CASCA Call for Papers: Casca May 8-10 at Carlton University Ottawa

Critical Engagement, Critical Articulations: Ethnographies from South
Asia and the South Asian Diaspora

Focusing on ethnographic research and praxis in South Asia and its
diaspora, the panel invites papers that broadly engage with, but are not
limited to, questions of the cultural politics of gender, labour,
relationships, place, media, performance, nationhood, migration,
citizenship, and multiculturalism. We are interested in initiating a
dialogue that explores the overlapping matrices of power and knowledge
that are currently reconfiguring the landscape of social relationships
and socio-political identities, as well as in considering the
connections between gender, knowledge, place, culture, and ethnographic
research. This is particularly important given ongoing shifts in
ethnographic practice, globalization, and the politicization of culture,
issues which are complicated by this session's attention to different
south Asian contexts which draw upon different vocabularies and address
multiple publics.

Please contact us if you have any questions and send your abstracts of
100 words by Feb 9, to Glynis George (ggeorge@uwindsor.ca) or Nicola
Mooney ( Nicola.Mooney@ucfv.ca).

Call For Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa

Session Title: 'Nature Matters': Tracking the Cultural Politics of Nature and
Difference

The proposed panel/s takes Judith Butler's contention that "Matter, [is] not a
site or surface, but a process of materialization that stabilizes over time to
produce the effect of boundary, fixity, and surface we call matter" (1993: 9)
seriously and brings it in conversation with the matters of 'nature'
which have
witnessed significant efforts and effects of fixing and stabilizing its
identity, meaning, and form. In an attempt to initiate a dialogue, the aim of
the panel is to explore how battles over nature, particularly at this
political
and economic juncture, come to be materialized, what are the new 'regulatory
ideals' that are put into place to make and remake nature, and how deeply
imbricated categories of difference, of race, gender, indigeniety, are
performed through the work and materiality of nature, and with what
effects. In
order to elaborate the multiple articulations of power that circumscribe and
constitute the conjunctural terrain of nature, we invite papers that engage
with but are not limited to the politics of nature in colonial sites,
indigenous knowledges and practices of nature, environmentalisms, enclaved
nature, urban nature, gendered and embodied politics of nature, emergent forms
of natures like the GMOs, and the new regimes of nature's government and
improvement.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Shubhra Gururani
(gururani@yorku.ca) with the title of your paper and a brief description (100
words) as soon as you can.

CASCA08 May/mai 2008

(Le texte français suit le texte anglais)

The organizing committee of the CASCA conference in May 2008,
"Ethnography: Entanglements
and Ruptures," at Carleton University in Ottawa reminds you about
registering for the
conference and submitting your abstracts or panels. We are excited to
confirm the
keynote address by Catherine Lutz entitled "Ethnography in the Time of
War." To
register, please go to http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/register.html.

Please note on the conference registration webpage where it says
"Conference Banquet" it
should read "Conference Party" -- there has been an unexpected delay
in changing the
wording on this webpage. However, we are delighted to announce that
for the conference
party we have booked Mighty Popo (http://www.mightypopo.ca/) for the
evening of Saturday,
May 10th.

We are also putting information concerning accommodation on the website
(http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/) -- we have booked rooms at
the Carleton
residence as well as some rooms at downtown hotels. We encourage you
to book any hotels
early as the CASCA conference is at the same time as the Canadian
Tulip Festival
(http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/index.php) -- one of the many
attractions of the
Ottawa-Gatineau area at this time of the year, which includes a
diversity of museums, art
galleries, fine restaurants, hiking, and so forth. We will also be
putting information
of such attractions on the website.

If you have any questions concerning the conference, please email us at
casca@connect.carleton.ca. We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa!

Le comité organisateur du congrès annuel CASCA - qui aura lieu en mai
prochain à
l'université Carleton à Ottawa et qui portera sur le theme
"Ethnographie: enchevêtrements
et ruptures" - vous rappelle de ne pas oublier de vous inscrire au
congrès et de
soumettre vos résumés ou propositions de pannel.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous confirmer que la conférence d'honneur
sera donnée par
Catherine Lutz sur le thème* *"L'ethnographie en temps de guerre."
Pour s'inscrire à
cette conférence, veuillez aller à
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/fr_register.html.

Veuillez noter que sur la page web d'inscription au congrès, là où il
est écrit «
Réception », il faut lire « Soirée de Gala » - à cause d'un retard
inattendu le mot n'a
pas encore été changé. Nous sommes cependant ravis de vous annoncer
que la soirée du
congrès se tiendra le samedi 10 mai au Mighty Popo
(http://www.mightypopo.ca/).

Vous trouverez bientôt tous les renseignements concernant
l'hébergement sur la page web
(http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/) -- nous avons réservé des
chambres à la
residence universitaire ainsi que dans quelques hotels du centre ville.

Nous vous encourageons à reserver à l'avance une chambre étant donné
que le congrès CASCA
se tiendra en meme temps que le Festival canadien des tulipes, une des
nombreuses
attractions d'Ottawa-Gatineau
(http://www.tulipfestival.ca/en/index.php). Nous mettrons
bientôt à votre disposition sur le site web des informations
concernant la vie culturelle
et les loisirs de la région -- musées, galleries d'arts, restaurants,
chemins de
randonnées etc.

Nous nous tenons à votre disposition pour toute question -- n'hesitez
pas à nous
contacter à casca@connect.carleton.ca

Au plaisir de vous voir à Ottawa!

