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NEW WRITING SERIES, WINTER 1998. All events take place
at 4:30 p.m. at the Visual Arts Performance Space and are free and
open to the public.
Charles Alexander - February 4
The founder and director of Chax Press, Charles Alexander has published
two books of poetry and has two more due to appear in 1998.
Carol Moldaw - February 11
Carol Moldaw's work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,
and she received a national Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship
in 1994.
Harry Polkinhorn - February 18
Harry Polkinhorn, whose current work focuses on the culture of the
U.S.-Mexico Border region, is the author and/or editor of over thirty books
of poetry and art. He is the director of San Diego State University Press.
Charles Bernstein - February 25
A poet of international repute and David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters
at SUNY Buffalo, Charles Bernstein has published twenty books of poetry,
two books of essays, and four librettos. He was a founding editor of the
influential journal L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Sherley Anne Williams - March 4
Sherley Anne Williams, UCSD Professor of Literature and Writing, is
best known for her novel Dessa Rose and for her books of poetry,
including The Peacock Poems and Some One Sweet Angel Chile.
The series is sponsored by the University Events Office, the Literature
Department, the Archive for New Poetry and the Division of Arts and Humanities.
NAYAN SHAH, International Center for Advanced Studies,
New York University
"'Contaminated Goods': The Peril of Asian Commerce in White America,
1875-1919"
Thursday, February 12, 12:00 noon
Cross-Cultural Center
BARBARA GARLICK, Department of English, University of Queensland
"Shaw's 'Revolutionary Comrades': Radical Women Writers of the 90s"
Thursday, February 12, 4:00 p.m.
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
DAVID REYES and TOM WALDMAN will lecture on the music of
the Chicano Movement at 12:00 noon, Wednesday, February 18, in the
Cross-Cultural Center (free event); and they will play selections from
their three-cd collection, "Brown-eyed Soul: History of Chicano Rock
Music" (Rhino), at 7:00 p.m. at the Spruce Street Forum in
Hillcrest ($5 admission; $3 students). David Reyes and Tom Waldman also
co-authored Land of a Thousand Dances: Chicano Rock n Roll from Southern
California (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming). Presenter
at the events will be Professor Jorge Mariscal. A collection will
be taken at both events to support efforts to defeat the Unz initiative.
ARLENE KAPLAN-DANIELS, former head of Women's Studies and
Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University; currently emeritus and
affiliated with UC Berkeley
"Gender: The Still Hidden Agenda in Academic Life"
Wednesday, February 18
3:30 p.m. - Reception
4:00 p.m. - Talk
UCSD Women's Center, 407 University Center
Sponsored by the Sociology Department, the Women's Center, the Chancellor's
Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and OGSR.
ESTHER NEWTON, Department of Anthropology, SUNY
"My Butch Career"
Thursday, February 19, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Price Center Santa Cruz-San Francisco Room
This talk will focus on issues of butchness and academia. Professor Newton
is the author of Mother Camp: Female Impersonator in America and
Cherry Grove: 60 Years of America's First Gay and Lesbian Town.
Research/Fellowship Opportunities
Travel to Scholarly Meetings that take place before
July 1, 1998. Academic Senate members may apply for travel expenses
(airfare, not per diem) to conferences or symposia of professional societies
at which they will present papers on their research or preside over one
or more sessions. Invitations to participate in a departmental symposium
or in a locally organized workshop/conference with a fairly small attendance
cannot be supported. Only one trip per fiscal year for any Senate member
will be awarded. The deadline for submission of applications is 2:00
p.m., Friday, February 27, 1998. Applications received after this date
will be reviewed in June 1998. Awards are made for the lowest published
air coach fare for domestic trips, with ceilings of $500 for Eastern, $350
for Central, and $250 for Mountain/Pacific time zones. Foreign travel may
be funded at 75% of the lowest APEX fare, up to $1,000, or the actual fare,
whichever is lower. A copy of the letter inviting the paper, acceptance
of the paper on the program or a copy of the program must accompany the
request for funds. Application forms are available from Linda Lewis or
on the Web at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/forms.htm.
Illinois Research Information System (IRIS). The IRIS
database of online funding information includes descriptions of over 6,000
ongoing competitive funding opportunities from federal agencies, private
corporate foundations and other not-for-profit organizations. An IRIS computer
search provides information about possible funding sources in a great variety
of disciplines in many countries. The search results appear on a printout
which provides brief descriptions of all potential funding sources and
lists their addresses and deadlines. The database includes sources of support
for dissertation research, postdoctoral opportunities, advanced study and
training, teaching and curriculum development, seminar and conference travel,
editing/publishing/translating, equipment and materials acquisition, exhibits
and performances, consultant/visiting personnel, prizes/awards, use of
facilities/equipment and collaborative activity. IRIS also offers a funding
alert service that will automatically retrieve and deliver via e-mail IRIS
records that meet established keyword finding profiles. Access information
is available at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/.
FEDIX Opportunity Alert (FOA) is a free e-mail service
that automatically delivers research and education funding opportunities
targeted to specified areas of interest. The service, funded by the Federal
government, has grown to 35,000 subscribers since last March. To participate,
register at http://www.rams-fie.com/opportunity.htm
and then select the keywords that identify your areas of interest. Searches
on your behalf will begin the following business day.
Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) Grant and
Fellowship Competition for Summer 1998 and Academic Year 1998-99.
The Center invites applications from UCSD graduate students interested
in Latin America for the following fellowship programs: Foreign Language
and Area Studies Fellowships (two fellowships available) pay tuition
and fees plus a $10,000 stipend. Fellows are required to study Latin American
Portuguese or advanced Spanish during the tenure of the award. Applicants
must be citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. Summer Intensive
Language Fellowships (two-three awards) pay $3,600 for living expenses
and up to $2,400 for fees and travel expenses. Awardees must take 100 hours
of advanced instruction in Latin American Portuguese, advanced Spanish
or a Latin American indigenous language in a pre-approved program affiliated
with a U.S. university. U.S. citizenship or permanent residency is required.
CILAS expects to award approximately ten Field Research Grants ($1,000-$3,000)
for pre-dissertation and dissertation field research to be conducted in
Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. All UCSD graduate students are
eligible to apply. All application materials must be received at CILAS
by March 24, 1998. Additional information will be provided at 12:00
noon, Friday, February 6, 1998, at the Deutz Conference Room, Institute
of the Americas; or contact 4-6050.
Graduate Program Announcements
Fredric R. Jameson--Spring Quarter 1998 Mini-Seminar:
Professor Jameson's two-unit mini-seminar (LTTH 297) is tentatively scheduled
for Tuesday, May 26, Thursday, May 28, and Tuesday, June 2, from 1:00 to
4:00 p.m. in the deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building. Topic and reading
list TBA.
"Graduate and Post-Doc Parenting: How Do You Do It?",
Wednesday, February 11, 4:00-5:00 p.m., The Women's Center, 407 University
Center. Research, graduate course work and parenting may seem like an impossible
combination. This program will provide a review of policies, resources
and strategies that impact graduate students and post-docs who currently
have children or are planning to start a family. For information contact
822-2030. Sponsored by OGSR.