Carleton College will host an interdisciplinary conference offering visionary lectures, speculative discussions, hands-on sessions, exhibitions, and performances.  Visual Learning: Transforming the Liberal Arts will be held in the Weitz Center for Creativity, Carleton College, a new center for interdisciplinary arts collaboration.  The conference will address topics ranging from the theoretical to the practical. The keynote speaker is Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics. The conference will offer visionary lectures and speculative conversations, as well as hands-on sessions highlighting successful assignments, faculty-staff partnerships, exhibitions, and performances.  Individual or group proposals from faculty, staff, and independent practitioners from all disciplines for papers, presentations, workshops, panels, and alternative formats are invited. Papers will be approximately 20 minutes in length; panels and workshops approximately 90 minutes.   The deadline for proposals is 1 March 2012.  Submit proposals on the website: http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/viz/conference/call_for_proposals/ For more information contact Susan Jaret McKinstry <sjaret@carleton.edu> Member Organization: Humanities Center, Carleton College.

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POSITION DESCRIPTION
Details: Unclassified exempt professional staff position
Salary Range: $65,000 to $70,000
Application Deadline: February 17, 2012
Start Date: April 1, 2012, negotiable

POSITION OVERVIEW
The Hall Center’s primary mission is to stimulate and support research in the humanities, arts and social sciences, especially of an interdisciplinary kind, at the University of Kansas. The Center brings together faculty and graduate students with common interests from various disciplines to enable them to build on each other’s ideas and to share their knowledge within the university and with the wider community. The Center’s collateral mission is to sponsor special programs that engage the university and the wider community in dialogue on issues that bring the humanities to bear on the quality of life for all citizens. It creates events on and beyond campus that seek to understand our past, present and future, our values and identities and the essential issues we face as individuals and communities.

The Hall Center seeks as its Associate Director a highly accomplished proven leader who can communicate passion for the humanities to a diverse constituency within and outside of the academy; enhance national awareness of the Center and its mission; attract public interest, participation, and investment in the work of the Center; and effectively administer its staff and operations.

The Associate Director is appointed by and reports to the Hall Center Director. The Associate Director holds a full-time executive exempt (salaried) appointment in the Hall Center, with primary responsibility for day-to-day Center management.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
1. PhD from an accredited institution in a humanities or closely related field.
2. Minimum two years of post-secondary administrative experience relevant to this position.
3. History of working in environments requiring excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
4. Computer skills sufficient to carry out the duties required of the position.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
1. Senior level experience with substantial leadership and management responsibilities, including strategic planning, fiscal and organizational management, and staff oversight.
2. Experience working within the administrative structure of a major research university.
3. Demonstrated potential to develop and implement fund raising strategies.
4. Evidence of understanding the needs of higher education and current developments in the humanities.
5. Computer experience specifically with Apple hardware and the Microsoft Office Suite.

DUTIES

Program Development 35%
The Associate Director works with the Hall Center Director, constituent faculty, and community leaders to find innovative ways to assist KU humanities scholars in their professional development and share humanities scholarship with a wider public The Associate Director works closely with the Director to conceptualize, create, and implement the Center’s events and programs and deliver high quality programming in the humanities both on campus and in the greater community. The Associate Director provides program implementation leadership for both faculty enhancement and public outreach, including evaluation processes to ensure program quality and mission fulfillment. The Associate Director assists in program resource acquisition and allocation and determining how each event or program will be structured and publicized, serves as first point of contact with speakers, and assigns adequate staffing to ensure each event is successful. The Associate Director takes ownership for special projects, as needed, to advance the mission and effectiveness of the Hall Center.

Administration 20%
In close consultation with the Director, the Associate Director ensures that the Center runs smoothly and efficiently through effective management of operations, events, staff, and all areas of fiscal management. The Associate Director works with the Director to ensure the Center’s planning and budgeting systems are followed and that the Center’s goals and objectives, as outlined in its strategic plan, serve as the basis for financial planning. The Associate Director assists the Director in budget oversight, including budget development and projections, maintaining proper fiscal procedures and records, compliance reporting, and ensuring that all expenditures are legitimate and in accordance with Federal, State, University, and Center policies and procedures. The Associate Director works closely with the Director to develop, implement, and manage policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs) regarding Center operations that comply with University, State, and Federal regulations, oversees compliance, and ensures all Center staff are aware of and adhere to these policies and SOPs. The Associate Director serves as liaison to the Hall Center Friends and the New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL) and oversees the management of Center activities related to these groups.

Fund Raising 20%
In close consultation with the Director, the Associate Director develops and ensures implementation of fund raising strategies. The Associate Director works to identify potential donors, manages correspondence, plans fund-raising events, and facilitates meetings of the Hall Center Director and Advisory Board members, the Chancellor, and other high ranking KU administrators with potential donors. The Associate Director maintains complete records of contacts and activities to ensure follow-through and track progress, ensures timely thank-you letters are posted, and reports to the Director and Advisory Board on development activities and progress.

