GWSS Departmental Newsletter 2/20/18

A Fintastic Update

Events

1. CURA Faculty Interactive Research Program 
2.  Data Management Bootcamp for Graduate Students 
3. Black History Month Events
4. Boreas Workshops 
5. Finding Grant Funding for Graduate Students 
6. Qualtrics Workshop 
7. Teaching With Writing Workshops 
8. ISSS Spring Visa Workshops 
9. Spring ICGC Event Schedule 
10. Graduate Student Event--Public Humanities and Social Justice
11. Four Ways You Can Challenge Body Terrorism Today 
12. Social Justice Fair 
13. P&A Women Read- Crucial Conversations 
14. "Know the Mother" 
15. MALCS Relaunch 
16. Stopping Traffic
17. Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks 
18. Indigenous Women and Women of Color Summit 
19. FAB Art Show 

Calls for Papers/Applications

1. CFP NWSA Revolutionary Space: Design and Equity 
2. Global Health Day- Call for Abstracts 
3. Men's Story Project, Call for Submissions 

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

1. Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Advisor at the University of Florida
2. Women's Suffrage in the Americas NEH Summer Institute
3. Professor and Director of Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics 
4. Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies- Bucknell University 
5. ACLS Public Fellows Program 

Miscellaneous 

1. CURA 50th Anniversary Website 
2. Child Care Grants 
3. Deadlines Approaching for Academic Innovation Grants 

                                                                                                                       

Events

1.  CURA Faculty Interactive Research Program The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) invites proposals for our Faculty Interactive Research Program. The purpose of the program is to encourage University faculty members to carry out research projects that involve a significant public policy issue for the state or its communities, and that include active engagement with groups, agencies, or organizations in Minnesota involved with the issue.
   
   Research projects should focus on issues and concerns important to Minnesota, such as, but not limited to, communities of color, the criminal justice system, demography, state or local economic development, education, employment, energy, the environment, health, housing, state and local government, welfare and poverty, human and social services, transportation, or land use and development.
   Regular faculty members are invited to apply. Each award will provide support for two pay periods of the faculty member’s time in the summer of 2018 and a half-time graduate research assistant for the 2018–2019 academic year. Where appropriate, limited support for miscellaneous research expenses can be provided. Faculty members who are selected will be expected as part of their project to: (a) interact or engage with appropriate community organizations or agencies, (b) prepare a report for the organization or agency where appropriate, and (c) prepare a 3500-word manuscript for publication in the CURA Reporter, our regular report of faculty research.
   For additional eligibility requirements, terms of the award, and application procedures, please visit our website.
2. Data Management Bootcamp for Graduate Students How are you planning to organize the data, text, images, video, audio, code, or instrument files from your research projects? In this free Boot Camp (March 12th - 13th), you will learn about tools and best practices to organize all the underlying data that supports your thesis, dissertation, etc. Learn strategies that will help you manage current or future research materials and save time and effort. Register today.
3. Black History Month Events Throughout February, the Office of Multicultural Student Engagement (MCSE) will be hosting a variety of events and lectures to celebrate Black History Month. Visit their website for tickets and event details.
4. Boreas Workshops Boreas Workshop: Non-Profit Structures
   February 14, 2018 | 1 - 4:30 p.m. | Learning and Environmental Sciences, Room R-370
   This workshop will get you up to speed on non-profits, how they work, and some of the governance and legal structures involved. You'll have a chance to think about the possibility of working for a non-profit or getting involved as a volunteer or board member. And you'll gain insightful wisdom from a panel of superstars from the environmental non-profit world. Register for Non-Profit Structures
   Boreas Workshop: Designing a Meaningful Career
   February 21, 2018 | 1 - 4:30 p.m. | Learning and Environmental Sciences, Room R-370
   We invest much of our time, talents and passion into our work. And, many of us are looking for deeper meaning and purpose in this area of our lives. This workshop will help you work out what you want, and develop a plan for how to get it so that you can have the kinds of impact that originally led you to pursuing an advanced degree in the first place. Register for Designing a Meaningful Career
5. Finding Grant Funding for Graduate Students 
   February 15, 2018 | 2 - 3 p.m. | Magrath Library, Room 81
   Find more about how to find funding opportunities available to researchers and graduate students. Learn how to use Pivot (from Community of Science) and the Foundation Directory. Register for Finding Grant Funding
6. Qualtrics Workshop February 16, 2018 | 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Bruininks Hall, Room 131AQualtrics is a survey tool available to all UMN researchers. Learn how to develop online experiments, including how to randomize participants to conditions, customize participant paths, and embed multimedia stimuli. This workshop, offered by LATIS, is best for researchers with Qualtrics experience and plan to conduct quasi-experimental or experimental research. Register for Reproducible Experimental Research in Qualtrics
7. Teaching With Writing Workshops Writing Activities for Online and Hybrid Courses
   February 21, 2018 | 1 - 3 p.m. | Alderman Hall, Room 310
   The online and hybrid classroom offers many opportunities for the teaching of writing. In this workshop, we'll consider how effective practices in assignment design and sequencing combined with the use of digital and online tools can create a strong space for the teaching and learning of writing. The workshop should be of interest to faculty who currently teach online or who are interested in developing online and hybrid courses. Register for Writing Activities for Online and Hybrid Courses
   Do We Need a Back-to-the-Basics Approach to Teaching Writing?
   March 2, 2018 | 9 - 10:15 a.m. |  Nicholson Hall, Room 12
   It's a familiar complaint, lamented in popular news articles and higher education blogs: "Johnny can't write." Accompanying such claims are often calls for a return to a more basic, skills-based approach to teaching writing. In this discussion, participants are invited to consider the debates between skills-based and process-oriented advocates and to share their own views for how best to support student writers.  Register for Back-to-the-Basics Approach
8. ISSS Spring Visa Workshops H-1B Visa Workshop
   February 28, 2018 | 4:30 - 6 p.m. | Blegen Hall, Room 10
   An attorney will explain the process to obtain an H-1B Visa if you wish to obtain one to work at an employer other than the University of Minnesota. No registration required.
   Employment-based Visas and Permanent Residency Workshop
   March 5, 2018 | 4:30 - 6 p.m. |  Blegen Hall, Room 10
   An attorney will explain the process to obtain an employment-based visa or permanent residency. No registration required.
9. Spring ICGC Event Schedule To learn more about events like a South Asia Seminar Series and opportunities for jobs, click this link for the ICGC Spring Event schedule. 
10. Graduate Student Event--Public Humanities and Social Justice 
    
                                               
11. Four Ways You Can Challenge Body Terrorism Today When: Thursday, March 1 @ 6p
    
    

    Where: Anderson 112, Hamline University

    
    

    Talk Description: This talk combines performance poetry and Sonya's radical self-love work to identify four things each of us can do in our daily lives to interrupt injustice and oppression by practicing the act of radical love and unapologetic living. 
    
