CFP: 2007 Oral History Assoc. Annual Meeting

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 10, 2007.

CALL FOR PAPERS

2007 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
October 24-28, 2007
Marriott Oakland City Center
Oakland , California

"The Revolutionary Ideal: Transforming
Community through Oral History"

The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and presentations
for its 2007 annual meeting to be held October 24-28, 2007 at the Marriott
Oakland City Center in Oakland, California.

As always, the Program Committee of the OHA welcomes proposals for
presentations on a variety of topics. However, in keeping with this year's
theme, "The Revolutionary Ideal: Transforming Community through Oral
History," the 2007 Annual Meeting will concentrate on the revolution in
oral history as it relates to social and political change, community
survival and changes in technology.

Oakland is a symbolic center of revolutionary thought and action, and the
committee is especially interested in realizing how "revolutions," both
large and small, have an impact on society and community. The Association
is seeking presentations which deal with social and economic justice,
environmentalism, Black Power, civil rights, gender and
gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender peoples, migrant and immigrant
communities, peoples with disability and independent living, and regional,
Pacific and Western histories.

Communities have transformed rapidly over the years and the topics
generated by such change will be explored at the conference. Proposals that
deal with issues such as gentrification, urban renewal, community health,
globalization and local empowerment are strongly encouraged. Technological
changes will be another major component of the conference and topics such
as digitization, consumption of oral history, community archiving
practices, and the democratization of knowledge will be presented. Oral
history projects that deal with specific revolutions such as the Chinese
Revolution and the Sexual Revolution will also play a focal point in the
conference.

Regional historians and students of the Bay Area, California, the Pacific
Northwest and Canadian history are encouraged to submit proposals. In
addition to those whose work concerns international topics, the committee
invites proposals for presentations that reflect on the "revolutionary"
process of oral history and the role of technology and theory in its
practice. A variety of formats and presentation methods are welcome,
including traditional panels with chair and discussant, workshops, and
poster sessions, as well as media and performance-oriented sessions.

At the conference, we also look forward towards helping to create a
community which can continue revolutionizing the field of oral history
after participants have left Oakland.

Proposal format: submit five copies of the proposal. For full sessions,
submit a title, a session abstract of not more than two pages, and a
one-page vita or resume for each participant. For individual proposals,
submit a one-page abstract and a one-page vita or resume of the presenter.
Each submission must be accompanied by a cover sheet, which can be printed
from the OHA Web site: www.dickinson.edu/oha. Click here for COVER
SHEET:

Proposals should be postmarked by January 15, 2007. They may be submitted
by mail or fax. E-mail attachment will also be accepted, but must include
the "cover sheet" in electronic form and must be one complete document in
Microsoft WORD format. Should you not receive email confirmation by
February 5th, please contact the OHA office.

Submit proposal directly to the OHA office at the address below.

Queries may be directed to:

Mehmed Ali, First Vice President
mehmed_ali@nps.gov
978-275-1826

Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Program Co-Chair
roqueramirez@chicst.ucsb.edu
626-354-1808

Norma Smith, Program Co-chair
nsmith@igc.org
510-465-2094

Proposals should be sent by February 10, 2007 to:
Madelyn Campbell
Oral History Association
Dickinson College
P. O. Box 1773
Carlisle , Pennsylvania 17013
Telephone: 717-245-1036
Fax: 717-245-1046

For courier service add: Holland Union Building , College and Louther
Streets

CFP: PSi #13, NYU

PSi #13 Happening/Performance/Event
8th – 11th November 2007

New York University

PSi #13, Happening/Performance/Event will look to both performance studies’ history and futurity. The invocation of Happening harkens to the performance practices that emerged from the late 1950’s. That mode of Avante-Garde performance and the critical approach developed by Michael Kirby for describing it are key sites for the origins of Performance Studies. The event has been theorized as an occurrence that is ultimately an interruption that represents the not-yet-imagined new. This conference seeks papers, panels, and performances that consider the happening and the event, and their key relationship to the field of performance studies.

Proposals might include:
- The relationship between performance and futurity.
- The new that performance promises:
- new technologies
- new political strategies
- new understanding of self, other, race, gender, sex, ability
- New forms of performance that serve as an interruption in the continuum of the present.
- The history of researching the new that Performance Studies has always undertaken.
- The history and future of the happening.
- Performance and performance studies as interdisciplinary rubrics to consider events that generate possibilities to understand the new.
- Performances of great magnitude and the everyday.
- Theories of eventhood in performance, art and cultural theory.
- Questions of the relation between performance and visual art, dance and performance in everyday life.
- The relationship between the body and the event, the body and a happening.

The conference will be staged in the middle of New York City’s PERFORMA Biennial. PERFORMA is a non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world. The organization is directed by the Performance historian and curator Roselee Goldberg and mounted the first Performa Exhibition in 2005, a major new Biennial of Visual Art and Performance. PSi #13 will be developed in collaboration with PERFORMA, sitting inside its schedule and aside its numerous performance events across the city of New York. The conference will be hosted by New York University’s Department of Performance Studies and the conference hub will be the newly renovated departmental facilities. Due to a limited amount of space, please note that this years conference will have fewer concurrent panels than in years past.

Paper and presentation proposals:
Proposals for papers and presentations should include a 250-word abstract including your name, affiliation, mailing address, and email address. In addition, please indicate, in advance, what your spatial and technical (including details such as formats and regions of media, laptop set up, etc.) Full-length papers will not be accepted.

Panel proposals:
All panel proposals should include a 300-word rationale. If you have constituted the members of your panel (usually three speakers), you should include participants' names and contact information.

Proposals should be sent to psinternational13@nyu.edu and are due no later than February 8, 2007.

