Guns and Global Security: From Neighbourhoods to the United Nations, Marriott Hotel Eaton Centre, Thursday 22 April 2010

The Contemporary Dilemmas in Canadian Security Lecture Series:

Guns and Global Security: From Neighbourhoods to the United Nations

Thursday 22 April 2010
7-9pm
Marriott Hotel Eaton Centre
525 Bay Street
Toronto
(Free Admission)

The problem of 'civilian possession' of firearms has undermined global and
national efforts at controlling small arms and light weapons. Canada is a
producer and exporter of arms, as well as a recipient of both legal and
less than legal transfers of weapons, mainly from the United States. For
Canadians this has translated into greater numbers of guns on our city
streets, and a more dangerous environment for our military forces when
they are deployed abroad. The problem of ?civilian possession' of firearms
is to be addressed at multilateral arms control negotiations under the UN
Programme of Action on Small Arms & Light Weapons (SLAW) and the Arms
Trade Treaty (ATT). This forum seeks to explore the relationship of
civilian possession of arms and problems of control, both domestic and
international for creating conditions of security and insecurity. The
questions that we raise are the following:

- How to interpret the concept of ?civilian possession? under the UN
Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons?
- What are the problems with ?civilian possession? of small arms and
light weapons that the Canadian Forces face?
- What are the problems and prospects of regulating small arms
proliferation within Canada and the United States?
- How the problem of ?civilian possession? of weapons in Canada and
the US needs to be addressed by state and non-state actors ?
- What effect will this have on arms trade as practiced by Canada
and the United States?

Speakers: Wendy Cukier, Coalition for Gun Control
Ken Epps, Project Ploughshares
James Sheptycki, York University
Gregory Getty, Toronto Police
Moderator: Barbara Falk, Canadian Forces College

If you would like to attend please pre-register via this link:
Click Here

For further details on this event please see:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/news/upcoming.html

Call for Papers for Special Issue of New Proposals

Call for Papers for a Special Theme Issue on Feminism and Marxism:
Reassessments and Reports

New Proposals calls for submissions for a special issue that will be
dedicated to taking stock of intersections between feminism and marxism. A
valuable series of publications on this debate appeared in the 1970s and
1980s.

We are interested in full-length articles (normally 3,500 to 10,000 words)
as well as shorter comments and arguments (up to 3,500 words) that reengage
with these earlier debates. For this issue, we also welcome short research
reports (up to 1,500 words) summarizing the theoretical framework,
methodology, and preliminary results of research projects that draw on both
feminist and marxist traditions.

Submissions should be made to the journal web site by September 3, 2010.
Please indicate that this submission is for this special issue.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,
Charles R. Menzies
University of British Columbia
cmenzies@interchange.ubc.ca

http://www.newproposals.ca

CALL FOR AUTHORS: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage

We are inviting academic editorial contributors to a new reference work on
consumption and waste, or the social science of garbage.

Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse
from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining
what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an
important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by
behavioral scientists who use data compiled from the exploration of
dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the
average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage
can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope
with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our
trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and
art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across
multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to
include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing. Each
article ranges from 600 to 3,000 words. We are now making assignments due
July 1, 2010.

This comprehensive project will be published by SAGE Reference and will be
marketed to academic and public libraries as a print and digital product
available to students via the library?s electronic services. The General
Editor, who will be reviewing each submission to the project, is Dr.
William Rathje, emeritus University of Arizona, the top scholar in the
field.

If you are interested in contributing to this cutting-edge reference, it
is a unique opportunity to contribute to the contemporary literature,
redefining sociological issues in today?s terms. Moreover, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing
credits. SAGE Publications offers an honorarium ranging from SAGE book
credits for smaller articles up to a free set of the printed product or
access to the online product for contributions totaling 10,000 words or
more.

The list of available articles is already prepared, and as a next step we
will e-mail you the Article List (Excel file) from which you can select
topics that best fit your expertise and interests. Additionally, Style and
Submission Guidelines will be provided that detail article specifications.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of
Garbage, please contact me by the e-mail information below. Please provide
a brief summary of your academic/publishing credentials in related issues.

Thanks very much.
Joseph K. Golson
consumption@golsonmedia.com

CFP: Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Session for "Tourism and Seductions of Difference" Conference, Lisbon, 10-12 Sept. 2010)

Session CFP: Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference
Special session for the Conference, ?Tourism and Seductions of Difference?
1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference
Lisbon, Portugal ? 10-12 Sept 2010

Session Premise
Pilgrimage is perhaps the most emotional, most seductive of touristic
interactions; it is known to generate intense feelings of ecstasy and
transcendence, self-inflicted suffering and penitential pain. Drawing
on Eliade and van Gennep, Victor and Edith Turner considered
pilgrimage in terms of structuralist binaries, as predicated on
difference: Pilgrimage, they argued, is a movement from profane to
sacred; from periphery to center (or vice-versa); from quotidianity to
liminality. Complicating their notions of difference is V. Turner?s
assertion that pilgrimage, by its very nature, creates communitas, a
sensation of human commonality that transcends the daily differences
inherent in social structure. However, critics of this assessment,
particularly Eade and Sallnow, argue that difference is actually
intensified during pilgrimage, as various individuals and communities
utilize pilgrimage for asserting social status claims, for generating
economic profit at others? expense, or for political purposes.
Pilgrimage sites, too, employ a variety of symbols to differentiate
?true? pilgrims from secular travelers; the most well-known, of
course, is the ?passport? carried by Caministas on the way to Santiago
de Compostela, which entitle them to nearly free lodging along the
way, special blessings upon arrival, and an official certificate to
take back home.

Pilgrimage research has also contributed to complexifying the academic
study of tourism. Graburn and others have utilized the Turners?
binaries to productively analyze the ?secular ritual? of touristic
encounters. Analyzing different cultures? conceptualization of
pilgrimage as ?contemplation while viewing,? Di Giovine has linked
Turner/Graburn, and Urry?s famous ?tourist gaze??itself predicated on
difference, on separating out the picturesque from the mundane. Yet as
Crick pointed out long ago, while pilgrimage is a time-honored topic
of scientific investigation, there remains a general apprehension in
academia to fully engage in tourism research.

This special session is envisioned to both complement and call into
question common ways of thinking about the conference theme?tourism
and the seductions of difference?by exploring, unpacking, and
critically rethinking the established analytical premises concerning
the intersections of pilgrimage and tourism, the relationship between
seductive emotions and pilgrimage, and the contested binaries commonly
employed to analyze pilgrimage as a ritual structure.

Suggested Themes
In addition to the themes suggested in the conference?s general CFP,
suggested subject matter for this panel include, but are not limited to:

Phenomenologies of tourism and pilgrimage: similarities, differences,
methodological intersections; secular pilgrimages/religious tourism
Communitas, social structure, and difference
Sacred vs. profane geographies, practices, discourses in pilgrimage sites
?Profanity? and illicit activities at sacred sites
Emotion, devotion, and seduction in pilgrimage
Suffering, salvation, penance in pilgrimage discourses and practice
Cross-cultural / comparative pilgrimage practices
Political economy of pilgrimage sites, site management,
revitalization/development, heritage designations
Reconceptualizing pilgrimage: new theories and methods for the study
of pilgrimage

Publication Possibilities
As with all accepted conference papers, there will likely be several
publication possibilities, in addition to conference proceedings.
Furthermore, it is hoped that this special session can provide the
core of a possible edited volume based on the conference theme,
?seductions of difference.?

Additional Information
Interested parties should send a150-word abstract by 31 March 2010 to
the session director, Michael A. Di Giovine (digiovim@uchicago.edu).
(PLEASE NOTE this differs from the general conference deadline). Late
abstracts may be accepted.

