Author: Jessica Ty Miller

CFP: War and the City

by Jessica Ty Miller

Call for Articles on War and the City   Progressive Planning Magazine invites articles about war and the city for publication in upcoming issues.   We have witnessed the devastating effects of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, one of the most densely populated urban areas in the world. With more than half the world’s population living in large cities, civilian populations are increasingly vulnerable. In addition, many people live in cities that are under military control, with checkpoints and other controls over free movement and restrictions on their right to the city. Wars take many forms: world wars, binational wars, …

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Teaching #BlackLivesMatter: Countering the Pedagogies of Anti-Black Racism 12/19

by Jessica Ty Miller

Teaching #BlackLivesMatter: Countering the Pedagogies of Anti-Black Racism Friday, December 19 10:00-12:00 in the Skylight Conference Room at The Graduate Center, CUNY Co-sponsored by Revolutionizing American Studies & the Advanced Research Collaborative An event where we can think through how to address racialization and state power as scholar-teachers, working at the level of both immediately executable plans for teaching/research, and longer term strategies for making the academy accountable to racial violence. On social media, #BlackLivesMatter mobilized critiques against the grand jury decisions not to indict officers Darrell Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo. Rallying around the unjust death of Michael Brown, Eric …

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Postdoc Position:Environmental Governance, Livelihood Impacts of Land Use Change in Latin America

by Jessica Ty Miller

Postdoc Position:  Environmental Governance, Livelihood Impacts of Land Use Change in Latin America SUNY ESF, Department of Environmental Studies, Syracuse, NY   A two-year postdoc position is available  February 2015 in the areas of environmental governance and social and livelihood dimensions of land use change in Latin America, as part of two funded NSF projects.  These interdisciplinary projects are focused on: 1) socio-ecological impacts from bioenergy development across the Americas; and 2) coupled socio-ecohydrological systems in Mexico. The postdoc will be responsible for project management, data collection and data analysis in both projects.  He/she will be expected to conduct field research in Brazil …

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Assistant Professor in Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Queen’s University

by Jessica Ty Miller

Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Transnational Contexts, Assistant Professor The Department of Gender Studies http://www.queensu.ca/gnds, Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen’s University invites applications for a Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor with specialization in Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Transnational Contexts, with a preferred starting date of July 1, 2015, subject to budgetary approval. To support our interdisciplinary mission we seek a dynamic colleague who demonstrates expertise in critical race theories within one or more of the following areas: feminist, queer or trans studies in transnational contexts. Candidates will be expected …

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Tonight – Dec 2 – Labor & Working-Class History Seminar

by Jessica Ty Miller

Please join us for the next Labor & Working-Class History Seminar at Roosevelt House, Hunter College, on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Our presenter and commentator will be: Jefferson Cowie (Cornell University), “Rethinking the New Deal in American History” Daniel Walkowitz (New York University) We will meet in the second-floor seminar room at Roosevelt House, 47 – 49 E. 65th Street, New York City.

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Call for Applications: Chateaubriand Fellowship

by Jessica Ty Miller

The Cultural Services at the Embassy of France is pleased to inform you that the Chateaubriand Fellowship Call for applications for the academic year 2015/2016 is now open. http://chateaubriand-fellowship.org Complete applications must be submitted by January 20, 2015. The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a grant offered by the Embassy of France in the United States. It supports outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who wish to conduct research in France for a period ranging from 4 to 9 months. Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition, through a collaborative process involving expert evaluators in both countries. The program is divided …

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Feminist Pedagogy Conference at The Graduate Center: Transformations

by Jessica Ty Miller

CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Pedagogy Conference: Transformations April 17, 2015 Hosted by the Feminist Studies Group and the Center for the Study of Women and Society The Feminist Pedagogy Conference seeks participants for a day-long conference entitled “Feminist Pedagogy: Transformations.” The conference will be held on April 17, 2015 at the CUNY Graduate Center, in New York, NY. The Feminist Pedagogy Conference is a venue for conversation between scholars and activists across the disciplines around the present state of feminist pedagogy and work on gender, both within and beyond the academy. Building on previous work, this is a forum to …

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