GSADC Position

Call for Applications and Information Session for the –
Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean and to the Chancellor (GSADC) Position
Join Dean of Graduate Studies, Jeffery Gibeling, and current GSADC, Kara Thompson, for an information session on

Thursday, Feb. 15th
12:10-1pm
63 Mrak

As a key leadership position, the Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and to the Chancellor (GSADC) is the campus graduate student representative serving as an advocate and voice for graduate student concerns, needs and perspectives. In addition to his or her work with the Chancellor, the Dean of Graduate Studies, the Graduate Council and other campus administrators, the GSADC meets with graduate students, the Graduate Student Associations (GSA) and other graduate student groups and organizations. This position provides a unique opportunity to serve and represent the campus’ graduate student community.

Additional Benefits Include:
A GSR Appointment
- The GSADC position is a 13-month appointment, starting September 1, 2007 through October 1, 2008.
- This is a GSR position with a pay rate of 50% and full fee remission during the position’s tenure.

A Dissertation Year Fellowship
- The year following service as the GSADC, the student will receive a dissertation year fellowship.
- Tenure of the fellowship begins October 1, 2008 and will continue for nine months. The fellowship includes a $20,000 living allowance, in-state fees, a $500 research allowance, and a $500 travel allowance.

Qualifications
All registered doctoral students in good standing making progress towards the degree are eligible to apply. Applicants must be advanced to candidacy at UC Davis by the start date, September 1, 2007. Qualifications include:
* A desire to serve as an advocate and liaison for graduate students
* Knowledge of the campus and the needs of graduate students
* Ability to respond to critical issues by mediating conflicts and managing conflict situations
* Ability to plan and coordinate events
* Demonstrated communication skills, self-motivation, and the ability to work well with a variety of people
* Demonstrated commitment to leadership and service

Application Procedure
To apply, submit a letter of intent, C.V., two letters of recommendation (one from your Major Professor and one from your Graduate Adviser); and a copy of your transcripts (an unofficial copy is acceptable).

Please return completed applications to Yvonne Wais, Executive Assistant to the Dean, Office of Graduate Studies, by 5pm March 2, 2007.

For more information, please visit http://www.gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about/gsadcinfo.html or contact Kara Thompson, gradassistant@ucdavis.edu the current Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and to the Chancellor.

Kara Thompson
Graduate Student Assistant to the Dean of Graduate Studies and to the Chancellor
Office of Graduate Studies
250 Mrak Hall
gradassistant@ucdavis.edu
(530) 752-4090 (tel)
(530) 752-6222 (fax)
http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu

Postdoc Fellowship: Bentley College

Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts & Sciences Bentley College

The Center for the Arts and Sciences at Bentley College, a business-focused private university in greater Boston offering BS, BA, MS, MBA, and PhD degrees, is pleased to announce a new Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts and Sciences for academic year 2007-08. Recent PhDs in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the natural sciences are invited to apply.

Theme
The fellowship will allow emerging scholars to complete work on a project related to the center's annual theme and to engage in intellectual exchange with Bentley faculty and students. The theme for 2007-2008, Equalities and Inequalities, is described in detail below. The Center encourages interdisciplinary projects and in particular work that connects the arts and sciences to business disciplines.

Terms
Candidates must have the doctorate in hand at the time the fellowship begins and may not have received their doctoral degree earlier than September 2004. The fellow will receive a total stipend of $40,000 (the NEH rate) for the nine-month residency as well as health insurance, office space, and borrowing privileges at Bentley College as well as at research libraries in the Boston area, as needed. The fellow will meet regularly with Bentley faculty fellows, present her work in a working seminar series, and offer one undergraduate seminar, either in the fall or spring. The fellow must be in residence at Bentley and may not be employed during the fellowship period.

Application Materials
A completed application will include six hard copies of all of the following:
1. A curriculum vitae;
2. A project title and one-page abstract of the research and writing you will undertake as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts and Sciences at Bentley College;
3. A detailed statement of the research or writing that you will complete as a fellow. The statement should show the project's objectives, significance, methodology, and relation to the Center's theme. The statement may not exceed ten double-spaced pages, but can include a bibliography;
4. An article- or chapter-length writing sample, either published or in manuscript;
5. A brief statement of teaching interests and one-page descriptions of at least two seminars closely tied to your research that would be of interest to Bentley undergraduates;
6. Two letters of recommendation.

All materials, including recommendation letters, should be postmarked no later than March 1, 2007.
All materials should be sent to:
Center for the Arts and Sciences
245 Adamian
Bentley College
Waltham, MA 02452
We cannot accept materials that are faxed or emailed, nor can application materials be returned. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Awards will be announced in April 2007.

2007-2008 Theme: Equalities and Inequalities
The theme of this year's fellowship competition, Equalities and Inequalities, addresses the issue of equality, broadly construed. The successful applicant's research interests may be applied or theoretical. He or she may be investigating concrete historical, social, economic, scientific, quantitative or political phenomena, either within the United States or in a global context. Alternatively, the applicant may be interested in the notion of equality from a theoretical perspective. He or she may be pursuing a conceptual analysis rooted in philosophy, economics, political theory, religion, law, or the natural sciences, rather than an empirical study. Applicants may be at work in any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and mathematics.

Examples of research topics related to the annual theme could include (for illustrative purposes only):
. Changes in federal policies addressing income inequality in the United States since the War on Poverty
. The rise of political movements explicitly opposed to affirmative action and gay marriage
. Implications of the Human Genome Project for biological conceptions of human equality
. Public perceptions of the meaning of equality in former socialist countries of Eastern Europe
. Political unrest related to growing income differentials in rural China
. Quantitative analysis of living standards before and after adoption of structural adjustment programs in Latin America
. Meaning of John Rawls' conception of equality in non-Western contexts

For terms of the fellowship and application procedure, please refer to the full announcement above.

David Henry Hwang at Stanford

[Thanks to Sumer for this info.]

