Poste en sociologie - Condition des femmes

L'Université de Moncton, fondée en 1963, est un établissement
d'enseignement supérieur de langue française en milieu acadien,
regroupant trois constituantes situées dans les régions les plus
francophones du Nouveau-Brunswick, soit à Edmundston, à Moncton et à
Shippagan.

 

 

Le Campus de Moncton sollicite des candidatures au  poste  temporaire
suivant :

 

PROFESSEURE OU PROFESSEUR

EN SOCIOLOGIE

 

INFORMATION GÉNÉRALE : Il s'agit d'un poste temporaire pour l'année
universitaire 2008-09, à pourvoir à compter du 1er juillet 2008 au
rang d'adjoint, avec possibilité de renouvellement.  Ce poste est
rattaché au Département de sociologie de la Faculté des arts et des
sciences sociales.  Pour de plus amples informations sur l'Université,
la Faculté ou le Département de sociologie et ses programmes d'études,
prière de consulter le site Internet www.umoncton.ca.

 

FONCTIONS : Dans le cadre des fonctions universitaires d'enseignement,
de recherche et de services à la collectivité, la personne qui
occupera ce poste sera appelée à enseigner dans les domaines
suivants : condition des femmes, famille, jeunes, éducation et des
cours de premier cycle en méthodologie.  La charge de travail comprend
également une participation active dans la gestion de projets de
développement et de dossiers faisant partie des activités du
Département et de la Faculté.

 

FORMATION : Les candidates et candidats à ce poste possèdent le
doctorat en sociologie.  Une expérience en enseignement au niveau
universitaire sera considérée un atout.  La maîtrise de la langue
française tant à l'oral qu'à l'écrit, est essentielle.

 

Exceptionnellement, les candidatures de personnes sur le point
d'obtenir le doctorat dans la discipline au cours de la prochaine
année seront également considérées.  Dans ce cas, le dossier de la
candidate ou du candidat doit comprendre une lettre de recommandation
de la directrice ou du directeur de thèse faisant état du niveau
d'avancement des études doctorales, ainsi que d'un échéancier pour
l'obtention du doctorat.

 

ENTRÉE EN FONCTION ET TRAITEMENT : Le 1er juillet 2008.  Le traitement
annuel est établi selon la formation et l'expérience.  Les critères
servant à établir le rang professoral et l'étape de carrière sont
régis par la convention collective.

 

FERMETURE DU CONCOURS : Le 14 avril 2008.  Les personnes intéressées à
postuler sont priées de faire parvenir un dossier complet incluant :
un curriculum vitae détaillé, une copie des diplômes obtenus, tout
document pertinent permettant d'évaluer les compétences en
enseignement ainsi que le potentiel en recherche, et, aux fins de
référence, le nom et les coordonnées de trois personnes.  Faire
parvenir le tout à : Mme Isabelle McKee-Allain, doyenne, Faculté des
arts et des sciences sociales, Université de Moncton, Campus de
Moncton, Moncton NB E1A 3E9.  Téléphone : (506) 858-4183;
Télécopieur : (506) 858-4508; courriel :
Isabelle.McKee-Allain@umoncton.ca.

 

 

Call for Papers: Iraq since 1990

Call for Papers: Iraq since 1990

Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies invites
submissions for a special issue exploring "Iraq since 1990."

The marking of a so-called fifth anniversary of the Iraq War obscures the
fact that since 1990 Iraq has been subjected to and a constant site of
violence and war: the Gulf War, a controversial sanctions regime, invasion
and occupation, ongoing resistance, internal conflict, the Iraq War.

Peace Research invites submissions from disciplinary and interdisciplinary
perspectives that address the case of Iraq since 1990. We are open to a
wide variety of perspectives and themes for this issue. How are the various
aspects of this conflict connected? What theory can we bring to this study
to illuminate its complex nature? Possible themes include:

comparative occupation studies
representation of Iraq and war
neo-colonialism and imperialism
dissent and protest movements
responses to militarism
nationalism and war
morality, violence and sanctions
feminist analysis of war
hegemony and power dynamics
foreign policy critique
UN reform and conflict
resource scarcity and current policy
environmental destruction
theoretical perspectives on violence
historical and political context
globalization and economic violence

Potential contributors should consider this list as representative, not
exhaustive. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Manuscripts must follow
the PRJ's Submission Guidelines
(http://www.peaceresearch.ca/submissions.html), and should be sent
electronically to the Editors (peaceresearch@uwinnipeg.ca) followed by hard
copy.

Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2008.

Cfp EASA 2008: Media Anthropology and Technology; Deadline 31 March 2008

The EASA Call for Papers Deadline is coming closer. Here is a
reminder for everybody to submit a proposal.