Conference CFP: ?Tourism and Seductions of Difference?
Please find below a CFP for TOURISM AND SEDUCTIONS OF DIFFERENCE, an
international conference jointly organised by the
Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU), the Centre for
Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University,
and the Centre for Anthropological Research in Portugal (CRIA).
The conference will take place at the New University of Lisbon, in
Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 September 2010. The deadline to submit
abstracts is 20 March 2010. In addition to the general CFP, a number
of special interest panels are being proposed as part of the event
(with a different deadline; see below). Please find updated
information about the conference at www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk.
As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, the aim of this
Conference is to bring together social scientists studying tourism and
related social phenomena from different disciplinary perspectives. The
focus on ?seductions of difference? tackles one of the central
ontological premises of tourism, the relations to ?Others? ? people,
spaces, times, objects ? and the way in which these enable the
constitution and maintenance of Selves. Tourists travel to, and
through, spaces ?different? from those they inhabit most of the time.
They voluntarily expose their bodies to different environments, ingest
different foods, live in a different temporality, and meet different
people. Many authors have studied how such differences are socially
construed, how people, temporalities and places are experienced and
brought into being through the perceptive realms of the journey, but
also through the political agendas of stakeholders acting within the
field of tourism planning and cultural policy. The cultural history of
tourism indicates that tourists are ?drawn in? by certain types of
places ? forests, mountains, rivers, churches and religious shrines,
stately homes and palaces, ancient monuments, ruins, waterfalls,
seashores, countrysides, islands, cities, etc. Some psychologists, for
instance, have observed how some places ? such as Florence, Jerusalem,
or Paris ? trigger quasi-Stendhalian epiphanies among certain tourists
who often do not seem to share more than a common nationality. Who, or
what are they seduced by? What constitutes this arousal? How do
tourists learn what to be seduced by? How is the tourist experience
and the temptation to travel culturally framed? What can these
attractions tell us about the moral order of tourism and modern
culture? How are forms of local, ethnic, gender and national self
being worked and shaped in the contact zones of tourism? How are
tourist attractions assembled to entice tourists? Seduction is no
isolated act but always has some form of consequence and usually
demands compensation. In the same vein, touristic consumption is not
free, and in different senses implies forms of expected reciprocity.
What are the moral obligations of those who lure tourists to a
symbolic death by singing a siren song? How are tourists resuscitated,
and how do they buy their freedom? What are the threats and
consequences of seducing tourists? What happens when tourists seduce?
How does tourism seduce all sorts of people and who rejects seduction?
What kinds of society result from tourism?
CONFERENCE THEMES
Along with studies on methodological issues in tourism research, we
welcome papers that address issues related to the theme of the
conference. Indicative topics of interest include:
- Seduction as ontological work: maintaining identity, socialising
time and space, others
- Formations of seduction: social assemblages, contact cultures, attractions
- Fields of seduction: gender, houses, heritages, nations,
territories, classes
- Mediums of seduction: texts, bodies, arts, architectures, foods and natures
- Techniques of seduction: performance, flirtation, enticement,
friendship, magic, concealment
- Emotions of seduction: temptations, transgressions, ingestions,
emancipations
- Threats of seduction: spoliation, contamination, exclusion, death,
degradation
- Politics of seduction: hospitality, containment, kinship, power
- Moralities of seduction: values, reciprocity, obligations, co-habitation
- Consequences of seduction: mobilities, cosmopolitanisms, world society

GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS

To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract including title
and full contact details to tourismcontactculture@gmail.com. The Call
for Papers for this event will initially be open until 20 March 2010.
Late abstracts may be considered. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed
by the academic committee.

CFP FOR SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS

There is also an option to submit papers to SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS
organised as part of the conference. These panels work as double or
triple sessions (6 or 9 papers) and are fully integrated to the
general conference programme. While thematically connected to the
overall conference theme, these panels aim to deepen a particular
theoretical or thematic aspect, or explore new ideas or hypothesis.
The organisation of these special interest panels is semi-autonomous;
each has its own panel director(s) and most have launched their own
call for papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts (150 words +
full contact details of authors - directly sent to the panel
directors) to these special interest panels may be after the deadline
for the general call for papers. More details and information at our
website.

List of Special Interest Panels:

1. Slumming: Tourism and the Seductive Marginal (Panel directed by
Fabian Frenzel, Bristol, and Ko Koens, LeedsMet, UK)

2. Seductions of History: Visitors? Motives and Experiences in
Historical Destinations (Panel directed by Luis Silva, CRIA /
FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

3. Seducing Bodies (Panel directed by Valerio Simoni, CRIA-ISCTE,
Lisbon, Portugal)
4. Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Panel directed By
Michael A. Di Giovine, Dept of Anthropology, University of Chicago,
discussant Regina Bendix, Univ Goettingen, Germany)

5. Borders, Unfamiliarity and (Im)mobilities (Panel directed by Bas
Spierings, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, Faculty of
Geosciences, Utrecht University)

6. Seducing Wilderness (Panel directed by Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE,
Lisbon, Portugal)

7. Cartographies of Seduction: Tourism, Objects and Places (Panel
directed by Filipa Fernandes, ISCSP - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa,
Portugal)

8. Seductions of Ugliness (Panel directed by Tamas Regi, CTCC, Leeds
Met, UK and David Picard, CRIA-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal).

PROCEEDINGS

Fully revised papers accepted at the conference will be published in
the conference proceedings (ISBN referred electronic format with
international distribution). We are also exploring opportunities to
publish an edited book and special issues of peer reviewed academic
journals based on a selection of papers (developed into full
articles). More info on this shall be available shortly after the event.

CONTACT

Carina Amaral and David Picard
Conference email: tourismcontactculture@gmail.com
Website: tourismcontactculture.org.uk

Address:
CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal

CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University,
Leeds, United Kingdom

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SDF-Net: A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies? 16 April 2010, McMaster University, Hamilton

SDF-Net: A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies?

16 April 2010
10am- 4pm
Gilmour Hall 111
McMaster University
Hamilton

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and the Political
Science Department at McMaster University will be hosting A Canadian
(Critical) Security Studies?. The focus and purpose of this one day
symposium is to discuss whether a distinctively Canadian approach to the
study of Security and Defence issues has emerged and an examination of the
terms of this approach.

For people interested in serving as provocateurs for any one of the three
sessions please email Chris Hendershot
(hender@yorku.ca) & Mark Busser(bussermp@mcmaster.ca).

To register for the event please click the following link:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/forms/view.php?id=13

YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series: Developing, Selling, and Implementing the New Technologies of the Global War on Terror: How and Why Canada's Military-Security-Development Complex Supports the Empire

The YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series

Developing, Selling, and Implementing the New Technologies of the Global
War on Terror: How and Why Canada?s Military-Security-Development Complex
Supports the Empire of Capital.

Mike Skinner

Wednesday March 31st 2010
12.45-2.45pm
Room 749,
York Research Tower

Canadian military historian Allan English (2005) observes: ?war has been
more or less a functional institution in human society because it provided
benefits for societies that were good at it, although the cost of the
benefits could be high?. Who in Canadian society benefits from the Global
War on Terror considering the high cost of lives and resources?

One significant group that does benefit are the ?over 800 member
companies? of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries
(CADSI) ?who are essential contributors to Canada?s national defence and
security and generate over 10 billion dollars to the Canadian economy
every year?. The owners of defence and security industries and the workers
they employ clearly benefit, but their profits and the tax dollars they
generate are not the only benefits accrued during this war.

Leaders of what Ellen Meiksins Wood (2005) describes as an Empire of
Capital share two existential fears that underlie the abstract threat of
?terror?: how to contain popular unrest and how to contain emerging
imperial-state competitors. Many of the weapons and tactics developed and
field-tested during the Global War on Terror focus on solving these two
?problems?.

Michael Skinner explores how and why Canada?s
Military-Security-Development Complex supports the emerging Empire of
Capital, despite the high cost in lives and resources not only for Afghans
and Canadians but for the countless people around the world affected by
the Global War on Terror.

Michael Skinner is a Researcher at the York Centre for International and
Security Studies (YCISS), and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of
Political Science at York University. In 2007, he travelled throughout
Afghanistan where he listened to Afghans from all walks of life who do not
have a voice in the Western media.

Village Partnership for Development in Western Kenya - June/July 2010

Village Partnership for Development in Western Kenya
Sponsor: Hands-On Development Initiative International

Seeking individuals interested in participation in a rural development
initiative
WHO: professionals from all sectors of society, especially individuals
who could make a contribution to health, education, child-welfare,
micro-business, agriculture.

The project is an open invitation to professionals and students to get
involved in APPLIED PROJECTS for the eradication of poverty in the
village of Muhanda, in rural western KENYA. Program leaders have
delivered senior university courses in anthropology, leadership and
development since 2004 and now extend the opportunity for hands-on
engagement to the broader community. The focus on sustainable and
holistic outcomes means on-going collaboration in all sectors of
community life, from research to the implementation of projects.

The specific nature of what will be done is dependent on the skill set
and interests of the group participants. Options include working with
women and children, schools, the health centre, micro-business or
information technology. Currently a maternal health and birthing
facility is being built as well as a community facility for delivering
care services to vulnerable pre-school children. Group participants
will foster building communities founded on trust and extended through
partnership (Millennium Development Goal #8).

DATES: June 25-July 17, 2010
COSTS: contact Ruth or Petra for costs and an information packet

CONTACT: request for the information packet
Ruth Anaya, Professor in Cross-Cultural & Leadership Communication
rutha@twu.ca | 604-888-7511 Ext 3143 or 604-888-1574

Petra Anaya, Director, HODI
panayas@mac.com | 604-760-7541

ARIT fellowship programs for doctoral and post-doctoral research in the humanities and social sciences in Turkey, 2011-2012 and for Turkish language study, summer 2011

ARIT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS 2011-2012

American Research Institute in Turkey / National Endowment for the
Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 2011-2012.
ARIT/NEH Advanced Fellowships cover all fields of the humanities,
including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and
linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history
for applicants who have completed their academic training. The
fellowships may be held for terms ranging from four months to a full
year. Stipends range from $16,800 to 50,400.

ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey, 2011-2012. ARIT Fellowships
are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any
field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and
advanced doctoral fellowships may be held for various terms, from one
to three months up to terms of a year. Stipends range from $4,000 to
$16,000.

Kenan T. Erim Fellowship, 2010-2011. The Erim fellowship will
support excavation or field study of excavated material remains at
Aphrodisias during the summer 2011, $2375.

Applications for ARIT fellowships must be submitted to ARIT before
November 1, 2010. The fellowship committee will notify applicants by
late January, 2011.

ARIT LANGUAGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS 2011

Critical Language Scholarship Institutes in Turkish Language. The
program provides support for intensive study of Turkish language at
all levels, including air fare, tuition, and stipend. Courses are
held in several locations in Turkey. The competition is administered
by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. For more
information, please see the program website at
http://www.clscholarship.org/index.html. The application deadline is
around November 1 - exact date to be announced.

ARIT - Princeton Summer Fellowships for Intensive Advanced Turkish
Language at Bogazici University, Istanbul. The program supports
intensive study of advanced Turkish language at Bogazici University in
Istanbul, Turkey, including air fare, tuition, and stipend. The
application deadline is February 1.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT

From Walls to Fences: Talk by Prof. J. Debardeleben on March 30th, 4 pm, Senate Room

The 2009/2010 Davidson Dunton Research Lecture, sponsored by the Office of the
Vice-President (Research and International) at Carleton University, will be
delivered by

Joan DeBardeleben
Chancellor's Professor, Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Director, Centre for European Studies

From Walls to Fences: Understanding Europe's New East-West Divide

Tuesday, March 30, 4 p.m., Senate Room, 608 Robertson Hall Reception
to follow,
free admission, everyone welcome
RSVP: sandy_taylor@carleton.ca

Established in 1983, the Davidson Dunton Research Lecture enables
distinguished
Carleton University faculty scholars to share their research findings with the
academic community and the general public. This lecture is named for
Carleton's
fourth and longest-serving president, A. Davidson Dunton, who led the
University
from 1958 to 1972.

Call for papers - Power & Knowledge 2010 conference

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

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 (University of California, Davis, US)
- Gili S. Drori (Stanford University, US)
- Susan Haack (University of Miami, US)
- Sandra Harding (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
- Sakari Hänninen (National Institute for Health and Welfare, THL, FI)
- Michael Mann (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
- Yuval Millo (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
- Soile Veijola (University of Lapland, FI)

*Sessions:*

- Authority, Experience & Power
- Bourdieuan Elaborations of Power, Knowledge, Body and Emotions
- Capitalizing Culture. Articulations of Culture, Knowledge and Economy
- Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Wikis
- Knowledge About the Economy
- Knowledge Production and the Power of the Academic Profession
- Knowledge, Power and the Environment
- Language and Power
- Leadership for Change in Sub-National Governments
- Meaning and the Power/Knowledge of the Social Sciences
- Motives and Powerbases in Group Relations, Strategies and International
Economic Relations
- Post-Colonial Theory, Power and the Uses of Knowledge
- Power in Social Work
- Power of Attraction
- The Fall and Rise of Efficiency as a (Restored) Politics of Truth
- The Local-Global Interfaces and Domestification of Transnational Models
- The Politics of Higher Education and Research
- The Power of/over the past: re-politicizing the classics
- The Power of Visual Discourse

If you would like to present a paper, please send an abstract (150-200
words) by May 15, 2010. To send an abstract and to get more information
about the conference and session details, please visit our web pages at
http://www.uta.fi/power2010 or contact the organisers by email:
power2010@uta.fi

Energy Security and the New Geopolitics of the Caspian Sea

YCISS Afternoon Seminar Series/Post Communist Studies Programme

Energy Security and the New Geopolitics of the Caspian Sea Basin

Mr. Farid Shafiyev,
Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Canada

Mr. Farid Shafiyev, will focus on the key political and economic issues in
the Caspian Sea Basin and the wider international security implications of
developments in the region. He will outline the main characteristics of
this increasingly important region, review problems of post-Soviet
transition of the region?s countries and existing international conflicts
in the Caucasus.

Mr. Shafiyev?s lecture will be followed by open discussion. Do not miss
this opportunity for a unique insight into developments in the region
which links the Caucasus and Central Asia and their relevance to global
security.

Ambassador Farid Shafiyev got his BA in History from Baku State
University, Azerbaijan, Masters Degree in Public Administration from the
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and a Law Degree
from Baku State University. In 1996, Mr. Shafiyev joined the Azerbaijani
Foreign Ministry. His assignments included a posting to the Permanent
Mission of Azerbaijan to the United Nations in New York in 1998-2001. In
2005 he was posted as Counselor at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Canada. In
2007-2009 he served as Chargé d?Affaires and was promoted to Ambassador in
May 2009. Mr. Shafiyev is the author of several academic publications and
has lectured on international security at Western University in Baku.

Wednesday 17 March
11.30 a.m.?1 p.m.
Room 524, Fifth Floor
York Research Tower
York University (Keele Campus)

CFP: 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS PLACE NAMES

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*1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS PLACE NAMES *

September 3-8, 2010 Sámi allaskuvla - Sámi University College,
Guovdageaidnu, Norway

Sámi University College, an Indigenous higher education institution in Sápmi
(Sámiland) and host of the first *International Conference on Indigenous
Place Names* (ICIPN) invites scholars from around the world currently
working with Indigenous place names to join this first multidisciplinary
conference. Abstract submission: *March 15, 2010*. For further information,
please look at the webpage www.icipn2010.no

Dearvuo?aiguin / With regards

*Kaisa Rautio Helander*

on behalf of the secretariat of ICIPN 2010

icipn2010@samiskhs.no

2010 PJSA Call for Proposals Extended to April 16

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Extended to April 16, 2010

Building Bridges, Crossing Borders:
Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace

The 8th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
October 1-2, 2010
Menno Simons College and The Global College
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Submission Deadline - Extended to April 16, 2010

We have had an excellent response to our call for proposals; however, the
PJSA Program Committee wants to make sure that everyone has an opportunity
to join in with this exciting conference that will feature speakers
including Cynthia Enloe, Marilou McPhedran, Catherine Morris, Carolyn
Nordstrom, Sherene Razack, Betty Reardon, and Sandra Whitworth. Therefore we
have extended the submission deadline to April 16, and invite you to
submit your proposal for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the PJSA, to be held on
the campuses of Menno Simons College and The Global College, in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada, on Friday October 1 and Saturday October 2, 2010.

Peacemaking is in so many ways the building of bridges across divides -
divides of conflict, divides of identity, divides of world view and
ideology. How have the fields of peace studies and conflict resolution
developed differently in Canada and the United States? What do we have to
offer each other, to enrich our research, our teaching and our activism, as
we hold our first conference in Canada?

We welcome proposals from a wide range of disciplines, professions, and
perspectives that address issues related to gender, identity, and security
in the search for peace. We encourage you to consider how your research
connects to any of these four central concerns: gender - identity - security
- peace. As always, while we especially welcome proposals that deal with all
or part of the theme, we also welcome proposals on other topics of interest
to our membership. Here are examples of what you might consider in terms of
this year¹s theme:

Gender: We welcome proposals related to the particular contributions of
women to peacemaking, the way that gender helps us analyze conflict and its
resolution, and especially how gender issues interact with and impact on
related questions of identity and security. We have two special sessions
already being planned for contributions that explore the legacy of great
women peace advocates in the tradition of Jane Addams, and look forward to
proposals and initiatives of various forms that reflect on and assess the
legacy, impact, and future of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women
and Peace.

Identity: We welcome proposals that explore a wide variety of questions
related to identity, peace, and conflict, which could include explorations
of culture, race, ethnicity, and religion. How do identity questions
intersect with gender or reflect a particular site of struggle for feminist
analyses? How does identity have an impact on alternative modes of security
analysis?

Security: One of the key words animating many discussions in peace and
conflict studies is security. We welcome proposals that explore alternative
models and conceptions of security. Some have proposed the language of human
security or environmental security as an antidote to prevailing militarized
conceptions of security. We also welcome critiques of contemporary
conceptions of security. We especially encourage the exploration of security
with recognition of its relationship to gender and identity issues. In what
ways does security, and the way it is framed, shape our analysis of gender
and identity in the search for peace?

As we consider core concepts and practices of gender, identity, and security
we are consistently framing them by the Search for Peace.

