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Department News2013-2014 University-wide Awards

The following annual awards are opportunities to bring attention to the gifted faculty in our department. Nomination deadlines are later this Fall, go to www.nebraska.edu/awards today and nominate one or more of your colleagues.

• Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award (ORCA) due 11 November 2013

• Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA) due 21 October 2013

• Innovation, Development, and Engagement Award (IDEA) due due 21 October 2013

• University-wide Departmental Teaching Award (UDTA) due 21 October 2013

Mark Your CalendarsOn Thursday, October 24th, Dr. Carsten Strathausen, Associate Professor or German and Russian Studies at the University of Missouri, will give the first of two “Humanities on the Edge” lectures this semester. The special topic for the academic year 2013-2014 is “Economies of Crisis / Crises of Economies.” In addition to his public lecture, which will be held at 5:30 at the Sheldon Art Gallery, Professor Strathausen will also meet graduate (and possibly advanced undergraduate) students during a special session Thursday afternoon at 2pm. There will also be a small group meal events Thursday for lunch and dinner. If you are interested in attending on of the meal events please contact Marco Abel, meals are covered for graduate students who attend.

Important D

ates

September

18th- Kawasaki Reading Room Open House

OctOber

15th- Tenured Faculty Meeting

17th- Tenured Faculty Meeting

24th- Humanities on the Edge Lecture

Department News...............................1Important Dates......................................1

KRR Open House......................................2Reminders....................................................2

Queer Theory Reading Group......................2Boren Foundation............................................2

Calls for papers & Open Positions...................3Spanish Tutoring Center.....................................3

Arabic Writing Center...........................................3Twitter!.....................................................................3

Club Information......................................................3Department Calendar...............................................4

AttachmentsAttachments..........................................................5-13

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KRR Open House

September 182:00pm - 4:00pm

The Kawasaki Reading Room will be hosting an open house Wednesday,

to introduce the new director Madoka Wayoro. Stop by for Tea and Japanese sweets, origami lessons, and take an

opportunity to welcome Madoka to the Department.

Queer Theory Reading Group

The following message is from Wendy Katz, if you are interested please contact her at wkatz2@unl.edu.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I’m writing to let you know that last year’s Queer Theory reading group is resuming reading this Fall. We’re meeting once a month at 7 pm on Thursday September 19th, Wednesday October 23rd, and Wednesday, November 20th. The first two meetings will be at my house and we will wrap up the semester at Stacey Waite’s and Brie Owen’s house.

We plan to start with some introductory essays on queer theory, older ones by Jagose and Wilchins and Nikki Sullivan’s more recent Critical Introduction to Queer Theory. The second and third meetings will take up Todd Reeser’s new Masculinities in Theory and Jasbir Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times.

If you’re interested in joining us—the reading group is open to faculty, grad students, anyone interested in the field--please email me and I will make sure you get the details (including PDFs of the readings). If you can’t make the first meeting but want to stay on the mailing list, let me know that too.

Please also feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.

Congratulations on surviving the first week of school!

Wendy KatzDepartment of Art & Art History

Boren Foundation PresentationOn Wednesday, Sept. 11, Craig Frederickson from the National Security

Education Program (Boren) in Washington, D.C. will be on campus to give a presentation on both the NSEP Boren scholarships and fellowships. His

presentation will be in Neihardt classroom 1105. Please see the attached flyer.

The Boren scholarships support study abroad in all regions or countries except Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The focus of NSEP is on geographical areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security. NSEP David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships provide up to $10,000 for a semester-long study abroad program and up to $20,000 for a year-long study abroad program. Awards are intended for Juniors and seniors (academic term or year) to increase their knowledge of and competencies in other languages and cultures; and, for freshmen and sophomores (intensive summer or academic term study abroad programs) to foster their interest in international affairs. Campus Deadline: November 1 (students need to contact Laura Damuth with an intention to apply); National deadline: early February (scholarship), late January (fellowship).

Interested students should want to go to non-Western European countries and have a desire to study critical languages. This would

include the following languages at UNL: Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Czech, Arabic, and Portuguese. For more detailed information, visit:

http://www.borenawards.org/

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@UNLModLang

We have 15 followers!

Not bad but I know we can do better! Please encourage your students and club members to follow us. Let them know this is a great way to find out

about event information including conversation tables and clubs as well as university events that may

interest a language student!

After HoursJust a friendly reminder

Since many meetings and clubs are held in the afternoon please be sure

to lock up if your event continues past 5:00.

Usually the doors are set up to automatically lock when you pull

them shut, however please check the handle and use your key to

lock them if necessary.

Arabic Writing Center

The Arabic Writing Center is available to by appointment.

Please email abla.hasan@unl.edu to make an appointment with a

Tutor.

Twitter! I will be scheduling tweeted reminders for all language club events. If you are managing a language club or table be sure to let me know if you are skipping or changing meetings.

I will also be using hashtags for each of the clubs and events. Be sure to use these hashtags before

and during your event and include the attendees to do so as well. Stop

by if you have any questions or to create new hashtags for your event or

meeting!