The EASA Media Anthropology Network announces its Call for Papers
- 10th Biennial EASA Conference 2008: Experiencing
diversity and mutuality Ljubljana from 26 to 30. August 2008
Call for Papers (Deadline for online submission of proposals: 31 March 2008

Media, technology, and knowledge cultures: anthropological perspectives on
issues of diversity, mutuality and exclusion
In the recent years, many scholars in the field of media anthropology have
pointed out the necessity to study media as technology, in order to further
decenter the textual content of media in favor of their social context.
However, what do we mean by technology? This workshop intends to inspire the
reception of recent debates in anthropology and related neighboring
disciplines which have expanded the perspectives on technology vastly. Science
and technology studies, material culture studies, ecology and
environmentalism, medical anthropology, and anthropological studies of
cyberspace and technoscience, contribute to a much better understanding of
technologies not only as sets of material devices, but as complex, negotiated
arrangements of agents, social practices, cultural imaginations, and
circulating things. Abandoning older 'ballistic' concepts of technologies as
physical tools having an 'impact' on cultures, research into the dynamics of
technoscience suggests that
much of what constitutes technology in a given situation is the outcome of
politically interested media discourse producing models of diversity,
mutuality and exclusion. Nevertheless, every technological orthodoxy produces
its heterodoxy, as well. Unpacking the 'black box' of technologies,
therefore, means to look at different opposing ways of how technology is
culturally constituted by and in the media, how media-related practices
configure and re-configure technology, and how technology and cultural
imagination interplay.
Possible fields of exploration may include, among others: Symbolic
appropriations of technologies as 'techno-totems'; media, technology and the
body; technology and minority claims; technology and indigenous media; media
practices and technological ideologies; technologies, moral regimes, and joy;
technologies and the reconfiguration of nature-culture boundaries;
technologies and nationalism; technologies and imagined communities;
technology and creativity; entertainment; media technology and gambling;
technologies and representations of the post-human; visual cultures of
technology; technology, media and empowerment; technology and the construction
of the subject.
Convenors Cora Bender (University of Bremen) Corabender@aol.com;
cora.bender@yahoo.com
Ian Dent (University of Cambridge) Ian.Dent@iandent.com
Discussant: Dorle Dracklé

To submit a paper proposal, please visit the EASA homepage (www.easa2008.eu)
and find the workshop pages. Please click on Workshop No. 071 and use the link
provided to submit your proposal.

For any questions, please contact Cora Bender (Corabender@aol.com)

CASCA 2008 preliminary program/ Programme pr=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9liminaire?= de CASCA 2008

Please find a .pdf version of the preliminary program for CASCA 2008 at
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/PRELIMINARY%20PROGRAMME_MAR24.pdf .

If you have any questions or corrections concerning the preliminary
program, please email us at casca.carleton@gmail.com.

Vous trouverez une version du programme préliminaire en format .pdf de
CASCA 2008 à
http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/PRELIMINARY%20PROGRAMME_MAR24.pdf .

Si vous avez des questions ou des corrections à signaler concernant le
programme préliminaire, veuillez nous faire parvenir un courriel à
casca.carleton@gmail.com.

Call for Papers - Deadline Extended

CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE EXTENDED
American Anthropological Association
2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

(Neo)liberalizing Socialism?
Historicizing Connections Between Socialist Liberalization and
Postsocialist Neoliberalization

Organizers:
Csilla Kalocsai, Yale University and University of Toronto
Mary Taylor, City University of New York

Social scientists are divided on whether neoliberalism signifies
fundamental continuity or a historical-institutional rupture in
relation to liberalism. This panel contributes to this larger debate
by exploring neoliberalism within the framework of a longer term
liberalization process in the formerly state socialist polities of
Central and Eastern Europe and China Turning its historical lens on
this region, which is often considered a model case of
neoliberalization, we seek to bring together scholars whose
ethnographic research investigates the liberal turn in late socialism
and the link between "socialist liberalization" and "postsocialist
neoliberalization". Aiming to problematize analytical and advocacy
approaches which serve to obscure certain continuities and ruptures,
panelists will re-examine such questions as the rollback of the social
state, the legal protection and production of markets, the
redistribution of wealth, the restructuring of labor, and
transformations in subjectivity –said to be neoliberal- in light of
the uneven processes of liberalization/neoliberalization that occurred
in the late socialist period and afterward.

We ask: What are the various forms of liberalization that unfolded
in the socialist era? How did they change the social, cultural,
political, and economic landscape of socialism? How do old and new,
flexible and mobile, elements associated with neoliberalism take shape
in models of reform, legitimacy of the state, constructions of market,
forms of political agency, modes of personhood, and meanings of
citizenship? How did socialist liberalization contribute to the
success of neoliberal policies and agendas in the region? And what are
the conditions that hinder, challenge, and modify the embrace of such
strategies in postsocialist times? And ultimately, how can such a
historicized account of liberalization challenge our assumptions about
this "model case" of neoliberalization, and enhance our critical
understanding of the intersection of postsocialism and neoliberalism
in both the so called postsocialist regions and beyond?

