Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship

I would like to announce the University Graduate Schools new fellowship, the Irving and Shirley Brand Graduate Fellowship.  The fellowship was created to honor President Myles Brand's parents, Irving and Shirley Brand.  The fellowship is a $5,000 annual, single year fellowship for incoming or current IUB students in the Humanities.  Preference will be given to students of Philosophy.

Since it is a new fellowship, we are going to hold the competition for the 2011-12 academic year now.  The student deadline for submitting their application to their department is June 10, 2011.  The department deadline for submitting the nomination to us is June 24, 2011.  Beginning with the competition for the 2012-13, and subsequent years, the competition will be held during the spring semester.

The application can be found on our website,http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/internal-awards.php.


Indiana University Graduate School

UCLA Queer Studies Conference--DEADLINE EXTENDED

Queer Fashion(s)
UCLA's 13th Annual Queer Studies Conference
October 14-15, 2011

Call for Papers

Deadline Extended June 6, 2011

UCLA's LGBTS Program is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming Queer Studies Conference featuring presentations by graduate students as well as faculty and advanced undergraduates.

This year's conference will explore and exploit issues of fashion queerly construed. We wish to invite a wide range of questions and panels on subject topics as drag, female masculinities, male femininities, queer self-fashioning, cloning and styling, and, of course, the culture and politics of the fashion industry itself.  Questions of class, economics, history, ethnicity, race, geography, exploitation, desire, style and sublimation are at the forefront of our query.  We seek to know what might be a new analytic or interdisciplinary methodology through which to attend to multiple registers of queer fashion.

Keynote Speakers:
Michael Bronski, Jack Halberstam, Monica Miller,
Mignon R. Moore, Karen Tongson, and Deborah R. Vargas

Closing Performance:
"Queerture: A night of rocket science and fashion design"
with artistic director Tania Hammidi

Proposals for individual papers should take the form of abstracts; panel proposals should also include both a list of participants and paper abstracts.  CVs must accompany all abstracts.  Submissions from undergraduates should be accompanied by a brief letter from a faculty member highlighting the strengths of both the student and the student's proposal.

Deadline for abstracts and CVs: June 6, 2011
Send abstracts and CVs to lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>
Contact: Catharine McGraw (310) 206-1145  &  
lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu<mailto:lgbts@humnet.ucla.edu>

CFP: The Digital Futures of Marxism

The Marxist Literary Group
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention
November  4-6
Atlanta, GA

This panel will consider the force of digitization and new social media on Marxist theory and practice as well as, conversely, the force of Marxism on digital media theory and practice.   What are the challenges, opportunities, and limits of the new social media in transforming the revolutionary subjects and sites of recent social movements, emergent multitudes, and virtual communities that gather strength from and part company with Marxism?   How do digital archives, digital scholarship, and digital aesthetic practices in the age of hyper-capitalism advance and constrain the promise of a Marxist future to come?

By June 29, 2011, please send 250- to 300-word abstracts to Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University, wkalaid@emory.edu

The deadline may be extended.  Email for details.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. is pleased to announce its inaugural Graduate & Professional Schools Recruitment Fair in conjunction with its 80th Grand Chapter Meeting. 


Free to all interested in learning more about graduate and professional education, the Graduate & Professional Schools Fair will be held on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.  

You will find the most up-to-date information on Kappa's 80th Grand Chapter Meeting via the centennial celebration website at <http://www.kappaalphapsi2011.com>.  


The webpage specific to the recruitment fair can be found here<http://kappaalphapsi2011.com/recruitment-fair/graduate-and-professional-schools.html> and will include the most accurate listing of participating institutions.

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious"

The 10th annual Bloomington 18th-Century Studies Workshop on "The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious" will begin next Wednesday, May 11 and run through Friday May 13. All are welcome to attend. A schedule of panels and lectures is posted below. Because most of the papers for the Workshop are pre-circulated, you will need to register now online in order to receive the packet of papers. You can register via our website at: http://www.indiana.edu/~voltaire/workshop.html
If you have any questions about the Workshop, please feel free to contact Mary Favret (favretm@indiana.edu) or Barbara Truesdell (VOLTAIRE@indiana.edu)

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The Tenth Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, 11-13 May 2011: The Eighteenth Century and the Unconscious

Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
Wednesday May 11

2:00 Welcome


2:30-4:00    Panel I

Nima Bassiri (Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities)
"The Unconscious Dimensions of the Sensorium Commune: Material Subjectivity and the Eighteenth-Century Nervous System"

Fritz Breithaupt (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)
"The Rise of Conscience (and its Alternatives)"

Commentator: Tobias Menely (Miami University-Ohio -- English)

4:30-6:00 Panel II

Nathan Gorelick (Utah Valley University English)
"Origin and Repetition: The Early Novel and the Logic of Fantasy."

Saul Anton (The New School Literary Studies)
"The Historical Unconscious in Diderot"

Commentator: Hall Bjornstad (IU Bloomington?French and Italian)

7:30 Festive Dinner at the home of Oscar Kenshur and Margot Gray

Thursday May 12

9-10:30   Lecture

David Bates (UC Berkeley?Rhetoric)
"The Nature of Insight"

Moderator: Sarah Knott (IU Bloomington?History)

10:45-12:45:  Panel III
Thomas Dodman (University of Chicago History)
"Guerriers sensibles: fatal nostalgia and the late eighteenth-century unconscious"

Michael Drexler(Bucknell University English)
"The Four Discourses of Arthur Mervyn"

Helen Thompson(Northwestern University English)
"[I]t was impossible to know these People":  Secondary Qualities and the Form of Character in Defoe?s A Journal of the Plague Year

Commentator: Johannes Turk (IU Bloomington-Germanic Studies)

12:45-2:15 Lunch break (on your own)

