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El
Noticiero de IUPLR
INSIDE the Junly 2003 Noticiero
de IUPLR:
- IUPLR
invites faculty to recommend educational links and sources of information
for curriculum development in Latino studies
- Anna
Escobedo Cabral named to head Smithsonian’s Center for Latino
Initiatives
- The Mauricio
Gastón
Institute at UMASS-Boston is seeking submissions for an edited volume
about the growing presence of Latinos
in New England
- ILS
announces a new art exhibit at the Galería América@ND
entitled the Serie Print Project, opening June 6 through September
30
- CMAS
is co-sponsoring an NCLR Conference session that features CMAS faculty
members who have published recent path-breaking books in their respective
fields
- The
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research grant
applications for multidisciplinary/translational research
- The National Council of La Raza announces its 2003 NCLR Annual
Conference in Austin, Texas on July 12-15, 2003
- The
University of Colorado is pleased to announce a special gender and
information technology issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
- Memoria,
voz, y patrimonio: The First Conference on Latino/Hispanic Film,
Print and Sound Archives will be hosted at UCLA on August 15-17,
2003
- The National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is hosting a
Symposium
this fall entitled “Increasing
Diversity in Clinical Trials: Best Practices”
IUPLR
HEADQUARTER NEWS
IUPLR invites faculty to recommend educational links and sources of
information for curriculum development in Latino studies. Every month
we intend to feature one or two such links, depending upon interest and
submissions from our readers. Send submissions to: Refugio Rochin, IUPLR
DC Liaison Rrochin@nd.edu
.
This month, we are featuring Professor Antonia Valenzuela's Latino Education
Policy in Texas course website. This past semester at UT-Austin, she
taught a graduate-level policy course in the Department of Curriculum
and Instruction and the LBJ School for Public Affairs titled, Latino
Education Policy. One of our main accomplishments was to build this website
titled, _Latino Education Policy in Texas: http://www.edb.utexas.edu:16080/latino/index.html.
Message for the IUPLR Health and Human Services list serve: Access the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Electronic Newsletter,
Issue #102, June 13, 2003, online at http://www.ahrq.gov/.
This is the Noticiero’s 7th 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.
Please
send your center updates, center events, faculty news, faculty opportunities,
fellowship opportunities, and publication news to Victor Saenz, vsaenz@prodigy.net.
CENTER NEWS
Smithsonian
Center for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution
Anna Escobedo Cabral, president and CEO of the Hispanic Association on
Corporate Responsibility (HACR) in Washington, D.C., will become director
of the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives July 21. Cabral, 43,
will be responsible for fulfilling the center's mission of fostering
understanding and appreciation of Latino history and culture using the
vast resources of the Smithsonian's collections, research and public
programs, both in Washington and across the United States. "We're
delighted to welcome Anna Cabral, an experienced leader with national
stature, to this important position at this critical time," Smithsonian
Secretary Lawrence Small said in announcing her appointment. "Her
work is well known and respected by Latino community representatives,
members of Congress, and business leaders. She will galvanize our continued
efforts to better serve the Latino community and all our visitors." As
president and CEO of HACR since 1999, Cabral manages a national, nonprofit
organization consisting of a coalition of the 10 largest and most influential
national Hispanic organizations in the United States. HACR's mission
is to establish partnerships with Fortune 1000 companies to achieve greater
inclusion of Hispanics in corporate America in four core areas: employment,
procurement, philanthropy and governance. President Bush appointed Cabral
to the President's Council on the 21st-Century Work Force, which provides
guidance and advice to the President and the Secretary of Labor, in 2002.
Cabral succeeds Center Founding Director Refugio Rochin, who left the
Smithsonian in September 2002, to become senior associate for development
at the National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts in Washington. Francisco
Dallmeier, director of monitoring and assessment of the Biodiversity
Program at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, has been serving as acting
director of the center. The Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives
was established by the Institution's Board of Regents in May 1997, and
opened its doors on August 10, 1998. In establishing the center, the
Regents stated: "The Latino presence in the Americas is centuries
old, culturally rich and demographically vast and growing. The Center
is dedicated to the generation of new knowledge...to the end that American
history and culture may be understood and displayed in all its diversity."
Visit the Center for Latino Initiatives’ Calendar of Events web
page at: http://latino.si.edu/latinsitio/explolatino/exploindex.html for
the most recent listing of sponsored events and exhibits around the country.
Mauricio
Gaston Institute, UMASS-Boston
Call for Papers: Latino New England Trends and Issues. 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 Mauricio
Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, at
the University of Massachusetts Boston, is seeking submissions for an edited
volume about this growing presence. We are 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.
We 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. Papers may focus on generic Hispanic
populations in a specific geographic area, or on discrete groups by country-of-origin
(Dominicans, Salvadorans, etc.). Comparisons between Latino groups are also welcome
(i.e., Puerto Ricans and Mexicans). The new deadline for submissions is August
31, 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.
