MASTER OF ARTS (MA) GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP
IN ARCHIVES
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
New York University

GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP DESCRIPTION:

The Graduate Assistant (GA) in Archives at the A/P/A Institute (A/P/A) works with the A/P/A Institute on collections building efforts while simultaneously pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the Archives and Public History Program, with an emphasis in Archives, in the History Department at NYU. As part of A/P/A’s commitment to the ongoing preservation of Asian/Pacific American materials and the promotion of their use and importance, the GA will help to create access to Asian/Pacific American collections of the New York area. The GA serves as a key resource person connecting A/P/A’s network of scholars, researchers, activists, archivists, librarians, artists, curators, and community members with archives.

The two-year MA Program is designed to give the graduate assistant practical experience in archives, in addition to a solid grounding in archival theory and historical scholarship. The GA will work with both the A/P/A Institute and the Tamiment Library of NYU to survey, appraise, and process A/P/A collections of the New York City area. The GA will also aid in organizing the A/P/A Institute’s archives. The GA will regularly meet with the A/P/A Institute’s staff to discuss progress and expectations. The GA works an average of 20 hours per week during each 16-week term. (Dates of appointment are 9/2/08-12/19/08 for Fall 2008, and expected to be 1/20/09-5/13/09 for Spring 2009.)

The Public History and Archives Program in the History Department at NYU is well established and respected. Archival Management is an important and growing field with many employment opportunities in the New York area. Recent graduates have gone on to work at the United Nations Archives, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Rolling Stone Magazine, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Smithsonian Institution, American Civil Liberties Union, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and Sports Illustrated. Graduates also work in the city and region’s many museums, libraries, and historical societies as well as in government and corporate archives. Graduates can expect starting salaries ranging from $40,000 to $50,000 depending on the institution.

The A/P/A Institute is dedicated to preserving the physical documentation of Asian/Pacific American history. A/P/A Institute works closely with community members to facilitate the process of finding an accessible, permanent home for New York Metro region and East Coast Asian/Pacific American materials. Our vision is to provide collections that allow for engagement with and dialogue about the experiences of Asian/Pacific Americans.
Past and current GAs have curated and published on “yellow peril” collections, been central in bringing in individual and organization collections, taught undergrads, posted an archival blog, developed archival theory, and much more.

REQUIREMENTS:

-Bachelor’s Degree with a major or minor in Asian/Pacific American Studies preferred.
-Background knowledge or demonstrated interest in Asian/Pacific American history and community.
-Ability to take initiative and work independently and as part of a team.
SCHOLARSHIP:
The GA receives 100% remission of tuition, fees, and student health insurance for full-time study in the History and Archival Management Program at NYU. For the 2008-2009 academic year, the GA will receive a stipend of $22,000, disbursed every two weeks typically between 9/1/08 and 4/30/09.

APPLICATION PROCESS:
Qualified applicants should contact Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen by email at apa.archives@nyu.edu with cover letter, resume and any additional relevant information no later than Thursday, July 1st, 2008; and if chosen apply to the MA in History and Archival Management Program at NYU online by Friday, July 11th, 2008 at:
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

For more information:

Archives and Public History Program:
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute:
http://www.apa.nyu.edu

Call for Contributors

The Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore is scheduled to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010.

Asian American Folklore shares a close tie with Asian Folklore, and is growing increasingly important to all Americans. Never before has there been such a broad and deep interest in Asian and Asian American folklore in the United States and Europe. The many different cultures of Asian Americans in all of their specificities offer a rich trove of historical experiences through their folklore that hold continuing relevance and offer wisdom guidance for present living.

Editors Juwen Zhang and Kathy Nadeau seek contributors for entries on different types of folklore, histories and applications of folklore, and analysis. A-Z arrangements.

