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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Symposium: "Roots of Evil: Continued Challenges for the Denial of Mass Human Rights Violation," April 4, 2008

Symposium: "Roots of Evil: Continued Challenges for the Denial of Mass Human
Rights Violation," April 4, 2008

After the Armenian Genocide or the first genocide of the Twentieth century,
the Armenian people stayed silent. After the Holocaust, people cried "never
again." Yet genocide has not gone away. "Roots of Evil: Continued Challenges
for the Denial of Mass Human Rights Violation," a Symposium taking place on
Friday, April 4, 2008 at Fordham University, Lincoln Center at 7:00 PM, will
address the impact of genocide during the last one-hundred years--and the
issue of genocide denial.

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Please click the following link for information on how to register for the
symposium: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/

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The Symposium, organized and chaired by Dr. Ani Kalayjian, Professor of
Psychology at Fordham, is sponsored by the Armenian-American Society for
Studies on Stress and Genocide (AASSSG), the Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues (SPSSI), New York, Fordham Psychology Association,
Association for Trauma Outreach & Prevention (ATOP), Fordham Psi Chi and
Meaningful World. It will commemorate those who died in the Ottoman Turkish
Genocide and the memory of Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish journalist who
was assassinated in January 2007 for his views on freedom of speech.

The Symposium will include keynote speeches, musical entertainment, a
reception, refreshments and networking.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Richard Koenigsberg, Faculty Member, Institute for the Study of Violence
at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, will speak on the Denial of
the Destructiveness of Civilization. Nearly two-hundred million people have
been slaughtered in the last one-hundred years as a result of violent acts
undertaken by nation-states. Do we truly grasp the reality of destruction
that societies have leveled against their own people? Dr. Koenigsberg will
examine the concept of genocide-denial within the framework of a broader
form of denial: our refusal to look closely at the destruction wrought by
our own nations--and civilization itself.

Suliman A. Giddo is Co-Founder and President of Darfur Peace and
Development. The mission of Mr. Giddo's non-profit organization is to
restore reconciliation where conflict exists in the Darfur region of Sudan
through humanitarian aid and services. He will speak about his experiences
as a mediator working to prevent further violent escalation of the tragic
conflict in Darfur. Mr. Giddo approaches mediation as a process designed to
create trust through communication and dialogue-in order to prevent violent
escalation.

Margaret Ajemian Ahnert will speak about her book The Knock at the Door,
winner of the 2007 USA News award for the Best Book on World History. In
1915, Armenian Christians in Turkey were driven out of their homes as the
Turkish army embarked on a widespread campaign of intimidation and murder.
Margaret Ajemian Ahnert relates the riveting story of her mother Ester's
terrifying experiences as a young woman. Her account is framed by an
intimate portrait of her relationship with her 98-yer old mother. Ester's
inspiring stories, told lovingly by her daughter, provide a window into the
harrowing struggles of the Armenians during a terrible period in human
history.

Entertainment will be provided by Quartet T, with Kristi Helberg and Amie
Weiss on violin, You-Young Kim on viola, and Jane O'Hara on cello. Alumni of
Julliard, Oberlin Conservatory and Mannes Schools of Music, the members of
Quartet T have additional musical training in Middle Eastern, Klezmer and
North Indian music. The musicians present eastern musical forms and explore
the works of western composers who have taken inspiration from these forms.

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Please click the following link for information on how to register for the
symposium: https://www.ideologiesofwar.com/register/

IDS TRENT 9 month sessional positions 2008

TRENT UNIVERSITY


The International Development Studies Department at Trent University
(www.trentu.ca/ids) invites applications for two 9 month limited term
positions at the assistant professor level commencing September 1,
2008. IDS is an interdisciplinary undergraduate department at Trent
University.

For the first position we are seeking a candidate with expertise in
international political economy and development. Candidates must
have teaching experience and a Ph.D. in hand or near completion in
political studies, geography or a related discipline.

For the second position we are seeking a candidate with expertise in
social and cultural aspects of development. Candidates must have
teaching experience and a Ph.D. in hand or near completion.
Applications will be welcomed from individuals with a background in
anthropology, sociology, geography, political studies or related
discipline..

Candidates should send (in hard or electronic copy) a covering letter,
curriculum vitae, and letters from three referees to: Winnie Lem,
Chair, International Development Studies, Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario, K9J 7B8, Canada. wlem@trentu.ca

Applications must be received by April 25th 2008.

Trent University is an employment equity employer, and especially
invites applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, visible
minorities and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates
are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents
will be given priority. Positions are subject to final budgetary
approval.

Call for student papers

*Nexus: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology Volume 21, 2008 *

Open Call for Papers
Deadline for Submission: April 15, 2008


NEXUS is a graduate student-run publication of the Department of
Anthropology, McMaster University, Canada. NEXUS is dedicated to circulating

excellent student works from all sub-fields of anthropology to a wider
audience. NEXUS is subscribed to by university libraries and departments
worldwide. Beginning with this volume, Nexus will be available as an online
resource with capabilities for multimedia exhibition of work. It is an
excellent forum for circulating your ideas to peers and professionals alike.


Papers in either English or French are welcome from both undergraduates and
graduate students of Canadian and international colleges and universities.

Submissions addressing any area of anthropology are encouraged, as are
reviews of current issues in the discipline and/or the presentation of
original anthropological research.

If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration for
publication in NEXUS, please review the guidelines for submission:
http://www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/anthro/emplibrary/nexusforauthors.pdf
and send an e-copy of your submission to:
NEXUS Review Editors
Email: nexusjournal@gmail.com

Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University
1280 Main Street West • Hamilton, ON • Canada L8S 4L9

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

ROSEBERRY NASH GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION 2008

ROSEBERRY NASH GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD COMPETITION 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology invites submission
of papers for our Third Annual Roseberry-Nash Student Paper Contest. The
award, to be presented during the AAA meetings in San Francisco, Nov. 2008,
consists of US $500.00 and direct consultation with the editor of the
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology toward the goal of
revising the paper for publication. The paper should draw on relevant
anthropological literature and present data from original research in any
field of anthropology.

