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Congrats, Achsah Joseph '12 MCS/INDS!

Congratulations to Achsah Joseph '12 MCS/INDS, who has recently been hired as a Communications Specialist in UMBC's Office of Institutional Advancement.  Welcome "home" Achsah!

Posted: February 4, 2014, 4:44 PM

INDS alumni turned Communications Specialist

Welcome home, Achsah!

Achsah Joseph, May 2012 graduate, "Genocide, Human Rights, and International Diplomacy", is now employed at UMBC in the Office of Institutional Advancement! As an undergraduate, Achsah was a...

Posted: February 4, 2014, 1:07 PM

Ecomuseums 2014: 2nd Call for Papers

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS / CALL FOR PANELS PROPOSALS 28 February 2014 ECOMUSEUMS 2014 2nd International Conference on Ecomuseums, Community Museums and Living Communities...

Posted: February 4, 2014, 11:05 AM

INDS alumni takes a Round-The-World Cruise

Yohka Tanaka sets sail on the Peace Boat!

INDS alumni Yohka Tanaka has landed a great new job as interpreter aboard the "Peace Boat", a Japan-based international non-governmental and non-profit organization that works to promote peace,...

Posted: February 4, 2014, 10:21 AM

Developing Your Elevator Speech

Check out this great resource Dr. Snyder is using in 404: http://careerservices.wvu.edu/students/build-it/interviewing/developing-your-elevator-speech

Posted: February 3, 2014, 1:09 PM

CFP: Georgetown English GSA Conference

Please consider the upcoming interdisciplinary humanities conference hosted by the Georgetown English Graduate Student Association. The attached flyer contains all necessary information. This...

Posted: February 3, 2014, 9:52 AM

CFP: Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP 20

Deadline EXTENDED

In response to a number of requests for extensions, the abstract submission deadline has been extended until Sunday, 16 February 2014 4th International conference Applied Linguistics and...

Posted: February 3, 2014, 9:46 AM

Language Issues SIG Dissertation Award 2014

The Comparative International Education Society (CIES) Language Issues (LI) Special Interest Group (SIG) is pleased to announce its 2014 Dissertation Award!  The award is open to dissertations...

Posted: February 3, 2014, 9:43 AM

Maurice Berger Black Performers, Fading From Frame & Memory

New York Times Blog Weems’s “Slow Fade to Black”

The harder you look at Carrie Mae Weems’s “Slow Fade to Black” — blurred, soft-focus images of mid-20th century stars like Marian Anderson, Dorothy Dandridge, Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt — the...

Posted: February 2, 2014, 5:50 PM