Russian Club12Sept // 10 Oct

30 Oct 7pm // 203 OLDH

#UNLRussClub

Komenský Club4 Sept

6:30 Union#UNLKomensky

Stammtisch

Tuesdays5pm-6:30pmPanera Bread

#UNLStammtisch

Portuguese Table

TBA

Spanish Table

Thursdays6pm

Yia Yia’s#UNLMesa

French TableFridays

4pm-6pmYia Yia’s

#UNLTableau

Chinese Table

TBA

Kino Club

TBA

Arabic Table

Wednesdays3:30pm-5:30pm

1126 OLDH

Language Clubs

Spanish Tutor ing Center

The Spanish Tutoring Center is now open for Fall 2013. The

Center will be open:

Tuesdays // 11:00 - 12:30Thursdays // 10:00 - 11:30

Please let you students know!

See attached flyer or http://go.unl.edu/spanishtutoringcenter for additional details

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Call for PapersSee Bulletin Board in 1107 for more information

• El Cid; Edition 2014; Due 15 October. The Journal of the Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.

• Tierra Tinta Conference; 10 September 2013

Open Positions See Bulletin Board across from 1111 for more information

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) paralegal positions; Nonprofit law firm Legal Aid of Nebraska. See attached flyer from more information

Humanities on the Edge

Lecture5:30 pm // Sheldon

Tenured Faculty Meeting: Nora

Peterson & Liz Enkin1126 OLDH // 11:00

Tenured Faculty Meeting: Isabel

Velazquez1126 OLDH // 11:00

Global Cafe10:30 // Seaton 316

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Executive Committee Meeting

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Kawasaki Reading Room Open House

2:00 // KRR

Graduate Committee Meeting11:00 // 1206 OLDH

Global Cafe10:30 // Seaton 316

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Tuesdays 11-12.30pm

Thursdays 10-11.30am WHEN

WHERE Modern Languages&Literatures

Oldfather Hall 1126

Spanish Tutoring Center

Thanks to a grant given by the Office of Academic Affairs, UNL

Website: http://go.unl.edu/spanishtutoringcenter

Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Arabic writing Center Dr. Abla Hasan

1126 OLDH

!We help you enhance your Arabic learning experience

- You can discuss your written assignments with Native Speakers of Arabic.

- You can find out ways of improving your writing.

- You can get some useful advice and feedback.

- You can practice speaking Arabic with Native Speakers.

Email me for an appointment with one of our Volunteer Tutors

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Te esperamos los Jueves a las 6pm en Yia Yia’s Pizza

Mesa redonda

de conversación

on conversación

Contacto: Tiffany Dalton, y Andrea Sirvent

tmdalton@gmail.com                andreasirvent2@hotmail.com  

THINK YOU SHOULD STUDY THE SAME

LANGUAGE AS EVERYONE ELSE?? THINK AGAIN.

Boren Information Session

Wednesday September 11, at 7pm

Neihardt 1105

The NSEP Boren Scholarship and Fellow-

ship programs support the study of critical

languages abroad. Boren Scholarships

and Fellowships provide funding for study

abroad in all regions and countries out-

side of Western Europe, Canada, Austral-

ia, and New Zealand. The focus of the

Boren is on geographical areas, lan-

guages, and fields of study deemed criti-

cal to U.S. national security. For a com-

plete list of countries and languages sup-

ported, visit their web site:

http://www.nsep.gov/initiatives/borenscholars/

Campus deadline: November 1

Contact the Fellowships Office for more infor-

mation and help with your application:

Neihardt 118

fellowships@unl.edu

http://www.unl.edu/fellowships/

Boren winner Rebecca Gailey 2012

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Please join Global Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Judaic Studies, Human Rights & Humanitarian Affairs for conversation and learn that not only interdisciplinary studies

matters, but are interesting. You will also have the chance to meet friends from all over the world!

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

GLOBAL

CAFE 316 Seaton Hall 10:30am-Noon

Call for Proposals

Ninth Annual Conference on Latin American, Spanish, French, Francophone, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures

University of Oklahoma Norman, Oklahoma

October 16th - Film presentation “Country Music” October 17th and 18th - Simultaneous Panels

The organizing committee will consider papers that explore issues on any aspect of, but not limited to, Latin American, Peninsular, French, Francophone, and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, Music, Visual Arts or Cinema from any period. We will also consider short creative fiction and poetry.

Our keynote speakers will be the Chilean writer, journalist, film critic, and film director Alberto Fuguet and Dr. Fernando Valerio-Holguin, a specialist in post-modern hybridity among music, film, and literature.

You are cordially invited to submit an anonymous abstract by September 10th 2013 to Tierra Tinta: tierratinta@ou.edu. Abstracts must be typed, 250 words, and double-spaced with a cover page that includes the paper title, your name, affiliation, and contact information.

If your proposal is approved, you will be given 20 minutes to present either in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese. Papers cannot be read in absentia.

All papers have the possibility to be published in our academic journal, Pegaso. For more information, please contact Pegaso online at: www.ou.edu/pegaso/ For more information and updates on the conference, visit:www.ou.edu/tierratinta.

Find us in Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TierraTintaConference Sincerely, Míriam S. Romero President of Tierra Tinta mromero@ou.edu