Principles for establishing entries: to cover as broad as possible the Asian American folklore practice, in particular those that have regional or national basis. When an Asian American culture or community is introduced, its folklore may contain, but not limited to, these aspects:

- Folk-literature; narrative; tale; legend; histories; personal experience narratives; myth; poetry; epic; ballad; song; verse; speech; proverb; riddle
- Names; graffiti; language; dance; music; musical instruments
- Belief systems; medicine; magic; religion; churches and temples
- Behavior; drama; games and play; children games; ritual; foodways; festival
- Material culture; art; products; technology
- Settlement patterns (houses/cultural architecture; interior and exterior designs and decorations)
- Further reading: book and journal publications; film; record and audiotape; websites; ethnography; monographs

Sample list of (working and expandable) table of contents in alphabetical order will be provided to interested contributors.

A letter of intent should be submitted and we are accepting applications until June of 2009. Prospective candidates will receive an assignment, contributor’s guidelines, and sample entries by email or postal mail; followed by release form to be sent by postal mail from the publisher to be signed and returned. Complete entries are due by January 2010, and are subject to normal editing process required for quality publications and are accepted for publication at the discretion of the editors, advisory board, and publisher. Contributors will receive a free set of this two volume reference book and/or a modest honorarium once it is published.

If you are interested in submitting one or more entries please send a short biographical sketch describing your background and interests in Asian American Folklore and your preferred e-mail and postal address to: Juwen Zhang juwen@willamette.edu; and/or Kathy Nadeau knadeau@csusb.edu. Qualified candidates will receive a listing of available entries (again, by way of a friendly reminder, suggestions for new topical entries of relevance to Asian American Folklore, also, will be welcome and invited for consideration by the editors for possible inclusion).

Prospective candidates will receive an assignment, contributor’s guidelines, and sample entries by email or postal mail; followed by release form to be sent by postal mail from the publisher to be signed and returned.

Thank you!

Columbia College Chicago
Tenure-Track Cultural Studies Faculty
Department of Liberal Education
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago

The Cultural Studies Program in the Liberal Education Department at Columbia College Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Cultural Studies, starting in Fall 2009. The ideal candidate should be trained in Media Studies, with research and teaching interests in at least three of the following: new media, new technologies and culture, critical studies of science and technology, and cultural studies methodologies. We are particularly interested in those candidates working in new media and one or more of the following areas: Asian cultural studies, Asian American cultural studies and Native American cultural studies. Ph.D. in cultural studies, media studies, or related field is required at time of hire. Teaching experience at the undergraduate level is required.

Responsibilities include: full-time undergraduate teaching load (3/3), including cultural studies courses at all levels; scholarship and professional activity; student advising; and service to the College and community.

Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 11,500 undergraduate & graduate students, emphasizing arts, media, & communications in a liberal arts setting. The Cultural Studies Program at Columbia - home to over 100 majors - explicitly seeks to link the humanities and social sciences, combining a variety of methods of interpretation and analysis to explore the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural phenomena in their social context.  The program is based in the Liberal Education Department, an interdisciplinary unit that draws on faculty from over 10 disciplines. The Department offers minors in Latino Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Black World Studies, and provides courses in history, humanities, foreign languages, and social sciences.

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. Columbia College Chicago encourages female, GLTB, disabled, minority classified & international individuals to apply for all positions. We will begin reviewing applications on September 30, 2008. Please send letter of application, CV, statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching excellence, graduate transcripts, writing sample of research/scholarship, and three letters of reference to:

Carmelo Esterrich, PhD
Chair, Search Committee
Department of Liberal Education
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL 60605-1996 USA

Call for Papers for a Session of Asian American Literature

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Ghostly Men in Asian American Women’s Narratives
In the production and consumption of Asian American literary texts, the formula of mother-daughter relations have been immensely popular, while making Asian/American male figures ghostly. This panel explores the political significance of the conjuration of these male figures in Asian American women writers’ texts. Do Asian American women writers simply describe male figures as a source of oppression and violence? How do women writers describe the relation between father and daughter or brother and sister? What is the cultural and political significance of the alternative bond? Please send 250-500 word abstracts to Yasuko Kase ykase@buffalo.edu by September 15th, 2008.

