"Looking Back To Move Forward"

Towson University 21st Multicultural Conference

• Colorism: Prejudice Within Communities of Color
• Cultural artwork, short films, and performances
• Representation in Media
• Moving Beyond Tolerance
• Womanism Across Borders
• Policing Our Communities/ Respecting Our Communities
• Know Your Rights
• Islamophobia
• Immigration Reform
• Health and Wellness in Diverse Communities
• Gender Equity

Proposals can be submitted here: https://goo.gl/forms/QAF9bv5PdJkOCIum2

Proposals are due by Monday, March 30, 2016. Presentations should be approximately 1 hour in length, including 15 minutes for discussion/questions. You will be notified regarding your proposal in Mid-March.  If you have any questions, please contact Co-Chairs Joshua White and Aaliyah Perez at towsoncdso@gmail.com

• Working with the project team, and liaising with ECA/A/L and program partners, ensure that program offerings meet program standards for TESOL content and instructional design, and support program objectives.
• Work with project team and ECA/A/L to identify field needs for TESOL related professional development, and evaluate proposals and applications for course and materials development.
• Work with project team to explore and refine best practices for online learning in low-resource environments.
• Assist project team with the implementation of digital platforms, including Drupal-based content management system (CMS) and Canvas learning management system (LMS); programming experience is not required.  Ensure a uniform user experience by evaluating the user interface and visual design of digital components and creating guidelines and templates.  Evaluate and define program specific strategies for engaging Community of Practice (CoP) members and promoting interaction.
• Provide support related to the program’s digital platforms as needed by and requested from program stakeholders including Regional English Language Officers (RELOs) and U.S. Embassy staff, program participants, program partners, and ECA/A/L staff.

• Bachelor's Degree or its International Equivalent - Economics, Education, Environment, Health, Human Development, Information Science, International Development, Social Sciences or Related Field.
• Typically requires 5-8 years of managing data collection and technical assistance experience.
• Proficiency with database management software and on-line search tools required.
• Has sensitivity to cultural diversity and understanding of the political, contextual, and ethical issues in assigned areas.
• Articulate and professional and able to communicate in a clear, positive fashion with clients and staff.
• Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English.
• Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private company.

• Pleasure, joy, jouissance, delight, splendour, enchantment, empathy, and kindness
• Love, passion, and amour fou
• Middlebrow pleasure
• Living the queer life, and queer(ing) happiness
• Eudaimonia, mindfulness, and wellbeing
• Eudaimonic reading, and the eudaimonic turn in cultural and literary studies
• The hermeneutics of suspicion, paranoid and reparative reading, and their aftermath
• Ethical criticism, the ethics of hope, and hopelessness
• The body as site of happiness, joy, pleasure, etc.
• Affect, the theories and/or histories of positive emotions
• Celebration, and celebration as protest
• Burlesque, clowning, circus, carnivals, and the carnivalesque
• Kitsch, camp, and drag
• Sex and play, sex lives, fun
• Vitality, verve, vigour, and liveliness
• Biological life, bios, zoe, survival, sur-vivre [living-on], affirmation
• The utopian tendencies of gender studies and queer theory
• The (queer) future, queer futurity, and happy endings

Gender studies and queer theory are located across and between disciplines, and so we welcome submissions from across (and outside of, against and up against) the full cross-/inter/-trans-disciplinary spectrum, and from inside and outside of conventional academia.

Do not be limited. Be brave. Play with form, style, and genre. Invent, demolish, reimagine.

The deadline for submissions is 29 May 2017.

Written submissions, whether critical or creative, should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, and should adhere strictly to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

All submissions—critical, creative, and those falling in between; no matter the format or medium—will be subject to a process of double-blind peer review.

For more information, please contact our guest editor, Dr Juliane Roemhild: J.Roemhild@latrobe.edu.au

2017 MASC-SLL Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

• Computational models of human language processing
• Computational phonology and morphology
• Discourse and pragmatics
• Evaluation
• Information retrieval and question answering
• Knowledge base population and machine reading
• Language acquisition
• Language disorders
• Language generation and summarization
• Language resources and annotation
• Lexical semantics and ontologies
• Machine learning
• Machine translation and multilingual processing
• NLP for the Web and social media
• Semantics
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Speaker variability
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Syntax and parsing
• Text and document classification
• Text mining and information extraction

Important Dates

• Submission deadline (abstracts): March 31
• Decisions announced: April 10
• Registration opens: April 10
• Program schedule released: April 15
• Registration closes: May 1
• Colloquium: May 6

For more information
If you have questions or need more information, you can send email to the 2017 MASC-SLL organizers at organizers@mascsll.org.