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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  RELEASE: New faculty director named for learning community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Layoun is known on campus as an innovative teacher who is deeply committed to students.
Layoun graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in Literature and the Arts (1973).
Layoun says she is looking to continue her close involvement in student and scholarly activities in her new role as Chadbourne faculty director.
www.news.wisc.edu /releases/print.php?id=3669   (464 words)

  
 Layoun, M.N.: Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology.
In this bold, insightful work Mary Layoun investigates the development of literary practice in the Greek, Arabic, and Japanese cultures, which initially considered the novel a foreign genre, a cultural accoutrement of "Western" influence.
In each of the three cultural traditions, the literary debates surrounding the adoption and adaption of the modern novel focus on problematic formulations of the "modern" versus the "traditional," the "Western" and "foreign" versus the "indigenous," and notions of the modern bourgeois subject versus the precapitalist or precolonial subject.
Layoun textually situates and analyzes these formulations in the early twentieth-century novels of Alexandros Papadiamandis (Greece), Yahya Haqqi (Egypt), and Natsume Soseki (Japan) and in the contemporary novels of Dimitris Hatzis (Greece), Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine), and Oe Kenzaburo (Japan).
pup.princeton.edu /titles/4574.html   (257 words)

  
 The Nationalism Project: Books by Author K-L
Summary: This book, a work of literary and cultural theory, bases itself on the assumption that nationalism is narrative, and that assumption’s corollary: that national narratives propose and articulate "a rhetoric of the nation at the same time that they propose and enact a grammar of the nation" (11).
From these postulates, Mary Layoun scrutinizes nationalist discourses and their figuring of liminality and boundaries, their dependence upon gendered concepts and categories, their dualistic views of citizenship and inclusion/exclusion, and their relations to capitalism.
In her account of the sufferings of the Palestinians, Layoun takes up the question of what it means for a nation to have an inside and an outside, particularly when, as in the Palestinian case, it doesn’t (or didn’t, anyway) have any territory to speak of.
www.nationalismproject.org /books/k_l.htm   (1183 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Marilyn Booth on Wedded to the Land? Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis
Layoun offers succinct and detailed histories of each crisis as a prelude to her analysis of cultural texts, while refusing an easy as similation of "literature," "history,"and "experience".
Without pressing the point, Layoun's weaving together of these various voices adds harmonic depth to her conclusion, a hopeful plea that to attend to the possibility of "unheard" narratives is necessary to human--as opposed to merely political--freedom.
Layoun's elaborated readings of the texts she has chosen are admirably attuned to the whispered implications of narrative detail in closely historicized moments of cultural production.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=230311031770809   (1339 words)

  
 JS Online: Primer on Islam
Layoun noted, however, that American and Western colonialism sparked the disdain by some Muslims toward the West.
And the same actions motivate the even smaller groups of individuals who are willing to attack Americans because of that hatred.
But many of them said they understood some of the likely reasons why an organizer of the terrorists who attacked New York's twin towers and the Pentagon was able to recruit such followers.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/sep01/muslim20091901a.asp?format=print   (497 words)

  
 Fishpond.co.nz: Wedded to the Land?-CL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mary N. Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular.
Drawing on readings of literature and of official documents and decrees, songs, poetry, cinema, public monuments, journalism, and conversations with exiles, refugees, and public officials, Layoun uses each historical incident as a means of highlighting a recurring trope within constructs of nationalism.
These chapters are preceded and introduced by a discussion of "culturing the nation" and closed by a consideration of citizenship and silence in which Layoun discusses rights ostensibly possessed by all members of a political community.
www.fishpond.co.nz /product_info.php?cPath=280_2312_4003&products_id=1194474&osCsid=532c6751b25970d190dddef95691fd1c   (351 words)

  
 | Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5 | The History Cooperative
Refugee testimonies reveal a disjuncture between public and official discourse, as their stories both reconstitute boundaries and cross over them, presenting a gendered narrative perspective from which the story of the nation is told and retold.
While these points are well taken, Layoun does not mention that the arrival of the refugees contributed significantly to the political construction of a modern Greek nation-state, with its largely homogeneous population (in terms of language, religion, and culture), especially in the northern territories of Macedonia and Thrace.
Layoun's study also might have benefited from more specialized historical sources, as well as from a different transliteration mode (spelling errors in Greek terms could be avoided by more careful and rigorous proofreading).
www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/108.5/br_8.html   (668 words)

  
 The Badger Herald - University of Wisconsin-Madison
According to Layoun, a central purpose of the trip was to identify similarities between the poverty level of Turkish Cypriots with that of groups in the United States.
Layoun intervened once to quell hostility between several community members and student presenters.
She reminded audience members the purpose of the event was not to debate the finer points of the Annan Accord.
www.badgerherald.com /news/2004/10/14/students_relay_cypru.php   (657 words)