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

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Yasuko Kase (ykase@buffalo.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate in English
Instructor of AAS courses
SUNY at Buffalo

University of California, Los Angeles
Director
Asian American Studies Center

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of Director for the Asian American Studies Center. Qualifications for success include a strong scholarly research and publication record; experience developing interdisciplinary research and instructional programs in Asian American Studies; the ability to administer budgetary and personnel processes; and proven experience in obtaining and managing extramural funding in the form of research grants, gifts and donations, and in engaging in other development activities. Above all, UCLA seeks a dynamic individual to provide intellectual and programmatic leadership for the Center, who will work effectively with members of the Center, its faculty advisory committee, and campus leadership to develop internal priorities, maximize external visibility of the Center, build bridges between UCLA and the community, and encourage intercampus collaboration. This is a tenured faculty appointment in the appropriate department or school.

Established in 1969, the Asian American Studies Center is the nation’s leading research center in the field of Asian American Studies. Its mission is to promote research, education and community service within an academic framework, contributing to an understanding of the history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in our society. Together with the Asian American Studies Department, the Center has core programs in research, in publications; in library and archival collections; in student leadership development; in joint university-community research projects; in endowment and development efforts; and in public educational activities. The Center has established partnerships, collaborations, and exchanges with hundreds of public and private institutions across the nation and around the world, and has played a critical role in developing Southern California‚s infrastructure of social service agencies, civil rights organizations, museums, historical societies, media and cultural groups, and business associations that serve and represent the Asian American and Pacific Islander population. For more information on the Center, please visit www.aasc.ucla.edu.

Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. Applications should include a curriculum vita and a list of three professional references, and should be sent electronically to aascsearch@gdnet.ucla.edu. Inquiries may be addressed to Paris McDonald, at (310) 206-5268. For full consideration, nominations and applications should be sent by October 10, 2008. Candidate review begins immediately, with an appointment to be made in spring 2009, and a preferred starting date of July 1, 2009.

The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer,
and seeks candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities
and to a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.

Call for Papers

Asian American Literature—the Voice of Southeast Asian Diaspora

40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Feb. 26-March 1, 2009
Hyatt Regency - Boston, Massachusetts

Session Description:

After the Vietnam War ended in 1974, the refugees from Southeast Asia risked their lives traveling across the Pacific Ocean in order to escape from the political persecution of communism in their home countries and look for a better life in North America. What has their “American Dream” come to be? Without the experiences of Exclusion Laws and racial discriminations that early Asian immigrant groups have had during the first half of the twentieth century, how are the diasporic experiences of Southeast Asian immigrants different from other Asian ethnicities like Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Filipinos?
In Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge, the narrator Mai Nguyen describes Vietnamese immigrants in America: “Not only could we become anything we wanted to be in America, we could change what we had once been in Vietnam. Rebirthing the past, we called it, claiming what had once been a power reserved only for gods and other immortal beings.” How do these Southeast Asian immigrants accommodate themselves to a new life? How do their younger generations identify themselves in North America? Pioneer Southeast Asian American writers like Lan Cao, Monique Thuy-Dung Truong, Le Ly Hayslip, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, T. C. Huo, Lawrence Chua, etc. have initiated this dialogue in their literary expression and addressed the voice of Southeast Asian diaspora. This panel invites papers discussing the voice of Southeast Asian diaspora, including but not limited to Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmongs, Thais, and Burmese. We will be discussing how these diasporic groups inscribe their North American experiences and sociopolitical issues—their joy and sorrow, their assimilation, their homesickness, their reinvention of identity and history, etc. Any disciplines and approaches are welcome: literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, history, sociology, psychology, and the like.

