Call for Papers: SMA Conference, Yale University, September 2009

Call for Papers: SMA Conference, Yale University, September 2009

Session Title: Working with Policy Wonks: Undisciplined Perspectives on Health
Policy

Organizers: Sylvia Abonyi (University of Saskatchewan), Janice Graham
(Dalhousie
University), and James B. Waldram (University of Saskatchewan)

Session Abstract:
In the past decade, public citizens and other stake-holders have
gradually made
their way into the policy process, including involvement in decision-making.
Anthropologists, however, hesitant to engage the decision-makers and
frequently
prevented by deeply invested scientific experts and policy gate-keepers from
having access and meaningful input, have come late to studying up the policy
ladder. Professionally trained to recognize the potential of political
interference in the guise of deliberative democratic fora that our
participation in the policy process affords, anthropologists have nonetheless
seized the opportunity to enter sometimes highly contentious fields of health
policy with the goal of providing critical insight and practical input
into the
policy process. While we remain sensitive to the risk that our tools,
including
ourselves, have the potential to be used to gather information over which we
may have no control as evidence is distorted in policy development,
anthropological engagement with health policy affords opportunities for
theoretical and practical contributions that often outweigh these risks.
While generally the processes, practices and patterns of health policy remain
largely obscure, anthropological perspectives and methods provide unique
insights into the multiple rationalities of health policy development and
decision-making. This panel critically addresses the fault-lines within policy
development, implementation and assessment through the presentation of
a series
of critiques and case studies across a variety of health policy environments.

Please forward proposed titles and abstracts by April 1 to: j.waldram@usask.ca

Call for Papers: THE RETURN OF THE VILLAGE: TROPE, SITE, AND PLACE

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Philadelphia,
2-6 December 2009)

Call for Papers: THE RETURN OF THE VILLAGE: TROPE, SITE, AND PLACE

Session chair: Antonio Sorge, University of Prince Edward Island
(asorge@upei.ca)

Discussant: Matei Candea, University of Cambridge (mc288@cam.ac.uk)

The village field-site as a key unit of analysis within ethnographic
research has been held by critics to be an example of a disciplinary
tendency to unduly privilege the study of face-to-face communities,
inevitably construed as 'parochial' or 'traditional,' over the realities of
political economy in a globalized world. Recently, however, the 'bounded'
ethnographic field site has been returning to the forefront of
anthropological inquiry in new, reconfigured forms: as experiential matrices
of personal and collective identity, sites of cultural contestation, hubs of
emergent social forms variously integrated within national and transnational
networks, or as arbitrary locations in a reconfigured anthropological
methodology.

This session inquires into the village as lived-in place and sacred
topology, as aesthetic experience and moral idiom of belonging. It tracks
the actual and often unexpected spatial configurations upon which villages
are mapped, and examines possible reinventions of the old anthropological
standard of village-based ethnography.

- We invite papers that examine ethnographic research methodologies and
modes of representation considered within a wider reappraisal of the value
of the 'bounded' village community as an analytical category.

- Papers that problematize the assumptions underlying classical
ethnographic fieldwork, consider its relative merits and demerits, and weigh
these against available alternatives, are especially welcome, as are all
papers that engage the broader issue of the end(s) of ethnography.

We need a couple of more presenters to round out this proposed session. We
ask any who are interested to kindly contact us as soon as possible.
Abstracts will be accepted no later than Monday, March 30, 2009 (AAA
registration deadline is Wednesday, April 1). Please send abstracts by
e-mail to asorge@upei.ca. Session participants will be confirmed shortly
thereafter.

[AFA] CFP: AFA Forman Prize for best graduate and undergraduate paper in Feminist Anthropology

Subject: [AFA] CFP: AFA Forman Prize for best graduate and
undergraduate paper in Feminist Anthropology

Dear all:
Attached and pasted below is the announcement of the next AFA Forman Prize
or the best undergraduate and graduate essay in feminist anthropology
essays from any of the four fields are strongly encouraged). Please post
nd circulate widely, as well as encourage your own students to submit
heir papers.
With best wishes,
Dorothy
* * * *
SYLVIA FORMAN PRIZE - 2009
5th Annual Competition
ssociation for Feminist Anthropology
AFA is pleased to invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit
ssays in feminist anthropology in competition for the Sylvia Forman
rize, named for the late Sylvia Helen Forman, one of the founders of AFA,
hose dedication to both her students and feminist principles contributed
o the growth of feminist anthropology. The winners, one graduate student
nd one undergraduate student, will receive a certificate; a cash award
$1,000 graduate and $500 undergraduate); and have their essay summaries
ublished in the Anthropology Newsletter.
We encourage essays in all four subfields of anthropology. Essays may be
ased on research on a wide variety of topics including (but not limited
o) feminist analysis of women's work, reproduction, sexuality, religion,
anguage and expressive culture, family a
nd kin relations, economic
evelopment, gender and material culture, gender and biology, women and
evelopment, globalization, and the intersectionality of gender, race, and
lass.
Essays will be judged on:
Originality of the research topic
Use of feminist anthropological theory to analyze a particular research
uestion
Organization, quality, and clarity of writing
Effective use of both theory and data
Significance to feminist scholarship
Timeliness and relevance of the topic
Note: Essays that have been submitted for publication but have not yet
een accepted may be eligible as entries, but authors of such essays
hould contact the Forman Prize Chair to confirm eligibility before the
ubmission deadline. Articles that are already accepted or published are
ot eligible. Only one submission per student will be accepted.
Essays should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, including
ibliography, and should be written using the American Anthropologist
tyle. Preferred mode of submission is by email to the Forman Prize Chair:
orothy Hodgson, at dhodgson@rci.rutgers.edu with ?Forman Prize
ubmission? in the subject line. Email attachment should be saved in
icrosoft Word only and any illustrations should be saved within the
SWord document in either .jpg or .tiff. If submitting a printed version,
our copies should be mailed to Dorothy Hodgson, Department of
nthropology, Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ
8901. For questions email dhodgson@rci.rutgers.edu.
DEADLINE for submissions is June 1,=2
02009. Please note whether you are
ubmitting for the undergraduate or graduate prize and include your
ailing address, institutional affiliation, telephone number and e-mail
ddress as well as the name and institutional affiliation of the
nstructor/advisor who supervised the paper for acknowledgement. Be sure
o indicate where you can be reached during September 2009. Prizes will be
warded at the AFA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Conference,
ecember 2-6 in Philadelphia, PA.
If neither you nor your instructor/advisor will attend this year's AAA
nnual Meeting in San Francisco, please add that information to the
ubmission. If you will be in attendance, please plan to come to the
ssociation for Feminist Anthropology Business Meeting (time and date to
e announced) to receive your award and/or support those who won.

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

The Institute of Women's Studies (University of Ottawa) presents:

CAFÉ FÉMINISTE / FEMINIST CAFÉ

"The Intersection of the AIDS Pandemic and the Place of Women in Africa"

Prononcée par / given by

K'yokusinga Kirunga

Field representative for the Stephen Lewis Foundation

Lundi le 23 mars 2009, 17h30-19h00 /

Monday March 23, 2009, 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Salle / Room 333, Pavillon Tabaret Hall

550 Cumberland

Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa

ENTRÉE LIBRE / FREE ADMISSION

Toutes et tous sont les bienvenus ! / Everyone is welcome !

La présentation sera donnée en anglais et en français. /

The discussion will be given in English and in French.

