Reminder/Call For Papers/CASCA 2010

REMINDER:

Call For Papers

CASCA 2010

The Society of the Spectacle, Reloaded: Movement, Medium, and Message
in the 21st Century

Panel Organizers:
Craig Proulx, St. Thomas University
Alex Khasnabish, Mount Saint Vincent University

Social movements are not merely manifestations of contentious
politics, they are sites for the incubation of a diversity of ways of
living otherwise. And yet, social movements are surely not the only
media involved in articulating and circulating their significance. If
social change action is often as much about prefiguring what might be
as it is about protesting what is, in an evermore interconnected and
media-saturated world, what is the significance of the roles played by
diverse media-makers in relation to these social change movements and
moments? This panel invites contributions that critically engage the
way that media – conceived of broadly as those involved in
media-making (professional, independent, amateur) in a variety of
formats (print, TV, film, radio, web-based) both situated within and
outside of social movements - participate in the selection,
construction, dissemination, and interpretation of protest events and,
in so doing, support or resist the broader social change movements of
which these events are often a part.

Please contact and/or send your abstracts to:

Craig Proulx cproulx@stu.ca

and/or

Alex Khasnabish Alex.Khasnabish@msvu.ca

Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Visiting Scholar Programme in Canadian Studies at Carleton University/Programme de chercheur acad=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9mique_en_visite_(boursier_ou_non)_en_=C9tudes_canadiennes_=E0__l'Universit=E9?= Carleton (Ottawa)

Programme de chercheur académique en visite (boursier ou non) en Études
canadiennes à l'Université Carleton (Ottawa).
L'École d'études canadiennes de l'Université Carleton à Ottawa reçoit
actuellement des candidatures pour son programme de chercheur académique en
visite. Les chercheurs recevront un espace de travail, de l'équipement
informatique et un accès à la bibliothèque de l'Université. Les chercheurs
en visite devront contribuer à la vie intellectuelle de l'École, seront
invités à enseigner certains cours et à fournir un appui aux étudiants
gradués.
Le ou la chercheur en visite se verra offrir 6000$ pour diriger un
séminaire en études graduées durant un semestre (13 semaines) sur un sujet
relié à ses travaux. Le poste sera disponible pour des périodes allant d'un
mois à une année académique (les chercheurs boursiers doivent demeurer à
l'École pour une période minimale de quatre mois entre septembre et avril).
On invite les candidatures en provenance du Canada ou de l'étranger. Les
candidatures de chercheurs dans toutes les disciplines effectuant des
recherches sur le Canada durant leur séjour seront considérées. La
préférence sera accordée à des membres d'un corps professoral universitaire
mais les candidatures d'étudiants postdoctoraux et éventuellement celles
d'étudiants au doctorat seront également considérées.
L'École d'études canadiennes de Carleton est la plus ancienne école de ce
type au Canada, offre une Maîtrise ès Arts et offre le seul programme
doctoral en études canadiennes au pays, conjointement avec l'Université
Trent.
Nos principaux champs d'études interdisciplinaires sont les études
autochtones et nordiques, les études sexospécifiques (gender studies), les
études culturelles canadiennes et les politiques culturelles, la
conservation du patrimoine et les études québécoises.
La situation de l'école dans la capitale du Canada offre des ressources
exceptionnelles pour les canadianistes, notamment la Bibliothèque et les
archives nationales, le Musée des Beaux-arts, le Musée des civilisations, le
Musée de la guerre, la Cour suprême et la Colline parlementaire. De plus, la
plupart des organismes nationaux ont leur siège à Ottawa, offrant ainsi
d'autres possibilités de recherche.
Les candidatures doivent être envoyées à canadian_studies@carleton.ca au
plus tard le 1er février 2010. Elles doivent inclure un CV à jour et une
lettre de présentation indiquant les grandes lignes du projet de recherche.
Pour les candidatures incluant une demande de bourse, une brève
description du séminaire de treize semaines proposé doit être également
incluse. Les résultats seront annoncés en mars pour l'année académique
débutant le 1er septembre 2010. Les bourses demeurent sujettes à approbation
budgétaire.
Pour plus d'information sur notre École, visitez notre site internet :
http://www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/

Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Visiting Scholar Programme in Canadian
Studies at Carleton University.
> Applications are invited for the Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary
Visiting Scholars Programme of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton
University in Ottawa. Visiting scholars will be provided with office space,
computer facilities and access to the Carleton University library. They will
be expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the School, will be
invited to give guest lectures and encouraged to mentor graduate students.
> Stipendiary Visiting scholars will also be offered $6000.00 to lead a
semester-long graduate seminar on a topic related to their area of research.
Visiting Scholar positions are available for periods between one month and
one academic year (Stipendiary Visiting Scholars must stay for a period of
at least four months between September and April).
> Applications are welcome from scholars in any discipline, from Canada or
abroad, who will conduct research on Canada during their stay. Preference
will be given to university faculty members, but applications from doctoral
and postdoctoral students will also be considered.
> Carleton's School of Canadian Studies is the oldest of its kind in
Canada, and offers both a Master of Arts program and the only Canadian
Studies doctoral programme in the country (jointly with Trent University).
Our main interdisciplinary research areas are Aboriginal Studies and the
North, Gender Studies, Canadian Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy,
Heritage Conservation and Québec Studies. The School's location in Canada's
capital provides unparalleled resources for Canadianists, including the
National Library, the National Gallery, the National Archives, the Museum of
Civilization, the War Museum, the Supreme Court of Canada, and Parliament
Hill. In addition, most national organizations have their headquarters in
Ottawa, offering other possibilities for research.
> Applications must be sent to canadian_studies@carleton.ca no later than
1 February 2010. Applications should include an up-to-date CV and a cover
letter presenting the broad lines of the research project. For stipendiary
applications, a brief description of the proposed thirteen-week seminar
should also be included. Results will be announced in March for the academic
year beginning on 1 September 2010. (Stipends are subjects to budgetary
approval).
> For more information on our School go to our website:
http://www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/

call for papers

Below is a call for panelists for CASCA 2010 (Anthropological
Connections: New Spaces and New Networks; Concordia University,
Montreal, May 31 - June 3, 2010). For further information please
contact the panel organizer Mark K. Watson (Assistant Professor,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) at mwatson@alcor.concordia.ca

World Anthropologies: Tasks, Tensions, Futures

Since at least the 1990s the task of the World Anthropologies Network
has been to lay out foundational arguments for pluralizing and
diversifying what 'we' understand to be disciplinary knowledge. The
Network, as Ribeiro (2006) outlines, has consolidated three main
approaches: 1) to examine how knowledge - by which it is meant a
changing set of Western principles and practices - is transmitted and
received around the world; 2) to highlight, recognize and historicize
the plurality of anthropologies which operate in distinction from the
dominant mode of, so called, 'metropolitan hegemonies'; and 3) to
initiate new dialogues, conversations and activities between
anthropologists across inter/national, regional and disciplinary
boundaries in order to unravel and disempower the dominance of Western
anthropological discourse. Whilst the Network's concern for 'doing
anthropology otherwise' has antecedence in the Islamic Anthropology
movement of the 1970s and other historical events further back, I
propose this panel to contemplate the debate's relevance for the
forging or opening up of 'new spaces and new networks' today. What
does it really mean, for example, to do 'anthropology otherwise'? What
other questions are there to ask of the normalized approaches to
anthropology and models of epistemology that we, in the West,
reproduce in our work? What possibilities does the debate offer for
rethinking our basic assumptions of culture, society, knowledge and
life? What role do issues of power and rationality play in this
debate? Is this discussion just another or a more definitive re-
examination of anthropological practices? To what extent does it
promise long-lasting transformation? What does it mean, for example,
for the future of teaching anthropological theory and practice? How,
in other words, is the debate and the questions it asks to be applied?

Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins. 2006. World Anthropologies: Cosmopolitics for a
New Global Scenario in Anthropology. Critique of Anthropology 26(4):
363-386.

Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Visiting Scholar Programme in Canadian Studies at Carleton University

*Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Visiting Scholar Programme in Canadian
Studies at Carleton University. *

Applications are invited for the Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary Visiting
Scholars Programme of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University
in Ottawa. Visiting scholars will be provided with office space, computer
facilities and access to the Carleton University library. They will be
expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the School, will be
invited to give guest lectures and encouraged to mentor graduate students.

Stipendiary Visiting scholars will also be offered $6000.00 to lead a
semester-long graduate seminar on a topic related to their area of research.
Visiting Scholar positions are available for periods between one month and
one academic year (Stipendiary Visiting Scholars must stay for a period of
at least four months between September and April).