    
    Bio: Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, an international movement and organization committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation. She is the author of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Sonya’s work as an award winning Performance Poet, activist and transformational leader continues to have global reach. Sonya is a former national and international poetry slam champion, author, educator and activist who has mesmerized audiences across the US, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, England, Scotland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands as well as in prisons, mental health treatment facilities, homeless shelters, universities, festivals and public schools across the globe. She was named one of Planned Parenthood's 99 Dream Keepers in 2015 as well as a Planned Parenthood Generation Action's 2015 Outstanding Partner awardee. She was named one of the 12 Women Who Paved the Way for Body Positivity by Bustle Magazine and in September 2015, she was honored as a YBCA 100, an annual compilation of creative minds, makers, and pioneers who are asking the questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture; an honor she shared alongside author Ta'Nahesi Coates, artist Kara Walker, filmmaker Ava Duvernay and many more.
    
    
    Her work has appeared on HBO, BET, MTV, TV One, NPR, PBS, CNN, Oxygen Network, The New York Times, New York Magazine, MSNBC.com, Today.com, Huffington Post, Vogue Australia, Shape.com, Ms. Magazine and many more. She is a regular collaborator and artist with organizations such as Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth 1in3 Campaign, Association for Size Diversity and Health, Binge Eating Disorders Association (BEDA), Yerba Buena Cultural Art Center and numerous others. 
12. Social Justice Fair University of Minnesota Human Rights Student Association is hosting a Social Justice Fair on Thursday, February 22nd from 7pm-8pm in the President’s Room at Coffman Memorial Union. Student groups relating to social justice and local twin cities’ social justice organizations will be at the fair.  They will have information on their organization and how to get involved in various ways such as being a student leader, a volunteer or an intern. Check out our facebook event at UMN HRSA.
13. P&A Women Read- Crucial Conversations Wednesday, February 21, 11:30 - 1:00 pm, 101 Walter Library
    Informal networking from 11:30-12:00, article discussion from 12:00-1:00 pm.Join the P&A Women’s Council for an article discussion on Crucial Conversations and tools for effective conversation. This will be a preview of the April 18 workshop with the P&A Women's Council and Joy Harken. All are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch; treats will be provided. Click here to read the articles.
14. "Know the Mother" This event is from 3:30 pm and open to the public, with no need to register in advance. This event will be held in the Ellie and Tom Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop. Any additional information, updates, or information on other events in our IAS events can be found on our website. Flyer is linked here. 
15. MALCS Relaunch MALCS Re-Launch Meeting
    Friday, February 16, 1:00 - 2:30 pm, 41 Appleby Hall
    If you are a Native or Latina member of the campus community interested in or currently obtaining a Ph.D. & you would like to mentor or be mentored by Indigenous or Chicana/Latina graduate students and/or faculty, be part of the effort to relaunch Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS, Women Active in Letters and Social Change) at the U of M. For questions, please contact Professor Gabriela Spears-Rico at spearsrg@umn.edu. The Women's Center is proud to support this initiative via a Gender Equity Grant.
16.  Stopping Traffic Stopping Traffic: A Movement to End Sex Trafficking | Film screening & discussion
    Friday, February 16, 6:00 pm, 220 Bruininks Hall
    Black Motivated Women will host this film screening, to be followed by a panel of survivors and people who are directly working to fight against the sex trafficking industry. Learn how to raise awareness on campus and provide students resources to become an agent for change. 
     
17. Asian American Resistance and Creative Clapbacks Asian American Resistance & Creative Clapbacks
    Tuesday, February 20, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Rapson Hall 100
    RSVP online
    Join the Asian Pacific American Resource Center for their Spring Speaker, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang! Using Asian American stereotypes in the media as an easy and visual entry point into Asian American history, we will examine connections between Asian American media stereotypes, historical anxieties, and what contemporary Asian American creatives are doing to clap back. This history of resistance is more relevant than ever today in this time of Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, Black Lives Matter, and “fake news.” The challenge is to become critical readers, savvy media consumers, and activist content creators.
18. Indigenous Women and Women of Color Summit Saturday, March 24, 2018
    Registration is NOW open!!
19. FAB Art Show 

    ICYMI (In case you missed it): Feminist Ambassador Brigade, the Women's Center student volunteer group, hosted the Appleby Hall Art Gallery spring opening last Friday, February 9. The gallery will be up through spring semester, and features the work of artists (and U of M students) Yasadie Rosario and Kendall Laurent (above, pictured left and right, respectively). Read more about the FAB Art Show and the artists on our blog. Stop by the FAB Art Show in the AHA! Gallery anytime this spring during building hours. The exhibit is located in the northeast corner of Appleby Hall, on the ground floor.

Call for Papers/Applications

1. CFP NWSA Revolutionary Space: Design and Equity CFP NWSA 2018 Revolutionary Space: How Physical Environments Shape Identity, Equity, and Knowledge Production
   
   
   

   Social Justice architect John Cary argues, “Everyone deserves good design...Design can be life-affirming and life-changing; in short, design dignifies.” Physical environments shape us and we shape them in return. For many, even considering architecture and design is a luxury. Both the lack of equity in the field of Architecture itself and the settler colonialism and historical white supremacy of physical environments in the U.S. have meant that conversations in Gender and Identity Studies about design are rare. In higher education, all too often, WMGS and identity spaces are marginalized and dismal. But theorizing design and environment is essential to equity and should not be absent or an afterthought. This roundtable features case studies examining design and equity related to universities, schools, and knowledge production or learning--broadly conceived. How do design and physical environment affect learning and equity? In higher education, from bigger spaces like campus plans and buildings (including student centers, libraries, athletics, dorms, etc) to smaller spaces like equity offices and centers, department lounges, even campus houses, how do these physical environments advance or inhibit equity? Beyond higher education in our communities and cities, what built environments make justice and learning possible or impossible?

