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[1] Abstract - Anthology - Authority, Agency and Islam - Deadline: March
22, 2015
[2] AAA Panel - Culture, Power, Degrowth - Deadline: March 25, 2015
[3] AAA Panel - Producing Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms from the
Margins - Deadline: March 30, 2015
[4] AAA Panel - Beyond the Closet: Global Queer Rites of Passage -
Deadline: March 30, 2015
[5] AAA Panel - Trolls and Hecklers: Disruptive Ways of Playing - Deadline:
March 30, 2015
[6] AAA Session Proposal - NGOs and Nonprofits Interest Group - Deadline:
April 1, 2015
[7] AAA Panel - States of Precarity, States of Exception: Transnational
Imaginaries of Risk - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[8] AAA Panel - Document-ing Power in an Age of Accountability - Deadline
April 1, 2015
[9] AAA Panel - Mediterranean Encounters: The Incommensurability of
Difference - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[10] AAA Panel - An Anthropology of International Relations - Deadline:
April 1, 2015
[11] AAA Panel - New Foods, New Worlds: How Shifting Tastes Reflect Social
Change - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[12] AAA Panel - Careerism in the Guise of Altruism, or Something More
Enduring? Critical Reflections on Teaching Anthropology through Community
Service Learning - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[13] AAA Panel - 21st Century Anarchisms - Deadline April 1, 2015
[14] AAA Panel - Beyond Neoliberal Conservation: New Perspectives from the
Global South - Deadline: April 1, 2015
[15] AAA Panel - Magic, Science, Religion… and Secularism: Articulating
Science Studies and Critical Studies of Secularism - Deadline: April 3, 2015
[16] AAA Panel - Endangered Health: Justice at the Intersection of
Environment and Well-Being - Deadline: April 8, 2015
[17] Abstract - Book - Understanding Vulnerability, Building Resilience:
Responses to Disasters and Climate Change - Deadline: June 1, 2016
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[1] Book Prize - Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
(SLACA) - Deadline: July 1, 2015
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de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
[1] Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - University of Toronto -
Deadline: March 27, 2015
[2] Contract Academic Staff - History of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada -
University of Winnipeg - Deadline: April 6, 2015
[3] Contract Academic Staff - History of Canadian Education - University of
Winnipeg - Deadline: April 6, 2015
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*[1] Abstract - Anthology - Authority, Agency and Islam - Deadline: March
22, 2015*
Call for Papers for an edited volume on: Authority, Agency and Islam
Introduction
The relationship between Muslims and the world is in crisis-mode, and the
effects are felt in many ways and in many different instances. One of the
themes that often succumbs to ideological co-optation is the issue of
authority in Islam and for Muslims. What role is there for Muslims within a
minority context both as agents in charge of their own destiny, or as
demanders of social justice, and recognition and representation in time,
place, and public space? Is there space for and actions of solidarity
transcending boundaries, either geographic or socio-cultural? To what
extent can Muslims engage with non-Muslims and state authorities, whether
as minorities in non-Muslim territories or in countries with a Muslim
majority? Are there limits for Muslims in its ability to practice their
faith in a secular state? What texts are to be considered authoritative
when approaching these questions? And is there one locus or multiple loci
for legitimate interpretive authority? Although the focus of the public
discourse remains on the headlines, this book aims to offer a much deeper
insight into examining the relationship between authority and agency for
Muslims and Islam today.
Objective of the Book
The overall mission is for this book to be one of the leading publications
within the area of contemporary Islamic and Muslim studies. We envision
this book to be a key reference at a number of levels, across a wide
variety of fields both within and outside of academia. The main objective
is to bring together academic minds from a variety of fields all connected
by an interest in understanding the role of authority and the dynamics of
agency in contemporary Islam as lived by Muslims today.
Target Audience
Book will explore trends in a number of fields and seeks to bridge the gap
across multiple disciplines as well as the gap between professional and
academic research on Islam and Muslims. Such a unique compilation of
research from a wide variety of fields will educate researchers across
disciplines and facilitate future cross-pollination in this area. In
addition this publication will appeal to a broad audience from non-academic
areas such as: journalism, education, government, social work, health and
medicine, and law. This book can potentially be used as a teaching aid in a
number of conceivable settings in the area of Religious, Islamic, and
Muslim studies.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Paper proposals to be included may engage the above theme from any
perspective appropriate for this cross-disciplinary book. A list of
suggested topics is the following:
• Religious vs. State authority
• Effects of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism
• Institution-building and citizenship
• Geopolitics, power, and economic interests
• Race and gender
• Authority in a historical perspective (particular interest may go out to
the effects that can be felt in the post-Ottoman, nationalist and
post-colonial setting).
• Health and behavioural change through social changes felt by Muslims
• Islam and business (e.g. Islam and financial authority, commodification
of Muslims, effects of marketing, branding, human resource training and
motivation, sales, crowdsourcing and product development)
• Environmental issues
• Islam and Muslims in the news and as journalists, authority of public
perception and reproducible images
• Cross-cultural issues
• Privacy, risk, ethics, and legal issues facing Islam and Muslims
domestically or globally
The above list is meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive. Individual
papers will be combined to form thematic but multi-layered approach to the
relationship between Authority, Agency and Islam and/or Muslims.
Submission Procedure
The editors invite papers from diverse disciplines interested in expanding
the body of knowledge in this intriguing area to submit chapters for
publication consideration. Individuals interested in submitting chapters
should submit a 300-word abstract in a Microsoft Word or pdf document, with
a short bio, to either [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
by March 22nd, 2015.
Notification of Abstract acceptance will be March 30th, 2015. Following
that a letter of interest, including your name, affiliation, and chapter
proposal should be sent electronically by April 19th, 2015. Proposals (2-3
pages) should provide a descriptive outline and clearly explain the purpose
and contribution of the chapter. Definitive acceptance notifications will
be sent by April 27th, 2015. We also invite advanced graduate students and
recent PhDs to submit proposals that address one or more of the themes
above. Upon acceptance, authors will have until August 31st, 2015 to
prepare a chapter of approximately 6,000 and 10,000 words, including notes
and references.
Each chapter will be subject to a peer review process and must not have
been published, accepted for publication, or presently under consideration
for publication elsewhere. Guidelines for preparing the final chapter will
be sent upon acceptance notification.
