UCD King School of Law API Week

UC Davis Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
UC Davis School of Law

API Week 2007

Monday, March 26
Noon-1p Moot Court Room
API Women in the Law:
Judge Helena Gweon, Superior Court of California
Audrey Ogawa Johnson, Senior Director, Gap, Inc.
Panelists will discuss their experiences in the public and private sectors to highlight the diverse practices, successes, and difficulties of APU women in the law. Lunch will be served.

Tuesday, March 27
Noon-1p Moot Court Room
Keynote Address – Law and Leadership: Taking Lawyer Beyond the Courtroom
Angela Oh – attorney, activist, and King Hall alum – will discuss the lawyer beyond the traditional context of the courtroom and into positions of leadership in society and the rest of the world. Lunch will be served.

Wednesday, March 28
Noon-1p Moot Court Room
Film Screening – “Sentenced Home”
An abridged screening of this documentary highlights US immigration policy and follows the heartbreaking stories of three young Cambodian Americans as they face deportation back to their birth land. Lunch will be served.

Thursday, March 29
Noon-1p Moot Court Room
Deportation Panel:
Panelists will discuss deportation as depicted in “Sentenced Home” – Lunch will be served.

APALSA Social Event
5-7p Law School Courtyard
Free beer, wine and karaoke!

Monday, April 2
7:30p – Varsity Theater, Davis
Film Screening of “Sentenced Home”
Varsity Theater – 616 2^nd Street – Downtown Davis
Q&A with co-doirector Nicole Newnham Malarkey to follow screening.
Co-sponsored by SEARAC.
http://www.itva.org/outreach/sentencedhome/

Women's Studies Conferences

Here's a great link to Women's Studies conferences and conferences with a Women's Studies component:

http://www.nwsa.org/cfps/index.php

LEAP SCholarship readers needed

Subject: Need Scholarship readers-Please respond ASAP

Hi!

LEAP is again a partner organization in the McDonald's Asian Pacific Students in Action scholarship.

We are looking for people willing to volunteer as "readers" for this scholarship. Readers will read approximately 15-20 applications; score the applications, and then fax scores to PR firm coordinating the logistics of the scholarship. This is process is all by mail so you can read in the comfort of your own home! The more readers there are, the less applications to read. Over 700 applications are expected this year for 20 - $1000 scholarships.

If you are interested, please email me by this Friday, March 30 with the following information:

Full name,
title,
Company/organization
Street mailing address (NO PO Boxes)
Phone number

Applications will be FedExed to to you so a street address is required (no P.O. Boxes). This is a great experience and it doesn't take much time. The application essays (1 page only) are really wonderful to read. I hope that you can participate!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Linda


-----------------------

Linda Akutagawa
Vice President of Resource and Business Development
Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP)
Phone: (213) 485-1422 x 4115
Fax: (213) 485-0050
Email: lakutagawa@leap.org
Web: www.leap.org

******************************************************
Mark your calendars!
LEAP is celebrating its 25th Anniversary!
Gala Celebration - July 19, 2007
Universal Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
For more information see our website @www.leap.org!!

LEAP is a national organization founded in 1982 with a mission to achieve full participation and equality for Asian Pacific Americans through leadership, empowerment, and policy. With original programs in leadership
training, public policy research, and community education, LEAP raises the impact and visibility of Asian Pacific Americans in all sectors.

RIT's Annual Future Faculty Career Exploration Program

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY’S: ANNUAL FUTURE FACULTY CAREER EXPLORATION PROGRAM

Application postmarked deadline: June 8, 2007
Applications are available online at: http://finweb.rit.edu/humanresources/employment/ffcep/

We are now accepting applications for RIT's annual Future Faculty Career Exploration Program. An All-Expense-Paid trip to visit RIT and Rochester, NY

The Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP) is one of a series of recruitment strategies designed to fuel the future pipeline of faculty. This innovative program furthers RIT's diversity goals by bringing students nearing the end of their doctoral studies to Rochester to receive the "RIT treatment".

The FFCEP is a unique and exciting opportunity to explore potential career choices through exploratory interviews; presentations; meetings with deans, department heads, and RIT's President; as well as participate in campus and community tours.

The program allows RIT deans to engage prospects in discussions about their academic work and career interests. It also allows faculty to share RIT's teaching and research agenda and to dialog on current open faculty positions or those that may be available in the near future.

Selection Criteria*
1) Individuals with the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the university's continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individual differences. We are especially interested in applications from people of color who are underrepresented and underserved in teaching professions; i.e., African American, Latin American, American Indian, or Alaskan Native.
2) Within one to two years of receiving Ph.D. -or-
3) Within one year of receiving or already received MFA. -or-
4) Engaged in a Post Doctoral assignment.
5) Desire academic teaching career at an exceptional institution.
6) Receiving degrees in Business, Liberal Arts, Science, Engineering, Applied Science & Technology, Computing & Information Sciences, Imaging Arts & Sciences.
7) Demonstrate potential to fill open and/or anticipated vacancies at RIT.
8) Able to travel to Rochester for a weekend- September 26-30, 2007.

