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litsci-l-digest Monday, January 17 2005 Volume 01 : Number
092
In this issue:
Whitehead conference
position as Director of American Communities, Cal State LA
CFP: "Identity in the Ecosystem: How Natures Contribute to the
Construction of Selves"
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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:19:09 -0800
From: jal@its.caltech.edu
Subject: Whitehead conference
A friend asked me to post the following notice:
I am section chair in humanities for a Whitehead conference in
Salzburg in the summer of 2006. If either of you or anyone you
know -- please think expansively -- are interested in
submitting a paper yourselves, please do. I need to get speakers.
To get the website google and type in "Whitehead Conference,
Franz Riffert" It will come right up.
Cheers,
Bob Doud
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Jay A. Labinger
Beckman Institute
California Institute of Technology
139-74
Pasadena, CA 91125
tel: 626-395-6520
fax: 626-449-4159
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:21:59 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella"
Subject: position as Director of American Communities, Cal State LA
California State University, Los Angeles
American Communities Project
Endowed Chair in the Humanities
ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPENING
College of Arts and Letters
POSITION: Director of the CSLA American Communities Project at the
rank of
a (non-tenured) Associate or Full Professor. Two-year position with
possibility of an additional year. This Project is devoted to
creatively
exploring the development of historical and contemporary American
communities and identities and the intersecting cultural, economic,
and/or
political forces relevant to their formation and perpetuation.
STARTING DATE: Fall, 2005
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Terminal degree in area of specialization from
an
accredited institution of higher education or significant professional
work
in the field. Distinguished history of research and
scholarly/professional
achievement in the humanities. Demonstrated record of effective
teaching
and a commitment to addressing the needs of students in a
multiethnic/multicultural environment.
DESIRED/PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Knowledge of and commitment to
interdisciplinary studies; experience developing and implementing new
courses of inquiry and study for the Project; experience coordinating
relations between the university and the surrounding community; previous
administrative experience preferred.
DUTIES: The Director of the CSLA American Communities Project will
occupy
an endowed chair and be responsible for developing and implementing
short-
and long-range goals for the Project, soliciting and funding proposals
for
faculty and faculty-student projects, designing and supporting public
programs, and distributing seed money for humanities-based grant
applications. The Director will teach one seminar per year based on the
individual??s areas of interest and personal research program. The
Director
will assist in the recruitment of students and faculty as well as in
grant
writing and fundraising duties, as appropriate.
THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, Los Angeles, a
comprehensive
urban university and one of 23 campuses that comprise The California
State
University system, offers programs in more than 50 academic and
professional
fields. The campus is located at the eastern edge of Los Angeles,
adjacent
to the western San Gabriel Valley, with more than 22,000 full and
part-time
students reflecting the rich, ethnic diversity of the area. The
University
is committed to student-centered learning, free scholarly inquiry and
academic excellence.
SALARY RANGE: Salary package is competitive for a senior administrative
or
teaching position and commensurate with experience.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION: Please send letter of application, curriculum
vitae, official transcript from institution awarding highest degree, and
three letters of recommendation. Employment contingent upon proof of
eligibility to work in the United States and completion of the
University??s
Application for Employment form.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: To ensure full consideration, nominations and
applications should be received by February 28, 2005.
Address applications, required documentation and/or requests for
information
to:
American Communities Project Search Committee
c/o Dr. Carl Selkin
Dean, College of Arts and Letters
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
In addition to meeting fully its obligations under federal and state
law,
Cal State LA is committed to creating a community in which a diverse
population can live, work and learn in an atmosphere of tolerance,
civility
and respect for the rights and sensibilities of each individual. To that
end, all qualified individuals will receive equal consideration without
regard to economic status, race, ethnicity, color, religion, marital
status,
pregnancy, national origin or cultural background, political views, sex
or
sexual orientation, gender identification, age, disability, disabled
veteran, or Vietnam era veteran status.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY / TITLE IX EMPLOYER
Upon request, reasonable accommodation will be provided to individuals
with
protected disabilities to (a) complete the employment process and (b)
perform essential job functions when this does not cause an undue
hardship.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:42:52 -0500
From: Jason Arenstein
Subject: CFP: "Identity in the Ecosystem: How Natures Contribute to the
Construction of Selves"
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
47th Annual Convention * 11/10/05-11/13/05 * The Pfister Hotel *
Milwaukee, WI
Panel Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature &
Environment
(ASLE):
"Identity in the Ecosystem: How Natures Contribute to the Construction
of
Selves"
Ecological transition zones, or "ecotones"??zones where two or more
ecosystems
meet??are some of the most biologically productive areas on the planet.
Literary scholars have long been interested in our own favored brand of
transition, employing concepts such as "slippage" and "the instability
of the
text." This ecological-literary transition zone suggests an exploration
of
another sort of duality: the varieties of identity-construction
processes at
work in characters whose experiences in nature differ diametrically.
Such
diameters could include work/leisure, East/West, mountain/valley (or
forest/prairie, etc.), wilderness/city, youth/age, enslaved/free, and so
on.
This panel will consider several of these dichotomies and thus seek to
gain an
understanding of how membership in different ecosystems can contribute
to the
construction of different selves. Of particular interest are proposals
that
read a single character's experiences in two or more ecosystems or, in
what
might be the most productive approach and one that avoids the reductive
binary,
in two ecosystems and their ecotone, as well as those that draw on
evolutionary
psychology theory or theory from allied fields such as ecological or
environmental psychology/anthropology, cognitive science, or human
ecology.
Please send 500-word abstracts by April 1, 2005 to .
Jason Arenstein
Indiana University??Bloomington
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