This Week in LANG 9/30/2024
In this Edition: **Chair Office Hours this week: W 12:45-2:45 (Zoom), R 12:00-2:00 (f2f & Zoom), F 12:00-2:00 (f2f & Zoom), Workload Policy, Draft Ad, Department Meeting with Dean Visit, Open Enrollment for New Health Insurance Aetna, Zwingenberg Presentation Thursday, SEACS CFP**
Dear colleagues,
Wishing you a good morning on this Monday after the storm. I hope you have heard from family and friends who live in the mountains. The destruction of Helene is difficult to comprehend. Please practice self-care and be patient with our students, many of whom come from the mountains. Please let me know how I can support you or our students in any way.
Please see the Message from the Chancellor for words of encouragement, resources for faculty, staff and students and for ways to help our fellow system schools, Western, Asheville and App State.
Note: If you see a link at the bottom of this email which says “Read Full Message” please click that to view all content. Or view the content on our website here.
Dates and Events this Week
Monday, September 30
- Aetna Open Enrollment starts, Information and what to do to Enroll
Tuesday, October 1
Thursday, October 3
- Visit of Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, Presentation “Ashes of History: Holocaust Remains Between Japan and Europe,” 2:30 pm, CHHS 380
Friday, October 4
- Department Meeting, Visit of Dean Boyer, Agenda for Department Meeting
- Dean’s First Friday at Armored Cow Brewing
Looking Ahead Dates and Events Fall 2024
October 8
- Headshots, Sign up for appointments here: Portrait Sessions Sign-up
- Witness in Residence presentation by Dr. Margaret Price, Ohio State University, 1:00-2:15 pm, Storrs 110. Register
October 9
- Engaged Faculty Lounge, 1:00 to 2:00 pm, Sycamore Hall, Room 306
October 11
- 2:30-3:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with NTT Faculty Members 3:30-4:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with TT Faculty Members
- Unsatisfactory Mid-Term Grades due, please see Unsatisfactory Grading At Midterm Instructions
October 15
- Applications for Badenwürttemberg program due
October 14-15
Student Recess, No Classes
October 17
- Last day to withdraw from course(s)
- Cultural Panel, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Career Center (more details to come)
October 25
- End of Open Enrollment for Aetna, Information and what to do
November 1
- Department Meeting
- Dean’s First Friday at Armored Cow Brewing
November 11
- Veteran’s Day, no classes
November 14
- Personally Speaking: Personally Speaking: “Immigration and Mass Incarceration: Another American Tradition”, 4:00 to 6:30 pm, J. Murrey Atkins Library, Halton Room; Learn More; Registration link to come.
November 18
- Deadline to submit proposals for SEACS: SEACS 2025 Paper and Panel Proposal Form
November 18-22
- International Education Week, submit proposals: via OIP website
November 22
- Tentative Department Meeting
November 25
- Nominations due for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence (tenured faculty) and the UNC Charlotte Award for Teaching Excellence (non-tenure track faculty) Complete the online nomination form
November 27-28
- Thanksgiving Break
December 4
- Last Day of classes
December 5
- Reading Day, Department Meeting, End of Semester Party and Retirement Celebration for Carol
December 13
- Commencement
December 16
- Grades due
Important Information for Faculty and Staff
Workload Policies
Please find here the approved CHESS Draft Workload policy. For reference, please see here the current LANG Workload Policy.
Workload Policy Timeline
October 4 Department Meeting Discussion of Draft
October 11 2:30-3:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with NTT Faculty Members 3:30-4:30 pm CAPC/Chair meets with TT Faculty Members
October CAPC works with feedback
November 1 Department Meeting Final Vote on Workload Policy
Upcoming Events
THIS WEEK
Open Enrollment with New Insurance Aetna
Click here to access the information.
Presentation
Dr. Ran Zwigenberg, author of Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture, will visit UNC Charlotte to present “Ashes of History: Holocaust Remains Between Japan and Europe” on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2:30 pm, CHHS 380.
SEACS 2025
Please note the Call for Papers for the 5th annual SEACS Conference. The Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies invites faculty members, independent scholars, and students to submit paper and panel proposals for participation in the conference. SEACS welcomes submissions on any aspect of literary, cultural, media, film, communication, translation, and pedagogical studies. The SEACS conference will take place February 21-22, 2025 at UNC Charlotte. Use this form to submit a paper or panel proposal: SEACS 2025 Paper and Panel Proposal Form. For more information, visit theseacs.org or email SEACS2019@gmail.com. I encourage everyone to submit a proposal and also to work with graduate and also advanced undergraduate students to submit a proposal.
Engaged Faculty Lounge: Drop in from 1 to 2 pm, Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Sycamore Hall, Room 306, for an informal conversation with teacher-scholar Joanne Carman on the design and teaching of successful community-engaged learning projects.
International Education Week
The Office of International Programs invites students, faculty and staff to celebrate International Education Week from November 18-22. This weeklong celebration of the impact of internationalization includes events that will showcase food, music, dance, language and film from around the world. We want to highlight these events through our calendar and in printed publications. Faculty and staff can request funds to help facilitate these events. To submit your event(s) and request funds, visit our website before Friday, October 18.
Witness in Residence
This semester’s Witness in Residence will address the campus on Tuesday, October 7, 1:00-2:15 pm, Storrs 110. The program was recently integrated with the themed courses, and is designed to encourage conversations about issues pertaining to human rights and issues of social relevance in the United States and globally. This semester’s program features Dr. Margaret Price, of The Ohio State University, who will present on “Exploring the Politics of Time, Disability, and Collective Accountability,” as part of a collaboration between The Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau Witness in Residence Initiative and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies. Register
Cultural Panel
On Thursday, October 17, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm, Enika Banerjee, Bianca Potrykus, Maria Mahaffey and Yukiko Yokono are hosting a casual business Cultural Panel together with the Department of Engineering and the Career Center. The event is at the Career Center.
Thank You!
Thank you to Fang-yi Chao and Xiaohong Mueller for participating in the Parade of Nations with our Chinese Dragon and the Chinese Club.
Thank you to Yukiko Yokono, Don Cross and Daniela Dal Pra for representing our department in the Fall Open House. Thank you to Anton Pujol for organizing our participation.
Thank you for all you do.
All the best,
Anabel