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
International & Interdisciplinary Conference
HUMAN RIGHTS, INDIVIDUALISM & GLOBALIZATION
April 10-12, 2008, Sponsored by the Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global
Awarenes
And the Bethany College School of Arts & Sciences, Bethany College, West
Virginia

Suggested Topics

* Cultural Narcissism
* Alienable vs. Inalienable Human Rights
* Documenting Human Rights Abuse
* The Law & Practice of Human Rights
* Abolition of Slave Trade
* Refugees & Forced Migration
* Nationalism & Ethnicity
* Diplomacy & Human Rights
* Human Rights & Religious Expression
* Communications of Terror
* Human Rights & Globalization
* Democracy
* Political Rights & Human Rights
* Democracy & Political Activism
* NGOS & Political Rights
* Rights of Women
* Rights of Children

_____

Please send a 150 word abstract to
HumanRightsProposal@ideologiesofwar.com

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 29, 2008.

For additional information about the conference go to:
http://www.bethanywv.edu/internationalconferences

Conference Organizer: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy
Director, Center for Spirituality, Ethics & Global Awareness: 304-829-7525

_____

* Human Rights & Diversity in the Workplace
* Human Rights & Labor Exploitation
* Human Rights & the Environment
* War Crimes & Terror
* Transnational Politics & Globalization
* Gandhi's' view on Globalization
* Poverty & Globalization
* Globalization as a Sophisticated Form of Colonization
* Outsourcing
* Capitalism & Worker's Union
* Anti-terrorists Measures & International Human Rights
* Gangs
* Violence Crime & Security
* Racism & the Multicultural Self
* Social Responsibility & Labor Rights
* Objectivist Framework of Individualism
* Privacy Rights & Communication Technology

Selected papers from the conference will be published.

There will also be an undergraduate research paper competition. Please
encourage your students to join the competition. There will be an aware for
the best undergraduate paper.

Call for Papers, CASCA08, Ethno-graphy in times of flux and instant connectivity

Call for Papers

CASCA08

May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Ethno-graphy in times of flux and instant connectivity

Organizers: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Autonomous
University of Yucatan

In the 21st century anthropologists must work with groups that change
continuously and whose members connect with each other not only
presentially but also through ample use of real time communications
technology, including phones, faxes, cell phones and the internet.
Anthropologists themselves have to respond to increasing pressures brought
on by these same technologies. While in the past an anthropologist in the
field was effectively cut from friends and colleagues at her university
and home town, today the maze of our social relations follows us with the
help of different media. The 'ethnos' of 'ethno-graphy' is also being
challenged as we increasingly work in places and with groups where it is
almost impossible to assume a group's temporal or geographical continuity.
How is the recording of the anthropological experience changing under
these new conditions of flux and full connectivity? What is the impact of
these circumstances on resulting ethno-graphies?

Please send abstracts to Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (gvcetina@uady.mx) and
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (siayora@uady.mx)

Call for Papers CASCA Authority, agency and bodies: sites of encounter in the anthropology of regulation

*Call for Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 Carleton University, Ottawa*

*http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/*

*Authority, agency and bodies: sites of encounter in the anthropology of
regulation__*

Regulatory agencies are responsible for the protection and management of
risks, and for the safety, efficacy and quality of the products that
come under their mandate. The texture of the work-a-day world of
regulatory cultures and the types of transactions, communications, and
negotiations that make up regulatory practices are largely beyond the
purview of the citizens whose well-being is balanced. Trade-offs of
harms and benefits happen behind closed doors; they get determined by
the panoply of evidences. In this panel, we suggest that understanding
the way in which regulation takes place requires situated ethnographic
accounts that are capable of rupturing taken-for-granted assumptions:
evidence, and the instruments of measurement that determine scientific
evidence are cross-examined along with their entangled human regulatory
actors. Narratives of efficacy, safety and precaution weave through
regulatory practices, but are mirrored back in altered forms by those
impacted by regulation, including patients, industry and the regulators
themselves.

This panel calls for papers that deal with this intersection between
regulation, the evidence used to create it, and those whom it affects.
Please send abstracts of 100 words (max.) to *cpholmes@dal.ca
<mailto:cpholmes@dal.ca>* by February 13, 2008.

Session organizers: Dr. Janice Graham and Christina Holmes

CALL FOR PAPERS, THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference on: TERROR

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE HUMAN CONDITION SERIES: 2nd Annual International Multidisciplinary
Conference on: TERROR
May 2-3, 2008, Laurentian University @ Georgian College, Ontario, Canada

Dear Colleague,

This exciting conference is one of the most significant meetings of the year
on the sources and meanings of political and cultural violence.

We welcome proposals from people in the fields of anthropology, sociology,
history, peace studies, psychology, religious studies, cultural studies,
psychoanalysis and political psychology.

We look forward to receiving your abstract.

Best regards,

Orion Anderson

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to announce the participation of three internationally
renowned keynote speakers:

* Henry Giroux (McMaster University)
* Sunera Thobani (University of British Columbia)
* Sut Jhally (University of Massachusetts)

Special Plenary Talk

Richard A. Koenigsberg (Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis)

Description of the Series and Conference Theme

"Terror becomes total when it becomes independent of all opposition:
It rules supreme when nobody any longer stands in its way."
-Hannah Arendt

This conference is part of a larger series of ongoing, international,
multidisciplinary conferences--run under the banner of The Human Condition
Series--that brings together people from a variety of disciplines to assess
a singular topic from artistic, cinematic, literary, ethical, social,
political, philosophical, psychological and religious perspectives. We
encourage you to share innovative ideas and new ways of thinking and acting.
Proposals will be considered on any related theme and we especially welcome
papers, reports, works-in-progress, workshops and sessions. This year's
theme is Terror.

The concept of Terror is often found safely hidden and un-thought in diverse
cultural, philosophical, and religious traditions and ways of life. One can
see these safe havens extending from the divine mythologies of religious
experience to the seemingly opposed rationalized life of contemporary
high-tech societies. With respect to religious experience, it is clear that
we have to seriously reconsider the dynamics of organized religion in the
face of rising religious fundamentalisms and terrorist activity.

