Upcoming Call for Papers, Panelists, Funding & Employment Opportunities, Awards and Summer Courses || Prochain appel à contributions pour les publications et conférences, bourses & offre d'emploi, prix et cours d'été
19 February | février 2015
All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links to detailed posting guidelines: in English and French.
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.
1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Volunteer - Faculty of PhD UofT student - Research Project
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] AAA Meeting - Lab, Classroom, University: Science studies meets the anthropology of education - Deadline: March 1, 2015
[2] AAA Meeting - Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate Maternal Relationships - Deadline: March 4, 2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] PhD Funds (1 year) - European migration network - Integrim - Deadline: March 2, 2015
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Ethnographer - Idea Culture - Toronto
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
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1. CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Volunteer - Faculty of PhD UofT student - Research Project
Senior Anthropology undergrad is looking for volunteers
to participate in a short research project to find out what fieldwork does to
fieldworkers.
To be eligible you must:
• Be a faculty or PhD student in the Department of
Anthropology at University of Toronto
• Have at least three months of experience carrying
out ethnographical fieldwork
Please contact Althea at [log in to unmask] to
find out more about this study.
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] AAA Meeting - Lab, Classroom, University: Science studies meets the anthropology of education - Deadline: March 1, 2015
AAA 2015 Call for Papers
Lab, Classroom, University: Science studies meets the anthropology of education
We begin with a simple proposal: that anthropology of education and science studies have something to learn from each other. All too often, ethnographers of laboratories have under-theorized the broader academic context in which many of the scientific practices they study occur. For their part, anthropologists working on universities have seldom examined the epistemic cultures and machineries of particular disciplines. What, then, might science studies have to say about pedagogy? What might anthropologists of neoliberal(izing) higher education have to say about how disciplines produce and transmit knowledge? What might be gained by taking up these questions together?
To take one example, this rapprochement might help us retheorize the forms of politics and capital that we encounter in the academic sphere. Some working at this intersection have followed Pierre Bourdieu (1988, 1996) in investigating the intermingling of class, pedagogy, and epistemology in the production of academic and cultural capital; others have tracked the machinations of value and collegiality in the scene of peer review (Lamont 2009, Brenneis 1999); still others have examined forms of “biocapital" in the life sciences (Sunder Rajan 2005) and traced the intertwined flows of money and scientific objects typical of neoliberal inquiry (Helmreich 2008, Davies 2012, 2013). Reading these multiple literatures together, we invite contributions that expand our vocabulary for analyzing the political economies of research and education in the neoliberal university.
Another dimension of our theme is more epistemological, drawing on research on higher education and the natural sciences alike, which has examined how concepts and theories are materialized and transmitted in practice. Science studies has persuasively argued that conceptual knowledge in the sciences emerges from the conjunction of broad cultural formations with specific experimental systems (Rheinberger and Müller-Wille 2012), while the anthropology of education has shown conclusively how the circulation and transmission of even the most abstract knowledge takes place through micro-negotiations within networks of power and privilege that traverse the classroom (Nespor 1994). This proposed panel is a call to bring together insights from laboratory and classroom ethnography, and to contextualize them within the political economy of the university.
The organizers welcome proposals for papers answering this call through empirical or theoretical studies of higher education politics and conflict, scientific and humanistic knowledge-making, academic labor and ideology. Please send a short abstract to Eli Thorkelson ([log in to unmask]) and Ian Lowrie ([log in to unmask]) by March 1st.
[2] AAA Meeting - Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate Maternal Relationships - Deadline: March 4, 2015
CFP for the 2015 American Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting in
Denver,
Conference theme: “Familiar/Strange”
Session: Maternal “Instincts”: An Anthropological Inquiry into Intimate Maternal Relationships
This session will explore the scope of contemporary maternal relationships as vehicles of social and cultural reproduction, as well as sociocultural change. The study of women’s social networks and matrifocal kinship systems are a familiar domain of anthropology. Yet the study of maternal relationships offers a rare opportunity to deconstruct definitions of “mother” and investigate the ways in which intimate maternal relationships influence, are affected by, and reflect social and cultural change.
This session invites papers representing anthropological research from all four fields on maternal relationships. The category “maternal relationship” is flexible and may include, but is not limited to:
- Biological mother-daughter, mother-son relationships
- Adoptive mother-daughter, mother-son relationships
- Fictive kinship relationships identified as maternal
- In-law relationships
- Caregiver relationships
- Childbirth and postpartum doulas as “substitute” grandmothers
Please email a 250 word abstract to Melanie A. Medeiros (SUNY Geneseo, [log in to unmask]) by March 4, 2015. Feel free to email any questions you may have before the deadline.
Melanie A. Medeiros, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
SUNY Geneseo
Office: Bailey 106
Phone: 585-245-6269
Email: [log in to unmask]
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] PhD Funds (1 year) - European migration network - Integrim - Deadline: March 2, 2015
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
One year funded PhD positions in European migration network
Integrim is a EU funded 'Initial Training Network' to
support training and exchange at doctoral level. More details of the current
round of applications are online at http://www.integrim.eu.
Applications are open from now until March 2nd.
PhD students from anywhere in the world may apply for 12 months of fairly generous support (about $30,000 plus travel allowance) starting in September 2015, based on two criteria:
1. that they are working on relevant research topics
(international migration, integration), in any discipline, with a focus anywhere
in the world.
2. that they are in the first 4 years of their PhD (NB in Europe this usually
means that they are writing up, but we welcome applications from North American
based students at an earlier stage of their PhD).
There are 7 positions - one at each of the 7 universities in the network (Sussex, Lisbon, Liege, Poitiers, Bilbao, Amsterdam, Istanbul) in 7 countries. The only obligations are that students should relocate to the relevant city, write a working paper and attend the Integrim conference in Istanbul in December 2015. Otherwise the expectation is that they continue working on their individual PhD research. All students will be allocated a supervisor at their host university - though they are obviously expected to remain in contact with their advisory committee at their home university. These positions would be ideal for any PhD students conducting research in Europe. In the last round, competition was not particularly high (between 3 and 10 applications per University) so we welcome applications from any qualifying candidates.
Further details are available from Maria Lopez Beloso, at Deusto, in Bilboa ([log in to unmask]). I'd also be very happy to answer any queries, particularly for anyone interested in applying for the Sussex position ([log in to unmask])
Dr
Michael Collyer
Dept. of Geography
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN19SJ, UK.
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Ethnographer - Idea Couture - Toronto
Idea Couture is seeking an experienced ethnographer/qualitative researcher (and more!) to join our team. The successful candidate will have a passion for designing and conducting fieldwork, using a range of creative, qualitative approaches, the ability to identify and clearly communicate human insights to internal teams and clients, and the nimbleness required to juggle academic theory, research methods and business sensibility.
Required skills / Experience
Master’s/PhD in anthropology, sociology, psychology, another social science discipline
Proven experience organizing, designing, conducting ethnographic and qualitative research projects
Written and spoken fluency in a second language is a strong asset
Scholarly or other publishing record
Strong writing and editing skills
For more information, see: http://www.ideacouture.com/join-us/toronto-ethnographer
Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/ideacouture/ae5600fb-9308-40fd-8522-5af358108ed3/apply
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
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