Update: This event will now be held on Thursday, April 13th, 2017, during Graduate Student Week. This event will be co-sponsored by the UMBC Graduate Student Association.

Update: 2/28/17, 4:27 PM:

This event has been postponed. Dr. Hrabowski had a sudden change in his schedule m, but he is trying to see if he can participate in the 2017 Graduate Student Week activities in April instead. Updates will be posted soon.

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On April 13, 2017 (changed from March 1, 2017), we will be having our annual “Pathways to Leadership” seminar talk with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Everyone is invited to come.

On February 10, 2017, a panel will be held on the Salisbury University campus. Everyone is invited to come, and free transportation will be provided! Panel speakers will discuss the academic path in graduate school.

Spring 2017 is coming up and PROMISE AGEP has a new calendar of events for you!  Please see the calendar below to see our events for the next semester. To download the Spring 2017 Calendar of Events, click here: promise-agep-spring-2017-calendar

PROMISE Alumna (College Park), Dr. Alycia Marshall, Professor at AACC, has shared this information:

Positions available:  Anne Arundel Community College has immediate openings for instructors of Astronomy and Physics courses.  Lectures and Lab sections are available. Must have a Master’s degree in a science field.  Teaching experience preferred.

Openings are for one, two or three days a week during the day at the main campus in Arnold, Maryland.  Most sections are day time, limited evening availability.  Classes begin Jan 18^th.  Interested applicants should send a resume or CV with a cover letter expressing their interest to Dr. Kirsten Casey (kacasey@aacc.edu).

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore will be having its 8th Annual Regional Research Symposium on April 18, 2017. Abstracts are currently being accepted. Everyone is invited to come to attend, to present, and/or to support other fellow researchers. Details regarding the symposium are below.

For further details, please visit 

https://www.umes.edu/symposium2017/Default.aspx?id=55623. 

Event Details

Event: 8th Annual Regional Research Symposium

Date: April 18, 2017

Transportation: A bus from the UMBC campus to the UMES campus will be provided. Please email promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject, “UMES Symposium Bus” and indicate your name, major, university, and phone number.

Deadlines

Abstract for oral and poster presentations: December 15, 2016 at 12:00 PM. (Deadline pushed to February 15th)

Abstract submission guidelines: Abstract Guidelines Here

Registration: December 15, 2016 at 12:00 PM (Deadline pushed to February 15th)

Fees

non-UMES/UMBC students: $50.00 registration fee

UMBC students: fee will be waived for all UMBC students

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC) invites submissions across disciplines and fields that engage with the idea of “MOSAIC” in culture and theory. Mosaics are images produced by the arrangement of glass, stone, tile, and other non-precious materials into a pattern. While mosaic most immediately invokes an artistic aesthetic, the term also encompasses notions of perspective, legibility, materiality, representation, collectivity, and place.

Mosaic is a way of considering the relationships between the one and the multiple, troubling the artificial divisions cracking and crackling within our social compositions. As Jason W. Moore contends, we must recognize society and nature as entwined in a world-ecology. World-ecology interrelates capitalism, nature, power, and history as "the fundamental co-production of earth-moving, idea-making, and power-creating across the geographical layers of human experience." Society and nature are often categorically separated, but they must be recognized as always and necessarily co-constituted. Margaret Rhee's art, as both a praxis and poetics of social equality, enacts this kind of social consciousness in storytelling that interrelates being with desire. To recognize a mosaic is to engage in aesthetic attention to the world. This kind of perspective is also being taken up by studies in fields such as (but not limited to) eco-criticism, new materialism, ethnic and indigenous studies, media studies, Marxism.

This conference seeks to further complicate how the moments of world-ecology and social poetics fit together to attend to the permutations and arrangements of parts that make up various social, political, personal, and ecological wholes. What images can we abstract from the uneven fragments and "cheap natures" of our inherited world ecology? How can patterns help us attend to a long history of industrial grids, racial fractals, gendered webs, and class pyramids?  What materials are necessary to form a more sustainable political and empathetic economy? How do we become through our loves?

This two-day conference welcomes and encourages research across disciplines to collectively consider, question, and critique “mosaic” in theory, art, literature, music, architecture, philosophy, ecology, medicine, anthropology, art history, sociology, media, psychology, mathematics, history, biology, etc. MIGC will also showcase an evening of artistic performances, readings, and art installations. Please see the call for creative submissions.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Mosaic and its history in art and cultures
• World-Ecology as mosaic, mosaic in the Anthropocene
• Form and its relation to content
• Assemblages, nature-cultures, and other ways of thinking about nonhuman arrangements
• Mosaic and architecture, urban planning, and public art
• Gender and sexuality as mosaic
• Embodiment as mosaic
• Theories of political organizing and activism
• Literature and film that considers the singular vs. the collective
• Pattern, arrangement, organization in digital media and coding
• Theories of cut-ups, mixed-media, collage in art and cultural texts
• Comics as mosaic
• Games

Questions can be directed to themigc@gmail.com. Please use the form below to submit all submissions by December 1, 2016. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of UWM graduate student organizers.

The 12th annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference is supported by the Center for 21st Century Studies, the College of Letters and Sciences, the Graduate School, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Department of English, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

The Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh announces a two-day colloquium on the topic:

MASCULINITY AND AFFECT
Thursday April 6 and Friday April 7, 2017
602 Cathedral of Learning on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh

Emotion and masculinity have been studied together for decades now. But what would it mean, in 2017, to place affect studies and masculinity studies into dialogue? What do concepts such as energy, force, or pre-conscious bodily sensation do to masculinity and to masculinity studies? Where does affect leave emotion?

We will spend two days generating thought on these and other questions. Our colloquium will include presentations and reading groups and will involve scholars from a broad range of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Presenters (preliminary list):
Pitt Faculty:

• Todd Reeser (GSWS/French)
• Brent Malin (Communication)
• Scott Kiesling (Linguistics)
• Paul Johnson (Comm)
• Julian Gill-Peterson (English)
• Gabby Yearwood (Anthro)
• Julie Beaulieu (GSWS)
• Dominique Johnson (Comm/GSWS)
• William Scott (English)

Non-Pitt faculty:

• Lucas Gottzén (Childhood Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden)
• Jonathan Allan (Gender Studies, Brandon University, Canada)
• Sam De Boise (Musicology, Örebro University, Sweden)
• Natalie Kouri-Towe (Women/Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Canada)
• Chris Haywood (Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle, UK)