available at the Georgia Tech Hotel on Spring St. (near 5th).
Fellowship Communication Program Contact: Dr. Karen Adams, Karen.Adams@provost. gatech.edu
| | | | | NSF Presentation at Georgia Tech - March 29th
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)
REPRESENTATIVE TO PRESENT
WORKSHOPS AT GEORGIA TECH
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2007
Dr. Earnestine Psalmonds, NSF Program Director for the Graduate Fellowship Research Program, will present workshops at Georgia Tech for students, faculty, and research scientists on Thursday, March 29.
Student* Workshop:
11:10 am – 12:00, Thursday March 29 in College of Management Auditorium 200, 800 West Peachtree St., NW; Atlanta, GA 30308. Dr. Psalmonds will be available for a short time after noon to answer questions.
This workshop is for graduate and undergraduate students who wish to apply for 2008 NSF awards. Application deadlines are in the fall, but preparatory work for these applications needs to be done during the spring and summer.
Students typically have 3 opportunities to apply for an NSF award: 1) fall of last undergraduate year; 2) first fall of graduate school; and 3) second fall of graduate school.
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors are encouraged to attend and learn about the awards and how they might plan future applications.
*NSF applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents.
Workshop for Faculty and Research Scientists:
4:00-5:00 p.m., Thursday March 29 in College of Management Auditorium 300.
The workshop for faculty and research scientists will focus on
§ mentoring students as they apply for NSF grants and
§ exploring the possibility of serving as a NSF reviewer.
Contact:
Dr. Karen Adams, Fellowship Communication Program, karen.adams@provost.gatech.edu.
| | | | January 2007 | Stories/and Strategies
Recently released:
Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists, by Ellen Daniell.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
From the book-jacket:
This book tells the story of a professional problem-solving group that for more than 25 years has empowered its members by providing practical and emotional support.
Each of the high-achieving individuals in Group (including members of the National Academy of Sciences, a senior scientist at a prestigious research institute, and university professors and administrators) has found the support of the others to be an essential part of her own success.
| | | | December 2006 | Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes: Women in Am Res Universities
Dear IAC Friends,
A volume to which one may have reason to return has been re-issued:
Equal Rites, Unequal Outcomes; Women in American Research Universities (2003), edited by L. Hornig, a pioneer in the field.
Amazon has a "Look Inside" option for the volume at its site at:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0306473518/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1/002-4420730-0476809
with good wishes - Mary
| | | | November 2006 | Provost to meet WST community
Georgia Tech's provost, Dr.Gary Schuster, will be speaking with WST residents on Monday, November 27, at 5:30pm in 4th Apartments A study lounge.
| | | | | WST Research Panel: "The International Mobility of Scientists"
Dr. Carolina Cañibano
Assistant Professor of Economics
Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid, Spain
and Visiting Scholar in PRIME Program, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech
Dr. Paula Stephan
Professor of Economics
Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2006
12 noon - 1:30 pm
Georgia Tech Student Success Center
President's Suite C
Biographies:
Dr. Paula Stephan's research focuses on the careers of scientists and engineers and the process by which knowledge moves across international boundaries in the economy; as well as the role that immigrant scientists play in U.S. science. She has published more than 50 articles and is the co-author of the book, Striking the Mother Lode in Science: The Importance of Age, Place, and Time. Dr. Stephan was recently appointed to serve a four-year term on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, National Institutes of Health, and currently serves on the Advisory Committee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economics Program, National Science Foundation. She was a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group that authored the report, "Frontier Research: The European Challenge." She is a member of the Scientific and Engineering Workforce Project of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Dr. Carolina Cañibano's research focuses upon the economics of innovation, with a special focus on labor markets for science, and development economics. She received her Ph.D. at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Spain and was the recipient of the 2004 Dissertation Award from the Economics Section, Spanish Doctors Academy. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy, affiliated with the PRIME Program. Her research is funded by the European Commission.
| | | | October 2006 | Flourish: an electronic Newsletter for academic writers
Flourish: an electronic Newsletter for academic writers at: http://www.wendybelcher.com/pages/FlourishNewsletter.html
If you go to the url, a space is available at the bottom of the page for a free subscription.
| | | | September 2006 | Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender & Women's Studies
For feminist scholars interested in the Middle East: The American University in Cairo has named the Institute for Gender and Women's Studies the Cynthia Nelson Institute. This honors the late Cynthia
Nelson, Professor of Anthropology at AUC, who died in February of this year. Cynthia Nelson's 43 year career there included founding the Institute, serving as Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, and
substantial body of important feminist work, including a biography of the early Egyptian feminist, Doria Shewfik. A graduate fellowship to the Institute in her name has also been established. For details about the Institute and its Master of Arts and Graduate Diploma in Gender and
Women's Studies with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, the web site is: www.aucegypt.edu/igws .
| | | | | Princeton University - Postdoctoral Fellows in Liberal Arts
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE LIBERAL ARTS ˜ Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Humanities or Social Sciences The Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts invites
applications for three-year postdoctoral fellowships, 2007-2010, for recent Ph.Ds (from Jan. 2004) in humanities or social sciences. Stipend: approx. $64,500. Application deadline: October 3, 2006.
Four appointments to pursue research and teach half-time:
1) Open Fellowship: all disciplines represented in the Society of Fellows.
2) Haarlow Fellowship in Humanistic Studies: pursue research, teach and coordinate interdisciplinary year-long humanities course, Approaches to Western Culture.
3) Fellowship in East Asian Studies and the Humanities: pursue research, teach and coordinate interdisciplinary year-long course, East Asian Humanities: The Classical Traditions.
4) Fellowship in International Development to enhance interdisciplinary dialogue and teaching in this field, with particular focus on political, ethical and/or social dimensions of issues. Political scientists, sociologists and economists interested in a cross-disciplinary policy focus on international development are strongly encouraged to apply.
For details, see website www.princeton.edu/~sf
| | | | | Travelling Concepts in Feminist Pedagogy: European Perspectives
Travelling Concepts in Feminist Pedagogy: European Perspectives is a series of 4 short books addressing the importance of geographical, institutional and political location for understanding feminist concepts. The project brings together 24 partners from across Europe, and has published collaborative reflections on the material life of concepts such as :
representation, interdisciplinarity, location, racism, citizenship, and identity. Please visit http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/ for further details, and http://www.travellingconcepts.net for the interactive website arising from the project.
| | | | August 2006 | Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Proposals
Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities January 12 - 15, 2007
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, the Radisson Waikiki Prince Kuhio, and
the Pacific Beach Hotel, Hawaii, USA
Since many people have individually asked for an extension of the submission
deadline, we are extending the deadline for submissions to Wednesday,
September 13th, 2006.