INFO : womenst@uOttawa.ca ; 613-562-5791

Universit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9?= d'Ottawa - FEMMES DU MONDE

ENGLISH TEXT FOLLOWS

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

FEMMES DU MONDE

prononcée par

Céline Galipeau
Chef d'antenne du Téléjournal et journaliste, Radio-Canada

Vendredi, le 3 avril 2009 à 17 h
Auditorium des anciens
85, rue Université
Université d'Ottawa

ENTRÉE LIBRE

R.S.V.P. avant le 27 mars 2009
womenst@uOttawa.ca <mailto:womenst@uOttawa.ca&gt; ; 613-562-5791

* * * * * * * *

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

"FEMMES DU MONDE"

given by

Céline Galipeau
Reporter and Anchor of the Téléjournal Radio-Canada

Friday, April 3, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.
Alumni Auditorium
85 University Private
University of Ottawa

FREE ADMISSION

The presentation will be given in French.

R.S.V.P. by March 27, 2009
womenst@uOttawa.ca ; 613-562-5791

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

CÉLINE GALIPEAU

Céline Galipeau est née à Longueuil d'un père québécois et d'une mère
vietnamienne. Elle étudie les sciences politiques à l'Université de
Birzeit, en Cisjordanie, et la littérature anglaise à l'Université
d'Amman, en Jordanie. Elle est également titulaire d'une maîtrise en
sciences politiques de l'université McGill de Montréal. Céline
Galipeau amorce sa carrière à Radio-Canada en 1984. Elle a été
reporter animatrice, correspondante nationale et à l'étranger, ainsi
qu'envoyée spéciale (Chine, Russie, Inde, etc.). Elle a travaillé dans
plusieurs grandes villes : Toronto, Paris, Londres, etc., a couvert
plusieurs conflits, dont ceux survenus en Tchétchénie et en
Afghanistan. Elle a suivi des dossiers aussi dramatiques que la
violence islamiste en Algérie et les guerres du Kosovo et d'Irak. De
2003-2008, Céline Galipeau est le chef d'antenne des éditions de la
fin de semaine du Téléjournal. En janvier 2009, elle est devenue la
première chef d'antenne du grand Téléjournal de semaine de la
télévision francophone du Canada. Enfin, Céline Galipeau a obtenu un
grand nombre de récompenses, dont le prix Amnistie internationale pour
sa série de reportages sur la condition féminine et le prix
Claire-L'Heureux-Dubé, qui rend hommage à des femmes qui ont contribué
à transformer les systèmes de valeurs, structures et rapports sociaux
qui maintiennent les inégalités entre les hommes et les femmes.

Call for Papers - 2009 AAA Philadelphia - Beyond the Sacred: Redressing the dominance of religion in anthropological explorations of Afro-American culture

Call for Papers

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

(Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2-6 December 2009)

Beyond the Sacred: Redressing the dominance of religion in
anthropological explorations
of Afro-American culture (2009 AAA meetings)

Anthropologists working with communities of the African Diaspora, in
seeking to reframe
Africa as an integral part of a network of Atlantic interaction, have
broadened the scope
of scholarship beyond the excavation of a past rooted in slavery to
include the multiplex
?routes? of interaction between Black communities. However, the locus
classicus for
exploration and discussion of Africanity in Afro-America?whether as
the product of
creolization or African survivals?remains the sacred spaces of
Afro-American religious
traditions. From Candomblé to Santeria, from Vodoun to Black Baptist
churches, religion
has been and continues to be the principle ethnographic, historical
and analytical trope
through which anthropologists have tried to understand how Black
American communities
incorporate the idea of Africa into their identity processes. This
emphasis belies and
diminshes the broad array of techniques, practices and traditions that
attempt to connect
Afro-American populations with Africa and Africans?many of which exist
beyond the realm
of the sacred. Privileging the religious arena often serves to confine
the study of
Africanity in America to the realm of the still ongoing ?creolization
vs. survivals?
debate, as the metaphors of survival and memory are vital to many
Afro-American religious
congregations. This panel seeks to bring together papers that present
a broader view of
how ideas about Africa and contemporary connections with Africa inform
constructions of
Black identity in the Americas beyond the history of the Middle
Passage and Afro
religious phenomena.

The panel organizer invites papers that problematize the place of the
religion as the
central trope through which scholars and community members understand
connections with
Africa and Africans and that suggest alternative ways of understanding
how Africa can
inform Black identities.

Please send abstracts by e-mail to Allan Dawson (allan.dawson@mac.com,
Assistant
Professor, Anthropology, Drew University) by Wednesday, 28 March 2009. Session
participants will be confirmed shortly thereafter. Submission Deadline
for AAA 2009
Panels is 1 April 2009.

Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2009

To Whom it May Concern:

First of all, we would like to thank everyone who helped us to
disseminate the information about the Summer School on Cultural
Dimensions of Politics
in Europe 2008. We were pleased to welcome the group of 24 outstanding
students from all
over the world in Prague last summer.

We are now launching our summer program 2009 and contacting you once
again 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 inviting
students to apply for the Summer School.
The Center for Public Policy is honored to invite students to:

Summer School on Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2009!
(CDPE2009)

Where: Prague, Czech Republic

When: July 4-11, 2009

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 2009

What is it about: The Summer School "Cultural Dimensions of Politics
in Europe" is a week long academic program bringing 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 parts of the world to enjoy their summer holidays in
the unique academic and cultural environment.

Why: 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 2009. 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, 2009. The Final Deadline is May
15, 2009.
Should you have any questions regarding the Summer School or
application process, please do not hesitate to contact us:

CDPE2009
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.cdpe.cpvp.cz
E-mail: cdpe@cpvp.cz

We are looking forward to your application!!!
Best regards,

Egle Havrdova
Centre for Public Policy

Call for Papers - 2009 AAA Philadelphia - Beyond the Sacred: Redressing the dominance of religion in anthropological explorations of Afro-American culture

Call for Papers

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

(Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2-6 December 2009)

Beyond the Sacred: Redressing the dominance of religion in
anthropological explorations of Afro-American culture (2009 AAA
meetings)

Anthropologists working with communities of the African Diaspora, in
seeking to reframe Africa as an integral part of a network of Atlantic
interaction, have broadened the scope of scholarship beyond the
excavation of a past rooted in slavery to include the multiplex
'routes' of interaction between Black communities. However, the locus
classicus for exploration and discussion of Africanity in Afro-America—
whether as the product of creolization or African survivals—remains
the sacred spaces of Afro-American religious traditions. From
Candomblé to Santeria, from Vodoun to Black Baptist churches, religion
has been and continues to be the principle ethnographic, historical
and analytical trope through which anthropologists have tried to
understand how Black American communities incorporate the idea of
Africa into their identity processes. This emphasis belies and
diminshes the broad array of techniques, practices and traditions that
attempt to connect Afro-American populations with Africa and Africans—
many of which exist beyond the realm of the sacred. Privileging the
religious arena often serves to confine the study of Africanity in
America to the realm of the still ongoing 'creolization vs. survivals'
debate, as the metaphors of survival and memory are vital to many Afro-
American religious congregations. This panel seeks to bring together
papers that present a broader view of how ideas about Africa and
contemporary connections with Africa inform constructions of Black
identity in the Americas beyond the history of the Middle Passage and
Afro religious phenomena.

The panel organizer invites papers that problematize the place of the
religion as the central trope through which scholars and community
members understand connections with Africa and Africans and that
suggest alternative ways of understanding how Africa can inform Black
identities.

