2015 Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & Education Conference. January 3, 4, 5, & 6 at the Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii Final Call for Papers/ Proposal /Abstracts/Submissions Extended Submission Deadline: October 20, 2014

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2015 Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences & Education Conference      January 3, 4, 5, & 6 at the Ala Moana Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii Final Call for Papers/ Proposal /Abstracts/Submissions Extended Submission Deadline: October 20, 2014

Details For information please visit our website. For submission via our online form, please click here. For email submissions please refer to the following instructions: Call for papers http://www.huichawaii.org/ah-call-for-papers.html If the link does not work for you please copy and paste it to your browser. The 2015 Hawaii University International Conferences (HUIC) on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, & Education welcomes and invites papers (in English only) from all areas of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and related fields. The conference will be held from January 3 to 6 (Saturday through Tuesday) at the Ala Moana Hotel, in Honolulu Hawaii. The conference main objective is to provide a platform for researchers and academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development in their related fields.

Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Topics Original contributions on topics covered under broad areas but not limited to:

• Anthropology • American Studies • Archeology • Architecture • Art • Art History • Art Management • Communications • Creative Writing • Dance • Drama, Film, Television, and other Media • Economics • English and Modern Languages • Ethnic Studies • Folklore • Geography • Graphic Design • History • International Relations and Studies • Justice Administration/Criminal Justice • Landscape Architecture • Language and Literature • Linguistics • Military Science • Music • Performing Arts • Political Science • Philosophy • Product Design • Psychology • Public Policy • Religion • Second Language Studies • Sociology • Social Science • Speech/Communication and Translation • Theatre • Urban and Regional Planning • Visual Arts • Women’s Studies • Inter-disciplinary and other areas of Arts and Humanities

Education Topics & Focus Area Original contributions on topics covered under broad areas but not limited to:

Academic Advising and Counseling Art Education Adult Education Business Education Counselor Education Curriculum, Research and Development Distance Education Early Childhood Education/Elementary Education Human Resource Development Indigenous Education Kinesiology & Leisure Science Language Education Music Education Reading Education Rural Education Science Education Secondary Education Social Studies Education Special Education Student Affairs Educational Administration Educational Foundations Educational Measurement and Evaluation Educational Psychology Education Technology Education Policy and Leadership ESL/TESL Health Education Higher Education Teacher Education Second Language Studies Sociology Social Science Speech/Communication and Translation Theatre Urban and Regional Planning Visual Arts Women's Studies Inter-disciplinary and other areas of Education

Submitting a Proposal/ Submission Procedure: Via email or regular post mail HUIC, PO Box 29056, Honolulu, HI 96820

1. Create a Title Page for your submission. The title page should include: a. Title of your paper/proposal b. Topics/Areas c. Presentation format: Papers, Workshop, or Poster d. Synopsis: A brief description of your presentation e. Name(s) of the author(s) f. Department(s) and Affiliation(s) g. Mailing Address(es) h. E-mail Address(es) i. Contacts/Phone Number(s) j. Fax number(s) k. Corresponding/presenting author if different than lead author

Abstract/Proposal Guideline Please click here to view formats and guidelines or simply fill out our online form. If clicking does not work, copy and paste link into your browser: http://www.huichawaii.org/ahs-sub.html Mahalo! (Thank you!)

Hawaii University International Conferences 2015

10th annual Critical Questions in Education Conference, San Diego, California, February 16th – 18th, 2015

10^th annual Critical Questions in Education Conference to be held in San Diego, California, at the beautiful U.S. Grant Hotel.  This is a national, blind, peer-reviewed education conference dedicated to thinking about important questions in education.  The conference will be held on February 16^th – 18^th, 2015.  Deadline for proposals is November 1^st, 2014.

Our 2014/2015 theme questions are:

Why have civil rights era educational legislation and policy in the United States failed our most vulnerable students?

How should we address the needs of these students in and out of school?

and

How is schooling conducted in other countries?  What can we learn from the policies, purposes,

and practices of education systems—or individual schools—from around the world?  And what

can systems and schools from around the world learn from American education?

We also welcome proposals on one of our past theme questions 

See the Call for Proposals, attached, for a full list of topics. 

Presenters are encouraged to shape responses to these questions in any way they like.  Please see the Call for Proposals for some suggestions on how these questions might be approached.  

We hope you will submit a proposal and come join us this year—friends sharing some important talk about some provocative educational questions.  We also hope you will share this Call for Proposals with friends and colleagues—and with any list-serves which might accept it.

If you have any questions about what the Academy has been up to, or questions about the conference, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Steven P. Jones, Director

Academy for Educational Studies

AcademyEdStudies@missouristate.edu

417-836-5982

FACULTY POSITION: Assistant Professor, Latin American History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Assistant Professor, Latin American History

About University of Massachusetts Amherst:

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the major public research universities in America.  Nestled in idyllic Amherst, Massachusetts, the campus is consistently ranked among the top public research universities in the nation, and offers a rich cultural environment in a rural setting close to major urban centers.

