Upcoming Call for Papers, Panelists, Funding & Employment Opportunities,
Awards and Summer Courses || Appel à contributions pour les publications et
conférences, bourses & offres d'emploi, prix et cours d'été
13 November | novembre 2014
All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program
directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are
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Tous les membres du réseau des étudiants de CASCA ainsi que les directeurs
de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des
possibilités d'intérêt pour nos membres sont invités à contacter les
modérateurs ([log in to unmask]). Voir ci-dessous pour directives sur les
affectations détaillées: en français et anglais
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*1. CALLS || APPELS*
*a) Opportunities || Opportunités*
N/A
*b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les*
*publications et conférences*
[1] Abstracts - Conference - Pursuing Justice in Africa - University of
Cambridge - Deadline: November 28, 2014
[2] Proposal - Conference - Migration desire: Uncovering the global
imaginaries and subjectivities of (im)mobility" - University of Exeter -
Deadline: December 1, 2014
[3] Submissions - Conference - Digital Literary Studies - University of
Coimbra - Deadline: January 15, 2015
[4] Submission - Journal - TOTEM: The University of Western Ontario Journal
of Anthropology - Deadline: January 19, 2015
[5] Abstract - Conference - Re-imagining Religion's Boundaries - Thammasat
University - Deadline: February 15, 2015
*2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES*
[1] PhD Position- Research Project: International capital and local
inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar (Papua New Guinea)
under the impact of two large projects (a copper-gold mine and a timber
biomass energy plant)- University of Lucerne, Switzerland- Deadline: Dec
ember 10, 2014.
[2] Applications (2) - 2015-2016 Lemelson Student Fellowships AND 2015-2016
Lemelson Conference Funding - Deadline: January 15, 2015 AND February 14,
2015, respectively
*3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI* (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Tenure-Track - Linguistic Anthropology - University of Alabama -
Deadline: November 18, 2014
[2] Assistant Professor - Study of Religion - Theology and Religion -
Durham University - Deadline: December 1, 2014
[3] Assistant /Associate Professor - Anthropology & Latino Studies -
University of Florida - Deadline: December 15, 2014
*4. Requests and queries* from members of the CASCA Student Network (reply
directly to the poster) || *Requêtes des étudiant(e)s* pour obtenir des
conseils ou ressources (les réponses seront envoyées directement à
l'étudiant(e) en question).
N/A
*5. **EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS** & SUMMER COURSES ** || COURS D'ETE*
[1] Workshop - How to Present a Conference Paper - Judy Hellman - York
University - November 18, 2014
[2] Summer School - Anthropological Field School In The Ecuadorian Amazon -
Appalachian State University - Deadline: February 1, 2015
[3] Summer School - The 2015 International Political Economy and Ecology
Summer School - York University - Deadline: April 13, 2015
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*1. CALLS || APPELS*
*a) Opportunities || Opportunités*
N/A
*b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les*
*publications et conférences*
*[1] Abstracts - Conference - Pursuing Justice in Africa - University of
Cambridge - Deadline: November 28, 2014*
Pursuing Justice in Africa Conference
27th-28th March 2015, University of Cambridge
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25640
Convenors: Jessica Johnson and George Karekwaivanane
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25640
In recent decades, justice has been overshadowed as a subject of concern to
scholars of Africa by vast literatures centring on rights, crime,
punishment, policing and social order. This neglect of justice is striking
given the increasing presence of international justice institutions, such
as the International Criminal Court, on the African continent and the
remarkable diversity of legal structures of justice. Across Africa, complex
pluralities of ‘customary’, religious, state, and transnational justice
regimes interact on what is often contested terrain. This
interdisciplinary conference will place the past and present negotiation of
competing notions of justice under scrutiny, with the aims of:
* Moving beyond currently dominant themes in socio-legal studies of Africa
by asking broader questions about the aims and aspirations of those
engaging with formal, informal or ‘customary’ law, legal reform, and legal
institutions.
* Exploring the potential of a focus on justice to overcome limitations
associated with the study of human rights, not least their questionable
resonance with the vernacular concerns of African citizens. And at the same
time, probing the relationship between rights and justice.
* Considering the conceptual possibilities of justice as a means of
bypassing contested notions of legal pluralism for understanding
intersections of local, national and international legalities.
