October 19-25,
1998
Late Entries
Late Entries
Thursday, Oct. 15-Thesis Writing Workshop, Libe
ral
Arts Honors Program. For students currently writing an honors thesis in
the college or who will be doing so in spring 1999. To volunteer for adviser
panels to answer student questions or for more info., contact Elaine Declerck,
471-3458, zug[email address removed to reduce spam]; mailto:zug[email address removed to reduce spam]
or
[email address removed to reduce spam]
Saturday, Oct. 17-Amigos de la Frontera-Our bimonthly gathering
of friends interested in the norther
n frontier of New Spain will meet for
breakfast to share ideas, information, and camaraderie. 9:00 a.m., Cisco's
Restaurant and Bakery, 1511 E. 6th St., Austin. For more info.,
[email address removed to reduce spam]
Monday, October 19
Brazil Center Speakers Series-As
výrias formas de uma mesma expressao, a lecture (in Portuguese)
by Marina Colasanti, Brazilian Writer in Residence. 3:30 p.m. Hackett Room,
SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Brazil Cente
r of ILAS. For more info., call
471-5551. El inicio del drama indo-hispano en el Alto PerÏ, a lecture
by Margot Beyersdorff. 3:00Ð4:30 p.m. Tobin Room, Batts 201. Dept.
of Spanish and Portuguese Faculty Lecture Series. For more info., call
471-49
36.
Tuesday, October 20
Liberal Arts Career Services Annual Law School
Fair. Some of the 100 law schools in attendance will be: American University,
Duke, Emory, George Washington, Georgetown, Harvard, Loyola, Notre Dame,
SMU, Tulane,
Univ. of Houston, Univ. of Pittsburgh, UT-Austin, and Vanderbilt.
Students may obtain applications, catalogs, and financial aid information.
11:00 a.m.Ð3:00 p.m. Connolly Ballroom, UT Alumni Center. The following
workshops will be held in the UT Alumn
i Center Legends Room on the same
day: The Law School Application Process and Affirmative Action, 12:00Ð1:00
p.m. (facilitated by admissions reps from Lewis & Clark, University
of Denver, and USC); Financing Your Legal Education, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
(f
acilitated by reps from the Univ. of Utah and UT Law).
This is a free
event , dress is casual. For more info.,
call LACS, 471-7900.
Wednesday, October 21
Access and Opportunity in Higher Education,
Revisited,
a paneldiscussion. 12:00
-1:00 p.m.
Texas Union GovernorsÕ
Room 3.116.
Sponsored by the Center
for Mexican American Studies. For more info.,
call
Jordana Barton, 471-2136.
Friday, October 23
CMAS Plýtica and Booksigning-The
Zapatistas and the New Mi
llennium,a CMAS Plýtica by John Ross,
activist,
journalist, poet, and novelist. 12:00 noon, Texas Union Chicano
Culture Room 4.206. Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies.
For more info., call Jordana Barton, 471-2136.
Brazil Center Speakers Series-The
Authoritarian Regime in Brazil:"Military Parties", Contention,
and Change, a lecture by CecÕlia Forjaz, Acting Director of the
Brazil Center/FGVÐSÐo Paulo. 3:00-4:30 p.m. Hackett Room, SRH
1.313. Sp
onsored by the Brazil Center of ILAS. For more info., call 471-5551.
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Markets, Commerce, and Culture, Oct. 29-31,
1998, Flawn Academic Center, UT-Austin. Will explore the ways in which
markets transform
cultures and cultures shape markets in a wide range of
different time periods and national settings. Sponsored by the History
Dept., UT-Austin. For a schedule of panels and other info., contact Prof.
David Crew at or Prof. Judy Coffin at jcoffin[email address removed to reduce spam]. You can
also visit the website at or via
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/history
Prospects for Mexico as the Century Ends, Nov. 12, 1
998, UT-Austin. This
one-day program will feature a panel discussion moderated by the Hon. Clark
E. Ervin, Texas Assistant Secretary of State, and four experts from political
science and economics. Presentations on Mexican politics will be given
by Ro
dolfo de la Garza( George Grayson (College of William and Mary); analyses
of the Mexican economy will be given by Everardo Elizondo (Banco de M*xico)
and Roberto Newell-GarcÕa (McKinsey). 7:00-9:00 p.m. Calhoun
100. Sponsored by the Mexican Center
of ILAS. For more info., contact Pat
Boone, 232-2408, or Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423.
