26 March | mars 2015

All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links to detailed posting guidelines: in English and French.

Tous les membres du réseau des étudiants de CASCA ainsi que les directeurs de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des possibilités d'intérêt pour nos membres sont invités à contacter les modérateurs ([log in to unmask]). Voir ci-dessous pour directives sur les affectations détaillées:en français et anglais.

1. CALLS || APPELS

a) Opportunities || Opportunités

[1] Co-Editor - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment - Deadline: Ongoing

[2] Associate Editor - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies on Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival - Deadline: April 6, 2015

b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les

publications et conférences

[1] Conference papers  – “Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious Philanthropy” - 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 26, 2015

[2] Conference papers - Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space in South Asia and its Diaspora - Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 27, 2015

[3] Conference papers - Experiments in Ethnographies of Child Development: Theoretical and Methodological Entanglements between Anthropology and Psychology - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 29, 2015

[4] Conference Papers - “The Politics of Timekeeping: Technologies, Histories, and Conflicts” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 31, 2015

[5] Conference papers - “Making Taste Public” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

[6] Conference papers - Entangled Border Crossings:  Identity Construction, Disciplinary Boundaries, and Asian Diaspora - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

[7] Conference papers - 21st century anarchisms - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

[8] Conference papers - B/Ordering Infrastructures: Mediating Encounters across Difference - AAA 2015 - April 1, 2015

[9] Conference papers - New Sending Communities and New Receiving Communities in Dialogue with Migration Theory - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015

[10] Conference papers - “Ethnography of Journalism: New Directions from the Global South” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015

[11] Conference papers - RELIGION, ART, AND CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL CITY - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 4, 2015

[12] Conference papers - Contemporary perspectives on environmental and ecological knowledge in marine contexts - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 10, 2015

2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES

[1] AAA Community Engagement Grant - AAA Meeting 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)

[1] Junior Scientist - Luminescence Dating - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany - Deadline: Ongoing

[2] Tenure Position - Indigenous Scholar - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015

[3] Tenure Position - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015

4. Requests and queries from members of the CASCA Student Network (reply directly to the poster) ||  Requêtes des étudiant(e)s pour obtenir des conseils ou ressources (les réponses seront envoyées directement à l'étudiant(e) en question).

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5. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS & SUMMER COURSES  || COURS D'ÉTÉ

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*Submissions to the CASCA Grad List: English posting guidelines

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1. CALLS || APPELS

a) Opportunities || Opportunités

[1] Co-Editor - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment - Deadline: Ongoing

The twice-yearly, peer-reviewed journal of Culture and Agriculture (a Section of the American Anthropological Association), *is looking for a new co-editor, to begin in the fall of 2015.  *

** * * *  Co-Editors and C&A President will be present at the SfAA meetings in Pittsburgh!   Find us to talk more about the position!  * * * **

CAFE features culturally and anthropologically-relevant analyses of human dimensions of environment, ecology, agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, forestry, natural resources, energy, water, food, nutrition, sustainability, and biodiversity.  CAFE publishes peer-reviewed material as well as editorially reviewed commentary and reports, discussions of theoretical developments and methods of inquiry, results of empirical research, and book and film reviews.  CAFE encourages dialogue among scholars, activists, and practitioners.

Recent material ranges from television treatments of industrialized agriculture, to gendered agricultural practices in Tanzania, to the ecopolitics of the permaculture-promoting, spiritual  “Anastasia” movement of post-socialist Russia (forthcoming).  Recent themed issues have focused on renewable and extractive energy  (June 2013 V35/1), as well as a tribute to the late agricultural anthropologist, Robert Rhoades (June 2014 V36/1).

The new co-editor will begin in the fall of 2015 for a four-year, staggered rotation, and will help CAFE plot its future sustainability and relevance in the changing environment of scholarly publishing of the 21st century.  The position is volunteer, but financial support for attending AAA annual meetings is typically available.  Institutional affiliation is helpful but not required.

Letters of interest should address your vision and qualifications for the above responsibilities, and include a CV.  The letter should be sent to Lisa Markowitz, C&A President at [log in to unmask].

