Babel

According to the recent QS ranking of modern language programs in the world's universities, MIT's modern languages program has come in at #9, behind such institutions as Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale, and ahead of such places as Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, and Princeton. QS is the organization that U.S. News and World Report bases its international university rankings on.

For the complete ranking, see the following:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2011/sep/05/top-100-universities-world-modern-languages-2011

The MIT Program in Women and Gender Studies and The Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies (CB/BS) are pleased to invite you to the continuation of our Border-Crossing, Citizenship, Family and Gender series. The first intellectual forum will feature two short presentations followed by open discussion:

Wednesday, September 28, 2011, 12-1:30pm, 14N-417
"Gender and Citizenship in the U.S. Supreme Court: The Historians’ Brief in Flores-Villar v. United States."
By Prof. Christopher Capozzola

"Marital Expatriation, Martial Citizenship, Migration: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class during the Chinese Exclusion Era"
by Prof. Emma Teng

The second intellectual forum is also cosponsored by the MIT History Department:

Friday, October 14, 2011, 12-1:30pm, 14E-304
"Asian Inclusion Acts: South Asian Muslims in New Orleans and Harlem, 1890-1950"
By Prof. Vivek Bald

LUNCH PROVIDED – please RSVP to: Heidy Gonzalez (heidy@MIT.EDU)

Jing Wang was just appointed Director of the Institute of Civic Media and Communication at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou province, China. She will be doing remote management from MIT.

Ian Condry has two new publications in the fall 2011, namely, a journal article and a book chapter:

Post-3/11 Japan and the Radical Recontextualization of Value: Music, Social Media, and End-Around Strategies for Cultural Action, in the "International Journal of Japanese Sociology," 20(1), pp. 3-13, October 2011.

Love Revolution: Anime, Masculinity, and the Future, in the edited volume "Recreating Japanese Men," Sabine Fruhstuck and Anne Walthall, eds., Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 262-283, October 2011.

Condry will also be giving a talk at Duke University on November 8th on "Virtual Idols and Media Platforms."

The call has gone out for project proposals to begin in 2012.

We invite you to an informational meeting about the G&D fund from 3-4 p.m. on Friday, September 30th in 14N-225. Our colleagues Lissette, Min-Min, Tong Chen, and Margarita will present brief updates on their projects that were funded in the last couple of funding cycles. The committee will be present to field questions you may have about putting together a proposal.

Those intending to submit a proposal should let Ellen Crocker, Chair of the selection committee and Robin know by Friday, October 7th, 2011.

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