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Jordan

 I'm heading to Jordan tomorrow for the Fourth Arab Bloggers Conference. I'm pretty thrilled (albeit distressed already by the gesture to entrepreneurialism -- makes me think that communicative capitalism is global). I'm hoping to blog about the experience. It's been a while since I've done much first person blogging. And, this feels particularly risky since I have never been to the Middle East, don't speak Arabic, and don't know very much about the region. My posts, then, will be those of a naive observer. 

Fingers crossed for tomorrow's flights.

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Grad student opportunity: ASLCH travel stipends

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities will award up to eight $200 travel stipends to graduate students who plan to present work at the 2011 ASLCH Conference, March 11-12, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  In awarding these stipends, the Committee will take into consideration both the merit of the proposed paper and the applicant's proximity to the conference site. Graduate students wishing to apply for a travel stipend should submit the following:

•       contact information (including both home and institution addresses)
•       a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
•       a proposed paper title and abstract
•       information about the session to which the proposal is attached, if any
•       information about other funds the applicant will likely receive to assist in conference attendance, if         any

Please send applications for the stipend electronically to Professor Paul A. Passavant, Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, [email protected] by November 15, 2010.
Stipends will be awarded no later than January 14, 2011 in order to allow recipients to make their travel arrangements.