IUPLR - MAY Faculty E-mail Update
INSIDE the May 2000 Noticiero de IUPLR:
* CMAS at UT-Austin names its new Director, Dr. Jose Limon
* The Hispanic Research Center is preparing for an exciting new artistic venture
* The Women's Research and Education Institute announces the 2001 Congressional
Fellowships
on Women and Public Policy
* California State University, Northridge, announces an assistant or associate
professor position
in Special Education
* The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher
Education will be held
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, beginning May 31, 2000
IUPLR HEADQUARTER NEWS
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CENTER NEWS
Chicano Studies Research Program, UT-El Paso
The UTEP Chicano Studies project TRIO will offer a graduate and undergraduate
Summer Institute for teachers on the subject of Colonias and their socio-cultural
dynamics. This is part of a five-year grant designed to build a pipeline of
bilingual teachers for school districts serving colonias along the Texas-Chihuahua-New
Mexico border.
Chicano Studies graduated in academic year 1999-00 ten Chicano Studies majors
and 40 minors. In addition, a two-course sequence in Chicano Studies was provided
to over 500 education majors.
The Chicano faculty at UTEP revived its faculty organization and named it the
Raza Faculty Association. It has 45 members and it is currently developing an
accountability plan for the institution.
For more information on events or activities at the Chicano Studies Research
Program at UTEP, please contact Dennis J. Bixler-Márquez, Director, by e-mail
at: dbixlerm@mail.utep.edu, or call
(915)747-5462.
Hispanic Research Center, Arizona State University
The Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue is pleased to announce a major new project,
the compilation of a book entitled "Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists,
Works, Culture, and Education." The book represents a major advance in the national
and international understanding, appreciation, dissemination, and explication
of Chicana/Chicano art. This book will be the most ambitious and lavishly illustrated
work to date focusing on Chicana/Chicano art. The types of art we will review
for possible inclusion in the book are painting (including oils, acrylic, watercolor,
gouache, etc.); sculpture; works on paper (including lithographs, serigraphs,
woodcuts, linoleum cuts, etchings, etc.); mixed media; and other categories
of art. Images of performances, murals, and documentary-style photographs are
not eligible. The volume will be a full-color, coffee-table-quality book, approximately
500 pages long, will include approximately 200 artists (subject to the criteria
of the Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, and will contain approximately 400
color images. Artists to be included in the book will be selected by jurors
at the Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue and partner organizations based on
slides submitted by the artists.
The Bilingual Press is inviting artists to consider submitting images of their
work and biographical information for this refereed book. Please have e-mail
for more information at: hrcartprojects@asu.edu,
or fax them at (480) 965-0315.
Latino/a Research and Policy Center, UC-Denver
The University of Colorado at Denver has been selected, along with 17 other
institutions, to study the unequal burden of cancer within certain minority
or underserved populations. Dr. Estevan Flores, Director of CU-Denver's Latino/a
Research & Policy Center and Principal Investigator on the study, says the $1.76
million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant will assist the Center in building
a Latino community-based network of health clinics and organizations throughout
the metro area as well as three migrant clinics north of Denver.
Flores says the money will go toward creating a network of 25 clinics, community-based
organizations and employee associations where people can receive information
on cancer prevention, reducing cancer incidence and mortality. This will improve
cancer survival and access to health care within the Latino community. For more
information contact Dr. Flores at (303) 620-4167.
Center for Mexican American Studies
Calendar of Events
May 26-27 Latinos & World War II Conference.
The Department of Journalism and CMAS, with the support of the A. H. Belo Corporation
Foundation, are sponsoring "U.S. Latinos and Latinas & World War II: Changes
Seen, Changes Wrought." The conference will take place from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. in the UT Austin Alumni Center. For more information, call Denise Rocha
at 471-1924, or send e-mail to latinoarchives@www.utexas.edu.
June 1, 3, & 10 Chicano Graphic Arts Exhibit.
The UT Blanton Museum of Art will host an opening reception for their summer
Chicano Graphic Arts Exhibit on Thursday, June 1, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Co-sponsored
by Mexic-Arte Museum, food by El Sol y La Luna, music by Conjunto Aztlan. Everyone
is welcome!
June 3 Roundtable Discussion.
CMAS is hosting a roundtable discussion at 2:00 p.m. titled, "Taking It to the
Streets: Graphic Arts in Latino Communities." Presenters include: Tere Romo,
Curator, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco Sylvia Orozco, Director, Mexic-Arte
Museum, Austin Yasmin Ramirez, Curator, El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sam Coronado,
Artist and Director, Coronado Studio, Austin, Richard Flores, Associate Professor,
Center for Mexican American Studies & Anthropology, UT. These events will be
held at the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, 23rd & San Jacinto, University of
Texas at Austin. For more information, please call Nicole Chism Griffin at 232-1988.
FACULTY NEWS
The Center for Mexican American Studies at UT-Austin is pleased to announce
that Dr. Jose Limon, professor in the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected
as the next director for CMAS. Congratulations Dr. Limon.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR STUDENTS
The Latino Academy offers an intensive training program for people interested
in serving as community organizers. The program is called the Summer Institute
in Community Organizing. Participants will receive expert instruction in the
history and philosophy of Latino politics; organizational, campaign, and governance
skills; efficient resource allocation; and policy options for current social
and political issues. The academy will be held June 3-6. Tuition will be paid
for participants, who will also be provided with room and two meals a day. For
more information, contact the Latino Academy coordinator, Isaías Cantú, Jr.,
at 1-800-404-8683, or Latacademy@aol.com.
