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b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les publications et conférences
[1] Submission- Conference - Human Being Human - Deadline: March 13, 2015
[2] Journal - Food & Cancer: Construction of a new social issue? - Anthropology of Food - Deadline: March 20, 2015
[3] AAA Meeting - Neoliberal Styles – Peculiar, Familiar, and Otherwise - Deadline: March 23, 2015
[4] Submissions - The Graduate Journal of Food Studies - Deadline: March 31, 2015
[5] AA Meeting - Notes from the Global Workplace: New Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Neoliberal Work - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[6] AAA Meeting - The paper life of politics: Documents as mediators in political struggles - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[7] Papers - Grounding (im)mobility: Embodiment, ephemera, ecologies - European Association of Social Anthropologists Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) Workshop - Portugal - September 10-11, 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015
[8] AAA Meeting - Contemporary Chefs & Culinary Transformations - Deadline: April 5, 2015
[9] Conference - "Mapping Nations, Locating Citizens” An interdisciplinary conference on nationalism and identity - Deadline: May 10, 2015
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Book Prize- Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) - Deadline: May 1, 2015
[2] CoGEA Award - Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology - Deadline: May 1, 2015
3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
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[1] Submission- Conference - Human Being Human - Deadline: March 13, 2015
Human Being
Human, Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, May 23-25, 2015,
University of Victoria
Deadline: March 13, 2015
The Graduate Students of the Cultural, Social & Political Thought program at the University of Victoria are pleased to share with you the details of our upcoming conference:
‘Human Being Human’
Cultural, Social & Political Thought Graduate Conference
May 23 - 25, 2015
University of Victoria (BC, Canada)
Keynote Address: Dr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
If you are interested in participating, our deadline for submissions is March 13, 2015.
We would very much appreciate if you would share this message and the attached poster/CFP with students, faculty, and administrators through listservs, newsletters, social media channels, contact lists, and/or word of mouth.
For more information please see the attached documents or visit humanbeinghuman2015.wordpress.com
[2] Journal - Food & Cancer: Construction of a new social issue? - Anthropology of Food - Deadline: March 20, 2015
call for papers for the Journal - Anthropology of Food (http://aof.revues.org/)
Food & Cancer: Construction of a new social issue?
Alimentation & cancers. La fabrique d’une nouvelle question de société ?
Alimentación & Cáncer. ¿Creación de una nueva cuestión de sociedad?
Edited by Patrice Cohen, Hélène Hoarau and Armelle Lorcy
for more information see, http://aof.revues.org/7732
or email the issue editors directly:
Food & cancer, construction of a new social issue?
This call aims examining the social and political construction of an emerging health issue, through established links between food and different kinds of cancer. This social issue is itself structured by an expanding scientific field that includes norms and ideologies of public health as well as new eating behaviors. Given the numerous social, economic, cultural and individual consequences, we invite contributors to this issue to consider the possibility that we are witnessing a new social issue in the making.
For the past thirty years, the study of links between food, nutrition and cancer has been the focus of numerous epidemiological, nutritional and medical surveys (see in particular De Thé and Hubert, 1988; WCRF and AICR, 2007). Today the subject mobilizes exceptionally active scientific networks at the international as well as national levels (see especially in France the Réseau National Alimentation Cancer Recherche - NACRe). Such study concerns both the multiple impacts of cancer and anticancer treatments on food behaviors and the role of food in relation to the development of the disease. Such surveys stimulate consensus groups and conferences on an international scale and contribute to a public health policy that is at once globalized and specific to each country (for France, cf. in particular INCA, 2009). Considering links between food and various kinds of cancer therefore indicates not only the emergence of a medical or public health issue, but also a real societal issue including multiple ramifications in social practice, both among patients suffering from cancer and in the general population.