* Remaining alert to what a focus on justice might obscure or exclude. How,
for example, does the language of justice relate to concerns about power
and inequality?
* Gathering together scholars from a variety of disciplines whose work
converges on issues of justice in Africa and whose projects have not
previously been brought into conversation.
The focus of the conference is on the many and varied actors pursuing
visions of justice in Africa – their aspirations, divergent practices and
articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice. We will
bring together topics of research that are at the cutting edge of
contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines, including
activism, resource extraction, international legal institutions, and
post-conflict reconciliation. Our engagement will be both empirical and
theoretical: we aim to grapple with alternative approaches to the concept
of justice and its relationships with law, morality, and rights. The
keynote address will be given by Professor Kamari Maxine Clarke.
We welcome papers from a range of disciplines, including - but not limited
to - anthropology, history, law, criminology and politics. In order to
allow time for discussion, presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. We
have limited funding to contribute towards the travel costs of a junior
scholar based in an African University, but are otherwise unable to fund
delegates’ travel and accommodation. We will cover registration costs and
conference meals for all speakers, and can provide advice about
accommodation in Cambridge.
To apply please send a 300-word abstract to
[log in to unmask] by 28 November 2014.
*[2] Proposal - Conference - Migration desire: Uncovering the global
imaginaries and subjectivities of (im)mobility" - University of Exeter -
Deadline: December 1, 2014*
Dear Colleagues,
We invite paper proposals for the panel “Migration desire: Uncovering the
global imaginaries and subjectivitites of (im)mobility” To be held at the
ASA Conference (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and
Commonwealth), University of Exeter, 13th-16th April 2015
Short Abstract: The panel addresses the moralities, aspirations and claims
of belonging that underpin migratory aspirations and trajectories,
exploring the global imaginaries, subjective orientations, and power
dimensions of (im)mobility, and considering the ethnographic demands they
place on anthropologists.
Long Abstract: In recent years, mobility has taken on a new centrality in
the way people from across the world voice their personal and collective
expectations. Doing anthropology today means to increasingly meet this
relatively new and generalized "desire of elsewhere" through which hopes of
success and search for opportunities are expressed. Whereas local
conditions remain essential to understand the widespread wish to leave,
these same conditions are increasingly measured against the standards of a
paradigmatic "global form of life", one moulded upon a series of hegemonic
models shaping the benchmarks of well-being and happiness on a
wide-reaching scale, and which challenges the anthropologist's longstanding
fascination with difference. The impact of these models and their role in
forging contemporary "expectations of modernity" raises questions about how
contemporary forms of power and global imaginaries produce aspirations for
change, as expressed, for instance, in the longing for freedom from
traditional obligations and claims for membership in a global society
(Ferguson 2006; Piot 2010). The panel welcomes contributions that address
the moralities, aspirations and claims of belonging underpinning people's
migratory aspirations and trajectories. The aim is to explore mobility's
entanglements with global images, local values and personal expectations,
and to examine how the motivations associated with movement reinforce or
subvert hegemonic constructions of power, subjectivity, and inequality in
the contemporary world, (re)drawing lines of commonality and exclusion.
This, in turn, will help us consider the kinds of theoretical
commensalities and methodological mutualisms that people's desires to move-
as ethnographic demands placed on anthropologists - call for.
Convenors
Valerio Simoni (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Francesco Vacchiano (ICS-ULisboa, Lisbon)
Please follow the link below to submit a paper in this panel:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3391
The Call for Papers closes on the 1st of December 2014.
We look forward to receiving your proposals,
Francesco Vacchiano & Valerio Simoni
Valerio Simoni, PhD.
- Research Fellow (SNSF), The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Associate Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-IUL),
Lisbon, Portugal http://graduateinstitute.academia.edu/ValerioSimoni
*[3] Submissions - Conference - Digital Literary Studies - University of
Coimbra - Deadline: January 15, 2015*
International Conference: Digital Literary Studies
Date: May 14-15, 2015
Location: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, Portugal
'Digital Literary Studies' is an international conference exploring
methods, tools, objects and digital practices in the field of literary
studies. The digitization of artifacts and literary practices, the adoption
of computational methods for aggregating, editing and analyzing texts as
well as the development of collaborative forms of research and teaching
through networking and communication platforms are three dimensions of the
ongoing relocation of literature and literary studies in the digital
medium. The aim of this two-day conference is to contribute to the mapping
of material practices and interpretative processes of literary studies in a
changing media ecology.