The Julián
Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
JSRI invites all to visit Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State to view
a new exhibit "Landscape, Faith, People: Mexican Photographs" by
Paul Strand, on display now through July 25, 2003 in the Works on Paper
Gallery. This exhibit features 20 photographs from American photographer
and filmmaker Paul Strand’s (1890-1976) Mexican Portfolio, taken
between 1932 and 1933. In these photographs Strand combines the finest
quality of photography with social responsibility for the political and
social concerns at that time in Mexico. Admission to Kresge Art Museum
is free. For hours and additional information, call (517) 355-7631.
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..
Chicano Studies
Research Program, University of Texas at El Paso
From May 29 through July 3, CSRP at UTEP is sponsoring an exhibit: "Mexican
Revolution" & "Early El Paso Women" featuring 40 artists.
The exhibit is housed at Hal Marcus Gallery, 800 N. Mesa Suite 100. There
will be a Gallery Talk on Thursday, June 19, 7:00 p.m. For additional
information contact Hal Marcus Gallery at (915) 533-9090.
For more info on Center events, contact (915) 747-5462, or visit their
website at http://www.utep.edu/chicano/events.htm.
Centro de
Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College-CUNY
The Centro will be celebrating its 30th anniversary during the 2003-04
academic year. To commemorate this milestone, they have planned a celebration
on September 19, 2003, with a keynote speaker and fundraising gala hosted
by El Diario/La Prensa. Stay tuned for more details
Institute
for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
ILS announces a new art exhibit at the Galería América@ND
entitled the Serie Print Project, opening June 6 through September 30.
The Serie Print Project is the work of 17 Artists & Printmakers,
originally sponsored by La Pena, the City of Austin under the auspices
of the Austin Arts Commission and the Texas Commission on the Arts. The "Serie
Print Project" is a fine art printing project administered by Coronado
Studios in Austin, Texas. It offers the facilities, materials, and a
master printer for artists generally creating in a new medium. It was
conceptualized and modeled after a similar project sponsored by Self-Help
Graphics in East Los Angeles. Austin artist Sam Coronado, took to the
process on a visit to Self Help in 1993 and began a replica of the program
for Austin later that year. Visit Galería América@ND at
230 McKenna Hall, at the University of Notre Dame.
For information on Institute events, contact Carmen Macharaschwili, Program
Coordinator for the Institute for Latino Studies, at (574) 631-3747 or
at cmachara@nd.edu.
Center for Mexican
American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
CMAS
at UT-Austin is an active participant in the upcoming National Council
of La Raza Conference
in Austin, Texas. CMAS is co-sponsoring
an NCLR Conference session that features CMAS faculty members who have
published recent path-breaking books in their respective fields. Each
faculty member will present a brief commentary on his or her work and
will be available after the session to sign their books, which will be
avail able for sale at the session. The facilitator will be CMAS Director
Jose Limon, Professor in English & Anthropology at UT-Austin. Panelists
include: Professor Richard Flores (Remembering the Alamo: Memory, Modernity,
and the Master Symbol), Professor Martha Menchaca (Recovering History,
Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans),
Professor Charles Ramirez Berg, (Latinos in Film: Stereotypes, Subversion,
and Resistance), and Professor Richard Valencia, (Chicano School Failure
and Success: Past, Present, and Future). For more info on this event,
visit the CMAS website at: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas/.
FACULTY
OPPORTUNITIES
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invites research
grant applications for multidisciplinary/translational research,
especially mixed-methods research, that will explore the individual,
social, and
service system conditions necessary for people with psychiatric disabilities
to reintegrate into community life; the organizational and service system
conditions necessary to enable service providers to facilitate that reintegration;
and the effectiveness of rehabilitation strategies and programs in helping
socioculturally diverse individuals who have widely varying goals, material
and social resources, and clinical needs. This research has typically
been called "disability" or "psychiatric rehabilitation" research.
Historically, however, this research has focused fairly narrowly on the
use of services; compliance; symptom reduction; easily assessed criteria
of social and vocational success; and cost. The goal of this program
announcement (PA) is to encourage researchers to think beyond usual assumptions
underlying "psych rehab", program fidelity, and outcomes assessment,
and to encourage a focus on the individuals within and outside rehabilitation
programs, who must function within personal, organizational, service
system, cultural, and societal boundaries to achieve a return to community
life. This PA will use the National Institutes of Health (NIH) research
project grant (R01), exploratory/developmental grant (R21), and small
grant (R03) award mechanisms. For more information, contact Ann A. Hohmann,
Ph.D., National Institute of Mental Health Division of Services and Intervention
Research, 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7135, MSC 9631, Bethesda, Maryland,
20892-9631, or call (301) 443-4235, ahohmann@nih.gov. For more information,
check their website at: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-144.html.