Please send abstracts by e-mail to Allan Dawson (allan.dawson@mac.com)
by Wednesday, 28 March 2009. Session participants will be confirmed
shortly thereafter. Submission Deadline for AAA 2009 Panels is 1 April
2009.

CFP for AAA: Affects of Morality, Ethics and Virtue

Session Proposal: Affects of Morality, Ethics and Virtue

This session aims to explore various feelings and embodiments of moral
subjectivities and ethical engagements. Possible lines of inquiry include
the promotion of the athletic body as a virtuous body and its connections
with definitions of health and responsibility; the performance of piety
through religious tourism; the production of national identities based on
definitions of goodness; or ethical spaces of capitalist economies.

We invite papers with ethnographic accounts of morality that look at these
linkages and connections between morality and power, identity and the body.
We are using affects of "morality" in the broadest sense and include papers
that contemplate questions such as: What constitutes ethical practice? Who
gets to be virtuous? What kinds of feelings or sentiments does goodness
evoke? What is at stake, culturally speaking, in these characterizations or
embodiments of morality?

Please contact Maggie Cummings (mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) or Mary-Lee
Mulholland (mlmulholland@gmail.com) no later then March 27th. The AAA
deadline is April 1st.

Chercheur(e) invit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9(e)_en_perspectives_f=E9ministes?= sur la mondialisation/Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization

(English follows)
Le Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI) -
L'Université d'Ottawa - L'Université Carleton

Année scolaire 2009-2010
Chercheur(e) invité(e) en perspectives féministes sur la mondialisation

L'Institut d'études des femmes de l'Université d'Ottawa et le Pauline
Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies de l'Université
Carleton, avec le concours du Centre de recherches pour le
développement international (CRDI), désirent procéder au recrutement
de la ou du deuxième chercheur-e invitée, dans la Phase Deux du
programme de recherche en perspectives féministes sur la
mondialisation. D'une durée de deux ans (2008-2010), la Phase Deux de
ce programme s'adresse aux chercheur-e-s de haut calibre provenant de
pays en développement (Afrique, Amérique latine, Caraïbes, Asie, Sud
du Pacifique ou Moyen Orient), déjà impliqués dans des projets sur les
rapports sociaux de sexe (genre) et le développement, et intéressé-e-s
à poursuivre leurs travaux à Ottawa (Canada), dans l'une des deux
universités précitées. Plus encore, cela constitue une occasion unique
de resserrer les liens de collaboration entre chercheur-e-s féministes
du Nord et du Sud, mais aussi entre les instituts d'études des femmes
de l'Université d'Ottawa et de l'Université Carleton. Alternativement,
chaque institut accueille un-e chercheur-e par année. Toutefois, les
deux collectivités universitaires auront le plaisir de pouvoir
échanger avec les chercheur-e-s invité-e-s.

Au cours de l'année scolaire 2009-2010, la ou le chercheur-e invité-e
sera basé-e à l'Institut d'études des femmes de l'Université d'Ottawa
et devra donc être fonctionnel-le en français. L'Institut d'études des
femmes de l'Université d'Ottawa et le Pauline Jewett Institute of
Women's and Gender Studies de l'Université Carleton sollicitent des
candidatures de professeur-e-s-chercheur-e-s universitaires (avec ou
sans permanence) ainsi que de chercheur-e-s postdoctoraux autonomes
féministes issu-e-s, et actuellement résident-e-s, des pays en
développement ciblés par le présent programme. La personne choisie ne
devra pas avoir la citoyenneté canadienne, ni être une immigrante
reçue au Canada ou détenir une carte de résident permanent du Canada.

En plus de devoir parler, lire et écrire le français couramment, les
candidat-e-s devront remplir les exigences suivantes : un doctorat
complété, des publications dans des revues savantes, un programme de
recherche bien établi et en lien avec l'un et/ou l'autre des axes de
recherche ci-dessus mentionnés. Les individus qui ne détiennent pas un
diplôme de doctorat, y compris celles et ceux inscrit-e-s dans un
programme de formation universitaire, ne sont pas admissibles.

La Phase Deux du programme de chercheur-e invité-e en perspectives
féministes sur la mondialisation aura pour focus le domaine de
recherche assez large que sont « les droits ». Le thème des
Perspectives féministes sur la mondialisation ciblera les droits et la
citoyenneté des femmes et des filles dans un contexte mondialisé. Ce
focus sur la citoyenneté est conceptualisé dans une recherche
interdisciplinaire à travers laquelle les chercheur-e-s exploreront
les multiples paliers de la citoyenneté à travers les structures de
pouvoir social dans ses nombreux contextes : culturel, national et
transnational. Les domaines d'intérêt peuvent comprendre par exemple,
la dimension- différenciée selon les sexes -de la citoyenneté et des
droits dans les champs thématiques suivants : paix; conflit et
reconstruction; migration; santé; éducation; environnement; et
sécurité économique. La Phase Deux du programme de chercheur-e
invité-e avec focus sur la citoyenneté et la mondialisation est une
initiative importante et d'actualité.

Durant son séjour au Canada, la ou le chercheur-e invité-e poursuivra
son projet de recherche en cours et présentera, à la demande, ses
résultats dans le cadre de conférences et de séminaires. En outre,
elle ou il participera à des activités de réseautage et produira un
rapport faisant état des progrès accomplis au cours de la période
couverte par sa bourse. Ce rapport de recherche devra contribuer à la
promotion des politiques sur l'égalité des sexes dans le développement
ainsi qu'à leur intégration dans les programmes de développement,
et/ou susciter de nouvelles études sur les rapports sociaux de sexe
(genre) et le développement.

La ou le récipiendaire séjournera à Ottawa pendant une période de six
mois allant de septembre 2009 à avril 2010 grâce à une bourse
généreuse couvrant ses frais de voyage, de recherche et de subsistance
(y compris une couverture d'assurance médicale obligatoire). La ou le
chercheur-e invité-e aura également droit aux services bibliothécaires
ainsi qu'un accès partagé (avec d'autres chercheur-e-s) à un téléphone
et à un ordinateur.

Les candidatures, soumises en anglais ou en français, doivent inclure
un dossier comprenant (i) un curriculum vitae abrégé (max. 10-12
pages), (ii) une lettre d'intention décrivant le projet de recherche
qui sera entrepris au Canada (max. 2 pages) indiquant un titre, le
sujet et un échéancier, (iii) une liste des plus récentes
publications, (iv) les dates de séjour suggérées, et (v) le nom de
deux répondant-e-s. Veuillez faire parvenir votre dossier complet au
: Comité de sélection de la ou du chercheur-e invité-e en perspectives
féministes sur la mondialisation, a/s Hélène Boudreault, Institut
d'études des femmes, Université d'Ottawa, 143 Séraphin-Marion, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5, téléphone (613) 520-6644; ou par télécopieur
au (613) 562-5994, ou encore par courrier électronique au
hboudre@uottawa.ca.

La date de clôture du concours est le 1er mai 2009, à 17h00 (HAE)
(aucun dossier reçu après cette date ne sera examiné). Seul-e-s les
candidat-e-s de la liste courte seront contacté-e-s.

