Monday, October 24, 2011

Department of Art and Public Policy

Department of Art and Public Policy
Job Posting for Assistant/Associate Arts Professor

The Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University seeks a full time faculty member to be appointed at the rank of Assistant/Associate Arts Professor to join us in the Fall of 2012 to teach new forms of activism, community-based practice, alternative organization and participatory leadership in the arts.
The department explores the myriad links between art and society to examine the ways in which artists bring their art into the world, engage with civic issues, articulate their voice in the public realm. We offer a Master’s Degree in Arts Politics which treats, in an activist key, the nexus between the politics that art makes and the politics that make art. All Tisch Freshmen take a year-long core curriculum administered by the department that uses essay writing to develop a public voice for artistic citizenship. Elective courses are open to graduate and undergraduate students across the university.
The existing strengths of the department lie in conceptual and experimental approaches to arts, global, transnational arts movements, and sociological understandings of the art world. Our graduate program and elective courses attract students from diverse communities who have a keen interest in developing the arts professionally but from a community perspective and in doing work that is relevant to concerns regarding multiculturalism, cultural and socio-economic justice and equality, and expanded access to the arts from among traditionally under-represented populations.
We seek someone who can work on the links between the rich range of cultural expression in the arts and the enormous wealth of community traditions and audiences. Key to this link between arts and audiences is an understanding of how organizations, institutions, policy, funding-models, and the larger socio-economic surround impact the mutual development of diverse artists and communities. Always an issue, recent financial constraints have further strained already lean organizations, making the need for innovative and inventive responses for the arts all the more urgent.
The successful candidate will be a professionally accomplished, intellectually acute, strategically articulate artist/scholar who has worked with diverse communities and developed inspiring creative and organizational responses to the present dilemmas. This person will be rigorously trained, productive of an ongoing body of work of distinctive achievement, pedagogically adventurous and imaginative in their approaches to curricular development and devoted to teaching both graduate and undergraduate students. An M.F.A. or Ph.D. is preferred along with demonstrable evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Information regarding the Department of Art and Public Policy can be found at:
http://app.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html
To apply submit cover letter, resume, and list of three references to:
Art and Public Policy Faculty Search
tisch.arpo@nyu.edu
Applications will be reviewed commencing December 1st and continue until the position is filled. Finalists will be asked to submit further materials.
The appointment carries a five-year renewable term and a 2/2 teaching load.
NYU encourages applications from women and minorities.

“Moses Mendelssohn, Religious Enlightenment and Enlightened Religion”

I would like to invite you to a conference on “Moses Mendelssohn, Religious Enlightenment and Enlightened Religion,” on Sunday, November 13, 2011, from 1:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon, The conference will take place in the Art/Sociology Building, Room 2309 on the University of Maryland campus and is sponsored by the The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center of Jewish Studies.

One of Judaism’s most original and influential thinkers, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) has been called the first modern Jew, the founder of Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), the father of Reform Judaism, and an early model for modern orthodox Judaism. His edition of the Bible with German translation and commentary made him an object of veneration by generations of German Jewry.

Over time, Mendelssohn’s brand of rational Judaism was found wanting by romanticists, nationalists, pietists, and traditionalists. But in today’s post 9/11 age, where the stark alternatives of militant secularism and religious fundamentalism seem to leave little room for moderate, “reasonable” religion, Moses Mendelssohn presents a model of religious enlightenment that will at the very least challenge people who wish to think seriously about religion

The conference will bring together six of the foremost Mendelssohn scholars in the United States, Canada, and Israel to consider the thinker and his legacy

I would appreciate it if you would circulate this invitation to others. I have attached a pdf of the conference brochure.

Call for Papers for Trans-Scripts

Dear colleagues,

Attached please find a Call for Papers for Trans-Scripts, the interdisciplinary journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences at UC Irvine. Please distribute this CFP to your graduate students at your earliest convenience. The deadline for submissions is January 1, 2012.

The theme of the second volume of Trans-Scripts is "Queer Interventions and Intersections." We welcome a wide range of submissions from a variety of disciplines. Founded in 2010, Trans-Scripts is a student-run and edited interdisciplinary journal, and the editorial collective of graduate students come from diverse academic fields, including English, History, Culture & Theory, Comparative Literature, Women’s Studies, and African-American Studies. Faculty advisors represent an even more varied range of disciplines. All submissions will be reviewed by both students and faculty to ensure the highest quality of work. Though primarily a forum for student work, faculty are welcome to contribute as well. We also publish editorials by renowned experts on each theme covered.

For more information, the Trans-Scripts journal can be accessed at the following website: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/collective
/hctr/trans-scripts/index.html. Please direct all general inquiries about the journal or any comments on published pieces to our 2012 volume’s Editor-in-Chief, Jen Kosakowski, at jkosakow@uci.edu.

Thank you,

The Trans-Scripts Editorial Collective