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
26 March | mars 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] Co-Editor - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment - Deadline:
Ongoing
[2] Associate Editor - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education:
Studies on Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival -
Deadline: April 6, 2015
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] Conference papers – “Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious
Philanthropy” - 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 26,
2015
[2] Conference papers - Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space
in South Asia and its Diaspora - Annual Conference on South Asia -
Deadline: March 27, 2015
[3] Conference papers - Experiments in Ethnographies of Child Development:
Theoretical and Methodological Entanglements between Anthropology and
Psychology - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 29, 2015
[4] Conference Papers - “The Politics of Timekeeping: Technologies,
Histories, and Conflicts” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 31, 2015
[5] Conference papers - “Making Taste Public” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April
1, 2015
[6] Conference papers - Entangled Border Crossings: Identity Construction,
Disciplinary Boundaries, and Asian Diaspora - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1,
2015
[7] Conference papers - 21st century anarchisms - AAA 2015 - Deadline:
April 1, 2015
[8] Conference papers - B/Ordering Infrastructures: Mediating Encounters
across Difference - AAA 2015 - April 1, 2015
[9] Conference papers - New Sending Communities and New Receiving
Communities in Dialogue with Migration Theory - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April
3, 2015
[10] Conference papers - “Ethnography of Journalism: New Directions from
the Global South” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015
[11] Conference papers - RELIGION, ART, AND CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL CITY -
AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 4, 2015
[12] Conference papers - Contemporary perspectives on environmental and
ecological knowledge in marine contexts - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 10,
2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] AAA Community Engagement Grant - AAA Meeting 2015 - Deadline: April 1,
2015
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Junior Scientist - Luminescence Dating - Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany - Deadline: Ongoing
[2] Tenure Position - Indigenous Scholar - School of Social Work - Thompson
Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015
[3] Tenure Position - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University -
Deadline: March 31, 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
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1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Co-Editor - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment - Deadline:
Ongoing
The twice-yearly, peer-reviewed journal of Culture and Agriculture (a
Section of the American Anthropological Association), *is looking for a new
co-editor, to begin in the fall of 2015. *
** * * * Co-Editors and C&A President will be present at the SfAA meetings
in Pittsburgh! Find us to talk more about the position! * * * **
CAFE features culturally and anthropologically-relevant analyses of human
dimensions of environment, ecology, agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries,
forestry, natural resources, energy, water, food, nutrition,
sustainability, and biodiversity. CAFE publishes peer-reviewed material as
well as editorially reviewed commentary and reports, discussions of
theoretical developments and methods of inquiry, results of empirical
research, and book and film reviews. CAFE encourages dialogue among
scholars, activists, and practitioners.
Recent material ranges from television treatments of industrialized
agriculture, to gendered agricultural practices in Tanzania, to the
ecopolitics of the permaculture-promoting, spiritual “Anastasia” movement
of post-socialist Russia (forthcoming). Recent themed issues have focused
on renewable and extractive energy (June 2013 V35/1), as well as a tribute
to the late agricultural anthropologist, Robert Rhoades (June 2014 V36/1).
The new co-editor will begin in the fall of 2015 for a four-year, staggered
rotation, and will help CAFE plot its future sustainability and relevance
in the changing environment of scholarly publishing of the 21st century.
The position is volunteer, but financial support for attending AAA annual
meetings is typically available. Institutional affiliation is helpful but
not required.