Pour de plus amples informations sur les instituts d'études des femmes
de l'Université d'Ottawa et de l'Université Carleton, prière de
consulter les sites web suivants :

http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/index.asp
http://www.carleton.ca/womensstudies/

The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) -
University of Ottawa - Carleton University
School Year 2009-2010
Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization

The Institute of Women's Studies (University of Ottawa) and the
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies (Carleton
University), with the support of the International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), invites applications for the second Visiting
Scholar, in the second phase of the Feminist Perspectives on
Globalization programme. This two-year (2008-2010) programme offers
highly qualified researchers working on issues of globalization from a
feminist perspective, from developing countries in Africa, the Middle
East, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and the South Pacific, the
opportunity to spend a research term in Ottawa based at one of the two
universities. The Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on
Globalization will contribute to gender and development research at
both universities and provide a unique opportunity for collaboration
between feminist scholars in Canada and the developing world and
between North and South. The Institute of Women's Studies and the
Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies will alternate
in welcoming one visiting scholar per year. However, both Institutes
look forward to the opportunity of engaging with the Visiting Scholar.

Applications are invited for the 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar in
Feminist Perspectives on Globalization to be based at the Institute of
Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa. The position is open to
scholars from developing countries (both tenured and untenured
faculty, as well as post-doctoral or independent scholars), currently
residing in a developing country, and who are pursuing critical
feminist research. The Scholar cannot have the Canadian citizenship,
be a landed immigrant in Canada, nor hold a Canada Permanent resident
card.

Applicants must be fluent in French, have a completed PhD, a record of
scholarly publications, and a current and established research project
in relation to one or more of the research fields listed below.
Individuals currently pursuing a university doctoral degree are not
eligible.

The focus of the Feminist Perspectives on Globalization programme is
on the broad area of "rights." The theme of Feminist Perspectives on
Globalization targets rights and citizenship of women and girls in a
globalized context. This focus on citizenship is conceptualized
broadly as an interdisciplinary inquiry whereby investigators explore
the multiple layers of citizenship through matrices of social power in
various cultural, national and transnational contexts. Some areas of
interest include the gendered dimensions of citizenship and rights in
the following thematic areas: peace, conflict and reconstruction;
migration; health; education; environment; and economic security. The
continuation of the Visiting Scholar programme with a focus on
citizenship and globalization is a timely and important initiative.

During their stay in Canada, the Visiting Scholar will pursue and
present their ongoing research in conferences and seminars as
requested, participate in outreach activities, and produce a paper
based on their ongoing research which reflects their time and work in
Canada. It is anticipated that this research will promote policy
advocacy and/or further gender and development studies and the
effective integration of gender equality into development policy and
programming.

The duration of the Visiting Scholar's stay will be a six (6) month
period within the university's 2009-2010 academic year, which runs
from September 2009 to April 2010. The recipient will receive a
generous stipend to cover travel, research and living expenses
(including medical insurance coverage). The successful applicant will
have access to library services, a shared phone and computer facilities.

Applications may be submitted in English or in French, and must
include: an abbreviated curriculum vitae (10-12 pp.); a letter of
intent (max. 2 pp.) outlining the research to be undertaken in Canada,
stating title/topic/feasibility of timeline; a list of recent
publications; availability during the 2009-2010 academic year;
selected dates of your stay in Canada, and the names and addresses
(postal and e-mail) of two referees. Please forward applications to:
Selection Committee, Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on
Globalization, c/o Hélène Boudreault, Institute of Women's Studies,
University of Ottawa, 143 Séraphin-Marion, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,
K1S 5B6; Telephone (613) 520-6644; Fax (613) 562-5994; email
hboudre@uottawa.ca.

The closing date for submitting applications is May 1, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
EDT (application dossiers received after this date will not be
examined). Please note that only the short-listed candidates will be
contacted.

Candidates may access the following websites for additional
information about the Institute of Women's Studies at the University
of Ottawa and for additional information about the Pauline Jewett
Institute of Women's and Gender Studies at Carleton University.

http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/index.asp
http://www.carleton.ca/womensstudies/

Queerly South Asian: Reflections on writing, psychotherapy and identity in real life and fiction

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies'

CREATIVE WOMEN SPEAKERS SERIES

presents

Queerly South Asian:

Reflections on writing, psychotherapy and identity in real life and fiction

by

writer/activist

Farzana Doctor

Farzana Doctor is a writer and social worker. Her novel, Stealing
Nasreen (Inanna, 2007) has received critical acclaim from the Globe
and Mail,Quill and Quire, and NOW Magazine. Farzana has also
co-authored a manual for therapists and participated in a collective
that produced the documentary, "Rewriting the Script." She is
completing revisions on her second novel, New Skin(working title).
Find out more about her atwww.farzanadoctor.com
<http://www.farzanadoctor.com/> .

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

12:30-2:30pm

409 Southam Hall

Carleton University

Free Admission - Everyone Welcome

The Politics of Migrant "Illegality" in Canada: Issues in Research and Organizing

The Human Rights Speakers Series at Carleton University Presents

The Politics of Migrant "Illegality" in

Canada: Issues in Research and Organizing

By Cynthia Wright

(York University)

March 18, 5:30 pm

2017 Dunton Tower

Cynthia teaches in the School of Women's Studies at York University. A
long-time

activist, she is the author of "Against Illegality: New Directions in
Organizing by and with

Non-Status People in Canada" (2006) and of "From 'Managed Migration'
to a Politics of No

Borders," (2008) among other articles and reviews. With Bridget
Anderson and Nandita

Sharma, she is guest-editing a special issue of Refuge on the politics
of no borders.

Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, Institute of
Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS),

and the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies.

Contact: Dr. Egla Martinez marsal@connect.carleton.ca
<mailto:marsal@connect.carleton.ca&gt;

Upcoming Talk: Georgia and the Politics of Oil

Georgia and the Politics of Oil

Dr. Andrew Barry

School of Geography and the Environment

Oxford University

Monday, March 30, 2009

11:30 AM

217 Tory Building, Carleton University, Ottawa

Andrew Barry is Reader in Geography at Oxford University and a Fellow
of St Catherine's College. Originally trained in Physics and the
History and Philosophy of Science, Dr. Barry's research and teaching
has been broadly

concerned with the role of science and technology in political and
economic life. He is the author of Political Machines: Governing a
Technological Society (Athlone 2001), and co-editor of The
Technological Economy
Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society (Athlone 2001),
and co-editor of The Technological Economy
(Routledge 2005), Foucault and Political Reason (Chicago University
Press 1996) and the sociology of Gabriel Tarde (Economy and Society,
2007). Dr. Barry's recent research has focused on the politics of oil
in the Caspian and Caucasus and the development of new forms of
interdisciplinary research that cut across the boundaries between the
social and natural sciences.

Foucault and Political Reason (Chicago University Press 1996) and the
sociology of Gabriel Tarde (Economy and Society, 2007). Dr. Barry's
recent research has focused on the politics of oil in the Caspian and
Caucasus and the development of new forms of interdisciplinary
research that cut across the boundaries between the social and natural
sciences.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department
s of Sociology & Anthropology, Law and Political Science, Carleton University

For more information, contact WilliamWalters, wwalters@ccs.carleton.ca

CFP: The Art and Science of Jewish Ethnography

The Art and Science of Jewish Ethnography

April 5-7, 2009, Brown University

This conference brings together an international group of social
scientists who study Jewish life across the globe. The conference, to
take place from April 5-7, will have three components, including a
presentation of new scholarly research, a discussion of disciplinary
theory and a major public
lecture. Please see the conference website for more details:

http://brown.edu/judaic/ethnography

Please advise your colleagues and students of the major public
lecture, An Armchair Conversation with Ruth Behar, on the evening of
Monday, April 6, 2009.