More information and a detailed description of the position may be obtained from current co-editors, Stephanie Paladino and Jeanne Simonelli, at [log in to unmask]. Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2153-9561

[2] Associate Editor - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies on Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival - Deadline: April 6, 2015

An associate editor position is available with the journal Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (DIME). The associate editor is responsible for managing manuscript submissions (assigning reviewers, evaluating the manuscript, making final decisions) as well as advertising the journal to prospective authors and readers. This is a great service opportunity for junior to mid-career faculty, and a nice opportunity to help shape the direction of scholarship in the field.Please send a letter of interest and accompanying CV to Dr. Bruce Collet, DIME Editor in Chief at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

Please send materials by April 6, 2015

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: Studies of Migration, Integration, Equity, and Cultural Survival (DIME) - a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in diaspora, indigenous, and minority education - is dedicated to researching cultural sustainability in a world increasingly consolidating under national, transnational, and global organizations. It aims to draw attention to, and learn from, the many initiatives being conducted around the globe in support of diaspora, indigenous, and minority education, which might otherwise go unnoticed. For more information, please visit: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hdim20/current#.VOuIZrDF-Ns<http://cies.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=460d717da9568992844709f03&id=20e322ad1b&e=8b9eb04923>

b) CFP Publications & Conferences || Appel à contributions pour les

publications et conférences

[1] Conference papers  – “Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious Philanthropy” - 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 26, 2015

Trust Networks: Circuits of Religious Philanthropy in South Asia

- 2015 Annual Conference on South Asia - Madison, Wisconsin

October 22-25, 2015

Discussant: Prof. Erica Bornstein, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Many of South Asia’s diverse religious and spiritual traditions are managed through philanthropic organizations, often charitable trusts. From daily alms-giving to major urban development projects, religious charitable trusts, while seemingly ubiquitous set up unique relations between those that  endow them, those that manage them (trustees), and those that receive their beneficence.  

This panel seeks to explore networks of religious philanthropy in South Asia and how they might contribute to communal social life, political struggles, livelihoods as well as changing forms of religious practice. As the study of religious and charitable trusts and other philanthropic organizations cuts across various disciplines, this panel welcomes papers framed by legal studies, religious studies, history, economics, political science, sociology or anthropology

Please send a max. 250 word abstract to [log in to unmask] by March 26th. Please include with your abstract, a title, your affiliation and current status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position etc.).

[2] Conference papers - Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space in South Asia and its Diaspora - Annual Conference on South Asia - Deadline: March 27, 2015

Rendering the Sacred Illegal: Conflicts over Space in South Asia and its Diaspora

Call for Panelists: Annual Conference on South Asia--Madison, WI; October 22-25. 2015

Drawing from a range of South Asian communities within and outside the subcontinent, our panel will explore the construction and contestation of sacred space. In urban centers, governmental and private party delimitations on the use of space can come into conflict with religious actors, whose strategies to claim space sometimes seek to supersede the state’s legal boundaries. From debates over temple demolitions to legal contestations over informal places of worship, this panel seeks to highlight the interfaces between religious communities and legal and political jurisdictions and to explore what emerges from such collisions.  By examining such conflicts over space, this panel will explore the following questions: What constitutes a religious appropriation of public space? How does state demolition or redefinition of sacred space affect local communities?  In what ways are urbanization, globalization, and religious diasporas redefining sacred space?  And how do religious communities develop public discourses of religiosity in the face of legal opposition to their places of worship?  Please send a max. 250 word abstract to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by March 27th . Include with your abstract, a title, your institutional affiliation, and current status (faculty position etc.).

[3] Conference papers - Experiments in Ethnographies of Child Development: Theoretical and Methodological Entanglements between Anthropology and Psychology - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 29, 2015

This session examines the various ways anthropologists incorporate experimental methods in ethnographic fieldwork to study child development. It is situated within the larger theoretical and methodological adventure of bridging anthropology and psychology investigating the dynamics of culture and mind in childhood, a critical phase of human development.