Requirements:
* Contestants must be enrolled in a graduate program in Anthropology
at the time of submitting the paper.
* Paper length: minimum 4000 words and maximum 6000 words.
* Languages: English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.
* Student membership in the Society for Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology.

The paper should be submitted before midnight on June 15, 2008 to Susan
Paulson, Jury Chair of the Roseberry-Nash Award. Please email papers as
attached documents to paulsosa@muohio.edu.

McMaster University CLA

McMaster University
Anthropology


The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a
contractually-limited appointment (CLA) at the rank of Assistant
Professor in Cultural Anthropology, for the period covering July 1,
2008 ? June 30, 2009. The position includes teaching undergraduate
classes and some administrative responsibilities. The successful
candidate will teach six 3-unit half courses. One of the courses will
be ANTH 1A03 (Culture and Society) in Term II (Enrolment 450). The
additional five courses will either include five of the courses listed
below, taught over the course of the academic year, or will include
four courses from this list plus an additional evening section of ANTH
1A03 to be offered in the evening during the May/June summer session.
Applicants should indicate course preferences in their letter of
application.

ANTH 2B03 Indigenous Peoples of North America
ANTH 2H03 Environment and Culture
ANTH 2R03 Religion, Magic and Witchcraft
ANTH 2X03 Violence in Anthropological Perspective
ANTH 3RR3 The Anthropology of Gender
ANTH 3ZZ3 Medical Anthropology: Symbolic Healing
ANTH 4D03 Applied Anthropology
ANTH 4N03 Anthropology and Education

A Ph.D. degree in Anthropology is required, together with successful
teaching experience.

A letter of application, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier and three
letters of reference should be sent in electronic format, though an
additional hard copy may be sent by regular mail to

Dr. Aubrey Cannon, Chair,
Department of Anthropology,
McMaster University,
1280 Main Street West,
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9.
Email: cannona@mcmaster.ca

The deadline for receipt of applications is March 31, 2008.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian
citizens and permanent residents will be considered first for this
position. McMaster University is strongly committed to employment
equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and
staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified
candidates, including women, members of visible minorities, Aboriginal
persons, members of sexual minorities, and persons with disabilities.


Note: Full description of the department and course descriptions may
be viewed at our website http: /www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/anthro.

Call for Aboriginal Policy Papers/Appel de Communications sur la politique autochtone

CALL FOR PAPERS
ABORIGINAL POLICY RESEARCH
The Aboriginal Policy Research Network, Office of the Federal
Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, invites the submission
of proposals for papers. The papers will be published in partnership
with the Institute On Governance as part of the Aboriginal Policy
Research Papers series.
The Network has a mandate to inform the debate on public policy issues
that affect Métis, non-status Indians and Aboriginal people residing
off-reserve through the production and dissemination of timely
research. The Institute On Governance is a non-profit think tank that
provides an independent source of knowledge, research and advice on
governance issues. Our shared interests are in the areas of:

* Demographic trends and shifts and their implications for public policy
* Governance and administration (including implications of equality
rights for federal/provincial/territorial/First Nations governments,
citizen engagement in governance, fostering coordination in
governmental responses to Aboriginal peoples)
* Economic and community development (including effective
community/strategic planning, consultation practices for governments
and businesses, access to resources and capital, developing business
partnerships, business administration, education and skills training,
support for entrepreneurship, role of women and youth in economic and
community development)
* Social policy (including education, poverty reduction, housing,
physical and mental health, criminal justice and policing)
* Environmental policy (including use of traditional knowledge in
environmental decision-making, effective consultation practices for
governments and businesses, integrating environmental considerations
in community and strategic planning, Aboriginal involvement in
environmental monitoring, management and reclamation in traditional
territories)
Proposals outlining the intended research should be approximately 450
words (1.5 pages, 1.5 lines spaced). Proposals selected must result in
policy relevant papers of 4,500 to 9,000 words (15 to 30 pages, 1.5
lines spaced) meeting the standards of university-level scholarship as
well as a summary policy brief of approximately 2,000 words.
Submissions from community practitioners and policy-oriented think
tanks are welcome. Once completed, the papers will be subject to a
double-blind peer review. Successful contributions will be compensated
with an honorarium. The papers will be published on the Institute On
Governance website and may also be published in edited volumes
addressing common themes. Authors may be invited to present their
work at colloquia and conferences organized by the Network.
The papers are due three months after proposal selection and will be
published throughout the 2008/09 fiscal year. Proposals should be
submitted by April 30, 2008 for publication in summer/fall 2008 and by
September 30, 2008 for publication in winter/spring 2009. Please
direct proposals to Jodi Bruhn of the Institute On Governance at
jbruhn@iog.ca.

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APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS
RECHERCHE EN POLITIQUE AUTOCHTONE
Le Réseau de recherche sur les politiques autochtones du Bureau de
l'Interlocuteur fédéral auprès des Métis et des Indiens non inscrits
demande des propositions de communications. Ces articles seront
publiés en partenariat avec l'Institut sur la gouvernance dans le
cadre d'une nouvelle série de rapports de recherche sur la politique
autochtone.
Le Réseau a comme mandat d'éclairer le débat sur les dossiers de
politique publique qui touchent les Métis, les Indiens non inscrits et
les Autochtones résidant hors réserve par la préparation et la
diffusion en temps opportun de rapports de recherche. L'Institut sur
la gouvernance est un groupe de réflexion sans but lucratif
fournissant une source indépendante de connaissances, de recherches et
de conseils sur les questions de gouvernance. Nos intérêts conjoints
sont dans les domaines :

