Oregon Sylff Graduate Fellowships for International Research for 2015­‐2016

For over 20 years, Graduate Fellowships for International Research are supported by an endowment to the Oregon University System (OUS) that established the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff). Similar endowments in 69 institutions or consortia in 44 countries have been established by the Nippon Foundation and are administered through the Tokyo Foundation.

The goal of the Sylff Program is to nurture future leaders who will transcend geopolitical, religion, ethnic, and cultural boundaries in the world community for the peace and the well‐being of humankind.

Award Information

The stipend for Oregon Sylff fellows is up to $12,000 for doctoral students and up to $6,000 for master’s students during the academic year to assist with educational and research expenses. Up to eight fellowships are awarded each year to help subsidize research-­‐related expenses and travel.

Award Information:

Fellowships are awarded to full­‐time degree seeking graduate students for one academic year of graduate work involving research and scholarly endeavors in programs and projects with an international dimension. The focus is on master’s and doctoral degree­‐seeking students at Portland State University, Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon who have high potential for leadership in international affairs, in public life or private endeavor.

Outstanding students in the social/behavioral sciences, arts and humanities, and directly‐related professional fields (e.g., public policy, business, law, and communications) will be considered through nomination by their respective graduate department/program.

Application and Nomination:

Only one nomination may be made by each department or graduate program. Departments and graduate programs must indicate their own (or their institution’s) commitment to financial support of nominees. Typically, these supplemental contributions are in the form of an assistantship and associated tuition waiver such that Sylff stipends can be used to address travel, living, and research expenses associated with the international research project. Although nominations may be made for students lacking supplemental funding, a priority will be given to those nominations that exhibit a strong institutional commitment to supporting the graduate student.

The nomination submission includes:

1) A current unofficial graduate transcript supplied by the nominator’s department (not the student) and a copy of all transcripts used to gain admission into current graduate program.

2) The following documents merged as a single PDF in this order. Save the PDF using this naming convention: “2015_Sylff_Lastname_Firstname.pdf”

a) The application form prepared by the student with student essay (found at http://gradschool.uoregon.edu/SYLFF)

b) A nomination letter from the department chair or graduate program director indicating departmental/institutional commitment to financial support of the nominee;

c) Three letters of reference addressing the student’s qualifications and potential related to this fellowship;

d) Transcripts
3) The PDF nomination file attached to an email to Brandy Teel with the subject title “Complete Sylff Application Submission.” The submission email must come from the department chair/head, director of the graduate program, or graduate program support staff. Student nominees may not submit their materials.

If you have any questions about the program, please contact Brandy Teel, Student Engagement and Opportunities Manager, University of Oregon Graduate School. More information can be found at http://gradschool.uoregon.edu/SYLFF.

Scalar Webinars: Announcing Our Spring Schedule

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture will be offering a series of free online webinars this spring.

These “Introduction to Scalar” webinars will cover basic features of the platform: a review of existing Scalar books and a hands-on introduction to paths, tags, annotations and importing media. The “Intermediate Scalar” webinars will delve into more advanced topics including the effective use of visualizations, annotating with media and a primer on customizing appearances in Scalar.

The spring schedule will include six dates:

Introduction to Scalar: January 29, 10am-12pm (PST)
Intermediate Scalar: February 12, 10am-12pm (PST)
Introduction to Scalar: March 5, 4pm-6pm (PST)
Intermediate Scalar: March 26, 4pm-6pm (PST)
Introduction to Scalar: April 9, 10am-12pm (PST)
Intermediate Scalar: April 30, 10am-12pm (PST)

Hurry, spaces are limited!

Register here.

 

2015 Summer Internship Program, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Application Deadline Feb. 16

 

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is preparing to welcome another stellar crew of students to join them as summer interns!

They are looking to engage a diverse group of students who are interested in studying- and changing the world through- the Internet and new communications technologies; who are driven, funny, and kind; and who would like to join the Berkman community in Cambridge this summer for 10 weeks of shared research and exchange.

Information about the summer program and links to the application procedures can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships_summer.

The application deadline for all students for Summer 2015 is Monday, February 16, 2015 at 11:59 p.m. ET.

Eligibility:

-Internships are open to students enrolled across the full spectrum of disciplines.
-Internships are open to students at different levels of academic study including those in bachelor’s, master’s, law, and Ph.D programs.
-Summer interns do not need to be U.S. residents or in school in the U.S.; indeed, Harvard encourages international students to apply.
-Summer interns do not need an existing affiliation with Harvard University.

To Apply:

Law students: please find application instructions and important additional information here.

Students from disciplines other than law: please find more information and application instructions here.

Required application materials for all include:

1. A cover letter describing your skills and interests. When developing your cover letter, you may wish to consider the following questions: What has led you to pursue research with the Berkman Center and the issues they study? What would you like to gain from working with them this summer, and what will you contribute? How do you think the experience might influence your future efforts?

