Events
1. Women & Gender: International Opportunities
2. Legal Lens on Transgender Inclusive Policy Discussion (10.29)
3. Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry (11.01)
4. October Nutritious U Food Pantry
5. CSPW Writing Hunker (10.26)
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability (11.01)
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording (11.06)
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
Events
1. Women & Gender: International Opportunities
2. Legal Lens on Transgender Inclusive Policy Discussion (10.29)
3. Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry (11.01)
4. October Nutritious U Food Pantry
5. CSPW Writing Hunker (10.26)
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability (11.01)
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording (11.06)
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
2. Legal Lens on Transgender Inclusive Policy Discussion (10.29)
3. Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry (11.01)
4. October Nutritious U Food Pantry
5. CSPW Writing Hunker (10.26)
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability (11.01)
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording (11.06)
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
1. Newberry's Long-Term Fellowship Program - Deadline Approaching
2. The Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
3. SFSU College of Ethnic Studies Job Postings
4. Health Policy Research Scholars
2. The Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
3. SFSU College of Ethnic Studies Job Postings
4. Health Policy Research Scholars
Call for Papers/Proposals
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. National Questions, International Possibilities: Democratic Revival in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Recognitions/Awards
1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award
Recognitions/Awards
1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award
Miscellaneous
1. FREE Mental/Physical Health Opportunities for Allies and Members of the Queer Community
2. Save Time with Book Delivery
Miscellaneous
2. Save Time with Book Delivery
Events
Events
1. Women & Gender: International Opportunities
Interested?
HOW TO APPLY
Please read NGOabroad website
http://www.ngoabroad.com/
and send answered Questionnaire and resume to:
info@NGOabroad.com
These are volunteer opportunities.
Both students & experienced professionals needed.
In all of these placements, both women and men are needed.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Most placements can fit to your schedule and for how long you can go.
WHEN TO APPLY
*People are already beginning to apply to volunteer in June, July & August.
We send this first announcement in Oct or Nov for those that like to get a leap on their summer plans.
We will send a 2nd, sometimes slightly revised, announcement in Jan or Feb.
It is smart to finish application process by March so you have time to prepare to go to another country.
Our volunteer programs do not just run in June, July & August - that is simply when the most people can go.
Except primary & secondary schools that have school schedules to adhere to, most of our programs run year round.
Have you always wanted to work on women & gender issues in other countries? You are needed in many places:
SEX TRAFFICKING: Nepal
~7,000 women and girls are trafficked from Nepal into India's sex trade per year.
Sex traffickers prey on young women in remote, remote parts of Nepal that want out of poverty.
Traffickers promise them a job; instead girls are tricked into prostitution and sexual exploitation in India. Are you a rugged hiker? Come help in the remote villages: teach English and literacy to create another life for these girls. Or work in their legal program teaching women their rights. Grant writers also needed.
ALTERNATIVES TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Cameroon
When a social worker from Canada asked an audience of 50 men, how many of them beat their wives. 48 hands went up! "Why" "How else would you get them to mind?" You will also see corporeal punishment in schools and homes. Are you comfortable with public speaking? Come teach positive reinforcement and other ways of interacting. It would be especially helpful to have male Gender Studies students who can help shift attitudes and behavior.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Costa Rica - Spanish fluency required
Work in the shelter; do community education; help women become economically independent
so they can leave abusive relationships; and/or help develop counseling programs for women, men and kids. If you have background in counseling, help with crisis, individual and group therapy. If you have volunteered in a shelter (and can also speak Spanish) then you are also qualified for this placement. Men who have backgrounds in Social Work or Psychology are needed to help start their men's program.
