Conferences & Funding

The competition for graduate student research fellowships for the Summer of 2012 is now open. The deadline for applications is Monday, January 23, 2012. 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. 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.

Binghamton University is hosting a graduate student conference in transnational American Studies on April 20-21, 2012. The conference is titled "Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders: A Graduate Student Conference in Transnational American Studies," and the keynote speakers include Donald Pease, Dartmouth College and Daniel T. O’Hara, Temple University. William V. Spanos, Binghamton University, will present the closing address. Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference dedicated to exploring the changing contours of the field of American Studies. This year’s conference focuses on “Re-Imagining the New World(s),” an interrogation of the role of a variety of empires, most specifically the American and British empires, in the construction of culture, expression, and subjectivity. This conference will focus on the comparison of the imaginaries produced by empire(s), with a focus on cultural empire. It seeks to examine individual world empires

Saturday, September 24 2011 For its sixth annual interdisciplinary conference in English studies, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's English Graduate Student Association invites you to join them as they work to build a community of graduate scholars. This conference provides forums for ongoing research in an encouraging and receptive academic environment. Additionally, the Writing into the Profession conference brings graduate scholars into contact with established professionals who can answer questions about best practices, research methods, and the field of English Studies. Instead of asking you to bend your interests to a specific theme, this conference allows you to explore what it means to be part of the English profession as you present your work, honestly engage your peers’ work, and participate in a comfortable, open forum with current professionals who will answer questions you may have about the daily practices of scholars in our field. Individual and

Revelation and Convergence: Flannery O'Connor Among the Philosophers and Theologians October 6-8, 2011 Loyola University Chicago An academic conference addressing the literary, philosophical, and theological influences that converge in the works of American writer Flannery O’Connor. Committed speakers include: Ralph Wood; Susan Srigley; William Sessions; Stephen Schloesser, S.J.; Steve Watkins; Hank Edmondson; Christina Bieber Lake; Avis Hewitt; Mark Bosco, S.J.; Ben Alexander; Leo O’Donovan, S.J.; and John Desmond Proposals for 20-minute presentations should focus on particular thinkers upon whom O'Connor drew directly (such as Sophocles, Dostoevsky, Chardin, Barth, Niebuhr, Bouyer, Adam, Mauriac, Maritain, Gilson, Guardini, Voegelin, D’Arcy, Lynch, Ong) or figures whose works help illuminate hers today (such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Habermas, de Lubac. Balthasar, Rahner, Blondel, Benedict XVI). Send 250-word abstracts to Mark Bosco S.J., at mbosco@luc.edu, or to Roxan

The Center for Multicultural Affairs has recently announced that there are four Graduate Assistantships available for the academic year 2011-2012. These opportunities are open to graduate students from any program of study and are listed below: 1. Freshmen Retention, Mentoring, and AAP Graduate Assistantship 2. Sophomore Retention and WISE Male Mentoring Assistantship 3. Research, Diversity Programming, and Communication Assistantship 4. Community Outreach and Programming For more information as well as the application, you can contact Charisma Presley at 610-519-7316 or visit http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/studentlife/multiculturalaffairs/transitional/active/ga.html.