Please send an abstract of 500 words and a brief bio in a single file to Dr. Brian Guan-rong Chen at grc0930@yahoo.com. (Note: Only PDF and DOC files are acceptable. If you are using the latest version of Microsoft Word, please make sure that your filename ends with DOC, not DOCX.)

Deadline: September 15, 2008

Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee)

The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will be posted in June: www.nemla.org. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel; however panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

University of California, Los Angeles
Director
Asian American Studies Center

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invites inquiries, nominations and applications for the position of Director for the Asian American Studies Center. Qualifications for success include a strong scholarly research and publication record; experience developing interdisciplinary research and instructional programs in Asian American Studies; the ability to administer budgetary and personnel processes; and proven experience in obtaining and managing extramural funding in the form of research grants, gifts and donations, and in engaging in other development activities. Above all, UCLA seeks a dynamic individual to provide intellectual and programmatic leadership for the Center, who will work effectively with members of the Center, its faculty advisory committee, and campus leadership to develop internal priorities, maximize external visibility of the Center, build bridges between UCLA and the community, and encourage intercampus collaboration. This is a tenured faculty appointment in the appropriate department or school.

Established in 1969, the Asian American Studies Center is the nation’s leading research center in the field of Asian American Studies. Its mission is to promote research, education and community service within an academic framework, contributing to an understanding of the history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in our society. Together with the Asian American Studies Department, the Center has core programs in research, in publications; in library and archival collections; in student leadership development; in joint university-community research projects; in endowment and development efforts; and in public educational activities. The Center has established partnerships, collaborations, and exchanges with hundreds of public and private institutions across the nation and around the world, and has played a critical role in developing Southern California‚s infrastructure of social service agencies, civil rights organizations, museums, historical societies, media and cultural groups, and business associations that serve and represent the Asian American and Pacific Islander population. For more information on the Center, please visit <http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/>

Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. Applications should include a curriculum vita and a list of three professional references, and should be sent electronically to aascsearch@gdnet.ucla.edu. Inquiries may be addressed to Paris McDonald, at (310) 206-5268. For full consideration, nominations and applications should be sent by October 10, 2008. Candidate review begins immediately, with an appointment to be made in spring 2009, and a preferred starting date of July 1, 2009.

The University of California is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and seeks candidates who are committed to the highest standards of scholarship and professional activities and to a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Panel: Middle Eastern or Middle Eastern American Literature
Conference Title: Teaching About the Middle East in the 21st Century
Date of Conference: October 16-18, 2008
Location: California State University, Fresno
Deadline for Abstract (1-2 pages): July 15, 2008
Submit to: Samina Najmi, English Department, CSU Fresno
Email:snajmi@csufresno.edu

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Call for Proposals
First International Conference on Middle East Studies
California State University, Fresno

“Teaching about the Middle East in the 21st Century”
October 16-18, 2008
Fresno, California, USA

The Middle East Studies Program at California State University, Fresno, calls for proposals for pre-organized panels and individual papers for the Program’s inaugural conference, October 16-18, 2008, in Fresno, California.

CONFERENCE THEME
In academic and popular discourse today, the Middle East has become a primary dimension of our geopolitical-intellectual culture. The global reach of current events has brought the Middle East into direct contact with the West. Much scholarly and professional attention is afforded today to the complex (yet habitually abstracted and simplified) human reality of the peoples of the Middle East, and their contributions to the world, be they in science, religion, literature or art.

One of the primary objects of this conference will be to explore the constructions and contextualizations of the modern Middle East through artistic, scholarly, economic, political, sociological, historical, and philological works and texts. The conference will subsequently examine the politics that underlie their production and dissemination in academia.

KEYNOTE SPEECH
Dr. Juan Cole, Professor of History, University of Michigan, “The Iraq Crisis and the Next Administration,” Friday, October 17, 2008. Dr. Haleh Afshar, University of York, “Islam and Feminisms,” Saturday, October 18, 2008.