Personnel Management 15%
The Associate Director is responsible for direct supervision and guidance of the Center’s staff (Program Administrator, Accountant, and Program Assistant), developing and managing work plans to meet the short- and long-term objectives established in the Center’s strategic plan. The Associate Director serves as the Center’s Hiring Officer, providing oversight of the hiring and supervision of the Center’s graduate and undergraduate student interns, managing searches for full-time staff positions, and ensuring compliance with all Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action regulations. The Associate Director oversees the work of the staff, including completing and filing required
employee performance reviews. The Associate Director works with staff to set realistic performance goals and provides mentorship to promote efficiency and productivity, stimulate growth in individual skills, and encourage commitment to the Center and its mission.

Public Relations 10%
The Associate Director is responsible for the Center’s public relations activities, including advertising and publicity, writing and production of the Center’s newsletter and annual report, and creation and updating of fund-raising and other publicity materials. The Associate Director serves as liaison to the KU Office of University Relations, KU Connections and other university events groups, and maintains relations with the news and advertising departments of area media. The Associate Director develops and maintains effective working relationships within the Center and with KU administration and faculty, local government and community leaders, and civic and special interest groups, and maintains a contacts database and email distribution lists to facilitate event announcements and reminders to the Center’s constituents. The Associate Director liaises with the Kansas Humanities Council, the Kansas State Historical Society, and other humanities-oriented state and national organizations to promote and publicize Center events and activities and raise the profile of the Center.

To Apply: Online application required. Online application required: https://jobs.ku.edu, referencing job Number 00066944. Refer to Special Search Requirements for requested items.
Contact:

Professor Victor Bailey
Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern British History
Director, Hall Center for the Humanities
The University of Kansas
900 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7622
785/864-7822

vbailey@ku.edu
http://www.hallcenter.ku.edu
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The NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, France’s Haunting Past: Debating Twentieth-Century History and French National Identity since 1990, is accepting applications for its five week seminar from June 5 – July 5, 2012. The purpose of the seminar is to explore and discuss four historical controversies that erupted during the 1990s and that shaped, and continue to shape French perspectives on the nation with its troubled twentieth-century past, even today. These controversies focused on World War I and its legacies of violence and political extremism, Vichy and French complicity in the Holocaust, decolonization and the Algerian War, and Communism and its crimes in Europe and around the world. The seminar will also explore representative recent literary and cinematic treatments of the historical events that provoked these controversies, and visit monuments and museums in and around Paris that recall these traumatic events and commemorate the victims. For more information visit: http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012″>http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012″>http://glasscock.tamu.edu/NEHSS2012

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Deadline:  March 5, 2012

In the study of culture and artistic expressions including literature, the other arts, architecture, performance, etc., “landscape” — i.e., space in general and aspects and representations of nature, the rural, the urban, the maritime, etc. — has become of recent a prominent area of inquiry. Sponsored by National Sun Yat-sen University, the University’s Center for the Humanities http://humanitiescenter.nsysu.edu.tw/ holds its 6th international conference with the theme Landscape, Seascape, and the Spatial Imagination on 2-3 November 2012. Abstracts in 200 words of papers on landscape, seascape, nature writing, literature and the environment, empire and periphery, city versus countryside, voices of (im)migrants and geographical space, etc. and including a brief curriculum vitae are invited by 5 March 2012 to Professor I-Chun Wang at chsc705@mail.nsysu.edu.tw
Extended, revised, and peer-reviewed versions of the conference papers are planned to be published by National Sun Yat-sen University.

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The Institute for the Medical Humanities (IMH) at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary faculty in ethics, history, law, literature, religious studies, social medicine, and visual studies who engage in research and teaching of medical students, trainees, and graduate students in the biomedical sciences. The IMH also offers an ethics consultation service in the university’s hospitals. The IMH is home of the nation’s only PhD program in medical humanities.

Candidates should have a PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent terminal degree, with substantial training and background in health policy. The candidate should be interested in teaching and research in health policy within a setting of interdisciplinary scholarship in medical humanities, public health, and the social sciences. Willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration, ability to teach both health professional and graduate students, and potential to secure external grant funding are essential qualifications. Interest and experience in one or more of the following is highly desirable: health care for the under served; health disparities; history of medicine; comparative or international health policy studies.

Please apply online at http://www.utmb.edu/hcm/ and include contact information for three references. Please reference job Opening ID# 29388. UTMB is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution which proudly values diversity. Applicant of all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

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The Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney is a leading research institute investigating transformations in culture and society in the context of contemporary global change. It champions inter-disciplinary, engaged and collaborative research in the Humanities and Social Sciences for a digital age. UWS research in Cultural Studies has received the highest ranking of 5 in Australia’s assessment of research quality (the ERA – Excellence in Research for Australia 2010). The ICS research program is organised around five research themes and two knowledge practice strands. More detailed information of this program can be found on our website.

