AASAnnouncements
:: 01.20.02 ::
1. EVENTS on
campus
a. Henry Tang, Founder of
Committee of 100. Thursday, January 23rd, 4:30 pm. BR Common
Room
b.
SACC (South Asian Conference Council of Yale) Solidarity Conference.
February 8-9, LC
c.
Trip to NYC sponsored by AASA to see "At A Plank Bridge," a play written by an
alum, set in Malaysia after withdrawal of Japanese troops of
WWII
d. Asian American Film Festival, January 25-30th
2. 2003 COURSE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. change in Asian American
History meeting time and place - LAST chance to take this
course!!
b. Additional Lesbian and Gay
Studies Courses, Spring
2003
c. SouthEast Asia Studies Seminar
Series
d. Women Faculty Forum and the
Yale Classics Department Seminar Series
3. FELLOWSHIPS and
SCHOLARSHIPS
a. Citigroup Investment Bank
Scholarship
b. Institute for Public Policy
Program
c. Leadership in Action Internship
Program
d. President's Public Service
Fellowship Program
e.
Mellon/Bouchet
f. Thomas Pickering Foreign
Affairs Fellowship
Program
g. Minority Job Fair
2003
h. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Scholars Program Summer
2003
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1. EVENTS on campus
A) HENRY
TANG
The Asian-American Cultural Center, Yale-China
Association, and Council on East Asian Studies present a talk by
Henry Tang
Founder of the Committee of 100, a group of American citizens of Chinese
descent, who work to address important issues concerning the Chinese-American
community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations.
TOPIC:
Warming US-China Relations: New Opportunities in
Henry Tang is a veteran
securities management executive in several of the largest Wall Street investment
banks.
Branford Common
Room
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B) SACC Solidarity Conference
The South Asian Conference
Council of Yale College presents:
The South Asian Conference Council of
Yale College presents:
SOLIDARITY:
Addressing
Socio-Economic
Disparities in South Asian America
Sat-Sun, February
8-9, 2003
in LC Hall
First Keynote Speaker: Vijay Prashad, author of
Karma of Brown Folk
and Director of International Studies Program at Trinity
College
visit our website
http://www.yale.edu/saccsacc
for final schedule and list of
speakers
Registration:
Registration allows you to attend panels,
workshops, Saturday night party, and eat meals. Keynote speeches are free and
open to the public.
Fees:
Registration fee: $10
Registration
fee for those who need housing: Before Jan. 24 - $15; After 1/24 - $20
Registration for Yalies who house non-Yalies: $7
*The first 15 Yale
students who register and offer to house get in for FREE.
Register online
at http://www.yale.edu/saccsacc.
Our mission is to broaden
awareness of the growing socioeconomic stratification in South Asian America and
initiate discussion and action among students. At this two-day symposium
participants and panelists will question the various contributing factors and
complexities of these class disparities. It will conclude with students
addressing ways they can take action to foster solidarity within the
socio-economically disparate South Asian community, and thus help create a
stronger voice for South Asian Americans.
Please visit our website: www.yale.edu/sacc
For questions,
email
Ruchika Budhraja (file:///C:/AASA/news/ruchika@yale.edu)
or Neheet Trivedi (file:///C:/AASA/news/neheet@yale.edu)
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C) AASA Sponsored trip to NYC, see a play for $10: "At a
Come support an Alum and go to
"At a
Theater for the New City
New York, NY 10003
January 9th-26th
Thursdays
-Saturdays @ 8
Sundays @ 3
Tickets $10
Reservations:
212.254.1109
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D) Asian American Film Festival, 2003
The 2003 ASIAN AMERICAN
FILM FESTIVAL will take place from January 25-30. We will be showing twenty
films dealing with the themes of Asian American Identity, Coming of Age, Love,
Sexuality, Bollywood, History, and Social Justice.
Guest speakers include
George Lin, the executive director of the D.C. Asian Pacific American Film
Festival, Joy Dietrich, an acclaimed director of Surplus, Bertha Bay-Sa Pan, the
director of Face, which received positive reviews in the 2002 Sundance Film
Festival, and Greg Pak, a Yale alumnus who has received numerous awards,
including the Student Academy Award, for his film Fighting Grandpa.
