Events
1. Disarm UMPD: A Campus and Community Forum about Police Violence (12.05)
2. Marta Elena Savigliano, "Corporealities (Un)limited: Edgy Meditations on Ghost Dancing, War Writing" UCLA and UC Riverside (11.22)
3. The Job Talk as Storytelling with Professor Josef Woldense (12.06)
Events
1. Disarm UMPD: A Campus and Community Forum about Police Violence (12.05)
2. Marta Elena Savigliano, "Corporealities (Un)limited: Edgy Meditations on Ghost Dancing, War Writing" UCLA and UC Riverside (11.22)
3. The Job Talk as Storytelling with Professor Josef Woldense (12.06)
2. Marta Elena Savigliano, "Corporealities (Un)limited: Edgy Meditations on Ghost Dancing, War Writing" UCLA and UC Riverside (11.22)
3. The Job Talk as Storytelling with Professor Josef Woldense (12.06)
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
1. Newberry Fellowships
2. CSU San Marcos - Tenure Track - Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Assistant Professor - Fall 2020
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate - ISU ADVANCE
4. Two-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Sexuality Studies (Social Scientific Approaches)
2. CSU San Marcos - Tenure Track - Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Assistant Professor - Fall 2020
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate - ISU ADVANCE
4. Two-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Sexuality Studies (Social Scientific Approaches)
Call for Papers/Proposals
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. Call for Papers - New LGBTQ Section
2. Call for Submissions - LGBTQ Policy Journal - Harvard Kennedy School
3. Call for Papers - The Arab Institute for Women
Recognitions/Awards
1. Nina Medvedeva - Wenner-Gren Fellowship
2. Call for Submissions - LGBTQ Policy Journal - Harvard Kennedy School
3. Call for Papers - The Arab Institute for Women
Recognitions/Awards
1. Nina Medvedeva - Wenner-Gren Fellowship
Miscellaneous
1. Thesis Research Travel Grants
Miscellaneous
Events
1. Disarm UMPD: A Campus and Community Forum about Police Violence
Join the Humphrey Students of Color Association (HSOCA) for an open and honest discussion of our individual and collective experiences with police violence on and around the University of Minnesota campus.
December 5th, 2019
Doors Open at 5:00PM
Event Begins at 5:30PM
Comfort food provided by a BIPOC business
FREE Entry for UMN Students, Faculty, and Staff
$5 OR Canned Food Donation for Community Members
Q: What is the purpose of this event?
A: The purpose of this event is to collectively demand disarmament of the University of Minnesota Police Department.
Q: What are the goals of this event?
A: Attendees will leave this event better educated about the white supremacist roots of policing, more introspective about the need for racial justice in the City of Minneapolis, and more deeply connected to a network of antiracist advocates, activists, and organizations.
2. Marta Elena Savigliano, "Corporealities (Un)limited: Edgy Meditations on Ghost Dancing, War Writing" UCLA and UC Riverside
A talk by Prof. Marta Elena Savigliano, Prof. Emerita UCLA World Arts and Cultures Dept. and
UC Riverside Dept. of Dance; Co-Founder of Global South Advanced Studies, Buenos Aires Marta Elena Savigliano is a feminist political theorist and anthropologist, a librettist, and occasionally a performer interested in politics of culture, multi-art and international collaboration, and performance in neoliberal globalism. Exoticism and cultural (mis)translations conceptually guide her research on
dances and dancers’ migrations. Artists and scholars’ active participation in reproducing or challenging colonial world orders is consistently discussed in her work. She is author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (Westview 1995), and Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North South Translation (Wesleyan UP 2003), including a tango opera. Savigliano’s current research focuses on staged and screened Global South responses to World Dance, in particular self-parodic versions of ‘traditional’ dance forms associated with racialized, exotic representations of ‘other’ cultural nationalisms and their contentious powers in global capitalism.
3. The Job Talk as Storytelling with Professor Josef Woldense
What is the job talk? Simple, it is an oral presentation that displays your research. The problem, of course, is that you have spent all of your time thinking and expressing your research in a medium other than the oral form of communication. Although the underlying ideas you wish to convey are largely the same, the medium in which you are now asked to express them is profoundly different. The primary challenge in crafting the job talk, then, is this: How do I translate my research from one mode of communication to another? This is precisely the question this workshop seeks to answer and it does so by drawing on storytelling as the central translating devise.