The Institute seeks to recruit two research professors (Academic Level E) to provide leadership in the development of this ambitious research program. The appointees will be outstanding scholars with broad interdisciplinary expertise in cultural and social research. We are especially interested in candidates able to contribute to the development of one or more of the following areas in the context of the Institute’s overall research program:
- The Social Role of Knowledge Practices: Possible areas of focus are the social roles of methods and disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the proliferation of new kinds of data and modes of data analysis, problems of knowledge translation and mediation, and the ‘world-making’ role of knowledge practices.
- Digital Cultural and Social Research: The Institute will promote the uptake and use of digital technologies for cultural and social research, and engage more generally with developments in e-research This work requires a proven track record in the application of digital methods and tools in humanities and/or social science research.
- Environment, Culture and Society: The Institute’s concerns here stress the importance of integrating social and cultural perspectives into the analysis of environmental questions. A questioning of the boundaries between nature and culture, human and non-human, and social and physical is an essential conceptual focus in this work.
- Cultural Economy Research into the broad cultural sector (including the arts, media, sport and leisure) is a key strength of the ICS. Of key interest here is an engagement with the complex relationship between ‘culture’ and ‘economy’ in an interconnected, globalising world. An international perspective, especially in relation to the Asia Pacific region, would be of particular interest.

Remuneration Package: Academic Level E $180,205 p.a. (comprising Salary $152,980 p.a., 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading). Please note that a 5% Salary increase is scheduled from 11 May 2012.

Position Enquiries: Professor Ien Ang, Institute Director, Institute for Culture and Society, phone (02) 9685 9634 or i.ang@uws.edu.au.

How to apply: Please visit the WCU website for full details on this position.

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The Executive Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is responsible for its daily administration, programs and facilities. This position reports to the IAH Faculty Director and includes the following duties: oversee all major IAH programs and initiatives including the IAH Faculty Fellows Program, Ruel W. Tyson Academic Leadership Programs, the Faculty Grants Program and IAH Innovation Initiative; work closely with the faculty associate directors who are responsible for the operation of each IAH program as well as IAH staff responsible for program coordination; work with the IAH Faculty Director to foster collaborative faculty working groups and with UNC faculty to develop and enact innovative projects in the arts and humanities; assist faculty in the arts and humanities to connect with resources that will help them secure external funding for research; oversee the IAH Development Director, Director of Communications, Business Officer and Coordinator for Faculty Programs in the day to day administration of all Institute operations; administer existing IAH endowed lectures; and collaborate with the IAH’s External Advisory Board and Faculty Advisory Committee to further the mission of the Institute.

Applications are being accepted at http://unc.peopleadmin.com (reference posting number 2502607). For a complete job description please visit http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/1958.

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The publication of Charles Elton’s classic The Ecology of Invasions by Plants and Animals in 1958 signaled a shift in the understanding of the global reorganization of biological species during the Anthropocene. The encouragement of acclimatisation and naturalization of new species gave way to managing the ramifications of the changes that introductions bought to ecologies, landscapes and environments. Over the nineteenth century environments of the new world – land and sea – became testing grounds for the introduction of new assemblages of people and plants, economies and animals, cultures and coastlines. But things didn’t go according to the script. Some species became pests – out-of-control threats to environments across the globe. These changes had enduring impacts, some adverse, some beneficial, that are dynamic, unpredictable and often oscillating.

Australia was one of the new world places that became a laboratory for western science and colonization from the late eighteenth century. From that time to the present, new plants, animals and humans migrated here, at the same time that biological material and ideas about nature transited from Australia to other parts of the world. Indigenous knowledge and law shaped resistance and adaptation to colonizing forces of invasion in ways that intersect with environmental politics and movements of the twentieth century. Multiplying the disciplinary conversations within the humanities will allow us to explore how the conceptual understandings of Australian environments are infused with literary and artistic narratives, gendered tropes, moral fables and political, legal, sociological and historical inflections.

This conference seeks to explore the role of Australia, and Australian scholarship, in environmental thought about invasive ecologies for the Anthropocene. How will biological and cultural invasions of the past impact on the futures of Australian places? How should we think about the more-than-human roles of camels and carp; or willows and baobabs, or Nordic and Ngarrindjeri in environmental change? What of the Australian plants, animals, people and ideas that travelled out of Australia, that re-made other global places? What sorts of futures have we imagined for climate changing environments? How will we account for environmental justice on policy agendas and political campaigns? How do different spatial scales of analysis help us to understand the impacts of invasive species and their more-than- biological events? What other methodological challenges do we face? We are particularly keen to engage in conversations across disciplinary boundaries around the following themes: Invasion, Overabundance, Scarcity, Prediction, Vulnerability, Adaptation, Extinction , Resilience.

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Deadline: April 6, 2012. Application information for 2013-2014 will be posted as it becomes available.

The Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy and An Foras Feasa Research Institute (NUI Maynooth) has an annual call for its Visiting Fellowship Scheme in the Humanities at NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The duration of the visiting fellowship is envisaged as ordinarily between one and six months; applications for a shorter or longer duration will be considered.  Fellows will receive an office and office facilities from An Foras Feasa in its state-of-the art research space, along with full library access, computer facilities and participation in its dynamic research community. Fellows will be asked to provide one seminar to postgraduate students in the relevant discipline, and a guest lecture to Faculty and An Foras Feasa members. A limited number of travel stipends of €500 will be available; preference will be given to applicants with limited institutional funding. Maynooth is located 15 miles from Dublin city, with regular train and bus services. For more information, see http://www.forasfeasa.ie Please send any queries to foras.feasa@nuim.ie.

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In the 1960s, James Lovelock formulated his Gaia hypothesis about the symbiosis of the earth’s intersecting ecosystems. He posited a complex feedback loop that somehow maintained, as he put it, ‘an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet’. Little did he know then that forty years later, the catastrophic role of human agency in upsetting this symbiosis would gain such centrality in scientific debates. The human as geological agent is a relatively recent formulation. The idea of a new geological age, the Anthropocene, was proposed in 2000 by Nobel Prize winning geochemist Paul Crutzen. The issue of climate change today is no longer the prerogative of the sciences. It requires active intervention from humanists and social scientists, and it needs this intervention not just in apocalyptic, speculative, instrumental or creative modes, but in conceptually and critically informed registers.

What are the challenges to our critical frameworks in the humanities of this radical reconfiguration of human life on this planet? How do we think through the historical coordinates of ideas of self, society, development, freedom, knowledge and responsibility from the industrial age to the information age, especially when we now know what devastating impact these two ages of human development have had on the earth’s ecosystem? What insights can we gain from alternative ecological models of human habitation? What will an ecological enlightenment entail if it is not founded on the human being’s rational mastery over nature? What, in sum, is the calling of climate on the humanities, and of the humanities on climate change?

Program Highlights
Confirmed plenary speakers include Ross Garnaut (University of Melbourne), Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University), and Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago). In addition to panels, a workshop on the public humanities, and two sets of member breakout sessions, the program will include meetings of CHCI Member Groups and Initiatives, as well as a half-day session devoted to a discussion of the four projects recently funded through our Program Planning Initiative. A tour of a major art exhibition on Antarctica and a musical performance will round out the program.

Our Annual Meeting Dinner will take place on the evening of 14 June. Our hosts are arranging for a great meal and a fantastic setting. Please use the registration form to sign up for the dinner (requires an additional $75US fee per person).

We also encourage attendees to stay on in Australia for a specially organized, thematically related conference at the University of Sydney, Rethinking Invasion Ecologies, on 18-19 June. To be sure you receive timely updates about this related program, please indicate your interest in the Annual Meeting registration form.

Travel and Accommodations
We are providing two options for Annual Meeting accommodations: fully subsidized rooms for four nights in University House, ANU’s main guest facility, or paid accommodation at a reduced rate in our designated hotel. Click here for detailed information on accommodations and travel information and tips.

Registration
Click here to go to the Annual Meeting registration form. As in all of our recent Annual Meetings, a single organizational registration fee of $75US entitles each CHCI member to register up to five delegates. We strongly encourage early registration if you are interested in free accommodations, as we cannot guarantee that these rooms will be available for all attendees.

The Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
The Humanities Research Centre was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the Humanities and a catalyst for innovative Humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. As one of Australia’s prime gateways to humanities scholarship in the rest of the world, it promotes advanced research in the humanities through its Visiting Fellowship Program, and a range of conferences, workshops, seminars and symposia that it hosts under an annual theme.

The HRC interprets the “Humanities” generously, recognising that new methods of theoretical enquiry have done much to break down the traditional distinction between the humanities and the social sciences; recognising, too, the importance of establishing dialogue between the humanities and the natural and technological sciences, and the creative arts.The Centre encourages interdisciplinary and comparative work, and seeks to take a provocative as well as supportive role in relation to existing humanities studies in Australia. It aims to give special attention to topics and disciplines which stand in need of particular stimulus in Australia. One of its central functions is to bring to Australia scholars of international standing who will provoke fresh ideas within, and beyond, the academic community.

The HRC established the Freilich Foundation for the study of bigotry and tolerance in 1995. It works closely with ANU’s recently established Digital Humanities Hub. Within the University, the HRC is now part of a group of five centres that sit under the Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA). Threaded through our Centre programs are our disciplinary and interdisciplinary strengths in literature, history, art, philosophy, critical theory, Enlightenment and Romanticism studies, Postcolonial Studies and Indigenous heritage, art and culture. The HRC collaborates with Australian and international research centres, libraries and other cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. The Centre continues to strongly advocate the importance of humanities in the public sphere through its participation in key national and international networks such as the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), The Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) and the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI).