>Cover letters should be addressed to Nancy. 

2. A current resume.

3. The contact information for two references (professional or academic).

Questions? Check out the Berkman Center’s FAQ page, and if you have a question not addressed there, email Rebecca Tabasky at rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu.

CFP: An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities

A special issue of Feminist Media Studies

Edited by Jessalynn Keller, Jo Littler and Alison Winch

Deadline to submit papers: February 15, 2015.

This special 15th anniversary issue of Feminist Media Studies will explore
the interconnections between different generations of women and girls in
the contemporary media landscape, building upon several successful
roundtables from when FMS convened around this topic in London in autumn 2014.

While feminism has become increasingly visible within western popular media
cultures over the past few years, little scholarly attention has been paid
to the ways in which age and generation shape mediated conversations about
feminist politics globally. This collection will address this oversight,
aiming to problematize dominant media representations of intergenerational
“catfights” and feminist “bickering,” while simultaneously interrogating
the ways in which mediated conflicts and connectivities shape the potential
to work together to enact feminist social change.

Key Questions: What kind of shared conversations do women have across age groups
and how do these circulate in media cultures? How can intergenerational
alliances be built while still remaining sensitive to differences of
experience? How are feminist connections being formed via digital media
technologies and platforms? How do new forms of mediated activism over
sexual violence, queerness, racism, and social reproduction relate to those
of their predecessors?  How is feminist conflict mediated and how might it
operate productively? How do particular issues such as “sexualisation”
become indicative of intergenerational conflict?

Considering these questions in relation to the growth of feminist media
studies over the past fifteen years, this issue will simultaneously
foreground how feminist media studies can contribute, and how it has
contributed, to an understanding of such intergenerationality. How do
different generations of feminist media scholars talk to each other? What
impediments arise in these conversations? How do geographical and cultural
locations impact these conversations? How do we theorize these generational
divides and dialogues? Does an effective intergenerational feminist media
studies exist, or do we need to invent or extend it?

Possible paper themes might include, but are not restricted to:

• the mediation of age and ageing
• feminist alliances within austerity and neoliberalism
• feminist ‘waves’ in transnational contexts
• intergenerational activism challenging global power inequalities
• the mediation of feminist conflict and crisis
• intersections of ‘race’, class, sexuality and generation
• generational politics within digital media cultures and practices
• queering feminist media studies
• the legacies of feminist anti-racism
• boys and men as feminist allies
• feminist girls

*Please send 300-500 word abstracts and a 50-word bio by 15th February 2015
to Jessalynn Keller, Alison Winch, and Jo Littler. *

Final papers will be no more than 8,000 words and will be due 1st September
2015.

Information about Feminist Media Studies can be found here

NYT Book Review: Among the Disrupted

The following is an excerpt from a book review by Leon Wieseltier. Read the full article on the New York Times website here.


“The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973,” by Mark Greif,

 

 

 

Joon Mo Kang

 

Amid the bacchanal of disruption, let us pause to honor the disrupted. The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty and an indecent one; they are expected to render the fruits of their labors for little and even for nothing, and all the miracles of electronic dissemination somehow do not suffice for compensation, either of the fiscal or the spiritual kind.

Everybody talks frantically about media, a second-order subject if ever there was one, as content disappears into “content.” What does the understanding of media contribute to the understanding of life? Journalistic institutions slowly transform themselves into silent sweatshops in which words cannot wait for thoughts, and first responses are promoted into best responses, and patience is a professional liability. As the frequency of expression grows, the force of expression diminishes: Digital expectations of alacrity and terseness confer the highest prestige upon the twittering cacophony of one-liners and promotional announcements. It was always the case that all things must pass, but this is ridiculous.

Joon Mo Kang

…In American culture right now, as I say, the worldview that is ascendant may be described as posthumanism. We have been here before, and not too long ago, but for different reasons. The posthumanism of the 1970s and 1980s was more insular, an academic affair of “theory,” an insurgency of professors; our posthumanism is a way of life, a social fate. An important book, a brilliant book, an exasperating book has just been written about the origins of that previous posthumanist moment. In “The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973,” the gifted essayist Mark Greif, who reveals himself to be also a skillful historian of ideas, charts the history of the 20th-century reckonings with the definition of “man.”

Greif’s book is a prehistory of our predicament, of our own “crisis of man.” (The “man” is archaic, the “crisis” is not.) It recognizes that the intellectual history of modernity may be written in part as the epic tale of a series of rebellions against humanism.

-Read Wieseltier’s full book review online, and check out Greif’s book, out now.

National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

The National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity is a fantastic resource for students and faculty alike, who are interested in taking the next step in their career. They offer on-campus workshops, professional development training, and intensive mentoring programs.

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community of over 71,000 graduate students, post-docs, and faculty members.

Read more about upcoming workshops and training programs on their website. See a workshop that you are interested in seeing come to UO? Please let us know.