That is why the influence of food (broadly speaking drinks, food supplements and herbal preparations, etc.) on cancer is, from this point of view, constructed scientifically as much as a risk factor as a protective (Hubert, 1991), even healing, agent. More generally, the relationship between food and cancer refers to an ambivalent view of food perceived sometimes as noxious, sometimes as beneficial. This is actually reminiscent of the classic anthropological opposition between food perceived as poison or as remedy, or the opposition healthy / unhealthy (Vigarello, 1999) to be found in representations and ordinary practices as well as in unconventional conceptions (Cohen and Legrand, 2011). While cancer can be considered as one of the major diseases of civilization, conceptions of cancer prevention through diet tend to resolve not only the disorder of uncontrolled body cells but also disorders of society and food practices considered improper. From a medical or public health question, food turns into a lever of transformation in food habits. Therefore, links between food and cancer raise many problematic issues in the fields of epidemiology and the medical sciences as well as the human and social sciences. This conjunction and questioning is what we wish to highlight in this issue.
To what extent do scientific knowledge and the ambivalence toward food pervade not only the food practices of patients and their families but also the care and nutritional advice delivered by medical and paramedical teams, and more generally the food habits of society as a whole?
We propose a focus on the links between food and cancer in order to determine if we are, indeed, confronting a new societal issue in the making. We invite authors to reflect on the following topics.
1-Food as factor of risk and prevention: a scientific, socio-cultural and political construction
We wish to question the ways in which scientific knowledge is constructed over time and how it influences public health and scholarly conceptions of food. Historical or socio-historical approaches could be proposed to understand this emergence. Then too, the understanding of current processes could benefit from examining the roles of the principal actors (scientists, biologists, physicians, epidemiologists, nutritionists, oncologists, etc.), contexts and institutions which take part in the construction of this public health issue. Analyses of the construction of this thematic scientific field would, possibly allow identification of "arenas" of discussions, exchanges and controversies (cf. on obesity Poulain, 2009). In the same way, the process of agenda setting for public policy and public health would be a fruitful site for examination.
The following themes could be approached:
-Construction of scientific knowledge and the modalities of influence on public health (between science and policy): historic and socio-historic perspectives
-Construction of conventional and/or expert knowledge and its influence on practices and associational, community and political practice.
-Parallel construction of non-conventional concepts, in addition or even in reaction to conventional ideas.
2-Food and the cancer experience
For cancer patients, food before, during or after cancer is an inescapable topic of “the stages of cancer” (Ménoret, 1999). Indeed, the experience and treatment of cancer often involve food changes, even problems (Locher et al., 2009; Hoarau et al., 2012; Fontas et al., 2014; Lorcy, 2014), which are even worse for older patients. Depending on the different countries and care centers, ordinary care management can be offered in order to limit risks of malnutrition and infection and to better assist patients in everyday life. However, nutritional management in cancer may malfunction and not meet the expectations and needs of patients (Bell et al., 2009). Such malfunction can prompt the use of unconventional practices that involve alternative authorities (Cohen & Legrand, 2011). We aim here to bring together scientific knowledge and public health concerns with the experience of cancer by patients, their families and caregivers.
Various elements can be considered:
-The impact of public health recommendations, popularization of scientific knowledge about patients’ food habits.
-The real-life experience of patients: difficult food changes, sensory alterations, managing everyday life (food supply, meals preparation, social life, etc.)
-Conventional and unconventional care of problems and/or food changes induced by cancer and/or treatment of side effects, the relationship between the treatment proposed and public health recommendations
-The caregivers: management of chronic illness and impact on everyday life and food practices.
3-Cancer as producer of food reform(s)?
We also want to consider more generally how society and its various components have used scientific knowledge or/and representations of relations between food and cancer (Bell, 2010). Cancer has now become a major cause of morbidity. Observing the preponderance of medicalization and health in contemporary societies in addition to a moral economy (Fassin, 2009; Fassin and Eideliman, 2012) that is oriented towards a quest for health or the legitimization of social issues through health, we suggest examining the fight against cancer through food as a significant "food reform" under construction.
Thus, what is the impact of scientific knowledge and public policy on the prevention of cancers in the general diet? How do individuals take control of reforms instigated by public health agencies and governments? Areas that might be explored include:
-Definitions and modalities of appropriation of "food reform" (according to geographical units and countries)
-Vectors of food reform: circuits of production, distribution and consumption including advertising and marketing strategies, as influenced by "the will" of the dominant food reform
-Production of a new food culture: changes in food practices and cultures, construction of a new food morality, mobilization of values centered on health
-Limits of promoted food reform: divergent food reform messages, pernicious effects, role of food values and food representations unrelated to health, product accessibility, production of social inequalities, etc.
