Upcoming Call for Papers, Panelists,
Funding & Employment Opportunities, Awards and Summer Courses
October 30, 2014
Welcome to the CASCA Graduate Student List! We hope that this list will
grow and support the new Student Network at CASCA; 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>.
Bienvenue sur la liste de diffusion des étudiant(e)s diplômé(e)s de CASCA !
Nous espérons que cette liste va s'agrandir et soutenir le nouveau réseau
des étudiants de CASCA; 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: Links to detailed posting
guidelines: in English and français <http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>.
In this newsletter:
1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Roundtable Invitation- “Queerness as a Site of Vulnerability in
Academe” - AAA/AQA - Schedule for Friday, December 5, 11am-12:45pm.
[2] Panel- SfAA- Why do Social and Environmental Problems Persist? Critical
Perspectives on Ritual, Practice, and Cognition
[3] Abstract- Panel- Sustainable Food Systems in Cross-Cultural
Perspective- Deadline: October 31, 2014
[4] Submission- Panel- Ritual, Practice and Cognition- SAA- Deadline:
October 31, 2014
[5] Abstracts-Panel- Shamans, Initiation and Masks- Deadline: October 31,
2014
[6] Track Editors- Conference- Inequality, Equality and Difference-
Deadline: November 14, 2014
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications
et conférences
[1] Submission- Conference- Anthropology, Children and Youth- Deadline:
January 10, 2014
[2] Submission- Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in
Latin America and the Caribbean- Communities, Circulations, Intersections-
Deadline: June 15, 2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
N/A
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>)
[1] Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology - Tenure-Track
Position -Spelman College
[2] Emerging Leader- Topics in Visual Anthropology; Anthropology and the
Environment; Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology;
Nationalism, Citizenship and Modernity- 2014 Emerging Leaders in
Anthropology Program (ELAP)- NASA- Deadline: November 1, 2014
[3] Sessional Instructor - Kinship and Social Organization - Department of
Sociology and Anthropology - University of Guelph - Deadline: November 7,
2014, 3pm
[4] Volunteer- Social Media Team- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory-
Deadline: November 15, 2014
[5] Postdoctoral Scholar Program in the Social Science and Humanities -
“Global Change in a Dynamic World”- University of South Florida - Call for
Applications - Deadline: December 5, 2014
[6] UCRSAP Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2015-2016 - Munk School of Global
Affairs at the University of Toronto - Deadline: January 1, 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).
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5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES || COURS D'ETE
[1] Workshops at the AAA - Society for Humanistic Anthropology - Call for
Registration - Deadline: October 31, 2014
[2] Internship- Students for International Development- Deadline: November
10, 2014
[3] NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala - Summer 2015 - Deadline:
December 31, 2014
[4] NCSU Ethnographic Field School - Lake Atitlán, Guatemala - Summer 2015
- Deadline: February 15, 2015
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1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Roundtable Invitation- “Queerness as a Site of Vulnerability in
Academe” - AAA/AQA - Schedule for Friday, December 5, 11am-12:45pm.
This is a second announcement regarding the joint AAA Committee on Labor
Relations and AQA session, “Queerness as a Site of Vulnerability in
Academe” scheduled for Friday, December 5, 11am-12:45pm.
This roundtable is of interest to LGBTQ anthropologists who serve as
graduate student teaching/research assistants, adjunct faculty, visiting
faculty in other temporary/term faculty positions or junior faculty on
tenure-lines. The roundtable questions whether the seemingly
“gay-friendly” popular climate extends to queer academics in higher
education.
· Are there particular vulnerabilities facing of LGBTQ graduate teaching
assistants? term faculty? junior faculty?
· Do these vulnerabilities intersect with vulnerabilities already
associated with race, class and gender in such studies as Presumed
Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia)?
· Are there concrete actions that the Committee on Labor relations, AQA
and AAA can take to address these concerns?
To create a centerpiece for this session, we want to invite those who have
faced employment-related vulnerability as LGBTQ anthropologists to share
their stories. These is can be in the form of written statements, redacted
to maintain any necessary confidentiality; this could also be in the form
of brief remarks to be shared during the roundtable. If you have
experiences with LGBTQ teaching/employment related vulnerability and are
willing to share your experiences for purposes of roundtable discussion,
please contact Christa Craven at [log in to unmask] and/or Bill Leap
[log in to unmask]
[2] Panel- SfAA- Why do Social and Environmental Problems Persist? Critical
Perspectives on Ritual, Practice, and Cognition
In this panel, we engage with Bourdieu’s notion of practice and habitus to
theorize persisting social and environmental problems as “neither the
exclusive product of free will nor of underlying principles, but [as]
actively constructed from social actors from cultural dispositions and
structured by previous events” (Bourdieu, 2012). Problems like racism,
xenophobia, environmental degradation, or unwillingness to address
individual and collective responsibilities in the crisis of the
Anthropocene, as such, can be theorized as “institutional facts”. They are,
in John Searle’s (2001) terms, beliefs and practices, which, like money,
marriages or nation states, only exist because we implicitly agree to
believe in them and reenact them through practice.
Could it be, as Boyer & Liénard (2006) suggested in their re-reading of
Rappaport’s (1979) ‘obvious aspects of ritual’, that collective behaviour
is driven by a phylogenetically evolved propensity for compulsion,
rigidity, redundancy, and reiteration, regardless of the ‘content’ of
belief and action? Are social and environmental problems forms of ritual?
