Honors Bulletin Board
Honors Peer Mentors is looking for mentors for next year!
If you will be a sophomore or junior during the 2010-2011 school year, apply to be a mentor for HPM! Returning honors students will mentor small groups of incoming freshmen honors students to help make the transition to college a little easier. Apply online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lEMBIeBiiTsa57v7DIqBxQ_3d_3d.
Applications are due on Wednesday, December 9, at midnight. Questions?
Email hpm0910@umich.edu
Polish Studies in the 21st Century
3rd International Conference on Polish Studies
September 16-18, 2010
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Copernicus Endowment for Polish Studies at the University of Michigan welcomes proposals for papers and presentations at the 3rd International Conference in Polish Studies, to be held September 16-18, 2010, in Ann Arbor.
The field of Polish studies in North America has been utterly transformed over the past decade. There are now more people than ever studying Polish language, literature, culture, history, society, and politics, and the overwhelming majority of them entered the profession after the fall of communism. With this new generation of scholars have come new forms of scholarship. The broad cluster of methodological and theoretical innovations collected under the rubric of "cultural studies" Cultural Studies has brought to light a range of previously unexplored topics and introduced to our work a heightened degree of self-reflexivity. Work on gender and sexuality, for example, has not merely introduced new analytical categories and new themes, but shifted the way we understand the broad narratives of Polish history, culture, and society. Although Polonists have a long history of working across disciplinary boundaries, the vectors of interdisciplinarity have been shifting in recent years to bring together perspectives that were not always in dialogue. The moves towards comparative work and a new focus on transnational processes have not so much eclipsed Polish studies as forced us to critically examine the concept of the “Polish Nation” and to re-conceptualize it in more productive ways.
The Steering Committee is particularly interested in receiving proposals that cut across disciplinary boundaries. Novel approaches to Polish Studies, in both theory and practice, will be favored over papers that merely attempt to fill “gaps” in available scholarship. Advanced graduate students and junior scholars are especially encouraged to submit proposals.
Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words as a Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) file by email to polishstudies@ctools.umich.edu. Abstracts will be accepted until January 15, 2010.
Upon acceptance, attendees at the conference will be asked to contribute a non-refundable registration fee of USD 100. Limited financial assistance is available as needed, though participants are first asked to exhaust resources for conference travel at their home institutions. Please submit the attached financial form together with your proposal.
University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal
A Call for Submissions
Dear Students,
The University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal (UMURJ) is issuing a call for submissions for our Winter 2010 edition. We are an entirely student-run organization that publishes an interdisciplinary, non-technical research journal showcasing some of the best student research on this campus. Our goal is to bring to light the creativity and effort of students on this campus. We publish in both electronic and print media after our process of peer editing and faculty review.
We are looking for undergraduate students who will have completed research in the next few months and are interested in being published.
We are not limited to natural science, and especially encourage student research in social science and humanities as well as interdisciplinary fields.
Some examples of previously submitted work include: senior honors theses, term papers, and literature reviews.
Please submit by our deadline, January 25, 2010. However, acceptance of the submissions is on a rolling basis, so we highly encourage you to submit as soon as possible.
Visit our website at www.umurj.org for more information or to view our previous issues. For further questions, please e-mail forumeditorial@umich.edu
Thank you and we look forward to reviewing your submissions!
Sincerely yours,
~ UM Undergraduate Research Journal
Interested in correcting the inequalities in our education system? Want some volunteer hours? Or just want to improve your resume?
Get Involved with Students for Educational Equality!
We have a variety of exciting programs, including our biggest and best--the free ACT preparation program we run for disadvantaged students in partnership with the Princeton Review. Last year we ran this program and scores went up 11.2%! It is incredibly rewarding to see what kind of difference you can make in disadvantaged students’ lives.
We also run a program to help disadvantaged students with the college application process. And will be having numerous events as soon as January to raise awareness of educational inequalities.
Come to our meeting on Monday November 16th at 7PM in Mason Hall Room 3448.
Washtenaw Dairy Donuts will be provided.
In 1992, director Sato Makoto released Living on the River Agano, a documentary closely examining the impact of Minamata Disease on a rural community in the mountains of Niigata. It was the result of several years spent living with the old farmers in the area. Ten years later, Sato and his cameraman returned to Niigata to renew their friendships with the farmers—at least those that had survived in the intervening years, and on this occasion, they made another film Memories of Agano (2004).
These two films posed a range of challenges to the subtitler, beginning with the remarkably thick dialect of Niigata, so incomprehensible to most Japanese that it is usually subtitled in Japanese. Sato wanted his sequel to steadfastly resist the reduction of these people to the Disease, deciding that his goals could be best served by forcing spectators to listen to how people spoke rather than simply what they were saying. So he chose not to subtitle it in Japanese. The result was a beautiful film that almost no one could “understand.” This posed a novel challenge to Nornes, the English subtitler. Nornes used Memories of Agano as an opportunity to bring his theorization of an "abusive subtitling" into thorough practice.
Abé Markus Nornes, Professor in Screen Arts & Cultures/Asian Languages & Cultures, is the author of Cinema Babel (Minnesota UP), a theoretical and historical look at the role of translation in film history. He also wrote Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary and Japanese Documentary Film: From the Meiji Era to Hiroshima (both Minnesota UP). He co-edited Japan-American Film Wars (Routledge), In Praise of Film Studies (Kinema Club), and many film festival retrospective catalogs. He is on the editorial boards of Documentary Box (Japan), International Studies in Documentary, and Mechadamia and has been co-owner of the internet newsgroup KineJapan since its inception.