David Henry Hwang is coming to Stanford to workshop his latest play "Yellow Face."  There's a reception for him on Feb. 9 (Friday) 7-9pm. It's free as far as I can tell. 

http://www.stanfordalumni.org/event.html?davidhenryhwang
 
The Public Theater at Stanford:
Yellow Face
Campus Residency with Playwright David Henry Hwang, '79 
February 8 – 16 
All events are free and open to the public.
Seating is extremely limited, on a first come, first served basis. Information and updates: 
650-736-9017
Stanford inaugurates a new partnership with New York’s Public Theater this February when Tony Award-winning playwright and Stanford alumnus David Henry Hwang, ’79, workshops his new play Yellow Face during a week-long campus residency. The residency includes a series of discussions, masterclasses, and open rehearsals, culminating in staged readings of Yellow Face with actors from the Public Theater and director Leigh Silverman. Yellow Face is a fast-paced and energetic new play that melds fiction with real-life events in an exploration of cultural identity and racial politics in America.

STAGED READINGS: Yellow Face
February 12, 15 and 16, 8:00 PM 
Roble Studio Theater, Roble Gym 

DISCUSSION: "Creative Works, Creating Change" 
Oskar Eustis, David Henry Hwang, Stan Lai 
Institute for Diversity in the Arts Visiting Artists Lecture Series 
February 15, 12:00 PM
Pigott Theater, Memorial Hall

CFP: CHSC Dissertation Workshop

The 9th annual CHSC dissertation workshop will bring together a group of approximately 10 graduate students and 5 faculty from diverse UC Davis graduate programs in the Social Sciences and Humanities. We plan to participate in a weekend of intensive discussions concerning students' individual dissertation projects and the shared issues they generate. The 5 themes that will be considered include:

Bodies and Borders
Wars
States and Globalization
Identity Processes
Markets and Institutions
Modernities: Past, Present and Future

Given the anticipated intellectual and disciplinary diversity, the workshop will challenge participants studying substantively different issues to articulate how and why we are approaching our research as we do. It will provide the space to explore and compare different perspectives on research topics, study designs, and methods. Thematic issues will emerge from the interplay of the various projects represented in the workshop. These issues may include philosophical underpinnings of research, relevant literature in and beyond students' research fields, and strategies for maximizing the contribution of dissertations to advancing knowledge. We are also planning to consider methodological approaches across different disciplines, questions of case selection, data collection, analysis, interpretation, and validity; ethical and practical issues involved in dissertation research and its funding, matters of representation and voice, including self-representation; and the moral and political implications of research. Finally, we hope to explore questions about how dissertations take shape and change in form and focus over the course of research and writing, and the transition from Ph.D dissertation to subsequent research and publication.

We seek to involve participants utilizing various types of research materials literary, ethnographic, archival, quantitative, visual, etc. and working in a wide variety of locations and over a range of time periods. The goal is to sharpen the foci, methodologies, and analyses of individual research projects and, at the same time, to facilitate and accelerate their completion, by creating a critical yet collegial workshop community among participants.

Structure: The workshop will begin at 3pm on Friday, May 11, and conclude with lunch on Sunday May 13, in the serene venue of the Westerbeke Ranch, located in the hills outside Sonoma. Details of organization will be provided to participants once they have been selected. The costs of workshop related travel, meals, and accommodations will be fully funded by CHSC.

Application procedure: All UC Davis dissertation students in the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply. Applicants may be at any stage of their dissertation projects, so long as they have completed a dissertation prospectus or grant proposal for it. The selection process consists of two stages:

Stage 1, letter of interest: To be considered for workshop participation, please send a one page letter of interest, describing your dissertation topic and stage of research, along with a brief C.V. The letter and C.V. should be sent via email to mlstewart@ucdavis.edu by February 23, 2007.

Stage 2, application: On the basis of reviewing letters of interest, the CHSC faculty workshop committee will ask a select number of students to submit full workshop applications, to be provided by March 23, 2007. Applications are to include three items to Dissertation Workshop Program, UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture, 5211 Social Science/Humanities Building, UCD:
• a 5-10 page prospectus for the dissertation or grant proposal for dissertation funding
• a writing sample of up to 10 pages no longer preferably from a draft of the dissertation (or alternatively, an earlier related piece of writing) dealing with the dissertation's central themes or debates
• a brief C.V.

Participants will be selected on the basis of their submitted materials, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and a concern to include a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, intellectual traditions, and world areas. Applicants will be informed whether or not they have been selected for the Workshop by April 3, 2006.

For further information contact:

Marisol de la Cadena
530-752-1638
mdelac@ucdavis.edu

Or

Michelle Stewart
mlstewart@ucdavis.edu

CFP: Interdisciplinary Conference on Intimate Labors

Interdisciplinary Conference on Intimate Labors
October 4-6, 2007

University of California, Santa Barbara

INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Viviana Zelizer (Princeton) and Rose Ann DeMoro
(California Nurses’ Association)

INVITED CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: Eileen Boris (UCSB), Laura Briggs
(Arizona), Amalia Cabezas (UCR), Grace Chang (UCSB), Dorothy Sue Cobble
(Rutgers), Evelyn Nakano Glenn (UCB), Steven Gregory (Columbia), Luz Maria
Ibarra (SDSU), Jennifer Klein (Yale), Cameron McDonald (Wisconsin),
Premilla Nadasen (CUNY-Brooklyn), Rhacel Parreñas (UCD), Raka Ray (UCB),
Ellen Reese (UCR), Becki Ross (British Columbia).

