Scholarship

ANNOUNCING: SKAC Scholarship, Deadline: Dec. 15th
For info and application: http://blog.skacfoundation.org/

The Shui Kuen and Allen Chin Foundation is pleased to announce the following
scholarship opportunity for students currently enrolled in an accredited U.S. college
or university.

The scholarship is $1,000 for the 2006-2007 academic year. Applicants must have
worked in an Asian restaurant or have at least one parent having worked in an Asian
restaurant. Graduate students as well as undergraduate students are encouraged to apply.

General Scholarship/

Grant Eligibility:
To be considered for the above scholarship, requirements include:
1. Applicants must be have worked in an Asian restaurant or have at least one parent
having worked in an Asian restaurant.
2. Preference will go to students with a minimum of a 3.0 grade point average.
3. The applicant must be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student
enrolled in an accredited U.S. college or university.

Application Process:
All applicants must submit the following:
1. Scholarship Application (see attached)
2. Current Resume
3. Personal Statement/Proposal (500 word maximum, double spaced, include name
and word count at the top of essay) that addresses one or more of the following areas:
� What does it mean to you to have worked in an Asian restaurant or to be a child of
an Asian or Asian-American restaurant worker? How does it impact your role as an
effective future leader?
� How has growing up as a worker in an Asian restaurant or a child of an Asian or
Asian-American restaurant worker impacted your outlook on society?

All applications will be reviewed based on excellence in academic accomplishment,
extracurricular activities/communit y services, and the overall quality of the application.
Finalists will be asked to provide a certified transcript verifying current enrollment.

Application Deadline:
The application must be emailed by 7 pm EST, December 15, 2006. In order to conserve
paper, only electronic applications will be accepted. Complete applications must be
submitted as a Word document by email to: info at skacfoundation dot org
Please contact by e-mail if you have questions. Scholarship recipients will receive
verbal notification followed by a confirmation letter. All decisions are made by the
foundation and are final.

CFP: Media and Culture Journal

M/C - Media and Culture

http://www.media-culture.org.au/ is calling for contributors to the 'mobile'
issue of M/C Journal http://journal.media-culture.org.au/

M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal between
the popular and the academic, and a blind-and peer-reviewed journal. In 2007,
M/C Journal celebrates its tenth year in publication.

To see what M/C Journal is all about, check out our Website, which contains all the
issues released so far, at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/.

To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit
<http://journal.media-culture.org.au/journal/submission.php.

Call for Papers: 'mobile'
Edited by Larissa Hjorth & Olivia Khoo

Convergence has become part of burgeoning mobile media. The mobile phone
has come of age. As an integral component of visual media cultures, camera phone
practices are arguably both extending and creating emerging ways of seeing and
representing. In media footage of late, camera phones have been heralded as
providing everyday users with the possibility of self-expression and voice in the once
unidirectional model of mass media. In addition, the "exchange" and gift-giving
economy underpinning mobile phone practices (Taylor and Harper 2003) is further
enunciated by the camera hone's ability to "share" moments between intimates (and
strangers) through various contextual frameworks and archives from MMS, blogs, virtual
community sites to actual face-to-face digital storytelling.

This is particularly the case in the Asia-Pacific region, where mobile practices in
locations such as Tokyo and Seoul have brought about new forms of media use; for
example, mobile phones are increasing being deployed to connect to, among other
things, Web 2.0's burgeoning landscape of social software. In much of the rhetoric
of current media criticism, users are being interpellated as prosumers (producers
plus consumers), but what is the reality behind this so-called agency? Do users really
feel empowered by the structures of immediacy connected to user-generated content
(UGC)? Are they 'liberated' by the multi-media functions of the mobile phone or is the
increasing convergence of mobile media causing more complications than pleasures?

This issue of M/C Journal seeks papers exploring the role of convergent mobile
technologies in the Asia-Pacific region. The issue aims to explore the socio-cultural
particularities of various adaptations of mobile media, from case studies on mobile
communication in the Asia Pacific, to cross- cultural analyses of the transborder flows
of mobile media production, representation and consumption. Topics may include:

- Convergent mobile technologies
- The use of mobile technologies in the construction, regulation and upkeep of social
software and virtual communities
- Pervasive mobile gaming
- Mobile communication case studies in the region
- The role of co-presence and maintenance of intimacy and community through mobile
communication
- The "future" of mobile media
- Creativity and mobile media; the aesthetics of mobile media
- Critiques of prosumer rhetoric in mass media
- Emerging forms of techno-nationalism and governmental policies around 'mobility'
and digital convergent cultures
- The changing role of temporality and spatiality in contemporary case studies of
mobile telephony

Submit your essays of 3000 words in length to the editors at
mobile@journal.media-culture.org.au.