Submissions may propose offerings of various forms: research papers,
presentations, round-tables, panels, hands-on workshops, posters, and
creative works using a variety of media to address gender, identity, and
security in the search for peace. Our goal is to create a stimulating
environment where academics and activists, educators, practitioners, and
artists can build bridges and cross borders. The conference will invite
participants to engage with three avenues of exploration: papers and
presentations, hands-on practitioner workshops, and a youth summit. It seeks
to create an environment in which attendees will have multiple opportunities
to meet and dialogue in both formal and informal settings.

The extended deadline for all proposal submissions is April 16, 2010.
Abstracts should be approximately 150 words. Those greatly exceeding this
limit may not be printed in the program. All proposals must be submitted
electronically through the PJSA website:
<http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference>.

We look forward to seeing you in Winnipeg!

CFP: vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology

CFP: vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology
The graduate student journal in anthropology at the University of Toronto.
http://vav.library.utoronto.ca/
Deadline: April 30, 2010

Greetings from the University of Toronto,

Have you written a great paper for a course this year and would like
to see it published? Are you interested in gaining valuable reviewing
experience?

Vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology is the official graduate
student journal of the University of Toronto. Vis-à-vis is an
electronic, peer-reviewed, and student-produced journal funded by the
U of T Anthropology Graduate Student Union. Our goal is to provide a
space in which graduate students from across Canada can present
innovative research while gaining publishing experience. You can learn
more about vis-à-vis, see our submission criteria, and view the latest
issue released in February 2010 by visiting our website:
http://vav.library.utoronto.ca

Submissions for the Fall 2010 edition are currently being solicited.
We welcome submissions from graduate students in any anthropology
sub-discipline or related field, from any Canadian university. The
journal encourages the submission of scholarly papers written as part
of a course requirement. The deadline for submission is April 30,
2010. We are also looking for reviewers for this year's submissions.

Please see below for short descriptions of the articles in our
February 2010 issue.

For further information, please contact the vis-à-vis editorial team
listed below as well as on our website.

Thank you and we look forward to your submissions!

Best wishes,

Arielle Wright (aj.wright@utoronto.ca),
Grant Jun Otsuki (grant.otsuki@utoronto.ca)
Joel Cahn (joel.cahn@utoronto.ca)
Travis Steffens (travis.steffens@utoronto.ca)
Abigail Ross (abigail.ross@utoronto.ca)

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vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology
Preview of Current Issue: Vol 10(1) February 2010

Applying Human Interactive and Communicative Theories to Ringtailed
Lemur (Lemur catta) Communication
Laura M Bolt (University of Toronto)
This article describes the four principal types of ringtailed lemur
(Lemur catta) communication: tactile, visual, olfactory, and acoustic
communication, and how lemur social interaction depends on their use.
It also applies theories about human interaction from several
linguistic anthropologists to lemur communicative processes.

Anthropology and Anglo-hegemonics
Rastko Cvekic (University of Toronto)
This brief article explores the tendency to publish anthropological
research results and theoretical debate only in English, at the
expense of contributing to anthropological traditions in other
languages. It is argued that publication in languages other than
English should be valued positively rather than discouraged.

From Rags to Riches, the Policing of Fashion and Identity:
Governmentality and "What Not To Wear"
Sheri Gibbings and Jessica Taylor (University of Toronto)
This paper explores the Learning Channel (TLC) television show What
Not to Wear (WNTW), which provides fashion advice to deviant dressers.
We use Foucault's concept of governmentality to understand how WNTW
engages women in their own projects of self-improvement in ways that
are simultaneously disciplinary and pleasing. As the promotion for the
website states, this show is all about "Stacy and Clinton reveal[ing]
how to be the best possible you." Also, "No miniskirts after 35."

Exercises of Power: Applying Foucault's Conceptions of Power to
Mazahua and Inuit Enculturation Events
Joanna Rae Pearson (University of New Brunswick)
By applying three prominent Foucaudian concepts related to the
exercise of power in terms of the individual - 'acting upon action',
'pastoral power', and the use of 'power technologies' - this paper
(Exercises of Power: Applying Foucault's Conceptions of Power to
Mazahua and Inuit Enculturation Events) explores the enculturation of
children into the Mazahua and Inuit cultures.

Neandertal Man the Hunter: a history of Neandertal subsistence
Elspeth Ready (Trent University)
In this paper, the historical development of ideas about Neandertal
subsistence is examined. This study suggests that research on
Neandertal subsistence behaviours has been influenced by historical
trends in archaeological, physical anthropological, and evolutionary
theory, as well as perceptions of the relationship between Neandertals
and modern humans.

Variations on a familiar theme: Reflections on advocacy journalism and
the neoliberalization of mental health activism in 21st-century Canada
Eugenia Tsao (University of Toronto)
How are progressive news outlets complicit in the depoliticization of
mental illness? Why does it matter when political activists
participate in the commoditization of health and happiness? What's at
stake when journalists are entrusted with determining and furthering
the interests of marginalized populations? Using discursive analytic
methods, Tsao examines these questions by unpacking the Canadian print
media's penchant for identifying psychiatric diagnosis with financial
crisis.

Style, Symboling and Interaction in Middle Stone Age Societies
Jayne Wilkins (University of Toronto)
This article examines the archaeological evidence in Africa for the
symbolic use of projectile points during the period of time
traditionally thought to pre-date the origins of modern human
behaviour. The archaeological record suggests that these early humans
actively used style and were involved in extensive trade networks,
adding support to the more recent view that modern human behaviour can
be traced to the African Middle Stone Age.

Call for Papers

Apologies as always for the necessity of cross-posting...

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To Film Makers and Scholars:

Archaeological Legacy Institute is announcing a 'call for papers' for the
upcoming TAC Festival Conference on Cultural Heritage Film to be held on May
18 to the 21 in Eugene, OR, in conjunction with our 7th annual installment
of The Archaeology Channel International film and Video Festival. The
conference will be held in the Tykeson Room at the Eugene Public Library.
This is an international event, with films and film-makers coming from
around the globe. Conference attendees will receive tickets to all film
screenings.

Papers on applications of film (academic, cultural, practical, educational)
will be considered for conference presentation. There will also be an open
discussion of Festival films. The goals of this conference are three-fold:
(1) to promote the creation, distribution and use of cultural heritage film
as an influence for broad cultural awareness and understanding; (2) to bring
together educators, film-makers, archaeologists, anthropologists,
historians, journalists, historic preservationists, environmentalists,
geographers, and others interested in cultural heritage and its connections
to the natural environment; and (3) to bring together and share new ideas
and approaches to employ film for the common good of all humanity.

The official call for papers will be posted by March 15 in our Festival area
at http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/Conference10.html. TAC Festival
information may be found now at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml. The call for
papers and registration form can also be viewed below and includes
information on abstract submission, presentation length, paper topics, and
opportunities to propose and coordinate symposia. We encourage you to
participate even if you don?t present a paper. Please do not hesitate to
ask if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing from you and
seeing you at this year?s event. Please share this information as widely as
possible.

Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA

President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
www.archaeologychannel.org

_____________________________________________________________________

TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Film
Eugene Public Library, Tykeson Room
Eugene, OR, USA
May 18-21, 2010

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
In conjunction our seventh annual *The Archaeology Channel* International
Film and Video Festival, our TAC Conference on Cultural Heritage Film will
promote discussion and collaboration of new ideas and approaches in the
creation, distribution and use of cultural heritage film. TAC Festival and
Conference will bring to Oregon the world?s best films on archaeology,
ancient cultures, and the world of indigenous peoples. Please visit our
website (www.archaeologychannel.org) for more info.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Abstracts must be 150 words or less, not including title, authors? names and
affiliation.
Topics for paper submission include:
? Contributions of the Past to the Present
? The Seen Versus the Unseen
? Science, Archaeology and the Human Experience
? Teaching With Film
? The Future of Film
? Commercial Versus Nonprofit Film
? Making Cultural Heritage Films

Please specify a first and second choice of topics your paper will fit best
in. You may also propose a symposium, following the guidelines below.

If you propose a symposium, all proposed presenters must submit an abstract
by the abstract submission deadline, April 19. They must indicate that
their submission is for your proposed symposium with their submission.

Oral presentations will be limited to 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for
questions.

Registration Fee: $100 ($30 for conference, $70 for Festival tickets)

Abstract Submission Deadline: April 19, 2010

SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS
Symposium proposals must be 150 words or less, including the theme, scope
and rationale of the symposium and included talks. In addition (not
included in the 150 words), a list of presenters and their affiliations, in
order of their talks, must follow the abstract. The number of speakers is to
no more than 5. Each author must submit an abstract (150 words) separately
for review by the submission deadline.