FAMILY PLANNING: Uganda & Cameroon
For women who have 10 kids, they will tell you that contraception is life changing. African women realize that if they had fewer kids, they would have fewer mouths to feed and be less poor. Now there is a groundswell in Africa and they are asking for help with this. We need: people who can teach about various kinds of contraception that are within their reach; people that help with a shift in consciousness - a woman is considered property of her husband; a woman is often told by her mother to "do (sexually) anything he wants" - so that women see their body as their own. Most African men want many children and their wife to bear children at age 15. We need men helping with this!
EMPOWERING WOMEN: Morocco
Morocco is making important inroads, like changing their rape law - but still most women have not been allowed an education or to take jobs. To gather for a women's group is unheard of - so come teach English and in the course of conversation practice, discuss with Moroccan women their lives, families, situations and what they want to change.
WOMEN & LITERACY: Uganda & Cameroon
Teach adult women who were excluded from an education how to read & write.
Most women over 30 were told by their fathers "I only have enough money to pay your brothers' school fees. You are only going to be a wife." These women hunger to learn to read & write. Work in the remote, rural villages in tropical Cameroon or the breath-taking mountains of Uganda.
GIRL CHILD EDUCATION: Uganda & Kenya
In most parts of Africa, fathers told their daughters "I only have enough money for your brothers' school fees. Besides, you are just going to be a wife." It is only in the last 5-10 years that girls are allowed an education. Now that girls are included in schools, we need your help: Uganda secondary school: teach or tutor in English (writing, literature & grammar), Math, Chemistry, Physics or Biology. Kenya primary: tutor kids who have been orphaned by AIDS. Scrabble is the rage. You need not have special credentials for these placements. Just a desire to help with "girl child education."
BEGINNING STEPS re WOMEN & GENDER: Peru
This organization does many, many things: nutrition, education, health and farming. They would also like to start discussions at their center and in remote villages about women and gender:
discussing women's roles and rights. Their aim is to begin to shift attitudes. Like in Africa, a women's body is not considered her own. A women's role is very constricted. Thus not radical but gentle steps in the beginning. Spanish is essential; and if you can speak Quechua, a real plus. This site is a great location for exploring Machu Picchu/ the Sacred Valley, Cuzco, Lake Titicaca and the Amazon.
INDIGENOUS WOMEN: Ecuador
Ecuador's indigenous people have gained more clout in the last 20 years. Come teach farming or join indigenous women in the fields to help feed their families. This is a beautiful part of Ecuador: volcanoes and colorfully clothed indigenous women. Spanish is a must; Quechua a plus.
EMPOWERING GIRLS: India
This organization provides an positive alternative to alcoholic or abusive environments. Come help with homework, assist in the school, help with vocational and mentor girls about future choices. If you want to see the lives of females improved n the world, this is a good fit! Come help! This is in a part of India that has almost 100% literacy: known for bright, very friendly people and a beautiful coast!
MICRO-FINANCE & INCOME GENERATION: Costa Rica, India, Ecuador
Most women in the poorer parts of the world would say empowerment is earning money for the family. Micro-finance and "livelihood" skills are an important ticket out of poverty. The most important part of MF is not the loan but helping micro-enterpreneurs succeed. Costa Rica has an extraordinary dynamic female director: hilarious and gracious. India is much more like the Grameen model - helping the poor in many ways. Ecuador reflects the model that grew out of Liberation Theology: forming cooperatives.
SEXUAL ABUSE: Kenya & Lebanon
While physical abuse/ domestic violence is beginning to be addressed throughout Africa, sexual abuse is still taboo and unaddressed. This program is an exception. Experienced in trauma, sexual abuse, gender based violence, EMDR and/or PTSD? We need you in Kenya! In Lebanon, help with trainings in community about physical, sexual and child abuse.
LEGAL LITERACY: Cameroon
Throughout most of Africa, most citizens do not know their legal rights or how the legal system works. They do not know how to make a complaint or testify in court. Empower common citizens
by teaching them labor, family and inheritance law and how the legal process works. Enact it with them. Throughout most of Africa, women are considered property of their husband.