   
   

   The goal of the roundtable is an exploration of physical environments and identity, particularly those that promote learning, transformation, and justice. These spaces can take many forms. Some examples: perhaps the design space of a classroom enables inclusive earning? Perhaps a new equity center design fosters intersectional, collaborative programming? Perhaps a new campus spacial and signage decolonization effort truly welcomes students of color? Not all examples need be successful, but should be theorized through a design as justice lens. Ultimately, the goal is to begin a conversation about how to design and imagine intersectional and just learning spaces and physical environments.

   
   

   This roundtable fits NWSA “Just Imagine; Imagining Justice” Subtheme Three: The future of the universities, schools, and knowledge production: maroon spaces, insurgent practices, and the future of the disciplines and the interdisciplines?

   
   

   Please send 250-500 word abstracts and a CV to karlyn.crowley@snc.edu by Friday, February 16th.
2. Global Health Day- Call for Abstracts Get ready for Global Health Day hosted by the AHC Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility on April 14th. Abstract submissions for poster and oral presentations are now open for University of Minnesota students, residents, and fellows.
3. Men's Story Project, Call for Submissions Flyer attached here. 
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Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

1. Chief Diversity Officer and Senior Advisor at the University of Florida                                 We are excited to search for a Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Florida. If you are interested in this position or want to nominate someone, please see further information and contact details in the attached flyer and here: http://hr.ufl.edu/talentsearches/chief-diversity-officer-senior-advisor-to-the-president/. Also feel free to pass this on to other qualified applicants and/or to nominate them directly to Kathy McKee at talent@hr.ufl.edu.
2. Women's Suffrage in the Americas NEH Summer Institute                                               The National Endowment for the Humanities and Carthage College invite you to apply for a professional development opportunity in women’s history this summer.
   
   Come and explore the remarkably understudied stories of how women in the Americas achieved the suffrage. Seventeen specialists from Argentina to Canada will each present a piece of the interconnecting pattern that led to suffrage extensions across the hemisphere. 
   
   Join us on the campus of Carthage College, stretched along the shores of Lake Michigan. Together with our invited specialists, you will analyze suffrage movements and the politics that surrounded them. You will examine the meaning of citizenship, and ask who was included and who was excluded from formal political participation, when, and why. 
   
   
   All college and university faculty are welcome to apply, including adjunct and non-tenure track faculty and advanced graduate students already in the classroom. Spanish or Portuguese language fluency is helpful but not required. Learn more at suffrage.carthage.edu.                                                                                         Dates: July 23-August 3, 2018. Location: Carthage College, Kenosha, WI. Stipend: $2,100. Application Deadline: March 1, 2018 For any questions, feel free to send us an email.
   
   Stephanie Mitchell - smitchell@carthage.edu
   
   Patricia Harms - harmsp@brandonu.ca
   
   
   
   
   APPLY HERE
3. Professor and Director of Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics More information and how to apply can be found here. 
4. Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies- Bucknell University More information and how to apply can be found here. 
5. ACLS Public Fellows Program 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 PhDs 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, health insurance coverage for the fellow, a relocation allowance, and up to $3,000 in professional development funds.
   
   
   In 2018, ACLS will place up to 25 PhDs as Public Fellows in the following organizations and roles:
   ·       Center for Popular Democracy (Brooklyn, NY) – Strategic Research Associate
   ·       Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) – Digital Engagement Manager
   ·       Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Chicago, IL) – Research Associate, Global Cities
   ·       Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (Madison, WI) – Global Programs Manager
   ·       Council of Independent Colleges (Washington, DC) – Development Officer
   ·       Environmental Law & Policy Center (Chicago, IL) – Senior Research Analyst, Transportation Innovation
   ·       Innocence Project (New York, NY) – Content Strategist
   ·       Lapham’s Quarterly (New York, NY) – Digital Producer
   ·       Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Los Angeles, CA) – Cross Sector Analyst
   ·       Los Angeles Review of Books (Los Angeles, CA) – Associate Executive Editor and Assistant Director, LARB Books
   ·       MinnPost (Minneapolis, MN) – Audience Development and Engagement Manager
   ·       The Moth (New York, NY) – Impact and Evaluation Officer
   ·       National Immigration Law Center (Washington, DC) – Research Program Manager
   ·       National Trust for Historic Preservation (Washington, DC) – Manager of Curatorial Innovation
   ·       Participatory Budgeting Project (Brooklyn, NY) – Participation Design Strategist
   ·       PolicyLink (Oakland, CA) – Associate, Equitable Economy Research
   ·       Public Radio International (Minneapolis, MN) – Associate Editor, Global Nation
   ·       Race Forward (Oakland, CA or New York, NY) – Narrative Impact Analyst
   ·       Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY) – Outreach Program Manager
   ·       Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (Washington, DC) – Program Manager for Cultural Disaster Analysis
   ·       Smithsonian Institution Office of International Relations (Washington, DC) – Global Science Officer
   ·       Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, NY) – Program Officer, Media and Democracy Project
   ·       Stockholm Environment Institute – US Center (Seattle, WA) – Climate Policy Associate
   ·       United Negro College Fund (Washington, DC) – Policy Analyst
   ·       United Neighborhood Houses (New York, NY) – Policy Analyst
   
   
   Applicants must possess US citizenship or permanent resident status and have a PhD in the humanities or humanistic social sciences conferred between September 1, 2014 and June 22, 2018. Applicants must have defended and deposited their dissertations no later than April 6, 2018. The deadline for submitted applications is Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 9 pm EDT.
   