Note: No late abstracts will be accepted. The final papers are due August
31st, 2015.
We look forward to reading your abstracts.
Important Dates
Abstract Deadline: March 22nd, 2015
Abstract Notification: March 30th, 2015
Full Chapter Proposal Due: April 19th, 2015
Definitive Acceptance Notifications: April 27th, 2015
Full Chapters Due: August 31st, 2015
*[2] AAA Panel - Culture, Power, Degrowth - Deadline: March 25, 2015*
*Culture, Power, Degrowth. *Call for papers for a proposed invited session
at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in
Denver, November 18-22, 2015.
Send proposals to co-organizers: Susan Paulson [log in to unmask]
and Lisa Gezon [log in to unmask] by March 25th.
A recent explosion of thought and experimentation seeking paths toward new
kinds of societies has launched the idea of degrowth into global politics
and media. The provocative term has instigated debate within green parties
and in national elections, been activated in anti-globalization and occupy
movements, embraced by Via Campesina and the People’s Summit on Climate
Change, and exercised in a wide spectrum of localized movements. Following
decades of thought and writing centered mainly in Europe, the concept has
recently erupted in English-language scholarship, headlining over 100
articles and numerous books, such as *Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New
Era**, *edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and Giorgos Kallis
(Routledge, 2014).Yet, curiously, a search for the word “degrowth” in
programs for the last six AAA Annual Meetings found 0 matches. At the 2015
AAA meetings we propose to instigate an anthropological conversation with
the provisional title *Culture, Power, Degrowth. *The panel will bring
together critiques of and contributions to efforts to radically rethink
predominant socio-ecological systems as well as diverse social movements
striving to build new ways of producing and reproducing human communities.
With hopes of spurring synergies among different types and fields of
anthropological work, we welcome papers on a wide array of ideas, including
the following:
- Archaeological, ethnohistorical or ethnographic evidence of cultural
time-spaces not dominated by growth
- Ethnography of slackers, drop-outs, downsizers, back-to-the-landers
- Alternative agrifood systems: agroecology, slow food, local food,
vegetarianism
- Measures of happiness and meanings of lifestyle: Gross National
Happiness, Buen Vivir, tiny houses
- Evolving commons (social, cultural, intellectual, material): urban
commons, digital commons, indigenous territories, extractive reserves,
scientific commons.
- The production of human bodies in regimes of expanding production and
consumption
- Rethinking health and wellness, including complementary and
alternative medicine
- Intentional communities recent and longstanding across cultures
- Spiritual and ethical movements that transcend “the spirit of
capitalism”
- Economics of growth/degrowth: steady state economics, “sustainable
development,” sharing, co-operatives, new economies, new currencies
- Ecologies of growth/degrowth: conservation, sustainable agriculture,
alternative fuels, urban gardens
- Political and social movements calling for degrowth
*Material* degrowth is easy to grasp; it’s simply a reduction in the
quantity of matter and energy that is transformed each day in a societal
metabolism (see work by anthropologists Alf Hornborg and Simron Singh). The
*meaningful* dimension of degrowth requires more creative thinking; it
calls for decolonizing the social imaginary from cultural values and
visions surrounding the pursuit of endless expansion of production and
consumption (see anthropological thought by Serge Latouche, Arturo Escobar,
Gilbert Rist, and anti-utilitarians from Marcel Mauss to Alain Caillé).
*Power* is what makes the practical implementation of degrowth so daunting
(and for many, unimaginable); currently this project enjoys little formal
political support, and notably less in the United States than elsewhere. At
the same time, multiple dimensions of power operating around unprecedented
inequalities in wealth and privilege pose formidable barriers to
collaborative efforts toward change.
Sincerely looking forward to your ideas and questions,
Susan Paulson [log in to unmask]
Lisa Gezon [log in to unmask]
*[3] AAA Panel - Producing Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms from the
Margins - Deadline: March 30, 2015*
*Panel Title: Producing Latin American and Caribbean Feminisms from the
Margins*
Organizers:
Laura Nussbaum-Barberena, University of Illinois at Chicago
Rebecca Nelson, University of Connecticut
Discussant:
Irina Carlota Silber, City College of New York/CUNY
In the past two decades, ethnographies of social movements and resistance
have tracked a surge of NGOs amidst ?democratic openings? and neoliberal
restructuring. Women?s organizing activities, in particular, have shifted
with these changing forms of national and international governance,
politics and law, as well as the professionalization of social movements
and international organizations. More specifically, ethnographic accounts
of organizing have demonstrated the central role of such intermediaries in
connecting people in the most marginal communities to the resources,
networks, skills and knowledge ? and the geographic and socio-political
spaces ? to intervene in civil society. At the same time, they document the
increasing professionalization of these roles as well as its consequences:
that the forms of this transmission can work to depoliticize issues, limit
leadership from the margins and ultimately further marginalize a movement?s
base.
We seek papers exploring the ways that feminist movements
(broadly-defined), focused on the gendered experiences of people within
Latino/a, Latin American and Caribbean communities, navigate this changing
landscape of "organizations" and "bases" -- and at the same time, the
familiar and the strange. They may consider the following questions:
? In what ways are (women)?s groups re-imagining, reconstituting or
reproducing common arrangements between organizations and base? How do
spatialized dimensions of interaction delimit the ability to reconstitute
these relationships? For example, what mechanisms have urbanized movements
been using to connect to women in rural areas?
? How do legal and political discourses of rights and citizenship structure
the possibilities of intervention into these models? What is the role of
?intermediaries/leaders? and bases in this reworking? How do the
structures, missions, histories, and networks of particular organizations
shape the ways they go about transmitting their concepts of rights and
feminisms to their bases?
? How does knowledge (residual knowledge) produced ?from below? during
revolution, resistance and other forms of local, national and transnational
organizing, inform these relationships? How have such movements inspired
organizing that expands structures of recognition along the lines of
geography, race, ethnicity, citizenship, sexuality, ability and gender?
? How can we understand emergent feminisms from the margins? How do women
in marginalized communities receive and influence ?transnational? feminist
and rights-based discourses? Where do alternative forms of analysis and
knowledge production take place? How do they resurrect or produce notions
of the political? How do they negotiate uneven access to civil society?
What theories and analytical frameworks (particularly from Latin America)
can we draw on to analyze these responses?