SCHEDULE

WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE
Unless otherwise noted, programs take place at the Sir Roland Wilson Building, ANU Campus. The registration/check-in table will be open from 1:30 – 5:30 pm

1:30 – 3:30 pm
Meetings of CHCI Member Initiatives
Member Initiative meetings are open to all CHCI members – please select your Initiative meeting on the registration form.The following groups will be provided with meeting space during this timeslot:

- Digital Humanities Initiative
- Humanities for the Environment Initiative
- Public Humanities Initiative

3:30 – 5:30 pm
Meetings of CHCI Member Groups
Member Group meetings are targeted to specific constituencies. If you are interested in meeting with your colleagues, please select your group meeting on the registration form). The following groups will be provided with meeting space during this timeslot:

- Associate Directors and Administrators Group
- New Directors Group (recommended for new Directors or Directors of new member organizations)

6:00 – 8:00 pm
Opening Reception
National Gallery of Australia
Co-sponsored by the Australian Academy of Humanities

THURSDAY 14 JUNE
Unless otherwise noted, programs take place in the Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science

8:15 am
Registration/check-in and Coffee

9:00 am
Opening remarks by Ian Young, Vice Chancellor, the Australian National University, and Srinivas Aravamudan, President, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes and Dean of the Humanities, Duke University

9:30 – 11:00 am
Plenary Lecture: Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University

11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Panel: Indigenous Habitations/Marine Ecologies

- Poul Holm, Trinity College Dublin
- Iain McCalman, University of Sydney
- Peter Veth, Australian National University
- Margaret Kelleher, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Chair)

1:00 – 2:30 pm
Lunch with Member Breakout Groups
Great Hall, University House

2:45 – 4:15 pm
Workshop: Public Humanities

- Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University
- Sara Guyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Robert Phiddian, Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC)
- Ian Baucom, Duke University (Moderator)

4:15 pm
Break

6:00 – 7:30 pm
Antarctica Art Exhibition viewing and talk by Tom Griffiths, introduced by Caroline Turner (ANU)
Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Campus

8:00 pm
Annual Meeting Dinner ($75US additional fee)
The Lobby Restaurant

FRIDAY 15 JUNE
Unless otherwise noted, programs take place in the Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science

9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel: Anthropocene, Biopolitics and Climate Ethics

- Karen Pinkus, Cornell University
- Libby Robin, Australian National University
- Alison Bashford, University of Sydney

10:30 – 11:00 am
Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Plenary Lecture: Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

12:30 – 3:00 pm
Lunch, followed by CHCI Business Meeting and Member Breakout Groups

4:00 – 5.30 pm
Plenary Lecture: Ross Garnaut, Australian National University
House of Representatives Chamber, Old Parliament House

6:15 – 7:00 pm
Performance by harpist Alice Giles, Creative Arts fellow, Antarctica Expedition, 2010-2011
Introduced by Catherine Bowan, ANU
Band Room, ANU School of Music

7:00 – 8:30 pm
Closing Reception
Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music

SATURDAY 16 JUNE
Theatrette, Humanities Research Centre, Sir Roland Wilson Building

9:00 – 9:30 am
Special Session: Results of the CHCI Program Planning Initiative

- Srinivas Aravamudan, President, CHCI
- James Chandler, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
- Daniel Herwitz, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
- Debjani Ganguly, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

9:30 – 11:00 am
Group presentations by co-conveners of CHCI Program Planning Projects:

- Humanities for the Environment
- Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training (IGHERT)
- Medical Humanities
- Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging

11:00 – 11:30 am
Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Building on the Planning Initiative: Future Projects

1:00 – 2:00 pm
Closing lunch

Afternoon
Pre-Organized Tours of Canberra Wineries and Cultural Institutions
Details on these tours are in development and complete information will be circulated to all registrants in early March. Tours will run through approximately 5:00 pm. If you are interested in this opportunity please plan your outgoing travel around this time. A charge of $45AUD will apply (payments will be taken during the tours themselves).

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The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee invites applications for its Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship, to be held during the 2012-13 academic year. The Center leads the way in imagining, defining, and creating the burgeoning field of 21st century studies, focusing on the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences (social and natural) with issues of compelling concern. Applicants must have received their doctorates within five academic years previous to the year of award. The Provost fellowship is unavailable to UW-Milwaukee and UW System faculty. The fellowship is awarded to support interdisciplinary research projects in the humanities, which include, but are not limited to, philosophy, history, literature, religious studies, and art history. Proposals employing humanistic approaches from the social and natural sciences and the arts are also welcome. Applicants should be working on topics related to the 2012-13 theme “What should 21st Century Studies do?” For complete program and application information visit: www.c21.uwm.edu.

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The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities has an opening for a (non-stipendiary) Research Affiliate in the 2012-2013 academic year. Applications are welcome from postdoctoral fellows, independent scholars, doctoral candidates, and individuals in full-time university appointments on sabbatical leave. Applicants must have a clearly defined project in some field of humanities scholarship. Interdisciplinary projects are particularly welcome. There is no stipend, but a private office, computer, telephone, library privileges, university affiliation, and some secretarial assistance will be provided. Affiliates will be expected to participate in Institute activities, use their offices on a regular basis, and deliver a public presentation on their research. The tenure of the affiliateships is normally twelve months (July 1- June 31), however applications for six months will be considered.
The deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012. For details and application guidelines, please visit http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities.