The Women's Research and Education Institute announces the 2001 Congressional
Fellowships on Women and Public Policy. The WREI fellowship program is open
to students that are currently enrolled in a master's or doctoral program at
an accredited institution in the U.S.. WREI Fellows receive a stipend of $1,150
per month for nine months (January-September). To request an application, write
to: Congressional Fellowship Program 2001, Women's Research and Education Institute,
1750 New York Avenue, NW #350, Washington, D.C. 20006. Applications are due
June 15, 2000. For more information, visit their web site at: http://www.wrei.org.
The President's Commission on White House Fellowships announces the 2001 White
House Fellows Program. Since 1965, the White House Fellowships have offered
outstanding people the opportunity to learn and grow; to connect with each other
and with the world around them. The nearly 500 alumni of the program have gone
on to become leaders in all fields of endeavor, fulfilling the fellowship's
mission to encourage active citizenship and service to the nation. For more
information, contact the President's Commission on White House Fellowships,
712 Jackson Place, NY, Washington, DC 20503, or call (202) 395-4522. Visit their
web site at http://www.whitehousefellows.gov.
FACULTY OPPORTUNITIES
California State University, Northridge, announces an assistant or associate
professor position in Special Education, with special emphasis on learners of
diverse backgrounds. Responsibilities include teaching generic and specialization
courses on theory and methodology of education of students with disabilities.
To apply, send a letter of intent with names of three references and a resume
to: Dr. Claire C. Cavallaro, Chair, Department of Special Education, California
State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA 91330-8265.
Grinnell College, Departments of Sociology and American Studies, invite applications
for a joint two-year leave-replacement position to begin Fall 2000. In their
letters of application, candidates should address their interest in teaching
in an undergraduate, liberal arts environment that emphasizes close faculty-student
interaction. Send c.v., transcripts, description of teaching/research interests,
sample course syllabi, and three letters of recommendation to Christopher Hunter,
Chair, Department of Sociology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 50112. For more
information about Grinnell College, see http://www.Grinnell.edu, or email: Hunter@Grinnell.edu.
Montana State University, Department of Sociology, announces a full-time opening
for visiting assistant professor, beginning August 2000. (Pending funding).
Preference will be shown to candidates who can teach Introductory Sociology
and two or more of the following: Political, Race/Gender, Stratification, Family,
Environmental, Community, and Rural. Interested applicants should submit a letter
of application, curriculum vita, and have three current references send letters
to: John Saltiel, Department of Sociology, Montana State University, Bozeman
MT 59717-0238. For more information, call (406) 994-4201, or send e-mail to:
jsaltiel@montana.edu.
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Building on the success of the First(1997) and Second(1999) conferences, the
Cuban Research Institute continues the tradition of convening every 18 months
all those persons committed to the study of the Cuban nation. The conference
will be held at the University Park Campus of Florida International University.
The CRI anticipates that this 3rd conference will surpass its precursors in
attendance and in the breadth of its disciplinary and thematic coverage. CRI
also anticipate that the conference will continue the tradition of attracting
scholars from throughout the world, including, of course, Cuba. Cultural activities
are planned for the conference's evening hours. For more information call the
Institute at: (305) 348-1991, or visit their web site at: http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri/flyer/index.html.
Ecuador ha ocupado en tiempos recientes un importante espacio en la opinión
pública internacional de América Latina. Una profunda crisis nacional ha venido
acompañada de gran inestabilidad política, en medio de la cual han caído estrepitosamente
dos presidentes de la república y se ha llevado adelante una importante reforma
constitucional. En este escenario, la movilización social ha tenido notable
presencia. Especialmente los pueblos indígenas han tenido una acción protagónica,
pionera en el Continente. Los sucesivos gobiernos han aplicado duras políticas
de ajuste, inclusive la adopción de una medida inédita, la llamada "dolarización",
que significa la eliminación de la moneda nacional, el sucre, y la adopción
del dólar de los Estados Unidos como divisa de curso legal.
Estas realidades han despertado significativo interés por la situación del Ecuador
en América Latina y en otros países del mundo, lo que ha motivado a la Universidad
Andina Simón Bolívar a crear un espacio académico de información y discusión
denominado Conferencia Internacional Ecuador 2000, en la que se examinará la
realidad presente del Ecuador y sus proyecciones futuras dentro del país y en
el ámbito andino y latinoamericano. La fecha para esta conferencia sera el 16,
17, y 18 de Agosto del 2000.
Información sobre costos, inscripciones, reserva de hoteles y actividades turísticas
complementarias encontrará en el sitio web: http://www.ecuador2000.edu.ec/ http://www.ecuador2000.edu.ec.
The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education
will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with registration taking place on Wednesday,
May 31. The conference program includes institutes and workshops as well as
dialogues on racial and ethnic relationships. Keynote speakers include Henry
Louis Gates, Jr., Edward James Olmos, Robert Allen Warrior, Leonard Zeskind,
and Helen Zia. For more information, visit the website www.occe.ou.edu/NCORE.
MANA, a National Latina Organization, and SOLOELLA.com are partnering to reach
out and connect a community of Latinas nationwide online. SOLOELLA.com is a
new, fully bilingual destination, developed for Latinas by Latinas. This site
will reach and impact the lives of 8 million Hispanic women worldwide, now online,
and 20 million expected to use the Internet by 2003. SOLOELLA.com is highly
interactive, providing original editorial content, online shopping, interactive
chats, and other personalized features addressing issues that affect Latinas.
IUPLR E-mail Update compiled by:
Victor Saenz
4203 Afton Lane
Austin, TX 78744
vsaenz@prodigy.net