Symposium Submission Deadline: April 19, 2010

REGISTRATION FORM
Paper Title:______________________________________________________

Paper Topic: (indicate primary and secondary choices)
Contributions of the Past to the Present
The Seen Versus the Unseen
Science, Archaeology and the Human Experience
Teaching With Film
The Future of Film
Commercial Versus Nonprofit Film
Making Cultural Heritage Films

First Author:_______________________________________________________
First Author Afilliation(s):____________________________________________
Secondary Author(s):________________________________________________
Secondary Authors(s) Afilliation(s):____________________________________
Primary Author Address: ___________________________________________
City:

State/Province:____________________________________________________
Zip/Country
Code:

Country: _________________________________________________________
Phone #1:________________________________________________________
Phone #2: ________________________________________________________
Fax:_____________________________________________________________
E-mail:___________________________________________________________
Website:_________________________________________________________

Abstract (150 word limit; Use attachment if necessary):

Symposium Title (If
applicable):______________________________________________
Symposium Abstract (150 word limit; Use attachment if necessary):

If submitting a Symposium Proposal, please attach a list of included paper
titles, authors and affiliations.

RELEASE
I understand that submission of my work authorizes Archaeological Legacy
Institute (ALI) to use abstracts and titles in the associated conference
program and on The Archaeology Channel website.

Signature:

Date: ________________________________________________________
Name (printed):________________________________________________
Contact name & e-mail:__________________________________________

PAYMENT METHODS
Checks and credit cards accepted. Please mail checks payable to ALI to the
address below. Credit card information can be emailed, faxed, or called in.

SEND HARD-COPY PROPOSALS TO
Richard Pettigrew, Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
4147 E. Amazon Drive
Eugene, Oregon 97405
USA
SEND ELECTRONIC (SIGNED) PROPOSALS AND INQUIRIES TO
conference@archaeologychannel.org<http://us.mc537.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=conference@archaeologychannel.org>

FAX: 541-338-3109
PHONE: 541-345-5538

Reminder/Rappel: CASCA Women's Network Award; Prix du R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9seau?= des femmes de la CASCA

Rappel/Reminder:

(la version française suit)

CASCA Women's Network Award for Student Paper in Feminist Anthropology

Graduate students in Anthropology who will be presenting a paper at
the 2010 CASCA meetings in Montreal are invited to submit their papers
for consideration for the CASCA Women's Network Award for Student
Paper in Feminist Anthropology. This award has been established as
part of the events celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the CASCA
Women's Network in 2009, and will be presented for the first time in
2010. The goal of this award is it to encourage research into gender
and gender issues from a feminist perspective among emerging scholars
in Social/Cultural Anthropology in Canada. The successful recipient of
this award will have their paper submitted to the Canadian
anthropology journal Anthropologica.

Students should submit an abstract and paper to the CASCA Women's
Network Co-ordinator, Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (at:
Pauline_Aucoin@carleton.ca), for consideration by our award panel. In
order to be considered, students must be registered full-time in a
Graduate Program in Anthropology at a Canadian University or be within
one year of post-graduation. Papers must be received by March 20,
2010, and may not exceed 10 pages in length. Papers may be submitted
in either French or English. Students should indicate the university
at which they are registered and their current year in the program.

Sincerely,
Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (CASCA Women?s Network Co-ordinator)
Christine Holmes (Past CASCA Women?s Network Co-ordinator)

Heather Howard (Committee Member)

Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant l?article d?un
étudiant en anthropologie féministe

Les étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie souhaitant présenter un
article aux rencontres 2010 de la CASCA, à Montréal, sont invités à le
faire dans le cadre du Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA
récompensant l?article d?un étudiant en anthropologie féministe.
Établi en 2009 dans le cadre des évènements de célébration du 25e
anniversaire du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA, ce prix connaîtra sa
première édition en 2010. Son objectif est d?encourager la recherche
dans les domaines du genre et des questions liées au genre dans une
perspective

féministe chez les chercheurs émergents en anthropologie sociale et
culturelle au Canada.

Les étudiant(e)s intéressés doivent soumettre leur article accompagné
d?un résumé à la coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA,
Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (Pauline_Aucoin@carleton.ca), pour examen par
notre jury. Pour que leur candidature soit valable, les étudiants
doivent être inscrits à plein temps au programme de maîtrise d?une
université canadienne, ou être à moins d?une année de l?obtention d?un
diplôme supérieur. Les articles doivent avoir été reçus au 20 mars
2010 et leur longueur ne doit pas excéder 10 pages; ils peuvent être
rédigés en français ou en anglais. Les candidat(e)s doivent mentionner
à quelle université ils(elles) sont inscrit(e)s, et en quelle année du
programme. L?article lauréat sera publié dans la revue canadienne
d?anthropologie Anthropologica.

Meilleures salutations,

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA)
Christine Holmes (Ancienne coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA)

Heather Howard (Membre du Comité)

War on ... What? Security as Pacification, Mark Neocleous, Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:30-4:30 pm

The Distinguished Critical Thinkers in World
Politics Seminar Series

War on ... What? Security as Pacification

Mark Neocleous

Thursday, 18 March 2010
2:30-4:30 pm
Room 519, Fifth Floor
York Research Tower

Mark Neocleous brings together two concepts with very different histories.
On the one hand, what is probably the major political fetish of our
times: security. On the other hand, a concept about which nowadays
virtually nothing is ever said: pacification. The paper will explore the
ways in which these terms resonate through their early history, with the
aim of unravelling the logic of pacification to contemporary security
politics. In doing so, Professor Neocleous will criss-cross through the
terrains of war and peace, and law and police, making links between
original accumulation and the current war on 'terror'.

Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy and Head
of the Department of Politics and History at Brunel University, UK. His
most recent book is Critique of Security (2008). His earlier books
include The Monstrous and the Dead (2005); Imagining the State (2003); The
Fabrication of Social Order: A Critical Theory of Police Power (2000);
Fascism (1997); and Administering Civil Society: Towards a Theory of State
Power (1996). He is a member of the Editorial Collective of Radical
Philosophy.

Anthropologica – Appel pour des articles 2010/Anthropologica – Call for Papers 2010

Anthropologica – Appel pour des articles 2010

Anthropologica lance un appel pour des articles à tous les membres de
CASCA. Nous recherchons des articles inédits, des textes de discussion
pour la section Idées, des soumissions pour notre nouvelle section
Réflexions ainsi que des propositions pour des sections ou des modules
thématiques.
Au cours des derniers mois, tous les numéros de la revue datant de
trois ans (et plus) ont été mis en ligne avec JSTOR. Il s'agit là
d'une des démarches qui ont été prises (et d'autres suivront) afin
d'accroître la visibilité de notre revue et son utilité pour la
communauté scientifique.
La mission d'Anthropologica est de publier des articles
ethnographiques et théoriques de bonne qualité, écrits par des
anthropologues canadiens et non-canadiens, soit en anglais, soit en
français. Les soumissions sur support électronique sont préférables.
Il n'est plus nécessaire d'acheminer 3 copies papier des manuscrits.
Le temps moyen d'attente pour une réponse sur les manuscrits soumis se
situe entre dix à douze semaines. Comme toutes les revues, nous
dépendons de la disponibilité et de la bonne volonté des évaluateurs,
quoique notre temps de réponse soit nettement plus rapide
qu'auparavant. Nous n'accusons aucun retard pour le moment. Nous
publions deux numéros par année. Le processus d'édition et de
production prend de 8 à 9 mois, comme c'est le cas généralement pour
les ouvrages scientifiques.
Cette année, nous publierons deux sections Idées. Dans le numéro de
Mai 2010, Gavin Smith exprime ses idées sur « L'État » en
anthropologie. Claude Bariteau, Bernard Bernier, Akhil Gupta et
Hermann Rebel sont les commentateurs. Dans le numéro de novembre,
Vered Amit demande si oui ou non la « Communauté » est bonne à penser.
Caroline Knowles, Karen Fog Olwig, Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Mariella
Pandolfi et Phillip Rousseau, et Daphne Winland lui répondent.
« Remembering my Jewish Father » par Edward Bruner est la première
d'une série, « Réflexions anthropologiques », que nous espérons très
prometteuse. Un membre du comité éditorial, Jasmin Habib, expose le
genre de contributions attendues pour cette section : « Que
voulons-nous dire par réflexions? Nous sommes ouverts à des pièces
autobiographiques et auto-ethnographiques, aux essais-photos, à la
poésie, aux écrits de voyage et aux écrits expérimentaux. L'objectif
dès lors est d'élargir la portée de nos écrits et de nos publications
anthropologiques, ainsi que leur réception. »
Nous accueillons toujours les propositions pour les sections et les
modules thématiques. C'est ce que nous appelions autrefois les numéros
spéciaux, bien que nous ne consacrions plus des numéros entiers à un
seul thème. Nous avons opté pour davantage de variétés permettant
ainsi l'expression de points de vue et d'intérêts plus diversifiés.
Nous avons besoin de vos soumissions maintenant! Vous êtes prié de
nous envoyer vos idées pour la section Idées, ou encore des réflexions
ou suggestions pour notre section Réflexions anthropologiques.

