Upcoming Call for Papers, Panelists, Funding & Employment Opportunities,
Awards and Summer Courses || Prochain appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences, bourses & offre d'emploi, prix et cours d'été
9 April | avril 2015
All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program
directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are
invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links to detailed
posting guidelines: in English and French
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0c1zm5UGz8pUklkeXR4X3phYVE/view>.
Tous les membres du réseau des étudiants de CASCA ainsi que les directeurs
de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des
possibilités d'intérêt pour nos membres sont invités à contacter les
modérateurs ([log in to unmask]). Voir ci-dessous pour directives sur les
affectations détaillées:en français et anglais
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0c1zm5UGz8pUklkeXR4X3phYVE/view>.
1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Participants Needed for Survey on Ethics in International Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities Work
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] AAA Panel - Dangerous Discourse: Activism, Resistance, and Mediation
in Social Policy
Mandates in Education - Deadline: Ongoing
[2] AAA Panel - (Proposed Session Title) Paradoxes and Complexities of
Education for the
Knowledge Economy - Deadline: Ongoing
[3] AAA Panel - The Expediency of Roads - Deadline: Ongoing
[4] AAA Panel - Feelings of Familiarity and Estrangement: Exploring the
Work of Affect in NGOs and Nonprofits - Deadline: April 10, 2015
[5] AAA Panel - Estranging the Familiar: Racism, Immigration, and Nation
Making in the Everyday - Deadline: April 10, 2015
[6] AAA Panel - Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Neoliberalism in
Education - Deadline- April 10, 2015
[7] AAA Roundtable - ‘Studying through’ in Anthropology Roundtable: Tips,
Tools, and Strategies for Emerging Policy Scholars - Deadline: April 10,
2015
[8] AAA Roundtable - “Black Lives Matters” - Deadline: April 10, 2014
[9] AAA Panel - Counter-narratives: Challenging Dominant Discourse in
Rights and Justice - Deadline: April 12, 2015
[10] AAA Panel - To Promote the Well-Being of Humanity Throughout the
World”: NGOs, The
Rockefeller Foundation, and Humanitarian work in Asia, Africa, The
Americas.Deadline: April 12, 2015
[11] AAA Panel - Learning Technologies: Active Learning and Ethnocomputing
in Higher Education - Deadline: April 13, 2015
[12] AAA Roundtable: Racing the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on
racism and inequality in a new geological epoch - Deadline: April 13, 2015
[13] Conference - IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología - Mexico City
- October 7-10, 2015 - Deadline: April 30, 2015
[14] Conference - Globalization: The Urban Crisis and Economic Democracy -
University of Toledo, June 12-14, 2015 - Deadline: May 10, 2015
[15] Conference Sessions - NGO-graphies (As part of the AAA 2015) - Denver,
Colorado - November 17-18- Deadline: May 15, 2015
[16] Conference - Affect Theory Conference - Ware Center - Millersville
University - October 14-17, 2015- Deadline: May 18, 2015
[17] Articles - Deliberate: The Experiences of Women of Colo(u)r Graduate
Students - Deadline: June 15, 2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Postdoctoral Positions - CUMORE(CULTURAL MOBILITIES RESEARCH) -
University of Leuven - Deadline: See links
[2] Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnographic Design - Communication - Social
Sciences - University of California San Diego - Deadline: May 12, 2015
[3] APLA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE - Deadline: July 1, 2015
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Visiting Assistant Professor - Medical Anthropology - Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio - Deadline: April 17, 2015
4. Requests and queries from members of the CASCA Student Network (reply
directly to the poster) || Requêtes des étudiant(e)s pour obtenir des
conseils ou ressources (les réponses seront envoyées directement à
l'étudiant(e) en question).
N/A
5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES || COURS D'ÉTÉ
N/A
*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: English posting guidelines
<http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>
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1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Participants Needed for Survey on Ethics in International Intellectual
and Developmental Disabilities Work
Have you engaged with individuals or groups with intellectual or
developmental disabilities (I/DD) in a different culture? If so, you are
eligible to participate in a study aiming to identify common ethical issues
encountered when working with these disabilities across cultures. Global
I/DD work is critical and occurring more frequently, but often includes
ethical issues. Providing your stories of ethical challenges or dilemmas
will help better prepare future interventionists, researchers, and
volunteers to work with this population in different cultural settings. To
participate, please follow this link:
https://qtrial2015az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8hUGy1GhiY2TzjT
The survey will take between 20 minutes and 1 hour. You will also have the
option of participating in follow-up interviews on phone or email. All
participation will be anonymous and confidential. Feel free to share with
colleagues or friends who may be eligible. You may also contact the PI,
Jennifer Sarrett, [log in to unmask] or 404-727-3734 with any questions or
concerns.
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications
et conférences
[1] AAA Panel - Dangerous Discourse: Activism, Resistance, and Mediation
in Social Policy Mandates in Education - Deadline: Ongoing
Organizer: Robert Whitman
Chair: Robert Whitman
Many nations and cultures around the world have increasingly adopted social
policies towards education that emphasize the economic and global,
targeting those populations that historically have not realized education's
promise. Social policy mandates often largely ignore locally situated
discourses that may construct the purposes of education in alternative
forms. These forms may conflict with social policy mandates and create the
possibility for conflict and/or for local actors to organize and work for
what they perceive as important local interests with respect to their
children’s education. This panel will bring together scholars who use
ethnographic methods to study the point of contact where education mandates
interact with locally constructed discourses on the ground. In the
complicated context where mandates from above connect with local discourses
some of the questions that might come up could be: What happens when local
actors adapt and/or preempt educational mandates? How do actors on the
ground use social policy discourses to suit their local needs? How do
local actors perceive the purpose and impact of educational policy in their
own terms? What happens when policy dictates come with high stakes
consequences such as school closings or teacher firings? How do contexts
of activism arise and what role should we, as anthropologists, play when
this becomes a part of the “research?”
Please send abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
[2] AAA Panel - (Proposed Session Title) Paradoxes and Complexities of
Education for the Knowledge Economy - Deadline: Ongoing
Countries around the world have picked up the discourses of knowledge
economy to reform their educational systems. New standards for education
are introduced, new practices are pursued, and new models of teaching and
learning are advocated. Most of the explorations of knowledge economy have
focused predominantly on the discursive applications of this construct
(e.g., Lauder et al 2012) in higher education contexts (Olssen and Peters
2005; Shore 2008, 2010). Questions remain about ways in which teachers and
students in K-12 settings around the world are being re-positioned by these
discourses, in what ways their activities become more visible, and what
types of "knowledge" becomes (in)accessible to whom. This panel will
attempt to problematize the impact of these discourses on K-12
policy-making and examine the paradoxes embedded in reforms targeting K-12
systems as
responsible for advancing or creating nations' "knowledge economies."
