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Sustained Graduate Engagement
The Call for PAGE 2011-2012 Fellows
Submission Deadline: June 1st
Click here to apply
PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) is Imagining America's network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the theoretical and practical tools for public engagement; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.
IA invites graduate students with a demonstrated interest in public scholarship and/ or artistic practice to apply for a 2011-2012 PAGE Fellowship. Awardees receive $600 to attend a half-day Fellows Summit on September 21st and the 2011 Imagining America national conference, September 22-24, both in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The PAGE director will partner Fellows with senior scholar mentors as well as help promote opportunities for peer mentorship and support from IA's network. Upon acceptance of a Fellowship, participants also commit to participating in a yearlong working group to promote collaborative art-making, teaching, writing, and research projects. In doing so, PAGE is looking to foster a cohort of Fellows interested in pursuing collective and innovative scholarly practices. Fellows are asked to present such publicly-engaged scholarship/ art before the close of the academic year at either an IA regional meeting, a campus workshop of their own design, or another appropriate professional convening.
Within the frame of our 2011 national conference, themed around "What Sustains Us?" the PAGE Summit will take up questions similar to the gathering as a whole (see below), but through the lens of graduate education. This is an urgent moment in higher education, not the least in graduate programs, requiring us to think through sustaining public engagement through the intersections of mentorship, diversity, real-world interaction, student success, and scholarship. Fellows will be asked throughout the year to reflect upon their own public practice in the cultural disciplines, its place in making higher education a more democratic space, and the ramifications of the changing economic climate.
Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs, including previous fellows, may apply to be PAGE Fellows. Applicants must be graduate students during the 2011-2012 academic year, but do not have to be planning a career within higher education. Note: Only students who are affiliated with Imagining America member institutions are eligible for this award. For a list of member institutions, and more information about Imagining America, visit www.imaginingamerica.org.
Applicants must submit a CV and a short reflective essay (up to 500 words) on past, current, or future work in the context of one of the following issues, posed in the IA National Conference CFP:
How can the increasing efforts to realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes of American higher education be sustained and forwarded? What sustains our engaged practices within a context of diminished resources and rapidly shifting cultures within higher education?
How can engagement efforts contribute to sustained economic and cultural viability in urban and rural communities?
What sustains stakeholders confronting challenges around power, race, class, and privilege?
Questions? Please contact National Director of PAGE, Adam Bush at asbush@gmail.com

The Distinguished Research Award recognizes any researcher who has a distinguished record of research and scholarly contributions on service-learning and community engagement.
The Early Career Research Award recognizes outstanding early career contributions to scholarship on service-learning and community engagement.
The Dissertation Award recognizes a dissertation that advances research on service-learning and/or community engagement through rigorous and innovative inquiry.
Ten $500 Graduate Student Scholarships are provided by the Association on a competitive basis for support to attend the conference.
Deadlines
Distinguished Research and Early Career Research Awards nominations must be received by May 2, 2011. Recipients will be notified in early June.
Dissertation Award nominations are due by June 30, 2010. Recipients will be notified in early August.
The award recipients receive an invitation to make a presentation at the annual IARSLCE conference, a plaque (to be presented at the conference), and a monetary award in the form of complimentary IARSLCE conference registration and one-night hotel accommodations.
Graduate Student Scholarships are due July 30, 2011. Please indicate if you have had a paper or poster presentation accepted for the conference. Scholarship recipients will be notified by mid-August.
For nomination/application instructions for each of the categories above, please visit the Awards Page on our website.
For questions regarding nomination/application submissions, please email Stephanie O’Brien at sobrien1@tulane.edu
This interdisciplinary, edited collection will foreground the challenges of researching and representing activism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Researching justice, resistance, and feminism in the Americas invariably produces tensions: Between the researcher and the subjects; the researcher and her academic discipline; the researcher's insider and outsider positions; between competing interpretations of history. For example, how does one research a movement centered in a tourist destination without turning the activists into objects of the tourist gaze? How does one research against a group or nation's dominant leftist political narrative without undermining a social justice agenda and alienating herself from activists? How does one center the voices of resistance without speaking directly with those protagonists? How does one navigate the contentious field of human rights advocacy without further victimizing the survivors while still acknowledging their suffering? How does one reconcile the divide between activists and academic discipline as audience? How do activist scholars negotiate generational gaps that may exist between themselves and the academic and activist communities to which they belong? This anthology focuses on tensions like these that arise in the process of doing research connected to activism. Taking Risks is meant to serve as a dialogue among scholars committed to social justice scholarship.
While providing a theoretically and empirically original case study of an historical or contemporary social justice movement, contributors will be asked to address several topics in their essays: 1) How does a feminist ideology or methodology influence your research agenda and position; 2) what sort of tensions have you encountered in your research; 3) how/have those tensions altered your research agenda, and 4) how have you chosen to navigate those tensions?
