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
5 March | mars 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] Applications - 2015 AAA LEADERSHIP FELLOWS PROGRAM - Deadline: April 6, 2015
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] Papers - Urban Aspirations: Language, Infrastructure & the built environment - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: Ongoing
[2] Papers - Grappling with Familiar/Strange in Anthropological Studies of Young People Doing Science and Technology - Council on Anthropology and Education - AAA Annual Meetings - Deadline: Ongoing
[3] Posters - Council on Anthropology and Education - AAA Meetings - Deadline: March 10, 2015
[4] Panel Papers - “Broken connections and disjunctive speed: on the forensic wonder of infrastructural failure” -Anthropology in London - SOAS - Deadline: March 10, 2015
[5] Papers - *Intimate Negotiations: Citizenship and the Politics of Parenting* - AAA Meetings- Deadline: March 15, 2015
[6] Papers - Alone Together: Anthropological Perspectives on Alienation and Otherness - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 15, 2015
[7] Papers (sessions extension) - Indigenizing Pilgrimage:growing, identifying & localizing transformative journeys - May 7-10, 2015 – Concordia University - Deadline: March 15, 2015
[8] Papers - A Place at the Table: Contemporary geographies of food production, consumption and distribution - Special session on Geographies of Food - Canadian Association of Geographers AGM 2015 June 1-5 - Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, BC - Deadline: March 15, 2015
[9] Papers - Citizenship Education - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 15, 2015
[10] Papers - Re-Imagining Home: Belonging, Exclusion, and Liminality in the Context of Latin American and Caribbean Return Migration - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 16, 2015
[11] Papers - “The paper life of politics: documents as mediators in political struggles” - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 20, 2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Applications - John D. Montgomery Post-Doctoral Fellowship Theme: “Indigenous Development” - Pacific Basin Research Center Soka University of America 2015-16 Academic Year - Deadline: April 30, 2015
[2] Applications - AAA Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award - Deadline: May 1, 2015
[3] Submissions - Roseberry Nash Student Award - Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology - Deadline: July 20, 2015
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Assistant or Associate Professor - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing Higher Education - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 12, 2015
[2] Course Director - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology - Trent University (Peterborough WEB course) - Deadline: March 19, 2015
[3] Professor - Creativity and Creative Thinking - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Sheridan College - Deadline: March 30, 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'ÉTÉ[1] ETHICS CENTRE GRADUATE CONFERENCE WITH SABA MAHMOOD - University of Toronto - March 7, 2015
[2] ATLAS.ti Training - Centre for Ethnographic Research, UC Berkeley – March 14-15, 2015,
[3] Summer School for Social Science Research Methods - National University of Singapore, June 8-9 - Deadline: April 1, 2015
*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: English posting guidelines
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1. 1.CALLS || APPELS
a) Opportunities || Opportunités
[1] Applications - 2015 AAA LEADERSHIP FELLOWS PROGRAM - Deadline: April 6, 2015
The AAA Leadership Fellows Program provides a unique opportunity for anthropologists early in their careers to learn about leadership opportunities within the association. Each year a group of three to five fellows will be paired with a mentor chosen from among AAA leadership. Mentors are available to fellows throughout the year to answer questions related to AAA. Fellows shadow their mentors at the AAA Annual Meeting in meetings of the Executive Board, Association Committees, and Section Committees. In addition, fellows are invited to attend the AAA Donors Reception and a Leadership Fellows Social bringing together past and present cohorts of fellows.
Eligibility
At the time of application, the applicant must be:
* a current member of the American Anthropological Association
* within three to five years of having completed their terminal degree in anthropology or an allied field. *
* Applicants not holding a terminal degree in anthropology should have a strong presence in the discipline at the time the application is submitted.
The online application is open in early March. Applications must be submitted by April 6. Awardees are notified in May and announced in Anthropology News. Fellows are required to attend the AAA Annual Meeting of their award year. As a result, Fellows receive up to $500 reimbursement for costs of travel.
To learn more and apply, please visit: http://www.aaanet.org/about/Prizes-Awards/AAA-Leadership-Fellows-Program.cfm.
b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les
publications et conférences
[1] Papers - Urban Aspirations: Language, Infrastructure & the built environment - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: Ongoing
For the AAA meetings in Denver we are putting a together a panel with the working title, URBAN ASPIRATIONS: LANGUAGE, INFRASTRUCTURE & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. We're looking for papers that examine how cities are constructed, literally and metaphorically, to enable and disable particular practices in the pursuit of practical and symbolic goals (modernity, nationhood, prosperity, etc.). We envision a coherent set of papers that bridge linguistic and urban anthropology by treating the city as both material and discursive, and that demonstrate how these processes are mutually constitutive.
Please send expressions of interest individually (not reply-all) to the addresses below. Thank you.
- Galey Modan & Rudi Gaudio
Gabriella Modan
The Ohio State University
Rudolf Gaudio
Purchase College, State University of New York
[2] Papers - Grappling with Familiar/Strange in Anthropological Studies of Young People Doing Science and Technology - Council on Anthropology and Education - AAA Annual Meetings - Deadline: Ongoing
Grappling with Familiar/Strange in Anthropological Studies of Young People Doing Science and Technology
Council on Anthropology and Education/American Anthropological Association (see http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm for submission requirements)
Denver, CO; November 18-22, 2015
Margaret A Eisenhart ([log in to unmask]) is organizing a panel on Young People Doing Science and Technology for the upcoming AAA conference. Please consider submitting an abstract. She is interested in 4-5 presenters.