Integration of ethnographic methods and controlled experiments is not new, but in cultural anthropology only few scholars have carried it out. In recent years, anthropologists have called for a re-engagement with trends in the psychological and cognitive sciences, and emphasized that anthropology has an important contribution to make in the interdisciplinary study of child development and human development (Astuti and Bloch 2010, 2012; Bloch 2005, 2012; Kronenfeld 2012; Sahlins 2011; Sperber 1996). More generally, scholars in both fields have stressed the need for a rapprochement in which both anthropologists and psychologists appreciate human beings’ intertwined psychological-social nature (Bender, Hutchins, and Medin 2010; Luhrmann 2006; Quinn 2006). Child development is a central “test field” in this exciting endeavor. Leading scholars in psychological anthropology have discovered common features of childrearing across cultures that are based on universal psychological mechanisms (Quinn 2005); anthropologists and psychologists have worked together to combine experimental methods with ethnographic fieldwork to investigate conceptual development (Astuti, Solomon, and Carey 2004); moreover, anthropologists have taken on the role of critically engaging with and reassessing influential psychological theories, such as attachment theory (Bowlby 1969, 1982; Ainsworth1979), using ethnographic evidence (Quinn and Mageo 2013).

We look for papers that bring together solid ethnography and approaches and methods from psychology to address questions related to any aspect of social, cognitive, emotional or educational development of children. We welcome papers with wide ranging motivations, which might include but are not limited to, engaging with evolutionary theories of human development or dominant theories of child development through cross-cultural comparison; combining experimental and ethnographic work to reach fine-grained and systematic understanding of specific issues of social equity and learning environments, schooling, mental health, development of interpersonal relationships and so forth.

Please submit your abstract (max. 250 words) by 29 March to [log in to unmask]

Organizers:

Anni Kajanus

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Department of Anthropology

London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Jing Xu

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Early Childhood Cognition Lab

University of Washington

[4] Conference Papers - “The Politics of Timekeeping: Technologies, Histories, and Conflicts” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: March 31, 2015

This panel seeks to examine calendars, clocks, and other timekeeping methods as dynamic instruments situated at the intersections of technology, cultural practice, political action, and group identity.  Time is “familiar,” part of everyday life and experienced in the present. And yet

time is also “strange;” its simultaneously linear and cyclical nature both links us to, and distances us from, the past.  Far from being objective ways to mark and measure units of time, methods of timekeeping exist in dialectical relationships with historical consciousness, and therefore are inherently political.  Drawing on both a long history of anthropological investigations into cultural understandings of time, and more recent examinations of the social aspects of technology, this panel will examine cases where timekeeping becomes a location of conflict.  Our goal will be to consider how people understand, formulate, and explain particular histories and human present(s) in relationship to specific timekeeping technologies.

If you would like to be part of this panel, please send an abstract of 250 words to Clare Sammells at [log in to unmask] by March 31, 2015.

[5] Conference papers - “Making Taste Public” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

This panel explores how taste—the sensual experience and the preferences, identities, and meanings associated with it--becomes social.  We seek papers focused on ethnographic examples combined with theoretical discussions of the process of “making taste public.” Cases could include micro studies of interactions between people through taste workshops, language and communication, mimesis, or synaesthetic use of the senses, as well as macro studies of how taste strategically figures in political discourse, policy, education, media, or activism.  We seek papers that go beyond thinking about taste philosophically and produce ethnographic understandings of how people learn and practice taste.  While taste is often described in terms of personal preferences, as individual perceptions of an outer world, there is a need for understanding how we share taste and the experience of eating, with whom, and under what conditions. While we know that different cultures have different taste preferences and flavor principles embedded in cuisine, how they become part of our sensorial apparatus and identity is still not clear.   What roles do “familiar” and “strange” play in the socialization of taste? How do people communicate with and through the senses?  We suggest thinking about how taste is between us, being shared and made public—sometimes exalted and sometimes abhorred.  In socializing taste, who are the key actors, what are the key sites, where are the spaces of taste exchanges and clashes, and how are values attached to tastes?

If you are interested in joining our panel, please let us know right away and send us your paper title, name, email address, and abstract of no more than 250 words ASAP but no later than April 1.  We will then expand the session abstract to reflect the papers.