2:30-4:00   Panel IV
Anne Pollok (Stanford University Philosophy)
"Building Personae: Moses Mendelssohn and the Unconscious"

Kevin Chua (Texas Tech University Art History)
"Chardin's Leibnizian Unconscious"

Commentator: Richard Nash (IU Bloomington?English)


4:15 -5:45 Lecture
Rebecca Spang, (IU Bloomington History)
"The Purloined Assignat: Contract, Signatures, and the Monetary Unconscious in Revolutionary France"

Moderator: Mary Favret (IU Bloomington English)


7:30 p.m. Banquet (Le Petit Café)

Friday May 13

9:30 -11:00 Panel V

Laura Mandell (University of Miami-Ohio English)
"Print Subjectivity, or History in the Case"

Heidi Schlipphake (Old Dominion University German)
"Reading the Surface: Polygamy and the German Enlightenment"

Commentator: Jonathan Elmer (IU Bloomington-English)

11:15-12:30 Wrap-up session, led by Dror Wahrman (IU Bloomington - History) and Mary Favret (IU Bloomington- English)

April 28-IDAH Brown Bag: "Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with IDAH's HASTAC Scholars"

Please join us for the Digital Arts and Humanities Brown Bag Series
Presented by the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH)

Thursday, April 28
12-1 p.m.
IDAH Conference Room E170D
(To the left of the elevators in the East Tower)

"Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities:
A Conversation with IDAH's HASTAC Scholars"

Will Coogan
MA Student, Jacobs School of Music

"Multimedia Collaboration: the Process and the Results"
Will Coogan is currently a master's candidate in Computer Music Composition. Most of his recent works involve collaboration between acoustic and electronic elements, including interactive computer processing for both audio and video. Will's new multimedia opera "Marabel" combines traditional operatic elements with interactive software, animation, video, and choreography. His discussion will focus on the collaborative process working with other artists, as well as on the use of mixed media as a way of engaging with audiences.


Grant Leyton Simpson
PhD Student, Department of English
Masters in Information Science Student, School of Library and Information Science
Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer for the Office of the Registrar

"Digital Humanities Prehistory and Future Pasts"
Is the digital humanities a sort of futurism? What might we find when we extend our gaze backward instead, to DH's prehistory? How did humanists and others involved in research and publishing conceptualize the relationship between computers and the humanities? How has this developed? In this presentation, Grant will pay particular attention to the visual aspects of published DH materials in his investigation of these questions.  His dissertation in the department of English, Computing the English Middle Ages, deals with the hermeneutics of electronic objects and processes from roughly 1960 to the present. In it he traces the use of computers in Old and Middle English research from the early days of humanities computing to contemporary digital humanities.

Remote connection also available via Adobe Acrobat Connect:
To join the meeting: http://breeze.iu.edu/bbidah/.
Please join us!  Feel free to bring your lunch.
To receive a reminder and an abstract of upcoming IDAH presentations, send an email to listserv@indiana.edu<mailto:listserv@indiana.edu> with nothing in the subject line and the message body: sub IDAH_BROWNBAG-L Your Full Name

Best,

Maria Kennedy
Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities (IDAH) Graduate Assistant
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library E170
1320 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
(812) 855-0829
IDAH Fax: (812) 856-7107
idah@indiana.edu<mailto:idah@indiana.edu>
www.iub.edu/~idah<http://www.iub.edu/~idah>

Association for Cultural Studies CFP: Crossroads in Cultural Studies

The Association for Cultural Studies is very pleased to release the  Call for Papers for the next Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, to be held 2-6 July 2012 in Paris, France.

Conference details are below.  Submission forms for both papers and  sessions can be found on the conference website: http://www.crossroads2012.org

We look forward to seeing many of you in Paris next year!
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We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference  Crossroads in 
Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from  July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and  UNESCO.

The city of Paris has a long and complex history as a crossroad  between cultures and peoples. Paris has played an important role in  the development and circulation of the works of authors and thinkers  that have shaped the postcolonial imagination in a significant way.  Drawing on their tradition of comprehensive and critical thought, the organizers seek contributions in the form of papers and panels that will continue to examine the intersection between culture, power and knowledge from within the framework of Cultural Studies.

The conference will also be hosted by UNESCO, the international  organization that has always championed cultural diversity and  difference. Given the long association between Cultural Studies  research and UNESCO, this conference should be an occasion for  Cultural Studies to look back on its own evolution as well as  explore new scholarly insights.

    *12 World-class Keynote Speakers from all over the world will  address the 
conference at keynote and plenary sessions. Among them,  Sarah Ahmed, Marie-Hélène 
Bourcier, Jeremy Gilbert, Achille Mbembe,  Walter Mignolo, Bobby Noble, Phaedra 
Pezzullo, Françoise Vergès.  With the participation of Stuart Hall and Jacques Rancière (to be  confirmed).
    *State of the art conference topics. All topics relevant to  Cultural Studies, especially new and innovative areas of research  are welcome.
    *Submit your proposal now! The call for papers and organized  panel proposals is now open. Check the submission guidelines and  submit before September 30, 2011.
    *ACS Assistance Scheme for Crossroads 2012. The Association for  Cultural Studies will offer a small number of grants to assist  participants from ACS under-represented regions with travel  accommodation or registration expenses.
    *Attractive and convenient accommodation in the heart of the  city of Paris and close to the conference venues. Cheaper campus  accommodation will also be available close at hand at the  International Paris University Campus.
    *Spread the news. Please forward this message to your colleagues  and friends! We look forward to seeing you in Paris in 2012!


Prof Éric Maigret (Conference Director) on behalf of the National  and Local Committees
Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris

Website: http://www.crossroads2012.org
Contact: crossroads2012@univ-paris3.fr