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Introducing the Association for Joteria Arts, Activism & Scholarship

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Forwarded from Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson:

Dear Comunidad,
On October 14 and 15, 2011, we took steps toward building an organization that brought together Jotería arts, activism and scholarship. After years of community dialogues and three Jotería conferences, which took place at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2007), California State University, Los Angeles (2008) and the University of Oregon (2010), the need for institutional spaces that support, affirm and manifest Jotería consciousness surfaced.

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JOB: Native American Studes, UC Davis

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UC Davis Department of Native American Studies
Hemispheric Indigenous People’s Socio-Cultural Politics
Open-Rank Professor

 The Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis (UCD) invites applications for an open-rank position in the area of hemispheric indigenous people’s socio-cultural politics to begin July 1, 2012.  This position would be filled by an interdisciplinary scholar whose field(s) fall(s) within humanities and/or social sciences, with a specialization in Mexico, Central America, as well as possibly borderlands research and/or emphasis in some other area of Latin America.  We are searching for a scholar whose work employs a hemispheric perspective and the political and cultural relevance of the social phenomena taking place in the Americas.  Candidates must have a doctorate in hand by the first day of classes.

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JOB: Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

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TENURE TRACK APPOINTMENT IN COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CHICANA/O LATINA/O STUDIES Pending budgetary approval, the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for an Assistant Professor of comparative ethnic studies with an … Read More

CFP: Politics, Literature and Film

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Call for Papers for the 70th Annual MPSA Political Science Conference, April 12 – 15, 2012, in Downtown Chicago Paper Proposal Deadline: 10/14; Poster Proposal Deadline 12/2.    Submit a Proposal Research:   A conference with about 1000 panels in all subfields, including Politics, Literature & … Read More