An increasing number of anthropologists of education are turning their attention to studies of science and technology among young people in schools, learning communities outside of school, sites of popular culture, and virtual spaces. Drawing on the longer tradition of science and technology studies (STS), together with social practice theories of identity and agency, these researchers focus on ways young people take up science and technology in the context of their lives. This work disrupts conventional ideas about what it means to learn science or technology, to develop an interest or follow a trajectory in these fields, or to engage with or against normative scientific and technological ideas and practices. The papers in this session reveal surprising forms, storylines, and juxtapositions in youth participation in science and technology.
At the same time, these new forms are not without their own legacies and entanglements. Normative projects of schooling, science/technology, economic competitiveness, knowledge acquisition, adulthood, and the meaning of a successful life impinge on new forms in multiple, complex ways. The papers in this session take up these intersections to reveal both their productive and reproductive implications.
[3] Posters - Council on Anthropology and Education - AAA Meetings - Deadline: March 10, 2015
Each year, the Council on Anthropology and Education seeks to highlight the exemplary research of new and emerging scholars in anthropology and education by hosting the CAE New Scholars Invited Poster Session. CAE will be hosting an invited poster session at the 114th Annual Meeting in Denver, CO. The dates of the conference are November 18-22, 2015. If you are a student or new scholar to the field, please consider applying for this opportunity to share your work! To be considered for this event, you should submit an email with the subject line “CAE poster session 2015 [your last name].” In the body of the email, please include the following information:
1) Your name, institutional affiliation, address, phone, email, and fax;
2) A brief statement outlining any previous involvement in the AAA annual meetings (i.e., have you attended AAA before, and did you present, etc.);
3) A 250 word abstract that includes: the research question; the conceptual framework for the study; the methods; the findings; the significance of the project.
These materials should be emailed to Angelina Castagno at [log in to unmask] by March 10, 2015.
[4] Panel Papers - “Broken connections and disjunctive speed: on the forensic wonder of infrastructural failure” -Anthropology in London - SOAS - Deadline: March 10, 2015
PANEL PROPOSAL: ANTHROPOLOGY IN LONDON 2015
The organisers of the 2015 Anthropology in London day conference (https://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/anthropology-in-london-2015/) would welcome any additional paper abstracts that might fit into the following panel. Please email these to [log in to unmask] by 10 March 2015.
“Broken connections and disjunctive speed: on the forensic wonder of infrastructural failure”
Panel Convenor: Mark Lamont (Goldsmiths)
Prompted by current debates about the cognitive and moral limits of acceleration and speed, anthropologists are paying attention to the emerging values of speed in a globalized economy premised on the promise of connectivity. Emerging out of ethnographies about roads, call centers, ageing nuclear energy plants, port facilities, waste treatment systems, fish markets, ship breaking yards, and rust belts or ghost towns, the smooth surface utopias of speed and connectivity come to be questioned more intently. This is especially acute when the people within these sites of engagement experience with some forensic wonder what happens when the 'machine' breaks down and they have to wrestle back for themselves a 'working order' out of breakdown and deterioration. While such studies develop theory on the network of infrastructures and the techno-political assemblages that manage and regulate our connected world, there is less attention paid to the work of repair, maintenance, neglect, and sabotage of infrastructure and its canalizing social effects. This panel aims to bring a modest ethnographic testimony to what happens to people when such infrastructures are disrupted, destroyed, or otherwise brought to a grinding halt.
This panel invites ethnographies that delve into the forensics of infrastructural failures: as when the very materiality of broken connections - along roads, in ports, through routers - compels people to engage with failure as an analytic object. How do people in a variety of contexts repair, neglect, or abandon broken technologies and infrastructure? Although the contexts of contributions may range considerably, from decaying road infrastructures, to financial disruptions caused by 'fat fingers', we aim to examine comparative instances of broken connectivity and the forensic wonders that such accidental happenings or processes conjure, towards generating new perspectives on the variable temporality of infrastructural sociality through the lenses of disjunctive speed and broken connectivity.
[5] Papers - *Intimate Negotiations: Citizenship and the Politics of Parenting* - AAA Meetings- Deadline: March 15, 2015
Intimate Negotiations: Citizenship and the Politics of Parenting
Conveners: Eileen Moyer (University of Amsterdam) and Anouk de Koning
(Radboud University)
This panel examines how citizenship is negotiated in the highly intimate, yet deeply political domain of parenting. This panel brings together scholars interested in the intersection of parenting, gender, citizenship, policy and governance. It welcomes contributions that examine the way citizenship is imagined, negotiated and contested in policies, institutional practices and formal and informal encounters related to parenting. How is citizenship negotiated in this intimate, but profoundly political domain? What do such cases tell us about the institutional and everyday translation of public debates regarding good citizenship and the nation? And what do we learn about the normative and exclusionary character of citizenship, and the way it is negotiated and contested?
Paper proposals can be sent to Eileen Moyer ([log in to unmask]) and Anouk de Koning ([log in to unmask]) before March 15, 2015.
