You are invited to a screening of the film, “In Their Footsteps: An American Muslim Civil Rights Journey,” on Thursday, October 11, from 8:15pm to 9:15pm, in Lecture Hall One. The MSA will co-host the screening in collaboration with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the UMBC Black Student Union (BSU).  

Click here to watch the trailer.  RSVP is requested at: intheirfootsteps.eventbrite.com  Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

 

The goals of the screening are: 1) to get feedback from attendees and 2) to have the attendees go beyond being inspired, to sign up during/after the screening with actions they can sign up for to start doing racial justice work. For this last piece, we will be reaching out to other organizations  as well as professors on campus who are involved with racial justice work.

The Language Training Specialist (LTS) is a non-supervisory FP-03/GS-13 position and serves as technical advisor on language program design and management, language program staff development and language materials development.  The LTS collaborates to develop strategies, systems, procedures and materials that support language programming, participates in the collection and analysis of language training data and reports findings to stakeholders within the agency. The LTS designs and advises on the development of training for language instructors, developing standard curriculum, training materials and guidance, and may travel to Peace Corps posts to provide staff training and technical assistance. The LTS facilitates information and materials sharing among country language programs and serves as liaison and advocate for language training issues.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. 

Applications accepted through October 26th.

Details can be found here.

DATES: April 11-13, 2019

Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Call for Papers: At the Boundaries of Ourselves: Masculinities & Decoloniality 

Building off of the innovative presentations and lectures given at the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) conference in March 2018 in Minneapolis, this conference seeks to push forward the field of Critical Studies of Men & Masculinities further. Last year the theme – ‘Bodies, Sexualities, Masculinities’ – addressed critical gaps in the field related to sex and sexualities and their connection to bodies. Similarly, this year’s conference looks to examine the holes in the field related to issues of space, borders, location, the interface of space and ontologies (urban, rural, remote... hipsters, lumbersexuals, farmers, but also masculinity, mental health and space), masculinity and dis-location (spatial and ephemeral: inclusion/exclusion i.e.), borders and migration, nation building colonial invasion, ontological hybridity and buttressing (whiteness, one-drop politics, mestizos...), colonialism, indigeneity, and the ways that these impact on men and masculinities globally. As part of this, AMSA is hosting its annual conference for the second time outside of the US at Brandon University in Canada. 

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2018

See attachment for details.