RESEARCH TOPICS
Cutting across disciplinary lines, and recognizing the plurality of the Middle East, the inherent multidisciplinary nature of studying and teaching it, as well as the diversity of its identities, the richness of its languages, histories, religions, political, economic and social circumstances, the conference invites panels and contributions from a range of disciplines, including, but not limited to:

• Pedagogical Approaches to Middle East Studies
• Art, Architecture, Visual & Performing Arts
• History & Historiography
• Literature, Literary Studies & Linguistics
• Culture, Gender & Ethnography
• Diaspora & Migration Culture
• Middle East Politics & Representations
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Civil Society, NGOs & International Development
• Media Studies (including Film, Broadcast, Print, News, etc.)
• Economic development/Sustainability/Democratic transitions
• Business and Finance
• Religion: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the context of the Middle East

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstracts 27 June, 2008
Notification of acceptance 1 August, 2008

FORMATS
Papers: Exploring original research on the Middle East by one or more authors. Presentations will be 20 minutes long.

Plenary Session/ Panel Discussion: Panel proposals should be submitted by a moderator, inviting three to five presenters to discuss a topic relevant to the conference theme. The topic should be one that would benefit from diverse opinions and open discussion. Panel presentations will be limited to 90 minutes.

ABSTRACTS/PAPER PROPOSALS
Submission Items:
• Cover Sheet: Required for all submissions. On a separate cover sheet, list the title of the presentation, author name(s), school affiliation(s), contact person address, and audio-visual requirements. Make a separate cover sheet for each submission.

• Abstracts: Abstract submissions should be approximately 500 words and must be in English. Abstract and full paper submissions should be sent in MS Word or PDF document format. Include title but do not include author name(s) or school affiliation(s).

• Notes & References: Must conform to the Chicago/Turabian style.

Submission Method:
Contributors have two choices for submitting:

• Option 1. (preferred) Submit as an email attachment to the Program Committee Chair at sasanf@csufresno.edu. Submission should include cover sheet and abstract along with other documents or images required for submission attached to an email. Please put CSU-Fresno Mid-East Conference Submission in email subject line.

• Option 2. Submit in hard copy. Submitters may mail a hard copy of cover sheet, and three copies of other required submission items. The mailing address is:

Dr. Sasan Fayazmanesh,
Program Committee Chair
Department of Economics
California State University, Fresno
5245 N. Backer MS/PB20
Fresno CA 93740-8001

CONFERENCE FEES, REGISTRATION & ACCOMMODATION
Authors are invited to complete the registration process before September 1, 2008. Failing to send the registration fees on or before this date might result in excluding the paper from the proceedings. Registration fee is $50 for conference participants and $25 for students. An additional $25 will be charged for late registration. Accommodation is available at Piccadilly Inn University Hotel, 4961 North Cedar Avenue, Fresno, CA 93726, (559) 224-4200 (the conference rate is $88 per night and reservation must be made no later than September 16).

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Select papers presented at the conference will be published in a conference proceedings, which will become available after the conference. Details will be announced in October 2008.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
A. Sameh El Kharbawy, Liaison, Manuchehr Shahrokhi, Vincent Biondo, Vida Samiian, Sasan Fayazmanesh

CSUF PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Sasan Fayazmanesh (Chair), Steve Adisasmito-Smith, Vincent Biondo, José A. Díaz, A. Sameh El Kharbawry, Ellen Gruenbaum, Mary Husain, Ellen Lipp, Samina Najmi, Jay O’Brien, Vida Samiian, Manuchehr Shahrokhi

PROGRAM COMMITTEE ON OTHER CAMPUSES
Sebouh Aslanian (Whitman College), Houri Berberian (CSU Long Beach), Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Manzar Foroohar (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), Jonathan Friedlander (UCLA), Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount University), Simin Karimi (University of Arizona), Nikki Keddie (UCLA), Afshin Matin (CSU Los Angeles), Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware), Mahmood Monshipouri (CSU San Francisco), Jamal R. Nassar (CSU San Bernardino), Katherine Platt (Babson College), Jasmin Rostam (CSU Fullerton)

