Communication Email: January 11, 2010
SASgov Weekly – January 11, 2010
1. Upcoming SASgov and SASgov-sponsored Events, & Announcements
a. Penn Politics & History Workshop presents, “Hayy ibn Yaqzan Away From Others: Withdrawing Ibn Tufayl Beyond the Muslim Question.” Friday, January 15 at 4pm.
b. Call for Papers: Penn Politics & History Graduate Workshop.
2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements
I. CULTURAL EVENTS
a. Free Yoga Class
b. Body Worlds 2, February 12
II. PROFESSIONAL EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
a. Bayard Rustin: The most important man you never heard of and why he matters now, January 19
b. GAPSA Travel Grants for Research Students due February 5
III. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Get your flu shot, January 15
b. Take the Landlord Survey, for prize eligibility by January 31
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1. Upcoming SASgov Events & Announcements
SASgov strives to improve the living, learning, and working experience of graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences and in the College of Liberal and Professional Studies”
1. Penn Politics & History Workshop presents, “Hayy ibn Yaqzan Away From Others:
Withdrawing Ibn Tufayl Beyond the Muslim Question.” Friday, January 15 at 4pm.
The third meeting of the Penn Politics & History Graduate Workshop will take place on Friday, January 15th at 4pm in the main conference room at 3440 Market St. Suite 300. Our presenter will be Murad Idris from the Department of Political Science.
Murad’s paper, “Hayy ibn Yaqzan Away From Others: Withdrawing Ibn Tufayl Beyond the Muslim Question” examines Ibn Tufayl’s twelfth-century allegory, Hayy ibn Yaqzan. Through a careful reading of the final portion of the text, the paper demonstrates a divergence from a dominant strand of English-language appropriations that place the Muslim question at the forefront of their analysis. From Hayy’s transformation into Muslim-as-good Christian in the seventeenth-century to his recent transformation into Muslim-as-tolerant liberal, this strand has extracted political lessons that privilege sociability and mutual respect. These lessons contradict Hayy’s hermetic withdrawal from a nearby island and they obscure the text’s critiques of conflicts within and among friendship, association, and hospitality. Hayy’s critiques and ethic enact a disengagement from the question and terms of “cultural difference,” thus going beyond the tendency of liberal toleration discourses to essentialize conflict (and reconciliation) to the personal, religious, ethnic, or cultural. Please email coordinate@gsc.upenn.edu to request a copy of the paper.
Please join us for this monthly series of interdisciplinary workshops.
Refreshments will be served.
The workshop is now looking for participants for the spring semester to present works-in-progress – please see the next item for details.
b. Call for Papers: Penn Politics & History Graduate Workshop.
The Penn Politics & History Graduate Workshop is calling for proposals for the 2009-2010 school year. This call is open to all graduate students at Penn and in the Philadelphia area.
We are interested in bringing together graduate students from a variety of disciplinary and methodological backgrounds to present and discuss working papers that explore issues at the intersection between the fields of Politics and History. Paper topics could include questions of transitional citizenship, liberation movements, religious toleration, political and cultural discourses, or postmodern landscapes, among others. We encourage students in any department or stage of research to apply.
Participants will be asked to present an unpublished paper for discussion at the monthly workshop. An interdisciplinary group of graduate participants will provide constructive feedback and discussion about the submitted papers. The workshop is intended to function as an informal and collaborative setting for students whose work crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a tentative title and a short abstract (200 to 300 words) to coordinate@gsc.upenn.edu. Please email us if you would like to be added to our emailing list or have any questions about the Politics & History graduate workshop.
2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements
GAPSA is the university-wide student government for all graduate and professional students at the University of Pennsylvania.
1. CULTURAL EVENTS
a. Free Yoga Class, sponsored by Bhakti Yoga Band
Date & Time: Every Wednesday starting January 13th 2009, 7:00-9:00 pm
Location: HH218-Ben. Franklin Room, Houston Hall, UPenn Campus, 3417 Spruce Street
Price: Free including Dinner
Details: Free Yoga Class to be followed by a free vegetarian dinner. To reserve a spot (Yoga mat plus Dinner coupon), please RSVP to byb_upenn@yahoo.com as there are limited seats.
To know more about our weekly yoga sessions, contact byb_upenn@yahoo.com
b. Body World 2, sponsored by GAPSA Student Programs
Date & Time: Friday, February 12th, 7:00pm
Location: Franklin Institute
Event Price: $5 per ticket, limit 2 per Penn ID.
Details: Tickets at the Graduate Student Center. Must bring Penn graduate student ID to purchase ticket at the GSC and on the day of the event.
Questions: contact gapsa.sp@gmail.com
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2. PROFESSIONAL EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
a. Bayard Rustin: The Most important man you never heard of and why he matters now
Part of The University of Pennsylvania’s Martin Luther King Symposium on Social Change
Date: Tuesday, January 19
Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm
Location: Penn Nursing School-Claire M Fagin Hall Auditorium (418 Curie Blvd.)
Details: Event will feature a screening of the award winning documentary about Bayard Rustin’s life, “Brother Outsider” which features archival footage of Rustin’s critical involvement in the black civil rights movement. A panel discussion centering on the controversy of advancing civil rights for LGBT Americans in the era of the Obama administration will follow and a wine and cheese reception will be held following the panel. Register at: www.sp2.upenn.edu/mlk
Questions: Contact julie.tennille@mail.med.upenn.edu
b. GAPSA Travel Grants for Research Students
Date & Time: Grants due by 5:00 pm on Friday, February 5
Any graduate student enrolled full-time in a Ph.D. or research Masters degree-granting program is eligible to apply for the GAPSA Research Student Travel Grant to defray the costs associated with presenting their work at academic conferences and meetings. Students may request up to $500 or half of their total travel expense, whichever is less. For more information, visit http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/funding/travel-grant-for-research-students
Questions: Contact gapsa.research@gmail.com
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3. OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. Flu Vaccine Clinic, organized by the Vice Provost for University Life
Date & Time: Friday, January 15, 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
Price: Free to Penn Graduate Students
For more information, visit http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/shs/flu_vaccines.php
b. Take the Landlord Survey
GAPSA, with guidance from Off-Campus Services and in collaboration with the UA, is collecting survey data. Simply click the link below to *RATE YOUR LANDLORD* in five minutes. You may also view last year’s results by following the link below.
The Prizes: The Office of Off-Campus Services is offering a brand-new *Lenovo IdeaPad S10e NETBOOK* as a prize for a randomly selected student from the pool of surveys. In addition, there will be a raffle prize of *dinner for two at Penne* and another raffle prize for two tickets to a show at Annenberg. All entries are eligible for the randomly selected prizes through January 31, 2010.
Find out more information and fill out a survey by clicking on the link to GAPSA’s page:
http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/gapsa-landlord-survey