But terror in the highly rationalized world of technological societies can
also impose its existing logic as a way of maintaining the order of things.
We give it various positive names that conceal its potency and negative
effects. At precise moments in history, terror's potency has appeared in
benign terms such as "child welfare," "residential schools," the "founding
nation," the "developed world," the "hysterical woman," the "mentally ill,"
the "social and sexual deviant," the "immigrant problem," the "disposable
income," and the "democratic liberation of other peoples."

It is the absurd rationalizations of these terms in the face of concrete
realities that covers over terror's effects and keeps it intact. This
conference will investigate what role Terror has in maintaining the
contemporary condition of humanity--and what hope there is of envisioning a
condition in which Terror is natural and organic rather than strategic and
imposed.

_____

Please send a 250-300 word abstract or proposal as an email attachment (MS
Word Format) to TerrorProposal@ideologiesofwar.com

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 15, 2008.

For more details about the conference go to:
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/speakers-08/
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9gpoxicab.0.0.85y8w8n6.0&ts=S0314&p=http%3A%2F%2Fhu
manconditionseries.wordpress.com%2Fspeakers-08%2F&id=preview> or
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/past-conference-07/
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9gpoxicab.0.0.85y8w8n6.0&ts=S0314&p=http%3A%2F%2Fhu
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_____

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

The Laws of State-Terror

* Non-sovereign Peoples Subjected to the Authority of the Privileged
* Structures that Organize, Control, Punish, and Reward Subjects
* Denial to Total Self-Governance

Communications of Terror

* Propaganda, Public Relations and other Communication Management in
the Opinion Industry.
* Overt and Covert Representations of Terror
* The Centrality of Spin and Lobbying in Communicating Terror
* The Role of the PR Industry in Creating Terror
* Think Tanks and Policy Communications
* Global Media Management and Terror

The Manufacture and Management of Terror

* The Marketing of Terror
* Falsified News Coverage and the Intelligence Industry
* Techniques of Generating and Maintaining Terror through the Medical
Industry's Management of 'Outbreaks'
* The Relationship of Terror to the Modern Malaise: Anxiety,
Disorders, Disease
* Terror as Pleasure

Designating Terror

* The Construction of the Transnational Terrorist
* Deconstructing and Reconstructing Designations: "Terrorism",
"Freedom Fighter", "Peacekeeper", "Organized Crime", "Legality", and "Human
Security"
* Delegitimation of Claims of Origin in Land-Ownership

Terror and the Transformation of States and Nations

* Legitimacy of Landownership.
* Public and Private Responses to Political Violence
* Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding and Conflicting Agendas in
Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Crime Policies
* Forces in Society which Resist Terror via Fighting, Politics,
Activism or Critical Journalism.

Spaces of Terror

* The International Political Economy of Corporate Power as Terror
* Hospitals, Clinics and the Medical Industry as Terror
* Education and Terror

Gender, Sexuality and Terror

* Otherness as Terror
* Patriarchy and the Violence of Gender Performance
* Gendering Terrorism

_____

Please send a 250-300 word abstract or proposal as an email attachment (MS
Word Format) to TerrorProposal@ideologiesofwar.com

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACT: FEBRUARY 15, 2008.

For more details about the conference go to:
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/speakers-08/
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9gpoxicab.0.0.85y8w8n6.0&ts=S0314&p=http%3A%2F%2Fhu
manconditionseries.wordpress.com%2Fspeakers-08%2F&id=preview> or
http://humanconditionseries.wordpress.com/past-conference-07/
<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=9gpoxicab.0.0.85y8w8n6.0&ts=S0314&p=http%3A%2F%2Fhu
manconditionseries.wordpress.com%2Fpast-conference-07%2F&id=preview>

All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be
considered for inclusion in the The Human Condition Series e-journal.
In addition, some papers will also be considered for publication in a themed
volume on Terror.

Contact Person: Marianne Vardalos, Director
Human Condition Series Organizing Committee, 2008

_____

Recreational Terror

* Terror Pornography
* Horror Genres
* The Commodification of Fear
* Ritualistic Terror

Terror as Text

* Artistic Expressions of Terror
* Imagining Terror
* Literature and Terror
* Discourses and Counter-Discourses of Terror
* Historic Perspectives on Terror
* Linguistic Evolutions of Terror

The Doxas of Terror

* The Terror of Morality
* Market Terror
* Techno-Scientific Terror
* The Terror of Fundamentalisms
* Military Logic as Terror
* The Culture Industry as Terror
* The Terror of Reason
* The Metaphysics of Terror
* Racial Knowledge as Terror
* Faith and Terror

Call for Papers,CASCA May 8-10 2008.Session Etno-graphy in Times of Full Connectivity

Call For Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Ethno-graphy in times of flux and instant connectivity

Organizers: Gabriela Vargas-Cetina and Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Autonomous
University of Yucatan

In the 21st century anthropologists must work with groups that change
continuously and whose members connect with each other not only
presentially but also through ample use of real time communications
technology, including phones, faxes, cell phones and the internet.
Anthropologists themselves have to respond to increasing pressures brought
on by these same technologies. While in the past an anthropologist in the
field was effectively cut from friends and colleagues at her university
and home town, today the maze of our social relations follows us with the
help of different media. The 'ethnos' of 'ethno-graphy' is also being
challenged as we increasingly work in places and with groups where it is
almost impossible to assume a group's temporal or geographical continuity.
How is the recording of the anthropological experience changing under
these new conditions of flux and full connectivity? What is the impact of
these circumstances on resulting ethno-graphies?