CONFERENCE COORDINATOR
Dr. Vida Samiian, Dean
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University, Fresno

CONFERENCE LIAISON
Please direct any questions to:
Dr. A. Sameh El Kharbawy
College of Arts and Humanities
California State University, Fresno
aelkharbawy@csufresno.edu

MASTER OF ARTS (MA) GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP
IN ARCHIVES
Asian/Pacific/American Institute
New York University

GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP DESCRIPTION:

The Graduate Assistant (GA) in Archives at the A/P/A Institute (A/P/A) works with the A/P/A Institute on collections building efforts while simultaneously pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the Archives and Public History Program, with an emphasis in Archives, in the History Department at NYU. As part of A/P/A’s commitment to the ongoing preservation of Asian/Pacific American materials and the promotion of their use and importance, the GA will help to create access to Asian/Pacific American collections of the New York area. The GA serves as a key resource person connecting A/P/A’s network of scholars, researchers, activists, archivists, librarians, artists, curators, and community members with archives.

The two-year MA Program is designed to give the graduate assistant practical experience in archives, in addition to a solid grounding in archival theory and historical scholarship. The GA will work with both the A/P/A Institute and the Tamiment Library of NYU to survey, appraise, and process A/P/A collections of the New York City area. The GA will also aid in organizing the A/P/A Institute’s archives. The GA will regularly meet with the A/P/A Institute’s staff to discuss progress and expectations. The GA works an average of 20 hours per week during each 16-week term. (Dates of appointment are 9/2/08-12/19/08 for Fall 2008, and expected to be 1/20/09-5/13/09 for Spring 2009.)

The Public History and Archives Program in the History Department at NYU is well established and respected. Archival Management is an important and growing field with many employment opportunities in the New York area. Recent graduates have gone on to work at the United Nations Archives, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Rolling Stone Magazine, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Smithsonian Institution, American Civil Liberties Union, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, and Sports Illustrated. Graduates also work in the city and region’s many museums, libraries, and historical societies as well as in government and corporate archives. Graduates can expect starting salaries ranging from $40,000 to $50,000 depending on the institution.

The A/P/A Institute is dedicated to preserving the physical documentation of Asian/Pacific American history. A/P/A Institute works closely with community members to facilitate the process of finding an accessible, permanent home for New York Metro region and East Coast Asian/Pacific American materials. Our vision is to provide collections that allow for engagement with and dialogue about the experiences of Asian/Pacific Americans.

Past and current GAs have curated and published on “yellow peril” collections, been central in bringing in individual and organization collections, taught undergrads, posted an archival blog, developed archival theory, and much more.

REQUIREMENTS:

- Bachelor’s Degree with a major or minor in Asian/Pacific American Studies preferred.
- Background knowledge or demonstrated interest in Asian/Pacific American history and community.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently and as part of a team.

SCHOLARSHIP:

The GA receives 100% remission of tuition, fees, and student health insurance for full-time study in the History and Archival Management Program at NYU. For the 2008-2009 academic year, the GA will receive a stipend of $22,000, disbursed every two weeks typically between 9/1/08 and 4/30/09.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

Qualified applicants should contact Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen by email at apa.archives@nyu.edu with cover letter, resume and any additional relevant information no later than Thursday, July 1st, 2008; and if chosen apply to the MA in History and Archival Management Program at NYU online by Friday, July 11th, 2008 at:

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

For more information:

Archives and Public History Program:
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

The Asian/Pacific/American Institute:
http://www.apa.nyu.edu/

CALLING OUT TO ALL WRITERS, ARTISTS, PROFESSIONALS
AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE COMMUNITY!

DIWA: Illuminating Pilipina Voices©

would like your contributions!