Presently we have contributors who have advanced degrees in: Art History, Human Development, Latin American History, Romance Languages and Literature, Sociology, Theater, and Women's Studies. Our current case-studies include: Human rights activism in Chile, political graffiti in Oaxaca, the independent library movement in Cuba, women resisting violence in MedellÃn, the Juarez murders, human trafficking and forced labor, and Chilean exile feminism. Please email a proposal of 900 (or less) words, a 150 word abstract, and a two-page CV to Julie Shayne jshayne@u.washington.edu. Proposals should clearly explain your research and how you imagine writing a chapter that both presents your research and the tensions inherent in it in a methodologically and theoretically compelling way.
Deadline for submission: June 13, 2011. If your proposal is accepted I will need your final draft by August 1, 2011. Papers should be approximately 35 double spaced pages (~12,000 words).
Julie Shayne, Ph.D.
Lecturer, UW Bothell
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Center for University Studies and Programs
Affiliate Associate Professor, UW Seattle
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Julie Shayne is the author of the book “They Used to Call Us Witches: Children Exiles, Culture, and Feminism”.
Submission Deadline: June 1
Click here to apply
PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) is Imagining America's network for publicly engaged graduate students in humanities, arts, and design. PAGE enhances the theoretical and practical tools for public engagement; fosters a national, interdisciplinary community of peers and veteran scholars; and creates opportunities for collaborative knowledge production.
IA invites graduate students with a demonstrated interest in public scholarship and/ or artistic practice to apply for a 2011-2012 PAGE Fellowship. Awardees receive $600 to attend a half-day Fellows Summit on September 21st and the 2011 Imagining America national conference, September 22-24, both in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The PAGE director will partner Fellows with senior scholar mentors as well as help promote opportunities for peer mentorship and support from IA's network. Upon acceptance of a Fellowship, participants also commit to participating in a yearlong working group to promote collaborative art-making, teaching, writing, and research projects. In doing so, PAGE is looking to foster a cohort of Fellows interested in pursuing collective and innovative scholarly practices. Fellows are asked to present such publicly-engaged scholarship/ art before the close of the academic year at either an IA regional meeting, a campus workshop of their own design, or another appropriate professional convening.
Within the frame of our 2011 national conference, themed around "What Sustains Us?" the PAGE Summit will take up questions similar to the gathering as a whole (see below), but through the lens of graduate education. This is an urgent moment in higher education, not the least in graduate programs, requiring us to think through sustaining public engagement through the intersections of mentorship, diversity, real-world interaction, student success, and scholarship. Fellows will be asked throughout the year to reflect upon their own public practice in the cultural disciplines, its place in making higher education a more democratic space, and the ramifications of the changing economic climate.
Graduate students at all stages of their MA/MFA/PhD programs, including previous fellows, may apply to be PAGE Fellows. Applicants must be graduate students during the 2011-2012 academic year, but do not have to be planning a career within higher education. Note: Only students who are affiliated with Imagining America member institutions are eligible for this award. For a list of member institutions, and more information about Imagining America, visit www.imaginingamerica.org.
Applicants must submit a CV and a short reflective essay (up to 500 words) on past, current, or future work in the context of one of the following issues, posed in the IA National Conference CFP:
Questions? Please contact National Director of PAGE, Adam Bush at asbush@gmail.com
The University of Georgia "“ September 28-29, 2009
Deadline for Proposal Submission "“ February 25, 2009
To submit a proposal go to www.uwex.edu/ics/nosc2009
All proposals must be submitted online and are due by February 25, 2009. The submission system is user-friendly and allows for providing information for multiple co-presenters.
Successful applicants will be notified via e-mail by April 15, 2009.
Presentation Options
Oral presentations will be 45 minutes in length. Presenters should develop interactive sessions to share information; 30-minute presentations with 15-minute participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.
Panel sessions: Some proposals may be grouped together with two other presentations around a central theme. In this case, each of the three presenters will have 10 minutes to present the central theme of their topic, and 15 minutes will be left at the end for participant discussion moderated by the session facilitator.
Posters will be continuously on display between 2 p.m., Monday, September 28, 2009 and noon, Wednesday, September 30, 2009. To encourage networking and discussion about the displayed work, multiple sessions will be scheduled at which the presenters will be expected to be at their posters.
Conference Themes
Discuss the scholarship of outreach and engagement with
colleagues from around the country. The focus in 2009 will be on:
The Institution: Providing Institutional Support and
Incentives for Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and
Engagement
The Community: Building Strong Relationships between
Communities and Universities: Access, Reciprocity, and
Sustainability
The Faculty: Doing the Scholarship of Outreach and
Engagement: Evidence-Based Practices, and the Impact
on Faculty Members from Interconnecting their Research,
Teaching, and Outreach and Engagement Roles
The Student: Contributing to Outreach and Engagement:
Evidence-Based Practices and the Impact on Students from
Connecting Student Learning to Work in Communities
Sponsored by the Outreach
Scholarship Conference
Partnership
The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center & Hotel, 1197 South Lumpkin Street, Athens, Georgia 30602-3603
