AASAnnouncements
week of 09.19.05
Last Monday, AASA held elections for the AASA Freshman Liaisons of the Class of 2009. After a rigorous night of speeches and questions-and-answers, members of the E-Board, Board, and the general Asian American community participated in a general vote for these liaisons. It is my pleasure to announce the election of three promising members of the Asian American community.
The AASA Freshman Liaisons of the Class of 2009 are:
Nan Guo, SY '09
Christine Nguyen, MC '09
Audrey Pak, PC '09
I would like to thank the many freshmen that expressed interest in the AASA freshman liaison position and encourages those that did not receive a position this time around to remain active in the community and find one of the many other outlets for becoming involved.
Chris Lapinig
AASA Moderator
Table of Contents
1. Important Announcements
a. Asian American Alumni Conference! Get involved!
b. Know Vietnamese? Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina!
2. Events/Opportunities on Campus
a. AASA-affliate events
>ViSA Pho Night Friday at AACC!
> CASA Family Olympics!
> South Asian Political Events!
b. Yale South East Asian Studies Reception!
c. Council on East Asian Studies Welcome Reception!
d. Yale South East Asia Studies Seminar Series: Spaces of War, War and Environmental History in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
e. Interested in Yoga? Check out these classes!
f. Free Salsa Lessons at La Casa!
g. Urban Charisma Conference in Luce Hall!
3. Events off Campus
a. Boston Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference (BASIC) @ Tufts October 1!
b. Fall Writing Workshops at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.
c. Asian and Pacific Woman Conference
d. Register for the Women, Power, and HIV/AIDS conference: Friday, September 30th (Omni Hotel)
e. Christian Communication Action: “Freedom, Not Just Another Word”
4. Jobs, Scholarship, Fellowship, & Internship Information
a. Paid Survey positions for Yale Students!
b. Yale Law library Job Opening!
c. Paid Summer Internships at SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity) - Info Session at Silliman!
d. Bain & Co. Asia Recruitment.
e. Consulting Opportunity!
f. Connecticut State department of Education Internship.
h. Marshall, Mitchell, and Rhodes Competition information
Note: If you or your organization has announcements that you would like to be included in this weekly email, please send them ahead of time (i.e. at least one Sunday before the event) to altaf@yale.edu so that the announcement may be sent out in a timely fashion.
Table of Contents
A. Important Announcements
1.
Get Involved!
Yale University's first Asian and Asian American Alumni Conference
will take place on April 21-23, 2006. The conference is a wonderful
opportunity for alumni to re-establish contact with friends from the
past, discuss issues relevant to the Asian and Asian American
community, and to reflect on their lives since Yale. Current
students will be able to showcase Yale's multifaceted and vibrant
Asian American community and to tap into Yale's substantial alumni
network. Returning alumni will see firsthand how their work at Yale
has impacted current Yale students and how the Asian American
community has evolved since their time here. This is a unique
opportunity for different generations of Yalies to gain perspective
on what it means to be Asian/Asian American, at Yale and beyond. The
conference will include panel discussions and keynote speeches
featuring prominent faculty and alumni.
Qestions should be directed to the conference coordinators,
jennifer.suhr@yale.edu & don.phan@yale.edu
The first general meeting will be held at the Asian American Cultural Center at 295 Crown on Wednesday, September 21st at 5:30 PM
2. Help Victims of Hurricane Katrina
Translated material is need for Hurricane Katrina victims to assist in the processing of paperwork from the federal government. If anyone is available and willing to translate between English and Vietnamese, contact hung.nguyen@ncvaonline.org for more info.
B. Events on Campus
1. Mark your calendars!
a. ViSA Pho Night
Night of 1001 noodles
When: This Saturday 5-7pm
Where: AACC on 295 Crown (Between York and High streets)
b. CASA Family Olympics:
When: 9/24, Saturday from 10am to noon
Where: Old Campus
What: Parents and kids, come out to old campus this saturday
to participate in some crazy games and get to know your family better!
Give your family the title of Best CASA Family of 2005
and take home the solid gold CASA cup!
And get close to your family. Real close.
c. South Asian Political Events!
