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Volume 52 |March 31, 2008| Number 25

CONGRATULATIONS!

Tara Lyons has won the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Graduate Teaching Assistant category. Please join the department in congratulating Tara on this well-deserved recognition.

FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE

Fellowship Payment
Graduate students on fellowship for the Spring semester (1/16/08-5/15/08), will receive their first fellowship payment on 2/16/08 and their last payment on 5/16/08. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Congratulations!
Jennifer Lieberman successfully passed her Special Field exam with distinction on American Studies, 1870-1950 with an emphasis on Science and Technology through electrocution, 1870-1950 ( Markley, Ch.; Fouche, Foote, Hansen, Bauer) on 3/24/08.

Dan Tracy successfully defended his dissertation “Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913-32” ( Foote, Ch.; Somerville, co-ch.; Maxwell, Parker) on 3/26/08.

Spring 2008 – Dates to Remember
April 4: Last day to add a second half-session course
April 4: Last day to add name to May degree list
April 11: Last day to withdraw from a current term without a grade of W
April 11: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a semester course
April 11: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without
approval)
April 11: Last day to take final exam for May doctoral degree
April 25: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a second half-session course
April 25: Last day to drop a second half-session course
April 25: Last day to deposit May master’s theses
April 30: Last day of instruction
May 1: Reading Day
May 1: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded)
May 1: Last day to remove an I grade from fall 2007 to prevent F by rule
May 2-9: Final examination period
May 2 : Last day to deposit May doctoral dissertations
May 11: May degree conferral (Commencement)

CALL FOR PAPERS

From Res Publica to the Republic of Letters: The Common Good in Transition and Translation
Regional conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame
October 9-11, 2008
This purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is for graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Greater Midwest to meet future colleagues and to have the opportunity to present some of their research in the context of ongoing debates—historical, philosophical, religious, and political—about the common good.

Call for Papers:
This conference will address the plural, contested, and changing meanings of the common good as people have understood it in various contexts. Investigating the common good amidst the contact and interaction of cultures lays bare the tensions between individual and collective good, between competing political parties and systems, and between social justice and mass victimization. Therefore, this conference will center on the development of the common good in the crucible of European political, religious, and intellectual life and its transformation and application in global context. We hope to bring together graduate students to engage conceptualizations of the common good at the intersection of politics, philosophy, economics, science, environment, religion, literature, and human behavior. We encourage the submission of papers that explore its meanings, manifestations, uses, and abuses—especially those with a transnational or comparative approach.

Guiding questions might include:
- What is a common good, anyway?
- How is common good constituted, negotiated, legitimized, contested and transformed?
- To what extent have inter-cultural contacts contributed to past or present understandings of the common good?
- What role has the common good played in formation and reform of communities—secular or religious, public or private?
- When does the use of the common good become pathological?

Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- European public policy during the World Wars
- Philosophical underpinnings and historical changes in international law
- Economic development and post-colonial nation-building in Latin America
- Relationships between religious houses and towns in medieval Europe
- Tensions between the individual and society in English literature

The conference will take place on the Notre Dame campus over three days, with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening and sessions on Friday and Saturday. Sessions will consist of panels of three or four 20-minute presentations. Funds for lodging, food, and travel will be provided for students presenting papers. Notification will be sent regarding accepted proposals in mid-May.

Guest Speakers:
David Nirenberg , University of Chicago (History, Committee on Social Thought)
Constance Furey , Indiana University-Bloomington (Religious Studies, History)
Jonathan Daly , University of Illinois-Chicago (History)

Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the University of Notre Dame Graduate School, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to: NDCommonGood@gmail.com, No later than Friday, May 2, 2008.

For more information, please visit http://www.nd.edu/~nanovic/commongood.html.

FELLOWSHIPS

Poetry Foundation/Newberry Library Fellowship in American Poetry
The Newberry Library, an independent research library located in Chicago, IL, offers long-term and short-term fellowships to scholars who work primarily in the humanities. This year we have joined with the Poetry Foundation to offer a new short-term fellowship to poets and scholars of American Poetry.

This short-term fellowship is for working poets and scholars of American poetry. Preference will be given to poets who want to draw upon the Newberry's collections as part of the creative process. The tenure of the fellowship may be one or two months. The amount of the award is generally $1600 per month. The fellowship is open to United States citizens only. Any American poet with a record of publication is eligible to apply; we welcome applications both from poets residing in the Chicago area and from those who live elsewhere in the United States. Historians or critics should hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree or be Ph.D. candidates, and must reside outside the Chicago area.

Application due date is June 1st. For more information or to download application materials, visit our Web site at http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html. If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to Committee on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS

Diana Sheets
---- An interview in response to my essay on Mailer that appears on my online literary blog: http://www.literarygulag.com.
---- An Interview with Diana Sheets: The Great American Novel, “Michael F. Shaughnessy, Senior Columnist, EdNews.org, 3/13/2008.