Doxa? Do they stem from reflective beliefs that become intuitive?
We seek ethnographically or experimentally grounded case studies that
critically discuss how such abstractions as “power”, “discourse”,
"ideology" or “collective representations” that are usually theorized as
causal variables in socio-environmental problems are enacted by ordinary
people through ordinary action. We are particularly interested in papers
that discuss how problematic forms of action are learned implicitly and
imitatively through infra-linguistic, minimally representational cues. Only
by addressing this learning process, we argue, can we work toward
resignification and social change from the ground up.
Works cited:
Bourdieu, Pierre- “An Anthropology of Practice,” in ed. Jerry D. Moore,
Visions of Culture: an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and
Theorists. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2012. pp. 325-342
Liénard, Pierre & Pascal Boyer, “Whence Collective Rituals? A Cultural
Selection Model of Ritualized Behavior.” American Anthropologist, 108(4):
2006. pp. 814-827
Rappaport, Roy A. Ecology, Meaning and Religion. 1979. Berkeley, CA: North
Atlantic Books
Searle, John, “Chapter Two: Creating Institutional Facts,” in The
Construction of Social Reality. New York: Free Press, 1995. pp. 31-57
Panel organizers: Samuel Veissière (McGill) and Frank Muttenzer
(McGill/Luzern)
Papers:
·Frank Muttenzer (McGill/Luzern) - How ritual contributes to the creation
and persistence of ideology: the case of Vezo foragers and coastal reef
degradation in southwest Madagascar
· Samuel Veissière (McGill). Kids and Kinds in Mind and Culture: Racism
and Sexism as Enskillment
· Monika Barbe (Mcgill) . Learning Race, Class, and Gender in a Peruvian
Household
· Free spot
· Free spot
Samuel Veissière, PhD
Visiting Professor | Transcultural Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, &
Anthropology
Department of Psychiatry | Department of Anthropology | McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West - Room 103 |Montreal, Quebec | H3A 1Y1
Tel: (514) 506-7094 | Fax: (514) 375-2498
Email: [log in to unmask]
[3] Abstract- Panel- Sustainable Food Systems in Cross-Cultural
Perspective- Deadline: October 31, 2014
Panel for the Society of Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh
2015
Call for Paper Abstracts to session: Sustainable Food Systems in
Cross-Cultural Perspective
Interested presenters please send a 100 word abstract to Chelsea Wentworth
[log in to unmask] ASAP
The final deadline is Friday, October 31, 2014 at 12:00pm.
Session Title: Sustainable Food Systems in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Session Abstract: This panel examines food systems in the context of
sustainable development programs. Drawing on ethnographic research from
across the world, papers will explore how farmers and families engage in
large and small-scale food cultivation, and the ways they believe this
aligns with the goals of sustainable development. Connecting with this
year’s conference theme continuity and change, papers will discuss the
practical value of anthropological perspectives on sustainable food
systems, and offer recommendations for how farmers and policy makers can
better work together to promote food systems that embody the economic,
environmental and social components of sustainable development.
Panel Organizer: Chelsea Wentworth (University of Pittsburgh)
Paper abstracts are 100 words and can be submitted to Chelsea Wentworth
[log in to unmask] by Friday, October 31, 2014 at 12:00pm
http://www.sfaa.net/annual-meeting/pittsburgh-2015/
<http://www.sfaa.net/annual-meeting/pittsburgh-2015/>
[4] Submission- Panel- Ritual, Practice and Cognition- SAA- Deadline:
October 31, 2014
We are seeking two more presenters for our Panel on Ritual, Practice and
Cognition at the Society for Applied Anthropology conference in Pittsburg
http://www.sfaa.net/annual-meeting/pittsburgh-2015/
The deadline for submission is Oct 31st
Samuel
Samuel Veissière, PhD
Visiting Professor | Transcultural Psychiatry, Cognitive Science, &
Anthropology
Department of Psychiatry | Department of Anthropology | McGill University
1033 Pine Avenue West - Room 103 |Montreal, Quebec | H3A 1Y1
Tel: (514) 506-7094 | Fax: (514) 375-2498
Email: [log in to unmask]
[5] Abstracts-Panel- Shamans, Initiation and Masks- Deadline: October 31,
2014
‘Those who go bump in the night’: Shamans, Initiation and Masks
A panel proposal by Giovanni Kezich (Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente
Trentina, San Michele all’Adige, Italy) and Cesare Poppi (SUPSI, Lugano,
Switzerland) for the International Society for the Academic Study of
Shamanism, Delphi, Greece, October 9th-13th 2015
A much debated issue in the study of shamanism is the relationship
between shamanism, masking and other forms of ritualized behavior conducive
to a variety of states of altered consciousness. In particular, the
collective initiation in what are known as ‘secret societies’ of masks, by
and large, appears to be somewhat in contrast to the individual experience
of shamans in their initiatory training. The panel aims at exploring this
and related issues with regard to:
1 – Space: if shamans journey out of the spaces of the living to interact
with the spirits and the dead while masks are the dead/spirits/initiates
who travel from the Otherworld into the spaces of sociality, what does this
imply for the cognitive and epistemological foundations of either practice?
2 – Place: what are the respective places of initiation for shamans and the
neophytes of secret societies of masks? How does the general notion of the
aspiring shaman spending time ‘with the spirits’ compare (and contrast)
with the seclusion of initiates in the bush or other similar ‘otherplaces’?
How to differences in training relate to wider differences in the
prerogatives of masked societies and shamans?
