Stop Day Colloquium: Spring 2010

Department of Spanish & Portuguese Stop Day Colloquium
Call for Participants

Are you preparing to make a conference presentation and want to practice your delivery with a friendly audience? Are you considering submitting a paper for a conference and seeking constructive feedback on your work? Do you want to have the professional experience of presenting your work to a scholarly audience without incurring the costs of conference travel?

GRASP and the department's faculty invite you to submit a brief description and title (no more than 100 words) to participate in the Stop Day Colloquium, an informal forum for sharing your work with your colleagues and professors. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes (normally the equivalent of 9-10 pages of double-spaced text), the standard allotment for conference presentations. Whether you're exploring the experience of reading a paper to an academic audience for the first time or looking to polish your skills before your next conference performance, the colloquium is meant to foster this important aspect of professional development. Feel free to contact your GRASP representatives, Professor Bayliss (rbayliss@ku.edu) or Professor Rivera (ijrivera@ku.edu) for further information. Proposals are due by Friday, April 30 and should be sent to either Professors Rivera or Bayliss.

Summer Job Opportunity: KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy

The KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy is a pre-college program that serves Kansas high school students from migrant farmwork backgrounds. Most of their students are Latino, many are bilingual, and some are beginning English language learners. The KU Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy needs residence hall staff for June 2010! Please help spread the word about this job opportunity with Latin American Studies students at the junior/senior/grad levels? Preference is given to bilingual (Spanish/English) applicants.

Who Are We?

The Harvest of Hope Leadership Academy (HHLA) is a 3-week residential program for 50 Kansas high school students from migrant farmwork backgrounds, held on the KU campus, June 6-27, 2010. The mission of HHLA is to empower and support migrant high school students through academic enrichment, leadership development, and college preparation.
For more information regarding the program, see www2.ku.edu/~hhla.

What Do RAs Do?

The HHLA Residence Hall Director and Residence Assistants (RAs) have primary responsibility for the overall physical and emotional safety and wellbeing of student participants throughout the Academy. They live in the residence halls with our HHLA student participants for the duration of the appointment: 24-hour residency, 5 days-a-week for three weeks. RAs also attend a 3-day staff orientation, June 2-4. RAs tutor, counsel, teach, supervise, and serve as positive role models.

Attached is a pdf flyer and here’s the link to the KU employment website: https://jobs.ku.edu.

Go to the Unclassified Professional Staff tab and refer to position # 206685.

Questions can be directed to Stacy Mendez by phone (785.864.7027) or email smendez@ku.edu.

Stansifer Fellowship Fund

Latin American Studies is pleased to announce a competition for the Stansifer Fellowship Fund for 2010-2011. This fund was endowed by Professor Emeritus Charles Stansifer. The award is for the support of graduate students planning to complete a doctorate in the study of Middle America (defined as Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.)

Priority is to be given first to students of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or Panama) second to Mexico, third to the Caribbean, and fourth to students of relations between the United States and any Middle American country.

Graduate students from any department in the College of Arts and Sciences are eligible. An interdisciplinary committee from Latin American Studies will decide the competition. The award will depend upon the interest from the endowment but will not exceed $5000 per year. A student may hold the fellowship in succeeding years, at the discretion of the committee.

Applications are due Tuesday, March 23 and should include a letter of interest, including why the candidate deserves to receive thefellowship, three letters of recommendations, and transcripts from graduate and undergraduate institutions.

Applications and nominations for the fellowships can be sent to Latin American Studies, 320 Bailey Hall.

GRASP Scholarly Presentation Award

This year, with the funds that GRASP has earned from the Graduate Professional Association (GPA), we have decided to offer financial support for academic presentations to the graduate students in the department. There are enough funds to offer two awards of $50 each, which can be used for registration and/or travel expenses. These funds need to be allocated by the end of March, so the deadline for submissions is March 12, 2010.

We hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity!