Announcement:The Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese is please to announce its 22nd Graduate Colloquium to take place March 24-26, 2016. This event is open to the public. We hope you can join us.Read our full program here. Please join us:
Thursday, March 246:00PM – Opening Keynote – Glenn Martinez - GWB 2.206Keynote Address“Negotiating Border Health: Language and Literacy Practices of Promotoras”
Glenn Martinez, Ohio State University
Colonias are disproportionately Latino settlements close to the U.S.-Mexico border characterized by extreme poverty, inadequate utility services, poor housing and lack of access to social services. Hundreds of colonias exist along the border. Within colonias, community health workers or promotoras have been shown to work effectively in creating a bridge between these marginalized communities and social service, public health and government agencies. Promotoras have been the focus of much of the colonia research; however, little is known about the linguistic and literacy practices in which they engage in order to effectively bridge these two culturally and linguistically encapsulated spaces. Focus groups with promotoras in the Cameron Park colonia of Cameron County, Texas were conducted. A discursive analysis of the focus group data revealed that promotoras engage in multiple language and literacy practices as they seek improvements on behalf of their communities. These practices are characterized by a trans-competence in which promotoras seamlessly weave their way through complex spaces and discourses in order to address problems identified by the community. This research has important implications for cultural and linguistic training of health professionals who interact with coloniaresidents. An understanding of the language and literacy practices in which promotoras engage and the underlying competencies that animate these practices can inform the development of more appropriate language and culture pedagogies for health professionals.
Glenn Martinez is chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, professor of Hispanic Linguistics, adjunct professor of Nursing, and member of the Cancer Control research group of the James Comprehensive Cancer Center at The Ohio State University. He is author of a dozen articles and book chapters on language access in health care, author of two books on Spanish in the United States, co-principal investigator for the Juntos: Integrated Second Language Learning for Chronic Care project funded by the National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disorders, and project director for the Addressing Emerging Needs in Spanish and Portuguese funded by the U.S. Department of Education. He served as Chief Subject Matter Expert for the development of the Rosetta Stone/Kaiser Permanente Advanced Spanish for Healthcare Professionals project and has led other projects funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Humanities Without Walls Consortium funded by the Andrew F. Mellon Foundation.
OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS:Friday, March 25, 3:00pm - Special Artist Talk - Celeste De Luna, CLA 1.302BMapping Geo-Political Space through ArtThis talk is about how art can help map geo-political spaces and personal experiences. Celeste De Luna is an artist influenced by Gloria Anzaldúa’s work on auto-historia as a tool to understand and deconstruct oppressive paradigms in my physical/spiritual/psychic environment. “By processing and making images, I have been able to create change in myself and help decolonize space from within in it.”
Friday, March 25, 4:30pm - Special Talk - Sandra Lorenzano, CLA 1.302B“Fragmentos de memoria: fronteras, contrabando, cenizas”Sandra Lorenzano is an “argen-mex” writer and a literary critic. She was born in Buenos Aires, in 1960, and lives in Mexico since 1976. She holds a PhD in Literature and specializes in contemporary Latin American literature, a subject in which she has published extensively. Furthermore, she combines academic and research work with creative writing. As Vice Provost of Research and Special Projects at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Dr. Lorenzano founded the Creative Writing Program, which is currently under her helm.
Saturday, March 26, 5pm - Keynote: Fernando Arenas, CLA 1.302 B“Time-Space of Portuguese (Post)coloniality: Migrations and the Rise of African Lisbon”Portugal is arguably the European nation with the longest experience with "colonialism" in a variety of configurations, historical moments, and geographical contexts. Yet, given its perennially peripheral status from a geopolitical and economic standpoint, the Portuguese (post-)colonial experience has not been an object of attention outside of the field of Lusophone Studies. This essay provides a brief historical overview to understand the breadth and depth of the Portuguese (post)colonial experience; offers a conceptual map of Portuguese postcoloniality where ideologies of affect and exceptionalism such as Lusotropicalism play a key role; highlights the centrality of immigration for an understanding of Portuguese society — particularly African immigration and its nexus with thehistory of colonialism and racism that reverberates in national debates around race, ethnicity, and interculturality; provides a brief account of the rise of an Afro-Portuguese culture; and presents short readings of Portuguese cinematic texts that exemplify ethical and aesthetic praxes bringing marginalized black subjects to the center of representation in the quest for social and cultural citizenship.Fernando Arenas is a Professor of Lusophone Cultural Studies (including Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa) at the University of Michigan with a dual appointment in the departments of Afro-American and African Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
22nd Graduate Colloquium, March 24-26, 2016, Graduate Student Organization of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas -Austin
Friday, March 18, 2016
ITOC TEACHER EDUCATOR OF COLOR STRAND
The Institute for Teachers of Color (ITOC) is a professional development space for critical teachers of Color. #ITOC16 invites teacher educators of Color who are committed to racial justice to apply to the inaugural teacher educator strand at ITOC. This year we will select 10-15 attendees to build alongside critical teachers of Color. Applications are due April 9!
