ASIANetwork Programs for Students

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Student Paper Competition  For current students and 2017 graduates.  Supports registration and lodging for the 2018 annual conference for up to THREE students.  Winner receives a cash prize and publication in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. Deadline: January 15, 2018

Student Poster Sessions  More than 30 students presented posters at the 2017 annual conference.  We are accepting student proposals for the 2018 Annual Conference, April 6 - 8, 2018, Philadelphia.  Conference theme:  “Mindful Connectivity: Asian Perspectives and Influences." Deadline: November 10, 2017

The McNair Scholars Program
2017 Conference
September 22-23
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel
 
Graduate School Fair
Saturday, September 23rd
2:00  -  3:30 pm
http://mcnair.umbc.edu/2017-conference/
 
 
The Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers offers graduate programs in Public Policy, Planning, and Health Administration.  Please visit their table at the graduate school fair (9/23 from 2:00-3:30 p.m.) and speak with a representative.
 
For more information, please visit their website http://bloustein.rutgers.edu/ or contact Lindsay May,  at:  recruit@ejb.rutgers.edu

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Reading Frankenstein, Reading the 21st Century

Morgan State University - April 12, 2018

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of one of the most influential works of British literature. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been the subject of interpretation from every critical perspective, from Marxism to Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies to Critical Race Theory. Since its original publication, stage and film adaptations have been legion, from Presumption in 1823 to James Whale’s classic 1931 adaption and on through Abbott and Costello, the Hammer Films productions of the 1950s to ’70s, and more recent versions by Kenneth Branagh, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, and Daniel Radcliffe. Beyond the realm of the creative arts, though, Frankenstein has entered the public psyche as a symbol of humanity’s disruption of the perceived natural order. References to this story can be found in discussions of bioethics and genetics, race relations, politics, religion, and foreign policy.

Upon the occasion of the novel’s bicentennial, papers are solicited for a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held on the campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Presenters are encouraged to explore the continuing impact of the novel and its associations in today’s society. Please consider examining this theme through the perspective of any of the following disciplines:

• English or American Literature
• Philosophy
• Business
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Anthropology
• Computer Science
• Women’s and Gender Studies
• Economics
• Fine and Performing Arts
• Health and Physical Education
• History
• Geography
• Medical Technology
• Multimedia Journalism
• Social Work
• Psychology
• Public Health
• Screen Writing and Animation
• World Languages

Please submit 250-word abstracts as MS Word attachments to adam.mekler@morgan.edu by October 1, 2017. Both faculty and students are encouraged to submit and participate.
Please feel free to visit our website: http://l-adam-mekler.com/reading-frankenstein.htm

• approaches to telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines
• learning outcomes of virtual exchange and telecollaboration
• different dimensions of virtual exchange (teachers, teacher trainers, students, administration)
• different modes (blended mobility) and models (e.g. Soliya, Cultura) of virtual exchange
• task design and resources in virtual exchange
• telecollaboration and its role in the development of digital literacies
• technological interfaces and multimodality in telecollaborative exchanges
• virtual exchanges involving learners from non-western contexts and the global South
• telecollaboration and its role in the development of global citizenship
• conflict management in / through telecollaboration
• virtual exchanges as complex learning environments: facing the challenge

• 4 September 2017: call for papers opens
• 15 December 2017: deadline for abstract submission
• 31 January 2018: notification of acceptance; early-bird registration opens
• 28 February 2018: early-bird registration deadline
• 31 March 2018: final registration deadline
• 25-27 April: the conference

The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty whose members pursue research and creative activity across the many diverse fields of English Studies today. In celebrating that work, we would like to acknowledge some of our recent accomplishments.

On June 26, Dr. Jessica Berman gave a lecture, "Trans Reading and Comparative Modernism," at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Later that week, she organized and took part in a roundtable on "Woolf by the Book: Reflecting on Woolf Editions and Companions," at the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Reading, UK. In July, she also gave a paper on "Resourcing Modernism Today: Handbooks, Companions, Guides," on a panel on "Packaging Modernism Today," at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Amsterdam.

 In July, Professor Corbett was the subject of a column in the San Francisco Chronicle celebrating the role of the Pony Express in linking California with the rest of the nation in the early 1860s. To read the article, please visit http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/How-the-Pony-Express-linked-an-isolated-SF-to-the-11306475.php He was also a panelist in June in Kansas City on a panel discussion about Mark Twain in the 19th century West. The panel was sponsored by the Western Writers of America's annual meeting that also feature the writer William Least-Heat Moon, author of Blue Highways.

Professor Michael Fallon's non-fiction essay, "The Woman in the Window," was accepted for publication by the Concho River Review. 

Dr. McKinley will present a paper, "The Survival Table in Boccaccio's Decameron 5.9," at the 4th Annual Conference on Food History and Culture, "The Table of the Senses and the Senses of the Table," to be held at the Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies/Food Heritage/DIATA, University of Coimbra, Portugal from October 25 to 27, 2017. She has also been invited to present a lecture on her book on Chaucer and Boccaccio in the lecture series of the Grellet & Dorothy C. Simpson Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredricksburg, VA, in March 2018.

Professor Purpura was on faculty this summer at the Chautauqua Writing Festival. She has a contract for a new collection of essays (as yet untitled) due out in 2019 with Sarabande Books. New poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Agni and Tin House. A broadside of her Pushcart Prize winning essay, “Scream, or Never-Minding,” will be issued in October from Washington College, where she will give a reading. Haystack School of Crafts recently published her monograph “In the Presence of Makers” (which included a photo by UMBC student Jane Lee). She was the recipient of a Dresher Center Scholarly Completion Grant last spring.  She recently performed with the Poulenc Trio at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.

Dr. Christopher Varlack's book chapter, "'Towards a Trans-Atlantic Approach: Tracing the Modernist Psychodrama and Wasteland Critique--The Poetry of the Political Imagination," was published in Writing the Harlem Renaissance: Revisiting the Vision (Lexington), edited by Emily Allen Williams. This summer, he was invited to serve as the Special Topics Chair for African-American Literature for the 2018 College English Association Conference in St. Petersburg, FL. He will organize all African-American literature panels for the conference, helping to orchestrate the dynamic conversations of texts, history, and popular culture that attendees look forward to each year. He also accepted an invitation to serve as Program Director for the 2018 Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference in Denver, CO.