November 4: Graduate School Fair Sponsored by the Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference

The Men and Women of Color Leadership Conference (MWOCLC) is pleased to announce that it is organizing a Graduate School Fair that will take place on Friday, November 4, 2011 from 8:15 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. The conference is inviting representatives from IUB graduate departments to share information about their programs. You will share one half (1/2) of an eight foot table with another program representative.

The MWOCLC initially started as the Men of Color Leadership Conference. In 2009 it joined with the Women of Color Leadership Conference to evolve to the event that it is today. Its primary goal is to provide a platform from which to help students develop values relative to academic excellence, career awareness, diversity education, and leadership development.

During the past two years this conference has attracted over 300 undergraduate participants from sixteen colleges and universities throughout the Midwest and other areas of the U.S. Past participating schools included the following:

o Eastern Illinois University,

o Duquesne University,

o Hamline University,

o Huston-Tillotson University

o Indiana University (all campuses)

o Ivy Tech Community College

o Manchester College

o Purdue University

o Southeast Missouri State University

o University of Alabama at Birmingham

o Virginia Tech University

If you would like to participate in the MWOCLC Graduate School Fair please RSVP by Monday, October 10, to smithpd@indiana.edu. When you RSVP, please include in the subject heading "RSVP GRAD FAIR." If you have any questions please contact Patrick Smith at 812-855-8850.
Thank you.

Patrick D. Smith
Executive Director,
Office of Mentoring Services and Leadership Development
Eigenmann Hall South 619
1900 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47406-7511
Ph: (812)855-3540
Fax: (812)856-0445
e-mail: smithpd@indiana.edu
URL: www.indiana.edu/~omsld

October: "rom the Empire of Information to the Documentary State: Notes on Scribes and Writing in Early Colonial South India," a lecture by Bhavani Raman

Beautiful weather brings out the best in the lecture series!

Who: Bhavani Raman, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
What: From the Empire of Information to the Documentary State: Notes on Scribes and
Writing in Early Colonial South India
When: Thursday, October 6 @ 5:30pm
Where: India House, 825 E 8th St. (Corner of 8th and Woodlawn)


Free, open and very welcome to all.

Thursday 10/6: "Opening the Dialogue" – A Film and Discussion Series

The Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library at Indiana University presents "Opening the Dialogue – A Film and Discussion Series on 'Culture,' Identity, and Critical Media Literacy." Our series will open the dialogue to the ways “culture” and identity are shaped, performed,
and reified in America, and will introduce undergraduates, graduate students, and members of the Bloomington community to the ways our resources at Indiana University Libraries can be used to address and generate a positive environment of understanding, equity,
collaboration, and inclusion. Our 2011-2012 film topics touch on the multicultural issues of cultural identity, race, class, gender, democracy, and globalization. Join us for this new and powerful journey!

A full list of 2011-2012 films include (alphabetically):

Beyond Killing us Softly: The Strength to Resist: The Media’s Impact on
Women & Girls
Blue Eyed
Ethnic Notions
Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
Life and Debt
Merchants of Cool
Skin Deep
The American Ruling Class
The Color of Fear
Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
Young, Muslim, and French

Reminder. October 6th: “The Fate of the Image:Church History and the Modern State” by Joan Copjec

A Horizon of Knowledge Lecture Presents:
“The Fate of the Image:Church History and the Modern State”
by Joan Copjec, SUNY and UB Distinguished Professor of English

Thursday, October 6th, 2011 | 5:00 pm | Faculty Club at the IMU

Prof. Joan Copjec is SUNY and UB Distinguished professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, and is the author of numerous essays and two important and highly influential books, Read my Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (MIT, 1996) and Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (MIT,2004) that have established her as one of the foremost thinkers of psychoanalysis, film theory, and feminism, of the last two decades.
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This event is free and open to the public. If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call Comparative Literature at 855-7070 or 855-5083.

