Wow! We Survived the First Week of Classes and Trump's Tweets Update
Events
- Body Typed: Media Illusions of the perfect body
- CLA's LATIS and IRSA are Collaborating to Provide Drop-In and By-Appointment Statistical Consulting Hours This Spring.
- Xtreme Theatre Smackdown
- Join the APARC for a Grand Opening
- WCHWGS is Currently Seeking Faculty and Graduate Student Papers for our Spring 2018 Schedule.
- Nadine Naber Visiting UMN
- Pride at Work Luncheon
- Lunch with the GSC
- ICGC Weekly List of Events Has Been Released
- "Responding To Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Minnesota Story"
- Masculinities and Violence Prevention
- UMN Workshops for Grads
- Women's Center Open House + Director Meet and Greet
- Anti-Super Bowl Party 2018
- Critical Disability Studies Collaborative (CDSC) Spring 2018 Events
Call for Papers/Applications
- Women's & Gender Studies "No Limits!" Student Research Conference
- A Special Issue of American Quarterly (September 2019)
- MJPA Deadline Extended
- HERA Has Extended the Submission Deadline
- "Ev'ry body, This Time" Conference
Job Opportunities/Grants/Fellowships
- Diversity Dissertation Fellowship at UIS
- Headline
- UMN Fellowships for Grads
- Schochet Endowment
- Consulting and Internship Opportunities
- Grinnell College - Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Two Year Post-Doc Position
Miscellaneous
- Nuancing the Widespread claim that the Super Bowl is the "largest sex trafficking event of the year"
- Sexual Violence and #MeToo: Thinking "beyond the framework of consent to understand harm"
Events
- Body Typed: Media Illusions of the perfect body Dear Educators;Educate, entertain, & start important discussions about media, culture, body image by showing this award-winning series of humorous SHORT FILMS.You may already have access to stream these films through your library:Feel free to contact me directly with questions or for a free preview link.Best,Filmmaker & Youth Media EducatorThese films are specifically designed to get men and boys involved in the conversation.“Revealing, sensitive, and yes, funny.”
- Stephen Duncombe, NYU Professor, Dept. of Media, Culture and Communications"Guaranteed to spark lively classroom conversations."
- Astra Taylor, Department of Sociology SUNY New Paltz“Recommended for academic and public libraries, BODY TYPED is an excellent instructional and discussion resource.”
- Margaret M. Reed, Educational Media Reviews OnlineA Valuable Resource for: *Men's Studies *Men's Groups *Psychology *Sociology *Women & Gender Studies *Counseling * Social Work *Diversity *LGBTQ Studies *Media/ Culture and Communications *Public Health - CLA's Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) and the Institute for Research on Statistics and its Applications (IRSA) are collaborating to provide drop-in and by-appointment Statistical Consulting hours this spring. Need help with your analysis? Have a statistics question? We can help!An advanced graduate student in statistics will be available to answer your questions:Tuesdays (starting Jan 16), 3pm - 4:30pm in 980 Social Sciences Building.Wednesdays (starting Jan 17), 10am- 11:30am in N227 Elliott Hall.Every Other Thursday (starting Jan 18), 3pm - 4:30pm in 1260 Social Sciences Building.Or by appointment: latisresearch@umn.eduTopics may include:· general statistical consulting (t-test, ANOVAs, regression, etc),· logistic/linear/generalized models,· support vector machines,· random forests/decision trees,· ridge/lasso regression,· Bayesian model, MCMC,· missing data,· survey data,· longitudinal data analysis, time series,· experimental design,· And other statistical questions you may have.3. Xtreme Theatre SmackdownWe at Theatre Unbound want to share details with you about the 2018 24:00:00 Xtreme Theatre Smackdown. Theatre Unbound, the women's theatre, delivers thought-provoking live theatre conceived and created by women, providing audiences with engaging, rarely-seen perspectives on issues that are relevant and universal. The Smackdown is a unique night at the theatre, with writers and actors creating 6 new plays in just 24 hours. You can learn more about the company and the event at Theatre Unbound.We offer a discounted ticket rate for students.4. Join the APARC for a Grand OpeningWhen: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 3-5pm.Where: Appleby Hall 311The Asian Pacific American Resource Center invites you to celebrate the opening of their new center. Light refreshments will be served. Please rsvp to z.umn.edu/aparc-opening.5. The Workshop on the Comparitive History of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WCHWGS) is seeking Faculty and Graduate Papers.If you have a conference paper, dissertation chapter, article draft or any type of