Please send abstracts to Gabriela Vargas-Cetina (gvcetina@uady.mx) and
Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz (siayora@uady.mx)

Peril, politics and prospect of tourist ethnography/ies: CASCA 2008 Panel Discussion

CASCA 2008
We invite interested parties to contact us by February 5, 2008:

Susan Frohlick frohlick@umanitoba.ca
Julia Harrison jharrison@trentu.ca

Peril, politics and prospect of tourist ethnography/ies
Format: two back-to-back sessions

The centrality of tourists as social actors in late-capitalist
consumer societies with growing global disparities between the rich
and poor, and uneven regulations of persons and things, and so forth
call out for increasingly nuanced studies of the "lifeworlds" of
tourists—yet for various reasons they remain difficult and unseen
research subjects. We call upon anthropologists who have been
conducting ethnographic research with tourists to discuss what we see
then as a "rupture" in anthropological understandings of tourism
processes, which tend to centre on local perspectives and take for
granted "the tourist." Yet, this category is hardly homogenous, and
remains pivotal to understanding what Kathleen Adams has called
"tourist mania" in the global era. We want to consider the peril,
politics, and prospect of what might be productively termed "tourist
ethnography" in the recent context of what the conference organizers
aptly refer to as the "entanglement and ruptures" of ethnography, to
participate in a double session roundtable panel.

Session A Panel Discussion

4-6 presenters

Presenters in this session will address questions centered on the
intertwined stages of ethnographic tourist research: the
'complexities and tensions of doing fieldwork with tourists; and the
politics of 'construction/representation' of tourists in ethnographic
texts.

· How does the ethnographer retain/create critical distance from
research subjects situated in the same 'lifeworld' as ethnographer,
i.e. tourists like/as "us"? In maintaining this distance, do tourist
ethnographies presume the western dominance of both anthropologists
and tourists in the political economy of global tourism? Are tourist
ethnographies just another example of 'anthropology at home'? Or are
they somehow different?

· To what degree does anthropology sustain its imperialist legacy of
gazing at the 'Other' as sedentary and impoverished by focusing on
western tourists and ignoring growing middle-class consumers of
tourism such as in China and India? Or, does this predominance of
studies on western tourists simply reflect what's going on in the
world, which we ought to be problematizing more in our work?

· How do ethnographers maintain a sympathetic stance towards
tourists and touristic practices we find troubling (such as sex
tourists )? Is it possible to maintain a 'relativistic posture' here
as the ethnographer? Is such a posture desirable considering the
larger political, social, and economic inequities consistently
embedded in the logics of global tourism?

· How far do derisive stereotypes of tourists infiltrate the
fieldwork practices and ethnographies of tourists?

· In the long run, who cares about what anthropologists have to say
about tourists? Are our representational practices (peer reviewed
monographs/book length ethnographies) reaching anyone but 'the
converted'? Are our research methods too particular, too localized to
be seen to have global implications? Should we, could we confront
what appear to be 'western cultural assumptions' of the right to
travel in an era of global warming, the effects of which will most
devastatingly felt in places constructed in western discourses as
'most desirable' to visit? Should we seek to engage directly the
absence of a critical tourist discourse in business and management-
driven tourism studies programmes, and the representation of the
tourist in industry promotion generally? What are the risks here?
What are the benefits?

Session B: Roundtable

Drawing on issues raised in Session A organizers, panelists, and
audience members will be invited to participate in an roundtable
discussion framed by the following questions:
· What generalizations can we articulate about the "peril, politics,
and potential" of tourist ethnography/ies? and to what end are these
worth considering?
· How can tourist ethnography as both methodology and representation
strategy be more "engaged" in terms of providing a critique of
tourism more generally given the overwhelming evidence which
challenges assumptions that tourism is a progressive social movement?

Call For Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa

Call For Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa.

Session Title: For Goodness Sake: Performances, Embodiments and
Subjectivities of Virtue

This session aims to explore various performances, embodiments and
subjectivities of "virtue". Specifically, we are interested in the
linkages and connections between virtue and tourism, national
identity, gender and sexuality, bodies and health. Possible lines of
inquiry include the promotion of the athletic body as a virtuous body
and its connections with definitions of health and responsibility; the
commodification of religion and piety through religious tourism; or
the production of national identities based on definitions of goodness
or righteousness.

In this call for papers, we invite papers with ethnographic accounts
of virtuousness that look at these linkages and connections between
virtue and power, identity and the body. We are using "virtue" in the
broadest sense and we invite submissions from others who have
contemplated questions such as: What is virtue? Who gets to be
virtuous? Who defines virtue? What is at stake, culturally speaking,
in these characterizations of virtuousness?

Please send 100 word abstracts to either Maggie Cummings
(mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) or Mary-Lee Mulholland
(mlmulhol@ucalgary.ca) by February 8th. Do not hesitate to contact us
earlier with any questions. The deadline for registration is February
15th.

Offre d'emploi: Professeur(e)-chercheur(e), analyse des organisations et institutions culturelles

Le centre Urbanisation, culture et société de l'Institut national de
la recherche scientifique (Montréal) (www.ucs.inrs.ca) ouvre un poste
de professeur(e)-chercheur(e) en analyse des organisations et
institutions culturelles (poste menant à la permanence). Date limite 2
mars 2008.
Pour plus de détails, voir:
http://www.ucs.inrs.ca/tempnouv/offre2mars08.pdf

Invitation to summer courses in Iceland

*Svartárkot: Culture - Nature *

In the remote location of Svartárkot in Northern Iceland, at the edge
of the wild Central Highlands, the edge of the inhabited world, a
cutting edge study centre is being developed (see http://
www.svartarkot.is <http://www.svartarkot.is>). The place, straddling
the border between the settled landscape and the wilderness, is
strangely appropriate for investigating the interaction between culture

and nature. The approach is multi-disciplinary, incorporating cultural

studies, literature, history, anthropology, folklore, geography,
geology, ecology and the natural sciences.