In addressing the aforementioned question, the workshop is broken up into three parts. The first part offers a general framework on how to think about the research presentation as storytelling. The second part walks through a portion of an actual job talk to demonstrate the principles of storytelling when applied to research. The third and last part of the workshop offers participants the opportunity to start crafting their own research presentation in the form of storytelling.
Date: Friday, December 6th, 2019
Time: 10:00AM - 2:15PM
Location: Carlson School of Business Room 260
Lunch will be provided. Please email with any specific accommodation requests.
RSVP using this google form.
Events
1. Disarm UMPD: A Campus and Community Forum about Police Violence
Join the Humphrey Students of Color Association (HSOCA) for an open and honest discussion of our individual and collective experiences with police violence on and around the University of Minnesota campus.
December 5th, 2019
Doors Open at 5:00PM
Event Begins at 5:30PM
Comfort food provided by a BIPOC business
FREE Entry for UMN Students, Faculty, and Staff
$5 OR Canned Food Donation for Community Members
Q: What is the purpose of this event?
A: The purpose of this event is to collectively demand disarmament of the University of Minnesota Police Department.
Q: What are the goals of this event?
A: Attendees will leave this event better educated about the white supremacist roots of policing, more introspective about the need for racial justice in the City of Minneapolis, and more deeply connected to a network of antiracist advocates, activists, and organizations.
2. Marta Elena Savigliano, "Corporealities (Un)limited: Edgy Meditations on Ghost Dancing, War Writing" UCLA and UC Riverside
A talk by Prof. Marta Elena Savigliano, Prof. Emerita UCLA World Arts and Cultures Dept. and
UC Riverside Dept. of Dance; Co-Founder of Global South Advanced Studies, Buenos Aires Marta Elena Savigliano is a feminist political theorist and anthropologist, a librettist, and occasionally a performer interested in politics of culture, multi-art and international collaboration, and performance in neoliberal globalism. Exoticism and cultural (mis)translations conceptually guide her research on
dances and dancers’ migrations. Artists and scholars’ active participation in reproducing or challenging colonial world orders is consistently discussed in her work. She is author of Tango and the Political Economy of Passion (Westview 1995), and Angora Matta: Fatal Acts of North South Translation (Wesleyan UP 2003), including a tango opera. Savigliano’s current research focuses on staged and screened Global South responses to World Dance, in particular self-parodic versions of ‘traditional’ dance forms associated with racialized, exotic representations of ‘other’ cultural nationalisms and their contentious powers in global capitalism.
3. The Job Talk as Storytelling with Professor Josef Woldense
What is the job talk? Simple, it is an oral presentation that displays your research. The problem, of course, is that you have spent all of your time thinking and expressing your research in a medium other than the oral form of communication. Although the underlying ideas you wish to convey are largely the same, the medium in which you are now asked to express them is profoundly different. The primary challenge in crafting the job talk, then, is this: How do I translate my research from one mode of communication to another? This is precisely the question this workshop seeks to answer and it does so by drawing on storytelling as the central translating devise.
In addressing the aforementioned question, the workshop is broken up into three parts. The first part offers a general framework on how to think about the research presentation as storytelling. The second part walks through a portion of an actual job talk to demonstrate the principles of storytelling when applied to research. The third and last part of the workshop offers participants the opportunity to start crafting their own research presentation in the form of storytelling.
Date: Friday, December 6th, 2019
Time: 10:00AM - 2:15PM
Location: Carlson School of Business Room 260
Lunch will be provided. Please email with any specific accommodation requests.
RSVP using this google form.
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
Scholarships/Fellowships/Job Opportunities
1. Newberry Fellowships
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 who wish to utilize the Newberry's collection to apply for our many fellowship opportunities. Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, faculty members, 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.
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. CSU San Marcos - Tenure Track - Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies - Assistant Professor - Fall 2020
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at CSU San Marcos invites applications for an outstanding teacher-scholar-colleague for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning fall 2020. The WGSS department is committed to intersectional and critical approaches to the study of sex, gender, and sexuality. As such, we seek a colleague who focuses on Queer and/or Trans* of Color Studies with a corollary emphasis in one or more areas (such as, but not limited to): Border Studies, (Global, Postcolonial, Transnational) Feminisms, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Disability Studies, and/or Ethnic Studies. We also seek a colleague committed to transformative pedagogies, undergraduate research, feminist theories, and feminist methodologies.