"Desi-modernity, India shining, and the burden
of
the poor"
the poor"
A lecture by Thomas Blom Hansen
September 20th, 8:00 p.m
LC (Room TBA)
2005 TRUMBULL LECTURE
"U.S.-India Economic Relations"
P. Chidambaram
Finance Minister of India
September 22, 1.00 pm
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect
Street, Room 114
* note change in venue *
free admission * limited seating
Sponsored by the Trumbull Lecture Fund, Office of the
Secretary,
and the Office of International Affairs at Yale
University.
2.
Yale Southeast Asia Studies Fall Reception
When: Wednesday, September 28th 4-6pm
Where: 2nd Floor Common Room, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave
§ Meet new Yale SEAS Council Member in Ethnomusicology Sarah Weiss,
and SEA History & Literature Scholar Tony Day
§ Meet Fall 2005 Yale World Fellows Vincent Perez (from the Philippines),
and Oahn Thi Hai Khuat (from Vietnam)
§ Meet or re-connect with faculty, students and friends of Southeast Asia Studies
3.
You are cordially invited to the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
FALL WELCOME RECEPTION and OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY
for the NEW CEAS Website and E-Assisted Planning
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2005
4:30 - 6:30 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Please RSVP to 203-432-3426 or eastasian.studies@yale.edu
by Friday, September 16, 2005.
4.
Yale Southeast Asia Studies Seminar Series: “Spaces of War, War and Environmental History in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam”
With Speaker, David Biggs, U.C. Riverside
When: Wednesday, September 21st Noon
Where: Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave
For Abstract and Speaker Bio, see http://www.yale.edu/seas/DBiggs.htm
5.
Art of Living Course: The Yoga of Breath
The Art of Living Course is a workshop designed to strengthen your potential!
The program decreases stress and increases your learning ability,
focus, and concentration through innovative breathing techniques that increase
energy and deeply relax and recharge the body and mind.
The course also includes yoga, meditation and natural principles of
effective living. You learn tools that eliminate counter-productive activity and
enhance leadership qualities.
WWW.AOLUNIVERSITY.ORG
IMPORTANT: FREE INTRO session Tuesday SEPTEMBER 20th @ 7:30 pm at AFAM CENTER,
211 Park Street.
In the Intro seminar we offer some relaxation techniques and guided meditation and more.
COURSE DETAILS:
Art of Living Course - The Yoga of Breath
September 23rd 28 th
Weekdays: 6.30pm - 9.30 pm
Weekends: 10 am - 2 pm
required attendance for all 6 sessions
To register, contact: Gauri Dwivedi
gauri.dwivedi@yale.edu
6.
7.
Urban Charisma
Friday, September 23 and
Saturday, September 24
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
http://www.yale.edu/ycias/southasia/urban_charisma.htm
City-dwellers, like urban anthropologists, struggle to make sense of a complex and ever shifting urban landscape. Throughout the world, they are faced with the same lack of intelligibility, the same experience of opacity, sensuous attraction and lurking dangers in the less traversed parts of the city. Within cities, it is always the poorest and most dense parts that acquire a quasi-mythical status as sources of crime, amorality and danger but also of hidden forces, enormous strength and heroic courage. The township, the favela, the mohalla have always been regarded as onerous problems resisting governance but it was always a resistance defying legibility - without a name, without a cause and without organisation.
We would like to propose, however, that these forms of resistance, protest or recalcitrance are symptoms of a set of more durable, and more ambiguous, networks and forms of authority which the organizers of this conference call urban infra-power. By this term we mean the repertoires of public authority that are produced in everyday urban life but rarely become visible and legible in institutionalised or textual forms.
The nodes in these networks would comprise varied figures from the sheikh to the hustler, the son of a rural headman, the self-made businessman, the street fighter and the local gangster turned politician. The resources they draw on, the registers of conduct, performance and reputation they are cast in, and the types of complex rhizomatic connectivity they depend on, are uniquely urban and dynamic. Each of these figures depend on local legitimacy and followers and their authority is always precarious and in need of re-affirmation and reproduction. Economies, signs and cultural meanings are constantly evolving in the city and urban charisma depends crucially on an ability to interpret, process and position oneself within this dynamic field of imaginings, material compulsions and desires.
The conference organizers posit that these networks and moral economies of authority can be explored through ethnographies, and may enable us to develop a broader and more fine-tuned conceptualization of both urban spaces and what ‘the political’ may mean in an urban setting. In detailed ethnographic studies, conference paper presenters and discussants will explore the making of the urban strongman, the local religious authority, local vigilantism, and ‘moral policing and control’ in neighbourhoods are based on networks of connectedness and shifting solidarities. The Urban Charisma conference will explore urban spaces in Europe, America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and focus on the connections between and interplay of kinship, religion, patronage, and affect in the making of urban infra-power and urban charisma.
