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Volume 52 | September 24, 2007 | Number 5

FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE

Fellowship Payment
Graduate students on fellowship for the Fall semester (8/16/07-12/15/07), will receive their last fellowship payment on 12/16/07.

Graduate Students
Due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), we now need to obtain photo release forms from ALL (new and returning) graduate students to publicize your photo and/or to acknowledge your activities and accomplishments in Footnotes. Please see Chris in 210 EB for a release form.

FALL 2007 - DATES TO REMEMBER
September 28 : Last day for student to add a semester course through OAR without
written dept approval
September 28: Last day to deposit Oct. doctoral dissertations
September 28: Last day to drop a first half-session course
September 28: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a first half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
October 15: Oct. degree conferral (no commencement)
October 15: Second half-session courses begin
October 29: Registration for spring begins
November 2: Last day to add a second half-session course
November 9: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without approval)
November 9: Last day to add name to Dec. degree list
November 9: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a semester course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
November 9: Last day to withdraw from the current term without a grade of W
Nov 17 - 25: Fall vacation for students
Nov 22 - 23: Thanksgiving Break (all campus holiday)
November 26: Instruction resumes
November 30: Last day to drop a second half-session course
November 30: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a second half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade
November 30: Last day to take final exam for Dec. doctoral degree
December 7: Instruction ends
December 7: Last day to deposit Dec. master's theses December 8: Last day to add or drop a second half-session course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 8: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded)
December 8: Reading Day
Dec 10 – 15: Final examination period
December 10: Last day to change an I grade from spring or summer to prevent F by rule
December 14: Last day to deposit Dec. doctoral dissertations
December 17: Dec. degree conferral (no commencement)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Accepting Papers
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference
April 3-5, 2008
Marquette University
Milwaukee , Wisconsin

The Emergence of Human Rights
The 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights announced an international commitment to an idea that had gradually come into existence over the preceding two centuries. In the hope of promoting the realization of human rights, this INCS conference will examine the emergence of the idea of human rights across the globe-and within a wide range of cultural, social, and political activities-during the long nineteenth century.

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Lynn Hunt, Professor of History UCLA; Phoebe Williams, Professor of Law, Marquette University

Possible paper topics on human rights in the nineteenth century include:
Slavery and Abolition Rights and Religion Rights and Law
Women's rights Rights and Empire Civil Rights
Children's rights Rights and citizenship Transnational Rights
Workers' rights Rights advocacy in literature Prisoner's rights
Rights theory Rights and Revolutions Economic Rights
Immigrants' rights Rights vs. Obligations Property rights
Animal rights Rights and Popular Culture Artistic rights
Defining Human Natural vs. Political Rights Universalism
Education, security, self-determination, dignity, equal treatment, habeas corpus , freedom of movement, marriage, family life, rest and leisure, health care, food, shelter

INCS encourages interdisciplinary perspectives integrating:
Literature, Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Theology, History, Art History, History of Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, Criminology, Health Sciences.

200 word abstracts by October 15, 2007 to Christine.Krueger@marquette.edu.
For more information on INCS see: http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/
Selected conference papers published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts
Sponsored by Way-Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University

See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information.

Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Eighteenth Accepting Papers
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Eighteenth Annual Conference
THE IMAGE OF THE OUTSIDER in Literature, Media, and Society
March 13-15, 2008
Colorado Springs , CO

An annual conference addressing the influence of imagery in social life, with a different thematic focus each year. A Proceedings will be published from papers presented at the conference. Past themes have included The Image of Power, The Image of Technology, The Image of Nature, The Image of the Road. Eclectic and innovative approaches are encouraged. For previous programs, etc., see webpage: http://www.chass.colostate-pueblo.edu/sissi .

Please submit a one-page abstract or a panel proposal with abstracts by December 3, 2007. Graduate students are welcome and organized panels are encouraged: fax: 719-549-2705, email: outsider@colostate-pueblo.edu , mail: SISSI-Outsider , Colorado State University- Pueblo , Pueblo , CO 81001-4901 .

See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information.

The second Chicago Digital Humanities and Computer Science Colloquium Accepting Posters
The Colloquium will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University , and detailed information about the program and logistics is available at http://dhcs.northwestern.edu .

There is still room on the program for poster sessions, and we have some matching funds for graduate students whose poster proposals have been accepted. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis and should be submitted to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. Sooner is better.

The theme of this year's colloquium is "Exploring the scholarly query potential of high quality text and image archives in a collaborative environment." The objects of attention are "cultural heritage objects," ranging from tiny Mesopotamian cylinder seals to clay statuettes in a 16th century Buddhist temple, Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present, Newton 's alchemical writings, the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, and the United States Supreme Court Corpus. The question is what happens to the study of these multi-modal and diverse objects when they are available as digital surrogates that allow scholars to do things with them that cannot be done with the originals.