Possible questions that can be pursued are: What paradoxes embedded in the
knowledge economy policies emerge when different actors engage with these
policies? What subjectivities do they pursue to instill in the participants
of educational processes? What policies or practices do these discourses
become translated into? How do participants contest, struggle with, or
potentially appropriate the discourses of knowledge economies in their
everyday lives inside and outside of educational establishments? By
bringing together presenters who work in diverse geographic and educational
contexts, this panel seeks to explore the web of meanings, repetitions, and
reincarnations that the knowledge economy discourses have created in K-12
settings around the world.
If you are interested in participating in this panel, please, contact Helen
(Olena) Aydarova at [log in to unmask]
[3] AAA Panel - The Expediency of Roads - Deadline: Ongoing
Across global spaces, modern road construction is typically promoted in the
political economic contexts of poverty alleviation (Howe and Richards,
1984; World Bank 2006) and capacity building (Sen 1999). Today, this
orientation is especially powerful throughout Asia’s mountain borderlands,
where international road development increasingly proliferates in the
multiple forms of state-based, transnational NGO, and community-based
infrastructure strategies. While the expansion of road systems,
particularly in rural environments, provides diverse community benefits
including (but not limited to) increased connectivity, decreased transport
costs, and new livelihood opportunities, these outcomes remain predicated
on market integration and capital circulation, dynamics which invariably
introduce profound forces of social and cultural change to road-affected
populations.
At once both convenient and practical yet disruptive and controversial, the
“expediency of roads” provides a starting point for critical engagements
with the social dynamics of road development. With a view towards the
paradoxical experiences of road-based mobility (Cresswell and Merriman
2012; Cresswell 2001), this panel explores and calls for new considerations
on the uneven intersections (Smith 2008) of rural road development and
everyday life across highland Asia. In order to expand ongoing discussions
of “ roadology” (Yongming 2014) – or the anthropology of roads – this
panel strongly encourages cross-disciplinary perspectives and welcomes
papers from anthropology, sociology, geography, and critical development
studies, amongst others.
Please contact Galen Murton ([log in to unmask]) for more
information.
[4] AAA Panel - Feelings of Familiarity and Estrangement: Exploring the
Work of Affect in NGOs and Nonprofits - Deadline: April 10, 2015
The growing role of NGOs and nonprofits in humanitarian aid, immigration
assistance, human rights, and public health has transformed these sectors
into significant forces in the production of subjectivity, knowledge, and
power. NGOs are symptoms of neoliberal fragmentation, specialization, and
privatization, both embedded in the state and operating at its limits. As
state surrogates, NGOs provide services and resources that authorize and
produce particular kinds of subjects, whether “bare life” or “developed”
(Gabiam 2012), “high-risk” or “trafficked” (Khanna 2009), while also
working to de-authorize other subjects, such as combatants. However, while
NGOs and nonprofits have become deeply invested in the politics of modern
governance and its bureaucratic mystifications (James 2012), they are also
intimately bound up in the production and circulation of certain forms of
affect and emotion, operating within and through moral economies of
compassion, complex interpersonal relationships, and emotional histories
(Cabot 2013; Bernstein and Mertz 2011).
This panel examines the work of affect and emotion in NGO projects,
policies, and practices. While many NGOs and nonprofits are regarded as
providing essential “help” in a profoundly unequal global economy, they are
also often criticized for neglecting context, history, and agency in
service of maintaining geopolitical hierarchies. Anthropologists are
increasingly attending to the complex ways that affect and emotion are
being deployed in the work of NGOs, from spotlighting how many NGOs are
profiting from disasters through their participation in the “affect
economy” (Adams 2012) to exploring how neoliberal management practices
within some NGOs are producing an “embodiment of fear” within their workers
and volunteers (Uzwiak 2013). Affects are not simply products of an
essential human biopsychology; in fact, as Williams (1977) suggests,
emotions are only sensible within and in relation to particular ideological
contexts. How are affect and emotion mobilizing and authorizing the work of
NGOs and nonprofits? What kinds of new subjectivities, knowledges,
ideologies, and forms of power are produced out of such emotional regimes
and interactions, and what kinds of feelings become sensible within them?
How is the neoliberal transformation of NGOs into “contractors” and their
constituencies into “clients” or “customers” effecting the affective and
emotional relationships between NGOs, the communities they serve, and their
own workers?
Other possible areas of inquiry include: interpersonal relationships within
NGOs and nonprofit organizations; interpersonal relationships between NGO
workers and their constituents; structures of feeling in NGO practices;
unearthing affect and emotion in NGO policies; the role of affect and
emotion in NGO fundraising; and the affective and emotional states and
experiences of NGO staff and volunteers. Panelists are encouraged to
consider the everyday uses and expressions of affect and emotion in NGOs
and nonprofits (such as hunches, grudges, passions, sensitivities,
resentment, alienation, and embarrassment) as productive of NGO work rather
than simply as its effects.
Please contact Anna Jaysane-Darr ([log in to unmask]), and Casey Miller (
[log in to unmask]) with topics and/or abstracts as soon as possible,
and no later than April 10th.
[5] AAA Panel - Estranging the Familiar: Racism, Immigration, and Nation
Making in the Everyday - Deadline: April 10, 2015
Organizers: Susanna Rosenbaum, City College of New York Center for Worker
Education—CUNY and Devin T. Molina Bronx Community College—CUNY
Mass migrations from the global “South” have resulted in widespread and
coordinated efforts to curb immigration to industrialized nations. As Lisa
Lowe argues, the imperatives of “abstract labor” directly conflict with
those of “abstract citizenship,” the need to maintain a national citizenry
bound by race, language, and culture” (1996: 13). Situated at this
intersection, contemporary states increasingly grapple with the meanings of
migration, difference, and national belonging. In the United States, for
example, moral panics about the “Hispanicization” or “Latino-ization” of
the country have led a multitude of organizations, politicians,
journalists, and pundits to clamor for the restriction of ostensibly
non-white migration. In Europe, concerns about immigration and its
perceived impacts on the nation have coalesced into broad political
movements including the rise in power of nationalist parties such as the
National Front in England and in France. Similarly, Australia has begun to
detain all asylum seekers in offshore camps. And yet, anti-immigrant
efforts and policies are not restricted to the global “North.” In the
Dominican Republic, recent legislation, tied to the effort to restrict the
flow of Haitians across the border, has effectively defined the Dominican
as white in contrast to a Haitian blackness. Viewed comparatively,
anti-immigrant policies appear to be the result of sustained efforts to
craft and defend racialized nationalisms at the intersections of the state
and the nation, the local and the global. And while there is a growing body
of literature on the efforts of powerful institutions to stem non-white
immigration, there is less comparative work on the everyday expressions of
white nationalism.