ACS List signoff instructions, and other important stuff:
http://listserv.uta.fi/archive
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate - ISU ADVANCE
The ISU ADVANCE program is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on a project funded by the National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE Partnership program to support institutional practices leading to the increased representation of women in STEM disciplines. The collaborative project “Joining Forces: A Midwestern partnership of research-intensive institutions for women STEM faculty success” consists of a partnership of four Midwestern research institutions (Iowa State University, Michigan Technological University, North Dakota State University, and Western Michigan University). The goal of the project is to adapt and implement cross-institutional practices to create support networks and positive climates for women with familial responsibilities and underrepresented STEM faculty.
The successful candidate will receive mentored scholarly and research training as well as courses and workshops to enhance their research success skills and prepare for a faculty position at a research institution. He/she will also be offered the opportunity to teach one course in the undergraduate program on Women and Gender Studies, Higher Education, or their field of expertise.
Required Minimum Qualifications:
PhD obtained prior to appointment date.
PhD in women’s and gender studies, psychology, educational policy, higher education, sociology, or a related field.
Research experience with qualitative and quantitative assessment methods as demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications.
Preferred Qualifications:
Coursework, research or professional experiences with women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields and academia.
Experience with data management and analytics.
The posting and link to the online application can be found at https://tinyurl.com/y5xzwws2
4. Two-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Sexuality Studies (Social Scientific Approaches)
The Sexualities Project at Northwestern (SPAN) invites applications for two-year postdoctoral fellowships in sexuality studies, to run from September 1, 2020 through August 31,
2022. Two Fellows will be selected. Applications are welcome from scholars who study
sexuality from a social science perspective (broadly construed). Each Fellow’s appointment
will be in the Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and may also be in a department at
Northwestern.
We are interested in candidates who could affiliate with one of the following
participating departments: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies,
History, Human Development and Social Policy, Linguistics, Performance Studies, Political
Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, or Sociology. That is, the Fellow must have relevant
expertise in both sexuality studies and one of the listed substantive fields, and must be
prepared to teach courses that reflect that expertise.
Fellows will pursue a program of independent scholarship under the guidance of a faculty
mentor and will teach two undergraduate courses each year (typically one seminar and one
lecture course) over the course of the three-quarter-long teaching year. Fellows will also be
expected to be active participants in SPAN’s community of faculty and graduate students and,
as applicable, in their affiliated department by attending talks and events, and by giving a
public talk once each year. Finally, they will assist in the organization of on-campus
educational activities such as an annual SPAN workshop.
All application materials other than letters of recommendation must be received by
December 2, 2019. Letters of recommendation are due no later than December 9, 2019.
Because your references will not receive submission instructions until you submit your
completed application, we recommend that you submit your application well before the
deadline.
Important additional information including salary, prerequisites, FAQs, and submission
instructions appears on our website at http://www.sexualities.northwestern.edu/fundingopportunities/postdoc-applications/. Administrative questions not addressed on the webpage
should be directed to Cassilyn Ostrander at sexualities@northwestern.edu. Substantive
questions not addressed on the webpage may be sent to the co-directors of SPAN, Héctor
Carrillo (hector@northwestern.edu) and Gregory Ward (gw@northwestern.edu) For more
information about departments or programs at Northwestern, see
https://offices.northwestern.edu/browse/A/academic.
Call for Papers/Proposals
1. Call for Papers - New LGBTQ Section
Call for Papers/Proposals
The Women’s and Gender Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association has supported panels that included LGBTQ Studies. Given the significant increase in the number of papers specific to LGBTQ Studies submitted to the Women’s and Gender Studies Section, the Executive Council of the Western Social Science Association has created an additional Section with a focus specific to LGBTQ Studies.
This section is now accepting papers, panels, and round tables with a focus on LGBTQ research that examines issues related to social and cultural construction, the social status and contributions of the community, and legal issues, as well as relationships involving power and empowerment.
The inaugural sessions will be held at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Western Social Science, April 1-4, 2020, at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, 1401 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Paper or Panel Proposals must be submitted to http://www.WSSAweb.com/sections
2. Call for Submissions - LGBTQ Policy Journal - Harvard Kennedy School
The LGBTQ Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School is currently seeking pitches for submissions. Pitches may be made by anyone (not just HKS students) at any stage in the writing process - from a vague idea to a completed piece - so please feel free to submit even if you are only in the brainstorming phase of your writing process! If interested in pitching, please submit the form here with as much information as available by Friday, December 6, 2019. Please see the form for more general information on submissions, and contact us with any additional questions at lgbtq_journal@hks.harvard.edu . Past editions are also available at https://lgbtq.hkspublications.org/ .