Job Description:

The Department of History in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts invites applications for a tenure-track professorship specializing in Latin American History (open region and time period). The Department is particularly interested in those whose research would diversify the Department's strengths in Brazilian, Caribbean, and Andean history. Start date is 1 September 2015. We are seeking talented applicants qualified for an assistant professor position.  Under exceptional circumstances, highly qualified candidates at other ranks may receive consideration. 

Requirements:

Qualifications include a Ph.D. in hand by 1 September 2015 and promise of excellence in teaching and scholarship.

Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Additional Information:

The University is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body.  The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Because broad diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individual’s record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities.  We will also favorably consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic degree and career.  

Application Instructions:

To apply submit the following materials: a letter of application stating research interests and qualifications, curriculum vitae; a short (article- or chapter-length) writing sample, and the names/contact information for three references to the link below.

Applicants should apply by the priority deadline of 3 November 2014 in order to ensure consideration.  The Search Committee will conduct interviews at the AHA annual meeting. 

Indignación, rabia y repudio ante la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes normalistas en Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, México

A las compañeras y compañeros estudiantes de la Escuela Normal “Raúl Isidro Burgos”

A las y los familiares y amigos de los estudiantes desaparecidos

Al pueblo de Ayotzinapa, Guerrero

A los pueblos de México

A los pueblos de Guatemala

Y a las y los jóvenes estudiantes del mundo

Manifestamos nuestra indignación, rabia y repudio ante la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes normalistas, perpetuada el 26 de septiembre, a manos de la policía municipal, por salir a las calles y buscar las formas de superar las carencias y la crisis del sistema educativo de nuestros países, que nos han obligado a las y los estudiantes a tener que movilizarnos y accionar en contra de la falta de voluntad política por parte del gobierno e interés en resolver los conflictos que nos aquejan y para que se escuchen nuestras demandas y se respeten nuestros derechos, que deberían ser garantizados por los Estados y gobiernos, no sólo respetando nuestro derecho a la educación pública, digna y de calidad, sino también nuestro derecho al goce de una juventud digna y al resguardo de nuestras vidas, y no convertirse en un aparato de control, violencia, crimen y represión que ha segado ya la vida de tres jóvenes normalistas en estos últimos días y ha provocado la angustia y el dolor de varias familias, amigos, compañeros, maestros, vecinos, de los desaparecidos hasta hoy.

Compartimos el dolor de las y los estudiantes, compañeros de escuela de los 43 jóvenes normalistas porque sabemos que si tocan a uno, nos tocan a todos y todas, porque su lucha es una lucha digna, que también es la lucha de miles de jóvenes en Latinoamérica, que buscan combatir la privatización y se enfrentan ante la represión estatal, que los estigmatiza y en lugar de protegerles, los persigue, amenaza, los desparece y los mata, todo esto bajo la mirada perversa de las clases dominantes, que junto al Estado desgastan las instituciones públicas a través de servicios deficientes para promover su mercantilización y tecnificación, como es el caso de la educación.

Estamos conscientes que la lucha por la educación trastoca los intereses ideológicos del sistema capitalista, porque ésta puede transformarse en una herramienta liberadora de nuestros pueblos, por lo que mostrarán su lado más oscuro para mantenerla tal y como está, a costa de la muerte y la miseria, pero la resistencia de los pueblos, de los jóvenes, las mujeres, se mantendrá hasta que de nuevo amanezca para nosotras y nosotros.

Toda nuestra solidaridad como compañeros de lucha por la educación pública, como estudiantes, jóvenes, pueblos, humanas y humanos, que defendemos la vida y construimos ahora, para que haya mañana.

Estudiantes de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

Guatemala, 07 de octubre de 2014

II SYMPOSIUM ON SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE MULTICULTURALISM|DIVERSITY|MULTILINGUALISM The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University

 II SYMPOSIUM ON SPANISH AS A HERITAGE LANGUAGE 

MULTICULTURALISM|DIVERSITY|MULTILINGUALISM 

The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University cordially invites abstract submissions to the second Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language to be held on February 12-14, 2015. Abstracts will be selected for 20-minute presentations (with 10 minutes for discussion) as well as for poster presentations. 

We hope to receive abstracts (in Spanish or English) from researchers, teachers, and students representing all viewpoints and subfields of study to share, discuss, and explore both theoretical and practical knowledge in any area of Spanish Heritage Bilingual Development. 

We are proud to announce the participation of the following Plenary Speakers: 

- Dr. María Carreira, California State University, Long Beach 

- Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, University of Texas at Austin 

- Dr. Guadalupe Valdés, Stanford University 

Concurrent with the conference on Saturday, we will host two workshop sessions that aim to provide participants with ideas, resources, strategies, and practical advice for (i) teaching Spanish language courses where both heritage learners and foreign language learners are enrolled, as well as for (ii) the creation (or improvement) of quality language programs that deliver the most optimal learning environment for Spanish heritage learners. Some of the topics that will be discussed include: grouping strategies, peer collaboration, provision of feedback, placement issues, and evaluation of program outcomes.

