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El Noticiero de IUPLR
INSIDE the December 2002
Noticiero de IUPLR:
- The Bilingual
Press at ASU/HRC announces a call for participation in Volume IV (book
and electronic project) of its ongoing initiative, Contemporary Chicana
and Chicano Art
- Call
for Papers/Panels: The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies will be held on October 22-25, 2003
- The
Chicana/o Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor
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The Department of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles
announces an open rank, tenure-track faculty position in higher education
- The University
of South Florida is seeking a Director for the University's interdisciplinary
Latin American, Caribbean, (LAC) and Latino Studies program
- The
Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and
Public Policy, at the University of Massachusetts Boston, is seeking
submissions for an edited volume about the growing presence of Latinos
in New England
IUPLR
HEADQUARTER NEWS
This is the Noticiero's
6th year as an electronic informational outlet for the IUPLR network of
scholars and member centers. Be sure to visit the IUPLR web site at: http://www.nd.edu/~iuplr.
There, you can view past issues of the IUPLR Noticiero.
Please send your
center updates, center events, faculty news, faculty opportunities, fellowship
opportunities, and publication news to: vsaenz@prodigy.net.
CENTER
NEWS
Hispanic Research
Center, Arizona State University
The Bilingual Press/Editorial
Bilingüe at HRC announces a call for participation in Volume IV (book
and electronic project) of its ongoing initiative, Contemporary Chicana
and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education. The working title
for Volume IV is “Chicana and Chicano Art: Research, Scholarship,
and Art Education.” This volume focuses on art history and scholarship
and art education related to Chicana and Chicano Studies, broadly and
generously defined. Scholars, art historians, and art educators with information-rich
papers and artists who have enduring observations to make within an art
history or scholarly context are invited to respond to this call for participation.
Articles will be solicited on the basis of one-page proposals (no more
than 500 words), due by January 2, 2003. Proposals should be emailed,
faxed or mailed to the Bilingual Press and must be clearly marked “Art
Book Volume IV Proposal.” For more information, send an e-mail to
hrcartprojects@asu.edu, or
send correspondence to: Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, P.O.
Box 872702, Tempe, AZ 85287-2702
Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
Building on the success
of its previous conferences, the Cuban Research Institute continues the
tradition of convening every 18 months all those persons committed to
the study of the Cuban nation. The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American
Studies will be held on October 22-25, 2003, at the University Park Campus
of Florida International University. They will consider all papers, but
strongly encourage the submission of proposals for panels, especially
on "the transnational nation". Deadline for submission of all
paper and panel proposals is February 15, 2003. For further details on
this or other CRI activities, please check their website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
For more information or to send your abstract, contact: Lisandro Pérez,
Director (perezl@fiu.edu) or Uva de
Aragón, Associate Director (aragonu@fiu.edu)
at: Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, DM 363,
University Park, Miami, FL 33199, or be phone at (305) 348-1991.
Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, CUNY-Hunter College
Wednesday, December
4th, 2002, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Book Presentations: Amilcar Barreto’s “Vieques, The Navy and
Puerto Rican Politics,” and Katherine T. McCaffrey’s “Military
power and popular protest: The U.S. Navy in Vieques, Puerto Rico.”
Artist talk by: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla. The book presentations
will be held at The America's Society, 680 Park Avenue (68th Street &
Park).
For more information on Centro events, call (212) 772-5714 or e-mail to:
centroevents@hunter.cuny.edu.
The Julián
Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
Visit the Latino
News section of the JSRI website. It is updated often and offers insightful
articles to Latino news around the globe. The link is:
http://jsri.msu.edu/cgi-bin/news/index.cgi.
Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, December
10, 5:30 pm
Panel Discussion: The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Significance of December
12. The discussion will feature Fr. Virgilio Elizondo, Dr. Timothy Matovina,
and Rev. Maxwell Johnson. It will be held at McKenna Hall, Room 208, with
a reception and book signing to follow.