Applications are welcome from scholars in any discipline, from Canada or
abroad, who will conduct research on Canada during their stay. Preference
will be given to university faculty members, but applications from doctoral
and postdoctoral students will also be considered.

Carleton's School of Canadian Studies is the oldest of its kind in Canada,
and offers both a Master of Arts program and the only Canadian Studies
doctoral programme in the country (jointly with Trent University). Our main
interdisciplinary research areas are Aboriginal Studies and the North,
Gender Studies, Canadian Cultural Studies and Cultural Policy, Heritage
Conservation and Québec Studies. The School's location in Canada's capital
provides unparalleled resources for Canadianists, including the National
Library, the National Gallery, the National Archives, the Museum of
Civilization, the War Museum, the Supreme Court of Canada, and Parliament
Hill. In addition, most national organizations have their headquarters in
Ottawa, offering other possibilities for research.

Applications must be sent to canadian_studies@carleton.ca no later than 1
February 2010. Applications should include an up-to-date CV and a cover
letter presenting the broad lines of the research project. For stipendiary
applications, a brief description of the proposed thirteen-week seminar
should also be included. Results will be announced in March for the academic
year beginning on 1 September 2010. (Stipends are subjects to budgetary
approval).

For more information on our School go to our website:
http://www2.carleton.ca/canadianstudies/

CFP - Intersecting Discourses: Health, Religion, and Spirituality

CASCA CFP - Intersecting Discourses: Health, Religion, and Spirituality

Religious philosophies often play a significant role in social
constructions of the body and health, which in turn have political,
economic, and policy implications. Indeed, the global connection of
different health perspectives and authorities has emerged
concomitantly to, and often as a result of, religious and spiritual
philosophies. As such, interfaces of religion, spirituality, and
health are deeply intriguing social phenomena, the study of which
provides important insights for conceptualizing how both health and
religion are created, negotiated, and reproduced at different social
scales. We welcome papers that address the interface of health,
spirituality, and religion.

Please send a 150 word abstract no later than January 1, 2010, to
Laura Mandelbaum (laura.mandelbaum@utoronto.ca) and Elizabeth
Urbanowski (elizabeth.urbanowski@utoronto.ca). Thank you!

REVISED DATES: CFP: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss

Savage Thoughts
Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
McGill University, Montréal
24-26 September 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the great interdisciplinary writers of
the twentieth century whose influence has been felt far beyond his
home discipline of anthropology. His inquiry illuminated the border
lands between primitive and non-primitive, self and other, myth and
history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that
give structure to culture. At the same time his method troubled those
borders and dichotomies, through the bricolage he adopted that
illuminated connections amongst literature, art, psychology, music,
religion, and law.

Our call for 'savage thoughts' seeks out new work influenced by this
inquiry and these methods, and reflections on Levi-Strauss' legacy
across the whole range of the humanities and beyond, including-

1) Recent interdisciplinary research in the
reception, critique, and development, of Lévi-Strauss' work. How have
these inquiries been transformed in recent years? Are the children of
Lévi-Strauss as savage as he?

2) Consideration of Lévi-Strauss' larger intellectual
influence, explicit or otherwise, right across the humanities. Perhaps
there is something savage at the heart of interdisciplinary thought
itself-refusing to be tamed by the intellectual borders of a
discipline, it forages at will. Where has Lévi-Strauss' method spawned
such wildness and hybridity?

3) Looking beyond the academy to consider how
Lévi-Strauss' ideas have embedded themselves in the culture, values,
social organization, and framework of modern society. What is the
public life and impact of these ideas? In what ways has our world been
altered by his mode of apprehending it?

Conference organizers invite papers that address the borderlands
between a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to
Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, Communications, History, Law,
Linguistics, Literature, Human Geography, Musicology, Philosophy,
Psychology, Religious Studies, Semiotics, and Sociology. Proposals
for single papers in English or French as well as for complete panels
are welcome. In either instance, abstracts for 15-20 minute papers
should be c.200 words, and accompanied by a brief (2-page) CV.
Proposals for complete panels should also include a short explanation
of the panel theme. Please send proposals as electronic files (in
.doc, .docx, or .pdf format) to
savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca<mailto:savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca> no later
than 15 March 2010.

Conference website:
www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/<http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/>
Conference registration will open 15 April 2010.
(For more information on registration and fees please see the website.)