This panel explores race-centered reactions to migration in comparative
perspective. Though each paper may focus on localized trends, together the
papers will examine how individuals and nations remake themselves in the
face of these racialized “threats.” We seek papers that examine a range of
responses that reinforce and/or challenge prevailing notions of race and
national identity at the intersections of the state/nation/public, the
local/global, and the familiar/strange. What do these seemingly disparate
efforts have in common? What are the differences that set them apart? How,
and where, are national borders made and remade in response to the presence
of immigrants? How does immigration call attention to national and/or
racial privilege and simultaneously render it uncomfortable? When and how
does this discomfort motivate some to protest immigration while others seek
to deny their own privilege? How do anti-immigrant and nationalist efforts
construct racial categories to deny access to citizenship and national
belonging? How do anti-immigrant and nationalist efforts seek to craft
national memory and evoke nostalgic fantasies of national identity in ways
that construct a collective past/future while eliding alternative
renderings? How do these processes render the familiar strange and the
strange familiar?
Please send all submissions to Devin T. Molina ([log in to unmask])
by Friday, April 10. Submissions should be no longer than 250 words and
should include a title and keywords. If accepted, all panelists will need
to register for the 2015 meetings by April 15th.
[6] AAA Panel - Toward an Intersectional Analysis of Neoliberalism in
Education - Deadline- April 10, 2015
SESSION ORGANIZER: Kysa Nygreen
ABSTRACT (draft): The effects of neoliberalism on education in the US have
been amply documented and rigorously theorized. Educational anthropologists
have produced an impressive body of critical scholarship that de-centers
the logic of neoliberalism, making “strange” the many “familiar” neoliberal
policies and reforms that shape educational structures and practices. Much
of this literature documents the impact of neoliberal reforms on students
of color, especially Black and Latino students, and students in
high-poverty disinvested schools. Although the intersections between
neoliberalism and structural racism have been explored (e.g. Lipman 2011;
Giroux 2004), much critical educational scholarship still analyzes
neoliberalism and racism as separate, albeit mutually-reinforcing,
political-economic-discursive processes. The same can be said of analyses
incorporating gender and sexuality with a critique of neoliberalism. This
session aims to deepen the conversation about neoliberal education reform
by integrating an intersectional analysis of neoliberalism. Rather than
positioning neoliberalism as a (non-racial) socioeconomic process with
racial implications (Roberts & Matani 2010), or as a (non-gendered)
socioeconomic process with gendered implications, an intersectional
analysis frames racism, sexism, heterosexism, and neoliberalism as
integrated, mutually-constitutive processes.
Educational anthropologists have long embraced a commitment to
intersectionality. However, the “familiar” idea of intersectionality
remains, to some extent, “strange” within educational scholarship on
neoliberalism. It is one thing to declare the importance of
intersectionality but quite another to operationalize an intersectional
analysis that goes beyond simply acknowledging the significance of race,
gender and class. How do we take intersectionality seriously in
ethnographic studies of educational neoliberalism? What does this analysis
look like, and what new understandings does it afford us? How might an
intersectional lens contribute more nuanced and complex understandings of
racism, sexism, heterosexism, and neoliberalism as manifested in education?
How might this lens inform or generate new forms resistance? These are the
overarching questions that this session will engage.
The session brings together ethnographic papers that apply an
intersectional analysis of neoliberalism in education. The papers explore
different contexts and distinct aspects of neoliberal education reform.
[Add detail about the papers here where the session is filled]
If you are interested in joining this session, please submit abstracts to
me by Friday April 10. I also welcome emails from anyone who is interested
in helping me organize it. Thanks! [log in to unmask]
-Kysa Nygreen
(UMass-Amherst)
[7] AAA Roundtable - ‘Studying through’ in Anthropology Roundtable: Tips,
Tools, and Strategies for Emerging Policy Scholars - Deadline: April 10,
2015
Originating from the 2014 AAA meeting in Washington, DC, this roundtable
addresses the need for collaboration and discussion among emerging policy
scholars. Specifically, this roundtable will consider the methodological,
practical, and ethical components of conducting anthropological policy
research. Essential to policy investigations, our dialogue will highlight
both the familiar and strange facets of doing multi-sited ethnography.
Within this discipline, scholars have employed concepts, such as ‘studying
through’, which follow the policy and its processes—from actors engaged in
the policy cycle to those in the public for which they intend to influence
(Wright and Reinhold 2011). With particular attention to the dynamics of
(unequal) power and knowledge, this approach gives priority to the
conflicting narratives produced by policy. Anthropologists have explored
the role of policy in multiple contexts: disaster recovery efforts, human
health interventions, immigration and migrants, land use and development,
financial sectors, education and outreach, natural resource management,
environment and energy.
This roundtable invites advanced graduate students and emerging scholars to
share methodological insights with ‘studying through’ the policy process,
including tips, tools, and strategies while engaged in the field. The
objectives of this roundtable are to identify practical recommendations for
emerging scholars, discuss common ethical dilemmas, and to establish an
emerging policy scholar network for future collaborations. In addition to
providing a brief overview of their research, roundtable participants will
address the following questions: How did you make key contacts and
cultivate relationships while in the field? What particular strategies
worked for you and what did not? How did you manage (or muddle through)
with unexpected circumstances and/or events that impacted the nature of
your research? What are common misconceptions students have regarding
conducting research on the policy process? What advice do you have for
students interested in engaging in anthropological policy research? In
addition to engaged dialogue between panelists and the audience, audience
participants will be provided with an anthropology of policy bibliography
assembled by roundtable panelists. As an important conversation needed to
support policy scholars in all stages of their research, this roundtable
seeks to stimulate discussions on policy process research with an emphasis
on conceptualizing diverse research topics across multiple field sites.
We welcome submissions from advanced graduate students, recent graduates,
and post-docs. If interested, please submit a proposal title, an abstract
up to 250 words, full name, and affiliation to [log in to unmask] (Fayana
Richards) and [log in to unmask] (Valoree Gagnon) by Friday, April 10th.
[8] AAA Roundtable - “Black Lives Matters” - Deadline: April 10, 2014
We are soliciting participation for a round table focused on what
perspectives and strategies members have used to incorporate the recent
social movement(s) surrounding “Black Lives Matter” in their teaching,
service, research, writing and other creative activities. We are interested
in how panelists situate and recruit such approaches as ways to prepare and
mentor anthropologists at the margins through various stages of their
career.
