AASL seeks presenter for "Reading and the Secondary School Library Media Specialist" Institute
CHICAGO - The American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), is now seeking a presenter for the "Reading and the Secondary School Library Media Specialist" institute. The deadline to apply to serve as presenter is March 14 at 4:30 p.m. CST.
The institute was designed to address critical topics in reading for library media specialists serving grades 7 to 12. The institute will engage the library media specialist in topics that impact student reading - including current research, reading strategies, current national legislation and essential reading lesson elements. Through this institute, attendees will expand their knowledge, confidence and understanding vital to their role as an instructional partner in developing reading fluency and meeting the needs of all their students.
The presenter will be responsible for presenting content, developed and supplied by AASL, to regions throughout the United States, starting at the 2008 ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., in June. Qualifications include:
-Experience as a library media specialist or with library media specialists in a 7-12 environment; -Appropriate background in reading literacy;
-Excellent communication skills;
-Experience presenting adult-centered educational programs;
-A solid and thorough understanding of the issues and challenges facing the school library media field in regard to reading and literacy; and
Ability to travel
The presenter's fee is $750 to $1,000 (contingent on qualifications and experience) per institute, plus travel, accommodation and a $50 per diem.
Applicants must submit a letter of interest that includes travel availability, resume and three references pertinent to this type of presentation by March 14. Materials should be sent to Kelly Bishop, Manager of Professional Development, AASL, American Library Association, 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60611. E-mail submissions will be accepted at kbishop@ala.org
and faxes may be sent to (312) 280-5276.
For more information, please visit http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/conferencesandevents/aaslregionalinstitutes/rfp_reading.cfm
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Saturday, September 15, 2007
CFP: ‘EVIDENCE OF READING, READING THE EVIDENCE'
CFP: ‘EVIDENCE OF READING, READING THE EVIDENCE'
A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies , University of London
21-23 July 2008
Deadline: January 31, 2008
URL: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm
Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies
Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent
Studies centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last twenty years. They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompassed different periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent methodologies, but their common quest has been to recover and understand the traces of a practice which is central to our understanding of human history, yet notoriously elusive.
One such approach is ‘The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945' (RED), a project run by the Open University and the University of London . While RED is already proving its worth as a digital resource, its methodological parameters are necessarily limited and its vision therefore partial. What is needed in order for the study of the history of reading to progress beyond the boundaries of specific institutions, disciplines, methodologies, geographical locations and time periods is a forum in which as many diverse approaches as possible are brought into energetic debate.
This major 3-day conference, the first of its type, seeks to provide such a forum. We invite 20-minute papers from international students and scholars of any discipline - both within and outside the Humanities – who are interested in the history and practice of reading in any period or geographical location. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
-Theories of reading
-Issues of literacy
-National and transnational histories
-Reading and readers in fiction
-Reading communities
-Quantitative versus qualitative methodologies
-Genre reading
-Digital resources and their development
-Visual representations of reading
-Reading across disciplines/languages
-Using historical data in contemporary research fields
-The sociology, psychology and neurology of reading experiences
-Evidence of reading from private audio recordings and blogs
-Finding, compiling, interpreting and preserving the evidence of reading
Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 300 words and short biographies should be sent electronically by 31 January 2008 to all three organisers: Dr Shaf Towheed (S.S.Towheed@open.ac.uk); Dr Rosalind Crone (r.h.crone@open.ac.uk); Dr Katie Halsey (Katie.Halsey@sas.ac.uk).
A major international conference to be held at the Institute of English Studies , University of London
21-23 July 2008
Deadline: January 31, 2008
URL: http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/2008/RED/index.htm
Organised by the Open University and the Institute of English Studies
Keynote speakers: Kate Flint, Jonathan Rose, David Vincent
Studies centred on the history of reading have proliferated in the last twenty years. They have sprung from several different disciplines, encompassed different periods and geographical locations and chosen divergent methodologies, but their common quest has been to recover and understand the traces of a practice which is central to our understanding of human history, yet notoriously elusive.
One such approach is ‘The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945' (RED), a project run by the Open University and the University of London . While RED is already proving its worth as a digital resource, its methodological parameters are necessarily limited and its vision therefore partial. What is needed in order for the study of the history of reading to progress beyond the boundaries of specific institutions, disciplines, methodologies, geographical locations and time periods is a forum in which as many diverse approaches as possible are brought into energetic debate.
This major 3-day conference, the first of its type, seeks to provide such a forum. We invite 20-minute papers from international students and scholars of any discipline - both within and outside the Humanities – who are interested in the history and practice of reading in any period or geographical location. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:
-Theories of reading
-Issues of literacy
-National and transnational histories
-Reading and readers in fiction
-Reading communities
-Quantitative versus qualitative methodologies
-Genre reading
-Digital resources and their development
-Visual representations of reading
-Reading across disciplines/languages
-Using historical data in contemporary research fields
-The sociology, psychology and neurology of reading experiences
-Evidence of reading from private audio recordings and blogs
-Finding, compiling, interpreting and preserving the evidence of reading
Paper titles, abstracts of no more than 300 words and short biographies should be sent electronically by 31 January 2008 to all three organisers: Dr Shaf Towheed (S.S.Towheed@open.ac.uk); Dr Rosalind Crone (r.h.crone@open.ac.uk); Dr Katie Halsey (Katie.Halsey@sas.ac.uk).
