LLC Student News October 3, 2013
1.  LLC graduate student, Satarupa Joardar, is a HASTAC fellow, and she has created a blog on social media and social protest here: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/satarupa/2013/10/03/hello-everyone

HASTAC ("haystack") is an alliance of individuals and institutions inspired by the possibilities that new technologies offer us for shaping how we learn, teach, communicate, create, and organize our local and global communities.

2.  Congratulations to Latasha Eley, LLC cohort 14, who is the new Assistant Director of Admissions at Richard Bland College of William and Mary.  Richard Bland College, located in Petersburg, VA, is the Junior College of Tasha's alma mater, the College of William & Mary.  Reporting directly to the VP of Enrollment Services, in her new position Tasha will coordinate and direct RBC's outreach and recruitment efforts and admissions processes for new, transfer, and international undergraduate students.  She will also supervise the Office of Admissions full-time staff. 

For more information about Richard Bland College, please visit www.rbc.edu.  For more information about the College of William & Mary, please visit www.wm.edu.  
]]> 1.  LLC graduate student, Satarupa Joardar, is a HASTAC fellow, and she has created a blog on social media and social protest here: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/satarupa/2013/10/03/hello-everyone... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/36551/guest@my.umbc.edu/4c43bcd420dac637a0a04db930916225/api/pixel Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/llc https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/original.jpg?1375383725 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xlarge.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/large.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/medium.png?1375383725 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/small.png?1375383725 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xsmall.png?1375383725 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/537/e594b22cf15b445f7476775aa508e9c3/xxsmall.png?1375383725 Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program 0 0 true Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:22:47 -0400 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:20:23 -0400 CFP: The 1st Annual LLC Graduate Student Conference at UMBC “Rethinking Intellectual Activism” “Rethinking Intellectual Activism”
The 1st Annual LLC Graduate Student Conference at UMBC
Saturday, April 12, 2014
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

Deadline for Proposals: November 30, 2013

Chicana feminist writer Gloria Anzaldúa once said, “To be part of an alliance or coalition is to be active, activist. Why do we make alliances and participate in them? We are searching for powerful, meaning-making experiences. To make our lives relevant, to gain political knowledge, to give our lives as a sense of involvement, to respond to social oppression and its debilitating effects. Activists are engaged in a political quest. Activists are alienated from the dominant culture but instead of withdrawing we confront, challenge.” Where do scholars stand with regard to activism and transformative politics? Do they confront and challenge the dominant culture or serve to safeguard the status quo in the privileged comfort of the “ivory tower” of academia? Can we envision the university as a place of intellectual activism? Or should we reinvent the institution and scholars’ roles in it to make it a space of “political quest?”

We invite you to join us as we explore the potential meanings and practical implications of “intellectual activism,” which, as a political praxis of knowledge production, validation, and distribution, can take many different forms. By focusing on the notion of “intellectual activism,” the conference aims to open a critical discursive space to question and reimagine the role of the university in maintaining and/or disrupting the systems and operations of power within and through which the institution functions. In order to rethink the (actual and/or imagined) boundaries of the university and activism in a relational framework, the conference intends to bring together scholars, activists, and artists and let them engage in stimulating dialogues about the future of the university as a political place of knowledge production and social justice promotion.

We look forward to a day of inspiring dialogues that engage graduate students from all social sciences and humanities inter/disciplines and activists working to bring social justice on various political fronts. We encourage proposals that investigate “intellectual activism” from political, historical, sociological, philosophical, pedagogical, economic, feminist, postcolonial, literary, queer, etc. perspectives.

Potential themes may include but are not limited to:
● Historical or theoretical analyses of activist movements and strategies both within and outside the institutionalized context of the university
● Coalition building between scholars and activists
● An examination of what is or should be the relationship between the community and the university
● Theorizing and practicing action-research methodologies
● Policing of radical ideologies in institutionalized educational settings
● Critical pedagogies and their discontents
● Institutionalization of feminist politics in the university
● Queer theory as intellectual activism
● Academic publications as oppositional discursive spaces
● Conservative policies/activisms and the academy
● The relationship between social media and social justice
● Prison-Industrial Complex and/or criminal justice
● Building and preserving public history and cultural heritage
● Immigration policies and reforms
● Urban renewal projects and “community development”
● Sexual violence against women and/or the LGBT community
● Gender inequality, particularly in light of recent attempts to legislate women’s bodies and healthcare in the United States or abroad
● Marriage equality, LGBT rights, and other normative forms of inclusion
● The relationship between the text and the critic
● Protest as performance and performance as protest

We welcome proposal submissions of full panel discussions (3 or 4 panelists), roundtable discussions (4-5 participants), or individual papers. If you submit an individual proposal, we may place you in a panel with 2 or 3 other presenters working on similar topics. You will have 15 minutes to present your paper. Each panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. We also welcome proposals of performative works and art installations. This is an all-day event; breakfast and lunch will be provided on conference site. Proposals of 200-400 words should be submitted at http://bit.ly/15Ch9jT no later than 12:00 midnight on November 30, 2013.

For questions about the conference, you can contact us at llcgradconference@gmail.com. For more information about the Language, Literacy and Culture PhD program, visit http://llc.umbc.edu. The invitations to the conference will be sent out via email by January 15, 2014.
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A UMBC graduate working for U.S. Rep. William L. Enyart shared the following announcement. You are welcome to apply even if you are not from Illinois.

Fall Internship with Illinois Congressional Office

Democratic Member of Congress from Illinois is seeking interns for Fall 2013. Applicants should be motivated, organized, and reliable individuals. Responsibilities will include assisting legislative and administrative staff with various projects and tasks, including legislative research, answering and directing phone calls, leading tours of the Capitol Building, attending legislative briefings and other duties. Applicants must be proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel and be currently enrolled in an academic program. Interns can work part-time or full-time and academic credit can be secured for this internship. Applicants with Illinois ties are preferred.

