November 27-December 3, 2000
MONDAY, November 27
Thinking through Haiti: Cuban Slave Society and the Haitian
Revolution, a workshop by Ada Ferrer, New York University Dept. of
History. 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon, Dobie Room, FAC. Part of the
Distinguished Scholars Workshops: New Directions in Latin American
History sponsored by the Dept. of History, ILAS, and the ILAS Mexican
Center. Please Patrick Timmons at
or John Marshall Klein at for further info.
and to obtain brief reading list. For directions and parking info.,
visit
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/areas/tower.html.
THURSDAY, November 30
UNITAR: Working at the United Nations in New York.
Experiences for Students Interested in Latin America, a discussion
with former UN interns. Part of the Green Tuesdays Lunchtime Speakers
Series (please note this lecture is on Thursday). 12:15-1:15 p.m.,
Benson Library Conference Room 1.115, SRH. Sponsored by the Center
for Environmental Resource Management in Latin America (CERMLA) and
ILAS. For more info., call Janine Toth at 232-2412.
FRIDAY, December 1
Rural Restructuring near Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon:
The Role of Local Initiatives and the State, a brown-bag talk by Ana
Maria Bicalho, Geography Dept., Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro. 2:00 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Brazil
Center of ILAS. For more info., call 471-5551.
CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
Colombia-U.S. Relations: The War on Drugs, the Peace Process
and Prospects for Human Rights, a symposium sponsored by the Orville
H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law
School, New Haven, CT, Nov. 30-Dec. 1. Speakers include noted
activists, academics, and government officials. Free and open to the
public. No registration necessary. For more info.,
barbara.[email address removed to reduce spam]; barbara.[email address removed to reduce spam].
Call for Papers & Registration-2001 Texas Research Symposium
on Language Diversity, UT-Austin Thompson Conference Center, Feb.
23-24, 2001. Proposals invited for posters or 30-minute technical
presentations on any topic related to cultural aspects of speech and
language or assessment and treatment of communication disorders in
children and adults from multicultural backgrounds. Conference and
registration information is available online at
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/csd/multicultural/index.html. Please
direct any questions to Claire Kuehn, UT-Austin, tel. 232-2464, fax
232-1804, or [email address removed to reduce spam]. Deadline Dec. 1, 2000.
Call for Papers-SALSA 2001, UT-Austin, April 20-22, 2001. The
Symposium About Language and Society is pleased to announce its 9th
annual meeting. We encourage the submission of abstracts on research
that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
Desired frameworks include but are not limited to: linguistic
anthropology; sociolinguistics; ethnography of communication;
language and identity; speech play, verbal art, and poetics; language
and media; political economy of language; language and social
interaction; discourse analysis; and language vitality. Abstracts are
due no later than Jan. 23, 2001. For submission guidelines visit our
Website:
http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa; or contact us at:
SALSA, Dept. of Linguistics, UT-Austin, Austin, TX 78712,
[email address removed to reduce spam].
EMPLOYMENT AND INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Antonio Madero Professorship for the Study of Mexican and
Latin American Politics and Economics, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University. Preferred candidates will have
experience in teaching and quality research, a demonstrated ability
and achievements in applied public policy and management,and
potential institutional commitment, effort, and contribution.
Candidates from any discipline may apply, but those with backgrounds
in political science, sociology, management, and/or anthropology are
of special interest. For more info., please contact Prof. Steve
Kelman, Search Committee Chair, steve_[email address removed to reduce spam]; steve_[email address removed to reduce spam].
Associate Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton
University. Candidates must have an M.A. in a related field or
comparable professional experience, written and oral proficiency in
Spanish (preferably also in Portuguese), an understanding of the
operations of U.S. and Latin American universities, and good working
relations with Latin American cultural and educational institutions.
For further info., contact Rosalia Rivera, Program Manager, at
[email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]
or Jeremy Adelman, Director, at [email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]. Preferred starting date is Jan. 1, 2001.
Apply online at
http://www.princeton.edu/hr, or submit résumé and
cover letter, including complete contact info. for three references,
to: Princeton University, Office of Human Resources, Clio Hall Req.
1220, Princeton, NJ 08544. Review of résumés will begin Dec. 4, 2000,
and will continue until position is filled.
FELLOWSHIPS
Donald D. Harrington Graduate Student Fellows Program.
Fellowships provide tuition, fees, stipend, and travel allowance to
prospective and continuing graduate students. For more info., please
visit
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/harrington/studentfellows.html, or
contact Mary Alica Davila, Fellowship Coordinator, UT-Austin, Office
of Graduate Studies, Main Building 101, Austin, TX 78712-1911, tel.
232-3603, [email address removed to reduce spam]. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2001.
Mellon Fellowships in Latin American Sociology at UT-Austin.
Fellowships provide five years of support to promising sociology
graduate students, including tuition and fees, fieldwork travel and
research expenses, opportunities for conference travel and summer
research grants, and a stipend during the dissertation phase. For
more info., please visit
http://www.la.utexas.edu/socdept/mellon/home.html, or contact the
Sociology Graduate Office, Burdine 336, A1700, UT-Austin, Austin, TX
78712, 471-1122. Deadline: Jan. 15, 2001.
National Security Education Program (NSEP) Graduate
International Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to pursue
specialization in area studies and language. NSEP Fellowship awards
are made for one to six academic semesters (24 months). Support for
language or area studies course work at the recipient's home
university is $2,000 per semester. Overseas study is based on program
expenses up to a maximum of $10,000 per semester for up to two
semesters. For more info., visit
http://www.aed.org/nsep. Deadline:
Jan. 16, 2001.
INTERNSHIPS AND VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Centro para la Investigación y Promoción de los Derechos
Humanos (CIPRODEH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Training provided by
CIPRODEH on how to influence public policy more effectively,
particularly by training other NGOs to lobby Congress on behalf of
their member organizations. Follow same application procedures as for
Legislative Modernization Internship, below. Direct questions to
Gabriela Monzón at [email address removed to reduce spam].
Legislative Modernization Program, San Salvador, El Salvador.
This program promotes public participation in policy development,
increases the resources to legislators involved in policymaking, and
promotes and educates the public about the function of the
legislative body. A living stipend of $650/month will be furnished
during the 2.5-month program. Submit résumé, letter of reference from
a professor involved in your graduate career, a two-page writing
sample explaining your interest in the internship program, and a
brief written statement of your Spanish language capability to the
Guatemalan Legislative Modernization Program office in SRH 3.310 (LBJ
School) no later than 4:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 9, 2001. Direct
questions to Gabriela Monzón at
[email address removed to reduce spam].
Institute for International Cooperation and Development 2001
Volunteer Teams to Paraná and Pernambuco, Brazil. Past teams have
worked with agrarian reform groups, organic cooperatives, street
children organizations, and favela improvement organizations. For
more info., visit
http://www.iicd-volunteer.org or call George
McGrand at 616/782-0450.
For Electronic Access to Calendar:
http://lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/calendar.html
For Access to the Calendar Archive: http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/calarc/
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