* des tendances et des changements démographiques et leurs
conséquences sur les politiques publiques;
* de la gouvernance et de l'administration (y compris les conséquences
des droits à l'égalité pour les gouvernements fédéral, provinciaux,
territoriaux et des Premières nations, la participation des citoyens à
la gouvernance, favoriser la coordination des réactions
gouvernementales aux peuples autochtones);
* du développement économique et communautaire (y compris la
planification efficace communautaire et stratégique, les pratiques de
consultation pour les gouvernements et les entreprises, l'accès aux
ressources et au capital, développer des partenariats commerciaux,
l'administration des entreprises, l'éducation et la formation des
capacités, le soutien à l'entreprenariat, le rôle des femmes et des
jeunes en développement économique et communautaire);
* de la politique sociale (y compris l'éducation, la diminution de la
pauvreté, le logement, la santé physique et mentale, la justice pénale
et les services de police);
* de la politique environnementale (y compris l'utilisation des
connaissances traditionnelles dans la prise de décisions portant sur
l'environnement, les pratiques efficaces de consultation pour les
gouvernements et les entreprises, l'intégration de considérations
environnementales en planification communautaire et stratégique, la
participation autochtone à la surveillance de l'environnement, sa
gestion et son rétablissement dans les territoires traditionnels).

Les propositions décrivant la recherche prévue devraient avoir environ
450 mots (1,5 pages à un interligne et demi). Les propositions
retenues doivent produire des rapports de recherche pertinents de 4
500 à 9 000 mots (15 à 30 pages à un interligne et demi) conforme aux
normes universitaires de qualité du contenu ainsi qu'un précis de
politique d'environ 2 000 mots. Sont bienvenues les propositions de
praticiens communautaires et de groupes de recherche. Les rapports
feront l'objet d'un examen à double insu par les pairs et les auteurs
des contributions retenues recevront des honoraires. Les rapports
seront publiés au site Web de l'Institut sur la gouvernance et
pourraient aussi être publiés dans des volumes édités portant sur des
thèmes communs. Les auteurs pourraient être invités à présenter leurs
travaux à des conférences et à des colloques organisés par le Réseau.
Les rapports doivent être remis trois mois après le choix des
propositions et ils seront publiés pendant l'exercice 2008-2009. Les
propositions doivent être présentées d'ici le 30 avril 2008 pour
publication à l'été/l'automne de 2008 et d'ici le 30 septembre 2008
pour publication à l'hiver/printemps 2009. Veuillez envoyer vos
propositions à Jodi Bruhn de l'Institut sur la gouvernance à
jbruhn@iog.ca.

Friday, February 22, 2008

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L'Institut d'études des femmes
de l'Université d'Ottawa

vous invite à assister à la conférence suivante :


«Mondialisation et inégalités de genre chez les populations des Etats
membres de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UÉMOA) »
Après avoir apprécié, à travers une analyse descriptive, la dynamique
des rapports socioéconomiques et politiques des femmes et des hommes
des États membres de l'UEMOA, les travaux de recherche de Marie
Suzanne Badji estime empiriquement l'impact de l'ouverture dans la
réduction, le maintien ou l'accentuation des inégalités des rapports
des sexes.

Par

Marie Suzanne Badji

Chercheure invitée en perspectives féministes sur la mondialisation
ACDI/CRDI/Université d'Ottawa/Carleton University
Enseignante /Chercheure au Département d'Économie de la Faculté des
Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de
Dakar, au Sénégal


Vendredi le 29 février 2008
12 h 00 - 13 h 30
Pavillon Desmarais (DMS), pièce 3120 (3e étage)
55 Laurier est
Université d'Ottawa

L'événement est gratuit et ouvert à toutes et tous.
La présentation sera donnée en français seulement.


Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez contacter
Hélène Boudreault, à hboudre@uOttawa.ca <mailto:hboudre@uOttawa.ca>
ou (613) 520-6644

The Institute of Women's Studies
University of Ottawa


invites you to attend the following presentation


«Mondialisation et inégalités de genre chez les populations des Etats
membres de l'Union économique et monétaire ouest africaine (UÉMOA) »
Après avoir apprécié, à travers une analyse descriptive, la dynamique
des rapports socioéconomiques et politiques des femmes et des hommes
des États membres de l'UEMOA, les travaux de recherche de Marie
Suzanne Badji estime empiriquement l'impact de l'ouverture dans la
réduction, le maintien ou l'accentuation des inégalités des rapports
des sexes.


by


Marie Suzanne Badji

Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization
CIDA/IDRC/University of Ottawa/Carleton University
Faculty/Scholar with the Département d'Économie de la Faculté des
Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de
Dakar, Senegal


Friday, February 29, 2008
12:00 - 13:30
Desmarais Hall (DMS), room 3120 (3rd floor)
55 Laurier East

University of Ottawa


The event is free and open to all.
The lecture will be given in French only.


For more information, please contact
Hélène Boudreault at hboudre@uOttawa.ca <mailto:hboudre@uOttawa.ca>
or (613) 520-6644

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

Late call for papers!

Ethnography and the Problem of Place in Global Modernity

A key human outcome of modernity has been disengagement- from community,
from place, from resources, from control over the means of production,
from the supernatural- in order to be 're-rooted' in the operation of
market economies and liberal democratic institutions (Bauman, 2001). The
twinned process uprooting /re-rooting is even more evidently the shift
created by modernity as capitalist economic practices re-tool to
function as a 'global economy'. But how complete is this uprooting? How
thoroughly are people re-rooted in their identities as modernized
citizens? This proposal calls for contributions that consider the
persistent use of 'place' to ground 'meaning', 'identity', 'culture' and
'autonomy' even as such links are disrupted by the operation of global
modernity and global scale capitalism. Are place-based politics
anachronistic? Are localizing projects legitimate only as they can
achieve global influence? Are place-based community-making projects
defenses against global scale capitalism, or is every place productive
of a new expression of global modernity? Are the tools of ethnography
especially relevant to exploring these issues?

Please submit proposals to Wendy Russell wrussell@huron.uwo.ca
<mailto:wrussell@huron.uwo.ca> by March 5, 2008.

Call for Papers, Aboriginal Policy Research Series

Dear Recipient,

The Institute On Governance and the Aboriginal Policy Research
Network, Office of the Federal Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status
Indians, are commissioning papers for a new Aboriginal policy research
paper series. Details are outlined in the for papers below,
which we'd ask you to distribute within your organization or
department to ensure a broad circulation. Any questions on the
initiative should be directed to Jodi Bruhn at this email address.