The
festival is free and open to all. For more information regarding the films and
the screening schedule, please visit http://www.yale.edu/aaccaacc, or e-mail Clair Kwon at file:///C:/AASA/news/bo.kwon@yale.edu.
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2.
2003 Course Offerings:
A) Asian
American Studies Courses, Spring 2003
Asian American Studies Courses,
Spring 2003
Please see attached Word
document for full description of each.
SPECIAL
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Asian American history, 1800-1945
amstud 272b/history
180b
Prof. Mary Lui
The time for this course has changed to MW
11.30-12.20. It will NOT be offered next year as Prof. Lui is on leave; it will
be offered again 2004-2005. So if you are a junior or senior, this is your last
chance to take it. You still have time to sign up! Syllabus is attached
here.
B) Additional Lesbian and Gay Studies,
Spring 2003
Lesbian and Gay Studies will be offering the following two
courses this semester.
WGST 296b, INTRODUCTION
TO LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES. Jonathan D. Katz.
MW 2.30-3.20, 1 HTBA Not
CR/D/F III(0)
A study of
works that have as their theme gay and lesbian experience and identity in the
twentieth-century
modes of representing
sexuality and on the intersections between sexuality and race, ethnicity, class,
gender, and nationality.
Always, different
disciplinary and chronological models of sexual difference will be examined for
evidence of the historically shifting
nature of what only
comparatively recently has been called lesbian or
gay
identity.
*WGST402b
LESBIAN AND GAY AMERICAN HISTORY: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH
AND ANALYSIS (new class)
Jonathan Ned Katz.
T
This seminar will provide an
introduction to basic issues in the research and analysis of lesbian and gay
American history, and an overview of the field.
Class discussions will encourage students to explore different approaches to and
interpretations of this history. The
production of a major paper will provide students a practical opportunity to
learn and apply research and analysis skills useful
indifferent sorts of future studies. Throughout the course,
the class will read numbers of primary sources, along with scholarly articles
and books. Class discussions will encourage seminar members to move from
particular historical examples to more general historical
understandings.
This seminar
will begin with a brief overview of lesbian and gay American history, and then
focus on a few, particular texts, research problems and analytical issues.
Discussion of particular texts will allow students to engage major problems in
the study of lesbian and gay American history. Among
these are issues of age, class, ethnicity, gender (masculinity and femininity),
geography, language, race, religion, sex (physical
maleness and femaleness), sexuality (desires, acts, and identities), affection
and aversion, love and hate, and sexual politics. The seminar
will discuss how our present definition of a past object of historical study
effects what we learn about it, how to
understand a past object in its original historical context, how to interpret
visual as well as written evidence, and how historical
material is presented to different audiences, for different purposes. The
seminar will also consider issues of
theoretical orientation, and problems of
empirical research and historical interpretation. We will consider the ongoing
tension between American
society's present, dominant idea of sexuality as an ahistorical, unchanging,
essential thing, and the more recent scholarly understanding of sexuality as
historical, social, and variable. Always, the particular insights provided by a
historical, time- sensitive perspective will be
stressed
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C)
SouthEast Asia Studies Seminar Series
Yale University,
Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 22,
12:00 Noon
Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
John
Balaban
Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence
North Carolina State
University
"Translating Ho Xuan Huong"
Ho Xuan Huong - her given
name means “Spring Essence” - was born in 1772 at the end of the second Le
Dynasty, a period of calamity and social disintegration. Her fame in
Professor Balaban will read
from his Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong (Copper Canyon Press,
2000). Spring Essence is the first book of her translations to appear in
English, as well as in modern Vietnamese and the old, calligraphic script called
Nôm. He will ask the computational linguist Ngô Thanh Nhàn to join him in this
talk so they can discuss their work in preserving this almost extinct writing
system in which, nonetheless, 1000 years of Vietnamese cultural heritage have
been recorded. Ngô Thanh Nhàn is Research Associate at the NYU’s Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences
John Balaban is the author of eleven
books of poetry and prose, including four volumes which together have won The
Academy of American Poets' Lamont prize, a National Poetry Series Selection, and
two nominations for the National Book Award. His Locusts at the Edge of Summer:
New and Selected Poems won the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award from the
Poetry Society of America. He was named the 2001-2004 National Artist for the