We invite researchers to submit papers and posters on projects concerned
with the digital reinvention of literary studies. Possible topics include,
but are not limited to:
computational literary analysis (macro analysis, data mining, distant
reading, topic modelling; visualization, corpora);
digital philology (electronic editions and archives, textual databases);
computational literary creation (automatic generation of text, textual
instruments, kinetic texts, locative narrative, etc.);
the teaching of literature in a digital context;
peer review and open access (new practices of collaboration, dissemination,
transfer and validation of knowledge production).
The ‘Digital Literary Studies’ conference will take place at the School of
Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra on May 14-15, 2015. Paper and
poster proposals should be submitted by January 15, 2015 through EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eld2015). We also welcome panel
proposals (three presenters per panel). All paper proposals must be between
1500 and 2000 words (including references). Authors should provide name,
contact details, and institutional affiliation, as well as title, abstract,
and keywords for their paper. Authors will be notified of the peer review
results by February 15, 2015. Proposals can use any of the following
languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and Italian. Selected
articles resulting from the conference papers will be published in a
special issue of the journal MATLIT (http://iduc.uc.pt/matlit).
For additional updated information, please check the conference website at
http://eld2015.wordpress.com/
The Organizing Committee may be contacted via the e-mail
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Keynote Speakers
Florian Cramer (Creating 010, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences)
Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland)
Paulo Franchetti (Unicamp - Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Susan Schreibman (Trinity College Dublin)
Organization
PhD Programme in Materialities of Literature (FCT PhD Programme)
No Problem Has a Solution: A Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet
(research project PTDC/CLE-LLI/118713/2010)
Research Group “Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature”
Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra (CLP)
*[4] Submission - Journal - TOTEM: The University of Western Ontario
Journal of Anthropology - Deadline: January 19, 2015*
As the co-editors for TOTEM: The University of Western Ontario Journal of
Anthropology, we would like to invite your graduate and undergraduate
students to contribute to the journal's 23rd edition. This is a great
opportunity for students to gain experience with the peer-review
publication process and we encourage the submission of exceptional works
based on creative and original research. This year, for the first time,
TOTEM is also accepting submissions written in French or Spanish.
The deadline for paper submission is January 19th, 2015.
Thank you very much, and we look forward to your submissions!
Call for Papers
Click here <http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem/TOTEM-_Call_for_Papers_2013-14.pdf> for
announcement.
The deadline for Volume 22 submissions is January 14th, 2014.
We welcome submissions from the many subfields of anthropology and related
disciplines, representing the work of undergraduate and graduate students
from academic institutions across Canada.
Submissions must be made through the online submission system, and complete
guidelines for manuscripts can be found on this website under Guidelines &
Resources <http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/cview2.cgi/totem/aimsandscope.html>. To
submit a manuscript, click on the Submit Article button found on the Home
Page, and follow the instructions.
Please contact us at [log in to unmask] with any questions.
Kelly Abrams & Kaitlyn Malleau, Co-editors
Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology
Appel à contribution:
Bonjour,
Nous, les éditeurs invités de Totem: The University of Western Ontario
Journal of Anthropology, voulons inviter votre étudiants universitaires et
diplomés à contribuer aux 23ièm numéro de notre revue. Nous encourageons
les propositions qui sont inventifs avec les recherches originales. Nous
vous invitons à nous soumettre, aussi, cette année pour la première fois,
les propositions en français et en espagnol.
La date limite pour soumettre un article est le 19 janvier, 2015.
Merci beaucoup, et nous anticipons votre contributions!
*[5] Abstract - Conference - Re-imagining Religion's Boundaries - Thammasat
University - Deadline: February 15, 2015*
P1-03 Re-imagining Religion’s Boundaries
** IUAES Inter-Congress 2015: Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological
Boundaries **
* Although this is a panel of the Commission on the Anthropology of the
Middle East, papers do not need to be bound to the area.
