Black Doctoral Network 2013 Conference

The Black Doctoral Network is leading the next generation of Black scholars to reach new heights. Encouraging intellectual curiosity and transformative research, the Black Doctoral Network is a bridge leader, creating paths between scholars, disciplines, and academic universities all while its serves as an invaluable connection between higher education and the community at large.

Workshops, Roundtables and Panel discussions include:

• Race(ism) in Higher Education
• Saving ourselves - Black Boys/Men and Black Girls/Women
• Effective use of Social Media for Academics
• Financial literacy for Academicians
• Managing coursework, comps and oral exams
• Quantitative and Qualitative methods
• Securing Funding --traditional and non-traditional
• Publish or Perish
• The dissertation committee, proposals, and defense
• Dissertation to book and Post-doc to Tenure
• Dating in Higher Education
• Publish or Perish
• Securing and maintaining healthy mentoring relationships 

Conference Information:

The conference takes place between Thursday, October 3, 2013 7:00PM - Saturday, October 5, 2013 11:30AM. For registration and hotel information, please visit the BDN website.

HACE Annual Chicago Career Conference

 
HACE organizes one day events in Chicago and Houston, to bring together Latino professionals with hiring managers and recruiters with national and local employers. HACE has been organizing these kinds of events since 1986. They are a great opportunity for companies to build their rcandidate database.

 *  Meet face to face with hiring managers - Over 1,500 job openings!
 *  Have professional career coaches review your resume
 *  Free professional development workshops

WORKSHOPS - 9:00 am - 10:00 am

 *  College to career, get hired!
 *  "LinkedIn" to your career - tips to get hired and move up
 
Pre-Register to attend at http://www.haceonline.org/event/chicago-career-conference-1. Pre-registration is required.

Featured Exhibitors: PNC, Mb Financial, Kellogg, Omnicom MediaGroup,Travelers, Harmony Health Plan, DeVry, Edward Jones, ALPFA, IDES, iHispano, Grainger, Manpower Group, Chicago Zoological Society, RR Donnelley, Walgreens, PhD Project, Wirtz Beverage Group and many more.

Conference Information:

HACE Annual Chicago Career Conference
May 23, 2013
Palmer House Hilton
9am - 2pm

For more information, please visit the HACE site.

UCLA Call for Papers: "Insisting on Modernity: Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World"

UCLA is seeking abstract submissions for its 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference on April 18-19, 2013. This year's topic is "Insisting on Modernity: Visions and Revisions in the Luso-Hispanic World."

Submission Information:

The deadline to submit abstracts is February 20, 2013. For more information, please visit the conference website.

Faculty Women of Color in the Academy Conference

We are excited to bring you the inaugural Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) Conference, April 3-5, 2013, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This year's conference will focus on Issues of Politics and Scholarship, featuring prominent keynotes and panelists. The conference will feature keynotes by Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise; President María Hernández Ferrier; and Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall. In addition, moderated panels featuring Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise, President Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, and President Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, along with women faculty of color panelists from national institutions of higher education.

Conference topics include Research on Women of Color in the Academy; Women of Color and Promotions: Strategies for Success; Interdisciplinary Medicine and Health; and the Economics of Being a Faculty Woman of Color: Being Prepared and Planning Ahead. The conference will launch with poster sessions and featured presentations, as well as an evening Welcome Reception. All three conference days will include social events, such as networking receptions, an Exhibitors Hall, and musical performances. We look forward to seeing you at the FWCA Conference April 3-5, 2013 as we explore the experiences and achievements of Faculty Women of Color in the Academy!

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Conference Information:

Date: April 3-5, 2013
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Call for Papers: 15th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference

The Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago is proud to host the 15th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. This is an annual graduate student conference hosted by one of several Chicago-area Sociology departments, including DePaul University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Loyola University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, the University of Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago. It provides a venue through which graduate students can share their ethnographic scholarship with one another and get feedback from faculty based in the Chicago area.

This year's conference will be held at International House on the University of Chicago campus on Saturday, March 2, 2013. Students in all academic disciplines are invited to present their original ethnographic research. We take a broad view of ethnographic research. Papers can be based on a variety of ethnographic methods, including but not limited to: field observation, in-depth interviews, focus group interviews, autoethnography, visual ethnography, and other forms of qualitative research. Papers in all substantive areas are welcome. In the past, presentation topics have included culture, class, crime, education, ethnicity, gender, family, globalization, health and illness, immigration, medicine, methodology, performance ethnography, race, religion, sexualities, social movements, technology, urban poverty, and work and employment. The theme of this year's conference is Culture and Subcultures. In addition to the above noted topics, graduate students are encouraged to submit papers that examine the processes, implications, and identities involved with the production and reproduction of culture and subcultures across social space and settings.