Interested scholars should submit a paper abstract up to 250 words
to Mary Taylor at spaceandsound@gmail.com and to Csilla Kalocsai at
csilla.kalocsai@aya.yale.edu by March 28, 2008.

CFP -AAA 2008 session in S.F.-email contact information

Please note email contact is cmenzies@interchange.ubc.ca

Thanks,

Charles

----------------------

Dear All,

Please let me know if you might be interested in participating the following
proposed session for the 2008 AAA meetings in San Francisco (see abstract
below). My hope is to organize a session that allows for the productive
intersection of people who 'do' digital video/new media, those who study it,
and the anthropology of work (the study of processes, organization, cultures
of work).

If you use digital video/new media in your research, produce anthropological
films of work, or engage in the critique study of same consider
participating.

Bye for now,

Charles

Exploring Work and Workscapes Through New Media

The worlds of work, and our approaches to study these worlds, have been
shifted by the emergence of new media relying upon digital technologies.
The participants in this session explore ­though critical analysis, video,
audio, and related new media technologies- the interaction between
technologies and the social forces that shape and are shaped by them.
Drawing upon a variety of new media approaches and creative understandings
of the Œworkscape¹ the participants share the contention that
anthropological research only stands to be enriched through the deployment
of new media.

CFP -AAA 2008 session in S.F.

Dear All,

Please let me know if you might be interested in participating the following
proposed session for the 2008 AAA meetings in San Francisco (see abstract
below). My hope is to organize a session that allows for the productive
intersection of people who 'do' digital video/new media, those who study it,
and the anthropology of work (the study of processes, organization, cultures
of work).

If you use digital video/new media in your research, produce anthropological
films of work, or engage in the critique study of same consider
participating.

Bye for now,

Charles

Exploring Work and Workscapes Through New Media

The worlds of work, and our approaches to study these worlds, have been
shifted by the emergence of new media relying upon digital technologies.
The participants in this session explore ­though critical analysis, video,
audio, and related new media technologies- the interaction between
technologies and the social forces that shape and are shaped by them.
Drawing upon a variety of new media approaches and creative understandings
of the Œworkscape¹ the participants share the contention that
anthropological research only stands to be enriched through the deployment
of new media.

------------------------------------
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

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AAA Meetings Call for Abstracts

AAA Meetings San Francisco, CA
November 19-23, 2008

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
PANEL PROPOSAL:

Including Nationalist-Minorites in Exclusive Nationalist-Discourse:
some new theoretical considerations for ethno-nationalism and anthropology

Our panel proposes to challenge long-held assumptions of nationalism
theory by examining the significance of everyday nationalism in
relation to ethno-nationalist minorities and the hegemonic discourses
of nation-states. In particular we are interested in addressing issues
of sovereignty, ownership, and power relations from emerging concerns
about exclusive dialogue-regimes over ethno-nationalist minorities in
a post-9/11 world. We maintain prevalent theoretical-perceptions about
states still assumes an elitist perspective, one which is predominated
and controlled by so-called legitimate nation-states with little
regard to minority groups aspiring for statehood and recognition. Our
contention is that supporters of failed nationalist-movements and
their rights are continually overlooked in the media and by dominant
state-actors in the West and East. As scholars we wish to collaborate
with under-represented minority-groups at an interdisciplinary level
to address these concerns and express our theoretical doubts about
prevailing models (from the likes of Anderson, Gellner, Hobsbawm &
Ranger, Anthony Smith, and others). Furthermore, we wish to discuss
and acknowledge how nationalism theorizing needs revisiting by
examining its everyday components, especially why notions of imagined
wholeness are superceded by fragmentary politics, local belongingness,
and other socio-cultural formations of nationalist sentiment, new
media-technologies, and varying forms of material consumption.

Organizer: J. P. Linstroth
Please Email: linstrot@nova.edu

If you are interested in participating, please email me and indicate
whether or not you will be able to submit an abstract by April 1st,
2008, which is the American Anthropological Association (AAA) deadline
for the upcoming conference in San Francisco at the end of November in
2008.
Please also indicate the following, whether you wish to:
• Participate by giving a paper
• Participate as a discussant
• Participate as Chair

Two new openings at the University of Amsterdam

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
 
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) is the largest
educational and research institution in the social sciences in the
Netherlands. The Faculty serves 7,500 students in numerous Bachelor's
and Master's programmes in Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology,
Communication Science, Psychology, Social Geography, Planning and
International Development Studies, and Educational Sciences. The
academic staff is employed in education as well as research. There are
over 1,100 employees at the Faculty, which resides in a number of
buildings in the centre of Amsterdam.
 