Svartárkot is a remote rural location giving participants first-hand
experience of the
interaction between people and the natural world. Courses will
involve
a generous number of excursions and field-trips, capitalizing on the
local diverse and unique cultural and natural environment.

Courses are intended for graduate and undergraduate students. They are

supervised by the Reykjavik Academy (http://www.akademia.is) and
tailored to international university level standards. Faculty bringing

five or more students will be able to attend a course free of charge.

They will instead be asked to assist in the classroom experience.

*Courses for 2008:
*
1) Geography programme
This course deals with the development of settlement and natural
history in Iceland. The processes controlling the development of
geography, both
human and natural, will be viewed from several angle with lectures,
field trips and project work.

2) Reverse cultural history - manuscripts and local culture
The course deals with the main themes in Icelandic cultural history
and
puts them in a new light from the perspective of scribal studies. The

old scribal tradition is still with us, and it has been renewed in our

time with the writing of diaries and blogs. This tradition will be the

subject of lectures, project work and field trips to archives and
places of interest.

3) Environmental and agricultural history of Iceland in a global
context
How did and do different kinds of agricultural practices use local
environments? How
does industrial society draw on local environments?
What is the effect of local environmental changes on different kinds of

societies? on the global context? The emphasis will be on the area
around Svartárkot,
NE-Iceland, and how its history can be viewed and analyzed.

For further information, prices and registration please visit http://
www.svartarkot.is <http://www.svartarkot.is>
Please forward this message to anyone you think would be interested
and
to relevant mailing-lists.

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM ETHNOGRAPHIQUE DU QU=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9BEC?=

(English follows)

Montréal, 14 janvier 2008

Le FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM ETHNOGRAPHIQUE DU QUÉBEC LANCE SA
PROGRAMMATION 2008 !!!

www.fifeq.ca

Bonjour à tous!

Anciennement connu sous le nom de FFEM, le FIFEQ (Festival international du
film ethnographique du Québec) fêtera son cinquième anniversaire en 2008,
réunissant pour une première fois cinq universités québécoises, soit celles
de Chicoutimi, Laval, Concordia, MgGill et Universtié de Montréal.

Les 25, 26 et 27 janvier 2008, nous invitons professeurs, professionnels,
cinéphiles et passionnés d'ethnographie visuelle à venir assister à de
nombreuses projections, à des expositions photos, des conférences et plus
encore, le tout entièrement gratuitement!

Consacré à la promotion du film ethnographique, le FIFEQ met de l'avant de
nouveaux cinéastes d'ici et d'ailleurs, héritiers de la tradition
d'anthropologie visuelle et du documentaire à caractère social. Lieu
d'échange et de diffusion, le festival célèbre l'anthropologie visuelle tout
en suscitant débats et réflexions sur l'éthique et la pertinence de
l'utilisation du média visuel dans l'étude des cultures et sociétés.

Pour tout connaître sur nos activités et sur nos projections, consultez
notre site internet, au www.fifeq.ca.

Au plaisir de vous y voir en grand nombre!

L'équipe du FIFEQ 2008

Pour tout renseignement supplémentaire ou demandes d'entrevues, contactez :

ethnographik@gmail.com

_________________________________________________________________

Montreal, January 14th 2008

THE QUEBEC INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES ITS 2008
PROGRAM !!!

www.fifeq.ca

Hello to everyone!

Previously known as the FFEM, the FIFEQ (Quebec international ethnographic
film festival) celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2008 and is also
bringing together five Universities from across Quebec for the first time,
namely those of Chicoutimi, Laval, Concordia, McGill and Universite de
Montreal.

On the 25th, 26th, and 27th of January 2008, we invite professors,
professionals, film and visual anthropology enthusiasts to join us at the
festival, during which we will be screening numerous films, holding
photography exhibitions, discussion sessions, and much more, all of which
will be free of charge.

Dedicated to the promotion of ethnographic films, the FIFEQ will screen
films created by new filmmakers from both Canada and abroad as well as from
renowned figures in the discipline of visual anthropology and the social
documentary genre. The festival is both a celebration of the discipline of
visual anthropology, as well as a reflection on the debates and ethical
issues surrounding the utility and relevance of employing visual media when
studying cultures and societies.

For a full listing of our activities and films please visit our website, at
www.fifeq.ca.

Looking forward to seeing you!

The 2008 FIFEQ Team

For further enquiries please contact:

ethnographik@gmail.com

Anthropology Film Festival

CALL FOR ENTRIES

2ND ANNUAL ANTHROPOLOGY FILM FESTIVAL
VANCOUVER, BC
MARCH 7&8, 2008

We invite submissions for the 2nd Annual Anthropology Film Festival at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC. This intimate festival
takes place March 7&8 on the university campus. Our theme is new trends in
anthropological film, with a focus on collaborative production. A jury prize
for best film in category will be awarded.