Thursday, March 17, 2016
John Dewey Society's Centennial Conference of Democracy and Education's publication: April 7-8, 2016
John Dewey Society's Centennial Conference of Democracy and
Education's publication: April 7-8, 2016
John Dewey Society invites you to the Centennial Conference of
Democracy and Education's publication. We bring Dewey's most famous
educational work into conversation with timely themes and challenges
for 21st century democracy. Join us! April 7 and 8, 2016 in
Washington, D.C. - free and open to all but please register.
http://www.johndeweysociety.
Education's publication: April 7-8, 2016
John Dewey Society invites you to the Centennial Conference of
Democracy and Education's publication. We bring Dewey's most famous
educational work into conversation with timely themes and challenges
for 21st century democracy. Join us! April 7 and 8, 2016 in
Washington, D.C. - free and open to all but please register.
http://www.johndeweysociety.
2016 Ikeda Lecture: March 29, 2016
2016 Ikeda Lecture: March 29, 2016
Education for Global Citizenship and the Crisis Facing Black America
The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in
Education, Chicago, IL
The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education
is pleased to welcome Kwame Anthony Appiah to give the 2016 Ikeda
Lecture. One of America’s leading public intellectuals and “The
Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, Appiah is a
Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist and author of such
titles as Cosmopolitanism, The Honor Code, and Lines of Descent:
W.E.B. DuBois and the Emergence of Identity. Named one of Foreign
Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, he was awarded the National
Humanities Medal by the Obama White House in 2012. He has taught at
Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton, among other schools, and
currently teaches Philosophy and Law at New York University.
As a scholar of African and African-American studies, Appiah
established himself as an intellectual with a broad reach. In this
talk commemorating the 20th anniversary of Daisaku Ikeda’s Columbia
University lecture, Education toward Global Citizenship, Appiah
engages global citizenship education relative to the crisis facing
Black America. For him, as for Ikeda, ameliorating the crisis facing
Black America lies in the ethic of the global citizen with “the
perspective of humanity.”
TUESDAY, March 29th, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
DePaul University Student Center 120 A & B
2250 North Sheffield Avenue
RSVP and Info: IkedaInstitute@depaul.edu
CTA: The Student Center is one block south of the Fullerton Stop for
the CTA Red, Brown, and Purple Lines.
DRIVING: There are two parking garages, on Sheffield and Clifton
Avenues, between Fullerton and Belden Avenues. The Sheffield Garage is
closer (2-min walk); Clifton Garage is a 4-min walk. If validated at
the Student Center’s main desk, parking costs $7.50.
Limited metered street parking is also available.
http://bit.ly/1UEVW4M
http://bit.ly/1Ro0DRq
Education for Global Citizenship and the Crisis Facing Black America
The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in
Education, Chicago, IL
The DePaul University Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education
is pleased to welcome Kwame Anthony Appiah to give the 2016 Ikeda
Lecture. One of America’s leading public intellectuals and “The
Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, Appiah is a
Ghanaian-American philosopher, cultural theorist and author of such
titles as Cosmopolitanism, The Honor Code, and Lines of Descent:
W.E.B. DuBois and the Emergence of Identity. Named one of Foreign
Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers, he was awarded the National
Humanities Medal by the Obama White House in 2012. He has taught at
Yale, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Princeton, among other schools, and
currently teaches Philosophy and Law at New York University.
As a scholar of African and African-American studies, Appiah
established himself as an intellectual with a broad reach. In this
talk commemorating the 20th anniversary of Daisaku Ikeda’s Columbia
University lecture, Education toward Global Citizenship, Appiah
engages global citizenship education relative to the crisis facing
Black America. For him, as for Ikeda, ameliorating the crisis facing
Black America lies in the ethic of the global citizen with “the
perspective of humanity.”
TUESDAY, March 29th, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
DePaul University Student Center 120 A & B
2250 North Sheffield Avenue
RSVP and Info: IkedaInstitute@depaul.edu
CTA: The Student Center is one block south of the Fullerton Stop for
the CTA Red, Brown, and Purple Lines.
DRIVING: There are two parking garages, on Sheffield and Clifton
Avenues, between Fullerton and Belden Avenues. The Sheffield Garage is
closer (2-min walk); Clifton Garage is a 4-min walk. If validated at
the Student Center’s main desk, parking costs $7.50.
Limited metered street parking is also available.
http://bit.ly/1UEVW4M
http://bit.ly/1Ro0DRq
AESA 2016 Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee and Book Nominations
AESA Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee and Book Nominations
Two important deadlines:
A. Committee Membership, 4/15/16
B. Book nominations, 5/1/16
A. **Call for Committee Membership** Apply by 4/15/16
The AESA Critics Choice Book Award Committee is seeking interested
AESA members to serve a three-year term to participate in this
important endeavor. During the period June 15 – August 15, 2016 the
committee will review texts nominated for the award as outstanding
titles of interest to foundations scholars.
Please read through the information below and let me know of your
interest to be considered for the committee no later than April 15th,
2016 (jgoulah@depaul.edu).
Selection for the committee will be based on considerations of
diversity of membership.
In your email please include the following information:
1. rank
2. discipline
3. race/ethnicity
4. gender
5. geography
6. scholarly interest
7. type of institutional affiliation (e.g. liberal arts vs. research
institutions)
8. other factors of diversity which merit consideration.
B. **Call for Book Nominations** Nominate by 5/1/16
The AESA 2016 Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee (CCBASC)
announces the call for book nominations to be considered for the 2016
Critics Choice Book Award. Recipients of the award will be honored at
the 2016 annual meeting of the American Educational Studies
Association and will be displayed in our Book Exhibit room.
The CCBASC is eager to identify and bring attention to texts that are
of general appeal, interest and significance to the area of
Foundations of Education. Through an open nomination process, we hope
to produce a broad range of nominated titles across all areas of
Foundations of Education, including scholarship that foregrounds
historical, philosophical, sociological and/or cultural studies
approaches to educational inquiry. We seek to maintain the spirit of
the Critics Choice Book Award (outlined in the AESA bylaws) as a
noncompetitive way to call attention to outstanding contemporary
publications, which may be of interest and professional use to AESA
members in their scholarship and teaching.
ONLY AESA MEMBERS ARE ALLOWED TO NOMINATE BOOKS; one book nomination
per member. Publishers may not nominate books. Books with a
publication date of 2014, 2015 or 2016 will be considered for the 2016
Critics Choice Book Award. Self-nomination is allowed. To nominate a
text, please include the full citation as well as a brief rationale
(no more than 100 words) outlining how the book demonstrates
excellence according to the following criteria: 1) relevance to
Foundations of Education and the mission of AESA; 2) originality of
research; 3) scholarly or intellectual impact on the field; and/or 4)
significance of topic.
Please submit all nominations by May 1, 2016 to Jason Goulah, chair of
the CCBASC, at jgoulah@depaul.edu.
Thank you,
Jason Goulah, PhD
Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and
Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education;
Director of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and World Languages Education
DePaul University
College of Education
Department of Leadership, Language & Curriculum
2247 N. Halsted Street, 354
Chicago, IL 60614-3624
773.325.2076
jgoulah@depaul.edu
Two important deadlines:
A. Committee Membership, 4/15/16
B. Book nominations, 5/1/16
A. **Call for Committee Membership** Apply by 4/15/16
The AESA Critics Choice Book Award Committee is seeking interested
AESA members to serve a three-year term to participate in this
important endeavor. During the period June 15 – August 15, 2016 the
committee will review texts nominated for the award as outstanding
titles of interest to foundations scholars.
Please read through the information below and let me know of your
interest to be considered for the committee no later than April 15th,
2016 (jgoulah@depaul.edu).
Selection for the committee will be based on considerations of
diversity of membership.
In your email please include the following information:
1. rank
2. discipline
3. race/ethnicity
4. gender
5. geography
6. scholarly interest
7. type of institutional affiliation (e.g. liberal arts vs. research
institutions)
8. other factors of diversity which merit consideration.