work-in-progress that you would like to receive feedback on (it must address the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality in some fashion), please let us know as soon as possible. We encourage work that is at any stage of the writing process.For those of you who have not attended the workshop in the past (or have forgotten!) and are interested in presenting, the workshop operates as follows. A week before you are set to present, we will ask for a copy of your paper so that we may distribute it to our list-serv. At the workshop, a faculty member will open the discussion on your paper with a comment. After the comment (and after you've had a chance to respond), the discussion will open up to workshop members.The workshop is normally held on Fridays from 3:30-5:00pm. If you are interested in sharing a paper or serving as a faculty commentator this fall, please contact Michael Kadow (kadow003@umn.edu) and/or Anna Clark (clark106@umn.edu), this year's coordinators of WCHWGS. And as always, please feel free (and we encourage you!) to circulate this message to friends and colleagues within your own departments and institutions.6. Nadine Naber Visiting UMNOur Middle East and Islamic Studies Group at UMN is very excited to have Professor Nadine Naber visit UMN for a lecture on January 31st. You can find the details about her lecture titled "Unsettling the Revolutionary Subject: Feminist Implications of the Egyptian Revolution" here. Nadine was one of the key organizers in the fight for Rasmea Odeh, a Palestinian women's rights activist who was deported in 2017 (You can read one of Nadine's articles about this case here: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/rasmea-odeh-verdict-organizing/).
7. Pride at Work Luncheon
Thursday, January 25th | 1pm-2pm | Appleby Hall 41This month marks the "official" one year of the President being in office. 2017 had a lot going on, so we want to get together and check in with everyone, reflect on the past year and converse over coffee and doughnuts. Feel free to bring your lunch!Pride@Work is the UofM’s affinity group for LGBTQIA employees. Housed in the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, Pride@Work links together LGBTQIA employees at the UofM through monthly luncheons, critical coffee chats and/or after work socials.Join this incredible group of LGBTQIA employees who link together across the University of Minnesota around the following 4 key areas:
- Social Connections
- Professional Networking
- Campuswide Change at the U of M
- Topics Impacting LGBTQIA Employees
8 . Lunch with the GSC
Tuesday, January 30th | 12pm-2pm | Appleby Hall 40
Join us at the GSC for lunch on us. Check out our lounge, learn about our upcoming events and meet our staff. We'll see you there!
Contact the GSC for dietary needs and restrictions at: gsc@umn.edu.
9. ICGC List of Events for the Week of 1/16/18 Has Been Released
Click HERE for the Spring 2018 ICGC Schedule of Events
10. " Responding to Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Minnesota Story"
Save the Date!
Driven to Discover: The History of Minnesota’s Medical Innovations Lecture Series Presents
"Global to Local to Global Again: Immigrant and Refugee Health in Minnesota"
Neal R. Holtan, MD, MPH, PHD
Preventive Medicine and Public Health Physician and Historian
William Stauffer, MD, MSPH, FASTMH
Prof. of Medicine and Pediatrics,
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine,
Univ. of Minnesota
In this talk, historian and physician Neal Holtan, MD, MPH, PhD, will describe the history of immigrant and refugee health in the U.S. and Minnesota, and William Stauffer, MD, MSPH, FASTMH, will describe his accidental career with the CDC, offering personal insights into health considerations and preventive interventions for U.S. Bound refugees.
Friday, February 9, 2018
12:15-1:15 pm
Moos 2-690
Please join us for the February 9th Driven to Discover Lecture
Light lunch will be provided.
11. Masculinities and Violence Prevention
The year 2017 brought a stream of media attention to both violence and harassment by men against women. What can we do in 2018 to better address gender based violence, both globally and locally? Join us for a panel dialogue on what we know about the connections between masculinity and violence and the actionable steps that work in addressing this pernicious problem. This event will provide an overview of the links, globally, between masculinity and violence drawn from Promundo ’s International Men and Gender Equality Survey, followed by a comparative discussion of approaches to addressing this violence, based on Promundo’s experience abroad and by the MN Men and Masculine Folks Network and by Men as Peacemakers in Minnesota.
Please register for the event here.
