2. Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements

b. Bourbon Tasting, September 17

c. Moshulu Annual Meet and Greet, September 27

3. Other University Announcements

a. Asian-American Grad Students Welcome Reception

e. Join the Penn Cycling Team!

4. Other Events of Interest

a. UPenn Bookstore – Sept. 14 book discussion of “U-Chic: The College Girl’s Guide to Everything”

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1. Upcoming SASgov Events

SASgov strives to improve the living, learning, and working experience of graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences.  For more information, please visit http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasgov/

a. SAS Bash! Monday, 9/14, 5-8 PM, Warden Garden, Penn Museum.

Come catch up with old friends, meet new ones and celebrate the start of another school year. SASgov is hosting a party at the Penn Museum in the Warden Garden located at 3260 South St. The event is free with a Penn SAS graduate ID and government ID and will have beer, wine, cocktails and catering by Di Bruno Brothers! Students will be allowed to walk around parts of the museum too.

Please contact sasgov-comm@sas.upenn.edu with questions about SASgov social activities.

b. Represent your fellow students on the Grievance Committee

This committee, composed of students and faculty, works with the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the final possible stage of the Academic Grievance Procedure. Two positions on this committee are open to students in PhD track degree programs within the School of Arts and Sciences and to students in Master’s programs in either the College of Liberal and Professional Studies or the School of Arts and Sciences.

Grievance Committee meetings are expected to be infrequent, but due to the nature of cases discussed, the proceedings must be kept confidential. Please submit your application by September 15. No applications will be accepted after this date. Applicants will be contacted if they are chosen within two weeks of the application closing. The chosen applicants will be required to attend the SASgov meeting on Tuesday, September 29, 6:30-7:30pm in 3619 Locust, where they will be given a final review by SASgov’s General Body.

Please follow this link to the application: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yIaHzM4TdTrfKjbhAv7YmA_3d_3d

For a complete description of the new Grievance Procedure, please contact the SASgov Vice President for Policy at sasgov-policy@sas.upenn.edu

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2.  Upcoming GAPSA Events & Announcements

GAPSA is the university-wide student government for all graduate and professional students at the University of Pennsylvania.

Check the events page of the GAPSA website (http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/engage/events) regularly, as GAPSA is finalizing some great social events for September!

Questions: Contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

b. Bourbon Tasting at Jack’s Firehouse

Date: Thursday, September 17^th, 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location: Jack’s Firehouse – 2130 Fairmount Avenue

Tickets: $26 exclusively on Ticketleap, starting September 1^st. Limit 2 tickets per Penn graduate ID. Must present Grad Penn ID and 21+ID for admittance.

Questions: Contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

c. Moshulu Annual Meet and Greet

Date: Thursday, September 24th, 9:00pm-12:00am

Location: Moshulu, 401 S. Columbus Blvd

Tickets: None required. First 250 Penn graduate students will receive two (2) free drink tickets good for any beer or wine. Non-Penn graduate students will be charged a $10 cover, limit one guest per Penn graduate student. Must present valid Penn graduate ID for admittance and 21+ ID for alcoholic beverages.

Questions: contact gapsa.sa@gmail.com

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3. Other University Events

a. Friday, September 11, 2009 , 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Graduate Student Center Common Room

The Asian-American Graduate Student Association, Pan-Asian American Community House, and the Graduate Student Center invite new and returning Asian-American graduate and professional students to join us for some delicious appetizers and refreshing drinks. Please bring your PennCard to be admitted. Questions: Contact paagsa@gmail.com

The Graduate Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions for its 10th annual conference: “Missed Connections.” The one-day interdisciplinary conference will take place on Friday, February 19th, 2010 at the Penn Humanities Forum in conjunction with its 2009-2010 topic: “Connections.”  Our keynote speaker is Laura Otis, a leading 19th-century literature and science scholar and recipient of a MacArthur fellowship at Emory University.

