The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provide 30 fellowships for new Americans–immigrants or children of immigrants–who are pursuing graduate studies in the United States. The fellows will receive a stipend of up to $25,000 plus 50% of tuition and fees for two years.
Applications are due by November 1, 2015.
More information–including eligibility information and selection criteria–and the online application can be found here.
The newest edition of the LL Journal will be coming out in December, 2015. Their call for papers is below. Keep up-to-date with the Journal by following them on Twitter and on Facebook.
Volumen 10 Número 2
CALL FOR PAPERS
FECHA LÍMITE DE RECEPCIÓN DE ENVÍOS: DOMINGO 4 DE OCTUBRE
LL Journal los invita a colaborar en su nuevo número (diciembre 2015). Requerimos artículos sobre literatura, estudios culturales y de género, lingüística aplicada, lingüística teórica y sociolingüística, que se encuentren en estrecha relación con los mundos hispanos y luso- brasileños.
Todos los trabajos deberán respetar las orientaciones propuestas en las Directrices para autores (https://lljournal.commons.gc.cuny.edu/directrices-es/) y enviados al siguiente correo electrónico: lljournal.cuny@gmail.com.
Para mantener el anonimato durante el proceso de selección, se requiere indicar los datos personales en el cuerpo del correo electrónico y no en el archivo adjunto que contiene el artículo. Los autores seleccionados serán notificados en un plazo no mayor a cuatro semanas.
LL Journal es una publicación coordinada por las y los estudiantes del Programa Doctoral de Lenguas y Literaturas Hispánicas y Luso-Brasileñas. CUNY, The Graduate Center, Nueva York.
The Graduate Center has recently partnered with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) to provide up to eight Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships to GC students in the social sciences and the humanities.
Application deadline: October 15th, 2015
Application Workshop:
Professor Duncan Faherty (English, Director of the Early Research Initiative) will be leading a workshop with SSRC staff for prospective student fellowship applicants on September 11, 2015, from 11:00-12:00 in the President’s Conference Room (8201.02). If you would like to attend the workshop, email gcarchivalgrants [at] gmail [dot] com to RSVP by September 8, 2015.
From the Provost:
The DPDF Program is an interdisciplinary training program that helps early-stage doctoral students formulate their dissertation research proposals for external funding agencies. The DPDF provides students with up to $5,000 for pre-dissertation exploratory summer research, preceded and followed by intensive multi-day workshops where students participate in proposal critique and writing sessions. In the workshops, fellows work with faculty mentors and students from other disciplines and institutions, so as to introduce them to theories, literatures, methods, and intellectual traditions of disciplines outside of their own.
GC DPDF fellows will receive additional mentoring and support through workshops and training sessions at the GC. Additionally, 2016 GC DPDF fellows will have to demonstrate by February of 2017 that they have applied for at least one additional external fellowship award to support their dissertation research. More information about the program and eligibility can be found through the links below.
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/dpdf-fellowship/#eligibility
Deadline for Abstracts: February 7, 2016
Conference Dates: April 28-29, 2016
Conference Location: Universidade de São Paulo; São Paulo, Brazil.
From the conference organizers:
Los días 18 y 19 de octubre de 2012 tuvo lugar en la Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Ciencias Humanas de la Universidad de São Paulo el Primer Encuentro de Poesía Hispanoamericana “La poesía como lengua franca”, organizado por la disciplina de Literatura Hispanoamericana de dicha Facultad. Quisimos interrogarnos en ocasión del Encuentro por el carácter “franco” de la lengua poética, instalando la pregunta en la dialéctica entre la concepción de la poesía como un hecho verbal localizado en determinado idioma y la confianza en la transmisibilidad de su experiencia y en la incesante e interminable recreación de sus acontecimientos. Una confianza que, atentos a las diferencias y heterogeneidades de la lengua y de las poéticas, fundamentó la opción por la poesía hispanoamericana y/o por un recorte que privilegiase las tradiciones literarias nacionales. Los debates excedieron y ampliaron los alcances de nuestra propuesta. En esta segunda edición del evento aspiramos a que este diálogo se renueve. Sin pretender agotar otras perspectivas apuntamos a la reflexión sobre los siguientes temas:
More information about the conference can be found on their website.
Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2015
Conference Dates: March 3, 2016
Conference Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Keynote Speaker: José David Saldívar, Stanford University
From the conference organizers:
The biennial graduate student conference at the Rutgers University Program in Comparative Literature seeks to relate the theoretical production of decolonial thought with other critical discourses in the global academy. The conference invites participants to think about (de)coloniality beyond the geographical limit of the Americas, the temporal constraint of modernity, and the monolingualism of hegemonic languages and dominant disciplinary frameworks. The conference aims to address the following questions, among others: What knowledges do Ethnic Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Area Studies outside of Latin American and Caribbean Studies bring to Decolonial Studies? How does literature, especially fiction, and visual arts become a resource for decoloniality? How does (de)coloniality question the meaning and method of comparativity? In which ways does decolonial thought illuminate global configurations of urban life and culture?
Graduate students interested in presenting their research at Urban (De)Coloniality and Literature are asked to submit an abstract of 300 words or less addressing the conference theme.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality.
* Dialogues across African, Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian Studies.
* Global Urbanism, the Coloniality of the City, and De-Westernization.
* Gentrification, Racial Segregation, and the Prison-Industrial Complex.
* Feminist and Queer approaches to (De)Coloniality.
* Genres of the Human in Theory and Literature.
* Religion and Empire in the Modern/Colonial World.
* (De)Coloniality and World Literature, Cinema and other Media.
* Bridging Comparative Literature, Comparative Philosophy, and Comparative Political Theory.
The deadline for paper proposals is 11:59 PM on December 1st, 2015. Please e-mail all proposals to Conference Co-Chair Rafael Vizcaino (Rafael.Vizcaino [at] rutgers [dot] edu), with “Submission: CL Graduate Conference 2016” as the subject of the e-mail. All submissions should include the title of the paper, the abstract, and the name, affiliation, and contact information of the author.
More information about the conference can be found on their website.
Deadline for Abstracts: September 4, 2015
Conference Dates:November 6-7, 2015
Conference Location:Palo Alto, California
Application Deadline: March 27th, 10:00pm
Now in its 14th year, the ITF program has been extremely successful, its success matching that of Macaulay Honors College itself.
All CUNY doctoral students accepted for this outstanding opportunity will:
• receive a Grad A fellowship
• participate in a prestigious and innovative program that includes a technology-across-the-curriculum initiative
• get extensive technological training in a highly marketable skill set
• participate in interdisciplinary teaching and learning groups
• work closely with some of CUNY’s best faculty and brightest undergraduates
For more information about the program and to complete the online application, visit http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/itfprogram
Graduate Student Fellowship
Request for proposals for the 2015-2016 academic year
Deadline for applications: May 26th, 2015
The Columbia School Linguistic Society (henceforth the Society) invites applications from graduate students in linguistics for the third round of its Graduate Fellowship program. The successful applicant (henceforth referred to as the Fellow) will undertake a linguistic research project from the perspective of Columbia School under the guidance of a Mentor. The Fellowship and the research project associated with it will cover a period of one academic year. The Fellow will be expected to make every effort to present work-in-progress at the Columbia School Seminar.
The research project undertaken by the Fellow will address a grammatical, lexical, or phonological problem in the language of the Fellow’s choice. The Fellow will produce a final report, written in English, putting forth a Columbia School analysis of the problem, preceded by a review of the relevant literature. The Fellow must be either (a) a matriculated student in good standing in a recognized graduate program in linguistics or closely related area anywhere in the U.S. or (b) an applicant to such a program, and (c) be a U.S. citizen (this because of the Society’s tax constraints). The Mentor must be a member of the Society.
The Fellow will receive a stipend of $15,000 for the period covering from September 1, 2015 to August 31, 2016. The stipend is calculated on the basis of a 12-month calendar year. Assuming satisfactory progress in the judgment of the Society’s Executive Committee, stipend payments will be made on a monthly basis (12 payments of $1250) in the form of a check from the Society. A successful Fellow may reapply for continuing support for the following year. The Mentor will not receive any financial compensation.
It is expected that the Fellow will work on the project for no less than 15 hours a week. In addition, it is expected that the Fellow will make at least four presentations before the Columbia School Linguistics Seminar during the course of the Fellowship year. It is also expected that the Fellow will attend the Seminar on a regular basis. The Seminars are held at Columbia University in New York City. A Fellow whose residence is distant from New York will be expected to make arrangements for remote attendance and presentations.
The application is to be prepared by the prospective Fellow in consultation with the prospective Mentor. The application consists of a statement of the problem, an account of existing analyses if any, a brief preliminary review of the relevant literature, and a description of the data to be used. The application is not to exceed 10 double-spaced pages written in 12-point font. It is required that the prospective Fellow contact the prospective Mentor and that the Mentor review the application before submission.