[6] Papers - Alone Together: Anthropological Perspectives on Alienation and Otherness - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 15, 2015
Alone Together: Anthropological Perspectives on Alienation and Otherness
Organizer: Arpan Roy (PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University)
Panel Abstract
“I am guilty,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, “first when beneath the Other's look I experience my alienation and my nakedness as a fall from grace which I must assume.” What can anthropology, in its very methodological essence a discipline inseparable from the problem of the Other, say about alienation?
Long embraced by philosophy, from Marxian political thought to existentialism, the topic has largely been ignored in the anthropological canon. In sociology, anthropology's sister discipline, Durkheim engaged with alienation through his concept of anomie, part of his greater body of thinking on the individual's attachment to social groups and "the spirit of discipline.” It is this anomic alienation that Durkheim included at the heart of his classic discussion of suicide. Yet, alienation manifests not only in the death drive but in the pain of living; in everyday suffering, in a million brief encounters, and in increasingly mechanized modes of social production. In other words, it manifests well within bounds of anthropological inquiry.
But the problematic has always been there. It is a recurring theme in memoirs by anthropologists writing about doing anthropology, as in Malinowski's lonely entries in his fieldwork diaries, or Michael Jackson's gloomy remembrance of feeling kinship with “the unemployed, the outcast, the dispossessed” while taking academic positions in foreign universities. In both cases, the anthropologist is alienated by the experience of being-for-others.
This session invites two distinct but interrelated questions: One: What does a theory of alienation look like in intersection with the ethnographic case study? Two: More reflexively, what does the alienating experience of anthropology itself contribute to a theory of alienation?
PLEASE SEND AN ABSTRACT OF 300 WORDS OR LESS TO [log in to unmask] BY MARCH 15.
[7] Papers (sessions extension) - Indigenizing Pilgrimage:growing, identifying & localizing transformative journeys - May 7-10, 2015 – Concordia University - Deadline: March 15, 2015
Join us for an international, multidisciplinary conference “Indigenizing Pilgrimage:growing, identifying & localizing transformative journeys” May 7-10, 2015 – Concordia University
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Keynote speakers: Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. He is co-editor of the journal Religion and Society, and of the Ashgate Studies in Pilgrimage book series.
Raymond Aldred is Assistant Professor of Theology, Ambrose University (Calgary), and works with My People International. He is former Director for the First Nations Alliance Churches of Canada. He is status Cree.
How can one travel without attending to the ground beneath one's feet? In 2014, a group of
professors and students from Concordia University's Department of Theological Studies undertook a 32 kilometre pilgrimage, De Vieux-Montréal à Kahnawa:ké. This walk stretched between historic pilgrimage centres founded to honour two 17th century women, one a French settler at Fort Ville Marie (Montréal), and the other, a woman of Algonquin and Mohawk parentage. Whatever our theoretical assumptions at the outset, as pilgrims we walked toward an understanding that pilgrimage on this land necessarily involves recognizing the complex, contested and still unfolding story of Turtle Island (North America), as locus of encounter between indigenous and settler peoples.
Indigenizing Pilgrimage: Growing, Identifying and Localizing Transformative Journey will take
place from May 7-10, 2015, at Concordia University in Montréal. It is jointly sponsored by the
Department of Theological Studies and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability. The conference will bring together scholars and pilgrims from across disciplines to discuss journey, indigeneity and locality. One of the conference keynote addresses and at least one presentation session will focus on journey in aboriginal contexts. We invite you to join us on this pilgrimage of discovery.
We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations (academic papers, performance and artistic
presentations) that explore the complexities of personal, social and/or religious pilgrimage, and the inculturation of journey-scapes. Presentations may focus on journey in Indigenous contexts and/or on issues of place, locality and meaning in the practice of pilgrimage. We are also interested in a wide range of pilgrimage studies issues from across interdisciplinary and practical spheres. Proposals of 300-400 words are invited from all relevant disciplines; these should be submitted by March 15, 2015 to [log in to unmask]. Please attach a CV as well. Acceptances will be sent out by April 1, 2015; registration will also be open by April 1. (Webpage currently under construction: notification to follow). There will be a nominal registration fee of $20 CAD, as well as an optional Conference dinner on Saturday night, and a pilgrimage field trip in Vieux-Montréal on Sunday afternoon, (fees TBA; will be payable on conference registration website). The possibility of pursuing publication of an edited volume Indigenizing Pilgrimage will be considered once the presentation proposals are finalized. In conjunction with this conference, the Theological Studies Graduate Student Association (TSGSA) at Concordia will host undergraduate and graduate student paper sessions, performances and art presentations during the day on May 8. The focus is Pilgrimage: Sacred Journeys. Papers accepted for presentation will be invited to publish in an upcoming issue of the Concordia University graduate journal of theological studies, Word in the World. Should students working in Pilgrimage Studies be interested in presenting research or art work, they are invited to contact Robin Stanford of the TSGSA at [log in to unmask].