<<APRN Call for Papers.doc>>
With thanks in advance,


Jodi Bruhn
Senior Program Officer / Agente de programmes
Institute On Governance / Institut sur la gouvernance


CALL FOR PAPERS
ABORIGINAL POLICY RESEARCH
The Aboriginal Policy Research Network, Office of the Federal
Interlocutor for Métis and Non-Status Indians, invites the submission
of proposals for papers. The papers will be published in partnership
with the Institute On Governance as part of the Aboriginal Policy
Research Papers series.
The Network has a mandate to inform the debate on public policy issues
that affect Métis, non-status Indians and Aboriginal people residing
off-reserve through the production and dissemination of timely
research. The Institute On Governance is a non-profit think tank that
provides an independent source of knowledge, research and advice on
governance issues. Our shared interests are in the areas of:

? Demographic trends and shifts and their implications for public policy
? Governance and administration (including implications of equality
rights for federal/provincial/territorial/First Nations governments,
citizen engagement in governance, fostering coordination in
governmental responses to Aboriginal peoples)
? Economic and community development (including effective
community/strategic planning, consultation practices for governments
and businesses, access to resources and capital, developing business
partnerships, business administration, education and skills training,
support for entrepreneurship, role of women and youth in economic and
community development)
? Social policy (including education, poverty reduction, housing,
physical and mental health, criminal justice and policing)
? Environmental policy (including use of traditional knowledge in
environmental decision-making, effective consultation practices for
governments and businesses, integrating environmental considerations
in community and strategic planning, Aboriginal involvement in
environmental monitoring, management and reclamation in traditional
territories)
Proposals outlining the intended research should be approximately 450
words (1.5 pages, 1.5 lines spaced). Proposals selected must result in
policy relevant papers of 4,500 to 9,000 words (15 to 30 pages, 1.5
lines spaced) meeting the standards of university-level scholarship as
well as a summary policy brief of approximately 2,000 words.
Submissions from community practitioners and policy-oriented think
tanks are welcome. Once completed, the papers will be subject to a
double-blind peer review. Successful contributions will be compensated
with an honorarium. The papers will be published on the Institute On
Governance website and may also be published in edited volumes
addressing common themes. Authors may be invited to present their
work at colloquia and conferences organized by the Network.
The papers are due three months after proposal selection and will be
published throughout the 2008/09 fiscal year. Proposals should be
submitted by April 30, 2008 for publication in summer/fall 2008 and by
September 30, 2008 for publication in winter/spring 2009. Please
direct proposals to Jodi Bruhn of the Institute On Governance at
jbruhn@iog.ca.

CFP FIRST NATIONS HERITAGE: TRANSMISSION, CONSERVATION AND CREATION

FIRST NATIONS HERITAGE:
TRANSMISSION, CONSERVATION AND CREATION

Conference of the project
Design et culture matérielle :
développement communautaire et cultures autochtones

First Nations Garden of the Montréal Botanical Garden
October, 17-18, 2008

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION


OBJECTIVES AND CONTEXT

The main goal of this conference is to examine First Nations
heritage, its usage and development within new partnership researches
between community and university researchers of the last 10 years.

In the globalisation era, First Nations heritage is a strategic
domain changing with identity definition, and the emergence of new
political and cultural claims. Like many societies, social use of the
past results in cultural realisations being instrumentalized. What is
at stake for the Natives seems to lead to a particular situation. The
interest about objects of material culture and their integration to
Western colonialist museums is being transformed when Native
communities experiment their own appropriation of these tools. From
now on, the alienation and lost of power on the greatest cultural
realisations is changing. There is seeking of balance between
transmission, conservation and creation. Running down the static and
ahistorical representation of their culture, many Native communities
establish a new link between tradition and evolution. This phenomenon
is evident in the redefinition of the artisans' role, which for a
long time have been relegated to a minimal recognition about everyday
objects and decorative arts, today more and more recognized as
tradition and savoir-faire holders, and also as creative artists,
important actors of transformation. Other examples are the emergence
of a contemporary artistic expression, and the control over
representation institutions, such as museums.

During the last years we saw, within First Nations, a remarkable
evolution in their definition of heritage based on their own life and
world conception. The relations between Native communities who want
to control their own destiny and those who considered themselves as
experts, holders and protectors of the heritage, for most of them
according to colonial historical practices, are changing. A mutual
respect and recognition of competences could emerge.

Considering that decision makers put more importance upon economic
development, it is important to ask questions about the place of
culture in First Nations community development. Fundamental issues
are at stake: which culture and which development, which goals, how,
for whom, by whom and why?

Based on advances in university-community researches, the conference
will explore three themes: (1) the artisans and artists role in
cultural transmission; (2) the importance of the cultural resource as
a mean of sustainable development; (3) material culture and Natives
museums: new paradigm of conservation/creation.


THEMES DEVELOPMENT

The artisans and artists role in cultural transmission
With he cultural generational break-up and the lost of territory, it
became almost impossible for First Nations to traditionally transmit
their culture. The Natives who received the knowledge and savoir-
faire from their mothers, grand-mothers, fathers, grand-fathers got
today the status of artisans holding great talent to produce
traditional objects, this talent being valorized by their community
and the world tourist market. For most of these artisans, the
creation of new forms using ancestral savoir-faire can mean to betray
their mission of cultural ambassador. However, the new products can
keep intact their cultural references. Artisans and artists who
develop their creative potential strengthen their personal identity
by integrating the present and the past, and at the same time
contribute to the development of cultural identity by introducing new
symbolic language which express their own contemporary culture. The
conference aims at understanding, based on innovative examples, the
role of Native artisans and artists in cultural transmission, their
influence in the creation of a new image of the "Indian" outside the
fantasized culture created by the others, even if some crossbreeding
is essential to maintain culture alive.