The teaching of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology takes
place within the Amsterdam Institute for Education in Social Sciences
(Amsterdams Instituut voor Maatschappijwetenschap, AIM) and within the
International School for Humanities and Social Sciences (ISHSS). Its
research takes place within the Amsterdam School for Social Science
Research (ASSR).
In teaching, the Anthropology program, apart from a thorough
introduction in Anthropological Theories and Methods, offer the
possibilities of specializing in the Anthropology and Sociology of
Asia, the Anthropology of Europe, Medical Anthropology, the
Anthropology of Sexuality, Gender and the Body, and the Anthropology
of Religion.
 
Two assistant professors of Anthropology and/or Non-Western Sociology
38 hours per week, or 1.0 fte
 
The new assistant professors are expected to spend 60% of their time
on education and 40% of their time on research.
 
Duties
- reinforcing the broad profile of Anthropology and Non-Western
Sociology in Amsterdam
- developing, performing and supervising anthropological and/or
sociological research at a high academic level
- provide general, specialist and methodological education in the
Bachelor's and Master's programmes of the Anthropology and Non-Western
Sociology departments and (assist in) supervising graduate students
- obtaining, or helping to obtain, external funding for research development
- actively contributing to the development of the discipline in
national and international context by publishing and participating in
national and international research networks and educational initiatives
 
Profile
- completed doctoral thesis in the field of the social sciences
- publications in international "peer reviewed" periodicals and/or in
books published by internationally recognised presses
- broad knowledge in the field of General Anthropology and/or
Non-Western Sociology
- specialist expertise in a field related to one of the ASSR's
research clusters
- thorough mastery of qualitative and/or quantitative methods and
techniques of social-scientific research
- capable to teach and motivate students at both basic and advanced levels
- in a fairly short term: perfect passive, and adequate active
knowledge of Dutch.
 
More information
For more information about this position, please contact the Head of
the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Dr.  Peter van Rooden (
p.t.vanrooden@uva.nl )
Information about the department's research can be found on the
website: http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/assr/index.html
Information about the department's education can be found on the
website: http://www.student.uva.nl/ca/actueel.cfm 
 
Appointment
 
Depending on qualifications and experience, between 3129 and 4868
Euros gross per month (UD 1/2)
 
Application
 
Send applications within three weeks of the date of this opening to C.
Garofalo, Office Manager, Sociology and Anthropology Department,
Oudezijdsachterburgwal 185, 1012 DK Amsterdam (
socasecretariaat@fmg.uva.nl)

Colloque f=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9ministe__=C3=A0?= l'Acfas

76e Congrès de l'Acfas
Colloque « Faut-il réfuter le Nous femmes pour être féministe au XXIe
siècle ? »

Mardi 6 mai 2008 de 9 h 30 à 17 h (à confirmer)
À l'Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) à Québec

Sous la responsabilité de Francine Descarries, coordonnatrice de la
recherche et Lyne Kurtzman, responsable du développement de la
recherche à l'IREF. Le programme complet sera disponible d'ici
quelques jours sur le site de l'Acfas.

Présentation du colloque : Au cours des dernières années, l'impact des
changements provoqués par le mouvement des femmes, tout comme
l'évolution différenciée de la situation des femmes, tant à l'échelle
locale que mondiale, ont conduit les études féministes à rechercher un
mode de lecture et d'interprétation qui tiendrait compte de la
complexité des identités multiples et simultanées des femmes, de même
que de la sérialité de leurs positions. Dans cette optique, le défi
majeur est de « rethéoriser » le sujet du féminisme, en proposant non
seulement un projet social inédit sur la base d'un nouveau contrat
entre les hommes et les femmes, mais encore en élaborant une pensée
féministe plus ouverte aux diversités et aux clivages entre les femmes
elles-mêmes. Dans le cadre de ce colloque, les responsables de
communications sont invitées, à partir de leur perspective théorique,
à débattre de ce Nous femmes, un sujet controversé du ralliement
féministe.

Le colloque sera présidé par Francine Descarries et Nicole Laurin
agira à titre de discutante.

En matinée :

Andréa Martinez, Institut d'études des femmes, Université d'Ottawa
Les contributions féministes d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes à
l'approche intersectionnelle : traits d'union et lignes de fracture

Anna Kruzynski, Service social, Université Concordia et le Collectif
de recherche sur l'autonomie collective

Questionnements sur la compréhension de militantes libertaires
« queer » et féministes au Québec à l'égard du « Nous-femmes » et de
la non-mixité : recoupements et divergences

Sandrine Ricci, IREF/UQAM

Réflexion d'une chercheuse muzungu sur sa relation contingente avec
des rescapées du génocide des Tutsi

En après-midi :

Louise Langevin, Chaire d'étude Claire-Bonenfant sur la condition des
femmes, Université Laval

Le « Nous femmes » et le droit à l'égalité entre les sexes

Audrey Baril, IREF/QAM

Judith Butler et le « Nous femmes » : la critique des catégories
identitaires implique-t-elle leur réfutation ?