This conference is sponsored by the ADVANCE Program at Brown University, which
is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number
0548311, The Ruth and Joseph Moskow Endowment in the Program in Judaic
Studies, The Herbert Goldberger Lectureship, Department of
Anthropology, History Department, Cogut Center for the Humanities,
Department of Religious Studies, and the Center for Latin American
Studies.

Contact judaic@brown.edu <mailto:judaic@brown.edu&gt; to request
hard-copy posters or for more information.

Best Regards,

Marcy Brink-Danan, Conference Organizer

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University

The Department of Anthropology invites applications for a two-year
limited-term appointment, commencing 1 July 2009, subject to budgetary
approval. The appointment will be at the Assistant Professor rank. A
PhD (or near completion) in Anthropology is required. The successful
candidate will teach sections of AN101 Introduction to Sociocultural
Anthropology in a large classroom setting. The department's new
curriculum for the course uses Lavenda and Schultz "Core Concepts in
Anthropology", 3rd edition. The future instructor will choose
readings, including an ethnography, to complement this textbook, in
consultation with the department. Please submit a 1-2 page cover
letter, curriculum vitae, one recent sample publication, and a
teaching dossier (e.g., evaluations, course outlines, examples of
innovative pedagogy). Please arrange for three letters of reference to
be sent by the due date; these may be sent as attachments to
abrydon@wlu.ca. Applications must be delivered in hardcopy by noon on
Friday 13 March 2009 to Dr. Anne Brydon, Chair, Department of
Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo Ontario N2L 3C5.
Inquiries may be directed to abrydon@wlu.ca but electronic
applications will not be accepted. Wilfrid Laurier University is
committed to equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from
qualified individuals of all genders and sexual orientations, persons
with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible
minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Members of
the designated groups wishing to be considered for employment equity
must self-identify, in confidence, to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts,
Dr. David Docherty.

AUTHORS OF BOOKS on ANTHROPOLOGY and related topics: book exhibit CASCA/AES09

AUTHORS OF BOOKS on ANTHROPOLOGY and related topics:

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE is again organizing the book exhibit for the
upcoming Joint Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and
the American Ethnological Society (AES), coming up May 13-16, 2009 at the
University of British Columbia, Vancouver

If you have authored a significant title in the field of anthropology, WE
WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR BOOK IN THE DISPLAY.

PLEASE RESPOND IMMEDIATELY TO THE REQUEST BELOW, PROVIDING INFORMATION ON
BOOKS YOU HAVE AUTHORED.

___________________________________________________________

Dear Colleague,

This year's CASCA/AES Conference will again include a book exhibit specially
organized and managed by the LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. The exhibit will
bring together recent and significant titles covering all aspects of
anthropology. IF YOU HAVE AUTHORED A BOOK, WE WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE IT IN
OUR COMPREHENSIVE DISPLAY.

If you are an AUTHOR and wish to have your book included in the exhibit,
please respond ASAP by e-mail CASCA-AES-Exhibit@libraryofsocialscience.com
or fax it to 413-832-8145, providing the following information:

(1) The title(s) of the book(s) you are recommending, and date(s) of
publication.

(2) The name(s) of the publisher(s).

(3) The name, telephone number and e-mail address of your contact at each
publishing company.

Please be sure to include your own name, telephone number and e-mail address
with the information that you send to us, so we can follow up if we require
additional information.

Please respond to this e-mail immediately, so that we can begin work to
assure that the book(s) you have authored are included in the display.

Thank you very much.

With regards,

Mei Ha Chan

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS
Mei Ha Chan
E-mail: MeiHaChan@libraryofsocialscience.com

TEL 718-393-1075
FAX 413-832-8145
__________________________________________

LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, PUBLISHING & BOOK-MARKETING

Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D., Director
Telephone: 718-393-1081

Mei Ha Chan, Associate Director
Telephone: 718-393-1075

Orion Anderson, Communications Director
Telephone: 718-393-1104

Richard G. Klein, Book Exhibit Manager
Telephone: 718-393-1075

Fax: 413-832-8145 or 718-393-1068

Webpage for Library of Social Science Book Exhibits:
http://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/

Geological Society of America / From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscape

From Volcanoes to Vineyards: Living with Dynamic Landscape

18-21 October 2009 * Portland, Oregon

Oregon Convention Center

http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/

<http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009/>

Registration deadline: Standard, 1 June thru 14 September 2009

Abstract deadline: 11 August 2009

Join UNA-Canada & our Honoured Champions to celebrate International Women's Day

We apologize for any cross-postings

 

On behalf of Kate White, Executive Director, and Nancy Wildgoose,
National President, of the United Nations Association in Canada, I?m
delighted to send the following invitation to a special reception.

 

 

We do hope that you will be able to join us to showcase and celebrate
our collective commitment and passion to making this a better world in
which to live. 

 

You can find more on this evening, including the women being honoured
and a registration form, at the event webpage at

http://www.unac.org/en/news_events/galas/2009/2009iwd.asp    

 

Please feel free to share this opportunity with colleagues and friends
who you think may also be interested in joining UNA-Canada and our
Honoured Champions for this special evening reception. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Mary-Ann Gilchrist

Fundraising Officer

United Nations Association in Canada
Association canadienne pour les Nations Unies
300-309 Cooper, Ottawa, ON  K2P 0G5     Canada
T: (613) 232-5751 ext 258    F: (613) 563-2455

mary-ann.gilchrist@unac.org

 

 

COVE Distinguished Lecture on Values and Ethics

COVE Distinguished Lecture on Values and Ethics

Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor at the School of Social
Science in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ

Cover-up: The Islamic head scarf and gender equality in France
Monday, March 23rd
7:30 p.m
303 Paterson Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa

Second Event: Panel Discussion
Gender Equality and Secularism
Tuesday, March 24th
10 a.m. to 12 noon
2017 Dunton Tower, Carleton University

Speakers:
Salima Ebrahim recently completed a fellowship at the United
Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights where she
looked at the state of Muslim women in Canada . She currently works
for the federal government and is a National Board Member with the
Canadian Council of Muslim Women
Eléonore Lépinard teaches in the department of political science
of University of Montreal. She is the author of L'égalité introuvable,
la parité, les féministes et la République, a book that explains the
constitutional reform introducing gender parity in electoral politics
in France.
Howard Duncan, Executive Head, Metropolis Project, Citizenship
and Immigration Canada. Metropolis is an international network for
comparative research and public policy development on migration,
diversity, and immigrant integration in cities in Canada and around
the world.
Respondent: Joan Wallach Scott

Sponsors:
Centre on Values and Ethics (COVE)
Carleton University Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in
Leadership, Calgary, AB
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Office of the Vice President (Research and International) (OVPRI)

CFP - AAA : Making "Real" Families....Religious Communities in North America

CFP

AAA Call for Papers: Making "Real" Families....Religious Communities
in North America

Call for Papers - Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association Philadelphia, December 2-6, 2009

Organizers: 

Todne Thomas (University of Virginia)

Asiya Malik (University of Virginia)

                       

 

Making "Real" Families: Relatedness, Transendence and Boundary Making
among Religious Communities in North America

 

This panel explores the ways in which informal and formal
socio-religious communities inform myriad kinship formations in North
America.  For many years, immigrant religiosity has been rendered
functionally as spaces preserving home cultures or fostering new
immigrants' assimilation to host countries.  However, current research
illustrating the salience of transnational religious networks and the
meaningful practice of domestic religious observances have begun to
de-center denominationalism and/or sectarianism as the primary
framework to analyze local and immigrant religious institutions.
 Furthermore, anthropological conceptualizations of relatedness—that
move away from understandings of kinship seen through a western lens
rooted in biology—direct our attention to the processual nature of
social relationships that incorporate agents into long-lasting ties of
kinship.  By utilizing Carsten's framework of relatedness, we allow
for the broader inclusion of cross-cultural20and religious
understandings of kinship that incorporate both indigenous statements
and practices as well as multifarious religious institutional
employments of the term.  We are left with a view of religious
communities that can be simultaneously familial, local, regional,
(trans)national, and global in scope and identity, differentially
fluid in their incorporation of new members, yet durable in their
anchoring of religious subjectivities in coll ective spiritual and
familial genealogies.