B. **Call for Book Nominations** Nominate by 5/1/16
The AESA 2016 Critics Choice Book Award Selection Committee (CCBASC)
announces the call for book nominations to be considered for the 2016
Critics Choice Book Award. Recipients of the award will be honored at
the 2016 annual meeting of the American Educational Studies
Association and will be displayed in our Book Exhibit room.
The CCBASC is eager to identify and bring attention to texts that are
of general appeal, interest and significance to the area of
Foundations of Education. Through an open nomination process, we hope
to produce a broad range of nominated titles across all areas of
Foundations of Education, including scholarship that foregrounds
historical, philosophical, sociological and/or cultural studies
approaches to educational inquiry. We seek to maintain the spirit of
the Critics Choice Book Award (outlined in the AESA bylaws) as a
noncompetitive way to call attention to outstanding contemporary
publications, which may be of interest and professional use to AESA
members in their scholarship and teaching.
ONLY AESA MEMBERS ARE ALLOWED TO NOMINATE BOOKS; one book nomination
per member. Publishers may not nominate books. Books with a
publication date of 2014, 2015 or 2016 will be considered for the 2016
Critics Choice Book Award. Self-nomination is allowed. To nominate a
text, please include the full citation as well as a brief rationale
(no more than 100 words) outlining how the book demonstrates
excellence according to the following criteria: 1) relevance to
Foundations of Education and the mission of AESA; 2) originality of
research; 3) scholarly or intellectual impact on the field; and/or 4)
significance of topic.
Please submit all nominations by May 1, 2016 to Jason Goulah, chair of
the CCBASC, at jgoulah@depaul.edu.
Thank you,
Jason Goulah, PhD
Associate Professor of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and
Director of the Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education;
Director of Bilingual-Bicultural Education and World Languages Education
DePaul University
College of Education
Department of Leadership, Language & Curriculum
2247 N. Halsted Street, 354
Chicago, IL 60614-3624
773.325.2076
jgoulah@depaul.edu
Call for Chapters: Lauryn Hill Reader; Abstracts due 4/30/16
Call for Chapters: Lauryn Hill Reader; Abstracts due 4/30/16
On August 25, 1998, Lauryn Hill released the classic album, The
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album sold over 420,000 copies the
first week, received 10 Grammy nominations, and won five. Beyond the
album’s commercial success, Ms. Hill’s radical self-consciousness and
exuberance for life led us through her Black girl journey of love,
motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics,
and nostalgia that affirmed for all who listened love, creativity,
resistance, and the powerful traditional of African storytelling.
We claim this as the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop
generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic
narrative of woman and mother. Miseducation provides inspirational
energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. Twenty
years after Ms. Hill unapologetically dared to bare her soul to the
world, we pay tribute to this work by adding to the quilt of Black
girls’ stories with the threads of feminist consciousness, which are
particularly imperative in this space where we declare: Black girls
matter.
This book calls for book length chapters (15-20 pages) that
intellectually wrestle with the interdisciplinary nature of
Miseducation, with an intense focus on the connection between the
music of Lauryn Hill and the lives of Black girls. We are interested
in how Black women have mapped these connections onto their personal
narratives and professional pedagogies. Chapters should address one or
more of the following topics, in combination or singularly:
· Black feminism/Womanism/Hip Hop feminism/Critical race
feminism/Latina Feminism
· Mothering/Othermothering/
· Spirituality and knowledge construction
· Blackgirl ethnography
· Ethnomusicology
· Praxis/activism
· Girl studies
· Sexuality
· Place
Alternative/multi-vocular texts and representations of Black girlhood
experiences are accepted, including visual art, poetry, prose, life
notes, pedagogical reflections, short plays, journal/fieldnotes, etc.
Of course, we also seek traditional manuscripts that address relevant
empirical, theoretical, or methodological issues across disciplines.
If you are interested in contributing a chapter, please send a 500
word abstract (Word document in APA format, with tentative title) by
April 30, 2016 to LaurynHillReader@gmail.com. Please be sure to
specify “LHR Abstract” as the subject and provide your full contact
information, including school or university affiliation, email
address, and phone number. If you have questions regarding the
manuscript guidelines or topic, please email b.sankofawaters@neu.edu
or blove@uga.edu. If your abstract is accepted, you will be expected
to submit a complete paper (7500 word maximum) by November 1, 2016.
