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
16 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] Student Volunteers - SAR Meeting Registration Table - SAR Conference -
San Diego
*b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences*
[1] Abstract – Journal – Sexed Religion
[2] AAA Panel -Roundtable - Ethically Disconnected: Removal as a
Contemporary Form of Engagement
*2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES*
[1] Applications - CAE Presidential Fellows Program - Council on
Anthropology and Education (CAE) - Deadline: May 30, 2015
[2] Nomination – Award - Lincoln M. Alexander Award – Deadline: May 31, 2015
[3] Submission - Prize – Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize - Deadline June 1,
2015
[4] Nomination – Award - Senior Achievement Award – Deadline: June 15, 2015
*3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI* (in addition to/ en plus de
*http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs* <http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs>)
N/A
*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*
[1] Abstracts - PhD Summer School – Anthropology of Complexity - Lake
Geneva - Deadline: May 1, 2015
[2] Lecture - Liisa Malkki - The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of
International Humanitarianism - York University - May 4, 2015
[3] Conference - Anthropology in London – June 15, 2015
*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: *English posting guidelines*
<http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>
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*1. CALLS || APPELS*
*a) Opportunities || Opportunités*
*[1] Student Volunteers - SAR Meeting Registration Table - SAR Conference -
San Diego*
Seeking volunteers to staff SAR meeting registration table!
Are you a student attending the upcoming SAR conference in San Diego, April
16-19? Want to do a good deed and get to know some of your fellow students
and SAR members?
We're seeking student volunteers to help staff the registration desk. In
return for working a morning or afternoon shift, you'll earn immeasurable
good will, get to hang out with some fun people, and SAR will waive or
reimburse your conference registration fee.
We need volunteers for the following shifts:
Thursday 3pm-6pm
Friday 7:45am-12pm and 1:15pm-5pm
Saturday 7:45am-12pm and 1:15pm-5pm
If you can commit to one or more shifts, please contact Jessica Mason (SAR
student representative) at [log in to unmask] Please forward to anyone you
know who is attending next weekend. Thanks!
*b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences*
*[1] Abstract – Journal – Sexed Religion*
Call for Papers: Sexed Religion
Exploring Religious Constructs of Gender and Sexuality
Sexed Religion is our upcoming edition tentatively scheduled for Spring
2016. In this edition, we will be exploring bodies, the things they do and
the language that defines them in the context of religion and culture.
We’re interested in research that breaks binaries, and isn’t afraid to put
its hands in places where researchers normally wouldn’t.
We will be seeking submissions from all relevant fields (religion,
theology, gender studies, anthropology, history, etc.). Papers can focus on
any tradition, time period or particular issue surrounding gender and
sexuality.
Some submission ideas we’re particularly interested in, include:
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Case studies on saints and other figures
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Intersections of Art, Religion and Gender
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Changing perceptions of Gender and Sexuality
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Comparative studies in Gender and sexuality
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Alternate readings of familiar texts
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Queer theory and its application
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Desire, erotic longing and naughty divinities
If you are interested in this CFP, please submit your paper:
http://www.jrc-concordia.ca/submit/.
*[2] AAA Panel -Roundtable - Ethically Disconnected: Removal as a
Contemporary Form of Engagement*
This is a last minute call for participation in our panel. Please see the
description below.
If interested, please email: [log in to unmask]
Best wishes,
Yana
Ethically Disconnected: Removal as a Contemporary Form of Engagement
AAA Roundtable
Organizers: Andrew Brandel, Eric Hirsch, Yana Stainova
This roundtable trains ethnographic attention on today’s special spaces,
official or unofficial zones predicated on purposeful removal, whose
gatekeepers explicitly and aspirationally locate them “beyond” the routine
sites of rules, political contestation between right and left, and even
usual forms of everyday interpersonal interaction. Such spaces can be
imagined as a kind of “sanctuary” for achieving an ethically laden
marginality. We understand marginal to mean both geographical outskirts and
sites that “like rivers, run through” the bodies of communities and states
(Das and Poole 2004: 13). Even as they are situated in the midst of the
usual, these sanctuaries become sites of action on distinct terms, and draw
a sense of their unique ethics out of that distinction. Sanctuary is
certainly not limited to resistance-based enclave making and activist
refusal, of which there exist many accounts: rather, our particular
interest is in the dense politics of creating a quiet amidst the noise,
song within cacophony, spaces of health in sites of contamination,
communication against unceasing connection, peace in chaos.
Our interest in the idea of sanctuary offers a direct response to two
facets of anthropology’s recent critical interest: (1) concerns about the
relentless connectivity that characterizes the contemporary picture of
globalization and reconfigures what we have come to know as conventional
political structures; and (2) engagement with advanced neoliberalism’s
seemingly limitless ability to “colonize the field of value” (Povinelli
2011), particularly through the “economization” and “financialization of
everything” (Brown 2015). Are there places, groupings, communities immune
to these processes—or, more precisely, how do people try to be apart, to
displace themselves? How do these macro-level trends lead to new ethical
forms of auto-displacement? What new questions does removal raise? In
diverse ways, the research we will discuss on this roundtable entails a
follow-up engagement with what happens after disenchantment: how do the
people unsatisfied with the “disenchantment of modernity” narrative
respond—what do they do next? In what ways do “a-“ or “anti-political”
ethical systems recruit and reformulate an economized politics? How porous
are these sanctuary spaces at the edges? How do such zones exist in time?