We have space for a few more papers for our proposed AAA Annual meeting
panel (Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015). If interested, please send a 250
word abstract to Laura Nussbaum-Barberena and Rebecca Nelson (
[log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]) by March 30. We will send our
acceptance decisions on April 3rd. Panelists will then need to register for
the AAA 2015 conference by April 15th.
*[4] AAA Panel - Beyond the Closet: Global Queer Rites of Passage -
Deadline: March 30, 2015*
*Panel Title: Beyond the Closet: Global Queer Rites of Passage*
The closet is perhaps the most salient metaphor within Euro-American LGBTQ
communities. "Coming out" is seen as the quintessential queer rite of
passage and members of the community size each other up as to which side of
the closet they are on, in or out. However useful, our overreliance on the
closet metaphor has ignored the fact that this construct is far from
universal and that there are other rites of passage within global queer
communities.
Continuing with Tom Boellstorff's notion of critical regionality as a
direction for ongoing queer studies, this panel seeks to explore diverse
queer rites of passage globally as well as to challenge the notion of a
universal queer culture. One such challenge, for example, is the effort
among queer Mexicans to rebrand the closet as the "American closet." In
this linguistic turn, they deftly reject the commonly adopted LGBTQ
identity trajectory that demands (1) deception, (2) self-awareness, and (3)
eventual disclosure -- in that order. Such challenges serve to reveal the
diversity of experiences and beliefs of the LGBTQ community on a global
level.
We welcome proposals that analyze rites of passage in any queer community.
Please submit a proposal title, an abstract text up to 250 words, full
name, and affiliation to [log in to unmask] by Monday, March 30.
*[5] AAA Panel - Trolls and Hecklers: Disruptive Ways of Playing -
Deadline: March 30, 2015*
CALL FOR PAPERS for the American Anthropological Association annual meeting
Session Title: Trolls and Hecklers: Disruptive Ways of Playing
Session organized by S. Megan Heller, UCLA Anthropology
This session examines familiar social practices, such as teasing,
heckling, and pranking, ways of playing that are often disruptive and
ambiguous. Players engaging in such forms of sociality may intend to
delight themselves and others with dark humor, whilst provoking outrage and
disrupting ongoing social activities. New technologies and emerging
cultural contexts provide new venues and possibilities for these edgy
social behaviors, such as the practice of trolling and cyber-bullying.
Further we will consider what these somewhat counter-intuitive forms of
play may tell us about the nature of play in general.
Papers will focus on both negative and positive aspects of disruptive ways
of playing and highlight ambiguities. Taking the perspective of people who
enjoy this sort of play, jibes may be invitations for like-minded players
to join in the game and develop joking relationships. Such humor may also
be attempts to rebalance uneven social status, as well as satisfy personal
needs for recognition, superiority, and amusement. In some contexts these
behaviors may be considered antisocial, a type of aggression, while in
others they may be considered highly social forms of humor. Panelists will
explore means by which such players are acting in ways that are decidedly
antisocial and selfish—potentially intending to hurt and bully others for
their own amusement. Taking the perspective of people who feel victimized
by this sort of play, other papers may investigate the forms of cultural
politics and emotion regulation that may be involved in navigating
unwanted, playful intrusions from dark players. In all cases, the goal of
our panel is to unmask the playfulness behind these provocations and the
provocateurs’ uncomfortable positions in social settings.
In their analysis, panelists may find Richard Schechner’s concept of “dark
play” a useful way to examine playing as a mood, attitude, or force, a
means of capturing participants—willingly or not—into the tormentor’s
net (Schechner
1988 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#14c1026975349c79__ENREF_5>). Dark
play may involve confusion or concealment of the play frame, make-believe
or childish behavior, physical risks, and assuming alternative selves.
Endeavoring to understand the subjective experiences of participants,
Thomas Malaby’s notion of play as a “disposition,” and S. Megan Heller’s
notion of a “mood of play” may be more useful than the common understanding
of play as a type of action (Heller 2013
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#14c1026975349c79__ENREF_1>; Malaby 2009
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#14c1026975349c79__ENREF_2>).
Papers may compare playing among non-human primates or other mammals. In
some cases play fighting is certainly social, in other cases a solitary
player may use a conspecific or other mammal as a toy. From a neurological
perspective, Jaak Panksepp describes “PLAY” as a basic emotional process
located deep in the mammalian brain, which is linked to the feeling of
social joy in many species, including rats and primates (Panksepp and Biven
2012 <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#14c1026975349c79__ENREF_3>).
Discussing how play seems to have evolved multiple times in different
lineages of species, Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis identify “ambiguity”
as a feature of play that permits animals to use it for manipulation and
social assessment in adulthood (Pellis and Pellis 2009
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#14c1026975349c79__ENREF_4>). Through
comparison we may find that playing is not necessarily a cooperative,
childish behavior, but a force to be navigated across the lifespan.
Possible topics:
Heckling
Trolling
Pranking
Bullying/Cyberbulling
Dark humor
Teasing
Play among non-human mammals
Play at different ages
Emotional regulation during play
References
Heller, S. Megan
2013 Sacred Playground: Adult Play and Transformation at
Burning Man, Department of Anthropology, Univerisity of California, Los
Angeles.
Malaby, Thomas M.
2009 Anthropology and play: the contours of playful
experience. New Literary History 40:205–18.
Panksepp, Jaak, and Lucy Biven
2012 PLAYful Dreamlike Circuits of the Brain: The Ancestral
Sources of Social Joy and Laughter. In The Archaelogy of Mind:
Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions. New York: W. W. Norton &
Company.
Pellis, Sergio, and Vivien Pellis
2009 What's So Good about Play Fighting? In The Playful
Brain. Oxford, Great Britain: One World.
Schechner, Richard
1988 Playing. Play and Culture 1(1):3-19.
Please submit an abstract (250 words), contact information and affiliations
by email to [log in to unmask] by March 30th. Participants will need to be
members of AAA and registered for the conference before April 10th. The
conference will be in Denver, Colorado, November 18-22, 2015. More
information can be found at http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/
*[6] AAA Session Proposal - NGOs and Nonprofits Interest Group - Deadline:
April 1, 2015*
*NGOs and Nonprofits Interest Group*
As an interest group we are now permitted to invite one session. This
session will receive the "Invited by NGOs and Nonprofits" tagline in the
AAA program.