Hull Professor of Women’s Studies Eileen Boris of UCSB and Asian American
Studies Professor Rhacel Parreñas of UC Davis invite single paper proposals
from graduate students and junior faculty members that advance critical and
innovative ways of thinking about how intimate labor could be a useful
category of analysis for understanding not just current economic
transformations and strategies for social change, but also for the social
meanings of money and love; constructions of race, gender, and sexuality;
and relations of power and authority in the global economy. We encourage
diverse methods and approaches from the humanities as well as social
sciences, including but not limited to ethnography, microhistory, political
economy, critical race theory, and cultural studies. Papers will be “work
shopped” in breakout sessions not only to provide an opportunity for
graduate students and junior faculty to present their work but also to
receive extensive comments from invited commentators and the assembled
audience.

We hope this conference creates a venue for intellectual exchange and
collaboration between junior and senior scholars to discuss care work, sex
work, and domestic work around the themes of the political economy of
intimate labor, globalization “from below” through intimate labor
practices, work process and the culture of intimacy, and the politics of
space and labor organizing. Princeton sociologist Viviana Zelizer, the
author of The Purchase of Intimacy, will give the academic keynote on
October 5 and we have invited Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director of the
innovative California Nurses’ Association, for a kick-off keynote on
October 4.

Funding (transportation and 2 nights in hotel shared accommodations) is
available for conference participants connected to the UC system and
partial funding may be available for other selected participants.
The conference organizers ask that all proposals be sent to Ellie Shermer
(ellie@umail.ucsb.edu). Submissions should include a one-page abstract,
one-page curriculum vitae, and a mailing address, phone, and email address.

Proposals are due April 15th, 2007. Decisions will be made and participants
notified by May 15th, 2007. Papers due September 1. They will be
pre-circulated through the password protected conference webpage.

Conference: Southeast Asian Americans

A Conference on Southeast Asian Americans
Building Scholarship and Cross-Campus Connections

Place: Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Date: May 12-13, 2007

On campuses across the United States, a new generation of young scholars is engaged in research on the history, immigration, and contemporary life of Southeast Asian Americans in the United States. Undergraduate students are carrying out exciting research projects about the dynamic changes taking place in communities of Southeast Asian Americans and the relationship of these communities to the larger society and global environment. The “Conference on Southeast Asian Americans” has two principal aims. First, the conference will provide a forum for undergraduates to share and discuss their research. Second, the conference will offer a space for faculty and undergraduates to develop collaborative relationships for future research endeavors. The conference will focus on studies of Southeast
Asian Americans who are immigrants or descendents of immigrants from the mainland of Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. We are especially interested in papers about the ethnic Burmese, Cambodian, Hmong, Khmu, Lao, Lue, Mien, Thai, Thaidam, and Vietnamese.

Scope of Paper Topics
The conference will feature panel presentations by undergraduates of research papers of approximately 25-40 pages in length. Most of these papers will represent academic work produced in advanced undergraduate classes or independent research projects, but papers written at any college level of work will be considered for presentation on a panel. We encourage papers written from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives on any topic of concern to Indochinese Asian American communities and individuals. For example, papers may focus on history; economics; identity formation; the sociology of work, families, and community organizations; political engagement; gender;
the environment; art and literature; education; language; religion; or public health.

Procedure for Submitting Paper Proposals
Students who would like to present a paper should submit an abstract (about 250 words) of their paper and the name and email address or phone number of a faculty recommender who can provide information about the student’s academic work (a letter is not necessary; the name of a faculty recommender is sufficient). If a paper has already been completed (or mostly completed), it is recommended that the student submit the paper or draft paper in addition to (or instead of) an abstract. We will accept proposals (i.e. abstracts) starting January 15, 2007. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis until the final deadline of March 30, 2007.

Agenda
A plenary session will convene on Saturday, May 12, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. Three sessions of panels will be scheduled during the late morning and afternoon of May 12. The evening will feature a cultural performance. On the morning of Sunday, May 13, participants will gather to reflect on the conference and what was learned, and discuss future directions for research. Participants will then have time to drive to visit sites of interest (and have lunch at a restaurant) in the Hmong American and Vietnamese American communities in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Housing and Costs
Students at Carleton College will provide free housing in their dormitory rooms to as many out-of-town guests as they can accommodate. We will also provide information on local hotels and guest accommodations. The registration fee for the conference will be nominal (amount to be announced in early winter 2007 on a conference website at http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/posc/. It will cover only the cost of meals and incidentals, such as publications of
conference materials.

Faculty Advisory Committee (partial list)
Naran Bilik, Carleton College
Gary Yia Lee, Concordia University
Mai Na M. Lee, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Linda Trinh Vo, University of California-Irvine
Carolyn Wong, Carleton College
Kou Yang, California State University at Stanislaus

Contact: Carolyn Wong email: cwong@carleton.edu phone: 507-646-4680

International Travel Grants for Summer 2007

Planning on doing an international internship?

Apply now for a travel grant for Summer 2007!!

Applications are available online at http://icc3.ucdavis.edu/pdf/Travel_Grant_2007.pdf or at the Internship & Career Center in Room 215 South Hall. All currently enrolled UC Davis graduate and undergraduate students are eligible to apply.

Application deadline is 12:00 p.m., Monday, April 9, 2007

The Internship & Career Center

Summer 2007 International Travel Grant Facts

How much are the Travel Grant awards?

Grants will be awarded for international internships that commence between June and September 2007. The ICC reserves the right to modify the number of grants and grant amounts as deemed appropriate to meet the needs of the applicant pool. Actual number of grants and amount of grants may vary. Last year over 20 grants were awarded. Grant amounts will be no less than $500 and not more than $1,000.

Who is eligible for Travel Grants?

· Only currently enrolled UC Davis students are eligible. If you expect to graduate in June 2007, you must delay filing for graduation until the conclusion of your summer internship. (You can still participate in graduation ceremonies in June.)

· Dissertation/masters thesis preparation will NOT be funded.

· Internships in regions deemed unsafe by the Department of State will not be funded. (Visit www.state.gov for a list of travel warnings).

How do I apply for the Travel Grant?