If you are interested in participating in the roundtable, please
send a brief abstract of no more than 150 words (or less) of how your work
in one (1) of the areas of service, teaching, research, writing and/or
creative works accomplishes the strange yet familiar work of dismantling
racialized and other forms of social exclusion. We would like representation
from early and mid -career individuals as well as senior scholars to get
cross and intergenerational perspectives. Please forward your abstract to
roundtable co-organizers and cochairs Sonya Maria Johnson at
[log in to unmask] and Nicole Truesdell at
[log in to unmask] no later than Friday, 4/10/15 at 5pm. Please see the
draft abstract below: “This Too is Ferguson”: Denaturalizing Race in
Service, Teaching, Mentoring and the Production of Knowledge by
Anthropologists at the Margins.
Roundtable Abstract Proposal for the 114th Annual Association of American
Anthropologists, Denver, CO
Sonya Maria Johnson & Nicole Truesdell, co-organizers & co-chairs
This roundtable will focus on how to effectively incorporate
activities emanating from the “Black Lives Matter” social movement(s), into
anthropological practice. We use the phrase “This Too is Ferguson” as a way
to highlight how service, research, writing and other forms of knowledge
distribution within the discipline offer strategies for challenging and
dismantling racialized and institutional violence against Black bodies
within U.S society and beyond.
We have been here before; the place of friction wherein current social
movements expose the reality of the strange yet all too familiar and
redundant ways in which race and racism are critical components of how we
approach ‘ways of knowing’ in socializing and mentoring anthropologists at
the margins. This round table presents how ABA members have grappled with,
linked, and/or drawn critical perspectives from current iterations of
social movements for racial justice, sparked by the uprising in Ferguson.
[9] AAA Panel - Counter-narratives: Challenging Dominant Discourse in
Rights and Justice - Deadline: April 12, 2015
In human rights and justice-related anthropological inquiries, often
binaries are created, whether it be “us” versus “them” or grassroots versus
government. Political and legal anthropology research across post-colonial
and post-conflict scenarios stands to impact application in the field, as
practitioners in rights and justice endeavors may have different goals and
objectives than communities they serve. Similarly, on-the-ground needs can
be significantly disparate from theoretical understandings of human rights
dialogues that include use of alternative justice models, access to
healthcare and resources or acknowledgement of Indigenous identity.
Creation of dichotomous categories risk essentializing or homogenizing
sociopolitically and socioculturally complex scenarios, and nuanced
information that challenges the field both theoretically and
methodologically can be lost. When analyzing issues of rights and justice,
frequent dialogues ask which stakeholders’ voices matter and which do not.
This panel goes further to instead present findings that challenge dominant
discourse, showcasing counter-narratives drawn from various regions and
contexts. In this sense, the familiar, or prevailing theories and
perspectives are set aside, and the strange, or underrepresented
perspectives that generate critical reflections, are showcased. It is in
this arena of the “strange” that new questions arise and deeper insight
into the politics of rights and justice issues is gained. Analyses
presented here include the underexplored Indigenous perceptions of
transitional justice on the ground in Canada, an emergent theory of the
origins of Cherokee identity that counters existing assumptions,
participant perceptions of restorative justice goals in the San Francisco
Bay Area, and Ukranian patient perspectives in the context of the Movement
for Global Mental Health. In each of these forms of counter-narrative, the
strange--the conflicting perceptions, the underrepresented voices, and
burgeoning theories--task anthropologists with challenging the familiar.
If anyone is interested in participating on this panel, please contact
organizer, Jaymelee J. Kim ([log in to unmask]) by April 12, 2015. The
panel is not restricted by region, but rather is a theme-based session.
[10] AAA Panel - To Promote the Well-Being of Humanity Throughout the
World”: NGOs, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Humanitarian work in Asia,
Africa, The Americas -Deadline: April 12, 2015
Call For Papers: American Anthropological Association Panel- Fall 2015
I am assembling an AAA panel loosely organized around research on
Rockefeller Foundation humanitarian projects. Please see the general panel
abstract below, which will be updated to reflect the content of the
abstracts that are included. If you would like to submit an abstract
for possible inclusion, please email it to me no later than April 12th.
Abstracts should be around 250 words in length. The final panel and papers
must be submitted to the AAA by April 15th. Anne M. Galvin’s email address
is: [log in to unmask]
Tentative Panel Title and Abstract: “To Promote the Well-Being of Humanity
Throughout the World”: NGOs, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Humanitarian
work in Asia, Africa, The
Americas.” This panel anthropologically explores NGOs, with particular
focus on
the Rockefeller Foundation’s strategies in relation to efforts to eradicate
disease, create
Economic opportunity, and population resilience across the globe. Founded
in 1913 the Foundation is currently one of the most influential NGOs in the
world, having launched public health and agricultural initiatives that
transformed approaches to the containment and treatment of Communicable and
pest-borne illnesses and agricultural techniques that ushered in The Green
Revolution. The Rockefeller Foundation¹s projects were Developed along side
the discipline of anthropology for much of the organization’s history, with
the founding of the Social Science Research Council.
Inclusive of both historical and contemporary efforts, the papers on this
panel seek to understand how the foundation¹s philanthropic activities
defined and planned the promotion of ³well-being² at various times and in
varied global localities. Programs simultaneously promoted a strongly
western influenced development agenda while utilizing agents on the ground
to “localize” strategies that had been designed and tested in particular
cultural and geographical spaces.
[11] AAA Panel - Learning Technologies: Active Learning and Ethnocomputing
in Higher Education - Deadline: April 13, 2015
Collaborative active learning models, particularly those involving
computational technologies, have profoundly influenced higher education in
fields as diverse as medicine, art, and engineering. This panel
investigates the tensions and pedagogical practices that arise from
technologies and the cultures in which they are embedded.
Ethnocomputing (Tedre and Eglash 2008) (in its examination of situated
cultural/computational nexuses) is a particularly useful way to examine the
techno-pedagogical practices of fields that use models such as
problem-based learning (initiated in medical education) and project-based
learning. These and other constructivist collaborative models are
increasingly popular ways to challenge the banking model of education in
science and engineering higher education departments (Barton 1998; Bronet &
Layne 2010) because they encourage reciprocity among participants that
creates a space for deliberation. This panel seeks participants who use a
sociocultural perspective to examine the effectiveness of these and other
active learning models both face-to-face and virtual, in higher education
classrooms, laboratories, and field sites.