If husband dies, the wife is dispossessed of the land that feeds her and the children and is inherited by husband's brother. Thus inheritance law is perhaps the most crucial legal and human rights issue.
Are you an attorney, or do you have a background in law or are even pre-law? Come empower & teach!
FISTULA PREVENTION: Uganda
A fistula is formed when a baby gets stuck in labor and contractions push the uterus into rectum or bladder and make tear. Fistulas usually result in lifelong incontinence or leaking feces and societal rejection. Fistulas are difficult to repair so best intervention is prevention. In Nov 2019 a MHP will teach about delaying childbirth as most fistulas happen to 13, 14 or 15 year old mothers. The community is organizing ways endangered moms can get a C section when baby is stuck. But this will be long "sensitization" campaign to persuade men to have wives use birth control until their bodies are ready for childbirth. Willing to help with this attitude shift? We especially welcome men and fathers.
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: Jordan - currently on hold
This organization is doing ground-breaking work with women: 1. economic empowerment - teaching job skills & entrepreneurship, including helping women work in the trades (which is really, really unusual for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region); 2. social empowerment - launching discussions about women's & men's roles - which is also very unusual - and expanding what women can do and how they see themselves; 3. building leadership skills & political participation. 4. reproductive & sexual health. They would like people who can work with women at one of their 50 centers around country. You do not need to be able to speak Arabic but clearly it is great if you can. Jordan has earned its reputation as very friendly & safe. 50% of women who work with are Syrian refugees.
Interested?
HOW TO APPLY
Please read NGOabroad website
http://www.ngoabroad.com/
and send answered Questionnaire and resume to:
info@NGOabroad.com
These are volunteer opportunities.
Both students & experienced professionals needed.
In all of these placements, both women and men are needed.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Most placements can fit to your schedule and for how long you can go.
WHEN TO APPLY
*People are already beginning to apply to volunteer in June, July & August.
We send this first announcement in Oct or Nov for those that like to get a leap on their summer plans.
We will send a 2nd, sometimes slightly revised, announcement in Jan or Feb.
It is smart to finish application process by March so you have time to prepare to go to another country.
Our volunteer programs do not just run in June, July & August - that is simply when the most people can go.
Except primary & secondary schools that have school schedules to adhere to, most of our programs run year round.
2. Legal Lens on Transgender Inclusive Policy Discussion
Program Details:
“Student Life and the Law: University of Minnesota’s Proposed Policy on Gender Identity and Expression”
Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 12pm-2pm
Location: Weisman Art Museum
Panelists:
Tina Marisam, EOAA
Saby Labor, GSC
Legal Scholar, TBD
Jay Wilson, Trans Advisory & Action Team
For more information about the event, please see the flyer attached.
Please RSVP here:
For more information about the Gender Equity and Access Policy and/or to submit a comment about it, please visit:
For questions or to make access accommodations or dietary requests, contact Karmen McQuitty at kmcquitt@umn.edu.
3. Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry
November 1st
7-9 PM
Moon Palace Books
3032 Minnehaha Ave
Minneapolis, MN, 55406
It's with startling force that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer.
—Washington Independent Review of Books
To kick off a weekend of celebrations marking Mizna's twentieth anniversary, Handal will read from her latest poetry collection, Life in a Country Album.
Please Join us for this free reading and then on Saturday, continue the celebration and support at Mizna's 20th Anniversary Benefit with Nathalie Handal.
Facebook event page for Friday night's reading:
https://www.facebook.com/events/381319952756946/
Facebook event page for Saturday, the 2nd (Mizna's 20th anniversary celebration):
https://www.facebook.com/events/491219965066693/
BIO
NATHALIE HANDAL was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include Life in a Country Album (fall 2019), praised by Claire Messud as a book that “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus”; the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, and the Arab American Book Award; Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the author of eight plays, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Mizna, Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, the Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from The Lannan Foundation, PEN Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, among others. Her work brings her to audiences globally. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.
