Lecture on the Making of the American “Oriental” — SF Public Library, Sat., May 11, 2019, 2 PM
Month: May 2019
Call for Applications from Recent MFAs and PhDs: Future Faculty Program at RIT (Deadline: May 15, 2019)
The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Future Faculty Career Exploration Program (FFCEP) is currently accepting applications for the class of 2019. This program is design for historically underrepresented minority scholars to explore potential faculty careers.
Participants will:
network with faculty, chairs, deans, and administration;
hold a job talk presentation on their research; and
learn more about the culture and values of the institution straight from RIT’s diverse faculty and students; and so much more.
The application deadline is Wed, May 15, 2019.
Please remember that you will need to upload four documents with your application:
- CV
- Cover letter that includes your diversity statement
- Research statement (MFA scholars submit an artistic statement)
- Teaching statement
The Future Faculty Career Exploration Program provides an opportunity to find out what it is like to be a faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology. This all-expenses paid program is an opportunity for historically underrepresented minority scholars, artists, and researchers to visit RIT for a prospective look at a faculty career. The program will take place September 25-28, 2019.
RIT has seen nearly 300 scholars participate in the program since its inception 15 years ago. The feedback is amazing – the program helped to prepare them for the rigors of the job search, and also enlightened them to opportunities at RIT.
To learn more about the program and to apply click here.
Medieval Studies: Definitions, Debates, and the Parameters of the Field
Image by Mikel Jaso. Published in New York Times, May 5, 2019, here.
Yesterday’s front-page article in the print edition of New York Times bore the headline “Symbols of Past Used by Right Upset Scholars.” That the online version’s header is “Medieval Scholars Joust with White Nationalists. And One Another” is a rhetorical shift worth questioning.
The article’s many directions are equally fascinating:
*the culture of the International Congress on Medieval Studies;
*demographics of the field of European Medievalism;
*narratives of the Anglo-Saxon race—roots, routes, and modernity—in Europe and the US;
*critical theory, feminist critique of power and patriarchy, and decolonizing a field;
*apolitical scholarship as an ideal;
*the Medievalists of Color group;
*white privilege and white fragility;
*Facebook fights and the resource of social media;
*white nationalism and white chauvinism—past and present;
*overhauling the academic conference submission process;
*the Belle da Costa Greene Award (est. 2018) and passing for white.
The Times reporter Jennifer Schuessler runs through these topics differently. She conveys the complexity of terrain in some passages and displays her amusement with the debates in others. “A field increasingly torn by vitriolic spats and racial politics”—anchorage text on the jump page in the print edition—sadly demonstrates the limited way in which Schuessler and the editor who worked with her on this piece see things.
There’s nothing easy about change in twenty-first century academia: it’s well- communicated in the letters accompanying the article—634 of them at present count. They’re worth a look.
This year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies Conference opens in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thurs., May 9. The next day, May 10, is the anniversary of Greene’s death.
Belle da Costa Greene. Photo by Clarence White. Published on Pinterest.
Da Costa Greene (born Dec. 13, 1879/1883 in Alexandria Virginia; died May 10, 1950 in New York) was elected of fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1939. A librarian at Princeton and later for J. P. Morgan, Greene was the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924 to 1928.
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