Line Chamberland, IREF/UQAM

Les lesbiennes sont-elles solubles dans le « Nous femmes » ?

Elsa Galerand, Université Paris VIII

Classe de sexe ou contradictions entre femmes : un faux dilemme

Nicole Laurin, Département de sociologie, Université de Montréal

Discussion sur le thème du colloque : faut-il réfuter le « Nous
femmes » pour être féministe au XXIe siècle ?

Frais d'inscription au Congrès de l'Acfas :

 

Tarifs pour étudiants-es et retraités-es

§         65 $ - Avant le 31 mars 2008

§         77 $ - Après le 31 mars 2008

Tarifs pour congressistes réguliers

§         202 $ - Avant le 31 mars 2008

§         230 $ - Après le 31 mars 2008

Renseignements supplémentaires : www.acfas.ca

"Three Shots Heard 'Round the World: HPV Vaccines and the Politics of Women's Health"

ENGLISH TEXT FOLLOWS

À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes, l'Institut
d'études des femmes de l'Université d'Ottawa a le plaisir de vous
inviter à la Conférence annuelle Shirley Greenberg en études des
femmes intitulée

"Three Shots Heard 'Round the World: HPV Vaccines and the Politics of
Women's Health"

prononcée par

Abby Lippman, PhD

Professeure titulaire, Département d'épidémiologie, biostatistique et
santé au travail, Université McGill

Directrice du comité consultatif en matière de politiques, Réseau
canadien pour la santé des femmes (RCSF)

Vendredi, le 11 avril 2008 à 17 h

Auditorium des anciens

85, rue Université

Université d'Ottawa

ENTRÉE LIBRE

Une réception suivra la conférence.

R.S.V.P. avant le 7 avril 2008 (613-562-5791; womenst@uOttawa.ca)

* * * * * * * *

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Institute of Women's
Studies of the University of Ottawa is pleased to invite you to the
Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women's Studies entitled

"Three Shots Heard 'Round the World: HPV Vaccines and the Politics of
Women's Health"

given by

Abby Lippman, PhD

Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational
Health, McGill University

Chair, Policy Advisory Committee, Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN)

Friday, April 11, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.

Alumni Auditorium

85 University Private

FREE ADMISSION

A reception will follow the presentation.

R.S.V.P. by April 7, 2008 (613-562-5791; womenst@uOttawa.ca
<mailto:womenst@uOttawa.ca> )

**************

ABBY LIPPMAN, PhD

A professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and
Occupational Health, with cross appointments in the Departments of
Social Sciences and Medicine and Family Medicine at McGill University,
Abby Lippman has been engaged in women's health issues for over 30
years as an academic and activist. Currently, Professor Lippman is
Chair of the Policy Advice committee, a member of the steering
committee of Women and Health Protection and past Chair of the Board
of the Canadian Women's Health Network. Her work focuses on feminist
studies of applied genetic and reproductive technologies as well as on
critical analyses of health and pharmaceutical policies. Specifically
Professor Lippman examines the politics of women's health, and has
developed the concepts of "geneticization" and "neo-medicalization" to
analyze and understand contemporary approaches to, and applications
of, biotechnology to women's health.

anthropology position at Thompson Rivers University (Kamloops, BC)

Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, seeks applications for a
sessional position in anthropology (likely renewable and possibly
leading to tenure-stream). Prompt applications via e-mail are
encouraged:

Lecturer - Sociology & Anthropology

Sessional

DUTIES:

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is currently seeking a
Sessional Lecturer for 2008-09. The successful candidate will be an
Anthropologist with specialization in either Cultural Anthropology or
Archaeology, and will teach existing courses that may range from 1st to
4th year.

QUALIFICATIONS:

· Ph. D. in Anthropology or Archaeology, or completion of doctoral
degree by date of appointment

TERM OF EMPLOYMENT: 01 September 2008 to 30 April 2009.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Applications will be reviewed commencing
28 March 2008, and may continue until position is filled.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority. Thompson Rivers University
is committed to the principle of employment equity. Please forward
current curriculum vitae, quoting the Competition #08-004 with names,
addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) referees, along with a copy
of graduate transcripts.

Please submit your application by mail to
Career Opportunities,
Human Resources Division
Thompson Rivers University
P.O. Box 3010
Kamloops, British Columbia
V2C 5N3 Canada
or by fax to
Fax 1-250-828-5338
or by email to
E-Mail jobops@tru.ca

Please submit a separate application for each competition, quoting the
competition number 08-004.
Thompson Rivers University is committed to the principle of employment
equity.
We wish to thank all applicants; however, only those under consideration
will be contacted.