15-17 July 2015, Thammasat University, Bangkok, THAILAND
Convenors:
Leonardo Schiocchet - Austrian Academy of Sciences Institute for Social
Anthropology (ISA) (Austria) / CAPES (Brazil)
Bruno Reinhardt - Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Christian Suhr - Aarhus University (Denmark)
Discussant:
Charles Hirschkind - University of California, Berkeley (USA)
* The call for papers is open from: November 2014 to 15 February 2015 *
Abstract
The scholarship of religion has undergone a paradigmatic shift in the past
decades, partially a reflex of the cogent rise of “public religions”
(Casanova) in the contemporary world and the ongoing debates on religion’s
normative confines it has triggered. Reflexive approaches to the very
concept of religion now challenge its universality. According to a key
contributor, Talal Asad: “The reason there cannot be a universal conception
of religion is not because religious phenomena are infinitely varied –
although there is in fact great variety in the way people live in the world
with their religious beliefs. Nor is the case that there is no such thing,
really, as religion. It is that defining is a historical act and when the
definition is deployed, it does different things at different times and in
different circumstance, and responds to different questions, needs, and
pressures”. Asad calls attention to the importance of tracing the very
processes of defining religion in practice, applying the same logic to what
he considers “religion’s twin”, secularity. Unfolding in the disputed world
of everyday practice and producing “looping effects” onto what they try to
articulate, definitions should be followed attentively by the student of
religion, instead of simply stabilized. In consonance, this panel would
like to invite potential participants to reimagine the boundary-work of
religion through ethnographic and/or historical perspectives. A few themes
of interest will be:
a) the passages and cleavages between religious truth regimes and
sensibilities and those more intuitively belonging to other “realms” of
reality, like politics, economics, art, and science;
b) the government of religious difference by the secular rule of law and
juridical controversies around the proper/improper place of religion in the
public sphere;
c) the dissociation and overlapping of religious and other ethnic,
cultural, racial, and political belonging referents,
d) the labor of defining religion within specific religious traditions,
thus the problem of authority and authenticity within a context in which
regulatory notions like “heresy” and “blasphemy” have been undermined by a
world that celebrates “difference” as a good in itself and an expression of
freedom.
For instructions on how to submit a proposal, please refer to:
http://socanth.tu.ac.th/iuaes2015/2014/10/p1-03-re-imagining-religions-boundaries/
*2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES*
*[1] PhD Position- Research Project: International capital and local
inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar (Papua New Guinea)
under the impact of two large projects (a copper-gold mine and a timber
biomass energy plant)- University of Lucerne, Switzerland- Deadline: Dec
ember 10, 2014.*
Funded, three year Ph.D position at the University of Lucerne,
Switzerland, beginning July 2015.
Research costs funded plus an annual stipend (CHF 47,000 in first year,
rising to CHF50,000 in third year).
The candidate will conduct research in a Wampar-speaking area of the
Markham Valley, PNG, on a project led by Bettina Beer and Doris Bacalzo,
for a total of 15 months (a 9 month and a subsequent 6 month period); the
project is entitled:
International capital and local inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of
the Wampar (Papua New Guinea) under the impact of two large projects (a
copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant).
The candidate should have a 1st Class Hons or MA (or equivalent) in
anthropology or a suitable cognate discipline and be prepared to relocate
to Lucerne; prior fieldwork experience in Melanesia is highly desirable;
reading knowledge of German would be an advantage.
Applications should be addressed to Bettina Beer and sent to
[log in to unmask] Please include the names and email addresses of two
referees.
Closing date Dec 10, 2014.
*[2] Applications (2) - 2015-2016 Lemelson Student Fellowships AND
2015-2016 Lemelson Conference Funding - Deadline: January 15, 2015 AND
February 14, 2015, respectively *
The Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) is now accepting
applications for its two signature programs generously funded by the Robert
Lemelson Foundation:
Lemelson Conference Funding Program
The Lemelson Conference Funding Program provides financial support for
conferences that engage innovative and significant topics, issues, and
theoretical/methodological perspectives in any subfield of psychological
anthropology as well as conferences that seek to bring psychological
anthropology into generative dialogue with other related fields of inquiry.