Complete the application materials and submit them to the Internship and Career Center, Room 215 South Hall by 12:00 p.m., Monday, April 9, 2007. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered.

Primary consideration will be given to the quality of the internship experience and how it relates to the applicant’s academic and career goals. Academic achievement, extra curricular activities and expression of financial need will also be considered in the selection process.

Selected applicants will be interviewed & will need to provide a list of 3-5 references during the interview. Interviews will be held in late April or early May. Applicants selected to receive an award will be notified by June 1, 2007.

What is required of the Travel Grant recipient?

Grant recipients will be required to:

· Provide proof of health insurance. (Cowell Student Health (CSH) insurance covers major medical, repatriation and emergency medical evacuation. If you are not covered by CSH, you will need to demonstrate that you have comparable coverage.)

· View the ICC Safe Travel Abroad workshop online.

http://international.ucdavis.edu/in-presentation02.htm

· Complete UC Waiver of Liability form

· Demonstrate proof of work authorization if it is required for the country where interning

· Register with the Department of State

· Complete the full obligations of the internship

· Complete Transcript Notation paperwork

How will travel grants be awarded?

Funds will be administered upon successful completion of the internship and submission of Transcript Notation paperwork.

For More information about the Travel Grant procedure and to find an international internship – attend the two events below!

Travel Grant Information Session
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
DeCarli Room, MU 12pm-1:30pm

Come hear from some of last year's ICC Summer Overseas Internship Travel Grant recipients. They will share their experiences so that you can hear about the world of opportunities available. Attend this workshop to learn about travel grant application requirements and procedures. You can even pick up a copy of the application! Plan to stay after the panel presentation to meet international internship sponsors in our "Mini Fair".

International Internship Mini-Fair
DeCarli and Smith Rooms, MU 1:30-3:30pm

Find your international internship RIGHT NOW! Organizations will be present with opportunities for this summer. This is your chance to speak directly with program representatives. Fair will include (among others): i-To-i, Camp Adventure, Child and Family Health International, STA Travel, and ICE Menlo. Bring yourself, bring your questions!

Conference on the Vietnam War

"The Impact of Culture, Ethnicity, Race and Religion in the Vietnam War"

March 23-24, 2007
Holiday Inn Park Plaza
Lubbock TX

The Vietnam War became all the more challenging as nations with very 
different cultures interacted with one another in Southeast Asia. 
Contributing to the complexity of the situation were cultural clashes 
that also emerged within each participating country and within the 
respective government, military, and civilian organizations involved. 
Appreciating the multifaceted interplay of the different cultures 
involved is essential to understanding the Vietnam War and its 
aftermath. It is the hope of the Vietnam Center that our 2007 annual 
conference will help foster a thorough and provocative examination of 
this important topic.

Conference Hotel Information:
Holiday Inn Park Plaza
3201 South Loop 289
Lubbock, TX 79401
Phone: 806-797-3241
Fax 806-791-3781

Please be sure you inform them that you are attending the Vietnam 
Center Conference.

Conference activities and presentations will begin on Friday morning 
and will end on Saturday afternoon.

Dr. Steve Maxner
The Vietnam Center
Texas Tech University
PO Box 41045
Lubbock, TX 79409-1045
Phone: 806-742-9010
Email: steve.maxner@ttu.edu

Visit the website at
http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/vietnamcenter/events/2007_Conference/index.htm

Vietnamese Studies Conference

Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley
Graduate Conference on Vietnamese Studies
February 9-10, 2007

The Center for Southeast Asia Studies is hosting a graduate student conference at Berkeley from February 9 - 10, 2007. The conference is intended to provide an opportunity for young scholars to share their research with their peers and with faculty involved in the field of Vietnamese Studies. The conference is free and open to the public. To register, please send your name and institutional affiliation to the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, cseas@berkeley.edu.

Keynote address by Prof. Alexander Woodside
(University of British Columbia) on Friday, Feb. 9, at 5:00 p.m.

DAY 1
Friday, FEB 9
Location: Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the
Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

8:35-8:45 a.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:45-10:30 a.m.
PANEL I:  Politics of Urban and Rural Change in Late Socialist Vietnam

The Blurred Boundaries of Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement: The Case of Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam
Jason Morris-Jung, UC Berkeley (presenter) & Robin Roth, York University

Disruptions of a Dialectic and a Stereotypical Response: The Case of the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Industry
Jamie Gillen, University of Colorado

Ho Chi Minh City's Emerging Middle Classes, Global Youth Culture and the Possibilities of Post-Socialism
Catherine Earl, Victoria University

Commodification of Governance: Music Production in Vietnam
Nhu-Ngoc Ong, UC Irvine

Discussant: Marguerite Nguyen, UC Berkeley

10:45-12:10 p.m.
PANEL II: The Vietnam-China Interface: New Perspectives, Old Questions

The Bach Viet and Vietnam's "Place" in Larger Regional Groupings
Michael Churchman, Australian National University

Marginalizing Practices: Bureaucracy, Ethnography, and Becoming Chinese in Colonial Vietnam
Trung Nguyen, University of Wisconsin

Sinicization and Syllable Structure in Vietnamese
John Duong Phan, Cornell University

Discussant: Charles Wheeler, UC Irvine

1:45-3:10 p.m.
PANEL III: Religious Pluralism: World Traditions and Local Practices

Tradition, Renovation, New Religious Movements: A Triptych of Vietnamese Religious Pluralism in Cambodia during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Pascal Bourdeaux, Ecoles Pratique des Hautes Etudes

The Occult Religion of the Ly Court
Minh Huynh Tran, CSU Long Beach

And I Will Build For Thee a Great Nation:  The First Vietnamese Bishops, Popular Culture and Politics in Colonial Vietnamese Catholicism
Charles Keith, Yale University

