Sunday, November 22, 2009

OSEA Job Announcement: Program Assistant for 2010 Summer Field School

OSEA Job Announcement: Program Assistant for 2010 Summer Field School

OSEA Seeks 1 or 2 Program Assistants for 2010 Summer Field School. The number of assistants hired will depend upon final program enrollment and qualifications/experiences of applicants. We seek a highly motivated, mature, professional, with developed qualifications and/or experience in both office/clerical management and academic teaching/research. Work schedule includes pre-program activities during April and May, the program per se, and post program activities. The person must also have a flexible yet well defined personality that can adapt to different kinds of social contexts, cultural norms, personalities, and contingencies.

The selected person(s) fulfills one or more roles simultaneously: (A) Teaching and Research Assistant. (B) Instructor, if possible and according to expertise in areas such as conversational Spanish, ethnography, anthropology, or related cultural studies fields. (C) Student Liaison and Supervisor of Student Activities. (D) Financial/Program Administrator.

Time commitment: full time 40-55 hours a week, during the 8 weeks of the OSEA Field School Program plus 4 days prior to start date and 4 days post closing date. In addition, the assistant works approximately 4 weeks at quarter time in pre-program preparation. This may include preparation of course materials, guiding participants with pre-travel issues, and related pre-program activities. During the field school there is scheduled free time and a program break from work (expenses are out of pocket). Total time is approximately 9 weeks on site. There is post-program work of one week at half-time, which can be conducted off-site, to complete administrative responsibilities by September. Pay scale is dependent upon qualifications of applicant. Payment includes food and lodging while on-site, partial to full reimbursement of airfare, ground travel from airport to program site, and a monetary stipend. Benefits include option to take structured Maya language course (at introductory, intermediate, or advanced levels) and advising on Assistant's research and/or writing where relevant/desired. While the position is seasonal, there is the option for continued part-time work during the academic year 2010-11 and renewal of position for 2011.

To apply, send a cover letter that explains your interest in and motivations to work with OSEA and in Yucatán, vita/resume, and contact information for two professional references. The letter should include descriptions of any and all undergraduate or graduate research and travel experience, especially in Latin America and Mexico, disciplinary training to date, professional goals in short and long term. Please send an academic curriculum vitae and either a business resume or an addenda to the CV that details non-academic work experience, positions, and skills, including Spanish or other language proficiencies. Applicants with a minimum of anthropology background is desired but those with training in any related field of cultural-social studies and practical experience in office administration/secretarial, NGO management, community development, and/or art fields are encouraged to apply. Ability to teach or practical experience in teaching conversational Spanish at introductory levels is a welcome skill to highlight. In your cover letter please clarify what special skills, leadership, training, experience, or current projects that you bring to the Field School that would be a unique asset to the development of student participants and staff or that would contribute to the OSEA experience.

Applicants may be graduate students working toward a Masters or a Ph.D. or post-degree professionals with academic/research backgrounds. Applications can be submitted any time from posting until the position is filled or no later than December 15. Submit your materials directly to Quetzil Castañeda, OSEA, 2244 Martha Street, Bloomington, IN 47408.

Quetzil E. Castañeda
Founding Director, OSEA
Visiting Lecturer, Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Indiana University Research Associate in Anthropology, Indiana University

quetzil@osea-cite.org
812.669.1369 office & voicemail
[52] 985.851.0384 Chichén Itzá office (seasonal)
Skype account: quetzil

www.osea-cite.org

Internship with the Mexico Solidarity Network

Mexico Solidarity
Network Internship

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Intern with the Mexico Solidarity Network

The Mexico Solidarity Network has opening for an internship in our
Chicago office. The internship includes some of the following:

1. Organize and travel on a two-week speaking tour. Each tour features a member of a Mexican social movement, including indigenous rights movements, human rights, urban housing movements, campesino movements and community work in Ciudad Juarez. The intern will
schedule events at US universities and community-based groups, then travel on the tour as logistical coordinator, and speak at events on topics including the Mexico Solidarity Network and the history of the speaker.

2. Work in the Albany Park Autonomous Center. The Autonomous Center is located in one of Chicago's largely immigrant neighborhoods, where we work with the Latino Spanish-speaking population. Interns will work with community members to facilitate English classes, political workshops, video nights, fiestas and cultural events.