Call for papers, abstracts, student papers, work-in-progress reports,
research proposals, workshop proposals, poster sessions, research tables, or
reports on issues related to teaching, practitioner forums, panel
discussions, and tutorials. For more information on the format of
submissions see http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
All areas of arts & humanities are invited. For a complete list of
suggested areas of arts & humanities see
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm.
Submissions may be
made electronically via e-mail to humanities@hichumanities.org.
| | | | March 2006 | Social Science Research Council Invites Applications
Deadline: April 20, 2006
The Economic and Social Research Council
( http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ ) and the Social Science
Research Council ( http://www.ssrc.org/ ) have announced
a fellowship for U.S. and Canadian scholars to visit and
engage in collaborative activities with members of ESRC-
supported projects in Britain, or for British scholars
at ESRC-supported projects to visit collaborators in the
U.S. or Canada, between June 2006 and September 2007.
ESRC and SSRC have a common mission of promoting,
funding, and disseminating important and socially useful
knowledge in the social sciences. This is the third round
of a pilot scheme designed to encourage communication and
cooperation between social scientists in Great Britain
and the United States and Canada, and to explore and
develop possibilities for future exchanges to be
organized by ESRC and SSRC.
Approximately ten research fellowships of up to $8,500
will be awarded. Funds may be used for transportation,
accommodation, living expenses, and, exceptionally, to
cover salary costs for the duration of the visit. Fund-
able activities include but are not strictly limited to
engaging in collaborative or complementary research that
will add a new international comparative focus to
existing research projects; engaging with a range of
researchers, including younger scholars, to stimulate
international and comparative dimensions to their
thinking; writing co- authored papers, articles, and
books; and developing new proposals for joint research.
Applicants from the U.S. and Canada should have received
a Ph.D. in one of the social sciences (including history)
by the time the proposed visiting fellowship would start.
In addition, they should have been based in the U.S. for
at least two years before the application deadline. The
fellowship scheme is open to scholars from U.S. and
Canadian universities, colleges, independent research
organizations, and public agencies, as well as to scholars
at ESRC-supported centers, programs, groups, and networks
in Britain.
Visit the SSRC Web site for complete program information
and application procedures.
RFP Link:
http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001199/ssrc
For additional RFPs in Social Science, visit:
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_soc_science.jhtml
| | | | September 2005 | Dr. Carol Colatrella - GT Advance Program Director
Please welcome our new GT Advance Program Director - the indefatigable, creative, and intellectually and programmatically inspired: Dr. Carol Colatrella !
Our Advance Program Director, Dr. Mary Lynn Reallf - now brings her own indefatigability, creativity, and inspiration to the National Science Foundation as Program Officer for the Materials Processing and Manufacturing in the Engineering Directorate,
Our best wishes and fond regards go to Carol in her new appointment with Advance -- and to Mary Lynn in her new appointment at NSF (as well as in her continuation as co-director of WST!).
| | | | July 2005 | Agnotology: The Cultural Production of Ignorance
Call for Papers
Patrick Suppes Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology, Stanford University
Professors Londa Schiebinger and Robert Proctor seek papers for the preparation of a volume introducing a new theoretical perspective and methodology - agnotology, the cultural production of ignorance-into interdisciplinary science studies. Papers should explore how ignorance is produced or maintained in diverse settings, through (for example) deliberate or inadvertent neglect, secrecy and suppression, document destruction, and myriad forms of inherent or avoidable culturopolitical selectivity and forgetfulness. The point is to develop a taxonomy of understandings and uses of ignorance, but also tools for understanding how and why diverse forms of knowledge do not or did not "come to be" or are delayed or neglected at different points in history. Examples include the ignorance of cancer
hazards caused by the "doubt" peddled by trade associations (Brown and Williamson's "doubt is our product"), the non-transfer of birth control technologies from colonial outposts to imperial centers (by virtue of successive chains of disinterest and suppression), the non-development of certain technologies by virtue of structural apathies or disinterest, impacts of disciplinarity on agnotogenesis, etc. The proposed volume is exploratory and open-ended, with the purpose of coming to grips with how ignorance has been understood, created, and ignored, linking this also to allied creations of secrecy, uncertainty, confusion, silence, forgetfulness, etc - especially as these pertain to scientific inquiries and outcomes. The idea is that a great deal of attention has been given to epistemology (the study of how we know), when "how or why we don't know" is often at least as interesting-and remarkably undertheorized by comparison.
While the volume will focus on science, the general approach will also be taken up in other disciplines, including cultural studies, history, literary studies, anthropology, and sociology. Paper proposals should include a working title plus a 300 word abstract. Please send to Londa Schiebinger at schiebinger@stanford.edu by August 30, 2005.
Paper proposals should include a working title plus a 300 word abstract. Please send to Londa Schiebinger at schiebinger@stanford.edu by August 30, 2005.
| | | | | Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
January 11 - 14, 2006
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: August 23, 2005
Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 11 (Wednesday) to January 14 (Saturday), 2006 at the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music) interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever possible.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited):
*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.
The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities encourages the following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas:
Research Papers - Completed papers.
Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.
Student Papers - Research by students.
Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.
Reports on issues related to teaching.
For detailed information about submissions see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
Submitting a Proposal:
1. Create a title page for your submission. The title page should include:
a. title of the submission
b. topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c. presentation format (see
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm for format choices)
d. name(s) of the author(s)
e. department(s) and affiliation(s)
f. mailing address(es)
g. e-mail address(es)
h. phone number(s)
i. fax number(s)
j. corresponding author if different than lead author
2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to: humanities@hichumanities.org. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.
Please note that there is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.
To be removed from this list, please click the following link:
http://www.hichumanities.org/remove/ or copy and paste the link into any web browser.
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 949-1456
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org
| | | | March 2005 | Alternative Energy Technology Innovation: The Coming Economic Boom
May 12th – 13th, 2005
Savannah, GA
International Trade & Convention Center
Call For Abstracts
Student Poster Competition
A FORUM FOR THE PRESENTATION OF ENERGY RELATED RESEARCH BY ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND POLICY STUDENTS
Please submit a 1-page abstract describing your poster topic to susan@energy.gatech.edu by April 4th, 2005.
12 selected winners will be invited to present their poster at the workshop and will be awarded a $300 grant to offset travel & lodging expenses.
SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION & InfinitEnergy
(http://infinitenergy.gtrep.gatech.edu)
| | | | February 2005 | Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization
The Canadian International Development Agency-International Development Research Centre- University of Ottawa-Carleton University
The Institute of Women's Studies (University of Ottawa) and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies (Carleton University), with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), are pleased to announce the second year of a research programme on feminist perspectives on globalization. This four year (2004-2008) programme offers highly qualified researchers working on issues of globalization from a feminist perspective, from developing countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific, the opportunity to spend a research term in Ottawa based at one of the two universities. The Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization will contribute to gender and development research at both universities and provide a unique opportunity for collaboration between feminist scholars in Canada and the developing world and between North and South.The Institutes of Women's Studies will alternate in welcoming one visiting scholar per year.
