Upcoming Events: We wish Fiacre the best of luck in his future endeavors. Congratulations, Fiacre!

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1 WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENT DIGEST WEEK OF DECEMBER 3 rd, 2012

2 Upcoming Events: The African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) is delighted to share the news that Fiacre Bienvenu will be graduating next week with a Master of Arts Degree in AADS. Fiacre is now enrolled in FIU s Ph. D. program in Political Science. At the commencement ceremonies next week, he will be recognized by President Rosenberg as a "Worlds Ahead Graduate" for his outstanding academic and personal achievements. We wish Fiacre the best of luck in his future endeavors. Congratulations, Fiacre!

3 Don t miss the last Senegal & The Gambia Summer C 2013 Information Session! Join us on Thursday, January 17th, 2013 from 3:30-4:45 PM at the Labor Center room 309 for our last Senegal and The Gambia Summer C 2013 Information Session! This information session will be the last one offered for the Senegal & The Gambia Summer C program. It will serve as an opportunity for those interested to gain general information about this Study Abroad session, the scholarship opportunities, meet other interested students, and much more. Due to limited space, we encourage you to reserve your spot today by calling Reyni Valerio at (305) For more information about Senegal and The Gambia Summer C 2013, click here!

4 Dear All, It is my pleasure to introduce to you the group of FIU undergraduate students who are preparing to go to The Gambia during the week of their spring break (March 10-17, 2013) to teach in middle and high schools of Banjul, The Gambia capital city. Each student will develop a syllabus for one week of teaching in one assigned classroom in the presence of the Gambian teacher. The classroom assigned to them will depend of the FIU student's major. María Camila Bernal and Aji Sain Jeng are the two student leaders of that group. AADS is fully supporting their project. In order to make that trip a reality, they are engaging in a number of fundraising activities: car washing, design of a T-shirt that will soon be on sale, etc. You could find more information about their initiative (they have put together a nice video) and find the link to their donation page by clicking on the image below. Hopefully, you'll be able to support them. I'll take advantage of this opportunity to also remind everyone that AADS is organizing a summer C 2013 study abroad program in Senegal and The Gambia (please click here for more information). Jean

5 January 31 DEBORAH THOMAS For more information, please call (305)

6 February 14 PEDRO NOGUERA For more information, please call (305)

7 Summer C 2013 SENEGAL AND THE GAMBIA For more information, please click here!

8 Announcements: Department of Modern Languages ARAB LITERATURES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (ABT 3502) Global Learning Course New Online course offered Contact: fboutagh@fiu.edu Professor Boutaghou, Ph.D Modern Languages and Women s Studies This course is an introduction to the modern literature, creative art, film and media produced in the Arabic speaking world and its diasporas around the world. The course explores different aspects of Arab societies and their diasporas --orientalist representations and their heritage, language politics, postcolonial subjectivity, post-colonialism and nationalism-- from a global and local perspective. This global and local approach crosses through novels and films, political discourses and representations. Please click here to find out more about this course!

9 February 5 SPECIAL PRESENTATION Black Jews: Do they exist? Lecture by Tudor Parfitt Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU Tuesday, 5 February, 2013 at 7 PM 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU Dr. Parfitt will be launching Black Zion ed. Tudor Parfitt and Edith Bruder (Cambridge Scholars Press 2012) and Tudor Parfitt Black Jews of Africa and the Americas (Harvard University Press 2013) For more information, please call

10 Call for Papers: Dear Colleagues: We have now posted the Call for Abstracts - panels and individual submissions - on the CSA website and are very pleased to invite you to participate in the 38th Annual Conference of the CSA to be held in Grenada during 3-7 June The theme of the 2013 Conference is Caribbean Spaces and Institutions: Contesting Paradigms of Development in the 21st Century. In accordance with our multilingual profile, we have posted the Call for Abstracts in French, Spanish and English, three (3) of the active languages of the CSA. In submitting your abstract(s), please note that we are running on-line submission forms. Please note that both membership and conference registration are required for all presenters, and we also welcome donations to the CSA (see Make a Donation) For further information on the Call for Abstracts and Submission Forms, go to: Contacts: President: Godfrey St. Bernard <gstbcsa2013@gmail.com> Program Chair: Maggie Shrimpton <shrimptoncsa2013@yahoo.com.mx> We look forward to seeing you in Grand Anse, Grenada! Godfrey St. Bernard and Maggie Shrimpton