The two plenary speakers will be David Grazian and Jeffrey Kidder.

Visit the conference website at http://chicagoethnography2013.wordpress.com/ for additional information and updates about the 15th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. 

Submission Guidelines:

To submit papers, please complete the online submission form available on the conference website at http://chicagoethnography2013.wordpress.com/. The online submission form asks for an extended abstract with a minimum of 500 words. It will also ask for keywords.

The deadline for submissions is Monday, January 21, 2013. All presenters will be notified of acceptance by Thursday, January 31, 2013. Participants will be asked to submit their full papers to the conference committee by Monday, February 18th.

Inclusive Illinois is excited to bring you the inaugural Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) Conference, April 3-5, 2013, hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This year's conference will focus on Issues of Politics and Scholarship, featuring prominent keynotes and panelists.

The conference will feature keynotes by Professor bell hooks; Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise; President María Hernández Ferrier; and Professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall. In addition, moderated panels featuring Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis M. Wise, President Nancy “Rusty” Barceló, and President Cassandra Manuelito-Kerkvliet, along with women faculty of color panelists from national institutions of higher education.

Conference topics include Research on Women of Color in the Academy; Women of Color and Promotions: Strategies for Success; Interdisciplinary Medicine and Health; and the Economics of Being a Faculty Woman of Color: Being Prepared and Planning Ahead. The conference will launch with poster sessions and featured presentations, as well as an evening Welcome Reception. All three conference days will include social events, such as networking receptions, an Exhibitors Hall, and musical performances.

Conference Information:

The conference will take place from April 3-5, 2013 at UIUC. Details here.

Call for Papers: "Explorations in Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Violence"

The Justice & Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany is seeking abstract submissions for its upcoming Spring Symposium -- Explorations in Justice: Gender, Sexuality and Violence.

The Justice & Multiculturalism in the 21^st Century Project engages scholars, practitioners, and community members in an exploration of the intersections of social justice and criminal justice in a diverse society.  The specific objective of the Spring Symposium is to develop a better understanding of intersections of justice with gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, and/or gender as they pertain to violence and violent victimization.

Scholars, practitioners, and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for empirical papers in these areas.  Given the limited number of panels, abstracts will be reviewed by a selection committee, and selected authors invited to present their work at the Symposium.  The selection committee will look for high-quality papers that make original contributions to the field.

Submission Information: 

For submission information, please visit the project website.

The São Paulo Symposium Call for Papers

South America’s largest city and the self-proclaimed “modern city” of Brazil, São Paulo is a dynamic site from which to (re)consider a variety of themes important to contemporary scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and public policy.  This conference brings together disciplinary and regionally diverse scholars to present work that adds to historic, ethnographic, political, literary and artistic understandings of São Paulo as well as addresses how the study of the city reflects and/or challenges broader social, political, and theoretical currents.

Proposals may address the following topics: 

São Paulo within and without theoretical frameworks of the urban and the global
São Paulo's place in Latin American Cultural Studies
Shifting urban imaginaries and identities
Emergent economies, circulations, and social practices
Ideologies of modernity
Urban governance and unmanageability
Public/Private Implosions
Cultural policy and the urban quotidian
Aesthetic practices and symbolic economies in the city

Submission Information:
 
Interested presenters should submit their name, institutional affiliation, and 250-word abstract in either English or Portuguese to spsymposium2013@gmail.com by December 15, 2012.  Brazilian and other international scholars are highly encouraged to participate.

Call for Papers: Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to host our second CLACS Graduate Student Conference on February 15-16, 2013 on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. This year’s conference aims to bring together a diverse group of graduate students to facilitate interdisciplinary and inter-institutional cohorts within the field of Latin American Studies. For more on last year’s conference, see our webpage for Latin American Studies in Practice: Theory Beyond the Academy.

This year’s theme, “Shifting Social Landscapes,” encourages participants to consider changes in various social, political, and environmental landscapes. These shifts reframe the context in which citizenship is imagined and enacted, identities are constructed and imbued with meaning, and connections are built, maintained, or destroyed across national, linguistic, or cultural borders.

Organizers welcome submissions from all disciplinary and professional backgrounds including, but not limited to, History, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Spanish and Portuguese, Public and Environmental Affairs, Public Health, Business, and Law. Papers may address diverse topics from any Latin American or Caribbean context, but should do so in a way that articulates with this year’s theme.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anya Peterson Royce (Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature).

Submission Information:

Submissions must include a title, an abstract (300 word maximum) and CV and must be received by November 16, 2012. Papers will be grouped thematically in panel discussions and each panel will be moderated by an IU faculty member.