Applications are invited for the 2005-6 Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization to be based at the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa. (In 2006-2007, the Visiting Scholar will be based at the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies, Carleton University.) The position is open to scholars from developing countries (both tenured and untenured faculty, as well as from postdoctoral or independent scholars) who are pursuing critical feminist research. Applicants must be fluent in French, have a completed PhD, a record of scholarly publications, and a current and established research project in relation to one or more of the research field listed below. Individuals currently pursuing a university doctoral degree are not eligible.
Specific areas of interest can include one of the following: agriculture, basic education, child protection, health and nutrition, HIV/Aids, information and communication technologies (ICTs), human rights, democratization and good governance, conflict and peacebuilding, private sector development, infrastructure services (capacity building), social and economic equity, or environment and natural resource management.
During their stay in Canada, the Visiting Scholar will pursue and present their ongoing research in conferences and seminars as requested, participate in outreach activities, and produce a paper based on their ongoing research which reflects their time and work in Canada. It is anticipated that this research will promote policy advocacy and/or further gender and development studies and the effective integration of gender equality in development policy and programming.
The duration of the Visiting Scholar's stay will be a six (6) month period within the university's 2005-2006 academic year, which runs from September 2005 to April 2006. The recipient will receive a generous stipend to cover travel, research and living expenses (including medical insurance coverage). The successful applicant will have access to library services, a shared phone and computer facilities.
Applications may be submitted in French or English, and must include: an abbreviated curriculum vitae (10-12 pp.); a letter of intent outlining the research to be undertaken in Canada (max. 2 pp.); a list of recent publications; availability during the 2005-2006 academic year; and the names and addresses (postal and e-mail) of two referees. Please forward applications to: Selection Committee, Visiting Scholar in Feminist
Perspectives on Globalization, c/o Helene Boudreault, Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa, 143 Seraphin-Marion, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6; Telephone (613) 520-6644; Fax (613) 5625994;email hboudre@uottawa.ca.
The closing date for submitting applications is March 10, 2005 (application dossiers received after this date will not be examined). Selection will be completed by May 15, 2005. Please note that only the short-listed candidates will be contacted.
| | | | December 2004 | Women, Tenure, and Promotion Special Issue of the National Women's Studies Association Journal [2007]
Co-editors: Dr. Ines Shaw and Dr. Sharon Leder, Nassau Community College, and Dr. Betty Harris, University of Oklahoma.
Deadline for Submissions: 1 May 2005
After more than three decades of women's studies in the academy and a steady increase of women faculty in higher education across the disciplines, it is appropriate to take stock of what we have learned and what still needs to be accomplished. Contributors may consider the following:
Status of Women and Changing the Structures: How can Academic structures change so that a) women rise through and occupy all ranks in equal proportion to men, and are not stuck in the lowest ranks with the lowest salaries? b) joint appointments and shared courses become regular systemic options? c) committees and administrations are monitored for accountability in promotion and/or tenure decisions? d) campus Affirmative Action offices actively encourage, defend, and
insure gender equity?
Mentoring: What type of mentoring a) really advances the attainment of tenure and/or promotion for all women? b) helps service and activist contributions count for promotion or tenure?
Student Evaluations/Faculty Ratings: What can counteract Negative consequences of gender, race, and ethnic bias in student evaluations or ratings of women faculty in tenure and/or promotion decisions?
Court Trends: How can knowledge of current trends in gender
discrimination lawsuits prepare women for litigation?
Tenure and Promotion Struggles and Denials: a) What factors halt women faculty's paths to tenure or promotion? b) How may criteria for promotion or tenure change so that teaching and service scholarship count as real scholarship? c) How may criteria change so that interdisciplinary, feminist and activist work count toward promotion or tenure? d) What roles do personal and family life play in women's struggles to gain tenure and/or promotion? e) How are women's physical and mental health, financial status and professional life affected by denials of tenure and/or promotion, and by strategies they employ in response? f) What are the financial, educational, and human costs of not tenuring or not promoting women faculty?
A 150-word abstract should be submitted with a completed essay of 20-30 pages, including abstract, notes, and references--two copies to Dr. Ines Shaw, English Department, Nassau Community College, One Education Drive, Garden City, NY 11530, and one copy to Dr. Betty Harris, Women's Studies Program, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019.
NWSA Journal Style guidelines are available at www.nwsaj.eng.iastate.edu.
Inquiries can be directed to Dr. Ines Shaw at shawi@sunynassau.edu.
Ines Shaw isshaw@yahoo.com
Ph.D., Linguistics shawi@sunynassau.edu
English/Women's Studies/Latin American Studies & 210 E
Broadway (The Delmar) Co-op Board Vice-President
| | | | November 2004 | Denmark Summer Study Abroad Program
I am currently planning to bring interested Georgia Tech students to Denmark this summer for a new study abroad program based in Copenhagen. Students would take humanities and social science courses and would learn about Danish culture, politics, and heritage. I hope that you would suggest that students consider the Denmark summer study program as they decide on summer experiences for 2005. Detailed information appears below and at http://www.discopenhagen.org.
The program focuses on analyzing Denmark as a living laboratory of social and technological developments and design innovations. Georgia Tech students will participate in Denmark’s International Study (DIS) Program, taking one DIS course in addition to enrolling in a summer equivalent of LCC 3302: Science, Technology, and Ideology taught by me. My course will emphasize looking at Danish social values in relation to social welfare/gender equity policies, energy/environment development, and museum design. There will be structured field trips in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Roskilde, and Odense.
Denmark is a small, safe country where many people speak fluent English. There is an affordable, efficient country-wide transportation system of buses, trains, and ferries; interesting architecture; innovative museums and other design sites; a beautiful natural environment, and a hospitable friendly population. In addition to being a lively cosmopolitan city, Copenhagen is a gateway to other European cities.
I welcome individual inquiries. Please email or call me. I'll be meeting with DIS staff in mid November in Copenhagen, and I am grateful for the support of Georgia Tech's office of International Education, which is helping to
coordinate the 2005 Denmark program.
STUDY ABROAD IN ENGLISH IN COPENHAGEN
Georgia Tech and Denmark's International Study Abroad Program, affliated with the University of Copenhagen.