Communications Coordinator: Cristina Plamadeala Contact: [log in to unmask]
Student Conference Coordinator: Robin Stanford Contact: [log in to unmask]
Cost: $15.00 FYI: Chapelle website : http://www.marguerite-bourgeoys.com/en/
[8] Papers - A Place at the Table: Contemporary geographies of food production, consumption and distribution - Special session on Geographies of Food - Canadian Association of Geographers AGM 2015 June 1-5 - Simon Fraser University - Vancouver, BC - Deadline: March 15, 2015
http://www.sfu.ca/cag2015/special-session/a-place-at-the-table.html
(le français suit) Place at the Table: Contemporary geographies of food production, consumption and distribution
Organizers: Melora Koepke (Simon Fraser University); Alison McIntosh (Simon Fraser University)
Food is a literal embodiment of place: an expression of the spatial and temporal conditions by which we sustain ourselves physically and socially. Geographical research in urban and rural locations and related to health, gender, politics, economics and the environment, as well as non-representational geographies and geographies of consumption, have previously tended to place food as merely one within multiple considerations. However, recent scholarship suggests that the time is ripe to consider food as a central focus of critical geographical research. Geographers can contribute important understandings of the interactions between people, and the places where food is produced, distributed, and consumed: from multiple perspectives, at local and global scales.
This session invites papers that extend contemporary geographical analyses of food into uncharted spaces, and in new directions. We therefore welcome researchers, including graduate students, to submit papers focusing on topics related to the following:
--Foodscapes
--Food (in)security
--Food justice
--Urban agriculture, farmer's markets, community kitchens and / or other alternative food spaces and practices
--Class, culture, race, gender, and food
--Local and global food justice
--Food and environmental change
--Geographies of (food) consumption
Those interested in contributing to this session are invited to submit your contact details, proposed paper title and abstract (300 words max) to Alison McIntosh ([log in to unmask]) and Melora Koepke ([log in to unmask]) by March 15, 2015.
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Congrès 2015 de l’Association canadienne des géographes, Université Simon Fraser, 1-5 juin 2015
Une place à la table : les géographies contemporaines de la production, la consommation et la distribution alimentaire
Organisatrices : Melora Koepke (Simon Fraser University) et Alison McIntosh (Université Simon Fraser)
La nourriture agit comme symbole du lieu: elle donne corps aux conditions spatiales et temporelles grâce auxquelles nous nous nourrissons physiquement et socialement. Les travaux de recherche en géographie portant sur les milieux urbains et ruraux en lien avec la santé, le sexe, la politique, l’économie et l’environnement, ainsi que les géographies non-représentatives et les géographies de la consommation, avaient tendance auparavant à définir la nourriture simplement comme un des éléments d’analyse parmi d’autres. Or, des travaux universitaires effectués récemment donnent à penser qu’il est temps que l’objet envisagé au cœur de la recherche géographique critique soit la nourriture. Les géographes peuvent jeter un meilleur éclairage sur les interactions entre les personnes et les endroits où la nourriture est produite, distribuée et consommée et ce, à partir de plusieurs points de vue, et autant à l’échelle locale que mondiale.
Dans cette séance, les communications sollicitées devront s’efforcer de dépasser les frontières actuelles des analyses menées en géographique contemporaine sur la nourriture. Nous invitons donc les chercheurs, y compris les étudiants des cycles supérieurs, à proposer des communications qui portent sur un des sujets d’intérêt suivants :
--Les paysages alimentaires
--La sécurité ou l’insécurité alimentaire
--La justice alimentaire
--L’agriculture urbaine
--La classe, la culture, la race, le genre et la nourriture
--La justice alimentaire locale et mondiale
--La nourriture et l’évolution de l’environnement
--Les géographies de la consommation (de la nourriture)
Si vous souhaitez participer à cette séance, veuillez faire parvenir vos coordonnées, le titre proposé de la communication et le résumé de moins de 300 mots au plus tard le 15 mars 2015 à l’attention de Alison McIntosh ([log in to unmask]) et Melora Koepke ([log in to unmask]).
[9] Papers - Citizenship Education - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 15, 2015
Session Title: The National as Global, the Global as National: Citizenship Education in the Context of Migration and Globalization
Organizers: Wai-Chi Chee (The University of Hong Kong) and Cora Ann Jakubiak (Grinnell College)
Keywords: Citizenship education, migration, globalization, cosmopolitanism
Session Abstract: Transnational migration entails crossing not only national borders and sovereignty, but also the boundaries of “us” versus “them,” frequently incurring an image of “otherness” which may translate to fear or xenophobia. At the same time, ideas of global citizenship (particularly as constructed by study abroad programs and institutional “global” initiatives) stress cosmopolitanism and transnational understanding as components of contemporary state citizenship. Education, especially citizenship education, of students with a migration background often involves an institutionalized effort to create desirable citizen-subjects: making “them” more like “us.” At the same time, global citizenship initiatives are challenging the very definition of “us.” Given the multi-faceted and multi-vocal nature of contemporary citizenship (be it state or global), citizen-making in the current historical moment is filled with negotiations and contestations. While citizenship education is often managed and regulated by the state, on the micro-level, different stakeholders including teachers, parents and students strategically create their own spaces of agency. Citizenship education is also inherently paradoxical because as it shapes students into desirable subjects, it also serves to remind them of their rights as citizens, enlightening them of social structural inequalities and the power inherent in citizenship. These enlightened citizens may in turn question the legitimacy of certain state practices—or, in the case of global citizenship, question the workings of transnational organizations and the power of global civil society.
Citizenship is not limited to formal citizenship as T.H. Marshall (1950) defined it, i.e., rights, responsibilities and participation conferred by the nation-state and bounded by national borders. Rosaldo (1994) extended conventional citizenship to cultural citizenship, a process by which disadvantaged groups claim their right to be full members, including “the right to be different (in terms of race, ethnicity, or native language) with respect to the norms of the dominant national community, without compromising one’s right to belong, in the sense of participating in the nation-state’s democratic processes” (57). Ong (1996:735) called for attention to the “dual process of self-making and being-made” of cultural citizenship which involves contestations between citizen-subjects, state power and other structural constraints. Additionally, new ideas of global citizenship frame certain people as parochial others and legitimize particular forms of geographic mobility while denigrating others (Doerr, 2011).
