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litsci-l Digest Thu, 26 Oct 2006

Table of contents:

1. SFRA call for papers - "Davis Doug" 
2. SLSA '06 - "Victoria N. Alexander" 
3. Position: Assistant Professor in Women's Studies, UC Irvine - "Carol
Colatrella" 


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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 10:11:24 -0400
From: "Davis Doug" 
Subject: SFRA call for papers

Fellow SLSA members,

 

I am passing along (attached) the call for papers for the 2007 meeting
of the Science Fiction Research Association.  The 2007 conference will
be held in Kansas City this summer in conjunction with the Robert A.
Heinlein centennial (http://www.heinleincentennial.com/) ; Fred Pohl is
one of the guests of honor this year and Arthur C. Clarke will be
delivering the keynote address. 

 

For more information on the conference and the SFRA organization, please
visit: http://www.sfra.org/ 

 

Doug Davis, Ph.D

Assistant Professor of English

Division of Humanities

Gordon College

419 College Drive

Barnesville, GA 30204

ddavis@gdn.edu 

(770) 358 5817 (office)

(770) 358 5140 (fax)

 


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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:03:44 -0400
From: "Victoria N. Alexander" 
Subject: SLSA '06


If anyone still needs to book a hotel room in NYC for the SLSA '06 
conference, I may be able to help you get a room at the Washington 
Square Hotel for under $200 per night (Nov 9, 10, 11). Those who have 
not been granted travel funds from their home institutions will be 
given first priority.

Contact me directly at alexander@dactyl.org 

Victoria


Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D.
Site Organizer - SLSA '06

Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
64 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
Voice Mail: 212 696-7800
Office: 646 329-5398 (during exhibitions only)
Fax: 212 591-6226
www.dactyl.org 

Support the arts! Go to http://www.dactyl.org/members.html to donate to 
Dactyl Foundation.


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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:12:11 +0000
From: "Carol Colatrella" 
Subject: Position: Assistant Professor in Women's Studies, UC Irvine

Assistant Professor- Women's Studies
The Program in Women's Studies at the University of California, Irvine, 
announces an opening for a beginning tenure-track, assistant professor
in 
critical cultural studies of gender and transregional networks. We seek 
candidates with strong theoretical abilities in feminist studies, and 
grounding in the analysis of gender in its relations to sexuality, race,

nationalism, and class. Possible areas of expertise are trade, markets
and 
financial networks; justice, citizenship, and sovereignty; religion and 
religiosity; and/or transregional exchanges and encounters, preferably 
emphasizing pre-19th century non-European cultures. We seek scholars
with 
interdisciplinary training and/or a sophisticated analysis of
disciplinary 
problematics in one or more of the following areas: sexuality studies, 
history and theory, geography, critical legal studies, critical race 
studies, literary and cultural studies, anthropology. Applicants must
have a 
PhD in hand by the time of the appointment. Completed applications 
containing a letter of application, current CV, three letters of 
recommendation, and a sample of research or publications should be
uploaded 
electronically. Please refer to the following website for instructions: 
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/faculty/jobs.php. Applications
received by 
November 30, 2006 will receive the fullest consideration, but screening
will 
continue until the position is filled.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please go to the
main 
Humanities website to apply:- 
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/faculty/jobs_detail.php?recid=184 

The University of California Irvine is an Equal Opportunity Employer 
committed to excellence through diversity and has a National Science 
Foundation Advance Gender Equity Program.

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