For more info on Institute events, visit their website at http://www.nd.edu/~latino/news/index.html.
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR YOUR STUDENTS
The UCLA Institute
of American Cultures (IAC), in cooperation with UCLA's four Ethnic Studies
Research Centers - American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies
Center, Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research
Center - offers fellowships to postdoctoral scholars in support of research
about these groups. The fellowship includes a stipend (which can be used
as a sabbatical supplement) that ranges from $27,000 to $32,000, research
support of up to $4,000, and health benefits. Completed applications are
due by December 31, 2002. Fax or e-mail applications will not be accepted.
Interested candidates should also immediately send preliminary information
to the CSRC, including full name, mailing address, telephone, e-mail address,
and an abstract of their proposed research. The contact at the CSRC is:
Carlos Manuel Haro, Ph.D., Interim Assistant Director, Chicano Studies
Research Center, Haines Hall 193A University of California, Los Angeles,
CA 90095-1544. For more info, please send an e-mail to
cmharo@csrc.ucla.edu.
Mexico-North is pleased
to announce the 2003 competition for fellowships in its Program in US-Mexican
Transnationalism. The fellowships are available to both graduate students
and Ph.D. scholars. Eight fellowships will be awarded, four to US scholars
who will conduct research at Mexican institutions that are members of
the Mexico-North Research Network and four to Mexican scholars who will
conduct research at US institutions that are members of Mexico-North.
This fellowship program is made possible by support from the Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State
and the Dirección de Comunidades Mexicanas en el Exterior and the
Dirección General para América del Norte of Mexico’s
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Research projects on any aspects
of U.S-Mexican transnationalism will be considered, but the projects must
focus on topics that have not been thoroughly explored and must contribute
significantly to the advancement of scholarship on transnationalism. Application
packets should be mailed by January 15, 2003 to: The Mexico-North Research
Network, Transnationalism Fellowship Program, 318 W. Houston Street, Suite
220, San Antonio, TX 78205. All inquiries regarding the fellowship program
should be directed to Ms. Greta de León, Director of Programs at
(210) 229-1055. Further information on the Mexico-North Research Network
is available at www.mexnor.org.
FACULTY
OPPORTUNITIES
The Chicana/o Studies
Program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison invites applications
for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 2003. Applications
are invited from qualified persons with expertise in Chicana/o and Latina/o
Studies and a specialization in a variety of areas, including but not
restricted to Sociology, Communication Arts, Social Work, or Psychology.
Areas of particular interest are open, including demography, immigration,
transnational labor, social movements; film and television studies, the
role of communication media in forming ideas about social identity; border
culture; cognitive psychology, educational equity and diversity; social
constructions of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and nation;
social work services to communities of color, child welfare, macro practice,
and health and mental health among Chicano families. This position includes
professorial duties in the Chicana/o Studies Program and a tenure-granting
department. Application deadline is January 15, 2003, or until position
is filled. Interested applicants should send letter of application, CV,
sample publications, and three letters of recommendation to: Professor
Rubén Medina, Director, Chicana/o Studies Program, University of
Wisconsin, 313 Ingraham Hall, 1151 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
The Department of
Education at the University of California, Los Angeles announces an open
rank, tenure-track faculty position in higher education, specializing
in one of the following areas: equity and access, student learning and
development, and higher education policy. Special consideration will be
given to those candidates who possess the ability to train graduate students
in quantitative methodologies. The Department is particularly interested
in and values candidates who have experience working with students from
diverse backgrounds and a demonstrated commitment to improving access
to and the conditions in higher education for underrepresented students.
The candidate will be affiliated with the Division of Higher Education
and Organizational Change (HEOC) in the Department of Education. Send
application letter describing your research and teaching interests, along
with curriculum vitae, sample publications, and three references to: Daniel
G. Solorzano, Chair, Department of Education, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521. The screening of applications
will begin on January 15, 2003 and continue until the position is filled.