Featuring:
Ahmed Afzal, Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University, “Rumors, Tales, Gossip and the Pakistan-American Association of Greater Houston: Specters of Power and Contemporary Ethnic Organizations in the United States”
Bernard Bate, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, “Walking Utopia: Spacetime and the City in Indian Political Practice”
Ayse Çaglar, Head of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, “Hometown Associations, Rescaling of State Spatiality and Migrant Grassroots Transnationalism”
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Professor and Head of Department, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, “Participatory Logic in a Mediated Age. Neighbourhood Governance in the Netherlands after the Multicultural Drama”
James Ferguson, Chair and Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University, “Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Urban Unemployment and Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa”
Thomas Hansen, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, “The Hustler and the Anthropologist. Introductory Notes on Infra-Power and Legibility in the City”
Wilson Chacko Jacob, Cornell University, “Between Strongman and Thug: Diagnosing the Futuwwa in Interwar Cairo”
Steffen Jensen, Assistant Professor of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, “Back Street Blues: Imaginaries and Practices of Street Gangs in Cape Town”
Dhooleka Raj, Associate Chair of South Asian Studies Council and Lecturer in Anthropology, “The neo-Hindu Hustler and the Department of the Environment”
Abdoumaliq Simone, Assistant Director, International Affairs Program, New School University, New York, “Choreographing Emergency Democracy: on the ‘Governing Composite’ of a Douala Market”
Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, “Grounding Displacement II: The Infra-Power of Middle Class Hong Kong in the New Millennium”
Thijl Sunier, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, “Muslim Women take Issue: Islam and the Public Sphere in Western Europe”
Justus L. Uitermark, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, “Performing Authority in the ‘Multicultural Drama’ - Building Bridges after the Assassination of Theo van Gogh”
Oskar Verkaaik, Associate Professor, Research Centre for Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam, “Charisma and Taboo”
Eric Worby, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University, “The Play of Race in a Field of Urban Desire: Soccer and Spontaneity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg”
Discussants:
Arjun Appadurai, Provost and John Dewey Professor in the Social Sciences, New School University
Véronique Benëi, Singh Visiting Lecturer in South Asian Studies and Anthropology, Yale University
Carol Breckenridge, Associate Professor of History, New School University
Srirupa Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Massachuetts at Amherst and Rustgi Family Fund Visiting Professor, South Asian Studies and Department of Political Science, Yale University
Saba Mahmood, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Berkeley
Patricia Marquez, Director, Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA), Caracas, Venezuela
C. Events off Campus
1.
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BOSTON ASIAN STUDENTS INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE @ TUFTS
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.............Saturday, October 1st, 2005.............
Ever wanted to know...
> Why there are over 125 Asian American student associations, yet there is only ONE Asian American Studies program?
> If we should idolize APA celebrities based only on their ethnicity?
> How can we use alternative forms of arts and media to construct a true representation of Asian Americans?
> How generational, socio-economic, and gender gaps affect our perceptions of
what it means to be Asian American?
>Why it's important to even care about these issues?
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REGISTER NOW - <WWW.BOSTONBASIC.ORG> - REGISTER NOW
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Featured Keynotes:
- Jean Wu, Professor of American Studies, Tufts University
- Vijai Nathan, Comedienne
Featured Workshops:
>The Fight for Asian American Studies Across College Campuses
>Get Up, Stand Up: NAASCon's Guide to Campaigning and Coalition Building
>Southeast Asian American Experiences in Digital Stories
>Voting Rights and the APA Community
>Chutney and Eggrolls: South Asians and Asian American Pan-ethnicity
>Post 9/11 Hate Crimes
>"Fetishists" and "Race Traitors" - Myths and Realities of Interracial Relationships
Some of our other speakers include:
> Tak Toyoshima, artist/writer for the comic strip Secret Asian Man
>Julie Mallozzi, director of "Once Removed" and "Monkey Dance"
>Corky Lee, renowned photographer capturing 30 years of Asian America on film
> R&B star Vudoo Soul
Please e-mail bostonbasic@gmail.com with any inquiries.