Diwa [Tagalog]: “essence,” or intrinsic nature of things; “soul,” or cause of inspiration and energy; “spirit” or a human being’s moral, religious or emotional nature; “thread” or main thought that connects different parts; “sense”; “consciousness”; “gist”; “meaning”; “idea”. (Leo James English, Tagalog-English Dictionary)

Through the written word, artistic endeavors, and scholarly research, Diwa: Illuminating Pilipina Voices is a multidisciplinary publication that aims to augment the visibility of the Pilipina by providing an avenue to explore diversity amongst Filipino women; highlight Pilipina achievements in the community; create dialogues on Pinayism or Pilipina feminist paradigms; educate and provoke critical thought and discussion; bridge issues about the Pilipina in the Philippines, the U.S., and the larger global scene; and bring awareness about the Pilipina community to youth and adults within general and professional audiences.

Issue #1: “INVISIBILITY”

DEADLINE: August 4, 2008

Filipinos have long been known as the “invisible minority” within the Asian/Pacific Islander community as well as the greater community at large. Diwa’s first issue will explore any aspect of the Filipino woman’s experiences regarding this “invisible” status. We strongly encourage contributors to think beyond cultural representation and also highlight subpopulations, issues, and people or artists in the community that have been stigmatized and/or given little exposure. Some topics could explore issues pertaining to older Pilipina adults, “mail-order brides,” domestic violence between Pinays and Pinoys, the LGBT community and definitions of femininity/masculinity, experiences of Filipino women overseas, indigenous forms of spirituality, Filipino women who are biracial, etc.

Although the subject of Diwa focuses on Filipino women, we welcome contributions from any individual regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, gender, or religious affiliation.

Written Submissions (Word.doc files only)

Academic articles that are written for both general and professional audiences (1000-1800 words)
Interviews (800-1000 words)
Reporting on events in the community (800-1000 words)
Book, movie, music reviews (800-1000 words)
Personal stories, short fiction, opinions (800-1000 words)
Poetry (500-800 words)
Email submissions/questions to: dp_writtensubmissions@yahoo.com

Artistic Submissions (JPG, JPEG files only)

Paintings, illustration, photography
Collages, multi-media
Email submissions/questions to: dp_artsubmissions@yahoo.com

Advertising (FREE for first issue!!)

Services (ie. independent practice)
Events in the community (ie. cultural conferences, festivals)
Specify if you would like a quarter-, half-, or full page to display your ad
First priority given to services/events emphasizing the Filipina population and/or their issues (ie. lawyers specializing in immigration, events geared towards the general API community)
Email submissions/questions to: dp_adsubmissions@yahoo.com

What information to include with submission(s):

Name you would like to appear in publication (ie. pseudonym, penname)
Best way to contact you (for our information, will not published)
Brief author bio, 30 words max
References for professional articles, 6 max (if there are more, we will list them on website and refer readers to the appropriate webpage)
Optional: Your professional website, blog (inform us if websites require mature audiences)
IMPORTANT:

Informed Consent: Diwa Publications requires that all contributors accompany their submissions with a brief informed consent form read and signed by any individual(s) who actively participated as the main subject of the contributor’s submission(s) (ie. interviewees, people who participate in surveys, models/subjects for photography). We will not accept or print any submissions that are not accompanied by this form. Email the appropriate subcommittee for the form if your submission requires it. For more information, please email questions to diwapublications@yahoo.com

Quotations: For written submissions, free-standing quotations from another author are limited to 40 words. For quotations over 40 words in length, indent the whole block. Always provide author, year, and page citation (APA Publication Manual, 5th Edition, 2003).

LIMITATIONS: We can only accept 3 submissions per contributor. Depending on the number of submissions we get, we will not be able to print every submission. However, these submissions may have the opportunity to be featured in future issues.

If you have any other ideas for submissions or have general questions, please email diwapublications@yahoo.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

The Diwa Publications Committee