We are soliciting proposed sessions from our membership for invited status.
For consideration, please submit your session proposal to
[log in to unmask] by Wednesday, April 1, 2015.
Session proposals must include the following information:
1. Session Title
2. Name, affiliation, and email of Session Organizer(s)
3. Session Abstract (no more than 500 words)
4. Names, affiliations, emails, and paper titles for all session members
(please note that you do not need to include individual paper abstracts)
5. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of discussant(s), if applicable
Your session will be ranked based on the following criteria:
a. Relevance and interest to our group, and fit within our group?s mission
and goals
b. Relevance to the AAA conference theme of Familiar/Strange (see below)
c. Quality (completeness, coherence) of the panel as a whole
Decisions will be made by Wednesday, April 8th.
*[7] AAA Panel - States of Precarity, States of Exception: Transnational
Imaginaries of Risk - Deadline: April 1, 2015*
*Panel Title: States of Precarity, States of Exception: Transnational
Imaginaries of Risk*
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ?precarity? is defined as a
state of being ?not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to
fall or collapse;? as well as a state of ?dependence on chance or
uncertainty.? The panel organizers invite abstracts for papers that
ethnographically examine how precarity operates as a signifier, mode of
accounting, or a narrativization practice. In many contexts, precarity is a
trope that is used in various political mobilizations and discourses,
humanitarian initiatives, in order to gesture to that which is considered
to be on the verge or on the edge of being realized into a particular
telos. Projects that center on reinvention, restoration, rehabilitation,
rehumanization, or reunification of different kinds are often given weight,
urgency, and significance through emphasis on their precarity vis-a-vis
other paradigms and ?realized? projects. Accompanying mobilizations of
precarity is the idea of the state of exception, in both Agamben?s usage
and beyond (2005). In this panel, we hope to create a conversation in which
we trace the imaginative geographies and transnational circulations through
which epistemologies and ontologies of precarity converge with states of
exception. The overarching question of this panel seeks to explore the
moral valuations, depoliticizations, and modes of narrativization that
teleological projects impart, as well as how the risks they project rely on
ambiguity, hypotheticals, and endangered potentiality.
Please send all submissions to Baird Campbell ([log in to unmask]) and Helena
Zeweri ([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday, April 1st. Submissions should be no
more than 250 words and should include a title and keywords. All accepted
panelists will need to register for the AAA 2015 conference by or before
April 15th.
*[8] AAA Panel - Document-ing Power in an Age of Accountability - Deadline
April 1, 2015*
*Panel Title: Document-ing Power in an Age of Accountability*
Organizer: Kathleen Inglis, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Simon Fraser
University
Studies in institutional ethnography, science and technology, and literacy
have taught us that texts (including their material forms) play a central
role in the cultural and institutional deployment of governance. In a
neoliberal world increasingly preoccupied with accountability?is this
policy working? Is this procedure profitable? Is this program on-course?
Are these people performing well? How can this technique be more
efficient??texts have become progressively crucial to regulation. Their
increasing use is also due to recent technological developments which have
made information-sharing about the progress of policies and programs
possible to a new degree (for instance, in the forms of computer databases
and software, and the internet). This means that ethnographic research that
recognizes the power of texts in organizing and naturalizing policies and
people?s activities is especially currently salient.
It is not simply the physical presence of texts that (re)produces
institutional discourses. Rather, it is the use of texts to coordinate
people and actions, increasingly premised on their potential to represent
results or factual data, which legitimizes definitions of problems and
solutions. This panel is interested in the ?textually mediated? (Smith
2005) process of accountability and standardization. ?Texts? are
inclusively defined as ?hard? and ?soft?, qualitative and/or quantitative,
forms, information systems, records, spreadsheets, charts, websites,
reports, etc.
Compelling research in science and technology studies has illustrated that
the functionality and generative power of standardized protocols?including
of texts?depends on it being porous (Hogle 1995, Timmermans and Berg 1997):
on there being space for discretion and adjustment in the use and
completion of texts in practice. In addition to wanting to understand
possibilities for such rearticulation of texts in the domain of
accountability, we are also interested in the ways texts operate in
settings where flexibility is more of a privilege than essential condition;
in ?resource-poor settings?, for instance.
This panel calls for ethnographic research that highlights the particular
contexts and conditions through which ?surveillance? texts are followed,
adjusted, or disregarded in practice as a way to examine various forms and
negotiations of power in the areas of health, science, development and
other fields of governance.
We seek papers that explore the following kinds of questions:
What role do texts play in the institutional concern for accountability and
surveillance?
In coordinating the regulatory work of various people across time and space?
In framing and reifying categories, people, problems and risk?
In (re)producing the ways that these become acted upon?
How are texts used, experienced, performed, adjusted or deviated from in
the practice of assessing policies, projects, or techniques?
What does this reveal about the different ways power is exercised and
negotiated in various places?
What are the implications of the ways that texts are entangled within
accountability procedures and priorities?
Please submit abstracts by 4/1/15 to [log in to unmask]
*[9] AAA Panel - Mediterranean Encounters: The Incommensurability of
Difference - Deadline: April 1, 2015*
*Panel Title: Mediterranean Encounters: The Incommensurability of
Difference*
Organizers:
Netta Van Vliet, College of the Atlantic
Carla Hung, Duke University
This panel focuses on encounters with difference across the Mediterranean
that consider the irreducible alterity and singularity of the other. The
Mediterranean, that which is between lands, has long been narrated as a
space of cultural and commercial exchange. At a time when the prevailing
response to encounters with the foreign and the strange is through
political and discursive assimilation, we ask what alternatives there might
be to tolerance and inclusion. How can we understand encounters across the
Mediterranean without recourse to a logic of equivalence? Anthropology?s
interest in the study of difference has populated the discipline with a
variety of tools, both conceptual and methodological, which can engage with
what Jim Siegel (2008) has called "the objects and objections of
ethnography." Circulating through feminist theory, postcolonial studies,
and literary theory but beginning with and returning to anthropology's
unique method of participant-observation, this panel tries to understand
difference without folding it into an ontology of the self-same or "making
the familiar strange and the strange familiar.? In so doing, it provides an
opportunity to challenge anthropology's foundational concepts of culture,
identity, and community. The panel examines the implications of such an
approach for questions of politics, human rights, the law, and the tension
between the universal, the particular, and the singular. What can be
learned when ethnographic experience is understood in terms of products of
representation rather than as evidence?