Letters of interest should address your vision and qualifications for the
above responsibilities, and include a CV. The letter should be sent to
Lisa Markowitz, C&A President at [log in to unmask]
More information and a detailed description of the position may be obtained
from current co-editors, Stephanie Paladino and Jeanne Simonelli, at
[log in to unmask] Link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2153-9561
[2] Associate Editor - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education:
Studies on Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival -
Deadline: April 6, 2015
An associate editor position is available with the journal Diaspora,
Indigenous, and Minority Education (DIME). The associate editor is
responsible for managing manuscript submissions (assigning reviewers,
evaluating the manuscript, making final decisions) as well as advertising
the journal to prospective authors and readers. This is a great service
opportunity for junior to mid-career faculty, and a nice opportunity to
help shape the direction of scholarship in the field.Please send a letter
of interest and accompanying CV to Dr. Bruce Collet, DIME Editor in Chief
at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Please send materials by April 6, 2015
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration,
Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival (DIME) - a quarterly
peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in
diaspora, indigenous, and minority education - is dedicated to researching
cultural sustainability in a world increasingly consolidating under
national, transnational, and global organizations. It aims to draw
attention to, and learn from, the many initiatives being conducted around
the globe in support of diaspora, indigenous, and minority education, which
might otherwise go unnoticed. For more information, please visit:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hdim20/current#.VOuIZrDF-Ns<
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b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] Conference papers – “Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious
Philanthropy” - 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 26,
2015
Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious Philanthropy in South Asia
- 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Madison, Wisconsin
October 22-25, 2015
Discussant: Prof. Erica Bornstein, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Many of South Asia’s diverse religious and spiritual traditions are managed
through philanthropic organizations, often charitable trusts. From daily
alms-giving to major urban development projects, religious charitable
trusts, while seemingly ubiquitous set up unique relations between those
that endow them, those that manage them (trustees), and those that receive
their beneficence.
This panel seeks to explore networks of religious philanthropy in South
Asia and how they might contribute to communal social life, political
struggles, livelihoods as well as changing forms of religious practice. As
the study of religious and charitable trusts and other philanthropic
organizations cuts across various disciplines, this panel welcomes papers
framed by legal studies, religious studies, history, economics, political
science, sociology or anthropology
Please send a max. 250 word abstract to [log in to unmask] by March 26th.
Please include with your abstract, a title, your affiliation and current
status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position etc.).
[2] Conference papers - Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space
in South Asia and its Diaspora - Annual Conference on South Asia -
Deadline: March 27, 2015
Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space in South Asia and its
Diaspora
Call for Panelists: Annual Conference on South Asia--Madison, WI; October
22-25. 2015
Drawing from a range of South Asian communities within and outside the
subcontinent, our panel will explore the construction and contestation of
sacred space. In urban centers, governmental and private party
delimitations on the use of space can come into conflict with religious
actors, whose strategies to claim space sometimes seek to supersede the
state’s legal boundaries. From debates over temple demolitions to legal
contestations over informal places of worship, this panel seeks to
highlight the interfaces between religious communities and legal and
political jurisdictions and to explore what emerges from such collisions.
By examining such conflicts over space, this panel will explore the
following questions: What constitutes a religious appropriation of public
space? How does state demolition or redefinition of sacred space affect
local communities? In what ways are urbanization, globalization, and
religious diasporas redefining sacred space? And how do religious
communities develop public discourses of religiosity in the face of legal
opposition to their places of worship? Please send a max. 250 word
abstract to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by March
27th . Include with your abstract, a title, your institutional affiliation,
and current status (faculty position etc.).
[3] Conference papers - Experiments in Ethnographies of Child Development:
Theoretical and Methodological Entanglements between Anthropology and
Psychology - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 29, 2015
This session examines the various ways anthropologists incorporate
experimental methods in ethnographic fieldwork to study child development.
It is situated within the larger theoretical and methodological adventure
of bridging anthropology and psychology investigating the dynamics of
culture and mind in childhood, a critical phase of human development.
Integration of ethnographic methods and controlled experiments is not new,
but in cultural anthropology only few scholars have carried it out. In
recent years, anthropologists have called for a re-engagement with trends
in the psychological and cognitive sciences, and emphasized that
anthropology has an important contribution to make in the interdisciplinary
study of child development and human development (Astuti and Bloch 2010,
2012; Bloch 2005, 2012; Kronenfeld 2012; Sahlins 2011; Sperber 1996). More
generally, scholars in both fields have stressed the need for a
rapprochement in which both anthropologists and psychologists appreciate
human beings’ intertwined psychological-social nature (Bender, Hutchins,
and Medin 2010; Luhrmann 2006; Quinn 2006). Child development is a central
“test field” in this exciting endeavor. Leading scholars in psychological
anthropology have discovered common features of childrearing across
cultures that are based on universal psychological mechanisms (Quinn 2005);
anthropologists and psychologists have worked together to combine
experimental methods with ethnographic fieldwork to investigate conceptual
development (Astuti, Solomon, and Carey 2004); moreover, anthropologists
have taken on the role of critically engaging with and reassessing
influential psychological theories, such as attachment theory (Bowlby 1969,
1982; Ainsworth1979), using ethnographic evidence (Quinn and Mageo 2013).