CFP - Ethnographic Collecting (for AAA)

Please excuse cross-postings.

Please find below an abstract for a proposed panel at
the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association (AAA) in San Francisco,
California (19-23 November 2008). We are soliciting
abstracts for 15 minute papers to be included in this
panel. If you are interested, please forward an
abstract of 250 words or less by Monday, 24 March 2008
to:

Leah Niederstadt (niederstadt_leah@wheatonma.edu) or
Tobias Sperlich (tobias.sperlich@uregina.ca).

Ethnographic collecting – the stories continue

The collecting of ethnographic materials played a
significant role in the development of anthropology as
an academic discipline. It has long been recognized
that in early anthropological studies, material
culture was considered important data that could be
used to understand and classify cultures on a global
scale. While it is generally acknowledged that
anthropologists and others collected ethnographic
objects throughout the entire 20th century and that
they continue to do so today, collecting as an
integral anthropological activity arguably came to an
end with the onset of functionalism. It appears that
this move to the fringe of anthropological inquiry has
also meant that recent collecting practices have
tended to escape the scrutiny of anthropological
investigation.

Nevertheless, the collecting of ethnographic material
culture still represents a key arena in which members
of different cultures engage with one another. Today,
many Westerners continue to live for extended periods
of time in the non-Western world. Like their
colonial-era predecessors, Peace Corps volunteers,
development workers, diplomats and military personnel,
among others, continue to create social networks with
locals and arrive at personal understandings of their
host cultures. Many of these individuals develop
collections of ethnographica, which can be regarded as
material manifestations of cross-cultural negotiations
and as representations of perceptions of other
cultures. These collections thus provide
anthropologists with a unique access point to
investigate a type of cross-cultural encounter that
continues to take place in an increasingly globalized
world but that has not yet been the focus of extensive
anthropological inquiry.

This panel seeks papers that present anthropological
examinations of ethnographic collecting in the present
and recent past, particularly those that focus on
types of collectors, e.g., Peace Corps volunteers,
military personnel, etc., that have rarely been the
focus of academic study. Some of the questions to be
considered include: How are cultures represented
through these individual collections? How do
collectors understand the objects in their
collections? How does the individual collector develop
his/her collection? What kind of collaborations
develop between the collector and the individuals from
whom objects are obtained? What significance does the
act of collecting have for the collector? How might
these collections impact our understanding of human
cultural diversity?

LINGUISTIC and SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY TEACHING AT TRENT 2008/2009

LINGUISTIC and SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY TEACHING AT TRENT 2008/2009

We are looking to hire 3 people as part-time appointments, each
teaching a total of 1.5 courses.
Candidates will be expected to teach 1.5 courses from the following list:

ANTH 231 Language, Society and Culture (full year course)
ANTH 200 Sociocultural Anthropology (full year course)

ANTH 308H Anthropology of Tourism (.5 course)
ANTH 324H Non verbal communication (.5 course)
ANTH 382H Culture and Food (.5 course)
ANTH 410H Gifts and Commodities (.5 course)
ANTH 477H Anthropology of Colonialism (.5 course)

A ranked list of preferred courses should be incorporated into the
letter of application.
Postings close: April 15, 2007.

See the following link for details and posting numbers:

http://www.trentu.ca/deansoffice/ptfaculty_anth.php

Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
American Anthropological Association
2008 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC

(Neo)liberalizing Socialism?
Historicizing Connections Between Socialist Liberalization and
Postsocialist Neoliberalization

Organizers:
Csilla Kalocsai, Yale University and University of Toronto
Mary Taylor, City University of New York

Social scientists are divided on whether neoliberalism signifies
fundamental continuity or a historical-institutional rupture in
relation to liberalism. This panel contributes to this larger debate
by exploring neoliberalism within the framework of a longer term
liberalization process in the formerly state socialist polities of
Central and Eastern Europe. Turning its historical lens on this
region, which is often considered a model case of neoliberalization,
we seek to bring together scholars whose ethnographic research
investigates the liberal turn in late socialism and the link between
"socialist liberalization" and "postsocialist neoliberalization".
Aiming to problematize analytical and advocacy approaches which serve
to obscure certain continuities and ruptures, panelists will
re-examine such questions as the rollback of the social state, the
legal protection and production of markets, the redistribution of
wealth, the restructuring of labor, and transformations in
subjectivity –said to be neoliberal- in light of the uneven
processes of liberalization/neoliberalization that occurred in the
late socialist period and afterward.