All student presenters will be eligible for consideration for a ‘Most Promising Scholar Award’ 

Call deadline: November 1st, 2014 

Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2014 

Abstract Submission: Authors are asked to submit their anonymous abstracts via the Easy Abstracts submission site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/SSHL. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words. Tables, examples, and references may be included on a second page. No more than two abstracts per person should be submitted, with no more than one as first or sole author. 

For more information, visit our website or contact Diego Pascual y Cabo, diego.pascual@ttu.edu 

The organizing committee: 

Florencia G. Henshaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Claudia Holguín, University of Oregon 

Julia Oliver-Raján, University of Iowa 

Diego Pascual y Cabo, Texas Tech University (Chair 2015) 

Julio Torres, University of California at Irvine 

Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education May 14–16, 2015 The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, MN

SAVE THE DATES! Ninth International Conference on Language Teacher Education May 14–16, 2015 The Commons Hotel Minneapolis, MN The mission of this unique biennial conference is to address the education of teachers of all languages, at all instructional and institutional levels, and in all the many national and international contexts in which this takes place, including: English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL) instruction; foreign/modern/world language teaching; bilingual education; immersion education; indigenous and minority language education; heritage language education; and the teaching of less commonly taught languages. The conference aims to bring together teacher educators from these many contexts to discuss and share research, theory, and best practices and to initiate and sustain meaningful professional dialogue across languages, levels, and settings. The conference will focus on the following four broad themes: The Knowledge Base of Language Teacher Education Social, Cultural, and Political Contexts of Language Teacher Education Collaborations in Language Teacher Education Processes of Language Teacher Education This conference is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota and is cosponsored by the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA. The call for papers will be announced soon. Stay tuned! More Information Get on the Language Teacher Education Conference mailing list:www.carla.umn.edu/about/mlist.php Bookmark the CARLA conference website for regular updates:www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/ Check out past Language Teacher Education conferences at:www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/past/

JOB: Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in TESOL The Department of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tenure Track Assistant Professor Position in TESOL

The Department of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks to fill a tenure-track assistant professor of TESOL position beginning fall 2015. The department especially seeks someone with research interests in one or more of the following areas: language assessment, second language acquisition, ELL pedagogy, and preK-12 ESL education. The successful candidate will show clear promise of becoming a recognized scholar in his or her area(s) of research.

Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be expected to:

• teach a range of TESOL courses at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels in on-campus, online, and off-campus settings;
• participate in TESOL students' portfolio evaluations;
• supervise students' research;
• advise current and prospective students;
• maintain a record of scholarly publications;
• engage in program, department, campus, community, and professional service; and
• apply for external funding for research or program development.

Requirements: Candidates should have a doctoral degree in TESOL, applied linguistics, or related fields; prior ESL/EFL teaching experience at preK-12 and/or adult/college levels; and prior ESL/EFL teacher training experience. In addition, strong consideration will be given to those applicants that are engaged in school-based research in diverse settings, and are proficient in one or more languages other than English.

Location: UMBC's location between Baltimore and Washington, DC enables it to draw on the vast economic and cultural resources of both cities. It is an NCATE-accredited, Carnegie Research University (high research activity) widely recognized for its excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.

Department: The Department has 21 full-time faculty on tenure-track, clinical, and lecturer lines and serves over 550 graduate students in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) initial certification program, Master of Arts in Instructional Systems Development program, Master of Arts in TESOL program, and Master of Arts in Education (MAE) program. In addition, approximately 250 students are seeking initial teacher certification through the Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education undergraduate programs. The department also houses TESOL professional development programs that offer a variety of non-credit learning opportunities for teachers, and partners with six other departments in offering the interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Language, Literacy, and Culture.

Compensation: UMBC offers faculty a competitive compensation and benefits package covering health insurance, pension and retirement benefits, and paid parental leave. The University also provides mentoring and support for research.

Applications should include a cover letter addressing requirements for the position, curriculum vitae, three reference letters, and a scholarly writing sample. Please submit all application materials via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/25856). For questions about the application process, contact Ms. Lisa Harris at lisah@umbc.edu (410-455-2465). Questions regarding the position can be directed to the Chair of the Search Committee, Dr. Mavis G. Sanders ( msanders@umbc.edu). Consideration of candidates will begin October 15, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled.

UMBC is especially proud of the diversity of its student body, and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position. We have a strong commitment to increasing faculty diversity. We encourage applications from women, minority group members, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.

Application Information

Postal Address:	University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250
TDD:	410-455-3233
Online App. Form:	http://apply.interfolio.com/25856