We look for papers that bring together solid ethnography and approaches and
methods from psychology to address questions related to any aspect of
social, cognitive, emotional or educational development of children. We
welcome papers with wide ranging motivations, which might include but are
not limited to, engaging with evolutionary theories of human development or
dominant theories of child development through cross-cultural comparison;
combining experimental and ethnographic work to reach fine-grained and
systematic understanding of specific issues of social equity and learning
environments, schooling, mental health, development of interpersonal
relationships and so forth.
Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) by 29 March to
[log in to unmask]
Organizers:
Anni Kajanus
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics and Political Sciences
Jing Xu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Early Childhood Cognition Lab
University of Washington
[4] Conference Papers - “The Politics of Timekeeping: Technologies,
Histories, and Conflicts” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 31, 2015
This panel seeks to examine calendars, clocks, and other timekeeping
methods as dynamic instruments situated at the intersections of technology,
cultural practice, political action, and group identity. Time is
“familiar,” part of everyday life and experienced in the present. And yet
time is also “strange;” its simultaneously linear and cyclical nature both
links us to, and distances us from, the past. Far from being objective
ways to mark and measure units of time, methods of timekeeping exist in
dialectical relationships with historical consciousness, and therefore are
inherently political. Drawing on both a long history of anthropological
investigations into cultural understandings of time, and more recent
examinations of the social aspects of technology, this panel will examine
cases where timekeeping becomes a location of conflict. Our goal will be
to consider how people understand, formulate, and explain particular
histories and human present(s) in relationship to specific timekeeping
technologies.
If you would like to be part of this panel, please send an abstract of 250
words to Clare Sammells at [log in to unmask] by March 31, 2015.
[5] Conference papers - “Making Taste Public” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April
1, 2015
This panel explores how taste—the sensual experience and the preferences,
identities, and meanings associated with it--becomes social. We seek
papers focused on ethnographic examples combined with theoretical
discussions of the process of “making taste public.” Cases could include
micro studies of interactions between people through taste workshops,
language and communication, mimesis, or synaesthetic use of the senses, as
well as macro studies of how taste strategically figures in political
discourse, policy, education, media, or activism. We seek papers that go
beyond thinking about taste philosophically and produce ethnographic
understandings of how people learn and practice taste. While taste is
often described in terms of personal preferences, as individual perceptions
of an outer world, there is a need for understanding how we share taste and
the experience of eating, with whom, and under what conditions. While we
know that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavor
principles embedded in cuisine, how they become part of our sensorial
apparatus and identity is still not clear. What roles do “familiar” and
“strange” play in the socialization of taste? How do people communicate
with and through the senses? We suggest thinking about how taste is
between us, being shared and made public—sometimes exalted and sometimes
abhorred. In socializing taste, who are the key actors, what are the key
sites, where are the spaces of taste exchanges and clashes, and how are
values attached to tastes?
If you are interested in joining our panel, please let us know right away
and send us your paper title, name, email address, and abstract of no more
than 250 words ASAP but no later than April 1. We will then expand the
session abstract to reflect the papers.
Carole Counihan, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Millersville
University, USA, [log in to unmask] and Susanne Højlund,
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Aarhus University, DK, [log in to unmask]
[6] Conference papers - Entangled Border Crossings: Identity Construction,
Disciplinary Boundaries, and Asian Diaspora - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1,
2015
Taking Asian and Asian American identities as dynamic and often times
contested processes, the focus of this panel explores the multiple ways in
which these subjectivities are constructed and renegotiated in a complex
world characterized and shaped by active technological changes, flows of
migrants and travelers, and capital assemblages. Even for those whose
physical movement is limited, the trends and flows that transcend
geographic and political borders are difficult to ignore. Examining these
processes highlights the dynamism of Asian and Asian American identities,
where the familiar/strange dynamic that is the theme of this year’s
conference often comes into play as subjects encounter the Asian/Asian
American “other.” The panel draws from ethnographic work conducted among
people of Asian descent in specific sites in Asia, the U.S., or elsewhere
to shed light on the challenges and opportunities created by the complex
process of identity construction, which draws from a multitude of local and
global resources. What competing narratives do we find about Asian
American or Asian identity and its relationship to a larger Asian
diaspora? What salient concepts or motivations are linked to various
contemporary ideas of “Asian identity?” Furthermore, the multi-sited,
ethnographically rooted insights which characterize anthropological
perspectives can help further push the boundaries of area studies
approaches typified by Asian and Asian American Studies by providing
grounded research on specific contexts of power, governmentality, and
cultural politics that shape the very impact of these flows. This panel
seeks to scrutinize and unpack the complex processes that individuals find
themselves in various cultural contexts to examine how a range of
individuals imagine, interpret and understand this dynamic and at times
contested process of identity construction.
