April | Avril 2016
Content | Contenu:
1. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS || ANNONCES GÉNÉRALES
[1] We are back || Nous sommes de retour
[2] Call for moderator || Recherche de modérateurs
2. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS
[1] (April 29-30) - Graduate Conference at the Centre for Ethics.
[2] (May 11-15) - CASCA annual conference || Colloque annuel de la CASCA
3. CALLS || APPELS
a) Written Publications || Publications écrites
[None]
b) Panels & Conferences || Conférences et Panels
[1] 4th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC) - Heritage in Transition: Scenes of Urban Innovation [Deadline April 30]
[2] Congrès du Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (RFS) - Identités, Conflits et interventions Sociolinguistique [Date Limite: 30 Nov.]
4. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || BOURSES ET PRIX
[1] 2016 Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) Graduate Paper Prize [Deadline April 30]
[2] Specialty Food Foundation Grants [Deadline April 29]
[3] 2016 APLA Book Prize competition [Deadline May 1]
[4] AQA 2016 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION [deadline June 13]
5. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI
[1] Food Studies Internship Coordinator, Syracuse University [deadline April 22]
[2] Off The Beaten Track program - Ethnography of Waste project - [deadline undisclosed]
[3] Visiting Scholar position in Sexuality Studies, York University, 2016-2017 (Deadline May 31st)
6. OTHER || AUTRES
[1] Summer School for Anthropologists - An Ethnography of Waste
1. GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS || ANNONCES GÉNÉRALES
[1] We are back || Nous sommes de retour
[Français] Après une longue suite de problèmes techniques et humains, c’est avec joie que votre réseau des étudiants de la CASCA annonce le retour de la lettre de diffusion dans un nouveau format mensuel afin d’aider ses membres dans leur carrière académique et le développement de l’anthropologie au Canada.
[English] After a long series of technical and human problems, it is with joy that your CASCA's Student Network announces the return of the newsletter in a new monthly format to help its members in their academic career and the development of anthropology in Canada.
[2] Call for moderator || Recherche de modérateurs
[Français] Votre réseau des étudiants de la CASCA est à la recherche d’une modératrice ou un modérateur bilingue ou d’une/un anglophone et une/un francophone afin de prendre la relève de la lettre de diffusion. Cela comprend: faire le tri des soumissions, appels et annonces pouvant être pertinent pour les membres, écrire la lettre de diffusion (ce qui est principalement du copier-coller) et envoyer ladite lettre à chaque mois (Ce qui ne demande pas tant de travail et parait bien sur le CV).
Les personnes sélectionées auront une grande liberté sur la forme et la fréquence de la lettre de diffusions si elles décident de la changer.Une formation aura lieu pour enseigner le fonctionnement et autres détails.
Pour appliquer envoyer un message à [log in to unmask]
[English] Your CASCA's Student Network is looking for a bilingual moderator or an English moderator and a French one to take over the newsletter. This includes: to sort the submissions, calls and announcements that may be relevant to members, write the newsletter (which is mostly copy-paste) and send that letter each month (This does not require much work and looks good on the resume).
Selected applicants have great freedom over the shape and the frequency of the newsletter, if they decide to change it. A short training will be held to teach the process and other details.
To apply send a message to [log in to unmask]
2. EVENTS || ÉVÉNEMENTS
[1] April 29-30 - Graduate Conference at the Centre for Ethics.
