AGLSP - Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs

Life science, movement, hope

Ken Smith — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:18:36 +0000

In one of the briefest of TED talks, Nalini Nadkarni looks for dynamic elements in rather static things: trees. And by teaching natural history and sustainability in a prison, she sees movement in a group of people whose lives cry for change. If we seek movement and hope, we can find clues and traces in the most difficult of circumstances, and we can learn to nurture it, she suggests, in “Life Science in Prison.”

Save the Date – 2012 Annual Conference

AGLSP — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:16:44 +0000

Call for Papers – 2012 Annual Conference

AGLSP — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:06:10 +0000

The Crisis of the Book: Worlds of Opportunity, Worlds of Change
October 18–20, 2012
The Governor Hotel
Portland, Oregon
Hosted by the Reed College Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program

From scroll to codex, printing press to computer screen, revolutions in technology have changed the way we receive and process information, and even the way we think about ideas. This interdisciplinary conference will place the transformation in print culture in a historical framework, and will reflect upon the changing nature of text delivery and the experience of reading.

How is knowledge produced? What role does the book play as cultural, material, and sacred object? What is the place of the modern library in the electronic age? How does the field of new media studies reflect evolving social contexts? How do we “see” graphic novels or navigate through hypertext fiction? What questions concerning copyright and intellectual property does the digital age raise?

Reading is at the heart of what we do in the academy, both personally and professionally. What is the future of your practice of reading? Please join us for a lively discussion of how knowledge is produced and disseminated.

We are now accepting proposals for presentations. Download guidelines.

Registration and Hotel information

The conference will run from Thursday evening, October 18, 2012 through Saturday noon, October 20. The pre-conference workshop will be held Thursday, October 18. Conference banquet will be held Friday evening, October 19. We strongly advise reserving your hotel room early to secure the desired room/rate at The Governor Hotel, a small, historic hotel with limited rooms in each price category.

Registration and hotel terms and fees: Download

Registration form: Download

Faces of Graduate Liberal Studies

AGLSP — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:28:08 +0000

Call for Nominations for the 2012 Annual Faculty Award

Ellen Levine — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:23:53 +0000

The AGLSP Annual Faculty Award is offered each year by the Association to honor an outstanding faculty member who teaches in a Full Member program. The award was established by the Association’s Board of Directors in 1991 to recognize outstanding faculty who exemplify the qualities of interdisciplinary, liberal teaching and who have participated significantly in teaching or advising students and/or have actively participated in other faculty service in a Graduate Liberal Studies program.

The 2011 AFA was awarded to Professor Sheldon Solomon of Skidmore College. Professor Solomon is recognized for his staunch, tireless support of the MALS program and its students since its inception in the early ‘90s.

Nominations for the 2012 award are now open (deadline is March 31, 2012). Download criteria

Welcome New Members

AGLSP — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:20 +0000

Congratulations Dr. James P. Pappas, Dean of the College of Liberal Studies, University of Oklahoma — Fellow of the AGLSP!
Fellow Membership is bestowed upon individuals to honor them for substantial service to the Association, through long-time participation and leadership.

Welcome New Associate Members!
- University of Houston-Downtown (Houston, TX)
- Lourdes University (Sylvania, OH)

Recalling Memphis at the passing of Rev. Shuttlesworth

Ken Smith — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:17:40 +0000

In the national news, the passing of civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth recalls not just a long and vital history of struggle and triumph but also, on a smaller, more personal level, for many AGLSP folks, the excellent annual meeting held in Memphis a few years ago where many of our panels, keynote talks, and excursions focused on this history. We might remember from that program, for example, the witness offered us by Rev. Billy Kyles, who was with Dr. Martin Luther King during the last hour of his life, or the storming of the stage during a Nat King Cole concert that historian Michael T. Bertrand described for us as part of his talk on the roles music played in the unfolding of cultural change. Hey, thanks again to The University of Memphis University College for hosting that conference for all of us in AGLSP.

Winners of the 2011 AGLSP writing awards

Ken Smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:55:29 +0000

At the annual meeting in Saratoga Springs, we will be celebrating the accomplishments of the winners of this year’s AGLSP writing awards:

Eriika Etshokin, Hamline University, for “Insights From Outside the Bathtub”

Toni Bunton, The University of Michigan-Dearborn, for ”A Tree Grows in Prison”

Congratulations to these two writers and to the faculty and students of their home programs which helped foster their fine work.

2012 Graduate Liberal Studies Symposia

AGLSP — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:12:34 +0000

East Coast Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium, April 6-7, 2012 at East Tennessee State University

The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, invites you to submit proposals for the 2012 East Coast Regional Conference, April 6-7, 2012. Please note that the deadline for proposals has been extended to February 15, 2012 at midnight. Call for proposals

For more information, visit http://www.etsu.edu/academicaffairs/scs/mals/

Call for Papers — West Coast Graduate Liberal Studies Symposium, June 22-24, 2012 at University of Southern California

The University of Southern California Master of Liberal Studies Program, with the USC MLS Student Association, will host the sixth annual 2012 Joint Graduate Liberal Studies Joint Symposium June 22-24, 2012 on the USC campus. Participating in the symposium will be students, alumni, and faculty from GLS programs at Dominican University of California, Maastricht University, Marylhurst University, Mount St. Mary’s College, Reed College, Simon Fraser University, Stanford University, and USC. Proposals for papers are due March 1.

Check here for call for papers and symposium information: http://dornsife.usc.edu/mls/2012-gls-symposium/.

USC Urban Biology Course Visits Habitat Restoration Sites

AGLSP — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:58:54 +0000

As part of their “Urban Conservation Biology” course, USC Master of Liberal Studies students visited coastal habitat restoration sites, including the Augustus Hawkins Nature Park in South LA, the El Segundo blue butterfly restored habitat in the Palos Verdes Peninsula, beach restorations in Redondo Beach and Torrance, the Madrona Marsh, and the Ballona Wetlands. On a separate field trip, USC MLS conservation biologists-in-training also compared wildlife observed in the Dominguez Gap restoration areas in north Long Beach and in the Los Angeles River.