Submission deadline for abstracts (no more than 250 words): April 1, 2015.
Interested participants please email both [log in to unmask] and
[log in to unmask] Please include an abstract, title, affiliation, and current
status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position). Authors
of accepted proposals will be notified by April 5th.
Panel Organizers:
Jennifer Heung (Saint Mary’s College)
Andrea Louie (Michigan State University)
[7] Conference papers - 21st century anarchisms - AAA 2015 - Deadline:
April 1, 2015
After the peak of global justice movements in the late 1990s and early
2000s, many activists around the world have been redefining their activism
to work on carving out new life-paths, ideologies, and practices for
themselves. In this historical context, practices, ideologies, and forms of
organizing that draw from an anarchist tradition seem to be increasing in a
diversity of local contexts around the world. Why are these anarchist forms
arising now? How do these new forms of activism draw from and/or depart
from the movements for global justice? What are the relationships between
new anarchisms and the principles of horizontality and autonomy that
emerged through the movements for global justice? In what ways do
contemporary practices subvert, transgress, reinvent, or re-purpose
‘traditional anarchisms’ from the early 20th century? What new forms is
anarchism taking in different social, political, and cultural contexts?
What roles do ideology and ethical practice play in the formation of new
anarchist subjectivities? How are these movements using transnational
social movement networks, electronic media, visual and graphic arts, or
indigenous political strategies? How can we use ethnography to investigate
these issues? This panel seeks a diverse set of papers that explore 21st
Century anarchisms around the world. Send 250 word abstracts to Liv Stone:
[log in to unmask] by April 1, 2015.
[8] Conference papers - B/Ordering Infrastructures: Mediating Encounters
across Difference - AAA 2015 - April 1, 2015
Panel Discussant: Professor Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)
Infrastructures underpin everyday life, mediating our experiences of space
and time, and enabling --or obstructing-- the circulation of peoples,
goods, knowledge, and meaning. Infrastructures are thus positioned at the
center of contemporary struggles over access to resources, citizenship, and
mobility. This panel will examine these concerns by considering how
infrastructures shape, and are shaped by, forms of difference and
inequality, producing material and metaphorical borders that organize
social worlds. We seek papers on b/ordering infrastructures, that is,
papers that explore how infrastructures work as bordering and ordering
technologies.
Papers will consider (but are not restricted to) the following questions:
· How do infrastructures produce boundaries --but also encounters--
across difference? That is, how do infrastructures function as technologies
of inclusion and exclusion?
· How do infrastructures organize human and nonhuman difference,
mediating mobilities and exchanges that define landscapes and territories?
How can infrastructures, as they are practiced and enacted, support or
subvert regimes of governance and citizenship?
· Finally, how might attention to borders make us reimagine
infrastructure? And how might attention to infrastructure make us reimagine
borders?
The panel aims to bring into dialogue diverse approaches to mobility,
materiality and power. While the anthropology of infrastructure conversant
with science and technology studies and affect theory produces insights on
the encounters of state and society, nature and culture, and people and
things, social theory concerned with the intersections of race, ethnicity,
gender, sexuality, and class interrogates borders (as metaphors but also as
infrastructures) to illuminate the politics of translation, transgression,
mediation, and encounter. We welcome papers engaging these frameworks and
their interstices to consider infrastructure as built structures such as
roads, pipes and checkpoints but also more-than-human configurations of
bureaucracies, legal systems, emergency services, and other kinds of
institutions. Contributions from advanced graduate students and recent PhDs
preferred.
Submission deadline for abstracts (no more than 250 words): April 1, 2015.
Interested participants please email [log in to unmask] Please include an
abstract, title, affiliation, and current status (PhD candidacy post
fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position).