The Spanish
Action League is the only community-based organization in Central
New York
that focuses on the problems and issues facing the Latino
community. They are currently seeking an Executive
Director who will be the Chief
Operating Officer of the organization. The Executive Director is responsible
for the overall operation of the agency and its activities. The successful
candidate will have the responsibility of administration and management
of an agency of 30 employees, a budget of 800,000 dollars and report
directly to the Board of Directors. Current programs include Housing
Assistance, Career Development, Family Support, Youth Services, Domestic
Violence, English as a second language, Community Health, and Interpretation/Translation
Services. The Executive director will be required to recommend policy
to the Board of Directors, conduct fundraising campaigns, develop budgets
and report on fiscal status of the agency. The candidate must have
at least 5 years supervisory experience in a multi-service community
based organization. They must be bilingual in Spanish an English and
have the ability to read, analyze and interpret government and financial
reports. They must have strong written and oral communications skills
in order to present information to public groups and the Board of Directors.
A Masters degree in one of Human Services fields or Business Administration
in preferred. Please send your resume to: Chairman, Search Committee,
Spanish Action League, 700 Oswego Street, Syracuse, NY 13204. For more
info, call (315) 475-6153.
The Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara, invites applicants to submit for a Visiting Research Scholar
Fellowship. The Center seeks applications for a post-doctoral fellowship
from scholars who pursue interdisciplinary research on Chicana/o Latina/o
Studies. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
For applications and further information, contact: Director Carlos Morton,
Center for Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6040, (805) 893-2226, fax (805) 893-4446, e-mail:
carlos.morton@chicano.ucsb.edu. Visit the Center web site at: http://research.ucsb.edu/ccs/.
NEWS,
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, SUBMISSIONS, OTHER
The National Council of La Raza announces its 2003 NCLR Annual
Conference in Austin, Texas on July 12-15, 2003. NCLR is pleased to announce that
it is bringing both the Annual Conference and Latino Expo USA to the
Austin Convention Center. As the state capital and home to the University
of Texas, the city supports a politically charged and culturally rich
environment. For more information on the Conference and the Latino Expo,
visit their website at: http://austin2003.wms.cdgsolutions.com/.
Memoria, voz, y patrimonio: The First Conference on Latino/Hispanic
Film, Print and Sound Archives will be hosted at UCLA on August 15-17,
2003.
It will highlight the importance of archives and record keeping which
are essential for the Latino community to document and protect its rights,
to capture its collective memory, and to ensure access to its cultural
past, achievements and legacy. Any individuals wanting to expand their
knowledge of managing Latino film, print and sound materials or creating
a Latino cultural heritage system or repository should attend, including:
archivists, archival students, community organizers, performing artists,
creative artists, writers, journalists, historians, teachers, among others.
For more information, visit their website at: http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/LAConf/.
The Office of AIDS Research is conducting an NIH Training and
Career Development Workshop on HIV Prevention Research for and by Racial
and
Ethnic Minorities on July 26-27, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. The
workshop immediately precedes the 2003 National HIV Prevention Conference.
The
workshop provides mentoring and networking opportunities among junior
and mid-level career racial and ethnic minority researchers, senior minority
investigators, and NIH program staff involved in HIV prevention research.
Applications are due June 20. Interested individuals may find preliminary
information on the OAR website: http://www.nih.gov/od/oar/meetings/default.htm.
For more information, contact Judith D. Auerbach, Ph.D. at auerbacj@od.nih.gov.
The University of Colorado is pleased to announce a special gender
and information technology issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
They are seeking contributions from a broad range of contributors, including
scholars and activists in K-12 education, the arts community, industry,
higher education organizations and the academy, foundations, as well
as unique communities such as women of color and women with disabilities.
The call for papers can be found at http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/genderit/frontiers_cfp.html.
If you have any questions, please contact one of the guest editors: Deborah
Haynes (Deborah.Haynes@colorado.edu), Deborah Keyek-Franssen (deblkf@colorado.edu),
or Nina Molinaro (nina.molinaro@colorado.edu).
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is
asking organizations to post a link on their home page regarding
a Symposium that NIAID is sponsoring this fall entitled “Increasing
Diversity in Clinical Trials: Best Practices.” The Symposium, sponsored by
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is
scheduled for October 2, 2003, at the Bethesda Marriott in Bethesda,
Maryland. This innovative symposium will bring together clinical researchers,
community physicians, nurse coordinators, community advisory board members,
and other healthcare professionals with an interest in increasing the
racial and ethnic diversity of participants in clinical trials. The symposium
will explore culturally-appropriate methodologies in outreach, recruitment,
and retention of racial and ethnic minority participants in clinical
trials. Increasing the diversity of participants in clinical trials is
an important priority of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health, and
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID funds clinical
trials at academic and medical centers in several areas of research including
HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, asthma, organ transplantation and tuberculosis.
For information about the symposium agenda, registration, lodging, etc.,
please check the conference web page at: http://www.orau.gov/hdsymposium/default.htm.
The Taylor
and Francis Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies is now accepting
submissions. Please
visit their website for details at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/14636204.html.
The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies will
be held on October 29-November 1, 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." For further details on this or other
CRI activities, please check their website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies will
be held on October 29-November 1, 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." For further details on this or other CRI
activities, please check their website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
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