Conference funds are available to support pre- /post-conference events held
prior to or immediately following the SPA Biennial Meetings (April 9-12,
2015) or the 2015 AAA Annual Meeting (Nov 18-22, 2015) as well as more
traditional, “stand alone” meetings. Funding can be requested for the full
range of conference expenses and transportation, room and board for invited
attendees up to a maximum of $30,000. Further details on the program can be
found here (http://www.aaanet.org/sections/spa/?page_id=99). The deadline
for applications is January 15th, 2015.
Lemelson Student Fellowships
The Lemelson Student Fellowships provide graduate students working in the
field of psychological anthropology with funding to pursue exploratory
research for planning their dissertation research and methods training to
prepare for dissertation research. Up to a maximum of $6,000 in funds can
be requested to cover travel expenses, research expenses and any other
reasonable and justified expenses. We anticipate awarding six fellowship in
2015. Applicants need not be graduate students in departments of
Anthropology, but must be SPA members at the time of application.
Fellowships are open to all students without regard to citizenship or
residence. Further details on the fellowship can be found here (
http://www.aaanet.org/sections/spa/?page_id=94). The deadline for
applications is February 14th, 2015.
Harold L. Odden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA)
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
United States
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Telephone (Work): +1 (260) 481-4183
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*3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI* (in addition to/ en plus de
http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
*[1] Tenure-Track - Linguistic Anthropology - University of Alabama -
Deadline: November 18, 2014*
The Department of Anthropology of The University of Alabama invites
applications for an entry level tenure-track position in linguistic
anthropology, to begin August, 2015. The PhD is required at the time of
appointment. We seek a linguistic anthropologist with an active research
agenda who possesses advanced skills in both linguistic and ethnographic
methods. Topical and geographic specializations are open, although the
applicant should complement existing specialties in the department’s
four-field anthropology program. The successful candidate will teach core
undergraduate and graduate level classes in linguistic anthropology, as
well as courses in their areas of specialization.
The Department of Anthropology takes a traditional four-field approach to
the BA, MA, and PhD degrees, emphasizing two areas of specialization that
crosscut sub-disciplines: biocultural medical anthropology and the
archaeology of complex societies in the Americas. The successful candidate
will be able to assist graduate students in one or both of these tracks by
serving on committees, providing instruction in linguistic and ethnographic
methods, and helping students prepare to do research in the candidate’s
research region or language. Applicants should also have ongoing projects
and plans for future research that span sub-disciplinary boundaries.
To apply, go to (http://facultyjobs.ua.edu ) and complete the online
application. Upload (1) a letter of application (outlining research
interests, plans and relevant experience) including the names of and
contact information for three references; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3)
examples of manuscripts (for submission as publications) and/or published
articles and (4) teaching evaluations (if available). Chair of search
committee: Dr. Michael D. Murphy ([log in to unmask] and 205.348.1953)
Department of Anthropology, Box 870210, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa,
AL, 35487-0210.
Review of applications will begin November 18, 2014, and will continue
until the position is filled. The University of Alabama is an Equal
Employment/Equal Educational Opportunity Institution. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to
race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age,
genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status, and will not
be discriminated against because of their protected status.
Erica Lorraine Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, SW Box 1702
Atlanta, GA 30314
(404) 270-5647
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*[2] Assistant Professor - Study of Religion - Theology and Religion -
Durham University - Deadline: December 1, 2014*
I would like to invite suitably qualified anthropologists of religion to
apply for a permanent, full time, position in the study of religion here at
Durham Universiy (UK):
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Study of Religion
Contract Type: Permanent
Position Type: Full Time
Department: Theology and Religion
Reference Number 4121
This new post welcomes applicants with research expertise in any area of
the social scientific study of religion, including anthropology, psychology
and sociology. In view of the Department’s lively interface between the
social scientific and the historical study of religion, applicants with
expertise in the application of these methods to historic contexts would be
particularly welcome.
The Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University has a
long-standing tradition of outstanding research and is widely recognized as
one of the leading departments in its field. In the 2008 Research
Assessment Exercise it was ranked first in the UK, while its teaching
quality is shown in its consistently obtaining exceptionally high rankings
in both National Student Surveys and independent league tables. The
Department has a welcoming and collegial atmosphere, and is beautifully
sited between the Cathedral and the Castle on the World Heritage Site in
the centre of the city of Durham.