Panel Organizers:
Rosa Elena Ficek (Wesleyan University)
Stephanie Mc Callum (University of California, Santa Cruz)
[9] Conference papers - New Sending Communities and New Receiving
Communities in Dialogue with Migration Theory - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April
3, 2015
In the past decade, theorists have argued that the notion of migrant
networks at the heart of cumulative causation and transnational theories of
migration requires revisiting. These theorists assert that because research
tends to report on already existing networks, a number of key questions
remain. This critique suggests that research on new sending and new
receiving communities is well-poised to evaluate and contribute to
migration theory. New sending and receiving communities often garner little
attention, especially when located in marginalized parts of countries or
regions that already have a strong presence in international migration
streams. This panel takes as its starting point a dialogue between these
communities and migration theory. From the perspective of sending
communities, what is the connection between international sojourns and
historical antecedents of localized moves? Cumulative causation theory
posits a few individuals--people whose nonconformity in their own societies
lead them to travel outside it--open paths for prospective migrants.
Nonconformists are not necessarily trendsetters. Thus, we ask: How do their
actions become popularized and, in some cases, self-reinforcing? From the
perspective of new receiving communities, this panel questions: how do
employers, landowners, shopkeepers, and other residents establish the
social capital and cultural skills required to operate in changing cultural
settings? In both new sending and new receiving communities, how does
migration work to alter social constructs such as class, race, gender, kin,
and other power relations? Which beliefs, ideas, and behaviors--at home and
abroad—are most vulnerable to migration’s effects at its outset? While
these questions respond to today’s prominent theories, the panel also
considers how the ethnography of new sending and receiving communities
opens possibilities for novel considerations and explanatory frameworks.
Panel Organizers: Nora Haenn, North Carolina State University and Michelle
Moran-Taylor, University of Denver
Panel Discussant: Deborah Boehm, University of Nevada, Reno
Potential participants should send their abstracts (250 words max) to Nora
Haenn ([log in to unmask]) by April 3rd, 2015. Please include the title of
the paper, author’s name, affiliation, and email. Thank you.
[10] Conference papers - “Ethnography of Journalism: New Directions from
the Global South” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015
The craft of journalism has drawn growing scholarly interest in recent
years, with many studies turning their attention to the expanding news
media of the global South and its vibrant news cultures. The simultaneous
growth of newspapers, television and online media in the South has puzzled
media scholars, as they witness the old and new media expanding together
without one cannibalizing the other. Attentive to the exciting phase of
media growth, a new crop of news ethnographies have brought to the fore the
colonial histories of news craft and its postcolonial avatars, tracing in
turn journalism’s trajectory as a profession as well as a form of social
mediation and political practice. With their ethnographic detail, these
studies have posed a frontal challenge to some of the standing paradigms of
journalism theory, whether the abstract conception of news publics as
rational critical publics in the Habermasian model or the Bourdieuan frame
of cultural fields and subfields. As Jennifer Hasty forcefully puts it,
“There is no news without culture, that is, strategically
motivated…understandings of the locality”. How do these emerging
ethnographies offer new directions to scholarship on journalism and
democratic cultures? How does journalism co-create popular sovereignty, if
only provisionally, in these settings? How do we trace the genealogy of
various popular claims as they intersect with and animate journalism? The
panel brings these questions to discussion, through papers that examine
journalism’s overlaps with historically formed power structures including
race and caste, and contemporary shifts such as global urbanization. Rather
than following the lines of methodological nationalism or embracing
essentializing tropes to construe news cultures of the South as cultural
artifacts of timeless societies, the panel explores journalism in the
context of global flows of culture and capital, and how these flows
confront and instigate diverse news practices within the national domains
as well as multiple localities of the South.
Organizer: Sahana Udupa, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious
and Ethnic Diversity
Discussant: Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University
Abstracts of no more than 250 words may be sent before April 3 to
[log in to unmask]
[11] Conference papers - RELIGION, ART, AND CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL CITY -
AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 4, 2015
Contemporary cities pride themselves about being havens of cutting edge
creativity. They celebrate art, culture, and innovation with highly
publicized festivals, glossy brochures, and clever slogans. Religiously
inspired creativity, lived religious arts, and their vernacular expressions
play no role in such celebrations of urban originality. Secular fashionable
definitions, dominant intellectual and artistic networks, and political and
economic contingencies define some features of social and cultural
innovation and artistic expression as relevant, and others, like religious
ones, as insignificant.