The Mediterranean has historically been a site of linguistic, political,
economic and material encounters between East and West, North and South,
Europe and its others, between Arab and Jew, European and African, refuge
and asylum seeker. Taking the Mediterranean as a site through which to
conduct close readings of the geopolitical and temporal movements across
land and water, East and West, North and South, Europe and its others that
have taken place on both sides of its shores, the panelists strive to think
about the strange without making it familiar. This panel is interested in
addressing the questions posed by incommensurable difference through a
diverse set of ethnographic examples, including engagements with movement
between madness and reason, religious and secular, life and death, diaspora
and at home, and human and inhuman.
Please send a 250 word abstract and a title for your proposed contribution
to Carla Hung [log in to unmask] by Wednesday April 1, 2015. Authors of
accepted proposals will be notified by April 5th.
*[10] AAA Panel - An Anthropology of International Relations - Deadline:
April 1, 2015*
*Panel Title: An Anthropology of International Relations*
Organizers:
Dr. Monica DeHart, Professor, University of Puget Sound
Dr. Jennifer Hubbert, Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark College
Discussant:
Dr. William Beeman, Professor, University of Minnesota
The 1988 AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia featured a packed panel titled
?Is an Anthropology of International Relations Possible?? that spoke to the
topical overlap and conceptual divide between the two academic disciplines
most concerned with the global: cultural anthropology and international
relations. One commentator noted that while international relations is
frequented invoked on the front page of major media publications as
addressing the ?international,? anthropology is more often buried inside,
under the domain of the ?cross cultural.? Nearly two decades later, this
problem remains. A new generation of international relations scholars is
advocating for the incorporation of a more anthropological viewpoint on
international relations as a way to move beyond its own state-centric
perspective. However while anthropology has long engaged with ?politics?
through studies of power relations, governance, and the articulations and
effects of globalization, it has been slower to turn its critical
theoretical lens on the relations between nation-states, international
policy, and the very constitution of the global itself. This panel attends
to the question of inter-disciplinarity and its stakes for understanding
the shifting international landscape. In particular, the papers explore
how to make the global strange by rendering the nation-state and its policy
articulations familiar through anthropological study. What methodological
and theoretical insights can an anthropological analysis offer to efforts
to reconceptualize: (a) the nature of the global; (b) the new world order
defined by an emergent Global South; and (c) relations among nations?
Please submit abstracts to: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask], no later
than April 1, 2015.
*[11] AAA Panel - New Foods, New Worlds: How Shifting Tastes Reflect
Social Change - Deadline: April 1, 2015*
CFP: AAA 2015 (Denver, CO -- Nov. 18-22)
New Foods, New Worlds: How Shifting Tastes Reflect Social Change
Anthropologists have long noted that people’s tastes in food are intimate
and deep-rooted. Local cuisines represent an accumulation of traditions, as
people invest certain foods with ritual significance or nostalgia for home.
However, transformations in agricultural production, the global circulation
of commodities, and the uptake of the Western diet are rapidly reshaping
the ways that people around the world eat. Once familiar foods have been
replaced — in fields, in stores, on plates — by new items. This session
examines the adoption of new foods and food practices, and how people
grapple with the implications of these changes. What is at stake for our
informants as they embrace, resist, or otherwise appropriate these new
foods?
To address this question, this panel takes the theme of the conference,
“familiar/strange,” as a starting point. It asks how our informants invoke
their own categories about which foods are familiar and which are
strange to explain cultural changes, such as shifting gender
dynamics, articulations of community belonging, and conceptions of
wellness. How does access to new foods vary according to gender, class, and
age, thus reinforcing or subverting existing hierarchies? How do new crops
or dishes represent hopes for the future or a lament for the past? Under
what circumstances do new foods entice, or provoke disgust? Attending to
our informants' conceptualization of the "familiar/strange” framework
privileges their situated worldview over anthropologists’ subjective
judgments. At the same time, it emphasizes the ways that engagement with
our informants’ categories is central to the production of anthropological
knowledge.
Session organizer: Hayden Kantor (Cornell University)
To propose a paper, please submit an abstract of 250 words by April 1, 2015
to [log in to unmask] Please include the title of the paper, author’s name,
affiliation, and e-mail address.
For more information about submitting a paper for the conference, please
consult the following website:
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm
*[12] AAA Panel - Careerism in the Guise of Altruism, or Something More
Enduring? Critical Reflections on Teaching Anthropology through Community
Service Learning - Deadline: April 1, 2015*
Call for Papers - Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA), November 18-22 2015. Denver, Colorado, USA.
Careerism in the Guise of Altruism, or Something More Enduring? Critical
Reflections on Teaching Anthropology through Community Service Learning
From innovative homeless shelters on campus, run by consecutive cohorts of
students for more than 27 years (Seider, 2010), to small one-off projects
completed just in time to gain end of semester credits, the term Community
Service Learning (CSL) (also Project-Based Learning, or Service Learning)
covers an impressively wide array of projects. Usually developed in
partnership with local community or activist groups, CSL projects offer
students and faculty unique opportunities to make the familiar strange by
road-testing anthropological skills out in 'the community' that exists near
to, or is intimately connected with, the academic community we spend most
of our time in during the week. As Keene and Colligan (2004:6) noted in
2004, anthropology has been slower than other disciplines to incorporate
CSL as a core component of undergraduate programs. This is despite the many
similarities between the theory and method of CSL, and ethnographic
techniques, particularly within applied and activist anthropologies. Eleven
years later, is there now an emerging pedagogy within anthropology that can
deliver meaningful alliances between community partners and students,
achieving worthwhile outcomes for all participants? Or is it time to wake
up and “dream different dreams” as Dan Butin (2015:5) encourages us to
consider doing?
In this panel we explore the current state of CSL within anthropology
courses and we invite papers that respond to the following (or related)
themes and questions:
How do we establish and maintain connections with the community?
Designing CSL projects to be strongly anthropological in theory and
practice.
Results of formal evaluations of anthropology based CSL projects.
Balancing meaningful community-based outcomes and success, with learning
and teaching goals for faculty and students.