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Eligibility to participate in the program is limited to current CHCI member organizations, and to ACLS fellows in the Ryskamp Research Fellowships and ACLS Fellowships programs. CHCI members in all regions of the globe may participate. Information on the relevant ACLS programs can be found at www.acls.org.

Our recently reconfigured partnership with ACLS emphasizes flexibility, mobility, and direct communications between fellows and CHCI members. There are no deadlines, and each residency is designed and managed by the fellow and the CHCI host organization. CHCI member organizations may opt-in at any time, and ACLS Fellows may contact any prospective CHCI host organization at any point during their fellowship term. In all cases, however, both parties must meet the minimum criteria for participation, as listed below.

Click here to view information on participating CHCI member organizations.

Guidelines for Participation: CHCI Members
CHCI members interested in hosting an ACLS fellow must commit to providing the following minimum forms of support:

- A fully equipped workspace and access to basic office machinery
- Internet/network access
- Full library access
- Opportunities for interaction with the local community of scholars

Participating CHCI member organizations may offer financial support for relocation or housing, but may not provide salary supplements, research funds, or health/fringe benefits, and host organizations cannot require fellows to teach. ACLS resident fellows can be in residence at a participating CHCI organization at any point in their fellowship term, but should remain in residence for a minimum of one academic term (a year, summer, quarter, or trimester, as determined by the academic year at the host organization). In the case of independent organizations such as research libraries, we ask that fellows remain in residence for a minimum of eight weeks. CHCI members must be willing and able to accept inquiries from prospective residents at any time, and fellows are allowed and encouraged to spend time at multiple CHCI member organizations during their fellowship term.

In most cases ACLS Fellows will contact participating CHCI member organizations to inquire about a potential residency. However, CHCI members are encouraged to review the listings of current and future Ryskamp and ACLS fellows at www.acls.org and may contact any fellow of interest to discuss a potential residency (these listings will not be updated for 2012-13 until mid-late spring, after all fellows have accepted their offers). After making initial contact, fellows and CHCI organizations negotiate their own arrangements, tailored to the needs and interests of both parties.

Interested CHCI member organizations must provide CHCI with a short description of your organization and your capabilities in hosting an ACLS fellow. This short text should include:

- A brief organizational profile
- Confirmation of the organization’s ability to meet the minimum requirements for support, as listed above
- The earliest upcoming term in which they will be able to accommodate a fellow
- The name, title, email address, and phone number of a contact person
- Whether you will be able to provide the Fellow with support for relocation and/or housing

Guidelines for Participation: ACLS Fellows
ACLS Fellows interested in being in residence at a participating CHCI member organization should start by reviewing the list of participating host sites, and then contact any listed organization directly to inquire about a residency.

As indicated above, ACLS Fellows in residence at CHCI member organizations must commit to a residency of, at minimum, one formally defined academic term. Building on the network structure of CHCI, fellows may also choose to split their fellowship term between multiple participating CHCI member organizations. Resident ACLS fellows are guaranteed a minimum level of support, as listed above.

CHCI and ACLS are not serving as intermediaries. ACLS Fellows should contact prospective CHCI host organizations directly. There is no standard application form, but fellows should be prepared to provide to the prospective host-site a CV, work samples, or other standard materials as requested by the prospective host organization. To assess intellectual affinities and possible points of contact for the fellow, the host-site may in some cases also request a copy of the prospective resident’s ACLS fellowship application.

Additional Information and Inquiries
Participation does not guarantee being matched with a fellow or a CHCI member, and nor does participation in the program require the CHCI member organization to host a fellow. We strongly encourage participating CHCI members to remain with the program for multiple years: both CHCI and ACLS believe that this partnership will take several fellowship cycles to achieve “critical mass,” and we need your help and participation in the long run to create a robust, long-running program that can benefit both individual scholars and CHCI members for many years to come.

This partnership is being coordinated by CHCI. Please direct all questions to chci@duke.edu rather than to ACLS. We look forward to hearing from you, and to your participation in the program.

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The Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College announces a seven-week interdisciplinary Institute at Dartmouth titled “Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950″ to be held between July 1 and August 17, 2013. The Institute led by Douglas Haynes (History) and Veronika Fuechtner (German Studies) will examine the transnational history of sexological ideas and practices as they circulated between Europe/North America and Asia, Africa and Latin America. Over the seven weeks of the seminar, participants will address such issues as the efforts by Western sexologists to disseminate their views in non-European regions; the emergence of local advocacy of sexual science; the role of sexual science in constituting “modern” sexualities; the encounter between indigenous conceptions of sexuality and sexological ideas; the transformation of sexology in Asian/African/Latin American contexts; the connection between sexology and birth control outside of Europe/North America; Orientalism and sexology; the connection between sexology and eugenics in Asian/African/Latin American contexts; sexology, nationalism and anti-colonialism; Orientalism and sexology; as well as other relevant topics. The majority of participants will remain in residence over the summer and will participate in a twice-weekly seminar and related events; scholars in residence will receive a summer stipend (see below). A smaller set of outside scholars will give papers during individual sessions of the seminar; their expenses and a honorarium will be paid. The goal of the Institute will be to promote exchanges between scholars working on different regions of the world and in different disciplines as well as to produce an edited volume. The Institute is open to many disciplines, including literature and culture, religion, and other humanities as well as historians, historians of science, and anthropologists.

