College of Arts & Humanities Calendar
University of Maryland, College Park
Building the Qualitative Community:
Faculty Seed Grants for Developing Qualitative Work
Submission Deadline:
November 4, 2009
FULL CFP: http://www.crge.umd.edu/QRIG_CFP2009.pdf
The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity and the Maryland Population Research Center are pleased to announce the fourth round of a seed grant program for faculty at University of Maryland engaged in research using qualitative research methods of participant-observation and in-depth interviews.
Assistant Professors have particularly high priority in the funding program but all faculty are eligible. The grant application must be for a study that primarily uses research methods of
participant-observation and/or in-depth interviewing (e.g., participant-observation of a specific group, two-hour interviews, or life histories). A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program. It is expected that a primary focus of the data collection is on understanding the meaning of events in the lives of study participants (i.e., an interpretative approach) rather than collecting data that measures the frequency of events (i.e., a survey approach).
The introductory workshop is an exciting opportunity to learn how to use EndNote Web to manage your bibliographic citations. This Web-based service is available to all UM students, faculty, and staff through the UM Libraries. Space is limited to 15 participants per workshop.
Three sessions are available:
Wed. October 21st, 3:00pm-4:00pm
Fri. October 30th, 1:00pm-2:00pm
Fri. November 6th, 10:00am-11:00am
Participants will learn to take their presentations in PowerPoint 2007 beyond simple bullet structures to be more inclusive of other graphical components. Some time will be provided to work on independent projects. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Import and modify pictures.
Integrate tables and spreadsheets from other Microsoft applications into a presentation.
Incorporate video (and audio) files into a computer-delivered presentation.
Post your presentation to the World Wide Web.
Prerequisites: Students should have at least three months active experience with basic MS PowerPoint tools.
UMCP Faculty: $100.00
UMCP Staff: $100.00
In this webinar, you will learn how to upload multiple files to a Content Area in an ELMS course space at once by using the “Document Package” tool. This tool allows you to upload and unzip a zipped package containing a collection of files within the course space. The file structure of the zipped package will also be preserved in ELMS space.
Center for Advanced Study
In the Visual Arts
Wyeth Lecture in American Art
"Minstrelsy 'Uncorked': Thomas Eakins’ Empathetic Realism"
By: Richard J. Powell
Duke University
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 4:30 pm
East Building Auditorium
Reception to follow
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
Richard J. Powell is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of art and art
history and professor of African and African American studies at Duke
University. He received his BA from Morehouse College; an MFA from
Howard University (1977); and an MA (1982) in Afro-American studies, an
MPhil (1984), and a PhD (1988) in history of art, all from Yale
Univer-sity. He has taught at University of Hartford (1982), Middlebury
College (1986), and at Duke University, where he was appointed assistant
professor (1989 – 1992), associate professor (1992 – 1998), and full
professor (1998 – ). In addition, he has served as guest curator and
consultant at the Field Museum of Natural History (1983 – 1984) and
director of programs at the Washington Project for the Arts (1987 –
1989). His honors and awards include the Ednah Root Visiting Curatorship
in American Art, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(1994); a Du Bois Insti-tute for Afro-American Research fellowship,
Harvard University (1992 – 1993); and a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1992 – 1993). Recently,
he was selected as editor in chief of /The Art Bulletin /(2007 – 2010).
Professor Powell’s books include /Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black
Portraiture /(2008), /Black Art: A Cultural History /(2002; revised and
expanded edition of /Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century /[1997]),
/Jacob Lawrence /(1992), and /Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H.
Johnson /(1991). In addition he has organized numerous exhibitions for
which he has written catalogues, such as /Circle Dance: The Art of John
T. Scott /(2005), /Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow /(2002), /To
Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and
Universities /(1999), /Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem
Renaissance /(1997), /The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism
/(1989), /From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the
Washington Area /(1989), and /James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art
/(1986).
/This lecture is supported by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art./
Please join us every Wednesday at noon for an informal social hour between the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Art History and Archaeology Department.
We will meet in the seminar room (ASY 4304). Bring your lunch!
This class will survey visual software geared towards the creation of new forms or narrative. In the age of YouTube it has become possible to tell a story with a very small budget, but this does not mean that the final product necessarily lacks quality. In this class students will learn how to tell a story from beginning to end using visual-editor programs and other visual software. Students will obtain their audiovisual materials not only form camcorders but from a wide range of sources, such as still images from cameras, web cams, or scanned objects, thus learning different ways of creating moving images. The production of a film from scratch will demand an effort to come up with creative solutions in order to articulate the story, trying to make the best of available resources. Students will receive instruction on the fundamentals of film narrative so that they become able to communicate a story and take their first steps into video creation.