8th Annual Pathways Career Symposium

8th Annual Pathways Career Symposium
Saturday, May 5, 2007
9:00am-3:00pm Wellman Hall

Featuring workshops and panel discussions on a variety of career-related issues for graduate students and postdocs. Careers in academia and beyond are covered.

This Year’s Topics include:
How to Survive and Thrive in a New Faculty Position
Finding a Postdoc Position and Getting the Most Out of It
Negotiating Your First Faculty Position
Career Opportunities in Government
An Inside Look at an Interview in Industry
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Careers Beyond Academia for Scientists
Building Your Teaching Experience
Interview Etiquette: Strategies for Success
Negotiating Your First Position in Industry
An Inside Look at an Academic Search Committee
Administrative Careers in Academia

For more information visit:
http://gp.ucdavis.edu/gps/gp-eve-pat.htm

Workshop: Women on the Market

Women on the Market:
The Gendered Experience of Job Hunting

Friday, April 20, 2007
1:00-2:30pm
Mee Room, MU

Our distinguished panelists - Professor Grace Wang of American Studies, Professor Cynthia Lin of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and image consultant Karri Grant - will cover the following topics to help graduate and postdoctoral women face the job market with confidence:

Tips for interviewing and giving job talks
Professional attire
Makeup advice
"Reading" institutional culture
Making sense of regional and disciplinary differences
Nonverbal communication
Tips for women whose gender identity doesn't include skirts, makeup, etc.
Light refreshments will be served. No registration necessary.

For more information please contact Melissa Strong mjstrong@ucdavis.edu .

Sponsored by the Office of Graduate Studies (Professors for the Future and the Professional Development Series) and the English Department Women’s Caucus

CAPS Workshops

Here's a series of workshops that Counseling and Psychological Services is offering during Spring quarter. These workshops are geared towards the API student community so please attend!

Lost and Found in Asian America: Bridging the Cultural Gap

Learn how to connect with family and friends about unique issues of API students

Location:  North Hall, Room 232   Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS)
Time:   5:10-6:30pm

April 10th:  What it means to be API: Stereotypes, Myths, and –Isms
April 17th:  Smashing Through the Bamboo Ceiling: Finding a Career that Fits
April 24th:  Honoring my Ancestry and Family History
May 1st:  Who am I? Walking the bicultural tightrope
May 8th:  Let’s Talk About Sex (and Intimacy)
May 15th:  Reclaiming our Bodies: Redefining the Standards

Facilitated by Agnes Kwong, Ed.M., Allison Lau, M.S. and Anneliese Singh, M.S., LPC, NCC

For more information, please call 752.0871 or email aslau@ucdavis.edu, akarora@ucdavis.edu, or annsingh@ucdavis.edu

CFP: (Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures

(Un)Making Queer Worlds: Transformations in Asia-Pacific Queer Cultures
Roundtable Workshop for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers

June 22-23, 2007
Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia


Call for Papers
Proposal deadline: April 27 2007

Since 2000, intellectual interest in Asia-Pacific queer cultures has surged. This surge responds partly to the new visibility of non-normative sexual and gendered subjectivities in the Asia-Pacific and its multiple diasporas. Along with the new thinking around Asian/Pacific sexualities and genders come various contestations: in particular, the fine distinction between understanding A/P sexual cultures as part of an emerging ‘queer globality’, and the tendency to subsume them under a developmental model that places the ‘West’ as the vanguard of, or bad example for, the ‘rest’. Collaborations between queer studies, post-colonial studies, and post-structuralist critiques have shed light on the contemporaneity and historicity of each local queer culture in the Asia-Pacific. But although such effort to carefully describe geographical or local queer particularities is invaluable, locality does not subsist in an insular manner, but is always relational. ‘Glocal’ queer theory marries the specificity of locality with the context of globality. Additionally, the economic processes of globalisation have been accompanied by—indeed, in some cases actively promoted—mass migration, warm body exports and brain drains, particularly from the Asia-Pacific regions, that have temporarily and permanently dislocated individuals and families from their homelands. In such instances the ability to locate ‘local sexualities’ is brought to the fore just as it proposes new difficulties for the analysis of sexuality along national, regional lines, particularly in Australia. And if sexualities and genders are ‘glocal’, then so is capital. Understanding the nexus between glocal capital and sexual subjectivities through their localised and diasporic trajectories is, at bottom, about the political stakes of queer survival in a neoliberal world.

(Un)Making Queer Worlds tackles these important questions directly by bringing together scholars for a two-day roundtable workshop at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The workshop is particularly interested in proposals from postgraduates and Early Career Researchers (ECRs).

