College of Arts & Humanities Calendar
University of Maryland, College Park
"Diaspora"
Presenters: Keguro Macharia (African); Regina Igel (Arab/Jewish); Ana Patricia Rodriguez (Latina/o); Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (Persian)
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 A study that is designed primarily as an analysis of historical documents, regrettably, is not included in the guidelines for this program.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).
1:30p-3:15p: Plenary I: Negotiations
Conquistadora of the Spirit, Maria de Jesus de Agreda
Julianna Barr, History, University of Florida
Big Sister as Intermediary: How Maria Rolandus Tried to Win Back Her Wayward Brother
Craig Harline, History, Brigham Young University
Getting Past No or Getting to Yes: Nuns, Divas, and Negotiation Tactics in Early Modern Italy
Colleen Reardon, Music, University of California, Irvine
Workshops to follow the Plenaries--will be held from 3:45-5:15
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
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9:00a-10:45a--Plenary II: Economies
Writing the Lives of Our Men: Factual Fictions, Eyewitness Accounts, and the Competition for Truth
Megan Matchinske, English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Columbus' Sister: Imagining Female Agency and Women's Bodies in Early Modern Atlantic and Mediterranean Imperial Discourse
Holly Hurlburt, History and Women's Studies, Southern Illinois University
Significance and Impace of Women's Property Rights in Islamic Law: Lessons from Fifteenth Century Granada
Maya Shatzmiller, History, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2:45p-4:30p--Plenary III: Faiths & Spiritualities
Christianity, Religion and Identity in a Muslim Environment: Mother Maria, Queen of Larantuka, Indonesia
Barbara Watson Andaya, Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
Women's Spiritual Narratives from the Black Atlantic
Jon Sensbach, History, University of Florida
The Intervening Widow: Performing Spousal Salvation through Rogier van der Weyden's Braque Triptych
Penny Howell Jolly, Art History, Skidmore College
Workshops to follow Plenary II--will be held from 11:15a-12:45p (Plenary III Workshops will be held on Satruday)
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
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8:30a-10:00a--Roundtables and Breakfast (subscribed)
1. Early Career Professional Development
Organizer and Moderator: Jane Donawerth, University of Maryland
Panelists: Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishers
Meredith Gill, University of Maryland
Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, Columbia University
Merry Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2. Mid-Career Professional Development
Organizer: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Moderator: Naomi Miller, Smith College
Panelists: Nancy Gutierrez, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Deborah Lesko-Baker, Chair, Department of French, Georgetown University
Sarah Jayne Steen, President, Plymouth State University
Susanne Woods, former Provost, Wheaton College
10:30a-12:00p--Plenary III Workshops--see website for details
Plenary IV: Pedagogies
The Gender Differential in Honors Programs and Colleges, and the Opportunities It Provides
Susan Dinan, History, William Patterson University
Conflict & Concord--from the Beginning: Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies
Albert Rabil, Emeritus
Early Modern Amazons: Teaching Conflict in Representation
Nora Stoppino, Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshops to follow Plenary IV--will be held from 4:00p-5:30p
Please visit www.crbs.umd.edu/atw/atw7 for workshop listings and conference registration.
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*Saturday, November 7, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Opening reception and exhibition viewing for registered participants
Friday, November 6, 6-8 p.m.
In conjunction with its groundbreaking exhibition /Sargent and the Sea/,
the Corcoran Gallery of Art presents a scholarly symposium featuring
presentations by seven internationally-recognized scholars on themes
related to the exhibition.
Presentations:
Opening Remarks
*Sarah Cash*, bechhoefer curator of American art, Corcoran Gallery of Art
/Sargent and the Paris Art Scene/
*Richard Ormond*, project director, John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné
/Unbridled Enthusiasm: Sargent and European Marine Painting in the 1870s /
*Nancy Locke*, associate professor of art history, The Pennsylvania
State University
/Sargent's "Traveling Culture": Transatlantic Crossings, Expatriate
Experience, and the Workings of a Cosmopolitan Aestheticism/
*Peter Gibian*, professor of English, McGill University
/To Finistère By Way of Field and Strand/
*Maureen C. O'Brien*, curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Art,
Rhode Island School of Design
/The Lure of the South/
*Elaine Kilmurray*, co-author and research director, John Singer Sargent
Catalogue Raisonné
/Describing is Descending: Moby-Dick and Art History/
*Alexander Nemerov*, professor and chair of the history of art
department, Yale University
In /Sargent and the Sea/, the Corcoran Gallery of Art brings together
for the first time more than eighty paintings, watercolors, and drawings
depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John
Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter
of the late nineteenth century.
principia en Xibalba" (in English)
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
Iranian affairs after the presidential election of June 2009.
Register online at www.umd.edu/iransymposium
Inaugural Lecture:
Dr. Suzanne Oboler, Professor, John Jay College/CUNY
“Latino/as in the 21st Century: Immigration, Participation and Rights.”
Thursday, November 5, 2009
5:00 p.m., Marie Mount Hall, Maryland Room
Creative Dialogue: Outcast and Society
Two performances this season at the Center, Disfarmer and Hotel Cassiopeia, take us into the worlds of well-known outcasts, suggesting how their removal from society allowed them to produce art that captures, honors and creates magic from a world that we sometimes take for granted. A panel led by David Serlin considers the role of the “loner” and the power the outsider might have to see society more clearly.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
The Photography of Disfarmer
Enter the town of Heber Springs, Arkansas through the work of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer. Steven Kasher of the Steven Kasher Gallery leads a pre-performance digital exhibit of the work of the reclusive artist who inspired Disfarmer.
DISFARMER
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin
original music by Dan Moses Schreier
text by Sally Oswald
Thursday, November 5 . 8PM
Friday, November 6 . 8PM
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre
TICKETS $37 / $9 STUDENT
Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts.
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
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.
Students will explore Adobe Photoshop to understand color and resolution, edit photos, layer compositions and save images. Adobe Illustrator will allow students to create unique logos, trace images, illustrate objects and manipulate typefaces. Students will use InDesign to merge elements created in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create magazine covers and layouts. Students will learn the elements of printing from each program and prepare files for output.