Despite important insights from scholarship, issues of belonging relating to migration and global citizenship remain problematic and take on a particular urgency in today’s world—a world witnessing an unprecedented scale and speed of human movement. This panel seeks to explore the complexities of citizenship education at work in the context of both migration and globalization, and to address the following questions: What types of citizens do citizenship education agendas seek to create, for whom and by whom? How do migrant students respond and with what effects? How do highly mobile U.S. citizens participate in constructions of global citizenship? How does citizenship education of variously located students inspire us to rethink assumptions about national citizenship? How do migrant students and U.S. students alike narrate, manifest, and make sense of their citizen identities? What are the implications of constructing citizen-subjects in an era of global connection? What possibilities does citizenship education offer for developing new intercultural understandings? How do the educational experiences of students with a migration background—as well as those with cosmopolitan experiences of study, travel, and volunteering abroad—illuminate areas of social inclusion and exclusion?
The panel organizers welcome papers that contribute to critical understanding of citizenship education in diverse ways.
Please send your paper abstract (of no more than 250 words) to Wai-chi Chee (wcchee@hku.hk) and Cora Jakubiak ([log in to unmask]) by 15 March 2015 (Sunday).
[10] Papers - Re-Imagining Home: Belonging, Exclusion, and Liminality in the Context of Latin American and Caribbean Return Migration - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 16, 2015
Proposed Panel for AAA Conference Nov. 18-22 (Denver, CO): Re-Imagining Home: Belonging, Exclusion, and Liminality in the Context of Latin American and Caribbean Return Migration
Panel Organizer: Cristina Alcalde, University of Kentucky
How is “home” imagined and subjectively experienced as both familiar and strange?
What are the tensions inherent to belonging and feeling excluded as a gendered, classed, racialized, corporeal being for return migrants?
This panel explores home in the context of return migration, interrogating both the experiences of those who are planning to return and those who have returned. Papers in this panel examine return migration as a phenomenon that is increasingly recognized as an important, growing component of global migration flows and relevant for understanding Latin America and the Caribbean, where state policies to address return migration continue to be developed and revised and migrants face economic, cultural, and social challenges upon their return. Focusing on Latin American and Caribbean migrants, papers engage with multiple constructions and practices surrounding transnational identities and the (im)possibility of return home in the context of what it means to leave, struggle with, and create spaces of belonging away from as well as once again in the homeland.
In examining grounded subjectivities in diverse parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and among multiple Latin American and Caribbean populations throughout the globe, the panel promotes critical dialogues to reassess, refine, and disrupt theoretical and methodological paradigms in migration studies, such as transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and multi-sited ethnography. Ultimately, the theoretical and methodological interventions discussed in the panel propose new ways of imagining and experiencing home.
Please send a 250 word abstract and a title for your proposed contribution to Cristina Alcalde at [log in to unmask] by Monday, March 16th. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by Wednesday, March 18th.
[11] Papers - “The paper life of politics: documents as mediators in political struggles” - AAA Annual Meeting - Deadline: March 20, 2015
The paper life of politics: Documents as mediators in political struggles
Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2015 – Denver, Colorado, USA
Panel Discussant: Professor Matthew Hull, Assoc. Professor, University of Michigan.
Preliminary Abstract
Bureaucracies rely overwhelmingly on written documentation, yet in large parts of the world, especially in the global South, the capacity to generate, and respond to, documentation is unevenly distributed across society. This panel explores the different ways in which the bureaucratic insistence on written documentation and the “presumptive regime of written truth” (Hull 2012: 246) impacts and inflects political struggles.
The panel will consider (but is not restricted to) the following questions: First, how does written documentation construct the object of bureaucratic governance? Second, how do different groups respond to, and creatively attempt to bend, documentation in the service of their agendas? Third, what is the relationship between documents produced in different registers – bureaucratic, scientific, legal, news media or that of popular protest – and how do these different registers push political struggles into novel terrains?
Through these questions, and drawing on the anthropology of bureaucracies, political anthropology and STS, this panel brings together empirical studies on how documents mediate political struggles in different parts of the world. The panel is not just about documentary representations of political struggles or the role representations play in politics, rather the focus is on how practices and forms of documentations bend political struggles in surprising and unprecedented ways and the peculiar pressures that documentation exerts on politics.
Papers from all regions in the world are welcome. The panel is not necessarily restricted to state-society documentary interfaces. We welcome innovative work on certification regimes (state and non-state), corporate sector documentation, and legal and financial documentation. Contributions from advanced graduate students and recent PhDs preferred.
Dates for the AAA: November 18-22, 2015
Location: Denver, CO
Submission deadline for abstracts (no more than 250 words): 20th March 2015
Interested participants may please get in touch with me at the address below with an abstract, title, their affiliation and current status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position etc.).
Please direct all questions to the address below.