We ask: What are the various forms of liberalization that unfolded
in the socialist era? How did they change the social, cultural,
political, and economic landscape of socialism? How do old and new,
flexible and mobile, elements associated with neoliberalism take shape
in models of reform, legitimacy of the state, constructions of market,
forms of political agency, modes of personhood, and meanings of
citizenship? How did socialist liberalization contribute to the
success of neoliberal policies and agendas in the region? And what are
the conditions that hinder, challenge, and modify the embrace of such
strategies in postsocialist times? And ultimately, how can such a
historicized account of liberalization challenge our assumptions about
this "model case" of neoliberalization, and enhance our critical
understanding of the intersection of postsocialism and neoliberalism
in both the so called postsocialist regions and beyond?

Interested scholars should submit a paper abstract up to 250 words
to Mary Taylor at spaceandsound@gmail.com and to Csilla Kalocsai at
csilla.kalocsai@aya.yale.edu by March 23, 2008.

Ethnography Conference, Oxford UK, Sept 2008

Call for Papers/Registration

Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference:

Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th September 2008

This year's conference will be at our regular venue of St Hilda's College
Oxford where it began in 1978. The college is situated on the banks of the
River Cherwell with gardens that sweep down to the edge of the river,
justifiably famous for picnics, pleasant evening strolls and views of
punting. It is located in the centre of the city.

www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/conferences <http://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/conferences>

We look forward to a continuing stream of international papers that focus
on educational contexts and issues through ethnography and ethnographic
methods including empirical fieldwork as well as methodological papers
focusing on research activity.

We always have a large representation from outside the UK - over 50% - and
we hope this will continue. As many of know, we publish a journal
Ethnography and Education for which papers from the Oxford Ethnography
Conference provide a rich resource.

As last year the registration fee for the conference will include a
journal subscription for the journal for three issues in 2008 and this
will be repeated for future conferences.

Conference Culture

We aim to create a positive and collegial atmosphere, and there will be
ample opportunity for people to meet, talk and socialize.

As previously, all papers will be circulated before the conference to
enable 40 minute sessions to be developed almost entirely to a discussion
of the research findings, methods and wider issues attached to each paper.

We also encourage you to invite other ethnographers from the fringes of
education who you feel would welcome such an opportunity. The number of
papers will be limited (40 maximum) in order to maintain a high degree of
interaction in the sessions. Consequently abstracts should provide clear
evidence of a contribution to knowledge of the education sphere and
details of ethnographic methodology.

Abstract Submission

Electronic abstracts of between 300-500 words should be submitted to Bob
Jeffrey r.a.jeffrey@open.ac.uk <mailto:r.a.jeffrey@open.ac.uk> by
Friday 28th March 2008 and a copy of the accepted papers should be
submitted by Friday 27th July 2008.

Abstract authors will be notified of paper acceptance by 11th April 2008.

Organisation and Accommodation

The Open University will be responsible for the organisation and
administration of the conference coordinated by Grace Clifton and Bob
Jeffrey

The cost of the two day conference will be �130. This includes all tea and
coffees, lunches, a wine reception and a year's subscription to the
Ethnography and Education journal.

Bed and Breakfast Accommodation is additional and can be booked through us
at the following prices:

Single Ensuite room - �76 (including VAT) per night.

Single standard rooms with basin and corridor access to bathrooms - �57
(including VAT) per night.

Twin bedded room for two people - �46 (including VAT) per person per night.

Evening dinner is not included.

Rooms can be booked for Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights.
Booking will commence after delegates have had their abstracts approved
but please let us know sooner if you definitely require a booking form by
emailing Grace g.e.clifton@open.ac.uk <mailto:g.e.clifton@open.ac.uk>

Other relevant conferences at this time.

British Education Research Association - 3-6 September - Edinburgh

http://www.beraconference.co.uk/ <http://www.beraconference.co.uk/>

European Education Research Conference - 10-12 September - Gothenburg

http://www.eera.ac.uk <http://www.eera.ac.uk/>

FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM: CfP, EASA 2008

EASA 2008 Workshop

FLEXIBLE CAPITALISM:

NEW FORMS OF MUTUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT WORK?

* * *

CALL FOR PAPERS

Conveners:
Jakob Krause-Jensen (Danish University School of Education) jakj@dpu.dk
Jens Kjaerulff jk@socant.net
Workshop ID: W057

'Work' as distinctive from other domains of exchange and reciprocity is
a recent phenomenon of "Western" origin. As such work (employment)
remains an important part of social life, where relationships of
mutuality and diversity are continuously at issue. The emergence of
novel visions, conditions and practices of work, e.g. in terms of 'new'
or 'flexible' capitalism over the past decades, provides impetus for new
inquiries and theoretical engagements.
Under New Capitalism, stable forms of work organization are superseded
by more volatile environments, at once pregnant with opportunity and
fraught with insecurity: less clearly bounded 'networks' are promoted,
as are engagements framed as short-term projects and teamwork. New
dimensions to work practice are sought measured or rendered auditable,
while more personalized and mutual relations between management and
employees are also pursued.
The workshop aims at exploring the potentials of ethnographic research
and anthropological imagination in examining experiences of, and changes
in, work under such contemporary circumstances.