Current teachers in the Study of Religion area include Professor Douglas
Davies, specializing in the anthropology of religion, particularly
Mormonism, Death Studies, Ritual-Symbolism, Emotion and Embodiment, and the
contemporary Anglican church; Dr Mathew Guest, specializing in the
sociology of religion, particularly evangelical Christianity, religion in
universities and religion and generational change; and Dr Jonathan
Miles-Watson, specializing in the anthropology of religion, particularly
South Asian Christianities, Pahari ritual, material religion and myth
analysis. Several other departmental staff have ongoing cross-disciplinary
research interests that relate to the study of religion. There is a
fortnightly research seminar in Religion and Society, at which papers are
presented by leading scholars from the UK and abroad as well as by members
of staff and research postgraduates; and an MA programme in Religion and
Society.
The position of lecturer at Durham University involves carrying out
research, teaching (at both undergraduate and graduate levels) and suitable
administrative duties. It is a full time, permanent, position.
Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority
ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in the
University.
Full details and instructions on how to apply can be found here:
https://ig5.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_durham01.asp?newms=jj&id=89892
Further details about the department can be found here:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/research/researchareas/contemp.religion/studyofreligion/
Sincerely,
Jonathan
Dr J.Miles-Watson
*[3] Assistant /Associate Professor - Anthropology & Latino Studies -
University of Florida - Deadline: December 15, 2014*
The Center for Latin American Studies and the College for Liberal Arts &
Sciences at the University of Florida invites applications for a
tenure-track assistant or associate professor in the social sciences with a
teaching and research focus on Latino/a Studies to begin in August 2015.
Substantive interests may include, but need not be restricted to:
immigration; socio-economic issues affecting Latino/a communities; Latino
politics; comparative approaches to different Latino groups; the ways that
Latinos/as in the US are linked to their countries and communities of
origin; and the role of Latino/as in US society. We seek applicants with
superior promise who combine rigorous scholarship with excellence in
teaching. Candidates should demonstrate an ability to work collaboratively
across disciplinary boundaries with faculty and students in various
departments and disciplines. The successful candidate will contribute to a
broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses and to a new
interdisciplinary program initiative in Latino/a Studies. Candidates
should have their Ph.D. in hand or near completion at the time of hiring.
The appointment will be made jointly between the Center for Latin American
Studies and the appropriate disciplinary department within the College of
Liberal Arts & Sciences. The Center offers a Masters of Arts in Latin
American Studies (MALAS), graduate and undergraduate certificates, an
undergraduate minor, a joint law degree, and an interdisciplinary
specialization in Latino Studies. The Center is linked to departments with
strong PhD programs including those where the faculty member for this
position will be tenure-track. More information about the Center can be
found at: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/. The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
(CLAS) is UF’s largest college and encompasses the Division of Behavioral
and Social Sciences, which includes the Departments of Anthropology,
Political Science, and Sociology and Criminology & Law (www.clas.ufl.edu<
http://www.clas.ufl.edu>). All three of these departments have MA and PhD
training programs with faculty who employ diverse theoretical perspectives
and methodologies. Social science faculty in CLAS frequently work
collaboratively across disciplinary boundaries and are active in research
and practice in many countries across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Applications must be submitted on-line http://jobs.ufl.edu/postings/58423.
Applications must include the following: (1) a letter of interest
(indicating research and teaching interests); (2) current vitae; (3) three
current letters of reference. Applicant will provide names/emails of
references and the application system will send automated emails to
references requesting that they upload their letters of reference directly
to the application website. For full consideration, all application
documents must be submitted by December 15, 2014, when the search committee
will begin reviewing applications and continue until the position is filled.
The University of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Institution dedicated to
building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty and staff. The selection
process will be conducted in accord with the provisions of Florida
“Government in the Sunshine” and Public Records laws. Search Committee
meetings and interviews will be open to the public; and all applications,
CV’s and other documents related to the search will be available for public
inspection. All candidates for employment are subject to a pre-employment
screening which includes a review of criminal records, reference checks,
and verification of education.