PACE Graduate Student Workshop: Cover Letter, CV, Resume, Check!

Date: Friday, January 30, 2015 – 12:00pm to 1:50pm
Location:
Graduate Student Center, 111 Susan Campbell Hall
Administrative
Contact Email: bota@uoregon.edu

It’s time to brush off that resume, put together a CV, write a compelling cover letter and get a job!

Kristi Lodge, Asst. Director of the Career Connections at the UO Career Center provides practical advice about putting together a CV, including how to incorporate conference presentations, research, publications, and GTF experience.

She’ll also cover how to convert a resume to a CV, tips for writing a cover letter, and where to go if you would like one-on- one assistance during your job search.

Please RSVP for this workshop.

 

PACE Graduate Student Workshop: Writing and Researching your Thesis/Dissertation

Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 – 12:00pm to 1:20pm
Event Type: Special Event,Workshop
Location:
Graduate Student Center, 111 Susan Campbell Hall
Administrative Contact Email: bota@uoregon.edu

Offered by Kim Wollter (Graduate School), Keli Yerian (Linguistics), Katy Lenn (UO Libraries), this workshop is targeted for students just beginning the research and writing process. Topics that will be covered are research strategies, organization strategies, the scholarly writing process, writing techniques, revisions, drop-in appointments with the Graduate School Thesis/Dissertation Editor, university style formatting, and ETD submission.

Please RSVP for this workshop.

Ms. Fembot Edit‐a­‐Thon + Hack‐a‐Thon Friday, March 6, 2015 and Saturday, March 7, 2015

Writers, researchers, coders, students: have you ever gone to Wikipedia looking for information about women, trans, and/or gender non‐conforming scientists, writers, scholars, filmmakers, artists, activists, politicians, and others, only to find the same gender marginalizations that occur in traditional Encyclopedias? Have you ever wondered what a feminist app or program might do or look like? Then join Ms. Magazine, the Fembot Collective, and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism’s first ever Wikipedia Edit-‐a­‐Thon + Hack‐a­‐Thon!

On Friday, March 6th, Fembot will be writing historical figures marginalized because of their gender into Wikipedia. Not only will they be contributing to the world of free knowledge and ensuring the existence of a gender inclusive history of everything, they will be training people how to make effective and engaging entries that will outlive the participation of their creators – ensuring the digital legacy of women, trans, and/or gender non-­‐conforming people in multiple discipline, fields, and periods of history.

At the first Fembot Hack­‐a­‐thon, they created the Fembot Bot: an auto-­‐tweeting bot designed to auto-­‐reply to sexist and racist hashtags. Sadly, Twitter shut down the Fembot Bot too quickly. Join Fembot in their memory on Saturday, March 7th, when they will collaborate with coders, software designers, and others at the Annenberg School to build some awe‐inspiring feminist tools and interventions.

Send suggestions on who you’d like to see written into Wikipedia to admin@fembotcollective.org; look for registration information and other details on the Fembot website in early winter!

Event Sponsors: the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the Fembot Collective, Ms. Magazine, and the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.

CFP: Women’s History in the Digital World 2015 (Deadline 1/16/15)

Women’s History in the Digital World 2015, the second conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education, will be held on the campus of Bryn Mawr College on May 21-22. The aim is to bring together experts, novices, and all those in between to share insights, lessons, and resources for the many projects emerging at the crossroads of history, the digital humanities, and women’s and gender studies. Continuing a conversation begun at the inaugural meeting in 2013, the conference will feature the work of librarians and archivists, faculty, students, and other stakeholders in the development of women’s and gender histories within digital scholarship.

 The conference will feature a keynote address by Claire Bond Potter, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Humanities Action Lab at The New School for Public Engagement, known for her long-running “Tenured Radical” blog.

 

Panels will be scheduled during the day Thursday, May 21, and the morning of Friday, May 22; a projects showcase and digital lab will offer opportunities for unstructured conversation and demonstrations. They invite individual papers or full panel proposals on women’s and gender history projects with a digital component, investigating the complexities of creating, managing, researching and/or teaching with digital resources and digitized materials. All thematic areas, geographies, and time periods are welcome: this is a chance to share knowledge, network, and promote collaborations that locate new possibilities. Graduate student presentations are encouraged.

To submit a proposal, please send the following information by email to greenfieldhwe@brynmawr.edu:

-Complete contact information including current email and institutional affiliation, if any
-short (150-200 word) biography for each presenter
-abstract (s) of the proposed presentation (500 words for single paper, poster, or demonstration, or 1,500-2000 words for panels of 3 papers)

 
The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 16, 2015.

For updates, follow the Greenfield Digital Center on Twitter @GreenfieldHWE and the conference hashtag, #WHDigWrld. Bryn Mawr College is located 11 miles outside of Philadelphia, easily accessible by car and public transportation.