Deus v. Machina – Graduate Conference at the Centre for Ethics
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, and SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2016
Graduate Associates Annual Conference
Keynote Address
“Thinking About Cognitive Scientists Thinking About Religion”
John Lardas Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
Friday, April 29th, 4- 6 PM
Room JH 100A, Jackman Humanities Building
Modern teaches classes in American religious history, literature, technology, and aesthetics. Modern is the author of The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Secularism in Antebellum America (University of Chicago Press, 2011). Modern’s work has appeared in journals such as American Literary History, Social Text, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Church History, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion as well as in a range of on-line venues. Modern’s work has been funded by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Social Science Research Council. He is currently at work on two projects: “The Religion Machine, or; A Particular History of Cognitive Science” and “Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber At the End of the World”. Modern is an editor-at-large for The Immanent Frame. He was also co-curator of Frequencies: A Collaborative Genealogy of Spirituality and is currently co-editor of Class 200: New Studies in Religion (both with Kathryn Lofton)
This lecture offers a genealogical perspective on the hyperactive agency detection device (HADD), a central concept in the contemporary cognitive science of religion. HADD is a machine of sorts, inside your head right now. Indeed, HADD is the machine that makes your prayers possible. It is a prayer machine by any other name. It scans the horizon for movement and pattern and alerts us to forces of otherness, variously construed. It is the machine that runs the programs of prayer, of sensing God as a fully realized agent. It is on all of the time, a form of troubleshooting the lines of transmission between you and what is on the other side of the screen. And it is the thing, this machine—for if we are talking about science we must be talking about the talking about materiality—that is said to offer some purchase on the phenomena of religion.
Register for the Keynote at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/john-modern-thinking-about-cognitive-scientists-thinking-about-religion-tickets-24291425307
Further info on conference panels and schedule can be found at http://graduateassociates.wix.com/conf2016
[2] May 11-15 - CASCA annual conference || Colloque annuel de la CASCA
[Français] Un rappel rapide que le colloque annuel de la CASCA ayant pour thème les Solidarités aura lieu du 11 au 15 mai prochain à l’université Dalhousie à Halifax (Nouvelle-Écosse).
La programmation est disponible en ligne au: https://cascasana2016.com/program/
[English] A quick reminder that CASCA’s annual conference with the theme Solidarities will be held at Dalhousie University, Halifax (Nova Scotia), May 11-15, 2016
You can access the program online at: https://cascasana2016.com/program/
3. CALLS || APPELS
a) Written Publications || Publications écrites
[None]
b) Panels & Conferences || Conférences et Panels
[1] 4th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC) - Heritage in Transition: Scenes of Urban Innovation (Deadline April 30)
Heritage in Transition: Scenes of Urban Innovation, 4th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Culture of Cities (IASCC), July 27-29th, 2016, Ermoupolis, Syros Greece
Deadline: April 30, 2016
http://www.cultureofcities.com/iascc-conference-2016-heritage-in-transition-july-25-28-syros/
[2] Congrès du Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (RFS) - Identités, Conflits et interventions Sociolinguistique (Date Limite: 30 Nov.)
Identités, Conflits et interventions Sociolinguistique, Congrès du Réseau Francophone de Sociolinguistique (RFS) , Montpellier 14, 15 et 16 juin 2017
Date limite: 30 novembre 2016
http://rfs2017.upv.univ-montp3.fr/
4. FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND AWARDS || BOURSES ET PRIX
[1] 2016 Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) Graduate Paper Prize (Deadline April 30)
The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) invites submissions for the 2016 Graduate Paper Prize. ASAP awards a prize of $250 annually for the best graduate student paper on any aspect of the anthropology of policy.
Papers must be based upon original ethnographic fieldwork. A committee of three ASAP board members will read and assess the papers based upon the originality and depth of their empirical research and their contribution to the field; organization, quality, and clarity of writing; and cogency of argument. A condensed version of the winning paper will be published in the ASAP Anthropology News column and linked on the ASAP website.
Manuscripts should be sent to Jennifer Hubbert ([log in to unmask]) as MS Word files, double-spaced, with one file for the text itself (with author’s name removed) and another file for the cover page (see details below).
General eligibility criteria:
-Students must be in a degree-granting program (including MA or PhD) at the time of their submission.
-Students must be members of ASAP.
-Paper must be the original work of the student and previously unpublished.
-Paper must have been written in the current 2015-2016 academic year (i.e., since August 2015)
-Limit of one submission per student.
Manuscript format criteria:
-All manuscripts must be typed and double-spaced.