Late May through June 2005
Live in Copenhagen with a family or in a university residence hall with other students
Field trips to Roskilde, Odense, and Aarhus
Earn six credits of Humanities/Social Sciences courses:
Science, Technology, and Ideology (equivalent to LCC 3302) & your choice from Danish International Study program courses
(see http://www.discopenhagen.org, for more information)
Approximate program cost (tuition and housing) is $5,445 (Other expenses include food, airfare, excursions, fees)
For more information, contact:
Professor Carol Colatrella
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Tech Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology
Office: Skiles 364
Office voice mail/phone: 404 894 1241
Email: carol.colatrella@lcc.gatech.edu
| | | | October 2004 | 14th Annual Georgia Women's Assembly
A one-day conference being held in Atlanta on Nov. 19, 2004, at the Loudermilk Center from 8am-4pm. The subject is "Informed Women and the Power of Policy." One of the three keynote speakers is Georgia's Secretary of State Cathy Cox, who is the first woman to serve in this position. The workshops vary from healthcare to lobbying 101 to two parts on the Georgia budget.
Registration is $85 before Nov. 3, $100 after, and $45 for students (anytime).
http://www.healthTRAKga.org
| | | | | MIT Summer Institute in the Materials Science of Material Culture
With support from the National Science Foundation, MIT will convene the fourth annual Summer Institute in the Materials Science of Material Culture (SIMSMC). Fifteen faculty members from liberal arts colleges around the country, representing fields from art history to physics, will participate during the two-week period, 6-17 June 2005.
Working together with these colleagues, the MIT SIMSMC faculty demonstrate, through modules that explore materials engineering in the context of material culture, how undergraduate teaching can incorporate the subject matter of materials science in imaginative and intellectually stimulating ways that are congruent with and relevant to the pursuits of liberal arts institutions.
The two modules that will be presented at the June 2005 SIMSMC are:
The Power of Metal in the Andean World
Heather Lechtman
Form, Function and Aesthetics in Colonial New England: The Use of Wood for Furniture, Houses and Boats
John Vander Sande, Samuel Allen
In morning lectures and afternoon laboratories, the Summer Institutes concentrate on the materials processing technologies that transform natural and synthetic materials into cultural objects. Our template joins archaeology and materials science and engineering, but art history,
classics, environmental science, geography, history and other fields are all excellent vehicles for providing students with an integrated educational experience as they explore the relations between people and their material world.
SIMSMC pays participant expenses: round-trip travel to MIT, housing on campus, and meals. Visit the SIMSMC web site for an on-line APPLICATION FORM and further information. http://web.mit.edu/materialculture/www
Please review our web site to learn more about this innovative educational experiment and how you can participate.
We urge you to share this information with colleagues at your institution and at other colleges who may wish to join us in June 2005.
Heather Lechtman
Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
MIT
Inquiries may be addressed to: materialculture@mit.edu
| | | | | Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship
One of the most significant challenges confronting small liberal arts colleges in the United States today is increasing the members of underrepresented groups teaching at such institutions. A diverse faculty benefits students, faculty, and administrators alike by enriching the nature of the education experience for all. We recognize, though, that young scholars who are members of underrepresented groups frequently choose to pursue their careers as teachers and scholars at research universities rather than at small liberal arts colleges. In order to encourage such scholars to consider college rather than university teaching, Kenyon College offers the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship. The program is for scholars in the final stages of their doctoral work who need only to finish the dissertation to complete requirements for the Ph.D. We hope the experience of living and working for a year at Kenyon will encourage these Fellows to consider a career at a liberal arts college.
Kenyon will provide a stipend of $32,500, plus health benefits, housing, and a small moving allowance. The College will also provide an allowance to cover travel to conferences or for consultation with the dissertation director.
Kenyon will assist the Fellow in finding college housing. The Fellow will be provided an office, a networked computer, and secretarial support services. Faculty colleagues at Kenyon recognize and embrace the opportunity to welcome and mentor new faculty members.
The Fellow is expected to write the dissertation and to teach one course each semester, usually in the Fellow's general research area. Fellows are also expected to offer a college lecture or departmental seminar on the dissertation topic at some point during the academic year in residence. Kenyon College assumes that the Fellow will participate in the intellectual life of his/her home department, as well as in the broader cultural life of the College. Our primary expectation, however, and the main focus of this fellowship, is the completion of the dissertation.
Eligibility to apply for the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/Teaching Fellowship is limited to those meeting all of the following four criteria who are citizens or nationals of the United States or otherwise 'protected individuals' as defined in 8 USC 1324b(a)(3)(B).
- Members of underrepresented groups (e.g., ethnic minorities; women in fields that attract mostly men, or men in fields that attract mostly women; and persons who are first-generation college attendees).
- Individuals who are enrolled in a research-based Ph.D. program in one of the following fields: African and African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Art History, Asian Studies, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Classics, Dance, Drama, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, History, Humanities, International Studies, Legal Studies, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Literature, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Public Policy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Scientific Computing, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies.
- Individuals who aspire to a teaching and research career.
- Persons who have not yet earned a doctoral degree at any time and in any field.
Please send a letter of application, vita, and three letters of references (including one from the dissertation advisor) to the Office of the Associate Provost, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022.
The Search Committee will begin consideration of the dossiers on January 3, 2005. Kenyon College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in particular, encourages the applications of women and minority candidates.
This award is named in honor of the late Marilyn Yarbrough, Kenyon parent and trustee. A legal scholar and university administrator who was a former editor of the Black Law Journal and a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Marilyn Yarbrough often addressed gender and racial discrimination in her scholarship and teaching.
| | | | August 2004 | M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to Be Its Chief
From NY Times:
M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to Be Its Chief
August 27, 2004
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Susan Hockfield, a 53-year-old neuroscientist, is the first woman and the first person from the life sciences to achieve the presidency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/education/27mit.html?ex=1094627341&ei=1&en=066d33a50a51a06f
| | | | | Higher Education Recruitment Consortium Helps Dual-Career Couples
Eighteen universities in Northern California have banded together to start a web site that helps dual-career couples find academic jobs in the same area. The service is called the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium. The 18 university members pay an annual fee to maintain the website, which lists all job openings for professors, administrators, and staff members. The consortium includes the Universities of California at Berkeley and at Davis, as well as Stanford University and the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District. Job seekers have free access to the site, which has advertised 13,000 jobs since it was launched in October 2003.
Details at http://www.bayareaherc.org/ikorb.php
| | | | | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Sloan Foundation is seeking nominations for Sloan Industry Studies Fellowships. These Fellowships provide support and recognition to junior faculty from a variety of academic disciplines who are conducting field-based research on a topic important to a specific industry. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent in economics, management or engineering, or in a related or interdisciplinary field, and must be members of the regular faculty of a college or university in the U.S. or Canada. Candidates also must be nominated by a senior scholar. Nominations are due Oct. 15, 2004. More information is available at: http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellow_announ.shtml
| | | | | Women's Studies Quarterly (WSQ)
Call for Papers: Gender & Culture in the 1950s
For the December 2005 issue of WSQ, to be guest edited by Deborah Nelson (contact info below), please see the following call for papers:
WSQ is now seeking material for its December 2005 special issue on gender and culture in the 1950s. This decade and its domestic ideologies have long been of particular interest to feminists. We would like to revisit the 1950s, understanding that its very familiarity may now constitute a source of misrecognition. We would therefore like this issue of WSQ to have a double focus. On the one hand, familiar events and phenomena of the period -- McCarthyism, the execution of the Rosenbergs, Brown vs. the Board of Education, the civil rights movement, Bebop, rock and roll, consumerism, corporate culture, the Beats, women's magazines, the Cold War, the suburbs, television, to name just a few -- continue to yield important insights. We are interested in revisiting and reexamining these and other well-known landmarks and, in particular, drawing out their residues in and parallels with the present.