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THIS YEAR'S THEME: "Critical Mass"
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In recent years, awareness of the issues that face Asians and Asian Americans has increased across colleges and universities by students who have sought the knowledge. It is often assumed that Boston, as a center for college students, must be one of the most politically active student centers within the country. Yet, the number of college-educated Asian Americans is not an adequate indicator of social progress. It just simply is not enough. In the Boston area, there are over 125 Asian American student associations, yet there is only ONE Asian American Studies program. How are students to learn that:
• Although many people of Asian descent are attaining higher education in the United States, the categorical use of "Asian" as a measure of discrimination eclipses the under-representation of Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander students in universities today.
• Families of Asian American students might be paying more than $30,000 a year to attend college in the Greater Boston Area, yet many Asian American residents of Boston have family incomes that hover around $15,000.
Students are gaining awareness but are not necessarily using this knowledge to counter existing problems within society. Instead, we insist that it is the number of well-educated people who have sufficient time to develop critical insights to issues and act upon them that will ultimately help counter poverty, racism, classism, and discrimination. BASIC 2005 insists that knowledge (research and discussion of Asian American issues) and action (political activism and community service) must go together in grounding the direction of social progress.
It is from this belief that BASIC's theme is born: "Critical Mass," to address the potential that students themselves have to increase the amount of student activity within the Greater Boston community. We are at a point where there is so much capacity for change that if we do not do something with this energy, then many of our current efforts would have gone to waste. BASIC's goal is to encourage students to realize that they themselves do have power: power in the form of what routes they take to make a difference. This year's conference aims to show students that the issues that they learn about need not remain within the classroom. There is already much work being done: volunteer work helping the Cambodian in Lowell, Chinatown, the South Asians in Worcester, and the Vietnamese in Dorchester, grassroots organizing voting rights and immigrant worker rights, tackling health disparities, research with professors on the Asian communities within the local area, promoting Asians and Asian Americans accurately within the media, and pushing for representation in arts and entertainment as only a small sample. Students do not necessarily need to feel such a distance from these issues. Rather, students can actually do something about them.
Now is the time for students of Boston to increase their activity. Now because of the resource that BASIC has and continues to provide. BASIC brings hundreds of local students, activists, and scholars together for a one-day conference: this one day can serve as a catalyst for future change. The opportunity is there for students to learn, to connect, and to apply. Students need only to take up the opportunity.
The energy from this one-day conference is colossal. This momentum, this potential, could increase exponentially with pockets of students from different schools uniting together as a "Critical Mass" and working for issues that the college students of Boston are affected by and passionate about. In supporting each other and creating dialogue, the possibility of change is immense. In being active and working critically, we can truly make a difference.
2.
FALL WRITING WORKSHOPS
at The Asian American Writers' Workshop
To sign up for any of the three workshops, please call 212-494-0061.
All classes held at our space in Midtown Manhattan:
16 West 32nd Street, Ste 10A (btwn Broadway & 5th Ave)
New York City
WEDNESDAYS, SEPT 28 TO OCT 26, 6:30 9PM
NoMoir: Prose Writing Workshop with Quang Bao
It s not a novel, it s not a memoir. Learn how to mine personal
experiences and life observations in a supportive, structured class
dedicated to serious prose writers. Participants will workshop personal
essays, radio essays, memoirs-in-progress, reportage and creative
nonfiction. Class includes writing exercises, short readings,
group/individual critique. The workshop will focus on giving solid
shape to participants ideas for a larger memoir/writing project.
Designed for those whose work uses elements of both fiction and
nonfiction (autobiography, biography, memoir).
Quang Bao is the current Executive Director of The Asian American
Writers Workshop. His work has been featured in Ploughshares, the
Boston Globe, the New York Times and National Public Radio.
Class limited to 12 students. $300 general, $275 for members.
SATURDAY, OCT 15, 12 5PM
Intensive Playwriting Course: David Henry Hwang
An intensive daylong course designed to help playwrights access their
unconscious and stimulate dialogue, character development and theatrical
moments for the stage. Catered to all writers interested in theatre and
performance. Session will feature professional advice about writing for the
theatre, working in/for the stage, landing an agent and a first production.
David Henry Hwang is the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright of M.
Butterfly, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB. He cowrote
Disney s international musical hit Aida and his extensive repertoire further
includes three opera librettis (in collaboration with Philip Glass) and
several feature films. Hwang also serves on the Council of the Dramatists
Guild.
