February 1-7, 1999
Tuesday, February 2
Tuesday, February 2
Minister for Social Development in Mexico to Speak. Lic. Esteban Moctezuma will speak at Bass Lecture Hall (adjacent to the LBJ Library), 12:00 noon. A question and answer period will follow. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., call Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423.
Wednesday, February 3
Career Expo '99. 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Texas Union Ballroom. Sponsored by the Central Texas Liberal Arts Career Consortium and the UT-Austin Liberal Arts Council. For more info., call 471-7900.
Borges and the New Literature of Spanish America/Borges y la nueva literatura hispanoamericana, a gallery talk by Nicolas Shumway, Director, Institute of Latin American Studies, and Tómas Rivera Regents Professor of Spanish Language and Literature, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. Part of Cantos Paralelos. 12:00 noon. Blanton Museum of Art, Art Building.
Friday, February 5
En la casa del jaguar: Encuentros culturales en Chiapas, a talk by Cynthia Steele, Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature, University of Washington, and Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center. 3:00 p.m. Tobin Room, Batts 201. Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. For more info., call Jennifer Dillon, 471-4936.
Announcement
Students Needed to Host Visitors. The Fundación Universitaria del Rio de la Plata (Argentina) annually sponsors a group of 16 graduate students to visit UT on Feb. 2-15. Need students to act as liaisons/interpreters/van drivers, and also some host families who could invite a student to a "home-cooked dinner." If interested, call Ludmilla at 232-2405 or [email address removed to reduce spam] by Jan. 27.
Conferences and Calls for Papers
Brown Symposium XXI: España y América: Cultural Encounter-Enduring Legacy, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, Feb. 4-5, 1999. The 2-day event is free and open to the public, and will feature speakers Carlos Fuentes and Rigoberta Menchú, in addition to a significant display of art and music performances. Will highlight the nature, breadth, and depth of the culture that emerged in the Americas as a result of Spanish and American cultural confluence. For more info., visit the Website http://www.southwestern.edu/brownxxi/new-index.html or call 512/863-1902.
Fellowships, Grants, and Research Opportunities
Liberal Arts College-Wide Competitive Scholarships. Applications available to be awarded for the 1999-2000 academic year ranging from $500-$2,000. Eligibility criteria: College of Liberal Arts undergraduate; completion of a minimum of 30 hours of coursework for a grade at UT-Austin; GPA of at least 3.7; evidence of achievement in leadership and service to the college and community. Applications available at ILAS (SRH 1.304A) or Liberal Arts (FAC 1). For more info., call Priscilla Ebert, 475-7586.Submission deadline: March 1, 1999, no later than 5:00 p.m.
1999 Undergraduate Research Fellowships. A successful application may receive up to $1,000 for support for specific scholarly investigative projects conducted by UT undergraduates. To qualify, applicants must be currently enrolled in a B.A. program in any college of UT-Austin or in the first or second year of a Pharm. D. program; enrolled full-time during the fellowship period. Applications available in the Office of the President for Research, Main 302, tel. 471-2877; Office of Student Government, SSB 4.206, tel. 471-3166; or visit the Website at: http://www.utexas.edu/research/vp/gaf/ Deadline: Feb 16, 1999, no later than 5:00 p.m.
Social Science Concepts in Area Studies, Grants for Graduate Students. Ford Foundation-sponsored grant to support graduate education in the social sciences. $9,000 has been set aside for Latin American Studies to be used in spring and summer 1999. ILAS will award and distribute funds and coordinate postresearch presentations. Funds to be used primarily for graduate student research to cover travel and living costs; professors can receive travel support but must demonstrate that travel will benefit graduate student fieldwork. Guidelines for proposals: (1) Faculty member supervising research must submit proposal; (2) proposals should include 2-page, double-spaced, 12-point-font project description; (3) an itemized budget indicating travel, lodging, and per diem required. Three grants of $3,000 or two of $4,500 will be awarded. Send proposals to Joanne Gully, SRH 1.310, ILAS D0800 by Feb. 19, 1999.
Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program 1999, GFAF. Applications invited from students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and science policy. Qualifications include enrollment for the 1999-2000 academic year in the first year of a two-year full-time master's degree program; a minimum undergraduate grade point average of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale; a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher must be maintained throughout participation in the program. Send applications and supporting documents to: Dr. Richard Hope, Director, Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, P.O. Box 2437, Princeton, NJ 08543-2437. (No faxes.) For details: http://www.woodrow.org Deadline: Feb. 22, 1999.
Fifth Class of the Institute for International Public Policy Fellowship Program 1999, IIPP. Applicants must meet the following criteria to be eligible: Sophomore year student, enrolled full-time at a four-year institution; U.S. citizen or permanent resident; minimum 3.2 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale); strong interest in a career in international service; underrepresented minority: African American, Hispanic/Latino American, Asian American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. Deadline: March 1, 1999 for the class that will begin in the summer of 1999. For applications, call the IIPP administrative office, 703/205-3484.
FLAS: Summer 1999 Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship for Portuguese language study at UT-Austin or Kaqchikel language study through Tulane University. Eligibility requirements same as for the academic year FLAS. The ILAS application is for the FLAS fellowships. You must contact Brian Stross (471-4206) for details about admission into the Tulane Kaqchikel program. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 1, 1999.
Tinker Field Research Grants only to cover travel costs for brief periods of predissertation field research in Latin America, Portugal, or Spain. (Latin America here is defined as the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere. This definition excludes projects focused on Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking people within the United States and Canada.) Research conducted in Iberia may be of
two types--that focused on Latin American topics for which resources in Spain and Portugal are required, and that focused solely on Iberian subjects. The focus of the field research is to reflect primarily the Tinker Foundation's broad areas of interest, i.e., economic policy and governance, environmental policy and those targeted social science disciplines having strong public policy implications. Individual recipients may be graduate students at both master's and doctoral levels. The Tinker Field Research Grants are not to be used for dissertation research, but rather to provide graduate students with their first experience in developing independent research projects and conducting hands-on field research in Latin America or Iberia. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 1, 1999.
FLAS: Academic Year 1999-2000 Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship for Portuguese language study only. To be eligible an 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. The applicant must not be a native speaker of Portuguese. Additional information and application instructions available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 1.
Dissertation Research Grant for dissertation field research in Latin America. Applicant must be advanced to candidacy before funds can be disbursed. Funds will be available academic year 1999-2000. Stipend: $2,500. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 1, 1999.
Internship
Guatemala Legislative Modernization Program Summer 1999 Internships. Intern opportunities available to all UT graduate students to be completed on-site in Guatemala City in the office of the Guatemala Legislative Modernization Program of the University of Texas. All interns should be sufficiently proficient in Spanish to conduct research, correspond, and converse in the language. The assignment of topics to individual interns will be based on intern preference and program need. A living stipend of $500/month will be furnished for 2.5 months by UT for a total of $1,250. This stipend includes all money awarded to students by their individual departments. The program does not cover travel expenses, except travel money awarded to interns by their department. Send résumé, a letter of reference from a professor who has been involved in your graduate career, a 2-page writing sample explaining your interest in the internship program, and a brief statement of your Spanish language capability to the Guatemala Legislative Modernization Program office in SRH 3.310 (LBJ School, 3rd floor). For more info., contact Kay McGowan, guate[email address removed to reduce spam]. Deadline: Jan. 29, 1999, no later than 4:30 p.m.
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