Carole Counihan, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Millersville University, USA, [log in to unmask] and Susanne Højlund, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Aarhus University, DK, [log in to unmask]

[6] Conference papers - Entangled Border Crossings:  Identity Construction, Disciplinary Boundaries, and Asian Diaspora - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

Taking Asian and Asian American identities as dynamic and often times contested processes, the focus of this panel explores the multiple ways in which these subjectivities are constructed and renegotiated in a complex world characterized and shaped by active technological changes, flows of migrants and travelers, and capital assemblages. Even for those whose physical movement is limited, the trends and flows that transcend geographic and political borders are difficult to ignore. Examining these processes highlights the dynamism of Asian and Asian American identities, where the familiar/strange dynamic that is the theme of this year’s conference often comes into play as subjects encounter the Asian/Asian American “other.” The panel draws from ethnographic work conducted among people of Asian descent in specific sites in Asia, the U.S., or elsewhere to shed light on the challenges and opportunities created by the complex process of identity construction, which draws from a multitude of local and global resources.  What competing narratives do we find about Asian American or Asian identity and its relationship to a larger Asian diaspora?  What salient concepts or motivations are linked to various contemporary ideas of “Asian identity?”  Furthermore, the multi-sited, ethnographically rooted insights which characterize anthropological perspectives can help further push the boundaries of area studies approaches typified by Asian and Asian American Studies by providing grounded research on specific contexts of power, governmentality, and cultural politics that shape the very impact of these flows.  This panel seeks to scrutinize and unpack the complex processes that individuals find themselves in various cultural contexts to examine how a range of individuals imagine, interpret and understand this dynamic and at times contested process of identity construction.

Submission deadline for abstracts (no more than 250 words): April 1, 2015.

Interested participants please email both [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask].  Please include an abstract, title, affiliation, and current status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position).  Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April 5th.

Panel Organizers:

Jennifer Heung (Saint Mary’s College)

Andrea Louie (Michigan State University)

[7] Conference papers - 21st century anarchisms - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

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] by April 1, 2015.

[8] Conference papers - B/Ordering Infrastructures: Mediating Encounters across Difference - AAA 2015 - April 1, 2015

Panel Discussant: Professor Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)

Infrastructures underpin everyday life, mediating our experiences of space and time, and enabling --or obstructing-- the circulation of peoples, goods, knowledge, and meaning. Infrastructures are thus positioned at the center of contemporary struggles over access to resources, citizenship, and mobility. This panel will examine these concerns by considering how infrastructures shape, and are shaped by, forms of difference and inequality, producing material and metaphorical borders that organize social worlds. We seek papers on b/ordering infrastructures, that is, papers that explore how infrastructures work as bordering and ordering technologies.

Papers will consider (but are not restricted to) the following questions:

·       How do infrastructures produce boundaries --but also encounters-- across difference? That is, how do infrastructures function as technologies of inclusion and exclusion?

·       How do infrastructures organize human and nonhuman difference, mediating mobilities and exchanges that define landscapes and territories? How can infrastructures, as they are practiced and enacted, support or subvert regimes of governance and citizenship?

·       Finally, how might attention to borders make us reimagine infrastructure? And how might attention to infrastructure make us reimagine borders?

The panel aims to bring into dialogue diverse approaches to mobility, materiality and power. While the anthropology of infrastructure conversant with science and technology studies and affect theory produces insights on the encounters of state and society, nature and culture, and people and things, social theory concerned with the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class interrogates borders (as metaphors but also as infrastructures) to illuminate the politics of translation, transgression, mediation, and encounter. We welcome papers engaging these frameworks and their interstices to consider infrastructure as built structures such as roads, pipes and checkpoints but also more-than-human configurations of bureaucracies, legal systems, emergency services, and other kinds of institutions. Contributions from advanced graduate students and recent PhDs preferred.

Submission deadline for abstracts (no more than 250 words): April 1, 2015.

Interested participants please email [log in to unmask]. Please include an abstract, title, affiliation, and current status (PhD candidacy post fieldwork, Post Doc, Faculty position).

