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2012-2013 Dates to Keep in Mind Welcome Back Event! Join us for drinks and pizza at Ye Olde Watering Hole in Northampton. *Future EGO Meetings* FALL: 9/10, 10/9 (Tuesday—> Monday Schedule), 11/5, 12/3 *Professional Development Seminar (provisional dates)* FALL: 9/24, 10/22, 11/19 2012 Conference Registration Upon receiving the acceptance, you may register to present up until February 20th, 2012. Please refer to [http://www.umassenglishgrad.com/2012-conference] for further details. 2012 UMass Graduate Conference: Bodies, Power, and Spaces Forces at Play: Bodies, Power, and SpacesCyber bullying, the male gaze in cinema, SlutWalk in Toronto, the canonization of slave narratives, border rhetoric in the classroom – issues such as these take up the ways bodies, power, and spaces converge in a re-seeing and re-interpreting of historical and contemporary social complexities. Investigating this nexus in our discursive and material realities gives us the language for articulating the machinations of power and space that construct and dismantle singular and collective (im)material bodies. The English Graduate Organization of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites submissions to our graduate interdisciplinary conference on March 31st, 2012. This year’s conference will push against standardized and finite notions of body, power, and space to explore how these three variables act upon each other to produce layered, complex, and radical permutations. We urge submitters to investigate the systems of regulation and control that maintain power over singular and collective bodies within various spaces. We invite submissions from a diverse range of disciplines, critical perspectives, and time periods; all three terms need not explicitly be examined in the project, though the possibility of convergence is an encouraged angle. Projects may include papers and/or panel presentations, performance pieces, and multi-media approaches on the following topics: -literary theoretical approaches SUBMISSIONS: Email submissions to moc.liamg|fnocgnessamu#moc.liamg|fnocgnessamu no later than January 25th, 2011. UMass EGO Minutes 10/11 Graduate Studies CommitteeFaculty at GSC are discussing what sort of direction grad students would like in the program. What can faculty do to assist with professionalization? Discussion around this followed:
GSS Finances:AN met with Graduate Student Senate, who is transitioning away from the graduate school to student affairs. This has led to some changes and ultimately may be the reason for the misplacement of funds. However, that process is in recovery. However because of some changes at GSS, EGO will be making changes in how we do reimbursements.
GSS General Info:FA met with a GSS representative so we're all updated on GSS activities for this semester/year. They are encouraging people to attend GSS meetings as they are in the process of negotiating a stronger relationship with the University. The next meeting is on Tue, Oct 18 from 12:15-1:45 in Campus Center 803. They are expecting to vote on changes to the GSS constitution, which can be reviewed in the current edition of VOICE or on the GSS website. They have three concerns they'd like senators to share with departments:
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Waltman, Anna Faculty Suggested Reading
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