The entry deadline is February 8, 2008. For more information, contacts and
submission forms, visit us at http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca

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Call for Papers: The Power of Traditional Use Studies in British Columbia

> Call for Papers: The Power of Traditional Use Studies in British Columbia
>
> Traditional use studies have been underway in many British Columbia
> aboriginal communities for over a decade. These studies have been applied
> in a wide range of contexts, from the more common referral response support,
> to the establishment of boundaries and working overlap agreements between
> neighbouring First Nations, to their use in proactive land use planning (at
> local and strategic levels), to demonstrating use and occupancy in the
> context of aboriginal title litigation and specific claims. The papers in
> this session will draw on specific cases of how these studies have been
> conducted and how they have been used, to critically examine the power of
> traditional use studies in the dynamic of aboriginal relations with the
> state, and between and within individual aboriginal communities.
>
> Northwest Anthropological Conference
> Victoria, BC (Marriott Hotel, downtown)
> 23th-26th April, 2008
>
> http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/
>
> NWAC includes anthropological research in northwestern North America, and
> the research of Pacific Northwest anthropologists working elsewhere in the
> world. Presentations are usually scheduled as 20 minute presentations
> (including questions).
>
> Deadline for paper title January 15th (submit to session organizer Brian
> Thom: bthom@uvic.ca) .
> Deadline for paper abstract Feb 15th. (Submit via online form at, with copy
> of session organizer)
> http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/CallforPapersandPosters.doc
>
> Registration costs
> Regular: $85.00 Canadian
> Student: $45.00 Canadian

Call for Papers - Women Anthropologists: From Academia to the Field

Call for Papers: Women Anthropologists: From Academia to the Field
CASCA Women's Network 25th Anniversary Project
CASCA 2008, May 8-10, 2008, Carleton University, Ottawa
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/

> This collaborative project of the CASCA Women's Network calls for
> papers on the struggles and stories of women anthropologists, both
> in academia itself, as well as in the field. The former may include
> the creation of women's studies departments, collaborative actions
> of women's caucuses, and struggles over salary equity, maternity
> leave policy, and day care. The latter includes the engagement of
> women academics with ethnographic research, including the influence
> of gender in fieldwork, historical perspectives on women's presence
> in the ethnographic field, and other relevant issues. We encourage
> papers that are the result of research, for instance on one's own
> department, as well as reflective pieces. Such stories are important
> because, although they may be passed on as anecdotes, they may not
> generally be known or accessible to young women academics. This
> session therefore aims to provide a meeting point between younger
> and older generations of female academics. The various ways in which
> women deal with these issues should be recorded and disseminated as
> part of an ongoing process of women anthropologists negotiating
> their roles within the academy and the ethnographic field.
>
> The session papers will form the basis for a special publication,
> celebrating the Canadian Anthropology Society's Women's Network's
> 25th anniversary. Contributions are encouraged for a variety of
> formats, including written conversations between academics on the
> topic, interviews with individuals, letters, etc. as well as more
> formal academic articles on the topic.
>
Please send abstracts of a maximum of 100 wds. to Christina Holmes at
cpholmes@dal.ca by February 11, 2008

Prix Weaver-Tremblay Award - candidatures/nominations

Prix Weaver-Tremblay

En 1992, la Société pour l?anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait
le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et Sally Weaver, deux
anthropologues des plus respectés au Canada, furent tous deux
essentiels pour la fondation de CASCA, une initiative découlant de
plusieurs facteurs. L?un de ces facteurs a été leur forte conviction
dans le fait que les anthropologues et leurs associations doivent se
pencher sur des questions politique et sociale d?importance. Le prix
fut placé sous la responsabilité de la CASCA et depuis 15 ans, il fut
attribué à une série de collègues des plus distingués au Canada.

La gagnante du prix Weaver-Tremblay en anthropologie appliquée en 2007
fut Dr. Penny Van Esterik de l?Université York. Elle prononça son
discours lors du congrès de 2007, à Toronto, sous le titre ?Nurturing
Anthropology?. Les récipiendaires furent, par le passé, Joan Ryan
(1993), Michael Ames (1994), Paul Charest (1995), Peter Stephenson
(1997), Michael Robinson (1998), Michael Asch (2001), Pierre Beaucage
(2002), Donat Savoie (2003), Elvi Whittaker (2004), Herman Konrad
(2005) and Richard Preston (2006). Pour plus d?information, consultez
le site web de la CASCA : http://casca.anthropologica.ca/fr_prix_w-t.htm

Le prix est décerné à ou une citoyen-e canadien-ne ou un-e immigrant-e
reçu-e.. Les candidatures doivent inclure un CV du ou de la candidate,
une lettre d?appui d?un individu qui propose la nomination et qui
explique en quoi la candidature est méritoire, de même que tout
matériel complémentaire permettant d?étayer la candidature. Dans les
années précédentes, les dossiers des candidatures comprenaient des
lettres d?appui de collègues et d?organismes divers, du monde
académique et extra-académique.
Le ou la gagnante doit prononcer un discours lors d?une session
plénière du congrès de la CASCA. Un montant de $500 est payé au
gagnant; les frais de déplacement ne sont généralement pas couverts.

Les candidatures pour le prix Weaver-Tremblay 2008 doivent être
reçues pour le 21 février et être adressées à la présidente du comité :

Professor Penny Van Esterik [ esterik@yorku.ca ]
Department of Anthropology
York University
2030 Vari Hall
4700 Keele Street
North York, ON M3J

Pour répondre à vos questions :

Evie Plaice, CASCA Secretary [ plaice@unb.ca ]
Department of Anthropology
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton NB E3B 5A3

_____________________________________________________________________________

Weaver-Tremblay Award

In 1992 the Society for Applied Anthropology in Canada established the
Weaver-Tremblay Award, naming it after Marc-Ad lard Tremblay and Sally
Weaver, two of Canada?s most respected anthropologists. Both Weaver
and Tremblay were instrumental in the founding of CASCA, an initiative
prompted by a range of factors. But a central principle was their
belief that anthropologists and their professional associations need
to examine and address matters of social and political concern. The
award was subsequently moved to CASCA?s jurisdiction and has been
presented to a series of distinguished colleagues during the past 15
years.