   
   Applications will be accepted only through the ACLS online application system (OFA). Applicants should not contact any of the organizations directly. Please visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellowscomp/ for complete position descriptions, eligibility criteria, and application information. This program is supported by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Miscellaneous 

1. CURA 50th Anniversary Website In 2018 the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) celebrates its 50th year. We are taking this anniversary as an opportunity to thank all of our partners and supporters for their part in all that CURA has accomplished since 1968. We plan to celebrate the anniversary all year long! Look for short features on the CURA 50th Anniversary website-a new one each month-highlighting some of the most memorable projects and people in CURA's history.
   And look for events throughout the year to thank the community partners who have been so important to our work, the hundreds of students who have worked on community-based projects at CURA, and the many, many faculty members who have conducted CURA-funded research over the years. And though it is nice to look back on events and accomplishments, please know that all of us at CURA remain committed to connecting the resources of the University of Minnesota with the interests and needs of our urban and regional community. We look forward to the next 50!
2. Child Care Grants Graduate and professional students who have children and are paying for childcare can receive up to $1500 per term, per child, via the Post-Secondary Child Care Grant or the new University Student Service Fees Child Care Assistance Grant. To be fully screened and learn more about other support, call the front desk of the Student Parent HELP Center at 612-626-6015 or Stephanie Lee at 612-625-2780.
3. Deadlines Approaching for Academic Innovation Grants 

   If you are interested in submitting a proposal for an Academic Innovation Grant, please be aware of two impending deadlines. The Academic Innovation Grants program supports innovation in teaching and learning through the integration of instructional technology. Awards range from $1,000 - $30,000. For more information, and to apply, see Academic Innovation Grants Program. Consultation (required) completed by February 23, 2018. Email Cristina Lopez, cla-acadtech@umn.edu to schedule your consultation. You may request a consultation any time, even if you have not yet drafted your grant application. The meeting will take less than one hour. The purpose of the meeting is to ensure that your project and proposal meet the basic criteria of the grant, and that you have identified all of the resources needed to complete your project. Proposals are due March 2, 2018.

GWSS Departmental Newsletter 2/9/18

Happy Olympics Update!

Events 

1. MIRC is hosting Professor Brent J. Steele 
2. QSCC Workshop 
3. Workshops for Supporting International Students 
4. Campus Sexual Assault: Responses to Changes in the Title IX Policy 
5. NSF Review Process Discussion 
6. BTAA Digital Humanities Meeting 
7. Research Ethics Conference 
8. ISSS Visa Workshops 
9. LATIS Workhops 
10. Decolonization, Environmental (In)Justice and Community Engagement
11. NSF Grant-Writing Course 
12. NWSA Academic Freedom Webinar 
13. Representing and Resisting Historical Injustices Through Art
14. Becoming an Asian American Badass feat. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
15. Asian American Resistance & Creative Clapbacks 
16. Canvas Workshop .
17. CDSC Reading Group 
18. SLACK Online Collaboration Tutorial 
19. ICI Community Inclusion Film Screening
20. Police and Community
21. LATIS workshop on Linux

Calls for Papers/Applications 

1. UW Madison Call for Proposals 
2. NWSA Conference Panel CFP 
3. Randy Martin Prize: Call for Applications 
4. Global Health Day- Call for Abstracts 
5. Fourth ICI Biennial 
6. "Emancipation Undone" Call for Papers
7. "Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives" Call for Proposals

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities 

1. IAS SSRC-DPD Program Applications 
2. UMN Grant-In-Aid
3. Minnesota Futures Grant Program 
4. FEMBOT Fellowship Now Taking Applications 
5. Faculty Research Sprints
6. Distinguished Scholar in Residence at College of the Holy Cross 

Miscellaneous

1. Imagine PhD.
2. New Faculty Program 
3. HSEX 6013 Course 
4. TA & Post-Doc Professional Development Program
5. UMN-SSRC Deadline Extension 
6. Approaching Deadline For Academic Innovation Grant Consultation
7. Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development

                                                                                                         

Events: 

1. MIRC is hosting Professor Brent J. Steele MIRC is excited to host Prof. Brent J. Steele (The University of Utah) on February 12th. Prof. Steele's research interests include IR theory, and critical security studies. He will be presenting to us a paper in progress that is part of a special issue on ontological security and the everyday.
   
   
   You can find his paper attached, and the title and abstract of his talk below. 
   
   
   The talk will be at Lippincott Room, between 3:30-5:00 and coffee will be provided.
   
   
   We hope to see many of you there,
   
   
   MIRC organizers 
   
   
   (For graduate students: there is still one breakfast spot open, and Prof. Steele is eager to have one on one conversations with grad students as well, about research topics and the field of IR more generally. Let us know if you would like to take up any of these opportunities.)
   
   
   
   
   Welcome home! Routines, Ontological Insecurity, and the Politics of US Military Reunion Videos- Brent Steele, University of Utah

   
   

   This paper investigates military 'reunion' videos that proliferated throughout the US throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s. The typical video entails a returning soldier who surprises a family member, usually a child or female spouse, at a public event. As it relates to who belongs, and what one should ‘do’ when viewing it, I articulate the reunion video as a key feature of populism in contemporary US society. Ironically, the routines so important for generating ontological security fail to alleviate both the anxiety of the child as well as the viewers. The videos can be considered examples of the ‘encounters’ theorized by both Anthony Giddens and Erving Goffman. Both private and public ‘social occasions’ with performative qualities of ‘day-to-day life’, the videos disclose the institutional and societal routines of not only a family but broader layers and circles of political communities. In the case of the United States, the videos serve as a ‘stand-in’ for the closure of wars that in the past concluded (with some exceptions) ‘successfully’ but in a 21^stcentury ‘war-on-terror’ context seem to be without end. As they relate to not only loss but redemption (albeit manufactured), the paper concludes with the implications of these reunion videos for reflecting but also enabling (if not determining) the rise of Trump leading to the 2016 US Presidential Election.
2. QSCC Workshop: To see more information, click here for the flyer! 
3. Workshops for Supporting International Students For a flyer with dates and times, click here. 
4. Campus Sexual Assault: Responses to Changes in the Title IX Policy 
    Humphrey Forum- In September of 2017, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinded Obama-era guidance on how colleges and universities handle sexual assaults under Title IX law. Join the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy for a moderated discussion of how the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus and Minnesota state legislators are responding to these federal changes. The panel, moderated by  Professor Christina Ewig, includes:                                         
   Karen Miksch, Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and co-chair of the UMN President’s Initiative to Prevent Sexual Misconduct
   
   State Representative Erin Murphy, author of proposed state legislation to strengthen consent guidelines at all colleges and universities in the state
   