Fellows are expected to be in residence between July 1 and August 17, 2013 and to present their work in the Institute sessions. Resident fellows will be funded according to rank (with a minimum of $6,500 for graduate students and a maximum of $13,000 for full professors). Scholars, who are interested in presenting their work in an Institute session, but can only commit to a brief visit to Hanover, are also encouraged to apply indicating their availability.

Please send inquiries and complete applications including a two-page project proposal with bibliography, a one-page statement on your research interest and background as it relates to the Institute theme, and a c.v. (Graduate students should also provide two letters of reference) by April 30th, 2012 to Humanities.Institute@dartmouth.edu. Fellows will be notified by June 30th, 2012, leaving time for those presenting papers to complete research and work on their drafts before the Institute begins.

To browse all opportunities at CHCI member organizations, please click here.

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Founded at CHCI’s 2008 Annual Meeting, the CHCI Initiative Humanities for the Environment was our first member-driven group. H4E serves as a network and resource for centers to develop (or extend) programming, research and dialogue related to contemporary environmental challenges. Many of our CHCI centers have done substantial work in these and related areas already; humanists and artists have long engaged issues related to sustainability, climate change, and the human/environment relationship as a whole.

The webpage brings together tCHCI centers which have expressed an interest in a collective effort in this area. You may explore relevant programming and websites of member centers through the links here. We hope this affinity group will also serve as an opportunity for further exploration of the role the humanities can and should play in these crucial areas of human concern.

The group welcomes engagement in a dialogue about the contributions that the Humanities can make to furthering our understanding of our relationship to the environment as we explore ideas and creative solutions to the environmental challenges our world currently faces. Research at the intersection of the humanities and environmental studies is proving particularly fruitful in investigating the paradigms that dictate our interaction with the environment. Our investigations aim to explore the following areas

View the new project here, and be in touch with our webmaster if you have any thoughts on content or if you would like to make any suggestions for projects to cover.

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In our call for proposals, we asked for ideas for future CHCI programs that combine high-order scholarship and key intellectual issues in the humanities with the creation of models for new, tangible, and scale-able resources within CHCI. The objective of the initiative is to build on the creativity of our members toward the development of plans for projects and programs that forge new mechanisms for collaboration within our network. The initiative is specifically intended to support planning and pilot activities: the rollout of fully operational programs is not, as yet, the intended outcome, but we are hopeful that the range of program plans produced under the initiative will provide springboards for new, exciting, and fund-able opportunities for CHCI members.

The four project groups are now beginning their discussions and planning work, and representatives of each group will convene in Seattle in early 2012 for a group workshop. The intention of this session will to discover areas of mutual interest, engage in a lively group critique, and to underscore the need to develop projects that can eventually produce benefits for the widest possible range of CHCI members. The project groups will present the results of their planning work at the 2012 CHCI Annual Meeting at the Australian National University

The CHCI Project Committee and Board would like to express thanks to all members involved in developing proposals, and congratulations to the four funded project groups, which include:

Humanities for the Environment
Co-convened by Sarah Buie (Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University), Sally Kitch (Humanities Research Center, Arizona State University), and David Phillips (Institute for the Humanities, Wake Forest University), in close collaboration with Dianne Harris (Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities), Poul Holm (Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin), E. Ann Kaplan (Center for the Humanities, Stony Brook University), Beth Levy and Carolyn de la Pena (Center for the Humanities, UC-Davis), Iain McCalman (University of Sydney), Leerom Medovoi (Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University), Pauline Phemister (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh), and Ann Waltner (Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota).

The project to be pursued by CHCI’s long-standing Humanities for the Environment group will seek to take the work of the group to a new level of engagement, pursuing themes such as global/regional, reimagining the city, and interdependence and empathy. Promising ideas for program structures – “platforms” – such as a humanities environmental observatory, an expanded website, and teams of scholars working under the construct of a humanities “greenhouse,” will be developed, among other projected program components.

IGHERT (Integrative Graduate Humanities Education and Research Training)
Co-convened by Richard Grusin (Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Nathaniel Deutsch (Institute for Humanities Research, UC-Santa Cruz) and Tyrus Miller (Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz), and Ansgar Nünning (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany)

The IGHERT group aims to map a new role for CHCI member organizations in graduate humanities education that reflects the rationale of the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program, and Canada’s National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Research and Training Experience program. Asserting that that the imperatives of 21st-century humanities research are strongly analogous to those that the NSF-IGERT program seeks to foster in the STEM fields—interdisciplinary innovation, collaborative exchange, and attention to social impact – the project will create a comprehensive humanities education initiative, incorporating: a holistic model for graduate humanities research, training, and financial support; a diverse funding model to provide sustainable support for graduate research initiatives; a role for CHCI members in organizing research and training of humanities graduate students; international collaboration; and a web-based platform to disseminate and archive materials, facilitate collaborative research threads, and deliver research results from the network to broader audiences.

