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[1] Panels - AAA Meeting - Familiar/Strange
[2] Panel - AAA Meeting - The Politics of Moderate Islam Beyond US Empire - Deadline: February 16, 2015
[3] Panel - AAA Meeting - Race and Justice - Association for Political Legal Anthropology - Deadline: February 17, 2015
[4] Panel - AAA Meeting - Anthropology of Outer Space: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites - deadline March 15, 2015
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[1] Sessional Instructor - Cultural Anthropology - University of Manitoba - Winnipeg - Deadline: February 12, 2015
[2] Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - St. George Anthropology Department - University of Toronto - Deadline: March 27, 2015
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[1] Panels - AAA Meeting - Familiar/Strange
114th AAA Annual Meeting Call for Papers
Ann Stahl
“Familiar/Strange”; Denver, CO, November 18–22, 2015
For nearly six decades, Horace Miner’s tongue-in-cheek description of middle Americans’ body practices have introduced students to anthropology’s strategy of casting common sense in new light by making the familiar strange. Unlike so many little-read academic pieces, his 1956 sardonic spoof “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” remains by far the most downloaded article from the American Anthropologist. Despite its dated references to hair curlers—not to mention its assumptions about American gender relations—contemporary social science teachers and their students clearly find Miner’s piece resonant and instructive as an exercise in making the familiar strange.
The familiar/strange dyad, intended to spark an aha moment in Miner’s reader, is a durable disciplinary tool with a venerable history. Indeed, Edward Sapir called in 1921 for the “destructive analysis of the familiar” as anthropological method, and centuries before, the essayist Montaigne had described South American cannibals to the detriment of his French contemporaries. Both Clyde Kluckhohn’s 1944 and Clifford Geertz’s 1984 descriptions of anthropologists themselves as, respectively, “eccentrics interested in bizarre things” and “merchants of astonishment” indicate the 20th-century salience of the familiar/strange dyad.
However productive familiar/strange can be, whatever liberatory insights it may encourage, it also carries the historical freight of primivitism, whether in modernist or antimodernist forms. It can leave untroubled the status of “the West” as a normative template and carry forward an implication that “whiteness” remains a privileged site from which to conceptualize and arbitrate inclusion and exclusion. For decades, anthropologists and others have labored to make visible the invisible political-economic underpinnings of a disciplinary toolkit that compares us to them. Used without historical political-economic contextualization, the familiar/strange trope may veil past and present relations of power and powerlessness by race, class, caste, religion, and gender/sexuality, both within and across societies, thus obscuring more than it reveals.
But familiar/strange nevertheless continues to work productively as a strategy for knowing and communicating across sub-fields and genres of anthropology. Well-contextualized, it can denaturalize taken-for-granted frameworks and provide scaffolding for new-found, often empathetic engagement. It is mobilized across contemporary topics ranging from human biological variation, evolutionary history and the materiality of past lifeways, to the study of health disparities, linguistic practices, and activist, multimedia interventions that critically engage contemporary political contestations around the globe. Its ubiquity—its status as meme—provides all the more reason to scrutinize its multiple uses and effects.
In making “Familiar/Strange” our thematic focus for the 2015 AAA Annual Meeting we encourage reflection on the durability of this trope and the questions of power and inequality it sometimes elides, with the broader aim of stimulating exploration and expansion on what it simultaneously levers open and nails down. Anthropologists of diverse backgrounds and varied interests are thus invited to engage familiar/strange explicitly: its productive and liberatory as well as obstructive functions.
Our theme invites both anthropologists and our partners in knowing—the communities with whom we work, those whose pasts we engage, the public we aim to reach—to explore how processes of estrangement and familiarization operate as tools of knowledge production across anthropology’s breadth and in our interdisciplinary engagements. We look forward to receiving proposals that press us to grapple with both the problems and productivity of this durable tension in these early decades of our discipline’s second century.
[2] Panel - AAA Meeting - The Politics of Moderate Islam Beyond US Empire - Deadline: February 16, 2015
call for papers for the 2015
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
CALL FOR PAPERS
Denver, November 18-22, 2015
The Politics of Moderate Islam Beyond US Empire
The apparent need for “moderate Muslims” to offer alternatives to “hardline/radical/extremist Islam” has been prevalent in Euro-American policy-oriented literature and mainstream media discourse since 9/11. This call for the empowerment of “moderate Islam” has only increased in pitch since the Paris terrorist attacks against the Charlie Hebdo satirists and the rise of ISIS. All too often, such calls articulate with Islamophobic discourses about the ostensibly existential threat to “our values” posed by the “Muslim peril.”
