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Workshop for Graduate Students at UT-Austin

Building a Research Career: Proposal Writing and Research Funding for Graduate Students

Saturday, Feb. 22 Thompson Conference Center 26th St. and Red River 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $15.00 Registration

For more info. and registration materials, see your Graduate Coordinator or Graduate Adviser or come to the Office of Graduate Studies, MAI 101. Sponsored by the Office of Grad. Studies and the Women's Studies Program.

LASA Conference Faculty Travel Grants

ILAS is offering 10 travel awards of $500 each to Latin Americanist faculty presenting original papers at the 1997 LASA Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico. For more info., please contact Joanne Gully at 471-5551.

Tuesday, Feb. 11

Legal Education and the Lack of a Critical Public Discourse in Argentina, a lecture by Martin Bohmer, visiting Professor of Law, Yale University. 3:30 p.m. John Jeffers Courtroom, Townes Hall 3.140. Sponsored by ILAS and the UT Law School. For info., call 471-5551.

Saturday, Feb. 15

Amigos de la Frontera. This bimonthly gathering of persons interested in the northern frontier of New Spain will meet for breakfast at 9:00 a.m., México Típico Restaurant, 1707 E. 6th St. For more info., Richard Milk at <milk_[email address removed to reduce spam]; .

Job Opportunities Volunteers Needed for Political Asylum Project of Austin. PAPA needs bilingual (English-Spanish) volunteers to do interviews of clients seeking political asylum from Central America. Training provided. Call Nidia Salamanca or Jill Jarboe at 478-0546. Volunteers Needed: Communities in Schools Even Start A.S.P.I.R.E. Program, a family literacy program providing adult education, early childhood education, parenting, and home visits. Looking for volunteers to assist instructors in adult English as a Second Language classes. Training provided. Spanish is helpful, but not required. Sponsored by Communites in Schools Even Start A.S.P.I.R.E. Program, located at Harris Elementary School, at the corner of Berkman and Wheless Ln. For more info., call Lisa Stevak, 462-1771.

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. Applications are welcome from all humanities fields including but not limited to Chicano(a)/Latino(a) studies, cultural and literary studies, media and communications, gender studies and history. Candidates whose research and teaching agendas focus on U.S. Latino experiences and who are involved in issues of cultural and social policy-making are particularly encouraged. Closing date: Feb. 7, 1997. Applications should include a letter of application, C.V., a statement of research and teaching interests, samples of written or other work, course syllabi, and at least two letters of recommendation. Apply to: Chair, Search Committee, Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Merrill College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. For info., call 408/459-4284; 408/459-3125 fax; or contact Liz Jusino, Asst. to the Chair, at ; Assistant Director, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, commencing July 1, 1997. Duties include: undergraduate advising, grant writing, coordinating colloquia, teaching 1 or 2 courses a year, and assisting in the management of the center with 6 faculty members and 130 affiliate faculty. Half of the summer term can be devoted to personal research. Ph.D. required. Junior level, 12-month position, with tenure accruing in the appropriate department. Applications considered from people with experience or degrees in agriculture, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities. Send letter of application with C.V. and 3 letters of recommendation to: Chair, Assistant Director Search Committee, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, P.O. Box 115530, Gainseville, FL 32611-5530. Deadline for application: March 17, 1997. Economic Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. U.S. operations of most Latin American banks are supervised and regulated by the FRB-Atlanta. This position involves analyzing the major macroeconomic indicators that bear on country risk, as well as assessing the relative importance of such qualitative factors as political or social events. Candidates should possess a knowledge of international economics and Latin American political and economic systems, and must have analytical writing skills and an ability to communicate effectively in Spanish. Send transcript, résumé, and writing sample to: Michael Chriszt, Coordinator, Latin American Research Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 104 Marietta Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30303-2713. Fax: 404/521-8956. Part-Time Elementary School Spanish Teacher and Teaching Assistants. Positions available with Beyond Borders, an afterschool Spanish program. Teacher certification not required. Classes meet MW and/or TTh 3:00-4:00 p.m. beginning in February. Require fluent Spanish, good rapport with children grades K-5, and ability to work collaboratively with lead teacher. Compensation for preparation as well as class time. For info., call Beyond Borders Spanish, 452-6047. University Instructors in Humanities for Summer Courses in Spanish. Needed at the Universidad Technológica de Monterrey, Querétaro campus, to teach two two-week courses, June 17-July 17, 1997. One course will be on ancient cultures still observed such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Judaism, Christianity, the European community, and the Pacific Rim. The second course will be on Latin America and Mexico today, their politics, education, health, etc. Monterrey Tech-Querétaro will pay for air travel, hotel, and per diem. Doctoral candidates are encouraged to apply. Contact Dra. Angela Moyano Pahissa at amoyano "at" campus.qro.itesm.mx.

