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.
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.
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
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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
[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/
[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
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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/
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.
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