The importance of the cultural resource as a mean of sustainable
development
With the willingness of community self-development, a lot of pressure
comes from everywhere. Economic influences are very present and often
empty community development project of their significant substance.
To distant communities the touristic model is offered as the only
lifeline. A lot of them have a museum in their project or already
opened. Then there is a dialogue of the deaf between the defender of
economic development, mainly interested to respond to the interests
of possible outside visitors, and the defender of cultural
development, mainly interested in satisfying community members. With
this conference, we wand to understand, based on recent examples, the
mechanisms opposing or gathering these dynamics.

Material culture and Natives museums: new paradigm of conservation/
creation
Due to colonization and assimilation, Natives had, and often still
have, negative perception of museums, concept that came with
colonizers, which represent Native cultures in their own way. Being
from traditional culture, based on participation, First Nations
peoples had been rapidly immerged into modern culture, based on
consumption. In community museology where people, not objects, are at
the heart of the vision, the essential role of the community to
define, use and perpetuate its own culture is recognized. With this
approach, the door is open to think about what is at stake with
culture and its transmission, the links with the territory, its
history, the different ways people are related to it at the present
time, and about heritage. What matters for First Nations, even
regarding objects, is immaterial heritage; the key signification
resides in the cultural intention and the first use of the object
(including daily use objects and ritual objects). The Elder who is
telling a legend at night in the tent, during a stay in the
territory, is doing education, not only cognitive education, but also
perceptive and sensorial education, which is akin to the Quebec
tradition holders, as conceived in the domain of alive and immaterial
heritage. Active tradition holders, being more than witnesses, are
holding an identity culture, being impregnated with the sense and not
with an interpretation of the sense. This vision offers, instead of
the intellectual knowledge of the object, an invitation to consider
the community collection, where people would collect themselves what
is important for their culture and where those cultural elements
would be preserved in the family home. This conference is proposing
to re-examine notions, concepts, methods which could open ways to new
paradigm in museology, conservation, heritage, transmission, and the
conditions needed to favour contribution which could structure the
revival of cultural transmission.

We invite community and university researchers, and students from all
disciplines of graduate studies, to send us a proposal.

DEADLINE : March 30th, 2008. Please send your proposal (Word file) by
email to France Tardif : ftardif514@hotmail.com

The proposal must include :
Your name
Your affiliation country
Your affiliation (university, institution, etc.)
Your curriculum vitae including your recent publications and those
related to the conference
The title of your communication
A summary of your communication (maximum 150 words)

NOTE : We are presently working on a grant application to SSHRC for
the conference. We have a lot more chance to get the grant if we can
produce an important list of participants interested to make a
presentation. Your proposals will surely enhance the quality of the
conference. If we don't get the grant, the conference will be held
the same, even if the means are lesser. We will inform all the
authors of proposal when will know if we have the grand from SSHRC,
in June 2008.


Scientific committee
Élise Dubuc, professor, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études
cinématographiques, Université de Montréal; committee director
Pierre de Coninck, professor, École de design industriel, Faculté de
l'aménagement, Université de Montréal
Élisabeth Kaine, professor, Département des arts et lettres,
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Diane Laurier, professor, Département des arts et lettres, Université
du Québec à Chicoutimi


We are thanking very much all authors for their proposal.

Julia Harrison
jharrison@trentu.ca

Friday, February 15, 2008

Extension of deadline for the CASCA conference /La prolongation de la date limit pour le congr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8s?= de CASCA

The deadline for registration for the CASCA conference, Ethnography:
Entitlements and Ruptures, has been extended to Friday, March 7, 2008.
For more information on the conference, please go to
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/index.html .

La date limite pour l'inscription au congrès CASCA, Ethnographie :
enchevêtrements et ruptures, est prolongée jusqu'au 7 mars 2008.
Visitez le site web pour plus d'information :
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/index.html

Seeking nominations for AAA awards, from Tom Leatherman

I would like to invite you to submit nominations for the AAA scholarly
awards. These include the David M. Schneider Award; the Robert B. Textor
and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology; the Solomon T.
Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology; the Margaret Mead Award;
the Anthropology in the Media Award; the AAA/Oxford Award for excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology; and last, but by no means least, the
Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology. Details about the
awards, the time frame for nominations, and the criteria for eligibility are
available at: http://www.aaanet.org/about/prizes-awards/

The AAA's ability to recognize the excellent work of our colleagues is
dependent on nominations, and we hope that you will consider nominating an
outstanding colleague for one of these awards.

Please note that if you intend on submitting a packet and you need more time
to get it together or you have questions about any of these awards, please
contact Kathy Ano, the Awards Committee liaison at AAA headquarters
(kano@aaanet.org; 703-528-1902, ext. 3003.) Feel free to forward this email
to your own relevant listservs.

With best wishes,

Tom Leatherman
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of South Carolina

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Wadi ath-Thamad Project dig, summer 2008

To Whom It May Concern,

I was wondering if it is possible to post a link to our dig for this
upcoming summer. Here are some details: the excavation is in Jordan; the
name of the excavation is the Wadi ath-Thamad Project; it is run by the
Wilfrid Laurier University and the dates of the excavation are from June
13th to July 28th. The link is: www.wlu.ca/arts/archaeology/jordan/

The deadline for applications is March 1st, 2008. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank You
Dr. Michèle Daviau

Announcement: Guatemala Travel Study

Here is an enriching learning experience for students Interested in studying
while immersed in culture.

Trinity Western University has openings for the GUATEMALA TRAVEL STUDY
PROGRAM, April 27 - May 19, 2008.

The travel study's experiential approach to the study of man, society and
culture, will help students discover different cultural principles of human
interaction. Students are exposed to the unique cultures of the Maya, the
Ladino, and the Garifuna (Black Caribs). The classroom is the country. Every
venue, speaker, and activity is selected to give students exposure to
different realities.

Students take two courses:

ANTH302: Cross-cultural Communication. This course explores various cultural
systems including social structure, value and belief systems. The course
highlights orientations to culture profiling, the dynamics of cross-cultural
interaction, and the principles for culture change.