Stories of mistakes and missed opportunities in CSL - projects that never
got off the ground, unexpected problems, surprising or disappointing
outcomes.
Engaging graduate students in service learning - how can we help them fit
this ‘extra’ project into an already tight time-line?
Problematizing the paternalism that creeps into many service learning
projects.
Bringing anthropological understandings of structural inequalities to bear
on the design and implementation of CSL projects.
Community partners' perspectives on CSL.
Aligning CSL projects to fit assessment and graduation deadlines, and
incorporating CSL into the wider curriculum.
Direct responses to Dan Butin’s recent tenets of practice, for example, “If
the community partner’s phone number is not programmed into the
instructor's cell phone, it is not critical service-learning” (Butin,
2015:8-9).
Co-authored papers are encouraged from faculty and community leaders who
wish to speak together about the costs and benefits of engaging in CSL
projects. Advanced graduate students with experiences of learning and/or
teaching through CSL are also encouraged to apply.
If you are interested in participating in this panel please send a 250
word abstract to Emma McGuirk ([log in to unmask]) by Wednesday
1st April, 2015. Authors of selected papers will be notified via email by
April 3rd. Final abstract submissions will be due April 15th.
References
Butin, D. (2015) ‘Dreaming of Justice: Critical Service-Learning and the
Need to Wake Up’ Theory Into Practice 54(1) pp. 5-10
Keene, A. S. and Colligan, S. (2004) ‘Service-Learning and Anthropology’
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 10(3) pp. 5-15
Seider, S. (2010) ‘College Students, Creative Nonviolence, and Social
Enterprise: Community Service Changes with the Times’ Journal of College &
Character 11(2) pp. 1-9
*[13] AAA Panel - 21st Century Anarchisms - Deadline April 1, 2015*
21st Century Anarchisms
After the peak of global justice movements in the late 1990s and early
2000s, many activists around the world have been redefining their activism
to work on carving out new life-paths, ideologies, and practices for
themselves. In this historical context, practices, ideologies, and forms of
organizing that draw from an anarchist tradition seem to be increasing in a
diversity of local contexts around the world. Why are these anarchist forms
arising now? How do these new forms of activism draw from and/or depart
from the movements for global justice? What are the relationships between
new anarchisms and the principles of horizontality and autonomy that
emerged through the movements for global justice? In what ways do
contemporary practices subvert, transgress, reinvent, or re-purpose
‘traditional anarchisms’ from the early 20th century? What new forms is
anarchism taking in different social, political, and cultural contexts?
What roles do ideology and ethical practice play in the formation of new
anarchist subjectivities? How are these movements using transnational
social movement networks, electronic media, visual and graphic arts, or
indigenous political strategies? How can we use ethnography to investigate
these issues? This panel seeks a diverse set of papers that explore 21st
Century anarchisms around the world.
Send 250 word abstracts to Liv Stone: [log in to unmask] <mailto:
[log in to unmask]> by April 1, 2015.
Dr. Liv Stone
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Illinois State University
(309) 438-5850 <%28309%29%20438-5850>
*[14] AAA Panel - Beyond Neoliberal Conservation: New Perspectives from the
Global South - Deadline: April 1, 2015*
Panel Organizers
Marcos Mendoza, University of Mississippi, [log in to unmask]
José Martinez-Reyes, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
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Beyond Neoliberal Conservation: New Perspectives from the Global South
Scholars studying and theorizing neoliberal conservation have made
significant contributions to our understanding of global environmentalism.
Among other topics, these scholars have investigated the shifting dynamics
of fortress and community-based conservation, the rolling back of
state-centric resource management, the rolling out of new regulatory
frameworks to promote global market integration, the expansion of public
and private protected areas around the world, the valorization of
ecotourism-led development, the ascendancy of consumer-based recreational
activism, the growing synergy between environmental NGOs and transnational
corporations, and payments for ecosystem services (PES).
While neoliberal capitalism is far from disappearing, many Latin American
countries—and perhaps others nations in the global south—have increasingly
turned away from neoliberalism at the state and local levels, charting new
courses that have selectively rejected privatization, liberalization,
deregulation, and labor flexibilization as the sine qua non of national
development. As these post-neoliberal development regimes gain increasing
momentum, this raises a number of key questions for research. What comes
after neoliberal conservation? How have these new development paradigms and
regimes of resistance begun to reshape our understandings of global
environmentalism, as well as its institutions, practices, values, signs,
and conceptions of the future? How have states, corporations, civil society
groups, and indigenous peoples articulated new understandings of
conservation? Is “natural capital” a strictly neoliberal discourse? Or
might it be viewed as integral to post-neoliberal capitalism? As some
states move to strengthen the social safety net, how might this affect our
understandings of PES? How have these alternative capitalisms impacted
ecotourism, protected areas, and public-private collaborations?
*[15] AAA Panel - Magic, Science, Religion… and Secularism: Articulating
Science Studies and Critical Studies of Secularism - Deadline: April 3,
2015*
Magic, Science, Religion… and Secularism: Articulating Science Studies and
Critical Studies of Secularism
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, November 2015, Panel Submission Deadline: April 3, 2015
Organizer and Chair: Dr. Matthew C. Watson (Texas Tech University, Mount
Holyoke College), [log in to unmask]
This panel draws together research on the anthropologies of science,
religion, and secularism. Classic accounts by anthropologists including
Tylor, Frazer, Malinowski, and Tambiah demarcate domains of magic, science,
and religion. Such theorists tended to conceive of science and religion as
distinct and contradictory systems of practice, belief, and knowledge. More
recent studies in the anthropologies of science and secularism may
challenge this differentiation, even relegating it to an exhausted
modernism intent on establishing the purity of (social) science. Science
studies scholars have attended ethnographically to how forms of religious
practice and belief coexist with science and may animate scientific
knowledge production. Likewise, following Talal Asad (2003),
anthropologists of religion and secularism have examined the complex
intersections of the secular and the sacred in both Western and
postcolonial contexts.
Despite the historical, political, and cultural connections between science
and the secular, little anthropological research has drawn substantively
from both science studies and the anthropology of religion/secularism. This
panel opens a space to think science, religion, and the secular as
phenomena that intersect, emerge together, or come into conflict. I invite
papers that are situated historically or ethnographically at points of
tension or co-production between science, religion, and secularism, as well
as papers that focus on one domain while demonstrating openness to or
curiosity about others.