4. October Nutritious U Food Pantry
The Nutritious U Food Pantry is next week! We will be open in Coffman room 210 from Tuesday, October 29th to Thursday, October 31st from 12-6pm. Nutritious U is an on-campus, free food pantry available to any graduate and undergraduate student attending the University of Minnesota.
5. CSPW Writing Hunker
Graduate students are invited to join us on Saturday, October 26 for an all-day writing hunker, sponsored by the Consortium of the Study for the Premodern World. We will meet in Hanson Hall, Room 111 beginning at 9:00 AM. Coffee, tea and lunch provided.
Never participated in a hunker before? The CSPW Writing Hunker is an uninterrupted space for productive writing of dissertations, theses, articles, term papers, etc. It is also an opportunity to connect scholars focusing on the premodern period across the humanities and social sciences. We ask that participants commit to the majority of the day and come and go on breaks, if necessary. We limit the number of participants to provide adequate work space during writing sessions and friendly and relaxed interaction during breaks.
Lunch will be provided (some gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options may be available). We encourage group conversation during lunch breaks.
Please direct questions and RSVPs to Jen K. Hughes hughe453@umn.edu by October 23rd. RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a 15-person cap per hunker.
The day's schedule will be as follows:
9:00-10:30 - SESSION 1
10:45-12:15 - SESSION 2
12:15-1:00 - LUNCH
1:00-2:30 - SESSOION 3
2:45-4:00 - SESSION 4
Can't Make this Hunker?: We will host additional hunkers on the following Saturdays this year: November 16th, February 15th, March 21st, and April 18. Calls for participation will be made several weeks in advance of each hunker and RSVPs will be accepted at that time.
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability
Friday, November 1, 2019
1:30-3:00 PM
Reception and book signing to follow
Bruininks Hall 432
"Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theater artists, writers, and students over the last two decades, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Unlearning and relearning from her journeys with the Sangtin movement, Parakh Theatre, and students at UMN, she argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle."
Please join us for a reading where Richa Nagar will be joined by Sara Musaifer, one of the co-authors of the ‘Closing Notes’ of the book.
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording
The Women's Center is excited to announce a live podcast recording of What's Good, Man?, a new podcast exploring healthy masculinity. Event details, a blurb, flyer, and links to social media posts are included below. Please share with your networks as appropriate.
This event is co-sponsored with Asian Pacific American Resource Center, The Aurora Center, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Program, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
What's Good, Man? | Live Podcast Recording
Wednesday, November 6, 6 - 8 pm
The Whole - Coffman Union
All are welcome - free and open to the public.
RSVP encouraged: z.umn.edu/WhatsGoodMan
With episodes on men’s role in the feminist movement, how masculinity is portrayed in pop culture, healthy sexuality, and more, “What’s Good, Man?” is a soon-to-be-released podcast hosted by artist/activists Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre and Tony the Scribe.
This LIVE EPISODE RECORDING will focus on the future of masculinity: what might it look like in 10 years? Will it even exist in 100 years? What lessons can we learn from science fiction? What will it take for men to meaningfully contribute to a future free from gender violence, misogyny, and the kind of controlling, insecure masculinity that hurts so many people of all genders? Join us (and a few very special guests) to discuss these topics and more.
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
November 1st7-9 PM
Moon Palace Books
3032 Minnehaha Ave
Minneapolis, MN, 55406
It's with startling force that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer.—Washington Independent Review of BooksTo kick off a weekend of celebrations marking Mizna's twentieth anniversary, Handal will read from her latest poetry collection, Life in a Country Album.Please Join us for this free reading and then on Saturday, continue the celebration and support at Mizna's 20th Anniversary Benefit with Nathalie Handal.