PSYCH 490: Personhood. This course looks at worldviews and how that is
variously shaped by cultural context.

Regions and relevant topics include:

- Coban region: indigenous Mayans, economics/environment and development

- Flores & TIKAL: ancient Mayan cultures, religion and governing systems

- Rio Dulce & Livingston: Garifuna studies, identity

- Antigua region: Ladino, culture change and the arts

- Lake Atitlan region: other indigenous Mayan groups

Instructor: Professor Anaya leads travel studies annually to Kenya and/or
Guatemala (http://www.twu.ca/academics/faculty/anaya-ruth.html)

For the pdf flyer and an application contact: Ruth Anaya at rutha@twu.ca

Gender, Research and Careers on Thursday, February 14, 2008/jeudi, 14 f=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9vrier?= 2008

ENGLISH TEXT FOLLOWS

L'Institut d'études des femmes a le plaisir d'annoncer la venue de Dr
Maryanne Dever , notre deuxième Chercheure invitée de la Banque de
Montréal en études des femmes pour l'année scolaire 2007-2008. Dr
Dever sera à l'Institut jusqu'à la fin du mois de mars 2008.

Durant son séjour à l'Institut d'études des femmes, Dr Maryanne Dever
travaille à la rédaction d'un article de recherche qui rapporte les
résultats d'une étude sur les différences liées au sexe entre les
titulaires d'un doctorat en début de carrière. Cette étude examine
plus particulièrement en quoi la structure de la famille des
diplômé-e-s et leurs expériences pendant les études de doctorat
façonnent les différences entre les hommes et les femmes au début de
leur carrière universitaire et au niveau de leur rendement en
recherche. Cette étude cadre avec l'intérêt actuel de Dr Dever pour
les questions de relations homme - femme, le travail et l'éducation
supérieure, et fait suite à son étude précédente concernant la prise
de décision en matière de progéniture ainsi que les aspirations et
cheminements professionnels.

Deux de ses études récentes portaient sur les conditions propices à la
productivité élevée en recherche des femmes universitaires (le rapport
se trouve ici en format PDF :

http://www.adm.monash.edu/sss/equity-diversity/wlas/when-research-works.html


<http://www.adm.monash.edu/sss/equity-diversity/wlas/when-research-works.html>
), sur les aspirations professionnelles et les accomplissements des
diplômées en études des femmes.

Dr Dever effectue aussi des recherches dans le domaine des études
littéraires. Elle vient de terminer un livre écrit en collaboration,
The Intimate Archive : Journeys Through Personal Papers (qui sera
publié par la National Library of Australia plus tard cette année), et
travaille sur la correspondance entre Mercedes de Acosta, Marlene
Dietrich et Greta Garbo.

Elle a été directrice du Centre for Women's Studies and Gender
Research de la Monash University à Melbourne en Australie et préside
la Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
(http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/news-and-events/awgsa.php


<http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/news-and-events/awgsa.php>
).

Dr Dever donnera une conférence intitulée Gender, Research and Careers
ce jeudi, 14 février 2008, à 11h30-13h00, au pavillon Desmarais (55
Laurier est), pièce 3120. Toutes et tous sont les bienvenus.

Pour rejoindre Dr Maryanne Dever :

Bureau : 30 Stewart, pièce 201

Téléphone : 613-562-5800, poste 2783

Courriel : Maryanne.Dever@arts.monash.edu.au

***********

The Institute of Women's Studies is pleased to announce the arrival of
Dr. Maryanne Dever , our second Bank of Montreal Visiting Scholar in
Women's Studies for the academic year 2007-2008. Dr. Dever will be at
the Institute until the end of March 2008.

While at the Institute for Women's Studies, Dr. Maryanne Dever is
writing up findings from a project investigating gender differentials
in early career outcomes for PhD graduates. It looks in particular at
how gender differences in early career academic employment and
research performance are shaped by graduates' family formation and PhD
experiences. This project extends her current research interest on
questions of gender, work, and higher education and builds on her
previous research concerning fertility decision-making, career
aspirations and employment pathways.

Two of her recent projects examined the conditions that lead to high
research productivity for women academics (the report is available
here in PDF:

http://www.adm.monash.edu/sss/equity-diversity/wlas/when-research-works.html)
and career aspirations and outcomes for Women's Studies graduates.

Dr. Dever also researches in the area of literary studies and has just
completed a co-authored book, The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through
Personal Papers (to be published by the National Library of Australia
later this year) and has also been working on the correspondence
between Mercedes de Acosta, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo.

Maryanne Dever is a former Director of the Centre for Women's Studies
& Gender Research at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and is
President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
(see:

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/womens-studies/news-and-events/awgsa.php).

She will be giving a lecture entitled Gender, Research and Careers on
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 11:30-13:00, at Desmarais Hall (55
Laurier East), room 3120. Everyone is welcome.

You may reach her at:

Office: 30 Stewart, room 201

Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2783

Email: Maryanne.Dever@arts.monash.edu.au

Monday, February 11, 2008

CFP - CASCA - 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 13_, 2008

Attention-Date Correction: Guatemala Travel Study announcement

My most sincere apology for a repeat with this email. I noted an error
of date and therefore this is the correct one below (end date was to
read May 19 and not May 9).


Here is an enriching learning experience for students Interested in
studying while immersed in culture.

Trinity Western University has openings for the GUATEMALA TRAVEL STUDY
PROGRAM, April 27 - May 19, 2008.

The travel study's experiential approach to the study of man, society
and culture, will help students discover different cultural principles
of human interaction. Students are exposed to the unique cultures of the
Maya, the Ladino, and the Garifuna (Black Caribs). The classroom is the
country. Every venue, speaker, and activity is selected to give students
exposure to different realities.

Students take two courses:

ANTH302: Cross-cultural Communication. This course explores various
cultural systems including social structure, value and belief systems.
The course highlights orientations to culture profiling, the dynamics of
cross-cultural interaction, and the principles for culture change.

PSYCH 490: Personhood. This course looks at worldviews and how that is
variously shaped by cultural context.