Discussant: TBA

3:20-4:50 p.m.
PANEL IV: Self, Place, and Space:  Narrating Past
and Present in and beyond Vietnam

Reading Hanoi's Sense of Place: Local Culture and Hyper-space/tradition
Dinh Quoc Phuong, University of Melbourne

Kieu in Redux : The Poetics of Narrative, the Immigrant Imaginary and the Articulation of Vietnamese Transnational Womanhood
Cam Vu, University of Southern California

The Past is a Distant Colony
Hong-An Truong, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Mariam Beevi Lam, UC Riverside

5:00-6:30 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Vietnam: The Adventures and Misadventures of Global Theory
Alexander Woodside, Professor Emeritus of History, University of British Columbia


DAY 2
Saturday, FEB 10
Location: IEAS Conference Room, 6F, 2223 Fulton St. (at Kittredge), Berkeley CA

9:00-10:45 a.m.
PANEL V: Identity Constructions and Transformations in the Indochina Wars

Unearthing Vietnam: Archeology and Nation Building in Communist Viet Nam
Haydon L. Cherry, Yale University

From the Foreign Legion to the Viet Minh: Emil Selhofer, a Swiss Crossover in the First Indochina War
An Lac Truong Dinh, University of Basel

From Bangkok to Bear Cat: The Winding Road for Thai Expeditionary Forces to Vietnam
Sutayut Osornprasop, University of Cambridge

�The Kiem Thao and the Uses of Disposable Time in the American War in Vietnam�
Duy Lap Nguyen, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Tuong Vu, Naval Postgraduate School

11:00-12:25 p.m.
PANEL VI: Nineteenth Century Vietnam in
Retrospect: Textual Legitimacy and Repositioning the Past

How to Shoot a Gun: Hoang Ke Viem and the Plot to Save Dai Nam, 1869-1887
Bradley Davis, University of Washington

The Scholar-Recluse as Cultural Consanguinity or Invented Tradition?: Nguyen Dynasty Literary Reconstructions of Vietnam's Literary Past
Jason Hoai Tran, Cornell University

The Nam tien as an Expression of Southern Regionalism in Vietnamese History
Claudine Ang Tsu Lyn, Cornell University

Discussant: Alexander Woodside, University of British Columbia

1:30- 2:55 p.m.
PANEL VII: Redefining the Feminine:
Gender/Identity Explorations Past and Present

Fleshing the Shadows: Contesting Gender Roles in the Vietnam War (1945-1975)
Thu Anh Vu, University of Northern British Columbia

How the Gun became her Husband: Understanding Revolutionary Mobilization through Women's Memoirs
Natalie Porter, University of Wisconsin

Friendship, Family, and Feminism: Transnational Feminist Analyses of the Lives of Vietnamese Les in Hanoi and Saigon
Natalie Newton, University of California, Irvine

Discussant: Penny Edwards, UC Berkeley

3:05-4:30 p.m.
PANEL VIII: Biopolitics and the Thresholds of Modernity

French-educated Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Colonial Viet Nam (1900-1940)
Thuy-Linh Nguyen, University of Pennsylvania

Highland Stories: Poverty, Drugs, and Rehabilitation Options in Northern Vietnam
Nathalie Miller, UNESCO Fellow-Vietnam

Migration, Modernity and Manhood: What Shape Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Late Socialist Vietnam?
Le Minh Giang, Columbia University

Discussant: Alfred Montoya, UC Berkeley

4:40-6:05 p.m.
PANEL IX: The Implications of Ethnicity:
Collapsing State Policies and Social Practices

Vietnamese Engagement with Tamil Migrants in Colonial Indochina
Natasha Pairaudeau, SOAS, University Of London

Protestant Conversion, Social Relations, and the Dilemma of the Hmong in Contemporary Vietnam
Ngo Thi Thanh Tam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Homogenizing (and Inventing) the Vietnamese Nation: The Communist Party Ethnic Policy towards Montagnard Minorities from 1975 to 1986
C�line Marang�, Sciences Po (Paris); Fox Fellow, Yale University

Discussant: Peter Zinoman, UC Berkeley

6:05-6:15 p.m.
Closing remarks

Conference Organizing Committee:  Trang Cao,
Rebekah Collins, Va Cun, Jake Devine, Chi Ha,
Alec Holcombe, Alfred Montoya, Jason Picard, Nu-Anh Tran

Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute

VIETNAMESE ADVANCED SUMMER INSTITUTE

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
June 18th - August 10th 2007

APPLICATIONS DUE JANUARY 31, 2007

The Vietnamese Advanced Summer Institute is funded by a grant from 
the US Department of Education. It is an intensive eight-week course 
of study in advanced Vietnamese to be conducted in Viet Nam with 
instruction provided by the Hanoi Vietnamese Language Center, under 
the auspices of the Hanoi University of Foreign Studies, and the 
Saigon Vietnamese Language School, under the aegis of the Viet Nam 
National Ministry of Education & Training.

Equivalent to a full year's academic work and providing benefits far 
beyond increased foreign-language proficiency, this overseas program 
will be offered to approximately 12 individuals selected nationally. 
Candidates are chosen on the basis of their need for and ability to 
absorb advanced training in Vietnamese, their readiness to benefit 
from in-country experiences, and their commitment and potential to 
become the next generation of Vietnamese language and area-studies 
scholars in the U.S. The communicative/interactive teaching approach, 
using authentic materials and carried out by experienced instructors, 
is enhanced by field trips to many famous sites across Viet Nam.