Article deadline: 17 January 2007
Issue release date: 14 March 2007

M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998
as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of
media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal
for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive
article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed.

Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2007:
'adapt': article deadline 9 March 2007, release date 2 May 2007
'complex': article deadline 4 May 2007, release date 27 June 2007
'home': article deadline 29 June 2007, release date 22 August 2007
'error': article deadline 24 August 2007, release date 17 October 2007
'vote': article deadline 19 October 2007, release date 12 December 2007

M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/.

M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/.

Fellowship: NBR

FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

"The Next Generation: Leadership in Asian Affairs"

The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)

Please join us in nurturing a new generation of Asia scholars by encouraging recent
master's degree recipients to apply for NBR's Next Generation Leadership program, a
year-long fellowship that focuses on bridging the gap between scholarship and
policymaking. The fellowship will be based at NBR's headquarters in Seattle. Fellows
will collaborate with leading scholars to publish research and share their findings with
the policymaking community in Washington, D.C.

The Next Generation Leadership program is breaking new ground by mentoring and
immersing young Asia specialists from a wide variety of fields and interests in the
skills and the practice of bridging the gap between scholarship and policy. Each
fellow will receive a fellowship award, as well as travel and research-related expenses.

Application deadline is January 15, 2007. Fellowships begin June 4, 2007. For further
information and application materials please visit http://www.nbr.org/NextGeneration.

A poster version of this announcement, available at
http://files.nbr.org/NBRFellowshipPoster.pdf, if you wish to print and distribute, post,
or email it. Thank you for sharing this fellowship opportunity with relevant colleagues
and students.

Daniel B. Wright, Ph.D.
Director, Next Generation Leadership Program Director,
Washington, DC Office
The National Bureau of Asian Research
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Suite 305
Washington, D.C. 20004
202.347.9767 phone
202.347.9766 fax
dwright@nbr.org
http://www.nbr.org

WORKSHOP: Revising for Graduate Students

Revising for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Scholars
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Noon- 1:30pm
126 Voorhies Hall

Many scholars struggle with the process of revision, yet learning to revise your writing is an essential skill that all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars need to possess. This 90 minute workshop will examine strategies for effectively revising your writing for dissertations, journal articles, proposals, etc. and help you gain both expertise and confidence in the process.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Mardena Creek has been teaching writing at the UC Davis since l988. From 1998-2001 she served as Director of Composition. Dr. Creek has conducted numerous workshops on graduate writing, taught a dissertation writing seminar, and produced "A Brief Annotated Bibliography: Resources for Thesis/Dissertation Writers and Their Advisors" available through the University Writing Program.

This workshop is part of the Professional Development Series http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/pds . No Registration Needed.

Co-Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies and the University Writing Program

Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship

The Chancellor�s Teaching Fellowship Program

The Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship Program provides graduate students
with the opportunity to participate in a closely supervised teaching
apprenticeship with a UC Davis faculty member. The primary purpose of
this fellowship, which is open to master's and doctoral graduate
students in all disciplines, is to enhance the preparation of potential
future faculty by supporting close collaborative relationships between
the teaching fellows and faculty members acknowledged as exemplary
teachers.  The apprenticeship relationship is a critical aspect of the
program.  However, the select nature of this award is also intended to
honor those graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional promise
as educators at the post-secondary level.

The Chancellor�s Teaching Fellowship carries a stipend for one quarter
of the 2007-08 academic year that is equivalent to the salary of a
half-time Associate-In ($1,891 per month, subject to range adjustment)
as well as a fee remission for the quarter in which the course is
taught.

Applicants are encouraged to attend one the following informational
meeting:

�  Tuesday, November 14th, 12:10 p.m., 25 Wellman Hall

A description of the program, application, and selection procedure is
available at:

http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/ta/CTF/index.html

Applications are due in the Teaching Resources Center by 5 p.m. on
Monday, January 8, 2007.  For more information or assistance, please
call (752-6050) or email (trc@ucdavis.edu).