The 2007 winner of the Weaver-Tremblay Award in Applied Anthropology
was Dr. Penny Van Esterik of York University. Dr. Esterik gave a
lecture entitled ?Nurturing Anthropology? at the 2007 CASCA Conference
held in May at the University of Toronto. Past recipients are Joan
Ryan (1993), Michael Ames (1994), Paul Charest (1995), Peter
Stephenson (1997), Michael Robinson (1998), Michael Asch (2001),
Pierre Beaucage (2002), Donat Savoie (2003), Elvi Whittaker (2004),
Herman Konrad (2005) and Richard Preston (2006). For further
information, please visit the CASCA website:
http://casca.anthropologica.ca/re_awards_WT.htm

The award is for a Canadian or Landed Immigrant to Canada. Nominations
should include a CV, a cover letter from the nominator explaining why
the candidate is worthy of the award, and any supporting material the
nominator feels is important. In the past, supporting material has
included publications and letters from other academics and/or
community organizations.
The winner is invited to deliver a plenary address at the CASCA annual
conference. An honorarium of $500 is paid to the winner, but the
association does normally not cover travel costs.

Nominations for the 2008 recipient of the Weaver-Tremblay Award should
be received by February 21st and addressed to:

Professor Penny Van Esterik [ esterik@yorku.ca ]
Department of Anthropology
York University
2030 Vari Hall
4700 Keele Street
North York, ON M3J

Enquiries can be made to:

Evie Plaice, CASCA Secretary [ plaice@unb.ca ]
Department of Anthropology
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton NB E3B 5A3

Call for papers

Hello,

I am considering a panel for the 2008 AAA meetings that would link film and
digital media research and the anthropology of work. I am am particularly
interested in presentations that might be able to draw upon digital media
(video, still photography, web resources, etc) as part of their
presentations. Ideally this would be a panel that could bridge the field
of visual anthropology and that of the anthropology of work.

I would be pleased to hear from people who may be interested in
participating in such a panel as well as an idea of what you might be able
in presenting on. Please feel free to pass this message along to those who
may be interested in this project.

Thanks,

Charles Menzies
------------------------------------
Charles R. Menzies, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology [http://www.charlesmenzies.ca]
Director of The Ethnographic Film Unit at UBC [http://anthfilm.anth.ubc.ca]
Department of Anthropology [http://www.anth.ubc.ca]
University of British Columbia
6303 NW Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Canada

Phone: 604-822-2240

Call for Papers: The Power of Traditional Use Studies in British Columbia

Call for Papers: The Power of Traditional Use Studies in British Columbia

Traditional use studies have been underway in many British Columbia aboriginal communities for over a decade. These studies have been applied in a wide range of contexts, from the more common referral response support, to the establishment of boundaries and working overlap agreements between neighbouring First Nations, to their use in proactive land use planning (at local and strategic levels), to demonstrating use and occupancy in the context of aboriginal title litigation and specific claims. The papers in this session will draw on specific cases of how these studies have been conducted and how they have been used, to critically examine the power of traditional use studies in the dynamic of aboriginal relations with the state, and between and within individual aboriginal communities.

Northwest Anthropological Conference Victoria, BC (Marriott Hotel, downtown) 23th-26th April, 2008

http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/

NWAC includes anthropological research in northwestern North America, and the research of Pacific Northwest anthropologists working elsewhere in the world. Presentations are usually scheduled as 20 minute presentations (including questions).

Deadline for paper title January 15th (submit to session organizer Brian Thom: bthom@uvic.ca) . Deadline for paper abstract Feb 15th. (Submit via online form at, with copy of session organizer) http://nwac.2008.googlepages.com/CallforPapersandPosters.doc

Registration costs

Regular: $85.00
Canadian Student: $45.00 Canadian

Student Travel Bursary/Allocations de D=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9placement?=

>> STUDENT TRAVEL SUBSIDY FOR CASCA 2008 MEETINGS
>> Partial travel subsidies are available to PhD graduate students who have
>> no alternate support to participate in the CASCA 2008 annual meeting May
>> 8-10, 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario. Funds are limited. Applications must be
>> received by e-mail, and with signed original mailed and postmarked no
>> later than March 3, 2008.
>>
>> Further information and the application form is available on the CASCA
>> website http://casca.anthropologica.ca/
>>
>>
>> ALLOCATIONS DE DÉPLACEMENT OFFERTES AUX ÉTUDIANTS EN VUE DU COLLOQUE
>> ANNUEL 2008 DE LA CASCA
>> Des subventions sont offertes aux étudiants de troisième cycle qui ne
>> bénéficient d'aucun appui financier pour participer au Colloque annuel
>> 2008 de la CASCA, qui aura lieu à Ottawa (Ontario) du 8 au 10 mai
>> prochain. Les fonds sont limités et ne couvrent pas la totalité des frais
>> de déplacement. Toute demande d'allocation doit être envoyée à la fois par
>> courriel et par courrier standard; la copie originale signée doit nous
>> être parvenue d'ici au 3 mars 2008, le cachet de la poste faisant foi.
>>
>> Tous les renseignements pertinents ainsi que le formulaire de demande sont
>> disponibles sur le site Web de la CASCA à http://casca.anthropologica.ca/

DYING AND KILLING FOR LOVE, Lecture by Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D.

DYING AND KILLING FOR LOVE
Lecture by Richard A. Koenigsberg, Ph. D.

Co-sponsored by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
(NPAP) and the Philosophy Department of the Graduate Faculty of the
New School for Social Research

Moderator, Mathias Beier. Discussant, Sy Coopersmith

Friday, January 11, 2008, 8 PM

Theresa Lang Auditorium of the New School (2nd Floor)
55 West 13th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenue), New York City

_____

What is the nature of the human attraction to warfare? What psychological
processes transform killing, destruction and the maiming of human bodies
into a good thing? War is conceived as a good thing because people die and
kill in the name a beloved object, one's nation.