This panel examines religion as a social domain around which multiple
types of kinship can be constructed and expressed.  On the one hand,
we consider the on going salience of religious constructions and
understandings of the "family" and how members of these
socio-religious communities negotiate, challenge and recreate these
ideals on a daily basis.  On the other hand, we investigate the role
of spiritual commonality, place of origin, genealogy, class, language
and ethnicity in producing varied constructions of everyday
relatedness among religious practitioners.

In other words, we endeavor to show how varied kinship connections are
mobilized to promote socio-religious unities transcendent of social
difference.  Yet we also show how these multiple forms of
socio-religious relatedness are employed by members to invoke
hierarchies of inclusion through discourses of authenticity.  Rather
than classifying these kinship formations along rigid sacred and
secular lines, we explicate how members invoke and negotiate multiple
forms of relatedness in both20private and public settings and within
and across national borders.  In addition to trac king these
discourses, practices, and configurations of contemporary religious
kinship, we analyze such forms against the presumed distinction of
religion and kinship as disparate social domains and institutions of
North American societies.

Sample topics representing a variety of religious communities can
include but are not limited to: church kinship among immigrant and
native groups; relatedness among Islamic socio-cultural associations
in North America; religion as a discourse for ethnic, class, or other
forms of social difference; theologies versus everyday practices of
religious relatedness; spiritual/ religious kinship as a tool for
socio-cultural exclusion; family genealogy and historical trajectories
as grounds for religious membership; spiritual genealogies and
differential religious membership.

All abstracts submitted by faculty, graduate students and researchers
should be informed by ethnographic research. 

 

 Please submit abstracts (250 words) and a brief bio or CV by email to
amm9w@virginia.edu by March 8, 2009. Participation in the panel will be
confirmed via email by March 15.

Job Announcement: Anthropologist (Linguistics) Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History

Anthropology Curator Search

Anthropologist (Linguistics)

The Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of
Natural History seeks a research curator in linguistics,
anthropological linguistics, linguistic anthropology or
sociolinguistics.

The Department of Anthropology is one of the largest and most diverse
in the nation, with more than 70 full-time staff, including 19
research curators in divisions of archaeology, ethnology, and physical
anthropology. Anthropological research, including linguistics, has
flourished at the Smithsonian for over 150 years, resulting in a
wealth of publications, exhibitions, and collaborations, as well as
world-renowned collections of artifacts, manuscripts, photographs, and
film (http://anthropology.si.edu).

We seek an individual who will initiate and maintain an innovative
scholarly program in linguistics, anthropological linguistics,
linguistic anthropology and/or sociolinguistics. Works to enhance the
linguistic collections, housed primarily in the Department of
Anthropology's National Anthropological Archives, from a curatorial
and research perspective, including developing research based on
Smithsonian collections, expanding collections use, and building
collections. Conducts research that addresses major research themes
within linguistics, anthropological linguistics, linguistic
anthropology, sociolinguistics or related fields of study. Works
collaboratively with departmental staff to develop a program in
endangered language research, preservation and revitalization. Works
to enhance the linguistic collections, housed in the National
Anthropological Archives, from a curatorial and research perspective
including developing research based on Smithsonian collections,
expanding collections use, and building collections. Collaborates
with researchers within the Smithsonian and in other institutions to
encourage studies related to the Department's activities and to
promote the increase and dissemination of linguistic knowledge. The
incumbent must be fa
miliar with the most current research ideas and
applications available for research in linguistics and/or related
fields. Doctoral degree in linguistics, anthropological linguistics,
socio-linguistics or related disciplines with strong anthropological
training, robust record of publication, and evidence of successful
grantsmanship appropriate to career level strongly preferred.

This position will be initially offered as a four-year term
appointment, comparable to a tenure-track university position. It is
a Federal position and U.S. citizenship is required. For complete
requirements and application instructions go to www.si.edu/ohr and
scroll to announcement # 09A-RB-294783-DEU-NMNH. The Smithsonian
Institution is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The direct link is here:
http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/getjob.asp?JobID=79191834&AVSDM=2009-02-06+19%3A09%3A13&Logo=0&pg=2&q=smithsonian&FedEmp=Y&sort=rv&vw=d&ss=0&brd=3876&FedPub=Y&caller=/agency_search.asp

CFP: "Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change" (Manchester, UK)

CFP: "Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change"
September 1-4, 2009 (Manchester, U.K.)

As contemporary social theorists continue to signal the need to
reconfigure our deliberations on the social through attention to
practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the
affective dimensions of human sociality, this conference takes as its
focus the objects and values which find themselves at centre stage.

And we ask, in the context of nearly two decades of diverse
disciplinary approaches to these issues, what matters about objects?
How are they inflecting our understandings of technology, of
expertise, and of social change? How has a focus on objects
reconfigured our understandings of how values inflect the ways in
which people make relations, create social worlds, and construct
conceptual categories? How have objects become integral to human
enthusiasms and energies, to transformational ambition, or to the
transmission of values across time and space? How do objects move
between ordinary and extraordinary states, shade in and out of
significance, manifest instability and uncertainty? How do moral and
material values attach to objects as they move in space and time? What
dimensions do they inhabit and/or reveal?

To address these questions we welcome papers on the following themes:

The transformational work of everyday objects
Object-centered learning
Materiality, Stability and the State
Radical Archives - within and beyond textual assemblages
Conceptual Objects and Methods as Objects
Immaterial Objects - haunting, virtuality, traces.
Financial Objects
Affective Objects
Ephemera, Enthusiasm and Excess
Spiritual and/or Moral Objects
Controversial and Messy Objects

Please submit either (a) proposal for individual papers, or (b) panel
proposal including 3 papers by the end of February 2009. Guidelines
and Proposal Forms are available at
http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2009/callforpapers.html and
should be sent to:

CRESC Conference Administration
178 Waterloo Place, O
xford Road
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
Tel: +44(0)161 275 8985 / Fax: +44(0)161 275 8985

Conference Organisers:
Conference Administrators: Bussie Awosanya and Karen Ho
Conference Manager: Josine Opmeer
Email: CRESC.AnnualConference@manchester.ac.uk

Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology at Smithsonian's Natural History Museum

I am pleased to announce a new research training initiative being
launched by the Smithsonian Department of Anthropology with support
(pending) from the National Science Foundation.
The Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology is an intensive four-week
training program that will teach graduate students how to use museum
collections in research, incorporating Smithsonian collections as an
integral part of their anthropological training. Support from the
Cultural Anthropology Program at NSF will cover full tuition and
living expenses for 12 students each summer.

Please help us get the word out on this program, which will begin this
summer and is already accepting applications.