   Lena Palacios, Assistant Professor, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and co-author of a dear colleagues letter raising concerns about mandatory reporting
   
   Rose Miron, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies and co-author of a dear colleagues letter raising concerns about mandatory reporting
   The event is free and open to the public. Please register for the event here and share the Facebook event. Tuesday, February 13th | 1:00 - 2:30 pm 
5. NSF Review Process Discussion 
   The February session of the CLA Research Development Third Fridays Roundtable Series offers an opportunity for researchers to discuss the NSF review process, featuring a conversation with review panelists Tim Johnson and Kurt Kipfmueller about the inner workings of NSF review. Friday, February 16, 2018, 1200p - 100p, 710 Social Sciences. Pizza and soft drinks will be served. Please use the RSVP form to indicate your interest in attending.
6. BTAA Digital Humanities Meeting
   The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is holding the 2018 Annual BTAA Digital Humanities Committee meeting March 15-16, 2018 at Indiana University Bloomington. For more information, contact Angela Courtney (ancourtn@indiana.edu).
7. Research Ethics Conference
   The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences presents Research Integrity and Trustworthy Science: Challenges & Solutions, a conference that will bring together people from multiple disciplines to analyze challenges related to research integrity and map a way forward. Thursday, March 8, 2018, 830a - 100p, Coffman Theater.
8. ISSS Visa Workshops
   ISSS has twice-yearly workshops (fall and spring) for the UMN international community regarding how to get work visas in the United States.  Twin Cities lawyers with expertise in Immigration law will present two sessions:  one devoted to H-1B, and another one providing an overview of different U.S. employment-based visas plus permanent residency.
   All are welcome to attend.
   Our spring workshop schedule is as follows:
   
   
   H-1B Visa Workshop
   Wednesday, February 28, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Blegen Hall, Room 10: An attorney will explain the process to obtain an H-1B Visa if you wish to obtain one to work at an employer other than the University of Minnesota.
   Employment-based Visas and Permanent Residency Workshop
   Monday, March 5, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Blegen Hall, Room 10 :An attorney will explain the process to obtain an employment-based visa or permanent residency.
   Contact Betsy Madden at madden@umn.edu with any questions.
9. LATIS Workshops
   LATIS offers a workshop series free to all faculty and graduate students on wide array of topics. The next workshops are on: 1) Introduction to ATLAS.ti, a long-standing qualitative analysis program used to organize, tag, and analyze a variety of research materials including text, audio, and visual sources. Register online for the workshop on Friday, February 9, 2018; 930a - 1200p, 131A Bruininks; and 2) Reproducible Experimental Research in Qualtrics. Qualtrics is a survey tool available to all University of Minnesota researchers, and can be used to support surveys as well as behavioral and experimental research. This workshop will teach participants how to develop online experiments using this tool, including how to randomize participants to conditions, customize participant paths based on responses, and embed multimedia stimuli. Register online for the workshop on Friday, February 16, 2018; 930a - 1200p ,131A Bruininks Hall.
10. Decolonization, Environmental (In)Justice and Community Engagement Decolonization, Environmental (In)Justice and Community Engagement
    February 20, 2018 | 12 - 1 p.m. | Learning and Environmental Sciences, Room R-350
    Feminist Studies Ph.D student José Manuel Santillana will be discussing his work on environmental (in)justice and Mexican immigrant women in Central California. He will further address the ways in which scholars can facilitate solidarity and liberatory research practices. Get more information and register for Decolonization, Environmental (In)Justice and Community Engagement
11. NSF Grant-Writing Course The Summer Course on Grantwriting in the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences (SCG) happens May 21-25, 2018, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS. The course is open to all scholars in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, with preference given to early Ph.D.s. The SCG is designed to advance nonmedical scientific research and education relevant to underrepresented communities. Tuition, housing, most meals, and airport transportation are provided.
    
    Each year, the National Science Foundation turns down hundreds of promising proposals for fellowships and grants. The reason: poor grantwriting. Maybe a project isn’t clearly supported by a theory, or the researcher chooses the wrong method. Any way you slice it, well designed research can mean the difference between an award letter and rejection.
    This summer, the National Science Foundation sponsors a week-long course where experts teach the fundamentals of robust grantwriting. You’ll learn insiders’ tips for how federal review panels think, and how to assemble a winning proposal. Because the ultimate goal isn’t just a good project. We want to help you land the funding opportunity of your dreams.
    Apply online: http://qualquant.org/methodsmall/summer-course-for-researchdesign/
    Application deadline: March 1, 2018. Course is limited to 12 participants.
    Contact: Dr. Kirk Johnson, Dept. of
    Sociology and Anthropology, University of
    Mississippi, kjohnson@olemiss.edu, (662)915-7421.
12. NWSA Academic Freedom Webinar                                                                                      We are excited to host the NWSA Academic Freedom Webinar in Ford Hall 400 on Friday, February 9, 2018. at 3:30PM . Coffee and snacks will be available.

    NWSA’s Governing Council voted to create an ad-hoc committee on academic freedom at its November 2016 meeting. Karma Chávez, Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas, Austin and LaMonda Horton Stallings, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland co-chair the committee. Join Chávez, Stallings, and Piya Chatterjee to learn about the history of academic freedom in higher education, how conflicts over academic freedom affect WGSS departments and programs, and strategize about how to protect academic freedom on your campus. NWSA WEBINAR ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM Friday February 9, 2017 4:30 PM EST Click here to register no later than Tuesday February 6, 2018 $40 Member $60 Non Member

13. Representing and Resisting Historical Injustices Through Art                                  February 17
    1:00pm
    East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul
    
    
    The IAS Historical Injustices Research and Creative Collaborative, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library, is pleased to present this panel discussion of Minnesota-based artists. The panelists will join featured visual artist John Matsunaga in a conversation about how they have used their artistic and creative practices to engage the historical injustices which have challenged their communities. The invited artists are Nikki McComb, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, and Alessandra Williams. Flyer attached.
    
    
    https://ias.umn.edu/representingandresisting
14. Becoming an Asian American Badass feat. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang                          ​February 19
    ​5:30pm-6:30pm

    Appleby Hall 311

    
    

    Tired of the BS and ready for the Badass? Subject to all sorts of competing—and often conflicting—expectations and pressures about who we are, who we ought to be, and what we could be, it can be hard to figure out how to be Asian, American, Asian American,…oneself? It is not enough to talk about race, it is not enough to talk about gender, it is not enough to talk about the scars of our high expectations tiger parents. Yet we have so many badass role models and superheroes in our community, showing us how to be true to ourselves and a fierce advocate for our communities. How do we cultivate an Asian American identity that works for us as we move through our many different communities and how do we carry our art and activism forward into life after school?
    