This event is sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures, Comparative Literature's Year of Translation and the Center for Japanese Studies.
Ginberg Center Presents
Learning from the Community Workshops
This fall, the Ginsberg Center will be sponsoring a series of Learning from
the Community Workshops. This series of workshops - held most Tuesday
evenings - is designed to prepare people for participation in the
community. Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and community
members participate in workshops that are co-facilitated by community
members and university faculty or staff members. The workshops focus on
understanding social identity, building practical skills around issues such
as privilege, entering and exiting the community, program planning, working
with youth, grant writing and many others. These sessions can help prepare
students who need to take a service-learning course, want to do an internship in a
community setting, or intend to organize service activities.
Learning from the Community Workshop Series (Fall 2009):
Entering the Community
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., 4448 East Hall
"You only enter the community for the first time once." Utilizing an
asset-based community development framework, this session will examine ways
of establishing relationships with community partners, building trust,
understanding styles of communication, and clarifying expectations. *SiD*
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=322
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Living in a State of Poverty: a Welfare Simulation
(In partnership with Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice)
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
6:30 - 9:30, Michigan League Hussey Room
A 3-hour workshop in which participants live in the "State of Poverty" and
have a chance to experience some of the stressors and challenges of living
on welfare. Through the simulation and debriefing process, participants
gain perspective on what it really means to live on welfare today in
Michigan. *SiD*
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=321
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Working in K-12 Settings: Tutoring and Mentoring
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
6:30-8:00 p.m., 4448 East Hall
This session examines issues specific to doing youth work in public school
settings, including establishing relationships with students and teachers,
building trust, clarifying expectations, and preparing for an appropriate
exit. Specific skills for this work will also be featured.
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=324
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Exploring Social Identity and Its Impact on our Work
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
6:30-8:30 p.m., 4448 East Hall
This session will examine our individual social identities and help
participants reflect on how these identities, and the privileges associated
with them, impact work and relationships within community settings. *SiD*
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=325
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Grant Writing for Students Working with Non-Profits
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
6:30-8:30 p.m., 4448 East Hall
This session will feature the fundamental steps in grant writing with
emphasis on working with, not for, nonprofit community based organizations
in low-income and other areas. *SiD recommended but not required*
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=323
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Reflection in your Community Based Work
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
6:30-8:30 p.m., 4448 East Hall
This skill building workshop will prepare participants to use reflection to
facilitate the learning in 'service-learning.'
To register for this workshop, visit
http://uuis.umich.edu/workshop2/workshopdet.cfm?wid=326
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Working with Detroit Non-Profits: a Contemporary Context
November/December, 2009
This Session will be presented at UM's Detroit Center. More details TBA.
The workshop will provide information to students who are doing youth
work, organizational support, and program planning with nonprofits in
Detroit.*SiD*
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Exiting the Community
Tuesday, November/December, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 p.m., 4448 East Hall
This session will examine ways of wrapping up a community-based project,
clarifying expectations and bringing relationships with community partners
to closure. *SiD*
*SiD* indicates prerequisite for application to Semester in Detroit for
Winter ‘10
For more information, go to
http://www.ginsberg.umich.edu/newsevents/LearningfromtheCommunityWorkshopSeries.htm
Summer Research Opportunity
MIT Lincoln Laboratory applies advanced technology to problems critical to national security. Behind the Laboratory's solutions are researchers with excellent technical abilities and imagination working in cross-disciplinary collaborations to develop systems from the initial concept stage, through simulation and analysis, to design and prototyping, and finally to real-world demonstrations.
Since 1975, Lincoln Laboratory has offered undergraduate and graduate students the unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a leading-edge research environment.
Program participants will contribute to projects and gain experience that complements their courses of study. Opportunities exist in fields such as communications systems, sensor and radar data analysis, digital signal processing, laser and electro-optical systems, solid-state electronics, software engineering, and scientific programming.
Projects may be available for students with backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, mechanical engineering, aeronautics/astronautics, materials science, molecular biology, biochemistry, and related fields.
Lincoln Laboratory is located in historic Lexington, Massachusetts, and is only 14 miles northwest of Boston. As part of the MIT community, program participants have enjoyed sports events, trips to the island off Cape Cod, sailing, and hiking. In addition, MIT and Lincoln Laboratory are close to most major routes to New England's shores and mountains.
You can find the eligibility requirements, program details, and the application process at http://www.ll.mit.edu/college/summerprogram.html.
New LSA Academic Minor in Museum Studies
The new minor is an 18 credit hour program built around the primary themes of objects and collections, the museum as an institution, and museums in society. It is an interdisciplinary "applied theory" program based in part on our very successful graduate certificate program in museum studies.
The new minor emphasizes history, theory, and practice in equal measure and prepares students for careers in a variety of public settings including museums, science centers, historical societies, botanical gardens, arboreta, zoos, and heritage sites.
Though the program is situated within the College of LS&A, the curriculum was developed in consultation with schools and colleges across the campus and is intended to serve students across the university.
The 18 hour museum studies minor requires three core courses in museum studies curriculum (MUSEUMS 301, 401, 409) and three electives selected from courses drawn from disciplines across the university. It has been designed so that students who start the program in the fall can complete the program in as short a time as one academic year.
Our website (http://www.umich.edu/~ummsp/minor.htm) now contains detailed information about the program but we welcome your questions at msp-ug@umich.edu.