Facebook event page for Friday night's reading:https://www.facebook.com/events/381319952756946/
Facebook event page for Saturday, the 2nd (Mizna's 20th anniversary celebration):https://www.facebook.com/events/491219965066693/
BIO
NATHALIE HANDAL was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include Life in a Country Album (fall 2019), praised by Claire Messud as a book that “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus”; the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, and the Arab American Book Award; Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the author of eight plays, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Mizna, Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, the Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from The Lannan Foundation, PEN Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, among others. Her work brings her to audiences globally. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.
4. October Nutritious U Food Pantry
The Nutritious U Food Pantry is next week! We will be open in Coffman room 210 from Tuesday, October 29th to Thursday, October 31st from 12-6pm. Nutritious U is an on-campus, free food pantry available to any graduate and undergraduate student attending the University of Minnesota.
5. CSPW Writing Hunker
Graduate students are invited to join us on Saturday, October 26 for an all-day writing hunker, sponsored by the Consortium of the Study for the Premodern World. We will meet in Hanson Hall, Room 111 beginning at 9:00 AM. Coffee, tea and lunch provided.
Never participated in a hunker before? The CSPW Writing Hunker is an uninterrupted space for productive writing of dissertations, theses, articles, term papers, etc. It is also an opportunity to connect scholars focusing on the premodern period across the humanities and social sciences. We ask that participants commit to the majority of the day and come and go on breaks, if necessary. We limit the number of participants to provide adequate work space during writing sessions and friendly and relaxed interaction during breaks.
Lunch will be provided (some gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options may be available). We encourage group conversation during lunch breaks.
Please direct questions and RSVPs to Jen K. Hughes hughe453@umn.edu by October 23rd. RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a 15-person cap per hunker.
The day's schedule will be as follows:
9:00-10:30 - SESSION 1
10:45-12:15 - SESSION 2
12:15-1:00 - LUNCH
1:00-2:30 - SESSOION 3
2:45-4:00 - SESSION 4
Can't Make this Hunker?: We will host additional hunkers on the following Saturdays this year: November 16th, February 15th, March 21st, and April 18. Calls for participation will be made several weeks in advance of each hunker and RSVPs will be accepted at that time.
6. Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability
Friday, November 1, 2019
1:30-3:00 PM
Reception and book signing to follow
Bruininks Hall 432
"Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theater artists, writers, and students over the last two decades, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Unlearning and relearning from her journeys with the Sangtin movement, Parakh Theatre, and students at UMN, she argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle."
Please join us for a reading where Richa Nagar will be joined by Sara Musaifer, one of the co-authors of the ‘Closing Notes’ of the book.
1:30-3:00 PM
Reception and book signing to follow
Bruininks Hall 432
"Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life? Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theater artists, writers, and students over the last two decades, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. Unlearning and relearning from her journeys with the Sangtin movement, Parakh Theatre, and students at UMN, she argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle."
Please join us for a reading where Richa Nagar will be joined by Sara Musaifer, one of the co-authors of the ‘Closing Notes’ of the book.
7. Healthy masculinity live podcast recording
The Women's Center is excited to announce a live podcast recording of What's Good, Man?, a new podcast exploring healthy masculinity. Event details, a blurb, flyer, and links to social media posts are included below. Please share with your networks as appropriate.
This event is co-sponsored with Asian Pacific American Resource Center, The Aurora Center, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Program, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life.
What's Good, Man? | Live Podcast Recording
Wednesday, November 6, 6 - 8 pm
The Whole - Coffman Union
All are welcome - free and open to the public.
RSVP encouraged: z.umn.edu/WhatsGoodMan
With episodes on men’s role in the feminist movement, how masculinity is portrayed in pop culture, healthy sexuality, and more, “What’s Good, Man?” is a soon-to-be-released podcast hosted by artist/activists Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre and Tony the Scribe.
This LIVE EPISODE RECORDING will focus on the future of masculinity: what might it look like in 10 years? Will it even exist in 100 years? What lessons can we learn from science fiction? What will it take for men to meaningfully contribute to a future free from gender violence, misogyny, and the kind of controlling, insecure masculinity that hurts so many people of all genders? Join us (and a few very special guests) to discuss these topics and more.