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill
University is committed to understanding how the arts (literature,
painting, film, theatre, music, industrial and artistic design,
architecture) and new ideas come into being in a range of settings
(schools, the law courts, markets, the Web, the book trade, state
institutions) and in relation to social, cultural, and institutional
practices. It also strives to understand how art and ideas are able to
transform the private world of the individual, the greater world of
public matters, and the interactivity between the two.
http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/

CFP EASA 2010: Imaginaries and regimes of mobility across the globe

11th EASA Biennial Conference: Crisis and Imagination

Maynooth (Ireland), 24-27 August 2010

*A new virtue? Imaginaries and regimes of mobility across the globe*

Convenors:

Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven, Belgium):
noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be <mailto:noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be>

Pál Nyíri (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands):
p.nyiri@fsw.vu.nl <mailto:p.nyiri@fsw.vu.nl>

Discussant:

Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm University, Sweden): ulf.hannerz@socant.su.se
<mailto:ulf.hannerz@socant.su.se>

Short abstract:**

This panel discusses and ethnographically compares how various forms of
border-crossing human (im)mobilities are given meaning and are
discursively framed as virtues or vices in societies and cultures across
the globe, both today and in a historical perspective.

Long abstract:**

It is fashionable to imagine the world in motion, with people, objects
and ideas traveling worldwide. Mobility is celebrated not just by
literati elites but also by governments, including those that have until
recently restricted it. Yet the same states are raising the barriers of
certain kinds of mobility ever higher. Anthropologists were among the
first to point out that not all mobilities are valued equally positively
and that the very processes that produce global mobilities also result
in immobility and exclusion. Drawing on a thematically and
geographically diverse set of ethnographic studies, this panel discusses
and compares how various forms of border-crossing human (im)mobilities
are discursively framed as a virtue or vice in societies and cultures
across the globe, both today and in a historical perspective. Individual
papers advance anthropological takes on the so-called "mobility turn" in
the social sciences by giving ethnographically-informed answers on the
following questions: Which forms of translocal mobility are currently
desirable (whether they are accessible or not) and to whom, and how does
the current situation compare to the past? Which socio-cultural meanings
and values are given to these mobilities and by whom? What is the
analytical purchase of (im)mobility as an overarching conceptual
framework to study and understand the current human condition? Is
mobility a better concept-metaphor to understand the contemporary world
than sedentarity? Why is mobility (not) the next grand narrative in
anthropology or the social sciences at large? Contributions on "newly
mobile" societies (e.g. China, Russia and India) are particularly welcome.

Submission of abstracts:

Online: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=575

Apart from your contact details, you are asked to supply a paper title,
a short 300-character abstract, and a 250-word abstract (NB: the
electronic submission software is strict about this and the character
count includes spaces).

Deadline: 1 March 2010

General information on the conference:

http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2010/index.htm

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact either of
the panel convenors.

CFP: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Levi-Strauss

Savage Thoughts
Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
McGill University, Montréal
17-19 September 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the great interdisciplinary writers of
the twentieth century whose influence has been felt far beyond his
home discipline of anthropology. His inquiry illuminated the border
lands between primitive and non-primitive, self and other, myth and
history, human and animal, art and nature, and the dichotomies that
give structure to culture. At the same time his method troubled those
borders and dichotomies, through the bricolage he adopted that
illuminated connections amongst literature, art, psychology, music,
religion, and law.

Our call for 'savage thoughts' seeks out new work influenced by this
inquiry and these methods, and reflections on Levi-Strauss' legacy
across the whole range of the humanities and beyond, including-

1) Recent interdisciplinary research in the
reception, critique, and development, of Lévi-Strauss' work. How have
these inquiries been transformed in recent years? Are the children of
Lévi-Strauss as savage as he?

2) Consideration of Lévi-Strauss' larger intellectual
influence, explicit or otherwise, right across the humanities. Perhaps
there is something savage at the heart of interdisciplinary thought
itself-refusing to be tamed by the intellectual borders of a
discipline, it forages at will. Where has Lévi-Strauss' method spawned
such wildness and hybridity?

3) Looking beyond the academy to consider how
Lévi-Strauss' ideas have embedded themselves in the culture, values,
social organization, and framework of modern society. What is the
public life and impact of these ideas? In what ways has our world been
altered by his mode of apprehending it?

