We hope everyone is enjoying their winter break and the new year. Here are a few updates that we wanted to send out.
Events
Events
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
3. Religion Graduate Student Conference - Columbia University
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
3. Religion Graduate Student Conference - Columbia University
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. Nina Medvedeva - Wenner-Gren Fellowship
2. New Publication- Performing Embodied Translations Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being
Course Offerings
1. AFRO 5910/8590: African Experience of Migration in Fiction & Films
2. GEOG 8230: Theoretical Geography (FOCUS "Reading Marx(isms): Marx, Harvey, Althusser, Massey"e; Spring 2020
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. Nina Medvedeva - Wenner-Gren Fellowship
2. New Publication- Performing Embodied Translations Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being
Course Offerings
1. AFRO 5910/8590: African Experience of Migration in Fiction & Films
2. GEOG 8230: Theoretical Geography (FOCUS "Reading Marx(isms): Marx, Harvey, Althusser, Massey"e; Spring 2020
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Events
1. Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Writing
This workshop series is for first-year Ph.D. students to help prepare an application for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, with broader focus on fellowship proposal writing and proposal writing in general.
2. U of MN Day of Data 2020
Friday, January 10, 2020 | 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Bruininks Hall 114 & Online
Events
1. Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal Writing
This workshop series is for first-year Ph.D. students to help prepare an application for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, with broader focus on fellowship proposal writing and proposal writing in general.
2. U of MN Day of Data 2020
This event is open to all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Minnesota, and is free of charge to attend. Coffee and pizza lunch will be provided.
People and groups across the University are developing interesting approaches to data, methods, and workflows, but don’t always get a chance to share that work across departments and units. Day of Data is that opportunity! Spend a day learning and sharing new data skills and connecting with fellow data enthusiasts.
3. Teaching with Writing Winter Workshops
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 | 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
People and groups across the University are developing interesting approaches to data, methods, and workflows, but don’t always get a chance to share that work across departments and units. Day of Data is that opportunity! Spend a day learning and sharing new data skills and connecting with fellow data enthusiasts.
All faculty, graduate instructors, and teaching assistants are invited to register for this one-day event, focused on course and assignment planning, effective feedback strategies, and efficient and inclusive grading practices. All participants must register individually, but are encouraged to work with a team of departmental colleagues.
All faculty, graduate instructors, and teaching assistants are invited to register for this one-day event, focused on course and assignment planning, effective feedback strategies, and efficient and inclusive grading practices. All participants must register individually, but are encouraged to work with a team of departmental colleagues.
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women, that will be held in Edinburgh between the 8th and 11th March 2020, and more will be confirmed soon. You can see this information HERE.
We have postponed the date for submission of abstracts, that is now the 31st of January 2020.
Please click HERE if you wish to participate.
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
The 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields - Promoting Equality, Social Justice and Psychosocial Well-Being in a Contrasting World will be held at ISPA - Instituto Universitário (www.ispa.pt), the oldest university of psychology in Portugal, from 24 to 27 June 2020. The Conference will be a unique opportunity to create a forum for students, researchers and scholars interested in different areas of LGBT+ research and the community realities in which LGBT+ people live in.
The main objective of the Conference is to promote visibility to and consolidate the field of LGBT+ research, with particular emphasis on LGBT+ psychology. The Conference has an international and multidisciplinary scope to tackle the discrimination of sexual and gender minorities and to provide a significant contribution towards equality, acceptance and social justice in a diverse and contrasting world.
We welcome proposals for paper and poster individual presentations, paper and poster symposiums and roundtables. All proposals must be submitted online, and there will be a limit of two first-author presentations. Abstracts may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.
The Conference will also feature invited keynote addresses by Charlotte Patterson (University of Virginia, USA), David Frost (University College London, UK), and Carla Moleiro (ISCTE, Portugal), three eminent scholars who have significantly advanced the field of LGBT+ psychology research.