3. Call for Papers - The Arab Institute for Women
As some of you might already know, we have started to collect pieces for our upcoming issue on Gender and Revolution(s). Given the current mobilizations in Lebanon, Iraq, and most recently in Iran, we want to highlight both the important role of women and the ways that gender itself has been operationalized in these movements. This issue is not specific to Lebanon, but will aim to cover the wider region.
Questions might include:
- What does “revolution” mean? Who (or what) is defining this term?
- How is gender “seen” in revolution(s), in other words, through media? On the streets? In art? In the decision-making processes of social/civic groups?
- Are “feminist” groups audibly participating in these revolutions? How and why? How is feminism being mobilized and, importantly, which types of feminism are being mobilized?
- How is (dis)ability implicated in revolution(s)? Race? Class? Religion?
- Revolution(s)…for whom? Or for what? Are we seeing the inclusion and mobilization of marginalized groups, such as refugees and migrants?
Submissions for this issue can include poetry, prose, research articles, journalistic pieces, personal narratives, and artistic submissions. Further, in order to include as many submissions as possible, we are allowing submissions of a shorter length (including 500-1000 words); however, regular-length submissions are of course still welcomed.
Please send your submissions to al-raida@lau.edu.lb with a short personal biography (no more than 200 words). We will let you know as soon as possible about the status of your submission.
Recognitions/Awards
Recognitions/Awards
1. Nina Medvedeva
Congratulations to Nina Medvedeva, who was just awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for 2020. Well done, Nina!
1. Nina Medvedeva
Congratulations to Nina Medvedeva, who was just awarded a Wenner-Gren Fellowship for 2020. Well done, Nina!
Miscellaneous
1. Thesis Research Travel Grants
Miscellaneous
1. Thesis Research Travel Grants
1. Thesis Research Travel Grants
DOMESTIC THESIS RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT
Maximum award of $2,500 available to support research outside of the applicant's area of residence
INTERNATIONAL THESIS RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT
Maximum award of $5,000 available for extended travel to conduct thesis research abroad.
The review and selection will be conducted by University of Minnesota faculty, who will select the awardees based on the following criteria:
- cohesiveness of the study or research plan and the clarity with which it is conveyed to the non-specialist
- direct impact travel will have on the research
- strength of the overall academic record
- soundness of the budget request
- timeliness of progress toward the degree
- strength of the letters of recommendation
A typical budget generally includes transportation, lodging outside area of residence, and expenses for fieldwork. Applicants are expected to have exhausted other potential sources for travel funds and to indicate if they have partial funding toward the travel from grants on or beyond campus, including those grants that are under consideration.
Maximum award of $5,000 available for extended travel to conduct thesis research abroad.
The review and selection will be conducted by University of Minnesota faculty, who will select the awardees based on the following criteria:
- cohesiveness of the study or research plan and the clarity with which it is conveyed to the non-specialist
- direct impact travel will have on the research
- strength of the overall academic record
- soundness of the budget request
- timeliness of progress toward the degree
- strength of the letters of recommendation
A typical budget generally includes transportation, lodging outside area of residence, and expenses for fieldwork. Applicants are expected to have exhausted other potential sources for travel funds and to indicate if they have partial funding toward the travel from grants on or beyond campus, including those grants that are under consideration.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
- Funding is for research travel to be completed by December 31, 2020; retroactive requests will also be considered.
- Applicant must be registered for credit (not GRAD 999) in a Ph.D. or D.M.A. program at the University of Minnesota during spring 2020 in order to receive funding.
- Applicant must pass the oral preliminary exam prior to travel.
- Students may apply for either the Domestic or the International Thesis Research Travel Grant; students who have already received a Thesis Research Travel Grant award are not eligible to apply again.
The deadline to apply is noon (CST) on Thursday, December 5, 2019.
- Funding is for research travel to be completed by December 31, 2020; retroactive requests will also be considered.
- Applicant must be registered for credit (not GRAD 999) in a Ph.D. or D.M.A. program at the University of Minnesota during spring 2020 in order to receive funding.
- Applicant must pass the oral preliminary exam prior to travel.
- Students may apply for either the Domestic or the International Thesis Research Travel Grant; students who have already received a Thesis Research Travel Grant award are not eligible to apply again.
The deadline to apply is noon (CST) on Thursday, December 5, 2019.
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