This panel examines manifestations of social, cultural,
artistic, and aesthetic innovation produced by pious individuals and their
communities in global cities. Papers analyze the complex and largely
neglected role of faith-based urban art and creativity. They explore
exemplary contexts of pious creativity and cultural innovation. Analyzing
contemporary artistic production (e.g. visual arts, music), aesthetic
creativity (e.g. places of worship), social and spatial configurations
(e.g. places of worship as innovative cultural centers), social innovations
(e.g. faith-based associations/activities), and novel cultural formats
(e.g. religious events), panelists illustrate that pious individuals are
artistic and creative contributors to globalized cityscapes. Religious
communities are rarely seen as havens of urban art and creativity. Instead,
especially, minority communities (e.g. Muslims in Europe) are often viewed
with suspicion, and their creative contributions remain contentious.
Theoretically the panel engages debates about urban art and
creativity, and cultural production (engaging among others Richard
Florida’s concept of the “Creative City”), which understand urban
innovation as originating in small circles of creative actors and neglect
religiously inspired vernacular contributions to urban creative
transformations. Using examples of religiously inspired art and social and
cultural creativity, panelists illustrate that only a more inclusive focus
on all urban constituencies can produce a thorough understanding of urban
creativity and creative processes. The challenge in trying to understand
urban creativity is not to applaud the usual "creative suspects," but to
examine the creative contributions of all urbanites regardless of class,
ethnicity, religion, and (desired) outcomes.
Panel Organizer: Petra Kuppinger
Discussant: James Bielo
For questions and inquiries send emails to [log in to unmask]<mailto:
[log in to unmask]> .
Please submit abstracts (250 words) by April 4, 2015 to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
[12] Conference papers - Contemporary perspectives on environmental and
ecological knowledge in marine contexts - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 10,
2015
Panel Organizers: Mads Solberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Michael Vina
(University of Bergen)
The session considers Fredrik Barth's much quoted call for more comparative
anthropological studies of knowledge in the Sidney W. Mintz ' Memorial
Lecture in 2000. It does so by focusing on the particular domain of
environmental and ecological knowledge in marine contexts. The session will
examine how this domain of inquiry has evolved over the 15 years having
passed since Barth’s original formulation that “knowledge always has three
faces: a substantive corpus of assertions, a range of media of
representation, and a social organization”. The session will focus on
theory-development and empirical findings in ethnographically informed,
comparative studies of knowledge about marine ecology and environment. Both
cognitive and political-economic studies of knowledge transactions are
relevant to this panel, in line with Barth’s original solicitation. We want
to gather both younger PhD-candidates and more established scholars as
participants.
The session seeks to bring together researchers working toward developing
multifaceted and integrated approaches on dimensions of environmental and
ecological knowledge. Our work examines how mottled forms of knowledge
concerning fish, technological innovation, conservation, and environmental
change become intertwined. The panel seeks to explore knowledge production
as the intersection of cognition, materiality, and practice, highlighting
the importance of improvised, fluid, and dynamic dimensions of local
environmental knowledge. We are particularly interested in examining the
production, circulation, and transformation of environmental knowledge and
practices that emerge from the daily engagement with human and nonhuman
components of the seascape/landscape, and across different communities of
practice. Interest in knowledge dynamics can be centered on extended,
long-term everyday relations with the environment, or focus on contexts of
relatively rapid and intense events such as El Niño-events, earthquakes, or
hurricanes, and how such events spur new knowledge in the context of
agitated and rapidly changing socio-ecological conditions.
The panel also welcomes ethnographic contributions that help to understand
the conflicts that surface when overlapping, but contradictory,
epistemologies related to understandings and relations with the marine
environment intermingle. We welcome ethnographic contributions from
political ecology, cognitive anthropology, ethnoecology, traditional
ecological knowledge, multispecies ethnography, and maritime anthropology.
Interdisciplinary work is welcome.
We hope that contributors will address thought-provoking questions and
topics such as:
* Whose knowledges and epistemologies are employed to work toward
problems and solutions in marine resource management, technological
innovation, and conservation?