Confirmed speakers: Associate Professor Peter A. Jackson will deliver a keynote address on Friday June 22. Dr Jackson is the Deputy Convenor and Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University in Canberra. He is the author and editor of numerous publications on genders and sexualities in Thailand and elsewhere, including Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (Haworth Press, New York, 1999) and Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives (Haworth Press, New York,
1999).
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Submission of abstracts

What we’re looking for:
We seek participants investigating how various Asia-Pacific constituents are (un)making trajectories of queer world and globality. We encourage papers that employ interdisciplinary approaches. We hope that (Un)making Queer Worlds will contribute to the ongoing elucidation of constantly evolving Asia-Pacific queer cultures and their global articulations.

Workshop format:
Featured participants will be asked to circulate their papers a week in advance of the workshop.  Participants will be allocated a one-hour session to present a paper (20-30 minutes) and engage in discussion. As this is a postgraduate and ECR event, registration is free of charge.

Please submit abstracts of 450-500 words to unmaking-worlds@unimelb.edu.au by April 27 2007. Keep in mind that
papers presented will be circulated before the workshop. Circulated papers should be no more than 6000 words in length.

Important dates:
Proposals due: 27 April 2007
Speakers confirmed: Monday May 7
Deadline for papers to be submitted: Monday June 4
Papers circulated: Monday June 11
Workshop: Fri/Sat June 22-23

For more information, to register or to submit a paper proposal, please email
unmaking-worlds@unimelb.edu.au or go to
http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/postgraduate/unmaking_worlds.html

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(Un)Making Queer Worlds is a project jointly initiated by the Cultural Studies Program, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, and the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. We acknowledge the support of the Cultural Research Network of the ARC and the School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne.

New Book: L. Ling-chi Wang

UCLA Asian American Studies Press

Review copies & textbook discounts: Ming Tu at email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu.
Editorial: Russell C. Leong rleong@ucla.edu

"Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang: First Collection of Essays Published by UCLA Asian American Studies Center"
Book Signing Events in New York and San Francisco

UCLA's Amerasia Journal announces a special April 2007 issue "L. Ling-chi Wang: Quintessential Scholar-Activist" on the writings of Prof. Wang. During the past 40 years, Prof. Wang's impact as a Chinese American scholar, activist, institution builder at UC Berkeley, policy advocate, and public speaker has been unparalleled within the
field of Asian American Studies and in the nation. The special issue is edited by Prof. Don Nakanishi, the Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and Amerasia's long-time editor, Prof. Russell Leong.

UCLA planned this issue both as a tribute to the recently retired U.C. Berkeley teacher and administrator, and also as a way to introduce Prof. Wang's writings to students, scholars, and local and global social activists in the U.S. and in Asia.

This international edition is the first collection of Prof. Wang's selected works in English, and contains a introduction in English and in Chinese written by Nakanishi and Leong. The individual essays are organized under the
following five sections: I. China, the U.S., and Chinese Americans; II. Model Minority, High-tech Coolies, and Foreign Spies? III. Paradoxes of Asian Americans in Higher Education; IV. Philosophy and Politics of Community Activism; V. Dual Domination and Asian Americans.

At Princeton Seminary, the University of Chicago, and U.C. Berkeley, L. Ling-chi Wang was a Near Eastern Studies major and studied Greek and Hebrew, among other languages. Rooted intellectually in thinkers as diverse as the Old Testament prophets, Soren Kierkegaard, W.E.B. DuBois, Saul Alinksy, Mao Tse-tung, Sun Tzu, Antonio Gramsci, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Prof. Wang encountered the Civil Rights, Black Power and Ethnic Studies Movements in the late 1960s.

As Prof. Wang states about his formal and informal education: "All the events at the University of Chicago, the black uprising, and what I was reading about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and the black protest movement had
been more or less abstract, but coming to San Francisco, everything became real. I realized the kind of analysis used to explain the black experience can be applied to the Chinese American experience."

From this point on, Wang became both an activist and a scholar. Since that time until today, Prof. Wang has fought for the rights and for the voices of Asian Americans in politics and education, including bilingual education,
admissions quotas, the 1996 presidential campaign finance scandal, Wen Ho Lee debacle, and U.S./China relations.

One of Prof. Wang's research interests is examining Chinese migration from the 19th century onwards. His own family is a good example of migration within the "Chinese diaspora," and includes many places where the Chinese settled, including Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, and the U.S.

Prof. Wang's father was born in Kobe, Japan, and his mother spent early childhood in the Philippines and Fujian. Wang himself was born on the island of Gulangyu, off the coast of Xiamen, China. He remembers his childhood during World War II and the harsh conditions under which his family and others survived the Japanese invasion
and occupation.

This 200-page issue includes selected essays from the 1960s through 2006, together with an in-depth
interview by UCSB Prof. Emeritus Sucheng Chan. Prof. Wang has also provided rare family photographs of the Wang family in China and in the U.S.