8. The Humanitarian Crisis Simulation | Hudson, WI
Thursday, November 7, 2019
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Room 184
301 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55455
Join organizers at this info session to learn more about the Humanitarian Crisis Simulation which will occur on May 15 to 17, 2020. In this 48-hour immersive learning experience, participants play the role of humanitarian aid workers or volunteer responders in a simulated international humanitarian crisis. They learn the foundations of humanitarian response and apply concepts in the simulation through active teamwork, intense interaction with role-players, and on-the-spot decision-making. Graduate students can register for PubH 6719 (1 credit, spring semester) which is offered in conjunction with the simulation. Special Crisis Mapping track available for GIS students. Undergraduate students can register for PubH 6719 with instructor permission.
This information session is aimed at students planning their Spring 2020 registration. Additional information sessions will be scheduled for early 2020. This info session will cover:
- History and goals of the simulation
- Content, learning objectives, and the methods of instructions
- What is a simulation and what to expect if you participate
- Registration options and fees
- Logistics
There will be ample time for questions as you explore this unique learning opportunity.
Learn more and RSVP
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Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
The Newberry Library's long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship. In addition to the library's collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.
We invite interested individuals to apply for the Newberry's many fellowship opportunities:
Long-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars for continuous residence at the Newberry for periods of 4 to 9 months; the stipend is $4,200 per month. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline in order to be eligible. Long-Term Fellowships are intended to support individual scholarly research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the fellowship program. The deadline for long-term fellowships is November 1.
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $2,500 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry's collection and are mainly restricted to individuals who live and work outside of the Chicago metropolitan area. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15.
Many of the Newberry's fellowship opportunities have specific eligibility requirements; in order to learn more about these requisites, as well as application guidelines, please visit our website. Questions should be addressed to research@newberry.org.
2. The Martha LA McCain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
The Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship during the 2020-21 academic year to support junior scholars pursuing research in LGBTQ2+ and sexual diversity studies. Our search committee welcomes proposals that span disciplinary boundaries. Applicants from all fields of the humanities and the social sciences are encouraged to apply. The successful applicant is expected to be in residence in the Greater Toronto Area during the period of their award and will join the faculty and students who make up our intellectual community and participate in the Centre’s day-to-day activities. The Postdoctoral Fellow will offer one undergraduate class for the Sexual Diversity Studies program and, at some point during the period of their award, deliver at least one public lecture that highlights their work. They will be able to utilize the vast faculty resources, manuscript archives, and library collections available at the University of Toronto, the Bonham Centre, and in the city. The successful candidate will receive a combined research and teaching stipend of $58,000, plus benefits, to support themselves for the duration of their fellowship. To get a sense of the wide disciplinary range and diversity of the Bonham Centre’s community and academic offerings consult our website.
Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. within a maximum of 3 years before the appointment date (August 1, 2020). To apply, submit as one PDF a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research project outline, writing sample, and three confidential letters of reference (submitted directly by the referees via email). At least one of the reference letters should speak to the applicant’s teaching experience and ability.
All application materials should be submitted via email by January 20, 2020 to The Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (director.sds@utoronto.ca). Fellowships will normally be awarded to candidates affiliated with a university other than the one that awarded the PhD. The fellowship is open to non-Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week for a full-time postdoctoral fellow (pro-rated for those holding a partial appointment), recognizing that the needs of the employee’s research and training and the needs of the supervisor’s research program may require flexibility in the performance of the employee’s duties and hours of work.
Employment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto is covered by the terms of the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
3. SFSU College of Ethnic Studies Job Postings
You can find additional postings for jobs linked here and additional information coming about AFRS soon: https://ethnicstudies.sfsu.edu/content/faculty-openings-2019?fbclid=IwAR1kGPTHkHxFKKn8_GmdUpRKJ75zKwG4ossxmZQqc9jWZ6--JYgzMWLhsnM
Thanks Lexi!!
