Old Email Archive

digest 1998-10-09 #001.txt


Thursday
From: "Society for Literature & Science" 

Daily SLS Email Digest
-> Re:  Quietude....
by Andrew Russ 
-> Re: Quietude....
by "J. Bainard Cowan" 
-> jobs (fwd)
by Ann Weinstone 
-> Re: Quietude....
by duemer@polaris.clarkson.edu
-> Re: Quietude....
by Dale Goble 
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Date: 8 Oct 1998 04:31:20 -0700
From: Andrew Russ 
Subject: Re:  Quietude....
I assume this is getting bounced to everyone --
I would be all for seeing some messages from H-Nexa if
they are on science and literature issues.
I wonder if they would be interested in our feedback.  :-)
andrew
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Date: 8 Oct 1998 13:34:48 -0700
From: "J. Bainard Cowan" 
Subject: Re: Quietude....
Several years ago, when I still picked up this list on DOS, we had some
interesting discussions.  I've never been much of a contributor.  I
raise my
"voice" now in inquiry as to whether any others out there are
interested in
scientific paradigms in intellectual history and implications for the
humanities.  This list has had a different feel of late, more
issues-oriented if existing at all.  What do people go to these days if
they
want to think together about big general concepts bringing together
science
and the humanities, science and the history of culture, or the question
of
whether there is a new scientific paradigm and what it might look like?
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Bainard Cowan, Professor
Dept. of English
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5001
Office 225-388-3130
Fax 225-388-4129
e-mail encowa@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu
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Date: 8 Oct 1998 16:30:29 -0700
From: Ann Weinstone 
Subject: jobs (fwd)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:25:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Amitava Kumar 
To: mlg-ics@andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: jobs! (fwd)
Friends, I'm forwarding some info from Rosemary Hennessy at Albany that
might interest folks.
AK
The English department here is on the brink of a major
transformation-and that is great news for us all, especially if it
succeeds.  Tom Cohen (formerly of UC Chapel Hill) has been hired as
new chair, and the administration has promised (in writing) twelve new
hires over three years.  The expectation is that The University at
Albany will be an exciting and innovative center for transdiciplinary
scholarship in a few years.  There is a new and fairly unique Ph.D.
program waiting to be tooled up, a transformed undergraduate
curriculum in the planning stages, and the expectation that we will be
bringing in lecturers, holding colloquia, and generally building a new
and rich intellectual community here--perhaps even holding an
international conference next year.
The hires are of course the key to the future, and some extraordinary
search protocols will be in place for some of them.  I'm writing to
ask you if you know of any colleagues or graduate students who are
going on the job market this year whom we might contact and invite to
apply.  We are especially interested in bringing in faculty from
historically underrepresented groups, and more than one or two in this
first round of hires-for the benefit of the faculty in this new cohort
and the rest of the department. There are university wide Target of
Opportunity lines available for candidates who qualify as
"historically underrepresented in the discipline."   As you
can see,
we are also looking for someone at the Associate rank.  I've included
the job description below.  Let me know if you know anyone who may be
interested-graduate student, colleague-and who we might contact.   And
spread the word!
Thanks and do let me know what you are up to,
Rosemary
JOB DESCRIPTION
The English Department at the University at Albany, SUNY is seeking
faculty capable of contributing to an interdisciplinary program that
encourages innovative approaches to research and pedagogy with an
emphasis in contemporary critical and textual studies.  Colleagues
will participate in a process of debate and rebuilding within the
humanities that involves critical and theoretical responses to the
challenges of the contemporary academy.  We invite applicants with
strong projects in textualist, cultural and/or media studies for as
many as 12 tenure-track Assistant Professor positions and 1 Associate
position.  We are particularly interested in any combination of the
following areas:  African-American, Transnational and/or Post-Colonial
literatures and cultures;  early modern literature and late twentieth
century American studies;  media and/or film studies;  Science and
Technology Studies with a possible emphasis in Rhetoric;  non-fiction
writing.  For the Associate position interest and skill in helping
administer an innovative graduate program welcome.  Applicants from
traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged as we
seek to rebuild a diverse faculty dedicated to rethinking public
higher education for the 21st century.  Competitive salary and
benefits, and attractive teaching load for all positions.  Send letter
and vita only to Recruitment Committee, c/o Tom Cohen, Chair, English
Department, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY  12222.  Screening
of applications will begin November 2.
Rosemary Hennessy
Department of English
University at Albany
Albany, NY  12222
(518)442-4088
Hennessy@cnsvax.albany.edu
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Date: 8 Oct 1998 16:38:54 -0700
From: duemer@polaris.clarkson.edu
Subject: Re: Quietude....
I'm a former H-Nexa member, and it's only overwhelming traffic that
made
me sign off. I would be interested, though, in seeing the occasional
posting from those good folks, particularly if, as suggested, we
concentrate on the interactions between the humanities and the
sciences.
Joe Duemer
Clarkson University
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Date: 8 Oct 1998 18:48:23 -0700
From: Dale Goble 
Subject: Re: Quietude....
A place to begin might be with Steven Weinberg's article in the October
8
_New York Review of Books_ on Thomas Kuhn's paradigm-shift theory
titled
"The Revolution that Didn't Happen."
Dale Goble
Moscow