Panel Organizers:

Rosa Elena Ficek (Wesleyan University)

Stephanie Mc Callum (University of California, Santa Cruz)

[9] Conference papers - New Sending Communities and New Receiving Communities in Dialogue with Migration Theory - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015

In the past decade, theorists have argued that the notion of migrant networks at the heart of cumulative causation and transnational theories of migration requires revisiting. These theorists assert that because research tends to report on already existing networks, a number of key questions remain. This critique suggests that research on new sending and new receiving communities is well-poised to evaluate and contribute to migration theory. New sending and receiving communities often garner little attention, especially when located in marginalized parts of countries or regions that already have a strong presence in international migration streams.  This panel takes as its starting point a dialogue between these communities and migration theory. From the perspective of sending communities, what is the connection between international sojourns and historical antecedents of localized moves? Cumulative causation theory posits a few individuals--people whose nonconformity in their own societies lead them to travel outside it--open paths for prospective migrants. Nonconformists are not necessarily trendsetters. Thus, we ask: How do their actions become popularized and, in some cases, self-reinforcing? From the perspective of new receiving communities, this panel questions: how do employers, landowners, shopkeepers, and other residents establish the social capital and cultural skills required to operate in changing cultural settings? In both new sending and new receiving communities, how does migration work to alter social constructs such as class, race, gender, kin, and other power relations? Which beliefs, ideas, and behaviors--at home and abroad—are most vulnerable to migration’s effects at its outset? While these questions respond to today’s prominent theories, the panel also considers how the ethnography of new sending and receiving communities opens possibilities for novel considerations and explanatory frameworks.

Panel Organizers:  Nora Haenn, North Carolina State University and Michelle Moran-Taylor, University of Denver

Panel Discussant: Deborah Boehm, University of Nevada, Reno

Potential participants should send their abstracts (250 words max) to Nora Haenn ([log in to unmask]) by April 3rd, 2015. Please include the title of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, and email. Thank you.

[10] Conference papers - “Ethnography of Journalism: New Directions from the Global South” - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 3, 2015

The craft of journalism has drawn growing scholarly interest in recent years, with many studies turning their attention to the expanding news media of the global South and its vibrant news cultures. The simultaneous growth of newspapers, television and online media in the South has puzzled media scholars, as they witness the old and new media expanding together without one cannibalizing the other. Attentive to the exciting phase of media growth, a new crop of news ethnographies have brought to the fore the colonial histories of news craft and its postcolonial avatars, tracing in turn journalism’s trajectory as a profession as well as a form of social mediation and political practice. With their ethnographic detail, these studies have posed a frontal challenge to some of the standing paradigms of journalism theory, whether the abstract conception of news publics as rational critical publics in the Habermasian model or the Bourdieuan frame of cultural fields and subfields.  As Jennifer Hasty forcefully puts it, “There is no news without culture, that is, strategically motivated…understandings of the locality”. How do these emerging ethnographies offer new directions to scholarship on journalism and democratic cultures? How does journalism co-create popular sovereignty, if only provisionally, in these settings? How do we trace the genealogy of various popular claims as they intersect with and animate journalism? The panel brings these questions to discussion, through papers that examine journalism’s overlaps with historically formed power structures including race and caste, and contemporary shifts such as global urbanization. Rather than following the lines of methodological nationalism or embracing essentializing tropes to construe news cultures of the South as cultural artifacts of timeless societies, the panel explores journalism in the context of global flows of culture and capital, and how these flows confront and instigate diverse news practices within the national domains as well as multiple localities of the South.

Organizer: Sahana Udupa, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Discussant: Mark Allen Peterson, Miami University

Abstracts of no more than 250 words may be sent before April 3 to [log in to unmask]

[11] Conference papers - RELIGION, ART, AND CREATIVITY IN THE GLOBAL CITY - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 4, 2015

Contemporary cities pride themselves about being havens of cutting edge creativity. They celebrate art, culture, and innovation with highly publicized festivals, glossy brochures, and clever slogans. Religiously inspired creativity, lived religious arts, and their vernacular expressions play no role in such celebrations of urban originality. Secular fashionable definitions, dominant intellectual and artistic networks, and political and economic contingencies define some features of social and cultural innovation and artistic expression as relevant, and others, like religious ones, as insignificant.