Call for Papers Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers

The Indiana University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is proud to host our second CLACS Graduate Student Conference on February 15-16, 2013 on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. This year’s conference aims to bring together a diverse group of graduate students to facilitate interdisciplinary and inter-institutional cohorts within the field of Latin American Studies. For more on last year’s conference, see our webpage for Latin American Studies in Practice: Theory Beyond the Academy.

This year’s theme, “Shifting Social Landscapes,” encourages participants to consider changes in various social, political, and environmental landscapes. These shifts reframe the context in which citizenship is imagined and enacted, identities are constructed and imbued with meaning, and connections are built, maintained, or destroyed across national, linguistic, or cultural borders.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anya Peterson Royce (Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature).

Conference and Submission Information:

Submissions must include a title, an abstract (300 word maximum) and CV and must be received by November 16, 2012. Papers will be grouped thematically in panel discussions and each panel will be moderated by an IU faculty member.

Please download the proposal form, and send all documents as attachments in a single email to CLACS at clacs@indiana.edu. with the subject line “CLACS Graduate Student Conference 2013.” All applicants will be notified regarding acceptance and panel assignment no later than December 7, 2012.

Biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference: "What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?"

“What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?,” the biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago on November 1-4, 2012.

The CMRS conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines nationwide. Recognizing that the diverse disciplines that have nurtured Mixed Race Studies have fostered different approaches to the field, the 2012 CMRS conference is devoted to the general theme “What is Critical Mixed Race Studies?”

Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is the transracial, transdisciplinary, and transnational critical analysis of the institutionalization of social, cultural, and political orders based on dominant conceptions of race. CMRS emphasizes the mutability of race and the porosity of racial boundaries in order to critique processes of racialization and social stratification based on race. CMRS addresses local and global systemic injustices rooted in systems of racialization.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Maria Mangual Leadership Conference

A day-long conference featuring professional development and leadership training, networking and celebration of Latina accomplishments.

For more information, contact Catherine Salgado at 773.890.7664 or catherine@mujereslat.org. See also www.mujereslatinasenaccion.org.

Conference Date and Location:

Thursday, October 18, 2012
8:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Intercontinental Hotel
505 N. Michigan Ave.

Advancing Justice Conference

The Advancing Justice Conference is a national civil rights and social justice conference that aims to bring together a diverse group of stakeholders in one place to address a broad range of issues facing the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. It serves as a unique forum where researchers, advocates, direct service providers and other leaders can meet face-to-face, talk about their common challenges and find ways to work collaboratively. The Advancing Justice Conference is a joint project by the Asian American Institute (Chicago), Asian American Justice Center (Washington, D.C.), Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco) and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Los Angeles).

For more information about the conference and to register for it, please click here.

Conference Date and Location:

September 27 - 28, 2012
Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers
301 East North Water Street
Chicago, IL 60611

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Empire: Humanitarian Intervention and Neo-Orientalism

The Muslim Students Association and Student Forum on Political Thought present "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Empire: Humanitarian Intervention and Neo-Orientalism," a panel discussion featuring Tariq Ramadan, Glenn Greenwald, M. Cherif Bassiouni, and Jennifer Pitts.

For more information please visit the Facebook Event.

Conference Date and Location:

Saturday, April 14, 2012
5:45 (Doors Open)

Rockefeller Chapel
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL 60637

The Kanasha Project

The Kansha Project is an exciting new program that connects Japanese American college students to the continuing legacy of the Japanese American community's incarceration during World War II. The program will center around an educational trip to Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood and the Manzanar concentration camp site in the summer of 2012. Please see below for the 2012 program schedule.

Click here to download an application. Applications are due APRIL 30, 2012. For more information visit: www.jaclchicago.org/ne-jn.asp or contact Christine Munteanu at jacl.fellow@gmail.com.

Program date and location:

June 16 - Orientation - June 16
June 21 - 24 - Los Angeles
July 1 - Culmination
 

SJTI: The Student Experience

The Social Justice Training Institute will provide an intensive developmental opportunity for students to examine the complex dynamics of oppression and to develop strategies to foster positive change on their campuses and in their communities July 11-14 at the University of San Francisco.

Students who attend the institute will be given the opportunity to explore the identities that make up who they are and better understand the extent to which these identities impact all they do. Through facilitated activities and exercises along with small group dialogue, participants will engage in conversations that will challenge and support them in their journey toward understanding how they can each – individually – impact our global community.

Visit the institute's web site for more information.

Registration Guidelines and Deadlines:

If you wish to attend, please make sure to apply online by no later than Monday, April 23, 2012. Please contact Brian Arao at 415.422.6824 or student.sjti@gmail.com for more information.