12. UMN Workshops for Grads
Exceptional Follow-Through: Turning Your Contacts Into Your Advocates
January 18, 2018 | 12 - 1 p.m. | Webinar
Many people go to great networking events and collect many business cards. However, if we fail to follow-up afterwards, it's as if the networking never happened. The exceptional follow-through that will be explored in this webinar is about the different ways to follow up and how to make your networking contacts work for you! Brought to you by University of Minnesota Alumni Association. Register for Exceptional Follow-Through Active Learning 101
January 25, 2018 | 4 - 5 p.m. | University Office Plaza, Room 444
Learn techniques for engaging your students in learning during class. In this workshop presented by the Center for Educational Innovation, you will gain understanding of basic active learning approaches, from the Think/Pair/Share to the Jigsaw Teamwork technique. Register for Active Learning 101Introduction to NVivo
January 26, 2018 | 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Appleby Hall, Room 128
Kick off the new semester with learning NVivo as part of the 2018 LATIS Workshop Series. NVivo is a qualitative data management, coding and markup tool, that facilitates powerful querying and exploration of source materials for both mixed methods and qualitative analysis. This workshop introduces the basic functions of NVivo and will also explore more advanced features. No prior experience with NVivo is necessary. Free for graduate students, staff, and faculty. Register for NVivoData Wrangling with Python (using pandas)
February 2, 2018 | 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Bruininks Hall, Room 131A
Pandas holds a special place in the pantheon of Python libraries as it provides researchers with high-performance, easy-to-use structures and tools for data analysis. In this LATIS workshop, participants will learn how to import, format, and clean data using pandas built-in methods as well as learn some common techniques to manipulate, filter, and analyze data using the pandas data frame. Some familiarity with social science data and Python is assumed. Workshop free to graduate students, staff, and faculty. Register for Data Wrangling with Python
13. Women's Center Open House + Director Meet and Greet
Open House + Director Meet and Greet!
Drop in to meet Anitra Cottledge, the new Director of the Women’s Center, in our study/lounge and learn more about our programs -- including FAB, our student volunteer program! Treats provided!
14. Anti-Super Bowl Party 2018
Hosted by Women for Political Change
link to facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/181977559222719/
15. Critical Disability Studies Collaborative (CDSC) Spring 2018 Events
Open House + Director Meet and Greet!
Tuesday, January 23, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
65 Appleby Hall (Women's Center Study/Lounge)
Drop in to meet Anitra Cottledge, the new Director of the Women’s Center, in our study/lounge and learn more about our programs -- including FAB, our student volunteer program! Treats provided!14. Anti-Super Bowl Party 2018
Hosted by Women for Political Change
link to facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/181977559222719/
15. Critical Disability Studies Collaborative (CDSC) Spring 2018 Events
Call for Papers/Applications
- Women's & Gender Studies "No Limits!" Student Research Conference University of Nebraska at Omaha, Milo Bail Student CenterFriday, March 9, 2018 9:00am-5:30pm
“Gender and Activism in These Times”
No Limits! is an interdisciplinary academic conference that explores a wide range of women’s and gender issues. Undergraduate and graduate students, and recent graduates, are invited to submit proposals to present their women’s and/or gender studies-related research or creative work.
Call for proposals: Students desiring to present their work at the conference should submit the following by email to Dr. Karen Falconer Al-Hindi kfalconeralhindi@unomaha.edu):v Subject line of email: “No Limits” and student’s last name.v Body of email:o Student’s contact information: Name, university affiliation, mailing address, email, phone.o Faculty mentor: Name, university affiliation and email address.o Project information: Title and abstract of approximately 250 words describing the project and its significance. Research involving human subjects must have IRB approval.o Biographical statement: Student’s major/minor, hometown, academic and/or career goals, and a fun fact. (50 – 75 words)o Format: Indicate whether this will be a paper (20 minutes), poster presentation (48” x 36”), or othero Materials needed: If the presentation requires additional items other than projector, screen, and computer cart, please explain and list these.v Create a file (.doc, .docx, .rtf only) with all the information in the body of the email and attach it.Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 26, 2018 - A Special Issue of American Quarterly (September 2019)
Edited by Greta LaFleur (Yale University) and Kyla Schuller (Rutgers University–New Brunswick)
Biopolitics as an analytic has borne an increasingly influential role in a number of fields and areas of inquiry central to American studies. Contemporary scholarship in Black, critical ethnic, and gender and sexuality studies—to name only a few—has taken biopower as a point of departure to illuminate how hierarchies of differential value and disposability have shaped life in the Americas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. However, Foucault’s and Agamben’s theoretical framework out of which so many studies of biopower have grown has been famously inattentive to slavery, colonialism, empire, and settler expansionism. Many of the key concepts and questions of biopolitical inquiry (security, population, state racism, the management of life and death, necropolitics, political and reproductive economy, etc.) were developed out of and implemented within slavery and other colonial economies, as scholars such as Mbembe have illuminated. Key gaps thus persist in our knowledge: How did biopolitics unfurl its deadly calculations of the relative value of life in the context of the early American colonies and later the United States? What can biopolitical frames offer early American studies and vice versa? Our purpose is both to critically engage the history of the biopolitical in the period before 1900 and to reframe early American studies in relation to biopolitics.