3. Work in the Alternative Economy program promoting distribution of artisanry produced by Zapatista women's cooperatives.

4. If the applicant has experience with web design, some of her/his work will be on the Mexico Solidarity Network web site.

The successful applicant has the following characteristics:

1. Fluency or near fluency in English and Spanish.
2. Ability to communicate across cultures.
3. Experience in community organizing and/or ESL classes.
4. Self-starter.
5. Minimum six month commitment.

This is a dynamic, fast-paced internship. Interns assume full responsibility for projects under their direction. The position does not include fundraising and very little administrative work. You won't be pushing papers or doing busy work. You will be part of a growing anti-capitalist community-based organization with a strong critique of neoliberalism. Interns are paid $500 per month plus housing, or $900 without housing.

Applicants can send resumes, a short writing sample, and dates of availability to MSN@MexicoSolidarity.org.

Saints in the City: (Re)Discoursing the Religious in the 21st Century

12th Annual Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Santa Barbara

CALL FOR PAPERS

Saints in the City: (Re)Discoursing the Religious in the 21st Century

April 10th, 2010

This conference aims to consider, explore, and analyze the reciprocal relationship between religious discourse in the 21st Century and pop/urban culture. The reconstruction or reconstruction of religiosity and the role of religion is apparent in literary, cultural, and linguistic production, especially in urban spaces, where popular and mass expressions are influenced by and affect new ways of presenting the ‘holy’. Interdisciplinary papers are most welcomed.

The conference is open but not limited to:

Representation of Religion in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Cultures; Religion, Sexuality, and Gender; Pop Art and Religion; The Holy and the City; Religion and Fanaticism; Urban Shrines; Mass Media and Religion; Contemporary Representations of Religion; 21st Century Literature and Religion; Religion and the Physical; Translation Studies; Fine Arts; Theology; Parody and Paraphrase; Social Theory; 21st Century Musical Expression.

We also welcome sociocultural and/or applied linguistics approaches exploring the role of language in the topics mentioned above.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Orlando Grossegesse, University of Minho, Portugal
Professor Antonio Rubial, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics will be hosted by the Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. This conference is organized by graduate students in order to give other graduate students an opportunity to share their current work and areas of research. We invite and encourage all submissions from interdisciplinary perspectives written in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, or English.

Abstract information:

Please submit a 250 words abstract by January 15th, 2009. The abstract should include the title of the paper and no personal information. On a separate page please include the following: title of your presentation, name, e-mail address, institution, and phone numbers. Submissions of panels (not to exceed three papers) are encouraged. Reading time of the presentation should not exceed 15 to 20 minutes in order to allow sufficient time for discussion. Registration fee for all participants is 25 dollars (or 30 dollars for on-site attendance registration).

Submission: Abstracts may be sent to the graduate student conference selection committee via email or post mail:

ucsbgradconference@yahoo.com

Attention: Audrey Lopez (Grad Student Conference)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Phelps Hall
Santa Barbara, CA,93106-4150.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Downward Spirals?: Thinking about Crisis across the Disciplines

Mid-America Humanities Conference
Downward Spirals?: Thinking about Crisis across the Disciplines

A forum for interdisciplinary student research

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

While the experience of uncertainty is common in the modern world, the first decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed events that have contributed to a growing sense of crisis: 9/11 and the ensuing "global war on terror"; the Indian Ocean tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing phenomenon of climate change; and, most recently the collapse of global economic markets. In this context it is useful to critically reflect on the social, political, and cultural implication of "crisis" and "catastrophe."

We invite proposals from undergraduate and graduate students engaged in humanistic inquiry in humanities, social sciences, and arts fields for papers addressing the theme or problem of crisis in historical and/or contemporary contexts. Relevant questions for consideration include, but are not limited to:
  • What are the contextual factors that determine whether an event is interpreted as a "crisis" or as "normal"?
  • In particular crises, what is the relationship between danger and opportunity?
  • In what ways do new cultural forms and media emerge as responses to crises and catastrophes?
  • What is the relationship between crisis and transformation more generally?
  • How do trends in human migration and the proliferation of media bring about crises of identity?
  • What kinds of shifts in gender, race, class or other identities accompany large and small-scale crises?
Interested students are invited to submit 250-word abstracts by Friday, November 15, 2009 to Christopher Forth (cforth@ku.edu) and Marike Janzen (mjanzen@ku.edu).