GUAVA Member Institutions

VASI is organized by the national Group of Universities for the 
Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad (GUAVA). The member institutions are 
Arizona State University, the University of California at Berkeley, 
Cornell University, Texas Tech University, the University of Hawaii, 
Harvard University, the University of Michigan, the University of 
Washington, the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, University 
of Florida and Temple University

See http://streamingmedia.org/vasi/

Postdoc - USC English

USC Department of English Announces

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship

2007-2008

The Department of English at the University of Southern California
invites applications for a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the
2007-2008 academic year. The field of specialization is minority
literature and culture, with an emphasis on comparative ethnicities
The Fellow will be expected to teach one course each semester in the
English major program. Applicants should send an application letter,
CV, a brief description of dissertation and current research. In
addition, applicants should request that a dossier or three letters
of recommendation be sent by the deadline of March 1, 2007. Send all
materials to Bruce R. Smith, Chair, Department of English, THH-404
MC-0354, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
90089-0354. USC is an EOE/AA Employer.

CFP: Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Assoc. Conference

Seventeenth Annual

Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference Students, Teachers, and Activists Working Together
Friday, April 13, 2007
California State University, Los Angeles

Call For Proposals
Proposals should be submitted via email as Word attachments to Ester Hernandez at:
eherna17@calstatela.edu

Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2007

For More Information contact Deborah Mindry dmindry@oxy.edu or Ester Hernandez eherna17@calstatela.edu

Conference Registration is Required for Attendance and Presentation

The theme of this conference is motivated by current domestic and international political crises: the ongoing war in Iraq, the push for homeland security, the tightening of immigration policies, and the increased policing and criminalization of the "other," among other dehumanizing projects and actions. These affect all communities and families, locally and globally, shaping our everyday lives and the spaces in which we live, discouraging human relationship, promoting the unjust distribution of wealth and allocation of resources, and increasing the militarization of society. As feminists seeking to end the subordination of women and all oppressed people, we must challenge our complacency and sense of futility in the face of these multiple "battles" and seek ways to create solidarity across borders and boundaries to work towards change.

This conference invites feminist work that examines the constructions of borders, battlegrounds, and boundaries (with particular attention to gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation), their connections with local and global power structures, and alternative visions and avenues to change.

The PSWSA solicits proposals from students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty, community activists, and independent scholars for papers, panels, workshops, or artistic and multimedia presentations, performances, and practical applications from all disciplines and interdisciplinary areas of the arts, social sciences, humanities, science, and education.

Possible topics and areas include, but are not limited to: criminal justice and the prison industrial complex; individual and institutional violence; stereotyping; home, gentrification, and homelessness; religious fundamentalism; immigration and refugees; free trade agreements; attacks on civil liberties; health; education; the politics of fear. We encourage proposals for presentations on the conference theme, however proposals dealing with all areas of feminist research are welcomed.

Proposals must include: Title; abstract (100 word maximum); contact person's name, address, e-mail, and phone number; presenter name(s) with academic and/or community affiliation; format (e.g., workshop, panel, roundtable
discussion, artistic presentation, or performance), and audio/visual equipment requirements. (Equipment requests must be included with original proposal.)

Post-doc: Northeastern University

MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

Northwestern University seeks applications for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies for a period of two years, beginning September 1, 2007. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be complete before the start date. We are seeking recent Ph.D.s with ambitious research interests and strong teaching abilities. Preferred disciplinary fields are anthropology, art history, ethnic and urban studies, history, literature, political science, religion, and sociology. The successful candidate will be affiliated with the Asian American Studies program and the appropriate disciplinary department. He or she will teach two courses per year in Asian American Studies and present one colloquium per year.

Letter of application, cv, sample of scholarly writing, brief research proposal, and teaching record should be submitted to Mellon Search Committee, Asian American Studies, Crowe 1-117, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 . Questions may be emailed to jcheng@northwestern.edu>. Please arrange to have 3-4 letters of reference sent directly to the search committee; if possible, one of the letters should address the applicant's teaching qualifications.

Deadline for all materials: March 1, 2007. AA/EOE. Applications from minority and women scholars are especially welcome.

Announcing the Center for Race and Gender

Spring Semester 2007 Afternoon Forum Series

Thursdays

691 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley

4:00 – 5:30 pm

February 1: Imagining Race and Nation

Chrissy Arce, Spanish and Portuguese “God Paints as He Pleases”: Representations of the Mulata in Mexican Literature and Cinema

Ju Hui Judy Han, Geography

Missionary Imaginations and Capitalist Deliverance: Korean/AmericanMissions in Uganda and Tanzania

Yuka Mizutani, Ethnic Studies

Interaction between Yaqui People and U.S. Citizen: “Isolation” as an Image

February 15: Making Authentic Identity

Jessica Vasquez and Christopher Wetzel, Sociology

Making Authentic Identity: Tradition and the Invention of Racial Selves

March 1: Portraitures of Emancipation: Independence-Era West Africa and Abolition-Era Brazil

Natalia Brizuela, Spanish and Portuguese

Souvenirs of Race

Jennifer Bajorek, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature

(Dis)locating Freedom in the West African Portrait

April 5: UC Berkeley Afro-Latino Working Group

Vielka Cecilia Hoy, African Diaspora Studies

Afro-Latin@ Triple Consciousness: An Existential Crisis

Asia Leeds, African Diaspora Studies

Gender, Sexuality, and ‘Dark Continent Discourse’ in the Making of the Costa Rican Nation, 1920-1940

April 19: Gender Politics and State-Law in Iran and Pakistan

Roshanak Kheshti, Gender and Women’s Studies
State-Sanctioned Sex Change: the Paradox of Sexuality Under the Islamic Republic of Iran

Fouzieyha Towghi, Medical Anthropology

Producing Gendered “Tribalism” for Natural Resources, Or Racializing the Tribal Social Body to Protect Women’s Individual Bodies in Balochistan, Pakistan

May 3: From Bodies and Commodities to Personhood and Objecthood: Slavery and its Legacy

Sarah Jane Cervenak, Performance Studies

Against Traffic: De/Formations of Race, Rationality and Freedom in the Art of Adrian Piper

Rebecca Hall, History

Gendering the Body Black: the Creation and Racialization of ChattelSlavery through Gender in British America

Center for Race & Gender

642 Barrows Hall, #1074

University of California, Berkeley

510-643-8488

http://crg.berkeley.edu

Post Doc: Ohio State University

Post Doctoral Fellowship Program
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

The Kirwan Institute is a university-wide interdisciplinary research institute. We generate and support innovative analyses that improve understanding of the dynamics that underlie racial marginality and undermine full and fair democratic practices.