This panel explores and urges a move away from the prevalent securitization of religious “moderation” not so much as an empirical reality, but as the only analytical framework possible to think about religious moderation. The policy-oriented understanding of “moderate Islam” subsumes the attempts of differently positioned Muslims to produce, claim, and contest religious moderation to the maneuverings of US empire and the geopolitical concerns of the post-9/11 “war on terror.” By doing so, this subsuming ignores not only the long history of Islamic contestations over what is “moderation,” but also erases the different logics at play in internal Muslim critique. These logics are no less political than Euro-American (or, more generally, secular-liberal) attempts to define who are the “moderate Muslims,” but they are not reducible to these attempts.
In this context, we ask: What is produced by the dichotomy of religious moderate versus hardliner and what is elided in these categories? How do Muslim activists in the Middle East, Asia, and the United States understand and produce “moderation”? How are secular liberal projects and understandings of “moderation”complicated by the fact that many self-declared “moderate” Muslim activists are themselves highly critical of secularism in their own societies and of US foreign policy? And what do we miss when we pose the question of religious moderation as a dichotomy? In other words, what if we approach these sets of questions around the “need for moderation” without assuming what we are purporting to explain: which is, what does it mean to be a “religious” person? What sorts of practices and engagements become desirable to create from within a normative religious frame at particular moments? How do these become recognizable to others as “religious”while drawing on new forms and rhetorics?
We invite ethnographically-grounded papers addressing these themes and questions within the wide variety of religious traditions in Muslim societies across regions.
Please send a CV, proposed paper title, and an abstract of no more than 250 words to Yasmin Moll ([log in to unmask]) and Narges Bajoghli ([log in to unmask]) by Feb 16, 2015.
[3] Panel - AAA Meeting - Race and Justice - Association for Political Legal Anthropology - Deadline: February 17, 2015
Hi! This letter comes to you from Jeffrey Martin and Erica Bornstein, 2015 Program Chairs for the Association for Political Legal Anthropology. We are writing to encourage the organization of panels on the theme of Race and Justice. Below is a boilerplate call for proposals that we invite you to circulate with the membership of your section. You may circulate the call as it is written, or you may modify it to make it more relevant to the concerns of your section. In either case, by circulating something now you will ensure interested members of your section will begin crafting their proposals well in advance of the April 15th deadline for panel submission. If you receive a quick enthusiastic response, you may even find yourself in position to propose something for an Executive Session before the February 17th deadline. Moreover if you as Program Chair have any interest in (or field any inquiries about) forming panels across sections, APLA would love to assist in facilitating collaborative panels and working to ensure they are included in the meeting’s program. For example, if you are looking for a discussant or participants from outside your section, would like to circulate a call for papers through the APLA list-serve and website, or have any other ideas regarding collaboration, please do let us know (you can write Jeff Martin at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). We also hope we might reach out to you with similar requests, please let us know if that is something you would welcome. It is our goal that this year’s meeting will see an organized engagement with issues of race and justice that showcases the strength of dialogue across our Association’s diverse membership.
Thank you and best regards,
Jeff & Erica
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Call for Panels on Race and Justice
In response to the overt racial injustice embedded in the organization of American policing and justice system, made undeniably visible by the events of 2014, President Monica Heller has called the American Anthropological Association to take part in a national re-examination of “how structural inequality makes racism and race-based violence commonplace.”
The killing of Michael Brown in 2014, violent practices in everyday policing, and policing of political protest compel us to return our scholarship to the tragedies of racist violence, racialization, and racial inequalities. The failure to charge Michael Brown’s killer, and the acquittals of Trayvon Martin’s and Eric Garner’s killers, compel us to consider how the direct and structural violence of policing and justice systems reproduce injustice. This year, let’s direct some of the energy generated by the annual meeting of our Association into discussions which explore the interconnections of race, justice, and injustice broadly, from both contemporary and historical standpoints, and from beyond the US. The growing anthropological scholarship on policing is one area where panels might direct attention. Another area of interest is broader racial inequalities in the administration of justice, including mass incarceration in the US and the role of race in international law of the “War on Terror.”
The theme of the 2015 meeting is “Familiar Strange.” Racial categories work to simultaneously familiarize and estrange people in social life — creating the illusion of familiarity and knowledge about others, while hierarchically differentiating and distancing groups of people from one another. This is only one way the power of racialization works. The discipline and our association have worked since the early twentieth century to overcome roots in scientific racism, and conceptual panels on this history and theory are welcome. Work on colonialism and post-colonialism has drawn our attention to the power of racial categories in governance and in global processes of imperialism, and we welcome work in this area. Other areas of particular interest are social movements for racial justice, race and restorative justice (eg, reparations), the role of race in politics and governance (from transnational to municipal), and the political economy of race.
This November, let us answer President Heller’s call to action by bringing our diverse insights into a coordinated conversation about the intersections of race and justice.
