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Post-Doc at the Humphrey Institute


WGS Dissertation Fellowships 2006-2007
Due March 9, 2006


"Remembering Indigenous Futures," presented by Dr. James Clifford of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Humanities Institute's 2005-2006 Distinguished Visiting Lecturers series.
Wednesday, March 22 at 7:30 pm in the Art Auditorium (ART 1.102) at 23rd and San Jacinto


20 Years After Writing Culture - An Informal Discussion with James Clifford
Hosted by the Americo Paredes Center, EPS 1.128, 11:00 am-12:30. Thursday, March 23, 2006.


Planning to complete an MA or PhD this semester?
Please file your degree candidate form no later than 5:00 pm, Thursday March 23rd, 2006


Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Reification of Race as Biology
IPAS, Talk by Deborah Bolnick


Sequels : Annual e3w Symposium, March 30-31, 2006


The Rhonda L. Andrews Memorial Award


Peyton and Douglas Wright Memorial Fellowship
A $1000 yearly award that allows an Archaeology graduate student to undertake a research project leading to a master's or doctoral degree.


Teresa Lozano Long Travel Grants for graduate study abroad in LATIN AMERICA, 2006-2007
Deadline April 3, 2006


UT Graduate Student Research Showcase Opportunity
April 4, 2006, 10-2 Texas Union. Lunch will be served to all participants and attendees.


Humanities Institute lecture: Marita Sturken, Associate Professor in NYU's Dept. of Culture and Communications


The Americo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies will host an informal discussion with Marita Sturken


14th Annual SALSA Symposium, April 7-9


SALSA Volunteers Needed


Individual Travel and Research Grants Workshop


Lecture: Women on the Market: Marriage, Consumption and the Internet in Urban Cameroon


Lecture: Crossing into Yucatan
Bill Hanks, Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology


Americo Paredes Cultural Studies Colloquium: Before nostalgia (that traveled across the sea): Sounds and Images of Premodernity Broadcast Throughout Brazil
Daniel Sharp, ethnomusicology doctoral candidate in the Department of Music


Intimacies of Four Continents
Lisa Lowe, Professor in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego


Americo Paredes Cultural Studies Colloquium: "Of Women, Work and the Public Spaces: Some thoughts on Karachi's Poor"
Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 12 noon, EPS 1.128


Lecture: False Appearances and Mistaken Identities: The Phobic and the Erotic in Bombay Cinema
Shohini Ghosh, Professor of Media Studies at the Jamia University in Delhi


Americo Paredes Cultural Studies Colloquium: "(Re)markable Whiteness and (Re)making Alterity: Western Expatriate Considerations of Difference in Kathmandu, Nepal"
Heather Hindman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Transnationalism Project, University of Chicago and Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas


WGS Brown Bag for Graduate Students: Academic Career Basics Part 3 - Beyond Grad School
Wednesday, May 3rd, 11:30 - 12:30, CWGS Conference Room (WWH 407)


The Contact Zone
An exhibit by students in Dr. Pauline Strong's Representation graduate seminar


Americo Paredes Distinguished Lectures


GSI Colloquium CFP:
Reflecting: Using Discussion, Writing, and Technology to Encourage Student-Centered Learning


The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Announces
Student Writing Competition on the Human Rights of Women


Language, Meaning, Society CFP
Deadline July 15, 2006


Hamilton Book Award


Upcoming Deadlines


Liberal Arts Graduate Fellowship


Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Award


Lilly M. Newton Hornsby Award
Prize Announcement


Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships


Professional Development Awards


Workshop on Human Subjects Review and the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Laura Lein and Mariah Wade


Archaeology Lecture
Nicholas Stanley-Price


“Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas”


The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowships for 2007-2008


University Continuing Fellowships for 2007-2008


FLAS Deadline


February 1 Application deadline: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center fellowships


February 8, Lecture: Air: Aspects of its History in Culture, Mythology, and Science.
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Cultural and Social Historian, Time and location TBA


February 8: Workshop in Interviewing Skills for Students Entering the Job Market
Sponsored by Professional Development and Community Engagement. For registration information, go to http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/forms/020807.html


Planning to graduate this Spring?
Important deadline information


February 25: A Conversation With: Miriam Miranda, Garifuna Land Rights Activist, Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH)


February 26: SALSA T-Shirt Design Contest Submission Deadline


February 28: Workshop, Alternative Strategies for Getting Small Grants
1:00 - 2:30pm in the Texas Union Theater, Room 2.228. (Preregistration required)


February 28: A Reading and booksigning by Neville Hoad
African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality and Globalization


March 1: Application Deadline for Fellowship Opportunity for Japan and Korea Related Studies


March 5: DAAD Lecture Series Presents a lecture by Dr. Deiter Haller
No Ambivalence - A Foreign Anthropologist's Perspective on Individualism, Community, and State in the U.S.


March 10-15, 2007: Maya Meetings
“The River Cities: Archaeology and History at Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras, and Pomona.”


March 27: Rapoport Center’s Human Rights Happy Hour presents Dr. Christine Kovic, University of Houston-Clear Lake
“Central American Migrants and Mexico's Southern Border: Human Rights and the Criminalization of Poor Workers”


STS “Surveillance and You”Civic Forum Saturday, March 31, 2007 at The University of Texas at Austin
REGISTER ONLINE NOW !!!


April 3: Moolaadé Film Screening with Discussion to Follow
7:00 PM-9:30 PM, CAL 100


April 4: Racism, White Privilege and Coalition Politics: A Transnational Dialogue with João Costa Vargas and Charles R. Hale
A Conversation on Global White Supremacy, Activism, and Grassroots Alternatives to Neoliberalism


April 5: 14th Annual Emerging Scholarship in Women’s and Gender Studies Conference
8:00 AM-4:30 PM, WWH, 2nd Floor, Campus Club


April 5-6: Eleventh Annual Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy


April 6: Educating for Cultural Competence: Tools for Training Field Instructors
Marilyn Peterson Armour, Bonnie Bain, and Ruth J. Rubio


April 12-13: 2007 LBJ Conference, “Gender, Globalization, and Governance"


April 13-15: The Symposium About Language and Society--Austin (SALSA XV) (April 13-15), Call for Volunteers


The Peyton Wright Memorial Fellowship for Archeology Grad Students
DEADLINE: MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007


The Rhonda L. Andrews Memorial Award
DEADLINE:  MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007. 5:00PM


April 25: Application Deadline for Fellowships in Interpreting the Texas Past
Three Fellowships for the Fall of 2007. Apply for one of three different projects!


April 27-28: "The Engaged Anthropologist": A Conference Honoring James Brow


May 10: Application Deadline for The Project in Interpreting the Texas Past Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship
Sponsored by the University of Texas Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program, and the Houston Endowment


Apply Now! P.E.O. Scholar Awards for the award year 2007-2008. $10,000 AWARDS FOR WOMEN
Application process should be completed before Sept. 15, 2007. See details for more info.


2007 Folklore/Public Culture Proseminar


AGSA Graduate Research Symposium: "New Directions in Anthropology"
Deadline for Submissions: February 12, 2008


Health Disparaties in East Austin: A Community Dialogue