DETAILS ON SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND THE CONFERENCE:

The call for papers closes on March 31, 2008. Paper abstracts should be
maximum 250 words. Paper proposals must be submitted online, at:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=284

Submission of a paper proposal requires EASA membership. To enroll
online in EASA, visit:
http://www.easaonline.org/membership.htm

The workshop is part of the biennial conference of the European
Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), held August 26-30 2008 in
Ljubljana, Slovenia under the general title "Experiencing Diversity and
Mutuality". For further details on the conference, visit:
http://www.easa2008.eu/

Feel free to forward questions regarding the workshop to Jakob
Krause-Jensen or Jens Kjaerulff (email above).

Graduate Directors of Anthropology programs in Canada: breakfast meeting/workshop

I'd like to extend an invitation to Graduate Directors of Anthropology
programs in Canada to attend a breakfast meeting/workshop (time and
place to be announced) at the upcoming CASCA conference in May. I have
recently taken on the post of Graduate Program Director of the
Anthropology program at York University and have been asked and am
asking questions about the state of graduate education in Anthropology.
This includes everything from graduate program offerings and training,
to the kinds of interests/directions students are exploring with their
graduate education. I'm hoping that this will be an opportunity (as I
imagine occurs at the Chairs meetings at CASCA) to share experiences and
ideas.
I encourage any and all ideas and suggestions. Please contact Daphne
Winland for information at "winland@yorku.ca".

Call for papers

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 invitées 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
et/ou 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 Daphne 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

Prague Summer School 2008

To Whom it May Concern:
We are contacting you with the information, which might be of interest
to you, your colleagues and students. We would greatly appreciate, if
you could forward this message to the interested persons and help us
in recruiting students to apply for the Summer School. The organizer
of European Spring/Summer Institute on the Future of Europe and the
Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology, the Center for Public
Policy, Prague, Czech Republic has launched a new summer program on
Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe.
The Center for Public Policy is honored to invite students to:

Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008! (CDPE2008)
Where: Prague, Czech Republic
When: July 2-9
Who: The founder of the European Spring/Summer Institute and the
Summer School on Crime, Law and Psychology, the Prague's Centre for
Public Policy (Centrum pro verejnou politiku - CPVP), has teamed up
with professors from Poland, USA and UK to launch a Summer School on
Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2008
What is it about: The Summer School "Cultural Dimensions of Politics
in Europe" is a week long academic program designed to bring together
30 undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and
academic backgrounds (political science, sociology, media studies,
anthropology and cultural studies, behavioural sciences, gender
studies) from all part of the world to enjoy their summer holidays in
the unique academic and cultural environment.
Why: The program is designed for those who are interested in and would
like to learn more about the cultural aspects of political
institutions and processes. The program is aimed at drawing closer
attention to the cultural dimensions of political institutions and
processes in Europe (e.g. policy making, political communication,
migration and citizenship in the EU).
We invite you to visit our website http://www.cdpe.cpvp.cz to discover
all the details about the CDPE 2008. The website contains updated
information about the Summer School, application process and on-line
application.
We also suggest students to submit their applications by the Early
Bird Application Deadline of April 30, 2008. The Final Deadline is May
15, 2008.
Should you have any questions regarding the Summer School or
application process, please do not hesitate to contact us:
CDPE2008
Centrum pro verejnou politiku
Vyjezdova 510
190 11 Prague 9
Czech Republic
Tel: +420 737 679 605
Fax: +420 281 930 584
www: http://www.cpvp.cz/clp/
E-mail: clp@cpvp.cz
We are looking forward to your application!!!

One Year term Position in Socio-Cultural Anthropology @ Carleton

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University
invites applications for a one-year term position in Anthropology at the
rank of Lecturer or Assistant Professor, to commence July 1, 2008,
subject to budgetary approval. We seek applicants with strong and broad
backgrounds in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. Preferred candidates will
have a doctorate, prior successful teaching experience, an active
research profile, and will complement existing faculty teaching
expertise. Applicants should review our course offerings at:
http://www.carleton.ca/cu0708uc/courses/ANTH/ and provide a prioritized
list of those courses they could teach.

Applicants are requested to forward :

. a letter of application, stating research and
teaching interests
. a current curriculum vitae
. teaching evaluations and course syllabi
. examples of publications

Applicants should also arrange for three letters of reference to be
forwarded to the Department by April 7, 2008, when we will begin to
review applications.

Applications and letters of reference should be addressed to:

Professor Peter Gose, Chair (attn: Socio-Cultural Anthropology position)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 5B6

Please send any email enquiries regarding this position to:
peter_gose@carleton.ca

Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be considered first for
this position. Carleton University is committed to equality of
employment for women, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities and persons
with disabilities. Persons from these groups are encouraged to apply.