Class limited to 14 students. $200 general, $175 for members.
TUESDAYS, OCT 25 TO NOV 15, 6:30 9PM
Intensive Screenwriting Workshop: Sabrina Dhawan
An intensive screenwriting workshop focusing on completing a
screenplay. Through film screenings, writing, discussion and critique,
students will practice the basic principles of writing a visual story.
Participants will dissect successful shorts, tackle helpful exercises and
workshop screenplays through multiple drafts, as well as discussion on
selling your screenplay.
Sabrina Dhawan has received numerous accolades for her work in varying
genres of screenwriting, including feature-length, short films and
television. Her first produced screenplay Monsoon Wedding was awarded
the Leon D Oro at the Venice Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated
for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Film in a Foreign Langauge.
She recently wrote the one-hour film Cosmopolitan and a half-hour
comedy pilot East-West Values for HBO. She is currently an assistant
professor of screenwriting at Columbia University s MFA program.
Class limited to 12 students. $300 general, $275 for members.
For more information about the Workshop, check http://www.aaww.org or call 212.494.0061
3. The full program of the 15th Annual Women's Studies Conference at
Southern Connecticut State University, "Asian & Pacific Women:
Indigenous and Diasporic," is now posted online:
http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/index.htm
. The presentations of this two-day conference cover a wide range of
topics on issues of concern to women of Asian and Pacific Islander
descent by scholars, artists, and activists near and far, from many
parts of the U.S., Australia, Cambodia, Hawai'i, South Africa, Taiwan,
and more. Highlights include def poetry performance, by Ishle Yi Park,
and several plenary sessions, with artists Tomie Arai, Genara Banzon,
Siona Benjamin, and Margo Machida; filmmakers Yunah Hong, Kimi Takesue,
and Rea Tajiri; Indigenous/local feminists of Taiwan, A-Wu, Ching Fan,
and Shumei Shih; and J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Keala Kelly, and Maivan Lam,
on the politcis of Hawaiian independence. A keynote session with
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Avalon Foundation Professor in the
Humanities, Columbia University, will be held on the evening of October
28.
The pre-registration form can be found on the page
( http://www.southernct.edu/departments/womensstudies/conference/2005_con
>fprereg.pdf). We hope that you will join us in this exciting two-day
exchange on October 28 and 29!
4. Register for the Women, Power, and HIV/AIDS conference: Friday, September 30th: 9.00 AM to 4.30 PM (Omni Hotel)
Women, Power & HIV/AIDS:
Around the globe and around the corner
Friday, September 30, 2005
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Omni Hotel, 155 Temple St New Haven
Free on-line registration and complete agenda at
http://cira.med.yale.edu/lpe
In this conference, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) seeks to promote discussion and further research about the ways that gender inequality manifests itself in contemporary society and is, in turn, associated with HIV in women. In particular, we will focus on the gendered aspects of large scale social disruptions, as well as the gendered dimensions of drug use, with a focus on crack cocaine. We will also consider some approaches to HIV prevention that involve promoting womenís control over protective methods, such as microbicides and the female condom, and discuss how to include men in struggles for gender equality.
This conference is sponsored by CIRA, in collaboration with the Connecticut AIDS Education and Training Center, and supported through a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (No. P30 MH 62294).
Pre-registration by 9/16/05 is strongly encouraged as lunch will be provided for pre-registrants only. On-site registration will be accepted if space permits. To register, visit the website http://cira.med.yale.edu/lpe .
5. Christian Communication Action is presenting a forum entitled " Freedom, Not just Another Word" the panelists are Mollie Ivins, Syndicated political Columnist, Ray Suarez, Jim Lehrer Senior Correspondent and Anita Hill, Attorney, Professor and Human Rights Activist. Date : October 27, 2005 @ Shubert Theatre, Ticket will go on Sale as of September 1, 2005. Ticket prices are $57.00 and $22.00. The proceeds of this event benefits the emergency and transition housing programs for families in crisis in New Haven.
D. Scholarship, Fellowship, & Internship Information
1.
Hello Yale University Students,
We were hoping you'd share this opportunity with the rest of the Yale community. The University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy is seeking five, outgoing Yale University Seniors or Freshmen to conduct academic surveys at Yale for one week in October. The survey topic is civic literacy. The pay is $12/hr for a minimum of 10 hours and a maximum of 30 hours. Use this as a resume builder or to pay off some of those college bills!