Chancellor's Fellowship-- Info. Meetings

UC DAVIS: OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
October 16, 2006

DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS (Davis
Campus Only)

SUBJECT: 2007-08 Chancellor's Teaching Fellowships

I am pleased to issue this call for applications to the Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship Program. The program provides graduate students with opportunities to participate in closely supervised teaching apprenticeships with UC Davis faculty members. This fellowship program is open to graduate students in all disciplines and carries a stipend for one quarter of the 2007-08 academic year that is equivalent to the salary of a half-time Associate-In ($1,891 per month, subject to salary adjustments) as well as a fee remission for the quarter in which the course is taught.

The primary purpose of this fellowship is to enhance the preparation of potential future faculty by supporting close collaborative relationships between the teaching fellows and faculty members acknowledged as
exemplary teachers. The apprenticeship relationship is the central aspect of the program. However, the select nature of this award is also intended to honor those graduate students who have demonstrated exceptional promise as educators at the post-secondary level.

A description of the program, application, and selection procedure is available at: http://trc.ucdavis.edu/trc/ta/CTF/index.html.

The deadline for the submission of applications is Monday, January 8, 2007. The 2007-08 Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship awards will be announced by Spring Quarter 2007. The early deadline and announcement should help departments and graduate students plan support for the 2007-08 academic year.

Applicants are encouraged to attend one of the following informational meetings in 25 Wellman Hall:
Friday, November 3, 9:00 a.m., or
Wednesday, November 8, 1:10 p.m., or
Tuesday, November 14, 12:10 p.m.
Each of the informational meetings is identical and is intended to help graduate students and their faculty mentors better understand how to approach this teaching opportunity.

For more information or assistance contact the Teaching Resources Center, 752-6050.

Larry N. Vanderhoef
Chancellor

Directive #06-098

International Internships

GENDER AND GLOBAL ISSUES INTERNATIONAL INTERNSHIPS

Travel… Gain work experience… Create positive social change…

Are you interested in women’s rights, queer rights, domestic violence, counseling, community health education, arts activism, legal advocacy and more? Do you want to get involved with a grassroots non-profit?

Learn more at our Information Session at the Internship and Career Center:

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006; 12 -1 pm; 234 South Hall.

OR contact the Gender and Global Issues Program, ggip@ucdavis.edu 752-8205 http://wms.ucdavis.edu/ggisite/Internships.htm

Quarter-long positions available year-round for undergraduate and graduate student interns in: international development, women's rights, health education, international law, legal advocacy, graphic design, community education, grant-writing, micro-credit, counseling, film production, and media activism.

Full or part-time volunteer positions, academic credit and transcript notation available, Knowledge of languages other than English is not a requirement unless specified.

Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Internships available with:

ACCEPT,
to defend the human rights of the gay and lesbian community in Bucharest Romania
http://www.accept-romania.ro

APoWeR,
- Association for the Promotion of Women in Romania to combat domestic violence in Timisoara, Romania http://www.apfr.dnttm.ro/en/home.htm

INDCare,
to work to improve the lives of those living in urban slums in New Delhi, India
http://www.indcare.org/

Chiapas Peace House Project (Spanish speakers only)
To work on women’s rights issues with indigenous communities in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico http://www.chiapaspeacehouse.org/cs/

Shem Women’s Group (Graduate Students only)
to develop a project with a Tibetan community in China encouraging women’s leadership
http://www.shemgroup.org/


We look forward to hearing from you soon,

Margareta Lelea and Jaleen Francois
Internship Coordinators



Gender and Global Issues
Women and Gender Studies
University of California
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-8205
http://wms.ucdavis.edu/ggisite

Another Endnote workshop

If you can't make the other workshop...

Tuesday, Nov. 7
Noon-1:30 p.m. Shields Library Instruction Lab, Room 165

Endnote for Research Papers
Learn to format bibliographies easily and automatically using this special bibliographical management tool. You will be taught how to download and export citations from catalogs and databases. This event requires registration. Click on the “register” button next to the class on the “Class Description” section of the library web page: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes/descriptions.php.
For more information, contact Sandra Vella (savella@ucdavis.edu). Sponsored by Shields Library.