           This panel examines manifestations of social, cultural, artistic, and aesthetic innovation produced by pious individuals and their communities in global cities. Papers analyze the complex and largely neglected role of faith-based urban art and creativity. They explore exemplary contexts of pious creativity and cultural innovation. Analyzing contemporary artistic production (e.g. visual arts, music), aesthetic creativity (e.g. places of worship), social and spatial configurations (e.g. places of worship as innovative cultural centers), social innovations (e.g. faith-based associations/activities), and novel cultural formats (e.g. religious events), panelists illustrate that pious individuals are artistic and creative contributors to globalized cityscapes. Religious communities are rarely seen as havens of urban art and creativity. Instead, especially, minority communities (e.g. Muslims in Europe) are often viewed with suspicion, and their creative contributions remain contentious.

        Theoretically the panel engages debates about urban art and creativity, and cultural production (engaging among others Richard Florida’s concept of the “Creative City”), which understand urban innovation as originating in small circles of creative actors and neglect religiously inspired vernacular contributions to urban creative transformations. Using examples of religiously inspired art and social and cultural creativity, panelists illustrate that only a more inclusive focus on all urban constituencies can produce a thorough understanding of urban creativity and creative processes. The challenge in trying to understand urban creativity is not to applaud the usual "creative suspects," but to examine the creative contributions of all urbanites regardless of class, ethnicity, religion, and (desired) outcomes.

Panel Organizer: Petra Kuppinger

Discussant: James Bielo

For questions and inquiries send emails to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .

Please submit abstracts (250 words) by April 4, 2015 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

[12] Conference papers - Contemporary perspectives on environmental and ecological knowledge in marine contexts - AAA 2015 - Deadline: April 10, 2015

Panel Organizers: Mads Solberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Michael Vina (University of Bergen)

The session considers Fredrik Barth's much quoted call for more comparative anthropological studies of knowledge in the Sidney W. Mintz ' Memorial Lecture in 2000. It does so by focusing on the particular domain of environmental and ecological knowledge in marine contexts. The session will examine how this domain of inquiry has evolved over the 15 years having passed since Barth’s original formulation that “knowledge always has three faces: a substantive corpus of assertions, a range of media of representation, and a social organization”. The session will focus on theory-development and empirical findings in ethnographically informed, comparative studies of knowledge about marine ecology and environment. Both cognitive and political-economic studies of knowledge transactions are relevant to this panel, in line with Barth’s original solicitation. We want to gather both younger PhD-candidates and more established scholars as participants.

The session seeks to bring together researchers working toward developing multifaceted and integrated approaches on dimensions of environmental and ecological knowledge. Our work examines how mottled forms of knowledge concerning fish, technological innovation, conservation, and environmental change become intertwined. The panel seeks to explore knowledge production as the intersection of cognition, materiality, and practice, highlighting the importance of improvised, fluid, and dynamic dimensions of local environmental knowledge. We are particularly interested in examining the production, circulation, and transformation of environmental knowledge and practices that emerge from the daily engagement with human and nonhuman components of the seascape/landscape, and across different communities of practice. Interest in knowledge dynamics can be centered on extended, long-term everyday relations with the environment, or focus on contexts of relatively rapid and intense events such as El Niño-events, earthquakes, or hurricanes, and how such events spur new knowledge in the context of agitated and rapidly changing socio-ecological conditions.

The panel also welcomes ethnographic contributions that help to understand the conflicts that surface when overlapping, but contradictory, epistemologies related to understandings and relations with the marine environment intermingle. We welcome ethnographic contributions from political ecology, cognitive anthropology, ethnoecology, traditional ecological knowledge, multispecies ethnography, and maritime anthropology. Interdisciplinary work is welcome.

We hope that contributors will address thought-provoking questions and topics such as:

 *   Whose knowledges and epistemologies are employed to work toward problems and solutions in marine resource management, technological innovation, and conservation?

 *   In what ways do different understandings of nature and resource management affect fishers and scientists’ practices and relations with marine life?

 *   What are the unique epistemic challenges of research on marine resources and technological innovation?

