Friday, August 20, 2010

Hoosier to Hoosier Community Sale

Hoosier to Hoosier is a partnership between the United Way of Monroe County, Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, the City of Bloomington, IU Athletics, the IU Office of Sustainability, and IU Residential Programs and Services.

The sale is a reuse program that aims to 1) to divert reusable items generated during the student move-out from the landfill, 2) to prevent additional resource consumption by selling collected items to students and community members in order to 3) raise funds for local charities and other organizations.

The program allows students to donate reusable items, and also help out their neighbors in need at the same time. Aside from a small percentage that will be set aside for administrative costs associated with the second H2H next year, all proceeds from the sale will benefit United Way and Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County.

•    H2H website: www.indiana.edu/~h2h
•    Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-Indiana/Indiana-University-Hoosier-to-Hoosier/318795747483
•    Press release: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/15230.html?emailID=15230
•    Volunteer link: http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2zmif994e4d9050

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Interdisciplinary symposium

QUEERING THE COUNTRYSIDE
New Directions in Rural Queer Studies

November 6 – 7, 2010
Indiana Memorial Union
Indiana University Bloomington

On Saturday November 6th and Sunday 7th, Indiana University will host a two-day, interdisciplinary symposium called “Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies.” This event, co-organized by Indiana University faculty members Mary L. Gray and Colin R. Johnson, will include a day-long public conference on Saturday, November 6th, and a series of concurrent, faculty-led writing workshops on Sunday morning in which selected participants will be given the opportunity to share their work-in-progress with visiting scholars and other symposium participants.

Confirmed speakers for Saturday’s conference include:

Marlon Bailey (AAADS and Gender Studies, Indiana)
Mary Pat Brady (English and Latino/a Studies, Cornell)
Mary L. Gray (Communication and Culture, Indiana)
John Howard (American Studies, King’s College London)
Colin R. Johnson (Gender Studies, Indiana)
E. Patrick Johnson (African-American Studies and Performance Studies, Northwestern)
Scott Herring (English, Indiana)
Gayle Rubin (Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Michigan)
Mab Segrest (Women’s and Gender Studies, Connecticut College)

Please mark your calendar for this event. Please also take a moment to visit the conference website (http://www.iub.edu/~gender/queering-the-countryside.html) to learn more about what we have planned.

Indiana University graduate students who have topically or thematically relevant work that they would like to share in the context of one of Sunday’s concurrent, faculty-led writing workshops are invited to submit an initial proposal to the conference organizers no later than Friday, August 27, 2010. Please include the title of the piece you would like to workshop, a 150 word abstract, and a 1 – 2 page CV in your communication and direct it via email it to Mary L. Gray (mLg@indiana.edu) and Colin R. Johnson (crj2@indiana.edu). Papers that are chosen to be work-shopped will be pre-circulated to faculty commentators and other workshop participants in advance of the symposium itself, so you must be prepared to submit a completed draft of your essay no later than Friday, September 24, 2010. Those who are interested in submitting a proposal can visit the “Workshop” page on the conference website for additional information.

This event is co-sponsored by The College Arts and Humanities Institute, The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, The Department of Communication and Culture, The Program in Cultural Studies, The Department of English, The Department of Gender Studies, The Department of History, The Program in Latino Studies, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the Office of the Vice President for the International Affairs and the University Graduate School.

Postdoctoral Appreciation Day 2010

As part of  National Postdoc Appreciation Week, September 20-24, 2010, the IUB Office of Postdoctoral Affairs based in the University Graduate School announces our first annual…

POSTDOCTORAL APPRECIATION DAY 2010
Tuesday, September 21: noon – 2:30pm

Noon – 1pm: Ballantine Hall 144
Address by Stacy Gelhaus, Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA)
Dr. Gelhaus is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.  She will speak on issues addressed by the NPA in support of the postdoctoral community.
Her talk should be of interest to postdoctoral scholars, faculty mentors, and aspiring postdoctoral scholars.  Please join us and bring your lunch.

1pm – 2pm: Ballantine Hall 144
Roundtable discussion on postdoctoral opportunities in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Steve Watt, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate a panel comprised of three IU postdoctoral scholars who are currently funded by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).
This roundtable discussion should be of interest to graduate students and faculty in the humanities and social sciences.  Light refreshments in the Jordan Hall Atrium.

1pm – 2:30 pm: Jordan Hall Atrium
Poster Session for postdoctoral scholars in the Sciences
Please come share your work and meet other postdocs.
Call for Poster Titles: Please send your name, lab affiliation, and poster title to postdoc@indiana.edu by September 10

Questions:  contact Dean Maxine Watson, watsonm@indiana.edu, 855-5697