We invite potential contributors to share their work that may involve different socio-cultural contexts in various parts of the world. Contributions may be in English, French or Spanish.
Paper proposals should be sent before March 20th, 2015 at the latest and should include an abstract of 12 lines maximum accompanied by a maximum of 10 keywords. Proposals should present the title of the article, research question, the field studied, the methodology and the main results obtained. They should also include name, first name, status, institutional affiliation and e-mail of the author or co-authors.
Please send proposals to all three of the following addresses:
Answers will be given to the authors from April 20th, 2015.
Full papers should be sent before September 15th, 2015 at the latest.
[3] AAA Meeting - Neoliberal Styles – Peculiar, Familiar, and Otherwise - Deadline: March 23, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Neoliberal Styles – Peculiar, Familiar, and Otherwise
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 18-22, 2015
Co-Organizers:
Falina Enriquez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Owen Kohl (University of Chicago)
Claudia Gastrow (University of the Witwatersrand)
Keywords: Neoliberalism; Semiotics; Architecture/Built Environment; Aesthetics; Development; Music; Style.
Recent ethnographies have demonstrated that despite the pervasiveness of entrepreneurialism, privatization, and a global “culture of neoliberalism,” neoliberalism is neither homogeneous nor totalizing (Canclini 2001; Comaroff and Comaroff 2000, 2009; Dávila 2012; Dent 2012; Greenhouse et al. 2010; Harvey 2005; Mains 2012; Yúdice 2008). In keeping with this insight, we will examine how individuals, groups, and institutions are configuring neoliberal ideologies to extant social and other political-economic frameworks and, in turn, redefining what this political theory entails.
In particular, we are concerned with exploring various styles of neoliberalism where 'style,' broadly construed, gives us analytic access into the ensemble of semiotic, material, political, and social outcomes of neoliberal processes (Shankar and Cavanaugh 2012; cf. Auer et al. 2007; Coupland 2007; Hebdige 1979; Mendoza-Denton 2001, 2008). We are therefore concerned with how the aesthetic and performative connotations of style help us understand how distinct neoliberal approaches are emerging. Moreover, to what degree are economic reforms often glossed as ‘adjustments’ influencing local aesthetic production, circulation, and content?
Drawing on examples from a wide array of sites, we will explore the myriad ways in which people are rendering neoliberalism, a seemingly intractable, cohesive political and economic project, into a set of differentiated, heterogeneous processes that are comparatively familiar and/or strange. These phenomena become noticeable in artistic, quotidian, and practical realms, such as music, architecture and social interaction. For example, what kinds of professional and aesthetic strategies are Brazilian musicians employing to thrive within a field where previously reliable forms of state sponsorship are eroding? Meanwhile, how are these musicians negotiating an expanded set of competitors who are recording, distributing, and selling music via their personal computers? How are Angolans' aesthetic preferences regarding houses shaped by (inter)national discourses of development? How do artists in the late 20th century social formation known as the domestic hip hop scene simultaneously embrace, debate, and critique neoliberal shifts in former Yugoslav spaces? How do the sounds, images, and buildings of multiple state projects – supranational European and socialist; ‘dictatorial’ and ‘liberal’; domestic and cosmopolitan – affect and inform ostensibly neoliberal styles? This panel seeks to consider neoliberalism as an everyday experience, one that may be initiated by major political-economic shifts, but is only registered and understood through concrete practices.
Please send your 250 word paper abstracts to Falina Enriquez ([log in to unmask]), Owen Kohl ([log in to unmask]), and Claudia Gastrow ([log in to unmask]) by March 23, 2015.
[4] Submissions - The Graduate Journal of Food Studies - Deadline: March 31, 2015
Call for Submissions
The Graduate Journal of Food Studies is an international student-run and refereed journal dedicated to encouraging and promoting interdisciplinary food scholarship at the graduate level. The Journal is now accepting submissions for its third issue; the deadline is 31 March 2015. Graduate students who have written an original food-related essay of first-rate scholarship are encouraged to submit. Essays on global food topics are particularly welcome. All submissions must be emailed to the Editor, Carla Cevasco, at [log in to unmask].