4. Health Policy Research Scholars
We’re nearly there! Applications for the next cohort of Health Policy Research Scholars open January 10, 2020. This is a leadership opportunity for doctoral students from diverse fields and backgrounds who are using the power of applied research—research that informs and supports critical work being done in communities—to improve health through policies that promote equity.
If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply!
The application period ends on March 11. Below are some ways you can start preparing now!
| APPLICATION CHECKLIST | |
| Get a head start on your application by thinking about and beginning to prepare the following: | |
| YOUR EXPERIENCE: A curriculum vitae (maximum four pages). | |
| YOUR TRANSCRIPTS: All graduate transcripts. | |
| YOUR REFERENCES: Two letters of support, one of which must be from your doctoral adviser, program director, or equivalent. | |
| YOUR MENTOR: To support you in the program, you’ll need to identify a faculty mentor from the university granting your doctoral degree. | |
| YOUR IMPACT: Building a Culture of Health requires research and ideas from a variety of perspectives. Whether you’re studying computer science, economics, or political science, your research can make a significant impact. Start thinking about how your work might do that. We look forward to hearing about it in your application. | |
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. National Questions, International Possibilities: Democratic Revival in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Conference & Special Issue Call For Papers
Organizers: Carlo Fanelli, York University; Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo; Marco Marrone, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Alfredo Ferrara, University of Bari; Giuseppe Cascione, University of Bari
When: Wednesday July 15th to Friday July 17th, 2020
Where: University of Bari
Piazza Umberto I, 1, 70121 Bari BA, Italy
Organizers: Carlo Fanelli, York University; Heather Whiteside, University of Waterloo; Marco Marrone, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia; Alfredo Ferrara, University of Bari; Giuseppe Cascione, University of Bari
When: Wednesday July 15th to Friday July 17th, 2020
Where: University of Bari
Piazza Umberto I, 1, 70121 Bari BA, Italy
Alternate Routes and the University of Bari, Italy invites individual paper and panel submissions for our latest conference and journal special issue. Liberal democratic capitalism is increasingly losing legitimacy but what might replace it is increasingly unclear. It has become almost an orthodoxy to argue that the great divide in world politics today is between nationalists and globalists, left- and right-wing populists, and identity and class politics. Despite talk of a new world order, the end of history and an era of post-truth politics, these divisions also reflect profound political limitations.
This Call for Papers interrogates these divisions and more, including: What role for social democratic and socialist politics today? How to challenge the authoritarian/anti-democratic politics of the right and the debilitating post-politics of “the centre”? What role for national self-determination in international contexts? How to organize social and political conflict? How are labour and other social movements responding?
Additional topics may include but are not limited to:
• Income Transfers and Pre/Redistributive Public Policies
• The Neoliberal State and Alternatives
• Precarious Work, Digital Technologies and Labour Market Restructuring
• Ideological Struggle, Political Parties and Political Representation
• Unions, Equity and Affirmative Action
• Inter/Nationalism and Alt-Populisms
• Transnational Actors and Global Governance
• Imperialism and Neocolonialism
• Climate Change and ‘Green’ Capitalism
• Human Rights and Global Equity
• New forms of Organization, Social and Political Resistance
To submit your proposal, please click HERE or visit www.alternateroutes.ca. CFP available as a downloadable PDF. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is December 31st, 2019. A selection of papers will be considered as part of a special issue publication of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. Conference Registration Fees: Permanent Faculty €200; Contract Faculty and Graduate Students: €150.
This Call for Papers interrogates these divisions and more, including: What role for social democratic and socialist politics today? How to challenge the authoritarian/anti-democratic politics of the right and the debilitating post-politics of “the centre”? What role for national self-determination in international contexts? How to organize social and political conflict? How are labour and other social movements responding?