(If you like, you may include an optional closing remark indicating authorship, e.g.: This statement was authored by Jeffrey Martin and Erica Bornstein, 2015 Program Editors of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. APLA is committed to the critical study of politics and law, across the globe, and welcomes proposals from within and beyond the section that address these themes.)
[4] Panel - AAA Meeting - Anthropology of Outer Space: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites - deadline March 15, 2015
Call for Papers
"Anthropology of Outer Space: Familiar Scales, Strange Sites"
AAA 2015 – Denver, Colorado, USA
Topic: Current interdisciplinary research in the
anthropology of outer space.
Discussant: Lisa R. Messeri, PhD (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia)
Organizers: Kira Turner, PhD candidate (York University) & Michael P.
Oman-Reagan, PhD Candidate (Memorial University)
Conference: 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November
18-22, 2015 in Denver, Colorado)
This panel aims to investigate the meanings, limits, and possibilities of expanding our anthropological fieldwork into space. At stake is an understanding of how human activity in space increasingly shapes possible human futures both on and off planet Earth. We ask: What are the constraints and potentialities of interrogating outer space in this emerging era of science, imagination, exploration, and settlement?
Planetary scientists, astronauts, and others working within the contested terrains of space science, exploration, settlement, and resource extraction are constructing diverse, sometimes conflicting, visions for human futures in space. This panel builds on anthropology’s attunement to multiple scales of inquiry to investigate the complex dimensions of our emerging field sites in both space and here on Earth. Narratives of space dominance, alongside venture capitalism and the space industry, explicitly aim for the privatization and commodification of other worlds and their resources. However, today’s globalizing space exploration increasingly defies familiar Cold War narratives as India, Nigeria, Indonesia, and others join the list of space faring nations. At the boundaries where our familiar everyday lives on Earth meet figurations of the alien and otherworldly in outer space, we find productive areas of inquiry at the intersections of space sciences, political economy, technosocialities, and imaginaries.
Anthropologists querying outer space are shaping theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic approaches as they break new ground and generate possibilities for this emergent field of the Anthropology of Space. Inspired by the discourses, representations, materializations, and imaginary worlds of outer space, as well as science fiction and “speculative fabulations” (e.g., Haraway 2013), this panel aims to highlight new anthropological scholarship exploring these tensions. We are interested in work examining these topics through social, environmental, historical, ontological, material, performative and other approaches, such as:
• Space histories, scientific future imaginaries
• Embodied and anthropomorphized robotic exploration rovers
• Outer space infrastructures, analogues and extreme environments
• Space tourism, interstellar travel, multi-generational world ships
• Satellites, environment, climate change, space medicine
• Emergent methods and theories of what we could call astro-/exo-/xeno-anthropology
Accordingly, we seek papers that contribute to the emerging anthropological literature on outer space while unsettling understandings of the familiar world amidst promises and threats of uncertain futures in both strange and familiar places and spaces.
Anthropology has a history of engagements with space. In the 1970s, a series of interdisciplinary AAA symposia brought scholars together to discuss possible cultures of the future. In 1974, these organizers focused their symposium on the question of extraterrestrial communities. The resulting papers were collected in the book “Cultures Beyond the Earth: The Role of Anthropology in Outer Space” (Maruyama et al. 1975). In 2009, David Valentine, Valerie Olson, and Debbora Battaglia revived the call for anthropologists to take outer space seriously as a field site with new theoretical and methodological approaches (Valentine et al. 2009). Our discussant, Lisa Messeri, takes up this challenge in her work on the role of classification and place in space science (e.g., 2010, 2011, 2014). At the 2012 AAA meeting, anthropologists engaging with outer space presented their research in a panel entitled “Alter(native) Visions of Futures and Outer Spaces.” That same year, a special collection in Anthropological Quarterly brought together work by Abou Farman, Joseph Masco, Stefan Helmreich, Götz Hoeppe, as well as Olson, Valentine, and Battaglia (Valentine et al. 2012).
The night sky inspired our ancestors as they looked up at stars, planets, and into the heart of the Milky Way while imagining their place in a universe of deities, spirits, otherworlds, and afterlives. Maya mythologies saw what we call the Milky Way as a path to the afterlife, and speculation about other worlds and extraterrestrial life dates back to the writings of Democritus (Dick 1982). Today, forty-five years after the NASA Apollo program first landed humans on Earth’s moon, and 115 years after the first science fiction film “Trip to the Moon” [Le Voyage dans la Lune], we see an explosion of interest in space and space exploration. As scientific engagements extend human activity to the far reaches of our solar system, new technologies, networks, and socialities bring data and stories from these otherworldly encounters back to earth. Space faring state institutions, private corporations, and public fascination increasingly confront the familiar and the strange through both imagined and actual encounters with outer space.