Possible topics include:
· How historical or ethnographic attention breaks down distinctions
between science and religion, fact and belief
· The role of the sciences in promoting or defending official state
secularisms
· Science and secularism as colonial or postcolonial institutions and
discourses
· Science/secularism, sovereignty, exception, and Homo sacer (Agamben
1998)
· Science and secularism as sacred, magic, or animistic systems
· Anthropology (or other epistemic fields) as religious, mystic, or
sacred knowledge
· The incorporation of scientific facts into bodies of religious
knowledge (or vice-versa)
· Science, religion, and/or secularism as ontologies or “modes of
existence” (Latour 2013)
· Renovation or critique of classic anthropological theories that
promote or resist the purification of science from religion
· The epistemic, aesthetic, or political limits of “science,”
“religion,” and “secularism” as anthropological categories
· Rethinking the anthropology of religion in light of STS and
secularism studies
Potential participants should submit titles and abstracts (up to 250 words)
to Matt Watson at [log in to unmask] by Friday, April 3, 2015.
Participants will be notified by April 7. Please feel free to get in touch
if you have questions or would like to indicate potential interest in
participating.
*[16] AAA Panel - Endangered Health: Justice at the Intersection of
Environment and Well-Being - Deadline: April 8, 2015*
CFP for 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
November 18-22, 2015, Denver, Colorado
Meeting Theme: “Familiar Strange”
*Panel Organizers: Chelsea Wentworth (University of Pittsburgh) and Nora
Bridges (University of Pittsburgh)*
*Endangered Health: Justice at the Intersection of Environment and
Well-Being*
This panel investigates how individuals and organizations prioritize
healthy environments as integral to full enjoyment of other fundamental
human rights, including the rights to health, food, water, and sanitation.
In an era of increasing uncertainty, the tangible health ramifications of
environmental and climatic change are of critical concern to many
worldwide. Not mere products of their environments, people reciprocally
shape and are shaped by their engagements with their physical surroundings.
Because people produce health through various means as they interact with
their environments, this panel centers attention on the ways that people
see their health as directly influenced by their environment and documents
their struggles to create, redefine, or campaign for healthier
environments.
Papers examine how health is understood and produced in the context of
environmental change by showcasing contemporary ethnographic accounts from
across the world to explore the diversity of experience at the intersection
of health and the environment. How do people negotiate their environments
in the provision of care for themselves, their families, and their
communities? How do people who are dependent upon their environment for
their livelihoods manage the burden of health problems derived from
environmental degradation? What are alternative conceptualizations of a
healthy environment? In addition to these guiding questions, we invite
papers that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Intersecting health and environmental inequalities
- Sustainable development programs and health initiatives
- Social, ecological, and food justice movements from the grassroots to
the transnational
- The impact of climate change on livelihood strategies
- How Traditional Ecological Knowledge informs health practice
- How community and household gardening promote health
- Health at the conservation and extraction nexus
Together, the papers in this session will reappraise familiar
anthropological topics such as class, gender, race, religion, economics,
and kinship systems by considering how environment and health are entangled
for our interlocutors as they speak about and/or actively pursue justice in
their quest for well-being. Considering global, historical, and political
forces, this panel documents diverse strategies individuals utilize in both
discourse and action as they work through endangered environments toward
health, ranging from everyday forms of resistance to outright social
movements at a grand scale.
Those interested in presenting a paper for this panel, please submit a 250
word abstract to Chelsea [log in to unmask] and Nora Bridges
[log in to unmask] on or before *Wednesday, April 8, 2015. *Enquiries welcome.
Nora C. Bridges
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Pittsburgh
3121 WWPH
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*[17] Abstract - Book - Understanding Vulnerability, Building Resilience:
Responses to Disasters and Climate Change - Deadline: June 1, 2016*
Book Title: “Understanding Vulnerability, Building Resilience: Responses to
Disasters and Climate Change”
Editors:
Michèle L. Companion, Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
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Miriam S. Chaiken, Professor of Anthropology
New Mexico State University
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Type: Edited Volume
Proposal to be submitted to CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group
Volume Abstract:
As the global climate shifts, communities are faced with a myriad of
mitigation and adaptation challenges. These challenges highlight the
political, cultural, economic, social, and physical vulnerability of
communities, groups, and individuals. However, these challenges can also
demonstrate their resilience. Research in the fields of hazard management,
humanitarian response, food security programming, agricultural development,
and gender-equity programming have sought to understand the factors that
create vulnerability, and strategies to enhance resilience in individuals,
families, and communities.
This volume will bring together case studies from communities around the
globe, indigenous populations, and developing countries that illustrate
programming that internalizes these dyadic concepts of resilience and
vulnerability. Specifically, the volume will examine programs that have
helped reduce risks brought on by political instability, climate change,
natural disasters, chronic food insecurity, inequality, and other problems
that cause human suffering. Our goal is to both foster a richer
understanding of the variations in vulnerability, and to derive lessons on
fostering resilience that can be employed on a broader scale. Documenting
the best practices for building resilience will be a major focus of the
book.
We are seeking interdisciplinary abstract submissions for a peer-reviewed
manuscript. Nutritionists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists,
policy makers, disaster managers, community leaders, indigenous community
organizations, and others are invited to submit abstracts. The volume will
be submitted to CRC, part of the Taylor and Francis Group, for publication
consideration. This proposal has been requested by an acquiring editor.
We will accept abstracts as well as full papers for this stage of the
process. Full length papers should be limited to 5,000 words. Inclusion of
graphs and photos are welcome and encouraged. However, please account for
these in your paper length. One half-page graph or photo is the equivalent
of 250 words. This is volume has an international focus. We welcome
submissions focusing on all nations.
DEADLINE for abstract submissions: June 1, 2016
*2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES*
*[1] Book Prize - Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
(SLACA) - Deadline: July 1, 2015*
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA), a
section of the American Anthropological Association, announces the opening
of its annual book prize competition. The prize aims to recognize
distinguished anthropological work that advances the understanding of the
Americas in innovative and potentially transformative ways. The winner is
announced at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association. A cash prize accompanies the award.
The deadline for submission is July 1, 2015. Books received after that
date will not be considered for the prize.