Fellowships

Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship, (FLAS). For Portuguese language study only, academic year 1997-98. To be eligible for a FLAS fellowship, applicant must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; show potential for superior academic achievement as indicated by grade-point average, class rank, and GRE score; demonstrate a long-term interest in Latin America; be a graduate student in good standing at UT-Austin or have been accepted for regular admission to the Graduate School at UT-Austin. Applicant must not be a native speaker of Portuguese. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: Feb. 21. Summer 1997 Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship (FLAS). For Portuguese language study or Quechua language study at UT-Austin, or Kacqchikel language study through Tulane University. Eligibility requirements same as above. Contact Brian Stross, 471-4206, for details about the Tulane program and the application. Deadline: March 1. Dissertation Research Grant. For field research in Latin America. Applicant must be advanced to candidacy before funds can be disbursed. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 1. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latino/a Literature and Culture, Bryn Mawr College. One-year appointment with possibility of renewal. Pursue own research interests and to teach one course each semester. Applicants must have completed Ph.D. by June 1997. $30,000 stipend. Deadline: March 15, 1997; send C.V., 3 letters of recommendation, and research proposal to: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee, c/o Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899.

Conferences Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS), Austin, TX, Feb. 20-22. Held at the Omni Hotel. Registration is $45; $20 for students. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade. For more info., contact John Wineland, 475-8679; jwineland[email address removed to reduce spam]. Conference program is online at: <http://lanic.utexas.edu/cswht/scolas.html; The Maya Meetings at Texas, In Their Own Write: Native Voices of Mesoamerica, from the Works They Created--Codices, Ceramics, and Literature, UT-Austin, March 6-15, 1997. Ten-day series of lectures, workshops, and research seminars for beginners and advanced scholars on Meso-american topics, including Maya hieroglyphic writing and history and Mixtec codices and history. March 6-7, Texas Symposium; March 7, Introducing Maya Glyphs, a 3-hour in-depth lecture by Peter Mathews; March 8-9, Forum on Maya Hieroglyphic Writing, by Linda Schele and Nikolai Grube; March 10-15, Long Workshop. Sponsored by ILAS, the College of Fine Arts, and the Maya Workshop Foundation of Austin. For more information, call 512/471-6292 (471-MAYA).

Study Abroad

1997 Summer Language Institute, Portuguese Language and Culture in Vitória-Vila Velha, Brazil. Study beginning, intermediate, or advanced Portuguese. Five weeks of intensive study, June 16-July 26, 1997, with native and U.S. instructors, complemented by homestays with Brazilian families and excursions. Sponsored by UT-Austin, Univ. of Kansas, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more info. and application, contact Study Abroad, basement of Carothers Hall, 471-6490, or the Brazil Center, SRH 1.314, 471-5551. New UT affiliated summer study abroad program: Public Health Program, Dominican Republic, Council Study Center at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Santiago. The program is designed to enable students to achieve advanced language skills in Spanish and to provide an introduction to basic health care issues in a Spanish-Caribbean context; includes exposure to theoretical public health care issues and elementary practical medical skills. Six weeks of language and health care classes, and a 5-day field study in a government rural health care clinic. For more info., contact Study Abroad, basement of Carothers Hall, 471-6490. Quechua Intensive Summer Institute, Cornell University, New York. The six-week program provides intensive instruction in the conversation, grammar, and vocabulary of the Bolivian dialect of Quechua. A special lecture and film series will be held. Students may register for beginning and/or advanced Quechua. Classes held June 30-Aug. 12. Tuition and fees are $3,240. Graduate fellowships available for U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Application deadline: March 14, 1997 ; send résumé, a one-page statement of study and career objectives, official higher education transcripts, and 2 letters of recommendation to: Mary Jo Dudley, Assoc. Director, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell Univ., 190 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-7601. For info., call 607/255-3345.

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