On the other hand, those events and archives that have yet to acquire visibility need to be integrated into our understanding of the period. Some of these areas (a suggestive rather than exhaustive list) include the
post-internment experience of Japanese Americans, particularly women; the international and transnational 1950s, with special interest in South America, South and East Asia, Africa, and central Europe; US regional culture; domestic and international migrations; fine arts and performing arts; religion; gay/lesbian/queer culture; ex-patriot and exile communities; Taiwan and post-revolution China; literature and cultural/intellectual exchange.
Submissions to this special issue will be reviewed with the understanding that the materials have not been submitted to another journal. All submissions should be double-spaced and conform to MLA citation style. Articles should not exceed 20 pages (7,000 words) in length, excluding references. Essays, short stories, and strategies for teaching (with syllabi) should not exceed 15 pages (5,250 words). Please send a disk and three hard copies of submissions along with a full mailing address, daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address to Professor Deborah Nelson, Department of English, University of Chicago, 1050 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60657 Queries should be sent to Deborah Nelson at dnelson@uchicago.edu
The deadline for submission is October 1, 2004.
| | | | | INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz - Austria
FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME
2005-2006
The IAS-STS in Graz, Austria, promotes the interdisciplinary investigation of the links and interactions between science, technology and society as well as research on the development and implementation of socially and environmentally sound technologies. For this the IAS-STS invites researchers to apply for a stay between 1 October 2005 and 30 June 2006 as Fellows (up to nine months) or as Visiting Scholars (up to one month)
We also encourage senior scientists - working within the framework of the issues listed below - to apply as Guest Lecturers.
The IAS-STS offers excellent research infrastructure. Close co- operation with researchers at the IFZ (Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture; see: www.ifz.tugraz.at), guest lectures, workshops and conferences provide an atmosphere of creativity and scholarly discussion.
Furthermore we can offer five grants (EUR 1,000 per month) for long term Fellows (nine months) at the IAS-STS in Graz starting 1 October 2005, ending 30 June 2006.
The fellowship programme 2005-2006 is dedicated to projects investigating the following issues:
1. Gender Technology Environment
Women with their various interests, competencies and potentials play an important part in the process of shaping socially sound and environmentally friendly sustainable technologies be it as users and consumers, or as experts. Applications should focus on research in the field of women in traditionally male fields of engineering, on ways of creating cultures of success for women engineers (students, graduates), and on masculinity and the culture of engineering.
2. Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Human Genetics and Biotechnology
A main focus of the fellowship programme lies on research projects providing a better understanding of human genetics or biotechnology in the context of fabrication, application and regulation. Researchers investigating socio-cultural aspects of genetic testing or risk issues in biotechnology are especially encouraged to apply.
3. Technology Studies and Sustainability
Fellowships will be awarded for research projects contributing to the issue of sustainable development from the perspective of social studies or the history of science and technology. Projects should aim at socio- economic aspects of environmental technologies or at strategies of environmental technology policy, such as user participation, strategic niche management or ecological product policy. We encourage both theoretical analysis and practically oriented case studies.
Applications must be submitted to the IAS-STS together with a research proposal by 15 January 2005.
Prof. Arno Bamme, Director of the IAS-STS, decides on the awarding of fellowships and grants in consultation with the Scientific Advisory Board.
For application forms and further information:
Please visit our website: www.sts.tugraz.at
Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS)
Attn. Guenter Getzinger
Kopernikusgasse 9
8010 Graz Austria
E-mail: info@sts.tugraz.at
| | | | July 2004 | 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
January 13 - 16, 2005
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
Honolulu Hawaii, USA
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2004
Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Center of Asian Pacific Studies of Peking University
Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org
The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will be held from January 13 (Thursday) to January 16 (Sunday), 2005 at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from the arts and humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Cross-disciplinary submissions with other fields are welcome.
Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited):
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.
The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities encourages the following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas:
*Research Papers - Completed papers.
*Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.
*Student Papers - Research by students.
*Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.
*Reports on issues related to teaching.
For more information about submissions see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm
Format of Presentations:
*Paper sessions will have three to four papers presented in each 90 minute session, giving each presenter 20 30 minutes.
*Workshop presentations will be given a full 90 minute session.
*Panel sessions will provide an opportunity for three or more presenters to speak in a more open and conversational setting with conference attendees. Submissions for these 90 minute sessions should include the name, department, affiliation, and email address of each panelist in addition to a description of the presentation and the title page.
*Poster sessions will last 90 minutes and consist of a large number of presenters. Poster sessions allow attendees to speak with the presenters on a one-to-one basis.
*Performances will be accommodated whenever possible. Direct specific inquires to humanities@hichumanities.org
Submitting a Proposal:
1. Create a title page for your submission. The title page should include:
a. title of the submission
b. topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c. presentation format (choose from above list)
d. name(s) of the author(s)
e. department(s) and affiliation(s)
f. mailing address(es)
g. e-mail address(es)
h. phone number(s)
i. fax number(s)
j. corresponding author if different than lead author
2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to humanities@hichumanities.org. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.
If you do not wish to email your submission, you may send it via regular mail or fax to:
Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI, 96836, USA
808-947-2420 (Fax)
***If submitting via regular mail, please supply two copies of your submission***
There is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.
3. Submissions will only be published in the conference proceedings if at least one of the authors registers and attends the conference. More information will be provided upon acceptance.
4. If you wish to be a session chair, please e-mail your request to humanities@hichumanities.org and indicate the topic area in which you are interested. Registration for the conference is required to be a session chair.
| | | | | The Fulbright Scholar Program Council for International Exchange of Scholars
The August 1 deadline for Fulbright Scholar Program grants in the traditional program is approaching. You can find information on the 2005-06 grants available, eligibility requirements, and complete application materials at: www.cies.org. Also, the new online application is now available for use. You can also request materials by emailing apprequest@cies.iie.org.
| | | | | Call for Papers
"Black Faculty in the Ivy League: Where Do We Go From Here?"
October 22-23, 2004
Columbia University - New York
In light of the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the recent challenges to Affirmative Action, the Institute for Research in African American Studies is hosting Black Faculty in the Ivy League: Where Do We Go From Here?, an interdisciplinary conference scheduled for October 22-23, 2004.