Panel Organizer
Aniket Aga (Yale University) – [log in to unmask]
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Applications - John D. Montgomery Post-Doctoral Fellowship Theme: “Indigenous Development” - Pacific Basin Research Center Soka University of America 2015-16 Academic Year - Deadline: April 30, 2015
The Pacific Basin Research Center (PBRC) at Soka University of America, a premier Liberal Arts University in Orange County California, is pleased to announce a call for applications for the second annual John D. Montgomery Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The Fellowship is intended to support young scholars whose research emphasizes humanistic development in and connections among the peoples of the Pacific Basin. This year’s theme is Indigenous Development. We encourage applications from young scholars (within two years of defending their dissertation) interested in contemporary issues associated with development among indigenous peoples. While scholars often focus on the histories and cultures of indigenous peoples, there is a growing concern for the special challenges faced by the so-called Fourth World in terms of development. By development, we mean economic and political issues as well as specific areas such as health, education, transnational networks, land rights, and civil society. The geographical focus is open to scholars specializing in any area of the world, with priority given to those studying the countries of the Pacific Basin. John D. Montgomery is known for his excellence in connecting academic and policy worlds to promote humanistic development around the world. As a Ford Foundation Professor at Harvard and the PBRC’s inaugural Director, Professor Montgomery published dozens of path-breaking studies on foreign aid, the environment, social capital, administrative reform, and much more. Reflecting Professor Montgomery’s outstanding contributions, the successful applicant will demonstrate distinction in research, teaching, and policy, as well as dedication towards an improved understanding of the Pacific Basin.
The successful applicant will receive a stipend of $45,000. The Fellow will be expected to teach one course in each of the fall and spring semesters (a 1-1 teaching load), consisting of a special topics course of their choosing in the Fall and an Introduction to the Pacific Basin in the Spring. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the PBRC by organizing talks, connecting to students, and conducting independent research. Additionally, the post-doctoral scholar must produce a PBRC ‘Policy Brief’ paper on their area of interest.Soka University of America is located in Aliso Viejo, southern Orange County. Opening its breathtaking campus in 2001, SUA has quickly joined the ranks of some of the best liberal arts campuses in the world. The 2013 US News and World Report College Rankings placed Soka in the top fifty liberal arts institutions in the country (number seven on the west coast), placing #1 for faculty resources and foreign students, and within the top ten best value schools. Boasting an average class size of 13 students, a 1:8 student to teacher ratio, and a diverse student body, SUA is committed to helping students become global citizens. Interested candidates should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, sample syllabus, and two references to Soka University of America’s Human Resources ([log in to unmask]) by 30 April 2015. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States. If you have any questions, please contact Michelle Mastro, PBRC Program Coordinator ([log in to unmask]).
[2] Applications - AAA Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology Award - Deadline: May 1, 2015
The CoGEA Award (formerly known as the Squeaky Wheel Award), sponsored by the AAA Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology (CoGEA), recognizes individuals whose service to the discipline, and collective spirit of whose research, teaching and mentoring, demonstrates the courage to bring to light and investigate practices in anthropology that are potentially sexist and discriminatory based on gender presentation.
Historically this award has honored those who have acted to raise awareness of women's contributions to anthropology, worked to identify barriers to full participation by women in anthropology, or helped to bring about significant shifts in intellectual paradigms through their anthropological research on women's lives.
The CoGEA Award now has an even broader scope. In addition to honoring scholars who work against discrimination against women in anthropology the committee is interested in honoring feminist scholars who work to raise awareness of discrimination in anthropology on grounds of gender presentation of any kind. Recent past winners include Barbara Voorhies, Mary Ann Levine, Elizabeth Brumfiel, Laura Nader, and Constance Sutton.
The committee seeks nominations for scholars and practitioners from all subfields of anthropology, at stages ranging anywhere from promising mid-career to proven late-career, who have acted to improve the status of those discriminated against on the basis of sex or gender identity in anthropology through:
Mentorship of colleagues and students
Research that directly addresses gender roles, situations of gender bias, and experiences of gender discrimination in anthropology
Scholarship on women or gender that has influenced shifts in anthropological theory
The development of policies, procedures, or other professional standards that alleviate gender inequalities in the field of anthropology
Nominations should include the name, affiliation and title of the individual being nominated, a one-or two-paragraph description of the reason for the nomination, a statement on the nature of the person's contribution to the improvement of the status of women and/or any persons discriminated again on grounds of gender presentation or gender identity in anthropology, and a copy of the nominee's CV. Please include the name, address, phone number and email address of the nominator. Check the AAA website to see if the person has already won the award.
Nominators may be contacted for additional material concerning finalists. Self nominations are not accepted. Nominators may be AAA members, non-AAA members, and those working outside the discipline of anthropology. Proposed candidates must be a current AAA member and registered to attend the 2015 AAA Meetings in Denver, CO. The award will be presented during the AAA Awards Ceremony, and it is critical that the selected recipient of the award be present for the honor.
Nominations should be sent by May 1 to Suzanne Mattingly, CoGEA Liaison at [log in to unmask]. Awardees and nominators will be notified by July 1.
[3] Submissions - Roseberry Nash Student Award - Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology - Deadline: July 20, 2015
ROSEBERRY NASH GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology invites submission
of papers for our Sixth Annual Roseberry-Nash Student Paper Contest. The competition honors the work of two distinguished anthropologists, June Nash and the late William Roseberry for their multiple contributions to the anthropological understanding of Latin America. The award will be presented at the next AAA meetings in Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.
