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H-Slavery Announcements 1. FUND: Graduate Assistantship in Pan-African Studies (Louisville, KY, deadline 15-Mar-10) 2. CONF: 'Other People's Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics' 1. FUND: Graduate Assistantship in Pan-African Studies (Louisville, KY, deadline 15-Mar-10) From: Claus K. Meyer [mailto:claus_k_meyer@gmx.net] Graduate Assistantship in Pan-African Studies http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=174141 Location: Kentucky, United States Fellowship Deadline: 2010-03-15 Date Submitted: 2010-02-16 Announcement ID: 174141 The Pan-African Studies Master's Degree Program encompasses the experiences and issues of people in Africa and the Diaspora, including the Caribbean, the Americas, and beyond. The curriculum encourages future scholars to develop critical and global minds through a range of multidisciplinary courses. The program offers two concentrations, African-American or African Diaspora Studies in three areas: historical, cultural, and social studies. Applicants of high academic standing with a commitment to enhancing their education through research, community involvement, teaching or other activities are eligible for nine hours of tuition remission per semester, a stipend of $10,000 per academic year, plus health coverage. The application deadline is March 15. Dr. Denise Martin Graduate Director, Pan-African Studies Strickler Hall, Room 445 Louisville, KY 40292 (502) 852-5985 louisville.edu/panafricanstudies Email: email: pasgrad@louisville.edu Visit the website at http://www.louisville.edu/panafricanstudies 2. CONF: 'Other People's Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics' From: cmg46@CAM.AC.UK Registration is now open for the interdisciplinary conference 'Other People's Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics', which will be hosted in Cambridge at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities on 19/20 March 2010. Conference theme: Works of art - from Primo Levi's If this is a Man to Anselm Kiefer's Margarethe - are built up out of the destruction of human life and dignity. Drawing speci?cally on the horrors of history, they come to haunt us and question our understanding of the past, of ethics, even of the idea of 'knowing' itself. Yet, what is it exactly that these works of art can achieve? Medicine is able to heal or alleviate suffering through the work of professionals observing, testing, and writing about patients' physical and psychological pain. Human rights activists craft testimonies with the echoes of the victims' howling cries; lawyers draft national and international laws and resolutions with a history of persecution, war, and genocide foremost in mind. What are the implications of the meeting with violence and terror in scholarly engagement with texts of trauma? In which ways can art, literature and disciplines like medicine, psychology, sociology and law inform each other? All of these engagements seem to share a fundamental divide between the experience of the victim, the traumatic event itself, and the scrutinizing gaze of those who address it. How then are personal or collective traumatic experiences, maybe even the very 'idea' of violence, pain and terror, comprehended via narrative transmission? For more information - including the list of confirmed speakers - and to register, please visit the conference website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1154/ <https://outlook.cuit.columbia.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1154/> . Christopher Geissler (Cambridge) Martin Modlinger (Cambridge) Philipp Sonntag (Erlangen)
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