To Submit: Please email a 250 word abstract to both
session organizers by March 15, 2015. Please include the title of the paper,
author’s name, affiliation, and email. For conference requirements please see
“Requirements for Section Invited and Volunteered Submissions” here:
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm
Michael P. Oman-Reagan: [log in to unmask]
Kira Turner: [log in to unmask]
More Information: For references cited, updates on the
panel, and more information please visit the online CFP here:
http://religionandtechnology.com/AAA2015/
A version of the CFP can also be accessed on Academia.edu here:http://tinyurl.com/AAA2015
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[1] Sessional Instructor - Cultural Anthropology - University of Manitoba - Winnipeg - Deadline: February 12, 2015
Job Details SESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR - - CSTR.1635
Job Title SESSIONAL INSTRUCTOR
Position Number EXSN0
Compensation Group C.U.P.E. LOCAL 3909 SESSIONALS
Faculty Extended Education
Department
Summer Session
Location Fort Garry Campus Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, CA
Course Name Cultural Anthropology
Course Number ANTH 1220
Credit Hours 3
Section (N/A if not applicable) A02
Time Slot 8:30am-10:30am
Course Type Degree Credit
Appointment Start Date 2015-07-02
Appointment End Date 2015-07-24
Rate 5078.64
Rate Type Course Rate
Qualifications
- Master's degree, Ph.D. or Ph.D. candidate
preferred.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, in the English
language is required.
- Background/specialization in subject area required.
- Demonstrated competence in post-secondary teaching required.
- Empathetic approach to the instructional needs and concerns of students is
required.
- Previous teaching in the subject area or related area would be an asset.
Key Responsibilities
Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities
- Preparing instructional and testing materials relevant
to the course being taught.
- Instructing/teaching/testing.
- Marking/grading of exams and assignments etc.
- Providing constructive feedback to students.
- Maintaining regular office hours.
Applications may be considered after the posting closing date.
If more than one section is advertised for this course different applicants may be considered for each section, and applicants are required to indicate their preferred section.
Where a University of Manitoba student is the successful candidate, the terms and conditions of employment, including remuneration, will be governed by the UM/CUPE 3909 (Student) Collective Agreement.
Additional Information
class days: Monday to Friday, final exam July 27
Posting Closing Date.(Requisition closes at 4:30 p.m. CT) 02/12/2015
Inquiries only (Note: applications must be submitted through REACH-UM)
Apply: https://umanitoba.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/apply_online_login.php?q=cmVxdWlzaXRpb25faWQ9ODk3MQ==
[2] Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - St. George Anthropology Department - University of Toronto - Deadline: March 27, 2015
Requisition Title: Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - 1500056
Job Field: Limited Term (Lecturer)
Faculty / Division: Faculty of Arts and Science
Department: Anthropology
Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto)
Job Posting: Jan 28, 2015
Job Closing: Mar 27, 2015
Description
The Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, invites applications for a two-year teaching-stream appointment in Biological (Evolutionary) Anthropology, with a focus on human nutritional ecology and especially the nutrition and health of women, infants and young children. The appointment will be at the rank of Lecturer and will begin July 1, 2015 and end June 30, 2017, with the possibility of renewal. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants must have a PhD in Anthropology or a closely related discipline by July 1, 2015 or shortly thereafter and have a record of excellence in teaching, in both small and large class settings, and teaching-related activities such as curriculum development and student mentoring, and demonstrated evidence of expertise in biological, medical, and/or nutritional anthropology.
The successful candidate will be prepared to teach a suite of undergraduate courses that include a large second-year course on medical anthropology and evolutionary perspectives on health across the life span, a somewhat smaller third-year course on evolutionary theory, as well as smaller courses at the third- and fourth-year level that could include one on the anthropology of childhood and childcare. Experience at graduate teaching would also be an asset.
The University of Toronto is a large, three-campus institution in a vibrant, multiethnic region and has a very diverse student population. The Department of Anthropology is a multi-field unit with diverse research and teaching. It has 24 full-time faculty at the St. George campus and 43 graduate faculty across the three campuses. For more information about the Department of Anthropology, please see our home page athttp://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/.
Qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below. Applications should include a cover letter, teaching dossier (including statement of teaching philosophy, sample course syllabi, and student evaluations) and curriculum vitae along with the names of three references. Application materials should be submitted online. Submission guidelines are available at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply.
We recommend combining attached documents in one or two
files in PDF/MS Word format:
(1) Cover letter, CV
(2) Teaching Dossier
Applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly to Professor E.B. Banning, Chair, Department of Anthropology, by email to [log in to unmask], by the closing date March 27, 2015. If you have questions about the position, please contact [log in to unmask].
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to further diversification of ideas.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
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