Humanities Graduate Student Association
Officer Meeting Minutes
Date: September 11, 2013
Time 2 pm – 3:04 pm
Location Humanities Reading Room, Library 5th floor
HGSA Board
Kelly Weber, President (Present)
Anthony Koth , Internal Vice-President (Present)
Michael Heyes , External Vice-President (Present)
Carolyn Van Wingerden , Treasurer (Present)
Larry A Butz , Secretary (Present)
Council Meeting Next Week
Three people from English coming. (not including Derek we think)
Six from Linguistics.
None from History yet!
Kick-off
Thank you letters sent out by Kelly.
Blog posted by Larry.
Pictures still to be posted to website.
How to Read for Grad School Brown Bag
Sep 20, Noon-12:50. New room request sent for HUMA 118.
Caleb scheduled okay.
Sent out flier this week.
Create Facebook event (Larry)
Should schedule next brown bag before this one.
→ Music and humanistic study
→ Invite Sidney Boyd (English, sboyd@rice.edu) and Jenny Judge (Philosophy, judge.jennifer@gmail.com) to speak. FOR NOVEMBER 15 at noon.
October Brown Bag – Abstract writing for conferences. Phillis McBride. (Michael Heyes in charge of contact)
Center for Teaching Excellence info gathering
Willing to do one on one teaching skills stuff.
Willing to sit in on your teaching session and give you helpful feedback.
Willing to help create lesson plans for things you must teach that are outside your wheelhouse.
Start conversation with them.
Maybe ask Dean Shumway how they can help with enriching TA training and education.
Teaching Committees
Should we talk to CTE first?
Must enquire about availability of Dean and CTE for meetings.
Trustees Meeting Committee
Announce we are working on compendium of achievements.
Will have to discuss with English what they are doing and meet with Dean Shumway to see if we are going forward to the Trustees as a humanities body or as separate departments.
Open committee.
HGSA Conference Proposal
Include digital humanities angles in proposal, but not a digital humanities conference.
Talk to 3CT.
HRC funding deadline October 4. Need to revise proposal to emphasize the connection between HGSA and HRC missions.
Shooting for Rice in-house conference in the spring.
Ask departments for financial support from departments. Possibly $500.
Target date: End of March. 22-23rd. Perhaps the 28th.
Funding: HRC. GSA apply for up to $1000. SAPP apply for max. Dean’s office (last place to go). Needs shows of support from departments first though.
Have proposal draft revised in next 48 hours. Can send Wednesday, September 18 to department chairs.
Kelly to talk to CSWGS.