The literature on the usefulness of these pedagogies is equivocal: some
studies find little use (Neville, 2009) and several others indicate
positive findings in both developmental and social realms (Kuhn 2015; Dumas
et al. 2014; Koh et al. 2008). The social construction and requirement for
analysis and evaluation embedded in collaborative active learning models
require participants to make verbal or visual representations and
explanations for other group members. These representations encourage
reflection and enable the development of adaptive expertise. Such learning
both “sticks” and forms the basis for further knowledge production
(Vygotsky 1978; Brown, Collins, & Duguid 1989). However, the ways that
collaborating participants use verbal and visual technologies to develop
conceptually and culturally remains something of a black box.
We are especially interested in papers that address active learning models
in higher education medical, technology, engineering, mathematics, and
science departments and the ways in which these pedagogies are responsive
to both situated culture and curriculum. Please send a short abstract to
Carol Thompson ([log in to unmask]) and Michael Lachney ([log in to unmask])
by April 13th.
[12] AAA Roundtable: Racing the Anthropocene: Critical perspectives on
racism and inequality in a new geological epoch - Deadline: April 13, 2015
As environmental justice scholars have long pointed out, black and brown
communities have disproportionately borne the social and material burdens
of environmental risks and uncertainties as the bodies most directly
exposed to unhealthy, toxic, and violent ecologies around the world. Yet,
the Anthropocene is often framed in scientific language that neutralizes or
disregards the politics of racial difference and inequality. The ways in
which the Anthropocene, and its re-framing of human-environment relations,
intersects with critical scholarship on structural racism, environmental
injustice, and environmental change/disaster thus remains unclear. What new
ecologies of risk or uncertainty emerge, and for whom, alongside the
establishment of new scientific facts that equivocate or conflate the
social and the geological? Does a focus on the agency and volatility of the
Earth eschew or provide new routes towards theorizing what structural
racism is and how it operates? To what extent does the ‘naturalization’ of
racial and social hierarchies enable the Anthropocene to gain purchase in
the social and physical sciences? These questions reflect the need for more
critical discussions on the political and ethical dimensions of the
Anthropocene as a geological epoch and as a potential framework for
theorizing the politics of life on an increasingly dynamic planet.
In the spirit of conversations begun at the 2014 AAAs on the Anthropocene
as well as recent events in the US highlighting the perseverance of racism
as a structuring force of social life, this roundtable investigates the
possibilities and potential limitations of bringing a critical focus on
racism towards how we think and theorize the Anthropocene in anthropology.
In what ways does the Anthropocene as a conceptual and material phenomenon
potentially intersect with critical conversations about racism and
inequality? How might this change the ways we do research on race and the
environment, or race and the ‘hard’ sciences (biological, physical, etc)?
The roundtable is open to all participants whose work and interests dwell
within or between critical race studies, environmental anthropology,
science and technology studies, critical social theory, and beyond. The
session is deliberately opened-ended and will be geared towards the
specific topics/interests presenters bring to the table. All four fields
and scholars in cognate disciplines are encouraged to participate. If you
would like to participate, please email the roundtable organizer (
[log in to unmask]) with a few words about what you would like to
speak about by Monday April 13th. Further questions and suggestions are
welcome.
[13] Conference - IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología - Mexico City
- October 7-10, 2015 - Deadline: April 30, 2015
www.ala.iia.unam.mx
Call for Papers
Deadline: April 30, 2015.
We invite anthropologists and colleagues to present paper proposals at IV
Congreso Latinoamericano de Antropología that will take place October 7-10,
2015 in downtown Mexico City.
People interested in presenting a paper can ask to add his proposal to one
of the ACCEPTED PANELS (se below) or they can ask for a complete list
writing to: [log in to unmask]
To propose a paper, please fill a FORM in the webpage of the conference
(see below), where we ask for title, abstract, and name and number of the
panel in in which you want to participate, in case your paper is not
already accepted in any panel. Also, we ask for personal information: name,
institution, academic degree and e-mail. You can also ask for a paper
proposal file if you write to [log in to unmask]
Deadline: April 30, 2015.
Panel List One:
http://www.ala.iia.unam.mx/index.php/congreso-internacional/simposios-aprobados
Panel List Two:
http://www.ala.iia.unam.mx/index.php/congreso-internacional/simposios-aprobados-2o-periodo
Paper Participation Form:
http://www.ala.iia.unam.mx/docus/formulario_para_la_presentacion_de_ponencias.docx
[14] Conference - Globalization: The Urban Crisis and Economic Democracy -
University of Toledo, June 12-14, 2015 - Deadline: May 10, 2015
GLOBALIZATION: THE URBAN CRISIS AND ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
The University of Toledo <http://www.utoledo.edu/>
Toledo, OH
June 12 - 14, 2015
Sponsored by: College of Languages, Literature, and Social Sciences,
President's Commission on Global Initiative, and Center for International
Studies and Programs
To submit a 100-word abstract or a panel idea, send it in the body of an
email to Jerry Harris [log in to unmask] by May 10, 2015. Please
include your full name and affiliation. All presentation topics will be
considered.
See more information at http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal
FRIDAY
Special Film Screening of Shift Change
Following discussion with directors Mellissa Young and Mark Dworkin
Race and Class in the Solidarity Economy
Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Michael Peck
Rob Witherell
Economic Democracy as Political Strategy
Carl Davidson
Francis Shor
Jerry Harris
SATURDAY
Keynote Presentation
Gar Alperovitz
Globalization and the Urban Industrial Crisis: Detroit, Chicago and Gary
Frank Hammer
Ruth Needleman
Dan Swinney
From Protest to Resistance and Visionary Organizing: Boggs Center
[15] Conference Sessions - NGO-graphies (As part of the AAA 2015) - Denver,
Colorado - November 17-18- Deadline: May 15, 2015
“NGO-graphies” – the Second NGOs and Nonprofits Conference
November 17-18, 2015, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado
Call for Session Proposals and Save the Date
[Note: a complete version of this Call is available at
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ngo/2015-conference/]
As non-governmental organizations (NGOs) take on roles and responsibilities
that were traditionally in the hands of national governments, power has
become increasingly denationalized and embedded in new configurations.
While the scales of these mediations, service provisions, and
representations have typically been categorized as
local-regional-national-international, networks of NGOs now connect
organizations at the grassroots directly to large-scale, transnational
systems. Yet as Bebbington (2004) notes, the conditions of poverty that
development NGOs seek to address have been created through preexisting
structures of colonial extraction, capitalist expansion, and consumption
and production; a legacy that leaves these NGO networks unevenly dispersed,
clustering in areas of perceived need and becoming sparse in regions
without the infrastructure required to support them. The term “NGO-graphy”
(Sampson and Hemment 2001) calls for a critical ethnographic approach to
understanding non-governmental organizations and nonprofits. It also
suggests a topographic image of NGO networks that both interact with and
create human landscapes.