African-Americans began to enter Ivy League Institutions in larger numbers following the social unrest of the 1960's and the assassination of Martin Luther King. This conference will not be a self-congratulatory occasion; instead it provides us the opportunity to provide reflective, critical and forward thinking analysis. Some of the issues we hope to address include, but are not limited to, the following:
* History of Blacks in the Ivy League (Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University)
* How, if at all, has the growing presence of Blacks on Ivy League Campuses in the last 35 years influenced the status of black people both within and outside of the academy?
* The future of Affirmative Action
* The relationship between the Ivy League and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
* The relationship between Black faculty, students and alumni
* The relationship between Black faculty, administrators and staff
* The relationship with local communities (Exploring the relationship between our positions as members of the University Community and/or members of local black communities)
* The feasibility of an organized structure to address the needs and concerns of black faculty
We welcome abstracts for individual papers, panels, roundtables or workshops. Please create a title page for your submission that includes the following: title, presentation format, name of presenter(s), institutional
affiliation (if appropriate; we also welcome submissions from independent scholars), mailing address, email address, phone number and fax number.
Abstracts should be submitted by August 1, 2004.
Presenters will be notified by September 1, 2004.
Please submit abstracts to:
Mr. Russell Malbrough
Institute for Research in African American Studies
Columbia University
1200 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code 5512
New York, New York 10027
Or electronically to: IRAAS@columbia.edu
www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/
| | | | June 2004 | 2004-2005 Fellowships for Threatened Scholars
Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships
The Institute of International Education's Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit scholars to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large. When conditions improve, these scholars will return home to help rebuild universities and societies ravaged by fear, conflict and repression.
How the Scholar Rescue Fund Works:
* Academics, researchers and independent scholars from any country, field or discipline may qualify. Preference is given to scholars with a Ph.D. or other highest degree in their field; who have been employed in scholarly activities at a university, college or other institution of higher learning during the last four years (excluding displacement or prohibition); who demonstrate superior academic accomplishment or promise; and whose selection is likely to benefit the academic community in the home and/or host country or region. Applications from female scholars and under-represented groups are strongly encouraged.
* Universities, colleges and research centers in any country may apply to serve as hosts.
* Applications and nominations should be made to the Fund's Selection Committee. Institutions interested in hosting a particular scholar should submit a letter with the scholar's application. Fellowships are awarded to institutions for support of specific individuals, to be matched in most cases by the institution or third-party. Fellowship recipients are expected to continue their work in safety at the host institution-teaching, lecturing, conducting research, writing and publishing. Fellowships from 3 months to one calendar year will be considered with up to 25 fellowships awarded annually. The maximum award is US $20,000.
* Applications are accepted at any time. Emergency applications receive urgent consideration. Non-emergency applications will be considered according to the following schedule:
Fall 2004: Applications received by September 1; decision by November 1.
Winter 2005: Applications received by January 1; decision by March 1.
Spring 2005: Applications received by April 1; decision by June 1.
How to apply:
Apply or to learn how your institution might host an SRF scholar contact:
IIE Scholar Rescue Fund Fellowships
809 U.N. Plaza, Second Floor
New York, New York 10017
Tel: (USA) 1-212-984-5472
Fax: (USA) 1-212-984-5401
E-mail: SRF@iie.org
Web: www.iie.org/SRF
| | | | May 2004 | National Academy of Engineering - Position Open
The National Academy of Engineering is seeking an individual to be responsible for developing and managing the provision of policy, program, and research support to CASEE. Policy support is provided by serving as staff officer for the Committee on Engineering Education (CEE). Evaluation and research support are provided by overseeing the evaluation of CASEE fellow and affiliate programs as well as coordinating the pursuit of CASEE research by fellows and affiliates.
Position requires a master's degree, research experience in the study of education for or practice within technical professions, at least three years of related professional experience, and demonstrated proficiency in conveying scientific/technical/policy information in oral and written form. Applicants must possess experience in both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Desired qualifications include a doctoral degree (in the behavioral or cognitive sciences, education, engineering, or the social sciences).
Salary for this 12-month, full-time position will be based on experience, but is not likely to start above the mid-$70's.
The formal ad is available on-line but this version lacks a lot of details. A more complete ad will eventually appear in the on-line edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education as well as be posted to the AERA job site.
| | | | March 2004 | Report of the Georgia Tech Promotion and Tenure ADVANCE Committee (PTAC)
Georgia Tech NSF ADVANCE Program for Institutional Transformation
Chaired by Professor David McDowell (Mechanical Engineering)
http://www.advance.gatech.edu/ptac/
| | | | | The Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers faculty and professionals numerous opportunities for lecturing, research or a combination of the two during the 2005-2006 academic year in 140 countries and all regions of the world. Awards range from two months to an academic year. Grants are in 47 disciplines and several interdisciplinary fields. Also, many countries offer "All Disciplines" grants, which allow applicants to design their own award. Foreign language skills are needed in some countries, but most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. The application deadline for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants worldwide is August 1, 2004.
For information, eligibility requirements, and online application, visit our Web site at www.cies.org.
| | | | | Center for Women Policy Studies positions
The Center for Women Policy Studies is seeking to fill five new positions:
* Senior Policy Associate
* Policy Associate
* Policy Assistant
* Writer/Editor
* Administrative Assistant
All positions require demonstrated expertise / experience on women's issues from multiethnic feminist perspectives. The Center offers salaries commensurate with experience, an excellent benefits package, and promotion potential.
The Senior Policy Associate, Policy Associate and Policy Assistant positions require demonstrated experience / expertise in:
*conducting policy research and analysis, including analyses of federal and state legislative and policy proposals and preparation of policy reports;
*coordinating research/policy projects, including designing and conducting surveys, focus groups, interviews, and/or impact evaluations, and analyzing data;
*analyzing academic research, policy research, program evaluations etc and preparing reports for widespread dissemination to policy makers;
*coordinating legislative briefings, conferences, seminars, and other meetings with policy makers;
*providing assistance to state legislators and their staff.
Senior Policy Associate candidates should demonstrate 7 years relevant experience; Policy Associate candidates should demonstrate at least 3 years relevant experience; Policy Assistant candidates should demonstrate 2 years relevant experience, which may include experience performing administrative support functions. A relevant graduate degree is a plus. Volunteer experience will count towards years of experience requirements.
The Administrative Assistant position requires demonstrated experience in:
*website management; database management; online communications management (listserves,bulletin boards, chat rooms, etc);
*a range of administrative support functions;
*at least 2 years relevant experience.
The Writer/Editor position requires demonstrated experience as a writer/editor:
*in a policy or advocacy organization, an association, an academic institution, a business setting, or in journalism;
*producing such products as reports for policy makers; summaries of policy research and analyses for general audiences; op eds; newsletters, etc.
*at least 5 years relevant experience;
*must provide writing samples.