  
 Wedded to the Land? -- Gender, Boundaries, and Nationalism in Crisis -- Mary N. Layoun
Layoun offers a critical commentary on the idea of nationalism in general and on specific attempts to formulate alternatives to the concept in particular.
Narratives surrounding three geographically and temporally different national crises form the center of her study: Greek refugees' displacement from Asia Minor into Greece in 1922, the 1974 right-wing Cypriot coup and subsequent Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the Palestinian and PLO expulsion from Beirut following the Israeli invasion in 1982.
These chapters are preceded and introduced by a discussion of Òculturing the nationÓ and closed by a consideration of citizenship and silence in which Layoun discusses rights ostensibly possessed by all members of a political community.
www.frontlist.com /detail/0822325454   (319 words)

  
 RELEASE: UW-Madison students discuss lessons from Cyprus
The three-week international summer seminar on social justice, "Mapping a Diverse Cyprus: Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Religion," was conducted by Mary Layoun, professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and CRC faculty director.
The students will share their stories and the lessons they learned from participating in the seminar and from their interactions with Cypriots and non-Cypriots on Wednesday, Oct. 13, from 6:30 p.m.
Layoun says Cyprus and its residents welcomed the seminar participants and offered their stories and perspectives to the group as they moved back and forth across the divided island and its capital city of Lefkosia.
www.news.wisc.edu /releases/10249.html   (349 words)

  
 Chadbourne to get new faculty director (Feb 16, 2000)
Mary Layoun, professor of comparative literature, has been named faculty director of Chadbourne Residential College, a university undergraduate learning community.
Cronon developed the Chadbourne concept of connecting the academic and personal lives of students and has been faculty director during the program's first three years.
She has won the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award; helped found UW-Madison's Teaching Academy; and served as a founding faculty fellow at UW-Madison's Bradley Learning Community, another undergraduate program that shares Chadbourne's objectives.
www.news.wisc.edu /3669.html   (294 words)

  
 SCE -- Woman, Nation, Narrative
Under the direction of Mary Layoun and Anu Dingwaney Needham, the project gradually expanded to investigate nationalism more generally in a session of the MMLA in 1993 and in a day long workshop involving approximately 30 scholars, "Nationalism(s): Definitions, Explanations, Alternatives," held April 2, 1994, at Case Western Reserve University.
In 1997, Wendy Kozol, Mary Layoun and Anuradha Needham revived the project, though no longer under its original title, or necessarily under the rubric of its initial, exclusive focus on gender and nationalism.
The project organized a mini-conference entitled "Rethinking Anderson" at the 1998 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in order to address the following questions: Although nationalism continues to inform, indeed determine, material conditions in the world, why does it appear to have stalled as a subject of scholarship?
www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/WNN_main.html   (250 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Professor Mary Layoun of the Comparative Literature Department led nine UW- Madison students to Cyprus for three weeks of intensive study to explore issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and religion in the context of a divided nation.
Early on in the seminar I asked Professor Layoun what a possible central question might be for us to explore while in Cyprus.
In response to my question Professor Layoun explained to everyone in our group that we were to explore the following question, “What lessons can we learn from the Cypriot people?” Although I learned many lessons while in Cyprus, I think the most important lesson was learned from the children Kirsten and I met.
www.intlstudies.wisc.edu /DeansOffice/EIntl/StudentNewsF04.htm   (1186 words)

  
 Watch Right Internet Crimes Against Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Cohen has been a member of the university faculty since 1974 and was teaching "Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Literature" and "Literature and the Other Arts" this semester.
According to Mary Layoun, UW-Madison Comparative Literature Department chair, his "Introduction to Modern and Comparative Literature" lectures will be covered by TAs and other faculty members.
Milwaukee police released Cohen on $20,000 bail last week, but if convicted, he could face a fine of $100,000 or more, or a maximum sentence of 25 years of jail time for each charge.
blog.watchright.com /index.php?itemid=382   (581 words)

  
 WSJ News
Mary Layoun, a UW-Madison literature professor, drew cheers for pointing out that America has enough pressing problems at home with poverty, unemployment, citizens who are uninsured and the erosion of civil liberties without starting a war.
Layoun broke into tears, suddenly revealing her personal feelings as she quietly uttered, "Impeach Bush."
America has sacrificed its respect as a world leader to defend corporate greed, said Meg Ross of Madison.
www.madison.com /wisconsinstatejournal/local/44997.php   (429 words)

  
 Wedded To The Land?: Gender, Boundaries, And Nationalism In Crisis; Layoun, Mary N.; Library Binding; World Retail ...
Wedded To The Land?: Gender, Boundaries, And Nationalism In Crisis
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www.worldretailstore.com /item/BE-0822325071.html   (260 words)

  
 RELEASE: Teaching award recipients represent academic excellence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A founder of UW-Madison's Teaching Academy and the Bradley Learning Community, Layoun's signature always has been her ability to get students actively involved in their own education.
While active engagement may be a straightforward process in small discussion sections, large undergraduate lectures often present more challenges, Layoun says.
In fact, she is now developing a class in visual culture, with plans to offer it through the Department of Comparative Literature in fall 1999.
calendar.wisc.edu /releases/print.msql?id=377   (1279 words)