Opportunity for Students: Chicago LOFT STEM Leadership Symposium April 5th, 2012

The Hispanic Heritage Foundation's LOFT program in partnership with SHPE Foundation and its sponsors cordially invite you to participate in the Chicago LOFT STEM Leadership Symposium at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.
Come prepared to engage in:
●      A dynamic and exclusive Leadership Training led by the U.S. Army. This Leadership training is designed to help student leaders define their role within their respective organizations, and encourage them to seek out leadership roles in their schools and communities.
●      An insightful panel of STEM professionals showcasing  their different careers paths, and the different resources and opportunities available for Latinos to enter the STEM fields
●      An opportunity to Network with STEM professionals and other emerging Latino leaders interested in STEM.
●      Sponsor Give Aways/Raffle: All attendees will enter a raffle to win a free Round trip Southwest ticket to any Southwest destination of your choice. The winner will be announced during the coffee break. Additional sponsor give aways will also take place.

This is an exciting opportunity for students in high school, college, and young professionals to network with Science Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals from Fortune 500 companies and learn about the diverse career opportunities available within the STEM
Industry.

There is no cost to register for the event. Dress code is business casual, and food and refreshments will be provided.

Know emerging Latino leaders interested in participating? Forward them this invitation!

Program Date and Location:

Thursday, April 5th, 2012
5:30pm – 8:30pm

Student Center West
Thompson Rooms A& B, 2nd Floor Lobby
828 S. Wolcott Ave.
Chicago, IL 60612

The Midwest Asian American Student Union Spring Conference is coming up!

The Midwest Asian American Students Union is a 501(c)(3) non-for profit organization that was started in response to a need for political unity among Asian American students in the Midwest. By 1990, there were more than 20 universities in the Midwest that had formed Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) organizations. Some had been around for years; some were in their infancy. Students felt there needed to be an organization that would support the growth of these organizations and organize APIA students in the Midwest for political activism, and MAASU was formed to fill this responsibility. MAASU works to recognize the needs of the APIA community by assisting schools with the establishment of APIA student organizations, promoting leadership among students, addressing educational needs and rights of the APIA community, and developing a channel of communication among APIA student organizations in the Midwest.

MAASU will have an annual Spring Conference hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The theme this year is Breaking HABITS (Hostility, Adversity, Boundaries, Ignorance, and Tension).

Website and registration information: http://www.maasu2012.com

2012 Credit Suisse BA Explorer

Are you interested in learning about career opportunities in the Financial Services industry? If so, then you should apply for a spot in the 2012 Credit Suisse BA Explorer program. 

This program is a pioneering, 3-day educational outreach program that encourages undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds (African-American, Hispanic/Latino and/or Native American) and all majors to learn more about the world of business.  Students will learn about current trends in the business world and how businesses are organized.  This unique program will offer students the opportunity to learn first-hand about the exciting world of Wall Street, and will expose them to the many professional opportunities within the industry. 

The program takes place from Tuesday, May 22nd to Thursday, May 24th at the Credit Suisse New York Office. Students can apply to this program until March 30th. You can access the application by going to the link below:

https://credit-suisse.tal.net/brand-1/lang-en-GB/candidate/jobboard/vacancy/2

Use the key words below in the event search engine to locate the program application:

Region: America
Type: Diversity

Scholarship Opportunity from INWHE (Illinois Network for Women in Higher Education)

This year the Illinois Network for Women in Higher Education (INWHE) has established exciting development opportunities by creating scholarships for students at member institutions to attend INWHE’s Annual Conference. These scholarships were established to honor the work of President Gena Proulx, Ph.D., past president of Joliet Junior College and a tremendous supporter of INWHE, who lost her three-year battle with fallopian tube cancer last August.

INWHE is dedicating two free registrations for students at each member institution. Additionally, INWHE is providing travel reimbursements up to a total of $150 per member school. Receipts are to be sent to INWHE for reimbursement following the April Annual Conference. We are asking that each college or university select two students who would most benefit from attending this conference.

We are particularly proud to offer these scholarships this year as the conference keynote speaker is Alexandra Levit who will lead an interactive discussion on communicating across generations. She has ten years of experience providing integrated marketing communications solutions for Fortune 500 companies and educational institutions. For more information on Ms. Levit, please visit her web site at www.alexandralevit.com.

Please consider taking advantage of this special opportunity INWHE is offering for the 2012 Annual Conference, “Embracing Change as Opportunity.” This promises to be a learning opportunity for women who have been in the workplace for decades as well as for women who are about to enter the workplace and for women at every stage in their career.

Registration deadline:

Please complete the Registration Form and submit via e-mail to nprender@oakton.edu or via fax at 847.635.1997 by April 15, 2012.