 *   How is local ecological knowledge deployed to respond to observed environmental changes?

 *   How do conflict, cooperation and contested knowledges produce new spatial relations and linkages?

 *   What are possible directions both methodologically and theoretically for further scholarly engagement?

 *   Contested relations between different actors in applied knowledge production and organization.

 *   Marine resource access and distribution, cooperative and conflictive interactions between different fishing sectors.

 *   Shifting livelihood strategies in fishing communities and informal/formal marine resource management.

 *   Adaptation to environmental change and environmental risks in marine environments.

We welcome abstract submissions of 250 words (maximum) via email to Mads Solberg ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and/or Michael Vina ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by April 10, 2015. Please include a title for your submission and name of author(s).

NB: Keep in mind that participating anthropologists living in the US/Canada must have a membership with the AAA and valid registration for the conference. Anthropologists from outside the US/Canada are eligble for membership exemption. Participants must register for the conference, pay their registration fees and upload their abstracts within April 15, 2015 (earlier is better).

2. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || PRIX ET BOURSES

[1] AAA Community Engagement Grant - AAA Meeting 2015 - Deadline: April 1, 2015

AAA Community Engagement Grants provide up to $2,000 for AAA sections to rent offsite space in the annual meeting host city for events that engage communities and extend Anthropology's reach beyond the annual meeting.  There are no restrictions on the kinds of events that may be proposed, but the funds must be used only for rental of space, and the event must be open to all AAA meeting attendees.

Please provide a proposal including the following information to Kim Baker, AAA Manager, Organizational Governance ([log in to unmask]) by 1 April 2015.

Event Name:

Proposed By:

Proposed Location:

Community Partners:

Contact Person at Event Site

Section Contact[s], and Section Treasurer

Description of the Event (including how it contributes to our ability to engage local communities, enrich the annual meeting, or build partnerships with local organizations; 200 words or less.

Funds Requested:

Grant proposals must be submitted through one of the 40 sections of the AAA, and will be reviewed by the AAA Section Assembly Executive Committee at its spring meeting.  Questions? Contact Miguel Diaz Barriga, AAA Section Convenor (​​[log in to unmask] ) or Kim Baker ([log in to unmask])

3. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI (in addition to/ en plus de http://www.cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs)

[1] Junior Scientist - Luminescence Dating - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany - Deadline: Ongoing

The Department of Human Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany), invites applications for a post-doctoral position in luminescence dating. In the Department, palaeoanthropological research is conducted within a multidisciplinary environment involving groups of scientists including biological anthropologists, Palaeolithic archaeologists, archaeological scientists, and geochronologists. Luminescence dating forms a significant component of the geochronology group (integrating radiocarbon, U-series and luminescence dating) with a well-equipped laboratory. More information about the Department and the luminescence lab can be found on our web site.

We are seeking a researcher to date sites and the geomorphic context of these sites in regions of interest to our Department. This includes sample collection and dosimetric measurements in the field, laboratory processing and publication. The ideal candidate will work with different types of archaeological contexts (i.e. open-air versus caves) and will have experience with both quartz and feldspars. Experience with a Lexsyg reader is also desirable. Ideally the candidate will can also undertake fundamental research into luminescence dating methodologies. We are particularly interested in researchers who can interact with other geochronologists, palaeoanthropologists and archaeologists within the Department.

This research position may begin immediately. The initial length of the appointment is two years, with an option for extension up to five years. The selected candidate will have a Ph.D. (or be close to completion) and a significant track record of research. The Max Planck Society is committed to employing more physically impaired individuals and to increasing the share of women in areas where they are underrepresented, and therefore expressly encourages applications from such qualified individuals.

For further information please contact Prof. Jean-Jacques Hublin ([log in to unmask]). Applications, including cover letter, curriculum vitae, reprints of selected publications, a short statement of research interests, and the names of three referees should be sent by mail to the address below. The search for these positions will continue until a successful candidate has been selected.