Conference organizers invite papers that address the borderlands
between a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to
Anthropology, Architecture, Art History, Communications, History, Law,
Linguistics, Literature, Human Geography, Musicology, Philosophy,
Psychology, Religious Studies, Semiotics, and Sociology. Proposals
for single papers in English or French as well as for complete panels
are welcome. In either instance, abstracts for 15-20 minute papers
should be c.200 words, and accompanied by a brief (2-page) CV.
Proposals for complete panels should also include a short explanation
of the panel theme. Please send proposals as electronic files (in
.doc, .docx, or .pdf format) to
savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca<mailto:savage.thoughts@mcgill.ca> no later
than 15 March 2010.

Conference website:
www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/<http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/savagethoughts/>
Conference registration will open 15 April 2010.
(For more information on registration and fees please see the website.)

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas at McGill
University is committed to understanding how the arts (literature,
painting, film, theatre, music, industrial and artistic design,
architecture) and new ideas come into being in a range of settings
(schools, the law courts, markets, the Web, the book trade, state
institutions) and in relation to social, cultural, and institutional
practices. It also strives to understand how art and ideas are able to
transform the private world of the individual, the greater world of
public matters, and the interactivity between the two.
http://www.mcgill.ca/iplai/

Call For Papers, CASCA 2010

Call For Papers

CASCA 2010

The Society of the Spectacle, Reloaded: Movement, Medium, and Message
in the 21st Century

Panel Organizers:
Craig Proulx, St. Thomas University
Alex Khasnabish, Mount Saint Vincent University

Social movements are not merely manifestations of contentious
politics, they are sites for the incubation of a diversity of ways of
living otherwise. And yet, social movements are surely not the only
media involved in articulating and circulating their significance. If
social change action is often as much about prefiguring what might be
as it is about protesting what is, in an evermore interconnected and
media-saturated world, what is the significance of the roles played by
diverse media-makers in relation to these social change movements and
moments? This panel invites contributions that critically engage the
way that media – conceived of broadly as those involved in
media-making (professional, independent, amateur) in a variety of
formats (print, TV, film, radio, web-based) both situated within and
outside of social movements - participate in the selection,
construction, dissemination, and interpretation of protest events and,
in so doing, support or resist the broader social change movements of
which these events are often a part.

Please contact and/or send your abstracts to:

Craig Proulx cproulx@stu.ca

and/or

Alex Khasnabish Alex.Khasnabish@msvu.ca

CFP : In Search of the Public Space; an Anthropological Perspective

The edited volume In Search of the Public Space; an Anthropological
Perspective is seeking papers on urban public spaces by
anthropologists. In our global present, the volume's focus is on
elucidating contemporary approaches and representations of public
spaces, with the hope of furthering discussion on current
understandings of what constitutes the "public" from an
anthropological perspective.

Most approaches within scholarly work on spatiality take into account
the forces of advanced capitalism in holding its own cultural logic to
shaping, transforming, redefining the public spaces of our cities.
Rootlessness, spacelessness, temporality, multi-locality and
multi-dimensionality have become catchphrases for the fragmentation of
public spaces in an age of globalised crisis, virtual interactions,
and limitless desire for homogenized environment and relations. As
Setha Low suggests, the loss of the public may be equated with a loss
of politics: the creation of a "public" necessitates spirited,
dialogical engagements with individuals and processes. Such a notion
of the "public" remains the archetype and very ideal of democracy; it
is a political and moral imperative that allows for a multiplicity of
public discussions, now compromised with the advent of a privately
held vision of the world.

The very understanding of "public" comes under scrutiny in the
contemporary context. Given the high level of complexity and variety
of fields and subjects, how do current anthropologists' works situate
and refine understandings of what is "public"? In particular, the
volume seeks research that addresses the changing form of public
spaces as a result of social media, environmental/community movements,
and tensions created by global/local understandings of the public, the
public/private dialectic and political/economic policies, with an
interest in how these public spaces are represented by different
social actors. The editors also seek submissions that address new
methodologies and encourage theoretical reflection, particularly in
reference to non-traditional or emerging forms of public space brought
about by community activism, sustainability issues, and technological
public spaces/spheres (such as the use of social software). Inherent
here is the question of how people seek opportunities to produce
public space, and to materialize their ideals of "the public".

This is a call for contributions of papers to this volume In Search of
the Public Space; an Anthropological Perspective. We seek work from
students, scholars and researchers from across the social sciences,
whose work consists of rich theoretical reflection or ethnographic
research that present diverse approaches to public space and
consequently enhance our notions of the "public". We are seeking 25
pages papers to be submitted by March 1st, 2010, for possible
inclusion in this edited volume. A 500 words abstract is to be
submitted by January 31st, 2009.