Cordialement,

Andrew Lyons
Éditeur-en-chef
andrewpaullyons@gmail.com

Sylvie Poirier
Éditrice des manuscrits francophones
Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca

ANTHROPOLOGICA – CALL FOR PAPERS 2010

Anthropologica is issuing a call for papers to all members of CASCA.
We are looking for scholarly articles, discussion papers for Ideas
Section, submissions to our new Reflections section and proposals for
thematic sections or modules on specific topics.
During the past few months we arranged to put all back issues of the
journal that three years old (or more) on JSTOR. This is one of a
number of steps that are being taken or will shortly be taken to
increase the journal's visibility and its utility to the scholarly
community.
Anthropologica's mission is to publish good ethnographic and
theoretical writing by both Canadian and non-Canadian anthropologists
in both English and French. Electronic submission is preferred. We no
longer require hard copies of submissions. The average time you will
wait for a decision is around ten to twelve weeks. Like all journals
we are dependent on the good will of reviewers, but our response time
is much faster than it was in the days of snail mail. There is no
backlog at the moment. We publish twice a year. The editing and
production process takes eight or nine months, much as it does for
scholarly books.
This year we shall be publishing two IDEAS sections. In May's issue
Gavin Smith expresses his views on the "The State" in anthropology.
Claude Bariteau, Bernard Bernier, Akhil Gupta and Hermann Rebel are
the discussants. In November, Vered Amit asks whether or not
"Community" is good to think with. Caroline Knowles, Karen Fog Olwig,
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Mariella Pandolfi and Phillip Rousseau, and
Daphne Winland respond.
"Remembering my Jewish Father" by Edward Bruner is the first of what
we hope will be an engaging series of "Anthropological Reflections."
Our editorial board member, Jasmin Habib, outlines the kind of
contributions we are seeking for this column:
"What do we mean by "reflections"? We shall welcome autobiographical
and autoethnographic pieces, photo-essays, poetry, travelogues, and
experimental writing. The point of our efforts is to broaden the
scope of our anthropological writing, publishing and reception."
We always entertain proposals for thematic sections or modules. We
used to call them special issues, but we don't like to devote entire
issues to a single theme. We prefer something more variegated that
represents a diversity of viewpoints and interests.
We need your submissions now! Please send us any ideas you have for
our Ideas section, and reflections on or for our REFLECTIONS column.

Sincerely,

Andrew Lyons,
Editor in Chief.
andrewpaullyons@gmail.com

Sylvie Poirier
Editor, Manuscripts in French
Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca

UNIVERSIT=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9_D'OTTAWA_/_UNIVERSITY_OF_OTTAWA,_LES_CAF=C9S__F=C9MINISTES/THE_FEMINIST_CAF=C9S,?= PAINKILLER ADDICTION AND MORAL PANIC: AN ANATOMY OF AN "EPIDEMIC"

UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA / UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

MITACS Conférences en technologie d'information et de communication

MITACS Seminar Series in Information and Communication Technology

et / and

l'Institut d'études des femmes / the Institute of Women's Studies

vous présentent / present

LES CAFÉS FÉMINISTES /

THE FEMINIST CAFÉS

PAINKILLER ADDICTION
AND MORAL PANIC:
AN ANATOMY OF AN "EPIDEMIC"

Samantha King

Professeure agrégée à l'École des sciences de l'activité physique et
des études sur la santé de l'Université Queen's

Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at
Queen's University

Jeudi 25 mars / Thursday, March 25, 2010

11 h 00 - 11:00 a.m.

Pavillon Fauteux Hall

57 Louis-Pasteur, salle/room 133

ENTRÉE LIBRE / FREE ADMISSION

Des rafraîchissements végétaliens seront servis

Vegan friendly refreshments will be provided

Cette conférence sera donnée en anglais seulement.
This conference will be given in English only.

BIO

Samantha King is an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology
and Health Studies and Cultural Studies at Queen's University where
she researches and teaches the cultural politics of health, sport, and
the body. Her publications have appeared in venues such as Social
Text, Cultural Studies~Critical Methodologies, Health Communication,
and the Sociology of Sport Journal. CIHR has recently awarded her a
grant to explore competing discourses around prescription painkillers.
Her book, Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of
Philanthropy (Minnesota, 2006), is the subject of a forthcoming
National Film Board documentary.

LES CAF=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C9S__F=C9MINISTES/THE_FEMINIST_CAF=C9S:__UNIVERSIT=C9?= D'OTTAWA/UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA / UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

MITACS Conférences en technologie d'information et de communication

MITACS Seminar Series in Information and Communication Technology

et / and

l'Institut d'études des femmes / the Institute of Women's Studies

vous présentent / present

LES CAFÉS FÉMINISTES /

THE FEMINIST CAFÉS

RACE, GENDER AND VIOLENCE:
THE ECONOMY OF REPRESENTATIONS

Yasmin Jiwani

Professeure agrégée au Département de communication de l'Université Concordia

Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at
Concordia University

Jeudi 18 mars / Thursday, March 18, 2010

11 h 30 - 11:30 a.m.

Pavillon Desmarais Hall

55 Laurier E., salle/room 3120

ENTRÉE LIBRE / FREE ADMISSION

Des rafraîchissements végétaliens seront servis

Vegan friendly refreshments will be provided

Cette conférence sera donnée en anglais seulement.
This conference will be given in English only.

ABSTRACT

Recasting violence as a discourse of power reveals not only who has
the power to define violence as violence, but also what is elided by
dominant definitions of violence. This presentation focuses on
mediated representations of racialized gendered violence ranging from
epistemic violence at the discursive level to corporeal violence in
its multiple mediations. Through an analysis of media
representations, I highlight the economy of representations that
prevails such that some forms of violence are either erased or
dissolved into the background, whereas others are highlighted as
deviant. In the process, certain bodies are considered deserving of
attention while others fade from the public scrutiny. At the same
time, through the process of recuperation and restoration, particular
bodies are constructed as worthy victims -as bodies that matter -
while others fade away from memory. This economy of representations
is racialized and gendered insofar as determining the manner in which
different bodies are treated and the corresponding responses that are
activated.

BIO

Yasmin Jiwani is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal. Her
doctorate in Communication Studies, from Simon Fraser University,
examined issues of race and representation in Canadian television
news. Her recent publications include: Discourses of Denial:
Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence. (Vancouver: University of
British Columbia Press, 2006), as well as an edited collection with
Candice Steenbergen and Claudia Mitchell titled: Girlhood, Redefining
the Limits. (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006). Her work has
appeared in Social Justice, Violence Against Women, Canadian Journal
of Communication, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Topia,
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, the University
of Toronto Quarterly and in numerous anthologies. Her research
interests include mediations of race, gender and violence in the
context of war stories, femicide reporting in the press, and
representations of women of colour in popular and mainstream media.

Call for Papers/Performances: Popular Culture and World Politics Conference

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and York University
Call for Papers/Performances:
Popular Culture and World Politics Conference
(PCWP III)
04-05 November 2010
York University
Toronto, Canada

There is a growing movement in and around the study of international
politics to think about the intersections of world politics and the
production, circulation, content and consumption of various popular
cultural forms. This burgeoning scholarship has reached a
point in which
it is possible to move well beyond the important initial forays that
emphasised the content of cultural forms-as-text, seeking metaphorical
connections between the cultural and the political, to explore the
interwoven possibilities and limits of the cultural and political.
The York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS)
is pleased
to invite you to Popular Culture and World Politics III, to be
held in
Toronto 4-5 November 2010. Following two successful
events, hosted by the
University of Bristol in 2008 and the University of Newcastle in 2009,
Popular Culture and World Politics III seeks to continue the growing
conversation on the intersections of various forms of popular
culture and
the study of world politics, from a range of disciplines and
practices in
the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
We welcome proposals for performances, screenings, panels, or
individualpapers, on any aspect of world politics and popular
culture. In
particular, we seek proposals which address any of the following
themes or
issues:
?Doing? popular culture and world politics: methods, practices and
approaches.
Popular security: exploring the intersections of popular culture and
global security.
Using popular culture to span the disciplines: with a range of
disciplineslooking at both popular culture and issues of world
politics, how can the
study of pop culture and world politic work to foster inter-
disciplinaryconversations?
?Making? popular culture and world politics: what is the
politics that is
emerging at the intersection of popular cultural production, the
cultureindustries, and governance?
Outside the West: exploring the intersections of non-Western popular
culture(s) and non-Western-centric world politics.
Is anybody watching? The problem of audience in the study
of popular
culture.
Performing International Politics: rather than students of world
politicsreading popular culture how are the producers of
cultural forms making
their politics? We are particularly interested in
receiving proposals for
the performance, presentation, screening or display of cultural works
which seek to produce a (world) politics in their practice.
If you would like to register for this conference please see
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/conferences/pcwpIII.htm and please
submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words via the website before 02
April 2010.
If you would like further information please contact pcwp@yorku.ca.