The prize consists of US $1,000 and direct consultation with the editor of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology toward the goal of revising the paper for publication. The paper should draw on relevant anthropological literature and present data from original research in any field of Latin American and Caribbean anthropology.
Requirements:
* Contestants must be enrolled in a graduate program in Anthropology at the time of submitting the paper.
* Paper length: minimum 4000 words and maximum 6000 words.
* Languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
* Must hold a student membership in the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA)
Papers must be submitted on or before Monday, July 20, 2015 to Cristina Alcalde, Committee Chair, Roseberry-Nash Award. Please email papers as attached documents to [log in to unmask]. Submissions should be formatted as an MS Word file.
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Assistant or Associate Professor - Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing Higher Education - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 12, 2015
With a rich and unique history of over 40 years of leadership in postsecondary education, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) has gained an excellent reputation for community engagement, innovation and progress. TRU is committed to becoming the University of choice for Aboriginal students.
The Faculty of Human, Social and Educational Development (FoHSED) at TRU invites applications for a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenizing Higher Education.
The successful candidate for nomination should have an excellent funding and publication record in Indigenous-focused research and the ability to attract and train excellent graduate research students. You will need to have sustained experience working with Indigenous communities, in areas relevant to indigenising higher education; along with a sound knowledge of Indigenous and Aboriginal issues, strengths and opportunities, an affinity and passion for Indigenous and Aboriginal cultures and advancement, and appreciation of the values of Indigenous and Aboriginal peoples.
Tier II CRCs are "exceptional emerging researchers" who are at an early phase of their careers, have demonstrated the promise of a strong research profile, the potential to be leaders in their field, and an established record of attracting competitively awarded research funding, including Canadian Tri-Agency or similar national or international funding. The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree in Education (preferred), or indigenous-focused research and teaching experience plus a doctoral degree in a related discipline, or indigenous-focused research and teaching experience plus a doctorate near completion.
Applications should include: (1) a detailed curriculum vitae, (2) a cover letter with a statement of your qualifications of relevance and your expected contribution to the University, Faculty and School, (3) a detailed description of your proposed research program, including a statement on its potential consistent with the focus of the CRC and to contribute to TRU’s strategic research directions, (4) samples of relevant published writing, (5) a statement of teaching interests and educational philosophy, and evidence of teaching effectiveness, and (6) names and contact information for three people willing to provide a reference.
For complete eligibility requirements and program information, applicants should review the Canada Research Chair website: http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/program-programme/nomination-mise_en_candidature-eng.aspx.
A detailed proposal describing the intended purpose and scope of the CRC Chair in Indigenising Higher Education is available from TRU.
QUALIFICATIONS
Doctoral degree in Education preferred, or indigenous-focused research and teaching experience plus a doctoral degree in a related discipline, or indigenous-focused research and teaching experience plus a doctorate near completion.
Sustained experience working with indigenous communities, in areas relevant to indigenising higher education.
Sound knowledge of Aboriginal issues, strengths and opportunities, an affinity and passion for Aboriginal culture and appreciation of the values of Aboriginal peoples.
Excellent publication record, and evidence of external funding or clear potential for external funding.
National reputation or promise of national and international reputation.
Ability to train research students (including doctoral students).
This is an exciting opportunity to live in Kamloops, a beautiful and friendly community with spectacular outdoor recreational opportunities, and to contribute to Indigenous advancement as a member of this dynamic, growing and uniquely comprehensive university. For further information please contact:
Dr. W.F Garrett-Petts, AVP Research and Graduate Studies, Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Tel: 250-828-5410. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3450
[2] Course Director - Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology - Trent University (Peterborough WEB course) - Deadline: March 19, 2015
BASE STIPEND OR HOURLY RATE: $6,874.38 + 4% VACATION PAY
From June 22, 2015 To: August 5, 2015
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES:
· Create complete course syllabus for approval by the Chair of the Anthropology Department and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Science by the deadline
· Deliver lectures and seminars/tutorials/lab sessions as relevant
· Assign/grade student work and submit course grades
· Invigilate examinations
·· Maintain 1 or more office hours per week for student consultation outside of scheduled class time
· Other related duties in accordance with Department practice
QUALIFICATIONS:
· Ph.D. (preferred) or ABD in Anthropology
· Specialized knowledge of course subject matter, as shown by course work, research activity and/or prior teaching experience · Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills
· Experience in teaching at the university level preferred
APPLICATION PROCEDURES:
· By E-mail, with letter of application showing clearly the job posting number and course number
· Curriculum Vitae
· Names and contact information for three (3) referees
PROJECTED CLASS ENROLMENT: 45 MAXIMUM HOURS (for hourly rated positions): N/A
PLEASE FORWARD APPLICATION AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION BY E-MAIL TO: [log in to unmask] Professor Anne Keenleyside, Chair
Department of Anthropology Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8
[3] Professor - Creativity and Creative Thinking - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Sheridan College - Deadline: March 30, 2015
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Sheridan is seeking a professor who will be responsible for curriculum leadership in the area of Creativity and Creative Thinking. Sheridan is looking for a candidate who has expertise in a disciplinary area within the Humanities or Social Sciences with a focus on studies in creativity, creative and critical thinking and creative problem solving. The incumbent will be responsible for teaching and developing curriculum in these areas. A strong interdisciplinary bent in the candidate’s field of study would be an asset. The successful candidate will develop an effective learning environment for students, as well as respect the individual learning styles and diverse cultural and educational backgrounds of students in applied degrees and other postsecondary programs. The candidate should be committed to working in a team environment that supports distinctive programming.