This lecture was co-sponsored by the Center for Theoretical Inquiry in the Humanities, the Islamic Studies Program, the Gender Studies Program, the English Department, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

October 13: 17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty Conference-Planning Committee Meeting

Planning Committee Meeting
Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:30-6:00pm
Room 201 of the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research (1022 E. Third Street)

PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY CONFERENCE
8:30-4:30 Friday, February 24, 2012
IMU Solarium
Contact: Deidre Redmond (dlredmon@indiana.edu)
Url: http://www.indiana.edu/~pffc/
RSVP for free lunch with name, department, and year in program to iupffc@gmail.com

This conference is sponsored by the University Graduate School and other participating departments and is FREE to all IU graduate students.

Indiana University?s 17th Annual Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) Graduate Conference is a one-day event designed to provide graduate students from all disciplines and at all phases of their educations with important information about preparing for their future academic careers.

The conference consists of four sessions addressing issues, such as graduate student concerns as they progress toward the Ph.D., building a professional record, navigating the job market, acclimating to a new faculty position, and professional opportunities within and outside of academia. Each year the conference is organized by a committee of graduate students, led by a PFF fellow who is appointed and funded by the Department of Sociology and the University Graduate School. Panelists are typically professors from IUB and surrounding universities. Special care is made to invite panelists from a diverse array of disciplines and institutions.

October 10: "Theorizing the Chronic," A TALK BY ELIZABETH FREEMAN, UC-DAVIS

New Queer Imaginaries: Theorizing Sex at the 21st Century speaker series presents


"Theorizing the Chronic"

A TALK BY ELIZABETH FREEMAN, UC-DAVIS

Monday, Oct 10 // 4:30-6:00 pm
Dogwood Room, IMU


ELIZABETH FREEMAN is the author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke
University Press, 2010) and The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American
Culture (Duke University Press, 2002). Her essays have appeared in Social Text,
differences, New Literary History, boundary 2, American Literary History, and elsewhere.
She is currently editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.

NEW QUEER IMAGINARIES: THEORIZING SEX AT THE 21ST CENTURY is sponsored by the College
Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI), Department of American Studies, Department of
Communications and Culture, Department of English, Department of Gender Studies, Cultural
Studies Program, and Latino Studies Program. For inquiries, please contact Scott Herring
(tsherrin@indiana.edu) or Shane Vogel (shvogel@indiana.edu)

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UPCOMING SPEAKERS:

Jose Esteban Munoz (NYU)
November 17, 2011

Tim Dean (University at Buffalo)
April, 2012

CFP: "Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond"

“Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond” seeks to explore the relationship between digital technology and academic, activist and artistic collaborations. Our focus is on how these collaborations come into being, what challenges they present, and how they are reshaping both the academy and the world at large. While we welcome all papers on the topic of digital collaboration, we are especially interested in those that examine the ways in which technology enables work across disciplinary, geographic, cultural and/or other boundaries, those that identify and/or propose solutions to the barriers that still need to be overcome, and those that offer frameworks for innovative forms of digital collaboration.

In addition to traditional 20-minute papers, we also welcome proposals for round tables, workshops and non-traditional modes of information sharing such as online presentations and discussion. We are pleased to receive proposals from all interested individuals, regardless of affiliation.

Potential topics include:
• Digital collaboration between activists, writers, academics, artists, journalists etc.
• The impact of digital media on pedagogy and learning at universities and beyond
• The consequences of listservs, blogs, message boards and other forms of digital communication
• Modes of thought or artistic expression that become (im)possible through digital collaboration
• Copyright law and its effect on online collaboration, and vice versa
• The Internet as a tool for coordinating or suppressing social, political and cultural activity
• The “digital divide,” its consequences, and/or how it can be overcome
• The economy of digital collaboration, or Wikinomics

Individuals interested in presenting 20-minute papers should submit abstracts of up to 300 words, and individuals or groups interested in proposing a roundtable, workshop or nontraditional session should submit a 500 word proposal outlining the format and intended aims of the session. All proposals should be emailed to cometogether2012@gmail.com by our extended deadline October 31st, 2011. The conference will be hosted by the Department of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on May 11-13th, 2012.

For further information, please check our website at cometogether2012.wordpress.com, or
follow us on twitter @cometogether12.