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Footnotes Directory	Footnotes: The Department Newsletter Volume 52 \|March 31, 2008\| Number 25 CONGRATULATIONS! Tara Lyons has won the Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Graduate Teaching Assistant category. Please join the department in congratulating Tara on this well-deserved recognition. FROM THE GRADUATE STUDIES OFFICE Fellowship Payment Graduate students on fellowship for the Spring semester (1/16/08-5/15/08), will receive their first fellowship payment on 2/16/08 and their last payment on 5/16/08. Please let me know if you have any questions. Congratulations! Jennifer Lieberman successfully passed her Special Field exam with distinction on American Studies, 1870-1950 with an emphasis on Science and Technology through electrocution, 1870-1950 ( Markley, Ch.; Fouche, Foote, Hansen, Bauer) on 3/24/08. Dan Tracy successfully defended his dissertation “Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913-32” ( Foote, Ch.; Somerville, co-ch.; Maxwell, Parker) on 3/26/08. Spring 2008 – Dates to Remember April 4: Last day to add a second half-session course April 4: Last day to add name to May degree list April 11: Last day to withdraw from a current term without a grade of W April 11: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a semester course April 11: Last day for student to drop a semester course without a grade of W (without approval) April 11: Last day to take final exam for May doctoral degree April 25: Last day to elect/change credit/no-credit option for a second half-session course April 25: Last day to drop a second half-session course April 25: Last day to deposit May master’s theses April 30: Last day of instruction May 1: Reading Day May 1: Last day to add or drop a semester course with approval (a W is recorded) May 1: Last day to remove an I grade from fall 2007 to prevent F by rule May 2-9: Final examination period May 2 : Last day to deposit May doctoral dissertations May 11: May degree conferral (Commencement) CALL FOR PAPERS *From* Res Publica to the Republic of Letters: The Common Good in Transition and Translation Regional conference hosted by the University of Notre Dame October 9-11, 2008 This purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is for graduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the Greater Midwest to meet future colleagues and to have the opportunity to present some of their research in the context of ongoing debates—historical, philosophical, religious, and political—about the common good. Call for Papers: This conference will address the plural, contested, and changing meanings of the common good as people have understood it in various contexts. Investigating the common good amidst the contact and interaction of cultures lays bare the tensions between individual and collective good, between competing political parties and systems, and between social justice and mass victimization. Therefore, this conference will center on the development of the common good in the crucible of European political, religious, and intellectual life and its transformation and application in global context. We hope to bring together graduate students to engage conceptualizations of the common good at the intersection of politics, philosophy, economics, science, environment, religion, literature, and human behavior. We encourage the submission of papers that explore its meanings, manifestations, uses, and abuses—especially those with a transnational or comparative approach. Guiding questions might include: - What is a common good, anyway? - How is common good constituted, negotiated, legitimized, contested and transformed? - To what extent have inter-cultural contacts contributed to past or present understandings of the common good? - What role has the common good played in formation and reform of communities—secular or religious, public or private? - When does the use of the common good become pathological? Examples of possible topics include, but are not limited to: - European public policy during the World Wars - Philosophical underpinnings and historical changes in international law - Economic development and post-colonial nation-building in Latin America - Relationships between religious houses and towns in medieval Europe - Tensions between the individual and society in English literature The conference will take place on the Notre Dame campus over three days, with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening and sessions on Friday and Saturday. Sessions will consist of panels of three or four 20-minute presentations. Funds for lodging, food, and travel will be provided for students presenting papers. Notification will be sent regarding accepted proposals in mid-May. Guest Speakers: David Nirenberg , University of Chicago (History, Committee on Social Thought) Constance Furey , Indiana University-Bloomington (Religious Studies, History) Jonathan Daly , University of Illinois-Chicago (History) Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the University of Notre Dame Graduate School, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to: NDCommonGood@gmail.com, No later than Friday, May 2, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.nd.edu/~nanovic/commongood.html. FELLOWSHIPS Poetry Foundation/Newberry Library Fellowship in American Poetry The Newberry Library, an independent research library located in Chicago, IL, offers long-term and short-term fellowships to scholars who work primarily in the humanities. This year we have joined with the Poetry Foundation to offer a new short-term fellowship to poets and scholars of American Poetry. This short-term fellowship is for working poets and scholars of American poetry. Preference will be given to poets who want to draw upon the Newberry's collections as part of the creative process. The tenure of the fellowship may be one or two months. The amount of the award is generally $1600 per month. The fellowship is open to United States citizens only. Any American *poet* with a record of publication is eligible to apply; we welcome applications both from poets residing in the Chicago area and from those who live elsewhere in the United States. *Historians* or *critics* should hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree or be Ph.D. candidates, and must reside outside the Chicago area. Application due date is June 1st. For more information or to download application materials, visit our Web site at http://www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html. If you would like materials sent to you by mail, write to Committee on Awards, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380. If you have questions about the fellowships program, contact research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666. FACULTY ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS Diana Sheets ---- An interview in response to my essay on Mailer that appears on my online literary blog: http://www.literarygulag.com. ---- An Interview with Diana Sheets: The Great American Novel, “Michael F. Shaughnessy, Senior Columnist, EdNews.org, 3/13/2008.

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