Call for Papers-Feminist
Identities: Around the Globe and in the Academy. 13th Annual National Feminist
Graduate Student Conference, March 4-7, 19
99, UT-Austin. This year's
conference will provide a venue for an interdisciplinary gathering of graduate
students doing feminist work. Proposals may be positioned as a feminist
intervention in a given field, a contribution to existing feminist debate
s,
or an application of feminist theory, research methods,
or praxis For details
on paper submissions,
see the Webpage at
http://uts "dot" cc "dot" utexas "dot" edu/~femconf/.
Deadline for submissions: Nov. 1.
Call for Papers-Paisano: The Online
History Journal at UT Austin. Submissions are currently being accepted
for the next issue of Paisano, featuring the theme of contested cultural
spaces. Culture is here defined in the broadest sense, and submi
s
sions
dealing with religion, gender roles, belief systems, material culture,
art, and any other form of cultural production are welcome. Submissions
should be 5,000-9,000 words in length. Please submit one hard copy
of the essay you wish to be considered
to: Joel Tishken or Ryan Carey,
Paisano Editors, History Dept., University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1163.
Additional questions can be directed to the online comments page at:
http://ccwf "dot" cc "dot" utexas "dot" edu/~paisa
no
Deadline for the next issue: Dec. 1.
Call for Submissions-Nineteenth
Annual ILASSA Student Conference on Latin America, Feb. 26-27, 1999, University
of Texas at Austin. The Institute of Latin American Studies Student Associat
ion
(ILASSA) at UT-Austin invites students to submit for acceptance a single-page
abstract of a paper focusing on any topic in Latin Amerian Studies. Deadline
for receipt of abstracts: Nov. 10, 1998. Invited participants will have
until Jan. 15, 1999, to
submit final papers. One-page abstracts should
be sent to: ILASSA Conference Abstracts Committee, Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of Texas at Austin, SRH 1.310, Austin, TX 78712; tel.
512/ 471-5551; fax 512/ 471-3090;
mfuller[email address removed to reduce spam]or
[email address removed to reduce spam]
Employment Opportunities
Assistant or Associate Professor in Latin American
and Latino Studies (LALS), Univ
ersity of California, Santa Cruz. LALS is
a transdisciplinary program that integrates the analysis of Chicano and
Latino populations in the United States with the study of the history,
politics, economics, and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbe
an. UCSC
is particularly interested in candidates who focus on cultural studies,
with an emphasis on popular culture, media studies, the analysis of visual
and aural art, and/or the intersections of culture and politics. Minimum
qualifications include dis
ciplinary or interdisciplinary Ph.D. or equivalent.
To apply, send a letter of application, C.V., statement of research and
teaching interests, samples of written or other work, course syllabi, and
at least three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Searc
h Committee, Latin
American and Latino Studies Program, Merrill College, University of California,
Santa Cruz, CA 65064; tel. 831/ 459-4284; fax 831/ 459-3125. For more info.,
contact Liz Justino, LALS Department Manager,
liz "at" zzyx.ucsc.ed
u; liz "at" zzyx.ucsc.edu
Assistant Professor in Spanish Applied Linguistics, University of New Mexico.
Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in
Spanish linguistics, supervising graduate students in applied linguistics,
and d
irecting the lower-division Spanish language program. Minimal qualifications
include a Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics with specialization in first- and
second-language acquisition, completed by Aug. 16, 1999, and native or
near-native fluency in Spanish. Ap
plications must be received by Nov. 13,
1998. For more info., contact John M. Lipski, Chair, Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146;
[email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]; tel. 505/
277-5907;
fax 505/ 277-3885.
Fellowship
Johns Hopkins University Cuba Exchange Program, 1999. Seeking grant proposals
from candidates outside Johns Hopkins University interested in conducting
advanced field research in Cuba. Grants
are awarded to graduate students
(M.A., Ph.D., or postgraduates) who have demonstrated prior interest and
research on issues related to Cuba. Fellowships are generally granted in
all disciplines; however, preference is given to those proposals in the
fiel
ds of public health and environmental studies. Applicants must be able
to demonstrate fluency in Spanish. CSP fellowships include round-trip transportation
to Cuba as well as a per diem stipend not to exceed $2,250 for a four-week
stay. Applications must
include: (1) a completed application form; (2)
a C.V. or resume; (3) transcript from graduate institution (for graduate
applicants); (4) a three-page statement describing research to be undertaken
in Cuba; statement must include a description of the resea
rch design and
methodology, and information about previous trips to Cuba; (5) two letters
of recommendation. For further info. and applications contact: Ms. Eva
Gonzalez, Cuba Exchange Program, The Johns Hopkins University, 312
Gilman Hall, 3400 North Cha
rles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2690 Tel. 410/516-5558;
Fax 410/516-7586; [email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam].
Application deadline: Oct. 30, 1998.
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