Additional topics may include but are not limited to:
• Income Transfers and Pre/Redistributive Public Policies
• The Neoliberal State and Alternatives
• Precarious Work, Digital Technologies and Labour Market Restructuring
• Ideological Struggle, Political Parties and Political Representation
• Unions, Equity and Affirmative Action
• Inter/Nationalism and Alt-Populisms
• Transnational Actors and Global Governance
• Imperialism and Neocolonialism
• Climate Change and ‘Green’ Capitalism
• Human Rights and Global Equity
• New forms of Organization, Social and Political Resistance
To submit your proposal, please click HERE or visit www.alternateroutes.ca. CFP available as a downloadable PDF. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS is December 31st, 2019. A selection of papers will be considered as part of a special issue publication of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. Conference Registration Fees: Permanent Faculty €200; Contract Faculty and Graduate Students: €150.
Recognitions/Awards
1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced this week that AAS staff Saymoukda Vongsay will receive a Sally Award in the Initiative category which "recognizes bold new steps and strategic leadership undertaken by an individual or organization in creating projects or artistic programs never before seen in Minnesota that will have a significant impact on strengthening Minnesota’s artistic/cultural community." The prestigious award recognizes individuals and organizations who strengthen and enrich Minnesota through their commitment to the arts and arts education. Recipients of this year's award include Kao Kalia Yang (Social Impact), Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop (Arts Learning), Lake Area Music Festival (Arts Access), and Janis Lane-Ewart (Commitment). The awardees will be celebrated and honored at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov 4 in the Concert Hall at the Ordway.
The event is free but RSVP required.
You can learn more about the award and the awardees in the Pioneer Press article.
1. Saymoukda Vongsay recognized with a Sally Award
The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts announced this week that AAS staff Saymoukda Vongsay will receive a Sally Award in the Initiative category which "recognizes bold new steps and strategic leadership undertaken by an individual or organization in creating projects or artistic programs never before seen in Minnesota that will have a significant impact on strengthening Minnesota’s artistic/cultural community." The prestigious award recognizes individuals and organizations who strengthen and enrich Minnesota through their commitment to the arts and arts education. Recipients of this year's award include Kao Kalia Yang (Social Impact), Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop (Arts Learning), Lake Area Music Festival (Arts Access), and Janis Lane-Ewart (Commitment). The awardees will be celebrated and honored at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov 4 in the Concert Hall at the Ordway.
The event is free but RSVP required.
You can learn more about the award and the awardees in the Pioneer Press article.
Miscellaneous
1. FREE Mental/Physical Health Opportunities for Allies and Members of the Queer Community
Out in the Backyard (OIBY), an organization that focuses on the physical, mental, and social wellness of queer-identifying individuals, as well as allies of the community! They provide FREE workout classes for members to express themselves in a constructive way, as well as give them a safe space to foster relationships with other members both in and out of the LGBTQ community. These classes include Zumba, yoga, strength training, and circuit training with quarterly classes for herbal remedies (tincture making), Bollywood dance classes, and self-defense.
While this organization is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, it is still looking to expand in both the number of classes and members who attend. It would be incredible for you to share this organization with your members to see if they are at all interested in attending a class or event. Below is their class schedule for the month of October, as well as the link to their website and facebook page!
REMEMBER: All events are FREE and there is no sign-up required. All you have to do is show up! :)
Website: https://www.outinthebackyard.com/
2. Save Time with Book Delivery
As the weather turns cold and your research heats up, remember you can get books sent to a library convenient to you instead of you going across campus to get it. Search for your items on lib.umn.edu, sign in, and click "Get it."
3. Child Care Available on the St. Paul Campus
Community Child Care Center (in the CTC Community Center on the St. Paul Campus) has immediate openings for morning care for children 3 to 5 years old. UMN students receive tuition discounts! If you are interested in enrolling your child, please contact the director, Tracie. Program and fee information can be found at umncccc.org.
This Week's Grad School Memes....
Have a great weekend!