On Friday, May 18, 2007, the Chinese Historical Society of America will honor Prof. Wang at an evening wine and refreshments reception and program where he also will be available to sign his book . Location: Chinese Historical Society of America, 965 Clay Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 391-1188
<http://www.chsa.org>www.chsa.org

"L. Ling-chi Wang: Quintessential Scholar-Activist" 33:1 (2007) can be ordered for $15.00 per copy through our website: www.aasc.ucla.edu, or email: aascpress@aasc.ucla.edu. The issue is FREE with a new one-year subscription of $35.00 to Amerasia Journal (and you'll receive an entire year--three more issues.)

CFP: Logics of Living

LOGICS OF THE LIVING

Keynote Speaker: Daniel Heller-Roazen

Department of Comparative Literature
Cornell University
October 12-14, 2007

While a linguistic paradigm dominated theoretical inquiry in the humanities in the last decades of the 20th-century,  crucial questions of literature, philosophy and politics are increasingly formulated in terms of "life" rather than  language.  Extending across disciplines, whether medical, environmental, juridical, philosophical, anthropological, or
biological, an open-ended concept of “life” has also come to inform critical thinking in the humanities.  How does an emerging life paradigm in the humanities reflect or lead to the development of various “logics of the living” through which “life” becomes an organizing principle or system, whether aesthetic, conceptual, or social? How do these “logics of the living,” as metaphors, actualities, ethical foundations, or theoretical frameworks, come to inform the  work of cultural criticism?  We invite varied responses to these questions, as well as further reflections on how the  question of "life" is ordered, represented, repressed, celebrated, idealized or domesticated in the humanities today.

Possible paper topics might include:
Autoimmunity
Future of life: finitude
Afterlife (trauma, haunting, survival)
Second Life and Second Death
Creation, procreation, creature
Birth (control), and labor
Reproduction, replication, proliferation
Evolution, adaptation, hybridity, competition, survival, desire
Vitalism
Engenderment
Life and sexuality
Autopoesis
Life and artifice
Aesthetic forms of the living
Autobiography
Biographics: narrative, memory, biography
Humanisms and post/anti-Humanisms
Animal lives
Bestiaries
Hagiographies
Life and materiality
Bare Life and Biopolitics
Body Politic; corporation/incorporation
Rights of the living
Politics of life/death
Life and being: Bio-ontology
Touching: auto-affection, hetero-affection
Rhythms of life
Everyday Life
Life of objects
Commodification of life: stem-cells, human tissue, organ trafficking
Genetics, genomics, body and code
Organicity
Systems, ecologies, interdependencies


About the keynote speaker:
Daniel Heller-Roazen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in  Comparative Literature from the Johns Hopkins University and holds additional degrees in Philosophy and German.
His wide-ranging interests address issues in classical literature, medieval philosophy (in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic), medieval literature, and twentieth-century philosophy. He is author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language (Zone Books, 2005), which explores the relationship between speech, writing, and memory, as well as Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency (The Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), which the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has described as a "model of theoretical acumen and critical sensibility." Heller-Roazen is a noteworthy translator, having translated Agamben's The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics and edited and translated the collection of Agamben's essays, Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy. His work has appeared in the journals Critical Inquiry, diacritics, MLN, and October. In 2007 he will publish The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, a study that investigates the sense of being sentient in thinkers and writers from Aristotle to Benjamin.

The deadline for submission of 250-word paper abstracts for 20-minute presentations is May 10, 2007. Please include your name, e-mail address, and phone number. Please email abstracts to cclf@cornell.edu. Notices of
acceptance will be sent no later than May 31, 2007. Full text of accepted papers will be due September 1, 2007.  For more information visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/complit/CCLF.

Postdoc Fellowship in Women's Studies

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN WOMEN'S STUDIES

University of Houston
Women's Archive and Research Center
The Women's Studies Program and the Women's Archive and Research Center at the University of Houston invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Women's Studies, to begin in the Fall Semester 2007. Applicants may be working in any discipline, on a topic concerning women and/or gender. The recipient will devote half time to teaching and program development and half time to research. The initial appointment will be for one year, with the possibility of renewal for an additional year. Salary will be $40,000 plus full benefits package.

The applicant must hold a Ph.D. degree at the time of the appointment and have one year of experience. A letter of application, including a description of your project, together with CV, writing sample and three letters of reference should be submitted on or before April 20, 2007, to the WARC Search Committee, Women's Studies Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3005.

The University of Houston is Texas' premier metropolitan research institution, with more than 35,000 students enrolled this year. Located in the center of Houston in a 550-acre park, the university provides an excellent environment for research, within a dynamic city.

The University of Houston is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.