3 – Power: both shamans and masked societies patrol the outer boundaries of
sociality, often with policing powers, to counter evil in all its forms.
How does the collective dimension of the shaman’s engagement with crime and
other forms of social distress compare to the masks’ prerogatives in the
same field? Do the two functions somewhat overlap and complement one
another?
4 – History: Do shamanism and secret societies of masks constitute steps in
the developmental process of the means to interact with the ‘otherworld’
and, if so, what are their interfaces? Can they ultimately be understood as
subsequent – if occasionally cumulative – steps in the passage from hunting
and gathering social formations in the Paleolithic to the agrarian
civilizations of the Neolithic?
The Panel welcomes both spoken/written and audio-visual contributions.
Please send you paper title and abstract (max. 250 words) in a WORD
document mentioning this panel theme by October 31st 2014 to:
[log in to unmask]
[6] Track Editors- Conference- Inequality, Equality and Difference-
Deadline: November 14, 2014
Call for Track Proposals: Inequality, Equality, and Difference
Proposals due November 14, 2014
The 2015 conference of the Society for the Anthropology of North America
(SANA) will take place April 16-18 at John Jay College of the City
University of New York with the theme “Inequality, Equality, Difference”
(see below). The conference will be organized around several tracks, each
comprising two days of sustained discussion and analysis around issues of
key importance to North American society. We are now seeking proposals from
individuals and groups to lead and develop tracks, which should relate to
the overall conference theme.
Track Editors will each design two days of programming that creates
opportunities for 15-45 conference participants. They will work closely
with SANA leadership, as they recruit some submissions based in their own
networks and reserve slots for submissions solicited through a forthcoming
Call for Papers. We encourage themes that are broad enough to speak to an
array of thinkers but specific enough to foster deep and coherent inquiry.
In addition to standard paper panels, track organizers are invited to
explore alternative formats for sessions such as: roundtables; response
panels to previously-circulated papers; interlocutor sessions with
informants or activists; keynote talks; keyword sessions; and field trips.
Track editors may want to encourage pre-conference interactions (e.g.,
circulated papers, thoughts, shared documents, postings, etc.) so as to
make conference interactions as substantive and productive as possible. The
conference, perhaps best conceived as a kind of mini-school, is cumulative.
It works best when participants make connections between sessions and
thematic discussions build over the course of the two-day engagement. Each
track should conclude with a meeting to identify emerging themes, keywords
and observations that can be shared with all conference participants at the
closing session.
Proposals are accepted from everyone from graduate students to senior
faculty and should include:
Track Justification (200-300 words): Present the themes’ breadth and depth
and relevance to North American anthropology.
Program Ideas and Preliminary Structure (200-300 words): A proposal (as
specific as possible) about the exact form of the two days of programming
(roughly two 6-hour days). Priority is given to novel organization and
potential for active involvement of all track participants.
Recruitment Strategy: (150-200 words): As specific a plan as possible for
recruiting participants, including names and abstracts of
potential/confirmed participants. Please remember: several slots will
likely be added once abstracts are received from the general Call for
Papers. Priority is given to inclusive proposals that welcome a range of
participants.
*Proposals should be submitted as an attachment and in-line text in an
email to Michael Polson, Conference Chair, at [log in to unmask] <
[log in to unmask]> by November 14. *Questions may also be
directed to this email. Decisions will be made shortly after the AAA
conference in December after which a Call for Papers will be circulated.
Conference theme: Inequality, Equality and Difference
Inequality has recently found its way back into popular discourse. Buffeted
by economic and ecological crises and haunted by a
welfare-turned-surveillance state, many have come to doubt the ability of
the present social system to produce an equitable, sustainable society.
This doubt undergirded social movements from the Right and Left, with
widely ranging demands, and has in turn been taken up particularly by a
liberal economic, political, and intellectual “establishment.” Some see a
genuine opportunity to reduce and eliminate inequality while others see a
cynical rearguard defense of an unequal system in crisis.
North American anthropologists have historically had a great deal to say
about inequality. From bodies to body politics, inequalities can be made
highly visible for radical or conservative aims or effaced under other
logics of difference and power (e.g. “national security,” “public safety,”
“economic growth”). Inequality can be many things: lived experience, social
metrics, an administered and organized system of difference, a deviation
from an ideal state of equality, a legal criteria, a problem in need of
activist or institutional intervention. Inequality, in these definitions,
doggedly and systemically persists—as does the belief in an often
under-theorized equality. In this vein, we ask:
When does inequality become legible and illegible? Through what discourses,
practices, and logics? To whom? Toward what end?
Who makes interventions to address inequality? How do these articulate with
or oppose systems of rule? What rules, rulers, and rulings stabilize
unequal conditions and deliver equality?
How do frames of “inequality” and “equality” differ from other frames of
difference and power, like those that separate humans from the natural
world, citizens from non-citizens, states from people, able-bodied and
differently-abled people, and propertied from non-propertied?
Why do some forms of inequality—gay marriage, drug laws, healthcare and
food systems—seem amenable to a degree of rectification while other systems
of inequality production—voter laws, immigrant rights, redevelopment, trade
pacts, intelligence capacities, racialized policing—seem impervious to
redress?
Can conditions of inequality be something other than oppressive? How do
people re-signify inequality? Where and what is equality?
In this conference, we aim to ferret out how anthropologists frame
inequality, equality and difference, how these frames inhere in society,
and what realities they reflect and refract.