Ieva Jusionyte
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Center for Latin American Studies
Grinter Hall 368
PO Box 117305
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
Fax: (352) 392-7682
Phone: (352) 273-4721
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*5. **EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS** & SUMMER COURSES ** || COURS D'ETE*
*[1] Workshop - How to Present a Conference Paper - Judy Hellman - York
University - November 18, 2014*
The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean presents:
How to Present a Conference Paper. A workshop with CERLAC Fellow Judy
Hellman (Professor of Political and Social Science, York University)
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
3:00 - 5:00 pm
Founders Senior Common Room (FC305)
Back by popular demand, Judy Hellman will animate a workshop for graduate
students on how to present a conference paper in an engaging and effective
manner
All are welcome!
*[2] Summer School - Anthropological Field School In The Ecuadorian Amazon
- Appalachian State University - Deadline: February 1, 2015*
Department of Anthropology
Appalachian State University
May 28-June 28, 2015
6 credits
$3,500 (INCLUDES AIRFARE, FOOD, AND HOUSING)
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Appalachian State University Students: March 1
Non-Appalachian State University Students: February 1
$300 Deposit
Note: Limited to 12 spots. Apply early to reserve a space.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Now in its seventh year, this program will give students the opportunity to
travel to Ecuador where they will learn about indigenous culture and
language by working with a community in the Amazon. The majority of the
program will be spent on the shores of the Napo River, which is one of the
main tributaries which create the Amazon River. This is an
anthropological-based program in which students will take two courses. In
the first, students will learn how to construct a research project, learn
interviewing techniques, and gain valuable experience in ethnographic
methods and analysis by working directly with an indigenous women's
cooperative that focuses upon sustainable community tourism. With them, we
will be studying indigenous representation in Ecuador (focusing upon the
impact of oil, eco-tourism, and rainforest management on identity and
empowerment), along with other Kichwa speakers of the upper Amazon. The
program also strongly focuses upon an engaged anthropology through which
students will develop collaborative partnerships with local community
members. For the second course , students will have the opportunity to
undergo an intensive study of Kichwa (three hours of formal instruction/day
with native speakers) while learning methods in language documentation and
analysis. In addition, there will be numerous excursions for students to
learn about "shamanism," forestry conservation, biodiversity, and
environmental citizenship. $3,500 (airfare, food, and lodging included).
Past students have come from Pennsylvania State University, Cornell
University, Indiana University, York University, Tufts University,
Louisiana State University, Bowdoin College, University of New Mexico,
University of Alabama, University of Illinois-Chicago, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and many others. Their majors have included
anthropology, linguistics, geography, biology, global studies, political
science, women's studies, global health, interdisciplinary studies, social
work, sociology, and studio art.
Alumni of this program have been accepted to graduate programs (i.e. the
University of Michigan, University of Chicago, London School of Economics
and Political Science, and the University at Albany-SUNY), while others
have used this experience to land internships and work with NGOs after
graduation such as The Carter Center for Human Rights, Clinton Global
Initiative, AmeriCorps, Language Development and Perception Laboratory at
the University of Maryland, Université de Lausanne, Yellowstone National
Park, Threads of Peru, Cornell University BABY Lab, North Carolina One
Health Collaborative, and Latino Health Program of the High Country
PROGRAM INCLUSIONS
. Roundtrip group flight from Charlotte, NC to Quito, Ecuador
. Housing accommodations for four weeks
. Three meals per day for four weeks (group meals)
. Entrance fees for tourist sites
. Group transportation throughout Ecuador
. Field trips to neighboring villages
NOT INCLUDED
Personal expenditures
Undergraduate tuition
For more information and how to apply, please visit
http://anthro.appstate.edu/field-schools/ethnographic-and-linguistic-field-s
<http://anthro.appstate.edu/field-schools/ethnographic-and-linguistic-field-schools/summer-2015-ecuador>
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Also, please direct questions to Dr. Timothy J. Smith at
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Timothy J. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Book Reviews Editor, American Anthropologist
Department of Anthropology
Appalachian State University
408 Sanford Hall
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
Office: (828) 262-8473
Fax: (828) 262-2982
Faculty
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*[3] Summer School - The 2015 International Political Economy and Ecology
Summer School - York University - Deadline: April 13, 2015*
Since 1991, the International Political Economy and Ecology (IPEE)
Summer School has offered a course each year on a salient issue within
the IPEE field. We are pleased to announce that we are now inviting
applications for the 2015 IPEE Summer School course from graduate
students, activists and other interested individuals. The application
deadline is Monday April 13, 2015.