This question runs through the papers and poster sessions of the program, and I hope participants will come away from the colloquium with a deeper appreciation of the query potential of the digital surrogate.

The keynote speakers are:
Matthew Kirschenbaum ( University of Maryland ): The Remaking of Reading
Lewis Lancaster ( Berkeley ): Beyond 2-D-Text/Plain: The Chinese Buddhist Canon in 3-D.

This colloquium is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University , and the University of Chicago . We hope that it will turn into an annual event that will nurture conversation about information technology and the humanities in the Great Lakes Region and beyond.

"Translation and Transitions"
University of Miami, Coral Gables
Department of Modern Languages and Literature
Department of English
February 15 -16, 2008

This conference invites papers addressing the literary exchange between languages and nations of the Americas and Europe, across time and space. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Translations between genres and/or disciplines, cultural gaps in translations and/or transitions, semiotics and immigration, the process of translation, politics and cultural production, spaces of displacement and transitions, "high" and "low" culture, oral traditions and translations, the role of translation within society.

Keynote Speaker: Alfred MacAdam, Columbia University

A 200 word abstract should be sent by November 15, 2007 to:
Graduate Student Conference
c/o Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248093
Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2074
or via e-mail to translation.transitions@gmail.com
Electronic submissions are encouraged.

Papers may be in English, French or Spanish and should not exceed 20 minutes. Acceptance will be confirmed no later than Dec. 7, 2007.

CONFERENCE

Texts and Contexts
A conference sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University. The conference will be held on October 26-27, 2007 in 90 Science and Engineering Library.

Plenary speaker: Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania "Medieval Intellectual Biography: the Case of Guido Faba".

For information about the program, registration, and accommodations, please contact the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. Phone 614-292-3280 or e-mail epig@osu.edu .

COLLOQUIUM

Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition
Presented by The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Graduate Student Conference
Friday and Saturday, September 28-29, 2007
Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Avenue , Urbana , IL 61801

For more information visit: http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/2007%20Fall%20Documents/ThinkingAffect.htm
or see file in 213 EB (Journals Room).

FELLOWSHIPS

Lilly Fellows Program (LFP) in Humanities and the Arts
The LFP offers fellowships to individuals seriously considering vocations in church-related institutions. We are accepting applications from candidates who receive the Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree within the twenty months prior to and including August, 2008. Applications deadline this is December 18, 2007. See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information.