Anthropologica First Call for Papers 2010

ANTHROPOLOGICA – CALL FOR PAPERS 2010
Anthropologica is issuing a call for papers to all members of CASCA.
We are looking for scholarly articles, discussion papers for Ideas
Section, submissions to our new Reflections section and proposals for
thematic sections or modules on specific topics.
During the past few months we arranged to put all back issues of the
journal that three years old (or more) on JSTOR. This is one of a
number of steps that are being taken or will shortly be taken to
increase the journal's visibility and its utility to the scholarly
community.
Anthropologica's mission is to publish good ethnographic and
theoretical writing by both Canadian and non-Canadian anthropologists
in both English and French. Electronic submission is preferred. We no
longer require hard copies of submissions. The average time you will
wait for a decision is around ten to twelve weeks. Like all journals
we are dependent on the good will of reviewers, but our response time
is much faster than it was in the days of snail mail. There is no
backlog at the moment. We publish twice a year. The editing and
production process takes eight or nine months, much as it does for
scholarly books.
This year we shall be publishing two IDEAS sections. In May's issue
Gavin Smith expresses his views on the "The State" in anthropology.
Claude Bariteau, Bernard Bernier, Akhil Gupta and Hermann Rebel are
the discussants. In November, Vered Amit asks whether or not
"Community" is good to think with. Caroline Knowles, Karen Fog Olwig,
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Mariella Pandolfi and Phillip Rousseau, and
Daphne Winland respond.
"Remembering my Jewish Father" by Edward Bruner is the first of what
we hope will be an engaging series of "Anthropological Reflections."
Our editorial board member, Jasmin Habib, outlines the kind of
contributions we are seeking for this column:
"What do we mean by "reflections"? We shall welcome autobiographical
and autoethnographic pieces, photo-essays, poetry, travelogues, and
experimental writing. The point of our efforts is to broaden the
scope of our anthropological writing, publishing and reception."
We always entertain proposals for thematic sections or modules. We
used to call them special issues, but we don't like to devote entire
issues to a single theme. We prefer something more variegated that
represents a diversity of viewpoints and interests.
We need your submissions now! Please send us any ideas you have for
our Ideas section, and reflections on or for our REFLECTIONS column.

Sincerely,

Andrew Lyons
Editor in Chief.
andrewpaullyons@gmail.com

Sylvie Poirier
Editor, Manuscripts in French
Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca

Anthropologica – Appel pour des articles 2010
Anthropologica lance un appel pour des articles à tous les membres de
CASCA. Nous recherchons des articles inédits, des textes de discussion
pour la section Idées, des soumissions pour notre nouvelle section
Réflexions ainsi que des propositions pour des sections ou des modules
thématiques.
Au cours des derniers mois, tous les numéros de la revue datant de
trois ans (et plus) ont été mis en ligne avec JSTOR. Il s'agit là
d'une des démarches qui ont été prises (et d'autres suivront) afin
d'accroître la visibilité de notre revue et son utilité pour la
communauté scientifique.
La mission d'Anthropologica est de publier des articles
ethnographiques et théoriques de bonne qualité, écrits par des
anthropologues canadiens et non-canadiens, soit en anglais, soit en
français. Les soumissions sur support électronique sont préférables.
Il n'est plus nécessaire d'acheminer 3 copies papier des manuscrits.
Le temps moyen d'attente pour une réponse sur les manuscrits soumis se
situe entre dix à douze semaines. Comme toutes les revues, nous
dépendons de la disponibilité et de la bonne volonté des évaluateurs,
quoique notre temps de réponse soit nettement plus rapide
qu'auparavant. Nous n'accusons aucun retard pour le moment. Nous
publions deux numéros par année. Le processus d'édition et de
production prend de 8 à 9 mois, comme c'est le cas généralement pour
les ouvrages scientifiques.
Cette année, nous publierons deux sections Idées. Dans le numéro de
Mai 2010, Gavin Smith exprime ses idées sur « L'État » en
anthropologie. Claude Bariteau, Bernard Bernier, Akhil Gupta et
Hermann Rebel sont les commentateurs. Dans le numéro de novembre,
Vered Amit demande si oui ou non la « Communauté » est bonne à penser.
Caroline Knowles, Karen Fog Olwig, Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Mariella
Pandolfi et Phillip Rousseau, et Daphne Winland lui répondent.
« Remembering my Jewish Father » par Edward Bruner est la première
d'une série, « Réflexions anthropologiques », que nous espérons très
prometteuse. Un membre du comité éditorial, Jasmin Habib, expose le
genre de contributions attendues pour cette section : « Que
voulons-nous dire par réflexions? Nous sommes ouverts à des pièces
autobiographiques et auto-ethnographiques, aux essais-photos, à la
poésie, aux écrits de voyage et aux écrits expérimentaux. L'objectif
dès lors est d'élargir la portée de nos écrits et de nos publications
anthropologiques, ainsi que leur réception. »
Nous accueillons toujours les propositions pour les sections et les
modules thématiques. C'est ce que nous appelions autrefois les numéros
spéciaux, bien que nous ne consacrions plus des numéros entiers à un
seul thème. Nous avons opté pour davantage de variétés permettant
ainsi l'expression de points de vue et d'intérêts plus diversifiés.
Nous avons besoin de vos soumissions maintenant! Vous êtes prié de
nous envoyer vos idées pour la section Idées, ou encore des réflexions
ou suggestions pour notre section Réflexions anthropologiques.
Cordialement,

Andrew Lyons
Éditeur-en-chef
andrewpaullyons@gmail.com

Sylvie Poirier
Éditrice des manuscrits francophones
Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca

SDF-Net: A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies? 16 April 2010

SDF-Net: A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies?
16 April 2010
Gilmour Hall 111, McMaster University

In conjunction with the York Centre for International and Security
Studies, the Political Science Department at McMaster University,
will be hosting a one day symposium entitled 'A Canadian (Critical)
Security Studies?'. The focus and purpose of this event is to discuss
whether it makes sense to speak of a distinctively Canadian approach
to the study of security and defence. Please find the agenda below.

To register for the event please click the following link:
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/forms/view.php?id=13

For people interested in serving as provocateurs for any one of three
sessions
please email Chris Hendershot (hender@yorku.ca) and Mark Busser
(bussermp@mcmaster.ca).

SDF-Net
Department of Political Science, McMaster University
Centre for International and Security Studies, York University

A Canadian (Critical) Security Studies?

16 April 2010
Gilmour Hall 111
McMaster University

Agenda

Over the past few years, scholars across Canada have begun to discuss
whether it makes sense to speak of a distinctively Canadian approach to
the study of security and defence. Is there indeed a Canadian corollary to
the CASE collective, the Copenhagen school, or the Welsh school? Whether
one speaks of a ?Canadian School?, a ?Crimson School?, or simply ?Canadian
(Critical) Security Studies?, some contributors have argued that the
demarcation of a specifically ?Canadian? approach would help to draw
positive attention to a relatively coherent set of ideas shared by a
growing community. For them, there is indeed something special about the
work and ideas that have been shared amongst Canadian scholars ? and this
deserves recognition and greater consideration by peers around the world.
Others have contended that trying to pin down a coherent school of thought
is not an especially helpful or productive exercise. The ongoing
conversation has led to interesting questions about the general
significance of defined scholarly communities, the importance of
disciplinary recognition, and the pressures of the academy in the
contemporary Canadian context.

10:15-10:30 Welcome and Introduction

10:30-12:00 Session I: Canadian?

A part of the challenge in identifying a distinctively Canadian approach
to the study of security and defence that is that one must find a common
thread that links and distinguishes a group of scholars and their work.
What might be seen to link a distinct community of scholarship? Is it a
theoretical lens or commitment? An ethico-political stance? An emphasis on
particular substantive issue areas in global politics? Similar reading
lists? Further, there is room for discussion about the degree to which
such an emergent school of thought is exclusive to Canadian scholars,
whether it is inclusive of an adequately broad spectrum of Canadian
scholars, and whether it is somehow linked to familiar tropes or themes of
Canadian-ness.

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:30 Session II: Security?

The scholarly understanding of the term ?security? has shifted enough
times over the years to reinforce the oft-repeated claim that it is an
?essentially contested concept?. The attempt to identify a distinctively
Canadian approach to the study of security therefore raises important
questions about the scope and limits of security studies. A further
question is worth consideration: if there is a distinctly Canadian
approach to the study of world politics, is it limited to the domain of
?security?? Or is there reason to broaden, adjust or switch the focus of
our lens?

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:15 Session III: Critical?

Part of the ongoing discussion about a Canadian perspective has centred on
the question of what exactly it means to participate in ?critical?
scholarship. For some, it remains to be seen whether criticality is indeed
a defining component of a Canadian approach ? and even if so, they
question what sense of the term ?critical? applies in this instance.
Others have wondered whether it might be more appropriate to speak in
terms of ?radical? approaches that carry our theoretical discussions
forward in new directions. What sorts of sensibilities and engagements are
(or ought to be) characteristic of ?Canadian? scholarship on security?