For more information, contact Professor Patricia McDonough, Chair of the
Search Committee, at heocsearch@gseis.ucla.edu.
The University of
South Florida is seeking an experienced leader with a distinguished academic
and administrative record to direct the University's interdisciplinary
Latin American, Caribbean, (LAC) and Latino Studies program. The primary
responsibilities of the Director will include administration of academic
programs, support of faculty scholarship and teaching, recruitment and
retention of LAC faculty, writing and administering grants, promoting
Latin American and Caribbean studies across campus, creating and sustaining
productive relationships/exchanges with institutions in the region, and
cultivating beneficial relations with the local community. Candidates
should submit a letter of application that includes two copies of professional
accomplishments and goals, a cv, and the names of three references. Applications
must be received by January 3, 2003 and should be submitted to: Noel Smith,
Chair, c/o Laura Pierce, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Director
Search, CPR 107, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, Tampa,
Florida 32620. For more information, visit their website at:
http://web.usf.edu/~lacs/.
The Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas El Paso invites
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning
Fall 2003. They are seeking a human geographer or spatially-oriented sociologist
or anthropologist with an earned doctorate. Research and teaching interests
applicable to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands are desirable, as are interests
in urban or regional planning or community development. Candidates should
be able to collaborate in interdisciplinary research projects. El Paso/Ciudad
Juarez, with 2.2 million people, is the largest border metropolis in the
world, offering outstanding opportunities for social science research.
Review of applications will begin January 1, 2003 and continue until the
position is filled. Send detailed letter of application, CV, and names
of three references to David Carmichael, Chair, Geography Search Committee,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UTEP, El Paso, TX 79968-0558.
The Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Texas El Paso invites
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2003.
They seek a medical sociologist or anthropologist with an earned doctorate,
whose interests are interdisciplinary and applicable to the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands. El Paso/Ciudad Juarez, with 2.2 million people, is the largest
border metropolis in the world, offering outstanding opportunities for
social science research. Review of applications will begin January 1,
2003 and continue until the position is filled. Send detailed letter of
application, CV, and names of three references to Cheryl Howard, Chair,
Medical Search Committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, UTEP,
El Paso, TX 79968-0558.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, SUBMISSIONS, OTHER
The 5th CRI Conference
on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies will be held on October 22-25, 2003,
at the University Park Campus of Florida International University. Deadline
for submission of all paper and panel proposals is February 15, 2003.
For further details on this or other CRI activities, please check their
website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
For more information or to send your abstract, contact: Lisandro Pérez,
Director (perezl@fiu.edu) or Uva de
Aragón, Associate Director (aragonu@fiu.edu)
at: Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University, DM 363,
University Park, Miami, FL 33199, or be phone at (305) 348-1991.
The Mauricio Gastón
Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, at the University
of Massachusetts Boston, is seeking submissions for an edited volume about
the growing presence of Latinos in New England. The 2000 Census revealed
that the New England region is home to almost one million Hispanics. Between
1990 and 2000 the population increased by 54% reaching 875,225. The Institute
is interested in addressing the trends and issues defining this important
community. This project will encompass the six states of the New England
region, focusing on areas of Latino concentration. They encourage studies
based on the 2000 Census and other current data sources, especially studies
that present a comparative analysis over time (i.e., 1990-2000 trends).
Also to be considered are qualitative studies using ethnographic methods,
institutional analyses and other approaches. The manuscript length should
be about 30 double-spaced pages (at 250 words per page, about 7,500 words).
Deadline for submissions is May 15, 2003. Send inquiries via e-mail to:
Andres.Torres@umb.edu. Mail
your manuscript to: Andrés Torres, Director, Mauricio Gastón
Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston
MA 02125-3393.
IUPLR E-mail Update
compiled by:
Victor Saenz
vsaenz@prodigy.net
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