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Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Student Opportunities
Opportunities Open to All
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NEWS

OSUN AWARDS STUDENTS FOR ESSAYS ON "REIMAGINING ACADEMIC FREEDOM"
OSUN’s Global Observatory on Academic Freedom (GOAF) recently announced the winners of its student essay-writing competition on the theme of “Reimagining Academic Freedom.” Winners addressed several aspects of the concept of "academic freedom," including inequalities that arise when seeking to define it and the need to decolonize such definitions.  Read more

WHAT'S NEW

OSUN ACADEMIC CERTIFICATES INFORMATION SESSION

HAPPENING TOMORROW!
Thursday, March 2
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
OSUN faculty are invited to learn about OSUN Academic Certificates in Civic Engagement, Food Studies, Global Educational Development, Human Rights, Public Policy and Economic Analysis, and Social Enterprise & Leading Change.  Join via Zoom
Deadline to apply to all programs is Monday, April 3.

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES FOR MYANMAR WOMEN IN TECH?

Wednesday, March 8
7:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna
On International Women's Day, a research team led by Myo Thida (Parami University / Chiang Mai University, Thailand) and Amanda Landi (Bard College at Simon’s Rock) will share findings from a new survey on barriers against Myanmar women in the tech sector. Join via Zoom

LEARNING SPATIAL ANALYSIS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Thursday, March 9
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) presents a session on Data Analysis Skills for OSUN Students, led by EDI Research Associate Jordan Ayala. Learn more. Register to join via Zoom

DIMENSIONS OF "OPENNESS" IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES: POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND AGENCY

Friday, March 17
4 AM New York l 9AM Vienna
This Open Society Research Platform daylong workshop explores the concept of "open society" as it applies to expanding dominant approaches to digital openness in educational practices. 
Learn more. Register to join via Zoom

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN UKRAINE AND THE IMPACTS OF WAR

Wednesday, March 22
8:30 AM New York l 1:30 PM Vienna
Volodymyr Demkine, an OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative Fellow, will discuss his research on the environmental effects of military actions in Ukraine. Learn more and join via Zoom

WHY DO WE "CARE?" ROOTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION IN IRAN

Monday, March 27
6:30 AM New York l 12:30 PM Vienna
The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with
Firoozeh Farvardin addressing the history of political discontent and mobilizations against gender/sexual politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Learn more. Join via Zoom

HANNAH ARENDT IDEAS FORUM: THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ON THE WORLD STAGE

Deadline to Apply is Saturday, April 1
In May, OSUN's Hannah Arendt Humanities Network (HAHN) and Bard High School Early Colleges will host an Ideas Forum on the values of, and challenges to, the US-led world order. All expenses courtesy of HAHN. Learn more and apply

EVENTS

TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST SOLIDARITY AS PRAXIS: ANGELA DAVIS IN EGYPT

Tuesday, March 7
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with Sara Salem (London School of Economics), who will focus on a trip Angela Davis made to Egypt in the early 1980s to explore questions of transnational feminist solidarity and feminist difference. Join via Zoom

THE ROLE OF DELEGATE WOMEN IN SANTA MÓNICA PRISON, PERÚ

Tuesday, March 14
9 AM New York l 2 PM Vienna
The Bard Prison Initiative's Global Initiatives Virtual Lecture Series continues with Lucia Bracco Bruce, of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, presenting on “Co-governance, Feminism and Decoloniality: the Role of Delegate Women in Santa Mónica Prison.” 
Register to join via Zoom

WHEN JOBS RETURN: RESULTS FROM MARIENTHAL'S FIGHT AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

Wednesday, March 29
10:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna
The OSUN Economic Democracy Initiative's Research-to-Action series presents Lukas Lehner of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford, who will discuss the Marienthal, Austria job guarantee pilot program. Join via Livestream

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: OSUN FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR CONFERENCE

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT IS TODAY!
Deadline to Submit is Wednesday, March 1
OSUN's Strengthening the Core Initiative's virtual First-Year Seminar Conference on "Self, Society, and Living Together - Lessons from Seminar Texts Across the Globe" takes place in late April. Organizers are accepting seminar papers by students that are relevant to this theme. Learn more and submit

FACULTY, STAFF AND GRADUATE STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR JUNIOR VISITING RESEARCHER POSITION IN GENDER STUDIES AT CEU

LAST DAY TO APPLY IS TODAY!
Deadline to Apply is Wednesday, March 1
Central European University in Vienna invites applications for a 36-month position as a Junior Visiting Researcher to investigate "European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective." 
Learn more and apply

HOLISTIC CARE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS

Thursday, March 9 & Wednesday, March 15
8:30 AM New York l 2:30 PM Vienna
OSUN and Central European University offer network administrators and managers an online collaborative workshop reflecting on the pandemic's impacts and ways to foster places of care inside the academy.
Learn more and register to attend. 

AFGHAN CHALLENGE FUND CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline to Submit is Wednesday, March 15
The OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative seeks fellowship applications from newly arrived Afghans in the US, Canada, and the UK whose valuable research, teaching, and public work have placed them in critical danger. Learn more and apply

APPLICATIONS STILL OPEN FOR CEU SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2023

Final Deadline to Apply is March 20
CEU Summer University continues accepting applications for 15 courses for advanced undergrads, graduate students, postdocs, junior faculty, and researchers, as well as professionals who wish to upgrade their knowledge in the social sciences and humanities. Learn more and apply

OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO ALL

2023 TEXT SEMINAR: ARENDT AND/ ON RACE

LAST DAY TO APPLY IS TODAY!
Deadline to Submit is Wednesday, March 1
The Hannah Arendt Humanities Network Annual Text Seminar, "Arendt and/on Race,” will be held in New York in June 2023. The seminar convenes scholars from OSUN institutions for a close reading of Arendt's writings on racism and antisemitism. Learn more and apply.

OTHER EVENTS OF INTEREST 

FUNDING DIVIDES: HOW AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY FOSTERED SOCIAL TENSION

Thursday, March 9
6 PM New York l 12 AM Vienna
The Bard Center for the Study of Hate invites members of the OSUN community to a talk by Lila Corwin Berman on American philanthropy and how it serves the public good but has also often bred social, economic, and political divisions. Register to join via Zoom

WORKING/PLANNING GROUPS

Civic Engagement Working Group: Contact Caitlin O'Donnell and Erin Cannan  to join.

Communications Working Group: Contact Terry Roethlein to join.

Environmental and Social Sustainability Working Group: Sign up here.

Gender Equity Working Group: Contact Elmira Bayrasli to join.

Human Rights & the Arts Faculty Working Group: Contact Tom Keenan.

Library Working Group: Contact Megan Callaghan.

Refugees, IDPs & Host Communities: Register for the working group.

Writing Centers Working Group: Contact Jen Sweeney to join.

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