http://www.hwc.ku.edu/MA_Humanities/

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Cumbre 2010: Movilidad Humana, las Promesas del Desarrollo y Participación Política

Los invitamos a que envíen una breve propuesta, ya sea tipo monografía o presentación sobre trabajo comunitario, para participar en nuestra cuarta Cumbre Latina/Latinomericana de las Planicies. El tema de este año es: "Movilidad Humana, las Promesas del Desarrollo y Participación Política."

La fecha límite para introducir las propuestas es muy pronto: 12 de Diciembre de este año, 2009.

Encontrarán la invitación desplegada en el correo electrónico que les acabo de mandar así como en un archivo PDF con instrucciones sobre cómo elaborar y enviar las propuestas junto con una explicación de lo que significa el tema del congreso.

Si tienen alguna pregunta no duden en llamarnos al teléfono de OLLAS: 402-554-3835 o para mayor información visiten la página de nuestra conferencia:
http://www.unomaha.edu/ollas/cumbre.php

Dependiendo del financiamiento, esperan tener interpretación simultánea (español-ingés) en muchas de las sesiones de la conferencia.

Los que organizan la conferencia quieren agradecer el patrocinio anticipado de muchas organizaciones e invitan a sus socios comunitarios y académicos a ser co-invitantes de la conferencia. La conferencia es GRATIS para la comunidad como expresión de nuestra misión dedicada a abrir espacios de aprendizaje e involucramiento con la comunidad mas allá de las
fronteras de nuestra universidad, UNO.

Cumbre 2010 incluye un taller de formación de líderes y organizaciones, tanto locales como transnacionales, dentro del tema de la conferencia y con un segundo objetivo de preparar un pequeño número de participantes [dependiendo de fondos y espacio] para el foro social
de migración y desarrollo que se llevará a cabo en Quito, Ecuador.

Los facilitadores provienen de América Latina y de Estados Unidos. El espacio para el taller es limitado y más adelante se envían una invitación y ficha de inscripción.

Estén alerta al anuncio de dos concursos para jóvenes, uno de fotografía y otro de poesía y ensayo, que están lanzando como complemento a la conferencia.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños: El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales

II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños
2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS)
Deuxième Conférence Internationale des Études sur les Caraïbes

“El Caribe múltiple y el bicentenario de las independencias hispanoamericanas continentales”

Universidad de Cartagena.
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Marzo 15 – 19, 2010.

Comunicación No. 2:

Conferencistas invitados:

Raphaël Confiant
(Martinica)
Miembro del movimiento criollista, del Grupo de Estudios e Investigación sobre el Espacio Creolófono (GEREC) y profesor en Université des Antilles Guyane. Autor de Eloge de la créolité (1989), con Jean Bernabé y Patrick Chamoiseau; Lettres créoles: tracées antillaises et continentales de la littérature… (1991), también con Chamoiseau, Dictionnaire créole martiniquais-français (2007), entre otros libros. Algunas de sus novelas más recientes son: Adèle et la pacotilleuse (2005), Case à Chine (2007) y Hôtel du bon plaisir (2009). Es uno de los intelectuales caribeños más influyentes de nuestros días.
Enrique Saínz
(Cuba)

Miembro de Número de la Academia Cubana de la Lengua. Autor entre otros de los libros: Silvestre de Balboa y la literatura cubana (1982), La literatura cubana de 1700 a 1790 (1983), La obra poética de Cintio Vitier (1998), La poesía de Virgilio Piñera: ensayo de aproximación (2001), Ensayos en el tiempo (2008) y de Ensayos inconclusos (2009). Colaboró en la elaboración del Diccionario de la literatura cubana (1980-1984) y la Historia de la literatura cubana (2002-2009). Uno de los más prolíficos y connotados ensayistas residentes en la Isla.