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] Submission- Conference- Anthropology, Children and Youth- Deadline:
January 10, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
March 12-15, 2015 California State University at Long Beach
Conference Hotel: Ayres Hotel Seal Beach
Submissions due January 10, 2015 (Send abstracts to [log in to unmask])
SESSION OPTIONS
We welcome papers and panels from all four fields of anthropology that deal
with children and youth. There are three ways you can submit a paper.
Individual Volunteered Paper: Submit title and abstract for your
presentation. Papers will be grouped into organized sessions of related
papers.
NOTE: Paper abstracts should not exceed 500 words. Be sure to include your
name and the paper title.
Volunteered Panel Session: This is a group of papers (no more than 5)
submitted jointly for a single session. Submit a brief description and
title for the panel, accompanied by abstract, title, and author name for
each paper in the panel.
Individual Paper for an ACYIG-Hosted Panel Session:
In addition to welcoming volunteered panels, ACYIG is serving as host and
organizer for panels on the topics listed below. If you have a paper that
would be suitable for one of these 5 panels, you may list the panel number
and title, and we will direct your paper accordingly.
#1. Understanding Culture Better via Child Research
#2. Children/Youth & Migration
#3 Cultural Perspectives on Children’s Health & Well-Being
#4 Orphanages & Children’s Geographies
#5 Children Learning, Playing, & Working
Other Session Formats: If you would like to propose a session in another
format, we welcome discussing other possibilities.
Send your idea to [log in to unmask]
We welcome papers and panels from all four fields of anthropology that deal
with children and youth. In addition, please keep in mind the following
ACYIG-Hosted Panel Sessions, to which we invite your submissions. Each
panel has an ACYIG board member as organizer. Submit your paper with title
and abstract, along with a request to direct your paper to one of these
panels.
Send submissions to conference co-chair Cindy Dell Clark via email (
[log in to unmask]). Registration for the conference is available online
(at https://acyig2015.eventbrite.com).
#1. Understanding Culture Better via Child Research. Organizer: Cindy Dell
Clark.
Papers showing the value of considering culture through all its members,
children and youth included. How do children’s cultural activity or their
perspectives on cultural activity help to expand our understanding of
cultural dynamics as a whole?
#2. Children/Youth & Migration. Organizer: Lauren Heidbrink.
Papers on migration as an experience of young people.
#3. Cultural Perspectives on Children’s Health & Well-Being. Organizer:
Elisa Sobo.
Papers that discuss issues of well-being, illness, or disability in
children and/or teens, as framed by a cultural perspective on children’s
experience.
#4. Orphanages & Children’s Geographies. Organizer: Rachael Stryker.
Papers that locate children’s circumstances of orphanages or fostering as
an issue at the intersection between culture and geography.
#5. Children Learning, Playing, & Working. Organizer: Aviva Sinervo.
Papers on the ways children learn through participation in play or work,
either formally or informally. This includes themes related to schooling,
work or labor, play, language, or other forms of learning by participation.
[2] Submission- Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in
Latin America and the Caribbean- Communities, Circulations, Intersections-
Deadline: June 15, 2015
Submit online at: erip.vcu.edu/submit
4th Conference on Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Conference dates: October 15-17, 2015
*The Fourth Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin
America and the Caribbean will be hosted by Virginia Commonwealth
University in Richmond, Virginia on October 15-17, 2015*. The conference is
organized by ERIP, the LASA section on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous
Peoples, which is committed to the promotion of research, teaching, and the
exchange of ideas about the distinctive cultures, racial identities and
relations, as well as concerns of subaltern ethnic groups in the region,
particularly indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants. The conference
provides an opportunity for convening an international and broad
interdisciplinary forum for scholars to come together to explore related
social, economic, political, historical, and cultural issues.
*“Communities, Circulations, Intersections”* is the organizing theme of the
2015 ERIP conference. Panel and paper proposals related to this theme, as
well as to all other topics relevant to the sections mission and to do with
peoples of the region are welcome and encouraged. Throughout history, human
communities have interacted with each other through voluntary and coerced
migrations, the exchange of ideas and practices, and the circulation of
natural resources and manufactured commodities. These encounters shape
concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion, native and foreign,
and race and ethnicity, among others. The goals of the conference at
Virginia Commonwealth University are to reflect upon these and related
issues of importance to developments within Latin America and the
Caribbean, and to examine the agency of indigenous peoples and people of
African ancestry in contemporary processes of migration, circulation, and
exchange. These topics are significant and worthy of discussion as we
consider the challenges that globalization poses to the heritage of these
communities, while simultaneously offering them opportunities to advance
their own agendas.
For more details on papers, posters, and panels: http://erip.vcu.edu/papers/
The CFP: http://erip.vcu.edu/media/erip/pdf/ERIPCFP.pdf
To submit: http://erip.vcu.edu/submit/
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
N/A
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology - Tenure-Track
Position -Spelman College
Spelman College seeks teacher/scholar dedicated to excellence in teaching
and to the continued enhancement of the academic environment for students
and colleagues. Founded in 1881, Spelman College is a private four-year
liberal arts college located in Atlanta, GA. The oldest historically Black
college for women in the United States, Spelman is a member of the Atlanta
University Center Consortium and Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher
Education. All tenure-track candidates are expected to have a demonstrated
interest in liberal arts and sciences education, be able to contribute
effectively to undergraduate teaching, assist in curriculum development,
provide service to the department and College, as well as be active in
scholarly, creative, and/or research productivity appropriate to a liberal
arts environment.