Submit cover letter, resume, writing samples and other relevant materials by mail or fax to:
Human Resources
Center for Women Policy Studies
1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 312
Washington, DC 20036
202-296-8962 fax
No calls or emails, please.
| | | | January 2004 | WSQ issue on Women and Sports
Call for Papers
For a special issue, WSQ seeks submissions on the topic of women and sports. Essays are invited on all related topics, including those that focus on the participation of sports in the cultural processes of gender construction; women's health and well being; a woman's right to her anatomy and physical strength; social, friendship, and leadership networks; connections between sports and social class, educational opportunity, and economic markets; the role of sports institutions in manufacturing or violating sexual stereotypes; depictions or perceptions of race, ethnicity, and national origin in women's sports; sports and the beauty system; and women's use of space (freedom of movement, fields of play, institutional access).
Reflecting the connection between sports and academic institutions in the U.S., essays that explore the history of feminism (and/or women's studies) along with the development of women's athletic programs are also welcomed.
Also invited is work related to curriculum and pedagogy, such as relevant syllabi, bibliographies, or filmographies; interviews with activists/athletes; historical documents; and reviews. Creative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction will be considered.
The deadline for submission is June 1, 2004. Essays should be no longer than 20 double-spaced pages (including notes). Book and film reviews should not exceed 750 words and include a complete citation. Please submit a disk and three hard copies to:
Carol J. Pierman
Department of Women's Studies, Box 870272
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0272
Queries should be sent to the above address or to cpierman@ws.as.ua.edu.
| | | | | Energeia
The new Georgia Tech ADVANCE Magazin (2003 Report), Energeia, is available at:
http://www.advance.gatech.edu/AnnualReport.pdf
| | | | | Postdoctoral positions opening
The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
The Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality (CSSI) invites applications from excellent scholars for postdoctoral positions. The number of the positions will be one to four depending on our budget for the next fiscal year. The center pursues development of new theories and methodologies on social stratification and inequality with emphasis on studies of rational choice theory, minorities (including gender stratification and inequality), East Asia, and fairness. Faculty members of the center are sociologists, social psychologists, cultural anthropologists, a religious anthropologist, a historian, and an economist, and they study social stratification and inequality from various viewpoints.
Applicants should hold doctoral degrees or show academic performance equivalent to holders of doctoral degrees. They should have a good command of English. Postdoctoral fellows of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science are not eligible for this application.
The successful candidates will be expected to work under the supervision of the faculty members of the center for a one-year period from April 1st, 2004. (The date is negotiable.) Though the initial contract is one-year period, the contract will be extended for one more year. The salary of a successful candidate will be 270,000 - 350,000 yen per month depending on his/her academic career. Travel and housing allowances will be paid to those who are eligible for them. Grants for excellent research projects proposed by the successful candidates will be provided. The center also academically and financially supports their presentations at international conferences.
The deadline for completed applications is January 31, 2004.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a list of their presentations and publications, a research plan at the CSSI (less than 1,500 words), each copy of three major publications at most, and a letter of reference to:
Dr. Yoshimichi Sato, Director
Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Tohoku University
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576, Japan
Phone: +81-22-217-6036
Fax: +81-22-217-5972
http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/coe/index-en.html
All inquiries concerning the application should be addressed to Yoshimichi Sato at: ysato@sal.tohoku.ac.jp
| | | | | States of Insecurity and the Gendered Politics of Fear
Call for Papers
Special Issue of the National Women's Studies Association Journal (Fall 2005)
Co-editors: Dr. Carol Stabile and Dr. Carrie Rentschler
Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline for Submissions: 3 May 2004
Following the US invasion of Afghanistan and the US attack on Iraq, the concept of security has taken on a meaning distinct from previous uses. Where prior meanings of security denoted employment and social security, and general public welfare, today, the military/prison/industrial complex has hijacked the term "security" to provoke fear and anxiety among the domestic population through specifically gendered means. Official public debates about fear and global security issues often use women as a screen for militarization, and a lever for militarized action on behalf of the military/prison/industrial complex.
This special issue will look at the ways in which discourses of fear engendered by the security state dovetail with gendered ideologies of victimization. Following Cynthia Enloe's (2000) lead in her book Maneuvers, this special issue calls for a renewal of feminist theorizing and practice that directly challenges the militarization of insecurity and fear. We are interested in submissions that examine how discourses of fear and insecurity are gendered, and the ways in which feminists are responding to them. We are particularly interested in submissions that de-center September 11th and the way it stands in for "global insecurity" and fear.
Contributors might consider the following topics: global trade and trafficking in women and weapons, the international deployment of private security forces, the booming U.S. prison industry and the burgeoning numbers of imprisoned women, the ways the category of "woman" is invoked by elites to justify military violence, how victim status is unequally distributed across categories of social difference, examples of policy-making that do or do not reproduce privileged categories of victimhood, the construction of nationhood through narratives of gendered victimization, specific feminist responses to security policy, and media representations of gendered fear and insecurity, among others.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 150 words along with completed essays of no more than 30 pages in length (including notes and references). Submissions can be sent to:
Dr. Carrie Rentschler and Dr. Carol Stabile
Women's Studies Program, 2E30 WWPH
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Send two copies of the manuscript. Inquiries can be directed to Carol Stabile at cstabile+@pitt.edu.
| | | | December 2003 | Michigan Feminist Studies
Seeking submissions for its 2004 issue:
Within Hostile Borders
This issue will consider how feminist work constructs a politics of location within and against global and local narratives that construct ideological, political or representational borders hostile to those living within. We welcome contributions from all disciplines.
We also invite book and film reviews related to this topic as well as visual materials which may be considered for reproduction on the cover of this volume.
Topics may include:
- feminization / femininity / the 'feminine' on the borders
- (trans)gendering borders
- productive borders: imagining communities, creating and contesting identities
- foreign nationals constructing a politics of location
- law-making on / of the borders
- borders and labor in the new world economy
- warfare and the production of (gendered) borders
- mobile territories and gendered maps
- language of the border (linguistic or generic deconstructions)
- mobility, traffic, contamination, and gender: how borders are shifted and redefined
- sexual / economic exchanges across borders
- labor, sexuality, and traffic of bodies across and between borders
- borderlands, borderlines, and hybrid territories
- historicizing borderlands: stories / histories from the edges
- militarized subjects creating and crossing borders
- (un)bounded geographies? : trade, travel, pilgrimage, warfare, colonization
Michigan Feminist Studies is an annual publication edited by graduate students at the University of Michigan. MFS particularly encourages interdisciplinary submissions, and has published papers in many disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, literature, language & linguistics, science studies, history, philosophy, art history, film, political science, and education. Graduate students, independent scholars and activists are invited to apply.
Manuscripts should be 4000-6000 words, and double-spaced. Please submit three single-sided copies, and include a 150-200 word abstract, brief biographical note, institutional and departmental affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Papers may be submitted in the accepted format of your academic discipline (e.g., MLA, APA). If your paper is selected, you will be asked to submit an electronic file.