*Mean Streets: Class Struggle, Capital Circulation and Public Space*
_Instructor_: Don Mitchell – Distinguished Professor, Syracuse
University__
_Date_: Monday July 6 to Friday July 17, 2015
_Time_: 10:30 am – 1:30 pm, Ross S674
Course Description (_ENVS 6275, GEOG 5395, POLS 6282)__
This course will focus on the production of urban space especially public
space – as a function of both class struggle and the circulation of
capital. It is vital to understand how capital circulates through and
shapes the urban landscape – through property as well as built forms – as
well as how it doesn’t: struggles often interrupt the circulation of
capital and themselves significantly shape urban space. Such circulation
and struggle is not abstracted from the “natural” world of which it is a
part. Rather, capitalism must be understood /as/ ecosystem. A significant
part of the course, therefore, will be devoted to understanding the ways
that capital circulates through, and class struggle contends with, nature
and physical processes – including bodily processes – so as to shape urban
space in a manner (capital hopes) conducive to capitalist accumulation.
Our “dependent variable” throughout will be public space – streets and
sidewalks, plazas, urban parks, publicly-accessible but privately-owned
spaces, etc. We will examine the position of public space in urban
political economies and political ecologies, since public space is a
/basis/ for urban life as well as for accumulation; neither are possible
without public space. We will explore, finally, what these processes and
struggles mean for urban inhabitants. In other words, we will analyze how
and why “the streets” of the city are becoming increasingly mean in
capitalism: mean in both the pecuniary and the punitive sense. Such
meanness is, we’ll see, precisely the state of the contemporary class
struggle in urban capitalism.
Dr. *Don Mitchell*is Distinguished Professor of Geography at the Maxwell
School of Syracuse University in New York. He is a prominent Marxist
geographer, and has published numerous articles and books on various
topics including public space, homelessness and rights (to the city);
landscapes and migrant labor; and culture, law and radical geographical
politics. In 2011, Dr. Mitchell was awarded the James Blaut Award in
recognition of his theories of socio-spatial injustices of capitalism as
well as his activism. For more information on Dr. Mitchell’s work and
research interests, see https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/Mitchell,_Don/
The Summer School can be, but need not be, taken for graduate-level
academic credit. For graduate students at York University and other Ontario
universities, the fee for the course is included in the regular tuition.
Non-Ontario students seeking course credit are welcome (please see the
attached brochure for further information). For applicants not seeking
academic credit, the Summer School fee is CDN $600. The number of places
available in the course is limited.
Application Information:
Procedures
The IPEE Summer School invites applications from graduate students, local
activists, and other interested individuals. The application deadline is
Monday April 13, 2015. Application procedures for the Summer School vary,
depending on whether or not you intend to take the course for academic
credit. All the applicants must send a short statement (maximum 200 words)
explaining the relevance of the course to their studies or activities, and
include their names, student numbers, current program of study and year
level.
1) York graduate students intending to take the IPEE Summer School for
academic credit Academic credit for the Summer School will be one
half-course equivalent (that is, for a one term graduate course). For York
graduate students, the fee for the Summer School is included in the regular
tuition.
Political Science students please send applications to:
Jlenya Sarra-De Meo, Graduate Program Administrator
S632 Ross, 416 736 2100 x88825
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Geography students please send applications to:
Yvonne Yim, Graduate Program Assistant
N431 Ross, 416 736 5106 x55106
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Faculty of Environmental Studies students please send applications to:
Peggy McGrath, Graduate Education Advisor
137 Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies Building, ext. 33254
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York students who are not FES, Geography or Political Science students must
file a “Request to Take a Course in Another Graduate Program at York for
Credit” form. Please forward these forms to Jlenya Sarra-De Meo,
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2) Ontario graduate students intending to take the IPEE Summer School for
academic credit Academic credit for the Summer School will be one
half-course equivalent (that is, for a one term graduate course). For
graduate students from Ontario universities, the fee for the Summer School
is included in the regular tuition. Non-York students must also file an
Ontario Visiting Graduate Student Application form (available from your
home university). Please forward this form and application statement to:
Jlenya Sarra-De Meo, Graduate Program Administrator
S632 Ross, 416 736 2100 x88825
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