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Footnotes Directory	Footnotes: The Department Newsletter Volume 52 \| September 24, 2007 \| Number 5 FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE Fellowship Payment Graduate students on fellowship for the Fall semester (8/16/07-12/15/07), will receive their last fellowship payment on 12/16/07. Graduate Students Due to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), we now need to obtain photo release forms from ALL (new and returning) graduate students to publicize your photo and/or to acknowledge your activities and accomplishments in Footnotes. Please see Chris in 210 EB for a release form. FALL 2007 - DATES TO REMEMBER September 28 : Last day for student to add a semester course through OAR without written dept approval September 28: Last day to deposit Oct. doctoral dissertations September 28: Last day to drop a first half-session course September 28: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a first half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade October 15: Oct. degree conferral (no commencement) October 15: Second half-session courses begin October 29: Registration for spring begins November 2: Last day to add a second half-session course November 9: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without approval) November 9: Last day to add name to Dec. degree list November 9: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a semester course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade November 9: Last day to withdraw from the current term without a grade of W Nov 17 - 25: Fall vacation for students Nov 22 - 23: Thanksgiving Break (all campus holiday) November 26: Instruction resumes November 30: Last day to drop a second half-session course November 30: Last day to elect credit-no-credit option for a second half-session course or to change from credit-no-credit option to a regular grade November 30: Last day to take final exam for Dec. doctoral degree December 7: Instruction ends December 7: Last day to deposit Dec. master's theses December 8: Last day to add or drop a second half-session course with approval (a W is recorded) December 8: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded) December 8: Reading Day Dec 10 – 15: Final examination period December 10: Last day to change an I grade from spring or summer to prevent F by rule December 14: Last day to deposit Dec. doctoral dissertations December 17: Dec. degree conferral (no commencement) CALL FOR PAPERS Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Accepting Papers Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference April 3-5, 2008 Marquette University Milwaukee , Wisconsin The Emergence of Human Rights The 1948 U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights announced an international commitment to an idea that had gradually come into existence over the preceding two centuries. In the hope of promoting the realization of human rights, this INCS conference will examine the emergence of the idea of human rights across the globe-and within a wide range of cultural, social, and political activities-during the long nineteenth century. PLENARY SPEAKERS: Lynn Hunt, Professor of History UCLA; Phoebe Williams, Professor of Law, Marquette University Possible paper topics on human rights in the nineteenth century include: Slavery and Abolition Rights and Religion Rights and Law Women's rights Rights and Empire Civil Rights Children's rights Rights and citizenship Transnational Rights Workers' rights Rights advocacy in literature Prisoner's rights Rights theory Rights and Revolutions Economic Rights Immigrants' rights Rights vs. Obligations Property rights Animal rights Rights and Popular Culture Artistic rights Defining Human Natural vs. Political Rights Universalism Education, security, self-determination, dignity, equal treatment, habeas corpus , freedom of movement, marriage, family life, rest and leisure, health care, food, shelter INCS encourages interdisciplinary perspectives integrating: Literature, Law, Political Science, Philosophy, Theology, History, Art History, History of Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Economics, Criminology, Health Sciences. 200 word abstracts by October 15, 2007 to Christine.Krueger@marquette.edu. For more information on INCS see: http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/ Selected conference papers published in Nineteenth-Century Contexts Sponsored by Way-Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, Marquette University See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information. Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Eighteenth Accepting Papers Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Eighteenth Annual Conference THE IMAGE OF THE OUTSIDER in Literature, Media, and Society March 13-15, 2008 Colorado Springs , CO An annual conference addressing the influence of imagery in social life, with a different thematic focus each year. A Proceedings will be published from papers presented at the conference. Past themes have included The Image of Power, The Image of Technology, The Image of Nature, The Image of the Road. Eclectic and innovative approaches are encouraged. For previous programs, etc., see webpage: http://www.chass.colostate-pueblo.edu/sissi . Please submit a one-page abstract or a panel proposal with abstracts by December 3, 2007. Graduate students are welcome and organized panels are encouraged: fax: 719-549-2705, email: outsider@colostate-pueblo.edu , mail: SISSI-Outsider , Colorado State University- Pueblo , Pueblo , CO 81001-4901 . See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information. The second Chicago Digital Humanities and Computer Science Colloquium Accepting Posters The Colloquium will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University , and detailed information about the program and logistics is available at http://dhcs.northwestern.edu . There is still room on the program for poster sessions, and we have some matching funds for graduate students whose poster proposals have been accepted. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis and should be submitted to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu. Sooner is better. The theme of this year's colloquium is "Exploring the scholarly query potential of high quality text and image archives in a collaborative environment." The objects of attention are "cultural heritage objects," ranging from tiny Mesopotamian cylinder seals to clay statuettes in a 16th century Buddhist temple, Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginning to the Present, Newton 's alchemical writings, the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, and the United States Supreme Court Corpus. The question is what happens to the study of these multi-modal and diverse objects when they are available as digital surrogates that allow scholars to do things with them that cannot be done with the originals. This question runs through the papers and poster sessions of the program, and I hope participants will come away from the colloquium with a deeper appreciation of the query potential of the digital surrogate. The keynote speakers are: Matthew Kirschenbaum ( University of Maryland ): The Remaking of Reading Lewis Lancaster ( Berkeley ): Beyond 2-D-Text/Plain: The Chinese Buddhist Canon in 3-D. This colloquium is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University , and the University of Chicago . We hope that it will turn into an annual event that will nurture conversation about information technology and the humanities in the Great Lakes Region and beyond. "Translation and Transitions" University of Miami, Coral Gables Department of Modern Languages and Literature Department of English February 15 -16, 2008 This conference invites papers addressing the literary exchange between languages and nations of the Americas and Europe, across time and space. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Translations between genres and/or disciplines, cultural gaps in translations and/or transitions, semiotics and immigration, the process of translation, politics and cultural production, spaces of displacement and transitions, "high" and "low" culture, oral traditions and translations, the role of translation within society. Keynote Speaker: Alfred MacAdam, Columbia University A 200 word abstract should be sent by November 15, 2007 to: Graduate Student Conference c/o Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of Miami P.O. Box 248093 Coral Gables, Florida 33124-2074 or via e-mail to translation.transitions@gmail.com Electronic submissions are encouraged. Papers may be in English, French or Spanish and should not exceed 20 minutes. Acceptance will be confirmed no later than Dec. 7, 2007. CONFERENCE Texts and Contexts A conference sponsored by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University. The conference will be held on October 26-27, 2007 in 90 Science and Engineering Library. Plenary speaker: Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania "Medieval Intellectual Biography: the Case of Guido Faba". For information about the program, registration, and accommodations, please contact the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. Phone 614-292-3280 or e-mail epig@osu.edu . COLLOQUIUM Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition Presented by The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Graduate Student Conference Friday and Saturday, September 28-29, 2007 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Avenue , Urbana , IL 61801 For more information visit: http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/2007%20Fall%20Documents/ThinkingAffect.htm or see file in 213 EB (Journals Room). FELLOWSHIPS Lilly Fellows Program (LFP) in Humanities and the Arts The LFP offers fellowships to individuals seriously considering vocations in church-related institutions. We are accepting applications from candidates who receive the Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree within the twenty months prior to and including August, 2008. Applications deadline this is December 18, 2007. See file in 213 EB (Journals Room) for more information.

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