Please send cover letter and resume to il12internship@gmail.com with “Fall 2013 Internship” in the subject line.

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The Political Science Department invites applications from eligible students for its Spring 2014 Internship Programs: the Legal Internship Program and the Policy, Politics, and Public Administration Internship Program. Program information, eligibility criteria, and application instructions are available at http://www.umbc.edu/politicalsci/internships/.

Keep in mind that the application requires two recommendations from faculty, so please plan accordingly. Students specifically interested in interning with Maryland’s legislature, the General Assembly, should try to meet the priority application deadline of Tuesday, Oct. 22. The deadline to apply for all other internships is Friday, November 8. PLEASE NOTE: Students interested in internships relevant to international affairs should be looking into possible placements NOW and should apply to the Policy, Politics, and Public Administration Internship Program as soon as possible. Many placements of interest require applications before POLI’s deadline.

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1. The following LLC students book reviews appeared in current issue of HyperRhiz http://www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz10 :

Quinn Slobodian, Foreign Front
Romy Hubler

Stacy Alaimo, Bodily Natures
Christopher Justice

Maurice Berger, For All the World to See
Diane Kuthy

The Third Space and Beyond: H. Campbell, Digital Religion
Laura Rutter Strickling

Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman, Networked
K. A. Wisniewski

Jeffrey Jones, Lighthole
Tymofey Wowk

Hyperrhiz is published yearly in conjunction with our parent journal Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. We welcome submissions of net art, new media scholarship and criticism, and reviews of media-related books or blogs.

2. Erin Berry's panel paper was accepted for the Africana Studies Conference at James Madison University: REVOLUTION: Reclaiming Traditions, Redefining Change in Africa and the Diaspora.

3.  Kevin Wisniewski is publishing the lead chapter in the new anthology Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media (Bloomsbury, January 2014). The chapter, “Betwixt and Between: Reading the Child in M. Night Shyamalan’s Films,” appears at the start of the first section of the book, “Rites of Passage and Impasse.” Kevin will also present a paper at the upcoming conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) & Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP), Nov. 8-10: “Improving the Art of Paper War: Francis Hopkinson and the Performance of the Press in the Early Republic”.

4.  John Fritz (Cohort 12) has been named editor of the "reflective practitioner" section of the new Journal of Learning Analytics published by the Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR).  Earlier this year, the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) published Fritz's research bulletin "Using analytics at UMBC: Encouraging student responsibility and identifying effective course design" (free Educause login required until October 30, publicly available thereafter). Fritz is starting his 5th year in the LLC program, passed comps this summer, and is working on his proposal.
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Prize winners will be selected at "INDS Presents... Apocalypse!" on Tuesday, October 29, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.  See attachment for complete competition rules.  Visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/1403073873248976/
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Here's what Dr. MacManus had to say about her experience as a Post Doctoral Fellow, and transitioning to her new post as Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender + Women's Studies.

"I feel welcome and wanted here. The warm and supportive community within the department of gender and women’s studies was a major reason why I stayed at UMBC. I felt supported intellectually, community-wise on campus, and personally. I had the support that I needed to succeed.

It also said a lot to me that UMBC valued the liberal arts and humanities enough to invest in hiring new faculty in gender and women’s studies, and investing in the humanities overall. The fellowship gave me time and support to transition from graduate school to the faculty. I designed my own classes, but also had the time to do my own research. I learned how to balance that, which I think is hard for new faculty right out of graduate school.

I think I’m super fortunate. I keep telling everyone that I think I won the jackpot." ]]> The Department of Gender + Women's Studies is very pleased to announce our most recent addition to the GWST faculty. Dr. Viviana MacManus is currently featured on the UMBC homepage, along with Dr.... http://gwst.umbc.edu/viviana-macmanus/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/35823/guest@my.umbc.edu/409ac629f5e6ff3cfe848265f6a3c6e6/api/pixel Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/gwst https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/xsmall.png?1551107229 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/original.png?1551107229 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/xxlarge.png?1551107229 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/xlarge.png?1551107229 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/large.png?1551107229 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/medium.png?1551107229 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/small.png?1551107229 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/xsmall.png?1551107229 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/442/0951c34dc17cf35be31bb59fa96435df/xxsmall.png?1551107229 Department of Gender + Women's Studies https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/xxlarge.jpg?1379517889 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/xlarge.jpg?1379517889 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/large.jpg?1379517889 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/medium.jpg?1379517889 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/small.jpg?1379517889 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/xsmall.jpg?1379517889 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/035/823/0387e752de768f5209f20749c0d910ad/xxsmall.jpg?1379517889 8 0 true Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:20:12 -0400 Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:21:11 -0400 GWST faculty, Dr. Gloria Chuku, publishes edited volume The Igbo Intellectual Tradition The Department of Gender + Women's Studies is proud to announce the released of Dr. Gloria Chuku's edited volume "The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought"

"In this groundbreaking collection, leading historians, Africanists, and other scholars document the life and work of eleven Igbo intellectuals who, educated within European traditions, came to terms with the dominance of European thought while making significant contributions to African intellectual history. Mediated through a variety of interpersonal relationships, debates, and changing ideas over the course of three centuries, the figures covered here - including Oluadah Equiano, Chinua Achebe, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mbonu Ojike, Kenneth Dike, and many others - struggled to balance the defense of Africa against Western imperial discourse with the development of an authentic African intellectual heritage, even as their identities were shaped by both forces."

More information is available from Macmillian Publishers:
http://us.macmillan.com/theigbointellectualtradition/GloriaChuku
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