What might it mean to consider the ways in which connections are foreclosed, desires for union left unsatisfied, communications disrupted? A “missed connection” might be as intimate as a brush with a stranger or as literal as a dropped phone call or departing plane; it might be a forgotten or neglected history or genealogy. “Missed Connections” seeks to foreground failures or absences of connection across disciplines and methodologies. We hope for briefs against perfect transmission, network theory attuned to the gaps in coverage. We are also interested in fields of study that might come into focus for being “unconnected”: the rural, the isolated (geographically and historically), the illegible, the strange/estranged.

This conference is open to all graduate students, at Penn and beyond, so if you know of someone at another institution who would be interested, please spread the word!

More information on the conference is available at our website: http://www.phf.upenn.edu/09-10/ghf/cfp.shtml

To apply, please send 250-word paper proposals for one of the panels (described on the website) along with a 1-page CV via email to Rachael Nichols at nichols.rachael@gmail.com by Nov 1, 2009. (Notification by Dec 1, 2009.)

The Penn Politics & History Graduate Workshop is calling for proposals for the fall 2009 semester. 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 related to this year’s theme: Changing Narratives of Liberty. Paper topics could include questions of citizenship, liberation movements, religious toleration, political discourses, and surveillance, 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) no later than September 15th 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.

The Graduate Workshop of the Penn Interdisciplinary Program for Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism is now calling for proposals for papers to present in the fall 2009 semester. This call is open to all graduate students at Penn and in the Philadelphia area. We are interested in bringing into dialogue a variety of scholars, approaches and themes, especially as related to this year’s topic of Sovereignty, Territoriality, and Plural Citizenships. Paper topics might include questions of identity, colonial discourses, diplomacy, nationalisms, postcolonial state formation, gender and citizenship, contests over and within national and territorial boundaries, and liberation movements. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a provisional title and a short abstract (200 to 300 words) no later than August 17th to PennDCC@gmail.com.

You can find the abstracts and papers from previous workshops on the DCCGraduate Workshop website: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/dcc/workshops/graduate.html

Please also email us if you would like to be added to any of the DCC emailin lists or have any questions about the DCC graduate workshop. PennDCC@gmail.com

e. Join the Penn Cycling Team

Penn Cycling Team Fall Introductory Meeting
Wednesday, September 9
7pm - Huntsman Hall Room 240

The University of Pennsylvania Cycling Team is composed of a broad mix of students from all schools, both undergraduate and graduate, and consists of men and women interested in anything from competitive racing to recreational riding.  Our racers compete on both the road and mountain trails, and while competing in the collegiate circuit requires one to be a full time student at the University, to ride with us, all you need is a bike!  At the meeting, we’ll discuss:

- Finding a Bike - for all price ranges
- Road, Cyclocross and Mountain Bike Racing, Recreational & Training Rides
- Deals: Savings of > 30% on new racing bikes, wheels, Gu and Clif Bar products, clothing and accessories, and free racing (licenses, registration fees, transport, & lodging)

- Access: Use of team tools, coaching/training plan workshops, skill clinics, bike repair, riding/racing, Pottruck gym spinning rooms, and the Breakaway Bikes indoor training RPM program (fall & spring)

Check out: http://www.dolphin.upenn.edu/cycling/ for announcements, ride calendar, cue sheets/maps, profiles, photos, ride reports, and more!

Questions: Contact jbosley@mail.med.upenn.edu

We hope to see you at the meeting and on the road!

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4. Other Events of Interest

a. UPenn Bookstore - discussion of “U Chic”

Penn Alumna Christie Garton will be here on Monday, Sept. 14 discussing her book “U Chic: The College Girl’s Guide to Everything” Christie is a 2006 graduate of the law school and has a social website by the same title (www.universitychic.com)

Event Details:

Monday, Sept. 14 at 6PM

Alumna Christie Garton

“U-Chic: The College Girl’s Guide to Everything”

The ultimate girls’ guide to college life, brought to you by universitychic.com - the number 1 online resource and community network for college women.

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*Please visit http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/ for more information on upcoming Grad Student Center events.