2010 PJSA Plenary Speakers - Enloe, McPhedran, Nordstrom, Razack, Reardon, Whitworth, and many more....

2010 PJSA Plenary Speakers Announcement
Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 1 and 2, 2010

The Peace and Justice Studies Association, in conjunction with Canadian
Mennonite University's Menno Simons College and the University of Winnipeg
Global College, is truly delighted to invite you to join Cynthia Enloe,
Marilou McPhedran, Carolyn Nordstrom, Sherene Razack, Betty Reardon, and
Sandra Whitworth (and many more) as we explore the theme Building Bridges,
Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace.

Cynthia Enloe has distinguished herself as one of the world's leading
commentators on issues of gender as it relates to identity and security. Her
career has included Fulbrights in Malaysia and Guyana, and guest
professorships in Japan, Britain, and Canada, as well as lectureships in
Sweden, Norway, Germany, Korea, Turkey, and at universities around the U.S.
At Clark University, Professor Enloe has been selected Outstanding Teacher
three times and named University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in
Teaching and Scholarship. In 2009, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by
the University of London's School of Oriental and Asian Studies. Her newest
book is Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.

Marilou McPhedran is an international human rights lawyer. She has
co-founded several internationally recognized non-profit systemic change
organizations including LEAF ­ the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund,
which has conducted constitutional equality test cases and interventions for
25 years. She has co-investigated and co-authored a number of research
projects on systemic reform and human rights, including the ten country
pilot study to assess impact of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all
forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Carolyn Nordstrom has crossed many borders theoretically and physically in
her investigations that span gender, militarism, and issues of security in a
global context. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1997, she is an
anthropologist at home in lecture hall and war zone alike. She studies
wars, the illegal drug trade, gender relationships, and war profiteering.
Her research has made her an eyewitness and scholar of worldwide urban and
rural battlefields as well as of the shadowy worlds of diamond, drug, and
arms smuggling. In addition to her teaching and lecturing, she has written
dozens of articles, and several books including A Different Kind of War
Story and Shadows of War.

Sherene Razack, a professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto,
has been identified as one of Canada's leading cultural critics. Her work
on race and identity issues, gendered exclusions, and militarism is
provocative and enlightening. Her recent books include Dark Threats & White
Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism, and
Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims From Western Law and Politics.

Betty Reardon, one of the early seminal contributors to our field of study,
and Founding Director Emeritus of the International Institute on Peace
Education, has been producing cutting-edge analysis in areas of peace
education, gendered violence, and militarism for years. She is the recipient
of the 2008 PJSA Outstanding Contribution to Peace Studies Award, and most
recently the 2009 Sean McBride Peace Prize awarded by the International
Peace Bureau, one of the oldest of the many nongovernmental peace
organizations. Her many publications include Sexism and the War System.

Sandra Whitworth, a professor of Political Studies and Women's Studies at
York University is an internationally recognized analyst of gender in the
global political system. Her co-authored 2002 United Nations
Secretary-General Study, Women, Peace and Security, won one of the American
Library Association's 'Notable Government Documents Awards' in that year.
Her most recent book is entitled Men, Militarism and UN Peacekeeping: A
Gendered Analysis.

While we wanted to share some of the names of keynote speakers to increase
your anticipation about coming to Winnipeg, we are far from done ­ indeed,
there's a lot more to come! We are in the process of confirming other
speakers (yes, there will be a few men, too!) and have been working in
collaboration with a remarkable number of exciting individuals and
organizations to create a memorable experience for you at the 2010 PJSA
conference.

Full biographies of these remarkable scholars and activists will also be
posted on the PJSA website. You will find them here:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/schedule.php#plenaries

To make this conference a true success, however, we need you to commit to
make the trip to Winnipeg to share your projects, research, workshops, and
other activities. For many of you, we need you to cross a border to start
the process of building bridges. Registration is now open! You will find
the Call for Proposals, a Preliminary Conference Schedule, and the
Registration page at our website:
http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/conference/

We remind you to look ahead to your travel needs. Helpful travel and visa
tips are found on the PJSA website as well. If we can be of assistance to
you in your planning please contact us directly at <pjsainfo (at)
uwinnipeg.ca>.

Call for Papers/Performances: Popular Culture and World Politics III Conference, 04-05 November 2010, York University, Toronto. Please submit by 02 April 2010

The York Centre for International and Security Studies and York University
Call for Papers/Performances:
Popular Culture and World Politics Conference
(PCWP III)
04-05 November 2010
York University
Toronto, Canada

There is a growing movement in and around the study of international
politics to think about the intersections of world politics and the
production, circulation, content and consumption of various popular
cultural forms. This burgeoning scholarship has reached a point in which
it is possible to move well beyond the important initial forays that
emphasised the content of cultural forms-as-text, seeking metaphorical
connections between the cultural and the political, to explore the
interwoven possibilities and limits of the cultural and political.
The York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) is pleased
to invite you to Popular Culture and World Politics III, to be held in
Toronto 4-5 November 2010. Following two successful events, hosted by the
University of Bristol in 2008 and the University of Newcastle in 2009,
Popular Culture and World Politics III seeks to continue the growing
conversation on the intersections of various forms of popular culture and
the study of world politics, from a range of disciplines and practices in
the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
We welcome proposals for performances, screenings, panels, or individual
papers, on any aspect of world politics and popular culture. In
particular, we seek proposals which address any of the following themes or
issues:
?Doing? popular culture and world politics: methods, practices and
approaches.
Popular security: exploring the intersections of popular culture and
global security.
Using popular culture to span the disciplines: with a range of disciplines
looking at both popular culture and issues of world politics, how can the
study of pop culture and world politic work to foster inter-disciplinary
conversations?
?Making? popular culture and world politics: what is the politics that is
emerging at the intersection of popular cultural production, the culture
industries, and governance?
Outside the West: exploring the intersections of non-Western popular
culture(s) and non-Western-centric world politics.
Is anybody watching? The problem of audience in the study of popular
culture.
Performing International Politics: rather than students of world politics
reading popular culture how are the producers of cultural forms making
their politics? We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for
the performance, presentation, screening or display of cultural works
which seek to produce a (world) politics in their practice.
If you would like to register for this conference please see
http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/conferences/pcwpIII.htm and please submit an
abstract of no more than 250 words via the website before 02 April 2010.
If you would like further information please contact pcwp@yorku.ca.

Call for Papers: 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

Keynote Guests:
Professor Marcel Hénaff, Department of Literature, University of
California San Diego
Professor Boris Wiseman, Dept of English, Germanic and Romance
Studies, University of Copenhagen

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
borderlands 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, Development
Studies, Education, Film Studies, History, Human Geography, Law,
Linguistics, Literature, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science,
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 30 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 the conference and registration fees 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: AAA meeting in New Orleans

Dear colleagues:

I would like to submit a volunteered session to the Society for the
Anthropology of Work for the AAA meeting in New Orleans.

If your research is with indigenous peoples and relates to issues of
work, I would like to hear from you.

Best wishes,

Scott Simon, associate professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Ottawa

E-mail: ssimon@uottawa.ca <mailto:ssimon@uottawa.ca&gt;

Indigenous Peoples and the Circulation of Labor

Economic anthropologists have long demonstrated how the circulation of
goods in different societies occurs not only through markets, but also
through reciprocity and redistribution. With the spread of the
capitalist market, accelerated in our era of neo-liberal
globalization, labor has become one of the most widely circulated
commodities. Yet labor remains a fictitious commodity, as workers are
never pure commodities like agricultural products or minerals that can
be relatively easily standardized, measured, and traded as equivalent.
Instead, the entry of workers into the labor market is mediated
through various mechanisms of gender, ethnicity and nationality. These
processes are quite visible in the working lives of indigenous people,
who often continue to hold different economic values than those of
mainstream societies.

Indigenous peoples have very different relations to the labor markets.
Some of them may leave their home communities as temporary labor
migrants, circulating between rural villages and urban worksites.
Others may become permanent labor migrants, constructing ethnic
enclaves in urban areas. In fact, these two forms of circulation have
led to a situation internationally where there are now more indigenous
people in urban than in rural areas. These forms of labor circulation
may be regional or national, but are also international, as when Mayan
indigenous people become Mexican workers as soon as they cross the Rio
Grande. At the same time, the market-based circulation of commodities
changes social dynamics in rural indigenous communities.

This session will explore the meaning of labor circulation for
indigenous peoples worldwide. How are indigenous people embedded in
labor markets in different ways depending on gender, ethnicity and
nationality? How do they negotiate labor markets in situations of
temporary and permanent migration? How do social values influence
their circulation in labor markets? How do new forms of circulation
influence the working lives and the meaning of work for men and women?