* In what ways do different understandings of nature and resource
management affect fishers and scientists’ practices and relations with
marine life?
* What are the unique epistemic challenges of research on marine
resources and technological innovation?
* How is local ecological knowledge deployed to respond to observed
environmental changes?
* How do conflict, cooperation and contested knowledges produce new
spatial relations and linkages?
* What are possible directions both methodologically and theoretically
for further scholarly engagement?
* Contested relations between different actors in applied knowledge
production and organization.
* Marine resource access and distribution, cooperative and conflictive
interactions between different fishing sectors.
* Shifting livelihood strategies in fishing communities and
informal/formal marine resource management.
* Adaptation to environmental change and environmental risks in marine
environments.
We welcome abstract submissions of 250 words (maximum) via email to Mads
Solberg ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and/or Michael
Vina ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by April 10, 2015.
Please include a title for your submission and name of author(s).
NB: Keep in mind that participating anthropologists living in the US/Canada
must have a membership with the AAA and valid registration for the
conference. Anthropologists from outside the US/Canada are eligble for
membership exemption. Participants must register for the conference, pay
their registration fees and upload their abstracts within April 15, 2015
(earlier is better).
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] AAA Community Engagement Grant - AAA Meeting 2015 - Deadline: April 1,
2015
AAA Community Engagement Grants provide up to $2,000 for AAA sections to
rent offsite space in the annual meeting host city for events that engage
communities and extend Anthropology's reach beyond the annual meeting.
There are no restrictions on the kinds of events that may be proposed, but
the funds must be used only for rental of space, and the event must be open
to all AAA meeting attendees.
Please provide a proposal including the following information to Kim Baker,
AAA Manager, Organizational Governance ([log in to unmask]) by 1 April 2015.
Event Name:
Proposed By:
Proposed Location:
Community Partners:
Contact Person at Event Site
Section Contact[s], and Section Treasurer
Description of the Event (including how it contributes to our ability to
engage local communities, enrich the annual meeting, or build partnerships
with local organizations; 200 words or less.
Funds Requested:
Grant proposals must be submitted through one of the 40 sections of the
AAA, and will be reviewed by the AAA Section Assembly Executive Committee
at its spring meeting. Questions? Contact Miguel Diaz Barriga, AAA Section
Convenor ([log in to unmask] ) or Kim Baker ([log in to unmask])
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Junior Scientist - Luminescence Dating - Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany - Deadline: Ongoing
The Department of Human Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany), invites applications for a
post-doctoral position in luminescence dating. In the Department,
palaeoanthropological research is conducted within a multidisciplinary
environment involving groups of scientists including biological
anthropologists, Palaeolithic archaeologists, archaeological scientists,
and geochronologists. Luminescence dating forms a significant component of
the geochronology group (integrating radiocarbon, U-series and luminescence
dating) with a well-equipped laboratory. More information about the
Department and the luminescence lab can be found on our web site.
We are seeking a researcher to date sites and the geomorphic context of
these sites in regions of interest to our Department. This includes sample
collection and dosimetric measurements in the field, laboratory processing
and publication. The ideal candidate will work with different types of
archaeological contexts (i.e. open-air versus caves) and will have
experience with both quartz and feldspars. Experience with a Lexsyg reader
is also desirable. Ideally the candidate will can also undertake
fundamental research into luminescence dating methodologies. We are
particularly interested in researchers who can interact with other
geochronologists, palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists within the
Department.
This research position may begin immediately. The initial length of the
appointment is two years, with an option for extension up to five years.
The selected candidate will have a Ph.D. (or be close to completion) and a
significant track record of research. The Max Planck Society is committed
to employing more physically impaired individuals and to increasing the
share of women in areas where they are underrepresented, and therefore
expressly encourages applications from such qualified individuals.
For further information please contact Prof. Jean-Jacques Hublin (
[log in to unmask]). Applications, including cover letter, curriculum vitae,
reprints of selected publications, a short statement of research interests,
and the names of three referees should be sent by mail to the address
below. The search for these positions will continue until a successful
candidate has been selected.