-Maximum length for the body of the text 7,000 words.
- citations, endnotes, and “References Cited” as outlined in the American Anthropologist style guide.
- Authors must include a title and an abstract of 250 words or less on the first page of the paper.
-The author’s name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number,university affiliation and academic status (MA or PhD) should appear type on a cover sheet separate from the manuscript. The author’s name should not appear elsewhere on the manuscript.
-The paper must be submitted to Jennifer Hubbert by April 30, 2016. No late entries will be accepted and submissions will not be returned. Outside of the award itself, comments on the papers will not be provided to authors.
-Entries that do not conform to the above requirements will not be considered.
[2] Specialty Food Foundation Grants (Deadline April 29)
Specialty Food Foundation supports social entrepreneurs in their innovative approaches to reducing hunger and increasing food recovery. We fund capacity building grants, general operating grants, innovation grants, project/program support grants and seed grants. Potential: $10,000-$30,000. Learn more at Specialty Food Foundation.
[3] 2016 APLA Book Prize competition (Deadline May 1)
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2016 APLA Book Prize competition. The association will recognize work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or their interstices. The 2016 APLA book prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association meeting in Minneapolis and will be reviewed in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. It also carries an award of $1,000. An honorable mention may be identified by the committee, if appropriate.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible for consideration, a book must examine law and/or politics ethnographically, and must have been published in English during the year prior to the competition (2015). Either single- or multi-authored books are eligible, however edited volumes, reference works, or second editions of previously published works are excluded from consideration. Books translated into English from another language are eligible for consideration. In such cases, the year that the translation was published is considered the year of publication for purposes of eligibility.
NOMINATION PROCESS:
Books may be nominated by the author(s), the press, or an APLA member. Nominations must be accompanied by a nominating letter. Send the letter and a copy of the nominated book no later than May 1, 2016 directly to each of the APLA book prize committee members:
-Rosemary Coombe, York University, 230 Willard Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M6S 3P8;
-Alex Golub, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Saunders Hall 346, -Honolulu HI 96822-2223;
-Erik Harms, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 10 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT 06520;
-Audra Simpson, Columbia University 601 W. 115th St. Apt. 45, New York, NY 10025
-Andrea Ballestero, MS 20, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005.
Address inquiries to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, Andrea Ballestero, [log in to unmask]. Visit our website at www.politicalandlegalanthro.org to learn more about APLA.
[4] AQA 2016 RUTH BENEDICT BOOK PRIZE COMPETITION (deadline June 13)
The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) is proud to announce the 2016 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Competition for outstanding anthropological scholarship on a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer topic.
The Ruth Benedict Book Prize is presented each year at the American Anthropological Association's annual meeting to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a topic that engages issues and theoretical perspectives relevant to LGBTQ studies. The Prize is awarded in each of two separate categories, one for a single-authored monograph and another for an edited volume.
Submissions may be on any topic related to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, or other gender/sexual formations and categories from any world culture area. Topics may include the study of normativity, queer theory, and the social/historical construction of sexual and gender identities, discourses, and categories. Authors may represent any scholarly discipline, but the material submitted must engage anthropological theories and methods. Submissions may be self-nominated or may be sent by a press or another person.
Books submitted for the competition must have a publication date of 2015 or 2016 and may not have been submitted previously. Page proofs of books scheduled for 2016 publication are acceptable but must include a letter from the publisher confirming the anticipated publication date of 2016.
To nominate a work, please submit one copy of the book or edited volume to each of the four committee members listed below, with the author or editor’s name, mailing address, and email address, and telephone number printed clearly on a separate cover letter indicating that it is a submission for the Ruth Benedict Book Prize.
All submissions must be received by Monday, June 13, 2016.
