Anamesa Fall 2010 Call for Submissions

Anamesa, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2010 print issue. Graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to send in writing (including but not limited to academic essays, creative non-fiction, reportage, interviews, reviews, short stories, poetry, and other unclassifiable prose creations) and art of all sorts (such as photography, drawings, paintings, film stills, posters, prints, etc.). Anamesa considers material from diverse subject matter, and publishes creative and intelligent works that exemplify the transdisciplinary spirit of the graduate community.

Submission guidelines for papers: Include complete paper (up to 6000 words), abstract (up to 200 words), and cover sheet. Academic papers must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. All paper submissions—both non-fiction and fiction—are blind-reviewed so there should be no author-identifying information in the text of the paper. Although the publication will be in English, we are also interested in texts in translation.

Submission guidelines for art works: Visual art submissions must be in digital format with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI and no smaller than 5 x 7 inches.

The submission deadline is September 20th. Send submissions and queries to anamesa.journal@gmail.com. Please include a cover page with your name, departmental affiliation, expected degree and date, telephone number, and email address. We accept multiple submissions, but we ask that you place each submission in a different email message with the subject heading listing the relevant genre (e.g., “essay,” “fiction,” or “photography”).

For further information and to view previous issues of Anamesa, visit www.anamesajournal.org. Printed copies of the journal are available at the offices of the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought at 14 University Place.

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Salon night changed to Thursday

The weekly “DSO Salon” bar night is now set for Thursdays. Time and location remain the same: 9pm at Grassroots Tavern.

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sneak peek of DSO Fall 2009

Take a look at what DSO has planned for Fall semester: DSO Forum Schedule.

Events start this coming week. Full details and descriptions to come shortly!

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Anamesa Update – new issue online & call for papers/art

Anamesa Perception Issue!

The long-awaited Perception issue is now online. Visit www.anamesajournal.org to peruse the journal and to view the open call for
submissions for the upcoming Intersections issue. For more information on available 2009 staff positions, or other feedback and inquiries, contact us at anamesa.journal at gmail.com. (Hardcopies of the Perception issue will be available in the Draper and CLACS offices at the beginning of September.)

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Calling all editors! Readers! Designers! Programmers! Everyone! Anamesa’s back!

What? Start-up team meeting for the graduate journal, Anamesa
Who? Anyone interested. No experience necessary.
When? Tuesday, July 21 at 5:30pm
Where? Dojo Restaurant 14 W. 4th Street (corner of W. 4th & Mercer)
Why? Appetizers on us! (Oh, and the chance to be part of an amazing team project.)

Anamesa is an interdisciplinary journal of graduate works, run and published jointly by the students of the Draper Program and CLACS (Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies). Usually published twice a year, the journal has been quiet for the last couple of semesters. But, plans are now in the works to jumpstart it again—beginning with a joint issue covering the past fall and spring—and we need your help!

All interested in being part of the team should plan to meet for appetizers on the patio at Dojo Restaurant, 14 W. 4th Street (corner of W. 4th and Mercer) at 5:30pm, next Tuesday, the 21st. Please RSVP to Anna Bardaus at alb469(at)nyu.edu so we can get a head count. If you can’t RSVP in time, don’t let that stop you—come anyway!

Available jobs include: editors, proofreaders, designers and art directors, publicists, webmasters, and more. No prior experience necessary. Just a keen eye, a few hours a week, and lots of enthusiasm for the promotion of critical and artistic expression.

If you have any questions, contact Anna Bardaus at alb469(at)nyu.edu, or DSO President Myong Chin myc266(at)nyu.edu. Also, check out past issues of Anamesa at http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/anamesa/index.htm.

See you there!

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We’re still here! — Summer DSO activities

Apologies for the silence on this blog lately! We have just started up a Proust reading/support group for the summer, and have a few plans in the works for various outings in the city. More details to come…

Meanwhile, only the second meeting for the Proust group is coming up this Monday.
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July 6, 5:00pm
Washington Square Park, meet by south side of fountain

Reading: first 50 pages of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Volume I Swann’s Way
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Original proposal for Forums

Draper Forums
“Appetizers for the Mind”

PROPOSAL:
Basically, to create a Draper student group(s) for semi-organized
discussion on a regular basis. This is distinguished from, but fits
somewhat in between, Draper socials and Draper Colloquium.

GOALS and basic principles:
* To provide a semi-formal space for serious conversation among Draper
students who desire an exchange of ideas.
* To foster a sense of community within Draper, and encourage a spirit
of inquiry, curiosity, experimentation, collaboration
* To start conversations, and continue discussions, not necessarily to
reach results/conclusions
** This is where one can feel free to try out, in a supportive and
engaged environment, even nebulous ideas and questions that aren’t
ready for presentation elsewhere.
** Keep it a low time/work commitment (i.e. a session’s prompter
shouldn’t need to spend more than an hour preparing a spiel, while no
preparation would be required of the other participants)
* Can become a base for creating other more focused groups/activities
(e.g. paper exchanges, thesis writing groups, collaboration with other
dept reading/study groups, larger socials, planning for the
Colloquium, perhaps even a conference in the future?)

PROPOSED FORMAT:
* Meet weekly or biweekly (evenings, 8:30pm, to accommodate for end of
class sessions)
* Small groups, ideally 7-9 people (larger group(s) to start)
* With refreshments! (DSO funds are available)
* Location a smaller, unintimidating setting
* One prompter per session, very brief overview of a topic/issue, with
a question/problem to pose to group for discussion

SAMPLE 45 min MEETING:
10 min to gather and munch and drink
15 min to introduce topic and pose question
20 min to discuss / converse
(15 min to round out an hour, if desired)

PRESENTATIONS/QUESTIONS:
* Based on volunteers, not submission/selection.
* Range of topics to be refined, or not, as groups develop…
* Emphasize the questioning aspect; more conversational than “presentations”.
* More inclusive than exclusive in terms of acceptable topics.
* They can range from your current research/coursework, to subjects
unfamiliar but that you’d like to begin exploring, to anything about
which you’d just like to ask Why? We can have fun with this, not so
uptight about what’s Strictly Scholarly…

SAMPLE TOPIC, possibly for first session(s):
Interdisciplinarity – what it means to you, the status in humanities
and science research, the status in [higher] education, examples good
and bad, etc.

FOLLOW-UP opportunities: BLOG?
* Online communication space, in the form of a blog, wiki, website, or
even Blackboard, could enhance the discussion groups, allowing members
to follow-up on questions, continue discussions, develop connections
for other collaborations, etc.
* A central location for announcing time/location, prompters/topics,
etc. (instead of mass emails) which can be used for other DSO
activities as well.

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