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
CFP: Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art and Architecture
CFP: Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art and Architecture
Location: Iowa, United States
Call for Papers Date: December 7, 2007
Conference Date: March 7-8, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art and Architecture 23rd Annual Graduate Art History Symposium, 7-8 March 2008
The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, Iowa
Keynote address: Professor Margaretta M. Lovell (The University of California at Berkeley), “Winslow Homer, the Adirondack Mountains, and the Great Camps: Scenes of Instruction, Predation, and Play”
Art and architecture are serious stuff. We have no time for fun and games. Or do we? References to play, entertainment, and leisure abound in the discipline—from an Athenian amphora adorned with dice players and signed by Exekias to enigmatic Maya “ballcourts”; from Judith Leyster’s paintings of comic figures to woodblock views of festivals by Utagawa Hiroshige; from Marcel Duchamp’s “malic” chessmen to much of Claes Oldenberg’s entire oeuvre. In the last half a century or so, an interest in the subject has permeated the scholarly literature and become integral to a range of methodological approaches. Robert Venturi offered lessons on the forms of the Las Vegas Strip, while T.J. Clark drank in the leisure activities of modern life. And Jacques Derrida took pleasure in jouissance, while Henry Louis Gates “signified” a provocative reading of African American trickster figures.
The graduate students of The University of Iowa Art History Society have decided that it is high time we made time to consider this zenith of “lowbrow” subject matter. AHS hereby solicits applications for participation in our 2008 graduate student symposium on Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art. Papers may treat works of any genre, historical period, or geographical designation. Proposals must take the form detailed below. Final papers must be 20-25 minutes in length. Proposals must be postmarked by December 7, 2007.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
●Art that treats, or relates to, pleasure, play, leisure, and entertainment (subjects might include tourism, sports, reading, shopping, games, dancing, music, gardening, or humor)
● “Entertainment architecture”—spaces and places created for amusement, sport, or leisure activities (for example, museums, opera houses, festivals, world fairs, tourist attractions, and gardens)
●Artists/architects as entertainers
Proposals must include the following components:
●A 1-2 page, double-spaced abstract following The Chicago Manual of Style guidelines
●A copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae
●A brief letter of support from the applicant’s graduate advisor Proposals should be sent, as hard copies, to the following address:
● Attn: Megan Masana
The University of Iowa
School of Art and Art History
150 Art Building West
Iowa City, Iowa 52245-7000
With the authors’ permission, a selection of participants’ papers will be published in Montage, the online journal of The University of Iowa Art History Society (http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/). AHS will provide a small honorarium to accepted participants, as our final budget permits; further information will be provided upon acceptance. Participants will be required to submit their papers, in full, four weeks prior to the event. For more information, contact Symposium Chair Megan Masana, at masanam@aol.com.
Attn: Megan Masana
The University of Iowa
School of Art and Art History
150 Art Building West
Iowa City, Iowa 52245-7000
email: masana@mchsi.com
Email: masanam@aol.com
Visit the website at http://http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/symposium/2007/
Location: Iowa, United States
Call for Papers Date: December 7, 2007
Conference Date: March 7-8, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art and Architecture 23rd Annual Graduate Art History Symposium, 7-8 March 2008
The University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, Iowa
Keynote address: Professor Margaretta M. Lovell (The University of California at Berkeley), “Winslow Homer, the Adirondack Mountains, and the Great Camps: Scenes of Instruction, Predation, and Play”
Art and architecture are serious stuff. We have no time for fun and games. Or do we? References to play, entertainment, and leisure abound in the discipline—from an Athenian amphora adorned with dice players and signed by Exekias to enigmatic Maya “ballcourts”; from Judith Leyster’s paintings of comic figures to woodblock views of festivals by Utagawa Hiroshige; from Marcel Duchamp’s “malic” chessmen to much of Claes Oldenberg’s entire oeuvre. In the last half a century or so, an interest in the subject has permeated the scholarly literature and become integral to a range of methodological approaches. Robert Venturi offered lessons on the forms of the Las Vegas Strip, while T.J. Clark drank in the leisure activities of modern life. And Jacques Derrida took pleasure in jouissance, while Henry Louis Gates “signified” a provocative reading of African American trickster figures.
The graduate students of The University of Iowa Art History Society have decided that it is high time we made time to consider this zenith of “lowbrow” subject matter. AHS hereby solicits applications for participation in our 2008 graduate student symposium on Fun and Games: The Principle of Pleasure in Art. Papers may treat works of any genre, historical period, or geographical designation. Proposals must take the form detailed below. Final papers must be 20-25 minutes in length. Proposals must be postmarked by December 7, 2007.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
●Art that treats, or relates to, pleasure, play, leisure, and entertainment (subjects might include tourism, sports, reading, shopping, games, dancing, music, gardening, or humor)
● “Entertainment architecture”—spaces and places created for amusement, sport, or leisure activities (for example, museums, opera houses, festivals, world fairs, tourist attractions, and gardens)
●Artists/architects as entertainers
Proposals must include the following components:
●A 1-2 page, double-spaced abstract following The Chicago Manual of Style guidelines
●A copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae
●A brief letter of support from the applicant’s graduate advisor Proposals should be sent, as hard copies, to the following address:
● Attn: Megan Masana
The University of Iowa
School of Art and Art History
150 Art Building West
Iowa City, Iowa 52245-7000
With the authors’ permission, a selection of participants’ papers will be published in Montage, the online journal of The University of Iowa Art History Society (http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/). AHS will provide a small honorarium to accepted participants, as our final budget permits; further information will be provided upon acceptance. Participants will be required to submit their papers, in full, four weeks prior to the event. For more information, contact Symposium Chair Megan Masana, at masanam@aol.com.
Attn: Megan Masana
The University of Iowa
School of Art and Art History
150 Art Building West
Iowa City, Iowa 52245-7000
email: masana@mchsi.com
Email: masanam@aol.com
Visit the website at http://http://www.uiowa.edu/~montage/symposium/2007/
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