Nathalie Boucher
Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Urbanisation
Culture et Société
nathalie.boucher@ucs.inrs.ca

Jean Chia
University of Alberta
jean.chia@ualberta.ca

Daniel Tubb
Institute of Political Economy, Carleton Univeristy
dtubb@connect.carleton.ca

Power 2010 Conference - Call for Session Proposals

Power & Knowledge
The 2nd International Conference, Tampere, September 6-8, 2010
Call for Session Proposals

Inspired by the great success of the first conference (Power: Forms,
Dynamics and Consequences, September 22-24, 2008), we carry on probing
questions of power. This time the conference concentrates on the links
between power and knowledge.

As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge are like
two sides of the same coin. There are however many other approaches and
research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge production in
affecting and constituting power relations.

What are the roles of science, research and research-based knowledge
production in promoting policy models? Does scientific research or
evidence-based consultancy save the world and lead us to a better future?
What effects does the key role of knowledge production in contemporary
societies have on power and politics? How are the established databases and
statistical classifications of the public and private organizations
constructed and reproduced? What is the role of everyday knowledge in
society? What is the relationship between knowledge and resistance?

By bringing together scholars who approach these questions from different
angles this conference will advance our understanding about power relations
in social reality.

Keynote speakers will include:
- Patrick Carroll
- Gili S. Drori
- Susan Haack
- Sakari Hänninen
- Michael Mann
- Yuval Millo
- Soile Veijola
- (to be announced)

To send a session proposal and to get more information about the conference,
please email a session title and abstract (100-200 words describing the
session) to *power2010@uta.fi*

The conference website is in
*http://www.uta.fi/power2010/*

The latest day to submit the proposal is January 31st 2010. Call for papers
will be launched after approved sessions are confirmed.

Welcome to Tampere!

Risto Heiskala
Professor, Director
Chair of the Organizing Committee

New issue of Culture

Dear CASCA list serve members,

The new issue of Culture, CASCA's Newsletter, is posted on the new
CASCA web page.

http://www.cas-sca.ca

Enjoy.

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AAA 2010

Call for Papers, 109th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association

* *

*Circulation*

New Orleans, LA

November 17-21, 2010

Monica Heller

2010 Executive Program Chair

In 2010, the AAA will meet in New Orleans, where the river meets the sea.
New Orleans channels flows into the heart of a continent, and out across
oceans, around the globe. The boundary between river and sea, between water
and earth, is shifting and unclear. The circulation of people and other
living organisms, of material things, and of ideas in such zones of passage
constitutes some of the central social and physical processes of concern to
all kinds of anthropologists, historically and in the present.

New Orleans has inspired the theme of the 2010 AAA Annual Meeting:
"Circulation." This theme is meant to encourage us to think about what
happens when movement is the organizing trope of our questions,
methodologies, analyses and accounts. We can think in terms of circulation
across time as well as space, through different organizing principles, and
in a variety of shapes and forms.

The idea of circulation invites us to consider what triggers, facilitates,
constrains, disrupts or stops flows; what is at stake in these processes,
and for whom; and what their consequences might be for humans and for the
environment. It opens up questions about what exactly circulates: signs,
objects or bodies. Do different things circulate in different ways? Do they
change or remain constant? What new phenomena, arrangements and inequalities
does circulation produce? How are resources and ways of understanding them
identified, made sense of, produced and distributed in the process? How and
why do rates and types of circulation vary across time and space? What
crystallizes and what continues to flow and reshape?

"Circulation" also invites us to think across boundaries, whether those are
boundaries organizing phenomena we seek to describe and explain, boundaries
within and across disciplines, or boundaries among anthropologists or other
social groups. It asks us to turn our attention to zones of encounter,
conjunctions and liminal passages. It also requires us to ask whether
"circulation" is a helpful trope for the production of anthropological
knowledge. What light does it shed on the (increasingly widely circulating)
concept of "culture"--arguably the central organizing construct of
anthropology--and on anthropology itself?

We are interested in bringing together papers reflecting the perspectives of
all subfields and forms of anthropological practice, or across them,
investigating this theme with data, method and theory oriented to all
temporal and spatial horizons. Come and participate in the circulation of
ideas.

For details, please visit the AAA
website<http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/Call-for-Papers.cfm>