To be eligible for consideration a book must be relevant to the field of
Latin American and Caribbean anthropology. Works that focus on Latin
American migrant and diasporic populations will also be considered. Works
should be ethnographies or monographs. Textbooks and anthologies will not
be considered, but works of original scholarship by more than one author
may be submitted.
The book must be an author’s first book.
The book must have a publication year of 2014.
Works in English, Spanish, and Portuguese will be accepted.
Entrants must hold a current membership in SLACA. Consult the SLACA website
for details: http://www.aaanet.org/sections/slaca/membership-information/
*Three* copies of the book should be sent on or before July 1, 2015 to:
Jason Pribilsky
Chair, SLACA Book Prize Committee
Associate Profess of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Whitman College
345 Boyer Ave.
Walla Walla, WA 99362
USA
Please be sure that books’ package is clearly marked "SLACA Book Prize"
Please address all questions concerning the prize to Jason Pribilsky [
[log in to unmask]]
Jason Pribilsky
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362
(t) 509.527.5162
*3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE* *D'EMPLOI* (in addition to/ en plus
de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)
*[1] Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - University of Toronto -
Deadline: March 27, 2015*
Job Description
Requisition Title: Lecturer - Nutritional Anthropology - 1500056
Job Field: Limited Term (Lecturer)
Faculty / Division: Faculty of Arts and Science
Department: Anthropology
Campus: St. George (downtown Toronto)
Job Posting: Jan 28, 2015
Job Closing: Mar 27, 2015
Description
The Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, invites applications
for a two-year teaching-stream appointment in Biological (Evolutionary)
Anthropology, with a focus on human nutritional ecology and especially the
nutrition and health of women, infants and young children. The appointment
will be at the rank of Lecturer and will begin July 1, 2015 and end June
30, 2017, with the possibility of renewal. Salary will be commensurate with
qualifications and experience.
Applicants must have a PhD in Anthropology or a closely related discipline
by July 1, 2015 or shortly thereafter and have a record of excellence in
teaching, in both small and large class settings, and teaching-related
activities such as curriculum development and student mentoring, and
demonstrated evidence of expertise in biological, medical, and/or
nutritional anthropology.
The successful candidate will be prepared to teach a suite of undergraduate
courses that include a large second-year course on medical anthropology and
evolutionary perspectives on health across the life span, a somewhat
smaller third-year course on evolutionary theory, as well as smaller
courses at the third- and fourth-year level that could include one on the
anthropology of childhood and childcare. Experience at graduate teaching
would also be an asset.
The University of Toronto is a large, three-campus institution in a
vibrant, multiethnic region and has a very diverse student population. The
Department of Anthropology is a multi-field unit with diverse research and
teaching. It has 24 full-time faculty at the St. George campus and 43
graduate faculty across the three campuses. For more information about the
Department of Anthropology, please see our home page at
http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/.
Qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below.
Applications should include a cover letter, teaching dossier
(including statement of teaching philosophy, sample course syllabi, and
student evaluations) and curriculum vitae along with the names of three
references. Application materials should be submitted online. Submission
guidelines are available at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply.
We recommend combining attached documents in one or two files in PDF/MS
Word format:
(1) Cover letter, CV
(2) Teaching Dossier
Applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be
sent directly to Professor E.B. Banning, Chair, Department of Anthropology,
by email to [log in to unmask], by the closing date March
27, 2015. If you have questions about the position, please contact
[log in to unmask]
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from members of visible
minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities,
members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to further
diversification of ideas.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority.
*[2] Contract Academic Staff - History of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
- University of Winnipeg - Deadline: April 6, 2015*
THE FACULTY OF ARTS INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR CONTRACT ACADEMIC STAFF
POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Course Name History of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
Course Number HIST-2509-001
Start Date 05 04 15
End Date 07 17 15 (final exam plus 10 working days)
Number of Classes 24
Class Times MWF 1:30pm – 4:20pm
Projected Enrolment 48
Credit Hours 6
Location of Course Main Campus, University of Winnipeg
Qualifications Post-M.A. studies, minimum ABD preferred
Remuneration $9,462.00 (inclusive of 6% vacation pay based on 2012-2015
UWFACAS Agreement)
Applicants should send their curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Eliakim Sibanda
The Department of History
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The closing date for the application is April 6, 2015.
Please note that all positions are subject to final budgetary approval. The
posted position is required provided there is sufficient enrollment to
offer the course. Other positions may become available (
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/hr-facpos-home). Applicants should contact
the Department Chair directly for more information. The University of
Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the
workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals
including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons, and
persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canadian Immigration
requirements, this advertisement is initially directed to Canadian citizens
and permanent residents. Additional information on the University of
Winnipeg is available at http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/.
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/hr/docs/fac-posvac/April%202015/CAS%20ads%20Spring%202015%20HIST%20revised.pdf#page=2
*[3] Contract Academic Staff - History of Canadian Education - University
of Winnipeg - Deadline: April 6, 2015 *
THE FACULTY OF ARTS INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR CONTRACT ACADEMIC STAFF
POSITIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Course Name History of Canadian Education
Number HIST-2504-050
Start Date 05 05 15
End Date 06 30 15 (final exam plus 10 working days)
Number of Classes 12
Class Times TTH 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Projected Enrolment 48
Credit Hours 3
Location of Course Main Campus, University of Winnipeg
Qualifications Post-M.A. studies, minimum ABD preferred Remuneration
$4,731.00 (inclusive of 6% vacation pay based on 2012-2015 UWFACAS
Agreement)
Applicants should send their curriculum vitae to:
Dr. Eliakim Sibanda
The Department of History
The University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
The closing date for the application is April 6, 2015.
Please note that all positions are subject to final budgetary approval. The
posted position is required provided there is sufficient enrollment to
offer the course. Other positions may become available (
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/hr-facpos-home). Applicants should contact
the Department Chair directly for more information. The University of
Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the
workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals
including women, members of visible minorities, aboriginal persons, and
persons with disabilities. In accordance with Canadian Immigration
requirements, this advertisement is initially directed to Canadian citizens
and permanent residents. Additional information on the University of
Winnipeg is available at http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/.
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/hr/docs/fac-posvac/April%202015/CAS%20ads%20Spring%202015%20HIST%20revised.pdf#page=2
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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*
*N/A*
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