Where: Dept of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
When: June 29 – July 24, 2009

Full information including application instructions and dates is
available at http://anthropology.si.edu/summerinstitute

Candace Greene
Director, Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
Ethnologist, Collections and Archives Program
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution

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APPEL DE NOTES BREVES SUR DES LIVRES/CALL FOR BOOKNOTES -- DATE DE TOMBEE REPORT=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9E/DEADLINE?= EXTENDED

Veuillez prendre note que nous reportons la date de tombée des notes
brèves sur des livres pour le 11 mars 2009.

Please take note that we are extending the deadiline for booknotes to
March 11th, 2009.

Karine Vanthuyne
karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca
Craig Proulx
cproulx@stu.ca

________________________________________
APPEL DE NOTES BREVES SUR DES LIVRES

Chers membres,

Nous préparons la publication du prochain numéro de Culture, le
bulletin-en-ligne de la CASCA, et sommes donc à la recherche de notes
brèves sur des livres. Si vous êtes un membre de la CASCA et venez
tout juste de publier un livre, ou prévoyez le faire prochainement (en
2009), veuillez nous envoyer une brève description de votre
ouvrage ainsi qu'une photo de sa page couverture, si possible. C'est
avec le plus grand des plaisirs que nous les publierons. La date de
tombée est le 1er mars 2009.

Bien à vous,

Karine Vanthuyne
karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca

Craig Proulx
cproulx@stu.ca
____________________________________________________________________________

CALL FOR BOOKNOTES

Dear membership,

We are preparing to publish the next issue of Culture, CASCA 's online
newsletter and we are looking for booknotes. If you are a CASCA member
and have recently published a book, please send us a brief description
and, of possible, a photo of your book cover. It will be our pleasure
to publish it. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Karine Vanthuyne
karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca

Craig Proulx
cproulx@stu.ca

Call for Papers: THE RETURN OF THE VILLAGE: TROPE, SITE, AND PLACE

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association

(Philadelphia, 2-6 December 2009)

Call for Papers: THE RETURN OF THE VILLAGE: TROPE, SITE, AND PLACE

Convenor: Antonio Sorge, University of Prince Edward Island (asorge@upei.ca)

Discussant: Matei Candea, University of Cambridge (mc288@cam.ac.uk)

The village field-site as a key unit of analysis within ethnographic
research has been held by critics to be an example of a disciplinary
tendency to unduly privilege the study of face-to-face communities,
inevitably construed as 'parochial' or 'traditional,' over the realities of
political economy in a globalized world. Recently, however, the 'bounded'
ethnographic field site has been returning to the forefront of
anthropological inquiry in new, reconfigured forms: as experiential matrices
of personal and collective identity, sites of cultural contestation, hubs of
emergent social forms variously integrated within national and transnational
networks, or as arbitrary locations in a reconfigured anthropological
methodology.

This session inquires into the village as lived-in place and sacred
topology, as aesthetic experience and moral idiom of belonging. It tracks
the actual and often unexpected spatial configurations upon which villages
are mapped, and examines possible reinventions of the old anthropological
standard of village-based ethnography.

. We invite papers that examine ethnographic research methodologies
and modes of representation considered within a wider reappraisal of the
value of the 'bounded' village community as an analytical category.

. Papers that problematize the assumptions underlying classical
ethnographic fieldwork, consider its relative merits and demerits, and weigh
these against available alternatives, are especially welcome, as are all
papers that engage the broader issue of the end(s) of ethnography.

Please send abstracts by e-mail to asorge@upei.ca by Wednesday, March 25,
2009. Session participants will be confirmed shortly thereafter.

American Society for Ethnohistory - Call for Nominations - Robert F. Heizer Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

For the

Robert F. Heizer Award

Presented by the

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ETHNOHISTORY

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THE AWARD
----------------------------------------------------

This prize is awarded for recognition of the best article in the field
of ethnohistory. The award was established in 1980 to honor Dr. Robert
F. Heizer, ethnohistorian and archaeologist noted for his research in
California and Mesoamerica.

This prize applies to journal articles or essays in books published in
2008, and will be judged by a committee appointed by the President of
the American Society for Ethnohistory.

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NOMINATIONS
----------------------------------------------------

To nominate an article or book essay published in 2008:

By MAY 15, 2008, send a PDF of the article to

Larry Nesper lnesper@wisc.edu

Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
5240 Sewell Social Science Bld.
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

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PLEASE NOTE:
----------------------------------------------------

All articles published in the Society's journal Ethnohistory are
automatically nominated for the prize.

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Recent winners of the Robert F. Heizer Award
----------------------------------------------------

2008 Brian Delay for his article, "The Wider World of the Handsome
Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830-1848." Journal of
the Early Republic 27, no.1 (Spring 2007): 83-113.

2007 Heidi Bohaker, "Nindoodemag: The Significance of Algonquian
Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1701," The
William and Mary Quarterly 63.1 (2006), 23-52.

2006 Miranda Warburton and Richard M. Begay, "An Exploration of Navajo-
Anasazi Relationships" Ethnohistory 52: 3 (Summer 2005), 533-61.

2005 Peter M. Whiteley, "Bartering Pahos with the President"
Ethnohistory 51:2 (Spring 2004), 359-414.

2004 Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano, "The 'Original Conquest' of
Oaxaca: Nahua and Mixtec Accounts of the Spanish Conquest"
Ethnohistory 50(2) (Spring, 2003)

2003 Linea Sundstrom, "Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen: Rock Art,
Religion, and the Hide Trade on the Northern Plains." Plains
Anthropologist 47 (2002): 99-119.

2002 Jeffrey C. Kaufmann, ""La Question des Raketa: Colonial Struggles
with Prickly Pear Cactus in Southern Madagascar, 1900-1923."
Ethnohistory 48, 87-121 (2001).

2001 Paige Raibmon, "Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwaka'wakw Meet
Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World's Fair."
Canadian Historical Review 82(2): 157-90 (2000).

2000 Meredith McKittrick, "Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother:
Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia." Journal of
African History 40: 265-283 (1999).

1999 Kevin Terraciano, "Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The
Case of the Mixtec Murder Note." Ethnohistory 45(3): 709-745

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2008

"In the spirit of the Robert F. Heizer Prize award, Brian DeLay deftly
combines ethnography, history and ethnohistory with an engaging
writing style and the use of a wide range of primary and secondary
sources. DeLay weaves a complex and compelling Texan-Mexican-Comanche
history into a gripping story of international politics over a period
during which Mexico gained independence and lost a sizeable portion of
its territory, and Texas became both independent and a new U.S. state.
Establishing what might otherwise be construed as a "periphery" as its
own area, DeLay centers the Comanche in the processes he describes. As
DeLay shows how "northern Mexicans were bound together with southern
plains Indians" he also makes important contributions to borderlands
scholarship. Through these contributions, DeLay links what appears to
be a small slice of the past to multifaceted and broad changes that
had consequences for Native American, Texan and Mexican peoples, as
well as for governments. As DeLay crosses borders in "The Wider World"
by following the Comanche into Mexico while simultaneously attending
to their story in the U.S., he also complicates the academy's area
studies model, thus encouraging cross-area as well as cross-
disciplinary dialogues."