Regions and relevant topics include:

- Coban region: indigenous Mayans, economics/environment and development

- Flores & TIKAL: ancient Mayan cultures, religion and governing systems


- Rio Dulce & Livingston: Garifuna studies, identity

- Antigua region: Ladino, culture change and the arts

- Lake Atitlan region: other indigenous Mayan groups

Instructor: Professor Anaya leads travel studies annually to Kenya
and/or Guatemala (http://www.twu.ca/academics/faculty/anaya-ruth.html)

For the pdf flyer and an application contact: Ruth Anaya at rutha@twu.ca

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

Call for Papers:

Dear Hope enthusiasts,
The proposed panel explores Hope in anthropology- both how it is
theorized and how it is employed in anthropological practice. Here is
the session abstract:
---------------------------------------------------------------

Hope and aspiration are rarely considered areas of anthropological
inquiry in a time of cynicism and pessimism about the state of the
world and our future trajectory. Still, some anthropologists have
focused their attention on the subject of hope, its emergence in local
projects and global networks, the different ways it is articulated,
and how it shapes our own anthropological research efforts. Seeking out
alternative visions of the world offers opportunities to see gaps in
our current power structures and possible spaces for contestation and
change. This panel will explore how the concept of hope might be
engaged with in our studies particularly at a time when new paths and
new possibilities are needed to inspire us to envision and work
towards a better future. As Zournazi (2002:17) asserts, "…we need to
re-envisage and imagine hope as a convergence of new agendas,
conversations and possibilities in everyday life and political
activity." By investigating alternative discourses and practices
that are part of new social imaginaries, panel members will consider
how
the spark of hope can be ignited in the field of anthropology.

Zournazi, Mary. 2002. Hope: New Philosophies for Change. London:
Routledge.

If you are interested in participating, please contact: Stacy Lockerbie
(lockers@mcmaster.ca)or Kathryn Mossman (kmossman@yahoo.com) with the
title of your paper and a brief description (100
words) as soon as possible.

Appel à communication - colloque "pornographie contemporaine et société"

De :  Professeur Richard Poulin, Département de sociologie et d'anthropologie

****

Université d'Ottawa, jeudi le 7 février 2008

Appel à communication

Colloque « Pornographie contemporaine et société »

Le 10 avril 2008 à l'Université d'Ottawa

 
La pornographie est désormais partie intégrante de notre
environnement.  Elle foisonne sur Internet, elle intègre le marché des
portables, elle fait l'objet de films, d'émissions de télé réalité et
de télé séries, sans compter les magazines, les vidéoclips de musique
populaire et la publicité qu'elle colonise et influence. 

 

En 2006, les recettes mondiales de la pornographie s'élevaient à 97
milliards de dollars américains, ce qui surpasse les revenus combinés
de Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix et
EarthLink.  Pour certains, elle est synonyme de libération sexuelle et
d'empowerment.  Pour d'autres, elle représente une violence sexiste et
raciste en plus d'engendrer des effets négatifs sur les rapports
sociaux de sexe et sur le développement des jeunes et des enfants. 

 

Alors que l'industrie de la pornographie s'incruste au point que des
chercheurEs emploient des concepts comme « la pornographisation des
imaginaires et du tissu social » ou encore de société « pornified »,
le but de ce colloque scientifique est d'examiner l'évolution de
l'industrie (du gonzo à la danse nue; du gang bang au « métier » de
hardeur/deuse), d'étudier son influence dans la publicité, les
magazines féminins, la musique populaire, etc., ainsi que d'analyser
sa consommation en lien avec la sexualisation publique et l'hyper
sexualisation.

 

Nous vous invitons à soumettre une proposition de communication
d'environ 250 mots d'ici le 28 février 2008.  Veuillez nous faire
parvenir votre proposition à Richard Poulin, département de sociologie
et d'anthropologie au courriel suivant : poulin@uottawa.ca   

 

 

 

 

Friday, February 8, 2008

UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference, Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses

"Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses"

Voices are very much at the heart of anthropology and related fields.
Through research, we strive to understand our world and those of the peoples
we study, working with them to give voice to their own worldviews. Yet
voices are numerous and often competing. No group is homogenous, thus
perspectives differ both between groups and within them. In a globalized
world, local and global voices become increasingly intertwined.

This interdisciplinary graduate conference aims at *examining* discourse and
*fostering* it, both among anthropologists and students from other fields.
Discourses are ways of speaking and understanding that are closely linked to
power. How and why are some voices heard while others are suppressed? How do
local and global forces impact which voices dominate and which are silenced?
How do we balance the voices of those we study with our own?

The UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference will examine issues of
identity, memory, conflict and representation both in Canada and around the
world. It is also concerned with how researchers construct representations
of "others". This conference is an opportunity for students to share their
research and to present their own voices on these themes. We welcome papers
from all disciplines. Abstracts should be 200 words in length, describing
your research questions and contribution as well as their link to the
conference theme. Please indicate the degree you are pursuing as well as
the department and university.

The conference will take place
*March 15, 2008*

at the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology,

beside the world-class Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver.

*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Ridington*

*Deadline for abstract submission: February 10, 2008*
Please send your abstracts and any questions to *
anthropology.conference@gmail.com* <anthropology.conference@gmail.com>.
We also welcome session organizers; please contact us for more details.

http://www.anth.ubc.ca/gradconf

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*Attached is the call for papers for the 2008 UBC Department of
Anthropology Graduate Student Conference.*
**
**PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED**
**
**
*"Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses"*

Voices are very much at the heart of anthropology and related fields.
Through research, we strive to understand our world and those of the peoples
we study, working with them to give voice to their own worldviews. Yet
voices are numerous and often competing. No group is homogenous, thus
perspectives differ both between groups and within them. In a globalized
world, local and global voices become increasingly intertwined.

This interdisciplinary graduate conference aims at *examining* discourse and
*fostering* it, both among anthropologists and students from other fields.
Discourses are ways of speaking and understanding that are closely linked to
power. How and why are some voices heard while others are suppressed? How do
local and global forces impact which voices dominate and which are silenced?
How do we balance the voices of those we study with our own?

The UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference will examine issues of
identity, memory, conflict and representation both in Canada and around the
world. It is also concerned with how researchers construct representations
of "others". This conference is an opportunity for students to share their
research and to present their own voices on these themes. We welcome papers
from all disciplines. Abstracts should be 200 words in length, describing
your research questions and contribution as well as their link to the
conference theme. Please indicate the degree you are pursuing as well as
the department and university.

The conference will take place
*March 15, 2008*

at the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology,

beside the world-class Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver.

*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Ridington*

*Deadline for abstract submission: February 10, 2008*
Please send your abstracts and any questions to *
anthropology.conference@gmail.com* <anthropology.conference@gmail.com>.
We also welcome session organizers; please contact us for more details.

http://www.anth.ubc.ca/gradconf

call for papers- Food, Property and Power

Food, Property and Power
Call for papers for the CASCA conference in May 2008

Changes in the structure of property relations over the last twenty
years — de-collectivisation in former socialist countries, the
globalisation of intellectual property rights over seeds, the
consolidation of large agro-chemical companies — have profoundly
affected the most basic of all human activities, the production of
food. Control over food and food production has always been in human
history a locus of power, a means of repression and a motive for
revolution and rebellion. At the beginning of the 21st century, the
controversies about technologies of agricultural production and about
forms of property over land and seeds raise issues about life-style,
economic and environmental justice and democratic transparency.

The workshop calls for contributions from researchers who work on
agricultural producers in different parts of the world and especially
in post-socialist and socialist countries, who explore how
agricultural practice shapes and is shaped by political worldviews and
structures of power and how these are in turn affected by global
agricultural policies.

Birgit Müller, LAIOS-CNRS, Paris, bmuller@msh-paris.fr

CFP -- North American Hinduism

For those of you who also attend the American Academy of Religion meetings, a
CFP for the 2008 meeting that may be of interest (see below).

All the best,
Chad
Chad Bauman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

cbauman@butler.edu<mailto:cbauman@butler.edu>
Ph: 317 940 8705

A Call for Papers--North American Hinduisms Group of AAR
Representing (and Misrepresenting) Hinduism in North America

Over the past fifteen years, scholarship on South Asia, colonialism
and Hinduism
has been deeply concerned with questions of representation. Who defines and
imagines a given community or tradition? Which metaphors, narratives, and
historical perspectives are considered authentic, offensive, or
liberating, and
by whom? How are debates over religious, community, and political articulation
arbitrated? These long standing questions about who speaks for Hindus and
Hinduism/s take on additional characteristics when such debates happen
in North
America. Questions of representation are coupled with conceptions of freedom,
multiculturalism, civic duty, separation of church and state, free market
capitalism, and spirituality among others that are unique to the North
American
landscape. This panel seeks papers that explore the whole range of
representations and misrepresentations of Hinduism in North America in the
spheres of popular cullture, education, politics, ritual and practice.

Please contact and send proposals by Feb. 20th :

Shana Sippy: shanasippy@cox.net<mailto:shanasippy@cox.net> &
Tanisha Ramachandran: ramacht@wfu.edu<mailto:ramacht@wfu.edu>

Call for Papers

Anthropology and/of Government
Panel Proposal for CASCA Annual Meetings, 8-10 May 2008, Carleton
University
Organizers: Kendra Coulter (University of Windsor) and Thomas M. Wilson
(SUNY-Binghamton)

Governments are sites of cultural production, constraint, and contestation,
and are often central catalysts for fundamental political and economic
change in local, regional, national and international domains. In and
across
these levels, anthropologists are well-positioned to analyse government
institutions, their various social actors, and their ideas, practices,
policies and agendas, while welding government activity to broader
political, economic and historical contexts. In the contemporary global
political terrain, governments are inextricable from the policies,
institutions and actions that are at the heart of neoliberalism,
imperialism, war, and inequality. Thus government projects
are worthy of continued if not increased anthropological analysis. The
proposed panel seeks to contribute to a politically-engaged anthropology of
government which sees governments as conjunctures of state power,
neoliberal
facilitation and justification, and hegemonic reproduction and production,
yet sometimes also as sites of progressive transformative possibility.

Please send questions and/or abstracts of 100 words to Kendra Coulter -
kcoulter@uwindsor.ca
by February 9th.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Appel d?articles pour le bulletin Culture/Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter

Appel d?articles pour le bulletin Culture

Nous sommes en train de planifier le prochain numéro du bulletin
Culture. Celui-ci sera publié tout juste avant la tenue de notre
prochaine conférence du mois de mai prochain.

Toutes les soumissions de textes sont les bienvenues. Étant donné le
thème de notre prochaine conférence « L?ethnographie : enchevêtrements
et ruptures », sont toutefois particulièrement invités celles portant
sur l?enquête de terrain. Les textes doivent nous être parvenus au
plus tard le 31 mars 2008. Veuillez les envoyer à Daphne Winland,
membre anglophone winland@yorku.ca and/or Karine Vanthuyne, membre
francophone, karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca.

Pour plus d?informations concernant le bulletin, veuillez visiter le
site Internet de la CASCA :
www.casca.anthropologica.ca

N?hésitez pas également à contacter Daphné ou Karine pour toutes
informations supplémentaires.

Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter

We are currently planning our upcoming third issue of Culture that
will be coming out before the next CASCA meetings in May.

We welcome all kinds of submissions to the newsletter. In the spirit
of this years CASCA Conference theme ?Ethnography: Entanglements and
Ruptures?, submissions on fieldwork are especially welcome. Please
share your experiences ?in the field? in the upcoming May 2008 issue
of Culture.

Submissions should be made by no later than March 31, 2008. Send your
inquiries and submissions to Daphne Winland, Anglophone member ? at
?large at winland@yorku.ca and/or Karine Vanthuyne Francophone
member-at-large at karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca.

For more information about Culture check out the CASCA website:

www.casca.anthropologica.ca

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