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology invites applications to fill a
tenure-track appointment for a cultural anthropologist with a specialty in
food studies, beginning August 2015, at the rank of Assistant Professor,
job codeTF0604. Candidates should be able to teach and mentor students in
core anthropology courses, qualitative research methodologies,
anthropological theory, and a capstone senior thesis. The ideal candidate
is one whose analyses are gendered, global, and comparative, and who can
help further develop an emerging interdisciplinary minor in food studies.
Research, scholarship, and professional service should be commensurate with
that which is expected in a liberal arts college that places emphasis on
teaching, scholarship and collegial service.
Qualifications: Ph.D. preferred, although ‘ABD’ candidates will be
considered.
Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until
filled.
Competitive salary and an excellent benefits program are available. To
apply for the position, please upload: a letter of interest, including job
code, which identifies the position sought; curriculum vitae (with contact
information); a one-page statement of teaching philosophy; statement of
scholarly, creative or research interests. Excellence in teaching,
research and/or scholarly or creative production, and service are
required. Copies of official undergraduate and graduate transcripts are
required. Three letters of recommendation should be sent directly from the
referee or dossier. Address all referee or dossier letters to: Spelman
College, Provost Faculty Human Resources Office, Attn: Ms. Karla H.
Williams, Manager of Faculty Human Resources, 350 Spelman Lane, SW, Box
1209, Atlanta, GA 30314. Send all information to:
www.spelman.edu/career-center/human-resources
Spelman College is an EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Title IX
Employer and participates in E-Verify
[2] Emerging Leader- Topics in Visual Anthropology; Anthropology and the
Environment; Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology;
Nationalism, Citizenship and Modernity- 2014 Emerging Leaders in
Anthropology Program (ELAP)- NASA- Deadline: November 1, 2014
The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), a section of
the American Anthropological Association, in partnership with the American
Anthropological Association, the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA), the
Anthropology and Environment Society (AES), and the Society for Latin
American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA), announces the 2014 Emerging
Leaders in Anthropology Program (ELAP). We welcome students to submit
targeted applications for one of four program spots. Program participants
will receive training in AAA and NASA governance, contemporary issues in
anthropology on this year’s selected tracks, mentoring from anthropologists
engaged in participants’ area of interest, and will have the opportunity to
attend a special meeting at the AAA Washington, DC conference in December.
Positions for 2014:
SVA-NASA Emerging Leader, Topics in Visual Anthropology
AES-NASA Emerging Leader, Topics in Anthropology and the Environment
SLACA-NASA Emerging Leader, Topics in Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology
NASA Emerging Leader, Topics in Nationalism, Citizenship and Modernity
I. Program contents
Scholarship
-- $500 toward expenses for attendance at the AAA conference in Washington,
D.C.;
-- free membership to the National Association of Student Anthropologists;
-- conference fee reimbursement for AAA Washington, D.C.
AAA Washington, D.C. 2014
-- AAA governance training;
-- NASA governance participation;
-- ELAP Cohort Training Lunch: issues in anthropology,
fellowship/scholarship/funding discussion.
Mentoring and professional training paper
-- pairing with a senior anthropologist;
-- production of a professional research training paper (PTP);
-- students are free to use their PTPs as they see fit, but a special
arrangement may be possible with Student Anthropologist, subject to
approval by the journal’s editorial board.
II. Eligibility
i) Any student, ii) regardless of nationality, iii) enrolled at least
half-time in a program in anthropology (major, minor, concentration or
interdisciplinary area where the focus is anthropology), iv) having
completed at least two years of tertiary education at the time of
application, and v) able to travel to the AAA meeting in Washington, D.C.
in December 2014.
Current officers of the National Association of Student Anthropologists and
partnering sections are ineligible to apply.
III. Professional training paper topics
Student shall have the opportunity to produce an original piece of research
during the program with the assistance of participating mentors on a
contemporary topic in anthropology. Students will have several months after
the completion of the AAA meeting to work on this paper, and may have an
opportunity for publication.
Track 1, Social theory across disciplinary, subfield and national
traditions: students in this track are asked to address their professional
training paper toward issues related to anthropological practices across
spatial, cultural, and topical dimensions. Students should scrutinize the
relationship of these dimensions to the historic and contemporary
differences and similarities of disparate bodies of theory. How, for
example, have positivist paradigms informed some research programs while
being rejected in others? Why have certain ‘national’ traditions of
anthropology taken the shape that they have?
Track 2, Perspectives on anthropology as discipline, career, and identity:
much has been written on the self-situating of the anthropologist, both as
this relates to methodological considerations and as a source of
anthropological insight. Professional organization and practices in
anthropology across the subfields are often linked to identity, as is the
choice to pursue a career in anthropology. Students in this track are asked
to consider contemporary theory alongside their own experiences on a topic
related to anthropology as a discipline, career, and identity.
IV. Application procedure
To apply, please use our online form. You will need to upload an unofficial
transcript, a current resume or CV, and a 500 word statement. You will also
need to arrange for a letter of recommendation supporting your application
to be emailed independently to [log in to unmask]
Application form
Go to:
https://studentanthropologists.wufoo.com/forms/emerging-leaders-in-anthropology-2014/
Personal statement uploaded via the online form
Applicants will need to write a brief statement of no more than 500 words
specifying why you would like to participate in the program, your
professional plans after completing your education, your research
interests, and a preliminary indication of the concerns within the track
you have selected that you intend to address in your professional training
paper.