The sanctuaries “beyond” the conventional we will use our ethnographies to
discuss include: collective music practice in the midst of violence and
political strife in Venezuela; ritual labor retreats for cleaning Andean
water sources; listening practices in Gibraltar; literary culture in
Berlin; forest territory in western Canada; hip hop and rap battles in
Lima. This roundtable’s interest in practices of making familiar social and
political environments strange by articulating sanctuaries in their midst
contributes to the key themes of the AAA 2015 call for papers. Beyond just
a subject of anthropological inquiry, attunement to such spaces constitutes
in itself an anthropological way of knowing.
*2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES*
*[1] Applications - CAE Presidential Fellows Program - Council on
Anthropology and Education (CAE) - Deadline: May 30, 2015*
*Call for Applications!!!*
*Concha Delgado Gaitan** CAE* *Presidential Fellows Program*
The Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE), a section of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA), is pleased to announce the sixth year of
the CAE Presidential Fellows Program. These fellowships are intended to
support professional development and mentoring in the field of educational
anthropology for scholars early in their academic careers. The program now
proudly bears the name of educational anthropologist Concha Delgado Gaitan,
and CAE has set up an endowment fund for this program.
Up to five (5) fellowships will be awarded for the 2015-2016 academic year.
Each fellowship includes:
1. The establishment of mentoring relationships with senior scholars in the
field of educational anthropology, including face-to-face meetings at the
Annual AAA Meeting in November 2015.
2. Participation in a professional learning community with the new cohort
and previous presidential fellows and mentors.
3. A $300 travel grant to be used to attend the December 2015 Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
*Eligibility:* The fellowship is open to junior scholars who have completed
their doctoral degrees by July 2015 and no earlier than 2012. Scholars from
underrepresented groups and institutions are especially encouraged to
apply.
*Application Procedure*: Applicants should submit the following materials:
1. Updated curriculum vita.
2. A statement of no more than 2 single-spaced pages that responds to the
following prompt
*The Concha Delgado Gaitan Presidential Fellowship is aimed at supporting
junior scholars as they navigate careers as educational anthropologists, in
ways that contribute to their success within the Academy and also the
advancement of CAE’s mission. (See Mission Statement.)*
*How do you see your scholarly and professional work contributing to this
larger vision? What would you contribute to the cohort of Fellows, if you
are selected, and to the larger CAE community? (Think about your
contributions in terms of the things you know and care about, and how you
would bring those perspectives to the work.) What mentoring supports do you
think might help you in order to make such contributions?*
3. One letter of reference and the names of 2 additional referees.
*Selection procedure:* Applications will be reviewed by a selection
committee of established CAE scholars, chaired by the past-president of
CAE. The review process takes into account the quality of the application,
the fit between CAE’s mission <
*http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/sample-page/cae-mission/*
<http://www.aaanet.org/sections/cae/sample-page/cae-mission/>> and the
applicant’s work, and the need for mentoring. Within each cohort, the
reviewers try to ensure a broad range of interests.
*Application Deadline*: May 30, 2015
*Applicants notified by:* June 30th, 2015
*Submit applications electronically to*: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Past
President of CAE: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
*[2] Nomination – Award - Lincoln M. Alexander Award – Deadline: May 31,
2015*
Lincoln M. Alexander Award, Nomination deadline is May 31
The Lincoln M. Alexander Award honours youth who have demonstrated
leadership in eliminating racial discrimination in Ontario. The award was
first given in 1993.
Three awards are given each year: two student awards and one community
award.
Recipients receive a personalized certificate as well as a $5,000 cash
award.
The award is named after the late Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander, who was
the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, serving from 1985 – 1991. He was
the first member of a minority group to serve as a Lieutenant Governor in
any province in Canada.
Further info:
http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/lma.shtml
*[3] Submission - Prize – Kenneth W.* Payne Student Prize - Deadline June
1, 2015
Call for Submissions:
The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize for outstanding anthropological
scholarship by a student on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered topic
Deadline for Submission: June 1, 2015
The Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize is presented each year by the
Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) to a graduate or undergraduate
student in acknowledgment of outstanding anthropological work on 1) a
lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered topic, or 2) a critical
interrogation of sexualities and genders more broadly defined. The Prize
includes a cash award in the amount of $400. Submissions are encouraged
from graduate or undergraduate students in any of the four fields of
anthropology. To be eligible for consideration, work should have been
completed since June 2014 and while the applicant was still enrolled as a
student. Research papers as well as visual media (e.g. documentary film)
are eligible for submission for this competition. Papers should be no
longer than 40 pages, double-spaced, and typed in 11 or 12 point font;
published papers or works accepted for publication will not be accepted for
review. Visual media should run no longer than 60 minutes; media projects
already under contract for commercial distribution will not be accepted for
review.
THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JUNE 1, 2015. Submit an electronic copy of
the print submission as a Word (*.doc) or RTF (rich text format or *.rtf)
attachment to [log in to unmask] on or before the indicated deadline.
Visual media projects should be available for download from an accessible
website; send an email to [log in to unmask] identifying the visual media
project and indicating its accessibility. In either case, include with your
email message a statement showing your intent to enter the 2015 Kenneth W.
Payne Prize competition. Include your name, address, department and
university, telephone number, and email address in the body of the email;
in addition, indicate the stage of your graduate or undergraduate work at
the time the submission was developed. You will receive a confirmation
email that your submission has been received within a week of its receipt.
Please only send duplicate copies or emails if you have not received a
response after two weeks.
Submissions will be judged according to the following criteria: use of
relevant L/G/B/T/Q and/or feminist anthropological theory and literature,
potential for contribution to and advancement of L/G/B/T/Q studies and our
understanding of sexualities worldwide, attention to difference (such as
gender, class, race, ethnicity, nation), originality, organization and
coherence, and timeliness. The award will be presented to the winner at the
AQA Business meeting during the annual meetings of the American
Anthropological Association (Denver, CO) November 18-22, 2015.
Members of the 2015 Payne Prize Committee: Lawrence Cohen (UC Berkeley),
Michael Connors Jackman (York University), Tayo Jolaosho (UC Merced)
Richard J. Martin (Harvard University), Robert Phillips (Ball State
University – 2015 Payne Prize Committee chair), and Lucinda Ramberg
(Cornell University).
*[4] Nomination – Award - Senior Achievement Award – Deadline: June 15,
2015*
Senior Achievement Award, Application deadline is June 15
The Ontario Senior Achievement Award honours people who have made an
outstanding contribution to their community after age 65.
Seniors over 65 who qualify for this award may have contributed in many
different fields including arts, literature, community service,
voluntarism, education, environment, fitness and humanitarian.
Further info:
http://www.citizenship.gov.on.ca/english/citizenship/honours/saa.shtml
*3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI* (in addition to/ en plus
de *http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs* <http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs>)
N/A
*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*
*[1] Abstracts - PhD Summer School – Anthropology of Complexity - Lake
Geneva - Deadline: May 1, 2015*
ANTHROPOLOGY OF COMPLEXITY PHD SUMMER SCHOOL, AUG. 24-27
ANTHROPOLOGY OF COMPLEXITY is an international PhD summer school that
addresses human-made phenomena such as social systems, territories and
cities, and social constructs from the perspective of complexity
approaches. It is an interdisciplinary platform organized by EPFL-Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne and ETHZ-Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zürich.
During four days, participants, teachers and lecturers present, discuss and
challenge how they conceive and implement the notion of complexity in their
research work. Together, they question the emergence of the notion and its
application across disciplines. Topics concerned range from product design
to language, aesthetics, infrastructures, planning, religious and moral
beliefs, historical narratives, globalization, and the production of social
and physical space. Each day is organized around one guest lecturer with
whom participants engage directly and who provides direct feed-back on
participants' working papers.
The Summer School relies on an active engagement, participatory activities
and critical thinking to emulate novel considerations over the notion of
complexity. International and external participants are housed on-site so
that living proximity stimulates more exchanges. The Summer School takes
place at EPFL-Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne main campus on
the shores of Lake Geneva.
At the end of the summer school, student should be able define how they
conceive and implement the notion of complexity in their research work;
engage in academic discussion over it; and master the main concepts related
to complexity theory as applied so social and human sciences, architecture,
planning and engineering.
Deadline for abstracts is May 1, 2015. Further info at
*http://complexity2015.epfl.ch/* <http://complexity2015.epfl.ch/>
*[2] Lecture - Liisa Malkki - The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of
International Humanitarianism - York University - May 4, 2015*
The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
Centre for Refugee Studies 8th Annual Adelman Lecture
5:00-7:00pm, Room 519, Kaneff Tower, York University
Prof. Liisa H. Malkki (Stanford Anthropology) is best known for Purity and
Exile, a landmark text which explored the ways in which political violence
and exile produced transformations of historical consciousness and national
identity among displaced Burundian Hutus in Tanzania.
She will be presenting on her most recent book-length project, which
examines the changing interrelationships among humanitarian interventions,
internationalism, professionalism, affect, and neutrality in the work of
the Finnish Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1562022547398637/
*[3] Conference - Anthropology in London – June 15, 2015*
ANTHROPOLOGY IN LONDON CONFERENCE, JUNE 15, 2015, REGISTRATION OPEN
Please note that the 2015 Anthropology in London day conference, being
arranged by SOAS, University of London, in conjunction with other
anthropology departments of the University of London, is open for
registration.
To register, see
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthropology-in-london-day-2015-anthropology-on-the-move-tickets-15353205852
Full conference details, including the draft programme and accepted
abstracts, are available at
https://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/anthropology-in-london-2015/
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