Anyone interested should reply via e-mail to Jeremy_Uconn@yahoo.com. To verify the legitimacy of this study, feel free to call the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy at 860-604-4692.
-Linda Crane
Research Manager, UCONN
http://www.dpp.uconn.edu/
2.
JOB OPENING IN THE YALE LAW SCHOOL LIBRARY!
A student position in the Foreign & International Law Department of the
Yale Law Library is currently open. The student, under the supervision
of a law librarian, will be working in an office setting, with a desk
and computer. The tasks are essentially secretarial and basic library
work, such as updating looseleaves with new supplements that come in,
shelving some books, searching for books on the library catalog, among
other mini-tasks that the reference law librarians may assign.
It's a great environment to become familiar with online legal databases,
give law students directions to law library books and facilities, and
get to know the reference international law librarians. The atmosphere
is relaxed and friendly, and the hours are flexible during the day.
There are no prerequisites, although knowing one or more foreign
languages is a plus.
If you are interested in applying, you should send an email to Rev. Daniel Wade at daniel.wade@yale.edu to set up an interview.
3. Representatives from Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO) will be coming to Yale Campus on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 to talk about SEO as a source for obtaining top internship opportunities for minority students.
Sponsors for Education Opportunity (SEO)
TUESDAY, 9/20
6pm – 8pm
SILLIMAN
Visit http://www.seo-ny.org/
INTERNSHIP:
Asset Management
Investment Banking
Sales and Trading
Management Consulting
Global Corporate Finance
Corporate Law
Philanthropy
And more
PARTNERING FIRM:
Banc of America Securities
Barclays
Citigroup
Credit Suisse First Boston
Deutsche Bank
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
JPMorgan
Lazard Freres
Lehman Brothers
Merrill Lynch
Morgan Stanley
UBS
IBM
Boston Consulting Group
A.T. Kearney
Monitor Group
And more
4.
Bain & Co. Asia Recruitment:
Bain & Company is a leading global strategy consulting firm.
Our Singapore and Hong Kong offices would like to invite undergraduates and non-MBA masters students who are interested in pursuing a consulting career in Asia to learn more about Bain.
We offer Associate Consultant positions to candidates in their penultimate year at school, and Associate Consultant Intern positions to candidates returning for one more year of school (recruiting process scheduled for spring).
Interested parties please note the following
(2) Bain Singapore and Hong Kong application
Candidates interested in Singapore or Hong Kong offices are invited to submit your application (cover letter, CV, and transcript) to the respective recruiting coordinators listed below. Please state your top 3 office locations in order of preference. Applicants please use the email subject heading AC application (US). Application submission deadline is October 8, 2005.
Further details of each office can be found in the attachments to this email and under the Join Bain Singapore/Hong Konglink on our respective office websites at www.bain.com/bainweb/About/ww_offices.asp. Additional inquiries regarding the application process should be directed to the recruiting coordinators listed below, inquiries regarding Bain and the role of the AC should be directed to Nicole Tee at Nicole.Tee@bain.com.
Singapore Recruiting Coordinator
Ms. Angela Tan
Email: recruiting.singapore@bain.com
Hong Kong Recruiting Coordinator
Ms. Angie Shing
Email: recruiting.hk@bain.com
Venue: Afam Center, 211 Park Street
5.
Dear AASA Members,
I am a former AASA member (MC 03’) and am a consultant with Katzenbach Partners LLC (KPL), a management consulting firm. I am helping lead the recruiting effort this fall and I wanted to invite you to meet with my firm on September 16th and 19th. I’ve enjoyed my time at KPL, and think that it may be a place that you would be interested in.
At KPL we are proud to be building a different kind of firm, composed of talented and creative people from a broad range of academic, cultural and professional backgrounds. Some of you may not have considered consulting before, but I want to emphasize that the ability to think creatively and articulate your thoughts is significantly more important during the interview process than having previous experience in consulting or economics courses.
Also, an aspect of the firm I love is the diversity of people. This is not just a demographic diversity but a diversity of life paths (individuals have gone on to, among other pursuits, Harvard Business, Medical, and Law Schools, Yale Law, New York City Department of Education, and to write novels and poetry). In other words, it is a place both for those who have always seen themselves entering the corporate world and for those who have never thought that "business" was something they would be interested in.