Program Objectives
1) Build the pipeline by establishing significant meaningful relationships with prospects.
2) Lay the foundation for opening up future network with other universities.
3) Strategically prepare for pending human resource needs to cover future curriculum development and course offerings.
4) Proactively seize employment opportunities where appropriate prospects are found.
5) Serve as a bridge to assist in transition from graduate school student to a faculty member.
6) Assist in preparing future faculty for a career in the institute.

Contact
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Human Resources
Office of Faculty Recruitment
8 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, New York 14623-5604
Voice: 585.475.5775
Fax: 585.475.7170
Email: cfrpsn@rit.edu

CFP - The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences
Keynote address from Dr. Luke Thurston, University of Wales,  Aberystwyth

A one-day graduate student/invited speaker conference sponsored by the Psychoanalysis and Sexuality Research Unit of the Center for Cultural Studies

UC Santa Cruz
May 19, 2007
Humanities 1, Room 210


“The Analytic Scene: Translations and Transferences” will bring together graduate student papers from various disciplines that address key psychoanalytic concepts in the context of an interdisciplinary approach. We are nterested in exploring the translation of the clinical “scene” into different theoretical registers in order to investigate the space of analysis and challenge its implicit borders.  This conference will question the efficacy of psychoanalysis as it is “applied to” other disciplines, a mode in which critical issues from each discourse seem to get lost in the 
application.  Our goal is to bring together papers that test diverse approaches to psychoanalytic interdisciplinarity by asking a series of central questions.  What is the specificity of psychoanalytic knowledge and its method?  What is the relationship of psychoanalysis to other disciplines and to contemporary deployments of categories such as race, 
class, and power?

Keynote Speaker: Dr Luke Thurston lectures in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. He is the author of James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis (2004) and the editor of Re-inventing the Symptom: Essays on the Final Lacan (2002). He has translated works by André Green, Jean Laplanche and Roberto Harari, and is an Associate Editor of the Journal for Lacanian Studies. His current project is a study of bilingualism and ego-multiplication in Beckett and Pessoa.

Please submit a title and abstract by e-mail (as Microsoft Word .doc or Rich Text Format attachments) by April 9 to analyticscenes@gmail.com. 

Please include the word “submission” somewhere in the subject line. Include your name, affiliation, telephone number, and a brief blurb about yourself/your work for the purposes of publicity. Papers will be 15 minutes in length (5-7 pages) and due two weeks prior to the conference for review and comment by the organizers.

Please direct inquiries to: Rob Trumbull (rtrumbul@ucsc.edu) or Christina Stevenson (clsteven@ucsc.edu).

CFP: Western History Association

2008 Western History Association's national meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah
October 22-25, 2008

***Particular emphasis for this meeting is "the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the west."

On October 22-25, 2008, the Western History Association will gather in Salt Lake City for its 48th Annual Conference. Salt Lake City is a welcome venue for both this talk of risk and for risky talk. Carving a new mountain home for generations of faithful is surely a chancy endeavor, not to mention the grit required to journey thousands of miles from one's birthplace to pound railroad stakes for a living. The city is also well-known, of course, for its winter sports, short-term perils of downhill racers and long-term threats to stable mountaintops. The city too is poised, as newcomers from Latin America and the Pacific Islands mingle and mix with the long-settled, queer and straight alike.

To explore further the risky businesses of Western history, the 2008 program committee solicits proposals for sessions that themselves seek to re-imagine and re-invent the standard conference format. Possible sessions could follow new formats that give fresh legs to the faltering three-paper standard. Workshops could belly up to a range of topics: the perils of public history; the pitfalls of peer review; the problems and pleasures of crossing disciplines; books we couldn't, and could, do without; museum exhibits we would like to see funded, movies we'd like to make. Other sessions could consider a variety of media -- such as essays, web pages, dissertation chapters, K-12 teaching materials, music, public history projects, fiction, or short films—that might be pre-posted electronically and made available through the WHA website. Given the vitality of Asian American history and the history of Pacific Islanders, we are especially eager to receive sessions and individual papers examining the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience in the West.

Submissions may be for an entire session, a panel discussion, or an individual paper. When submitting an entire session, include an abstract that outlines the purpose of the session, and designate one panelist or participant as the contact person. Each paper proposal, whether individual or part of a session, should include a one-page abstract and a one page c.v. including the address, phone, and email address for each participant. The committee will assume that all listed individuals have agreed to participate. Send all program submission materials to: Karen Merrill, Department of History, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267 (kmerrill@williams.edu). Submissions should be postmarked by 31 August 2007.

Post Doc: Mellon

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.