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    Refreshments will be provided!​
    
    Please RSVP at z.umn.edu/badass
    https://www.facebook.com/events/140019590027759/
15. Asian American Resistance & Creative Clapbacks                                                      February 20
    5:30pm-7:30pm
    Rapson Hall 100
    
    

    Join the Asian Pacific American Resource Center for our Spring Speaker!
    Using Asian American stereotypes in the media as an easy and visual entry point into Asian American history, we will examine connections between Asian American media stereotypes, historical anxieties, and what contemporary Asian American creatives are doing to clap back. This history of resistance is more relevant than ever today in this time of Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, Black Lives Matter, and “fake news.” The challenge is to become critical readers, savvy media consumers, and activist content creators.
    
    Please RSVP at z.umn.edu/APARCspeaker
    Doors Open 5:00 PM.
16. Canvas Workshop An online Canvas basics workshop for faculty and staff will include a review of the Canvas interface, tools and features, course design options, and an introduction to moving content from Moodle to Canvas. RSVP to attend >
17. CDSC Reading Group The CDSC is excited to host another reading group on Friday February 23rd from 11-1 in Scott Hall, Room 4. The topic for this reading group is Black Disability Studies and we are looking forward to a rich conversation! We would appreciate if you could pass this along to those who may be interested. Attached is the flyer with information on how to register. 
18. SLACK Online Collaboration Tutorial SLACK is a new online collaboration tool already in use in the college to crowdsource and share information across teams and units or collaborate on events and projects.
    
    Learn more about SLACK by attending a training session led by Deb Ludowese.
    
    Friday, February 16 from 10 - 11:30 a.m.
    202 Johnston Hall. Space is limited.
    RSVP: https://z.umn.edu/claslacktraining
19. ICI Community Inclusion Film Screening 

    The Institute on Community Integration (ICI) produced a documentary film exploring a revolutionary idea from the early 1970s that challenged fundamental assumptions about people with intellectual disabilities. On March 1, ICI will host a public screening of the film, Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization. The film was directed by ICI's Jerry Smith. No charge. 5:30 p.m., Walker Art Center. A discussion about community inclusion will follow the screening. Register and learn more >

20. Police and Community 
    

    Join the Humphrey School and the Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center for this conversation between police, community, faculty, staff, and students around successful solutions in community policing. No charge and lunch will be provided. 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Humphrey School. Register and learn >

21. LATIS Workshop on Linux 
    
    LATIS offers a workshop series free to all faculty and graduate students on a wide array of topics. The next workshop is Introduction to Linux II, which examines a robust family of operating systems that has become the de facto standard in research computing. This workshop builds on the material presented in Introduction to Linux I and will introduce I/O redirection, processes and job control, customizing the environment, data munging at the command line, and basic shell scripting. Register online for the workshop on Friday, February 23, 2018, 930a - 1200p, 131A Bruininks.

Call for Papers/Applications

1. UW Madison Call for Proposals: More information here.
2. NWSA Conference Panel CFP Double Trouble, the alt-right and the corporate university: How do we respond?
   
   The development of the corporate university is nothing new, nor are attacks on Women and Gender Studies by conservative forces such as /pol/ (Donoghue, 2008; Giroux, 2014; Gould, 2003). Together, though, these two threats to higher education and WGS, in particular, mean both intellectual and physical danger for our discipline. WGS has rarely enjoyed a smooth ride in the academy; varying levels of contention and straight out hostility have shaped our history. Yet, in the past we could call on the merits of academic diversity and the virtues of academic freedom in defense of our right to exist and to garner support. But now, while “diversity” is key, it is not academic or often meaningful diversity the corporate university seeks (Ahmed, 2012). And academic freedom is more and more a thing of the past as universities micro-manage curriculum and classroom conduct. At the same time the alt-right has been emboldened by their global growth and our new administration. Acting as a corporation, the new university minds its image more than the consequences of alt-right actions and influence on campus. This leaves the most important responses and actions up to us: the faculty, students and staff. What do we do?
   
   This panel asks: How have we, WGS faculty, students, and feminist scholars, reacted to the intersection of the conservative right and our neoliberal/corporatized universities? How should we react? What works, what does not work?
   
   Papers must address aspects of the conference subtheme three: “The future of the universities, schools, and knowledge production: maroon spaces, insurgent practices, and the future of the disciplines and the interdisciplines?”
   
   Possible Topic Might Include:
    How do these discussions, arguments, and fights (intellectual and unfortunately physical as well) affect national ideas of citizenship, democracy, and the goals of higher education?
   
   What role has WGS to play in the greater national response to the corporate university and its ties to the right?
   
   What role does free speech play in relation to the survival of WGS on the corporate campus? It appears to fuel the right but can we use it to survive as well?
   
   Can we change/fix the corporate university or must we remake it entirely? If we do remake higher education, what would be a new model that eliminates neoliberal intrusion in the future?
   
   Case studies from individual campuses.
   