All authors must adhere to the style guidelines, and are encouraged to read previous issues of the journal, both found at www.graduatefoodassociation.org/journal.
Published bi-annually in digital and print form, the journal is a space in which promising scholars showcase their exceptional academic research. The Graduate Journal of Food Studies hopes to foster dialogue and engender debate among students across the academic community.
The Journal features food-focused articles from diverse disciplines including, but not limited to: anthropology, history, history of science, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, economics, art, politics, pedagogy, nutrition, philosophy, religion, American studies, and the natural sciences. The Journal also includes a section for Book Reviews and features food-related art.Call for Submissions
The Graduate Journal of Food Studies is an international student-run and refereed journal dedicated to encouraging and promoting interdisciplinary food scholarship at the graduate level. The Journal is now accepting submissions for its third issue; the deadline is 31 March 2015. Graduate students who have written an original food-related essay of first-rate scholarship are encouraged to submit. Essays on global food topics are particularly welcome. All submissions must be emailed to the Editor, Carla Cevasco, at [log in to unmask].
All authors must adhere to the style guidelines, and are encouraged to read previous issues of the journal, both found at www.graduatefoodassociation.org/journal.
Published bi-annually in digital and print form, the journal is a space in which promising scholars showcase their exceptional academic research. The Graduate Journal of Food Studies hopes to foster dialogue and engender debate among students across the academic community.
The Journal features food-focused articles from diverse disciplines including, but not limited to: anthropology, history, history of science, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, economics, art, politics, pedagogy, nutrition, philosophy, religion, American studies, and the natural sciences. The Journal also includes a section for Book Reviews and features food-related art.
[5] AAA Meeting - Notes from the Global Workplace: New Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Neoliberal Work - Deadline: April 1, 2015
Call for Papers
Notes from the Global Workplace: New Feminist Theoretical Perspectives on Neoliberal Work
2015 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
Panel Organizer: Rachel C. Fleming, University of Colorado Boulder
Panel Discussant: Carla Jones, University of Colorado Boulder
As global corporate leaders call for women “lean in” in order to stay in careers, feminist critics (Fraser 2013) wonder how feminism was co-opted for a neoliberal message that puts responsibility on individual women rather than collective approaches to improving the workplace. Sherry Ortner (2014) argues that it is “too soon for postfeminism” by finding patriarchal structures in institutions with global reach, while fifteen years ago Carla Freeman (2000) called for a “gendered understanding of globalization” that would ask how gender is produced in the processes of globalization itself.
This panel takes on Ortner’s and Freeman’s call for broadly conceived feminist analyses, proposing that the time is right for rethinking how theoretical approaches from feminist anthropology can allow us to understand the processes of global capitalism in new ways. How are ideas about work and productivity gendered? How are gendered expectations changing in a wider society given women’s greater participation in globally connected work? How does a feminist perspective encourage us to approach the study of globalization ethnographically, taking apart the notion of a totalizing process too big too understand? How do women weigh the promises and costs of work, especially in light of uncertain futures? How do women’s experiences, perceptions, anxieties, and choices inform analyses of the conditions of neoliberalism more broadly?
Feminist anthropological scholarship on global capitalism and labor has persuasively shown the dilemmas and costs of work for women in mass assembly or care work, while there is less attention to how these dilemmas and costs translate into equally global and competitive workspaces such as white-collar employment. This panel invites research across a broad spectrum of workplaces that aim to creatively think through how a feminist perspective can productively approach global capitalism, theoretically and methodologically, through examining practices of work.
If interested, please submit a 250-word abstract to Rachel C. Fleming at [log in to unmask] by Wednesday, April 1, 2015.
[6] AAA Meeting - The paper life of politics: Documents as mediators in political struggles - Deadline: April 1, 2015
Call for Papers
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): 1st April 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]
[7] Papers - Grounding (im)mobility: Embodiment, ephemera, ecologies - European Association of Social Anthropologists Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) Workshop - Portugal - September 10-11, 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015
CFP: EASA ANTHROMOB 2015 Workshop
The European Association of Social Anthropologists Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB) announces the call for papers for its bi-annual workshop.