11 CALL FOR PROPOSALS The NBGSA Conference Committee is seeking proposals for papers, posters, oral presentations, panels, and workshops that focus on our conference theme: Honoring the Past, Defining the Future. We invite you to join us as we commit to the future, reflect on the past, encourage our communities, and boldly blaze new trails! While proposals related to this theme are especially welcome, proposals addressing any topic of interest to the diverse membership of the National Black Graduate Student Association will be considered. Paper Competition SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We are soliciting research papers involving a single topic and explaining the issues, methodologies, and outcomes involved. Submissions will be automatically eligible for a cash prize of $200 for first place, $100 for second place, and $50 for third place. Competition winners and a selection of the best papers will be eligible for publication in Call and Response: The Scholarly Journal of the National Black Graduate Student Association Papers will be refereed by specially selected disciplinary and interdisciplinary professors and graduate students. A scholarly paper may be a research report, case study, methodological paper, theoretical paper, or scientific analysis. The text should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages and should follow the guidelines of the associated discipline (MLA, APA, etc.). No more than four tables and/or figures may be included. Posters Posters are ideal for presenting speculative in-progress work; late-breaking results; for giving an introduction to interesting, innovative work; or for presenting research from the hard sciences. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work. Poster sizes are not specified; however, they should be at least 17 by 22. Presenters are encouraged to bring 25 handouts for distribution during the session. All posters will automatically be entered in the poster competition. Submissions will be automatically eligible for a cash prize of $100 for first place, $50 for second place, and $25 for third place. Oral Presentation

12 Oral presentations are brief discussions of a focused research topic. Presentations are 12 minutes in length with five additional minutes allotted to each presenter for questions. While there is a paper competition, students who are interested in presenting research orally are not required to enter the competition. All oral presenters will automatically be entered in the oral presentation competition. Submissions will be automatically eligible for a cash prize of $100 for first place, $50 for second place, and $25 for third place. Workshops and Panels Workshops and panels are not forums for research presentation; rather, they should focus on a single topic or theme related to the graduate experience or the conference theme. These hour-long workshops should focus on fostering discussion and must not be presentation only; the major portion of the time should be devoted to discussion. Panels should not have more than five presenters. Sessions can be geared toward undergraduates looking forward to graduate school, or issues related to current graduate students. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The following information is required for proposals: Proposal Submittal Form This includes the title of the paper, poster, oral presentation, panel, or workshop; authors(s)/presenter(s); phone number; category; presentation format and length; and audio-visual requirements. Proposal Abstract The abstract must contain the title plus no less than 150 and no more than 200 words describing the paper, poster, oral presentation, panel, or workshop. The abstract should be in Microsoft Word format. Scholarly Paper If submitting a proposal for the paper competition, please note that full papers are due no later than January 7, All questions should be directed to the Vice President for Administration, at vpadmin@nbgsa.org. While proposals will be evaluated on a rolling basis, they must be received by Monday, December 31st, You should receive confirmation of receipt within 72 hours of sending your proposal. Notification of proposal dispositions will be sent within two weeks of receipt confirmation.

13 The Journal of Black Masculinity CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS The Journal of Black Masculinity is a peer reviewed international publication providing multiple discoursed and multiple discipline based analyses of issues and/or perspectives with regard to black masculinities. We review empirical, theoretical, and literary scholarship as well as essays, poetry, and art for publication. Submissions from multiple disciplines beyond the humanities and social sciences are encouraged. The Journal of Black Masculinity is published three times a year and has a ten percent (10%) acceptance rate. The Journal of Black Masculinity also publishes special issues on a periodic basis with guest editors focusing on themed issues. Manuscript submissions, books for review, and correspondence concerning all editorial matters should be sent to: Dr. C. P. Gause via the contact information below. Authors should follow the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition (APA Press, 2010). A style guide for preparing manuscripts and ordering information are located on the journal s website at The Journal of Black Masculinity GES Publishing Group/GES LLC 2309 W. Cone Blvd. Suite 142 Greensboro, NC drcpgause@gmail.com