   Please send 250 word abstracts and a CV to rdolhinow@fullerton.edu by 2/15. 
   Questions? Becky Dolhinow   rdolhinow@fullerton.edu
3. Randy Martin Prize: Call for Applications Randy Martin Prize: Call for Nominations and Applications

   DEADLINE: April 20, 2018

   The Cultural Studies Association is pleased to announce the creation of the Randy Martin Prize for the Best Student Paper presented at the annual CSA conference.  Competition for the 2018 Randy Martin Prize is now open to student members of the Cultural Studies Association who have had papers accepted for the 2017 annual meeting. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, on Friday, June 1, 2018.
   The Randy Martin Prize includes a certificate and $500.00 in cash, plus free conference registration. The winning paper may deal with any aspect of cultural studies, but should reflect the robust interdisciplinary perspective and historical materialist approach so central to the scholarship of the late Randy Martin. The paper must also represent original work not previously presented or published. The winning author must be a member of the Association.
   Submissions for 2018
   Applications materials must reach the CSA by April 20, 2018 preferably by email to: RandyMartinPrize@culturalstudiesassociation.org with the subject line "APPLICATION: RANDY MARTIN PRIZE".
   Applications will not be accepted by mail.
   Each application should be in the form of a single PDF and include the following:
   1- A cover letter with author's name, institutional affiliation, paper title (as it will appear on the conference program schedule), and contact information;
   2- A copy of the email or letter notifying the candidate that their paper has been accepted for inclusion in the 2018 CSA Conference Program Schedule; and
   3- The paper, which should be 10-12 type written pages or about 3,500 words, including citations and notes. 
   Contributions other than traditional conference papers are also welcome.  For proof of student status, applicants should send a copy of their student ID, a link to a university webpage listing them as a student, or some other proof that they are a current student.
   Late Applications will not be accepted.
   If you have any questions, please email Michelle Fehsenfeld at Contact@CulturalStudiesAssociation.Org

       4. Global Health Day- Call for Abstracts Deadline: March 5, 2018

           Get ready for Global Health Day hosted by the AHC Center for Global Health and Social                     Responsibility on April 14, 2018. Abstract submissions are now open for University of                         Minnesota students, residents, and fellows for Poster and Oral Presentations. Find details on              the call for abstracts

       5. Fourth ICI Biennial       

        The 4th ICI Biennial:The Environment, the Anthropocene, and the African                     Diaspora. October 4^th-7^th, 2018 at Vanderbilt University

Please join ICI on the Vanderbilt campus next October for our upcoming Biennial Symposium. Our opening reception will be on Thursday, October 4^th, 2018.  We will feature two exciting talks over the course of the weekend: a keynote by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) and a panel discussion featuring distinguished speakers (Professors Thadious Davis, Margo Crawford, Rizvana Bradley, and Alexander Weheliye) to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Professor Hortense J. Spillers' influential essay, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book." 

We invite scholars to submit paper and panel proposals on topics relating to the environment and the African Diaspora by February 15, 2018.  Please send these proposals to ici@vanderbilt.edu.

Lauren Mitchell, M.S. in Narrative Medicine

       6."Emancipation Undone" Call for Papers The Critical Ethnic and Racial Studies Research Working Group

CFP: “Emancipation Undone”
“The intervention made here is an attempt to recast the past, guided by the conundrums and compulsions of our contemporary crisis: the hope for social transformation in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the quixotic search for a subject capable of world-historical action, and the despair induced by the lack of one.” (Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America, 1997, p. 14)
Scholars across an array of disciplines have increasingly situated critical interventions into the contradictions and crises of the historical present—from ecology and the human, to capital and democracy—by foregrounding racial slavery as a structuring problematic of modern political life. Much of this work finds a generative foothold in the interventions Saidiya Hartman initiated and reanimated over twenty years ago, where she contended that any analysis of racialization must be conducted with regard to the history and theory of slavery, and that the political logic of racial slavery must become a fundamental locus of inquiry for political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and Marxism (to name a few fields). This has yielded a powerful frame of historical analysis, and a new baseline for critical intervention: “the afterlife of slavery.”
In line with the general theme, “Interventions,” the Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Studies invites submissions of panels or individual papers for the CSA Annual Conference that advance interventions into the present by making the “afterlife of slavery” its reference. These papers may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• The analysis of racial slavery as an intervention in the critique of political economy
• Libidinal enjoyment as a factor of racial subjection
• Black Lives Matter and the incompleteness of emancipation
• Historicizing the anthropocene and critiques of post-humanism
• Critical race studies and the “limits of critique”
• Black feminist and queer epistemological interventions
• Antiblackness and the subject of the unconscious
• Race, value, and abstraction
• Global anti-capitalist struggle in the afterlife of slavery

Please submit a brief abstract (300 words or less) through the CSA submission system by its official deadline, currently: February 16, 2018 (http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/registration2017). Applicants must be a member of the CSA to submit. Submissions can either be an individual paper or pre-constituted panel. Please indicate that you are applying to the Racial and Ethnic Studies Panel.
Questions? Contact the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Racial and Ethnic Studies, Jaafar Aksikas (jaksikas@colum.edu), Christopher Chamberlin (cechambe@uci.edu), and Patrice Douglass (pdd2@stmarys-ca.edu).

        7. "Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives" Call for Proposals The Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute funds new, interdisciplinary research projects that address community-identified priorities and effect systemic change in the realm of food, agriculture, and health (see fall 2017 grantees). RFPs are now available for spring 2018 funding opportunities. 

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

1. IAS SSRC-DPD Program Applications The IAS is currently accepting applications for the Social Science Research Council Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development(SSRC-DPD) program. Twelve University of Minnesota social science and humanities PhD students will be selected to participate in the 2018 program. The program involves two interdisciplinary, faculty-led training workshops as well as exploratory summer research. The deadline for this application is Friday, February 9, 2018. More details can be found here.

2. UMN Grant-In-Aid Program 
   The U of M's Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship program promotes the research, scholarly, and artistic activities of faculty and supports academic excellence throughout the University. Administered through the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR), the Grant-in-Aid program provides seed funding for a wide range of projects in five funding categories. CLA approvers are departmental chairs and Associate Dean Steven Manson. Applications due to CLA approvers by February 5, 2018 and to OVPR by February 8, 2018
3. Minnesota Futures Grant Program
   