Grounding (im)mobility: Embodiment, ephemera, ecologies
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday 10 – Friday 11 September, 2015
Metaphors of mobility have provided a wide range of new connections between fields once imagined as unrelated. Frameworks of mobility enable thinking through topics such as tourism, migration and nomadism as well as urbanisation, embodiment and transport as happening in parallel and in concert, rather than as ideologically divisible categories. Likewise, recent work on materiality has prompted us to reconsider how peculiar combinations of both what might be considered material and what might be conceptualised as immaterial are involved in producing, managing, or hindering contemporary movements. Attention to materialities has allowed for a more nuanced conceptualisation of a world shaped by ‘stuff’ and ‘things’ (Henare et al. 2007; Miller 2009), as well as recognition of the multiple and alternative ‘ontologies’ that constitute the world(s) people live in. This has been paralleled by a renewed focus on themes such as hope and imagination (Moore 2011; Salazar and Graburn 2014), affect and morality (Berlant 2011; Zigon 2008), personhood and subjectivity (Strathern 1988; Humphrey 2008; Moore 2007), and hegemonic narratives of value that shape uneven power relations in the contemporary world (Glick Schiller and Salazar 2014), which also fit productively into anthropological reflections on (im)mobility.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars working on, and problematising, the (im)material dimensions of contemporary mobility with a particular emphasis on exploring embodiments, ephemera and ecologies that are often researched in isolation of one another. Whether it is the phenomenology of transport, migration, media, material culture, or the multiple moralities, imaginaries, and ontological horizons that interact through movement today, this workshop will challenge commonly clustered fields of analysis. We envision sketching a more comprehensive, plural, and composite vision of mobility, and asking what kinds of collaborations and connections can emerge from of approaching (im)materialities in mobilities as a possible unifying pattern of analysis.
We encourage papers which empirically explore at least two topics commonly found under the mobilities paradigm (e.g. tourism and migration, tourism and embodiment, media and urban transport) or connect one classic topic of mobility to other areas (e.g. science and technology studies or eco-anthropology). Media based, visual and ecological studies that connect to classic fields of anthropological inquiry are particularly welcome, as are methodologically innovative approaches to the workshop’s theme.
Please submit abstracts (under 300 words, please) by 3 April, 2015 via our online Google form at this URL: http://goo.gl/wk39cb. In the interest of encouraging new approaches and collaboration, we anticipate running a variety of panel formats and sessions. These include:
· 7 x 5-minute presentation panels that will allow more time for discussion
· 3 x 20-minute presentation panels, including non-paper based presentations (e.g. visual, participatory)
· Short film screenings
When submitting your abstract, please state your preference of panel format – though do note that if your abstract is accepted we may not be able to accommodate all requests for preferred format. Partial funding is available to participants who are members of EASA. However as funding is limited, we encourage participants to state their anticipated funding requirements in the provided section within the online form.
Looking forward to receiving your proposals,
The Workshop Co-organisers
Jamie Coates, Waseda University (Japan)
Simone Frangella, ICS, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
José Mapril, CRIA (Portugal)
Roger Norum, University of Leeds (UK)
Valerio Simoni, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland)
Francesco Vacchiano, ICS, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Lauren Wagner,
Wageningen University (The Netherlands)
University of Sheffield
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[8] AAA Meeting - Contemporary Chefs & Culinary Transformations - Deadline: April 5, 2015
CFP: American Anthropological Association 2015 Annual Meeting
Denver, CO, November 18-22
Contemporary Chefs & Culinary Transformations
Anthropologists have long been cognizant of the importance of culinary
transformations such as those that occur when raw ingredients are made into
cooked foods or when eating prescribed dishes ushers people through stages in
their life course. In contemporary affluent societies, chefs are entrusted with
a different transformational potential; they popularize "strange" and
"super" foods, defamiliarize commonplace dishes, revitalize
neighborhoods, catalyze dietary change, and educate audiences about nutrition,
culture, and ecology. Yet chefs and cooks are themselves transformed as they
engage in their work--through their interaction with consumers, critics,
colleagues, and the media; as a result of economic and resource limitations,
and broader trends in consumption and production.