The purpose of this second NGOs and Nonprofits conference is to engage one
another in thinking broadly about the patterns of NGO practices as they
point to the role of coordination within networks and the factors that
direct global flows of resources and knowledge. Together, we will examine
how these networks are constituted through the personal interactions,
cultural practices, and shifting discourses that give them meaning.
Considering the power relations that shape and create NGO-graphies also
allows us to problematize the ever-present methodological question of how
researchers and practitioners can and should interact with NGOs, which
become sources of information about local communities, points of entry,
sources of income, and fieldsites themselves. We invite proposals for
sessions from anthropologists, related interdisciplinary scholars, and
practitioners on topics including but not limited to the following
questions:
· How do we think beyond a “case-based” approach to conceive of
broader geographies of NGO intervention?
· How do NGOs’ particular requirements in providing services create
landscapes of need?
· Where do resources and knowledge originate geographically and how
do they travel?
· Where are the “centers” of international NGOs and how do they
interact with the “peripheries”?
· In what ways does examining how NGO work unfolds geographically
contribute to shifting our perspective from viewing NGOs as entities
(“nouns”) to viewing NGOs as processes (“verbs”)?
· How do “NGO cultures” draw from or feed back into the ethnic,
national, and social mechanisms traditionally observed in anthropological
research?
· How are the forms of knowledge valued by NGOs (technical knowledge,
local knowledge, cultural knowledge, linguistic knowledge) linked to or
detached from geographic contexts?
· How do indicators produced by distinct aid organizations in
disparate locations create and reinforce overlapping notions of
sociopolitical need, human rights, and value?
· How do NGO practitioners position themselves as experts with useful
knowledge and relationships within organizations?
· What perspectives can practitioners and activists bring to academic
theorizing regarding how NGO networks operate?
· How can deeper understandings of non-governmental organizational
structures aid in developing effective NGO practice?
Bebbington, Anthony (2004) "NGOs and uneven development: geographies of
development intervention." Progress in Human Geography 28(6):725-745.
Sampson, Steven and Julie Hemment (2001) “NGO-graphy: the critical
anthropology of NGOs and civil society.” Double panel, organized for the
100th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
Washington DC, November 2001.
LOCATION & COST
The conference will take place in Denver on the day before and the first
day of the 2015 AAA meeting: from 8am on Tuesday, November 17th until 4pm
on Wednesday, November 18th. We will primarily be located across the road
from the AAA convention center on the campus of Metropolitan State
University. We aim to make “NGO-graphies” as accessible and affordable as
possible and are pursuing sponsorship and in-kind support to keep costs
low. We will finalize our fee structure within the coming months, but right
now we can guarantee that registration costs will not exceed $75.
Accommodation is available at the Springhill Suites Marriott, an affordable
option that is part of the MSU campus.
SESSION PROPOSALS
At this time, we are soliciting session proposals that speak to the above
outlined themes and questions directly or indirectly. Both traditional
paper sessions and alternative format sessions are welcome.
The deadline to submit session proposals is May 15th. Please note that
sessions do not need to be completely filled with participants by this
date. After the session review process (as outlined below), sessions with
open slots will be asked to recruit further participants from our wider
membership.
Anyone with an interest in the ethnographic study of NGOs (broadly
including nonprofits, third sectors, voluntary organizations, etc.) may
submit a session proposal. Session organizers will work with the conference
planning committee to develop lines of discussion connected to our
NGO-graphies theme. Session activities should offer a variety of forums
that stimulate discussion, including but not limited to panel sessions,
workshops, and roundtables. Each organizer will design a 1.75 hour session
with themes broad enough to intrigue a diversity of people working in NGO
studies or the NGO sector, yet specific enough for both scholars and
practitioners to engage one another concerning their specializations.
Proposals should include:
Theme Definition (200 words): The proposal should explain why the chosen
theme is timely and relevant to NGO-graphies and NGO studies. This
information will appear in the general CFP and should describe the issues
that will focus presentations and discussions in the session.
Structure / Format (100 words): We aim to facilitate conversations and
collaborative analyses, so we strongly encourage proposals that employ
innovative presentation formats, such as roundtables, break-out sessions
and informal lunchtime conversations, in addition to traditional panels and
paper presentations. See
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ngo/2015-conference/session-formats/ for
ideas on how you can structure your session, or work with the planning
committee to design an effective format.
Prospective Participants (150 words): Session organizers may recruit
participants from their own networks and/or fill slots with submissions
solicited through our forthcoming Call for Papers. Please provide names and
planned contributions of potential/confirmed participants (be as specific
as possible).
Proposals should be submitted as .doc attachments to [log in to unmask]
Questions may also be directed to this email address.
GENERAL PARTICIPATION
Session organizers will be notified of requested revisions and acceptance
by May 22nd. At this time we will also send out a Call for Papers for
sessions with space open for additional papers. All sessions must be
finalized by July 10th. We anticipate notifying all participants and
opening up conference registration by August, shortly after AAA submission
notifications. A brief survey requesting participants’ availability, AV
needs, and confirmation of participation will be distributed at this time.
The final deadline for registration will be in October.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For a full version of this announcement—including further details of our
theoretical approach, aims, and innovative format ideas—please visit:
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/ngo/2015-conference/
Sponsored by Metropolitan State University of Denver, the AAA Association
for Legal and Political Anthropology, and Northern Illinois University
Conference Coordinating Committee: Rebecca Mantel, Siobhan McGuirk, Rebecca
Nelson, Misha Quill, Mark Schuller, Aviva Sinervo, Christian Vannier, Kim
Walters
For information regarding conference registration, facilities, scheduling,
and other matters please contact [log in to unmask]
[16] Conference - Affect Theory Conference - Ware Center - Millersville
University - October 14-17, 2015- Deadline: May 18, 2015
Affect Theory Conference Millersville University's Ware Center
Lancaster PA October 14 - 17, 2015
A) CALL FOR PAPERS TO STREAMS:
250-word PAPER ABSTRACTS – oriented to the accepted stream proposals –can
now be submitted. ALL PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED THROUGH THE CONFERENCE
WEBSITE at [log in to unmask] The final deadline for submissions
is MONDAY, MAY 18. The conference website will keep a master file of all
submissions to the various accepted streams.
To aid with proper routing, PLEASE INCLUDE THE STREAM # and/or NAME OF THE
STREAM in the subject-line of your emailed paper submission. The email
attachment of your abstract should be in Word or pdf. Abstracts can be
single-authored or co-authored.