For more information about submissions and registration, you can visit www.lgbtpsychology2020.com or email us at LGBTconference2020@ispa.pt .
3. Religion Graduate Student Conference - Columbia University
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender Studies and the Status of Women, that will be held in Edinburgh between the 8th and 11th March 2020, and more will be confirmed soon. You can see this information HERE.
We have postponed the date for submission of abstracts, that is now the 31st of January 2020.
Please click HERE if you wish to participate.
2. CALL FOR PAPERS: 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields
The 3rd International Conference on LGBT+ Psychology and Related Fields - Promoting Equality, Social Justice and Psychosocial Well-Being in a Contrasting World will be held at ISPA - Instituto Universitário (www.ispa.pt), the oldest university of psychology in Portugal, from 24 to 27 June 2020. The Conference will be a unique opportunity to create a forum for students, researchers and scholars interested in different areas of LGBT+ research and the community realities in which LGBT+ people live in.
The main objective of the Conference is to promote visibility to and consolidate the field of LGBT+ research, with particular emphasis on LGBT+ psychology. The Conference has an international and multidisciplinary scope to tackle the discrimination of sexual and gender minorities and to provide a significant contribution towards equality, acceptance and social justice in a diverse and contrasting world.
We welcome proposals for paper and poster individual presentations, paper and poster symposiums and roundtables. All proposals must be submitted online, and there will be a limit of two first-author presentations. Abstracts may be submitted in Portuguese, Spanish, or English.
The Conference will also feature invited keynote addresses by Charlotte Patterson (University of Virginia, USA), David Frost (University College London, UK), and Carla Moleiro (ISCTE, Portugal), three eminent scholars who have significantly advanced the field of LGBT+ psychology research.
For more information about submissions and registration, you can visit www.lgbtpsychology2020.com or email us at LGBTconference2020@ispa.pt .
3. Religion Graduate Student Conference - Columbia University
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
Recognitions/Awards/Publications
1. Nina Medvedeva
Congratulations to Nina Medvedeva, who was just awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for 2020. Well done, Nina!
2. New Publication- Performing Embodied Translations
Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being
1. Nina Medvedeva
Congratulations to Nina Medvedeva, who was just awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for 2020. Well done, Nina!
2. New Publication- Performing Embodied Translations
Decolonizing Methodologies of Knowing and Being
Abstract
This performance and transcript emerge from a collaborative journey that grapples with what it might mean to agitate dominant pedagogical and methodological conventions of Eurocentric Angophone academia. Together, we perform an argument and a search: for multiple entry points into decolonizing feminisms; for multiple modes of knowing and being that can interrupt and challenge the epistemes that are rooted in thoughts and practices of colonialism and coloniality; for interrogating the dominant politics of citation that often operate in academic practices in disembodied ways. We search for a politics of knowing that is firmly rooted in relationalities where power and authority can be shared across uneven and unequal locations and languages. We invite you to step into the spaces that we have started imagining here and push all of our collective conversations and imaginations further, beyond the silos that cage us in our disciplined modes of thinking, writing, arguing, and dreaming.
Course Offerings
1. AFRO 5910/8590: African Experience of Migration in
Fiction & Films
African Experience of Migration in Fiction & Films
Spring 2020: Tuesdays 02:45 pm - 05:30 pm
This course addresses the key issues that arise in contemporary immigration and global security debates, with a particular focus on European destinations and European immigration and asylum policies. Throughout the course of the semester, we will interrogate the literary and audio-visual arts as a mirror of the times, reflecting socio-political conditions. In a bid to place the current “crisis” in a historical and gendered perspective, we will examine select works by African writers, filmmakers and artists, which provide examples enabling us to move beyond stereotypes and common assumptions.