The name of the prospective Fellow and that of the prospective Mentor must be included in the application. The Fellow’s telephone number and email address, and the name of the Fellow’s graduate school, are also to be included in the application.
The deadline for receipt of the first round of applications is May 26, 2015. The proposal will be reviewed by three members of the Society appointed by the Society’s Executive Committee. Applicants will be notified by the end of June 2015. The application must be submitted electronically to Professor Ricardo Otheguy of the PhD Program in Linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (rotheguy@gc.cuny.edu).
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program is now accepting applications for funding for research conducted abroad for modern foreign language and area studies. Applications must first be sent to the Office of Student Affairs before they are sent from there to the Department of Education. The internal deadline for applications is Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015.
The below information about the program and the application process is provided by the GC’s Office of Student Affairs
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program (DDRA) funds individual dissertation level doctoral students to conduct research in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of 6 to 12 months. This program is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education (ED) and is not related to the IIE Fulbright program, which is run by the State Department. The Fulbright-Hays DDRA Program is for students who intend to conduct dissertation research outside of the United States, excluding the countries of Western Europe, and is of particular interest to (but not limited to) students in the social sciences.
The ED published the application for the FY 2015 Fulbright-Hays competition on February 27, and its application is available on the ED website via the following URL: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html
Please note that because Fulbright-Hays awards are granted to students through their educational institutions, all applications must be vetted by the Graduate Center’s Student Affairs office prior to being submitted electronically to the Department of Education.
Prior to 2010, the Fulbright-Hays awards were announced in the fall, and six to eight weeks ahead of the application deadline. In recent years, however, the process has become less predictable. Given the timing and duration of the current application period, the Graduate Center’s internal deadline will be Wednesday, April 22, 2015, in order to allow for proper review and vetting of applications prior to the ED’s transmittal deadline of Tuesday, April 28, 2015. No extensions to this deadline will be possible.
If you have any questions about or are interested in beginning the application process, kindly contact institutional application liaison Cori L. Gabbard by email (cgabbard@gradcenter.cuny.edu), in the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs. Please do not contact U. S. Department of Education personnel directly.
Deadline for Applications: Monday, March 16, 12pm
The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce the following pre-dissertation fellowship competition for doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences. These summer awards provide $4,000.
This fellowship program has two objectives:
This program seeks to facilitate the transition from coursework to advanced individualized research. Early research awards allow students to strengthen their proposals by:
The successful applicant will address how their proposed summer research will lead to an improved proposal with regard to the above categories. Recipients will undertake such activities as (but not limited to): initial field work, preliminary data collection, travel related to research (i.e. preliminary visits to archives, special collections, museums, and/or historic sites), supplementary training in methods or techniques, or specialized language instruction. This program does not support conference attendance.
Eligibility
N.B.. Students who have already received a Dissertation Fellowship from the Provost’s Office are ineligible to receive these awards.
Each application must include the following:
1) Cover Sheet (attached).
2) Research Proposal that includes the following sections:
3) Two-page curriculum vitae.
4) Current Graduate Center transcript. (Students may submit the unofficial student copy that can be printed from banner.)
5) One letter of reference to be submitted electronically by your adviser or faculty mentor (see instructions below).
Recipients of these fellowships must agree to the following conditions as part of their acceptance of the award:
1) Attend a one-hour proposal writing workshop in May 2015.
2) Write a one-page summary of their summer research work (due by 21 August 2015).
3) Provide a 7-10 minute public presentation of their work at a doctoral student research conference to be held at the Graduate Center on 25 September 2015.
4) Attend a grant writing workshop at the Graduate Center in the 2015-16 academic year designed to assist you in applying for future grants and fellowships (multiple sessions of the workshop will be held in order to accommodate potential scheduling conflicts).
5) Agree to have some version of their summer work potentially featured on a Student Research Collaborative webpage currently under construction by the Advanced Research Collaborative.
Instructions for submitting your application:
1) Combine your cover sheet, research proposal, curriculum vitae, and transcript into a SINGLE file (either as a pdf document or a word document).
Use the following format when naming your document: Last Name, First Name, Program
2) Email the file as an email attachment to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu
Instructions for Faculty Recommenders
1) Prepare your reference letter as a regular word or pdf document.
Please use the following format when naming your document: Student Last Name, First Name
2) Email the file as an email attachment to fellowshipapps@gc.cuny.edu
If you have questions, please contact Rachel Sponzo at rsponzo@gc.cuny.edu, or 212-817-7282.