This panel examines the present-day role of chefs--cooks who operate with a
significant degree of freedom due to their position in the upper strata of the
professional culinary hierarchy--and the culinary transformations in which they
participate. We ask: What is different about today's chefs and what do
contemporary societies expect from them? How have chefs been transformed by
their celebrity? To what extent and in what ways can they initiate change? How
do gender, class, ethnicity, and identity politics play a role in chefs'
culinary transformations? What roles do government, media, corporations, and
NGO's play in these transformations and how are they served by celebrity chefs?
We seek papers that explore specific cuisines, chefs, and fieldsites,
interrogating the role of contemporary chefs, their ability to transform as
well as their own adaptability and willingness to let their envisioned futures
and messages be transformed.
To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of 250 words by April 5, 2015 to:
Greg de St. Maurice, University of Pittsburgh, [log in to unmask]
Rachel Black, Collegium de Lyon, [log in to unmask]
[9] Conference - "Mapping Nations, Locating Citizens” An interdisciplinary conference on nationalism and identity - Deadline: May 10, 2015
Call For Proposals: Conference: “Mapping Nations, Locating Citizens” An interdisciplinary conference on nationalism and identity
Dates: October 30 – 31, 2015
Institution: Humber College / International Festival of Authors,
Location: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada
Submission Deadline: May 10, 2015
Humber College’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Toronto, Canada in association with the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) will be presenting its second annual conference entitled “Mapping Nations, Locating Citizens”, an interdisciplinary conference on Nationalism and Identity, to be held October 30-31. The International Festival of Authors (IFOA), one of the most celebrated literary festivals in the world, is located at the Harbourfront Centre, one of downtown Toronto’s major cultural and artistic venues.
The conference aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussion among scholars and researchers who study the topics of nationalism and identity. Some emergent themes to be explored include, but are not limited to:
performing citizenship
emerging nationhood
subaltern studies
statelessness
diaspora studies
racism and nationalism
post-nationalism
memory and nation-building
neo-medieval
religo-ethno-nationalism
cosmopolitanism
exploding mythologies
consumerism
sexuality and citizenship
disability/identity
To submit a proposal, please visit the “Call for Proposals” page on our website: http://www.humber.ca/liberalarts-ifoa/call-proposals
For further information, please contact the co-chairs of the organizing committee at [log in to unmask]
2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES
[1] Book Prize- Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) - Deadline: May 1, 2015
APLA BOOK PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to launch its 2015 prize for the book that best exemplifies the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or their interstices. The 2015 APLA book prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association meeting in Denver. It carries an award of $1,000. The winning book will be reviewed inPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review and may be featured at a roundtable or author-meets-readers session at the AAA meeting. An honorable mention may be identified by the committee, if appropriate.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible for consideration, a book must examine law and/or politics ethnographically, and must have been published in English. The book must have been published during the year prior to the competition (2014). Either single- or multi-authored books are eligible, however edited volumes, reference works, or second editions of previously published works are excluded from consideration. Books translated into English from another language are eligible for consideration. In such cases, the year that the translation was published is considered the year of publication for purposes of eligibility.
NOMINATION PROCESS:
Books may be nominated by the author(s), the press, or an APLA member. Nominations must be accompanied by a nominating letter. Send the letter and a copy of the nominated book no later than May 1, 2015 directly to each of the APLA book prize committee members: Lori Allen, Department of Anthropology, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom; Karin Friederic, Wake Forest University, Department of Anthropology, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27106; Roberto Gonzalez, Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University, One Washington Square, San Jose, CA 95192-0113; and Andrea Ballestero, MS 20, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005.Address inquiries to the Chair of Book Prize Committee, Andrea Ballestero,[log in to unmask]. Visit our website at www.politicalandlegalanthro.org to learn more about APLA.
[2] CoGEA Award - Committee on Gender Equity in Anthropology - Deadline: May 1, 2015
2015 CoGEA Award:
Nominations due: May1 to Suzanne Mattingly, CoGEA Liaison at [log in to unmask]
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. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
N/A
4. Requests and queries from members of the CASCA Student Network (reply directly to the poster) || Requêtes des étudiant(e)s pour obtenir des conseils ou ressources (les réponses seront envoyées directement à l'étudiant(e) en question).
N/A
5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES || COURS D'ÉTÉ
N/A
*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: English posting guidelines