1996

Examining the oral histories of migration told to her by the people of
Palau Langkaw, Malaysia, Janet Carsten finds villagers' accounts to be
fragmentary and vague. Many have forgotten where their immediate
ancestors came from or even who they were. Rather than viewing this
in negative terms, as a kind of "genealogical amnesia" (reported in
the literature for many Southeast Asian societies), Carsten argues
that even though the process of what people forget and how they forget
it is implicit, gradual and unmarked – as when grandchildren are told
little about their grandparents – it is nonetheless collective,
systematic and vital to the acquisition of attributes and relationship
in the present and future. For ethnohistorians, her work raises
important questions about the relationship between narrative and
memory, and how people, like the villagers she works with, may,
through their efforts at constructing an identity in the particular
political and historical context they find themselves, transform the
one into the other.

Feminist Perspectives on International Human Rights in Canada - Conference reminder

Conference at University of Ottawa March 27-29, 2009

Details at:

http://www.henderson.uottawa.ca/content/blogcategory/14/57/lang,en/

in French at:
http://www.henderson.uottawa.ca/content/blogcategory/14/57/lang,fr/

West Indian Literature Conference

Late notice to prepare a paper for the end of April, but the
West Indian Literature Conference is being held at the
University of Guyana this year, and is still accepting
abstracts in spite of the deadline having past.

http://sta.uwi.edu/news/ecalendar/event.asp?id=688

Event
Annual West Indian Literature Conference 2009- CALL FOR PAPERS

Event Date(s): 26/04/2009 - 29/04/2009

The XXVIII Annual West Indian Literature Conference 2009 will
be held at the University of Guyana from April 26 ? 29, 2009
under the title "Quiet Revolutions in West Indian Literature
and Criticism". The conference theme for 2009 is designed to
explore, among many other things, the several developments,
preoccupations, forms or issues that may reflect "quiet
revolutions" in West Indian literature and criticism.

Organizers are issuing a call for papers for the conference.
Abstracts of less than 250 words should be submitted by
FEBRUARY 15, 2009 to: Al Creighton Tel. 592 222 4923 e-mail
deanseh@hotmail.com OR alcreightonjnr@hotmail.com.

The conference theme for 2009 is designed to explore, among
many other things, the several developments, preoccupations,
forms or issues that may reflect "quiet revolutions" in West
Indian literature and criticism. Since this annual conference
started, West Indian literature has experienced change,
sometimes unique and radical, often representing revolutionary
advancements, with new areas of study and artistic engagement
peculiar to West Indian literature, as well as the inclusion
of related forms and pursuits hitherto excluded or
marginalised. These have not necessarily all been recent;
some may say the literature has been attended by quiet
revolutions throughout its history.

Participants in the conference are invited to consider these:

Relevant areas might be: Film, Performance, Language, Music,
Form, Creole, Dub / Dub Poetry, Oral traditions, Orality,
Dancehall, Theatre and Drama, in relation to any of: Caribbean
criticism; the East Indian ethos; Comparative literature; the
Amerindian ethos; the Francophone and the Hispanic; Folklore;
West Indian fiction; Narrative; West Indian Poetry.

Special focus: 100 Years of Edgar Mittelholzer

These "quiet revolutions" have often centred around or driven
by Caribbean writers themselves (Wilson Harris, Eddie Kamau
Brathwaite, Derek Walcott et al). Edgar Mittelholzer is a
Guyanese fiction writer considered to be himself one of these
quiet revolutions. The conference will mark his 100th
anniversary in 2009 with a special panel.

Celebrating Wilson Harris

The conference proposes to honour/pay tribute to/recognise
Harris and participants are invited to contribute to a panel
on Harris.

L'Institut d'=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9tudes_des_femmes_de_l'Universit=E9?= d'Ottawa

L'Institut d'études des femmes de l'Université d'Ottawa présente / The
Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa presents:

Les Histoires de l'esclavage / Histories of Slavery

Le 2 mars 2009 / March 2, 2009

Événement débute à 17h30 / Event starting at 5:30 p.m.

Pièce 112, Pavillon Tabaret, Université d'Ottawa, 550 Cumberland,
Ottawa, Ontario /

Room 112 Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa, 550 Cumberland, Ottawa, Ontario

Modératrice / Moderator

Sarah Onyango, Community organizer, radio and television host

Conférencières et conférencier de la Table ronde / Round Table speakers

Marie-Célie Agnant, nouvelliste / novelist

(présentera en français / will present in French)

Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne, historienne et archiviste / historian and
archivist

(présentera en français / will present in French)

Karolyn Smardz-Frost, historian and author / historienne et auteure

(will present in English / présentera en anglais)

Barrington Walker, historian, professor and author / historien,
professeur et auteur

(will present in English / présentera en anglais)

M. Nourbese Philip, novelist, essayist and poet / nouvelliste,
essayiste et poète

(will present in English / présentera en anglais)

Cet événement est accessible à toutes et tous. Admission libre / This
event is open to all. Free admission

Nos sincères remerciements au Cabinet de la vice-rectrice à la
recherche, à la Faculté des sciences sociales, la Faculté des sciences
de la santé et la Faculté des arts, ainsi qu'au Département
d'histoire, à l'Institut d'études canadiennes, au Laboratoire d'études
africaines, au Département de français et au Groupe de recherche
d'intérêt public de l'Ontario (GRIPO). /

Our sincere thanks to the Office of the Vice-President (Research), the
Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the
Faculty of Arts, the Department of History, the Institute of Canadian
Studies, the African Study and Research Laboratory, the French
Department and Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG).

http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/fra/conferences.asp
<http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/fra/conferences.asp>

http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/eng/conferences.asp
<http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/womenst/eng/conferences.asp>

Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez contacter Hélène Boudreault, au
613-520-6644 / For more information, please contact Hélène Boudreault,
at 613-520-6644

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies

The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies

invites you to attend a presentation

IN CELEBRATION OF

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

"Transforming Power:

Feminism and the New Politics"

presented by

Judy Rebick

Judy Rebick is a veteran social justice activist, feminist educator,
and writer. She currently holds the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social
Justice and Democracy at Ryerson University in Toronto.

She is the author of several books, the most recent of which are
Transforming Power: From the personal to the political (Penguin 2009)
and Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution (Penguin
2005). Judy is the founder and former publisher of rabble.ca and a
past-president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

3:30-5:30 pm

101 Azrieli Theatre

CARLETON UNIVERSITY

Free Admission and All are Welcome

Co-sponsored by Equity Services, the School of Canadian Studies, the
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Human Rights), and the School
of Social Work, at Carleton University

For more information, please contact Hélène Boudreault, at 613-520-6644

APPEL DE NOTES BREVES SUR DES LIVRES/CALL FOR BOOKNOTES

APPEL DE NOTES BREVES SUR DES LIVRES

Chers membres,

Nous préparons la publication du prochain numéro de Culture, le
bulletin-en-ligne de la CASCA, et sommes donc à la recherche de notes
brèves sur des livres. Si vous êtes un membre de la CASCA et venez
tout juste de publier un livre, ou prévoyez le faire prochainement (en
2009), veuillez nous envoyer une brève description de votre
ouvrage ainsi qu'une photo de sa page couverture, si possible. C'est
avec le plus grand des plaisirs que nous les publierons. La date de
tombée est le 1er mars 2009.

Bien à vous,

Karine Vanthuyne
karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca

Craig Proulx
cproulx@stu.ca
____________________________________________________________________________

CALL FOR BOOKNOTES

Dear membership,

We are preparing to publish the next issue of Culture, CASCA 's online
newsletter and we are looking for booknotes. If you are a CASCA member
and have recently published a book, please send us a brief description
and, of possible, a photo of your book cover. It will be our pleasure
to publish it. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Karine Vanthuyne
karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca

Craig Proulx
cproulx@stu.ca