Send inquiries to Ruth Benedict Book Prize Chair, Naisargi Dave ([log in to unmask])
2015 Ruth Benedict Book Prize Committee Members: Jara Carrington, Noelle Stout, Naisargi Dave, and Rudolf Gaudio.
5. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES || OFFRE D'EMPLOI
[1] Food Studies Internship Coordinator, Syracuse University (deadline April 22)
The Food Studies program at Syracuse University is hiring a full time salaried
internship coordinator to help with placing students in internships, work to
develop community collaborations, and to possibly teach a course. For more
information and to apply:
https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/64013
[2] Off The Beaten Track program - Ethnography of Waste project
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am pleased to report that I will be returning to Malta to continue the second year of the Ethnography of Waste project in Gozo.
Researchers new to the field are invited to explore factors that contribute to food loss and waste on the farm and the diversity of challenges faced by a Gozitan farmer.
Not only will project participants gain a deeper understanding of food wastage in Gozo, but will also learn techniques for how to best engage with informants, exploring their own styles and comforts. Participants are sure to find themselves getting down and dirty on farms, rolling up their sleeves in the kitchen, and on foraging escapades, traversing the edible landscape of Gozo.
Discover more details about the Ethnography of Waste project in the attached leaflet or through this link.
The project is part of the the Off The Beaten Track program:
www.anthropologyfieldschool.org
All the Best,
Alexa Zerkow
Temple University, Philadelphia (USA)
email: [log in to unmask]
[3] Visiting Scholar position in Sexuality Studies, York University, 2016-2017 (Deadline May 31st)
The Sexuality Studies Program is pleased to announce a Visiting Scholar position in partnership with the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at York University for the 2016-2017 academic year. We invite applicants who have acquired a doctorate in sexuality studies and/or transgender studies by July 2015 to submit their application. Junior and senior scholars are both welcome to apply. The Visiting Scholar position is intended to provide an institutional base for junior scholars doing postdoctoral research, along with senior scholars on sabbatical or research leave. The CFR will offer shared work space, a library card, and contact with other scholars within York University doing sexuality studies and in the Centre for Feminist Research. Unfortunately, we do not have funds for a stipend. Visiting scholars will be expected to present their research at a seminar or public lecture organized by the Sexuality Studies Program and the Centre for Feminist Research, and to actively participate in activities organized by the Sexuality Studies Program and the CFR. There may also be opportunities to present your work in undergraduate or graduate classrooms.
Applications will be accepted until May 31st, 2016.
Applications should include:
i) a 2-3 page proposal outlining the research project you plan to undertake while in residence at York University;
ii) two recent publications;
iii) an up-to-date curriculum vitae; and
iv) the names and contact information of two references.
Applications should be sent electronically to:
Amar Wahab
Coordinator, Sexuality Studies Program
Assistant Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies
York University
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
6. OTHER || AUTRES
[1] Summer School for Anthropologists - An Ethnography of Waste
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am pleased to report that I will be returning to Malta to continue the second year of the Ethnography of Waste project in Gozo.
Researchers new to the field are invited to explore factors that contribute to food loss and waste on the farm and the diversity of challenges faced by a Gozitan farmer.
Not only will project participants gain a deeper understanding of food wastage in Gozo, but will also learn techniques for how to best engage with informants, exploring their own styles and comforts. Participants are sure to find themselves getting down and dirty on farms, rolling up their sleeves in the kitchen, and on foraging escapades, traversing the edible landscape of Gozo.
Discover more details about the Ethnography of Waste project in the attached leaflet or through this link.
The project is part of the the Off The Beaten Track program:
www.anthropologyfieldschool.org
All the Best,
Alexa Zerkow
Temple University, Philadelphia (USA)
email: [log in to unmask]
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All members of CASCA's Student Network as well as graduate program directors who have events or opportunities of interest to our members are invited to contact the moderators ([log in to unmask]). Links to detailed posting guidelines: in English and French.
Tous les membres du réseau des étudiants de CASCA ainsi que les directeurs de programmes d'études supérieures qui ont des événements ou des possibilités d'intérêt pour nos membres sont invités à contacter les modérateurs ([log in to unmask]). Voir ci-dessous pour directives sur les affectations détaillées: en anglais et français.