Alfonso Múnera Cavadía
(Colombia)

Fundador de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, director del Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe y Vicerrector de Investigaciones de la Universidad de Cartagena. Ha dirigido durante 16 años el Seminario Internacional de Estudios del Caribe. Autor de El fracaso de la nación: región, clase y raza en el Caribe Colombiano: 1717 -1810 (1998) y Fronteras imaginadas: La construcción de las razas y de la geografía en el siglo XIX colombiano (2005). Su obra historiográfica ha contribuido a transformar la visión del Caribe como parte de la nación colombiana.
Entidades patrocinadoras:


Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales
www.areandina.edu.co

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Departamento de Literatura
www.javeriana.edu.co

Universidad de Cartagena
Instituto Internacional de Estudios del Caribe
www.unicartagena.edu.co

University of Texas Pan American
Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
www.utpa.edu/dept/modlang

République Française
Ambassade de France à Bogota
www.ambafrance-co.org/

La II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños tendrá lugar entre el 15 y el 19 de marzo de 2010 en Cartagena de Indias, en la región del Caribe colombiano. El tema central enfatiza pero no limita temáticamente el carácter interdisciplinario de la conferencia. Se sugieren adicionalmente las siguientes temáticas:

 Producción teórico-crítica desde el Caribe.
 Integración regional caribeña y con América Latina.
 Estudios sobre arte, incluyendo música y pintura.
 Estudios culturales y literarios: una perspectiva transnacional caribeña.
 Estudios transatlánticos: Caribe/Europa/África.
 Dinámicas articuladoras entre el Caribe, el Pacífico y Brasil.
 Dinámicas socioculturales andino/caribeñas en Colombia.
 Raza, género y subalternidad epistemológica.
 Educación superior y pedagogías caribeñas ante la globalización.
 Diásporas caribeñas.
 Sostenibilidad ambiental y cultural del mar Caribe.

Se aceptará sólo una propuesta de ponencia o panel por cada autor, ya sea en español, inglés o francés. Los paneles estarán compuestos de hasta 4 ponencias. Ninguna presentación podrá sobrepasar los veinte minutos, este límite será rigurosamente cumplido por los presentadores y los moderadores de secciones. Por favor enviar un resumen de máximo 200 palabras en un archivo adjunto (Word) a: hrromero@panam.edu (en inglés o francés) y a figueroa@javeriana.edu.co (en español) hasta el 15 de noviembre de 2009.

Para actualizaciones e información sobre hoteles, aeropuertos e inscripciones consultar las páginas del evento:

http://www.areandina.edu.co/portal/medios/documentos/pdf/convocatoriacaribe.pdf
http://www.utpa.edu/Dept/modlang/Conference/iccs.htm

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Para más información, por favor contactar a:
Kevin Sedeño Guillén
Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina
Bogotá, D. C., Calle 71 No. 13-21.
Telf.: (57-1) 346 6600, ext. 161. Fax. (57-1) 313 1076.
E-mail: kesedeno@areandina.edu.co

Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía y Teatro 2010

Ernesto Cardenal
y
Rodolfo Santana Salas
en las
Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía y Teatro 2010
Puebla, México

Las XVIII Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericana, que se realizarán en Puebla, México, del 6 al 9 de julio del 2010, anuncian que su sesión de homenaje será dedicada al dramaturgo Rodolfo Santana Salas (Venezuela, 1943), quien estará presente en el acto académico en su honor.

Asimismo, las V Jornadas Internacionales de Poesía Latinoamericana que tendrá lugar en la misma ciudad de Puebla, entre el 12 y 15 de julio del 2010, informan que su sesión de honor será dedicada al poeta Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua, 1925), quien estará presente para recibir
el homenaje académico.

Los organizadores de las Jornadas, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, y el Centro Cultural Espacio 1900, de la Ciudad de Puebla, invitan a investigadores y críticos a participar en las conferencias con temas de su preferencia. Para información sobre las jornadas, viaje y alojamiento, pueden visitar el sitio
www.jornadasmexico.com <http://www.jornadasmexico.com/> .
El extracto de la ponencia debe ser enviada (incluyendo direcciones de teléfono y correo electrónico) antes del 30 de abril del 2010 a cualquiera de las siguientes direcciones:

Óscar Rivera-Rodas
oriverar@utk.edu oriverar@utk.edu>
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996

Georgina Wittingham
whitting@oswego.edu
State University of New York
Oswego, NY 13126-3599