Chair: Kent Baxter
Notes compiled by: Kate Haake
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Announcements
There is still time to make plans for tomorrow’s (Friday, September 15) not-to-miss conversation with Iswari Pandey, “Jeans and Genes: Perceptions of Language Proficiency and Citizenship among South Asian Immigrants.” Join CSUN’s Multilingual Writers Group at 1:00 p.m. in SH 422 to hear Iswari talk about first and second generation immigrants’ perceptions of language proficiency and citizenship among the South Asian groups represented in his recent book, South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies. Iswari won the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Advancement of Knowledge Award for this work.
Also tomorrow, at 7:00 p.m. in the LNJ Reading Room (JR 319), “The Reimagining Narrative Film Series,” returns with a short film double feature screening of Chris Marker’s La Jetée & Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. Curated collaboratively by Christopher Higgs and Katharine Mason (M.A., 2017), each film in The Reimagining Narrative Film Series will be introduced and contextualized prior to screening, with an open discussion to follow. Free and open to the public, the 2017-2018 series is dedicated to the study and discussion of dream narrative. The series seeks to provide an opportunity for shared critical and creative thought and discussion by bringing together an interdisciplinary audience of students, faculty, and members of the community interested in narrative construction. Refreshments provided.
Reminders
Open Enrollment is NOW! Today, through October 6, you can enroll, change or cancel health, dental, vision, FlexCash, Dependent Care Reimbursement (DCRA), Health Care Reimbursement (HCRA) or voluntary benefit plans. This year you will have the option to purchase the VSP Premier Plan, an enhancement to the basic vision insurance plan. This plan offers a higher level of benefits for lenses, contacts and frames each calendar year. Changes to your benefits options (excusing VSP), can all be made on the portal, under the staff tab.
President Harrison wants us to be aware of the “Emergency Operations Desk Reference for Faculty,” posted at http://www.csun.edu/emergency/emergency-desk-reference. You may also reach the Desk Reference from the “Emergency Information” link at the bottom of the CSUN home page, http://www.csun.edu. Please review, or familiarize yourself with this important resource.
Opportunities
Applications for the Academic Programming Fund were due yesterday. But other deadlines (CoH Research Lab Faculty Affiliate Program and Distinguished Visiting Speakers Fund) will follow soon after, so stay tuned. For a full list of these grants, as well as the applications through our college page, please see: https://www.csun.edu/humanities/college-funded-activites-and-research.
Achievements
Amanda Harrison is the recipient of the Exceptional Service to Students Award, given in recognition of those “who are engaged in exceptional levels of service that support the CSU’s priorities, but who are not otherwise receiving an adjustment in workload to reflect their effort.” Congratulations, Amanda! You have well earned it.
Over the summer, Scott Kleinman travelled as a Fulbright Specialist to Nepal, where he led an institute in Digital Humanities (with some help from Santosh Khadka). He also attended the Digital Humanities 2017 conference in Montreal, where he gave a poster presentation on his text analysis tool, Lexos, and a talk on the 4Humanities WhatEvery1Says project, which uses Digital Humanities methods to study public discourse about the Humanities.
Noreen Lace was interviewed on a live streaming show about “The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe,” and you can see her here: https://www.facebook.com/SuperNewsLive/videos/1320673501315119/?fref=mentions