   
   Letters of Intent are now being accepted for the Minnesota Futures grant program, administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research. The Minnesota Futures program promotes new research and scholarship that address societal challenges by fostering opportunities for researchers to advance new ideas and cross disciplinary boundaries. Letters of Intent due February 19, 2018; completed proposals due March 19, 2018
4. FEMBOT Fellowship Now Taking Applications Now Taking Applications Through March 3rd!
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   > Generation Feminist (or Gen F) is a national two-week social justice summer fellowship for undergraduate students of all genders. This program is a collaboration between the Center for Educational Justice at the University of Redlands, the Women's Center at Bowling Green State University, and the Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester. 12 students will be selected from colleges and universities across the U.S.
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   > Grounded in the feminist history of the greater Rochester area and hands-on experience working at Willow Domestic Violence Center, this program provides undergraduates interested in social justice, human services, non-profit management, gender-based violence, and feminism(s) with an opportunity to participate in leadership development, research and program evaluation, and experiential learning for social change.
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   > To apply: fill out the application and provide two references located here: http://www.redlands.edu/genf
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   > Program Cost: Room and All Meals $525 | Fellowship Tuition $475*
   > *Fellows must also provide their own travel to and from Rochester, N.Y. on 7/22/18 and 8/4/18.
5. Faculty Research Sprints Faculty Research Sprints (May 22-25) offer faculty the opportunity to partner with expert librarians on a specific project, or components of a broader project. Eligibility is limited to tenured, tenure-track, or clinical faculty members at the U of M. Applications are due March 4. An information session takes place Feb. 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m., 401 Walter Library.
6. Distinguished Scholar in Residence at College of the Holy Cross The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) program at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a one-semester or one-year Distinguished Scholar in Residence appointment for AY 2018-2019 or 2019-2020. We seek a senior scholar with a well-established record of research and teaching in gender, women’s, and sexuality studies who can contribute to our program’s intellectual community and faculty members’ professional development. Interdisciplinary expertise at the intersection of gender, sexuality, and race is preferred. 
   
   
   This position is likely ideal for candidates anticipating a sabbatical or research leave. The teaching load for each semester is one course, which we are imagining as an advanced undergraduate seminar with periodic GSWS faculty participation. The Distinguished Scholar would also be asked to deliver a public lecture and lead a one-day intensive faculty workshop on cutting-edge feminist scholarship. For more information on the GSWS program, please visit https://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/gender-sexuality-and-womens-studies. 
   
   
   Application Instructions
   Please submit a curriculum vitae, representative publication, transcripts, and cover letter addressing the position requirements listed above. The College of the Holy Cross uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically.  Please submit all application materials to https://apply.interfolio.com/48814 .
   
   
   As a Jesuit, undergraduate liberal arts college, the College values dialog among people from diverse perspectives as integral to the mission and essential to the excellence of our academic program (see http://holycross.edu/mission). In your application please highlight how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship and/or service might support the College’s mission and its commitment to diversity and inclusion.  For more information, please visit http://holycross.edu/diversity. Candidates can learn more about faculty life at the College at http://holycross.edu/join. 
   
   
   Review of applications will begin on March 5^th and continue until the position has been filled. We will conduct preliminary interviews of selected applicants via Skype. Questions about this search may be directed to Ara Francis, Director of GSWS, at afrancis@holycross.edu.

Miscellaneous: 

1. Imagine PhD 
   Imagine PhD + Versatile PhD
   
   
   The U of M supports two websites designed to help graduate students match their skills and aptitudes to an array of career pathways. Imagine PhD is a new site for career exploration and planning for the humanities and social sciences. The U of M is a founding member of the consortium supporting this effort. Versatile PhD is an online community that helps students and graduates explore non-academic and non-faculty careers for PhDs in humanities, social science and STEM.
2. New Faculty Program
   Faculty and Academic Affairs coordinates the New Faculty Program (NFP), which offers multiple opportunities for tenure track and contract faculty to jumpstart their careers at the U. The program helps faculty build their capacities in research, teaching, community engagement, career advancement, and leadership. New faculty who participate in the program are eligible to receive a letter of completion from the Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs.
3. HSEX 6013 Course This graduate-level online course covers the history of sexual education, primarily in the US with international comparison, as well as current and emerging issues in sexual education. Using readings, discussion forums, peer review, and an applied final project, students will understand the temporal changes in sexual health education in the US and abroad and the empirical, theoretical, and educational foundations of sexual health education. This course applies toward partial fulfillment of the Core Knowledge requirements of the AASECT Sexuality Educator certification. Offered in partnership between the Program in Human Sexuality and the College of Continuing and Professional Studies.
   
   
   Email miwen@umn.edu for more information or if you need a permission number. 
   
   
4. TA & Post-Doc Professional Development Program                                                             The Center for Educational Innovation hosts the TA and Post-Doc Professional Development Program, which offers teaching assistants and graduate students a venue to be formally recognized for their investment in their professional development. Participants who successfully complete the required elements of the program will receive a formal letter for recognition from the Center for Educational Innovation.
5. UMN-SSRC Deadline Extension 
   
   We have extended the deadline for applications to the University of Minnesota-Social Science Research Council Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development project to noon, Monday February 12, 2018. he UMN-SSRC-DPD project is a three-year effort to expand and improve formal dissertation prospectus and grant proposal development for humanities and social science doctoral students at the University of Minnesota. In 2018 we will  select 12 graduate students to participate in the program, which includes an intensive five-day workshop in spring, followed by student summer research, and another intensive five-day workshop in the early fall prior to fall research grant proposal deadlines. Students will receive up to $3,000 in summer research funding and are required to register for a graduate seminar in fall 2018 as part of the program. The faculty facilitators work closely with the students on preparing research questions, literature reviews, identifying grant opportunities, work plans, and writing proposals and prospectuses; the students work together in peer groups as well. The goal is to increase student success in grant competitions as well as to refine a dissertation prospectus that may help the students better concentrate their efforts and reduce time to completion. The program targets students at the end of their second or third year (depending on department expectations) in graduate school, before defending their prospectus.
   
   Applications to the program are due by noon on Monday, February 12, 2018. More information and application instructions are available at https://ias.umn.edu/ssrc/application
6. Approaching Deadline For Academic Innovation Grant Consultation Are you thinking about submitting a proposal for an Academic Innovation Grant? The deadline to complete the required consultation for all Academic Innovation Grants isFriday, February 23. Awards range from $1,000 to $30,000, and support innovation and student-centeredness in teaching and learning through the integration of technology.
   
   A consultation involves a meeting of one hour or less. A LATIS staff member will provide guidance on your proposal, and ensure it meets the basic criteria of the grant.
   
   Email cla-acadtech@umn.edu to schedule your appointment.
7. Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development The Institute for Advanced Study announces applications for the 2018 UMN Social Science Research Council Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Program. This program aims to expand and improve formal dissertation prospectus and grant proposal development for humanities and social science doctoral students at the University of Minnesota. The program includes intensive workshops in May and September and support for summer research. Applications due February 12, 2018.