14 Call for Submissions There are millions of Americans from all walks of life who are going through a tough time. Many have been severely affected by the economic recession and can neither pay their bills, nor afford the basics such as food and medicine. Our anthology, Tough Times in America, aims to provide a platform for telling these stories. We will accept true stories, as well as fictionalized versions of real life events. This collection aims to preserve and document narrative accounts of the anger, fear and frustration that most Americans are feeling due to the recession which has resulted in massive job losses, loss of homes, loss of healthcare, reduced retirement benefits, etc. We also hope to document the hope and gratitude that bloom even in the midst of despair true testaments to the tenacity of the human spirit. Significantly, we would like this collection to reflect the diversity of America in the 21 st century, and so we welcome submissions from people from all ethnicities, racial, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Submissions should be between and words in length, typed and double-spaced, Times New Roman or similar sized font (12 point). Stories must be previously unpublished in any form, including print, web etc. Each story should be identified within the geographic location/landmark of the city in which it is set. We want to show that these experiences are common to many Americans, regardless of race and ethnicity, so the cultural component is vital. We welcome established as well as unpublished writers who would like to represent their experiences or the experiences of their friends and loved ones. Deadline for submissions is January 29, Please send your submissions to: Donna Aza Weir-Soley: (weirsole@yahoo.com) and Max Freesney Pierre (prrmax@yahoo.com). Donna Aza Weir Soley is an Associate Professor of English at Florida International University. Dr. Weir-Soley is the author of First Rain, Eroticism, Spirituality, and Resistance in Black Women s Writings, and co-editor of the anthology Caribbean Erotic (Peepal Tree Press). Max Freesney Pierre is a former Administrator and Adjunct Professor of Education at Miami-Dade College. Pierre is a poet/writer/journalist, the author of Tambours de la Mêlée, Fée Caraïbe, Soul Traveler and Le chant de l apaisement.

15 Writer s Information Name Address Phone Story Title Number of pages/or words Date of submission

16 Job Opportunity: Florida International University invites applications for an assistant professor of 19th- and/or 20thcentury African history. This is a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies. The successful candidate will contribute a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective to the Department and Program. Ability to teach broad surveys required, but candidate will also teach in subfields of interest in upper-division undergraduate courses and our vibrant graduate programs. Regional specialization is open but West Africanists are particularly encouraged to apply; topic of specialization is open but scholars of decolonization or historians with expertise in Africa and the Atlantic World will be of special interest. This position is contingent upon funding. Please send three letters of recommendation, a CV, cover letter, and writing sample (the last document in.pdf format) to fiuafrica2012@gmail.com. We will begin reviewing applications December 1, 2012.

17 Fellowship: CCAPS Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship The Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS) program at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law will offer up to three fellowships for the academic year. The CCAPS fellowship aims to support the development of the next generation of researchers and thought leaders on the topic of climate change and political stability in Africa. Fellows are encouraged to present their research within and outside the Robert S. Strauss Center, collaborate on papers or projects with other fellows and faculty, participate in CCAPS research activities, attend and take an active role in CCAPS and Strauss Center seminars and conferences, and immerse themselves in the greater University community during their appointment. Eligibility Applicants must be registered in a PhD program. Fellowships are available to advanced PhD students, with preference given to those who have made substantial progress towards the completion of their dissertation. Fellows are expected to work on and ideally complete their doctoral dissertations during the fellowship. CCAPS invites applications from all disciplines, including both the social and natural sciences, as they pertain to relevant topics to the CCAPS program (see Areas of Research below). CCAPS encourages applications from women, minorities, and citizens of all countries. Applicants do not have to be attending a U.S. university or have U.S. citizenship to apply. Areas of Research The Strauss Center s program on Climate Change and African Political Stability conducts research in three core areas seeking to: investigate where and how climate change poses threats to stability in Africa; identify strategies to support accountable and effective governance in Africa; and, evaluate the effectiveness of international aid to help African societies adapt to climate change. CCAPS will consider applicants working on a broad range of topics related to climate change, political stability, and security in Africa. Stipend Information

18 CCAPS offers pre-doctoral fellowships in residence at the University of Texas at Austin for one academic year (September 2013-May 2014). The fellowship includes a nine-month stipend of $24,000 and one round-trip airline ticket. Deadline: February 15, 2013 For more information about the fellowship and application procedures: or ccaps@strausscenter.org Dominique Thuot Program Coordinator, Climate Change and African Political Stability Program The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law dominique.t@austin.utexas.edu We hope everybody has a peaceful and safe Holiday Season!