Stream #13 – Engaging religious and secular affect
Sophie Bjork-James ([log in to unmask]), Postdoctoral
Scholar, Anthropology Department, Vanderbilt University and Yunus Dogan
Telliel (Grad Center – CUNY)
Paralleling contemporary challenges to secular states in Europe, India, the
United States, and Turkey, recent critical studies have problematized the
perceived boundaries between the religious and the secular. This
scholarship highlights, rather, the mutual construction of the religious
and the secular in modern politics, law, education, or medicine. While this
body of work has brought forth a heightened awareness of secularism’s
discursive architecture and regulative mechanisms, the pre-discursive life
of the secular remains much less explored (with notable exceptions, such as
William Connolly, Talal Asad, and Saba Mahmood). This stream aims to
facilitate a conversation about possible new pathways into the study of
religious and secular affects by inviting panel and paper proposals around
three sets of questions.
1) What does the secular look like when we consider its emotional
registers, visceral energies, and embodied commitments? Can we speak of
secular affect as a distinct kind? What are the possible sites of
comparison between secular and religious affects? Sara Ahmed suggested that
affect is generated in the circulation of emotions between bodies, signs,
and objects. In what ways are secular and religious economies of affective
circulation organized differently? The focus on affective economies can
help us consider religion not simply as a matter of believing in a
transcendent power, but an effect of various entanglements between persons
and things. Can affect theory offer new ways of thinking about the secular
and secular entanglements?
2) What role(s) do emotions play in secular criticism? Defining itself
against religion’s ‘zeal’, secular criticism often presupposes a self that
is impervious to emotional intensities (e.g., Muslim sensitivities
concerning visual representation of Muhammad) that may cloud public
reasoning and judgment. What are the affective conditions of the production
of this image of an autonomous secular self? How are secular subjectivities
reshaped in the flows of life, wherein diverse energies and forces disrupt
the religious/secular divide (e.g., unexpected spiritual experiences,
capitalism’s enchantments, or solidarities between religious and
non-religious groups)?
3) How might paying attention to secular and religious affect change the
way researchers approach the study of religious communities? How can we
think of, for instance, an ‘atheist’ ethnographer who finds herself drawn
by the charismatic oratory and emotional ambiance of a congregation while
repulsed by references to Biblical condemnation of homosexuality? The
academic study of religion often considers such predicaments as a
reflection of an insider/outsider dilemma, focusing on the conceptual
stakes of research encounters. This often overlooks what roles visceral
contacts (via wonder, apathy, or disgust) play in academic
knowledge-production. In what ways can a researcher communicate such
affective experiences to her audience? How might engaging with the
affective dimension of religious practice elucidate the persistence of
religious mobilizations within secular modernity?
[17] Articles - Deliberate: The Experiences of Women of Colo(u)r Graduate
Students - Deadline: June 15, 2015
Deliberate: The Experiences of Women of Colo(u)r Graduate Students is an
anthology that collects academic and creative texts to document the
experiences of WOC graduate students. The anthology takes its title from a
quote attributed to Audre Lorde that constantly surfaces in spaces of black
and feminist thought and is used as a rallying cry in response to
challenges to personhood: “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
Deliberate will collect together testimonies of what occurs in spaces that
have traditionally and continually marginalised and problematized the
presence of women of colour scholars.
The intention for Deliberate is to produce a document of witness, to speak
deliberately, collectively, and loudly about the singular experiences of
WOC graduate students in the academy, and the possibilities that exist due
to and through our presence in these institutions. Contributions by women
of colour current, former, and prospective graduate students in all
research fields are invited in the form of:
academic research (scholarly articles, research notes, responses,
literature surveys, etc.)
non-fiction (first-person narratives, journalistic works, personal essays,
etc.)
creative texts (poetry, plays, non-traditional prose, etc.).
The topics below are meant to serve as suggestions for some of the possible
themes and topics that are of interest within the context of women of
colour undertaking graduate studies:
Presences and absences
Re-defining and re-creating community/ies
On survival
Possibilities for radical action
Intersections of, with, and beyond
sexuality/class/culture/spirituality/ability/etc.
Definitions and presentations of truth
WOC bodies, academic spaces
Researching WOC/researching as WOC
Decision-making in completing or not completing a graduate degree
Social and familial relationships
Resiliency
Celebration
Ceremony
Information for Contributors
Please email manuscripts in .docx or .rtf format to [log in to unmask]
All manuscripts should be double-spaced and include a cover page with the
title of the piece, author’s name, contact information, and a short bio
(max. 150 words)
Simultaneous submissions accepted, but please notify us immediately if your
work will be published elsewhere. Contributions should be a maximum of
15,000 words, and formatted according to MLA guidelines; there is no
minimum word count. Queries are welcome – please include an abstract or
proposal that takes into account deadlines. Completed submissions are due
June 15, 2015. Publication date: TBD. Artwork contributions will be
considered for the cover - please email a lo-res file or link (preferred)
For more information and to keep updated on the progress of the anthology,
please visit www.wearedeliberate.com
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Postdoctoral Positions - CUMORE(CULTURAL MOBILITIES RESEARCH) -
University of Leuven - Deadline: See links
RECRUITING POSTDOCTORAL TALENT AT CUMORE (CULTURAL MOBILITIES RESEARCH)
Have you finished (or are you about to finish) your doctoral degree and are
you thinking about your next 'move' within academia?
Then we kindly invite you to consider spending some time at CuMoRe as a
postdoctoral researcher.
Cultural Mobilities Research stands for a vibrant group of young
anthropologists conducting innovative research on the sociocultural
meanings of the boundary-crossing mobilities of people, things and ideas.
Funding can be obtained from two sources:
(1) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-msca/actions/if/index_en.htm
If you want to come to CuMoRe, the University of Leuven offers extra
information and support for applicants:
https://www.kuleuven.be/english/research/EU/f/extra/msca/msca-if-support
(2) Pegasus
This call will be launched in September
http://www.fwo.be/en/press/press-releases/2015/fwo-gets-63-million-euros-european-support-for-[pegasus]%C2%B2-programme/
<about:blank>
Are you interested?
Do not hesitate to check out the CuMoRe website (
http://soc.kuleuven.be/cumore) and to get in touch with any question you
may have.
[2] Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnographic Design - Communication - Social
Sciences - University of California San Diego - Deadline: May 12, 2015
Title of the position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnographic Design
Institution: University of California San Diego
School or Division: Social Sciences
Academic Department: Communication
Disciplinary Specialty of Research: This fellowship focuses on ethnographic
design, a topic of interest to a wide spectrum of academic disciplines.