On August 25, 1998, Lauryn Hill released the classic album, The
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The album sold over 420,000 copies the
first week, received 10 Grammy nominations, and won five. Beyond the
album’s commercial success, Ms. Hill’s radical self-consciousness and
exuberance for life led us through her Black girl journey of love,
motherhood, admonition, redemption, spirituality, sexuality, politics,
and nostalgia that affirmed for all who listened love, creativity,
resistance, and the powerful traditional of African storytelling.
We claim this as the definitive work of Black girlhood for the Hip Hop
generation and beyond because it opened our eyes to a holistic
narrative of woman and mother. Miseducation provides inspirational
energies that serve as a foundational text for Black girlhood. Twenty
years after Ms. Hill unapologetically dared to bare her soul to the
world, we pay tribute to this work by adding to the quilt of Black
girls’ stories with the threads of feminist consciousness, which are
particularly imperative in this space where we declare: Black girls
matter.
This book calls for book length chapters (15-20 pages) that
intellectually wrestle with the interdisciplinary nature of
Miseducation, with an intense focus on the connection between the
music of Lauryn Hill and the lives of Black girls. We are interested
in how Black women have mapped these connections onto their personal
narratives and professional pedagogies. Chapters should address one or
more of the following topics, in combination or singularly:
· Black feminism/Womanism/Hip Hop feminism/Critical race
feminism/Latina Feminism
· Mothering/Othermothering/
· Spirituality and knowledge construction
· Blackgirl ethnography
· Ethnomusicology
· Praxis/activism
· Girl studies
· Sexuality
· Place
Alternative/multi-vocular texts and representations of Black girlhood
experiences are accepted, including visual art, poetry, prose, life
notes, pedagogical reflections, short plays, journal/fieldnotes, etc.
Of course, we also seek traditional manuscripts that address relevant
empirical, theoretical, or methodological issues across disciplines.
If you are interested in contributing a chapter, please send a 500
word abstract (Word document in APA format, with tentative title) by
April 30, 2016 to LaurynHillReader@gmail.com. Please be sure to
specify “LHR Abstract” as the subject and provide your full contact
information, including school or university affiliation, email
address, and phone number. If you have questions regarding the
manuscript guidelines or topic, please email b.sankofawaters@neu.edu
or blove@uga.edu. If your abstract is accepted, you will be expected
to submit a complete paper (7500 word maximum) by November 1, 2016.
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Upcoming AAUP events
Dear Colleague:
Although you are not a member of the AAUP, I thought you might be interested in these upcoming events.
Nonmembers are welcome to participate (of course, we also encourage you to join)!
Join colleagues from around the country for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, plenary speakers, and social events. This year, as we move into our second century, the conference will focus on racial, social, and labor justice in higher education.
We’re pleased to have a terrific lineup of speakers, including Shaun Harper, founder and executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education, and Will Jones, professor of history at University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights.
Register now for early bird rates: http://www.aaup.org/event/
We hope you’ll join us for four days of workshops and special programs to build faculty advocacy skills. We bring in organizers, data analysts, seasoned campaigners, and issue experts to build your skills as an advocate for AAUP principles, collective bargaining, and higher education. Develop your skills, network with colleagues from around the country, and have fun in a casual environment.
Mark your calendar now; registration will open next month.
We are now accepting proposals for presentations at the conference on topics relating to academic governance. Possible areas of focus include:
- Faculty participation in budgeting, financial exigency, or strategic planning
- Governance at HBCUs
- Principles, structures, and best practices of shared governance
- Governance and faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure
- Faculty governance, pedagogy, and curriculum
- Governance and collective bargaining
- The relationship of faculty governance to administrations and legislatures
- Motivating faculty from underrepresented groups to participate in shared governance
- The roles of tenured, tenure-track, and contingent faculty in shared governance
- Departmental governance issues
In addition to presentations, the conference will include training workshops for current and future governance leaders.
More information: http://www.aaup.org/2016-
I hope you’ll be able to join us for one or more of these great events! To learn more about the AAUP and membership, visit http://www.aaup.org/
Best wishes,
Gwendolyn Bradley
External Relations Director
gbradley@aaup.org
Gwendolyn Bradley
External Relations Director
gbradley@aaup.org
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