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. In addition to writing poetry, fiction, and
nonfiction, he is a translator of Vietnamese poetry, and a past president of the
American Literary Translators Association. His books on
See http://www.yale.edu/seas/Seminars.htmhtm for SEAS Spring 2003
Schedule to date
PLEASE NOTE: John Balaban will also give a Masters Tea
at
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D)
Women Faculty Forum and the Yale Classics Department Seminar
Series
The Women Faculty Forum and the Yale Classics Department present
the seminar series…
Gender, Sexuality and Antiquity:
From the Arts to the
Sciences
(Each seminar will run from
Feb. 10 Ann
Hanson, Senior Research Scholar and Lector of Classics, Yale
University
“A
Long-lived ‘Quick Birther’: The Story of a Birthing
Amulet”
Respondent:
Naomi Rogers, Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies and History of
Medicine, Yale
University
Location:
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309
Mar. 3 Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,
Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, Hamilton
College
“Women
at the Center or Margin?: The Female Choruses of Greek
Tragedy”
Respondent:
Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women's & Gender Studies, Yale
University
Location:
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309
Apr. 3 Natalie Boymel Kampen,
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women’s Studies andArt History, Barnard College
“Antinoos,
Lover or Son of Hadrian?: The Representations of Desire in Roman Imperial
Art”
Respondent:
Diana E. E. Kleiner, Deputy Provost for the Arts and Dunham Professor of
Classics and History of Art, Yale
University
Location:
To be announced
For more information, please contact Shilpa Raval at
shilpa.raval@yale.edu.
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3. Fellowships and Scholarships
A)
Citigroup Investment Bank Scholarship
Yalies,
On behalf of
Citigroup's Investment Banking Division, I would like to invite you to apply for
the Citigroup Investment Bank Scholarship Program. This award will be
granted to undergraduate female and minority college sophomores/juniors who have
demonstrated extraordinary performance as leaders on their campus as well as in
their communities. Each scholarship recipient will be granted a paid 10
week internship opportunity during the summer before their junior/senior year
and is eligible to receive a one-time award of up to $5,000, which will be
granted upon successful completion of the summer internship. In the
selection process, we will be looking for a number of the same qualities in our
scholarship recipients that we consider essential for a successful career in
Investment Banking. We search for a combination of academic and leadership
excellence coupled with experiences and personal qualities that indicate an
individual's potential to thoroughly benefit from the program and excel in the
field of Investment Banking. Recipients of this scholarship are chosen
from a group of finalists who are selected through a rigorous selection
process. Students of all disciplines and majors are encouraged to
apply. Please note that students who have not maintained a minimum
cumulative GPA of 3.5 will not be considered for
the program.
Attached
is the scholarship
application. Please feel free to contact
Kristen Belfi (file:///C:/AASA/news/kristen.belfi@citigroup.com),
Sid Kumar
(file:///C:/AASA/news/siddarth.kumar@citigroup.com)
or myself (atit.jariwala@citigroup.com)
should
you have any questions.
Regards,
Atit Jariwala
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B) Institute for Public Policy Fellowship Program
The Institute
for International Public Policy (IIPP) fellowship program provides sophomore
minority students with education and training
designed to prepare them for a
career in international affairs. This training includes summer institutes and
development of a network of peers and mentors in the field.
Who is
qualified?
The IIPP seeks sophomore students who are US citizens or
permanent residents with GPAs of 4.2 or higher. They want students who have a
strong interest in international service. Applicants must be members of minority
groups underrepresented in international service including African American,
Hispanic/Latino American, American Indian, Asian American, Alaskan Native,
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
What do they offer?
-funded summer
eight week policy institute after sophomore year
-1/2 funding for junior
semester abroad
-funded summer eight week policy institute after junior year
-optional funded summer language institute for 7-9 weeks at Middlebury
College
-funded internships prior to graduate studies in international
affairs
-summer institutes include field trips to the UN, State Department
and World Bank and speakers from embassies, the State Department, the White
House and think tanks among others.
-mentors provide advice on resumes,
internships, graduate school, and job searches.
-at completion of above
components, 1/2 funding for masters in International Affairs
The UIC Office
of Special Scholarship Programs (SSP) will assist any students wishing to apply
with the process of application. One current
UIC student who is an IIPP
fellow is happy to answer questions about the experience and can be reached
through the SSP.