Letter of recommendation
A letter of recommendation should be sent to [log in to unmask]
with the subject ‘Your Name, ELAP 2014 letter of rec’ (for example: Jane
Smith, ELAP 2014 letter of rec).
Basis of selection
Applicants will be selected for achievement at their respective levels
(undergraduate, master, doctoral) based on the following criteria:
-- academic performance and intellectual maturity;
-- demonstrated leadership;
-- commitments and engagements outside of formal education, including
community and political activism and professional service;
-- demonstrated knowledge of contemporary issues within the track chosen
(engaged/activist anthropology or world anthropologies).
V. Questions
Please send all questions to: [log in to unmask]
[3] Sessional Instructor - Kinship and Social Organization - Department of
Sociology and Anthropology - University of Guelph - Deadline: November 7,
2014, 3pm
Please see full posting here:
https://www.uoguelph.ca/sessional_ta/sessionjobpost/se33887-sociology-and-anthropology-anth3770
[4] Volunteer- Social Media Team- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory-
Deadline: November 15, 2014
The Editors of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory have decided to recruit
additional volunteers to join their Social Media Team. The objective of
HAU’s social media program is to involve graduate students (with priority
given to graduate students from HAU-N.E.T., Network of Ethnographic Theory
partner-institutions) in the journal’s efforts to bring high-quality
open-access anthropology to a wide readership.
HAU is a peer reviewed, open-access journal in anthropology, which stresses
immediacy of publication, and places no restrictions on further publication
(“copyleft”). As a professional anthropology journal and press (with
several new book series in partnership with the University of Chicago
Press), HAU makes available worldwide high-quality scholarship
free-of-charge.
Description of the Social Media Intern Program
The Volunteer Program aims to provide graduate students an opportunity to
build up their knowledge of academic publishing by boosting the online
visibility of the new international, peer-reviewed, open-access, and copy
left journal in anthropology and its book series. Each volunteer will
become part of an enthusiastic, strategic, and committed team of social
media handlers whose goal will be to encourage more people to read HAU’s
features and articles. Interns will need to be available by email and have
access to a personal computer.
What are the tasks?
The interns will work under the supervision of Deputy Managing Editor Julie
Billaud. More concretely, the work will entail:
-Announcing and advertising new issues of the journal, as well as
individual articles.
-Announcing and advertising the release of new publications in the
Masterclass series, the Classics of Ethnographic Theory series, as well as
the Morgan Lectures Series.
-Ensuring the smooth circulation of calls for papers and events, as well as
all the other activities in which the journal is currently involved.
-Monitoring relevant information and spreading the ethics of Open Access
publishing.
-Identifying strategies to enhance the readership of all HAU’s content.
The editorial team is open to developing new ideas to enhance HAU’s
visibility in the social media:
-Developing partnerships and collaborations with the most relevant
anthropology blogs to encourage them to feature HAU’s content.
-Developing management strategies for HAU’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.
The ideal candidate will:
-Be a graduate student in anthropology and have a good understanding and
knowledge of the disciplinary landscape.
-Have a good command of the social media (Twitter, Facebook, Paper.li,
etc.).
-Have a thorough knowledge of the most important journals in the discipline.
-Have a taste for social networking.
-Be committed to increase the reach and societal relevance of
anthropological knowledge.
What are the benefits?
HAU offers a professional and international scholarly environment for
students to familiarize themselves with editorial work. We cannot provide
monetary payment for this work, but the program will provide you with a
unique opportunity to become the energetic champion of an influential
open-access anthropological journal and to develop social networking and
strategic communication skills.
The Social Media Internship position is fully acknowledged by the Editorial
Team and you can add it to your CV, and the profiles of our Social Media
volunteers will be posted online on the journal’s Website.
As part of the Social Media Team, you will be able to work closely with
other members of the team, access some advice from Editors and Advisors,
and build connections for further developing your own research interests.
Please note that while this post is not renewable, we are open to
considering your continuing involvement as an Editorial Assistant depending
on our needs and your contribution.
How to apply? This call for Social Media Interns is open to all graduate
students who are interested in anthropology and ethnography, and who care
for the journal’s mission. The work arrangements, as well as starting
dates, are flexible.
Deadline for application: November, 15th, 2014
If you are interested, please send the following documents to
[log in to unmask]:
-A brief CV
-A cover letter that clearly states your interest in the journal, skills
that you could contribute, and any special project or interests you may
have.
While we will do our best to reply to each applicant individually, if you
do not receive a reply one month after the deadline, you should assume that
your application is unsuccessful.
[5] Postdoctoral Scholar Program in the Social Science and Humanities -
“Global Change in a Dynamic World”- University of South Florida - Call for
Applications - Deadline: December 5, 2014
University of South Florida Postdoctoral Scholars* *Social Sciences and
Humanities, 2015-16* *Global Change in a Dynamic World*
The University of South Florida is pleased to announce the 7th year of its
Postdoctoral Scholars program in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The
over-arching theme for this program is *Global Change in a Dynamic World.
*Potential themes include (but are not limited to) sustainability;
sustainable development; hazard and disaster management; climate change;
population changes; technology and information issues; communication and
language development; cultural diasporas; ethnicity, gender, and aging
issues; cultural heritage and histories; citizenship; identity; health,
economic, education, and environmental disparities; political economy;
ethics; human rights; animal rights; peace and conflict studies; injury and
violence; security and surveillance issues. Specific research and
geographical areas are open, and applicants may consider both past and
contemporary perspectives.