After the Viet Nam war, Americans turned away from the ideology of warfare,
leading enemies of the United States to believe that America lacked the will
to face a military confrontation. Bin Laden proclaimed that the United
States was weak and decadent. The Bush administration waged war in order to
demonstrate that just as radical Moslems killed and died for their sacred
ideal (Allah), so Americans would kill and die in the name of their nation
and its sacred ideal, freedom and democracy.

According to the ideology of warfare, bad things (killing, destruction and
the maiming of human bodies) become good things because they are undertaken
in the name of one's beloved nation and its sacred ideals. Collective forms
of violence articulate the project or shared fantasy of sacrificing human
beings in the name of entities or ideas conceived as greater than the self.

_____

For information on workshops, seminars and lectures presented by Richard
Koenigsberg, please call 718-393-1081.

_____

Richard Koenigsberg received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the
Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research and formerly taught
at the New School. INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING recently released new editions
of his books: Hitler's Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Ideology and History;
The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy; and The Fantasy of Oneness and
the Struggle to Separate: A Study in the Psychology of Culture.

2008 International Space University Summer Program / Programme d'=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9t=E9_2008_de_l'Universit=E9?= internationale de l'espace

La version française suit.

REMINDER : 2008 International Space University Summer Program
<http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/space_e.html>

The Canadian Foundation for the International Space University (CFISU)
is pleased to once again offer the 2008 International Space University
(ISU) Summer Program.

The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) has been
asked by the CFISU to coordinate the Canadian competition for the 2008
ISU Summer Program.

Please note that the CFISU will be happy to send ISU Summer Program
alumni to speak to students at your institution. For more information,
please contact the AUCC (see below).

2008 ISU Summer Program

Duration: June 30 to August 30, 2008

Location: University of Naples, Italy

Application deadline: January 24, 2008

Value: Tuition fees, international travel, accommodation and per diem
(approximately $27,000)

Eligibility: Applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent
residents. The competition is open to graduate students, graduate
degree holders or practising professionals, from all disciplines.
Practising professionals are eligible provided they have not been in
the workforce longer than six years. All applicants must have
completed an undergraduate degree at the time of the application with
the exception of students who are currently in medical or law school
and were accepted without first obtaining an undergraduate degree, but
have completed at least four years of university education.

For additional information regarding the application process, please
visit the AUCC web site at the following address:

www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/space_e.html

Or contact:

Chantal Lemire

Program Officer, Partnership Programs, AUCC

Tel.: (613) 563-3961 ext. 314

E-mail: clemire@aucc.ca

RAPPEL : Programme d'été 2008 de l'Université internationale de l'espace

La Fondation canadienne pour l'université internationale de l'espace
est heureuse d'offrir le Programme d'été 2008 de l'Université
internationale de l'espace (UIE).

La Fondation a retenu les services de l'Association des universités et
collèges du Canada (AUCC) pour coordonner la portion canadienne du
concours relatif au Programme d'été 2008 de l'UIE.

Prière de noter que la Fondation offre la possibilité d'envoyer
d'anciens participants au Programme d'été afin de parler de leur
expérience aux étudiants de votre établissement. Pour plus
d'information sur cette offre, communiquez avec l'AUCC (coordonnées
ci-dessous).

Programme d'été 2008 de l'Université internationale de l'espace

Durée : du 30 juin au 30 août 2008

Lieu : Université de Naples, Italie

Date butoir pour la soumission d'une demande: le 24 janvier 2008

Valeur : Frais de scolarité et de voyage ainsi que les frais de gîte
et couvert sur le campus (environ 27 000 $)

Admissibilité : Les candidats doivent être citoyens canadiens ou
résidents permanents. Le concours s'adresse aux diplômés aux cycles
supérieurs peu importe leur discipline. Les diplômés actuellement sur
le marché du travail sont admissibles si ils/elles travaillent depuis
moins de six ans. Tous les candidats doivent déjà posséder un diplôme
de premier cycle au moment de la demande, à l'exception des étudiants
en médecine ou en droit qui ont été acceptés dans un de ces programmes
sans avoir auparavant obtenu un baccalauréat mais qui ont déjà
complété au moins quatre ans d'université.

Pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur le processus de demande,
veuillez consulter le site Web de l'AUCC à l'adresse suivante :

www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/space_f.html

Ou communiquer avec:

Chantal Lemire

Agente de programmes, Programmes de partenariats, AUCC

Tél.: (613) 563-3961, poste 314

Courriel: clemire@aucc.ca <mailto:clemire@aucc.ca>

Society for the Anthropology of Work: Invited Sessions for the 2008 AAA meetings

Dear Colleagues,

We invite proposals for Society of the Anthropology of Work (SAW) sponsored
"invited sessions" for the AAA 2008 meetings in San Francisco.

Invited sessions are regular paper panels that have been submitted complete
to the sections early for consideration for "Invited" status. If granted,
they are automatically accepted and scheduled first (often in better time
slots). Each section is allotted a number of "invited" sessions according to
their membership numbers (SAW has an allotment of two 1 3/4 hour sessions).

To have your panel considered for invited status please submit complete
proposals to Charles Menzies by February 21, 2008
(cmenzies@interchange.ubc.ca).

Organizers are encouraged to approach other sections chairs to solicit
potential co-invited status. If you wish to do that, please advise the
program committee that you are doing so.

Other types of sessions can also be proposed (over and above volunteered
sessions). Please contact Charles Menzies or the AAA main office for
additional details.

Yours,

Charles Menzies
SAW 2008 Program Chair