2. GEOG 8230: Theoretical Geography (FOCUS "Reading Marx(isms): Marx, Harvey, Althusser, Massey"e; Spring 2020
Tuesdays 3:30 - 6:00pm
Professor George Henderson
E-mail: hende057@umn.edu
Office: 548 SST
Office hours: TBA
This seminar is an introduction to the study of capitalist formations from various Marxist perspectives, but especially those that have been influential in the fields of geography and critical social-spatial theory. The course begins with Marx's Capital, vol. 1, and proceeds to a very small but significant selection of authors who follow but also contest and disrupt him. My hope is that students who plan to take later coursework that "provincializes" Marx(ism) or examines (or even rejects) Marx and Marxism from other disciplinary perspectives will benefit from this course. The seminar pays special attention to the idea that Marx’s work can be read openly, in an exploratory fashion.
Some of the key questions we will explore are:
• What does it mean to call a social formation capitalist?
• Is capitalism propelled by an “inner logic”?
• Why does capitalism unfold unevenly in time and space?
• What is meant by the concept of value? Of commodity fetish?
• Is the idea of a beyond-capital inherent in the idea of capital itself?
Student work: Take turns presenting readings and leading weekly discussions; keep a notebook/journal based on readings; write one paper of 20-25-pages or one paper of 6-8 pages (due mid-semester) and one paper of 15-17 pages (due end of semester); visit George during office hour or by appointment at least once during March or April. I ask that you submit hard copy of your written work.
We will read the following books:
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (Penguin edition)
David Harvey, The Limits to Capital (Verso)
Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, Reading Capital (Verso) -- selections
Brett Christophers, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Peck, Marion Werner, ed., The Doreen Massey Reader (Agenda Publishing) -- selections
Course Offerings
1. AFRO 5910/8590: African Experience of Migration in
Fiction & Films
African Experience of Migration in Fiction & Films
Spring 2020: Tuesdays 02:45 pm - 05:30 pm
This course addresses the key issues that arise in contemporary immigration and global security debates, with a particular focus on European destinations and European immigration and asylum policies. Throughout the course of the semester, we will interrogate the literary and audio-visual arts as a mirror of the times, reflecting socio-political conditions. In a bid to place the current “crisis” in a historical and gendered perspective, we will examine select works by African writers, filmmakers and artists, which provide examples enabling us to move beyond stereotypes and common assumptions.
2. GEOG 8230: Theoretical Geography (FOCUS "Reading Marx(isms): Marx, Harvey, Althusser, Massey"e; Spring 2020
Tuesdays 3:30 - 6:00pm
Professor George Henderson
E-mail: hende057@umn.edu
Office: 548 SST
Office hours: TBA
This seminar is an introduction to the study of capitalist formations from various Marxist perspectives, but especially those that have been influential in the fields of geography and critical social-spatial theory. The course begins with Marx's Capital, vol. 1, and proceeds to a very small but significant selection of authors who follow but also contest and disrupt him. My hope is that students who plan to take later coursework that "provincializes" Marx(ism) or examines (or even rejects) Marx and Marxism from other disciplinary perspectives will benefit from this course. The seminar pays special attention to the idea that Marx’s work can be read openly, in an exploratory fashion.
Some of the key questions we will explore are:
• What does it mean to call a social formation capitalist?
• Is capitalism propelled by an “inner logic”?
• Why does capitalism unfold unevenly in time and space?
• What is meant by the concept of value? Of commodity fetish?
• Is the idea of a beyond-capital inherent in the idea of capital itself?
Student work: Take turns presenting readings and leading weekly discussions; keep a notebook/journal based on readings; write one paper of 20-25-pages or one paper of 6-8 pages (due mid-semester) and one paper of 15-17 pages (due end of semester); visit George during office hour or by appointment at least once during March or April. I ask that you submit hard copy of your written work.
We will read the following books:
Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1 (Penguin edition)
David Harvey, The Limits to Capital (Verso)
Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, Reading Capital (Verso) -- selections
Brett Christophers, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Peck, Marion Werner, ed., The Doreen Massey Reader (Agenda Publishing) -- selections
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
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