Medical Humanities
Co-convened by Stathis Gourgouris (Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University), Brian Hurwitz (Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London), and John McGowan, Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University), Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities (University of Washington), Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health (University College London), McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics (University of Texas Medical School), and the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society (Vanderbilt University).

When several CHCI members gathered in a breakout group at the 2011 CHCI Annual Meeting to discuss the realm of possibilities for the humanities in the field of global public health, they discovered that several organizations were already working on initiatives in this area, and that many of these models could benefit from communication with others pursuing similar work. With these trends in mind, the group will undertake planning for a program that will leverage the CHCI network in the development of models for collaborative research between humanities, social sciences, and medical school faculties, along with professionals outside the academic arena. Some questions to be addressed by the group in their planning work will include: how can our research inform curriculum, and vice versa?; what are the models for collaboration between humanities departments and medical centers?; how can the CHCI membership work together to increase the international scope of our individual medical humanities initiatives?; and how can humanities research work most beneficially with governmental and corporate medical institutions?

Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging
Co-convened by Leerom Medovoi (Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University), Rosi Braidotti (Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University), Raef Zreik (Minerva Center for the Humanities, Tel Aviv University), Liu Xiogan (Research Centre for Chinese Philosophy and Culture, Chinese University of Hong Kong).

This distinctly international – hailing from four world regions – and strongly interdisciplinary group will seek to jointly explore the shifting relationships between religion, secularism, and political belonging in a global context. Starting with topical vehicles such as the civilizational clashes in the post-9/11 United States, Islam in the European Union, and the place of Confucianism and Buddhism in the wake of Chinese economic expansion, the group will seek to gather CHCI member for discussions of five key topics: immigration; fundamentalism; secularism; religious language in politics; and gender and sexuality. Through modeling mechanisms for scholarly exchange and dissemination, local/global events, and digitally mediated dialogues, the group will build the basis for a multi-faceted, scale-able digital platform for research on issues in secularism, religion, and politics.

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From January to June 2012, Femke Halsema will hold the Treaty of Utrecht (Vrede van Utrecht) Visiting Chair at Utrecht University Centre for the Humanities. In her role as visiting professor, she will conduct research on the meaning of communication technology and social media for human rights and democracy.

Worldwide, the Internet connects people in powerful new ways and provides new opportunities for the dissemination of information and knowledge. The downside of social media however is that citizens can become vulnerable to surveillance from political regimes and intelligence services.

During her guest professorship, Halsema will address such questions as: Can communication technology, the Internet and social media play a key role in protecting human rights and ‘arming’ people against oppression and violence? Does ‘diplomacy 2.0’ have a future? How sustainable are social media and initiatives such as crowd sourcing and crowd funding? Can they play a meaningful role in supporting vulnerable citizens in emerging economies?

These topics fit in perfectly with the research themes of the Centre for the Humanities and the Treaty of Utrecht, which include social sustainability, cultural participation and responsible citizenship.

Lectures, Inaugural Address and Other Activities
Femke Halsema’s activities as Treaty of Utrecht professor will include public lectures, seminars and master classes in Utrecht. On March 8, she will participate with Professor Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht University Professor and director of the Centre for the Humanities) in a special International Women’s Day programme. Later in the spring she will give the Treaty of Utrecht public lecture; on May 25 she will present the spoken column during the annual Treaty Concert and on May 31 she will deliver her inaugural address.

Femke Halsema
Femke Halsema (1966) has an established track record as a politician and opinion maker. She was member of the Lower House for the GroenLinks party from 1998 to 2010 and party chairman from November 2002. Her previous work included her role at Wiardi-Baeckman Stichting (the PvdA research agency). She is alumnus of Utrecht University, having graduated in Law in 1993. She is currently active as an independent publicist, television producer and consultant.

Treaty of Utrecht Chair
The Treaty of Utrecht Chair is an initiative of the Province of Utrecht and is a joint venture between the Province, Treaty of Utrecht and the Utrecht University Centre for the Humanities. The Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1713 and is considered to be the commencement of modern diplomacy. In 2013, the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Utrecht will be celebrated. The aim of the fixed-term professorship is to keep alive today the body of thought of the Treaty of Utrecht from 1713, which is typified by globalisation, world citizenship and cultural diversity. For more information, visit: www.uu.nl/vredevanutrechtleerstoel

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CHCI continues to grow steadily, and our membership, as of November 2009, is the largest in the organization’s history, with 168 current members. Among many other positive effects, our increasingly international membership will mean that our Annual Meetings will also continue to grow, both in scale and diversity. Between September and November, 2009, we have been honored to welcome the following new members, most of which reflect our growing internationalization:

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University of Florida
Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
Humanities Foundation, Boston University
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanjing University, China
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Binghamton University
Minerva Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel aviv, Israel (in development)
Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University
Research Centre for Human Values, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Transforming Cultures Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Profiles of each of these new members can be found by searching or browsing our newly improved member directory. A warm welcome to all of our new and returning members!

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