  
 Rambles: various artists, DJ Cheb i Sabbah, As Far As: A DJ Mix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I also really got into "Pour Matoub." The chanted vocals are so cool, creating a distinct atmosphere that the music drives home really well.
"Layoun Lokdhor" is the most audibly interesting of the entire collection.
The layering, changeups, background vocals and changing instruments make this a selection that you can listen to many, many times and still discover new parts or sounds.
www.rambles.net /sabbah_asfaras03.html   (289 words)

  
 The Daily Star - Business Articles - Alfa and the Lebanese Red Cross present $25,000 donation to the Tsunami victims   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alfa's subscribers kindly collected $25,000 in donations, which has been transferred to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent via the Lebanese Red Cross.
Layoun presented Alfa's managing director with the Red Cross medal during the occasion.
This charity initiative proved to be very practical as every Alfa subscriber had the opportunity to help the Tsunami-tragedy victims by just dialing or sending an SMS to the especially dedicated short code 1004.
www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=3&article_id=13519   (334 words)

  
 AFI - Inner country zones - Hajeb Layoun
AFI - Inner country zones - Hajeb Layoun
The industrial zone of hajeb layoun is located within 30 km from the village of kairoun.
This zone is equipped with all conveniences necessary for the setting up of industrialists, namely roads and pavements, drinking water, sanitation networks, public lighting, gasses and telephone networks.
www.afi.nat.tn /en/zones_en_cours/hajeblayoun.htm   (85 words)

  
 Being New and Teacher Preparation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The task force on Being New and Teacher-Scholar Preparation, co-chaired by Professors Nancy Diekelmann (Nursing) and Mary Layoun (Comparative Literature), was organized to examine how we support, encourage, and share our teaching experiences with beginning and experienced colleagues, as well as with graduate students who are considering the teaching profession.
Monthly meetings, workshops, seminars, and conferences provide opportunities to learn and share what others have done and to examine and propose possibilities appropriate for this campus.
The task force on Being New and Teacher-Scholar Preparation, co-chaired by Professors Nancy Diekelmann and Mary Layoun, was organized to examine how we support, encourage, and share our teaching experiences with beginning and experienced colleagues, as well as with graduate students who are considering the teaching profession.
wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu /teaching-academy/About/beingnew.html   (4625 words)

  
 Cultural Studies Conference - Versions of the Archive
The Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Conference will engage with "Versions of the Archive," the concept of the archive and archival research methods as both encouraging interdisciplinary projects and also as a site of disciplinary conflicts within cultural studies, between competing notions of what constitutes archival research, its value, and its function.
Three invited participants; Lynne Joyrich, a feminist TV critic from Brown; Mary Layoun, a post-colonial scholar from Wisconsin; and Sue-Ellen Case, from UC-Davis, who's written on new media and questions of sexuality, will join IU faculty and graduate students in three panel discussions followed by an informal discussion.
A description of the panel topics, the conference schedule, and panel participants is included below.
www.indiana.edu /~cstudies/main/conference2.html   (923 words)

  
 Salim Semaan Layoun
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 Cluster Hiring Initiative-Round 1 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Spring, 1999: Susan Friedman, Coordinator (English and Women's Studies), Mary Layoun (Comparative Literature), Ruben Medina (Spanish and Portuguese and Chicano Studies), Neil Whitehead (Anthropology), Thongchai Winichakul (History), Alicia Kent (student), Stephanie Huelster (student).
1999-2000: Susan Friedman, Coordinator (English and Women's Studies), Mary Layoun (Comparative Literature), Anne McClintock (English and Women's Studies), Ruben Medina (Spanish and Portuguese and Chicano Studies), Rob Nixon (English), Neil Whitehead (Anthropology), Thongchai Winichakul (History), Kiko Benitez (student), Kristin Pitt (student).
Last Revised 1/2/2001 © 2001 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System.
wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu /cluster/culturalstudies.html   (183 words)

  
 Joseph Ibrahim Layoun
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www.leb.org /v3/display/18015/saudi_arabia/joseph_layoun   (77 words)

  
 [MAPC-Announce] Code Pink Rally Saturday 2pm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Attendees will encircle the Capitol with a pink cord to symbolize their desire for peace.
Speakers will include Mary Layoun, a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor Layoun specializes in East/West relations and third world literature, and she is active in advocating for peace in the Middle East.
lists.madimc.org /pipermail/mapc-announce/2003-March/001257.html   (342 words)

  
 Samar Layoun
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www.leb.org /v3/display/22348/lebanon/samar_layoun   (74 words)

  
 Society for Critical Exchange Woman-Nation-Narrative
; or Mary Layoun, English Department, University of Wisconsin,
Session I: Materializing Nationalism: Race, Sex, and the Trauma of Citizenship
Chair: Mary Layoun, Comparative Literature, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
www.cwru.edu /affil/sce/old/WNN.html   (300 words)

  
 Abebooks Search Results - ISBN 0822325454   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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