This special issue underscores the increasing relevance of biopolitics to current scholarly debates within early American studies and offers crucial correctives to dominant analyses of biopower. It aims to add new insight to ongoing conversations in early American studies, including questions about the shifting strategies of colonial and state-based governance at the level of the parish, the city, the frontier, and the nation; the changing relationship between waged and unfree labor, especially in the context of racial capitalism and the assumed disposability of Black, Asian, and indigenous life; the increasing centrality of the human sciences to understandings of difference and emergent nationalisms; the understanding of the Human and the commons that underpins liberal democracy; and the changing relationships of religion, secularism, and postsecularism to settler colonialism, empire, and territory control.
Conversely, exploring the role of religion, in particular—the governing structure of imperial projects—helps displace the state as the privileged actor of biopower. Highlighting the range of tactics deployed by expansionist empires in the Americas opens new vantages onto the integral relationship between settler colonialism and biopolitical control. Furthermore, analyzing how sex difference, gender, and sexuality emerged in relation to racial formations provides urgently needed intersectional responses to Foucault’s theory of state racism.
Proposed essays may consider, among other topics:
- Comparative slavery studies
- Race science, public health, medicine, and other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century technologies to produce and manage bodily difference
- Resistance of individuals and populations marked disposable
- Networks of economic, medical, scientific, religious contact throughout North America, the Caribbean, and Central and South America
- Management of reproduction and fertility among free and unfree populations
- War, geopolitics, and militarization of daily life
- Competing colonial and imperial forms of increasingly racialized, and immigrant, labor
- Shifts in governance from colonial to liberal democratic settler state models
- Reform movements including abolitionism, feminism, and temperance
- Intersections between the logics of racial difference and other civilizationist hierarchies
- Underexamined theorists of biopower (Spillers, Hartman, Roediger, Stoler, Patterson, Lowe, etc.)
- Capitalism, industrialization, and the management of multispecies populations and ecologies
- Intertwined technologies of individual discipline and population regulation, such as the prison, school, slave ship, domestic home, or plantation
- Sustainability, conservation, and the uneven origins of anthropogenic change
- The violences of settler colonialism and indigenous removal campaigns
- Biopower and its relation to aesthetic and cultural modes, genres, and forms
Essays of up to 10,000 words are due August 1, 2018. Authors must address the guest editors and clearly indicate in a cover letter that the submission is intended for the 2019 special issue. Information about American Quarterly and submission guidelines can be found at www.americanquarterly.org.
3. MJPA Deadline ExtendedGiven the interest and the holiday weekend, we have decided to extend the submissions deadline until Tuesday, January 23rd at 11:59pm.MJPA is a graduate and professional journal run by graduate students at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. We welcome academic submissions on any policy topic for Volume 15 and op-eds, narratives, photo journalistic pieces and more for our Special Issue on Wicked Problems.Additional details can be found at mjpa.umich.edu and submissions can now be sent to fsppmjpa+submissions@umich.edu until 11:59pm on Saturday January 23, 2018.4. HERA Has Extended the Submission DeadlineYou have until January 31, 2018 to send in your proposals.***The Palmer House hotel sent an important reminder.The deadline for receiving the $139 guest room rate ends on February 5, 2018.Make a reservation now. You can always cancel three days in advance of the conference. Remember that the $139 rate is applicable 3 days before and 3 days after the conference.
5. "Ev'ry Body, This Time" Conference
Call for Papers - Please SAVE THE DATE.
A conference free and open to the public hosted by:
The Center for the Study of Sexual Culture
University of California, Berkeley
April 12-14, 2018 at Sutardja Dai Hall on the U.C. Berkeley campus
Berkeley, California
For most recently updated information please visit cssc.berkeley.edu
The submission deadline is Feb 7, 2018.
Submission email (submissions only): csscconf2018@gmail.com
Please direct all inquiries to cssc@berkeley.edu
Single paper abstracts should be 300-500 words in length. Accepted papers will be arranged into panels. Include a bio or CV.
