Conferences & Funding

CALL FOR PAPERS CULTURE & IDENTITY 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures’ Graduate Student Committee at Purdue University Saturday, March 5, 2011 We welcome submissions in all areas of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences including, but not limited to, foreign languages and literature, English, creative writing, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, cultural studies, the visual arts, theater, music, philosophy and history. Proceedings from the symposium will be published in an online format. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Thomas Turino is a Professor of Music and Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Beginning in 1977 he conducted four years of fieldwork on indigenous and mestizo music in Peru resulting in the books Moving Away from Silence (1993, Chicago), and Music in the Andes (2007, Oxford) as well as numerous articles. In 1992, he began working in Zimbabwe to produce Na

Attention Graduate Students! The deadline for the summer of 2011's graduate student research fellowship application is Friday, January 14, 2011. For details regarding eligibility requirements, application procedures, and the required cover page to be appended to any submitted proposals, please visit the “Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship” found on the Graduate Studies website at: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/graduate/currentstudents/researchfellowship.html If you have a scholarly project for which you would like summer support, please discuss this with a faculty member in your program who will be willing to formally sponsor your effort.