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig (Germany)
http://www.eva.mpg.de/positions-available.html
[2] Tenure Position - Indigenous Scholar - School of Social Work - Thompson
Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015
The School of Social Work and Human Service is seeking a qualified
Indigenous scholar for a tenure tripartite position to commence July 1,
2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. Thompson Rivers University is
located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, on the traditional
territory of the Secwepemc Nation. The Campuses in Kamloops and Williams
Lake also serve the Nlaka’pamux, St’at’imc, Tsilhqot’in and Carrier
Nations. Within the area served by TRU there are also significant
populations of Metis and Aboriginal people from other parts of B.C. and
Canada. The university has had a long history of involvement with First
Nations’ Tribal Councils, Bands, Aboriginal Organizations, Cultural, and
Educational Organizations. Our university has a mission to become the
“University of Choice” for Aboriginal learners. Enrolment of Aboriginal
learners has grown to become 11% of Thompson Rivers University. Thompson
Rivers University continues to partner, create strategic goals and provide
successful Aboriginal programs & services with Aboriginal communities.
The School is seeking applicants with a strong commitment to teaching and
research. The successful candidate will teach in the BSW program, including
required third year courses on First Nations Issues and Decolonizing Social
Work practice, engage in scholarly activity focused on Indigenous people,
ethno-racial communities, and/or other equity seeking groups, and make
service contributions to their profession, School, institution and
community.
The School of Social Work and Human Service offers a wide range of academic
programs to approximately 250 students on two campuses and more than 100
students through Open Learning. Programs include: Bachelor of Social Work
Degree, the Human Service Diploma (offered at both the Kamloops and
Williams Lake campuses), the Social Service Worker Certificate (offered
through Open Learning), and the Child and Youth Mental Health Graduate
Certificate (offered through Open Learning). The School has plans to offer
a Master of Social Work degree and has a Diversity and Equity plan.
The School of Social Work and Human Service programs prepare competent
practitioners to provide service and leadership within regional, national,
and global contexts to achieve social justice, respect for diversity, and
social change. Our graduates work in collaborative and anti-oppressive ways
across a full range of service and professional positions to promote
positive and progressive social change. The School is committed to
learner-centred education that identifies and eradicates barriers that
prevent people from reaching their full potential, and that integrates and
incorporates Aboriginal perspectives.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Established or promising record as a scholar, educator, and member of
one’s profession
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Doctoral degree in Social Work preferred, or an MSW and a doctoral
degree in a related discipline, or an MSW and doctorate near completion
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A minimum of five years' social work practice experience
Acknowledging the diversity of the School's student population and
constituencies in the interior of British Columbia, the School seeks to
increase the representativeness of its faculty. Thompson Rivers University
is committed to the principle of employment equity and in accordance with
Section 42(3) of the BC Human Rights Code, priority for this position will
be given to Aboriginal people.
For application information:
https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3467
[] Tenure Position - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University -
Deadline: March 31, 2015
The School of Social Work and Human Service is experiencing an
unprecedented renewal of its faculty and invites applications for a
tenure/tenure track tripartite position to commence July 1, 2015, or as
soon as possible thereafter. The School is seeking applicants with a strong
commitment to teaching and research. The successful candidate will teach in
the BSW program, engage in scholarly activity, and make service
contributions to their profession, School, institution and community. The
School of Social Work and Human Service offers a wide range of academic
programs to approximately 250 students on two campuses and more than 100
students through Open Learning. Programs include: Bachelor of Social Work
Degree, the Human Service Diploma (offered at both the Kamloops and
Williams Lake campuses), the Social Service Worker Certificate (offered
through Open Learning), and the Child and Youth Mental Health Graduate
Certificate (offered through Open Learning). The School has plans to offer
a Master of Social Work degree and has a Diversity and Equity plan. The
School of Social Work and Human Service programs prepare competent
practitioners to provide service and leadership within regional, national,
and global contexts to achieve social justice, respect for diversity, and
social change. Our graduates work in collaborative and anti-oppressive ways
across a full range of service and professional positions to promote
positive and progressive social change. The School is committed to
learner-centred education that identifies and eradicates barriers that
prevent people from reaching their full potential, and that integrates and
incorporates Aboriginal perspectives.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Established or promising record as a scholar, educator, and member of
one’s profession
- Doctoral degree in Social Work preferred or an MSW and a doctoral degree
in a related discipline
- A minimum of five years' social work practice experience
For application information:
https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3334
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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members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links
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de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des
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