I've attached a more detailed description of the firm below. If this sounds like something you would be interested in exploring, please feel free to contact me at uyen.tieu@katzenbach.com . The firm will be on campus at the career fair this Friday (September 16th) and on Monday (September 19th) at 7:30pm at BAR for an info session.
Sincerely,
Uyen Tieu (MC 03)
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Katzenbach Partners LLC is a New York- and Texas-based consulting firm focusing on bringing strategy and people together to build extraordinary organizations. Our firm was founded in November 1998 by three consultants who had been leaders of McKinsey's work on transforming client organizations. In our first six years, we have served some of the world’s leading companies and grown from a team of six into a remarkable community of over 130 professionals. Our rapid expansion was sustained through the consulting industry’s downturn, reflecting the strength of our client relationships and the soundness of our business model. Underlying both our client work and our growth as an organization is a commitment to building a different kind of consulting firm, a company that will deliver distinctive leadership opportunities for people earlier in their careers and will enable both entrepreneurial growth and consistent attention to a core set of values.
More specifically, our recent projects include the comprehensive transformation of a top-tier wireless telecom company, the merger and integration of the marketing organizations of two global pharmaceutical companies, advising a CEO on the transformation of a leading healthcare provider, and improving front-line sales and service performance at one of the nation's largest environmental services companies. KPL is also an active sponsor of research and other development of intellectual capital. We believe that this activity, in addition to our consulting work, represents a unique opportunity for recent college graduates. Current areas of research include:
· Analyzing the implicit social networks that support formal organizations, and understanding how they impact business performance
· Understanding how companies can use pride as a path to top performance
· Developing online, customized, leadership development solutions to achieve a "middle way" between expensive personal coaching and generalized training
· Studying the evolution of China’s new business leadership by following the career paths of 115 Chinese MBAs from top business schools in the US and China for the coming two decades
Please visit our website at http://www.katzenbach.com for more information. Our resume drop deadline for the class of 2006 is Monday, October 10th. Juniors can apply in January to our internship program. For more information, please contact Michael Dawson ( michael.dawson@katzenbach.com).
6.
Connecticut State Department of Education
Office of Educational Equity
contact: Dr. Adrian Wood, (860) 713-6549 or Jack.Hasegawa@po.state.ct.us or 860-713-6544
Attn: Dr. Adrian Wood
Civil Rights Compliance Review Program Manager
165 Capital Avenue, Room 312
Post Office Box 2219
Hartford, CT 06145
Major(s): Education, Criminal Justice, Public Policy, Pre-law, Sociology,
Description: The United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) requires the Connecticut State Department of Education to monitor compliance in vocational programs throughout the state. Federal laws and regulations specifically require that we review compliance in the areas of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Civil Rights Compliance Review Process is one of the Department’s vehicles for fulfilling that responsibility as well as ensuring that all students achieve at high levels and that our schools are welcoming and supportive learning environments for all students.
Interns’ responsibilities will include, but not be limited to providing assistance with on-site reviews, which includes interviewing staff and students about school procedures and practices; reviewing documents for compliance with federal regulations; helping to prepare for school facility tours that review compliance with federal regulations.
This is an unpaid internship. The length of the internship is four months, working approximately 10 hours per week.
Requirements: Applicants must be upper-level undergraduates, or graduate students who have strong writing and people skills. They must also be able to work independently and demonstrate initiative in carrying out prescribed duties without constant supervision. Familiarity with Microsoft Office and the Internet are important, as is the ability to work well on different tasks with excellent attention to detail. Students should also have an eagerness to learn, to participate with professional staff both at the State Department of Education and in school districts, and to dive into projects and seek out opportunities for growth. This internship requires understanding of and commitment to equity in public education.
How to apply: Send the application materials to Dr. Wood using the mailing address provided. The materials include a resume, two references (one academic, one professional), a one- or two-page writing sample and a cover letting stating your availability and the responses to the following questions: What is your eventual career goal? What is your reason for seeking an internship at this time? What do you hope to gain from this internship experience?
7. Marshall, Mitchell, and Rhodes Competition information
The fall fellowship season is underway. Questions, please contact:
Mark Bauer
Associate Director for UK and Irish Fellowships
Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs
tel: (203) 432-8685
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