Postdoctoral Scholars will: (i) work closely with distinguished faculty;
(ii) participate in an interdisciplinary project with the cohort of
postdoctoral scholars; (iii) teach two courses over a twelve-month period;
and (iv) continue to build an independent research record and engage in
publishing refereed articles and creative scholarship.
More information can be found at
http://www.grad.usf.edu/provostinitiative2015.php
[6] UCRSAP Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2015-2016 - Munk School of Global
Affairs at the University of Toronto - Deadline: January 1, 2015
The Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership (UCRSAP),
located in the Asia Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the
University of Toronto, invites applications for a one-year (with
possibility of renewal for up to three years) UCRSAP Post-Doctoral
Fellowship in Urban Climate Change Resilience. Research proposed must be
pertinent to UCRSAP’s focus on building urban climate change capacity,
particularly in the Mekong region.
The Fellowship will commence July 1, 2015, with an annual salary of $40,500
CAD plus benefits.
Qualifications
The successful applicant is expected to reside in Toronto, Canada during
the term of the Fellowship, and will have the opportunity to participate in
the intellectual life of the Munk School of Global Affairs and larger
University of Toronto community during the 2015-2016 academic year. Support
for conference and research travel in Southeast Asia is available.
Eligibility is limited to applicants who have received their Ph.D. in a
relevant discipline within the three years prior to the start date of the
UCRSAP fellowship (i.e. July 2012 or later). All qualified candidates are
encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents of Canada
will be given priority.
Responsibilities
In addition to pursuing an intensive research project, the post-doctoral
fellow is expected to participate as a member of the UCRSAP team.
Core responsibilities of the post-doctoral fellow include:
• Conducting research of relevance to the UCRSAP project;
• Presenting two research seminars at the Munk School of Global Affairs,
with the first in the Fall of 2015 and the second in the Spring of 2016;
• Preparing an original, full-length research paper for publication as part
of the UCRSAP Paper series;
• Participating in the UCRSAP Virtual Graduate Seminar.
Other responsibilities, to be identified with UCRSAP partners and directors
based on the fellow’s interests and UCRSAP’s research agenda, could include:
• Planning UCRSAP conferences, events or workshops, in conjunction with
UCRSAP partners;
• Preparing research papers for publication as part of the UCRSAP Papers
series;
• Participation in other UCRSAP research projects and initiatives; and
• Providing research assistance and support to the UCRSAP Co-Directors.
Applications
Applications must arrive at the Munk School of Global Affairs no later than
1 January 2015 at noon (EST). The committee will notify applicants of their
decision by 1 March 2015.
The Partnership is supported by a five-year International Partnerships for
Sustainable Societies (IPaSS) grant, funded by both the International
Development Research Council (IDRC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
For more information or for application instructions, visit:
http://urbanclimateresiliencesea.apps01.yorku.ca/ucrsap-post-doc/
<http://urbanclimateresiliencesea.apps01.yorku.ca/ucrsap-post-doc/>
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'ETE
[1] Workshops at the AAA - Society for Humanistic Anthropology - Call for
Registration - Deadline: October 31, 2014
The Society For Humanistic Anthropology Invites You To Register For Our
Workshops For This Year's Aaa: Producing Anthropology
To participate, one must be registered for the AAA meeting and on-line
registration for a workshop is open until Oct. 31st. Registration at the
meeting is also possible until the day before the workshop. On site
workshop registration will be located in the lobby of the hotel next to the
meeting registration. Register early: workshops will close when the
specified enrollments are reached.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
9:00-11:00am 3-0325 Submitting a Manuscript to a
Peer-Reviewed Journal <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11173.html>
Michael Harkin
1:30 PM-3:30 PM 3-0825 Stories from the FIELD: Crafting Narrative
Ethnography <http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11747.html>
Kirin Narayan
Friday, December 5, 2014
9:00 AM-11:00 AM 4-0290 Utilizing Facebook for Ethnographic
Research <http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11078.html>
Erik A Aasland
11:15 AM-1:15 PM 4-0580 Art and Imagination <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11121.html>
Petra Rethmann
11:15AM-1:15PM 4-0585 Writing Ethnography: Experimenting on
Paper, Experimenting Online <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11224.html>
Alma Gottlieb
1:30 PM-3:30 PM 4-0780 The Ethics of Activist Anthropology<
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11692.html>
Erica Caple James
1:30-PM-3:30PM 4-0790 Poetry for Ethnographers <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session12424.html>
Renato I Rosaldo
3:45 PM-5:45 PM 4-1070 Writing
Ethnographic Memoir <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11076.html>
Ruth Behar
3:45PM-5:45PM 4-1075 Blogging Bliss: Writing
Culture in the Blogosphere <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11110.html>
Paul Stoller
Saturday, December 6, 2014
9:00-11:00 AM 5-0345 Crafting Narrative
Ethnography <http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11104.html>
Julia L Offen
1:30 PM-4:30 PM 5-0830 Exploring
Arts-Based Ethnographic Writing <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session11238.html>
Billie Jean Isbell, Ather Zia and Naomi S Stone
2:00 PM-4:00 PM 5-0835 ACUTE Sensory
Fieldwork Methodology <
http://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2014/webprogram/Session13057.html>
George Fitzpatrick Mentore
[2] Internship- Students for International Development- Deadline: November
10, 2014
Students for International Development is seeking passionate and committed
individuals who want an intensive field-based introduction to international
development to lead our initiatives in agriculture, commerce, child welfare
and healthcare in Kenya, Tanzania and Peru during the summer of 2015. SID
is a volunteer-run non-profit that offers the most affordable international
volunteer program in Canada, including a comprehensive training program in
overseas community project management.