Responsibilities: Sheridan faculty provide academic leadership to programs, courses, and applied research within their areas of expertise and contribute to the creation of a learning-centred environment where students can develop to their full potential, including:
Ensuring that program and course curricula are current, relevant and reflective of best practices within the relevant professional/program disciplines;
Defining, evaluating and validating learning outcomes for courses and programs in accordance with the provincial and college guidelines;
Designing and revising courses and programs in consultation with the program coordinator, other faculty members, government departments, and potential employers and students;
Designing appropriate strategies and tools for facilitating and assessing student learning that are invitational and reflective of best practices in teaching and learning, consistent with the learning outcomes of the course, and address multiple learning styles;
Developing multi-media materials and alternative delivery strategies, and incorporating appropriate educational technologies into the learning process;
Contributing to program development and research that serves the needs of the students across the College with involvement in consultative committees;
Ensuring that students are aware of course and program learning outcomes, learning strategies and evaluation techniques; carrying out regularly scheduled instruction; providing individual and academic tutoring and counselling; and evaluating student progress/achievement within assigned courses;
Creating an effective environment for learning which respects and accommodates students’ diverse cultural and educational backgrounds, experiences and individual learning styles.
Qualifications:
Ph.D. in a related discipline in the Humanities or Social Sciences required;
Demonstrated expertise in studies in creativity and creative thinking required;
Three to five years of experience in teaching and curriculum development at the post-secondary level;
Demonstrated ability to conduct applied research;
Excellent communications and interpersonal skills;
Demonstrable ability to convey the conceptual and applied aspects of knowledge to a broad range of students;
Commitment to excellence in teaching and learning and to working within a team environment.
Appointment Details:
Employee Group: Academic
Faculty: Humanities and Social Sciences
Campus: May be assigned activity at any Sheridan campus
Salary Range: $59,653 - $103,412 (Based on relevant educational qualifications and experience)
Start Date: August 2015
Application Deadline: March 30, 2015
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5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES || COURS D'ÉTÉ
[1] ETHICS CENTRE GRADUATE CONFERENCE WITH SABA MAHMOOD - University of Toronto - March 7, 2015
The third annual University of Toronto Centre for Ethics Graduate Conference will be held this Saturday, March 7th from 9:30am-5pm on the theme of Unity and Resistance. All are welcome to attend - more information can be found at the conference webpage:
http://graduateassociates.wix.com/unity-resistance
The keynote address, presented jointly with the comparative politics student group, is detailed below. It will take place at 6:15pm on March 7th. For details on location and to register, please visit: http://www.sabamahmood.eventbrite.ca/
"Minority Rights and Religious Freedom: Itineraries of Conversion?"
by Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)
The rise of religious conflict in the Middle East is often met with calls for instituting the right to religious freedom and providing special protections for religious minorities. Conventional wisdom has it that these are neutral legal instruments that allow non-Muslims to practice their faith freely without state intervention and social coercion. Professor Mahmood's talk challenges this account by tracking the complex career of both these concepts in the Middle East. Taking the Coptic Orthodox Christian community of Egypt as a paradigmatic case, she shows that religious liberty and minority rights have historically reentrenched inter-religious hierarchies rather ameliorating them. In such a context, how might we rethink the promise of secular neutrality in order to imagine a future free of religious strife?
Saba Mahmood teaches in the department of anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on questions of secularism, religious politics, and gender in the Middle East. Her forthcoming book, The Minority Condition: Religious Difference in the Secular Age, focuses on the plight of religious minorities in Egypt and the broader Middle East. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005), and a co-author of Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech (2009).
[2] ATLAS.ti Training - Centre for Ethnographic Research, UC Berkeley – March 14-15, 2015
This workshop will provide both a conceptual background and practical experience in computer assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDA) using ATLAS.ti. After instruction in the fundamental aspects of CAQDA, the course turns to the logic of the ATLAS.ti program, and how it functions as a tool for CAQDA. By the end of the course, participants will have all the
conceptual and practical tools necessary to employ ATLAS.ti in their current or future projects involving qualitative data. The workshop will be limited to 15 participants so that everyone receives individual attention. Sliding scale: $350-650. Hosted by the Center for Ethnographic Research. Learn more here <http://cer.berkeley.edu/atlasti-training> and register here
<https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1655807>.
*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: English posting guidelines
[3] Summer School for Social Science Research Methods - National University of Singapore, June 8-9 - Deadline: April 1, 2015
The 4th Annual IPSA-NUS Summer School for Social Science Research Methods will be held at the National University of Singapore, June 8-19, 2015. This year's Methods School offers thirteen quantitative, qualitative, and formal methods courses, such as Bayesian Analysis, Case Study Analysis, Experimental Methods, Game Theory, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Mixed Methods, QCA, and Quantitative Text Analysis. All courses are taught by highly experienced international faculty from the U.S. and Europe and provide participants with rigorous, hands-on training in state-of-the-art research methods. For more information on the various Methods School courses and instructors, financial aid, early registration discounts, and more, visit our website (http://methods-school.nus.edu.sg) or contact us at [log in to unmask].
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Submissions: All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links to detailed posting guidelines: in English and French.
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 anglais et français.