Mail submissions to:
Michigan Feminist Studies
1122 Lane Hall
204 South State Street
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
Submissions Deadline: February 20, 2004
Inquiries can be directed to: mfs.editors@umich.edu
www.umich.edu/~mfsed
| | | | November 2003 | K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards - For Graduate Students
Due January 6, 2004
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards make it possible for graduate students to attend the 2004 AAHE national Learning to Change Conference. Awards include travel, lodging, conference registration (up to $1,500) and a one-year AAHE membership. All award recipients are required to attend the conference. All graduate students planning a career in higher education are eligible, regardless of academic department.
Applicants should demonstrate:
(1) leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, with a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility;
or
(2) leadership or potential leadership in the development of others as leaders, scholars, and citizens.
A faculty member or administrator must nominate the student, with a supporting letter from a second faculty member or administrator. A statement from the student indicating how he or she meets the award criteria and curriculum vita must accompany the nomination.
For more information on the awards, see
http://www.aahe.org/learningtochange/2004/scripts/htmls/cross.htm
This is the seventh year that K. Patricia Cross, a long-time higher education leader, administrator, author, researcher, and teacher, has sponsored these awards. Awardees will be announced in late January and recognized at the Learning to Change conference, which will be held April 1-4, 2004 in San Diego, California. For more information, contact Susan West Engelkemeyer at AAHE:
Email: sengelkemeyer@aahe.org
Phone: (202) 293-6440 ext. 781
| | | | | Voices from the Margins: Female Exiles in 20th and 21st Century Europe
Call for Papers
In an effort to raise consciousness on marginalized women within 100 years of European history, we are seeking papers on female exiles in 20th and 21st Century Europe. The accepted papers will be published in a book co-edited by Maureen Tobin Stanley in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The volume will encompass the following variations on the topic:
Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, Asylum, Transcience, Displacement, Migration Experiences, Persecution, War, Violence
We encourage submissions from scholars in literature, film, cultural studies, history, the social sciences, and women's studies.
Please submit a 500-word abstract (in duplicate) and selected bibliography by January 15, 2004. Following the selection process, manuscripts will be requested and reviewed. The manuscripts, written in English, are limited to 20 pages and will be due May 21, 2004.
Contact:
Maureen Tobin Stanley
mtobinst@d.umn.edu
Gesa Zinn
g.zinn@d.umn.edu
Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota Duluth
10 University Drive
Duluth, MN 55812
| | | | October 2003 | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program - University of California
The University of California is pleased to announce the annual competition of the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for the academic year 2004-2005. The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral research fellowships to scholars committed to university careers in research, teaching, and service that will enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California. Fellowships are awarded for research conducted under faculty sponsorship on any one of the University of California nine campuses. The program offers postdoctoral fellowships to qualified persons who intend to pursue academic careers and is designed to enhance their prospects for appointments to faculty positions at the University of California. In addition to financial support, the fellowships include mentorship guidance in areas critical to success in an academic career, such as research and writing. Application forms are available for downloading from the web site at http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp/applic-2004-2005.pdf. The deadline for submitting applications is November 15, 2003.
Information can also be obtained at:
The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of California - Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street, 11th Floor
Oakland, CA 94607-5200
(510) 987-9503
| | | | | GT Faculty Experts Guide
GT maintains a "Georgia Tech Experts Guide" on-line at http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/experts-guide/index.php
The Guide is made available to media who may want expert sources for articles in print or for broadcast - and if called, a faculty member may decide whether to be interviewed.
Take a look at the Guide -- and if you are not listed in your area(s) of expertise, and would like to be listed, send your area, name, School, phone, and email address to: larry.bowie@icpa.gatech.edu.
| | | | September 2003 | The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego
Visiting Research Fellowships
Academic Year, 2004-2005
CCIS will offer a limited number of Visiting Research Fellowships at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral levels for the 2004-05 academic year. These awards are to support advanced research and writing on any aspect of international migration and refugee flows, in any of the social sciences, history, law, and comparative literature. CCIS fellowships must be held in residence at UCSD. They cannot be used to support fieldwork or other primary data collection. Visiting Research Fellows will have the opportunity to present their research at CCIS research seminars and participate in writer's and academic professionalization workshops.
Predoctoral applicants are expected to finish writing their dissertations during their fellowship. Recent postdoctoral applicants can request support to turn a dissertation into a publishable manuscript or to prepare shorter publications based on the dissertation project. More senior scholars can propose any major research or writing project. The duration of the fellowship is usually for 10 months, although shorter stays will also be allowed. No summer-only fellowships will be awarded. For the current academic year, stipends are $2,250 per month for predoctoral fellows and $3,000 - $4,000 per month for recent postdoctoral fellows (Ph.D. received within the last 6 years) depending on seniority. Stipends for more senior scholars are negotiable. CCIS fellowships may be supplemented with compensation from other fellowships, research grants, sabbatical leaves, or other sources. CCIS fellows may be requested to teach a one-quarter (10 week) course in a UCSD department.
Application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from the CCIS website at http://www.ccis-ucsd.org. All application materials must be submitted no later than January 15, 2004 for fellowships to be held during the 2004-05 academic year. Candidates will be evaluated by a committee of CCIS faculty research associates and academic staff members. Final decisions will be made by early March.
Scholars whose work deals with Mexican migration to the United States can apply jointly to CCIS and the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies (application forms and guidelines can be downloaded from their website at http://www.usmex.ucsd.edu.
Individuals with their own extramural funding may apply to become CCIS "Guest Scholars." The application form is the same as for a Visiting Research Fellowship.
If you have any questions about the Visiting Research Fellows Program, please contact Gaku Tsuda, Associate Director of CCIS.
E-mail: ttsuda@ucsd.edu.
Tel. # (858) 822-0526.
| | | | August 2003 | Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
Call for Review Essays
The editors of Transformations are seeking review essays (books, film, video, performance, art, music, etc.) for our spring 2004 issue. Review essays should examine resources for teaching a specific subject. The author should describe the various resources (books, film, video, performance, art, music) and offer a rationale for the usefulness and application of the resources. The review may focus on one medium (e.g., movies) or several (e.g., movies, websites, novels, and paintings).
Send submissions (3,000 - 8,000 words) and inquiries to: Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu. For submission guidelines contact the editors at transformations@njcu.edu.
Transformations explores and promotes inclusive pedagogy and curriculum transformation. Representing a variety of cross-disciplinary interests, both theoretical and practical, the journal is designed to create a dynamic exchange among diverse scholars. A variety of approaches, everything from theoretical essays to short descriptions of pedagogical innovations, will assist teachers and scholars at all levels who are committed to integrating recent scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and other identity positions.
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