The application deadline is 11:59pm, November 10th, 2014. We are also
holding two information sessions about our program and applications, which
will be held on October 30th and November 3rd, 2014. Both sessions will be
held from 6-8pm in the OISE building Room 10200, 252 Bloor Street W.,
University of Toronto. A comprehensive Information Package and Application
Form are also available at http://www.sidcanada.org/work-with-us/. For more
information, contact [log in to unmask]
[3] NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala - Summer 2015 - Deadline:
December 31, 2014
NAPA-OT Field School in Antigua, Guatemala *The NAPA-OT Field School in
Antigua, Guatemala is now recruiting anthropology, occupational therapy
public health, and other social science students for its four-week summer
session: June 1 - 26, 2015.
The field school offers transdisciplinary learning to promote leadership in
social justice through collaboration with Guatemala-based NGO and other
community partners. *Graduate students and upper division undergraduate
majors in applied or medical anthropology or related social sciences are
encouraged to apply via our website www.napaotguatemala.org <
http://www.napaotguatemala.org/> by December 31, 2014. *
The field school is a project of the NAPA-OT SIG (National Association for
the Practice of Anthropology - Occupational Therapy and Occupational
Science Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group) of the American
Anthropological Association. Faculty include anthropologists and
occupational therapists with credentials and interests in health care
access and human rights, child development, and public health.
The objectives of the program are:
· To explore efforts to achieve social justice in Guatemala, a country with
a history of ethnic and class violence
· To examine health disparities in Guatemala through applied medical
anthropology theory and human rights discourse
· To understand the determinants of health and basic epidemiology in
developing nations
· To provide a transdisciplinary fieldwork opportunity to students of
occupational therapy, anthropology, and related subjects
· To promote social justice through partnerships in and around Antigua,
Guatemala with NGOs, community groups, health care workers, and other
social change agents
· To explore the concept of “occupational justice” as an emerging practice
area in occupational therapy and applied anthropology
*Applicants students will have the opportunity to work in one of three
project groups:*
- * NGOs Networks and Perspectives of Child Migration: Examining
Perceptions of Root Causes*
- *Pediatric Practice: Interrelationships of Play, Nutrition, and Early
Child Development*
- *Sustainable Social Enterprise for Water: Social Justice, Community
Development, and Household Occupations*
Students also will study Spanish a minimum of 9 hours per week, working
one-on-one with certified language instructors at their own level and
pace. Visit our website for more information at www.napaotguatemala.org.
[4] NCSU Ethnographic Field School - Lake Atitlán, Guatemala - Summer 2015
- Deadline: February 15, 2015
Learn how to design, conduct, investigate and write up your own independent
project while living with a local family on the shores of Lake Atitlán,
Guatemala. Throughout the program, you will learn about the Maya while
developing skills in project design and fieldwork as you carry out your own
research project.
Whether you are an undergraduate, a graduate student, just finished
college, learning how to collect data and talk to people is beneficial not
only for those in anthropology, but also for those in many other majors,
including sociology, international studies, public health, history,
education, textiles, natural resource management, business and management,
sociolinguistics, political science, psychology, design and civil
engineering. Anyone interested is encouraged to apply, especially students
interested in topics such as development, environment, globalization,
social justice, tourism, conservation, Fair Trade, textile design and
entrepreneurship, language, development, poverty and health.
The internationally known NCSU Guatemala EFS is unique in that it offers
students an opportunity to see what research is really like, to do your own
project, to manage your own time and work according to the needs of your
topic and also to challenge yourself by living in a Maya community with a
local family. (All of them have been working with us for years and they
know what we expect and enjoy having students in their homes.) In most
cases students live in a small community by themselves, although other
students are in nearby communities. We keep the seminars to a minimum so
students can have enough time to work on their projects; we want students
to learn by doing, with intensive and in-depth hands-on learning. Our 22
years of experience, confirmed by the testimonials of previous
participants, has shown us that the learning-by-immersion process really
works to develop successful researchers and program designers. Of course,
the setting, around Lake Atitlán, is incomparable, never a dull moment, and
the Maya people are gracious and welcoming.
Not sure how your interests may fit into the topics listed? Contact the
program Directors, Dr. Tim Wallace ([log in to unmask]<mailto:
[log in to unmask]>) and Dr. Chantell LaPan ([log in to unmask]<mailto:
[log in to unmask]>), to discuss potential opportunities for your areas of
interest. Each student may choose any topic for his or her independent
research project. Service learning opportunities are also possible. This
program is open to students from any course of study and university. The
$3650 fee includes all expenses (except airfare- about $550), including
room and board, insurance, in-country travel and tuition for 6 credit hours.
Apply through the NCSU Study Abroad Office<
http://legacy.studyabroad.ncsu.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgram&Program_ID=1146&Type=O&sType=O>.
Visit Dr. Wallace's Guatemala Program website<
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/wallace/> for more information and photos
from previous years. The final deadline for receipt of applications is
February 15, 2015, but decisions are made on a rolling acceptance basis.
**
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/Links to detailed posting guidelines: in English
and French <http://bit.ly/1wMCpSE>.
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