Jean-Jacques Hublin

Department of Human Evolution

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6

D-04103 Leipzig (Germany)

http://www.eva.mpg.de/positions-available.html

[2] Tenure Position - Indigenous Scholar - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015

The School of Social Work and Human Service is seeking a qualified Indigenous scholar for a tenure tripartite position to commence July 1, 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. Thompson Rivers University is located in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, on the traditional territory of the Secwepemc Nation. The Campuses in Kamloops and Williams Lake also serve the Nlaka’pamux, St’at’imc, Tsilhqot’in and Carrier Nations. Within the area served by TRU there are also significant populations of Metis and Aboriginal people from other parts of B.C. and Canada. The university has had a long history of involvement with First Nations’ Tribal Councils, Bands, Aboriginal Organizations, Cultural, and Educational Organizations.  Our university has a mission to become the “University of Choice” for Aboriginal learners.  Enrolment of Aboriginal learners has grown to become 11% of Thompson Rivers University.   Thompson Rivers University continues to partner, create strategic goals and provide successful Aboriginal programs & services with Aboriginal communities.  

The School is seeking applicants with a strong commitment to teaching and research. The successful candidate will teach in the BSW program, including required third year courses on First Nations Issues and Decolonizing Social Work practice, engage in scholarly activity focused on Indigenous people, ethno-racial communities, and/or other equity seeking groups, and make service contributions to their profession, School, institution and community.

The School of Social Work and Human Service offers a wide range of academic programs to approximately 250 students on two campuses and more than 100 students through Open Learning. Programs include: Bachelor of Social Work Degree, the Human Service Diploma (offered at both the Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses), the Social Service Worker Certificate (offered through Open Learning), and the Child and Youth Mental Health Graduate Certificate (offered through Open Learning). The School has plans to offer a Master of Social Work degree and has a Diversity and Equity plan.

The School of Social Work and Human Service programs prepare competent practitioners to provide service and leadership within regional, national, and global contexts to achieve social justice, respect for diversity, and social change. Our graduates work in collaborative and anti-oppressive ways across a full range of service and professional positions to promote positive and progressive social change. The School is committed to learner-centred education that identifies and eradicates barriers that prevent people from reaching their full potential, and that integrates and incorporates Aboriginal perspectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Established or promising record as a scholar, educator, and member of one’s profession

• Doctoral degree in Social Work preferred, or an MSW and a doctoral degree in a related discipline, or an MSW and doctorate near completion

• A minimum of five years' social work practice experience

Acknowledging the diversity of the School's student population and constituencies in the interior of British Columbia, the School seeks to increase the representativeness of its faculty. Thompson Rivers University is committed to the principle of employment equity and in accordance with Section 42(3) of the BC Human Rights Code, priority for this position will be given to Aboriginal people.

For application information: https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3467

[] Tenure Position - School of Social Work - Thompson Rivers University - Deadline: March 31, 2015

The School of Social Work and Human Service is experiencing an unprecedented renewal of its faculty and invites applications for a tenure/tenure track tripartite position to commence July 1, 2015, or as soon as possible thereafter. The School is seeking applicants with a strong commitment to teaching and research. The successful candidate will teach in the BSW program, engage in scholarly activity, and make service contributions to their profession, School, institution and community. The School of Social Work and Human Service offers a wide range of academic programs to approximately 250 students on two campuses and more than 100 students through Open Learning. Programs include: Bachelor of Social Work Degree, the Human Service Diploma (offered at both the Kamloops and Williams Lake campuses), the Social Service Worker Certificate (offered through Open Learning), and the Child and Youth Mental Health Graduate Certificate (offered through Open Learning). The School has plans to offer a Master of Social Work degree and has a Diversity and Equity plan. The School of Social Work and Human Service programs prepare competent practitioners to provide service and leadership within regional, national, and global contexts to achieve social justice, respect for diversity, and social change. Our graduates work in collaborative and anti-oppressive ways across a full range of service and professional positions to promote positive and progressive social change. The School is committed to learner-centred education that identifies and eradicates barriers that prevent people from reaching their full potential, and that integrates and incorporates Aboriginal perspectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

- Established or promising record as a scholar, educator, and member of one’s profession

- Doctoral degree in Social Work preferred or an MSW and a doctoral degree in a related discipline

- A minimum of five years' social work practice experience

For application information: https://tru.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/3334

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