Applicants must have a Doctoral degree, solid understanding of and support for the Institute's mission, have very strong research and writing skills, and have a record of high-quality performance. Appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year. Position(s) may be full-time with an annual equivalent salary based on education and experience plus applicable fringe benefits.

Apply with a 2-3 page application letter including a brief description of background, training, and recent scholarship; a preferred start date; and desired tenure of the fellowship (12 or 24 months). Also include curriculum vitae with references to special awards and honors; an official grade transcript; and 1-2 scholarly writing samples; and three letters of recommendation.

Applications accepted until April 30, 2007. Interviews in June 2007 and the appointment starts September 2007.

Please send applications and direct questions to:
Tara I. McCoy
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity
423 Mendenhall Laboratory
125 South Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
mccoy.266@osu.edu
EEO/AA employer

Call for Submissions: LGBTQ of color

CALL FOR PAPERS: EXAMINING THE LIVES OF GLBTQ OF COLOR

A special issue devoted to the above topic in:
The Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy & Research

In recent decades, queer scholarship and scholarship on race have begun to examine what it means to be raced and/or sexed in the U.S. Yet despite this movement, both Queer Studies and Ethnic Studies have often overlooked the existence of gay men and women of color.

This special issue is an attempt to add to the scholarship about lesbians and gay men of color; where lesbians and gay men of color find a “home” and what kind of home they find, what needs are specific to those who are both “raced” and “sexualized” and what are the factors that need to be addressed when working with people marginalized both along racial and sexual lines.

Accordingly, the guest editor of the journal invites manuscripts that address issues relevant to GLBTQ persons of color. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Domestic violence against/amongst lesbians and gays of color.
2. HIV/AIDS prevention with gays and lesbians of color.
3. Disability, sexuality, and race.
4. Class issues for lesbians and gays of color.
5. Racism in the gay community.
6. Homophobia in racial/ethnic communities.
7. Negotiating lesbian and gay identities with racial identities.

Manuscripts should be one or more of the following types: empirical (quantitative and qualitative) conceptual, addressing theoretical model development or research methodology needs, strategies, or innovations; reviews of empirically-based knowledge, or theoretical pieces. Exceptional personal essays will also be considered. Papers that explore the experiences of two or more racial groups are especially welcome.

The references and format of the manuscript should follow the style of the American Psychological Association and include an abstract of less than 100 words. Authors should submit three hard copies as well as an electronic copy (either on disc or through e-mail as a word document). Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers and returned with comments. Deadline for submission is July 31, 2007 with a planned publication in 2008.

Submissions should be sent to:
Chong-suk Han, Guest Editor
Department of Sociology
Temple University
713 Gladfelter Hall
1115 West Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Early submissions are encouraged and appreciated. Inquiries for the special issue should be directed to the guest editor at chan@temple.edu or cwhan@u.washington.edu. (215) 204-7751.

Further information about the journal may be obtained at www.haworthpress.com or contacting
the editor Michael Sullivan, Ph.D. at msulliv3@utk.edu or (901) 448-4475

Call for Scholarship Application Readers

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION READERS

Read process begins February 5, 2007

The Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) seeks volunteer Scholarship Application Readers to evaluate scholarship applications submitted for the 2007-2008 academic year. Each Scholarship Application Reader will be asked to review applications from approximately fifty applicants, at a minimum. Readers will have the opportunity to carry out their task from locations of their choosing via the internet, as they will be given a password to review and comment upon applications from a secure website provided by APIASF. The entire review process will be completed at the Scholarship Application Readers' own pace.

The Scholarship Review Process will take place between February 5 and March 16, 2007. All Readers will be required to participate in a teleconference training in order to ensure that they share an understanding of basic information related to education in the Asian and Pacific Islander American communities, APIASF's scholarship process and goals and review of the common set of the scoring criteria set up for the scholarship applications. Applicants that have been a Reader for APIASF in the past will be exempt from the training orientation and will need to complete only portion one of the Reader application.

All Scholarship Application Readers should have the following qualifications:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, Asian and/or Pacific Islander American communities, especially high school students.

• Knowledge of, and personal experience in, education (higher education or knowledge in the areas of teaching, admissions, financial aid, counseling, outreach, etc. is preferred but not required

• Undergraduate college diploma required

In addition to completing the Scholarship Reader Application (available at www.apiasf.org ) we ask that all applicants take a look at the APIASF 2007-2008 Scholarship Application. Those who have reviewed scholarship applications in the past, graduate students in education, educators, educational administrators, and community leaders are especially encouraged to apply.

On-site Read locations may be added in specific cities around the United States. APIASF will notify readers of any locations at which Reads are scheduled. APIASF works with all volunteers to complete the Scholarship Review Process. We hope that each Reader will find the experience enjoyable and rewarding, and APIASF staff and past Readers will be available to answer questions or concerns.

ABOUT APIASF

APIASF is the only national organization promoting higher education of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans by distributing scholarships for qualified students going to college. The mission of APIASF is to forge partnerships building a national Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship organization that supports and encourages all Asian and Pacific Islander American students to pursue higher education, thereby developing future leaders who will contribute back to their communities, and ultimately, strengthening America. Our vision is to see that all Asian and Pacific Islander Americans who wish to pursue higher education have that opportunity, regardless of their ethnicity, national origin or financial means.

For more information please visit www.apiasf.org