The deadline for applying is March 1.
Application
materials can be obtained from the website at file:///C:/AASA/news/www.uncfsp.org/iipp
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C) Leadership in Action Internship Program
Leadership In Action
(LIA) is a summer internship program from Leadership Education for Asian
Pacifics (LEAP) that develops emerging leadership by providing college students
with opportunities to gain hands-on experience working in selected Southern
California Asian Pacific American non-profit organizations. LIA is a rigorous
eight-week summer program. Interns work at selected community-based
organizations, attend leadership seminars, and work on community projects.
Interns receive a stipend for successful completion of the full program.
Brochures are now available. Take a look at the application for LIA 2003 by
downloading the PDF document. If you have questions
about applications for
LIA 2003, please contact Grant Sunoo at file:///C:/AASA/news/gsunoo@leap.org,
or (213) 485-1422, ext. 4107.
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D)
President's Public Service Fellowship 2003
Information for
Yale College Applicants, http://www.yale.edu/ppfsppfs
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E) Mellon/Bouchet
Please see attached application; Deadline is
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/fellowships/bouchet.htmlhtml
http://www.yale.edu/yalecollege/fellowships/mellon.html
www.yale.edu/yalecol/fellowships/mellonbouchetapp.doc
http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/fellowships/mellonbouchetapp.pdfpdf
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F)
Thomas Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
Program
DEADLINE: Feb. 21, 2003
The Pickering Foreign Affairs
Fellowship Program provides undergraduates and graduate funding to participants
as they are prepares academically and professionally to enter the United States
Department of State Foreign Service. Women and members of minority groups
historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service and students with financial
need are encouraged to apply.
For information about the program, visit http://www.woodrow.org/org and form more information about the
Foreign Service, visit http://www.foreignservicecareers.gov/gov or http://www.state.gov/gov
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G) Minority Job Fair 2003
February 21-22,
http://www.vpa.net/jobfair.htm
WHO
WILL BENEFIT:
Minority college students and recent grads in the Mid-Atlantic
region who are interested in pursuing a career at a newspaper company; newspaper
recruiters seeking to fill internships or full-time positions.
PROGRAM:
Guest speakers will include award-winning journalists and other newspaper
professionals from the
WHY:
To
increase the pool of bright, motivated college students and recent grads
available to fill internships and full-time positions in news, finance,
technology, graphics, advertising, circulation, photography, marketing, human
resources and production.
HOTEL:
Rooms will be provided for out-of-town
students only. Recruiters can reserve directly with the
COSTS:
Students: $25 for currently enrolled or recent grads (within last
2 years). Cost includes on-site meals, workshop sessions, resume critique and
interviews with recruiters. Students must provide their own transportation,
including parking charges. Students who cannot attend can register their résumés
for $10.
HOW:
Sponsored by the Virginia Press Association, the National
Press Club,the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and the Newspaper
Association of
** For a Student Registration Form, go to
http://www.vpa.net/student_reg03.pdfpdf **
FOR MORE
INFORMATION:
Call the Virginia Press Association, 804-521-7570. Ask for
Katherine Lewis or Denise Williams.
E-mail: katherinel@vpa.net or
denisew@vpa.net
Fax: 800-849-8717 or 804-521-7590
Mail:
Web: http://www.vpa.net/; http://www.asne.org/org; http://www.press.org/org; http://www.naa.org/org
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Joseph A. Testani
Career
Counselor
Undergraduate Career Services
Yale
University
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H)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholars Program Summer 2003
The
Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholars Program is a unique summer
internship
experience at the U.S. Department of Education, established in
commemoration of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his contributions to
civil and human rights in America.
Up to ten outstanding undergraduate or graduate students with an interest
in education policy or public policy and administration will be selected to
participate in the program this summer.
Selected students will be designated as Martin Luther King, Jr., Scholars
and will receive temporary Federal appointments in the excepted service for an
eight-week period, June 16-
We suggest that you GO
TO
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/Students/fshea.html
and
download the necessary information.
http://www.ed.gov/gov <http://www.ed.gov/> <http://www.ed.gov%20<http:/www.ed.gov/>
<http://www.ed.gov/>
>;
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/gov <http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/>
and
http://www.studentjobs.gov/gov <http://www.studentjobs.gov/>