While we expect most candidates to come from the social sciences, we will
entertain applications from the arts and humanities, and other disciplines
if they demonstrate an engagement with and dedication to ethnographic
method.
Description of the Position: The Studio for Ethnographic Design at the
University of California, San Diego invites applications for a postdoctoral
fellow who will contribute to developing a new initiative for ethnographic
inquiry. This initiative, the UC Collaborative for Ethnographic Design
(CoLED), is an interdisciplinary project that is housed at UCSD and links
six University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los
Angeles, Santa Cruz, and San Diego), tying together scholars from a wide
variety of disciplinary backgrounds who are thinking critically about the
practice of ethnography as a method, and the changing conditions of its
production, forms and techniques. The collaboratory will also serve as a
means to improve pedagogical agendas for graduate student training in
ethnographic practice.
The fellow’s primary responsibilities include conceptualizing, programming
and developing proposals for a public conference on the future of
ethnographic research scheduled for fall 2016. Fellows will also
participate in the initiative’s ongoing schedule of activities, which
include thematic practicums elaborating various aspects of ethnography –
from initial project design and collaboration in research to critical
consideration of the publics with whom and for whom we conduct our
research. Teaching is not required, leaving the fellow with time to work on
independent projects, which ideally will overlap with the mission of the
initiative. This position will afford the candidate latitude to conduct a
wide range of activities related to the practice of ethnography; it will
also place the candidate at the center of a network of scholars at the
forefront of ethnographic design. For more information on the Studio for
Ethnographic Design (SED) and the UC Collaborative for Ethnographic Design
(CoLED) please visit our webpage at http://sed.ucsd.edu/.
Qualifications Required and Preferred Academic Background: Applicants must
hold a PhD or equivalent and be able to demonstrate a sustained engagement
with innovative ethnographic methods, as both practice and object of
analytical inquiry. Useful experience might include event planning and
successful grant writing. Again, discipline is not as important as focus on
ethnographic method and design.
Salary: $42,840/yr with benefits. For information on benefits package, see
http://postdoc.ucsd.edu/benefits-and-services/index.htm
<http://postdoc.ucsd.edu/benefits-and-services/index.html>l.
Appointment Length: 18 months with the possibility of extension. While
collaboration and research would begin on July 1, 2015, we would not expect
the fellow to be in residence in San Diego until September 1, 2015.
Application Procedure: Send applications via email to Elana Zilberg at
[log in to unmask] Please use “SED Postdoc Application” in the subject
line.
All applicants should submit:
(1) a CV (maximum five pages),
(2) a cover letter that briefly explains your research and its relationship
with ethnography, demonstrated organizational skills, and successful
proposal writing experience (maximum 3 pages),
(3) a statement discussing the practice of ethnography both as theory and
as a method, and your contributions to current innovations in advancing the
method to meet the challenges of the changing conditions of field based
research (maximum 2 pages)
(4) one writing sample that demonstrates the applicant’s use of and
engagement with ethnography, and
(5) a statement detailing how their presence would contribute to diversity
on UCSD’s campus. (For information on this statement, see
http://facultyexcellence.ucsd.edu/c2d/)
Letters of Recommendation: The candidate should request letters of
recommendation from two referees. These letters should be sent via email to
Elana Zilberg at [log in to unmask] Please ask your reviewers to use
“Recommendation for candidates full name” in the subject line.
Application Closing date: 05/12/2015
Job Posting Expiration: 05/12/2105
[3] APLA GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE - Deadline: July 1, 2015
APLA Announces 2015 Graduate Student Paper Prize
Committee: Jennifer Curtis, Sarah Hautzinger and Gabrielle Hosein
APLA (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology) is pleased to
announce that the 2015 Student Paper Prize is open for submissions. The
committee will select five finalists; each finalist will be assigned a
mentor who shares substantive interests, to offer feedback. APLA will also
sponsor a session at the AAA meetings in Denver with the finalists and
their mentors.
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate
degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.)
to send stand-alone papers centering on the analysis of political and/or
legal institutions and processes. Topics may include citizenship;
colonialism and post-colonial public spheres; cosmopolitanism; cultural
politics; disability; environment; globalization; governance;
humanitarianism; medicine, science, and technology; multiculturalism;
nationalism; NGOs and civil society; new media; immigration and refugees;
resistance; religious institutions; security, policing, or militarism;
sexualities; social movements; human and civil rights; sovereignty; war and
conflict. We encourage submissions that expand the purview of political
and legal anthropology and challenge us to think in new ways about power,
politics and law.
APLA awards a cash prize of $350.00, plus travel expenses of up to $650.00
if the prize winner attends the 2015 annual meetings of the American
Anthropological Association (Denver, CO) to receive the prize in person.
The prize winner will be announced in Anthropology News, and the winning
paper will be published in the peer-reviewed journal of the Association for
Political and Legal Anthropology, PoLAR: The Political and Legal
Anthropology Review. Authors must be enrolled in a graduate program through
at least May 1, 2015. Papers should not exceed 8,000 words (including notes
and references) and should follow the style guidelines of PoLAR, which are
detailed in the American Anthropological Association Style Guide. Please
submit papers as PDF attachments to Sarah Hautzinger
([log in to unmask]) by July 1. Link:
http://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2015/04/03/apla-announces-2015-graduate-student-paper-prize/
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Visiting Assistant Professor - Medical Anthropology - Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio - Deadline: April 17, 2015
Miami University is searching for a medical anthropologist for a one-year
visiting assistant professor position. Please review the attached
advertisement and circulate it as widely as possible. Visiting Assistant
Professor to teach introductory courses in anthropology, and an
upper-division course in medical anthropology in 2015-2016 academic year.
Full course load, undergraduate only. Require: PhD in anthropology by date
of appointment, teaching experience; MPH preferred, regional expertise
open.
To apply, please go to
https://miamioh.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=511&job=visiting-assistant-professor-instructor
4. Requests and queries from members of the CASCA Student Network (reply
directly to the poster) || Requêtes des étudiant(e)s pour obtenir des
conseils ou ressources (les réponses seront envoyées directement à
l'étudiant(e) en question).
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5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES || COURS D'ÉTÉ
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Submissions: All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate
program directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our
members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links
to detailed posting guidelines: in English and French
<http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>.
Tous les membres du réseau des étudiants de CASCA ainsi que les directeurs
de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des
possibilités d'intérêt pour nos membres sont invités à contacter les
modérateurs ([log in to unmask]). Voir ci-dessous pour directives sur les
affectations détaillées: en anglais et français <http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>.
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