The submission deadline is Feb 7, 2018. Submissions must be sent to the dedicated email address csscconf2018@gmail.com (submissions only) in order to be considered. We aim to respond to proposals by February 15, 2018. Please direct any inquiries about submissions or the conference to cssc@berkeley.edu.
Job Opportunities/Grants/Fellowships
- Diversity Dissertation Fellowship at UIS https://jobs.uis.edu/job-
board/job-details?jobID=85343& job=doctoral-dissertation- fellow-85343 The University of Illinois Springfield announces the availability of Dissertation Fellowships. The purpose of this fellowship is to enhance diversity in research, teaching, and service at UIS through the recruitment of graduate students who are completing dissertation researchFellows will teach one course each semester in an area related to their academic preparation and a need of the department hosting the fellow. Fellows will be expected to devote significant time to the completion of the dissertation. Fellows may also work with a faculty mentor and will have opportunities to present their research at a number of University and professional venues.Fellows will receive academic year faculty appointments and will be eligible for benefits, including health insurance. Annual salary is $30,000. Fellows must be eligible for employment. Additionally, fellows will receive support for research, professional travel, and other related expenses. It is expected that fellows will not be employed outside of the University or receive additional fellowships or awards during the fellowship period unless approved by the University.Minimum Qualifications
Fellows must be dissertation stage doctoral degree candidates studying in a field taught at UIS. The academic offerings of UIS are housed in the Colleges of Business and Management, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Education and Human Services, and Public Affairs and Administration.
Additional Qualifications
Qualified candidates who would enhance the diversity of UIS faculty or who have significant experience in educational programs and environments characterized by a strong emphasis on diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion are strongly encouraged to apply.Application Process
Please select the "Apply For Position" tab below, create or update your profile and upload a cover letter of application addressing your interest in the position, a CV, and the name and contact information (phone and email address) for your dissertation advisor. Only those applicants who complete the online application and upload all required materials will be considered; incomplete applications will not be evaluated. To maintain the integrity and confidentiality of the search process, applicants are asked to upload their own materials. Preference for Fall 2018 positions will be given to complete applications received by January 15, 2018; however, applications received after that date may also be reviewed. Review of applications will begin January 16, 2018, and will continue until the positions are filled or the search for Fall 2018 positions is terminated. - Victory Congressional Internship update here
- UMN Fellowships for Grads
CLA Advising Graduate Student Interns
Applications open February 1, 2018
CLA Advising in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota announces openings for two graduate student interns for the 2018-2019 academic year.
2018 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition
Deadline: March 14, 2018
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the eighth annual competition of the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program. This initiative places humanities Ph.D.s in substantive roles in diverse nonprofit and government organizations, demonstrating that the knowledge and capacities developed in the course of earning a doctoral degree in the humanities have wide application beyond the academy. The fellowship carries an annual stipend of $67,500. Find more information on the 2018 Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows competition
4.Schochet Endowment
The Steven J. Schochet Endowment is now accepting applications for the Schochet Interdisciplinary
Applications due: March 15, 2018.
Full details and application criteria:
5. Consulting and Internship Opportunities
The Economic Development Fellows Consulting Program is kicking off the year with a new round of consulting internship opportunities for spring 2018. These semester-long volunteer internships are modeled after consulting engagements and offer postdoctoral fellows and graduate students a valuable opportunity to bridge the gap between academia and industry, and gain professional experience providing consulting services for Minnesota businesses and organizations.
Consulting interns are led by an experienced economic development fellow and work in diverse, interdisciplinary teams of 4-6 interns. They are expected to spend ~5 hours per week working on the project, though this is largely on a flexible schedule, making it easy to work around research and classes. Participants from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. You do not need to have any previous consulting experience to be accepted.
There will be an information session for interested students and postdocs on Monday, January 22 from 4-5:30 in 402 Walter Library. Register for the information session.
While attendance at the info session is not required in order to submit an application for the current cycle, it is encouraged. The project leads will be in attendance and will be able to answer your questions about the projects, as well as what it's like to participate in the program.
Project information for spring 2018 is posted on the EDF website for students and postdocs who are interested in learning more and applying.
The application for spring 2018 project teams is due on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at midnight.
Questions? Contact frontdoor@umn.edu.
6. Grinnell College - Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Two Year Post-Doc Position
Miscellaneous
- Nuancing the Widespread claim that the Super Bowl is the "largest sex trafficking event of the year" link to research brief
- Sexual Violence and #MeToo: Thinking "beyond the framework of consent to understand harm" link to article
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